'2 THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, FA., JULY 10, 1878. 1 ft'ct wllli n ronr like a tiger. Ho liuule a inovenicnt m if to draw Lis knife, but Jack untlclpated lilm. " Be careful, air," cried the latter, In ft warning tone. "Dare but lay your hand on a weapon, and I'll blow your brains out I" , ; ' i . , . , The threat was too deadly to fie disre garded, and the outlaw's hands dropped at his side, lie was astonlnlied, dumb founded, thunderstruck 1 lie started at the slender, youthful figure, the hand some, Iioj IhIi fuce, and the steady, fear less eye gazing into his own; then he glanced uneasily at the muzzles of two revolvers covering his chest. " Who are you ?" he demanded hoarsely. "No matter," replied Jack, coolly. " You are my prisoner for the present, and must do Just as I tell you If you value your worthless life. Oder the slightest resistance, and you're a dead man. No doubt you think you have played us a nice trick, but I show you one worth two of that." I have twelve allots here; so have a care, my fine fel low, and obey my orders. I see you've unearthed the treasure we're in search of," and Jack glanced significantly at the jars on the table, which he now per ceived were full of shining gold coins Spanish doubloons. " Now, slr,up with those jars, and carry them down to the (sea-shore. " Pedro turned deathly pale. " You infernal young rogue" " Don't Btop to call me pet names!" interrupted Jack, in his clear, steady voice. " If you refuse, I will shoot you down in your tracks ! Up with those jars, I pay, and carry them down to the water's edge 1" The man still stared, still hesitated, and began to tremble violently. ' " Are you going to obey?" cried the youth. ' ' . . " I I ckn't carry them," gasped the outlaw. " You can carry one at a time. We'll make two trlpj. No quibbling, sir. These are hair-triggers, and my fingers are touching them." There was no help for It. The out law saw the deadly determination in those eyes, and dared not disobey. With a curse of baffled rage,he turned to the table,llfted one of the huge vessels in his strong arms, and started toward the mouth of the cave, Jack's revolvers still covering him. As one weapon was quite sufficient for the purpose,however, the youth put up the other, and took a torch in his hand, to light the way down t he rocky descent. He followed close behind the robber, who never once glanced back as he toiled down the long flight of steps with his heavy burden. The moon was shining brightly on the water, and by its light Jack saw a dark, moving object some distance away, hugging the shore as it approached. He knew it was the boat, and that Harry was performing his part. ' . Pedro placed the jar on the ground, and strode back after the other one in sullen silence. His young captor fol lowed close at his heels, with that threat ening pistol pointed at the back of his head, ready to annihilate him at the first suggestion of mutiny. When tbey came down to shore a seo oud time, they found Harry there with the boat. He was wonderfully amazed at the thrilling Bpectacle of Jack play ing the part of stern captor over the burly outlaw ; but he knew that it was no time for comment. ' " Here, Harry," said Jack, hastily ; " relieve the fellow of his weapons. Take every one of them. If he doesn't appear to relish it, I'll blow his brains out and see how he likes that." Harry did as he was directed. Pedro knew better thau to resist, and in a few seconds he was entirely unarmed, his weapons lying on the deck of the little vessel. Jack now lowered his revolver, but still kept a sharp eye on his pris oner. ' . ' " Bear a hand here, you lubber, and carry these jars aboard," was the next order, delivered in the same calm, stern voioe. . The moonlight showed Pedro's face to be ghastly white, but he did not hesi tate to obey. He knew it was certain death to do so, arid ' though one of the boldest of robbers, be was still a coward when the chances were all against him. . Without a word he laid hold of the heavy jars, and lifted them one at a time into the boat. Then he drew back, and stood with folded arms, glaring like tx wild beast at the fearless young men. "There!" cried Jack, flinging away the now useless torch. " In with you, Harry! We've nothing to do but sail Lome with our booty." - They both leaped into the light craft and pushed her off.