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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE GOHSTmrnOH THE UH05-AID THE EBTOSOEMEFT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXIV.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 18S0.
NO. 20.
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Ina? tbe same attention aa by calling, m
ewertngUe foliowing qoesdooei
1. Give your name aad post-offlee eeaa,
ouoty aad State, aad your nearest express
offleet . .
L Tour age and sexT
. Occupationt
4. H arrfed or single t ,
6. Belgbt. weight, now Lff '"??mltIlT
5. Bow long bave you been sick T
7. TourKipleion.coloortolraBieyeST
a. Have you a stooping or erect g;
jZmm witboot rerln eil 700
know aqout your ease. E'Vie
aseonTultatlon fee. onTlU will
receive our atventlon. 4" ?llll
the nature of yoer d'asase aad 00 ea-oie
opinion oonoernlng a cure.
Competent Physicians attend to. eoriea
nondenu. All letters sboald be eddiiases
l?DUpens.tory, mi ITUbert tteet, rails.
Wphia.i'a.
H. X. ISUUOID,
naaeftfWss .
OLD AG.
I often think each tottering form
That limp along in Iif a' decline.
Once wore a heart aa youag. a warm,
Ac foil of .idle thought aa mine !
And each ha had iU dream of Jot.
Ilia oan oatqualed pore romance.
Commencing sben the blaahing bay
First thrilled at lovely woman a glance.
And each could toll hia tale of youth ;
Wonld think iU aoene of lore evince
Mora paaaion. more Qatar .hly truths,
Tfcao any tale before or rinoe ;
Tte. they oool.l ttll of tenter dare.
At miJuibt penned in cl-Miic ahadea ;
Of dara more bright than modem daya,
Of maioa mire fur than modern mai la.
In Hard Straits.
Nine o'clock, sor, an' the Lot wither,
an1 is it the rest of the bacon ye'd be after
havin' for breakfast i "
"Will it not be too much, Bridget ?"
"Sorra a bit, sor."
Very well."
And with a half groan, I, Basil Hatha
way, sprang out of bed, and proceeded to
array myself in unexceptional costume
trowsers, rest and frock-coat. My only
ones, alas! an accommodating relative
some twenty doors off bad taken charge of
shabbier garments, one by one, kindly ad
vancing sundry moneys thereon.
Three of us were in the same plight and
school-fellows and old chums, now thrown
together in manhood by the caprice of
Dame Fortune, and fighting shoulder to
shoulder the great battle of life in the great
city.
As I dressed, one of the trio,IIal Trevour,
came bounding by three at a time up the
worm-eaten stairs.
He was fresh from morning lecture at
the hospital, and hungry as a hunter, 1
thought with a shudder. I hcai d his cheer
ful greeting of Jack Hornsey, hard at
work since daylight on "Coke on Little
ton." "Well, old bookworm, ready for break
fat ! Where is the captain i "'
inecapiain; ow tne Old line, oe-
stowed, set me dreaming. 1 was roused !
by the dull thuds of a poker hammering i
:, , , . . uauiuicwui;
violently at the intervening wall.
'All
right," I shouted. Ring for the .
bacon.''
In a minute there were three of us gaz-
.... . . . .
ing with rueful look, at the breakfast ar-J
rangement. A loaf of stale breatL a piece
of butter about the size of a walnut, snd
three tiny rashers, that either could have
put out of ght with ease-
"Is that all, Bridget"
Every line of the girl', honest Irjsh face
was eloquent with sympathy.
,Ot a bit more, SOT.
Hal laughed.
"Turn out your pockets, lads. There is
my last coin."
And he produced an exceedingly shiny
six pence
Jack, after much rummaging, showed a
quantity of fluff and a brace button. I had !
taree-pence half-penny in coppers.
"Odd man out for the bacon," quoth j
Hal.
'No, divide it between you," said L "A
man has been rash enough to invite me to
dinner. Hand over the loaf."
Jack gave me one keen glance. I think
he suspected the pious falsehood. Hal
bless the boy was quite unconscious, as
hsppv as though he bad not a care. The
frugal meal had just been disposed of when
we heard a great puffing and blowing on
the third floor. That had but one possible
meaning a creditor.
"Whose turn f asked Jack. laconically.
It was an ancient arrangement now that
on tbe advent of a dun only one of us
should receive him, the other, being in the
city that is, in the adjacent bedroom.
'Your own," cried Ha' aa we decamped
leaving the door ajar to watob the course
of events. "I wish you joy. Jack ; it is
old Blunderson, snorting like a grampus, as
usual."
Old Blunderson was a general provision
merchant, who had let himself be beguiled
into supplying miscellaneous goods until
his bills really frightened me. He was the
exception that proved that old rule, "Laugh
and grow tat ;" as crusty, ill-comlitioned a
wretch as ever read one particular portion
Uon of the Lord's Prayer backward. A
modern Fallstaff, minus the wit, be always
ascended slowly, resting on euch stair.
We were safe for about five minutes,
JacK employed them in preparing for his
reception, and we watched the proceedings
with amused curiosity. .
The first was to produce a huge tobacco
pouch, taking from it about half an ounce
of tobacco. From this he filled a long clay
pipe Jack, merscbaum had preceded our
clothes to the pawnbroker'. depositing
the remainder carefully on the table.
