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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher
NIX. DESPERANDUM,
VOL. IV,
WDGrWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1874.
NO. 40.
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The Old Lore.
In Tain mou tell ns time can alter
Old lovea or make old memories falter,
That with the old year the old year's life
closes,
Jho old dew still falls by the old sweet
flowers,
The old sun revives the new-fledged hours,
The old summer rears the new-born roses.
Much more a muse that bears npon her
Itaimcnt and wreath and flower of honor,
Gathered long wince and long sinoe woven,
Fades not or falls as fall the vernal,
Dlonsoms that bear no fruit eternal,
By summer r winter charred or cloven.
.No time casts down, no time upraises,
Buch loves, such memories, and such praises,
A.S need no grace of eun or Bbower,
No saving screen from frost or thunder,
To tend and hoiuie around and under
The imperishable and peerless flowor.
Old thanks, old thoughts, old aspirations,
Outlive men's lives and lives of nations,
Dead, but for ouo thing Vlnch survives
The inalienable and n,ricod treasure,
The old joy of powe, tu0 0& priQ0 o( peas.
uro,
That livos in light above men's lives.
A. C. 8wu.bui.---.
WHO WAS THE HEKO ?
A Story for the Chll.lren.
' Wnsu't he a hero, papa ?"
"Who, my boy Napoleon ?" asked
"Mr. Wills, looking up from hi8 news
paper. ' No, papa ; Tom Flowers," answered
Henry.
" Why, what has Tom Flowers done
to earn that distinction?" asked the
gentlemau.
" Why, he took Arthur Baymond's
part iri the fight yesterday with Chub,
and Chub is ever so much bigger than
hiir.."
" But I thought fighting was forbid
den at school now, Hariy," said tho
gentleman.
His son looked down and colored
slightly.
" So it is, papa," he said ; ' but boys
can't get on without fighting."
"Indeed, said the gentleman, dry
ly; "Iwoinot aware they were such
quarrelsomo animals."
"Now, papa, yon are laughing at
me," said Harry. " But if a fellow calls
yon. names, what are you to do ?"
" Strike him, I suppose, according to
your theory," said Mr. Wilis.
" Yes, there's nothing else you can
rflo, unless you want to be called a cow
ard," paid Henry ; " and I do hate cow
ards," he added. ' I wish Arthur had
vjot walked off, instead of fighting
Chub, yesterdny. He'll be sent to Gov
fcry for it, I know."
" Then Arthur Raymond thinks it
possible for boys to live without fight
ing, I suppose," said the gentleman.
" Well, you see, papa, fighting has
been forbidden since that affair of Mar
gin's," Baid Henry ; " and Baymond
said ho wouldn't break the rnles. It is
very cowardly of him, for we were not
in the playground or near tho school at
all."
"What had C':ub done to Arthur
that your code of honor demanded they
should light ?" asked Mr. Wills.
" Ho called him a liar, and Arthur
ought to have knocked him down
directly. He could have done it easily;
but instead of that, he merely said he
could prove to all the school that he
had spoken truthfully."
" And did he do so ?" asked his
papa.
" He will bung the proof to-morrow
morning ; but of course the fellows
won't notice it, for they've agreed to
send him to Coventry for being such a
coward. "
" And does Raymond know this ?"
" Oh ? yes, papa. We told him what
we should do if he refused to fight ;
but he stuck to it that it was not right
to break the rules and walked off, and
then Tom Flowers pitched into Chub
lor his impudence, just to redeem the
honor of the school, which Baymond
had disgraced."
" Disgraced do you call it? Well, I
think that lad is an honor to the
school," said Mr. Wills.
" Oh, papa !" exclaimed Henry.
"I mean what I say. I call him a
true hero, "said the gentleman, warmly.
" But, papa, all the boys said it was
bo cowardly of him not to fight Chub."
" But you say he was not afraid of
Chub could have beat him easily, and
yet he braved goiDg against the publio
opinion of the whole school rather than
break the rules."
"Then you don't think ho was a
coward, papa," said Henry ; " and you
1 1 not think he ought to be sent to
C -ventiy, I suppose?
" I hope, my boy, you will be brave
enough to stand by him, though all tho
rest should carry out their threat,"
said Mr. Wills. " To stand by those
who have dared to do what is right, in
epite of all opposition, is true bravery ;
and I hope you, Harry, will be a hero
of this type. It will be far more dif
ficult, I dare say, than to act the part
of Tom Flowers."
For some time after Lis father left
him Harry sat thinking over what had
been said, and at length he resolved to
stand by his friend ; but he did not
know how difficult this would be until
he tried it the nest day.
