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New and Old. + C
New little feet * ?
Patter on the floor; .
New little faces
*" Peep through the door^
Slew little aonls ?
Hare entered Into life; \New
little voices ?
Speak in love or strife
Now little flugera a
Tightly clasp our own ; E
New little tendrils
Bound our hearts have grown. 6
Still the old voioes *
Echo in our ear, ?
And the old faces ^
Hallowed are and dear ; a
Still the old friends g
Who have passed away,
Live in our affection? - ?
Love has no decay ; .
And the old words, 1
Spoken long ago,
Keep the heart tender,
Make the tears flow. h
_ ri
Thus New and UIU ?
Mingle in one, w
. Each has its blessing ; y
And when life is done,
Old faces, old friends ^
Will meet ue again? jj
Treasures long buried 0
We shall regainAll
that is lovely, a
All that is true, a
Will live on forever, a
' The Old and the New. n
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THE KIDNAPPED BOY. n
The following remarkable account of u
an atrocity alleged to have been per- ^
petrated in New York city is copied 8)
from the San FranciBOo Evening Post, a
It exhibits, if trne, an organized system k
of kidnapping so revolting and cruel in
every feature as to aeem improbable ; j
yet the paper named above asserts that tl
* noff.Vniaf a
UiO dU/'UUUb 10 UUu 1U v i vi j j/ut ?*V wtM*.
George F. Staple, the lad who makes 01
the charges, is a native of Borne, N. Y., a
and havipg worked as a carpenter in p
' New York city some time ago, after a
spending a few weeks with his mother *1
in Rome in May, 1872, he returned here b
to get work on the Brooklyn bridge. P
Failing in that, he worked for Hugh ?
O'Neill, stair-builder, corner of Co- u
lumbia and Congress streets, Brooklyn, h
and W. F. Furey, on Van Brunt street, t<
Brooklyn. About last Christmas his a:
work gave out. He a?kin went home,
taking his aged mother $300. In May b
he returned here, and his experiences <*
iua thus recorded :
For some days he walked around
from one carpenter-shop to another fi
without finding anything to do, when, C
on the 9th of May, between four and P
five o'clock in the afternoon, he found P
himsolf on "Water street, having been t<
inquiring for work at the shops on the h
East river side of the city. He had m
about determined to give up his search h
for the day, when, as he walked along, b
u well-dressed man came up briskly be- b
hind him and tapped him familiarly on tl
the shoulders. ri
" Would'nt you like something to 0
do ?" said the stranger. G
" Yes, sir," replied the lad ; " that is t<
T hom Kunn lnnlrinop fr%r 99 W
44 Well, I think yon will'suit me. I si
have been looking for some one to put A
in the way of a good job. How would k
tou like to go to San Francisco? I tl
have just made a big contract to put up h
) advertising for a patent medicine ont d
there, and I want to get a smart fellow it
to go with me."
441 should like to go, sir, if the wages ti
are good. Work seems pretty hard to hi
get here this spring. What would you ^
pay me, sir ?" tl
"I will give you $25 per month and it
pay all of your expenses ; so that you di
can save all your wages. The pay will s<
be in gold, too, and you can have a fiice hi
little sum when we get through, and hi
perhaps Btrike something even better w
out thexe, for there is plenty of money hi
to be made there by a smart man. J3'
Will you go ?" ii
44 Yes, sir. When do you wish me to w
start ?"
44 We shall have to get off by Monday t?
at furthest, (it was Friday,) but may tc
have to go by to-morrow night, for the hi
firm I have contracted with are in a tl
great hurry." P
44 Well, sir, I can be ready, though I Q'
should bke to have time and bid my oi
mother good-bye. But. if I can't do s<
that I can go over to Brooklyn, where I h
1 1 ??il mif tvitt h
ravo ueeu xiTiu^, ouu g>->
and meet you to-morrow." o]
" All right, but you had better come' b
and get supper with me, as it is pretty ft
Dear supper time, and we can talk it ail &
over." 01
They were by this time near the cor- fc
ner of Cherry street, into which they hi
turned, and ih^kind stranger who had cl
the big advertising contract for Cali- m
ifornia led the way to a house opposite b:
the Sailor's Home. It looked like a
sailor boarding-house, and on a small ct
sign bore the words, b;
" cha_ri.es gleason, boarding and q
lodging." ^
Two or three men were lounging t<
about the door, who looked somewhat C1
peculiarly at the lad as he passed in. if
The stranger, who proved to be Charles tf
Oleason himself, led thaway to a small n
washroom, which opened off a diningroom,
where a table was set. g
" Now, my boy, I suppose you feel a jt
little dirty, as you have been tramping ij
around all day; tuke off your things and a
give yourself a good wash." w
The lad took off his hat, his overooat e
and vest; hung them up, and rolling up B(
hie sleeves, began to wash. When he 7
had concluded he turned around for his c
clothes. o
"Nevermind," said Gleason, "I sent b
them to the baggage room, where they h
will be brushed and be safe. Put on ii
this till after we get supper," he added, 1
producing an old monkey jacket. w
The boy, though somowhat wonder- o
ing, put it on, and Gleason led the way 1<
into the'dining-room. No one was o
thfM exoeJ)t a man who reminded
. Staple of a lunatio, and who seemed n
nfrvd to *aay r word, though he com- ti
wsdnoed grinning-in a very significant d
way. They sat down and had s^pp?, n
lleason talking kindly to the boy all
he while about what they would do in
Jalifornia. When their supper had
?en finished he said :
" Now, I guess we had better go
[own and see the captain, and yon must
ell him that you are a sailor, and have
een going to sea for four years, and
hen you will get #60 advance."
