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13. F. SCHWEIER, .
THE COirSTrnjTIOJr-THE USIOH-ASD TEE OrOECEMEST OP THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor:
VOL. XXXII.
MIFFLIN1WN, JUXLVTA COUNTY, PENN A. - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1878.
NO. 3-2.
riSDKG FAULT.
Iu speaking of a person's faults,
Pray don't forget your own;
lU-member those with home of glass
Should seldom throw a atone.
If we have nothing else to do
Than talk of those who sin,
Ti better we oommenoe at home, ' -
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
Until he's fairly tried.
Should we not like his comiwuy.
We know the world is wide;
Some mav have faults, and who has not?
. The old as well as young,
Perhaps we may, for all we know;
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell yon of a better plan,
And find it works full well,
To try yoor own defects to cnre.
Ere other's faults you teX
And though I book time hope to be
No worse than some I know,
Jly own short comings bid me let
The faults of others go.
Now let us all, when we begin
To slander frieud or foe.
Think of the barm one word may do
To those we little know,
EemeniDcr. curses, chicken-liks.
Sometimes to roost come home:
Don't speak of other's faults until
You have none of your own.
Mr. Spinning's New Fouse.
Mrs. Jl Spinning was a round, rosy,
compact, hard-working little womau.
.lob Spinning was a meagre, pale-faced,
hard-working little man. Mr, Job
was fretty, but quite good enough for
this world. Job was too good for It.
By heroic laltor, that laid out elsewhere
would have mai'e him a general, he
earned a salary so small that I won't
disgrace these columns by telling it;
and Mrs Job who was a financial genius,
stretched it, and met the ends over the
year; and there were three little Spin
nings of that abhorred class of infant
who are eretu.illy taking every possi
ble disease, or being brought home with
the breath and teeth knocked out of
them, or failing in these, fall back on
hives and sore ears: and Mrs. Job
doctored and precepted these three
little Spinnings, made their clothes,
made her own clothes, made Job's, made
everything in fact, but flour, meat, coal
and groceries, for w hich she hadn't the
receipt, all iu the shortest conceivable
time, running the household machine
with prodigious dash, energy and fric
tion. One morning Job said, as he put on
his hat, "My dear, I see that you are
running down again, I shall be home
very early this afternoon.
This was a formula, and signified a
Spinning spree; a familiar institution
hugely reli-hed in the Spinning family
consisting of a trip across the ferry a
finer thing, properly done, than you
may imagine and a lunch of buttered
crackers; therefore Mrs. Spinning hur
ried what she called her "busy cares"
out of the way, scrubbed each little
Spinning within an inch of its life, and
tied her bonnet strings in a flutter, with
the hand of the clock at three, for that
was Job's hour on early afternoons,
and Job had never disappointed Mrs.
Job since their wedding day.
There is a first time appointed, how
ever, for all that can be said and done,
and on this occasion Job did disappoint
his wife. He came home late and look
ing glooming, and found Mrs. Job
pathetic.
"I should not have cared for my own
disappointment," she said. I am used
to that; but the children, poor "
"Disappointment!" repeated Job,
absently. "Oh yes!" and subsided
again into his gloomy thinking, and
that was all the explanation that Mr.
Spinning ever offered for keeping his
wife waiting in bonnet and shawl for
two hours by the clock. He was in a
frightful humor, and answered Mrs.
Job, a lio had lieeu teasing him lately
to insure his life, so like an ogre or,
not to be poetical, like other women's
husbands when out of temper, that she
dropHd the subject aghast, and never
dared to renew it. This was not all,
On the next night he came home late
again a thing unprecedented in their
married annals. On the next night he
was later yet I After that he was regu
lar only in being late.
Mrs. Job was a woman of energy,
also a woman of some sentiment. When
hrt-bandschangeuiorally. forthe worse
she knew that good wives make them
selves physicians In the ease, and, iu
home reading at least, always effect a
cnre. Mrs. Ir. Job resolved that she
would try totouchMr. Spinning's better
natnre; and this is how she did it.
Job con.ing home, late as usual,
found the cloth laid, the steak on the
gridiron, the little Spinnings trying to
keep their eyes open, and worrying
about the room, and Mrs. Job resigned
ly sewing. On Job's entrance she laid
aside her work with a gulp, indicative
of swallowing much undigested sorrow,
looked at her husband with redeyes and
nose and a watery smile, and set about
the supper as one doubly enfeebled by
the pangs of sorrow and hunger, but
resolved to bear all meekly without
complaint.
In fact, rousing from his haggard
stupor, Job did ask, w ith something of
the old interest, "Was anything the
matter?" Mrs. Job set her lips. It
would take a week to tell in order all
that she thought was the matter; and
then with a second edition of the watery
- smile. "Xn, nothing," says the little
woman, sighing, and with the look of
one who is telling noble fib. Job rose
abruptly and went into the adjoining
.room.
. "The brute!" she said to herself;
but I'll show him whether I am to be
trampled on or not !" Xo talk now of
appealing to his better feeling. The
uatural woman was in such a rage that
she could not listen to Mrs. Dr. Job.
unless that eminent practitioner should
suggest some of the sterner modes of
" treatment. Keep bis supper for him,
indeed I Coming home on the following
i -: evening, Job found Mrs. Job grimly
sewing, and the room wearing that
put-away-for-the-night appearance so
peculiarly aggravating to hungry and
tired folks.
