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' As I rummaged through the attic, listening to the falling rain As it pattered on the shingles and against the window pane. Peeping o'er the chest and boxes, which with dust was thickly spread, Saw I in the farthest corner what was once my trundle bed. So I drew it from the reeess, where it had re mained so long, Hearing all the while the music of my mother's voice iu song, As she sang in sweetest accents what I since have often read, : "Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, holy an gels guard thy bed." As I listened, recollections that I thought had been forgot, Came w'th all the gush of memory rushing J thronging to the spot; And I wandered back to childhood, to those merry days of yore, When I knelt'beside my mother, by this bed upon the floor. Then it was, wi'h hands so gently placed upon my infant head, That she taught my lips to utter carefully the words she said. Never have they been forgotton, deep are they in mem'ry riven, "Hallowed be thy name, oh 1 Father, Thou who art in heaven." This she taught me, then she told me of iU im port, great and deep, After whicn I seemed to utter "Now I lay me down to sleep." Then it was with hands uplifted and with ac cents soft and mild, Then my mother asked our Father, "Father, do Thou bless mv child." Years have passed, and that dear mother long has mouldered 'neatb the sod, And I trust her sainted spirit revels ia the home of God. But that scene at Summer twilight, never has from mem'ry fled, And it comes in all iU freshness when I see my trundle bed. TRYING THE ASSASSIN. CONTINUED DISPLA Y OF EXPENSIVE EGOTISM WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—The court was densely packed despite the rainy weather. A rumor was current this momiDg that the jury, with one excep tion, are satisfied of the guilt and legal responsibility of the prisoner. Tbe twelfth juror, it is said, stoutly main tains that Guiteau is crazy as a "March bare." The prisoner was taken with out any demonstration to the prisoners' dock. This is located about sixty-five feet from counsel upon tbe left of the room, a narrow passage separating it from a large window which overlooks Louisiana avenue. Guiteau glanced around the rorun and tLen out tbe wiDdow, and evmced some nervousness at his apparently exposed position. Guiteau started to make his usual morning speech. 'I noticed,' he said, as I rode up in the van this morning, the usual guard of police has been withdrawn. Now, I want to say em phatically, if I was turned out to-mor row I would take care of myself, but so long as I am in custody this Court is bound to protect me. There is more danger of my being shot when riding to and from the jail in the van than auy other time, and I want your Hon or to make an order that the usual guard shall accompany tbe van. Tbe cranks are not all dead yet, though they are fast dying off. As a matter of fact, it would require but one crank with sufficient nerve to shoot me in the van. That is where the most danger lies. I'm making more friends every day and getting lots of letters of sym pathy. I don't anticipate any danger except from cranks.' Dr Callender was called. Before any question was put Judge Cox re marked, as the statement was made yesterday 'that the Court surrounded the prisoner with the usual guards and protection,' he would state that the prisoner was in the custody of the Marshal and not of. the court, and whatever extra guards had been fur nished bad been supplied by him. Guiteau—Well, then, your Honor, if the Marshal won't I ap peal to the Court. If tbe Marshal won't furnish a proper guard,him out and let's have a new Marshal. ONLY A CHARACTERISTIC. Mr. Scoville desired to exhibit to witness, as an expert, a letter written by Guiteau some ten days since to Senator Don Cameron. Guiteau interrupted from bis plaee in the dock, and shouted out in harsh and strained tones, *'Hold on ! I want to say something about that letter. I protest against its being read here. It is a private letter I wrote to Senator Cameron ten days ago, anking for a loan of SSOO. It was entirely a private matter. I entrusted it to my brother to give to Senator Cameron, and he withheld it in a miserable, mean way, and gave it to this man Scoville. My brother had better go back to Boston, and try and make some money and try and pay his debts. He has been a perfect nuisance on this case ever since be has been here. He and Scoville have dragged themselves into this case to make notoriety at my expense. I repudiate both of them Scoville, you had better go back to Chicago; you are a perfect jackass on this case, and I won't have you on it any longer.' Mr. Davidge objected to the letter, but the Court overruled the objection and Mr. Scoville then read : HON. DON CAMERON — Dear Sir:— l am on trial for my life and I need mon ey. lam a Stalwart of Stalwarts, and so are you. You think a great deal of General Arthur aud so do I. My in spiration made him President, and I am going to ask you to let me have SSOO. If I get out of this I will return it; if not, charge it to the Stalwarts. Yours, for our cause, and very cor dially, CHARLES GUITEAU. In Court, Washington, D. C., De cember 19, 1881. P. S.