- . . i ' "A spanking breeze, by Jove 1 ! Up with the jib, Harry. I'll have to keep nn eye on that rascal for a little while longer." .:. . The jib was set, the mainsail ' ran up, and as the canvass began to fill, Harry sprang to the helm. , The jaunty craft leaped forward like a racer, and the next minute was fairly skipping over the moonlit waves, her white sails filled by a splendid breeze. '. i Pedro stood watching them for some moments, and then he was seen to turn about and slowly asceud the steps lead ing to the cave. Jack now put up his revolver and gave vent to a loud " Hur rah t" In which Harry Joined heartily. "There Is not much dauger of pur suit," eald Harry; "for it Isn't likely that these fellows possess such a thlngas a boat." "And If they did," said Jack, " they would have to do'somo hard pulling to overtake this one." , ; But they finished their voyage unmo lested, laid the treasure at the feet of the overjoyed miser, and married the twin sisters whom they had so nobly won. And two years later Caspar Wolfe died, leaving his entire fortune to them and their wives. The Preacher's Amusing Mistake. RECENTLY our church has had a new minister. He is a nice, good, sociable gentleman, but from a distant State, of course he was totally unacquainted with our peo ple. Therefore, It happened that during his pastoral calls he made several ludicrous blunders. . One of them as follows : The other evening he called upon Mrs. Hadden. She had just lost her husband, and naturally supposed that his visit was relative to the sad occurrence. So,after a few common-places had been exchanged, she was not at all surprised to hear him remark : "It was a sad bereavement; was it not Mrs. Hadden?" " Yes," faltered the widow. "Totally unexpected " " Oh, yes ; I never dreamed of it." " He died in the barn, I suppose V" "Oh, no; in the house." u Ah well, I suppose you must have thought a great deal of him." "Of course, sir," this with a vim. The minister looked rather surprised, crossed his legs, and renewed the conver sation. " Blind staggers was the the disease, I believe 1"' he said. "No, sir." snapped the widow, "It was apoplexy." " Indeed; you must have fed him too much." " He was always capablo of fecdiug himself, sir." ; - " Very intelligent he must have been. Died hard, didn't he?" "He did." " You had to hit him on the head with an axe to put him out of his mis ery, I was told." MrB. Hadden's eyes snapped Are. " Whoever told you so did not speak the truth," she haughtily uttered. " James died naturally." " Yes," repeated the minister, In a slightly perplexed tone, " he kicked the side of the barn down in his last agonies, did he not?" "No, sir, he didn't." . " Well, I have been misinformed, I suppose," said the minister. " How old was he ?" '1 " Thirty-five." . " Then ho did not do much active work. Perhaps you are better without him, for you can easily supply his place with another.". " Never, sir never will I see one as good as he." , , , . : "Oh, .yes, you will. -. He had the heaves bad." : ' " Nothing of the kind 1" ! . " Why, I recollect I sawblm.one day, with you on his back, and I distinctly recollect that he had the heaves, and walked as if he had the spring-halt." , Mrs. Hadden stared at her reverend visitor as if she imagined that he was crazy. 'I He could never have had the spring, halt, for he had a cork leg!" returned the widow. " A cork leg ! remarkable. But really, now, didn't he have a dangerous trick of suddenly stopping and- kicking the wagon all to pieces ?" , ; "Never; he was not a mad man, sir." . , " Probably not. But there was some good points about him." " I should think so!" .. ,. "The way Jn which he carried his ears, for example." ' ,i : " Nobody else ever notloed that par-, ticular , jnerlt,," said the widow, with much asperity ; " he was warm hearted, generous and frank !" " Qood qualities," answered he, un consciously,, " How long did it take him to go a mile ?" ;; , " About fifteen minutes." ; ; " Not much of a goer. Wasn't hla hairapttofly V! .. .., r. " He dldu'f. have any . hair,,. Ho was bald-headed." ..... "Quite a curiosity?" , ,i. . " No, sir; no more of a curiosity than you are.".- , .,.; . j . .p., t ; ,-, t . .' The minister shifted uneasily, and got red in the face. i . ' ' ., V'DId you use the whip much on him?" " Never, sir." " Went right along without it, eh ?" "Yes." " He must have been a good sort of brute?" . MrB. Hadden turned white and made no reply. , The minister did not know What to say, but finally blurted out: " What I most admired about him was the beautiful way he carried his tall." The widow just sat down and cried. " The idea of your coming here and Insulting rue!" she sobbed. "If my husband had lived you wouldn't a done It. Your remarks lu reference to that poor dead man have been a series of in sults. 