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VOL. XVII. NO. 2.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1884.
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V"
A HUMBLE HERO.
The quaintest clans of people in the West
are the railroad men. Not tho millionaire
liioiKitxiliKtH of Wall street, who manipulate
stock lioards and mortgage, but the hard
worked, poorly -paid and big hearts! men
who drive our Western locomotives, food thn
roaring fire and riyk their necks, Ittnlw and
Uvea in clambering up down, between
and over tlm cms. A short tmio since I
found myself at a litilo Tailrnud restaurant;
at Union, Ind. 1 was on my wny to till a'
lecturo aiHiintin?nl in Nout horn Ohio. It
was nbotit 'J o'clock in the morning, and I
bal to wait alnmt three hours for tlio eait-'
bound train. While comfort ubly toastiug
n,v feet upon the great stove, in which a
fierce, Koft-coal lire wos burning, an engineer
ami hi lireninn entered the room, with bluck
bands and mnul ty I'ik'bh. They Fcatod them
selves on high stools at the lunch rounter
and, Tallinn for I1'" and coir., legnu a char
acteristic cnnvuri-ation relative lo tlioir cc
oujmtion in life. Their dioll humor is itn-
fiMiible for nietojrfeetlydiw.cril. At lost'
he old enRinoer. rubbing tin-end of his nose
w ith the back of his hand, while his fingers
grasped the half of a plump pumpkin pie,'
and holding in his other band a stenu ing cup
of coffee, which ho i iccasionally blew upon to
cool it, with a peculiar Western drawl and
deep tone of voice, related the following in
cident, which at that moment impressed mo
an being one of the grandest rocilals i had
ever listened to. I nive his words as nearly
as possible, only triinsMising and changing
them Miillcicnt.y for versillcation. I had
never heard of the occurrence before, in
which the hero was a brakoman by tho
name of
DAVE MUUOB.
Pave Prlggs he wan a railroad man,
A common kind o' chap;
He didn't go a cent on htylo,
Ho wouldn't give a rapp
Kur them as put on dudy do's
An' hifalutiu' ars,
An' tho't 'einselvcs some higher up
Hian llim upon tha sta'rs.
Ho wore a yaller flannol shirt
That mode him look immense,
With that or' diomoii' pin o' his
Tha'. cost him fifty cents.
Thar wuzii't much in raifroudiu
lie tlio't he didn't know,
lie wiu tho bi'ukomuu o' a train
Uiwn the B. & O.
But after all he had some streaks
()' common sense i.i him,
A little cream inside his pan
That wau't too thin to skim,
I've siii him tipsy ez a top,
I've seen him goln' wild,
I've seen him jump an' resk his life
To tuve a kotle child I
One iltti k December night the trart
(lot drifted in with snow,
l'hnt threw the engine down a bank
A hundred feet belo w ;
An' up on end an' all al mt,
In every sort o' style,
The busted freight curd got 'onisolves
Uncoupled in a pilo.
The engiuoer an1 fireman both
Hcd left the track to stay.
An1 underneath the smashed caboose
The dead conductor lay.
But Pave, he heard the crash iii tirao.
He jumped with all his might.
An' in a snow b ink, on his lit a 1,
Ker cling! he chanced to light!
tin hung to his old lantern tight,
He got upou his feet;
Thar in the dark he stood alone,
The wreck was jist complete.
The snow it beat agin his face,
A bitin' blizzard blew,
The wind jist ho wled nn' screamed an' roared,
An' chilled him thro' an' thro'.
It froze the clo's upon his bock
Ez stiff as any shad,
I tell you 'twas tho proper time
Fur all tho t-and he ha 1!
Vis, Pave he had a level head,
Ef ho wasn't much on dress,
He bounded back along the track
To save the night express.
He heard the rumblo of the train
J ust ez it hove in sight
Around tho corner, a sudden gust
O' wind blew out his ligkt,
An' thar he stood, the wreck bab'nd.