" But I can't tell him that, for I ain't
> sailor. I have never been to sea in
ay life."
" D your soul, IH make you a
ailor," said Gleason, with a tbreatenng
air, clinching bis fists and advaning
on the boy, who retreated toward
he wash-room. " You -, oome
[own to the house and?at my supper,
nd then tail me you have never been to
ea."
"But it is true, sir; I never have
?een to sea."
" Hear me !" thundered the man.
? * M III
' I oil nave Deen to sea iour yeara i
" Bat I can't "
" D'ye hear me ?" shouted he again,
itting the boy a heavy blow with his
ight hand on one aide of hia head.
' You've been to sea four years, or I
ill knock the d head off you; do
ou hear ?"
" Yes, sir," said the boy, thoroughly
righteued, and feeling that he could
ave no chance for escape until he got
ut of the house.
After some more threatening language
sailor's oap was placed on his head,
nd with the landlord on one side and
stalwart runner on the other, he was
larched into the street. The boy's
ope revived as he got into the open
ir, and he told them that if they did
ot let him go he would call a policeion
and have them arrested.
" You say a word to anybody and I'll
nock the teeth down your throat,"
aid Oleason, while the runner, with
menacing gesture, swore he would
ick him to pieces if he opened his
ead. "And hear ye," aided the
indlord, " the best thing that you can
o is to keep as quiet as you can. All
tie policemen down here are my friends,
d if you call to one I'll give him a
cuiple of dollars to club you."
The boy made no reply, but looked
s keenly as he oould at those they
a86ed; but at the time (it was now
Iter dark) in that section of the city
lere was no one to be seen to whom
e dared appeal. Tiioy approacned a
oliceman who was standing on the
orner, and the boy, in spite of threats,
mde up his mind to oall to him ; bat
is resolve was checked when his capns
and the policeman nodded pleasutlv
to eooh other, and he thought his
ife'st plan was to see the captain, who,
1 his innocence, he supposed would
artainly refuse to take him when he
>und he was no sailor.
When they came to the shipping ofce?not
the office of the timtcd States
ommissioner, but an "outside" or
rivate office?the captaiu, who was
resent, without asking any questions,
)ld Gleason that the boy would not do,
e was not heavy enough, and he might
} well take him right back and bring
im a heavier man or none at alL The
oy attempted to speak, but was sisnced
by a threat and marched out of
le office again. On the way back the
inner proposed to take him to another
ffice and ship him for Liverpool, but
rleason refused, saying ho was going
> send him on a voyage where he
ould not come bock soon and would
trip him for China on Monday,
rrived at the house again, he was taen
to a small room at one end, where
lere was a little cot, and ordered to go
) bed, being admonished that if he
ared to try to escape daring the night
i would be at the peril of his life.
Left in the darkness, the boy canously
felt the floor and the bell, for
e had heard that there wero places in
ew York where they dropped men
trough traps; and then, finding nothig
that seemed like a trap, he sat
own on the bed and abandoned him3If
to his thoughts. As he thought of
Is position?a prisoner right in the
eart of the great city, and held by men
ho he was convinced would not hesiiie
to murder him, and threatened with
eing sent to China without even havig
a chance of letting hiB mother know
V?1%a who urt<1 na hn fYtnnarltf. nf liar
jony over his disappearance?bitter
jars came to his relief, and he resolved
> make an attempt to get out. It mnst
ave been about four or five o'clock in
le morning when he succeeded in
icking the lock on his door (there was
o window) and cautiously opened it,
aly tb see that he was guarded by a
mtinel, whose vigilance there was no
ope of eluding. There was a faint
ght in the larger room into which his
pened, and by it he saw an immense
loodhound raise himself from the
oor, and, with white teeth and low,
ivage growl, gather himself to spring
a the intruder. The boy drew back,
>r ho was very much afraid of dogs,
aving been badly torn by one in his
lildhood, and feeling that there was
a possibility of escape, commended
imself t-j God.
