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PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1877.
NO. 49.
One Little Shoe.
MKS. M. A. KIDDClt.
Think It no trifle, my childless friend,
The one HtUe shoe that we found to-day,
Buttonless, faded, and wet with dew,
Oat In the grass where the children play.
Gold could not buy It, nor precious stoues;
Wrapped in the softest silk It lies
There in the corner, with other things
Nearly as precious, to jrUJden our eyes.
Only a month since the lost this shoe
Dear baby Mary, with her golden hair.
Only a week since we laid her low,
"Under the daisies," sweet and fair.
Brave little feet, how they pattered forth.
Morning and noon with their task to do;
Never at rest till the good tun set.
And the "busiest babyV work was through.
Little pink toes in their cradle-bed.
Cuddled away when the day was done.
Ready to start at break of dawn,
Over the house in search of fun.
Now they are still in their narrow bed.
Waxen and white as the drift of snow.
Only eclipsed by the angel feet,
'Fairer than ever they were below.
Think it no trifle then, childless friend.
This odd little shoe that we found to-day.
Buttonless, faded, and wet with dew.
Out In the grass where the children play.
The Model Detective..
JJT VILLUS O. EATON.
he would find the bodv of Paul Pier in himself because he bad been drinking in
that cave.. He did find a cave, a very la friendlj manner with this monster, who
cavernous 'cave and he went and bor- for three years had escaped being hung.
rowed a snade. entered, and dmr for sev- and who no doubt imagined he should
ml Hour, till tie struck something escape lorever.
hard." "l have drunk with him, think Sol,
"A box, containing the bones of Paul." but it was a means to an end; and as
. . . C- . .. I , , T t 1 1 ,
o. ue thought so. at first : but It I that enu is a rope cnu, i suouiun i icei
proved to be nothing but solid rock. He I ashamed; but I must begin to gather up
dug here and he dug there but all was I more links, however I feel Ana pretty
rock: and now. beinir much tired, tie isoon no iiau a gooa opening,
paused, and began to suspect he was on uDo you chewp say Mik Murdmaa
the wromr scent, A less resolute man " 'I do,' says boi, holding out a plug
would have despaired; but 'lio,' says j 'and if you don't like to bite it off, here
oxoaw. I'll dm in anouier wav.' Ana a Kane to cut it-- abu
ohe dug off, back to town again, and I rnsty jack-knife
made further inauiries about what Paul i woods.
Pieraaaidand did the last time he was " 'What's this V says Mike, staring at
seen; and showed the jack-knife confi- thekaife, jast as Sol expected he would.
deaUilly. " 'Only a knife I found,' says Sol. Per-
.Nobody had seen t'aul have such a naps you ve io,t one. iwei u oeinng w
knife, but Sol Foxnaw happened at last I jour
on aa old lady who remembered she had "'To mel' say Mike, looking at it
bought some mixed yarn of Paul the day with a snuaaer ana coloring up. -i guess
be was missed. He seemed tick and un-1 not. lake it uacic norrioie: uoai
hannv.and aaid he wanted to no to sea for I cut tobacco with such a knife as tliat!'
his health. This was all that Foxpaw "'You needn't be afraid. It is rusty
The Cross and the Crescent.
could paw out of her. It teems little.
but he thonght it a g.-od deal. 'Wanted
to go to sea. That's another link,' says
ixil. 'A man who goes to sea naturally
goes to a vessel, in the first place. Moss-
creek is a seaport place. I will go down
to the watcr-ide and inquire among the
vessels. So he went do a a, and by good
luck be soon discovered that, Tor years
It is usual, among recent writers, to
name "The Cross" and "The Crescent" to
distinguish the reipective creeds in the
present I arco-Koastan war. m lact these
several symbols plainly mark the Chris
tian and the Ottoman faiths. The (loca
tion when and why the Ottomans adopted
hc Crescent has been much discussed
long before now. It was alleged that
Mohammed broke the uitc of the moon.
and caught half of it falling from heaven
in his sleeve this is stated in the Koran,
be pulled out the nue.mi lo " mmcu
he had found 4a the mB "Sn "u;
Tine auinomy. iuc crescent, ur uau
moon, with the horns turned upward, was
a religious symbol, however, long before!
the Turkish empire began. It wa re
ported that Sultan Othman, founder of
that empire, a. d. 1209, dreamed that he
saw a crescent moon which waxed until
its splendor il uminated the whole world
from east to west; that he then adopted
the creceni and emblazoned it on his
standard with the motto, Donsc Ilepleat
Orben. or "until it fills the world." Bat
The Character of Mahomet.
The East Elver Bridge.