The comiu' train before,
A hurryiu' on to sudden death
A hundred lives or more.
There big an' bright before his eyes
Ho taw the headlight gleam;
He heard the ratllin' o' tlio wheels,
The sissiu' o' the steam.
An' leupm' from the railroad track,
Ez past the engine flow,
tajo the cab with all his might
Pave Priggs his lantern threw.
It struck the startled engineer,
It fell upon the floor,
It rolled along into the light
Before the fire-box door.
He read the letter "B. & O."
Upon the shattered glass,
He stopped the train before he struck
The pile he couldn't pass!
An' Pave, lie went to work next day
Jist ez he altvuz hod;
He didn't go a loiiflu' round,
Nor git the bi.-r-head ba L
The city papers put him in
An' laid the praise on thick
But, sho! for all the fuss they mudo
Pave didn't care a stick.
He still is brakeiu' on thu road,
Ho w'ars that yaller shirt,
A leetle wuss for use, perhaps,
An' ruther durk with dirt
He traded off that diamoii' pin,
Ez sure as you were Uirn,
An' got a cluster diumO'V ring?
Hum ih! iliamou' in a horn.
EwjeneJ. Hall, in Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Huh J. Jewitt is a direc tor in twenty
railroad companies, Samuel Sloun iu twenty-three,
Juy Gould in twenty-four,
George 15. Huberts in twenty-six, Augus
tus Schell in twenty-eight, Sidney Dillon
in thirty-six and Frederick L. Ames in
fifty-two.
HILDA'S STORY.
I have, a friend who lives in Dakota,
and raises in Hint remarkable territory
some, of tho finest wheat thut is raised in
tho world. Part of the winter of 1883 ho
spent in the Knst, and often eimo to my
rooms, where, we enjoyed many n plens
nnt hour together. During these inter
Views I learned many interesting facts
connected with tho everyday experiences
of settlers in the West.
Ono incident in his frontier life amused
mo very much, and I will repeat it, ns
ncnrly as possible in his own words,
for the benefit of the Companion readers.
".My next neighbors," ho said, "are a
young Norwegian and his wife The
man, whose name is Pete Ncilson, is about
thirty years old ; tall, broad-shouldered
uud good-natured. His wife. Hilda, is
several years younger, a bright, smiling
woman, and full of life.
"Sometimes, after work lor tho day
was done, I used to walk over to Neil
son's nnd sit on tlio bench outside the
house, and chat with him for half an hour.
Tho house itself is a small allair, of the
class known in that part of tho country
as 'shanties.' It is tight-boarded nnd
banked up about the sides, and is proba
bly warm nnd cosy even in our bitterest
winters. Pete had set out a few trees in
front of the shanty elms and Cottonwood
and had built a little arbor over tho
door, under which the lnrnch was placed.
There were a few flowers iu boxes near
by, nnd an old yellow cat was almost
nhvays stretched out at full length in the
doorway. It is a pleasant, home-like lit
tlo place.
A fow rods from the house was a
'straw-barn,' with a heavy1 log frame,
that Pote had built. It was completely
buried in a mountain of straw. One
evening, after I had become quiet at
home with my neighbors, I ventured to
say:
"' Well, Pete, I suppose you became
acquainted with your wife in Norway?
Perhaps you have known each other
since you were children?'
"Pete was smoking his long pipe. Ho
did not retilv. but Tnuirhed ouietlv. I
glanced at his wife aud saw that sho was
smiling, and had a roguish light in her
eyens she looked at her husband.
" This excited my curiosity, and I said
to her, ' Now is it, Mrs. Ncilson? Have
von known Pete since he was a little
boy J'
'"Oh no.'
" ' Then you came over on the steamer
together from Norway?'
" 'Oh no,' and she laughed outright
" ' Did you meet him on his way out
West?'
" ' No, no, no.'
" ' You must have found him here,
waiting for you, then,' I continued
laughing.