The long night passed, and morning
ime, and he was permitted to get some
reakfast; but during tne wnoie aay
as kept a secure prisoner, either
leason himself or one of his runners
eing always on hand to check any at:mpt
to escape. In the evening the
iptain of the Baltic sent up word that
Gleason could do no better lie would
ike the man who had been refused the
ight before.
Thereupon the considerate landlord
tted out the boy for sea. The peaicket
he had been wearing was of some
ttle use, so from a box of old clothes,
long, swallow-tailed coat, or what
as left of what had once been the proprty
of some shanghsed bummer, was
sleeted, and he was made to exchange,
'his, with an old quilt, two flimsy
heck shirts, three clay pipes, a pound
f plug tobacco and a -sheath knife and
elt constituted the outfit with whicu
e was to be sent to round Cape Horn
i the dead of the southern winter,
laking the boy carry his bundle, he
ras again taken down to the shipping
ffice, as on the night, before, the landjrd
on one side and the runner on the
ther.
Two or three men were in the little
x>m, but no one was paying any attenion
to him. He was marched up to a
esk and ordered to sign his name,
hen the deck pointed to a pieoe of
paper. " Sign, whispered thernnner.
Sign, or I will kill you," said the land*
lord, suiting the action to the word,
and striking him heavily under the jaw.
The boy wrote his name and was hurried
oat and down to the wharf with a
drunken man, whom he had noticed in
the shipping office. On the way he
ventored to ask when he was to get the
$50 advance which had been promised
him the day before.
"Ton will get that on board," was
the gruff reply.
At the wharf a boatman was hailed,
the drunken man was bundled down,
and, under the threat of being knocked
down if he did not move quiokly, he
was hurried into the boat, which, pulled
off to the Baltic.
."Take your dunnage into the starboard
forecastle," saia a man whom he
afterward found was the mate.
The boy started off toward the
cabin.
" Where are you going ?" shouted a
man, somewhat in liquor,who confronted
him, and who proved to be the boatswain.
"I was just going back there, air.
Are you the captain ?"
" Going back there, you fool!" half
laughed, half roared the boatswain,
hauling off and knocking him down
with a blow of his fiBt. "You're a
pretty specimen to oome aboard a ship.
Go forward there, or I'll kiok you forward."
There was no help for it; the boy
found the forecastle, and found there a
number of mea just like himself, who
had never been to sea before, but who
had all been shangbasd in pretty muoh
the same way. He finally approached
the mate, who seemed a kindly man,
but who told him he could do nothing
for him. Men were scarce, and the ship
muBt go to sea, and $50 had been paid
for him. Late at night the watchman
found him crying on the topgallant
forecastle, heard his story and agreed
to take a letter from him to be mailed
to his mother, telling where he had
gone. The last hope failol when the
captain and pilot came on board, and
the tugboats came u? and pulled the
Bhip through the Narrows and out to
sea, and the Baltio's white wings were
spread for an 18,000 mile voyage.
It is needless to say that Staples did
not get his advance, and, when-he spoke
of it, the sailors only laughed at nim,
and advised him to make a oow-hitch
in the extremities of his swallow-tail;
though they soon relieved him of these
by cutting off first one and then the
other to make blackball caps. But
they treated him well. The crew of
the Baltic was largely made up in the
same way, and there was among them a
barker, a tailor, a shoemaker, a soldier,
a fireman, and a carpenter, who hardly
knew one end of the ship fft>m the
other, and who had no more idea of shipping
as seamen to go ronnd Oape Horn
than they had of going on a journey to
the moon.
The officers treated him well. The
first mate took him into his own watch,
and he was not evqn -sent aloft until he
had got over his sea-sickness. The
treatment of the crew was excellent.
There was very little bullying and no
beating, and Captain Taylor did not
add to his sin of kidnapping men the
sin of torturing and killing them,
though the steward charged exorbitant
prices for the few articles whioh the
slop-ches contained. Arriving here,
ho was ?taken to Sanders' boardinghouse,
the third mate having given him
the abundant clothes in which he made
his appearance to Mr. Morrow.
We have given, in a conneoted shape,
the substance of the boy's story, without
color or embellishment of any kind.
There is nothing improbable in it to
any one who knows anything about
the manner in which ships are
manned in American ports ; and the
boy exhibits every mark of truthfulness
and sincerity. He appears
to be just what he says he is?a good,
hard-working boy. He is a member of
the Episcopal church, having been confirmed
in Home, and while in Brooklyn
attended the church of the Rev. Dr.
Bancroft. He fears that his mother
never got the letter sent ashore by the
watchman, as he asked her to write to
San Francisco, but found no letter
waiting him here.
A Horrible Trade.