In forbidding the use of wine, Ma-1 The large cables for the support of the
hornet denied them a gratification fori tan raver Bridge are being slowly
which tliev had no sDecial cravinc: but stretched aero,, one wire at a time. It
he not only permitted, tw gave, a divine I will take not less than eighteen months
sanction to the unbridled indulgence of to complete this work. It is seven and
their characteristic vice. The Arab in- a bnlf year since work was begun on
berited a supreme contempt for human the piew, and appirently from five to
life: Mahomet mane him irratifv It to the seven years more will be required to
ton of his bent, on the sole condition that complete the bridge. Ground has been
the life sacrificed should nut be that of broken for the construction of the New
you don't think there Uood cn it, do J"". OT " w"u V"
f, jihe crescent moon had been a symbol
but
vou
" 'ISMxir Sirs .UiKc, wiui anomer
shudder.
-Yes, blood,' rciwaU Sol, severely
'As I told you, I found that knife; and
who know bpt there s bioou, and ausma
blood, on it, which makes it so rusty!
The murderer might have thrown it away.
well known to the ancient worshippers
of Diana in the ancient mythology of
Greece and Rome. There are old statues
of her with an up-pointing crescent over
her brow. Another account is that Philip
of Macedon, father of Alexander the
Great, was engaged one dark night in
pit, the schooner Fiyir.g TartU had bcn alter he had done the deed, mightn t Del a , i- '
We habit of bringg .lock, from Uie .W-j-if find it!' SeTsco wShTby
aty for the dryads store. -Another -'low should I know t ,adden appearance of . young moon,
lmk,'says Foxpaw. 'What more Ukcly 'Tt is aa old knife.' continues iol, trJ2Tn,j. r, ,i,t:,:f?. i:..k,
I. " I UMi 1U k !UliV4V V MM MaV T I
"Murder will out, some time, sureT
exclaimed Daniel Wonder to a few hear
ers, as he laid down a paper from which
he had just been reading aloud a case of
mysterious murder, the perpetrator of
which had been discovered after years of
ingenious and tortuous search. I have
many a time noticed it. It is according
to the laws of nature, and must be so, if
not right ofL then by-and-by: if not to
day, to-morrow,next day, then a year, ten,
fifty, perhaps a hundred years hence. The
murder ana the murderer are sure to come
out. If I was on a plank; alone with a
man in the middle of the ocean, ard was
to murder him and sink him, vith no Ap
intigJit I shouldn't feel safe! Some
time ur other something would bring me
out. If I didn't tell of myself, asleep or
awake, his bones would rife, or"
"Or his sperrit?" assisted somebody.
"No; I don't believe in spirits but his
bones, clothes, or the plank or it might
be somebody might be looking at me
Xrom a ship out of sight, through a pow
erful spy-glass, or perhaps from another
Elank, or perhaps happening to pas
y orerheaa in a silk balloon, and
see me do it and so I should feelnare I
was not safe until at last I was led out to
be hung. Ton see there is always a chain
of evidence between the aurderer and
the murdered. It may be short or long.
It may be broken into many separate
links; but in time one man picks up one
hnk here, another a link there, another
another, and so on, until all the link are
found and 'pot together, and they are
strong enough to hang the man."
"It does seem so," said one or the lis
teners, fn thoughtful awe.
"Seem so! It i sol I always know
that murder will out, and have seen many
singular cases of it. Bat the most singu
lar case I ever beard of was of the
fate of Paul Pi era, of Mosscreek, a clerk
in a drr-goods store, and so covered np.
according to the report, that no evidence
was supposed to be left of it. lie was
tmexpectedlr missed one day, and hi
body was not found till three years after
wards. People gave np all hopes of
hearing about the poor fellow, bow he
came to his death, or where, or what for,
or who or where his murderer was,cntil a
traveller came to Mosscreck, and bearing
of the murder of poor Paul Picra, he un
dertook to and the body, or, at least, the
real criminal, and bring him to Justice.
This traveller's name was Solomon Fox-
paw, and he prided himself on hi de
tective power his penetration and per
severance and be bad a reitlcss, rolling.
stanag, snappy kind of eye that seemed
to take in every thing about him at
glance. People wished him CQCcess, but
thej didn't expect it. Yet be didn't care
for what they expected. He set to work
to find some links for a chain of evidence."
"Bat I doat see"
"You can't see anything, yet. You
must wait and see. Solomon Foxpaw
made inquiries, for a month, but ascer
tained just about Both lag which would
lead to the first link. He then sat down
and reflected alone for three days, aad
finally he said to himself, 'Here is a piece
of woods out here, and Paul Picra was
eai la be poorly. What more likely
than he should walk in the wood for bis
health and there be murderedr "
"To be sure! Wbat, indeed!
"With this Idea, Sol, without saying a
word to anybody because be listed in
terra ptioa as bad as I do walks out
alone into the woods, and kicks about
among the dry leaves, aad examines the
ground, and the rocks, and the trees, with
strong suspicion."
"To find a clew!"
"Why, of course, to find a clew!"
"Bat I don't see"
"You never will see, if you don't wait
and follow his eyes aad ideas. He pretty
soon found various letters, carved on va
rious trees initials of Eame, perhaps
aad amosg them ail at last be discovered
on a tree by them sel vesjthe letters 'P. P.' "
Perilous Place, 1 suppose."
