VOL. XI.
MDGrWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1881.
NO. 15.
The Mjl of the Baggage Man.
With many crTe "lp trunks I pitch,
With many a shout and sally;
At station, Biding, crossing, switch,
On mountain grade or valley.
I hearo, I push, I Bling, I toss,
With vigorous endeavor;
And mon may smile, and men may grow cross,
But I sling my trunks lorever,
Ever I Ever I
I bust trunks forever.
The paper trunk from country town
I balances and dandles;
I turn it ouco or twice around,
And pull out both the handles.
And grumblo over traveling bags
And monstrous sample cases,
But I can smash the maker's brags
Like plaster paris vases I
They holler, holler, as I go,
But they can't stop nie never;
For (hoy will learn just what I know,
A trunk won't last forever 1
Ever I Never 1
And in and out I wind about,
And here I smash a Wester;
I turn a grip-sack inside out
Throe times a day at least, sir;
I tug, I jerk, I swear, I sweat,
I toss the light valises;
And what's too big to throw, you bet,
I'll tire it round in pieces.
They murmur, murmur, everywhere,
But I will hoed them never I
For women weep and strong men swear,
I'll claw their tnuika forever I
Ever ! Ever 1
I'll bust trunks forever,
I've cowed the preacher with my wrath.
I Bcorn the judge's ermine;
I'vo spilled both brief and sermon,
And bonks, and socks, and cards, and strings
Too lr.uneious to mention;
And babies' clothes and women's things,
Beyond my comprehension,
I've npilbd, oud scattered, and Blung
As far as space eo.ilil sever;
And scatter, scatter, old or young,
I'll scatter things forever 1
Evert Ever i
Scatter things forever.
It. J. Burdilte.
A LAWYER'S STORY.
"I never would convict a man on cir
cumstantial evidence if I were a juror
never ! never 1"
The speaker was a distinguished crim
inal lawyer of nearly forty years' active
practice, and whose fame extended far
beyond the limits of Lis own State.
We had been discussing a recent otmm
cletn e in vlncli, upon purely circuru
fitaiiiirtl evidence, a-uiau had been con
victed of an atrocious murder, although
many of those most iamiliar with the lr
cumsUuces of the case entertained the
gravest doubts about the justice of his
conviclim; and he h.d been swung oft'
into otornitv protet-tin" his absolute in
nocence with his latest breath, and cal'
infs npnn On-1 to send his soul straight
way to perdition if he wero not telling
the truth.
As most of our party were lawyers
the conversation naturally enough drift
ed into a di-cussion of the dangers aris
ing from convicting accused persons,
whose own mouths wero closed, upon
purely ciicuujsiatitiul evidence, in the
absence of any direct and positive proof
of guilt, and case after case was eited in
which, after conviction and execution,
the entire innocence of the supposed cul
prits had been clearly demonstrated.
Most of the laymen present agreed with
the distinguished lawyer, whose very
positive expression of opinion has been
quoted, while the majority of the law
yers contended, with that earnestness for
which lawyers are noted when advocat
ing their own sido of any question, that
justice could never miscarry when care
ful judges guard against the possibility
of unsafe verdicts by refusing to permit
a conviction except when every link in
the chain of circumstantial evidence has
been established beyond doubt, and the
whole chain been so perfect and com
plete as to leave no room for any con
sistent hypothesis of innocence.
"The first murder caso I ever tried,"
Raid one of them, "was stranger thau
fiction, as you will admit, and is quite
as remarkable as any of the cases you
have referred to where innocent men
have been wrongfully convicted on cir
cumstantial evidence. It ought to
have been reported as an example of
the unreliability of the direct and pos
itive testimony of eye-witnesses who
tell what they believe to be the truth
He then related the main points of
what was certainly a most remarkable
and dramatic trial, and which consti
tutes a fair offset to some of the mem
orable cases to be found in every work
on circumstantial evidence. The nar
rative produced so strong an impression
upon my mind ihat subsequently, with
his consent, I put it into the following
shape, having hrst carefully compared
it with his notes of testimony takej
upon the trial ot tne case, it can be
relied upon as absolutely correct, with
the exception that I have used fictitious
names, for reasons which will readily
be appreciated when it is known that
most of the actors in the drama are still
living.