Opium smoking is stealing away the
physical and moral life in China, and
the horrible sin of forcing the trade
IV. r?.i 1 /-v . ?4. ????
upon Mie V/Uinesw uuvciumcui, o?cu ui<
the cannon's mouth, lies at the door of
the great English nation?a Christian
nation whose missionaries are laboring
in every open port of China to bring
this heathen people to a knowledge of
Christ's truth. According to the last
quarterly report, the revennb from
opium alone nearly equals that derived
from all other imported articles ; and
this enormous amount of poison is nearly
all produced and brought into the
empire by British subjects and on British
ships. All careful observers can
see that heathen China is being slowly
but surely dragged down to the depths
of wretchedness by this rapidly increasing
evil, and all the world know that,
to a very large extent, the responsibility
rests with Christian England. No
traveler in China can fail to be profoundly
stirred by this subject, or to
realize the solemn duty of all Christian
nations to strengthen the feeble hands
of the Qovernment against this terrible
ain
A Commuter.'
The commuters on the N. Haven rood,
says the Danbury man, have held several
meetings recently to give the participants
opportunity to declare the road
to be a fiendish monopoly, and its officers
thieves. For the benefit of those
of onr readers who don't travel, we wish
to explain that a commuter is a man
gifted at euchre; he wears large buttons,
elegant studs, and ooeupies two seats.
When not engrossed in the vagaries of
the game he lightens care by throwing
spit-balls, and altogether he is a man
who suffers mush. We are glad he is
holding meetings, and hope it eases
him.
Why is a ehicten like a farmer ? BeI
cause both delight in a full crop.
Ladles' Feet In China.
The operations necessary for distort
ing the feet generally commence tx
tween the ages of six or nine, and tb
later it is deferred the greater is tb
pain inflicted on the girl Long strip
of native calioo are bound round tb
foot, going from the heel over the ii
step and toes; they are then passe
under the foot and round the heel, an
are fixed very firmily. The operatio
causes much pain, and takes a long tim
(usually two or three years) t>efore it j
perfected, for the only agent employe
is the long bandage of doth ; the fe<
remain extremely tender Ad useless fc
all practical purposes till the bonei
etc., have become set in the new aha?
into which they are forced. It is aai
that after the lapse of a few years,:
the operation has Deen skillful, there 1
no pain, and the foot becomes, in
manner, deadened, the effect of tfa
bandaging being to cheok the circuit
tion of the blood, and to prevent tb
farther growth and development of tb
foot. A medical observer tells us tbs
" there is a class of women whose voct
tion it is to bandage the feet of ohi
dren, and who do their work very neatlj
and, from what I have seen, the Oh:
nese women, who in childhood hav
undergone skillful treatment, do nc
suffer muoh pain, beyond the weaknet
of the foot, from the destruction of th
symmetrical arch, and the moonvenipnc
of being able to walk when the foot j
unbound and unsupported. If the fe(
have been carelessly bound in infancj
the ankle of the woman is general!
tender, and much walking will oaui
the foot to swell and be very painfuL
Without going too deeply into sui
gieal minutue, the following seems t
be the conseqaenoe of the oompressio
of the foot: the instep is bent on itseli
the heel-bone is thrown out of its hori
soatal position, and what ought to b
the posterior surfaoe is brought to th
ground. The ankle is thus forced uj
ward, and the great toe is the only on
that remains, the four smaller ones be
coming, in oourse of time, mere useles
pieces of skin. The.foot, too, beoome
narrow, and tapers o|T te the end of th
great toe; it is placed in a short, nai
row shoe, whioh is pointed at the to<
and very oommonly the heel is elevate
by means of a block of wood, the cor
sequence being that the woman seem
to be standing, as it were, on tip-Ux
or, to be moreprecise, on the tip c
her great toe. Tne following paragraph
will give a fair notion of the effect pre
duced by the force of fashion on th
Chinawoman's foot under varying oon
UXMVU0
When the prosess is begun at th
proper age, and the bandaging is prop
erly attended to, the heel sometime
oomes down to the ground, or rather t
the level of the end of the large to<
The heel seems to elongate under th
i process of bandaging ; but, when th
foot is large and almost full grown b<
fore the compression of it begins, th
fmel often cannot be brought down to
evel with the end of the toe. Unde
these circumstances, a block of woo
is put in the shoe nnder the heel. S
that the bottom of the block and th
end of the toe are nearly on the sam
level when the individual is standing.
We would here add that the fashior
able shoe which the Chinese lady wear
is not much more than three inohe
long, and that strips of oloth are wonn
round part of the foot and the lowe
part of the leg.
An Heroic Flagman.