"Perilous Place, von suppose I No,
Paul Picra he supposed, for he ksew vluit
to suppose, 'lie certainly cut tnose let
ten,' .Foxpaw felt convinced; aad be pot
AnMrr, P T 1,1. first link. Now.'
savs fee. 'Pre trot something to work oa
and be felt encouraged. Looking about
hira a utile sharper, as if Prondeace bad
directed him, he found a rusty jack-knife,
which liad had tea blades. It had three
sow; a big one. a little oae aad a aw
blade. The bora was goae, but he felt
a conviction that this knife w&s a second
link, and he put it ia his pocket. Look'
ing about still further, be saw a crack"
"Heard a crack."
"Nol Sou a crack a wide crack be
tweea some rocks. Something suddenly
told him there was a cave there, aad that
than that Paul, knowing the skipper.
went in the Flying Turtle that day to the
dtvr
"So be asked the captain, who said be
was not sure he didn't, and that some
times he had; and he shouldn't wonder.
'Here is half a link more,' say Foxpaw.
'I will go in the Flying Turtle, and make
further inquiries.'
It was during this trip, only a day s
gers from 3Iosscroek to the city was a
raw-boned, swarthy, ugly-looking man
who had a dissipated nnse and a several
bladed jack-knife. lie remembered a
saw blade in it, because it was the first
he ever saw; and bad said at the time
that if he was as homely as the owner of
the knife, he should cut hi throat with
it, and leave the consequences to other
people. Foxpaw now s bo wed the rusty
knife, and the skipper said it might be I suppose!
the same; and added that the stranger's
name wa 3lurdman or Jlurknam, and
that on landing in the citr. be bad seen
him It the Jolly Tar tavern at the head
of the wharf."
Seen Paul PicraP said one listener,
much gratified.
why, no: Pay attention 1 been this
gly-fellow don't you seeP
"let 1 see: bnt 1 don t see"
"But you must wait and see. or you
will certainly loe the links. L p goes
Solomon Foxpaw to the Jolly Tar, as
interested as if he bad been Paul Picra"
onlv brother'
"Did he have a brotherP
"None of your buiisesi and asked
the landlord to let him look at his arrival
book of three year before. Tne landlord
sent up garret for it, and tbey overhauled
it together; and, sure enough 1 there stood
the name, at the proper date, in a fierce,
big band, of Mike 3Iurdman, and
'but aa older head owned it, I reckon.
Yet the oldest beads are liable to get out
Ui UJCU 1SUU1UC UU lUUIJlUlVlb
you are a seafansg man, and have you
ever been to Mosscreekr
" 'Mosscreekt Well, I may tay I have.
once.'
"And more, tool
"'No. Only once.'
"Only once. And what did you go
voyage, that he added three or four more there fort'
1 1 r . t ? fk t -7 I ... . - mm.
iu cauo. ua cioveiy quetuou-1 tlidirt t?o tliere far: WTi 3uce.
ing we
that on
gratitude for this timely light
the Byzantines commemorated the frus
tration of Philip hostile design by creat
ing a temple to Diana, and by adopting
her crescent as a symbol of the State. It
has also been alleged that in 1446, when
the Turks took Byzantium, they adopted
the crescent standard which they found
there, and which the Janizaries bail borne
for more than a century previous. Un
doubtedly then the crescent was the em
blem of Greece previous to the superiority
r .k.. T.U;.I. ml. HilU .annnli at
captain the latter remembered with . kind or sneer, a, if be wa, mad to niat d the Ui Wsen
the fatal day one of his passen- be so quetioocd; aad bol said he looked oa churches in Moscow aad other
Emerson at Home.
Ralph Waldo meron,the most orig
inal of living thinkers, has had for many
years as aeiigtittui a home at Concord,
Mass- as can be found anywhere. He
has been twice married whes be was
twenty-seven and when be was thirty-two.
Uis nrst wife, who was Helen Louisa
Tucker,of Boton,lived but a few months;
and his second wife, Lidian Jackson of
PI T mouth. Maw,, has borne him three
Mussulman. The Arab was the most lork approach to the bridge, which is to children, two mrls and one bov. all liv-
vain-glorious of human beings; Mahomet be 1,502 feet six inches long, and four ing, and ranging from twenty-eight to
toia aim mat ne umi a uivine rignt loijcaiam wwj wi m irjuku u wuij-uic u ijc. Aiuooga oae oi tne
bis self conceit, since it was written in complete it. The Brooklyn approach severeti of students and must abstract of
the Book of Fate that the Arab race was will not be more than half a long. The philosophers, ha always emerges from
the predestined ruler of the world and workmen are now engaged in digging his library to the family circle with evi-
hdr to all aga. The Arab wa proud of I the foundation for the nrst foundation I dent satisfaction. Notwithstanding a
V- laagUAc. "Mahomet id that it wa J wall and brick arches. These will be certain gravity of manner, he is full of
the language of heaven, and was conse-1 piaceu aireciiy against me ancnor pier, i geniality anu ooiuumnite, and is never
uently so sacred that its nse was forbid- ana, it is thought, win aaa to tne i more eloquent ana charming nvi when
en to all but the True Believers. The I urengui oi tnat massive column oi wors. i away irom nis books and manuscripts.