" 'No, ho not here when I come,' she
said, ns she walked over to where Pete
was sitting and sat down on the ground
at his feel. ' Shall I tell. Pete?' she
asked, looking archly into hrs face. '
"Pete kept on smoking, but nodded
good-humorcdly.
" His wife hud her hand on his knee
and for a moment was thoughtful and
quiet. Perhaps sho was getting together
her somewhat scanty collection of Eng
lish words.
" 'Well,' sho said at Inst again, look
ing into Pete's lace and smiling, 4 1 come
to here with my furder and my mutter
and my sisters. My farder take quarter
section, nnd then he say:
" ' " Hilda, you take quarter 'section,
too. You more old than twenty-one." '
"Hut her a frank confession, I thought ;
but sho evidcutlv had no sensitiveness
about her age, aud went on :
" ' So I takes this quarter. But I not
come and really live here. Only I put up
lectio house, nnd sometime come hero
with my farder for one day, or for two
day.
" ' So by-an'-byo Pete ne come here,
too. And no more good land left; and
ho know how nobody live here, bo he
build houso here, too, and live here ull
times and plow-aud dig well.
" ' So my farder he come hero and he
nay to Pete, "Go away, you bad man!
You no see first house what built before
you come?"
" ' Aud Pete say he no caro for houso.
"You must live on quarter when you
want get it. Nobody live in those house.
I live here all time. Quarter section
mine," he say.
" ' So they shake heads and talk loud
and shake lists. Jhit Pete he stay.
"'Do never see me. He think my
farder want this land himself. So then
my furder and I come and stay iu first
house all time.
" ' Then Pete he come to there, and he
say, "Go away! go away! Do not live
on my land. It is not you's laud." He
say many such things.
"'"No," my farder say to hiin one
day, "it is not my laud."
"'Then Pete look surpri.so and say,
"If not you's laud, then go away."
" 'Hut my farder shake head, and say
very loud, "Not my laud, but my daugh
ter'land." " 'Then Pete he look ut mo, sit in dark
corner, uud ho more 'stonish. Hut he go
uway that time, and plow some more,
and build straw barn aud buy cow. And
some time I hope he go away aud leave
laud for me, and some time' here sho
looked up again and smiled at Pete.
'Some tunc 1 hope ho come back to see
us Home more, uud not go uway. And I
sit at window and watch Pete build
house and barn, uud plow, and I say:
" ' "Pete have good house and barn,
but he ull so lonesome without some
wite."
" 'My farder say always Pete is bad
man. Hut I know he not bad man.
" 'Then ho comes again, uud ho say.
"If you go away, I give you hundred
dollar for not have any more trouble."
" 'But my farder say, "No; this land
my daughter land. But if you go a4ay
I give you fifty dollar for not to have
fcouid mora trouble."
" 'But ho snyho.TVrid he go off again.
Bo then ho build moro bigger house, and
buy hens, and plow some more. And
he come again.
" 'And this time he walk right up nnd
stand close in front of me, and look at
inn so I want to run away. But I sits
still.
" 'And he look down at me, and say,
"Who live on this land?"
" 'And I can hardly speak, but I sny,
very low, "I livo on this land."
"'Then he laugh and say, "Who
else?"
" 'I laugh too nnd say, "You too."
" 'Then he say, "Yes, we all two livo
on this land, but who own this land?"
" 'Then my farder, he say, very lo'id,
"My daughter own it."
" 'But I know it bo very hard to get
to own it, because Pete really livo on
land before I really live- on it. So I
say:
14 'p'raps you own this land, and
p'raps I own this land."
" 'Then he laugh again, ana taKC my
hands and say, "We all two live on land,
but only one own land. But if you
marry mo then all two shall own land."
'"I jumps up quick, and throw my
apron over my head, and run away.
" 'I run clear to my mutter house, and
I cry all tho way, and laugh all the way.
But then I say:
"'"Maybe Pete think I don't like
'cause I run away. Maybe he never
come some moro. Maybo my farder
drive him off. Why did I run away!"