Andrew Hill, the flagman at th
i Broad street crossing of the Morris an
Essex Railroad, will ever be gratefull
remembered by a young lady, who wa
rescued by him from imminent deatt
The young lady, who is the daughter c
a wealthy gentleman residing in Bloom
field, had been in the city during th
afternoon, and was on her way to th
depot to take the next train to retur
home. A train from New York ha
just passed, and the Morristown trai:
down, due at six o'clock, came thundei
ing down the grade as the girl ap
proached the crossing. In her haste t
get across, she fell directly in front c
the train. The headlight threw it
fearful glare upon her prostrate forn
and stout men, who had been occai
tomed to witnessing mutilated bodic
of the victims 01 rauroaa accidents, to
far off to render assistance in tim<
sickened and shuddered at tb<> thong 1
of the inevitable crushing of the fai
girl's beautiful form. The nearest ma
was Andrew Hill. He threw away hi
lantern, dashed between the prostral
girl and the train that now was withi
twelve feet of her, seized her in hi
arms, and with all his strength thre
himself backward. He fell! The di
of the wheels drowned the cry of th
doomed victims, and the misty ontlin
of the train for a moment nid thei
from view. Mr. Conklin had made
rush to save the girl, but Hill was nea:
er to her, and Mr. Conklin, tremblin
in every joint, saw them prostrate, clot
by the track, as the train passed fr
the girl held firmly in Hill's arms. A*
ter the danger was over the brave fia(
man rose to his feet and assisted h:
fair charge, who was entirely unscathec
to reach the depot, where she took tl
next train for nome. It is stated thi
the father of the young lady was ii
quiring for her rescuer next morninj
The romance is, however, taken ot
of this affair by the fact that Hil
though young and handsome, is ma
IV VVMi w^fm I
Fancy Silks.?The handsomest fan<
silks displayed this season, says a Fas!
ion Joarnal, have watered stripes thr<
inches wide, and are used for trimming
as well as for entire dresses. Th<
show two shades of a color, slat
myrtle, and other stylish colors. F<
evening dresses are alternate stripes <
satin and moire in pale rose, bine an
pearL Prices range from $8.60 to $5.<
a yard. For elegant polonaises to t
worn over velvet skirts there are stripe
velvets, alternating inch-wide stripes <
gros grain and velvet, or else satin an
velvet. These are shown in blael
brown, maroon, and other dark oolora
..J.-: : '
A Lost Xote.
t- An extraordinary affair happene<
i about the year 1740. One of -the di
e rectors, a very rich man, had occasioi
e for ?30,000 of the Bank of England
is which he was t# pay as the price of at
e estate he had jnst bought. To facilitate
i- the matter, he carried the sum with bin
d to the bank, and obtained for it a ban!
a note. On his return home he was and
denly called out upon particular busi
ness; he threw the note carelessly 01
6 the ohimney, but when he came bad
is a few minutes afterward to look it up
d it was nowhere to be found. No om
t had entered the room; he oould not
therefore, suspeot any person. At last
" after muoh ineffectual search, he w&
i, persuaded that it had fallen from thi
? ohimney into the fire. The direoto:
d went to acquaint his oolleagues witt
[f the misfortune that had happened t<
[g him; and as he was known to be i
a perfectly honorable man he was readih
e believed. It was only about twenty
t. four hours from the time that he hat
e deposited the money; they thought
e therefore, that it would be hard to re
it fuse his request for a second bill. H<
v. reoeired it upon giving an obligation t<
1. restore the first bill, if it should ever b<
r; found, or to pay the money himself, L
i' it should be presented by any stranger,
e About thirty years after (the directo:
,t having been found dead, and his heiri
M in possession of his fortune), an un
e known person presented the lost bill a
e the bank, and demanded payment I
4 was in vain that they mentioned to thii
it person the transaction by which tha
rt bill was annulled; he would cot lister
y to it He maintained that it came t<
e him from abroad, and insisted upon im
mediate payment. The note was pay
>. able to nearer, and the ?30,000 wer<
o paid him. The heirs of the directo
Q would not listen to any demands of res
f, titution, and the bank was obliged t<
[. sustain the loss. It was discoverer
e afterward that an architect, having pur
e chased the director's house, and takinf
it down, in order to build another up
e on the same spot, had found the nob
y. in a crpvice of the chimney, and mad<
4 his discovery an engine for robbing th<
4 back,
e
r. Laus Deo 1
The Memphis Register says: .W<
^ acnounoe with grateful satisfaction tin
B deoadenoe-of the yellow fever in oui
>, afflicted city. We have had a fearfu
'f struggle with this dread monster foi
^ more than six weeks past. It has slaii
our people by the hundred; it has
e paralysed tho business of our city, anc
* sent grief and desolation to thousacdi
?' h?naa1inl/l? thrnnvlinni thiV nntlTltrr.
We have fought the fight as best w<
could, ever and always trashing ii
' " Him from whom all blessings flow.'
