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VOL. X. NO. 47.
TIONESTA, PA., FEB. 27, 1878.
$2 PER ANNUM.
The Henchman.
BY JOHN OKF.ENLEAF WHITTIF.B.
My lady walks her morning round,
My lady's page her fleet greyhound,
My lady's hair the fond winds stir,
And all the bird make songs 'for her.
Hor thrashes sing in ltatbburn bowers,
And IUthburn side is gay with flowers ;
Hut ne'er like hers, in flower or bird,
Was beauty noen or nmnio hoard.
The distance of the stars is hers ;
The loast of all hor worshippers,
The duxt benoath her daiuty beol,
Htae kuows not that I Bee or fuel.
O proud and calm ! she cannot know
Wboro'er she goes with her I go ;
0 cold and fair ! ahe cannot guess
1 knoel to sharo her hound's carex !
(lay knight besido her hut and hawk.
I rob their ears of hor sweet tilk ;
Her suitors oome from east and west,
I steal hor smile from every guest.
Unheard of her, in loving words,
I greet her with the song of bird,
1 reach her with her green-armed bowers,
I kiss her with thslips of flowers.
The hound and I are ou her trail,
The wind anl I uplift hor veil j
As if the calm, cold moon she were,
And I the tide, I follow her. s
As unrebuked as they, I share
The licensa of the sun and air,
And in a common homage hide
My sroriihip from her soorn and pride.
Nor look nor sign botrayeth me j
1 serve her in my low degree,
Content in humble ways to prove
lie serveth well who serves for love.
And still to her my service brings
The reverence due to holy things ;
Her ma don prido, her haughty name
My dumb devotion shall not shame.
Inlrpenrinit.
The Express Train.
Two or three of us had lounged out of
the club one night, into Santley'a office,
to find out the news coming in by cable,
which the sleeping town would not hear
until the paper would be out to-morrow.
Sautley wan editor of the Courier. He
was scribbling away at driving speed,
his hai on, an unlighted cigar in Lib
mouth.
" You're at it lnte, Ben." .
" Accident on a western road. Sixty
lives lost," without looking up.
We seized the long white slips which
lay coiled over the table, aud read the
dispatch.
44 Tut, tut 1"
"Infamous I'
" Nobody to blame, of course."
44 1 tell you the offi'ers of a road where
such an fcccidcut is possible should be
tried for murder 1" cried Ferrers.
Sautley shoved his copy to the boy,
and lighted his cigar. " I think you're
wrong, Ferrers. Instead of being
startled at such casualties, I never travel
on a railway that I am not amazed at
the security of them. Just think of it.
Thousands of trains running yearly on
each, with but a minute to spare be
tween safety and destruction, the safety
of the trains depending on conductors,
telegraph clerks, brakesmen, men of
every grade of intelligence, the braius
subject to every kind of mood, disease
and temper. The engineer takes a glass
of liquor; the conductor sets hia' watch
half a minute too fast; the fhignian falls
asleep, and the train is dashed into ruin!
It is not the accident that is to be won
dered at, it is the escape that is miracu
lous 1"
We had all dropped into seat by this
time. The night was young, aud one
after another told some story of adven
ture or danger. Presently Sautley said,
" There was an iucident which occurred
on the Erie road a few years ago, which
inado me feel as I do in the matter I
happened to be an eye-witness to the
whole affair."
What was it, B-n ?"
" It's rather a long story "
" No matter. G. ou. You cau't go
home until vour proof comes iu any
how." 1 44 No. Well, to make you understand,
bout five years ago I had a bad break
ydown night-work, haak-writing and
poor pay. You know how fast it all
wears out the machinery. The doctor
talked of diseases of the gray matter of
the bruin, etc., und prescribed, instead
of medicine, absolute rest and change of
scene. I would have swallowed all the
nostrums in a drug shop rather than
have left the office for a week.
" I'll take country board and send in
editorial,' said I.