"Isn't it Ltte Vr asked Job, glancing at
Hie clock, with some dismay.
'We have had our supper, if that is
what you mean," says M rs.Job, sudden
ly facing him, "hours ago? Kut there
is bread iu the pantry, if you want it;
still with her eyes upon him, and
bristling for battle, ljut Job did not
take up the guage, but looked at her
with a tender, sorrowful, pitying gaze,
and, sighing, went and found his crust,
and ate it without a word,
" When a physician finds a patient get
ting beyond his skill, he calls in a broth
er practioner; and Mrs. Dr. Job, think
ing the moral symptoms of her patient
more and more puzzling, laid the case
before Mary Ellen.
Mary Ellen was Mrs. Job's sister,
lived iu the lower half of the house, and
never had believed in Job Sninniiig.
"There is a woman iu the case," pro
nounced Mary Ellen portentously.
Mrs. Job fired. "Mary Ellen, I don't
lelive it! Job Spinning isn't that
kind of a man !"
Mary Ellen smiled superior.
"Men are men, and not women. Jane,
and facts are facts; and if Job don't
SjH'iid his time here, he does somewhere
else. May be Job is all right, and 1
don't say he ain't; but the first question
I always ask about husbands is, what
do they do with their time and their
money ? and then I judge accordingly."
"There's different ways of putting
facts," said Mrs. Job much wilted, but
still vaguely convinced of the monstro
sity of Mary Ellen's conclusions when
applied to Job; "and we all know you
always were jealous about Job" that
slipjed off her tongue without intend
ing "aiid I don't believe it. Mary Ellen
say what you like."
"Xoue so blind as them that won't
see; and for jealous," cried Mary Ellen,
very red, "I must first see something to
be jealous of not to say that you
needn't be mad at me, Jane, as I ain't
the woman he's after, any how "
"I call that low," observed Mrs. Job,
hastily picking up her work-basket aud
retiring with much dignity. Xot for
worlds would she have cried before
Mary Ellen; but sitting by her own
tire, she could do what she pleased and
then, her hysterical passiou over, she
still sat, watching the tire gleam ou the
wall; and in the silence, broken only
by the falling of a coal, or the measur
ed ticking of a clock, came back to her
a bright morning in their wedded lives
when Job had brought home that very
clock and set it up on the shelf, telilug
her it would say, as long as it could tick
faithful for ever; faithful for ever! and
Mrs. Job said to herself that the clock
had ticked out many an hour that found
her fretful, but never one that did not
find him pat'ent; aud minutes enough
in which she had lieeu selfish, but never
one where he was not self-denying
aud what was the use of his faithful
ness. Mrs. Job started and gave a little
scream Job, coming in softly, had
touched her on the shoulder before she
was aware aud starling up, she faced
him, hesitating aud Hushed.
"What, crying?" asked Job in a
troubled way.
"Xo, not crying," returned Mrs. Job,
glowing between her recollection and
Mary Ellen's spur and a new resolve;
"or, if I was, it was for myself, not
because of you, Job; for I believe you
are right, Job, though it all seuis so
strange, because it is you ; and I love
you, Job, aud I am going to trust you
till you speak out, of yourself, and tell
me what it is between us!" crying
heartily as she talked and with her arms
about his neck.
"Between us! over us!" muttered
Job; aud then a sudden and awful pale
ness fell upon hiin you could not say
he turned pale, he was so pale already.
And with the pitying, teuder, woeful
look that she had seen on his face before.
'Poor little woman! poor Jane!" he
said, stroking her hair that was still
soft and bright; "poor dear!" and that
was all. His manner was very tender.
ami from that night he softened into
many of his old ways; but that was all.
The days went on into months, and
one morning Job proosed a Spinning
spree. He had not spoken the word be
fore since that day that had changed
him iu such mysterious fashion.
"We will take the steam cars," said
Job.
At once the small Spinnings were
clamorous, but Mrs. Job was silent.
Her heart beat fast to the thought that
to-day Job would speak out. She
never thought where she was going.
only when would Job speak out? The
iron horse picked them up at one depot
and trudged sturdily off with them to
another a raw little station where
Mrs. Job looked about her bewildered.
"I have a friend who has a house
here," said Job, giving her his arm;
and she noticed that his breath canie
hort and his steps were uneven.
"He is going to geak, I know," she
said to herself."
The friend's house" was a charming
house, with a yard at the back and in
the front, and oddly enough, the key of
the front door in Job's pocket, who
entered without ceremony. Mrs. Job
entered, and, looking about her, grew
red and pale by turns.
"There are large rooms above," said
Job, watching her.
"It's our very house," burst out Mrs.
Job, "that we've planned a hundred
times; aud the carpet I was always
coveting Job." catching him by the
arm ."Whose house is this?" :
"It belongs to a bad man," answered
Job, "who never told his wife that bis
salary was raised six hundred ana titty
dollars; and when she had been pinched
on fourteen dollars a week, made her do
with elever. instead."