So then I cry some moro, but then I
laugh too, 'cause I feel sure ho shall
como again.
" 'And the next day he come. And
he cay to my farder to tell me to marry
him. So that's all,' she said, simply, iu
co nclusion.
" Pete nodded and smiled. 'Yes,' he
said, 'we all two own land now.' "
Youth? t Companion.
"Stonewall" Jackson's Climb After
Persimmons.
A Pittsburg (Penu.) Chronicle writer
says: While in Lexington, Va., last
June, at tho unveiling of Valentino's
Kecumbcnt statue of General K. E. Lee,
material for sketches of the career oi
Stonewall Jackson was sought after
among his co-laborers, prior to and dur
ing the war. An old associate professot
of Jackson's, who served on his stall in
the earlier part of tho war, and whose in
timacy was almost, as strong ns that ol
brotherhood, related to me the following
anecdote of Jackson. And the story
was corroborated by Lieutenant George G.
Junkin, now living ut Christiansburg,
Ya., and ut that time an aid to Jackson
and one of tho actors in the amusing
little drama:
In December, 1801, while on the march
back from Dam No. 5 on the Chesapeake
and Ohio cinal to Winchester, and
while riding at somo distance in advance
of his stall in company with the afore
mentioned old friend, Jackson espied in
u field alongside tho road a persimmon
treo heavily laden with, at that season
of the year, its delicious fruit. Turning
to the relator of tho episode Jackson,
suddenly changing the topic under dis
cussion, and with unwonted warmth of
manner asked: "Colonel, are you fond
of persimmons?" "Well, general, I
can't say I am jiarticularly partial to
them. I occasionally cat a few when
they are handy," replied the colonel.
"Well, colonel," rejoined Jackson, with
increasing warmth, " I am passionately
fond of them, und feel a great desire for
some of those remarkably tine ones on
that tree over there." By this time the
stall were approaching uud the colonel
suggested to the general, who was in tho
act of dismounting, that he send some
of tho young men for a supply of
tho fruit, but Jackson persisted
iu going himself, saying ho felt they
would be enjoyed the more did he pluck
them with his own ha'tids, and hastily
dismounting he crossed the fence, refus
ing tho kindly offer of help from young
Junkin, who had procured a rail from
the fence to put against tho tree to assist
in climbing. Striding over to the tree,
he removed his sword-belt and, with his
long-legged cavalry boots on, clambered
Hboriously up its limbless trunk, while
the stall stood oil quietly snickering at
seeing their usually saturnine commander
hugging and, climbing tho tree like a
schoolboy. But ho soon grasped tho
lower limbs and was ensconscd in a posi
tion where ho ute to satiety. When the
attempt was made to return to terrajinnn,
however, his legs, hampered by the rid
ing boots and spurs, becume entangled,
and young Junkin hud to como to tho
rescue with his rail to aid tho general in
his descent. By this time the snicker
ing of tho quiet and demure old colonel
nnd his young comrades had grown to
the proportions of a loud guiraw, and
the general himself joined heartily iu
the laughter as he comprehended the lu
dicrous predicament iu which he had
placed himself.
Animated Frozen Fish.
The Amer'u-an Auuhr vouches, for the
following lish story: A fish dealer in
Salineville, Ohio, received a box of
frozen lish from Cleveland, during one
of the recent blizzards. They were so
hard and brittle that they had to be
handled with great care lo keep them
from breaking lo pieces, lie sold ono
to an old lady w ho took it home and put
it in a bucket of cold water to thaw out
gradually. During tho night she heard
something splashing around in tho
kitchen. Supposing it was the cat trying
to get tho fish, she jumped out of bed,
seized the broom and rushed to the scene.
Sho found the dsn Hopping in the pun. As
neaj could be learned this lish had
lain out in the cold two nights before
being packed, aud had been out of tho
water for more than two weeks.
