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B. F. SCHWEIER,
VOL. XXXVII.
A fair maid u l,Kt
When the flower were goinc
When the popples' cap
Dropped within the mowing
And tU brier ros tore its frown
On the fence rail, eld and brown.
When the berries spilled
All their nectar sparkling.
And the cows came home
Under skies t'were darkling
For the sun in that dim time
Would not wait for milking-Ume.
liright she was and sweet, -Hees
and brooks all knew her
Every bird from far and near '
Came to praise and woo her.
And the children at her feet
Found the days so long and sweet.
Many lovers fond
In the woodlands sought her
On the breezy hills,
l?y the blue, bine water.
But too soon she stole awav
How, or whither, who can say
Now the days are sad.
Missing ail her- brightness,
ki are growing pale,
Feet have lost their lightness.
She was Summer, now you know
It was sad to have her go.
ALMOST TO I-ATK.
Charles Archar stood at the door of
the one room high up in a noisy tene
ment m.ux in ew iorK, which he
called "home. " It was not the wedded
home he Lad dreamed of twelve years
before, when he uttered the valedictory
at Yale, and when llelen Gordon smil-
eu at m i applause that greeted his ap
pearance on the stage. Xor was that
crouching figure by the window, in th
untidy print dress, with the pretty, sul-
ieu iace ana me uncombed golden hair
much like the graceful b.lle. whnsi
company he had been so proud, so
ujj'i'j io monopolize upon mat golden
uay.
"I am going now, Helen."
Ilis wife looked up and caught the
expression of pitying regret ujn his
oars, auu nanasome race. Her heart
was full of angry rebellion against her
fate, azainst herself, against him al
most against God.
Why do you look at me like that ?"
lAesaid peevishly. "I know that the
room Las not been swept, and that I
have not made my toilet for the day.
My to let ?" she laughed bitterly. "When
snail I mike a toilet again, I wonder ?
1 once set the fashion in Xew Haven I
And. oh I to think onlylo think what
my life might have been if I had been
wise."
Her husband's face darkened all over.
"1 understand 1" be exclaimed. "You
mean it you had married Paul Hayden
inttead cf me 1"
"How can I help such thoughts ? I
saw his wife early yesterday morning
when I was out. She was driving to
the railway station on her way to their
count ry house for the su aimer. I heard
the footman say so to some one when 1
he went to buy the tickets for her. And,
oh ! what a difference there was between
us two. Xo wonder the has kept her
beauty. Xo wonder I have lost mine.
Heauty and health, and youth and hap
piness", they are all goirg away lroin
me because we are so poor."
"Better days may be coming, love,"
said the husband, after a pause. "I
have heard of a goc d situation at this
time, you know. If I get it, it will be
a stepping stone to other things of
more consequei.ee. And when I am
rich, you know well, my darling, that
1 shall refuse you nothing."
You have thought bo many times
that better days were close at hand.
And every time you have been disap
pointed, aiid we have lived on the same
horrible life," was the discouraging re
ply. "I, know, my dearest; but this is
real'v good news, I trust and hope. It
you "will only kiss me and wish me
good luck, I have faith that it will
come."
He bent down, his dark eyes wistfully
s aichin? hers for one glance of love,
such as he had often seen there in the
ha; pv davs of couitship. But love, so
far as she" was concerned, he sometimes
feared, had flown out of the window of
his home when poverty entered. The
teat, the dust, t'je discordant street cnes
without, the shabb' disordered room
within, the general eenseof berown un
tidiness, and the galliDg memory of the
freshly beautiful summer cor.umeworn
by the wife of Faul Hayden as she
lounged in hercarriage the previous day
ail these things combined to banish
the affectionate glance for which the
husband's heart so vainly hungered,
and to make the wife's parting kiss so
cold and forma' that it lingered like ice
upon the young man's lips as be turned
away. . .
, He said nothing, but the deep sign
that seemed to come from the very
depths of a tried and overladen heart
silently reproached her.
Slie caught a last glimpse of his face
as he closed the door. It wore a look
of repressed sorrow that would haunt
her to her dying day. What evil spirit
had tempted her to try him so 7 W as it
his fault that, by the failure of a bank
in the great "panic," the savings oi
tears of steady toil had been lost in a
nwinior,r h nnt labored faitn-
f ully ever since for her support ? 1 or
ber ungrateful sake had be not even
fctooped to menial toil, when no other
emi lovment could be procured 1
And now she had sent him from ber
uncheered by a look or word or iou
nee. Wh.t if enm aVMdent shoula
- ii uai Ak. wwu .
hatMien tn th train bv which he was W
travel What if he should never re
turn V For a moment she eat dum&
a'uiot para!y2l by the shock of thai
toea. Then she sprang from ner chair
aul rushed to the or. She would
call him and ask him to forgive
that nUi Vnifi nartintr. She was
the street.
A moment later she heard the surui
w histle of the train. lie was cone.
ti. -l... adlv enougn.
Thought after thought came crowding
into her mind to unsettle and reprove
htir Tk I Iksiv fruit- In 18SS
than an hour after Charles Archer a
departure his home wore a very "nef:
ent aspect. By nightfall the oue room
was trim and clean as willing nanus
could make it. Before the clean win
dows a pair of snowy musiin curta u
ere drawn. The stove shone use
i:nor, aud from its open front a brig ni
welcome to the abseut master Iiasue"
out, tt.xding the very halls with warmtn
uu Ugllt,
. And summer evening though
bath u rht n. ,t wraith were neeaea.
