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Tlie Soldier's Revenge.
Thi3 golden legend first wa3 told
When Swedes and Danes were foes of old.
One morn the Swede3 gave way eo 60on
The battle ended at the noon.
Two foes lay sweltering on the sand,
Each wounded by the other's hand.
The Swede exclaimed, "Oh day accurst,
That sees a soldier die of thirst."
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"My water-flask shall cool thy "tongue.
"I filled it at a mountain spring ;
Drink thou to Denmark and tho King I
"But precious lo3s if any drips:
So hold it steady to thy lips 1"
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The flasTc ia mine to drink my fill I"
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He struck a blow, but stabbed the earth.
The Dane exclaimed, "Oh ! wretched wede,
How durst thou try so base a deed 1
"By heaven I I take revenge, oh ! knave,"
Then snatching back the flask he gave,
"Thirst thou !'' he cried, "while I shall quaff;
Thy throat shall swallow only half I
"But curse thy loss, oh I dastard soul,
I meant to bid thee drink the whole."
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And smiling at the deed and word,
Proclaimed in front of all hi9 train,
"I dub :hee knight, oh I noble Dare."
Uprose a noi3e of Danish cheers
Heard yet through twice a hundred years.
So every hero hath reward
Of men, of kings, or of the Lord I
THE GROCER'S STORY.
Ours was a quiet street at most times
a lazy, shady place, where tbe green
blinds were forever closed, and where
there waa so little passing that spears of
prass grew lire and there between the
flagstones, and the stone curbs of the iron
railed areas were fringed with soft green
moss. A very quiet place at most times,
but lata one autumn afternoon a strange
cry sounded through it, which awakened
all its echoes, and called curious faces to
the doors and windows.
"Stop tbief ! stop thief 1"
The strong voice of a policeman ut
tered the cry at first, and the shrill treble
of two boys at pJay near by took it up and
repeated it, and by-and-by there was a
full, deep chorus, like the cry of a pack
of hounds a sound you might have known
at any distance, however ignorant you
were of the language; to be tho cry of
men who hunted something.
Policemen with their clubs, errand
boys with bundles, bakers with baskets on
their arms, young gentlemen just released
from the academy close at hand, and
ragged urchins, whose school-house was
the gutter, all joined together in the hot
pursuit, and followed the miserable object
with bare, begrimed feet and hatless
head, that flitted along before them with
a speed which only fear could lend to one
60 worn and wretched a speed which
kept the crowd a long way off, and made
the burliest of his pursuers pant for breath.
They were out of sight in a moment,
but in a little while the cry was heard
that the thief had baffled them, and some
amongst tho crowd rushed back to 6ee if
their prey had doubled on hia track ; and
others, sulky and indignant with the re
sult of their useless chase, came back mut
tering angrily or swearing, with many
violent oatIi3, that they would have hiui
yet. One policeman, a well fed fellow
with a crimson face, made quite a hero of
himself by asserting that he knew the
fellow, and would trap him before sun
down. There was a good deal of sympa
thy for the gentleman who had lost his
pocket handkerchief, but none that I
could hear for the poor, degraded wretch
who had purloined it, untifa placid voice
at my elbow uttered the following words,
apparently in soliloquy:
"Well, I may be wrong, but I somehow
hope they won't catch him."
I turned in surprise, and confronted
our grocer, on whoso steps I had sought
shelter from the crowd, which, at such a
moment, could not be expected to think
much of the safety of a woman.
Our grocer was a portly man, with a
shining bald head, fringed with a twig of
whito hair, like the tonsure of a Roman
Catholic priest, and wearing at the moment
a Holland apron and a 6hort blue jacket.
"les m, he went on, "1 really hope
the miserable, 6tarved-lookiDg creature
will get off."
"Then you don't believe he picked the
gentleman's pocket," 6aid I.
''I'm afraid it's only too certain that he
did, ma'am," 6aid the man, shaking his
head. "Ho looked straight at me as he
passed, and ho had hungry, ' desperate
eyes that looked like theft, and murder,
too, for that matter."
"And yet you wish .him to escape,
when he has broken the laws of the land,
and will probably do so again 1"
"God forbid that I should help to break
the iaws," said the old grocer. "Good
men made them, and they are right ; but
there are other lawn that I read in my
old Bible Sunday nights, that ueem to be
as binding. One of them is 'Do unto
others ai you would that others should do
unto you;' and another, 'Lova thy neigh
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WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT. Hesby Clay
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE
bor as thyself.' When I remember these
words, I think that you may be too hard
with a poor sinful lellow-beiog, and not
go beyond the limits cf tho law either.
