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June 1G. 1859. ly.
AN OVERLAND JOURNEY.
XV.
WESTERN" CHARACTERS.
Denver, June 21, 1S59.
T know it is not quite correct to speak of i
this region as 'Western.'seeing that it is in
fact the center of North America and very;
close to its backbone. Still, as the terms
'Ea-tcrn' and Western1 are conventional
and relative Castiue beinj- "Western" to
b BluenoHO and Carson Yalley "Eastern" ,
Having a j
namentnl Type, wc are prepared to execute every etc including some scores of WOU10U and Chll- times quite misceiiancousi.) , muiuu uuu
Bcripiion of Idren, who generally stop here, as all of mc as inconvenient for a quiet guest with
J5&-&l& & ?&LUL$1 A 'V-WJ BJ-a !t,Jem sbou(-. for jfe Q the Mountains is only a leg and a half, hence in poor con-
?fi&S yot horribly rough. Public religious dilioo for dodging bullets. So I lofc
ted with neutacss and despatch, on roiisojublo terms regular mail and other civili- "How do you lire in Denver I 1 in-
lib ltlt?
1. 1 .rr. - - r
to a Californian I take the responsibih- from them by that river, and, winding enii,raljonf abandoning all but what they
ity of grouping certain characters J have its northward course of forty or Gfty miles ' coujj carry away. jfc s sad that lots
noted on the Plains and in or about tbo over the Plains, with its sources barely au( cab;DS together sold for $25 so long
Mountains as "Western," begging that, touching the Mountains, is a capricious j as tburc wereQpUrobasers; but, these soon
most respectable region which lies eant stream, running quite smartly when we I fajngi tbey werc cft behind like camp
of tbo Buffalo range also that portion came here, but whose broad aud thirsty greH tho mornine and have since been
which lies west of the Colorado to cs-
cuse the liberty.
The first circumstance that strikes a
stranger traversius this wild country is
the vagrant instincts aud balits of tbe , by the melting of the snows on the bifrh
preat majority of its denizen perhaps mountains, runs nearly full-banked,
I should say, of tbo American people j through the constant succession of hot
generally, os exhibited hero. Among 'suns and dry winds begins to tell upon it,
any ten who you successively meet, there j while Clear Creek, (properly Ya.quer'u
vsiU be natives of Ntw-En'land, New- Fork) which issues directly from the
York, Pennsylvania, Yirgiuia or Georgia,;
Ohio or Indiana, Kentucky or Missouri!
France, Germany, and perhaps ireianu.
But worse than thi.-: you cannot euter a
circle of a dozeu persons of whom at least :
three will not have spent some years in
California, two or three have made claims
and built cabins in Kansas or Ncbra?ka.
nnd at least one snent a year or so in
Texas. Boston, New-York, Philadelphia j
" r v
New-Orleans, St. Louis, Cincinnati, have
all contributed their quota toward peopl
ing tbc new Gold Region. The next man
you meet driving an ox team, and white
as a miller with iutit, an ex hanker or
doctor, a brokt-n merchant or manufac
turer from the old States, who hasscraped
together the candle ends charitably or
contemptuously allowed bim by his cred
itors on scttlciaent, and ri-ked them on a
last desperate cast of the dice by corning
hither. Ex-editors, ex-printers, cx-clcrks,
ex-steamboat men, arc. here in abound
aucc all on the keen hunt for the gold
which only a few will secure. Oue of the
Ftations at which we slept on our way up
the rough tent with a cheering hope
(nince blsstcd) of a log bcusc in the near
future was keDt bv an ex-lawvcr of Cin-
- i .