A-t sunset angry clouds rose in tne
south, and the rain came sharply down,
with an xmmntrinT wind that knew
JitUu oi iu own mind and veered sharp
ly round continually from south to east
A-niid the wailing wind and dropping
rain XToion a .h.r mirtwl steadily on.
At nine o'clock the train which was
LOST: I
tfi Iwtln 1
hi. 17. uen
them covert
hearth to keep warm f V Dpon the
the window CSmrhfuleaned from
and rain, foV wmlfi huKh wind
She wore tne SW&fj-
hair was arrant i V- , Dst Her
in of bK,,lhurite fash-
himcoldyashe ieft hPr "8nMtol
did
that r
ed atTh.
bor who kritenZlyr aei'
one short ZZIZtV a Wldw
only let
and I win V """ m me sarely,
hi k ?ke amends for all." she
hllf thoueht.harT nn . .
recald th cues to whS
ghad grieved him during theS
Nine o'clock nnu . . ,
, "6 uauu xiau-past nine.
and yet no footstep on the stair? ! Uet
heart lay like a leaden weight in her
bosom. The eolnr f.i
i , ioui uci ii m
and cheeks, and her blue eyes grew
sWhd v8llent A 10 o'SSS
tearthe pense no longer,
fehe left her room and went down stairs,
with a half-formed purpose in her mind
of inquiring at the neighboring station
about the laggard train.
Dimly, in the darkhess, she saw a
crowd of people gathered at the outer
door Of the tenement hnuaa Th
all ta,kmg confusedly, but now and
then some woids broke plainly through
the medley of sound.
His poor wife !"saM
is she going to bear it, I wonder.' It is
well for her that she has lift littl nTiM
to look after. She is nothing more than
a child herself, anyways."
"ilake way there !" said some one
outside, "We must carry the body up
stairs. Which room is it ? And Rome
woman ought to eo uo before ua and
tell the wife."
The crowd sureed and Darted. T!a-
tween the ranks six men came stead Ov
onward, followed by a policeman.
Helen knew him well, and when he
looked up the staircase and saw the
slight figure bending forward, and the
pale face full of a fixed and settled hor
ror, he turned again to the crowd, and
called out :
One of you women come ud here to
break the news. And tae her awav."
ha added in a lower voice; "it is no
sight for her."
Gocd nature d Bridget McCarthy came
forward, and ran up the stars to where
Helen stood.
Yoa'll come back into the room wid
me, my darlint," she said putting her
strong arms around Helen's slender
waist. "Sure it'll destroy you intirely
to look at the likes of that,"
"Bridget, is he dead ?" asked the pale
lips, piteously.
' 'Sorry I am to say that he is. It was'
the train, my dear. OS the track, they
say, and ten strong men killed outright
besides him that they are brmguig up
from below."
Helen xell senseless at the Irish wo
man's feet
Half an hour later she struggled
slowly .back to life and loneliness
again. She opened her eyes to find
t-erself lying on her own bed. with the
kind old doctor of the neighborhood
bending over her with rather an anx
ious face.
"We shall do nicely now," he said,
making a warning gesture to some one
in the background.
Helen gave a great sigh as he took.
her band.
'Oh, why did you bring me back.
doctor? 1 have driven my husband
away to his death, and I hoped I could
die, toe. I blamed him Lecause we
were so poor, doctor, and I scarcely
kissed him when he went away this
morning to look for another place.
Oh. I have been so cruel to him ! And'
now, just as i was trying iow mriici
wife, God has taken him away from
me, and he will never know how bitter
ly I repented."
How do you know he is dead, my
dear ?" asked the doctor. .
"Oh, I saw them bring him op the
stairs! And 1 heard them tauung aDoui
m "Not about you, my dear, but about
poor little Mrs. Gray, who lives m the
room at the back, Her husband was
badly hurt on the train when it ran off
the track this evening. We thought he
was dead at nrst. cuuui w
has revived, and I leel sure that, by
God's mercy, he wiu recoTd """
l0"But where is my husband then ?"
cried Helen, stortingup
'God has teen very gow w -i
my dear," said the oia pu)n;u"i.
Is he alive r wnereisoer y""
m !" her every gesture bitubk""
tween hope and fear.
llflre "
JLl? a' tr,rd back. From a
dark corner of the room a tall figure
shed forward and clasped the won
$?, Sng wife in close embrace.
sityour Oh,isitreallyyou?'he
Charles! "Hlow cVuld I treat
you went away now Vr" . r
you so r You never can forgive mew-
love mw-'.. ,nffTA lon
' Aa ix 1 COU1U ucp j -j
A. i i have found a good
as 1 uve, - . .vl aalarv. and
rroJ IT you areweli enough, we
Sei trip mtolhecountry togeth
wiU make wf ,ittle cottaee.
and vourself all
where you ci --r..-.. .mnmt
through this beauiuiu -
the birds and flowers.
! don't " " ha8
mzbutyou, ta
given you Daral" iSppy,"said his
fnough V.itndPer kiss which
ZTmZ "that morning.