As he was going to school the next
morning Tom Flowers overtook him.
He was full of self-glorification, telling
what had taken place the night before,
and that the school's honor had been
' trampled in the dust by Baymond's
cowardice. Harry wanted to say some
thing in defense of his friend some
thing of what his father had said the
night before, but somehow he could
not. But when Baymond came in
sight and the rest of the boys rather
pointedly turned away, he went and
met him.
Have you brought the proof you
said you would ?" asked Harry, want
ing to say something.
Yes, I have it in my pocket," said
Baymond ; but he colored and sighed
as he spoke, for two other boys had
passed and taken no notioe of him. It
was not easy to bear this silent con
tempt of his school-fellows, although
he was upheld by the consciousness of
having done right.
" Harry, you'd better join the rest,"
he said, a little bitterly. Thoy mean
to send me to Coventry, I can see."
" Are you sorry you did not pitch
into Chub?" asked Harry. "You
might do it, you know. Even now you
could walk up to him, show him the
proof, and then punch him. You're
not afraid of him, are youl You're
stronger than Flowers."
"No, lam not afraid of him," said
Baymond ; " but I'm not going to fight
when it's against the rule ; it isn't right.
If I get the opportunity, I'll let them
see I'm not a coward, but it won't be
by fighting."
By tliis time they had reached the
school and went in j but Harry received
several threatening glances from his
companions as he passed to his place.
During school-time the quarrel was not
mentioned : but no sooner had they got
'.ico the playground than Harry was
overwhelmed with reproaches.
" What business had you to speak to
Raymond ?" said one.
" You're just such another sneak as
he is," said one.
" If you talk to him again we'll send
you to Coventry as well, said a third.
And this threat was taken up and echoed
by b11 the rest.
Harry had never yet been treated to
this punishment, and was by no means
inclined to covet it, especially when he
glanced across the playground and saw
Raymond sitting by himself with a book
in his hand. To be shut out of all the
games and be quite unnoticed was very
hard to bear ; but he remembered his
father's words, and, moreover, he could
not help admiring Uaymond s action,
although it brought no glory, but a
great deal of annoyance. So he said,
boldly, " Now look here. Raymond
isn t a coward, as you make out. My
father says it was brave of him to
stick out and do the right ; and I'll
stand by him, though you do send me
to Coventry."
If a bomb-shell had suddenly ex
ploded in the midst of them, the boys
could scarcely have looked more aston
ished. " Wills is sure to do as we tell
him," had been the universal belief un
til now ; and that he should suddenly
laro their greatest punishment was al
most past belief. They thought they
sould tease and worry him into compli
ance with their wishes ; but in this
they were mistaken.
Harry had begun to think for him-
.elf, and he lound that his com
oanions' opinion of things was not al
ways to be relied upon ; and, seeing
what was right, ho determined to act
upon it. " Raymond is no coward,
he repeated, "and I shall stand by
him.
" Oh ! let him go," said one, in a tore
of assumed disgust. " J? lowers is our
hero. Ho will keep up the honorof the
school."
Flowers was not likely to forget his
heroship or let others forget it either.
He hectored everybody, and on tho
slightest provocation threatened to
fight, and still managed to keep up the
ill feeling against Baymond, whose
quarrel he had espoused. He and Harry
were quite unnoticed out of sohooi,
and very uncomfortable they found it,
Public opinion is slow to change among
boys, especially in a case of cowardice
and hero-worship ; and their present
hero. Flowers, was by no means willing
to resign his place, although some of
the boys could not but respect the way
in whioh Harry and Baymond be
haved, and were more than half con
vinced that they were in the right, if
they had only been courageous enough
to own it.
But ono day, as the old sore subject
was again being discussed, on their
way home from school, they saw a horse
come tearing down the road, while just
below a group of children were slowly
crossing, under the escort of an old
deaf woman.
" Oh 1 the children I" gasped Harry.
" Flowers, you are used to horses,"
shouted two or three. But Flowers
drew back, pale with alarm at the
thought of exposing himself to real
danger. At the same moment Ray.
mond threw down his books and dashed
forward into the road just in time to
catch the horse's bridle as he passed,
He was draareed forward almost help
less for nearly a dozen yards, but he
still kept his hold, and at last managed
to stop the horse and save me cnuuren.
His companions were frightened when
thev saw his dancer : but when the
horse was stopped they raised a tre
mendous cheer and eagerly pressed
around him, ail their former feeling
nuito foreotton.