Omnibus drivers Irom Broadway repeat-
ndlr handled the ribbons; ex Border Ru-;
fiaus from civilized Kansas sorae of
them of unblcs-ed memory were en-;
countered cn our way, at intervals none
too long. All these tended with voter-;
j.?n;n man Tnr!nna nf all orndfls '
au I'luuuium ..w., iu-.-w v. b
from tbc tamest to the wilde-t, Half-
Breeds, I'reuch trappers and voyugcur
(who have generally two or lureu tuuiau
wives apiece) and au occasional uigger, '
comrjose a medlcv such as hardly anoth-j
other region can parallel. Honolulu, or
home other of the South Sea Inlands could ,
cinnati aud his wife, an ex-sctresa tromjte, and roughly hewed on mc two per
our New-York Bowery she being cook pcndicular idts, and chinked with billets
probably match it most nearly. ,iug a prefiguring a window, the edihee is
The old Mountaineers form a caste by complete. Of coure, many have no earth
(homed vc, and they prize the distinction, on their covering of shooks, and so are li
Some of them are Frenchmen, or Frauoo-! able to gentle inuudation in the rainy sea
Americans, who have been trapping or son; but, though wehavc had thunder and
trading in and arouud these mountains lightning almost daily, with a brisk gale
for a nuarter of a century, have wives
and children here, and here expect to live J
&nd dlC. DOmO OI UlttU uaie wuiuuiayui; uuniiumu, Univ.!; cuuu j
ted Droncrtv and cash to the value of ses, through whose sides and roofs you)
$200,000, which omouut will not eas-ily may see the stars as you lie awake nights,
bo reduced, as they are frugal in every- aie decidedly tbe cooIt and airer. There
thing, (liquor sometimes excepted), spend is a new hotel nearly finished in Auraria,
but a pittance on the clothing of their which has a seoond story floor; beside
families, trust little, keep small stocks of thi, mine eyes have never yet been b leas
goods, and sell at large profits. Others ed with the sight of any floor whatever in
came years ago from the States, some of cither Denver or Auraria. The last time
them on account each of a "difficultj" , I slept or ate with a floor under me (our
wherein they severally killed or savagely ' wagon-box and Mother Earth excepted)
maimed their respective antagonists un- was at Junction City, nearly four weeks
der circumstances on which tho law refu-; ago. The "Denver House,'' which is the
sesto look leniently; whence their pilgrim- Astor Hou-c of tbe Gold Region, has walls
ae to and prolonged sojourn hero, des- of logs, a floor of eortb, with windows and
pfte enticing placards offering S500 or roof of rather flimsy cotton sheeting,
perhaps SI ,000 for their eafc return to while every guest ia allowed as good a bed
tbe places that knew them ouce, but shall as bis blankets will make. The charges
know them no more. This class is not are no higher than at the Astor and oth
rjumerous. but is more influential than it er first-class hotels, exeeptfor liquor 25
ebould be in civing tone to tbe society of cents a drink for whisky, colored and
which its members form a Dart, rrone
t J.n -I r-wilrlnrf cniirnil !n to in nor 111.
II 11. 'I'll ..I I 11 II 1 U. . "
country where tbe regular administration
of justice is yet a matter of prophecy, it
seoms difficult to overrule or disregard.
I apprehend that there have been, during
my two weeks sojourn, more brwls,more
figbts, more pistol shots with criminal in-
ways armed, bristling at a word, ready region. I had the honor to be shaved not purcbase-a heart unspotted, and v.r
with the rifle, revolver or bowie-knife, there by a nephew (so he assured me) of i tue without a stain-whioli is all that
they five law and set fashions which in a Murot, Bonaparte's King of Naples the j descended to me from my parents.
tent, in this log city of 150 dwelling,not
. j
r
luuanilCU, HOr Olie-iuiiu in iu ui, iuu m
any community of no greater numbers on
earth. This will be changed in titne I
trust within a year, for the empty houses
arc steadily Guding tenants from the two
streams of cmhration rolling in daily up
tho Pintle, n well as down Cherrv Creek,
tin-: influences, are being established;,
there is a gleam of hope that the Arapa-h'cc:-
who have made the last two or
three nights indescribably hidcousby their
infernal war-whoops, songs and dances,
j will at last clear out on the foray against
thr. TTtns thev have so lou? threatened,
- ranntn -e
I UIuJlUi3UlIJH laiUUIT l"- w
drunkenness and justifying expectations
! of comparative paace. So let too close
up my jottings from this point which
circumstances beyond my control nave
rendered too voluminous with a rough
ambrotype of
LIFE IN DEXVER.