" 'No; you must drop office and work
utterly out of your life for a month, at
least. Talk and think of planting pota
toes, or embroidery anything but news
.papers and politics. '
' Well, 1 obeyed. I started on a ped
estrian tour through Pennsylvania, s'ud
ied oil stock in Alleghany county, and
ate sour-kraut in Berks. Finally I
brought up footsore aud bored beyjnd
bearing in Williarasport. While there
I fell into the habit of lounging about
the railway station, studying the con-
struction of the engines, and making
friends with the men. The man with
whom I always fraterniz9 most readily is
the skilled mechanic. He has a degree
of common-sense a store of certain facts
which your young doctor or politician is
apt to lack. Besides he is absolutely
sure of his social standing grouud, and
has a grave self-respect which teaches
him to respect you. The professional
lad just started ou his career is uneasy.
not sure of bis position: he tries to
climb perpetually. I tell you this to ex
JlilijiJUiy iutimtu'Y with many of the offi
cials on the road, especially with ah en
gineer named Blakeley.
This man attracted me first by his
ability to give me the information I
wanted in a few direct sharp words.
Like most reticent men he knew the
weight and value of words. I soon be
came personally much interested in him.
He was about forty, hia hair streaked
with gray, with a grave worn face, which
hinted at a youth of hardship and much
suffering. However," Blakeley had found
his way to the uplands at last. Three
years before he lind married a bright,
o'leerful woman. They had one child
a boy. ne had work and good wages.
and was, I found, high in the confidence
of the company, Ou one occasion, hav
ing a Sundayott.he took me up to Jersey
Shore, where his wife and child lived.
He was an exceptionally silent man, but
when with them was garrulous and light
hearted as a boy. In his eyes Jane
was the wisest and fairest of women,
and the boy a wonder of intellect. One
great source of trouble to him was, as I
fouud, that he'was able to see them but
once in three weeks, it was necessary
for the child's health to keep them in
the country air, and, ind-vd, he could
not afford to have them elsewhere; but
this separated him from them almost
totally. Jane was in the habit of com
ing with Charley down to a certain
point of theood every day, that Blakeley
might see them as he dashed by.
" And when I found out this habit, it
occurred to me that I could'give Blakeley
a great pleasure. How often have I
cursed my meddling kindness since.
January 25th was the child's birthday.
I proposed to Mrs. Blakeley that she and
Charley should board the train which
her husband drove, unknown to him,
and mn up to Harrisbnrg, where he
had the night off. There was to be a
little supper at the Lochiel House.
Charley was to appear in a new suit,
etc., etc. Of course the whole affair was
at my expense a mere trifle, but an af
fair of grandeur and distinction which
fairly took Jane's breath. She was a
most innocent, happy creature; one of
those women who are wives and mothers
in the cradle. When Blakeley fouud
her she was a thin, pale little tailoress
a machine to grind out badly-made
shoddy clothes. But . three years of
raaraiage and petting of Charley had
made her rosy and plump and pretty.
HThe littlo'Highland suit was brought
complete, to the tiny dirk aud feather,
and very pretty the littlo fellow looked
in it. I wrote down to order a stunning
supper to be ready at eight. Jane and
lb loy were to go aboard the train at
Jersey Shore, a queer little hill village
lear which they lived. Blakeley ran the
train from Williarosport down to Harris
burg that day. His wife being iu the
passenger car, beforo he took charge of
the engine, of course he would see and
know nothing of her until we landed at
llarrisbnrgh at seveu. I had intended
to go dowu in the smoking-car as usual,
but another fancy, suggested I suppose
by the originator of all evil, seized me.
No need to laugh. Satan, I believe, has
quite as much to do with accidents and
misery aud death, as with sin. Why
not? However, my fancy, diabolical or
not, was to go down on the engine with
Blakeley. I hunted up the fireman and
talked to him for an hour. Then I went
to the engineer.
44 4 Blakeley,' I said, 4 Jones (the fire
man) wants to-night off.'
" ' Off ! O, no doubt 1 He's taking
t drink, Jones, ne must have been
drinking when he talked of that. It's
impossible.'
"I explained to- Blakeley that Jones
had a sick wife, or a sweetheart or soine
tliing.nndfiually owned that I had an un
conquerable desire to ruu down the road
on tte engine, aud that knowing my
only chance was to take the fireman's
place, had bribed him to give it to me.
The fact was that in my idleness and
the overworked state of my brain I
craved excitement as a confirmed drunk
ard does liquor.