" ltavmond. lorgive us, saia one :
" we've been making a great blunder
all this time in saying you were a
coward."
" I'm sure we ought all to be ashamed
of ourselves, for no one spoke up for
you but Harry wills," said another,
holding out his hand.
itarrv looked most triumpnani,
"Now who is the hero." he asked,
"Flowers, who did the fighting, or
Raymond, who did the. right, both in
keeping the rules and saving the
children ?"
The boys were well pleased to change
their heroes, many 01 mem cuangeu
their opinions, too, and Harry was al
most as highly thought of as Raymond
himself, for standing by mm wnen an
the rest declared him a coward ; and,
from that day, to hold to the right in
the face of all opposition became the
settled principle 01 many in the school,
Sine Hours in a Cistern.
A little two-year-old child of Mr. W.
Calhoun, living two and a half miles
north of Decatur, III. fell into a cis
tern, and the mother, who happened to
i i i i.u .i . :
see me cniiu iau, jiuupeu m uwr .,
Mr. Calhoun, who is dealing in stock
was away from home at the time of the
accident, and there was no one on the
place, and Mrs. Calhoun, being unable
to set out. was compelled to stand in
the water, waist deep, from 8 o'clook in
the morning until 5 in the evening.
The unfortunate woman probably would
have had to spend the night in that
distressing condition, where, no doubt.
she and her child would have perished
before morning, if, by her screams, she
had not attracted the attention of some
children who were returning from
school. The school children heard her
cries for help, but it was some time be
fore they discovered and rescued the
almost exhausted lady.
AT BEECHElt'S ISLAND.
A Thrilling Account of an Indian Kn-
gaRement In 1908.
Gen. Custer. In his "Life on the
Plains," relates many thrilling .inci
dents. Among these may be reck
oned the fight of Beecher's Island, in
September, 1868, by General Forsyth,
in command of a company of fifty fron
tiersmen, out after a band of Cheyennes
on the war-path. Encamping one night
on the Arickaree river, they found
themselves surrounded by Indians in
full war-paint coming upon them with
exultant whoops. Fleeing to an island
the men tied their animals in the center,
formed a line around them, and pre
pared to sell their lives as dearly as
possible. The hre from the Indians,
who were 900 strong, and armed with
the best Spencer and Henry nlles, was
so galling the men could not return it.
Soon every horse was killed, and Gen
eral Forsyth himself twice Wounded.
Perceiving their success, women and
children gathered npon the hills chant
ing war-songs, the medicine-men went
around encouraging the young braves,
and the savages under Boman Nose
formed in line and prepared to sur
round the island.
eeing that the little garrison was
stunned by the heavy fire of the dis
mounted Indians, and rightly judging
that now, if ever, was the proper time
to charge them, Boman Nose and his
band of mounted warriors, with a wild,
ringing war-whoop, echoed by the
women and children on the hills, start
ed forward. On they came, presenting
to the brave men who awaited the
charge a most superb sight. Brand
ishing their guns, echoing back the
cries of encouragement of the women
and children on the surrounding hills,
and confident of victory, they rode
bravely and recklessly to the assault.
Soon they were within range of the
rifles of their friends, and, of course,
the dismounted Indians had to slacken
their fire for fear of hitting their own
warriors. This was the opportunity
for tho scouts, and they were not Blow
o siezo upon it. "Now! shouted
Forsyth. " Now !" echoed Beecher,
McCall. and Urover, and the scouts,
springing to their Knees and casting
their eyes coolly along the barrels of
their rines, opened on the advancing
savages as deadly a lire as the same
number of men ever yet sent forth from
an equal number of rifles.
Unchecked, undaunted, on dashed
the warriors ; steadily rang the clear,
sharp reports of the rifles of frontiers
men. Roman .Nose, the chief, is seen
to fall dead from his horse ; then Medi
cine Man is killed, and for an instant
the column of braves, now within ten
feet of tho scouts, hesitates falters. A
ringing cheer from the scouts, who
perceive the eneot of their well-directed
fire, and the Indians begin to break
and scatter in every direction, unwill
ing to rush to a hand-to-hand with the
men who, outnumbered, yet know how
to make such enective use of their
rifles. A few more shots from the
frontiersmen, and the Indians are
forced back beyond range, and their
first attack ends in defeat. Forsyth
turns to Urover and anxiously inquires
Can they do better than that,
Urover ? " 1 have been on the Plains,
(ieneral, since a Doy and never saw
such a charge as that before. I think
they have done their level best," was
the reply. "All right," says Sands,
Then we are good for them.