"An alarming sacrifice 1" murmured
Jack shaking hi. bead over it with a re
gretful sigh.
The next move was to grasp tbe fire
shovel and tongs.
' Weapons of offense," whispered Harry.
"Ho meditate, assault and battery"
Hal stopped abruptly in sneer amaze
ment. Jack wag deliberately removing
live coals from tbe fire to the shovel, and
upon these he swept his cherished tobacco.
Then he placed the shovel upon the bot
tom ledges of two chairs at the further
orner of the room, threw himself into the
one nearert the fire, and complacently
lighted his long clay.
Of course the room filled last with smoke
and a most pungent odor.
"Old Blunderson bate, tobacco a a cer
tain personage hate, holy water!" grinned
flaL
"Bad policy, though, to irritate him,"
grumbled L .
By this time our enemy was in the door
way gasping for breath, and shaking a
great hairy fist at Jack by way of filling
the interrsl nil speech reiurnea.
'You abandoned young profligate !
Jack removed his rips nodded sad
quietly resumed it.
"Where are the other scamp.?
"One gone for the doctor ; the other
and s Jerk of the speaker's thumb toward
the door behind which be stood completed
ttia aenUnee.
Old BlOadersoB made two uswUlCy
steps toward us.
Better not," said Jack.
"Eh!"
"Typhoid fever bad case contagious,"
fibbed Jack between bis puff.
Me saw old Blundersons face turn a
ghastly green with fear. Still he looked
incredulous ; we bad played so many tricks
before.
"Gammon!'' he gasped at length.
Jack rose slowly walked to the corner,
and produced the shoveL
"Fumigating the room," said he. 'Bet
ter have a pipe."
And old 1I underso a fairly turned and
fled wilh such celerity that he gained the
next floor in seconds instead of minutes.
j We were laughing at his discomfiture,
when Bridget's head appeared at the dour.
"1 thought I'd tell ye, gentlemen, the
I mistress is just comin'. The saints purtcct
I ve A ie Da bcea ranipagin like a hay.
then all this blessed mornin'!"
Our faces fell. Mrs. Callaghan, our
worthy landlady, was not a foe to be so
readily dislodged, and her powers of invec
tive were simply unrivaled. Hal was the
only one who could soothe her, and he
came to the rescue.
"My turn," he said, with a look of comic
disgust. "You fellows get into my room
and clear out of the house as soon as she is
seated.
As we did, seeing Hal hand a chair (as
we glided by) with the deepest of mock
reverences, and an expression of extreme
devotion on bis handsome features. "Mak
ing violent love to the old beast 1" as he
would have elegantly expressed it.
It was evening of the same day a dull
November evening, much in harmony with
my thoughts, as I leaned against the door
post of our house, and recalled the good
old times when life was a merry farce for
us all.
I had no heart to work. All that day I
had hawked mv manuscripts from one
i publisher to another, vainly hoping to get
a loan upon tbeni. My threepence half
penny had been carefully invested at a
dirty cook shop, and 1 was glad to think
thpr- Wn ,., ..,. m
meat t0 tbe 1ov9 at dinner and tea.
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Presently I would go in and hunt for
. ..... j
anv fragments thnt remained, for I was
desperately hungry.
Through the fog came a slender female
- , . . . , ... ,. .
! figure disguised in a waterproof. She did
, aolUx me umi, a
, Kght fc hn Thcn M
fri utene1 lance f Baw Wo
thingghow ,e,nd beautiful it
what a depth of misery lay in the startled
1 3 1
j It was a low neighborhood in which we
jUved though by but , ,ong
,. f fl,i,mnhU West Fr.H rtrw
a dangerous locality for a young girl at
that hour. 1 crossed the road in order to
accompany her unobserved, and had hardly
done so ere I saw her brought up by some
man, looming unsteadily in the niist.
"Come here, my pretty dear I" said he.
She gave a faint scream and tried to slip
bf Uin but drunken wretch hn
by the loose waterproof. In another sec
ond he measured his length on the lave
ment ; but, strange to say, the girl sank
down also insensible, droping something
that looked like a jewel case.
My prostrate friend was rclicvinz Lis
feelings by a round volley of obscene abuse.
Not daring to await tbe arrival of a police
man, I caught up his victim and her case,
and made a hasty retreat. At the foot of
the dilapidated stairs I hesitated. Should
1 carry my fair burden into Mrs. Callag
han'. little parlor ? The sight of Bridget in
full flight pursued by shrill invective, de
cided the point.
''Bridget," said I, this lady has fainted.
Come and help me."
"Ah, sure, sor, poor dear !"
We carried the stranger to the common
sitting room, and essayed to bring her
round. Presently she opened her eyes,
and began to speak incohcr ently.
"Delirious," said L It was a great re
lieve to hear Hal's springing step. He gave
s low whistle of astonishment as he entered,
and felt the patient's pulse, while I gave a
brief explanation.
"Feverish very. She must be put to
bed at once, Where does she live f
"I have not an idea. Search her pock
els.' But the search was fruitless.
"Call a cab, and I will take her to the
hospital," suggested Harry.
I looked at tbe flushed face and tbe
bright beautiful eyes, and my heart gave a
great senseless throb of disapproval.
"No, we cannot turn her away. Fetch
a nurse, Hal, and she shall have my room.
You will take me in for a night or two ?"