Arab wa an inveterate freelwoter: Ma-1 The ground between the anchorage and He is very fond of children aad young
hornet opened up to him aa endles vista the beginning of the approach will be people; love to talk aad walk with them,
of predatory warfare, with spoil in occupied by a lubsttntial building, and listens to them as if they were re
abundance, of all that could fire the which will contain stairway to give ac- vealfag the oracles of the gods. No man
fancy, ia case of victory; or refreshing ces to the bridgs and will also be oc- ia Concord is more popular or accessible
powers of Paradise, attended by ever-1 cupieu ior Business purpose, mere win iwaa ne. iie is xmiy ia sympathy with
beautiful and ever-youthful black-eyed I be u bridge over Franklin SquareM feet I the old town; he reveres and honors it,
bouria, if be died a hero death. Tbeide, 193 feet long on the north aide, aad land says he would not exchange it for
Arab practiced slavery: Mahomet gave about 140 feet long on the south side, hew lork, Athens, Rome, or Paris. To
him for bond slaves as many of the ha I me onuge win ue aiviueu znio wo i get a clear ana adequate conception ol
man race a he chore to tparc after satiat- spans. This will be the most important I tmenon, one muss see him at home, ia
lag his lust of carnage. The Arab wa or any in the entire approach. The undress, so to speak, if be may be coa
grossly licentious. Mahomet gave him bridges over the other ttrcett will have sidered as ever ia uniform, who is the
leave to take as many wive as be ordinary piste girdcra, resting on the soul of simplicity aad sincerity. He is
pleased, aad concubine without number; abutment, vtithin the spaces between I the kindest of husbands, the most con
and the crowning delight of hi sensual I the abutments, which will be enclosed by siderate of fathers. It is related of him
Paradise i the increased ODoortunitv I walks running on each tide of the an-1 that whea thought strikes him. when anv
which it oSers for the afe gratificatiori of proach, are to be built masiive support suggestion occurs, or any pat quotation
animal lust. The Jews were the first to for the roadway. The spaces will be is recalled, be invariably stops the thing
experience hi vengeance. He had forti lighted by arches in the abutments aad be is doing aad jots dowa the thought or
fied hi earlier Suras with ipurioc quo- can be adapted for stores aad warehouses, teggtstion for future use or reference.
tatioas from the Pentateuch, which be I The roof of the approach will be formed I Even in the middle of the nizbt he ob-
ssid contained the same revelation to the J by laying iron beams across the longi-1 serves this habit, kaowiag that a good
Jews which be wa commissiuaed to de-tudiaal walls aad connecting them by I thing may be lot forever ualess recorded.
means of short bnck arches into a solid Before his second wife got used to his
platform. The roadway on this plat- way, she would ask Mp, when he rose
form will be arranged as on the main to strike a light, "Are you ill, husband 1"
bridge. There will be horse-car rails, "No, my dear," he would replv. "onlv aa
iron tramways alongside fori Idea." Some women might object to
confused. ! didn't go there for anything.
I got drunk ttepcd aboard the vesiel
by mistake, and got there by accident'
"Br accident I A stranger Uierei
Then you doa't remember a young clerk,
Paul Picrar
"No.'
"Nor the woods nor that cavef
"'No.'
"You ak a
now says Mike.
are very pale.'
great many qBestiens'
Are vou craxi! You
parts of old Russia, generally surmount
cd by the cross, thus unquestionably
marking the Byzaaline origin of the Ras
lian church, in 1S01 the Sultan Selim
III-, having previously presented Lord
Ndsoa witb a crescent richly adorned
with diamonds, founded the order of
the crescent which, as Mohammedans
are cot allowed to carry such mark of
distinction, has been conferred on Chris
tians aloae. The Turkish order or jicd-
jtdie, founded by Abdul Medjid in 1S52,
aad liberally conferred cpua rreacn.
Eaglish and I ulian officers after the Cri-
liver in the Koran to the Arabs. Bjt
when he went to Medina, the Jews de
nounced his quotation as forgeries, aad
he retaliated by fiercely accusing them
of having corrupted aad falsified their
sacred books. Denunciations, however,
were not cnoogh. The presence of the
Jew, confuting hi revelation out of
their Hebrew Scriptures, was a standing
menace to aim; aad be took measures.
fir.t to silence them, aad when that failed,
to get rid of them altogether. A Hebrew
womaa of the name of As ma, who ex
posed the prophet and his claims to ridi
with the
wagoa-wheels. The trains of passenger
cars will be from 400 to WO feet in
length, aad will be operated by steam
esgincs ia aa undergroaad room, be
tween .North nuliam aad Laataara
Street. The expenditures in the con
struction of the Bridge have already
amounted to $7,54 lSi. The entire ex-
pease l estimated at Sl3.000.000. When
men prowling about in the aocturaal
watches X fix intellectual points oa
paper, but they would be csarniahle, in
deed, if they were cot modified by so
serene aad courteous a phrase as "No,
my dear, only aa idea. The Yankee
Greek, as be has been called, is a model
has band. Nobody has ever seea him out
of temper, or evea rufSed. He is the
culeiasome satirical verse, wa soon I completed, the work will be oae of the embedimeat of calm courtesy, of placid
afterward assassinated by aa agent of I wonder of thl country, aad, indeed, of 1 refinement the very reverse of the sa-
Mohamet, who crept into her apartment
at midnight aad piuaged hi dagger into
her breast at he lay asleep between her
little ones. jKoctxr i.uicm tntiut.
the world. X. T. Independent.
