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PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OllEGON, SATURDAY, DEOELBEU 29, 1877.
NO. 13.
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The Empty Cradle.
Sa 1 the hcart'of the mother. -
Who sit by tie lonely hearth,
Where neveragaln the children
Shall waken their onrsxf mirth.
AnasuUlhrough the painful silence
She lUtent for rolceand tread;
'Outside of the heart there only
She know that they are not dead!
Here It the desolate cradle.
The pillow so laUlypreed,
But faraway has the blrullug
' Flown fremiti little nest.
"Crooning thelullables over.
Tfextooce was her baby's delight,
All through the misty space
ShYloilow 1U upwardlucht.
"Little she thought of a moment
sSo gloomy and sad as thU,
When close to her heart she gathered
Her child for iu good-nlgbt kiss.
She should be tenderly cherished,
Xertr a grief should she know ;
Wealth, and the pride of a princess.
These would a mother bestow.
And this Is the darling' portion
'In heaven where she lias fled;
By angel securely guarded.
By angels securely led.
Brooding In sorrowful silence
Over the empty nest,
Can you not see through the shadows
Why It U all for the best!
Setter the bearenly kingdom
Than riches of earthly crown,
-Better the early morning flight
Thaa one when the sun Is down;
Better an empty casket.
Than jewels besmirched with sin;
Safer .Shan those without the fold
Are those that hare entered In.
Cariosities of the English Courts.
Impostures more successful is their
object, If aot more famous thaa the
Tichborne esse, were being- practiced in
England during the period when the
most interminable trial of Orton, the
Wapping butcher, was going on. From
MveraL singular caes which we propose
to recount it would appear that supersti
tion and credulity are aot less rife among
English than among French rustics, and
that the latter, ia crediting the miracles
of our Lady of Lourdej and of -ibefood-less
girl, are rivaled by Uie'Brftbh. Voe
maary who become the victims of quacks'
and witchery. , .
la the diary of the same Orton, other
wise Tichborne,of w horn, we have spoken,
was-found a somewhat remarkable max
im, a child, n.i doubt,of hr burly claim
ant's own brain. It was ai follows,
couched in rude but pregnant language:
"Soaiciia! plenty lauaey no brains; cosae
has plenty brains no inoney; I think
them as has plenty money no brains raa
nude for tbeiu as has plenty brains so
money."
It was a principle upon which this
gr.at man himself diligently acted, and
which all iaiportors, before and after him,
carry out. Knavery duties credulity the
world ovtr; nor dots the constant expos
ure of tCe one bare the least effect on
opening the eyesuf and curing the other.
A curious drama of the kuave-rn-ru.
fool sort was enacted at the pleasant sea
side tows of Hull, England, not long
ago.
Mr. Henry Jackson, a person of impos
ing presence and glittering eye, had
served in the British army, and had, after
leaving it,beld th dignity of dram-major
of the Hull Rifle Volunteer. But be
had wearied of -war and mock war, and
had made up his mind that bis true mis
sion was rattier to cure than create phys
ical ills in man. So he bad retired fn m
the drum-msjorship, had fitted up a soxn
lite and mysterious-looking apartmint,
and bad announced to ailing humanity
that, by strange gifts and stranger medic
ament, he was ready to assuage it pains
and forever banish its Imperfections. Mr.
Henry Jackson was in the height of suc
cess and reputation when a .lusty young
farmer, who was for the moment out of
health, hearing of the great bea!er's won
derful cure, repaired to him in all child
like confidence.
This rural geatleman, however, aft:r
passing uu Gash aa amazing variety of
treatment, and spending, to no parpose,
several hsndred pounds, at' last awoke to
the truth, and had Hr. Henry Jackson
indicted at Borough Sessions for obtain
ing mosey oa false pretenses.
The tale unfolded by the duped Dick
ett, the treat meat he underwear, thewoa
dcrfal medicines he'partooic of, thegold
eu promises made to him, were a revela
tion. "Professor" Jackson bad first told htm
to blow through a tube into a glass of
water, whereupon ths water turned im
mediately like milk. The professor seized
the rustic by the arm, and conjured him
to lose no time in sajing hi prayer, for
he would not live over two months. Then
began the selling of inncmeraCle bottles
of "Indian remedy," which gradually
made the water turn less milky. Yet
poor Dickett was far from being cured,
and had yet a hard medicinal road to
travel.
:!. First he bought n box of .tuff
to have come from India, for bich
said
he paid three pounds ten, with five sliil
lings extra for expressage fiom Calcutta.
Then he was told by the professor that
the great Indian balsam merchant of
whom he had obtained his medicine had
just died, at the goad age of one hundred
asd seventy, and that lie (the professor)
had been lucky, enough to ooUiu the
munna and balsams of the aged patri
arch The manna, Dickett was assured,
was that which the Israelites used in the
wilderness, and that very little of it
would keep a per$o" alive many days.