"Of course, old man," and Hal flew off.
Then I thought of our landlady.
"Bridget," said I, "how about Mrs. Cal
lahan!" 'I am the misthress, sor t Sure, I'll tell
her you've got the favcr, an' devil a bit
will she come nigh re"
One more difficulty remained, and that
the greatest the money problem. Well,
my coat and vest might go.
So for three days I patted about the
apartment in an old tattered dressing
gown, being supposed to be down with
fever; meanwhile the real patient had
careful attention and strengthing nourish
ment. '
The third day a notable event happened.
A high-class monthly sent me a guinea for
a contribution, and requested a similar one.
I worked cheerfully after that till the cri
sis came, and the nurse gleefully reported
that tne young lady wa conscious, and
asking for her father.
"May I see her ?" said I, eagerly.
"Dear, dear, no, sir. The excitement
would throw her back. Beside, she must
not talk. Her father i. Mr. Bullion of
street.
Bullion, the great foreign banker.
What brought his daughter unattended;
into this vile side street t Time would ex
plain, perhaps. Meanwhile Jack pnt on
Lis hat and departed in quest of the great
banker. In an hour hs was with us, his tuns
Imposing sir sod magisterial demeanor lost
in the solution of the moment lie shook
me wsrajly by the sand.
"Tsur friend has explained all, Kr.
Hathaway. I am deeply grateful to you.
Where is my child?"
The most reaowncl physician in town.
was quickly summoned but in vain. Mr.
Bullion begged him to devise mean, to re
move his daughter. At present she must
not leave her bed. In a few days, per
haps, with returning strength, she might
lie for two or three hours at a time on a
sofa in our sitting-room. Further change
was imperatively forbidden.
So Mr. Bullion, with many apologies,
begged that some of his daughter's favorite
pictures, and a few chairs, etc., from her
boudoir, might be brought ; and we could
not refuse. A few hour, transformed
our bachelor den into a kind of fairy
palace.
Mr. Bullion was naturally a constant vis
itor, and I had to receive him in the tat
tered dressing gown. Twice he found me
writing with manuscripts littered around.
"You are an author ?" he queried with a
smile.
"A would-be one."
"Pray do not desist from writlngon rnyac-
count. May I amuse myself for a time
with your papers r'
He borrowed s bulky one at leaving to
submit it, he mid, to a publisher be knew
Next day 1 received a letter from a well-
known firm, offering $ 250 for the copy
right and an additional $250 if a second
edition were called for. In my youth and
inexperience, It did not occur to me for
months the money came from the banker's
pocket.
Of course I eagerly assented, and took
my coat and vest out of pawn not a day
too soon, for Miss Bullion was pronounced
convalescent, and that afternoon her fath
er's strong arms conveyed her from one
room to the other.
I lived in fairyland for a week till our
guest, departed. She explained the visit to
our obscure street it was to pawn jewelry
toi her brother's benefit, a wild lad, whose
excesses bad driven him from home, and
who had recently been writing her letter
after letter, hinting at frightfid consequej
ces if she did not furnish him with money.
"Mr. Hathway," she said, "will you be
my friend, and try to reclaim him !"
She put a transparent little hand in mine,
as she spoke, and I promised. Her friend
I would have promised her anytliing for
such a title.
Then an eventful conversation took place
between me and the banker.
"You have abandoned the idea af becora
iomja barrister, Mr. Hathway, and the pro
fession of an author is a precarious one.
I'uite it with another pursuit. You are a
good linguist, and I badly need a foreign
correspondent. The hours and duties will
be Iigbt enough ; cast in your lot with me
I will take care you have no cause to re
gret it.
I thought of my "friend," and consented.
The firm is Bullion & Hathaway now, the
junior partner having married the senio'r
daughter. John Hornsey is their lawyer,
a man much respected in the profession.
Hal Trevor is just beginning to make a stir as
a fashionable physician.
A Cave Mystery-
While chasing a rabbit recently near Mar
shall township, Ohio, a gentleman found a
bole at the base of a hill, and proceeded to
make a search. Reaching in, be grasped
something in his hand which proved to lie
the long bone of a human being. His curi
osity being now very much excited be pro
cured assistance, and began digging. Peo
ple flocked out from the village, and came
pouring in from tbe surrounding country,
as tbe news rapidly spread. The locality
is rut a short distance from the notorious
Bob McKimie'i old headquarters, and with
in the range of hi. once noted gang, nearly
all of whom are now in prison under long
sentences. In fact it was supposed that
McKimic was hid in one of the numerous
cave, that exist in the eastern part, of the
county, after he had made his escape from
jail about three years ago. After digging
some distance they caine to a large stone
slab on edge, closing the mouth of a cavern
about ten by twelve feet square and six
feet high. On the floor lay bones in. larire
number, some human, but the larger por
tion were bones of different species ot ani
mals. Some of them were in s good state
ot preservation, and could easily be named
and classified, while others crumbled to
dust on being exposed to the air. Bones
of wildcats, of rabbits aud dogs were found,
while bones ot some larger animal could
not be classified, though they are supposed
to belong to the larger species of wild ani
mals, such aa panthers, catamounts, bears,
eta There were also found some large
bodies of charred wood or charcoal. One
of these is as large as an ordinary base-
burner stove. Close search was made for
metal ornaments, but none was found,
though several articles of flint and stone
were discovered such as are generally found
in mounds and ancient fortifications.