The number of French-speaking in
lutbitants in British North America is
MULE LIFE L THE MINES.
ANIMALS AS &AOACI0U3 AND SEN
SITIVE AS THEY ABE USEFUL.
Tltrlr I'Ncfulnrin no an nrterirrmind
.Motive I'onrr-A Uiuii 1'rilti.ie
1'nld lo their tienprnl liHclllg:onre.
A Pottsville (I'enn.) letter to the Phil
adelphia I'rtK says that the recent order
of the Girard estate trustees prohibiting
the use of locomotives in the mines on
the immense coal tracts bought years ago
by tho sagacious and benevolent old
French sailor's son restores the mine mule
once more as an underground motive
power, a position he formerly occupied
with undisputed honor. It is probable
that in Schuylkill county three thousand
mules are used at the mines, and aa a
coal operator paid over $1,000 for five of
these deop-voiced Kentuckians a few
days ago, nn idea of the immense outlay
in that direction iu tho anthracite coal
regions may bo formed.
A mine locomotive will do the work of
ten mules, but it will throw off much
noxious and asphyxiating gas. Tho
miners, therefore,' are reasonably opposed
to it. They arc sometimes, also, the cause
of mine fires, but a majority of operators
seem willing to assume that risk for the
increased amount of work at the dimin
ished expense.
Kentucky used to be, and still is, the
principal breeding ground for mules,
though of late years Illinois, Missouri,
Iowa and other Western States have bred
just as good stock. The curlier breeds
were the offspring of Spanish jacks and
thorough-bred marcs. Tho get was
nimble-footed, strong, handy und will
ing, but light. The substitution of Nor
man mares for thorough-breds produced
a grade of mules better adapted to heavy
work and jus as spry and spirited.
A mule is considered lit to enter the
mine ufter he has reached three years of
age. The latter is considered rather
youthful, nnd preference is given to ani
mals that, by reason of a larger experi
ence with the world, are better qualified
to contend with its trials and tribulations.
Tho length of his stay after he enters the
mines it is impossible to forecast. Ho
may be removed, but he seldom dies, and
is not often, comparatively speaking,
killed.
From the day he enters he is com
pelled to exercise every faculty of which
he is possessed to prolong his career. Ho
finds numerous natural enemies all work
ing assiduously to shorten his days, but,
in spite of them all, he gets fat aud
round, his coat becomes sleek, glossy
nnd mouse-colored, and twenty years of
servitude may find him somewhat calmer
and more inclined to meditation, but
scarcely less keen, nimble or willing.
Tho nature of his employment inside is
to draw cars in the gangways. It is a
rare case when he requires more than a
few days to thoroughly understand what
is required of him, aud thenceforth ho
performs his duties with unwavering,
uncomplaining zeal. As soon as ho has
been harnessed he will take his place at
the head of a "trip of cars." Ho will
start at the right time aud stop at tho
riirlit place. If the driver be a new one.
and by a mistake command him to stop
short ,it is piobable he will be unheeded,
or thut the mule, having stopped, will go
to the rear und with his shoulder push
tlio cars to tneir proper place.
He leurns the ropes very readily, and
no well-regulated liorso would ever
dream of attempting things a mule does
without a thought of its impossibility.
To a mine mule nothing is impossible.
Experienced drivers say mules may be
taught nuything, and tho incredulous
would experience a shock on witnessing
some of tho feats they are compelled to
perform in tne mines.
At night the mules of a colliery are
stabled in a cavern oil tho gangway,
This is boarded up around to hang up
tho harness, and, probably, ulso to keen
alivo the memories ,of the stalls of youth
and verdant pastures. They urc liberally
fed, and require aud receive but little
other care. From year to year they live
iu darkness aud gloom. Sunlight and
fresh air are unnecessary to their thrift.
Their vision is sharpened by tho per
petual night, so that they acquire tho
gift of the owl to penetrate far into the
inky blackness of tho deep, damp pit.
