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' As I rummaged through the attic, listening to
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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
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voice iu song,
As she sang in sweetest accents what I since
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upon the floor.
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my infant head,
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words she said.
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home of God.
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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withdrawn.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