For a box of this Dickett gladly paid
fifty-one pounds. An analysis having
ueea hmo j! this costly and biblical
food, it was found to consist of about six
pennyworths of citrate of magnesia; the
"elixir of life" turned out to be simply
so m-cch colored water; while the "pre
cioB oiotmeal" was composed of ordi
nary uuttert
ni- - 9
ue cHnoH-s remedies and imposing
presence 01 air. ueary jacasoa irresisti
bly remind S3 of other asd less prosaic
days, when tile dUpcntcrs of wonderful
Oriental balsams were wont to ply their
mystic profession undisturbed by the
tniuious of the law. There ure old peo
ple still living whn can remember a
quiint old fellow, who called himself the
"County Palatine." who used to harangue
the crbwd eloquently from a box in C-jv-ent-Garden
Market, with a negro servant
arrayed in gorgeous livery bv his side,
standing ready to hand hitu 1L0 ludtaai
and elixir, which we're eagerly demand
ed by his credulous auditors. The fame
of the celebrated Joeph Baltamo, im
mortalized in the hutory of the "Dia
mond Necklace," and. as Caglimtro, in
Dumas' "Diary of a Physician," is not
Jjet dim. He had gloomy rooms in
nuigbiionuge, anu mere unpen sea 10
thousands of the Mayfair fashiouablcs
"tEe Egyptian pill of life." It is curious
that Bslamo, who plied hi trade undis
turbed in London, was arreted in Rome,
not as a quack, but for spirit-rapping.
An imposture of a more rout antic tort
was recently exposed in one of the Lon
don courts. The perpetrator was an eld
erly gentleman, aged seventy-five, with
glossy white hair and trim ahie-wbitker,
a very noble and patrician air, dressed
with the nicest precision, and with a
courtly manner which almot" compelled
respect. He claimed arisUxracy of birth;
and, although be had Jii, they were
high-sounding ones. His name might
be Seymour, or it might be Cavendish;
justice might take its choice. This pre
possessing personage was charged with
inveigling looluh young women into
matrimony, and swindling them out-of
whatever money and jewelry of theirs he
could lay his hand on. Never was a
more remarkable career of irapotcre ad
pretense betrayed in a court of justice
than that of ilr. Seymour, aliat Caven
dish. He was, in trutl , a very old fox
indeed: but, as the Eeglhh adage has it,
"the old fox gets fat upon geese, but lie
comes to the skinner at last;" and the
venerable swindler of no less than fiftr
six years found a limit to hii feurberiu
at last within the walls of Dartmoor
Prison.
It trampired that this pV.rioiaa-looV-ing
eron wa convicted of fraud in
France a long ago as the year 1819,
ahen Louis XVIII. was rdgaing, and
but a short four years after Waterloo. He
seems to have carried on bis operation
indiscriminately in all countries; for nine
years after be was sentenced to ten years'
peaal servitude in Brabant. Waile re
siding in Belgium, where he had man
aged V) procure the prufetsorbip of
languages in a Jesuit college, a demand
fur hi extradition came from France,
and be was sentenced to fifteen years
more. But the assurance of the accom
plished villain stood him in good ttead;
and, after being securely lodged ia a
French jU, be induced the jailor to be
lieve that he was the Duke cf Devon
shire, and bribed him to let him escape
from prison in a vomw'i attire. His
principle offense seem to have Leeo
iudting under high-founding came,
vantd by an t ccaii jaal marriage, which
he affected with charming indifference
to the fact that he was very much mar
ried already. Atone time be gave himself
nutu tlicxmof iheDakeof tVcllingt-jn;
and here and there he repre-eoled him
self as the scion of divers tieble'familie.
Twice within the pat five year he ha
been convicted io Belgium,, once for
swiudling and once for defrauding the
proprietor of a Brussels hotel by torged
letters or credit.
His latest exploit wat of a piece with
the rcxt, only rather more fiavofed by ro
mance; although, far the matter of that,
hi whole career has ben a losg romance
of craft and crime. It appears that one
Anne E izabctb Pugg advertized, vey
innocently, for a situation as "a lady
companion." To this advertisement Mr.
Henry Seymour rendered a quick re
spoose. Hs was a gentlemen, he said, of
wealth and aristocratic family, asd was
desirous of engaginc a bouse keeper to
preside over hi rural villa in Italy. The
confiding 3Iis Pugg easily swallowed
the bait. Itwat so much better an offer
than site ciuld have hoped tor! She
cou.d live in ease, and on a good salary,
beneath the sunny skie and m the balmy
breezes of the fair southern land 1 ae
met Mr. Seymour, and waj delighted
with him. He was so gracioos, so ptri
ciau! The old rascal lavished all his
arts upon the trustful young woman; and
anon began to touch upon the tenderest
of tubjtcU. His Pugg was comely, and
knew it; after all Mr. Seymour had good
taste, and was to delightful, so irresist
ible an old gentleman! He told her that
he could lay a splendid fortune at her
feet, and that, as he would not probably
live long, at his death she might make a
marriage-with a younger man, and have
all his wealth to enjoy with her sec
ond sponse. With Miss Pugg's maiden
aunt he was not less successful. He was
prodigal of his blandishments on this
lady, and begged her to be the trustee of
the magnificent settlement he intended
to make upon her niece. He banded her
a pickaire of papers, purporting to be
trust deeds; they were afterward exstn
ined ,and found to be a bundle of old
copies ol the London Itmt. After a
month's brief and ardent courtship, Anne
Elizabeth promised blushlngly to Ins his;
and soon after tliev were married, the
happy bridegroom signing himself on
the register as "Kichard Henry Conway
Seymour."