"That rich gentleman who had his
pocket picked, will go home to. a fine
dinner and a bottle of wine, no doubt, and
the wretch of a thief may have a crust of
bread and a glass of burning gin, if he
can sell or pawn what he stole tor enough
to get them. Somehow, if I could, I
wouldn't have him hunted down to-night
I vow I wouldn't.
"Still, I don't blame those young fel
lows ; I'd have been as furious in the
chase as any of 'em years ago ; but I learnt
a lesson .once that I never have forgotten,
and hope I never may. I was a young
man, and a poor one then, and had a hard
struggle to make my little shop keep my
little family. It was only by .pinching
and saving, and keeping a sharp lookout
for every bargain, than managed it at all.
"We lived in a shabby street, and had
only very poor customers. A loaf of
bread, a quarter of a pound of butter, and
two ounces of black tea was quite an order,
and most of those who came wanted trust.
"As for laving in fine fruit or vegeta
bles, I never thought tfsuch folly. Dia
monds would have been as saleable in that
part of the city, where washerwomen and
the poorest laboring meu were the aris
tocracy. "Now and then, when a foreign ship
came to port with a load of ruined pine
apples, or decayed oranges, I bought a lot
of these, and, charging the next thing to
nothing, sold them easily enough. Altha',
I own my wife used to say the miserable
babies, who rolled about the gutters, died
off faster after every stock of damaged
foreign fruit I sold in the old shop, and
I'm afraid that she was right. Well, as
I told you, I struggled along a3 best I
might, and after a while things beiran to
improve, and I began to have visions of a
cle&n store in a good street, when I laid
down to rest at night.
"So one day when I had been to mar
ket I brought home half a dozen hams
and hung them up about the door, more
for show than anything else, for hams
were a grand holiday dinner in those
regions, and not an everyday affair I can
tell you. They went off slowly, as I
thought they would. Now and then some
one would come in for a pound, and once
I sold half of the smallest one to a woman
who wanted it for her Sunday dinner.
She was to pay me on Monday morning,
but she never did, for on Sunday night
her husband killed her with a rum bottle,
and they took her body past my shop with
its poor head all beaten out of shape and
bloody.
"And so the hams hung thero through
the summer and through the fall, and
quite on into the winter.
"It was just as the December nights
began to grow long and dark and cold,
that I noticed a tew policeman on our
beat a young, handsome looking fellow,
with very bright eyes, but with such thin
cheeks and hands, although he seemed to
be powerfully built and made for a rather
6t.out man, that I could not help watching
him, and wondering whether he had been
ill or not. Tbe first time that I noticed
him, was about eunsct, and he passed and
repassed my window a dozen times, look
ing all the while straight at those hams,
which dangled from the frame of the
awning. '1 hope he means to buy one
I said to my wife, as we sat together over
the tea table j 'and I shouldn't wonder if
he did, for he seems to have taken quite
a fancy td them.7
"But the evening passed, and though I
saw him every-now and then on the other
side of the way, looking across with his
bright eyes straight at the hams, he did
not come in or speak to me on the sub
ject. And so I made up my miud that
he would send for it in the morning, and
somehow made sure cf it thatcwheuever
I eaw a decent looking woman o by with
a basket on her arm, I said, 'That's the
policeman'6 wife coming after the ham.'
I was mistaken, however; and alter the
street lamps were lighted that night I
began to see the man pacing up and down,
up and down, up and down, with eyes
still fixed as they had been the night pre
vious upon the hams. Once he caught
me peeping at hiru, and then he turned
so red and looked at mc with such a wolf
ish glitter in his eyes, that I grew angry
and said to myself, 'It's well that keeping
unsaleable articles isn't a crime in this
country, for if it Ta3 I should expect to
be arrested So I gave him back his
look, turned on my heel, and walked back
into the shop. I did not see him again
that night; but long after everything had
been taken in and locked up, and I was
snug in bed, I heard a tramp, tramp,
tramp, upon the pavement, and knew it
was the new policeman, and that Jie was
looking at the hooks where the hams hung,
as well as though I had seen him.
"On the third evening he was there
again; that, you may say, was no wonder,
for it was his duty to be upon that beat
and no other ; but it was curious that he
should keep on staring at those hams with
those bright, wolfish eyes of his. I didn't
like it, though I could not have said why.