One winter evening, about 8
o'clock, in the early days of the war.
in the quiet little town of , while
natroutiK the streets to pieK up strag
glers from the camp on the outskirts of
the ton, Corporal Julius Fry was shot
aud killed by one of three men of bad
character, who were in company and
upon terms of open enmity with the
soldiers. . The men were arrested, com
mitted to prison and brought to trial at
the next term of the court. Two of
them were gamblers and desperadoes.
and supposed to have more than once
had their bauds stained with human
blood. The third, whom I shall call
Short, though beating an unenviable
reputation, was regarded as one unlikely
to slay a fellow-man, except under com
pulsion of circumstances. On account
(if the character of the men and the
trouble they had already brought upon
qniet, law-abiding citizens, the senti
ment of the whole community was
stronclv against them.
In order to clearly understand the
force of the testimony given upon the
trial and the subsequent result it is im
portant to bear in mind the physical pe
culiarities, dress and general appear
ance of each of the three prisoners.
Short was a small man of not more
than five feet six inches in height, slen
dt r, weighing scarcely one hundred and
thirty pounds, with bright, fiery red
hair and side-whiskers, and at the time
of the murder wore a white felt hat and
an old light blue army overcoat.
Ryan was fully six feet in height with
robust frame, with black hair and mus
tache, dressed in dark clothes, and wore
a black Derby hat.
Grey was a heavy, broad-shouldered
man of medium height, weighing fully
two hundred pounds, with a full, black
beard reaching nearly to his waist But
as the evidence subsequently showed
that he had not fired the shot, it is un
necessary to describe his appearance
more minutely.
Certainly it is difficult to imagine
two men more unlike than Short and
Ryan, or less Table to be mistaken for
each other, even by strangers, much
less by their acquaintances. There was
no possibility here for a case of mis
taken identity.
Short and Ryan were tried together
with their consent Grey having asked
for and obtained a separate trial and
each was defended by separate counsel.
After the preliminary proof relating
to the post-mortem examination, the
cause of death and the identification of
the body of the deceased as the person
named in the indictment, the common
wealth called as its first witness a
woman, Mary Bowen. She bore a bad
reputation, but nobody questioned her
purpose to tell, reluctantly, it is true,
the whole truth. The prisoners were
all her fii nds, and were constant vis
itors to the drinking saloon of which
she was proprietress. She was a
woman of powerful physique, almost
masculine frame, great force of char
acter and more than ordinary intelli
gence. From her testimony it appeared that
a colored woman with whom she had
had some dispute had hit her ou the
head with a stone and ran, and the
three prisoners, coming up at the mo
ment, started with her up the street in
pursuit of the fugitive. Although the
night was dark there was snow on the
ground, aud a gas-lamp near by gave
suflicient light to enable one to recog
nize a person with ease some feet away.
Afterrunning about one hundred yards
the pursuers came to the corner of an
alley and stopped under the gas-lamp,
being challenged by the deceased, who
was in uniform, in company with one of
his squad, hue swore that when tho
corporal called " halt," Short, whom she
imd known intimately for years, re
plied, " Go to " and while standing
at her side, so that their elbows were
touching, both being immediately uu-
ler the gaslight, he pulled out a pistol,
pointed it at the deceased, who was lour
or five feet from him, and fired and then
an down tho alley, the deceased pursu-
ng him. She heard four or five more
shots fired, and immediately the deceased
eturned wounded, and Short disap
peared. While tho shots were being
iired she saw both iiyan and Lrrey stand
ing at the corner soruo feet away from
her, and after that they separated and
she went home. It was also proved that
this alley was bounded on either side
by high fences difficult to climb, and led
down to a stream of water about fifty
feet wide and three or four feet deep.
No traces of footsteps were found in the
snow except those of one man leading
lown into this stream, and it was evi
dent that the person who had fired had
not climbed either fence, but had waded
througn the stream and disappeared on
the other side.
The next witness was the soldier who
stood close by the deceased when tho
first shot was fired, and who, not know
ing either of tho prisoners, described
the person who had fired and ran down
the alley as the man with red hair and
side whiskers, dressed in a light-blue
army overcoat and white soft hat, and
upon being directed to look at the
three prisoners immediately identified
Short as the man whom he had seen do
the shooting.
The testimony of these witnesses was
in nowise shaken upon cross-examination.
Then the sworn ante-mortem state
ment of the deceased, taken by a magis
trate, was read to the jury. He said
that he had known Short personally for
some time, but bad never had any diffi
culty with him. He fully identified him
as the man who had fired the first shot
and then ran down the alley, firing one
shot after another until he fired the
last and fatal shot almost in the face of
the deceased. He also fully described
the clothing worn by Short as it had
linen described bv the other witnesses.