The rival cities of Denver and Aura-
ria front on each other from either bank
of Cherry Creek, just before it is lost in
the South Platte. The Platte has its
sources in the South Park of the Rocky
Mountains, a hnndrcd miles S. W. of this
point, but Cherry Creek is beaded off
bands bn-c since tlranK n an up at mis (
point, leaving the loc foot-bridges which
connect the two cities as useless as an ice-
house in
Novouiber. The Platte, aided
Mountains ju?t above its cro-sing on the
way to the Gregory Diggings, is nearly at
its highest, and will so remain till the in
ner mountains are mainly denuded of
their snowy mantles. But, within a few
days, a foot-bridge has been completed
over the Platte, virtually abolishing the
ferrv and, savinp; considerable time and
money to gold-seekers and travellers,
while another over Clear Creek precludes
not onlv delay but danger several wag
ons having boen wrecked and two or three
men all but drowned in attempt? to ford
its rapid, rocky current. Thus the ways
of the adventurer grow daily smoother,
nnd they who visit this region ten years j a man about tbc city 5eEtcrjaJ witu
hence will regard as idle tales the stones : LuttQC(! to se)iar)d I am credibly as- '
of privation,impedinjentand"huir breadth !gured hat tbere wU1 be GrceQ pC8S ncxt
'scapes" which are told, or might be, by month actually Peasl-provided it should
the gold peckers of 1 6o9. ra5n soaj;nfTjy meantime whereof a hazy
Of these rival cities, Aurnna is by )owering ajfy wouu .seem jut now to af
far the more venerable-some of its struc- f(ml .Qine bope (p g Tbe hope ba3
tures being, I think, fully a year old. if van;s.be-) But I already sadly behind
not more. Denver, on the other hand, , rnfirir ni,i to travel as?ain mu&t
c&n boal of no antiquity beyond Seplem-
I er or October last. In the architecture
of the two cities there is, notwithstanding,
a striking similarity cottonwood logs,
cut from the adjacent bottom of the Plat
oi spnt v,ouoiiw0ou ou lue.uiiei uuu
mud
id on the outer side, forming the walls ,
of nearly or quite every edihee which a- !
dorus either city. Across the ocDter of
the interior, from shorter wall to wall,'
stretches a sturdy ridge pole, u-ually in a
state of nature, from which "shooks'' or ,
f t I. '
split saplings of cotton wood, their spl-fc
tiues uuu, mvuuu gcuuy iu iuu i.iio
cipc ui iuhi siui vu mto v..v- ,
more finished structures) a coating of i
earth U laid, and, with a chimney of mud (
daubed sticks in one corner, u door near- !
ly opposite, and a hole beside it represent-
'in most instances, they have had no rain
worth naming snob here for weeks and
nicunamea to sun tue taste oi customers,
VlPin
rMI,lnr rtn hrnimhmit this :
honor aud the shavo together costing but
a paltry dollar. Still, a few days of such
luxury surfeited mo, mainly because the
drinking room was also occupied by scv-
ernl blacklegs as a gambling bsll, and
their incessant clamor of Who'll go me
XX! Tbo ace of hearts is the winning
oar(I Whoevcr turn3 tbo ace of hearts
, .,,, nersisted in at
' v- - - , , r
all hours up to midnight, beoamc at length
a nuisance, from which I craved dehver-
anco at any price. Then the visitors of
that drinking and gambling room had a
careless way, when drunk, ot firing revoi-
vers, sometimes at each other, at
other
quired of a New-York friend some weeks
domiciled here, in whose company l vis
ited the Mines. ''0, I've jumped a cab
in," wus his cool, matter-of-course reply.
Asjumpioea cabin was rather beyoud
J t ' ; i r..t 1
my experience, jl inquireu luruici, uu
learned that, Gnding a cabin desortcd-and
....flthnf. suited him. he had auietlv
.x,w-M.w 7
entered and spread his blankets, eating
at borne or abroad as opportunity might
' suggest. I found, on further inquiry that
at least one-third of the inhabitants in
Denver and Auraria were desolate when
wc came here, (they have been gradually j
filling up since); some of the owners hav-
j ing gone into the Mountains, digging or ,
! prospecting, and taKen tneir uniteu sup- .
Qf nou!fcU
t -i oti,fir(.
bold goods along with them:
discouraged by tbo poor .