Though repulsed, the fire was kept
up by the Indians, and night found
General Forsyth, with his trusted lieu
tenant Beecher dead by his side, his
surgeon Morus mortally wounded, and
out of fifty -one men twenty-three killed
aud wounded, his supplies exhausted,
his medicine stores captured and his
command one hundred and ten miles
from the nearest post. Two men were
sent out under the cover of night for
reinforcements ; in the morning' the
light was resumed, and on the third
day, after trying to accomplish by
stratagem what they failed to do by
open warfare, the main body of the
Indians withdrew. In the meantime
the besieged men, having only horse
flesh for food, managed to protect
themselves and look to the wounded
By the sixth day they were reduced
to eating the putrid flesh of the de
composing horses, which they tried to
render more palatable by rubbing with
gunpowder, and the wounds of tho men
became infested by maggots and
showed gangrene. The situation was
desperate. On the morning of the
next day the dark cloud on the horizon
dissolved into reinforcements ; the
strong men shouted, the wounded lifted
their fevered forms, and in their de
lirium echoed their comrades' hurrahs.
When Colonel Carpenter reached the
island he found General Forsyth affect
ing, though with indifferent success, to
read an old novel found in a saddle
bag, keeping up bravely his reputation
for making the best of things, and tho
men plucky to the last. Of this en
gagement General Austin says :
"In all its details, and with all its
attending oircumstauces, remembering
that i orsyth s party, inoluding him
self, numbered, all told, but fifty-one
men, and that the Indians numbered
about seventeen to one, this fight was
one of the most remarkable and at the
same time successful contests in which
our foroes on the Plains have ever been
engaged ; and the whole affair, from
the moment the first shot was fired un
til the beleaguered party was finally re
lieved by Colonel Carpenter's command,
was a wonaeriui exiuuiuuu oi uariug
courage, stubborn bravery, and heroio
endurance under circumstances of
greatest peril and exposure."
A Fish Stoby.A Marine City(Mich.)
paper has this pretty little flslj story :
"A sunfish that had been kept in a
globe for upward of a year in the family
of J. McElroy appeared to be sick, so
much so that it was feared the pet
would die. The fish was accordingly
thrown into the deep water of St. Clair
river, a . month sinoe, and disappeared
under the surface. A few days ago the
same fish was recaptured close in shore
by some boys and returned to its glass
prison, evidently well pleased with its
summer vacation, and glad to get back
home again."
Maxim Worth Knowing-.
Administrators are liable to account
for Interest of funds in their hands,
although no profit should have been
made npon them, unless the exigencies
of the estate rendered it prudent that
they should hold the funds uninvested.
When a! house is rendered untenant
able in consequence of improvements
made on tho adjoining lot, the owner of
such oounot recover damages, because
he had knowledge of the approaching
danger in time to protect himself from
it.
A person who has been led to sell
goods by means of false pretense can
not reoover them from one who has
purchased them in good faith from the
fraudulent vender.
Permanent ereotions and fixtures,
made by a mortgagee after the execu
tion of the mortgage upon land con
veyed by it, becomes a part of the
mortgaged premises.
A seller of goods, cnatteis, or otner
property, commits no fraud in law
when he neglects to tell the purchaser
of any flaws, defects, or unsoundness in
the samo.
An agreement by the holder of a note
to give the principal debtor time for
payment, without depriving him of the
right to serve, does noi uisouarge mo
surety.
The opinion of witnesses as to the
value of a dog that has been killed, is
not admissable in evidence. The value
of the dog is to be decided by the jury.
Money paid for the purpose of set
tling or compounding a prosecution
for a supposed felony, cannot be re
covered back by the party paying it.
A day-book copied from a "blotter"
in which original charges are first made,
will not be received in evidence as a
bowk of original entries.
A stamp impressed upon an instru
ment by way of seal, is as good as a
seal if it creates a durable impression
in tho texture of the paper.
If any person put a fence on or plows
the land of another, he is liable to tres
pass whether the owner has sustained
injury or not.
A private person may obtain an in
junction to prevent a public mischief
by which he is anected in common with
others.
If a person who is unable from illness
to sign his will has his hand guided in
making his mark the signature is valid.
Ministers of the Gospel, residing in
any corporated town, are not exempt
from jury, military, or fire services.
A wife cannot be convicted of re
oeiving stolen goods when she received
them from her husband.
An agent is liable to his principals
for loss caused by his misstatements,
though unintentional.
All cattle found at large upon the
publio road can be driven by any per
son to the puolic pound.
No man is under obligation to make
known his circumstances when he is
buying goods.