wut poor Miss Puggs blis was not
long !ating. In the early day of the
honeymoon the lanre fortune, vanished
int i air. Then the bridegroom began to
spena me sivnuer earnings which the con
hding bride had intruded to him "to
keep for her." He treated her kindly,
uowevcr, anu never came home tiosv:
i . t. - -i-i? . , . .
uu wie ueugnicu in mt erudite and ool
: -1. j i r
isiiuu muycraura. me poor woman
wouiu, pcriiaps, nave ciuag to lilm to
this day had it not been that, one bright
morning, be was rather earnestly called
for by the police. He had been at some
of hisold swindling trick, and was cap
tured lcfore Anne Elizabeth's own eyes.
Then, the horrible truth came oat that he
una anotnerwiie. anu mat mere were
some reason to believe that there was an
Indefinite number of Mrs. Seymours scat
tered about tho globe. At least it was
proved that he was mairied at South
ampton, in 1SC1, to one Aletbea Thomas,
which Alcthca was still alive, mourning
her fnithlvss lord.
Such a character as this is certainly
worthy of being called, as Cotcridgo say,
"a psychological study." He was evi
dently a mtn of liberal education a&'l
Sue social acoomplUhmeutt. lie had a
clear head and active Intellect, capable
of cunningly combining intricate
schemes, aad carrying them out with
col irecision aad skill. Of the ordinary
vices of the adventurous villain he scetas
to have been quite free. He never ate or
drank to excess; was not, as far as could
be learnfcdj aJSTr-ie bCBsdca or ilodj
naco, or of any other of the great gamb
ling centre; hi language was always
scrupulously projer and elegant; his at
tire faultiest; his manner were at enee
griciuu and dignified. He seem to
hue pursued a career of conscisscelei
fraud fir a period of nearly sixty yeaner
the mere cool lore of mischief; and, at
threescore and fifteen, fouad dclitrht in
dupiag a young woman for the sake of
the few pounds she had been able to col
lect by hard aad honest labor. Were he
to write, as he could do with ability, hi
auvoaiures oaring mat long nait-cestury.
hat a tale tt would be! .IBM
Journal.
Auomalies of English Spelling.
HOW THU ALTUaBCT IS TOR TYRED
one ovr.u foett socmm.
TO
Oae of the principal difficulties ia
learning the Evgiish language is the in
explicable manner in which most ef the
words are spell!, the taeatv-ux letter
uf the alphabet vying with each etfecr to
represent the fenvor frty-twe ad
of the language in the most busgiisyg
and disorderly manner.
Be the capacity f a fblW ever w rrod.
yet be must sjetxi years in learning taese
eigcercan only master our noble laa
gcage by a vast expense ef labor, pa
tience and time.
The Protean nstureef the vowel touad
is familiar to all. A few amusing exam
ples will show that the OMatoaaata are
nearly as had :
11 makes a road broad, tarns the ear to
bear aad Tom into a tomb.
C makes limb climb, banged chaaccd.
a lever clever and transports a lever to
cloverr.
D turns a bear Id beard, a craw to a
crowd aad make aager.daager.
F teres tamer regions te fie a er regat.
G chasges a oa ta a song aad makes
one gene. .
it changes eight into height.
K makes now know and eyed keyed.
L transforms a pear into a pearL
tarns a liac into linen, a crew te a
crown and makts oae none.
,P metamorphose lumber into ptamWr.
Q.f itself, htlh no sigaificaaee.
S turns even is seven.makes have shave.
and word a sword, a pear a spoor, makes
slaughter of laagnler, aad curioasiy
chttsgrs has tag a hoe to suiting a sLos.
T mikes a bough bought, tors here
there, alter one ta toae, cfeaages tther
to tdker, aad traasforais the phrase at
taw his owa te "tallow hi t'swa."
W doei well, e. g hose are whose, are
beo"taes waic, oo won, emen wemra, o
sow, vie we; it makes an arm warm.
and tarns a hat lata what!
Y tares fur to fury, a man i many, te
to ty. a rub te a ruby, our te vour, aad
a lad to a lady: Mom ratter.
Tnn Wisokiu. is Dctcs Art.
Whole regimcau of windmills are-oso
Unually at wi tk, kcejung the balaace
even between the inlaed and oataru
water, pumping up that uf the lew lete4
omcieatly high to enable it ta fiad an
exit into the sea. Bide thi. they taw
wood, grind flour, ciU.U Uosced, etc,
thstitis.no woodcr that they bold M
honorable a pi ice in D'atch art. It I
fuuod that they alr raisv the water
profitably to a height of three or four
feet, so that whra ten or twelve feet have
to be accomplished, three mills, in s4cpt
one above another, are employed, each to
do its owu share of the work. There are
laid to be nine thousand of these indus
trious slaves in Holland. And Amster
dam would secsi to b the very center of
the battalion. There is one in each an
gle of the now unlets fortifications, and
they ara sprinkled up aad down all along
the outer canal. The town is the crown
of wonder of engineering skill, patient
labor, and untiring struggles with water,
weather, and wind, for tho whole place
is below" the level tof the sea. It has
struck its roots deep below, like a great
patient oak, and there is almost as much
material sunk beneath the feet at I to be
seen above the htad of the inhabitants.