.l0W of mimmg six wecka ago, when even
tbe nearcr mountains were still covered
wJtb SUQW an(i jCCt rusbed pell-mell down
tho iiatte with wild reflux of tho Spring
t tb(J service 0f au COmers.
j So, in company with a journalizing friend
; I, too, have "jumped a cabin," and have
kept to it quite closely, under a doctors
care, for the last ten days. It is about
ten feet square and eight feet high, rath
er too well chinked for Summer, consid
ering that it lacks a window, but must be
a capital house for this country in Win
ter. I board with the nearest neighbor,
and it is not my landlady's fault that the
edible resources of Denver are decidedly
limited. But even these are improving:
To the Bread, Bacon and Beans, which
! formed the staple of every meal a short
time ago, thero have been several recent
additions : Milk, which was last week
twenty five cents per quart, is now down
to ten, and I hear a rumor that eggs, off-
i ing to a recent increase in the number of
j hens within five hundred miles from four
j or five to twelve or fifteen, are about to
I fall from a dollar a dozen to fifty cents.
: On every side, I note signs of Progress
! Tmnrovemeut Manifest Destinv there
turn back QQ tbis prom;sc 0f luxuries, '
and taKc tue roaa to jjaramtc io-uay, ui
at furthest to-morrow.
Horace Greeley.
Things Wo Have Seen.
We have seen the most worthless
and
, f , . t fnsbionable
y , , . uilo.d vounrr
men turn tipplers and die druukards.
. . . j D
We have seen men who have boasted
of their wealth, who were not able to pay (
their tailor. j
V(J ave seen men wuo ouyu mauu
much noise about their bravery and dar-
We have seen men who have made
0SJ,0t an,
D t '
We have seen the same run away from
a goose.
Wc hare seen men run in debt with-
Qut probabiHtJ of being able to make
J S
payment
We have neen men urging
nnnlhnr to
become a candidate for
some
office-
and,
Wji have seen tbo same fellow vote a
gaiust him at tho election.
,
Wc have seen parents urge their in-
He'en a lovely young girl mar
ry a rich old bachelor merely for wealth;
and
We have seen the same girl die bro
ken hearted within a year.
'We have seen talented young men
marry bashy, brainless girls and, .
We have seen them even aiter
drag-
ging out a wretched, miserable-life.
Losing a Day.
"I say Pete, in gwino round de world,
trabblers tell ui dey lose one whole day.''
"Dat am nuffin, Sam, when you can
make cm up again.''
"How you gwine to make cm up agin
tell me dot!"
'Why, turn round and go, back agin,
nigger,
J5SFA Greek maiden being asked what
fortune she would bring her husband, re-
ulicd "I will brine: bim what gold can-
. -o
VOOixt West, the law gives damapes
for apparent breach of promise. J ho
bachelors, however, obviate the difficulty
by having their cards labelled, "(joocl
for this call only:'
Three Thousand Miles of Eiver Naviga
tion. A steamboat has recently returned to
St. Louh, from a trip up the Missouri
BJvcr to Fort Benton, a distance of three
thousand miles from its mouth, and only
seventy miles from tho sources of tbo
Columbia River. It is, therefore, evident
that a steamboat may go from Pittsburgh
to Fort Benton, and were the navigation
of tho Ohio and Missouri Rivers inproved,
as it readily might be, travel and trans- .
portation might be carried on throughout
this extensive route during the greater j
part of the year. Facta like these, show ;
in a strong light the wretched policy
which our General Government pursues
in refusing to encburago works of internal
improvement. There is an abundanooof
of unemployed labor in the country which
would rejoice to find employment in Quch
works, and the expenditure would in a '
few years be returned a hundred fold in
tho increased value of the land in our
great western territories. The wealth
which would be produced by the settle
ment and exploration of that vast region,
between tho Mississippi and the Pacific,
i3. incalculable; and yet all of its immense
resources lie dormant, while thoe who
administer the Government amuse them
selves with schemes for the purchase of
Cuba and the absorption of Mexico.