—Please give your check to my brother, J. W. Guiteau, of Boston, and make it payable to my order, C. G. ABUSE FROM THE ASSASSIN. The prisoner commented: 'I don't caae a snap about it one way or other. If you had presented the letter you would probably have gotten the money, but as you concealed it in a mean, sneaking way, you didn't get tbe mon ey. It's a very good letter anyway; but I dou't like this way of stopping > and stealing my private letters and ! dragging them into court.' SOMETHING A BOOT HEADS. D* Wtister guperistead BI'TI.ER, PA., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY U, 1882 ent of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, had devoted his attention j to the study of insanity for the past I fifteen years. The witness was farnil-' iar with the process of taking the con- I formity of the bead, and did not believe it was of much importance. As a rule no importance could be attached to the shape of the head in determining the question of sanity or insanity. Wit ness exhibited a number of slips show ingl the shape, as taken by the 'con formator' of heads of a number of gen tlemen, including Treasurer Gilfillan, Col Ingersoll, Judge Carter, W. J. Sibley and Col. Corkhill. In the case of Col. Ingersoll, witness remarked, (pointing with his finger,) 'this side appears flat as compared with the other.' Guiteau—That shows that Bob and I are both cracked in the same direc tion. 'Col. Corkhill's head,' said the wit ness, 'has a very marked depression upon one side.' Gaiteau (interrupting)—l'll bet you could put your foot in the depression in his head. Witness (continuing)— The depres sion is very similar to that noticed in the prisoner's head. [Laughter.J Guiteau—Oh, he's cracked a great deal worse than I am. Tne witness related incidents with in his knowledge of persons who had committed crime 3 while acting under an insane delusion and defined what he considered insane delusion to be. Guiteau shouted to him, 'Oh, you're talking about cranks. Tell us some thing about Abraham and then there would be some sense to your remarks.' THE MORAL INBAN'TY DODGE. The witness was then asked if he had ever seen a case where a person committed a crime and claimed Divine inspiration, and ifso, how such persons deported themselves before and after the act. He replied that in such cases ! delusion (or inspiration, as they claim j it to be,) comes to a person suddenly j and with intense pressure, and that j such persons act quickly and upon a sudden impulse, delaying neither to consider the opportunity uor weapons; that it would be impossible to conceive without actually witnessing it the i energy, impetuosity and determination with which persons acting under an insane delusion carry out their purpo ses, and that it would be equally im- j possible to describe it with language. Guiteau—You don't agree with I Abraham, Doctor. He took plenty of | time to make his arrangements. Witness said he did not believe in the distinct type of insanity which could be called moral insanity. It was j simply a convenient term which had \ been invented to excuse the commission , of heinons crimed. Witness had never ! seen a case where an insane man, after 1 committing a crime, paraded bis insan-. ity and urged it as an excuse for his crime, paraded his insanity and urged it as an excuse for his crime lusane ; murderers do not boast of their acts, I but on the contrary very rarely allude to them unless a good deal of ingenui- j ty is used to draw them out. The j witness, until he entered this court I room had never heard of a case of al leged inspiration that came from with- j in. Always such persons claimed to ! have heard the voice of God, or seen 1 image, or something of that sort. Such inspiration is never a conviction arriv ed at after mature reflection on the part of the person so affected. Witness being asked if the belief of the prisoner's father, L. W. Guiteau, that the disease could be cured by prayer, should be taken as evidence of insanity, replied : "By no means. We ail know that thousands and thousands of sane people prayed daily for the sal vation of President Garfield's lite. They would hardly have done so if they had not entertained some belief in the effi cacy of prayer.' Guiteau—lt shows that the Lord and people don't agree on this business The people are beginning to come over to my side and the Lord's, though. Col. Corkhill had read the hypothet ical questions of the prosecution, and witness replied to each, 'taking the facts set forth to be true, in my opinion he was sane.' FRIDAY. WASHINGTON, December 30.