These were all the witnesses to the
occurrence, except the prisoners them
selves, and, of course, they could not
be heard. The case against Short seemed
to be as conclusively made out as
though a score of witnesses had sworn
that they had seen him do the shooting.
IN either tne judge, tne jury nor tne
spectators entertained the slightest
doubt of his guilt, and when tr e com
monwealth at this point closed its case.
it seemed as though the fatal rope was
already around his neck and Ins escape
impossible.
Kyan heaved a sigh of relief which
was audible throughout the whole
court-room, for he was safe; there was
not one word of testimony against him,
or any circumstance tending to show
any previous arrangement or concert of
action between him and Short.
After a whispered consultation be
tween the counsel for the defense, one
of them rose and moved the court to
direct the jury to forthwith return
verdict of " not guilty " as to Ryan, in
order that he might be called as a wit
ness for the other prisoner. This was
resisted by the district attorney, and
after lengthy and elaborate arguments
the court decided that it was bound to
errant the motion, and, accordingly,
Ryan was declared "not guilty" and
the verdict resorded.
Then came a scene as dramatic to
those present as anything ever wit
nessed on the stage. Without any
opening speech by Short's counsel,
Ryan, in obedience to a nod from his
attorney, stepped out of the prisoners'
i dock and into the witness-box, looked
around the court-room, took up the
Bible and was sworn to tell " the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth." Every head was bent forward,
eveiy ear was on the alert, every eye
fixed on the witness something start
liner was exnected. Would he attempt
to show that Short had done the shoot
ing in self-defense? That seemed the
only thing possible. Uut how could he
be believed in the face of the positive
testimony of three witnesses, two of
them living and in the court-room, one
of them dead murdered?
Ryan stood for a moment looking
down, and then slowly lifting his eyes
to the bench, in a silence in which the
falling of a feather might have been
heard, he said:
" May I ask the court a question ?"
The venerable judge, evidently sur-
Erised at being interrogated, looked at
im and said: " Certainly, sir."
" I understand that I am acquitted,"
said Ryan, pausing for a moment and
then continuing: "I want to know
from the court whether anything I may
say now can ever be used against me in
any way ? "
What did he mean ? What need for
that question? Every one looked at
his neighbor inquiringly.
The Hushed face of the judge showed
that he, at least, understood what it
meant an attempt to swear his guilty
companion out of tho hangman's grasp.
Then, in a tone of unmistakable indig
nation, came the answer:
" I am sorry to say, sir, that nothing
you may say now can be used against
you; that is, on a trial for murder. You
have been acquitted."
Ryan's face grew pale and then red,
and he said, slowly aud distinctly:
" It was I who fired all the shots
not Short."
Most of the faces in the court-room
wore looks of incredulity; some of in
dignation at the hardened wickedness
of the man who had just been declared
innocent, and who, by his own state
ment, had been guilty of murder, if he
was not guilty of perjury.
Uut quietly and calmly, without a
tremor, as coolly as though he were de
scribing some trivial occurrence which
he had casually witnessed, Ryan went
on, step by step, detailing all that had
occurred, and when he had finished his
story there was probably not a person
present who was not fully convinced not
only that Ryan had told the simple
truth, but also that he had himself fired
tho fatal shot in self-defense, or at least
under such circumstances of danger as
would have led any jury to acquit him.
Ho detailed how he had fired the first
shot from a small, single-barreled
pistol in the air without any purpose
except to give his cuallengor a Ecare,
and hen ran down the nllev, and upon
being closely pursued by the deceased
with saber drawn and raised to strike,
he was compelled to pull out a revolver
and lire several shots toward his pursuer,
who was rapidly gaining on him, to keep
h lai back; and when he had but one
shot left lie stumbled over a large stone
and fell on his knees, and at thii
moment the deceased struck at him
with the saber, cutting him slightly in
the cheek, and, being thus pressed, he
aimed aud fired the last shot, which
subsequently proved fatal. He further
told how, upon recovering his feet, he
ran, waded through the stream, and
finding that he had lost his hit when he
fell, retraced his steps, recrossed tho
stream, found the hat and then went to
a hotel, where he was seen by several
witnesses to dry his wet clothing. His
manner, his bearing and his story con
vinced his hearers that he was telling
the truth.