The lruits and grass on the farm or
garden of an intestate dessend to the
heir.
Money paid on Sunday contracts may
be recovered.
The Next United States Congress.
The following table is given of the
status of the next or forty-fourth Uni
ted States Congress. The official vote
and elections to take place next spring
will change the figures slightly, al
though net materially :
XLIIId XLirth
Congress, Congress,
Dim. and
Htites. lnd. Rep.
Alabama 3 5
Arkansas 1 3
California 1 3
Connecticut 1 3
Delaware 1
Florida 2 .
Georgia 6 3
Illinois 5 14
Indiana 3 10
Iowa 9
Kansas 3
Kentucky 10
Louisiana 6
Maine 5
Maryland 4 2
M-iora'-liusettn 11
Michigau 9
Minnesota 3
M-8i.ifl-.ippi 1 5
Missouri....' 9 4
Nobraska 1
Nevada 1
New Hampshire.... 1 2
Now Jen-ey 1 6
New York 9 24
North Carolina 5 3
Ohio 7 13
Oi'ocon 1
Dem. and
Inti. Ktp.
6
4
1
1
1
9
13
8
1
1
10
3
"(3
6
4
i
13
'i
1
4
18
7
13
1
15
2
9
6
'8
3
2
2
3
15
1
7
n
2
3
1
's
1
Pennsylvania....... 5 22
l.tioile Island 2
South Carolina 5
Tennessee 3 7
Texas ti
Vermont 8
Virginia 4 5
West Virginia 2 1
Wisconsin 2 6
Total 91 201
178 111
What Alcohol Will Do.
The Sanitarian tells what aloohol
will do, thus : " It may seem strange,
but it is nevertheless true, that alcohol
regularly applied to a thrifty farmer's
stomach will remove the boards from
the fence ; let cattle into his crops ;
kill his fruit trees : mortgage his farm,
and sow his fields with wild oats and
thistles. It will take the paint off his
building, break the glass out of the
windows, and fill them with rags. It
will take the gloss from his clothes and
polish from his manners, subdue his
reason, arouse his passions, bring sor
row and disgraoe upon his family, and
topple him into a drunkards grave,
It will do this to the artisan and the
capitalist, the matron and the maiden,
as well as to the farmer : for in its
deadly enmity to the human race, aloo
hoi is no respecter of persons.
All for Lore.
Six years ago, in the town of East
Lyme, Conn., a man went to bed. Oth
ers went to bed at the same time, but,
thouerh thev occasionally get up and
dress themselves, this odd charaoter
doesn't. His reasons are satisfactory
so far as they go. He was hurt in his
heart. He was crossed in that love the
course of which always did run rough,
So the disappointed, broken-spirited
despairing swain groans upon his pil
low, writhes between the sheets, and is
led by las old mother.
An Important Decision.
In 1872 the Third National Bank of
Baltimore was robbed by burglars, who
rented the adjoining building, opened
a nAmmiflninn fltnre. and drilled throueh
into the bank, from which they stole
80,000, a considerable portion of this
being special deposits. William A.
Bond & Co., customers of the bank, had
some $20,000 worth of valuable seenri-
ties in the safe, which were stolen.
These were deposited undor special
agreement as collateral security for
6 . . r r.J.li.
such sums oi money as me nrm migm
borrow from the bank lrom time to
time. At the time the bonds were
stolen the firm owed the bank nothing,
When demand was made for the bonds,
or their value, the bank refused to pay,
on the ground that they were kept in
the safe at the risk of the owners, and
subject to their order, inasmuoh as
they were not at that time indebted to
the'bank. Suit was brought in the Su-
nerior Court for the value of the seen
rities. Two questions were argued,
namely : were those bonds held by the
bank as collateral security, or were
they, at the time of the robbery merely
a deposit at the ri(k of the owners ? If
no other obligations rested on the bank
than to use liberal diligence in guarding
the special deposits, did the manner in
which they were kept raise such a pre
sumption of negligence as to make the
bank liable ? This last proposition in
volved the most exhaustive inquiry
into tho mode of constructing vaults ;
the comparative merits of various burglar-proof
safes ; the degree of caution
that should be exercised in the employ
ment of night watchmen ; the compen
sation that should be paid to the watch
man in order to release him from the
necessity of engaging in other employ
ment during the day, and many other
incidental matters.
The case was tried over a year ago,
and the jury failed to agree. The rec
ord was then sent to the Circuit Court
for Howard county, and the jury
brought in a verdict for 829,177.83 for
the plaintiffs, the full amount claimed.