0 To us it has been a long, weary night ol
ilimi table" trouble and undefined
0 misery. We have seen our best met
? laid low and our brayest women crosi
!* the riyer of death. The dread monstei
has made no distinction. Old asc
a yOhng, black and white, haye all beer
T taken from ns, and we could but say
? "It is the will of the Lord, let it b<
? done." Ho tongue can describe, nc
pen can picture the full extent of out
suffering. Henoe we rejoice, with at
"exceeding great joy" when we aa
l~ nounoe that the pestilence is departing
8 from our midst. It has done its work
? The grayes in the yarious burying
? ing-grounds around our city, the deso
lated homes of our corporation, and th<
mourning widows and helpless orphani
on our streets, all attest the extent o
that work. The reports of our faithful
e untiring yisitors, with the cold, bracing
, atmosphere of the past three days, tel
us in plain and unmistakable languagi
7 that God in his meroy has stayed th<
s hand of the destroyer. We therefon
u say, and our people join as in one unitec
voice, " Let God be praised."
Our Present Duty.
0
e The way to mal^e easy times is ai
D dear as daylight.
d Let every man or woman who owe,
n money pay it at once, if it is possible.
r" Be willing to make a sacrifice in orde:
to meet promptly all your engagements
o - - ,f
Stop grumbling at the faults or mis
a takes of others, and attend faithfully t<
lf your own affairs.
}I Deal fairly, leniently and cheerfull;
!S with all persons who owe you or are ii
,0 pecuniary trouble.
If you are out of debt, thank thi
it Lord ; and then go round among you
ir friends, and enemies, too, if you hav
Q them, and render them all the assistance
is in your power.
;? Don't hoard your money ; but loai
n it, or use it to relieve the needy, on th<
is same principle that you would giv
w bread to the needy in a day of famine,
n Do what you can in every way to re
ie lieve pecuniary distress, to check th
ie current of financial embarrassment
n and restore publio confidence,
a If you are a bank officer or direotoi
r. don't be cross a minute. Smile, as i
g Christian duty, from morning till night
ie Give an encouraging word, if possible
7< to all, and by all means strain ever
{. nerve to help all who need it.
fs A Singular Suit at Law.
^ Some two years since John Joyce am
^ Henry Thompson of Indianapolis, Ind.
l- had a difficulty in whicM tno iswer wa
? stabbed, on being tried for the offens
Joyce was sent ap for two years. - Hi
rl friends circalated a petition for his pai
don and presented it to Governor B&kei
who consented to issue the papers fo
>y his release after he had served out on
i- year of his sentence, on oondition the
?e he wonld give Thompson some recon
js pense for the injury he bod done bin
:y This Joyce consented to, and gave hi
e, note for something over $200, payable t
>r Thompson, and at the expiration of on
af year he was released by order of th
id Governor. The above note has becom
50 due, and Joyse refusing to pay the snm<
>e suit was entered in the superior coui
id to get judgement on the note, and th
}f case is now on trial in Indianapolii
id The defendant claims that thd note oai
k, not be oollected, as the object for whio
it was giysn was an illegal one,
Bursting of a Bog.
Strang* Smu of Derartatlon In
UaS.
1 ??Mr. W. L. .Trenob, writing to
' London Time* to appeal to the ot
1 table for aid for some unfoitui
9 families, gives this aeeonnt of
1 bursting'of an Irish bog. He says
[ "I have just returned from ins
. ting one of the most pitiful soene
l the sort it has been my fate to wit
c since I saw the remains of the vil
* of Viap, in the Bhone Valley, Swil
land, after its destruction by f
, some years ago.
1 " The Scene to whloh I refer is
9 result of the bnrsting of a bog, situ
r about three miles east of the tow
1 Dunmore, in the northern part of <
5 way county. Heretofore this bog
1 connected with the Dunmore Rive:
r Dunmore, by a small stream called
: Oorrabel River, flowing through a <
1 tinuation of pasture and tillage li
* in its course. The level of the n|
* surface of the bog was formerly 260
9 above the sea, and that of the wate
> Dunmore 190 feet,- showing a fall oi
9 feet Up to a fortnight ago this
' presented the usual appearance of i
of our undrained Irisfl bogs, i. e.
r skirts, adjoining the arable land,
1 sisting of high turf banks, being
* oeedingly wet and spongy.
* "On the first of October the fai
? ? -as. - r>t
" occupying a iarm on tun vajrr
' stream, near the bog, was digging
potatoes', when he suddenly observe
1 brown mass slowly approaching 1
3 He left his spade in the ground
' went for the neighbors; on his rtl
' the mass (which was.the moving I
3 had half oovered his potato field,
r completely hidden from sight bis I
of corn, with the exception of a
? 1 stooks' situated on a knoll; they
1 remain an island in the middle <
' soene of desolation. This was bnt
I commencement; since then the bog
continued io au ranee in a rolling m
3 continuing its course right down
3 valley to Dunmore, burying on its
3 three farm houses, and ooverin(
least one hundred and eighty acrei
pasture and arable land to a deptf
some plaoes, of six feet. The unfc
nate oocnpiers of the three farms 1
been turned, by this visitation of !
vidence, farmless and homeless,'
their families, on the world.