But, so that nothing might be want
ing if any doubt remained in the minds
of the judge or jury, witnesses of un
doubted veracity were called who cor
roborated him as to the condition of his
clothing and the cut on his check within
fifteen minutes after the occurrence.
Besides, it was shown that, although
the man who had tired had waded
through the stream, Short's clothing
was perfectly dry.
It s unncessary to say that Short was
promptly acquitted and warmly con
gratulated on cne of the narrowest es
capes ever made by any man in a court
room. Nothing could have saved him
had the court refused to direct the ac
quittal of Ryan and allow him to testify.
The deceased corporal, the soldier
and Mary Bowen were mistaken. That
was all there was about it.
So much for the occasional unrelia
bility of the direct testimony of honest
eve-witnesses.
And so much, also, for giving the ac
cused an opportunity to be heard on tho
witness-stand, tho denial of which by
the law is one of the relics of barbarism
which still disgraces its administration
in some States at this late day.
The Nihilistic Organization.
It is found impossible for the Ens
sian government to get into the Nihilis
tic circle, th( Nihilists being too loyal
to one another, too well informed and
too intelligently organized. For in
stance, the government has learned that
one of the rules of the Nihilists is that
every member shall return to his lodg'
ings every twelve hours, when one of
his companions pays him a visit to see
if all is right. When the visit of the
inspector is made, if the lodger is absent,
it isconcluded that he has been arrested,
and the inspector makes away with
everything of a compromising nature,
The same rule forbids any Nihilist
arrested to tell his name or address un
til twenty-four hours pass. Tiie dis
covery of this rule was made by tho
police m the case of Isaieff. No tor
ments could diaw from him his name or
address until the day after his arrest.
when he gave both. The police went
to his house and found nothing but a
small pile of ashes before Isaiott s fire
place. The discovery of this rule only
tends to increase the government s uis
may at the completeness of the danger
surroundi g it, as, in order even to find
out who the Nihilist inspectors are, it
would have to ascertain the identity of
every man found making a visit.
When a baseball club is beaten with
out making a run they are said to be
" whitewashed," but we notice they
generally look pretty black all the
tame. Boston Commercial.
SUNDAY BEADING.
Kentucky's "Mountain Moors."
A letter to the Louisville, (Ky., tour-
ier-JoitriKit wives an interestin t account
of one George O. Barnes, who is holding
largely-attended revival meetings in
Kentucky. The correspondent says:
Ho began his labors at Lebanon.
where he preached a month without re
sults. Such a beginning would natur
ally damp the ardor of one upheld by
ordinary faith ; but it did not deter Mr.
Barnes. He left God's work to God's
will, and leaving Lebpnon struck out
for the mountains. On the twentieth of
February, 1877, he pnrchased a little
reed organ, and Miss juano, his daugh
ter, began to assist him in his work.
Ever since these twe have r reached,
sung and prayed the gospel throughout
the mountains and wilderness, holding
their services in winter in court houses
and in summer in the cool shade of the
woods. When Mr. Barnes began his
work he concluded, like Mr. Moody, to
take Saturday for rest, preaching every
other day in the week. At first he used
a balsam for his throat to strengthen his
voice. As he proceeded tne light of the
work became brighter in his mind. He
concluded to let God take care of his
throat and quit tie balsam. Months
afterward he concluded that he
needed no rest on Saturdays, and
that God would sustain his strength.