"Job!" cried his wife.:
"Beinff so bad," continued Job, "he
took to bad habits, too, and never cauie
home till nine," and ten".
"Doing overwork," bursts iu Mrs.
Job, who is beaming.
"The deeds are made out clear In
your name," said Job. "You will fiud
thern in my coat. They can't take' it
from you, dear."
'My name take it from me!" re
peated Mrs. Job, utterly bewildered.
"I have had pleasure in every nail I
drove and plank I laid," continued Job,
'because it will be my work over and
around you, and it will keep me in your
mind."
"And you never told me!" moaned
his wife, kneeling beside him witb
tears and sobs.
"To break your heart twice, dear!"
murmured Job.
Root Crops.
Carrots and Mangolds are subject to
but few diseases. In discussing their
nutritious value, chemists differ some
what, according as they measure this by
the nitrogen they contain, their per
cent, of dry matter or sugar, but they
agr.ee in ranking them much superior
to the early varieties of turnip and
somewhat superior to the Ruta Baga or
Swede class, particularly when fed to
full grown cattle. Prof. Johnson ranks
Carrots with Cabbage when fed to oxen,
for nourishment, and experiments ap
pear to have proved that when equal
measures of each are fed, Mangolds will
give a greater increase of milk than
potatoes, by about a third. For some
reason not fully understood, (perhaps
the depth they penetrate the soil has
something to do with it;) Onions will
do better after Carrots than after any
other crop, the yield being larger, the
bulb handsomer, while the crop will
bottom down earlier and better. Un
like Turnips or Swedes, with high ma
nuring the crop can be profitably grown
for years on the same piece of land.
Swine prefer Mangolds to any root ex
pect the parsnip, and both in this coun
try and in England store hogs, weigh
ing from 125 lbs. and upwards have
been carried through the winter in fine
condition, when fed wholly on raw Su
gar Beets or Mangolds. Chemists rank
Carrots, when compared with oats, witb
reference to their fat aud flesh forming
qualities as I to 5.
Xot only have roots a value in them
selves as food, but they have a special
office, taking to a large degree the place
of grass aud preventing the constipation
that dry feed sometimes causes. While
practice proves that they should not be
relied uion to entirely supersede hay or
grain, still they increase the value of
either of these to a large degree; and
tor slow working stock they may be fed
with profit in place of from a third to
half the grain usually given. Carrots
add not only to the richness of the col
or, but also to the quality of the milk,
while the flavor of the butter made from
such milk is improved. Carrots fed iu
moderate quantities to horses give ad
ditional gloss to their hairy coats, and
have not only a medicinal value when
given to such as have been overgrained
but aid them in digesting grain, as may
be seen in the dung of horses fed on oats
with Carrots, and that of those fed on
oats without Carrots. When cooked
they are sometimes fed to poultry, and
either cookad or raw to swine. In the
family economy they have their place,
particularly when young and fresh,
while in Europe they enter largely iuto
the composition of the well-known
vegetable soups of the French.
A Nice Old
Old Ebeuezer Brown had long the
reputation of being the stingiest man iu
Ohio, and the following incident re
garding him is said to be true:
One day a discussion arose as to the
extent of his meanness, and iu order
to settle a dispute, a committee of three
went to the old ruinousdwelling where
Brown resided. He met them at the
door, and the lady member of the com
mittee said :
"Mr. Brown, we have come to see if
you are willing to accept a barrel of ci
der." :
"Good cider?" asked the miser.
"Yes."
" Will you bring it here?"
" Certainly."
" Put it in my cellar?"
" Yes."
"Tap it, and give me a glass to drink
it out of?"
"Assuredly. Anything else?" asked
the fair speaker, waxing indignant at
the miser's barefaced meanness.
" Yes."
Old Brown looked at her a moment,
the greed of avarice 8arkled in his
deep set eyes, and then lie slowly mut
tered :
" What would yon give me for the
barrel after the cider is gone?"
Law of the Kuad.
First. Perfons driving in opposite
directions aud meeting in the highway
must turn to the right, as the law di
rects, and each one must give sufficient
room for the other to pass. If a col
lision should occcr and it should satis
factorily appear that one had kept the
centre of the road and had not given
the other sufficient room to pass, the
first would be responsible, civilly, for
any damage resulting from his negli
gence, and also, criminally, for an as
sault and battery. If both parties
should keep in the middle of the road,
both would be guilty of negligence,
but neither could maintain a civil ac
tion against the other. Each would
be guilty of a breach of the peace.
Second. When parties are traveling
on the same road and the one behind
comes up to his fellow, who refuses to
let him pass aud who purposely and
maliciously retards his progress, the
one behind must bide his time. He
cannot take the law into his own hands
and punish the man who causelessly
kept blm back, but he has a remedy at
law by an action of damages. Or, if
-ne comes up behind another and reck
lesaly undertakes to pass hiin, and
thereby inflicts damage upon the one
in front, he is- not only guilty of
committing an assault and battery, but
is responsible in damages to the party
injured. A person in front has no
right to keep one behind him back who
desires to drive faster; if he does he is
liable in civil damages, but the party
in passng must not do it so as to inflict
any injury upon the other.