"At Dunmore a small bridge
been removed, near the junction of
Oorrabel stream with the Dunn
River, to afford relief to the land
the valley, and a bog-laden torren
being discharged into the latter ri
The worst may be said to be over,
the discharging powers of that i
will be materially affected by this in
of solid matter. 'The source of this
aster presented a wonderfnl appears
The subsidence at the dischnrging p
cannot be less than about 35 feet,
extent of the bog affected is most cl
ly defined by a series of black ' ore
see,' where the upper crust of the
has, by the subsidence below, been
asunder. The whole assumes the 1
of a crater half a mile in diameter.
" With considerable difficulty
piloted our way to the oentre, when
I -3 U.nirn linnid Knrr linilinff
I 1UUUU U1D uiunu "VJ-.U Q
. like a stream of lava ana feeding
f moving mass in the valley below.
the point where the bog burst, the
1 banks were foroed right over and ro
. on either side, and assumed some\
} the appearance of 'ynoraines.'
, " Tiiis and similar disasters to wl
f this country is liable mnst be attribi
to the absence of a complete and (
system of arterial drainage. A sin
1 catastrophe occurred a couple of y
; ago, occasioned by the baokwatei
3 the River Suck, near Gastlerea."
3
1 Eating Without an Appetite,
It is wrong to eat without an appe
for it shows there is no gastric juic
the stomach, and that nature does
9 need food, and not needing it, then
ing no fluid to receive and act upo
9 it remains there only to putrify,
very thought of which should be i
r cient to deter any man from ea
* without an appetite for the remaii
- of his life. If a tonic is taken to ^
0 the appetite it is a mistaken course
its only resnlt is to cause eno t<
Y more, when already an amount
1 been eaten beyond what the ga.
juice is able to prepare.
0 The object to be obtained is a la
r supply of gastric juice, not a 1
0 supply of food ; and whatever fai
0 have any efficiency towards the cm
dyspeptic diseases. The formatic
a gastric juice is directly proporti<
0 to the wear and tear of the sys
0 which it is to be the means of sue
ing, and this wear and tear can onl
- the result of exercise. The effi<
0 remedy 'or dyspepsia is work?
b door work?beueflcial and successfi
direct nroDortion as it is agreeable
'? teresting and profitable.?HaU't J
ft nal of Health.
i,
y Worth Considering.
A pleasant story has ran through
prinoip&l papers, bearing upon the
eral prejudice which exists against
^ thers-in-law, and the subject is p
' antly as well as thoronghly hand
* A typical mother is blessed with
6 children, a girl and a boy, for w
8 she worlwassiduoualy, until both
ry. Then, being widowed and al
? she naturally expects a home with tl
>r but finds herself alluded to as a *
e ther-in-law," which might be intei
ted as meaning a noisanoe. SI
l- therefore alone in the world. <
u object of love to nobody. " I ha<
a solitary home to myself, and very
o taryitwaa. I tried to get up i
e spasmodic friendships with my xu
bora, but, being hollow, those fc
e intimacies fell through. Perha
5, ought not to oomplain; it is the
rt of the world. I only wonder if,
a cidering the Iotc we women hat
a* our children, younp or old, the woi
I. not apt to be a little hard on the
h ther-in-law." Young folks, do yot
a moral in this touching sketch T
Items or interest.
The fashionable virtue for next win*
Ir?" ter will be economy.
Gloucester, Mass., is said to have
t"e lost by drowning 170 fishermen this
lari- year.
Date "Felt slippers," advertised in shoe
the stores, are thought to be those felt by
boys in their young days.
A Knsaa paper remarks: n The
P??; profit is not %e in killing tenant
s of buffalo calves with five-cent cartridges."
uess a dandy is a chap who would be a
lage lady if he could*; but as he oan't, does
^er. all he can to show the world he's not a
lood m#n'
Among the presents reoeived by a <
bride a few weeks since was a policy of
the insurance on her husband's life for
?ted $20,000.
o ?, An old woman's obstinacy in smoll~"
king while crossing a Kansas prairie
wa? started a fire which swept over four
the ooaD^efl'
con. The cultivation of oranges in out
m^8 Florida has had the effect of enhancing
3per the value of real estate on all the navisable
streams. In some instances land
I has gone up from fire dollars to one
i 70 hundred dollars per aore.
bog A Hillsboro', 111., philosopher, named
aost Jeff. Yoknm, after listening to various
, its exploits of early days narrated by a
con party of gentlemen, broke in with j
; ex- " Well, fellers, I tell yon it seems to
me that as men get older fan gets
-mer skeerser 1"
abal It is stated that parties in London
his ha?e offered to pay a premium of $2,600
sd a to the inventor of the cheapest little
lim. iron cook-stove for (mall housekeepers'
and and laborers' families, by which the
torn family meals may be prepared with the~~
tog) smallest possible consumption of
and coal.