For eighteen months, therefore, he
has not missed preaching two
sermons every day and three on Sun
day. Services are about two and a half
hours in length. II he leaves one sta
tion to travel to auothct, he stops on
the way to hold his service in the after
noon. So eagerly is his coming expect
ed, that whenever he holds one of those
transitory services, some convert rides
ahead in tho morning to inform the
people where he will preach. The
news goes from mouth to mouth and
flies like the Scottish torch from cot
tage to cottage. SigEal fires lighting
the mountain fastnesses of tho moon
shiners could not startle the people
more. When the great preacher ar
rives there are usually hundreds and
sometimes thousands githercd to hear
him. They come afoot on horseback
and in wagons for miles about. When
he has preached they depart, except
those who, rendered eager by his elo
quence and simplicity, ride alter him
to tho next town to hear him. Often
when he enters a mountain hamlet,
alter having preached by the wayside,
he is the head of a caravan of followers
and eager listeners. All through those
trackless mountains he has pushed his
way with his wife and daughter and
their little reed organ, which has been
m use four years, and is to-day in per
feet tune, without having once been
touched by a tuner. If vouask Brother
Barnes about tha organ he will
tell you God keeps the organ in tune
Miss Marie plavs it without teach
ing, knowing nothing of music,
mid it is in niost exquisite tonal
purity. Through tho mountains
Mr. Barnes goes much as Christ went
among the Jews. He is hailed every'
where. He talks to them in a lanmiagc
they know. He is a pure, genial, syui
pathetic man. His faith is lifted by his
evident sincerity avay above the mark
of ridicule, except from denominational
Christians. Where he goes he gains
audience from the busiest. The farmers
neglect their planting and plowing, the
merchants close their business houses
in the afternoon, the lawvers pnt down
their briefs. In Breathitt county, whore
civil war was threatened, Judge Randall
adjourned court daily at 11 o'clock, in
order that Barnes might preach two
hours. Judge Randal! said the preacher
was stronger than the whole State
militia. While there tho lawless ele
inent was powerless. In less than three
weeks he had registered .ibo converts,
He preaches irresistibly. His Bible ex
planations are clear, simple and lucid
All doctrinal difficulties disappear, and
the ministry flock to hear him like their
people. They sit amazed under the
simple power and child-like faith of the
great preacher. All he asks is that you
shall want to know Christ and receive
God's mercy if it is offered. If vou do.
then you are received. God will fashion
the mind, he says, if the heart has
longing for the truth.
Religion New and Note.
San Francisco has 110 churches of all
denominations.
The recent statistics of the Wesleynn
Methodist gives a summary of 92,527
members, with 10,88i on probation
They sustain 519 missionaries, and have
raised for this purpose this last year
about $800,000. They raised for the
theological schools about $50,000, and
for home missions and other purposes
83o,000 more. They have o,(j7o Sun
day-schools in Great Britain alone, with
787,183 scholars.
The colored Baptists in tho United
States number about 800,000.
The American Baptist Missionary
Union closed its financial year with a
debt of less thau 820,000. The Home
Mission society will carry over a debt
of 830,000.
The report of the Illinois Sunday
school association states that there are
0,316 Sunday-schools in Illinois, with a
total membership of 553,300 and 4L7,
470 in regular attendance.
An evangelist exclaimed in Spring
field, Mass., a few nights ago: "If any
of the churches are too nico for poor
people, I hope God will strike them
don n with lightning 1"
The west front of St. Alban's Abbey,
England, is to be restored at an esti
mated cost of 125,000.
The Presbyterians have decided to
ol 1 a Sunday-school assembly at As
bury Park, N. J., commencing August
12, 1881, under the auspices of the
committee on Sunday-schools of the
synod of New Jersey.
The 382,920 Congregationalists in the
United States cave last year for their re
ligious work 83,692,922.21, or an aver
age of nearly 810 per member.
We hear of a man who justifies his
meanness toward his wife by asserting
that he and she are one, and, therefore,
by refusing to furnish her money he
practices the heroio virture of self-denial.
The City of Tunis.
An Italian proverb says, " See Naples
and then die," and there is also an
Arabian saying to tho same effect as
regards Tunis J but to the European
traveler the Mohammedan city, with its
mosques, its minarets, its huge palms
and fig trees, and, above all, the great
fortress that dominates its site, will
always be preferred. Unfortunately,
on ianding the pleasing illusion is
peedily lost, and that which appeared
om afar as a succession of fine streets
and princely residences is found to be a
labyrinth of small lanes, the buildings
generally in a wretched state of dilapi
dation and the narrow roadways filthyjin
the extreme. Evidently there has never
been any recognized plan in its construc
tion, but of late years, sspeemUr since
the occupation of Algeria by tne Drench,
the influence of European residents has
resulted in ameliorating and beautifying
some of the open sites with which the
city is studded, but which are mostly
dedicated to cemeteries and to the ruins
of palaces and strongholds that mark
the salient history of Tunis since its
foundation in the birth of our civiliza
tion. The city may be divided into
three parts, r jspectively devoted to the
Europeans, the Arabs and the Jews.
The square in which is situated the Ex
change presents a fine appearance, be
ing built with some semblance of regu
larity, and containing the abodes of
the consuls and rich foreign residents.