A vessel had been wrecked at sea about
that time, and an extra, with the latest
news of the disaster, came" out that even
ing. I bought a paper and eat down
behind the counter to read it. It was a
stormy night and but few customers came
in, and those were easily served, and
somehow, between reading and thinking,
time passed on, until the clock struck
eleven, and I had not yet taken in my
goods or put up my shutters.
"Just as I was about to do eo, (in fact,
I had already put my hand upon the first
piece of the shutter,) my door opened and
an old woman came in. She was a sottish,
miserable creature, known about the place
as Irish Kate, and with her red nose and
bleared eyes and bloated limbs, was as
ugly a figure as any one ever cast eyes on.
'Another dram, I suppose I said to my
self, going behind the bar at once, for I
wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible.
But she, to my great surprise, came close
up to me, and put her great, red paw upon
my arm.
"I've made a diskivery, mister," she
said. "You've not been keeping as bright
a lookout as ye should ; there's been a
thafe at work widout this blessed night."
"What thief?" I asked.
"More than I can tell ye," she answer
ed. "But I think it's a policeman, no Icsf,
the blackguard."
"A policeman !" I cried, and my thoughts
flew at once to the man I had seen staring
at my hams.
"It'3 too dark to see his face," she said :
"but I caught the shine of a star on the
co3t he has on, and whoiver it was took a
ham from your pegs and hid it in the
ash-box beyand the corner. Ye'll find it
there, if ye look ; and sure ye'll not refuse
a sup of whisky for the information ?"
"I gave the old creature whet she
wanted, hurried her out of the shop and
put up the shutters, growing angrier ev
ery moment.
"If it is the policeman, I'll make him
pay dearly for it," as I slunk along the
sidewalk to the corner, keeping in the
shadow all the way, and when I stood be
side tbe box and saw by the l'ght of the
lamp, close by, that the ham was there,
wrapped in something which looked like
a handkerchief, I bit my lips and clench
ed my hands with rage. Had it been a
common thief I should not so much have
minded ; but a policeman ! it was more
than I could stand. So I crouched my
self in a doorway and waited. Tbe watch
were relieved at twelve o'clock ; I knew
that, and knew also that this would bethe
time when my policeman would come to
take the ham from out of its hiding place.
And sure enough, when the time came I
heard him challenge the man who was to
take his place, and come marching down
towards the corner. I let him get the
ham well under his arm before I stirred,
but then I pounced upon him like a tiger.
"I've got you !" I cried. "A pretty
policeman you are, indeed, but you shall
suffer for it; you shall suffer for it, I can
tell you."
"He struggled with me for a moment
Hke a wild thing, and then all of a sud
den dropped the hamnd fell down in a
helpless sort of a heap upon the ground.
"I'm a ruined man !" he groaned, "a
ruined man I there's no hope for me now.
Oh my God ! my wife my poor little
wife !" and he burst out crying, like a
woman.
"The sight softened me, but T was angry
stilh
"You should have thought of that be
fore you became a thief," I said. "If the
guardian of a man's property is not to be
trusted, what is to become of him ? And
you look like a gentleman youdonotseem
like a scoundrel; how have you stooped
to do such a disgraceful thing as this V'
He was standing beside mc now, and
the lamp-light fell on his face. It was
wbite as any corpse's, and his eyes glitter
ed terribly.
"I'll tell you what made me do it," he
said, "it was the only thing which could
have driven me to an act like that; my
wife and child are starving, I tell you, and
1 had nothing for them !"
"Policemen's families do not often
starve," I said with a sneer.
"Aly Gcd ! can't you believe me won't
you believe?" pauted the man. "I have
only been appointed three days; I have
not received a cent of salary yet. I have
been ill a long while, and had neither
money nor credit. Last night we went to
bed supperless ; to day there has not been
a crust'in the house, and those hams
tempted me so. You can never know how
awfully they tempted me, and I meant to
pay you afterwards."
He covered his face with his hands, and
I could see great tears dripping through
his fingers, and before I knew it my own
cheeks were moist, and so we stood silent,
with the ham lying between us on the
grounc
At last he turned towards me and said,
"Do what you like with me. The last
hope is gone."