Oxygen as CwraMve Agent.
The air we breathe is made up of nitro
gen and oxygen, two distinct elements,
in the proportion of four parts of nitro-
geu to one of oxj gen. In respiration
the nitrogen it thrown out of the lungs,
but the oxygen is absorbed into the
blood, where It forms a chemical union
with the carbonaceous matter which it
finds there, aud the result is the produc
tion of carbonic acid gas, which is ex
haled with the breath.
Dr. Priestly, the discoverer of oxygen
as a distinct element and the life-giving
principle of the atmosphere, called it
"vital air," as it was known by this
name for many years. Its chief action
la the body is to purify and revitalize
the blood, and the process by which
this is done is as follows : One half of
the heart is always engaged in the work
of pumping the blood which has been
collected from all parts of the body,
into the lungs. Here this blood, dark'
and impure from being loaded with a
kind of charcoal or carbon, the worn out
tissues of the body, comes so near to
the air inhaled that nothing lies between
the blood and the air hut a most filmy
membrane, so attenuated .that the
oxygen is instantly absorbed through
it into the blood. Here it immediately
forms a chemical union with the car
bon which it finds in the blood, thus
generating carbonic acid gas; and this
gas passes as readily through the same
membrane to be exhaled with the breath
as the oxygen did in the opposite direc
tion. The blood is thus relieved of its
impurities, and is left of a bright crim
son color. In this state it is returned
to the other half of the heart, to be again
sent on its life and health dispensing
round. Again it is returned to the
lungs loaded with more impurities,
thus ever completing the circle of life.
Xow, it can readily be seen that if
from any cause we gel an insufficient
supply of oxygen, the blood cannot be
entirely relieved of its impurities, and
will be sent to the arteries in an unheal
thy condition. On its return to the
lungs, charged with a new supply of
carbon, it does not find enough oxygen
there to dissolve it entirely out and so
returns to the heart with a slight Increase
in the measure of its impurity, and
again makes its round through the body.
I nless rwmething be done to increase
the supj ly of oxygen to the lungs, it is
clear our bodies must in time become
overcharged with the carbon of our
wcrn-out tissues, and the blood serious
ly poisoned. The process of deteriora
tion may be slow, but if it goes steadily
on, tiisease of one kind or another, ac
cording to the peculiarity of diathesis
in the individual, must surely come.
That from many causes incident to our
ndoor lives and sedentary habits, and to
our repressed modes of breathing, suffi
cient oxygen to purify the blood Is not
always taken, is a fact well knewn to
physicians. This is found to be one of
the most fruitful causes of depressed
vitalityand consequent impaired health.
aud unless an occasional larger supply
of oxygen is obtained by persons who
fall into these vicious modes of respira-
ion freedom from some form of disease
is impossible.
Ever since the discovery of oxygen.
and a knowledge of its speeial use in
the animal economy, physicians and
chemists have, naturally enough, looked
to it as the means by which vitality
might be restored when lost by disease ;
aud for years experiment after experi
ment has been made in the hope of
making it available as a curative agent.
But not until within the last ten or
twelve years has such a combination of
oxygen and nitrogen been obtained as
to give the right proiortion. The dis
covery of this particular combination
of oxygen and nitrogen, after long and
laborious scientific research, has re
sulted in developing it into a practi
cable, safe and powerful curative agent.
The history of this agent, now so
widely known as 'Compound Oxygen,'
is briefly this: An American physician
who had suffered from an attack of
pneumonia which came near proving
fatal, found his recovery so slow and
imperfect as to make it necessary for
him to relinquish his practice and seek
recovery in a European climate. Months
of diligent search for lost health ended
in disappointment. Xot willing to
abandon the hope of restoration he
thought to make available his scientific
knowledge, particularly of chemistry.
Like hundreds before him, he seized
upon the idea that ospyen, that natural
stimulus of the lungs, promised best
for research and investigation. Hav
ing possessed himself of the best Eng
lish and continental literature upon the
subject, and profiting by the failures as
well ae the successes of European
savants, he entered upon his researches.
The crown of all these efforts was the
agent he named "Compound Oxygen,"
and through its use a complete resto
ration of his own health. In less than
three months, under its use his weight,
remarkable as the statement may be
thought, Increased from one hundred
and twenty pounds to one hundred aud
at ninety, which it has remained for
many years. .
Immediately on reading this result,
the doctor commenced the administra
tion of this new remedy for pulmonary
disease, aud found, to his great surprise
and pleasure, that where other diseases
were present in his patients, relief and
cure followed as surely as in the special
ailments for which they had come for
treatment. Catarrh, dyspepsia, head
ache, neuralgia, rheumatism, and the
various forms of chronic and nervous
diseases which so baffle the physician's
skill, yielded to the compound oxygen
as readily as affections of the lungs 'and
bronchia. Aud this, because the action
of the new remedy was general ; re
moving obstructions frvm all parts of
the system, purifying the blood, and
revitalizing the nervous centres.