Tne Irishman; and the Bear.
An Irishman of Montana was working a
place mine a few miles from Bear Gulch,
and visited that place one day to get his
tools sharpened. Just as be was about to
start back, some one told him that if be
would go home by way of Sour Kraut
Gulch he would not miss his way, and
would save several mile, of walking. Pat
started out, but after traveling several miles
the sun was almost down, and ho had seen
nothing that looked tamiliar. At last be
made up his mind that he was lost, and, to
uie his own words, feared that he "would
be robbed and murihered entirely all alone."
While he was in this state of mind be spied
a cinnamon bear on the side of the moun
tain, and was almost ready to fall to the
ground with fright. Recovering his self
possession a little, he said: "I thought it
wouldn't do to let the bear think 1 was
afraid of him, and concluded I might inti
midate him by making him think that
there were several wilh me. So, walking
s little faster, I called out as loud as lver 1
could, 'alike! Oh I say, Mike, houldon
till I catch up wid ye and the rest o' the
b'ys. When the bear heard that he walk
ed swsy and said not a word."
Cat aad Mease.
Dr. Abernethy did not like to be dis
turbed In the night. Once when he had
got to bed st one in the morning in a very
bad humor, because ne naa oeen woge up
st midnight, he heard his bell ring.
"What is UP he exclaimed angrily.
"Oh doctor, doctor; quick, quick; my
son has lust swallowed a mouse."
"Very well, tell him to swallow teat,
and leave mo la must! saia use doctor,
going to bed again.
A BatUeanake Concert.
'Talk about snakes," remarked an old
frontiersman in conversation a few evenings
ago, "there are more snakes in Arizona
than ever existed in Irclandbefore good old
St. Patrick came along and gave them the
grand bounce, n by, I have been every
where ; waded southern swamps when I
would have to stop a minute, with the
water up to my chin, to allow a drove or
school of waier-nioccasins or cotton-mouths
to go by; up in the far northwest and
British America I have lived like a figbtinz
cock and to the queen's taste for weeks at
a time on snake steak, but 1 saw more rat
snakes down in Arizona, last summer was
a year ago than ever before in my life, all
put together. Down there they don't go
in pairs, clusters or droves, but in columns,
just for the world like the children of Israel
got up and tramped out of Egypt with
Moses, and Aaron in tbe van, and Joseph,
with his circus coat, bringing up tbe rear.
I and a friend were over in the Tombstone
county, among the hills on a prospecting
expedition. There were rattlesnakes all
around us, but they did not seem to be very
savage. We would scare them up riding
along, and they would sneak sway from
our track like coyotes. One day about 2
o'clock iu the afternoon we were taking a
hill, and, as the ascent was very sharp,
our horses would stop every few minutes
to blow. Long before we got to the sum
mit we heard a strange noise, or rather
jargou of noises, apparently on the other
side, and it we had been shot the next
minute we could not have told from whence
it emanated. Why, it was worse than the
average church choir. Well, we got to
the tup after a while, the noise increasing
every step we took up. By the time we
had got there it had become a little short
of terrific, and looking down over the side
we saw a sight that took the cake.
On a little plateau of perhaps fifty yards
dimensions, about seventy-five feet below
us, was a regular rattlesnake reunion and
concert The ground and stones were just
yellow with them, and if there was one
there were at least ten thousand snakes in
the gang. They were of all ages and sizes,
and how they enjoyed themselves. The
two oldest king-pins of the crowd were in
the centre, and the other snakes were all
gathered about them. Each and every
snake had coiled himself up in such a man
ner as to allow their tails and rattles good
play, and they were rattling a war as if for
wages, and their wicked tongues were
darting out and in, keeping up an accom
paniment to their tails. We looked at the
racket for about a minute, and then with
an awful flourish the rattling stopped.
The two old snakes reared their heads at
least three feet off the ground, aud looked
all around over the field in a manner in
dicative of a general on a battle-ground.
After scrveyin ' the situation and apparent
ly seeing that every member of tbe snake
combination was ready for business, they
sounded a note by way of tuning up, aud
the whole crowd commenced their concert
again. It took them about ten minutes to
hnbh one tune, and we must bave watched
them there through at least a half dozen.
After a while I got tired of the business,
and rolled a rock down in the crowd.
This broke up the meeting without delyt
and. as several of the snakes were crushed
to death, the others set up an awful rat
tling, and crawled away to their respective
dens. I have been anion-; snakes all my
life, but that was the first snake concert
I ever witnessed.'
Stranger than fiction.