' Blakeley, I saw, was angry and ex
ceedingly annoyed. He refused at first,
but finally gave way with a grove civili
ty, which almost made me ashamed of
my boyish whim. I promised to be the
prince of firemen.
Then you'll have to be treated as
oue, Mr. Sautley, said'Blakeley, curtly.
4 I can't talk to gentlemen aboard my
engine. It's different harefrom on the
platform, you'll remember. I've got to
order and you to obey, in there, and
that's all there's of it. '
" Oh, I understand,' said I, thinking
that it required little moral effort to
obey in the matter of shoveling coal. If
I could have guessed what that shovel
ing cpal was to cost me ! But all day I
went about thinking of the fiery ride
through the hills, mounted literally on
the iron horse.
" It was in the middle of the afternoon
when the train riiBhed into the station.
I caught a glimpse of Jane on the pas
senger car, with Charley, magnificent in
his red green plaid, beside her. She
nodded a dozen times and laughed, and
then hid behind the window, fearing her
husband should see her. Poor girl ! It
was the second (treat holiday of her life,
she had told me. the first being her
wedding day.
" The train stopped ten minutes. It
w is neither an express nor an accommo
dation train, but one which stopped at
the principal stations on the route Bel'
insgrove. Sunbury. etc.
44 I had an old patched suit on, fit, as
I supposed, for the service of coal-
heaver: but Blakeley. when I came up.
ejed it aud my bauds sardonically. He
was in no better temper, evidently, with
amateur firemen than he had been iu the
morning.
All aboard 1' he saiJ, gruffly. You
take your place there, Mr. Santley,
Yulljut in coal junt as I call for it, if
you please, and not trust to your own
judgment.'
" His tone anuoyed me. ' It caunot
require much judgment to keep up a fire
under a boiling pot, and not make it too
hot. Any woman can do that in her own
kitchen.'
' He made no reply, but took his
place on the little square box where the
greater part of his life was passed. I
noticed that his face was flushed, and his
irritation at my foolish whim wan cer
tainly more than the occasion required.
I watched him with keen curiosity, won
doing if it were possible that he could
have been drinking as he had accused
poor Jones of doing,"
"It strikes me as odd," interrupted
FerrerB, "that yon should not only
made an intimate companion of this fel
low, Santley, but taken so keen an in
terest in his temper and drinking bouts.
Yon would not be likely to honor any of
us with such attention.
" No. I have something else to do.
I was absolutely idle then. Blakeley
and his family for the time made up my
world. As for the friendship, this was
an exceptional man, both as to integrity
and massive hard sense. The knowl
edge that comes from books counts with
me but for little, compared with the ex
perience and contact with facts for forty
years. I was honored by the friendship
of this grimy engineer. But the ques
tion of his sobriety that day was a serious
one. A man in charge of a train with
hundreds of souls, aboad, I felt ought
to be sober, particularly when. I was
shut up in the engine with him.
" Just as we started a slip of paper
was hauded to him, which he read .and
threw down.
" Do you run this train by telegraph ?'
I asked, beginning to shovel vigorously.
"Yes. No more coal.
" 4 Isn't that unusual?'
"Yes. There are two special trains
ou the road this afternoon.'
" Is it difficult to run a train by tele
graph?' I said presently, simply to
make conversation. Staring in silenoe
nt the narrow slit in the gloomy furnace
or out at the village street, through
which we slowly passed, was monotonous.
"No, not difficult. I simply have
to obey the instructions which I receive
at each station.'
" But if you should happen to think
the instructions not right ?'
" Happen to think 1 I've no business
to think at all 1 When the trains run
by telegraph the engineers are so many
machine. in Hie hands of one controller,
who directs them all from a central point.
He has the whole road under his eye.
If they don't obey to the least title their
orders, it is destruction to the whole.'
" ' You seem to think silent obedience
the first and last merit in a railway
man ?'
" 'Yes,' dryly.
" I took the nint aud was dumb.
" We are out of town now. Blakeley
quickened the speed of the engine. I
did not speak to him again. There was
little for me to do, and I was occupied
iu looking out at the flying landscape.