Were the industrial capital of the coun
try protected from the European drain,
which so injuriously affects all American
interests, and keeps enterprising men in
a continual fever of anxiety, improve
ment'', which would so largely increase
tbo value of property, would be gradually
undertaken by private individuals or cor
porations formed for tbo purpose. The
labor, tbe skill and energy aro here in
abundance, and all that is wanting is the
pecuniary means and that confidence
which regularity in the operations of busi
ness always creates, to enable our people
to accomplish enterprises of a far grander
and more important character than any
which have yet been undertaken. But
at the present time men live in continual
dread of those panics and revulsions
which results from our slavish depen
dence upon Europe for all the pecuniary
capital with which business is carried on
iu this country. If the tariff of 1842 had
not been disturbed, tbe gold from Cali
fornia would have remained in the coun
try, instead of being sent to Europe to
pay for useless manufactures, and many
branches of industry would have been so
much improved that other nations would
be tributary to us, instead of drawing our
money from us. We should have the
best currency in the world, and enough
of it for all the business wants of the com
munity. That tbe unexplored portions
of our Western Territories contain un
told mineral wealth, no one can doubt;
and that the land in many of them is
rich, in an agricultural point ot view, in
equally evident. To subdue, to devel
ope, to cultivate, and to make available
the resources of this vast regiou, would
be a work of which tbo mightiest nations
might bo proud; and the largo scope for
the exhibition of the genius aud enter
prise of the American people, which such
a work would afford, and the improve
ment in the condition of the people,-Consequent
upon the large demand which
would be made for labor of every kind,
would do more to exalt tho Americrn
people amongst tbe nations of the Earth
than any work which has yet been under
taken. When we consider what our
country has already accomplished while
struggling with so many difficulties, wo
can well imagine what she would do if
those obstructions were removed, and tho
industry of the people encouraged.
The country "traversed in this steam
boat expedition of three thousand miles,
is almo?t an uubroken wilderness. At
the present tiino it is almost valueless;
yet all the materials of wealth are there,
invitiug iudustry to come and take them.
Myriads of unemployed or poorly paid
mechanics, operatives and laborers, pine
in our Eastern States for lack of the
means to open those mines of wealth in
this distant region, which would so abun
dantly reward their industry. Our coun
try is like a huge machine which stands
still for want of an engineer to set it iu
motion, aud manage its operations. A
vast part of the people live in indigence
whilo wealth is buried all around them.
We need not look to tho far West to see
the results of the wretched policy which
paralyzes tho arm. of industry, and de
prives tbe useful man of a proper reward
for his labor. Hero in Pennsylvania,
we hove in abundanco tbe rich treasures
of tho earth sleeping in our hills and for
ests, while industry goes without reward.
There is abundanco everywhere, but for
want of motion in the industrial machine
tho people suffer in tho midst of plen
ty. The cost of tho construction of a rail
road to California would have been re
paid in tbo value of property twenty
times over in a few years. The bonds of
union would have been strengthened, and
the nations of Europo would have been
compelled to pay ua tributo for their in
tercourse with the Paoifio. Tho funds
for tho construction of such a work as
well as for the improvement of tho navi
gation of the great rivers of the West,
could have been raised by increased duties
on foreign manufacture?, which would have
been a benefit instead of a burthen to tho
country? Nay,the mere adoption of specif
ic duties in the place of the fraud-inviting
ndvalorevi system which pow prevails,
would afford an increase of revenue suffi
cient in ten years to complete a Pacific
llailroad and make vigatiou of the
Missouri to Fort Benton.
Wisdom in tbe management of oar
publie affairs is ail that is wanting to
make our country the greatest and most
powerful of nations, and to increase the
prosperity, happiness and independence
of tbe people in an incalculable extent.
Daily Kcics.
i m mm " '
Something to Impart and Something to
Learn.
It is related of a reverend clergyman
who lived in Vermont soruo forty years
ago, that he was on such friendly and in
timate teres with his parishonrs that
ho would sometimes indulge in freedoms
not altogether in character with the grav
ity of deportment so essential to tho
maintenance of clerical dignity aud res
pect. On one occasion, previous to com
mencing religious worship, he called the
attention of hi3 hearers to a subject which
weighed heavily on his mind.