Tho ugly palace alone is built upon more
thaa seventy thousand piles. hat die.
Thk Ilw bias SoLDtcn's So lace. The
Russian soldiers are said to live and
fight almost wholly upon tea. The Co-
stcka otten carry it about in the shape of
bricks, or tile, which, before hardening,
are soaked in sheep s blood and boiled in
milk, with the addition of flour, butter
and halt, so at to constitute a kind of
soup. The passion of tho Italian for this
beverage i simply attnoishing. In the
depth of winter he will empty twenty
cups in succession, at nearly ojiling
point, until he perspires at every pore,
and then, iu a state of intent excitement.
ruth out, mil in the snow, get up and go
on to thr next similar place of entertain
ment, bo Willi the army. Vtiib every
group, or circle of tents, travels the in
variable tea-cauldron, suspended from a
tripod; and it would be vain to think of
computing bow many times each soldier
psnikin is tilled upon a halt. It is his
Iirt idea. Frequently he carries it cold
in a copper case, as a solace upon the
march.
Hume's doctrine was that as the circum
stances vary, tho amount of happiness
doc not; that the beggar cracking his
fleas iu thesunthine, and the duke roll
ins by in hi chariot, the girl equipped
for her first ball and the orator returning
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inutn pliant irora tho debate, had dibcr
cut means, hut the same quantity of picas
ant excitement, Enierton.
Heller and the Hacktuac.
When Heller, the magician, arrived In j
this city on Friday las', he directed the
backman to drive him to the Parker
house Ksacliing the Lot-L he stepped,
briskly ppvto.the clerk's desk, .and was
k-du surmuoiita uy a nost ot'oid mend;
inoluding Dr.,Tompkios,.of the liototi
Thfcatre,.rlhttr Cheney, Henry CJafrctt;
Prank Chanfrau anil a dozen others,
Amid the h'tarty greetings' came aiwih
voice, which soon attracted general at-;
tention. j
It appears that the hwtkman hadn't i
bean ptid.
VVhat i it, my rkx! friend; what are
you yelling to tnc aboutH
Mr Wfr
deavsatlcd
"I wanri me fare. I. saw von sTupf
away. Two dollar for yen and the
lady."
Tal answer created a .langh among
lae magician mends.
l Know i paid yu
claimed Mr. Heller.
, you rascal," ex-j
"Dvil a ctnt."
"Veo put it iu yuur hat. Hand
I
Io '
it
me!" aad to the coostcraatioa of Jehu
there was a bright, clean two-dollar note
taken from the lining of bis cady and
bekl up to the gax nf the tapidly in
creasing cVnisd. Vsbby stool transfixed
with wonder.
i m sural a ot jour future, my jw
ininw, anu advise yuu to alter year
course," iaterposod 31 r. Jarre tt.
"Be virtuous aad youll be happy,"
was me a.ivice ot Air. Uacntv.
"ThU after all our boasted Xew Eog
land civilixuion asd moral advancement,"
added Mr. Chanfrau.
"If this thing should got abroad!"
was Dr. Tororjcias' alarmiag exclama
tion. "Think ef yeur wife and chlWrea.
It-peat err it be tfo late," wat the kied-ly-tuwd
proptssitien of Mr. Heller.'
lk herr, gintlcmen, this it all coJ
enough, al vrx have me tank. Bat
may I aevcr see a sixpence agaia but I
wasn't paid, and that bit! I sever saw be
fore in alt me born days. I dida't have
a cint about me;" and the indignant
hackmaa slipped bis hands oa his coat
pockets.
You have ns ether mosey on yeur
pN'xnf domaaded Mr. Heller.
"Xe!" said the driver, unbesitatiagty.
""hit' this, aad this, and this, and
this!" iaoirtd the magidaa, at be deli
cately palled a bank nte first from the
poor cabman's tide coat rocket, then oae
from kit cuat caff, another from hi
paataiooet pocket, then another ftf-m
a boot tap. "My friend," continued Mr.
Hotter, in a v tice softened by e!liog
emotions, while the croad moaned with
excess of sorr.sw ovef the ssd cxhihitloa
ef bsmaa depravity, "toa are not yet,
lesr, oat vim are on the brink or rata.
We all feel for yett.ioal wernlltmeat'
Aad greaas came ia rrapiasc.
"Leik herr, me fneadt." cried the
hackmaa. "this here thisg' played out.
I m set the worst mas la the warld,"
when ta his rstter horrsr the magician
stonaed him to Lake from Lis east txick.
et, hat, (roster, aad lxt tops. But eali
greeauacks aad pstnty ot silver coin,
bet pens, blottieg paper, ta itches, black
cards, aad the geacral invoice of station-!
ery usually to be fouad oo a hotel desk.
-Jlaa, who are you, aayhoaP cried
the poor fellow, at he crossed himself,
aad commenced to back out.
"Harkhaw, the detective r cried Jar
rett, at he struck an attitude.