8he had reiu wa9 token,
Nevertheless ' the couage atimeas
.S wl nj6 this side
moruu j
oi iwradise. thithert after
a shopping ftcrtaken by the mag
chanced to be w Hayden, md
nificent rpieadent in
Uonau-e. 7"', atelier of Wortn,
toUtt fre?a ft lnt ' yet brown
therein. &ne. , A hand-
-ed 5d " V-rn ,nd
some. Y ner t
.roaried. It iac. Helen's
Ind Perfect happn
wore. . . fha somewhat anxious
KSnuihand WW
look that Mi .""e slowly by.
as the
iTnder cover oi f
smueu
nrettV Sliu
moment bad she for-
b-erer for one
THE
MIFFUNTOWN.
flnm.
WUtlQirGrw1 that; U Ko 1
although it came "almost too late."
ChMtcrfleid's Maxima.
You
cannot but be convinced thut a
man who speaks and writes with ele
gance and grace; who makes choice of
wtjrds; and adorns and embellish.
the 8ubtcU upon whirh he either speaks
or writes, will persuade better, and suc
ceed more easily in obtaining what he
wishes, than a man- who dries not ex
plain himself clearly; speaks his language
ill; or makes use of low and vulgar ex
pressions; and who has neither gfcs nor
elegance in anything that he says.
An ignorant man is insignificant and
contemptible, fcoloay cares for h i com
pany, and be can Just be said to live,
nd that Is alL There to a very pretty
French epigram upon the death ol euch
an ignorant, insignificant feliow, the
ting of which is all that can be said of
him is that he was once alive and that he
is now dead.
It is certain that humanity is the nartic-
ular characteristic of a great mind.
Little, vicious minds are full of anger and
revenge, and are Incapable of feclmg the
exalted pleasure jf forgiving their ene
mie, and of bestowing marks of favor
and generosity upon those of whom tbey
have gotten the better.
Virtue is a subject that df serves vour
and every man's attention, and suppose 1
were to bid you make tome verses, or give
me your thoughts in prose upon the sub
ject of virtue, how would ycu go about
iu Why you would first consider what
virtue is, and then what ate the effects and
marks of it, both with regards to others
and one's self. You would find, then.
that virtue consists in doing good and
t peaking truth, and that iia tfiecls are
advantageous to all mankind, aud to or.e'8
selt in particular. Virtue makes us pitv
and relieve the misfortunes of mankind; it
makes us promote justice and good order
in society, and in general contributes to
whatever tends to the rial gjod of man
kind. To ourselves it gives an inward
comfort and satisfaction which nettling
else can do and which nothing can rub us
of. All otner advantages depend upon
others as much as upon ourselves. Kithes.
power and greatness may be taken away
from us by the violence and injustice of
others or inevitable accidents, but virtue
depends only on ourselves, and nobody
can take it away.
Know then, that as learning, honor,
and virtue are absolutely necessary to gain
you the esteem and admira ion of man
kind; piliteness and good breeding are
equally necessary to make you welcome
and agreeable in conversation and common
life. Great talents, such as honor, virtue.
learning. ad parts, are above the geneial
ity of the world; who neither possess them
themselves, nor judire of ttcm rightly in
others; but all peple are judges of the
lesser talents, such as civilnv, affability.
and an obliging, agreeable address and
mannei; because tbey feel the good effects
of them, as ciukujg society easy aud
pleasing.
1 uare say I need not tell you how rude
it is to take the best place in a room, or to
seize immediately upon what you tike at
table without offering first to help others,
as if you considered nobody but yourself.
On the contrary, you should always en
deavor to procure ail the conveniences you
can to the people you are with. Besides
Being civil, which is absolutely necessary,
the perfection of good breeding is to be
civd with ease and in a gentlemanlike
manner. For this you should observe the
French veople, who excel in it and whose
politeness stems as eay and natural as any
Hher part of their conversation. VY nereas
the English are often awkward in their
civilities, and when they mean to be civil
are too much ashamed to get it out
Oat Doorlale.
Some references have been lately
made in the public press to the above
subject and to Mr. Horatio Ross having
shot his stag on several birthdays after
completing his eightieth year. It has
been a custom oi mine, pernapg tnrougn
early education in very different and
possibly bigner Drancnes oi xnowieage,
to note the effects of genuine field
soorts upon their followers. Accepting
the undeniable fact that genuine sports
men are, in all my experience, peculiar
ly humane to inferior animals, (it is
your jgnorant citizen, and, above all.
your citizeness, who arives a norse to
death,) nothing has appeared to me
more certain, during observations ex
tending now to exactly half a century,
being since I first entered on business
1833. than that this humanity, by
some reflex influence, operates benefi
cially upon themselves, it may be that
they come to acquire some peculiar
knowledge of higeiuc laws as applied to
mankind who until recently were sup
nosed to be superior to them. Hence
our black plagues, our jail fevers, and
our still existing epidemics, what
soever istne cause, tne longevity oi
sportsmen I mean those who have
come witMn my own scope shooters
and anglers, is most remarkable. It is
not alone that tbey live long, out, mat
they preserve their faculties untu near
ly the closing scene. Jot with them
the veteran lags superfluous on the
staev. The most indefatigable angler x
ever knew, and also the most expert.
was the famous captain juurray, wuo
successfully wielded 4us rod on the
river Eachaig until his ninetieth year.
The swiftly running streams of the
north are supposed, not without reason,
to clarify the air over their banks, and
so tend to the great longevity of Scot
tish anglers. In my own experience
comes a suortsman who, to an extent
certainly not to be praised, seems to
have afforded a living proof of what Sir
James Paget has lately advanced that
nnranortincr Droclivities are the heredi
tary results of the habits and means of
subsistence or onr remote auceaiura.
Lalajette.