Health comes as a natural consequence. 1
After a Tew years or unobtrusive
practice in this new direction, and with
results which alike surpristd both the
doctor and his patients, the more thor-j
ough work of a general administration
of the oxygen treatment was given into
the hands of Dr. G. R. Starkey, at No.
1112 Girard street, Philadelphia,
medical practioner of over twenty
years' standing. . It is now more
than teu . years since he became
identified with this treatment, and
iu that time its remarkable curative
and re-vitalizing power have become
known in all parts of the country, and
hundreds stand ready to give their
grateful testimony iu its favor. More
recently Dr. G. E. Palen, a physician
of high character and professional abil
ity, has become associated with Dr.
Starkey in the work of introducing this
uew tgent of cure more widely to the
public.
, In cases of low vitality, and in con
valescence, this treatment, it is alleged
has been found of great value. After
medicine has done its work of breaking
up some acute disease, and the physi
cian leaves his patient, as he must to
nature for repair and restoration, he too
often finds that nature builds again so
slowly that the ieriod of convalescence
is often prolonged through weary
months, while In too many cases the
old vitality is never restored. In this
condition, it is said that compound ox
ygen is a wonderful restorer o f force
and taking the theory of its action to be
true, it is just here that its value should
most certainly appear,
If all that is claimed for this new
combination of oxygen and nitrogen be
indeed true and we have the most un
equivocal testimony to its curative pow
er from many persons of high character
and intelligence, who are well known
throughout the country then it looks
as if a brighter day had come for thou
sands of invalids who have heretofore
sought relief from suffering and slow
decline. Lutheran OOterver.
A Disappointed Man.
He was a short man with a voice like
a file, aud whenever he spoke he waved
his arms in a furious manner.
"This is the hair that breaks the
camel's back!" he squeaked as he trot
ted out before the desk.
"My dear Mr. Fuller, your back is
not broken," replied the Court.
" Well, I have been swindled and de
frauded aud disappointed till I'm ready
to Jie iu the last ditch. I'd like to buv
this town and sink it iuto the sea!"
" Such excitement may result in ap
poplexy," cautioned the Court.
" Well, let er come ! I came here last
Monday to see the regatta, but all there
was too it was a few boats rowing
around. I looked all around fora horse
race, but there was n me. I looked for
dog fights, hut they were not. My
board was as much again as I had fig
ured on. These boots were all bruised
out on your stone pavements. I lost my
hat iu the river. Wife weut home sick
yesterday, and last night I felt like a
raging,lion."
"Got into a fight and got choked, I
hear," observed the Court.
"And that was another swindle bring
ing me in here, continued the man.
The officer told me right up and down
that I'd hare a regular hotel 'supicr, a
bedroom on the first floor, with a high
bedstead and sea moss mattress, and
he'd lend me mouey this morning to
pay my way home. Did I find things
as he represented ? Where is that high
bedstead ? Where are those hotel meals ?
Where is my money to go home on ?
' I do not know," solemnly answered
his Honor.
" When I think of how I have been
treated I feel as if I could kill some
one!" shrieked the prisoner.
"It's awful sad," remarked the Court,
" you raised a great row, made a good
deal of trouble and ought to be fined."
" Would you deliberately cap the cli
max of all my troubles by imposing a
tine ou me?" asked Fuller.
His Honor hesitated.
" You would you would I see you
would!" squeaked the little man, as his
arms were tossed around.
" I guess I would. 1 guess I'll fine
you about $3."
Mr. Fuller stepped back a little.
He braced his feet.
He greased his ellow.
He got his voice voice round under
his left ear.
And he squealed :
" I'll r-r-r-rot iu your Bastile first !',
And he's rotting there. Such things
never occur without making other
hearts ache.
Berkleys Competition.
A couple of stationers living oppo
site to each other in a well-known sea
side resort on the south coast of Eng
land, recently got at loggerheads. One
of them, in order to draw his neigh
bor's customers, piled his wiudow with
shilling packets of note paper marked
at elevenpence. People stared, walked
in aud purchased. The next morning,
when the other man's shutters were
takeu down, the wiudow was filled
with shilling packets of note paper
marked at 8d. Dav by day this little
game went on, one underselling the
other until prices- dropped to Gd. 5d.
2d. 3d, and 2d.
By this time the town saw and en
joyed the joke, aud, notwithstanding
the efforts made to keep the sales down
by taking at least ten minutes to seal
up every purchase, the two stationers
were heavy sufferers, and every man
woman and child in the town was
stocked with enough note paper to last
them half a lifetime. Uowevcr, the
fight went on, each man devoutly wish
ing he bad stuck to his legitimate
trade, aud bad not tried to undersell
his neighbor. The morning following
the "2d." day found the opposite win
dow with tbe shilling packed Id. This
was too much.
Within ten minutes an enormous
placard obscured the window of the
other man, bearing in huge letters the
words : . "Go to the fool opposite."
But the ."fool opposite" bad had
enough. Iu a few minutes the penny
ticket disappeared, and In iu place the
old price, one shilling. In a twinkling
down came tbe posterTbearing' tbe ob
noxious words, and an exactly similar
placard . appeared ' announcing that
"The price.of a shilling packet of note
paper is one shilling.". And thus the
war of extermination 'was ended.