—At ten o'clock Guiteau was led into Court by the bailiffs. As he passed the table at which his counsel sat, he paused a moment, and whispered to Scoville, 'lf you will only keep quiet to-day, I will laugh this case out of Court.' As soon as he reached the dock he shouted out 'Some of the leading papers in America consider me the greatest fel low they have met in some time. At 8 o'clock last.night I received a tele gram which I will read for the edifi cation of this audience and the Ameri can people: Mr. Charges J. Guiteau, Washington, D. C.: All Boston sympathizes with you. You ought to be President. A HOST OF ADMIRERS. Pausing a moment, he branched off into a rambling harangue, quoting Scripture and comparing himself to the 'meek and lowly Jesus,' who used plain language, though sometimes se . vere. 'I have been accused of using ; too harsh language,' he added, 'but I take my pattern from the Savior of mankind. I shall submit my name to the next National Republican Conven i tion. I shall expect to be before it. i There are only two men in the country : who want me hung. One is Judge Porter, who expects to get $5,000 from I the Government if I am convicted ; and the other is Corkhill, who expects to get bounced, and who knows I am the cause of it.' Counsel for the prosecution having entered, Dr. Kempster took the stand, and Mr. Scoville resumed his cross-ex amination. The witness did not believe in tem porary insanity in the sense that a person could be insane and wholly re cover from it in an hour. Witness was asked if he believed Sickles was Bane or insane when he shot Key, and he replied, 'I think be was sane, air.' A DISTINGUISHED EXPERT. ' Dr. John P. Gray, Medical Buperin , teattot ut tbe jtvw Bvat* Uuttfr- tic Asylum, took the stand. The witness bad made the study of insanity his business since 1835, and in that time has treated or investigated twelve thousand cases of insanity. He has 1 never seen a single instance where the only indication of insanity was an ex hibition of immorality or wickedness. He did not believe in what had been called 'moral insanity ' It was im possible to discover mental insanity so as to locate the impairment of moral nature that was not accompanied by intellectual deterioration. Insanity in itself had no more tendency to excite crime than neuralgia or any other di sease. It puts nothing new into a man's nature. It only perverts what is already there. Witness at some* length classified various groups of in sane that had come under his attention, and described tbe various phases and peculiarities of each He did not be lieve any type of insanity exists out side of asylums that has not itß proto type in asvluma The court here took a recess. RESULT OF EXPERT EXAMINATION. After recess Dr. Gray stated he had made a thorough, complete and satis factory examination of the prisoner at the jail and gave at some length the details of bis examination and conver sation with the prisoner. After half an hour had been thus taken up, Guiteau remarked, 'This is a very interesting story, no doubt, but it must be familiar by this time to every one. The doctor is telling it very well, however, and is getting in all the facts as I told them to him. I have no objection to it.' The witness, continuing, said: 'I asked tbe prisoner the question, 'Sup pose the President had offered you the Paris Consulship during tbe time you were reflecting upon the subject of re moving him, would you still have shot him ?' and he replied. 'Well, that would nave settled the matter. I should have taken the position and left.' " Guiteau called out from the dock, 'I said if he bad offer d it to me at any time before the first of Jme. If he had offered it after the first of June it would not have made the slightest dif ference. ' The witness asked the prisoner how be came to shoot the President, and j bis reply was : '1 came to the con clusion the political situation justified i it. I gradually became convinced of this, and I resolved upon his removal.' Guiteau shouted again: 'That knocks j-ou Paria consulship and shows there was no malice in it ; not the ele ment of murder in it, but political necessity.' Witness—l then &»ked him upon what grounds be reaoived to remove the President, and he replied : 'I con sidered tbo removal of the President a political necessity.' 'I then asked him,' said the witness, 'how be arrived at that conclusion, and he replied, 'lf you will read the papers of May and June you will find exactly what the political situation was and you will perhaps appreciate what I mean by political necessity.' Wituess inquired of the prisoner in regard to his alleged inspiration and asked him if it came to him in tbe form of a voice or vision, or direct command, and bis reply was, 'No, It came into mj head as a conception, and I reflect ed upon it until I resolved that it was justified by tbe situation.' Witness then asked the prisoner how this statement accorded with his theory of inspiration, and his reply was, 'The inspiration was in the form of a pres sure constantly upon me to commit the act.' Guiteau—That's all there is in the case, short and to tbe point. You can talk about it six years if you want to. Dr. Gray continued tbe story of bis interview with Guiteau, with occasion al comments by the latter of assent and dissent, but not to the extent of annoy ing interruption, until the hour of ad journment. Adjourned until to-morrow. A HOY WHO SQUIRMED TO WIOQLE. 