"My name is Nerval," replied Mr.
Hrllcr.
"Ti Clifford vtiice, if ever Clifford
spokr," fcld-sl1 Mrt Clscsey.
I am thy lathsr jpmt," groined Jlr.
Caaofrsu. And by" "this time the pcr
terbod Hriter hi'i "'rcched the street,
tlwou of ivghcr falling oa hi eir, aad
with -aaether surprise a-4aitin2 him. Mr.
Heller had placed a five-dollar note in
the man's vest posket. Z7.'a TruttUtr.
Give the Xatnes.
Trader-bearted reader, do cot waste
your tears aad pity aad indignation over
the beart-rccdiag articles that describe
the ruin 'which some fiend in human
form has wrought iu oae of the wealthi
est acd most refined families of any par
ticular city, in jsliich canes are kindly
suppressed by the maguanimou reporter,
on account of the high respectability of
the parties or the angui.h of the lady
family. Bless your simple soul, never
suffer yourselvt to feel sad or indignant
or pitiful orer any article fn which the
names are kindly suppressed. For the
man who writes these thing would get
up iuuuu iu mc uiuraiog, wiui
the thermometer oae hundred and ninety
degrees below zero, and walk barcfovtt
from here to theltocky Mountains to dis
cover and print the name of the slightest
offenders iu such case, aad when he s.y
ne suppresses tiie name you may know
he has never suppressed anything but the
truth. That's one reaioa why people
love this column so dearly. They know
it's all sober truth, solemn fact, because
we always give names and places and
uaic. i ou never caicu us suppressing a
painful fact about Mr. Bildcrback or
Middlerib or Dresveldorf or Bostwick.
because its publication may hurt their
feelings. "Never. Truth always for ut
Truth before anything. Truth before
breakfast; like a cocktail. Then it tuts
all day. That same early truth. ait
Eye.
A xoc.to Woman's Tniuurii. Our
readers will remember Miss Elizabeth
Johnston Ellis as the young woman who,
after having been elected class-poet at
the Wcsleyan University, was obliged by
a minority oi mo young men to resign
she has just demonstrated anew her
ability as a student. Walter S. Carter,
Esq, of Xcw York, formerly of Hart
ford, established an annual prize of the
value of $100 for excellence in tbo critl
cal itudyof English literature. The essays
are submitted anonymously. There was
a vigorous comctltlon this year, but
Jits! tills' esi ay was adjudged Hie oeu
She has accepted a position at Wcllcsly,
with a salary of xsw.
Bostox hat been looking at a mammoth
cheese of 1,100 pounds weight.
The Jolly Cobblers.
In Flander the company of cobblers
not only take precedence of the os mpany
of shoemakers, hut bear fir their arm a
boot with an imperial crown upon it.
They ascribe this honor to the Emperor
ihsrirs - , who was torn! of wandering
iu$nito, and on a certain night strolled
Into a cobbler's stall to'get hi boot
meoded. He found the cobbler making
merry with his friends; and when be
preferred hit request, was told that they
were ktcplpg the festival of Crispin and
that no work could be done on tLat dav
for any man, even tboaghhe wereCharlc
tumtelf; but that be wat welcome to
come io and join them ia driuklng to St.
Crispin, for they were is merry as the
emperor iiimscu cousu r. 'As inii lavl
Utiun jumpetl with the emperer's humor,
be acccplci it, aad joined them i& their
drickiag.
"Here's Chirkrs V.'s h-lth." uM the
cobbler.
I "Do you love biat asked the emperor.
-L-ave rami saw the eobbter, "aye, I
love hi taag-ameship well eaeugh, but
I should lore him more if he would tax
u lou."
They finished St. Crispin's day very
pleasantly, aad on the marrow the em
perwr seat for the cobbler to the palace,
and mightily surprised him by thinking
him for.his huspitatity oa the previous
creniag, asking him t same what reward
he woaid like bear. The amazed cobbler
took the eight to thiak of it, aad on the
next day appeared bsfore the emperor,
aad requested thtt the cobblers of Flin
ders might bear for their Cuat of-armt a
boot with a crown upon It. It wat such
a moderate rrqeest tkat the omparer told
him he wotild not eely graat that bet
astriaer, also; whereepoa tie sua of Cris
pin asked that the cobblers might alto
take prceedc&ee of the shoemaker, a re
quest which wat also graated to mm.
The "Good Old Times."