This quarter assumes the liveliest and
most picturesque oppearance during the
busy hours of the day, when Arab,
Moor, Turk, Frank and Jew meet in
this, the principal mart of the northern
coast of Africa, where are to be found
all the products of this magnificent but
as yet poorly explored continent.
The upper part of tho city, forming
species of amphitheater, is inhabited
by the Mussulmans, and on the sum
mit is the Jiaslah or citadel, which is
justly celebrated for its Oriental mag
nificence, the approaches being embel
lished with massive Roman and Sara
conic ruins, with fountains shaded by
marble porticos wrought with the most
intricate and elaborate devices, with
the upper spaces studded with palm
aud other tropical trees. The citadel
itself must have formed a redoubtable
stronghold during the middle ages, but
with modern artillery its heavy embat
tlemcnts could be breached in a few
hours. It contains many monuments
dedicated to the kings of Tunis, some
huge towers on which are cut various
texts from the koran, and an armory
dating from the timo of Charles
A'., of Spain, containing a most
valuable collection of military tro
phies. There is also an arsenal,
a powder manufactory, and depots for
provisions and supplies; indeed, the
citadel is almost a complete city of
itself, with its arcades, its galleries, its
vaults and subterranean passages, in
which, without a guide, it would be as
easy to lose one's way as in tho cata
combs of Rome. From the ramparts
is a most magnificent view, but the chief
attraction to the eye is the bey s palace,
the Darel-bey, which is justlv con
sidered as tho iinest type yet extant of
the Moresque style of architecture, and
superior even to the Alhambra in the
beauty of its lace-like ornamentation
and the brilliancy of the colored marble
with which it is chietly adorned, llns
superb building shows in all its purlieus
that strange mingling of misery and
magnificence that since the days of
Haroun-Al-Kaschid aud the " Thou
sand and One Nights" appears to be
inevitable in all oriental palaces not sub
ject to European rule. San Francisco
Chronicle.
How Russian Exiles Live.
On his arrival the prisoner is driven
straight to the police ward, where he
is inspected by a police officer who is
absolute lord and master of the district.
This representative of the government
requires of him to answer the following
questions: Uis name I tlow old I Mar
ried or single ? Where from? Address
of parents or relations or friends? An
swers to all which are entered in the
books. A solemn written promise is
then exacted of him that he will not
give lessons of any kind, or try to teach
any one; that every letter he writes
will go through the ispravnik's hands,
and that he will follow no occupation
except shoemaking, carpentering or
field-labor. He is then told that he is
free but at the same time is solemnly
warned that should ho attempt to pass
the limits of the town he shall be shot
down like a dog rather than be allowed
to escape, and should he be taken
alive shall be sent off to Eastern Siberia
without further formality than that of
the ispravnik's personal order.
The poor fellow takes up his little
bundle, aud fully realizing that he has
now bidden farewell to the culture and
material comfort of his past life he
walks out into the cheerless street. A
group of exiles, all pale and emaciated,
are thore to greet him, take him to
some of their miserable lodgings and
feverishly demand news from home.
The new-comer gazes on them as one in
dream: some are melancholy mud,
otheis nervously irritable, and the re
mainder have evidently tried to find
solace in drink. They live in commu
nities of twos and threes, have food, a
scanty provision of clothes, money and
books in common, and consider it their
sacred duty to help each other in every
emergency, without distinction of sex,
rank or 'age. The noble by birth get
sixteen shillings a month from govern
ment for their maintenance, and com
moners only ten. Winter lasts eight
months, a period during which the sur
rounding country presents tho appear
ance of a noiseless, lifeless, frozen
marsh no roads, no communication
with the outer world, no means of
escape. In course of time almost every
individual exile is attacked by nervous
convulsions, followed by prolonged
apathy and prostration. They begin to
quarrel, and even to hate each other.
Some of them contrive to forge false
passports, and by a miracle, as it were,
make their escape; but the greater ma
jority of these victims of the Third Sec
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tion either go ruau, commit suieiue or
die of delirium tremens.
Always willing to give his note The
music teacher.
FACTS AND COMMENTS.
A Colorado judge recently cleared a
desperado wiio hud eoniuif ted a foul
murder, but the crowd hanered the rascal
from the court-house window and told
the judge that the next time he let a
murderer go they would hang him.
Thereupon his honor promptly sentenced
three other murderers to be hanged.