'My son,' said a Cherry street mother, 'go down to the grocery and get me a can a of condensed milk.' 'I should squirm to wiggle.' 'Go on, I tell you.' 'I should limp to jump.' 'lf you don't go this instant I'll tell your father when he comes home.' 'I should blow to tattle.' 'Never mind, sir.' 'I should whoop to squeal.' When tbe father came the mother said : 'I wish you'd whip Tom. He positively refused to go down to the grocery, and told me I was a tattler and that ho would jump on me if I didn't mind.' 'Tom !' 'Yes, sir.' 'What was that you said to your mother ?' 'Never said notbin'.' 'Then I am a story teller and you are a pretty boy,' said the mother. 'Look here, young man ; if you don't behave yourself I'll thra6h you. I)o you hear?' 'I should titter to snort.' . 'Come here to me, sir,' and the young man squirmed to wiggle, limp ed to jump, blew to tattle, whooped to squeal and tittered to snort. (Milwaukee Sentinel.] That wondelul remedy for rheuma tism, St. Jacobs Oil, has been used by a large number of people in this city, and with effect truly marvelous. Fre quent reports are made where sufferers have beeu afforded relief, aud tbe sale is geowiug largely. The fact that it is an external remedy, commends it to many who would not otherwise think of going out of the beaten track to find a remedy. There is said to be a steady emi gration of young physicians from all parts towards Kansas. The secret ol it is the new liquor law. Liquors are only sold on physicians' perscriptions. Half a dollar is charged for prescribing two gills of whisky, and as the aver age Kansas man drinks in tbe neigh borhood of a quart a day there is a lErobabi)itr that the doctors will soon ave all the money ia the State.— St. Loviv BtyulAvMT* AN INCIDENT OE BORDER WARFARE. On the 10th of April, 1777, Colonel George Morgan, Indian Agent for tho middle Department, stationed at Fort Pitt, wrote to Colonel William Craw ford : 'Last Monday a messenger arrived from tbe Delaware town and informed that a party of Miugoes were out, and it was supposed would divide them selves into two parties, and strike nearly at the same time between Yel low Creek and this place Yesterday afternoon an express arrived from Captain Steel, by which we learn that the first mentioned party had divided as supposed, and killed a man just be low Raccoon Creek, and burned two cabbins, viz : Mutchmore's and Ar not's : the body of the latter was found. Hia wife and four children are suppos ed to have been burned in the cabin or carried off prisoners.' Tbe following letter gives us anoth er account of the affair: "FORT PITT, 22d April, 1777. "Honorable Sit 1 have received orders to join His Excellency General Washiugton in the Jersey with this battalion now under my command, which orders I would willingly have obeyed bad not a council of war, held at this place, (proceedings of which wee transmitted to Congress by ex press,) rtsolved that I should remain here till further orders. lam sorry to find the accounts therein contained are likely to prove too true, and from the late depredations and murders which were committed by the Indians at dif ferent places in the neighborhood it ap pears to me as a general eruption was intended. On the 6th and 7th insts. they killed and scalped one man at Raccoon Creek, about twenty-five miles from this place ; at Mutchmore's plantation, about forty-five miles down the Ohio, they killed and scalped one man, and burned a woman and her four children ; at Wheeling they killed and scalped one man, the body of whom was much maugled with toma hawks and other instruments suitable for their barbarity ; at Dunkard's Creek, one of the west branches of the Monongahela river, they killed and scalped one man and a woman aud took throe children . and it each of the above places they burned houses, kill- j ed cattle, hogs, &c. "I have taken all possible means for • the protection of this country that the j nature of my eijcumstaiices would af- 1 f»»rd lam iu great loss for arms; tw<>-thirds of my battalion have none. Had I been at this post when the ac-1 count of the above cruelties came here, I would have transmitted them imme diately to you ; being busily employed - in putting the battalion in proper sta tions for tbe frontiers; this, together witb the state of my health, prevented my getting here sooner than tho 18th instant; and finding that no authentic accounts had been transmitted to Cou-: gress, think it my duty to inform you | of the above facts, and