Not long ago Matilda Boelter, a step
daughter of Michael Boelter, who lives in
the town of Holden, Goodhue county,
.Minn., came to her death by the accidental
discbarge of a gun. The painful accident
recalls other tragic events in tbe history of
ibe family to which she belonged, and
which, we believe, have never been pub
lished. Previous to the Sioux massacre of
18K2, the young lady's mother and her step
father lived in one of the counties border
ing on the Minnesota river, she having a
hiifcliand (who was a brother of her present
husband) and two children, the youngest
but a few months old, and he having a wife
and two young children. Tbe Indians killed
his wife, while he and his children escaped
and succeeded in making their way to Fort
Kidgely, and afterward went to bt. Paul,
we believe. His brotiier was killed, but
his sister-in-law and her two children fled
to the woods near her home, where she se
creted herself, hoping to find a place of
safety when the fiendish Sioux had com
pleted their work, but, to her dismay, tbe
savages went into camp near her hiding
place. During the daytime sh could see
all their movements, as they rjde about on
the prairies and often passed near her in
going through the woods; and at night she
could watch them in their dances and hear
their horrid yells. Sometimes after they
had gone to sleep she would steal back in
the darkness to her house and get a little
food, as long as it lasted, but for the most
part of the nine long, weary, dreadful
weeks, whose every moment must have
been tilled with a terror worse than death,
she subsisted on tbe scanty supply of wild
grapes, roots, leaves and the bark of trees,
that her limited range afforded. At length
the Indians went away, the frost had c Hue
and destroyed her subsistence, her frame
refused to yield nourishment and her babe
died of gradual starvation. Then she and
the remaining child crawled to their old
home to die. Some soldiers, who were out
burying tbe victims of the massacre, found
them, and they were sent to St. Paul, or
some other point, where her brother-in-law,
who supposed her to bave been killed, found
her, and at length married her. They set
tled on East Prarie, where, we believe, they
lived until tbe present time. Tbe young
woman whose sad fate we are called upnn
to record was the little three-year-old child
whose eseape from tbe bloody Sioux was so
marvelous.
fasts fro an Living Farms.
We were taken by a friend to see the
wonderful plaster casts of living human be
ings which are among the curiosities of tbe
Russian capital. How the thing is done
is impossible to imagine, but there the
tao statues are, recumbent female figures,
undoubtedly taken from living women.
One lies slightly turned upon her tide, her
lips parte ! in a smile, as though she was
trying to suppress a laugh. The other, who
was much the Oner form of tbe two, lies
face downward, her feet crossed and her
head pillowed on herfolded arms, as though
she hsi thrown herself down to sleep. Ttt
minutest detau of tbe texture of the skin,
nails, etc, are very perfectly reproduced,
the "gooseflesh" with which tbe skin is
covered being amusingly noticeable, and
shoving that the preparation used for these
casts, the composition whereof is a secret,
must be applied ecld. Then all the little
indentations in the soles of the feet and the
palms of the hands, and the curve of the
nails and their rimmings of skin and flesh
are produced with startling accuracy. Tbe
process by which these figures are produced
is still a secret, but It is certainly a wonder
ful and curious discovery.
A bey la Kenny oouoty, Texas,
hat killed forty-three bears the past
winter.
I'll Help Too.
Bill S medley was resting his left foot on
the top of a beer-keg in front of a saloon in
Butte City, Montanna Territory, the last
time I saw him. On his bent left knee he
rested an elbow, thereby arranging his t-nu
so as to support his chin, which rested on
his hand. His clothes were well worn,
and here and there a rent. His hair stuck
out through a hole in the crown of his bat,
while the great toe of his right foot peeped
forth, ruddy and cheerful, from his boot.
The whitls of smoke, drawn from a short,
black pipe, curled lazily from his lips.
His eyes were half closed and dreamy.
His thoughts were in dreamland. Bill had
exfierienced the up. and downs of Western
life; had been rich and poor by turns, and
was now very poor. He had grown philo
sophic, and looked at things in a wiy dif
ferent from what he had in his youth.
when life's pathway smiled to him, snd
seemed rose-garland.
"Hello, Bill: been looking for you," said
tbe tax-collector, coming up.
There was no reponse. He repeated:
'Bill, hello:"
"Well?"
"Want to collect your tax."
"Haint no property."
"I mean your poll-tax."
"Don't own no pole."
"A poll-tax U a tax on yourself, you
know."
"I ain't no property."
"But the county court levied this tax on
you."
"Didn't authorize em to levy any tax
on me."
"The law does, though."
'What if it does; s'pose I'm eoin' ter
psy for breathin' the air?"
"Still you are one of us: you live here."
"1 didn't bring myself into the world."
"You exercise the privileges of a citizen:
you vote."
"Don't want to vote if you charge for
it."
'Don't you want a voice in the selection
of otHcersf"
"No; if there was no officers you
wouldn't be here consumin' my time."
'The schools must be supported. We
must educate the children."
"If you do they won't work." I
"There are other countv expanses pau
pers, and so oc if you were to die with
out means you would want us to bury
you."
"No, you needn't."
"Why, you would smell bad to other
people.'"
"1 kin stan' it if they kin."
"1 will levy on your property," said the
officer, growing impatient ; "I will hunt it
up."
"I'll help you; I want to see some of
my property."
Tu 11 1 . , 1 . 1
uc uiuiir uioveu on raiuer aurupiiy,
wnue 11111 continued, as 11 musiag:
"Let them fellers have their way, an
they'd make life a burden. Want to assess
my existence; Want to charge me for en
Joy in' the bright sunshine; ask me to pay
for beholdin' the beautiful lamLscnpe ;
charge me for lookin' at the grass grow and
the rose unfoldin'; charge me for watchin' .
the birds ny, an' one cloud chase t other."
The eyes continued to blink dreamily.
The whiffs of smoke reached up in grace
ful spirals toward the blue dome., 'the
foot-falls of the tax collector grew a'osenter
and absenter.
Red River Valley.