"I have," said he, "something to im
part aud something to learn. There is
oue thing which T know that you do not
know; there is one thing which you know
that I do not know; and there is one thing
which neither of m knows. First, as I
was coming over the hedge I tore my
breeches this I know, but you did not
know. Second, whether you will give me
cloth enough to make a new pair this
jou know, but I do not know; and third,
what will tho tailor charge to make them.
This latter is what neither of us knows."
A Fast Girl. -Mary
Butler, a servant girl was arres
ted at the Five Points, N. Y., for stealing
a quantity of clothing from her mi-tress,
Mrs. Clarinda B. Hazeltine, who was
boarding at Orange, on the IGtb ult.
The girl first got partly drunk, and then
breaking open her mistress's trunk, put
on a S40 silk dress, S50 shawl, S20 hat
and other apparel to match, making about
S150 worth of goods and jewelry, and
went to New York. She had disposed of
the whole stock for $5. The servant was
sent to jail, and the man who bought the
goods was held on a charge of receiving
stolen goods.
,b.
A Fast Boy.
The Worcester (Mass.) Spy relates tbe
criminal adventures of a boy twelve years
of age, whose precocious rogueries and
cunning escapes would form an interest
ing chapter in the Old Bailey Chronicle
of the Police Gazette. This young rogue,
Isaac B. Pateh by name, commenced his
career in Worcester by stealing from his
uncle, Mr. S. F. Towne, S250, with which
he went to Boston. There he fell into
the hands of a police officer, and was sent
homo in charge of the conductor. He e
luded the vigilance of his guardian, bow-(
ever, and left the train at Groton junc-i
tiou. After various hair-breadth esoapes:
and wiley stratagems, he stole a horse, I
wagon and harness belonging to Elijah'
Gro.s, of Athburnham, and made hi way
to Bellows Falls. Here he was overtaken
by the owner of the team, and taken back j
to Fitchburg, where he was committed
for trial at the next Criminal Court for
Worcester county.
Queer 3atrimonial Freak.
A letter from a citizen of Livingston
county, Kentuckey, to the Danville Tri
bune, relates the following bit of family
history in that neighborhood: "A widow
lady took an orphan to raise, quite small,
and when arrived at the age of eighteen,
tlin morrinfl lilm elm MlPn hpillT in llOT
fiftieth year. They lived together many
years, as happy as any couple. Teu'
years ago they took an orphau girl to,
raise. This fall tbe old lady died, being
ninety-six years of age, and in seven
weeks after, the old man married the
. .- ... i
girl they had raised, he being sixcy-eigut
years old, and the girl eighteen."
A Living Head on a Dead Body.
Mr. Archibald Campbell, a respectable
farmer in the township of Camden East,
while enj-aged in finishing a new dwell
on his premises, tho scaffold gave way,
aud he was precipitated bead foremost
to the ground, and dislocated hU neck;
but very fortunately and mysteriously it
did not kill bim. When his head was
brought to its proper position, the verte
bras of tbe neck returned to their place
with a dull but distinct snap. The whole
body is paralyzed and dead from tho
neck downward. He is not capable of
moving a muscle or exporienciug tbc
slijhtelt pain. Fortunately the nerves
supplying the muscles used in respiration
were not paralvzed, and he can breathe
and live; had the injury of tho spinal
cord been a little higher, he would have
died immediately. Tho sense of siht,
hearing, smelling, &c, are normal, and
intellect is unimpaired.
When lafet heard from however, there
were some indications of a return of sen
sation and the power of motion, and it is
ju possiblo that Mr. Campbell may par
tially Tcoowr.Newburgk (C. W.) In
dex, f&Don't expect to bo called a good
fellow a moment longer than you consent
to do precisely what other -people wish
you to. do.
-13cgger3 always find one kind of
provision plenty tho cold shoulder.
Inclined to be Quarrelsome.
There was once a little, dim-built fel
low, rich as a Jew, and independent as
old Scratch, riding along a highway in
the Stale of Georgia, when be overtook a
man driving a drove of hogs by tho help
of a big, raw-boned six-feet two specimeu
of humanity. Stopping the last named
individual, be accosted him:
'I fay, are,tbee your hogs V
No,' sir; I'm to work by the month.'r
'What pay might you be getting,
friend 7"
"Ten dollars a month and whiskey
thrown in," was the reply.