Acuiissas beek, ea "The Good Old
Times" in BerHa, has been published by
IVefcssar G. LsgracheiJt. Ia the mid
dle of the eig&tceata ccatery bo oae
oecld leave the cosetry without a special
pat, oa psaalty f krsieg the whole ef
ais property, csttzeas accascd ef thtlt
asd murder were pat to the tarlure aad
banged tf they eoatesscd thalrgiit;evea
frasdsleat baakniptcy wa punished by
haagisg. A boy tea year old was
hanged for lilieg a street laatera. The
wealthier citizcas were ortleted by the
king ta bcikl beasts is the Friedrieh
stadt; aad, a these he grserally re
mained uaoccpied,tbetr proprietor were
often newly raised. The pualshmeat
for driving to quickly is tbrj trreets was
twenty -five blows with a stick, aad the
king himfslf used to beat the people of
his court, including the pritsce aad pria
cesses, with a losg kaotty stick of white
thorn, which ha become hutericaL The
tillicers thrashed the sergraaU, the ser
geants the private, employers their ser
vant. Street tights wee wf daily ecccr
reace, and the victims were most fre
quently the police, whose otSce was
considered dishonorable. All appotat
menu in the civil service had te be per
chated. The pnee ef a privy ceuacsksr-
ship was five haadred thalers, of aa
urdiauy ouecierlup three he&dreu
t&aicrs, ef a pntate secrrUrjship ton
hundred thsler. F-r salaried posl thr
pnee was. higher; tset, fur aa apptslat
meat, theisaiary uf hse waStea trtalert,
the pricewat six huadnd thaler.
f. "
A vest picturxBe stery Is teld by a
White Salpher Spring cencspoadent e(
the CwrT-nrrerf,rr"xrdtag the widow
of Cuveraur Ptckca. of S tuth Ckndiaa.
Hbc wa very moeh grieved," says this
corns pondeat, calmly, "at a nea pltr
article concerning herself, which spoke
of her accepting Goicraor Pickens n
Csiadition that he obiaiBrd a foreign mis
sion. She said that it teemed k merce
nary and calculatiag ia a girl of etghtcoa.
The truth was that the was an only child,
aad the mission to Kastia was the
mother' objection to the marriage. Gov
ercor Pickcn wat rrjected.aad had taken
hit passage for Eftrope. He wrote a fare
well letter to hi lady-love, bat before
concluding said it was net too late for
her to chaoge her miad, for if she would
telegraph him after receiving the letter,
aad accept his propjsals, he would meet
her la .Xew Orleans and let the steamer
sad, without him. She did accept, aad a
few weeks afterward they sailed together
as man and wife. The marriage proved
happy, nothing but the war interrupting
the course of true love. Governor and
Mr. Pickcn returned to South Carolina
about the time that State seceded. Dur
ing their residence in Europe they bad
made many purchases of pictures, statu
ary, furniture, rare laces and jewels.
Thcc arrived at the port of New York in
a sailing vessel a month after their arrival.
Everything was confiscated. Among the
articles were busts ot the governor and
his wife by Powers. AXew Yotk gen
tleman purchased toesc at the sale, and
after the war was over sent them to the
owners io South Carolina."
A PitACTiCAi. Use or Doos.--It is
fact perhaps not generally known that
there is a firm doing business in Sao
Francisco who purchase the thousands of
dogs slaughtered by the pound-roaster of
that cut. or that may have ocea oilier
wise killed, for which ttcy pay forty
cents each. Tho carcasses arc conveyed
to their manufactory at houtli ban I ran
ciico. where the skins are removed aad
sold to tho tanneries, the hair takca off
and resold to plasterer, the bides tanned,
made into gloves, and sold in the market.
The denuded carcass is then thrown into
a huge cauldron and boiled until the
bone are easily separated from the tlesb,
when they are removed and. sold to tho
sugar refineries, where they am ground
to a powder and used to clarify sugar.
Thcoil that rises to the surface of the
boiling mass is skimmed off and manu
factured Into cod liver oil, and tho re
mainder is used for the purpose of fatten
inghogs. '
Advice that is given arrogantly or
sharply can scarcely be expected to be
received with humility and gratitude.
In Men'n Clothe.
In the early prt of July Mr. Jetse
Hinlu, a farmer oa Main ttreet, near the
Brewer Brick C-mpany Work, in Brewer,
wat called upon by a good-looking young
mtn who desired to aiitiu havier. Mr.
HinVs engaged the person, aad Charles'
Ml - l .
iiui&i, as xic K3TXUI name, commenced
to do all the work of a common laborer i
on the farm. Haying wat ia operation,!
aad be Io-lc bold with readiness and was ,
a thorough and efficient farm band. After j
remaining with Mr. Hinks till the busy
season was over; about a month, aad, be-S
log out of work, he went to Orrington,"
where heoegaged board with Mr. Levis
Coltos, about a mile below rrisztoa
turner. If"t5InecT-si-re louse little
time, asd about .the first week in Sep
tember was taken sick.
Several phytidxas-atere called at dif
ferent times during the sickness. Dr.
Beker.of Hampden; Dr. Woodcock, of
urcwer village; Dr. W altos, of tins aty,
and Dr. Thomas, of Brewer, all visited
the patieet. The disease was pronounced
inflammation of the bowels, and in to
or three weeks the sick per-oa was up
aad around all right. He Uild the doc
tors who hid been to the trouble of vis
iting him that he had a brother, a physi
cian in Aroostook county, who owed him
some $300. He bad a friend la Bangor,
however, who would settle the bill. The
gaatlemaa. when tees, to Ed them tome
thing that let a strasge light oa the af
fair. The aforesaid Charles Works, al
though the semblance of a man, was la
reality a woman. This aooa spread, aad
the perca of whom a feminine proa&ca
must now be used, toon feend herself
the subject of a deal of gtntip. The
surprise was very great, aso" many cosld
aot believe the report, bat various sus
jHciout things were taken in account, and
Last w cek it became a settled fact that the
was a woman, aad the acknowledged It
after tome time.