The Author of Eso's Fables,
Probably every reader has heard of
the fables of yEsop, yet if questioned
as to their authorship, how many could
give any account ?
The life of 35sop, as it is given be
fore so many editions of his fables, is
an invention of one Planudcs, a Greek
monk of the sixth or seventh century.
The same may be said of a large pro
portion of tho fables which bear his
name, scores of lables by the priests
and monks of the first to the sixth cen
tury are accredited to JEsop. It is so
with many traditions.
Of the real life of Aisop littlo is
known with certainty. " The different
traditions, opinions and conjectures of
.iiisop by both ancient and modern
writers would fill a large volume."
Phedrus, Euripides, Plutarch, Plato,
Aristotle, Gellius, and in fact nearly
all of the ancient Greeks mention him.
'You have not so much as read iEsop,"
was a proverbial expression for ingno
rance. jEsop flourished about B. C. 550, a
hundred years before Herodotus, the
most ancient Greek historian, and four
hundred years after Homer. He was
born at some town in Phrygia, and was
by condition a slave, though probably
he rose above that condition, as he be
came an eminent speaker. Most writers
also ascribe to him a deformed person.
Perhaps it is on this account he got the
name of Gelootopotos as he is called
by Lucian.
Indeed, it is not material whether he
was bond or free, whether handsome or
ugly. He has left us a legacy in his
writings that lor -S.000 years has pre
served his memory dear to us. And al
though in this long period the circum
stances of his life have been lost, his
fables remaiu, and will continue to
struct as they have in the past.
There Is Hope.
The statistician, and likewise the
average woman all the way from fifteen
years of age to the point when birthday
anniversaries cease to be a time of cneer
aud gratulation, may take at least a
passing interest in a table recently
printed in England to show the rela
tions between matrimony and old age.
Every woman has some chance of being
married ; it may be one chance to fifty
against it, or it may be ten to one that
she will marry. But whatever that is,
representing her entire chanoe at 100,
her particular chance at certain defined
points of her progress in time is lound
to be in the following ratios : When be
tween 15 and 20 years she has 14 per
cent, of her whole probability ; when
between 20 and 25 she has 52 per cent. ;
between 25 and 30, 18 per cent. After
ou years buo uas jobi o per .em. ui
sho has lost c4J per cent, of
her chance, but until 35 she has still
fit n rant. Btween 3.". and 40 it is
3 J per cent,, and for eaoh succeeding
five years is respectively 2, 1, J, and i
per cent. Any time alter sixty it is
one-tenth of 1 per cent., or one-thou
sandth of her probability of a chance
a pretty slender figure, but figures often
are slender at that age.
A Happy Woman,
What spectacle more pleasing doth
the earth afford than a happy woman,
contented in her sphere, ready at all
times to benefit her little world by her
exertions, and transforming the briers
and thorns of life into the roses of para
dise by the magio of a touch ? There
are those who are thus happy because
they cannot help it no misfortunes
dampen their sweet smiles, and they
diffuse a cheerful glow around them, as
they pursue the even tenor of their
way. They have the secret of content
ment, whose value is above the philoso-
Eher's stone ; for, without seeking the
aser exchange of gold, whioh may buy
some sorts of pleasure, they convert
everything they touch into joy. What
their condition is makes no difference.
They may be rich or poor, 'nigh or low.
admired or forsaken by the fickle
world ; but the sparkling fountain of
happiness bubbles up in their hearts,
and makes them radiantly beautiful.
Though they live in a log house, they
make it shine with a luster that kings
and queens may oovet, and they make,
wealth a fountain of blessings to the
children of poverty..
A Disheartened Agent,
A family named Kemper moved into
a house in our row laBt week, writes
Max Adeler, and Benjamin P. Uunn,
the life insurance agent, who lives in
the same row, was the first caller. He
dropped in to see if he could not take
out a polioy for Mr. Kemper. Mrs.
Kemper came down to the parlor to see
him.
" I suppose," said Gunn, " Mr. Kem-
per has no insurance on his life."
" No," said Mrs. Kemper.
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ytoh, u uao u b-.it mux -.&.
out a policy in our company. It's the
safest in the world ; the largest capital,
smallest rates, and biggest dividends."
" Mr. Kemper don't take much in
terest in such things now," said Mrs.
Kemper.
" Well, madam, but he ought to, in
common justice to you. No man knows
when he will die. and by paying a ri-
diculously small sum now, Mr. Kemper
can leave his family in alHnence. I d
like to hand you, for him, a few pam
phlets containing statistics upon the
subject ; may I ?"
" Of course, if you wish to."