His Mottwr-lauLaw-s Jaw.
A tall, angular woman, in a sun-bonnet,
with, a stride like a man late for a
train, came into the Recorder's office
in San Antonia, Texas, recent'r, and
took a seat on the end of a bench near
where the city marshal was at work at
his desk. She removed her bonnet,
laid it across her knees, removed her
spectacles, and after snapping her eyes
a couple of times at the city Mai shal,
asked, in avoice sounding like sharp
ening a cross-cut saw :
"Be vou tne man that locks people
up?"
"Sometimes I find it requisite to ap
peal to that extreme measure," an
swered the official.
"I know all that, but be you the man?
"Yes, madame."
"Well, why didn't you say so when
I asked you ?"
"I did"."
"I say you didu't."
"What do you want, madame?" said
the city Marshal.
"I want that good-for-nothing skunk
that was married to my darter locked
up."
"What has he done?" '
"What lias he done, the vile wretch ?"
and she breathed hard, glared about,
and gritted her teeth, until the officer
felt in his pocket for his police whis
tle.
"Be calm, madame, cotniose your
feeling?," argued the Marshal.
''He told me if I just had him alone
a few minutes what a picture he
would make."
"Continue, madaine."
"I overheard him telling my darter
he'd give three hundred aud twenty
acres of land with a go'd mine on it to
anybody who would amputate my jaw
with a bootjack," said she.
"What in the world could have in
duced him to say that?" observed the
official.
"I got him by' the hair and drawed
him across the kitchen table with one
hand, and had only hit him a time or
so with the long-handled skilled, and
he was calliu me 'mo.'ier dear' and all
that sort of nonsense "
"You let up on him you felt sorry
for him," observed the Marshal.
"Yes, I felt sorter sorry at his hair
givin' way. It looked like Providence
was agin me. Mebbe I'll never get to
lay my hands on him no more. It
would be just my luck never to fetch
him another clip," and for the first
time she seemed depressed.
"What could have inuuced him to
talk iu that absurd way?" asked the
city Marshal, feeling uncomfortable.
"But after all it makes me feel good
to tilk about it. It calls up old recol
lections, you know. It brings to mind
about Matildy's husband. His hair
didn't give wurt a cent. What a time
they had holding that inquest. There
was some of him hanging on the fence,
aud right smart of him was wrapped
around the ax-handle. It makes me
feel bad about these things, and then
to think how that miserable little
skunk got clear off excepting a few
pounds of hair "
"What do you want me todo?" asked
the tflieer.
"If vou catch him jest lock him up,
and send for me, that's all. I'm a law
abiding woman. I've notified the civil
authorities to catch him for me. You
will know him by the places where I
hit him with a skillet, the little, worth
less, spindle-shanked, goggle-eyed,
brassy whelp. Wanted to ampertate
my jaw, did he?"
"I rally can't imagine what he
meant by that remark?" observed the
officer of the law, as she went out, "it
is rfcctly incomprehensible."
The Gamblers at Monaco.
From a sound tteep last night I was
awakened by a sudden, strangely start
ling noise. I thought something had
fallen in tbe room; I struck a light,
and finding everything in its place,
went to the front window, 0ened the
shutter and looked out upon the street.
All was silence and darkness. But in
the morning (it was now a quarter past
one) tl e body of a man was found upon
the sidewalk. He had shot himself
through the heart. It made me sad to
think I had heard, and perhaps was the
only one who did hear, the sound of
that death-shot. The man had come
back to Xice from Monaco, ruined by
gambling, and, in madness and despair,
bad made one leap from the bells of
Monaco to another from which there is
no escape.
"It's nothing strange," said my
friend who explained the suicide; they
often kill themselves, these gamblers :
aud we have the same, or worse trage
dies every year. You noticed the sud
den death of a young man last week :
the papers said he committed suicide,
but the facts weie concealed. A mere
boy, he got in the way of gambling,
till hts fresh youth was blighted, and
he murdered himself before he was 18
years of age.
"Two years ago a young married
couple came here : they had apartments
close by me : the wife had the money,
and the man could spend only w hat she
let him have : when she found that he
was frequenting the tables at Monaco,
she refused to give him more : he was
already in debt and in his desperation
he killed her and then himself. The
tragedy was hushed op as well as it
could be, but it was one of many in the
history of the infernal regions next
door.
This vortex of ruin has had a depress
ing influence upon Xice, as a winter
resort. Thousands and tens of thou
sands come and enjoy the season ; the
numerous and spacious hotels are
crowded ; and new ones are every year
added to tbe number; but it is said that
the growth of the city has been check
ed, and hundreds of families that for
merly made this their home in the win
ter now seek other climes where such
temptatious are not presented.
A standing notice in tbe daily papers
says that no inhabitants of Xice are
permitted to enter the "saloons of
play " at Monaco unless they are mem
bers of a club ! This curious provision
U very French, There are several
fashionable clubs in Xice, answering
to those in London and Xew York, and
here as there it is understood that no
gambling is allowed. But it is equally
well understood that the members may
gamble at their own sweet wills. And
we have had our own amusement
lately, reading iu tbe papers the inci
dents at the clubs in Xew York, illus
trating beautifully what the world
means by a gentleman aud a man of
honor. " The Heathen Chinee " has
his pupils and friends in the highest
circles of club life at home aud abroad.