At a Dash.
"it l you who are paie,' says ,r . rrnt and a silver
aad I want you to aawcr me wmt more ,ua rAJJ Assuredly the
A cmt deal of brilliant litenuj Ubor
WIS - mM MWUVU4J I .nmf II w TTl A f Yat 9 n
, m, A I UlVUlWS MtftWM aWA wriM
a-AW U MW mtmM W 4 J
q actions.
-Not another word, till you tike more
brandy,' say Mike. You need it.
" 'One word lor me and two lor him
self, thought Sol. Hi guilt makes him
faint, and be wants a glass to tUffen him
up. I'm willing. More drink will make
him less cautious.
Sj be agreed, aad tbeydraak two or
three times more. 'He seemed to gulp it
down like a fish,' Sol said, 'and I thought
I should soon get him drunk. But in
stead of that, I got floored myself. I lost
all consiousaeta, and was put to bed, asd
next day I was unable to find him aay-
that he had got the
crescent dates from the time oi indy-
mi on. rkiladtlpXis Prtu.
Aiio.to other ludicrous mistakes that
have happened to Congressmen ia Wash
ington the corrcspondeat oi the Uoston
Journal relates the following: "The little
suites of rooms at the ational Hotel
opens upon little balls, uniform ia ap
pearance, connected by long corridors,
and all furnished alike. One night Sen
ator Mangum, of North Carolina, then
President pro teapvrt of the Senate, a
dignified gentleman of the old school,
had just returned from a party, when
"Paul Picra." 'that the best thine I could do was to go
No! What do you know about it! I back to Mdstcreck for a day, and have a
Mike Murdman and Friend.' 'This is I talk with Paul' old emplover aad the
the biggest link of the lot,' say Sol to j town authorities.' So Solomon Foxpaw
the landlord. 'Do you recollect what 1 did co back aad told them all that he bad
"'No, says the landlord, but I recol
wnexe. pecung Governor Upham. a Senator from Ver
start of me, aad had fled out of my reach I . , ...
for the present, I now thought,' says Sol,
lect that next morning the two bad a
quarrel. They had slept together, aad
Murdmaa was charged by the other with
stealing his money in the night. But
Juurdman swore-no, and, as proof, said
be hadn't enough money to pay his own
bill; and they went out quarrelling, with
out paving. And thats the last I ever
saw of the other fellow, to my know!
edge.'
"Hore links I'm getting chain I
says Foxpaw. 'Went out together", qutr
discovered and beard; and what do you
think! They actually laughed ia hi
face, aad said that all these links, which
be had taken so much pains to get togeth
er, amounted ta nothing "
"That was all they kaew r exclaimed
Dtaiel Wonder's indignant bearers. "But
how did Solomon Foxpaw get bold of the
slippery murderer at lastP
"He didat get hold of hi
iel Woader.
"NoP
"No. What the authorities said dis
couraged him, aad be then resolved that
him," said Dan-
reiling, about robbery. And did you ever I he would not pursue the search any fur
c wa Jt is -v m r mint I
sec Murdmaa again!
"0 yes,' tavs tbe landlord. 'He's
captain of a brig now. He came back a
year afterwards, and paid bis bill, and
now be stops here once every three
months, every return-trip he makes. It
is time for him now; brig was due yes
terday; if you stop, III introduce him to
ther.'
"But who did get the murdeterP
"Nobody."
"Thea who found tbe body of Paul
PicraP
Everybody. For, on the very day
when Foxpaw gave up tbe search, Paul
Picra came back to Mostcreek. safe and
sound."
"What! Then he wasn't murdered at
all!"
mont, came in. and without any ceremony
took a teat. Tile two chatted away on
politics, the weather, tbe social amuse
ments, etc- until the clock on the mantel
struck one. 'Really, Governor Upham,'
said Maagum, I am alway pleased to
see you, but I really believe it is getting
very late. 'I have thought so for some
time,' replied Lphsm, but be made no
movement. Providently the half hour
sounded, aad Mangum remarked: I
thoucht. Governor Upham. that vox bad
decided to go to bed, airt 'So I bad, Mr.