" Don't you think he can be induced
to insure ? asked Gunn.
"I hardly think so," replied Mrs.
Kemper.
" He is in good health, I suppose ?
Has he complained lately of being
sick ?"
" Not lately."
" May I ask if he has any considera
ble wealth ?"
" Not a cent."
"Then, of course he must insure.
No poor man can afford to neglect such
an opportunity. I suppose he travels
sometimes ; goes about in railroad
cars and other dangerous places."
" No, he keeps very quiet.
" Man of steady habits, I s'pose ?"
" Very steady."
" He is just the very man I want,"
said Gunn ; " I know I can sell him a
policy."
"I don't think you can," replied Mrs.
Kemper.
"Why? When will he be home?
I'll call on him. I don't know any rea
son why I shouldn't insure him."
"I know," replied Mrs. K.
"Why?"
"He has been dead twenty-seven
years," said the widow.
Then Gunn left all of a sudden. He
will not insure any of the Kempers.
The End of It.
One M. Barthone, a widower, of New
Orleans, with a young son and daugh
ter, in 1859, married a beautiful Creole
girl in that city and sent his children
to school in New York. In about a
year he was brought to death's door by
poison, administered by his wife, who
tied to Paris, taking much of her hus
band's property. The lattor, however,
recovered and at once sought for his
children. He sought in vain, because
the girl had married and gone, and the
son, after leading a somewhat reckless
life, had enlisted in the army and dis
appeared. Tho father settled in
Brooklyn, and after amassing a large
property died, leaving the bulk of it
in trust for his children. These chil
dren, who are William Barthone of
New Haven and a Mrs. Edwards of
Newark, N. J., afterward appeared and
received their parent's legacy. That
parent also left a handsome sum with
the city Treasurer of Brooklyn in trust
for his runaway wife, who had so near
ly, killed him. The children, some
months since, learned that the Creole
wife, after living some time in Paris,
had returned to New Orleans, and that
she bad died there in 1873. They
therefore applied to get possession of
the unclaimed legacy. Proofs of the
Creole woman's death were produced,
and after a lawsuit the money was
handed over to the children.
The German Army.
The Landsturm bill in Germany is
expected to divide the new force into
two classes ; the hrst class to comprise
all able-bodied men up to tho age of 42
who are not in the army, and the second
to include the rest. The first class is
likely to be organized into 293 land
strum battalions on the model of the
293 existing landwehr battalions, which
would add lvo.oUO men to the uerman
forces. The number and strength of
the landstrum squadrons are still un
known. When the bill becomes a law
the German forces, without the seoond
class of the landstrum, which may not
be organized at all for the present,
will number from 1,700,000 to 1,800,000
m- . -l ..11
men. Jbarge as tnis ngure is, is naraiy
represents the maximum aimed at.
Russia will hencoioitn ennst i40,uuu
recruits a year, and the conscription
eives France 1G1.000 men. It is antioi-
m
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annual contingent of 132,500 men.
How to Fix Them.
Very often a screw hole gets bo worn
that the sorew will not stay in. Where
glue is handy, the regular carpenter
makes the hole larger and glues in a
large plug, making a nest for an entire
ly new hole. But this is not always the
case, and people without tools and in
an emergency, often have to fix the
thing at once. Generally leather is
used, but this is so hard that it does
not hold well The best of all things
is to cut narrow strips of cork, and fill
the hole completely." Then force the
screw in. This will make as tight a
job as if driven into an entirely new
hole.
Did Not Know Him. Gov. Bradley
of Nevada got on the train at Elko, one
day recently, to go to Palisade. The
car was crowded, and he was compelled
to perambulate the entire length of the
i ....t,.... a anal flnn-l-mornin-r.
my son : how-d'ye do to-day, sar?" said Thus she began tp carve oat her for
,.J ' "i : ji in. Unn Rha flniaVinil thA watIi ana learn-
t.iia liAVArnni. in ma Kuuu-iauuiu
to a big Missourian, who had generously
given up half his seat to the stranger
who had thus acoostea mm. - j.nut
all right, my friend," said the stranger,
but don't make yourself quite
. ... . -w i
familiar with me. if you please : I have
heer'd of you before you're one
them three-oard leiiows Dut you can i
come it over me, not much. I've been
thar myself, I have I
Facts and Fancies.
To cure deafness Tell a man you've
come to pay him money.
Publio spirit Readiness to do any
thing which is likely to prove lucrative.
Punch has discovered that the friends
of the unfortunate live a long way off.
When a man comes to know that he
don't know everything, he then be
comes wise.