that I only await further directions ; as I have re- i ceived no marching orders dated since the council held at this place resolved that I should wait till further orders. : "lam,&c., WM. CRAWFORD." j Mutchmore bad been killed, and his wife and four childreu supposed to have been burned in their cabin. , Mutchmore's oldest son, Samuel, be- ! ing at a distance, escaped to tell tbe fearful tale. All supposed he wa3 the i sole survivor. And only a few days ago I discovered a letter among the ; papers of Major Isaac Craig, addressed on the outside to Mr. Samuel Mutch more, At or nigh Fort Pitt, at Wal nut Bottom, Beginning at Falling Springs, Forty-nine Miles Below Fort Pitt," which tells something of the fortunes of Mrs. Mutchmore and her four children, who were supposed, for more than twenty years, to have been burned in their cabin. They bad evi dently been carried prisoners to Canada by tbe Indians. It is probable that Samuel Mutchmore had left the neigh borhood and never received the letter. The following is an exact copy of the letter : "APRIL 29TH, 1777, at Detroit. "Dear Son. —After my kind love to you, 1 write to let you know I am in the land of the living, though in a very iudefeut state of health at present. I would inform you that your brothers, Jonathan and Sedrick Mutchmore, arc dead long ago, and Rachel, your sister, likewise is dead ; aud your sister, Ab igail, is married at Montreal to one Peter Smith, a blacksmith by trade. I would inform you that if it should please God to give me my health, I shall go aud see her this summer, and then in tbe fall have laid out to come home and see you, if it plea«es God to give me my health enough to undergo the fatigue. I think it strange that I never got no letters from you, never since I have been here, for I have written a good many. The last I wrote you was last August. 1 would have you write if any opportunity presents, and subscribe your letters to Samuel Eddy, whieh is my husband, aud enclose it, and write on the cover to Johu Askin, a squire. I have been of late a good deal troubled with rheu matism pains, but I trust in tbe Lord, and I hope I shall get better of them. Pray dou't fail to write to me. These opportunities will be, for tbe soldiers come and go to Fort Pitt almost week ly, and you can write and (send) your letters to Fort Pitt to somebody to forward them along the States. Sol diers took possession of this place last July, and keep going and coming often. I shall, please God, come by tbe way of Priskill,*as there is water carriage all the way, only eleven miles, for lam not able to come by land. I have nothing more to write you at present, but trusting God to see you in the fall early, and so I conclude, wishing kind love to you and all friends, remaining, at the same time, yuur long absent mother till death, once Mary Mutchmore, but now Mary Eddy. "To Mr. Samuel Mutchmore." What a picture of border life! •Presq' Is|e ; I. C. I bad Chronic Dysentory for one yer. Peruna cured me. James Bren oeo« ViUtfburghi F* A NOVEL STRIKE. An Oil Well Strikes a Rich Vein of Beei. On. CITY, December 29.—A rather novel strike was made by some drillers for oil in this city the otiier day. The Derrick says: 'Any one familiar with the heavy oil developments knows that a goodly part of the drilling ia done on the hill known as the 'Point.' It rises from the bank of French creek in a very abrupt manner. Philip Grossman,s brewery is situated at the foot of South Park street, on the west side of the creek. His beer vault is on the other side. It is an immense vault, blasted out of the solid rock, and penetrates into the hillside nearly one hundred feet. In this is stored large quantities of lager beer. The casks that hold the beer contain on an average about ten barrels each. One cask in the rear end of the vault is used as a supply cask. All the others are connected with this one by pipes, and the supply pipe being sunken, is al ways kept full of beer. The hill at this place is so steep that it cannot be ascended 'Above this vault on the hill top Rial & Son own a lease. They drilled a number of wells on their lease, and they were all profitable. Some time ago they located No. 9 directly over the beer vault. The rig was built and things ran along in tbe usual manner for about a week. When they had reached a depth of 490 feet, 200 teet less than where they usually find the sand, the drill struck a crevice and dropped away several feet The tools were withdrawn from the hole and the bailer run. It came up seemingly fall of oil. Bail as they would they could not exhaust the supply. They decided to tube the well and were ordered to do so by Mr. Rial. The next day the well was tubed without being shot. They commenced to pump it and it threw the fluid out at a good rate. Noticing something queer about the oil, one of the men tasted it He found it so good that be put his lips to the pipe and took long gulps of the delicious stuff. First one and another drank. They became what is known as drunk. The owners visited tbe well, drank aud were overcome. Op erators came to see it, drank and were overcome. The people of the town who heard of it went up the hill, drank and were overcome. •Little by little they came to realize what they had been drinking. One man was found in tbe crowd who had tasted beer before. He affirmed that it was beer, but they laughed at him. How would this Rip Nan Winkle get into tbe bowels of tbe earth ? At length tbey determined to eall in undoubted authority on tbe beer qaes tjpn, and pent for Philip Grossman. GTossman came. He tasted it once, twice, and then he tore his bair. 