A fellow with a grudge against a
Portsmouth, N. H., dootor, revenged
stlU himself by forging notes from all the
* M. D.'s patients, informing him that *
1 *be his servioes would no longer be needed.
bas About the time the poor doctor came *
'***> to the conclusion that he was to be
the starved out, the trick was disoovered, .
waJ although the m* an man who perpetraI
a* ted it has not been found.
9 Of I
>, in Did you ever, says an exohange, jjist
irtu. before eleotion day, get up in the mid*
lave die of the night and ohase a mosquito
Pro. with imprecations and a towel, until
inth ,T?ur strength was nearly exhausted ?
If you ever did, remember that a tithe
has ?f the energy thus spent, if devoted to
the the cause of good government, will enaore
able l6u to save money enough, through
s up reduced taxation, to buy a musquito
,t is nek
iver. A day before the execution, the chapbut
lain at Fort Klamath was endeavoring
iver to convert Jack, and seek rest for his
'flux soul, and among other things told him
dis- glowing stories of the happy land. His
nee. remarks seemed to have an effeot on
oint the captain, who asked him if he knew
The all about God and the happy land. The
ear- chaplain said he thought he did. "Well,"
vos- said Jack, "you know all about Him, .
bog me give you ten horses you take my
torn place to-morrow."
brm
^ VXJIQU U 1 viovui
9 we Oxygen, on the plentifulness of whioh
oat in the air we breathe the bounding
blood of health is supposed to depend,
tQrf is as fatal as a dose of stryohnine if inand
haled in a oondensed form. Paul Bert,
rhat a French scientist, lias demonstrated
this by some recent experiments with
ntcd birds and animals. Placing sparrows *
rood under a pressure of three and a half atlilar
mospheres, the birds were seized with
ears violent convulsions. The same results
' of followed when sparrows were cop fined
in common air, under a pressure of seventeen
atmospheres. In oxygen. at a
pressure of three and half atmospheres,
... or in air attwenty-two atmospheres,
"te? the convulsions were extremely violent
e in and soon fatal In the latter case the
i not symptoms were as follows: Convulsions
j ^ commence after four or five minutes.
. The bird hobbles in moving about, as
D ? though walking on hot ooals. It then
i the flutters its wings, falls on its back, and
mffl- spins about with its claws doubled up.
jin_ Death supervenes after a few euoh
, spasms. In order to produce convulj
T sions in a dog, oxygen was found to reJ
quire a pressure of three and a half at'?mospheres,
and n pressure of five atmospheres
is fatal. The amount of oxy,
gen in the arterial blood of a dog, m
8tnc oonvulsions, was found to be considerably
leas than twice the normal qnsnti
T8er tv. From these fact#, M. Bert draw*
*rKe the startling conclusions that oxygen if
? ^ the most fearful poison known.
,n ?f . ? . . ..
Jned A Celebrity,
tern, Says the New Orleans limes : "Last
'P^ mentk there died in the hospital in St.
iient ^?Q^S? ^7 whatever alias she might
out* then be lyiown, who used to be Stella
al in del Norte. In the old mining days,
' in* when California was bat a camp, and
OUT
tho Golden City a rude collection of
wooden shanties, the oity was electrifled
to learn one day that as the cashier
of the Bank of California was standing
, onr alone in his vault, a woman opened the
~e_ door, and holding a pistol to his head,
demanded 910,000 in notes. Feeling
mo~ the cold muzzle of the pistol in oloee
leas- proximity to his brow, he very reluolled.
tantly consented, and the vision left,
two and the next day he received a very
, neat card, with the written inscription,
m 'm?*? ,i?i v.?tn ' flhewaa
' XuauKB. Dwiw UDI tu-iK.
mar- afterwards arrested' bj a vigilance oom[one,
mittee, dressed in man's attire, and,
aem, taken out to be hanged, was fonnd to
1 mo- be a woman, when they released her,
rpre- and raised a snqscription of $1,000,with
tie is wbioh she left the oonntry, and ooming
jhief to the States, was known as a desperate
1 my shoplifter and sneak thief."
soli
iome Cos norma ?Frank L. Tain tor. tba
?igh- defaulting cashier of the New York At reed
lantic National Bank, was convicted in
pa 1 the U. a Circuit Oonri His connway
sel wanted to show that the $400,000
con- which he embenled wae used bv him
e for in Wall street speonlstions for theWdc,
id is bnt the Court decided that this was no W
i mo- palliation of his offence, and rcfneed to
i find admit it. A motion was made for a my