Utah is just now the chosen field for
considerable Christian missionary work
There are forty-four Presbyterian mis
sionaries in the Territory, maintained at
an annual cost of $30,001), the Congre
gationalists are spending 8110,000 in new
schoolhouscs and churches, the Meth
odists have twenty missionaries on the
ground and other d.iouihiutions are
represented. These tremendous on
slaughts have incited the Mormons to
renewed zeal.
The czar of Russia rules over au un
dermined empire, and occasionally some
portion of the explosive elements, crop-
mg out. of the surface, is observed.
CLis is the real significance of the inci
dent of the other day, when a mine of
gunpowder was found under a stone
bridge at a steamer landing in St.
Petersburg. The arrest of a couple of
naval lieutenants at Cronstadt for ab
stracting dynamite from the imperial
stores only shows how slight a hold the
czar has on his own picked officers.
Some of the Nihilists, who are known
as " .Federalists, have drawn up a
scheme of reorganization which they
propose to bring forward after the de
struction of the present political regime.
According to this scheme Russia would
be split up into a number of small free
states, which would only be connected
with each other by a congress and a
president, like the United States of
America. Small and self-governing
states are, they say, the primitive forms
of Russian political life ; it was only
Ivan the Terrible and his successor who,
with the help of the Tartars, created
tho present centralized and autocratic
empire. Such a scheme would, it is bo
1 loved, find favor with many members of
the constitutional party, who feel the
difficulty of governing a nation of 80,
000,000 of people by a single central
parliament, and also with some of the
" old Russians," who dream of establish
ing, in opposition to the civilization of
the West, an improved civilization based
on the institutions of ancient Russia.
In the Nineteenth Century Mrs. Burr
advocates a reform in dealing with the
problem of crime which deserves care-
tul consideration aud whicu will com
mend itself to common sense on this
side of the Atlantic as well as on the
other. She points out the fact which
both moralists and novelists have em
phasized before this, that the seeds of
crime are sown in young hearts before
boys and girls have reached their teens,
and that to leave little children to grow
up under circumstances which almost
drive them into pilfering and then pun
ish them because they become thieves
is at once au injustice and a folly. She
proposes to cut off the supply of our
prisons, and even of our reform schools,
by putting the street Arabs under ten
years of ago into homes no one of which
should contain more than fifty or sixty
children, who should be under the
charge of carefully-instructed matrons,
and should be clothed, fed andproperlv
trained, and eventually provided with
places where a healthful and productive
industry would become possible for
them.
" Ihere is a new kind of hend in ex
istence," Baid a postoffice detective to a
correspondent of the Philadelphia lie-
cord, " the postal card fiend, who came
into existence with that species of epis
tolary eflusion. The nuisance is a much
greater one than you can imagine. No
one who is not connected with the ser
vice can imagine the number of scurril
ous cards sent out. Ladies como to us
some of them belonging to the first
families of our city who are almost
heartbroken over the open missives they
have received. They do not want to
expose the matter often it is the re
suit of some family feud and so all we
can do is to stop the cards here, while
the villain is allowed to go free,
have heard of a case lately where
young wife was assailed in reputation
by a former lover rejected of course
who kept just within tho boundary of
the law. The insinuating language was
sullioiently veiled to keep the young
husband uneasy, while it ate deep into
the young bride's heart. It will kill
her, as shq is dying slowly of the iu
ward wound. Ot course ten years in
prison would be light punishment for
such a hend, but these people alway
calculate on an unwillingness to prose
cute on account of fears of publicity."
An illustration of the value of revao
cination is afforded by a report just fur
nished by the chief medical officer of
the general postoffice in England. This
report relates to an average number of
10,504 persons employed in the postal
service in London, all of whom have
been required to undergo revaccination
on admission to the service, unless that
operation has been performed within
seven years previously. Among these
persons, during the ten years 1870-1879,
there has not been a single fatal case of
smallpox, and in only ten instances
have there been non-fatal attacks, all of
which wore of a very slight character.
In the telegraph department, where the
enforcement of revaccination has not
been carried out with quite the same
completeness, twelve cases have occurred
in the same period among a stall
averaging 1,458 in number. Eight of
these attacks were of persons who had
not been revaccinated, and one proved
fatal. The remaining four were of re
vaccinated persons, who all perfectly
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once, like that of the nurses at the small'
pox hospitals, seems to show that revac
cinated persons enjoy absolute immu
liity from severe attacks of smallpox
and that their risk of catching that dis
ease at all, even in its most modified
form, is infinitesimal.