The cable announces the death of the
Marquis Jules de Lasteyrie. He was a
son of a daughter of General Lafayette,
and was born at the historic chaleau
nf Ta Grange, in 1S10. In 1832 he
imitated his grandfather's exploits on
a smaller scale by serving under. Dom
redro I, of Brazil, in driving the usur
per Dom Miguel from Portugal. He
joined in the official protest against the
coup d'etat of 1852, and was expelled
from France, but took advantage of the
nartial amnesty to return. He thence
forth devoted himseif much to litera
ture in the columns of the Eetue dct
Deux Mondet, and issued in 1SC0 the
first volume of an uncompleted History
nf Political Liberia in JVunce. He was
chosen a Life Senator, December 10,
1375. He married a daughter of the
celebrated Mme. de Eemusat.
00S8TITUT0I-THE tnHOH-AIB
JUNIATA COUNTY.
Fiftsra Weeks on an Itlaad.
The eLi'd St. Clair, of Thomaslon,
Maine, sailed from New York on De
cember 18. IHbl. She was oommanaea
bv Captain Rive and had a compinj
of twenty souls, including her first and
sec md officers and the crew of sixteen
men. She carried an assorted cargo
and was bound for Nagasaki. Japan.
On the first of May she ttruck on the
shoaling shores of oue of the Sanaa Is
lands aud became a total wreck. The
weather was stormy and the waves,
which were running very high, rendered
futile all possible efforte to save any
thing. A ship cannot with any safety
go nearer than two or thrse miles to
the shores of those islands because of
the shallowness and rocky nature of
the bottom," on which, if she should
strike, she would be almost certainly
lost Th9 captain, knowing thit the
ibland upon whica he was wrecked was
uninhabited aud only visited oy Japan
ese fishermen at a certain season, d9-
termiued to endeavor to reach another
island, and so did not go on shore on
the Learet-t land at all. The steward,
named Pelix A. Wahl, of Uormaa
nationality, determined to laud, as he
saw that the boats were leaky and bad
to be bailed out with vigor, and he,
moreover, doubted their seaworsbiness
in other respects, as they had lain
aboard of the ship unused for a long
time. The captain consented to let him
take a very small boat aud land, as he
wished, and two boys, one French and
tie other Por.uguee agreed to accom
pany him.
This they fid, but on touching the
shore and seeing its desolate and unin
viting appearance they changed their
mindH, and huriied to overtake the
larger boats, wbioh they could still
s3 on their o urie for the more
di&tint ibland some twenty-five miles
away which the captain wished to
reach on account cf its being adapted
to furnish his people with the means of
living until they might chance to b
rescued. From his place on the shore
the steward watched the little boat as it
chased after the laiger boats as long as
tbev remained visiole. and it had not
yet overtaken them when they all passed
out of sight behind the augbty waves
which the ancry sea roiled incessantly
toward the shores. Of the fate of th e
boats Wahl is yet ignorant, although be
has heard that the captain had arnved
at Angiers and had been reported in
Europe, but as to the fate of the two
boys, or indeed of any of bis ship com
panions, he has no knowledge. It is,
however, probable that some of them,
at least, ebcaped. Finding hinuell
alone upon this is'anri, he was com
pelled to eiert his wits to contrive ways
tor sustaining life. lie had saved nothing
exoept the clohing upon his person.
and had not even brought dry matches
ashore with him, owing to the splashing
and ducking he received in getting from
the boat to dry land. With flints and
old dry rags, which he found, he suc
ceeded iu striking some sparks aud get
ting a fire kindled, which, wheu it bad
once got to burning, he wis careful
never again to et go entirely out so
long as he remained upon the LJ iuJ.
There was wood to be picked up along
the shore, and some small trees aud
bushes grew upon the island, so that be
had no great trouble in getting a supply
of fuel.
As to shelter he found this already
provi ed for him, as there waia some
sheds used by the fishermen who make
periodical visits to the place lor the
purpose of catching and curing nsn.
These fish were a species of mackerel.
which they enre by splitting them, as is
customary with Yankee fishers, aud then
lay them upon the dry ground to cure.
Iu addition to the mackerel is a kind of
shark, which is very fat, and is taken
and melted down for the oil, the bones
being saved and made au article of
traffic and tued iu manufactures. The
large iron ke'tles us d in this busiuesa
were sitting in their pobitions jas . as
lett at the end of the previous tinning
season, and by putting some sea-wat jt
in one of them and drying it oat again
by means of fire. Mr. Wahl secured a
supply of salt. He fouud plenty of
good ousters at low tiue, ana in basms
among the rocks many fish were left in
a condition lo be easily taken. There
was thus no danger of absolute starva
tion. Being thus thrust mto this utter
solitude, a species of lethargy or torpor
seemed to seize upon the ate ward, which
almost bereft him of the use ot Lu 1 ac
uities for some eiht or ten days, but it
gradually wore a ay aud he fouud him
self podt64sed of hi normal mental ao-
tivity and physical vigor, tie soon
tound that lor lnm the supreme virtue
was patience, siuca to attempt to escape
by any effort of his own making was
quite out of the qnestion.
He saw that if he livel his rescue was
a mere matter of time, as the people
who were in the habit Of v .siting the is
land would certainly return. At ha t,
be bad the best of lessons for expect -
rug them to do so, since they had left
property there and the place afljrded
them patik He soon bojaaia t re 1 ot
his ban diet and looked about for some
means of varying it. The island n
some twenty milei iu extent in oue di
rection ana is destitute of any gam-.