'ls it beer ?' they askod. 'Beer? Yes; it's mine own make. Mine Gott in Himmel, you are pumping mine beer vault dry.' Such was the fact, and the way that well was shut down was a caution. They visited the vault and found it to be so. Three of the large casks were empty. The supply cask bad been penetrated by the drill, and that was why it continued to pump. The whole thing would probably have remained a secret among tbe sold if it had not been for Grossman. We were informed to-day that he had instituted proceedings against Rial & Son, and following up the case this is what we discovered.' THE MAN WITH THE FLAIL. It carried the beholder back to thirty years ago, when the threshing machine was heard only at rare intervals, and the honest farmer spread his golden stalks on the clean barn floor and flailed away with such tempered blows that not a kernel was broken. The man who had it sat down on one of the benches in the West Circus Park. Tbe rare sight of such an article halted every pedestriau, and the man had to explain over and over again : 'Well, I'll have some beans to shell this fall, and I kindei* thought 'twould be easier to flail 'em out. The hard ware man told me he had to send to Vermont for it' Pretty soon along came a gray head ed Alderman, aud when he saw that flail he looked ten years younger ull at once. 'I handled that for over ten years,' he said, as he picked it up und spit on bis hands. 'Seems like old times to get hold of this hickory again.' He stepped out on one side to give tbe crowd an exhibition on the grass, and his success was great. At a sec oud blow the flail end hesitated in mid air, wobbled about, and finally came down with a whack on the patriot's head, making him see more stars than a winter night ever brought out. He dropped the weapon with the remark that he was already ten minutes late in keeping an appointment, and be was rubbing his skull as far down the street as he could l»e seen. Tbe next man to try it was one who got off a passing car under the idea that a dog fight was in progress. 'A flail I Ha! ha! Why I haven't seen a flail since I was married,' he chuckled as he reached for it. 'I presume I have flailed a thousand bnshels of wheat in my time. You boys stand back there.' 'Yes my stiut used to be twenty bushels a day,' he continued, 'and though I do say it myself I--' Something happened. He dropped the flail, seized his jaw, and danced off as if he had springs under him, and although a dozen asked what bit him he refused to tell. By and by a third man came sailing along, and when he saw the flail he remarked that bis father used one like it nearly all his life, and was called the smartest flailer in New Hampshire. 'Cau you use it?' inquired one of the crowd. 'Who, of course. If you boys want to see how our fathers got their wheat to mill, I'll give you a little exhibition. Here, bub, bold my hat.' He buttoned bis coat moistened his hands, and began to work. The first blow nearly bvoke o uttt's kaee: the ADVEKTIiIKG BATES, On* square, on* insertion, $1 ; each nbH quant in»ertion t 60 oents. Yearly idnrtlwwt exceeding one-fourth of a coluaui, *6 par inc 1 Figure work doable these rata*; uMltinml charge* where weekly or monthly change* at* mule. Local advertisements 10 oenta per lis* for flrnt insertion, and 5 cents per line for each additional insertion. Marriages and death* pub lished free of charge. Obitutry notice* charged a* advertisement*, and payable when handed is Auditors' Notices. #4 ; Executors' and Admin!* trators' Notice*. S3 each; Estray, Caution an* Dissolution Notice*, not exceeding ten line*, each. Prom the fact that tbe Cmznr is tbs olde# established and most extensively circulated Re publican newspaper in Butler county, (a Repub lican county) it most be apparent to bin ruse* men that it i* the medium they should us* ia advertising their business. NO. 8 second cracked against a boy's elbow, and at tbe third tbe flailer grabbed the top of bis head and sat down with a subdued look in the corners of his mouth. 'Well, I guess I'll be jogging along,' said the owner of tbe flail as he rose up. 