1 won't stand it." He colored and looked dumbfounded. "No, no." " Ain't you Mrs. Blinkers ?" he stam mered. " And had not your old grey horse died?" "I never owned a h-horse, but my husband died a w-wcek ago!" Ten minutes later the minister came out of that house with the reddest face ever seen on mortal man. " And to think," he groaned, as he strode home, " that I was talking horse to that woman all the time, and she was talking husband." . " The Dipper. IN the constellation of the Great Bear is the " dipper," composed of seven bright stars two of which are called the pointers, for the reason that a line drawn through them would always intersect the pole star, which is about Ii81 north of the upper star ( of the two called the pointers). ' A writer in the Hartford " Times" says : There Is something remarkable in the fact that a large group of stars in the northern heavens, bearing no resemb hmce whatever to a Bear, should yet be so culled; and what is still more re markable is, that this great region of stars should always have been known by that name by all nations of the northerri hemisphere of the earth, how ever remotely situated from each other, or to whatever ' remote period wo go back back until we become lost, with out record or tradition, and still wonder ing that the name and place of the con stellation should yet be all aglow in that far, far, misty past. Great physical changeB on the earth's surface undoubtedly have occurred in the ages that have gone, thereby separat ing and isolating nations that once knew each other. Each nation after the cata clysm occurred probably kept Its tradi tions, though it became lost to its once neighboring peoples, and thus we have a probable reason why the Asiatic, the Egyptian and the American Indian are all, at the same time, familiar with- this northern constellation and its name. , The Great Bear is pictured on the old Egyptian hemispheres as stately march ing westward around the pole of the heavens, and is placed in a very high latitude, and in fact directly over the home of the polar bears of the earth. Was It intended to typify the region ? If bo then the Egyptian was familiar with the home of the animal. Or was it some mirage, projecting a vast image of the animal upon those misty polar skies, that gave rise to tho thought of so placing it? ' This constellation can be seen on any clear night throughout the year, in this latitude, except the stars located in the bear's paws. Thousands of people have watched that part of it called the Dip per, and noticed It's handle high above the pole star, then again sweeping around westwardly, and then seen low ori the northern horizon, swinging around to the east, and again above the pole, and on the west all accounted ' for by the earth's dally motion on its axis causing an apparent movement of the constella tion westwardly around the pole of the heavens. 1 - '; 1 You Needn't Believe 'Em. ' - " Speaking of ' shooting ducks," says Dr. F.," puts me in mind of the great storm that occurred when I lived on the island. As you are well aware, our Island was near Casco Bay. An awful storm arose, and was so llerce that it drove all the ducks in the bay into the pond, covering about an acre, near my house.' In fact, so many ducks crowded into the pond that I could not see a drop of water." "Shoo," said Smith, " didn't ye shoot any of 'em ?" . . "That's what I am coming at. I went into the house and got my double barreled shot gun, and discharged both barrels right into the midst of them, but to my astonishment they all rose into the air, leaving not a solitary duck on the pond !" " Good graolous 1 You don't say so ?" said Smith. " Didn't you have any shot In yer gun, or what lu'the thunder was the trouble?" '- ' .