1'hera weae, sowever. sjme small land
birds sometimes to be seen, but without
a" gnu he could not secure them. A tr
injuring this sort ot lite lor soma ni
teen weeks the Japanese boats arrived
and the steward rushed to meet them.
Although unable to speak an intelligible
word to these people ne grasped oue by
the hand aud found it more we conic
even taau that of a "brother in a lur
ei$u land.' In short, these people were
aiud to the stronger, ana uid all thai
they could to make bun comfortald,
aud iu tew dayn the first boat star tea
for itoba and be we.it wiji it, aud
thenco to Yokohama. Beauiiinj tuat
city hd was protected by the American
Com, ul aud sent by that omcal to tula
city, where he arrived a lew days ago.
Waul ia a very weal informed niaa ad
repeats the sioty of hid aJveuturtS iu a
very entertamg manner, despite bis for
eign accent aud lmpenent uouimaud o.
the Euciish lanua-re. He Uuj two
motherless chdjreu living near Sxii
Francisco, and he has sec a. out ItXu
ou&inees of gaiuiug a aupport lor them
by Cuumieiicn aaiu as s.eward ou
board ot oae ol the .Northern coast col
liers, with the captain of wuom hd Iijb
long been acquainted. Tne story at
told by ita hero docs not e jiial the
famous picture of 1. jbinou lirusoe as
painted by the brilliant pen of D-Jloe,
but in the very important particular ot
reliability it tar surpasses it, being, as
the reader may rest assured, enUo.j
true. Tne gem us which onanged bcl
lurk into Crusoe, removed an ulaud to
tha opposite aidd or a conuaaut and
THE ESTOEOEKEHT OP THE LkWB.
PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 12..
magnified a lonely life of four years to
a term ot two uecaaes, ana cauea inues
of warlike cmnibais to engage In dis
tant and unnatural expeditious, is qnite
too fertile to be lightly challenged.
Smnla Flppla.
Sinnie Pippin is a yellow-haired girL
tall and wiry, about 19 years old, and
weighs about ll-" pounds. She runs in
the woods with Fayette Anderson, and
they live there together more like In
dians than, white people. As soon as
F ayette gets hold of any plunder, Sinnie
comes to town to sell it for him, and
buys coffee, cartridges and such things
as he needs, and goes back into the
woods, and they start out on another
expedition. Ouce they commit a rob
bery, they start off as fast as they can
thro ugli the woods, sleeping in the day
and traveling in the night, until tbey
get into anoJier county, or cross the
Kentucky line, but always manage to
get a good way from the robbery before
people commence to hunt for them.
Audeison's plan is to meet a man trav
eling along the road, find out what he
can about him by talking to him friendly-like,
aud, if he thinks the stranger is
worth robbing, be will take a short cut
through the woods, and be waiting in
the bushes when the stranger passes
along the road. "Halt and throw up
your bauds," is the fiist thing a way
taier hears, and before he has time to
collect his thoughts, Anderson has a
pistol muzzle up against his temple.
and is going through him w ith his lelt
baud.
Will Fayette Anderson fight? Well,
I just believe he is one otthegamesi
men in the world. Deputy auerifl
Bailey McClellan, of Putnam county,
shot him about a year ago and t'roke his
arm badly. What do you think Ander
son did? Well, he and the gul went to
a spring Lu the woods and she kept
bathing his arm Willi cold water,
washing it and keeping tha wound
clean, and the bone knitted up. His
arm is recovered so well that he can
handle a six-shooter with as much ease
as any of them; leastwise he has never
been captured yet, aud there have been
plenty of people alter him, aud game
ones, too.
But biume, the girl, makes it bard
to capture hin, because she lays around
the towns m x'utnam, Smith and Over
toil counties, aud gels all the news and
carries it to bun. This keeps him
posted aud pu-a him on his guard.
Why don't we capture Sinnie Pippin,
you ask? Well, we have had her in
jail, but, being a woman, we couldn't
get anything against her, so we bad to
turn her out on the range again, and
this pair keep robbing and running by
night, and bleeping in the wuous and
mountains by day, aud there is no way
ot doing an thing to stop them so far.
but their time will come just like all
tha rest.
Tha Iiogua "Uouuccr."
Size is of consequence, in fighting, of
course, but it otteu serves effectually
iu the place of both skill aud valor, lu
the Tombs 1'oUce court, .New York,
the complainant in a case of assault
was over six feet iu height, aud in build
like Herecules, while the prisoner was
not more that haif that bulk. It was
not denied that there had been a whip
ping. A battered face was good evi
dence of the fact.
i'm au usher iu the varie
ties," said the big man, naming one of
the worst resorts in the Bowery. "The
prisoner was disorderly, and, when I
ordered him to be quiet, he assaulted
me."
'And you wasn't sandy enough
to hinder him from gittin' away
with you!" the astouL-died justice
asked.
Do not let the language of the judi
cial quotation raise a doubt as to its
accuracy. 1'olice magistrates talk that
way ui.New loifc.
"o, I guess I wasu t," was the
abashed reply.
'1 jest guess be wasn't," the proud
prisoner ecuoed.
Tue payment of a fine of ten dollars
did not expel the joy from the little fel
lows imnd. After the caie has thns
been disposed of, I undertook to put it
iu shape tor the use 1 am now making
ot it by asking the manager of the es
tablishment, who was in court, how
it had happened that he employed
so incompetent a peace-compeller.