She had, however, succeeded in dis
guising herxrlf very perfectly, and rose
mistrusted she was other thaa a man.
She wore men's clothing, aad s"tmH
most of the habits ef young r&es. She
smoked and chewed with the rest of
them, aad Manly RinVin, the wielderef
the shears in Breaer, has shaved her ter
eral time. She has been around with
boys most of the time and spent oae
week en the blueberry plains with them.
Oa alt these occasions no incident c-
currrd which would lead aay oae to sup
pose that she was other thaa her dres
Indicated.
She I spoken of as a person of a free,
opea coeatcaaace, posseastag by no
means coarse or masculine lea la res. and
t of dark complex loo, wearing her hair,
which is ourly. cat dote. Nothing but
down grew en her face, but since being
saaved the skin has become rough asd
the growth of hair escouraged. She has
beea ia company considerably daring the
seasoa, aad has seemed to be much in-
eliaed ts fiirt with the girls, thut iadec-
iag the jealousy of tome young fellows.
She tu.t been especially attentive to a
young Ldy of Orriagtoa, aad has called
oa her several evenings, doing the "court-
i .v
m- li"n mux.
The reason given by her for her strange
coedoct i that her mother, who, accord-
lag to the girt a report, live ia Dixmnot,
letd her. a her father was dead, they
wtsttU have to look to her for sapport,
aad thin king she could get beUer wagrs
by astuiaiug the garb of a man, she di I
Shc iabul twenty years of age,
stoat aad atruag. and as a firm laborer
gtvg l sitit atti -a to ber employer.
.Saturday night she left Orrington with-
a-.. 1.1 . . . L
tk icswig worre oc was geiag. zaa
fr Ut ConmereiaL
Bcsixess tt BntsEss. A reporter on
the local edition f the D in bury JVYrs
weet to see the young lady be I krrp
iag cnmpiny with, S-irittay evening. She
met him at the door with a colorless face.
-Oh, TmP she cried, ia aa agitated
voice, "we have had such a scare ! Ma
was coming dowa stairs aad she caught
her foot ia the carpet aad went the whole
length"
"Hold oaP shouted the excited youth,
diving nervously ia his hip pocket for his
cote-book, while he whipped out a pen
cil from another recess. 2Jbw go no!
go on, Matilda! go oa, but be calm 1 For
heaven' sake, be calm! Kill hert"
"Gracious, aoP
"Break her back! Crush ber skull 1 Be
calm, be calm ! For the sake of science,
be calm!"
"Why, Tom," gasped the girl, fright
ened by bis impetuosity, "it wasn't se
rious. It was "
"Wasn't serious!" he gasped, Ia turn.
"Do you mean to say she dida't break
aa jibing after all that fus!"
"Why, certainly -aot. She never hurt
herself a bit."
"Well," ejaculated the-oang man,with
an expression of disgust oa his face, at he
sadly restored the book aad peccil to
their places, "that's alia womaa knows
about business."
LtouT Liteuatcre. "What is your
favorite author, Evalica!" her old father
asked, patting the a weet girl's head with
his loving band.
And Evalina, with the tell-tale blushes
mantling cheeks aad brow, looked bash
fully over toward where a shy, timid
young man was fidgctting iu a rocking
chair and trying to hide his aching feet
behind each other, and said, ia a voice
tremulous with what it meant:
"George's hand, p-padear."
"George Sand, eh!" said the innocent
old gentleman, "George Sand, ehT Le's
see, he was a woman with a maa's name,
wasn't she!"
So runs tho world away. HaieJUjt.
A MAJOKis tho United State army was
crossing from England ia oae of the
Cunard steamers, when oae afternoon a
band on deck played "Yankee Doodle."
A gruff Englishman, who stood by, ia
quired whether that was the tune the old
cow died of. "Not at all," retorted the
major, "that is the tuac the old bull died
of."
"I'x practically uaeasy oa this point,"
m mo ny nuu -itrea io lauur SUSCX. Bim
oa the cad of a needle.
The Chinese Jack the GLuat-Kjljer. If
In Pekla there was a soothsayer of a st-t
traordinary wit and power, who coaM x
tell from a man's face the date of hk, .
death, and could lengthen the dajs oC .
those who heeded' good advice, white
every skeptic wa sure to die at the tiate" -
appointed. c
Oatday aa otAeliever passed by, with-
ont waiting to bear the loo louver's wortl. Z.
and the latter cried out that be had" some
thing to say to him. It wa. thisi the
color of hi tact wa, very bad aad. If he
were to disregard tie soothsayer' advice,
h would L . 1-nm.a, rK. ,l.7..f J.
midnight. TV-maa.iet aad wat f.j
fcelpg rather Unco-Bfaeta-hle. rlffjr -must
die, I mtutj' sM be, affecU-
stoicism he could 'not reel. He cMi -eat
no fxxi on account of the strsrgie
between belief aad ca belief, acd Ids ex
mtemcat became io great on the eveaisg
of the third day, that be could sot tkesi.