The Red River Valley Northjs about Hires
hundred miles long and fifty miles wide
a flat prarie, extending northward from
Lake Traverse, in Minnesota, until it passes
by a gentle slope beneath the water of Lake
Winnipeg. About thirty miles north of
the southern and higher extremity of the
valley the Red River comes meanderin in
from the east. It is a slugirish stream,
flowing in a ditch in the mid le of the
prairie, and is altogether inadequate in size
and force to have made the valley which
bear its name. When we seek an expla
nation of thi vast alluvial plain, we must
find a much larger body of water to account
for its formation, and this is done by the
theory which connects it with the great
Mississippi system. There are many indi
cations thst the whole drainage of this re
gion was at one time southward. The val
ley of the Mississippi, with its tnie line of
continuation along tie Minnesota, must
have formerly contained a vastly larger
body of water than now flows through it.
This valley, lecinning at Big Stone Lake,
is separated only by a slight barrier from
Lake Traverse. Now imagine that a few
thousand years ago the level of the conti
nent was a little different from what it is
now, a few hundred feet higher at the
north, and lower at the south, then this
barrier would be overcome, and all the
waters of the Winnipeg basin would flow
southward through the Red River and
Minnesota Valley into the Mississippi.
The present northward outlet through the
Nelson River would be stopped. There
would be a mighty stream draining the
whole central region of the continent into
the Gulf of Mexico. Now imagine, again,
that the continent is gradually depressed
at the north and elevated at the south a
change which we know from observation
is still continuing along the sea coast ; the
result of such an oscillation will be to di
minish the slope and velocity of the great
southward river. It will have less and
less power to cut its way through obstacles.
It will be dammed by the granite ledges
near Big Stone Lake. It will spread out
into a vast lake larger than Superior and
Michigan put together. The waters of this
lake will be shallow snd muddy, and the
deposit of alluvium very rapid. As the
northward dc r ion continues, the outlet
toward the south will become more snd
more feeble. It will degenerate into a
mere driblet. And at last the great
body of water will cut a new channel
northward into Hudson Bay. The Nelson
River, with its rocky channel snd numer
ous rapids, bears all tbe marks of sn outlet
thus recently formed.
The Turret Spider.
It belongs to the genus tarantula, and
is as large ss the tiger, but quite different
in color. The male is a soft velvety black,
while the female is grayish brown, or like
faded velvet. She has a light gray spot on
top of the thorax, and on the abdomen are
three dark brown longitudinal stripes alter
nating with light gray. In young speci
mens these markings are quite distinct, but
in old ones the clors blend somewhat. The
two sexes do not differ in size, the male
being fully as large ss the female. Tbe
body is a trifle more than an inch in length,
and the legs are large and long, which gives
it quite a formidable appearance, but it is
perfectly harmless. 1 have provisionally
named it tarantula turricula, reserving
a further descriptiou. The name was sug
gested from its manner of building, it
digs a burrow in the earth six or seven
inches in depth, but the upper part of its
domicile is entirely unlike that of the tiger
spi'ier. This species build a little round
tower above its burrow. It procures sticks
frou one to two inches in length, and ar
ranges them very symmetrically one above
the othr, laying thsin so ss to make a five. ':
tided ws'L It is usually a most contented
species In onflnement. Sarlr in July I
took a fine female, surrounded and almost I
covered with baby spiders about ready to
leave the mother the young can readily
run up the side of the jar and escape. As
soon ss they left her, 1 removed the jar to
my study; I did not take the nest wilh this
spider, as I wished to see what she would
do with entirely new surroundings. The
earth in the jar was about six inches in
depth, and well pressed down. I gave her
sticks and moss to put around the top of
her tube. She soon began te dig a burrow,
and when it was about two inches in depth,
she commenced to build a tower above it.
She takes a stick from my fingers and
places it st the edge of her tu1 . She works
while inside her burrow, holding the stick
wuh her fore-legs until it is arranged to
suit her; she then t irns around and fastens
it with a stroug web. She lakes another
stick and proceeds in the same way, and
continues this until she has laid the foun
dation of a five-sided wall. Sue now goes
down to the bottom of her till and brings
up a pellet of earth, which she places ou
top of the sticks; she goes all around a
, ... , . . . . , . .
circle of hesc pellets, which she flattens by
pressing her body against them, anil &r-
h:b:TA. :rh: r. i.:rr"t7..r:nJtePu'outs astheob.
the sticks on the inside, making the walls
perfectly round snd silk-lined. Now she
is ready for more sticks, which the con
tinues to alternate with the pellets until the
tower has reached the height of two and a
half inches above her burrow. I some
times gave her bits of green moss an inch
or two in lrngth, which she would use by
fastening theui to s stick with web. This
makes the wall on the outside fringed with
m ss. If she is not in a mood for build
ing, and I offer her a stick, she takes it in
her mandibles, and with her fore-feet gives
it a quick blow, often sending it with force
enough to hit the jar; and when she is
digging and bringing up pellets of earth
winch she does not wish to use in her tow
er, she throws them from the top of the
walls with sufficient force to make them
land a foot or more from tbe burrow, if it
were not for the intervention of the glass.
This accounted for the fact that 1 could
never find any fresh earth near the burrows
of these spiders.
Tbe bians of Springs.
Spring is commit," said the fat ptssen
"ce the seed onions in the baskets at
ger,
the grocer's door.