' We've gat for to have bouncers,
understand," he replied, "or else the
house 'd be cleaned out every night in
the week. Generally we hire regular
sluggers, men what all de bjys kuow
cau mop de floor wid 'em. But they
come high, and they dou't earn their
money. Tbey just scowl at a disturber
and he shuts up widout a hit. Thinks
1 to myseir, ail 1 got to do is to get a
big, cheap duffer, put him up as a bad
man from de west and set him a
f iownin'. Well, this is der bogus boun
cer. Tne boys siiiverei wheu he
scowled, for a couple of weeks; but
they dropped to the game, aud you seen
wnat the small uu did to bun. lieaint
of no more use to me. His racket's
finished.
II tVoa a Dollar.
John Waffen, a German, aged 54, has
been living with his wife and five small
children iu Bethel block, Cleveland.
He came to America eighteen montns
ago. He worked about the docks, and
spent more money for whisk t nan he
did for food for his family. Last night
white slightly intoxicated, V alien en
tered Dugeit's saloon on Seneca street,
lleie he met a party of sailors, with
wuom ho was acquainted. After seve
lal rounds, the master of a vessel pro
posed a bet to John Waffen.
'-What is the bet?-' asked John.
"I'll bet a dollar you can't drink
fifleeu glasses ot whisky in fifteen min
ttes," "I'll take that bet," replied Wafien.
and forthwith he began.
At every guiss a chalk mark was
made on the counter. Ten glasses had
been disposed of, and Waffeu began to
leel laiut. When he had swallowed the
liileeutb gl;iss of poison, the sailors
wauiei him to take still more but he
declined. With his last strength he
tottered home. Entering his room he
sat down ou a chair but fell on the
the floor. He gre.v worse, and the
parish priest attended him and gave
niui the last sacrament. The mau re
tained nia lull mental powers until his
death. He gave . adetaiied account of
the scene iu Dugget's saloon, and ex
pressed contrition for his niissint life.
At V o'clocx he died in great agony.
The police are investigating the case.
with a view to bringing the guilty par-
Utftojustue.
Peculiar a aapla.
A correspondent writes; I have just
returned from a sojourn of some
months in the mountains of East Ten
nessee, rambling over them sometimes
on horseback and sometimes afoot. In
this way I have become pretty well ac
quainted with the mountaineers of the
Cbilhowee and Smoky ranges, and am
sure that readers will be interested in
a faithful description of this "peculiar
people," who are, however, in no wise
''zealous of good works,'! nor of any
other kind of works, since the Govern
ment has broken up the illicit distiller
ies in their, mountain gorges. They
are classed in the boutn as "poor
white trash." Everywhere they are the
same people, possessing the .same
marked characistics, speaking the same
low grade of civilization. People of
the same sort are found in various parts
of Maryland, Virginia, the two Caro
linas and Georgia. In all these re
gions they hold a social grade below
that of the negroes. Their origin is
enveloped in mystery. Xo one knows
from what nationality they have
sprung.
The men of these mountain slopes
are tall, loose-jointed, and walk with
long, swinging strides; they have a
lazy, do-nothing and care-for-nothing
air in both speech and movement
Most of them go bare-footed and wear
very tight-fitting linsey-woolsey trou
sers, dyed brown with the bark of the
walnut. They have no suspenders,
and very few of them wear coats of any
kind. Their shirts are made of a
coarse cotton material, and are gener
ally so dirty that it is impossible to
tell the original color. Most of them
wear slouched wool hats that look as
if they had seen many years of hard
service, some few having home-made
hats of plaited rye straw. Almost
every man seen on the road had a long,
rustic-looking rifle on his shoulder, an
ox-horn powder flask and a cow skin
shot-punch swung around bis neck.
The women are in keeping with the
men. Their dress is made of the
same material, only a shade ligtei color.
There is no fit about the waists of their
garments and the skirts are most eco
nomically narrow, and never so long as
to suggest the idea of a trail; conse
quently their large, wide-spreading
bare feet are exposed at every step.
The wear a kind of sunbonnetof the
same material as their dress, shapeless,
limp and flapping around their brown
and sallow face.
The young girls are so dirty that, if
they have any personal beauty, it is
covered. In early life the teeth are
discolored and decayed, caused doubt
less by their constant use of tobacco.
Men, women and children all chew the
weed incessantly, and also smoke and
use snuff. Spitting with these people
is not only a habit, it ii a pastime.
By long practice they have acquired a
surprising skill in emitting tobacco
juice from between his teeth, sending
it with a peculiar hissing sound to a
distance of nine or ten feet, always
aiming at some object directly in front
of them, and seldom failing to hit it.
They can spit at long range with the
same precision and certainty with
which they shoot, being as sure to hit
the mark at ten feet with tobacco juice
as they are to bring down the squirrel
from the top of the tallest tree with
their unerring rifle. The two highest
accomplishments with the men are to
be able to shoot and spit well, and men
and women both actually hold spitting
matches.
Aa Old Family Bali.
Mrs. Annie Desmond of San Fran
cisco has a breastpin that was made
over six hundred years ago, and has
been handed down from generation
to generation in the regular line of
succession until now this lady finds
herself the possessor of this rare family
jewel, with no child to leave It in pos
session of at the time of her death. It
is made of black diamonds, seven in
number, set in gold and linked together
with little plates of silver, in which are
ret a large number of pearls. The
whole being in the shape of a horse
shoe. At the time of the Centennial
Exhibition in Philadelphia, Mrs. Des
mond was requested to place the pin
on exhibition, but refused to do so for
fear that it might get lost or be sto
len, notwithstanding the Board of
Directors offered to deposit a check of
$1,000 in any bank in this city as in
demnity for its loss, or its safe return
at the close of the exhibition. Mrs.