They may become color blind, but are
always able to discern an object or find
their way in the deepest shaft they have
ever worked in. And thus they livo
(barring accidents) ten, fifteen, twenty
years aye, ono mule is known to have
spent the greater part of thirty-five years
underground.
Tho most frequent cause of mine
mules' death is being jammed between
cars. AS'hile standing on the gangway
railroad at the head of one trip of curs
another dashing suddenly round a curve
may catch him and crush out the vital
spark, but if there is a means of escape
he will tuko it. It is only when there is
not room enough by the side of the track
for him to jump into that ho loses his
life in this way. Twenty horses would
Im- killed that way before ono mule is.
Ucaily there is only one other way in
m hicli I remember to have ever heard of
a mule meeting his death, und thut is
when the mine is suddenly drowned
out.
This is not always sure cither. Not
long ago seven mules were unable to es
cape with tho men, when tho accumu
lated water in an old working broke
through into the one in which they were.
The water filled the gangway to within a
few inches of the roof. Hours afterward,
when tho pumps had reduced it suffi
ciently, the stable-boss swam in to the
mules und found them propped up on
their hind legs w ith their heads up, und
their noses elevated above tho flood.
Fastening the halter of one to the tail of
another, und taking the lead mule by tho
head, he swam them to tho foot of tho
slope, up which they walked with only a
shake nnd a whinnying tor feed.
A colliery employing !i00 men will find
use for thirty ruule. They will average
$l."u nplece. Haifa million dollars in
vested in mules entitles that often-despised
nninuil to consideration. Indi
vidually he fails to receive it. His name
is an vpithct. To bens "dumb as a mule"
implies an almost superhuman depth of
ignorance, whereas the mule is not dumb,
nor is he ignorant, but rather he is a sa
gacious, calculating, ponsitive, spirited,
reasonable and brainy animal.
Strange Case of Literary Theft.
In a New Y'ork letter to tho Indianap
olis Time wo find the following curious
story : Brain-stealing is carried on in
various ways, nnd dead men arc generally
the most convenient prey. One of the
saddest cases of this sort came to my
notice a short time since, and as it has
a flavor of romance about It it merits
notice. Knowing for many years by
reputation a certain writer cf plays nnd
newspaper stories, chance threw her in
tete-a-tete with mo, and her supreme
ignorance of the very themes on which
sho had won her reputation as a writer,
surprised and disappointed me. Mention
ing tho fact to an intimate friend of hers,
I learned the following romantic truth :
Twenty years ago she was a mature and
handsome woman, residing with her
parents in X . They were a respect
able Hebrew family and made their
living keeping boarders. Among their
guests was a young foreigner, full
of ambition lor literary lame, lie con
sumed the midnight oil translating
from his native tongue plays and other
miscellaneous articles "his dreams of
youth" rund with the pride of a
martyr consented to accept obscurity in
a strange land for the time being, until
he should fight tho rude battle, knowing
that genius always has to struggle lor
recognition, but it vanquishes at last.
Alas! the young man fell ill and was ten
derly nursed by tho lady m question.
The'hnnd of death was on the young ex
ile, and his heart warm with gratitude
toward tho woman who showed him so
much sympathy. "That I may not die
unknown," said he, "und unread, take
all my plays, manuscripts, etc., sell them
and keep the proceeds as a weak token
of my gratitude for your attention." So
saying, he died. The fair Jewess did nc
cept all, did sell and did win in America
a reputation as tho author-of all tho dead
man left, declaring them her own pro
ductions, and as such they have been re
ceived by the public, both on the stage
and in "the arena of journalism, with
praise and censure. Yet any one of nn
average knowledge of life meeting this
lady would question her ability and ask
how came she to be so well known, when
she has not a single quality to justify
tho reputation sho bears. It is not even
an honest accident to have won a repu
tation under such circumstances, but it
is nevertheless a truthful statement.
Huntinsr Fish With Dogs.