The fields were covered with a deep fall
of snow, and glanced whitely by, with a
strange, unreal shimmer. The air was
keen and cutting. Still the ride was
tame. I was disappointed. The excite
roeat would by no means equal a daah
ou a spirited horse. I began to think I
h.id little to pay for my grimy hands
and face, when we slowed at the next
station. One or two passengers came
aboard the train. There was the inevi
table old lady with bundles, alighting,
and the usual squabble about her trunk.
I was craning my neck to hear, when
the boy ran alongside with the telegram.
" The next moment I heard a smother
ed exclamation from Blakely.
" ' Oo back,' said he to the boy.
Tell Sands to have the message repeat
ed. There's a mistake.'
" The boy dashed off, and Blakely sat
waiting, coolly polishing a bit of the
shining brass before him. Back came
the boy.
" Had it repeated. Sands i'b rnging
at you. Says there's no mistake, and
you'd best get on, thrusting the second
message up.
" Blakeley read it, aud stood hesitating
for half a minute.- I never ahull forget
the dismay, the utter perplexity that
gathered in his leau fiice as ne looked at
the telegram, and then at the long train
behind him. His lips moved as if he
were calculating chances, and his eyes
suddenly quailed, as if he saw death at
the eud of the calculation.
" ' W hat's the matter ? What are you
going to do ? l asked.
"Obey."
"The engine gave a long shriek of
horror, that made me start as if it were
Blakeley sown voice. The next instant we
rushed out of the station, and dashed
through the low-lying farms at a speed
which seemed dangerous to me.
" Put in more coal,' said Blakeley.
" I shovelled it in.
" We are going very fast, Blakeley,'
I ventured.
He did not answer, nis eye was fix
ed ou the steam gauge; his lips closely
shut.
" More coal !'
"I threw it in.
The fields and houses began to fly
past but half seen. We were uearing
Sunbury. Blakeley's eye went from the
gauge to the fase of the timepiece aud
back, ne moved like an automaton.
There was little more meaning iu his
face.
" 'More,' without turning his eye.
" I took up the shovel hesitated.
" Blakeley! We're going very fast.
We're going at the rate of sixty miles uu
hour.'
" 'Cool 1'
"I was alarmed at the stein, cold
rigidity of the man. His pallor was bo-
coming frightful.
" I threw iu the coal.
" At least we must stop in Sunbury.
He had told me that was the next halt.
" The little town approached. As the
first house came into view, the engine
sent out its shriek: of warning ; it grew
klouder, louder. We dashed into the
I i i ii i.i i
sireei, up 10 lue bihuod, wuere a group
of passengers waited, end passed it with
out the halt of an instant. I caught a
glimpse of the appalled faces of the
waiting crowd. Then we were iu the
fields again.
"The speed now became literally
breathless ; the furnace glared red hot.
The heat, the velocity, the terrible ner
vous strain of the man beside me, seemed
to weight the air. I found myself draw
ing long stentorious breaths, like one
drowning. I heaped in the coal at inter
vals, as he bade me.
" 'I'd have done nothing of the kind 1'
interrupted one of the listeners. 4 The
man was mad.'
" I did it because I was oppressed by
an old sense of duty, which I never had
in my ordinary brain work. I had
taken this mechanical task on myself,
and I felt a stricture upon me to go
through with it at any cost. I know now
how it is that dull, ignorant men
without a spark of enthusiasm, show
such heroism sometimes, as soldiers,
engineers, captains of wrecked vessels.
It is this overpowering sense of routine
duty. It is a finer thing than sheer
bravery, to my notion. However, I
began to be of your mind, Wright, that
Blakeley was mad, laboring under some
sudden frenzy from drink, though I had
never seen him touch liquor.
"He did not move hand or foot, ex
cept in the mechanical control of the
engine, his eye going from the gauge to
the timepiece" with a steadiness that was
more terrible and threatening than any
gleam of insanity would have been.
Once he glanced back at the long train
speeding alter the engine, with a head
long speed that -rocked it from side to
side. You would catch glimpses of
hundreds of men and women talking,
reading, smoking, unconscious that their
lives were all in the hold of one man,
whom I now strongly suspected to be
mad. I knew by bis look that he re
membered their lives were iu his hand.
He glanced at the clock.
" 4 Twenty miles,' he muttered.
4 Throw on the coal, Joues. The fire is
going out.'