Desmend has royal blood running in
her veins, being a direct descendant of
Countess La De Long, one of the no
ted French families who lived several
hundren years ago. She is the grand
daughter of Lord La Corne, who died
some years ago in Paris. She is an
authoress of some ment, having writ
ten and had published three volumes
of stories some years ago, which .were
ail destroyed in the great Chicago
fire of 1S71,
Slosh and Civ
Swiss guides and patters who have to
bear extreme cold, which is always sup
posed to require much animal food,
and whose labors are severe, are said
to live entirely on a diet of polenta
mush), and cheese, and to be fine,
hardy specimens of manhood, carrying
great weights with ease. The East
India coolie lives on a little butter with
his rice, and pulse, but bis climate is
very different from the bracing air of
the Alps, frosty air that anywhere
else would be supposed to create a de
mand for the heaviest animal food.
There is considerable (vegetable) oil in
mush, and cheese furnishes albumen;
so that in this simple diat are com
bined the carbons and nitrogens of
food.
1883.
David, Paul Knwa.
David Paul Brown was a young
practitioner, only then about three
years at the bar, when a judge of Penn
sylvania was impeached berorethe Sen
ate or House. The impeached judge
selected Mr. Brown as his counsel, who
expressed doubt of the wisdom of the
selection. The judge insisted and
Brown accepted the responsibility.
The trial was protracted through
several days in examining and cross
examining numerous witnesses. The
last day was reached near its close and
the members, witnesses, counsel and
spectators, wearied with the labors of
the trial, hastened from the State
House pell melt for their hotels and
lodging for dinner. So rapid was the
exodus that Brown lost his head in
hustling his notes of cross and direct
examination into the drawer of his
desk without thought that the whole
was to be reviewed, digested and ar
ranged for argument next da.'. After
dinner and a cigar, while walking up
and down the hotel parlor, it flashed on
him that his papers were locked up in
the State House. Quick as a flash he
started for the building only to find it
dark and securely bolted against in
gress. He inquired for the janitor only
lo find he had gone several miles from
Harrisburg. Late bed time came and
all prospect of getting access to the
coveted papers vanished. Desperate,
he sought his room, undressed and went
to bed with bitter thoughts at the
mortifying exhibition he would make
of himself on the morrow when he had
to begin the argument. As there was
no help his only thought was sleep, to
escape from thought. But sleep refused
his summons. As thought followed
thought his mind became calmer.
Then he endeavored to recall some of
ie evidence, taking up the witnesses
in the order of examination. The ef
fort was well repaid. As each one was
passed before his mind the testimony
was read without aid, from phonography
cr manuscript of any kind, and each
material point indelibly reproduced in
his mind and the whole analyzed for
prosecution and defense. This mental
effort carried him into the small hours.
Then he snatched a few hours' repose,
arose refreshed, breakfasted, repaired
to the scene of trial, opened the argu
ment, vindicated his client and secured
his acquittal, and without having re
course to his notes at all.
His friends congratulated him on his
brilliant effort, which he himself re
garded one of the greatest efforts of his
long years of practice.
Feek-A-Boo.
"By the end of next June," said
Wm. J. Scanlan, the Irish comedian,
over 300,000 copies of my 'Peek-a-boo'
song will have been sold, and my roy
alty will amount to 113,000. I get six
cents for every copy of the song that is
sold. That is not the usual royalty.
Some songs are sold outright for from
$3 to $25, and when a writer or com
poser who is not well known wishes to
retain an interest in his work when
published he is usually allowed 10 per
cent, of the sales. If it is a good song
it may reach as many as 20,000, but it
has to be very good to go ovr S.OuO.
'Peek-a-boo' belongs to the class we
term 'craze' songs. It is written in a
catchy way calculated to become popu
lar, as it deals with children, home and
the fireside; It combines the elements
that recommend a work to universal
acceptance. I wrote 'Peek-a-boo' when
I was living in Fourth avenue five years
ago, and first used it to help along a
comic opera entitled 'The West Poi nt
Cadet,' in which a man named John
Kenton collaborated with me. Kenton,
I see, now claims to have assisted me
in writing this song, and claims that he
should share my royalty, but Kenton
had nothing to do with this or any of
the other thirty-one musical numbers
in the opera; he merely helped me a
little with the dialogue of the piece.
The "Cadet' was a failure, and the next
time I used 'reek -a -boo' was with
Minnie Palmer, when I played with
her in 'Our Boarding School.' I sang
it for a week, but saw at once that it
bad not the proper surroundings, and
so determined to lay it by until the
right time came to use it. That time
came when I began starring In 'Friend
and Foe' at the beginning of last sea
son, I introduced 'Peek-a-boo' into the
home scene of the last act, and it im
mediately became popular. D uring the
summer months that song alone paid
mo $000 or 1700 a month. I get a lar
ger royalty than other writers because
I sing my own songs, and in that way
keep them constantly before the public.
There is a great deal in that. Dave
Wambold, the minstrel, you know, got
a royalty from the publishers for merely
singing their songs.
In order to give its readers an idea
of the proposed system of reckoning
time by enumerating the hours from 1
to 24 without regard to A. M. and P. M.