Captain Mayno Keid, in St. Nicholas,
gives the following interesting descrip
tion of a peculiar Fuegian manner of fish
ing: By this, tho four canoes have ar
rived nt the entrance to tho inlet, and are
forming in line across it at equal dis
tances from one another, as if to bar the
way against anything thut may attempt
to pass outward. Just such is their de
sign ; the fish being what they purpose
enfilading.
Soon the fish-hunters, having com
pleted their "cordon" and dropped the
dogs fiverbourd, come on up the cove,
the women plying the paddles, tho men
with javelins upraised, ready for dart
ing. Tho little foxy dogs swim abreast
of and between the canoes, driving the
lish before thera-as sheep-dogs drive
sheep one or another diving undci
at intervals, to intercept such as
attempt to escape outward. For
in the translucent water they can see
the fish far ahead, and, trained
to the work, they keep guard against a
break from these through the inclosing
line. Soon the fish aro forced up to the
inner end of the cove, where it is shoalcst :
and then the work of slaughter com
mences. The dusky fishermen, standing
in the canoes and bending over, now to
this side, now that, plunge down their
spears and fizgigs, rarely failing to bring
up a fish of ono sort or another; the
struggling victim shaken off , into tho
bottom of the canoe, there gets its death
blow from the boys.
For nearly an hour the curious aquatic
chase is carried on ; not in silence, but
amid a chorus of deafening noises the
shouts of tho savages and the barking
and yelping of their dogs mingling with
the shrieking of the sea-birds overhead.
Aud thrice is the cove "drawn " by the
canoes, which are taken back to its
mouth, tho line reformed, and the pro
cess rr pan ted till a good supply of the lish
best worth catching has been secured.
A Cure fer Drunkenness.
There is a prescription in use in Eng
land for the cure of drunkenness, by
which thousands are said to have been
enabled to recover themselves. Tin
recipe came into notoriety by the efforts
of tlio commander of a steamship, lie
had fallen into such habitual drunken
ness that his most earnest elTorts to re
claim himself proved unavailing. At
last he sought the advice of an eminent
physician, which he followed faithfully
for several months, und ut the end of that
time he had lost all desire for liquor,
although he had been for many years led
captive by a most debasing appetite.
Tho recipe, which he afterward pub
lished, und by which so mui y other
drunkards have been assisted to reform,
is as follows: Sulphate of iron, twenty
grains; magnesia, forty grains; pepper
mint, forty-four drachms; spirits of nut
meg, tour drachms. Dose, one table
spoonful twice a day.
The late Lord Hertford wns one of tho
few persons privileged to make jokes in
tho queen's presence, nnd he ofteu cautd,
her to indulge in a hearty laugh.
THE WISE BET US.
n a sunny Sabbath morning,
Forth two messengers were sped, ,
That the bells be set a-ringing;
One to say, In chime and singing,
A fair maiden is to wed;
Ono to say, with knell and moaning,
A fair maiden lieth dea 1.
By mischanoe the stupid servants
Went not whither they were bade;
But each where was sent the other.
One said: "King the bolls right glad
For a bridal." Said the other!
"For tho dead ring slow and sad."
Bo it chancel that at the bridal,
All turned pale to hoar the bell ;
While the gladsome wedding chiming
'Mid the dirge discordant fell;
But the angels hearing, whispered,
"In the chimes and in the knells:
Wisdom, more than man could teach ye,
Pid you speak to-day, Oh, bells!"
Millie C. Pomeroy, in ths Continent.
HILWOU OK THE DAY.
"I'm locked in slumber," murmurs
Jie prison bird in his sleep.
Tho most appropriate pastry for a free
lunch counter Sponge cake. .
The grocer who sells twelve ounces for
t pound depends on his winning weigh.
Picayune.
Iowa is said to be out of debt. She
ought to change, her name then. Phila
ieljihia Call.
If you want to put money in a sound ,
investment buy telegraph stock. FhUn
ieiphia Chronicle.