The Western Indians now prophesy
that there will be no more grasshoppers
for six years.
What comes once in a minute, twice
in a moment, and once in a man's life ?
The letter M.
A queer man The baker who kneads
much, and yet sells everything he
kneads himself.
In preparing copy for the printer
make hooks to your letters, bnt do not
hook your ideas.
Who is the laziest man ? The furni
ture man ; he keeps chairs and lounges
about all the time.
The statement is made that lightning
conductors made of straw have been
tried with success in France.
The youth who cried "Excelsior"
didn't know that he was naming five
out of every six saloons in the country.
A Tennessee tailor has a shop on
wheels. He only stays in a village long
enough to clothe the people, and then
jogs along.
Two young ladies holding converse
over a new dress " And doesitfit well ?"
asked one. " Fit ! yea ; as if I had
been melted and poured in."
Cordelia Lessiur was a Lowell hero
ine. She resoued a girl whose fingers
had caught in the machinery of a mill,
but in doing it her own arm was drawn
in and torn off. She died from the
hurt.
Cheerful agent for life Insurance
company " The advantage of our com
pany is that you do not forfeit your
policy either by being hanged or by
committing suicide 1 Pray, take a
prospeotus."
"What makes you look so glum,
Tom?" "Oh, I had to endure a sad
trial to my feelings." "What on earth
was it?" "Why, I had to tie on a
pretty girl's bonnet -with her mother
looking on."
An old gentleman in Stowe, Vt., tells
how ha broke off drinking. Every time
he took a drink he would drop a shot
in the glass, and as the glass filled up
his drinks were smaller, and he stopped
the use of liquor entirely.
Nothing really succeeds which is not
based on reality; sham, in a large
sense, is never successful ; in the life of
the individual, as in tho more compre
hensive life of the State, pretension is
nothing and power is everything.
There are no millionaires in Turkey.
When a Turk has accumulated anything
beyond $9,000 or $10,000, the boss
Turk of all crooks his finger at him,
whispers, " Come down, honey," and
the balance is handed over, or off goes
a head,
A wealthy Pittsburgh merchant is re
ported as having said : " I always feel
happy when I am advertising, for then
I know that, sleeping or waking, I have
a strong though silent orator working
for me one who never tires, never
sleeps, never makes mistakes, and who
is certain to enter the households from
which, if at all, my trade must come."
A Co-operative Household.
I have heard, writes a London corre
spondent, an amusing account of the
failure of a recent attempt to estab
lish a confederated home in London.
Five families possessing small incomes
united in the establishment of a com
mon home. A large house in the
Bloomsbury region was taken for the
purpose, and the arrangements for the
regulation of the household were made
with the utmost care and precision.
There was to be a common dining-room
in which all the meals of the household
were to be taken ; and each family had
a set of rooms which it waB to furnish
and arrange as suited its own conveni
ence. There was to be one cook for the
whole household, and a couple of ser
vants to do the other work. The ex
periment was commenced, and for the
first dav or two matters went well
enough. Before a week had passed,
bnw(.vr. it became evident that to
govern a confederated home would be
nearly as auncun o iubu-ikd nut i"u
Parliament. The five families could
never agree upon what they should eat
and drink. The dinner especially was
a standing subject of dispute, and the
consequence was that the kitchen bo
came a soeue of constant wrangling be
tween the unfortunate cook and her
,;.
five mistresses. Five bells would fre
quently be ringing at the same time,
and one family would complain that
they were neglected and that another
was receiving undue attention; Then
the children of the different families
would quarrel, and of course each
mamma was sure that her darlings
were not the cause of the disturbance.
Before a week had passed the confed
erated home became what the person
who told me the story called a confed
erated disoord, and had to be broken
up.
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What a Woman Did.
There lives a widow out West who
never did anything useful until after
her husband died and left her half a
dozen children to take care of. She
thought a great deal of her husband,
but he did not leave her enough sub
stanoe to buy him a gravestone, and
this fact set her to work. She deter
mined that the poor man's grave ahould
have a respectable mark. So she got a
marble Blab and went to worn on it,
making a gravestone for the departed.
She finished the work and learn
r, i hhmw,
ed the trade of a stone-cutter at the
same time. She soon did some other
marble work and offered it for sale. It
b
proved acceptable, and she was given a
so permanent place in a marble yard, and
It i. : ...... 1 ,. . .4,n' uanaa anrl
is making regular artisan's frages and
keeping her family in good utyle.
Sometimes a husband does turn out a
benefit to a woman, though she may
not realiza his use until she loses him.
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