The Detroit Erening Journal printed
ts issue of November 17 throu ghout
as if that system had been actually
adopted. Accordingly the readers of
that journal were somewhat startled at
the headlines, "11 o'clock edition,"
"12 o'clock edition," and "17 o'clock
edition," and to observe that matinees
at the theatres would begin at 14 o'
clock, that a musical entertainment on
the preceding day beginning at 20 36
was a delightful affair, that a furious
tire broke out in South Chicago that
day at 15 o'clock, etc
Lzavcs are the beat of mulching ma
terial, but they must be held down by
brush or cornstalks. No more straw
(or us; after weeding and hoeing so
long we do not desire the weed pesto
scattered and cursed by this otherwise
good mulch,
Editor and Proprietor.
NO. 50.
Jumping from Trains.
The brakemen on passe ager trains
seldom iiave . occasion to jump from
the train while it is in motion. Most
of those who jump live at way stations
wheie express trains do not stop. Some
f w regular passengers are well up in
the jumping act. The people who jump
from the passenger trains seldom jump
when the train is going at the rate of
more than ten miles an hour, but a few
have been kuown to risk the jump when
the train was going twenty-five miles
an hour. Most of the trainmen dislike
to run the risk when the train is in
motion. Even the most reckless prefer
the rear platform of the last car, as there
is not so much danger being drawn
under the wheels if a misstep is made.
Some of the men jump off with the
left foot first aud the body well thrown
back, so that when they strike the
ground they come into an upt ight posi
tion almost immediately. Even then
most are obliged to run some distance
before they can stop. Some of the old
train hands, however, can jump off and
come to a standstill almost as soon as
their feet touch the ground. The brake
man on the freight trains are the men
who jump off the most. They jump
when the train is going at the rate of
from twenty or twenty five miles an
hour, always from the rear car and
always laud in a perfectly uprig.it posi
tion. The ability to jump with com
parative safety when a train is going
faster than ten miles au hour is attain
ed only by long practice, as it is danger
ous for a novice, who if he did not
happen to calculate just how to jump,
would fall aud break some of his bones.
A fresh Scraet Cry.
"S-a-w-d-u-s-t?"
"What's it worth?"
"Thirty cents a bag."
"Xo. Can get it for twenty."
The above conversation took place
between a man who poked his head
into a barber shop and the proprietor of
a place. In Milwaukee a reporter was
receiving the finishing touches of a
good shave, and the barber ceased his
scraping a moment to talk with the
fellow at the door. "What do you use
sawdust for," inquired the reporter, as
the shaver returned to his work. "To
dry the floor after scrubbing it," was
the reply. "It is the best thing in the
world for that purpose. It gives the
tiles a gloss that nothing else can
approach. All of the barber shops that
have marble or tile floors and many
with only wooden ones use it. Then it
is used by many to fill spittons."
"Does that man make a living peddl
ing sawdust?"
"Why, I should say so. He sells it
for 20 or 23 cents a bag and has lots of
customers. Betides barber shops, it is
used by all of the saloons and there are
nearly 1,000 in tliis city. The most of
the meat stores use it. It is handy and
convenient to buy it by the sack, and
so nearly everybody patronizes the
peddler. Sometimes the price is higher,
sometimes lower. Occasionally I send
to a factory near here where they charge
5 cents for a small pail full. Yes; it is a
peculiar busiuesa. How true it is that
one-half of the people don't know how
the other half lives. Sawdust peddling
is oue of the latest industries of all
large eities and it is a good one where
there aint much competition."
Trlng up VaM Aeraa.
There Li a significance about some
French statistic recently published, that
ought to have a lesson for Americans.
It is frequently stated that the French
peasantry are the most prosperous
people of their class in the world, and
in support of the declaration is cited
the ease with which the immense
indemnity required of France by Ger
many was raised; the national bonds
providing for it being all bought up by
the French peasants. The prosperity of
the French people is accounted for in
the recent statistics, which show that
132,000,000 acres of real estate, and
only about one-fourth of which is avail
able for agriculture purposes, is owned
by 8,454,000 different persons, which
necessarily subdivides it into very small
farms, but every foot of which is care
fully tilled, and made to produce the
largest possible profit. The value of
these lands has increased enormously
since 1880. Meadow lands from $165
to $237 per acre; vineyards from $165
to $237, and gardens and orchards from
$350 to $440. Anpther result to the
French of this extensive small farming
is, that while the English farmers are
suffering disasters from American com
petition, French farmers are unaffected.
One of the greatest burdens which
oppress the English, Scotch and Irish is
the vast landed estate. Some Ameri
cans have thought .they saw in the
purchase of laige tracts of land in
various parts of the country by foreign
ers cause to fear that we would some
times be visited by this curse of land
lordism; but it is a hopeful sign that
those who owned such large tracts have
found them a burden too heavy to carry,
and some, among them the proprietors
of the famous Glenn wheat farms of
California, are unloading. To tie up
two or three hundred thousand acres of
land in any part of this vart country la
to blight the growth of the region In
which it is located; and if that is done
the owner might as well have put his
money in a hole. Land is so plentiful
in the United States that only those
regions where it is in the market can be
expected to develop.
The more deep and thorough our
knowledge on any subject, the more
humble is our estimate of that knowl
edge. We then see heights to whica
we have not attained, and depths
which we have not fathomed.
Tastes consist in the power of judg
ing; genius in the power of executing.