Artificial cork has been invented, and
wo shall soon hear of adulterated life
preservers. Lowell Courier.
Batter is the name of a tenor singer in
1 New Y'ork church choir. He is occa
lionally put out by the first bass.---ljtates-nan.
"Hello" is a mighty smnll word, but
die patent on the machine through which
,t is said, is worth $25,000,000. rtjwia
Lance.
There are 1G.823 Quakers in Indiana.
5o many broad-brimmed hats must be
juito a protection to the soil in dry
weather. Burlington Free Prm.
The greatest oleomargarine fraufl yet
perpetrated is the labeling the buckets
with a ferocious billy goat to indicate
genuine butter. Atlant Constitution.
"Are you trying to button your shoes?"
asked the wife of a fat man who was
grunting as he struggled to fasten the
recreant buttons. "Nol" he sarcastically
growled ; "can't you see I'm combing mj
Lair?"
When the judge says, "I sentence you
for life, " the grammarian and tho pris
oner look upon it quite differently. The
one thinks it a very brief sentence, the
other thinks it couldn't well bo longer.
Boston Times.
The curiosity of a child of five had
been aroused by seeing a magnifying glass.
"How many times does it magnify?"
asked a gentleman, thinking to puzzle
him. "As many times as you look
through it," was the quick reply.
When the farmer with a cry awoke
At Ave iu the morn, and heard the stroke
Of i fie bell us it 'gun to ring,
lie lumped from be.1 with agility.
And exclaimed with huge hilarity,
"Uh, this is an early spring!"
New York journal.
The critics are poking fun at a maga
jiuo article for saying "man is our
brother." Of course ho is. Y'ou wouldn't
Dull him your sister, would you? If the
articlo said: "Man is our sister," the
critics would have reason for kicking.
Peck's Sun.
A Detroit river fisherman says that the
pike of the straits is a very destructive
lish. Ono that was recently speared had
sw allowed another pike aud that pike had
swallowed a perch. The trouble with the
whole business is about swallowing the
story. Picayune.
A LEAP-TEAS VICTIM.
"Now, Charley, my darling, I pray thee
Jut give me a moment of bliss;
I'm going, look kindly upou me,
Aud give me a dear, parting kiss."
"Pon't do it, you'll rumple my collar,
You'll muss up my hair aud mustache
I'll tell my minima yes, I'll holler;
You horrid girl, don't be so rush."
Uil City Derrick.
A Queer Character.
Mangin, the celebrated black-lead
pencil maker of Paris, is dead. He drove
every day in an open carriage, uttendod
by a servant, to his (stands either by the
Place Vendome or on the Place do la
Bourse. His servant handed him a case,
from wjiich he took largo portraits of
himself und medals with descriptions of
his pencils, which he hung on either side
of him. He then replaced his round hat
with a magnificent burnisiied helmet,
mounted with brilliant plumes. For his
overcoat he donned a costly velvet tumo
with gold fringes. He then drew up a
pair of polished steel gauntlets upon his
fiands, covered his breast with a brilliant
cuirass, " and placed a richly-mounted
sw ord ut his side. His servant then put
on a velvet robe und helmet, nnd struck
up u tune on an organ mounted in gold.
To tho crhwds gathered around he then
exclaimed: "I um Mangin, the great
charlatan of France? Years ntro 1 hired
x modest shop in the Hue liivoli, but
could not sell pencils enough to pay my
rent. Now, attracted by my sweeping
crest, my waving plumes, my diu and
glitter, I sell millions of pencils." This
was true. His pencils were tho vcrv best.
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The Dutch papers mention tho dis
soveiy of a "certain cure" for gout. A
peasant who was confined to his bed by
i sharp attack was stung by a bee, and
ilmost immcdiaU'ty he. lclt better and
aext day ho was well. A short time
ifter another patient thougkt he would
try the same remedy, aud, having in
3 need a beo to sting him on the part
tlleoted, he also was was cared.