President, answered the ermonter, yet
be did not budge. Mangum stared at
him in amazement, and at last plainly
said: 'Bat why dont you go to your
room, Governor Upham I It will soon be
two o clock. .My room, Mr. liesidenti
why this is my room, and I have been
ailing for you to go away for two hours
past.' Mangum sprang to bis feet, looked
into the sleeping-room adjacent, aad
found that be was ia Upham's room in
stead of his own. Webster used to enjoy
joking him about his visit to Vermont."
Wiiile half a dozen person were roll
ing along in a Michigan avenue horse-car
a man leaned across tne aisle and saia to
another: "Excuse me, but didnt a big
bug crawl down behind your collar!"
OobI OucbP exclaimed the other, as
be leaped up and hauled off his cost. He
looked the garment all over, but there
was no bug to be seen. "Perhaps it
crawled down under your vest," suggest
ed the man. Off came tbe vest, and It
was closely inspected without making any
discoveries. The attentive stranger thea
made the victim turn around two or three
times to see if the bug wauit hidden ua
der the suspenders, and when a thorough
search bad beca made the straager sat
dowa aad said: "It was probably
shadow flitting across your collar, but
felt f-ure it was a bug. You can put on
your coat and vest again." The more
the victim thought about it the madder
be got, but before be put oa his coat the
other maa left the car and slid dowa
sea to reported, aad that he bad expected I Twelfth itreet as if he had grease on his
to work a miracle, without any reason i iiecls. Ikiroil rrte frtu.
aamely. to find, from no evidence at all,
the dead body or a man wno was noi ihvt politeness wnica we put oa, in
dead. And he was as dissatisfied at you order to keep the presumptuous at
are that the maa turned up alive. Bat proper, distance, will generally succeed,
still, as I said before murder Kill out, I But it is sometimes that these obtrusive
and no doubt if that Mike Murdman had I characters are on such excellcat terms
murdered, aad Paul Picra bad been the with themselves that they put dowa tbei
one be killed, Solomon Foxpaw would I very politeness to the score of their own
nave Aad him .some time, turei a rue i great merits ana high pretension, meet
Flan. tag the coldness of our reserve wtiti
" - . I riuiculOH coBdesceascioa of familiarity,
wwjukauisu ruaiauM. sue aicw in nrA.r , . -ih ntiriclvaa
. , , . . .. - - '
.bngiaaa unueriaaers are reaucing uicir i
rates In hopes that the number or funcr-
coHsidering tbe critical business he was I als will be greatly increased thereby. A Pabis paper tells of aa 0 'Flaherty
on. Sol cved him carefullv all over, aad I Their prices have been so steen hereto, who aald to tho raaD seller. "Give me a
h KMMBM to took homelier and homelier I fore that vcrv few nersons of ordinarv I man of ihe int at war which contains all
the more fee examined him. He thought I mean had the courage to die. They the most important battles that are going
of poor Paul Picra, aad leit ashamed ot couiaa t aaoru it. 1 to bo fought.'
men axe unhappy ones, owing to the men
tal inferiority of their wive, aad Sr
alter bcott matrimonial experience
proved no exception to what is almost
the rule. He wa married oa Christmas
Eve, 1794, the bride beiag Miu Jane
Carpentier tor Carpeaterj. aa heire&s of
rrrnca bulb. Tbe mamtge was aot
fcltcitou, especially ia view of her men
tal talenontv, whlca wa a lile-long aa
aoyaace to the author. This feature was
lahented bv their four children, all of
whom were far below mediocrity in point
ot brain activity. Tne eldest son had a
noble fiare,whieh is all that can be said
oi him. iae second was giaj to get a
clerkship under tbe government, which
was his highest attainment. Tba oldest
daughter, Sophia, wa the brightest of rriraher tVat wor
thechUdrea, but never eU anything on wroU u ;n lix .Yoa Mi -
reeora w suggest wainc was inroaagn- not Un. jj on KTeath d.
was the answer, aad tbe answer was wise
a well a witty. Shakespeare was aot
one ot those siapaasa workers: ana
Shakespeare, with his thirty-four plays,
ha conquered the world. .Tea tne im
pulsive, sparkling Tom Moore was slow
about writing, aad thought it quick work
if he added seventy lines to "Lalla
Rookb. ia a
you. "
"W as the man hungi '
""Well, this beau alL I declare!" cried
Daaiel Woader, exasperated. "Here you I "Why, no! I told you, ia the first
are. wanting to eet to the end of the 1 place, that if tax a report. Bat it seems
chain before I've got the links fastened he had got a letter in the city, calling him
together. Jett would never make a de-1 home in a hurry, as hi mother was dy-
tective." ing, a long way on. lie went nome, ana
"I don't care anything about the links.) the died, and bo inherited a rich proper-
All I want to know is was tbe man huugll ty; aad not caring a fig for the ponple-in
xou ve got me so excited I can hardly I Mosscreck, he never wrote to them.
keep mv seat. It would be a satisfaction
to know if the maa was hung, at the
start."