That is a sure harbinger
of spring."
"Ves,"said the cross passenger,
'and
you can smell it in the air."
'Spring, you rneuu," queried -the sad
passenger, ,-or the onion?"
''Aud the roads are drying up," hastily
put in the tall thin passenger, fearing a
collision, "and the farmers are accordingly
cliarging more for hay, on the pretext ot a
short, crop."
"And the hens begin to wear an inde-
pendent, suan t-if-l-don t-want-to look, "!
saia mo man on tne wooxi-dox, -as luougn not be put in the open ground, in this lati
they knew their value at this time of the j tude, before the first of June. As a rule
year. ' all vegetables having a southern origin
"And you can smell the dreadful odor of j should be planted late. If planted early
garden fires," said the tall, thin passenget, they become stunted and never make a
"where people are burning old shoes and ! vigorous growth,
pea-brush and bones and dead vines and :
one tiling and another, in the balmy even-! Sweet William,
tide." j On one occasion said a Circus manager,
"Oh, yes," we s'd chorused, "spring is we were preparing for our promenade
right here, it isn't far away; everything through the streets, when a kind of "hang
indicales its proximity." er-on"toour company, who, through his
"It will be here before sundown," said j invariable politeness of manner, had been
the man on the wood-box, enthusiastical-
ly."
"See," exclaimed the sad passenger, "al
leady has the young man shed his winter
ulster."
''And Lent is over," shouted the man
with the sample case.
"Green leaves are peeping out through
the withered grass," said the sad passen
ger. "And there is a nameless charm of April
in the sunshine," sunt the fat passenger.
"And it's snow big," croaked the woman
who talKS base.
We all looked out the windows. She
as right. That woman, I have onerved,
genera ly is right. She has not, 1 am free I contortions, and his too in the marc's
to admit, a pleasant voice, but she usually jruouih. The more he struggled, the harder
tells the truth with it. Of course, after her she pulled at what, through some misad
depiessing remark, rendered still more un- venture, she mistook for the girth-straps,
cheerfully it. confirmation, there was no Perhaps, also, she mistook his shouts for
more talk about spring. Sj we sailed on the vociferous cheers of a pleased audience,
in sociable silence, and after a short stop I and thought it was "all right,'' and at it
t Si.ii.A IlnimrM.rf tanf nlu tun , -ii." i if '
which has escaped ine, turned out wander
ing prows toward Gabon.
Aa Obstinate Uoy Overcome.
When Admiral Farragut was a lieuten
ant of the receiving ship Alert, he estab
lished a school for the boys, many of whom
did not know their letters.
One boy refused to learn. When remon
strated with, he replied that he had run
away from home to escape going to school,
and that he could not and would not learn
to read and write.
"Well," said Farragut, "it will cost you
mucn less to learn your letters than to let
them alone. For, if you don't report your
self to the school every day, and don't do
your best to learn while there, I will pun
ish ypu until you do."
The boy continued obstinate in his refu
sal, and the lieutenant whipped him. He
took the whipping without crying, and
said, with an oath, that be would not learn
a single letter For several days whipping
followed whipping, without subduing tbe
boy's obduracy.
lhen the lientenant, determined not to
be beaten by a boy of fifteen, tried what j teJ inu proportionate hole. Then the
ridicule would da He made the boy so s"t'm9 undergo a second and final examina
ashamed of himself that he took to the 4on the buyer examining them most rigor
primer and learned rapidly. In twelve olwlJr. rejecting some wiiich may at
months he read, wrote, and was smart in have escaped las attention. Any ir-
ciphering.
Seven or eight years passed away, and
Lieutenant Farragut bad forgotten ail about
the obstinate boy. But one day a well
dressed young man stopped him in tbe
street, called him by name, and warmly
grasped his band.
"Vou don't recocnize me," he said, see
ing the lieutenant's puzzled look ; "out I
sm more indebted to you than to any one in
this world. Don't you remember the boy
who gave you so much trouble on board
the Alert?"
"Oh, yes, very well; but I should never i
have recognized him in you. I would like !
to bear your story." i
"I can tell it iu a few words," said the :
young man. ' 1 lclt the navy alter a lew
voyages, and shipped on board of an Fast
Indian. The captain died and the chief
mate was taken sick. I was a good arith
metician, thanks to you, and the mate had
taught me navigation ; so I could work the
ship's course. The mate died, but just be
fore his death he called the men aft and re
quested them to obey me as their com
mander. I carried the ship into New York,
and the owners, making me a handsome pres
ent, sent me out as mate of another ship.
As soon as there was a vacancy I was made
a captain, and am now in tbe Charleston
trade."
"We!L"said tbe lieutenant, "I am glad
to bear of your success, aad that you profi
ted, by the little instruction you received
from me.
"But," he sdded. with a smile, "I think
you are as much indebted to your perverse
disposition. You were determined not to
learn, and I was determined that you should.
I wasn't a-going to be heatsa by a bey of
If. sen."
When to Plant Garden Seeds.