'lt's all in getting the kink of it. A feller who makes twists and wob bles a special study won't get his bead broke over a twice a day, but a green hand might as well sit down under a brick kiln during a tornader. Day gen tlemen.' THE CAT. Cats are curious cattle. They are euriou3 cattle. They are selfish. They are grasping. When the attributes were parched out among tbe animils, the catgut the gift of music. She got it by violins. No one knows where cats come from, but since the fashion of seal sacqnes came in everybody knows where most of them go to. Bui this is kept a pro found secret among the owners of seal garments. Thev set the seal of secrecy upon it. Purr-haps they are wise. Tbe cat has nine lives—that is to say she lives nine times longer than she ought. This suggests a problem, which lov ers of mathematics—there are those alas! who love them—can pussle over. If it takes nine tailors to make one live man, and nine lives to make one cat, what docs a catamount to? (Cor respondents sending answers will please inclose a 3-cent stamp, not for publica tion, but for the use of the compiler of this authentic history.) This cat is not subject to tax. Ef-. forts have been made to insert a clause in the Dog law to include cats, but thus far the cats, have inserted their own claws. Not only do they escape tax, oat the taxadermist also. They do their own stuffing. At tbe time of the flood Father Noah endeavored to keep the cat out of the ark, but the cat got her back up and passed in under the guise of a camel. Until very recently, every ship has since that time carried a cat Many stories are told of tbe seafar ing cat, including nine-tails, which are often red. In Egypt cats were regarded as sa cred animals. To kill one was an of fense punishable with death. Tbe cat remembers this, and to this day takes a fence on the slightest pro vocation. Formerly, when a cat died, all tbe inmates of the hoase went into mourn ing. Now the household go oat into tbe nigjjt and erect bootjacks to its memory. They don't wait till morn ing. Tbe Egyptians worshiped a oat-head* ed deity, and mariners, who cliof to the old superstitions, still let ap cat heads in their ships. The Egyptian cat lived in a dark age; the modem cat closes her existence in a sausage. Cat-skins were a favorite dress-trim ming in tbe middle ages, whence arose the proverb that a skinned cat is better than it looks. 'The cat's kin are now exclusively used as a trimming for back fences. A catkin is a young cat, and is great on tbe spring. In the spring she may be seen among tbe topmost branches of the willows. Cats were introduced into England from the sland of Cyprus. They are not found in tbe cypress now ; only on willows. In ancient Wales a cat fetched tbe same price as a calf. Her modern wails now frequently fetch a whole cownide in the shape of boot leather. Cats are Babtists by profession, bat those who indulge their predilections during early kittenhood seldom sur vive. Cats are very mewsical. They are all base singers. The noctarae is their favorite composition Nox is their especial deity. Knocks always accompany their concerts. Cats do not open their eyes until 9 days old. Do they ever close them again? Nein. Throw a boot-jack at a sleeping cat and you will be con vinced of this. Cats are supposed to be accomplices of witches, which is probably because tbey love tbe darkness rather than light. It is said that cats are cleverer than dogs and are more easily trained. They are great predestrians, and can make more laps in a given time than any other auimal. They are generally healthy, notwith standing we bear of 1 "tbe cat ill upon a thousand hills.' A great many more things might be said about the cat * But silent be, it is the cat!— Boston Transcript. * A HUNDRED OF WHISKY. The Corwin landed on St. Lawrance Island, having orders to investigate the wholesale starvation of tbe natives. At the first village at which they land ed all were dead, also at the second, were 54 dead bodies were counted, nearly all full-grown males. At an other place 150 persons—men, women and children—were dead. At the next sett!ement 12 dead bodies, and at the following 30 were found. All the inhabitants on the north side of tbe island where whisky-traders sold liquor, are dead—not one escaping. The general starvation occurred two vears ago last winter. Since then the presence of the Corwin in the Arctic has broken up his inhuman whisky trading. The empty whisky kegs are seen strewn all abont. The total num ber of dead bodies found on St. Law rence Island was over 600. Tbe sur vivors say that while traders from Honolulu sold whisky which the na tives bought and got drunk; remain ing so during the season for laying in their winter supply of walrus and seal. Photographs of these groups of dead bodies as they lie about frozen stif were taken by the party. The druggist who hesitates now is lost for the winter. He should sling together some sw eet oil and liquorice and bring out his cough care at oaoe Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup does not pty hixa enough profit