"Well, he wasn't hung at tbe start, aad
never would bare been, if Sol Foxpaw
bad been as impatient as you are. ilsve
you no interest ia the philosophy of the
thingl"
"No," said the man, nettled; "and I
don t care, now, whether tbe man wa
burig or not; I hope be wasn't; and I
hope Paul Picra was cut into as many
bits as there are links in your story I"
"Go on, Daniel, go on," said the oth
er, "and if he interrupts you again well
hang lam."
"So do. "Well Foxpaw waited three
days, patiently, for the next link, and
then tbe brig came to port, and Murdman
came to tbe vcrn, and the landlord in
troduced hink to Foxpaw, over a glas,
aad they sat dowa to talk. Sol was
usually a cool fellow, but, aa be after
wards said, he had his scruples about
sitting dowa aad talking with a murder
er, aad be felt very pale and aervous
"JVoJ murdered, after all!" cried the
disappointed hearer. "Where was the
tinmilarity vou (poke about, tbenP
"In the pertettranee ot Solomon roi
paw."
"lshawl U l'thaxe! What uia you
work us up bo fori"
'That is what Solomon r ox paw saia
to those who bad excited Aim. so; but
they said to him, as I say to you, that it
premely cervous, irritable beiag aa author
is believed to be, aad often it, ia truth.
Feminine friends of Eoiersoa are unani
mous ia the opinion that he is oae of the
most corafortable men possible in a bosie,
aad that he deserves to go to a special
tttsVAM ' list 1ST; llTafl I r TlT
Ua days, at the rate of two hundred lines I d n iatrferes ia thTlromin;7
a day, aad sent it to press as it was writ-
tea, publishing it with, hardly a correc
tion. Lope de Vega wrote three hua
drcd drama for the stage ia one hundred
days, the average arnouat of his work
b-!ing nine hundred lines a dav. oltaire
wrote "Zaire" in three wceks.and "Olym
pie" ia six days. Drydea wrote bis "Ode
to St Cecilia at a sitting. The Saestof
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems,
"The Lady Geraldinc. s Courtship,
the work or twelve hour. It wa writ-
tea to complete tbe original to volumes
of her poetry, aad to send out with her
proofs to America. But, as a rule, the
best work is not to be done at a dasn ia
this style. "What do you think of
OlvmpieP" Voltaire asked one of his
duties of the household.
The Romance of & Eoe.
terof a genius. Tbe youngest daughter,
Anne, like her brother Charles, died un
married. She was a frail creature, asd
was drradfally shattered by the ruin
which fell upon her father's fortune.
After hi death she went to London, be
came a member of Lockhart' family.
and died there, less than a year after her
father. A pension from the king gave
A story comes fresh to us from the
coal mines of the Iackawaana Valley a
iitnple story, but neb with immense pos
sibilities. Ia the "Diamoad" shaft there
was no steadier, harder worker thin Jim
Gardiner. What he did with his mosey
was long a mystery he had no wife, no
family, no expensive habits, no relatives
that any one knew of, aad yet no saviag
baak account- It was learned later that
all but the little needed for his daily
wants weat for charity found its way
quietly, unobtrusively, into the huts of
women aad children whose husbands aad
crush of
falling timbers or come forth black aad
crisp trom the scorching fire-damp. There
was something about Oardir.er that sug
gested a former life of a higher grade-
He talked but little, bat that UtUe was
ia words well chosen aad of choice
dialect. His dress was as rough as the
roughest, but he carried it a a maa who
bad been used to face the world sail-
her a support, and thus the daughter of world ia his writins-box. ia the Peak.
trim rfMf tnthnr nllfni Amt m,! -in rvf w I ... , .
the greatest author of the age died an ob
ject or royal chanty.
Tns Poor DoosI There has been a
great slaughter of dogs in this city. Cn
licensed, un collared, aad unknown curs
are gathered up daily by men appointed
for the purpose by the mayor and taken
to the pound, which is large enough to
accommodate a thousand or more. I he
dogs are kept a few days, to allow owners
to redeem them, if they desire to do so.
and then they are drowned. Thus tar
several thousand dogs. hare been im
pounded, including one belonging to the
mayor. Of these, nearly all have been
drowned. A few have been redeemed.
Although tbe dog-catcher and their as
sistants are frequently bitten, tbey have
no fear of hydrophobia. ben a catcher
is bitteo, be immediately tuck the
wound, then soaks it with a preparation
made or chlonde or lime aad water, two
tablcspooafuls of tbe
the latter, then covers
caustic Th catchers are very zealous
week, although Uvbgo of jj m- bat liicd
hi wntinzr-box in thePeaJcK- v i i i r - ,
aim as a mu woo ajwajs puycu lair aau
asked no odds. Ia the accident of last
April, when the'roof of a part of the
? r- i y it 1
mine leu in, uanuaer was ituieu. ai ap
peared in the evideace that there were a
tew scconas aunng we cracs: or, umoers
before the roof fairly came dowa, aad ia
that bnef time, in those few beau or the
Plaache produced his burlesque at aa
equally slow rate, thinking tea or a dozea
lines a day good work. Kiaglake
"Eothen," aa exquisite trifle, wa re
written five or six times, aad kept ia his
desk almost as loaf? as Wordsworth keDt
"The "White Doe of Rylstoae," aad kept
like that, to be taken oat forreviiioa aad un,.Um,n ,A -.no,t
correctioa almost every day. And that Kowith his lioa-lika strenirta. aad
1 the way ia which good, honest work tced cJe4r out of flt citMm.