"But I put my hand on his arm and
said, 'God forbid that I should take that
last hope from you, that I, of all men,
should be the one to ruin you. If your
story is true and I believe it is I pity
jou more than I blame you
"He looked at me in a sort of bewilder
ed way, as though he scarcely understood
me, and I took him by the arm and led
him back to the shop. There I filled a
basket with bread and butter and coffee,
and put the ham ou top of all. 'Take it
home to your wife I said, 'you'll pay me
when you get your salary, and if you are
in need before that como to me. I'm a
21, 1866.
poor man myself and I can feel for other
poor men
"I shall never forget that man's frrce in
all my life, so wondering, so thankful and
so awe-stricken. All he said was 'God
bless you but there was a whole sermon
in these words, and I slept better for them.
"On Christmas night he paid me every
cent, and from that day until I left the
neighborhood dealt with me regularly.
But times grew so much better that I
took a store in a good street at the other
end of the town, and one way and another
saw no more of my policeman for three
good years.
"One night, just such a cold night as
that on which I first saw him staring ou
the hams, I was awakened long after mid
night by a cry of fire. I started up to see
tlie flames through the floor, and to know
the store down stairs was all ablaze. The
stairs were cn fire also, and when, as I
opened the entry doir, the hot air and
smoke rushed in and almost smothered
me, I gave up all hope of getting my poor
wife and helpless little ones out of that
burning building alive and safe. I was
so faint and ill from the accident, you
see, that I hadn't all my wits about me,
and believed there was no one missing.
My blood ran cold when my wife, clasp
ing her hands, and with an awful look
upon her face, screamed :
"Our little Lucy, our little Lucy is left
behind."
"She had slept with our hired girl since
her baby brother was born, and the wo
man in her fright had forgotten her little
one. There she was at the top of that
burning building, out of tho reach of any
human help ; it seemed to me, as I looked
up at the walls, a great red and yellow
sheet of flame, with blue gleams here and
there, as though devilish heads were
peeping out and grinning at us. Still,
hopeless as it was, I should have gone
back into the burning house and saved
my baby or died with her if I had been
able to stand. No ono else would ven
ture. It would be a foolish sacrifice of
life, they said, for no doubt the child was
already smothered by the smoke, and
though I raved and pleaded and made
wild promises, they shook their heads and
only ade me have patienee.
"Patience !" 1 thought that I was goiug
mad as the face of my little girl my
sweet, pretty pet rose up before me.
But just thee a tall man dashed through
the crowd and came towards me.
"Quick!" he shouted, "which room is
the child in speak quickly which
room ?"
"The back one on the upper floor," I
groaned, and he dashed away from me,
parting the throng with his strong arms,
and in another moment I saw him mount
ing the ladder. I heard them calling him
to come back, bidding him beware, and
speaking of him as though he were dead
already. But he never heeded them, and
as I saw him hidden by tho black smoke
which poured from the window, I covered
my face and prayed that the angels who
walked iu the fiery furnace might go with
him.
"Perhaps they did. Something strong
er than an earthly thing must have been
there, for in a few minutes they seemed
years to me then wc saw him coming
down the ladder with something in his
arms. 'The burnt body of my child, per
haps I thought, but as he came closer I
saw that it was my own laughing, living
darling, with her blue eyes open and her
little aims about his neck.
The roof fell in the next moment, but
my treasure was safe and that was all I
cared for.
"What shall I say or do tojthauk you,"
I said, as 1 grasped his 'Cdud. "I'm
a ruined man, and 1 can only give you my
blessing; but let me know your name at
least."
"Have you forgotten mc ? don't ou re
member mc ?" he said, as he bent over
me. "Look again."
"I did ; and I saw a pair of bright gray
eyes, a face I knew, and something glit
tering on his breast. Aud the scene at
tho rMirnrr of the dirtv little street, on a
wet December night, came b-ck to me,
.
and I saw my policeman once more.
"I; is you," I said, "and jouhavo saved
my child from such an awlul death."
"'And what did you save ire and mine
from V he said, with tears ia his eyes.
"Starvation, ruin, utter degradation. I
should have been a le'.on, aod my dear
ones paupers this night, but for you. I
have not paid the debt ; I never can ; but
when I heard that it was your child that
lay at the top of that burning building, I
prayed that I might save it, and I know
God heard me."
"And then he told me what had bro't
him to the neighborhood on that night of
all others in the year.
"I had lost all, for I was not insureJ,
but he was prosperous and stood by me
like a brother; nursed me through my
illness, and loaned me money for a new
start in life. So that in a little while
things grew bright again, and here I am,
you see, k comfortable as most people."
"And the policeman?" I asked,
"His hair is as white as my own now,"
said the old man, "and my daughter,
the little one he saved that night, is mar
ried to his son."