( " Well, I was coming to' that," ' said Dr. TV " It astonished rue at first; but as soon as the ducks rose a few hundred yards in the air, and comuicuucd to separate a little, ducks began . to drop, and whether you believe it . or hot, I picked up twenty-nine barrels of ducks, and It was a poor senson for ducks, tori. You see the ducks were wedged in so solid ou tho pond that when they arose they carried the dead ones In the air with them, and when they separated, down came the twenty-nine bairels of dead ducks." '. "Oh," says Smith, " I'm not surpris ed at that at all, or at the big lot of ducks yet bagged, for it was an awful storm. I remember it well, doctor. I had at that time acorn-barn full of corn. On one side of the barn was an- open win dow, and ou the other side was a knot hole ; and during the storm the wind blew so fiercely that it blew every ear of that corn right through the knot-hole, and the hole being just the size of the cob ouly, the result was that it shelled every ear, leaving the corn in the barn, and the next morning I found my barn half full of shelled corn and not a cob. I had a curiosity to know where the cobs had gone to. I went to the rear of the barn and followed the line of those cobs over eloven miles, and at the dis tance of five miles a large first-growth pine tree stood in the track, and darn me If the wind hadn't drlv the cobs in to that 'ere tree from the top to bottom. Oho, doctor, that was an awful storm." " Yes," Blghs the doctor, " awful 1" An Indian's Revengo. THE Indian prides himself Upon tak ing good or ill In the quietest of ways, and from a tale told in Mr. Mar shall's Canada Dominion, his civilized half-brother would seem to be equally unemotional. Thanks mainly to a cer tain Metis, or hulf-breed in the service of the Hudson Bay Company, a Sioux warrior was found guilty of stealing a horse, and condemned to pay the ani mal's value by Instalments at one of the company's forts. On paying the lust instalment he received his quittance from the man who had brought him to justice, and left the office. A few min utes later the Sioux returned, advanced on his noiseless moccasins within a pace of the writing table, and leveled his musket full at the half-breed's head. Just as the trigger was pulled the Metis raised the hand with which he was writ ing and touched lightly the muzzle of the gun ; the shot passed over his head, but his hair was singed off in a broad mass. The smoke cleared away, and the Indian was amazed to see that his enemy still lived.' The other looked lilm full In the eyes for an Instant and quiet ly resumed his writing. The Indian si lently departed unpursued, those who would have given him chase being stop ped by the half-breed with : " Go back to your dinner, and leave the affair to me." When evening came, a few whites, curious to see how the matter would end, accompanied the Metis to the Stoux en campment. At a certain distance he made them wait and advanced alone to the Indian tents. Before one of these sat the baffled savage, singing his own death-hymn to the tom-tom. He com plained that he must now say good-bye to his wife and child, to the sunlight, to the gun ; and the chase. Ha told his friends in the spirit land to expect him that night, when he would bring them all the news of their tribe. He swung his body backwards and forwards as he chanted his strange song, but never once looked up not even when his foe spurned him with his foot. He only sang on; and awaited his fate. . The half breed bent his head and spat down on on the crouching Sioux, and turned leisurely away a cruder revenge than if he had shot him dead. ;C3rMr. E.,a New England clergy man, was appointed nearly half a centu ry ago to take charge of the spiritual welfare of the prisoners of the Wilming ton jail. On his debut amongst the con victs, he introduced himself rather pom pously to one of them. "I know you," said the bad man, "and I'm glad you're here," "How's that?" cried Mr. E., in as tonishment; " I never saw you before." " Nor I you ; but I heard . that the last two churches where you preached, you preached the buildings empty, and If you do as much here, may God bless you!" Mr. E. came to the conclusion that the convicts were not suitably impress ed with his merits. - O" An incident occurred in the Sen ate the other day, which shows that the grave Senators are not wholly given to the dry details of business. The end of the session being near at hand, It was proposed that the committee appointed to investigate the charge against Senator Matthews hold Sunday sessions. An ex ception was raised that it was a violation of the Sabbath,, whereupon this passage of the Scripture i was quoted: " Which of you shall have an ass fall into ft pit, and will not goi straightway and pull him out on the Sabbath day ?" It waa a little rough on the Senator, but it was good. . 1 V E G E T I NE FOR, DROPSY. . ' XKVEK RHALL lrWfjet tlie lTlrwt Dono. t.. n o ' rrovldence, .June 27th, 187. M It. IT. K. RTRYKHS 1 .! Mir I I,... I,--.. . prent sulierer from dropsy. I was oonllned to my house more than a yenr. His month of the time I was ent rely helpless. 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