"I did it. Yes, I did it. There was
something in the face of that man that
I could not resist. Then I climbed for
ward aud shook him by the shoulder.
44 4 Blakeley! I shouted, 4 you
running this train into the jaws
death !'
44 4 1 know it,' quietly.
" 4 Your wife and child are on it.'
"MvOodl
are
of
44 He staggered to his feet.
But eveu
from the
then he did not . move his eye
gauge.
" 'In 8 miuute '
44 4 Make up the fire, he said, aud
pushed in the throttle valve.
'I will not.'.
44 4 Make up the fire, Mr
Sautley,'
very quietly.
4.4 4 1 will not. Yon may murder your
self and your wife and boy, but you
shall not murder me.'
44 He looked at me. His kiudly e'yes
glared like those of a wild beast. But
he controlled himself in a moment.
44 4 1 could throw you out of this door,
and make short work of it. But look
her a ; do you see the station yonder ?'
44 1 sa'w H thin whisp of smoke against
the sky, about five miles in advance.
4 4 4 1 was told to reach the station by
six o'clock. The express train meeting
us is due now. I ought to have laid by
for it at Sunbury. I was told to come
on. The track is a single one. Unless
I can make the siding at the station in
three minutes, we will meet it yonder in
the hollow."
44 4 Somebody blundered I'
44 4 Yes, I think so.'
4 4 4 And yon obeyed ?'
44 He said nothing. I threw on coal.
If I had had petroleum, I would have
put it on. But I never was calmer in
my life. When death has a man actually
by the throat it sobers him.
44 Blakeley pushed in the valve still
farther. The engine began to give a
strange panting sound. Far off to the
south I could see the bitnminous black
smoke of a train.
44 1 looked at Blakeley inquiringly. He
nodded. It was the express.
44 1 stooped to the fire.
44 4 No more,' he said.
44 1 looked across the clear, wintry sky
at the gray smoke of the peaceful little
village, and beyond, that black line com
ing closer, closer, across the sky. Then
I turned to the watch.
44 In one minute more
"Gentlemen, I confess; I sat down
and buried my face iu my hands. I don't
think I tried to pray. I had a confused
thought of a mass of mangled, dyiug
men and women, mothers and their
babies, and, vaguely, of a merciful God.
Little Charley with his curls and pretty
suit
4 'There was u terrified shriek from the
engine, against which I leaned. Another
in my face. A hot tempest swept post
me.
44 1 looked up, We were on the sid
ing, and the express had gone by. The
hindmost cars touched in passing.
4 Thank God 1 You've done it, Blake
ley ! Blakeley 1' I cried.
44 But he did not speak. He sat there
immovable, and cold as a ston.. I went
to the cars and brought Jane and the
by to him. and when he opened his
eyes and took his little woman's hands
iu his I came away.
44 An engineer named Fred, who was
at the station, ran the train into Harris
burg. Blakeley was terribly shaken.
H't we went down aud had our little
feast, after all. Charley, At least, en
joyed it."
44 What was the explanation? A
blunder of the director, or the telegraph
operator ?"
44 1 don't know. Blakeley made light
of it afterward, and kept the secret.
These railway men must have a strong
esprit de corps.
44 All I know is that Blakeley's salary
was raised soon after, and he received
that Christmas a very handome 4 testi
monial for services rendered,' from the
company."
Interesting Facts and Figure.
A ton of coal yields about 8,000
feet
of gas.
President Hayes receives 100 letters
a day.
New Orleans claims a population of
200,000.
There are 11,000 men on the London
police force.
San Francisco has About 100 gam
bling houses.
England fed 606,392 out-door pau
pers last year.
Texas would make 210 States equal
in size to Rhode Island.
There were 1,593 buildings erected in
San Francisco last year.
Tennessee's tobacco crop is estimated
at 60,000,000 pounds.
Europe expended for telegraph mes
sages last year, $15,400,000.
Members of the Mississippi Legisla
ture receive $500 per annum.
One thousand polygamous marriages
took place in Utah in 1877.
Nebraska raised this year 25,000,000
bushels of com and 175,500 hogs.
The railroad rioters cost Pennsyl
vania 8700,000 for military expenses
alone.