"Wdl, look here; I'm a weak, little in
offonsivc man, and people are apt to im
pose upo.n me, d'ye see. Now, I'll give
you twenty-five dollars a month to ridoa
long mith me and protect me," said Mr,
Gardner. "But," he added, as a thought
struck bim, "how might jou be on a
fight !"
'Never been licked in my life," rejoin
ed the six-foot.
"Just the man I want. LVt a bargain!'''
queried Gardner.
Six footer ruminated.
"Twenty-five dollars double wages
nothing to do but to ride around and
smash a fellows mug occasionall when
he's sassy."
Six footer accepted.
They rodo along, till, just at night,they
reached a village inn. Dismountingat
the door, they went in. Gardner imme
diately singled out the biggest roan in
tbe room and picked a fuss with bim.
After considerable promiscuous jawing,
Gardner turned to his fighting friend aDd
intimated that the licking of that man
had become a sad necessity. Six-footer
peeled, went in, and came out first best.
The next night, at another hotel, tho
same scene was re-enacted Gardner
'getting into a row with the biggest man
iu tho place, and six-footer doing the
! fighting.
At last on the third day, they came to
a ferry kept by a huge, double-fisted man,
who had never been licked in his life.
Whilst crossing the river, Gardner, as u
sual began to find fault and blow. Tho
ferryman naturally got mad, throw things
around, and told bim his opinion of their
kind. Gardner then turned to his friend,
and gently broke the intelligence to him
that he was sorry, but that it was abso
lutely necessary to thrash that ferryman.
Six footer nc-dded his head, but said
nothing. It was plainly to be seen that
he did not relish the job, by the way he
shrugged his shoulders, but there was no
help for it. So when they reached the
shore, both stripped, and at it they went.
Up and down the bank, over the sand, in
to the water they fought, scratched, goug
ed, bit, and rolled, till, at the end of aD
hour, tbe ferryman gave in. Six footer
was triumphant, but it bad been tough
work. Going up to his employer, ho
scratched his head for a moment and then
broke forth :
"Look here, Mr. Gardner, yoar salary
sets mighty well, but I'm of the o-
pinion that you are inclined to -be
quarrelsome. Here I've only been with
you three dajs, and I've licked the three
biggest men in the country I I think this
firm had better dissolve, for yon see, Mr.
Gardner, I'm afraid you're inclined to be
quarrelsome, aud 1 reckon I'll draw."
.
A Fine Thought.
A French wri'er has said that 'to dream
gloriously, jou mu-t act gloriously while
you are awake; and to bring angels down
to converse with you in your sleep, you
must labor in the cause of virtue during
the day.
US'J. B." tells a good 'un. While
riditiir in ono of the Philadelphia cars,
recently, he asked an elderly uncle if ha
had seen any of .the newly medicated pa
per. Tho reply wa in the ofiirmtive.
Jusfthen an elderly Quaker lady, sitting
opposite, addressing the elderly gentle
raau, said, "Friend, what newspaper did
thee speak oil" Here was a poser; but
instantly recovering his equanimity, after
a few a-hem's and a-ha's. be replied, ''A
now paper, started in opposition to tho
New York Herald!" The old lady then
subsided, apparently satisfied with the
explanation. About this time there was
a general explosion.
gSrMr. Marsh, an able chemist, found
that iron long under water when reduced
to powder, invariably becomes red hot,
and ignites anything it touches. A gen
eral knowledge of this is important, as it
account for many spontaneous fires. A
pieco of rusty old iron, brought into con
tact with a cotton balo in a warehouse or
on shipboard, may occasional uchrloss of
life and property. . ' i - .
. . '.jfp
jlf you tovo others, they wilMovo
you. If you Speak kindly to them, they
will speak kindly, to you. Love i rapid
with love, and hatred with batredTsWould
you hear a sweet and pleasing echo, speak
sweetly and pleasantly yourself.
Some of tho savage tribes wear b'clh
on their noses. Wc have sometimes5 at
crowded soirees, had belles on onr toes
and didu'tlikc the fashion.
JJrKnowledgo is prond that h has
learned so much; wisdom is. humble thst
he has learned no moro. j
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fSJf-Marriago U a feist where thcgrace
is sometimes belter than dinner.