A greater difference of time is required
in towing seeds in the g-u-Jen than in the
field. There is no month when frost is out
of the ground in which the seed of some
kind of vegetable may not be profitably
sown. The value of moat vegetables de
pend on the time of sowing their seeiL
Many things raised in the garden are only
seasonable a very short time. Spinach is
not in demand after lettuce is sufficiently
large to eat, while lettuce loa.-s hs value
when green peas appear. Radishes are
wanted as early in the season as it is possi
ble to produce them, but the appetite for
them disappears after cucuuiliers become
plenty. An effort should accordingly be
made to raise a cn p of spiuach, rod-shea,
and lettuce as eariy in the seuson as pos
sible. Among the other vegetables seeds
thai should be sown very early in the sea
son, i t those of cress, kale, endive and
paraley, as they are wanted as soon as they
can be produced. The seeds of onious.
Deeu, carrots, parsnips, celery, cabja;d
t muu ..'- "n. aumuu IK sunn COTtV.
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ject of planting is to secure a crop in ad
vance ot that produced by planting seed.
The seed of all varieties of f'ourda should
be planted very early. It is a good plan to
start them in beds or small boxes in the
house, and to place the plants with Die
earth about them in the ground where they
are to grow, when the weather becomes
sufficiently warm. Gound vines are highly
ornamental as well ss useful, and they are
worthy of a place in every garden and yard.
The suells ot gourds are easily converted
into dippers, and drinking cups and other
useful articles, and are much in use in all
parts of the South. Gourd viaes require
some support. They may be trained over
a trellis so as to make a very fine appear
ance, or be made to attach themselves to
strings, brush, or the branches of trees.
The seeds of nearly all other vines, as
pumpkins, squashes, cucumbers, citrons,
and all kinds of melons, should be planted
quite late in the season. There is nothing
gained by planting them in the open ground
till the weather is quite warm. Their
growth may be hastened by planting tbe
seeds in bills and covering them with small
boxes having glass on top. The soil may
be moistened troui time to time by remov
ing the boxes. The boxes protect the
youngplant from the cold when they are
quite small, and from the insects that are
Very certain to make Ibuir appearance a
litlle later in the season. The young plants
may be gradually hardened by removing
the boxes during warm days and by re
placing them at night and on fhe approach
of cold rains aud wintls. Nasturtiaiu, pep
pers, okra, tomatoes, sweet corn anil all
kinds of beans should be planted quite late
iU the season. Sweet potato plants should
nicknamed "Sweet William," was deputed
to ride a highly-trained black mare, one of
whose tricks consisted in undoing her
girths with her teeth and removing her
saddle. Sweet William was the last to
leave the stables the others having passed
out before he had mounted. Suddenly
loud cries of "Murder: were heard to pro
ceed lrom the stable, and I shouted out aa
I went toward the spot : ''What's the
matter' Who is it " "It's me," replied
the agonized voice of Sweet Willia.u.
"Make haste the mare's got hold of my
toe. And sure enough 1 found the man
on the mare's back, writhing and twisting
about, his face describing the most painful
again she went with redoubled vigor. By
some means he must have made some
slight movement, which the mare thought
to be her sigual to perform the trick, and
went to work accordingly. However, the
man was speedily released from his awk
ward predicament, and the cavalcade pro
ceeded on its ways but it was a long time
before the incident itself cca.-d to excite
a good-natured laugh at tbe expense of
Sweet William.
Dians.,,1 Ks era.
Buying diamouds for retail is said to be a
delicate and difficult task. The buyer sits
down at a table with a large sheet of white
paper spread before bun. On tbe paper are
poured the contents of certain (xtckagus re
ceived by the wholesule dealer. The keen
eye of the buyer, an expert, of course, picks
out at once the shallow, fluxed aud all de
fective stones, which are definitely rejected,
and swept into a bag. The accepted stones
must next be paired, and to this end a tin
plate, mounted on four feet aud pierced
with holes of differeut size, is employed.
On this the diamonds are laid, and shifted
to and fro until each diamond has been fit-
regularity of form, lack of brilliancy, dull
nersS of water or yellowness of tint is suffi
cient to condemn them. The matched
stones are then put up in pairs in papers or
small cases, and the others are sold to in-
I ferior jewelers. In Paris the latter are rea
j dily purchased and set iu the tlowen, stars,
crosses anu otner ornaments wna-n make
such a display in the wi.idows of the Palais
Royal. The French, as s rule, like showy
things, and are less fastidious in diamonds
than Americans are. They care more for
general effect than purity or perfection, and
ttea to ur pe"P interior gems that
wiu 001 beHr resetting. Paris is not a good
Plce to buy dianion.U.
a TelegrapsJe Blunder.
A noble Loru, aa piuuo and fond ss a
mart should be of his beautiful young wire,
was just about rising to speak iu a debate
when a telegram was put in bis bands. He
read it, left the house, jumped into a cab,
drove to Charing Cross and took a train to
Dover. Next day he returned home,
mshed into his wife's room, and finding
her there upbraided the astonished lady in
no measured terms. She protested her
ignorance of having done anything to of
fend him. 'Then what did you mean by
your telegram?" he asked. "Jlcan I What
1 said, of course. What are you talking
about ?" "Read it for yourself," said he.
She read; "1 flee with Mr. to Dover
straight. Pray for me." For a moment
words would not come; then after a merry
fit of laughter, the suspected wife quietly
remarked: '0 those dreadful tekgtapU
people: No wonder you are out of your
mind, dear. I telegraphed simply: "1 tea
with Mrs. 1 . in borer street. Stay for
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