He therefore set to reading. As it t4
neariog midnight, be heard a rarsbiiag
sound oo the roof, aad instantly hia outer
door opened of its ova accord, aad
in stalked a taaa of terrific appetraacr.
The scholar was much frightened, bat,
having aa ebony pipe la his hand, he
struck at the monster, who fell dowa ; aad
to! it was a paper sprite. He read oa,
his excitement not much allayed by this
accident. By-and-by he heard another
heavy tread oa the roof, aad a creature
more frightful thaa- the but was with
hira. Notwithstanding the aspect of the
new-comer, as the solitary watcher could
cpamaad no other weapon, the pipe wm
agaia used, aad dowa fell the mooster
a peice of earth. Sxro a rattling trarse
shook the roof, aad a creature more-kid-eod
tha the other to entered the.reem. r
The frightened raaa clutched JtJshErMCy
weapon again, aad oae blow brought
dowa the gixat a piece of wood, la a
snort time a groaaiag voice was heard
outside the door, pleading piteoujly for
admissloa. Reassured by ail adreaisrss
the hero asked ia a bold toae what the
visitor wasted. He prayed for delirer
aace, for with cock-crow, if be were cot
saved by the riant-killer, he would be a
dead mas. It was the csoiuror who bad
accosted him three days before, aad had
wielded all his power to carry oa: his ova
prophecy aad was aow foiled for the first
time la his life. He told bow maay peo
ple he bad murdered by his black. arr, .
aad the aext morning the coaqserer
handed him over for yanisha.es t to the
district magistrate.
The Origia of "tie Telescope. .
With reference to Galileo' claim to be
the inventor of the. telescope, M-Wohf
quotes AaUx der PJiyilk i CXcmu) ,
from a raaauscript of .Schelacr (1515) ia
a library ia ZaricA, a csrfoss passage, of
which the following Is part: Mt rasst he
allowed first, considering what the tele
scope does, that Baptist Porta has betser
rigbt to be thougst tiein-reo tor, becasse
he describes, alter his crsra way, ia ob
scare word aad periling ex pre, jo a, aa -instrument
like the telescope. Bat sec
ondly, if we spek of the telescope, as is
is now used after geaeral perfection, we
must saT that neither Porta, nor Galileo
it the first discoverer of it, but the tele
scope la this sesse was disorrered ia
Germany, among the Belgians, aad that,
accxdeataily, by. oae Kramer, who sold
spectacles, aau either for amuscsteat or
expcnmcataCioa cjiaoiaed oj&cve aad
couvex giaases, so Sat with. gUe be
could sec a quite smalt abd distust olject
targe aad ccar; at which aacccss being
rrjiced, he united 'Ttevvrat similar pairs
ot glasses ia a tubeasd offered the cosi
btaatioa at a high price to wealthy peo
ple. Thereafter they (the telescopes)
became gradually morecummoa arauog
the pc-tple, aad spread lu otlter countries.
Ia this way two of them were brocghs
for the first time by aBagiaa sercaaat '
to Italy; uf these, oae retxuised loag ia
the college at IIjoic; the other went arat
to Venice, later to Xapies; aad here the
Italians, aad especially Galileo, at that
time Professor ot Mathematics ia Padua,
took the opportunity of improving it, ia
order to apply it to astronomical pur
poses, aad extend its use further. Thaa
the telescope, as we have it to-day, Was
discovered by Germany aad perfected by
Italy; the whole world aow rejoices ia
Tan Hot is Fathuu to the Mas.
Do better whea be is older! Xo; if yea
leave him to himself he is sure to do
worse. Whea yuu expect nature to con
vert a bad boy Into a gflod taaa you ex
pcet a miracle of her; rod nature arwr
performs miracles. Yoa might as .well
leave that young sapiatf to the wiad
which beats It awry, aad. hope that it
will be a straight, well-formed tree whea
it is aa old one. No, job kaow better
thaa that,
You are aware that it is the leader
youag tree which yields to tralaiag aasl -culture,
and that every year it is more
difficult to straighten ir. Make the hoy
a good boy, if yon desire him to be a
gojd maa; hones', if yoa hope to have
him stand upright before his fctlow-mea.
If he steals small change now, aad haa
no scruple about being unfair aad un
truthful with his parent, he will do the
same thing on a larger scale twenty years
from now.
If you cannot cure him of tying co
he will never be a man whose word u aa
good as his bond. If be Is a rude, coarse,
uagentlemanly boy, years will not alter
him. Vices or faults will grow all the
stronger with ripening years. A bad lit?
tie boy will be a much wure man.
But there is comfort iu this thought:.
You need not fear for the manhood of a
good boy. If the little fellow lojks lata
your eyes and speaks the honest truth, If
he is respectful to those who deserve re
spect, brave when he should be brave, aad
yet with no shame of being gv&tlc, thaak
Heaves, aad do aH you can to keep him
so; but have no fear. As vices strength
en, so do virtues. The gxl boy is mow
Ihsn Hktv tn'lwa Iwith.. n is r n
- .WVIIU W.U
in if. y1. jwdcsr.
Rjutcro batter is liked la Iceland, aad
a commistioa of I eel antler are ia t
euiswirj io esiauusa aa agency tor rwr-
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