The members of clubs at Xice are free
to enter the " salles de jeu " of Monaco,
where tiiere is do play for money, and
where the company that runs the ma
chine makes iucredible sums out of the
dupes that are drawn iuto their saloons.
So the fly w alks into the spider's par
lor aud has his life-blood sucked out of
hiin. This rule of exclusion is merely
a pretence; cards of admission can be
obtained by any and everybody who
has money to lose, and the nuisance i
just as great now as it ever was.
A few years ago these gambling ta
bles were set up in public at most of
the German aud French watering pla
ces. Ilombiirgh and Baden-Baden were
the chief cities of play. Public opini jn
has put them down, though they were
the source of much gain to the govern
ments that licensed them. Gambling
is not now considered respectable ex
cept by the members of our fashiona
ble clubs. This establishment at Mo
naco is roout the last that is left. I be
lieve one is still licensed iu an obscure
Canton in Switzerland. And if you
ask win it flourishes her ia the midst
of civi'ization aud Christianity, I will
tell you.
Monaco is a kingdom, the smallest
aud most couteuipuble in the world.
It is also one of the oldest, and perhaps
one of the very oldest. In Europe. It
dates from the tenth century. On the
coast of the Mediterranean sea, at the
foot of the Maritime Alps, three or four
fishing and trading villages managed,
with infinite aud foolish sacrifices, to
make themselves iuto a separate state,
over which the Griuialdi family have
held sway for a thousand years. In
the chapces and changes that have
moditieu the map of Europe, (in which
Xice has been at one time in France,
and then in Italy, and now in France
again,) the insignificance of Monaco
has been its shield. Two of the towns
that once belonged to it have managed
to get out, and Monaco now stands
alone in us glory, the least and the
meanest of kingdoms. It consists of
a small town on a remarkable promon
tory, inaccessible from the sea-side, but
making a sung harbor which separates
the town from Monte Carlo. On this
hill a beautiful hotel is built, and beau
tiful villas are springing up. The
Prince of this petty domain has a royal
palace w ith sr.leudid gardens around it.
He has his castle, and guns and sol
diers, ami is the equal in position with
any of the crowned heads of Europe.
To keep np this style and state, he
must have money; the taxes that his
subjects had to pay were so heavy as to
lead to the revolt aud accession of Men
tone and Rocca Brno. There was ev
ery reason to fear the Monacans would
follow the lead of their neighbors, and
that some fine morning they might
pitch the Prince iu the sea so invitingly
near. In this crisis the famous man
Blanc, who was harvesting the gold of
all the fools at Homburgh and Baden,
obtained a license to set up his tables at
Monaco for the accommodation of the
silly sheep that would come to Xice,
and Meutone and Monaco, to be fleeced
in winter. Mr. Blanc and his part
ners agreed, in consideration of their
license, to pay the Prince an annual
sum of $75,000, and also to keep his city
lighted with gas, streets in order, drain
age perfect, and to make the place more
aud more attractive for the fashionable
world. The climate is delightful, the
King lives in Paris most of the time,
and a reign of peace aud plenty is en
joyed under the general auspices of a
nest of gamblers w ho make vast sums
of money out of their contract with the
King. I am told that their expendi
tures in city improvements and taxes
amount to a thousand dollars a day;
and this w ill help you to some idea of
the money that must be lost by the visi
tors. There are fiveor six large tables,
with as many games of various kinds,
at which an indefinite number of peo
ple may play, and these games go on
steadily, day and night, and the stream
flowing, almost without a turn, into
the bank, or the bag, ol the company.
Women and men, young and old,
English and American, French, Ital
ians, Germans and Russians, Orientals
swarthy and passionless in their looks,
all play, all lose, all play again, for it is
the nature of this vice of all vices that
indulgence stimulates the passion,
blunts the edge of reason, like the
horse-leech cries, " More ! more !" and
never says it has enough.
Sra Birds.
The question ia often asked, where do
sea birds obtain fresh water to slake
their thirst? But we have never seen
it satisfactorily answered till a few days
ago. An old skipper, with whom we
were conversing on the subject, said
that be bad frequently seen these birds
at sea. far from any laud that could
furnish them with water, hovering
round and under a storm-cloud, chatter
ing like ducks on a hot day at a pond,
and drinking in the drops of rain as
they fell. They would smell a rain
squall a hundred miles, or even further
off, and scud for it with almost incon
ceivable swiftness. How long sea birds
can exist without water is only a matter
of conjecture; but probably their
powers of enduring thirst are Increased
by habit, and possibly they can go
without for many days, if not for
several weeks.
I think yon might dispense with half
your doctors if yon would only consult
Dr. Sun more, and be more nnder the
treatment of those great hydropathic
doctors the clouds.
Oprnlna; The Talre.
Recently- Mr. Lvarts, who had
been confined to bU room several
Jays by severe indisposition, was walk
ing out for a little air and exercise,
when he met Alex. H. Stephens, lean
ing on the arm of an attendant aud
walking very slowly and painfully
along. He was evidently very weak.