The Cherokee Indians are enough
civilized to possess a public debt of
$187,000
Of 369 members of Congress only
193 are natives of the States which they
represent.
There were ighty-three murderers
hanged last year among a population of
50,000,000.
Boston people eat eaoh year about
120,000 beeves, of which the West pro
vides 38,000 to 40,000.
Iu Hale county, Ala., licenses to
marry were issued last year to forty
four white and 202 colored conples.
Dnring the year 1876, 108.771 Italians
came to America. Of this number,
89,000 ore set down as tomporary tour
itts. The population of Australia, at the
last census was 1,742,291. The popu
lation of the capital, Melbourne, is
210,000.
The ship-yards of Maine have turned
out a tonnage of 76,308 tons for the
year 1877, which is uu increase of 2,734
tons over 1876.
There are estimr.ted to be about 350
match-girls. 700 bootblacks, 100 sweep
ers and 250 flower-girls daily oud night
ly busy in New York streets.
The London Dust-Mint.
There are more than 300,000 inhabit
ed houses in Loudon, consuming more
than 3,500,000 tons of coal a year, aud
besides the ashes from this great quan
tity of fuel, the dust-man gathers the
other refuse of the houses. He is em
ployed by a contractor, who agrees with
the corporation to remove the ashes,
etc., out of the city, and the coutractor
divides every load into six parts, as fol
lows : Soil, or fine dust, which is sold
to brick-makers for making bricks, and
to farmers for manure ; brieze, or cin
ders, sold to brick-makers for burning
brick ; rags, bones, and old metals, sold
to marine store dealers ; old tin and
iron vessels, sold to trunk-makers fer
clamps ; bricks, oyster aud other shells,
sold for foundations-and road-building ;
and old boots and shoes, soli to the
manufacturers of Prussian blue. Some
times much more valuable things than
these are fouud, aud the readers may
remember the romance that Charles
Dickens made out of a London dust
man Our Mutual Friend. It is iu sift
ing the different parts of the load that
the men, women and children are em
ployed ; they are busy as ants ; mere
babies aud wrinkled ol 1 dames take a
part in the labor, aud all of them are so
covered with dust aud ashes that they
are anything but pleasant to contem
plate, though, as a rule, they are use
ful, honest, aud industrious members of
Bociety. "Diistie" is what the Lon
doners familiarly call the dust-man, aud
only a few know in what ignorance and
poverty he lives. One would think
that he would work himself into a bet
ter occupation, but his family have been
dust-men for generations, and the gen
erations after him are not likely to
change. AY. Altiolas,
The World's .Borrowing.
Borrowing was done on a grand scale
iu
1877. A Belgian statistician has
compiled a lint of the issues made in
various countries in tho world, and sets
down the total amount as $1,580,975,
000 against $725,000,000 in 1876, and
$330,000,000 iu 1875. Of this enor
mous amount, $1,154,650,000 was bor
rowed by governments, national, State
and municipal, and the balance by rail
way aud industrial companies and in
stitutions of credit. The excess of the
world's borrowing last year over that of
previous- years was mainly due to the
conversion loans of the United States.
The French loans have amounted to
$375,000,000, over two-thirdB of which
have beeu issued by railway and indus
trial companies. The large loans of
Russia were paid chiefly in the paper
money which the government iteelf had
isHiiru.
Items of Interest.
True to the last : a well-made boot.
lilan, Italy, is preparing for an inter
national exhibition.
Eighty-lhree murderers, all men. were
hanced in the United States in 1877.
u - -
The Colorado mines produced $7,879,
432 worth of gold and silver ore iu 1877.
It is absurd to suppose that a man can '
speak above his breath, since his mouth
is below his nose.
Life, young man, Is only ';
A slippery sheet of ice ;
No girl there it's lonely ;
One girl there it's nic.
Why is the money some people are iu
the habit of giving to the poor like a
newly-born babe ? Because its precious
little.
A traveler met in Japan a woman who
didn't know the use of a pin. Her be
wilderment when shown a pin-cushion
was amusing.
The United States utilizes in agricul
ture ten per cent, of its area; Great
Britain, fifty-eight per cent., and Hol
land, seventy.