Tho Skein we Wind.
If you and I, to-day,
Should stop and lay
Our life-work down, and let our hand fal
where they will
Fall down to lie quite still
And if some other liaifd thould come, and stoop
to find
The threads we carried, so that It could wind,
Beginning where we stopped; If it should come
to keep
Our life-work going: seek
To carry on the good dcBign
Distinctively made yours, or mine,
Wiat would it find?
Some work we must be doing, true or false;
Some threids wo wind; some purpose so exalt
Itself that we look up to it, or down,
As to a crown
To bow before, aTi e weave threads
Of different lengths and thickness some mere
shreds
And wind them round
Till all tho skein of life is bound,
Sometimes forgetting at tho task
To ask
The valuo of tho threads, or choose
Strong stuff to use.
Xo hand but winds some thread ;
It cannot stand quite still till it is dead
But what it spins and winds a little ekein.
God made each hand for work not toil-stain
Is required, but every hand
Spins, though but ropes of sard.
If love should como, J
Stooping above when we are done.
To find bright threads
That we have held, that it may spin them longer
find but shreds
That break when touched, bow cold,
Sad, shivering, portionless, the hands will hold
The broken Btrands and know
Fresh cause for woe,
George Klinyle.
HCM0B OF TIIE DAY.
Josh Billings says he has never known
a sekund wife but whnt was boss of the
situashnn.
"Will the coming man fly?" He
probably will when the coming woman
gets after him.
The Detroit Free Press advises you to
make weather predictions if you want
to be talked about.
The Rochester Democrat hears of
couples being married on the run. Old
man after them with a shotgun, per
haps. We know a man so near-sighted that
he can't recognize a creditor when he
passes one on tho street. Keokuk Gate
City.
Soldiers are always the most adept
lovers, because they learn how to pre
sent arms and Balute. Uallimore Jivery
Saturday.
This is his first season on a farm, and
he has planted ten acres with tomuto
cans. He expects the ground will pro
duce a heavy crop of canned tomatoes.
Phdadclnhia Chronicle.
A horse died in Campton, N. H., the
other day in whose stomach was found
fifty shingle nails and pieces ol hoop
iron. Indigestion is the curse of our
modern civilization. Lowell Citizen.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
'iheaddcst arc these: " Have you a ten ?''
--Keokuk Lonrtilutiun.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: " We haven't a ten."
Stcubeitrtllc Herald.
Can anybody tell us why a woman,
emerging from a crowded car, always
makes believe she is going to get out
at one side of the platform, until two or
three men have jumped ou in the mud,
and then steps off at the other side ?
She always does it ; and we want
to know the reason why. Philadelphia
Bulletin
The yonntt folks will never be en
tirely resigned to the introduction of
the electric light into private residences
until some means of turning it down
are invented and applied. As it now
is, you must havo the full blaze or
Egyptian darkness. The latter is not
exactly proper, and tho former, for ob
vious reasons, will never do. Aieratea
llaiUtay Journal.
WISE WORDS.
A man's good breeding is the best
security against other people's ill man
ners. Darkness, solitude and remorse are
grim and hateful company.
Those who hope for no other life are
dead even for this.
Great truths are generally bought,
not found by chance.
Do that which is assigned you, and
you cannot hopo too much or dare too
much.
It is a great pity that some people
grow bitter as they grow old. It seems
as though the more teeth they lose the
more they want to bito.
There are men in the world who
never make use of their opportunities.
They couldn't weigh the chances of suc
cess if they had as many scales as a
fish.
In seasons of adversity some men
bear up under the stress of circum
stances, while others beer up. The
principal difference is seen in the purse
and on the nose.
Yon often gain more knowledge from
shrewd though illiterate man than
from a podautio scholar; there is gen
erally more nourishment in a mess of
oatmeal porridge than in a costly pud
ding. If you aie a wise man you will treat the
world as the moon treats it. Show it only
one side of yourself, seldom Bhow your
self too much at a time, and let what
you show be calm, cool aud polished.
But look at every side of the world.
Oaths are vulgar, senseless, oflensive
and impious; they leave a noisome
trail npon the lips aui stamp odium
upon the soil. They are inexcusable.
They gratify no sense, while they out
rage taste and dignity.
There is no place in the wide world
like home. It is the dwelling place of
our hearts' treasure, and the first of our
lives we owe to it and its inmates. To
make it pleasant and attractive should
be the aim of every man.