Mr. Evarts paused and grasped tbe old
man's baud.
"My dear Mr. Stephens," he exclaim
ed, warmly, "permit me to extend the
salutations of the day, the exliilirating
and warm, refulgent growing sunshine
of which, nature's own uuuiedicated
touic, I have no reasonable doubt must
infuse into your own life and vital
forces, as indeed I feel that it does into
my own shaken and perturbed system,
that newness of life, that spontaneous
renewal of mental vigor and physical
activity, that revivifying of the forces.
that glow and warmth of a second
youth, as it were, a rejuvenating of the
mental man, which at our time' of life,
when the burdens of public life bear
all too heavily upon us, and the cares of
public service strain bota the body aud
brain, is a grateful relief, a heavenly
(nvigorant, a "
"Excuse me," fallered Mr. Stephens;
'but before you begin, allow me to say
that there is in our varied natures, and
the intrinsic differences of natural im
pressions aud organic diffusions, per
meating the entire realm of protoplas
mic and developed life, does not, and in
tbe very nature aud order, and, in fact,
iu tbe very eternai fitness of things cau
not, acting either separately or in the
closest and most harmonious conjunc
tion with each other, bring about, in
dependently of txterior and apparently
irrelevant causes, natural or artificial.
developed, as oue may say, from nature
by art, science and the tireless investi
gation of man, prompted by that rest
less intelligence that from the founda
tion of the world has penetrated the
mysteries of the mine, the foiest, tbe
mountain, the air, the primeval rock
itself, that from all the limitless realm
of nature's world, all that has been con
cealed in her boundless stores of re
served force. That is its natural state,
or is in itself, or by proper manipula
tion, ambition or treatment in the forge,
the lathe, the crucible, be made of good
to man either for bis physical protec
tion, com fort, or reinvigoration, can af
fect, iu an equal degree or even in simi
lar quality of manner the various or
ganisms or constitutions, which, al
though under precisely Identical condi
tions are, or rather, may be subjected
to the same impressions, or series of "
"Pardon me," explained the Secre
tary, "but I was about to remark that it
had often occurred to me, for tiiis is
not by any means a new su'Jvct of
thought or investigation with me, but,
indeed, oue which in my leisure mo
ments, when I have thrown off the
cares of State and given myself up to
the higher pleasure of scientific recrea
tion aud philosophical research, I have
subjected to the minutest, carefuleot,
detailed dissection, viewing it in every
mental light in which it could be placed,
establishing my theories upon all the
various ground-work of hypothesis that
any investigation could suggest, prol -ing,
indeed, to the very core of the
matter in my auxious effort to get at
be real, definite, physical and abstract
truth, so that I feel prepared, amplr
aud logically prepared to say, with all
confidence, aud believing that I can
fully sustain my position, that these
very definite forces to which you refer,
the very specific influences of national
causes which you have mentioned, upon
the organic conditions which yourself
have cited, not only can, bat especially
in cases of direct contact, most assured
ly and pointedly, and, Indeed, almost
invariably and infallibly do, create.
effect and produce the most sensible aud
appreciative "
"But, my dear Mr. Evarts," said Mr.
Stephens, "you must surely admit "
"My venerable friend," exclaimed
the Secretary in a toueofgentle remon
strance, "do ycu not see that "
'But," protested Mr. Stephens, "it
must be apparent to you that "
At this critical moment the Supervis
ing Architect came along, and informed
Mr. Evarts that the scatlohling was all
up and reatly for the construction of
the first sentence iu the special message
which was to be completed in time for
the next Congress, and, hastily excus
ing himself iu a few hurried words
the Secretary withdrew, and Mr. Ste
phens went into a short executive ses
sion and shortly after adjourned.
Remarkable Finger Billiards.
Tank Adams, a young man from the
country, visited Xe York recently
and astonisheJ the natives by ms won
derful proficiency in finger-billiards.
Ills play is thus described : Hu execu
tion is simply marvellous, and hi.- game
is so strong that he is abundantly able
to cope with the best expel ts who de
pend upon the cue. Iu his exhibitions
he accomplishes all the ordinary shots.
such as draws, cushion-caroms, follo-vs
and spreads ; and then executed others
of a more difficult nature, all of which
were made with ease. In one of these
3 hot 4 he made his ball take four differ
ent directions, all in the space of a
fq'iarefoot; in another he effected a
spread between two balls occupying the
opposite lower corners of the table, be
pliying from the upper rail; and in an
other he made a double carom, playing
from red to red at opposite ends with
first one white ball and then tbe other,
the two taking different directions and
coming together upon the dark red-
Placing three hats In a line, with the
two reds at the lower end of the table.
he starts his ball from the npper end
with a twist, sending It around and be
tween the hats iu a sinuous course that
ends only when the carom is made.
Among bis moot astonishing shots are
those made on the rail; but In all that
be does he shows the most remarkable
skill. Adams is self-taught, bas never
seen Izard or any other great hnger
player, and never played a gain of
Dllliarus bdui m year ao. ue mwi m
be able to grand discount any player ou
this side of tbe Atlantic.
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