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I 2.00 IX ADVAKCE,
NUMBER 36.
A Surgical Lecture over tlie
Ic;:d Kody ol Probst.
An autopsy of the body of the executed
murderer Probst was made in the clinic
room of Jefferson Medical College on Sat
urday afternoon, in the presence of as
many persons aj the department would
contain, all of whom were present by in
vitation, and most of whom were members
of the medical profession. .
The occasion was the subject of a lec
ture by Professor Pancoast, sou to the
veteran professor, now unfortunately suf
fering badly from inflammation of tho
eyes, and not ble to be present. Tho
lecture and the operation lasted for two
hours, and was to the medical students
and physicians assembled an occasion of
special interest.
The body, dark and discolored at tho
extremities, was placed upon a revolving
table in the center of the amphitheatre.
The professors occupied the nearest seats,
an up to the highest bencn every inch ot
room was filled. The result of the exam
ination showed that, aside from its igno
miny, the manner of Probst's death pro
duced but pne single pang. He died not
from congestion, from asphyxia, or fronx
the fracture of the vertebras of the neck;
he died from an immense shock, that
shattered in an instant the entire nervous
S3rstem. There was a livid mark around
the neck made by the rope. Where the
kiol had been there was no discoloration
whatever, and this showed the constriction
was only around the portion of tho neck.
There was no laceration of the strictures
or the tissues discernible when the neck
was opened. The jugular was distended
with blood. The weight of the man wa3
ono hundred and seventy-six pounds, and
the surgeons expected that a fall of his
body three feet and a half would havo
sundered every part in this locality.
Not even the delicate veins were injured.
The cavity cf the chest being examined
showed muscular development to a high,
degree, and the presence of a strata of fat
Death was not caused by want cf air, for
the lungs were fully distended and per
fectly healthy ia appearance, and the right
side of the heart, usually congested under
these circumstances of death, was found
in its natural condition The digestion
was perfect. Though the prisoner had
breakfasted upon bread and butter with,
two boiled eggs, the whole were found to
have been absorbed, and the stomach was
absolutely empty.
The brain was healthy, but of less than
average size. Its weight was thirty-six
ounces ; that of Green, the Maiden mur
derer, was four ounces less. Looking over
the whole ground, the young professor
pointed out the inevitable conclusion that
Probst died from the nervous shock re
sulting fiom the fall, and from the com
pression of the nerves and arteries Tho
demonrator took occasion here to say
that he considered the size of the brain as
having no bearing upon the question of
intelligence or its opposite
In the course ot the lecture Dr. Pan
coast narrated some interesting anecdotes.
He said that it was necessary to have
these examinations in order to advance tliG
cause of science.
The country will bi at no cost for tho
interment of this murderer. His skeleton
will ba preserved forever in the anatomic
al museum of Jefferson College. 1'hilad.
uYcws.
m
The Two Voices. When Guttcnburg,
the first printer, was working in his cell
in the monastery of St. Aborsgot, he tells
us that he heard two voices address him.
The one bade him desist told him tho
power his invention would put in the
hands ot bad men to propagate their
wickedness ; told him how men would
profane the art ho had created, and how
prosperity would have cause to curse tho
man who gave it to the world. So im
pressed was Guttenburg with what ho
heard, that ho took a hammer, and broke
to pieces the types he had so laboriously
put together. His work of destruction
was oiily stayed by another voice sweet
aiid musical, that fell on his ear, telling
him to co on, and to rejoice in his work :
I that ail good might be made the cause ot
evil, but that God would bles3 the right
in the end. So to all of us still como
thu?e voices that came to Guttenburg ;
ih'! one calling us to work, while it is
called to-Jay to try to leave this world
bctteT tl an we found it; aud the other
tempting us to give over and take our easo
to itavc the plough iu mid-furrow, and
to rest on our ours when we should bo
pulling against the strc.u.
Immense Immigration. A gentleman
ju?t from i;ioux City -tates that between
that place and Iowa I' alls, be met over
five hundred teams with immigrants, all
bound for the West, some to Dacotah,
some to the Sioux City region, and others
for the fertile valleys of the Desmoines
and other streams this side of the Big
Muddy. The rush westward this spring
ha3 never been exceeded even in the
flushest of the flush times.
' -
E,John C. Breckenridge has gone
into tbe pork business in Cauada. Judg
ing from the past, it is just the thing for
him. "When he left Jeff. Davis iu tho
lurch, he showed that he k.oew how ta
"ave liis bacoD."