work that is to be read to-morrow, and into &c miisi w. Thea he
day after to-morrow must be written. wentdown witfc the roof. Whea his
Scotts aad Scnbcs turn up once ia a rw, -r,r' th nxt d thw
century.
found him with his right hand thrust in
side his vest and clasping tight a little
pocket-book. There was nothing ta it
I save a card, oa which was fastened a drop
of sealing-wax oa the stem, all that re
mained of a rosebud aad two geraaiaaa
leaves. Underneath was wriltea ia a
"Jfari Tout a tot
How I swans Climb Trxbs. la South
meric&eva tbe weakest women may
be aot uncommonly seca plucking the I
fruit at the tree top. If the bark u so
smooth aad slippery that they cannot go
up by climbing, they use other means. woaiaas hand.
iney sues nwp w whu jurui 1S07." Just below was written
hand, "June, 1S70 U sritA-
ezcept the thorn.n
i . tt dir rv f V. oitva
caustic ins caicners are verrzea ousi :.:..; .ri i . " i e.
s An . i r. r..r "raM? Ulc e" , TT the barest outlines as they came to as.
" ;Z:2 "Z!": . erks it up the tree witn nis nanus, a iu- But our infonnt m. that the face of
Ue at the time, arawing ou ic up aiier lhs maa u they fouad him uaaarred by
it. TheTahiUaa boys Ue their teet to- lh..Iwk i
gether, four or five inches apart, with a pljlcid u of a aIeepiEg child.
jiiccc i p i Cincinnati Time.
this fetter go up the cocoa palms to I
gather nuts. The aaUvo women of A us-1 Im a recent lecture Prof. Seal, of the
..i i ? . I tralia climb thegum trees after opossums : Michigan Agricultural College, men-
K- k.a mmKA l afc nuuiu ssciziaa ati f a az m a sj av,a- . w . . .
lime aad water, two thdr feet inside they use it as a
fTSth IS rf PpSi climWag. The agro of the
every dog they present at the pound.
One of them caught 103 in one day. 2f.
2 . Independent.
Issiscekitt w Asking Advice.
Nothing is less sincere than our manner
of asking and of giving advice. lie who
ful deference for the opinion of hit fnead; he tar k u rough they ch op holes uoaed some tree which have beea of
whilst yet he only alms at getting his with a hatchet, ihea one throw, about gr x.ntx totXrrtl
own approved of, aad hi. frieml reponi- the tree a rope twice as loag ru will go sold for $1000. the wood being highly
i.i riV:. iV nnih.nth.rlimi hc around it, put her hatchet oa her ornamental ia beanUful waves, aad it
: .(..linM n. cropped head, aad, placing her feet was made iato veaeeriaz. A black wal-
Tvultnbe Blaced in him. by a seem- agint the tree and sraPnS. the rope nut at Brookfield, sevea feet through,
with her hands, she hitches it up by
jerks, aad pulls herself up the enormous
trunk almost aa last as a maa will climb
a ladder.
Blaced
ingly disinterested zeal, whilst bo seldom
means anything by the adnce he gives
but his owa interest or reputaUon.
JloehefovttiulL
- - - I
"Oh, cut it short, cut it short 1" ex-j At a recent womaa's rights meetiag ia
claimed the victim of a Fulton-street I London. Miss Becker announced that
barber, who. while- shaving him. bcmiiled there were 2.500.000 spinsters in Great
thn naaalnir moments with aa uninter-1 Britaia who owa property to she amount
rupted,f!ow of wearisome coaversatioa, of 150,000,000 $750,000,000. If they Tax Louisville Courier-Journal savs
"All right, .sir," ht replied; "some likes were to orgaaize, and concentrate their that mocking birds are becomisg rarer is
a close thare, and some don't;" and, as efforts, they coald have suffrage and Georgia, by reasoa of their capture by the
he resumed tho thread of his disco arte, what else they wanted, except husbaads, professional catchers, who sell them ia the
the victim groaned in despair. and those they doa't appear to care about. Northern markets. A coaslgameat was
sold at $1,200, for tho same purpose, ia
New xork. Two thousaad dollars were
refused for a very large blistered walaat
at Saugatuck. At Graad Rapids a black
cherry tree, with very dark wood, was
shipped to Central America, aad from
there shipped back to this country aad
sold as good mahogany.
GsfUfasr employs 34,000 women in
I the manufacture of cigars.
Thk Established Church
has aa annual revenue of $36,000,000.
shipped through AucustxGa- a few dava
Eaglaad I agoxoBtalaing 150 young rstockiaT birdi
not imiy ueagea.