In anoient days the precept was,
44 Know thyself. In modern times it
has been supplanted by the far more
fashionable maxim, 44 Know thy neigh
bor and everything about him."
What the Rochester Express calls
41 a machine to save swearing " has been
invented by a man in Lockport N. Y.
It consists of an arrangement by which
stovepipes are joined together like a
telescope.
An Indiana man has died leaving a
collection of 100,000 beetles. Yet there
ore some men light here among us who
will not leave a collection of even a
dozen beetles when they die. For
shame 1 Worcester 7Yet.
At bedtime littlo Willie was saying the
usual prayer at his mother's knee, and,
Laving got as far as 44 if I should die be
fore I wake," hesitated. 44 Well, what
next?" asked his mother. 44 Well, I
'pose the next thing would be a fune
ral." The strength of the French army is
as follows : Active army (five classes)
719,336; reserve of aotive army (foiu
classes), 520,982; territorial army (five
classes), 594,736; reserve of territorial
army (six classes), 639,782; total, 2,473,
866 all trained men.
The total number oi juetnouisis mx
the United States is over 3,315,000; in
U.uada, 161,172; iu GiSeat Britain and .
her co'onies, 607,404. In all the world .
they number 4,383,888. The increase in
lay' members for 1877 throughout the
world is given as 211,309.
John noldeu, a surveyor, of Perry
connty, Miss., has dug up h treasure of
$o5,6(X in coin, to which he wns guided
by au instrument of his owu invention.
The money was buried during the war
by guerillas, who quarrelled and killed
each other off, leaving only general iu-
structions as to the neighborhood where
it was concealed.
A lady resident of Boyortowu, Pa., -the
other night had a desperate fight
with a mad dog in her bedroom, aud
filially, having hurled a $120 set of false '
teeth at him, was pleased to see him dis
appear. She awakened to find tbat it
was all a horrid nightmare, but, that the
room was wrecked aud her teeth shat
tered beyond redemption.
The niesquite gum ol Wcsteru lexas
is almost identical v,ith gum arabie.
Duriug the past j oar it has become au
article of export, some 12,000 pounds
having beeu gathered iu Bexar county,
and as much more bet ween that and the
coast. The gum exhudes from the btem
and branches of the niesquite, a mimosa,
several species of which grow in Texas,
New Mexico and Arizona.
K POOR FEIXOVV'8 UKFIAMK.
I'm diiveu to the wall, aud the world i uiy foo,
Whatever I do is a failure mont flat. -Yet
my soul is my owu,
Aud I'm not ovtvt rowu ;
What signiiies that V ay, what siguities that ?
I've nothing to-day for to-morrow's great needs,
I wait upon fortune that uever oomts past;
But if, though I'm poor,
I can laugh and endure,
What signifies that? ay, what signilici. that y
Pel-sous about to go to Hot Springs,
Ark., for health, may be interested iu
the following item from a local news
paper : 4 'On Thursday James Cooper,
the merchant, mortally wounded Nead
Gillis. a well-kuown eitizeu. Gillis has
defied and bulldozed the civil authori
ties, and threatened the life of Cooper,
who, seeing him come up the hill s
though to carry out his purpose, stepped
out and fired into Gillis person the con
tents of two double-barreled shotguns."
Maxime du Camp, tho historian of the
Commune, has been inquiring iuto the
stories of the wholesale massacre of
Communaids after entrance of the Ver
sailles troops iuto Paris, and instead of 25,
(KM) to 40,000 corpses, " including 10,000
women and children, lie lliuls mat
from May 20 to May 30, 1871, there wen- -5,839
interments in the cemeteries, aud
from the 24th of May to the 6th of Sep
tember there were exhumed from graven
on the highway, etc., 1.328 bodies, mak
ing a total of 6,667.
The two United States Smators who
served the longest terms were both
North Carolinians by birth Benton,
of Missouri and King, of Alabama, 1 b
former served thirty, the later twenty
nine years. It is related, in reference
to Mr. King's extreme courtesy, tin
wheu he presided over the Senate t
two senators from Arkansas prououv
the name of their Citote uuiereuuv
that hepuuctiliousy observed tin-
euce. He invariably recogui.- '
41 the gentleman from Aik-an
the other a tlho gentleie
kau-eas."