Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, March 19, 1874, Image 1
VOL. IV. NO. 24. PORT ROYAL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1874. .
Somewhere.
How can I cease to pray for thee ? Somewhere
In God's great universe thou art to-day.
^ Can He not reach thee with His tender care ?
Can He not hear me when for thee I pray ?
What matters it to Him who holds within
The hollow of His hand all worlds, all space,
That thon art done with earthly pain and sin?
Somewhere within His ken thou hast a place!
Somewhere thou livest, and hast need of Him;
Somewhere thy soul sees higher heights tc
, " climb;
And somewhere still, there may be valleys dim
That thou must pass to reach the hills sub-lime.
?
Then all the more, because thou canst not hear
Poor, human words of blessing, will I pray.
O true, brave heart, God bless thee, wheresoe'er
In His greatauiiverse thou art to-day.
WHAT A WOMAN DID.
. Jessica Dale looked from her seat
among the branches of the ancient ash
otsvnji nn river side. On a mle
buav OVUVU vr** vuv A
of planks a man's figure was stretched
at fall length, and he was apparently
placidly gazing np at the white clouds
slowly dissolving in the bine air.
The man on the planks soon tarned
his head in suoh a way that he probably
eanght a glimpse of her white dress
among the leaves, for he instantly
sprang lightly down from his resting
place and walked swiftly across the
meadows towards her, vaulting the
fences on his way.
" I am so very glad to see you, Jessica,"
he said, fervently, as he helped
her over the stile.
" For what reason, Bernard ? You
seem wonderfully In earnest."
" Why, no reason, except the pleasure
of being with you."
" Not having seen me since nine
o'clock last night."
"But you are always a fresh and
beautiful sight. 1 have been wonder
? '' * ?'it- .11
ing what l coum ao wjt,h mysen uuo
afternoon, and behold ! Fate sends me
to you."
m "I wonder yon are not sun-strnck,
lying there on the wharf in this hot,
broiling sun."
" I don't mind the hot sun. It never
hurts me."
"And yet, the coldest day last winter,
yon worked out of doors all day,
building"that ice palace for me."
" I enfoy the cold, too. and take the
seasons as they come. Heat and cold
are alike to me."
" I should think, Bernard, you must
be as mnoh as six feet high," she said,
measuring him with her eye.
" Very near the mark ; I am five feet
eleven."
"Well," said Jessica, stopping underneath
the pollard willows, and surveying
her companion from head to foot,
"here is a young man five feet eleveD,
broad shouldered, never sick, who
minds neither summer's heat nor winter's
cold, nor terrible storms, and yet,
who can find nothincr in all this wide
- - - " ?- A
world to do on mis long isuuuurr unj
but lie on a pile of planks, or lounge
up and down the river bank with a
girl."
The young man's brown face flushed
crimson.
" But what can I do, Jessica?"
" Help those sailors down there on
the wharf, and perhaps you will put a
little energy into them."
" And what would be the use of my
doing that ?"
"Just for tl,e sako of doing some^
thing. Are you going to live this lazy,
y useless life all your davs ?"
"Yon know very well my uncle wou't
help mo to get into any business, or,
rather, ho can't, for he never has ready
monev."
" Help yourself, then."
" How oa i I, without money ? I must
have a little to start with."
" Put yourself in as capital, and use
your muscles. They are big and strong
enough, I am snre. Such weights as
they tell me you balance at the gymnasium?go
aud break stones ! You are
of no nse to apybody now. Your uncle
and aunt don't need you; they have
their own children. I have no donbt
thev like to have yon with them, and
will give yon what yon need, but you
should be ashamed to dawdle through
life dependent on a rich man's bounty."
" I don't feel that it is a dependence.
I am one of the family, and we all live
happily together, and have everything
in the world wo want. And, more than
all that, uncle wants you to come and
live there too. There is plenty for all,
he says. It is a large house, and there
are so mauy servants they can't find
enough to do, and a great deal coming
p in all the time that wonld be wasted if
we were not there."
" I will never go there with you Ber*
nard, never! I would rather die! I
wonld rather live in a log cabin, on
bread anil milk, than with a husband
who would be willing to leadsnch a life
as you do. I should be so ashamed of
him."
The sleepy look went outof Bernard's
eyes in a moment, and a bright light
flashed into them. " Is that the reason
I have thought how nice it would be to <
, take her from her home, where she does t
so much, to a place where she wo'uld 1
have DOthing to do at all. And her t
ladyship does not like it; she gives
herself too many airs." i
Three miles below the old farm-house t
stoon the busy town of Perkinsville. 1
On a hot summer afternoon, two days i
after the talk under the pollard willows, 1
a shadow fell across the open doorway
' of the farm-house which shadow was (
immediately followed by the appear- {
i ance of Bernard Leyburn. t
"Good afternoon, Mr. Darryl," he t
said, as he approached the gentleman, i
" I want to go to work."
Mr. Darryl, knowing Bernard as he f
did, was astonished. ?
" Any money to invest?" he asked.
"Nota cent" J
" Then you have not the ghost of a i
chanoe. Dozens of young gentlemen j
now in town wanting work. Sorry I
can't help you, Leyburn," he said, cor- <
dially, "but, indeed, every plaoe is full
and overflowing." 1
" I do not care particularly for a gentlemanly
sitution ; I had no expecta- <
tion of that kind. I will do any kind
of work, r 1
" Humph ! That is a different thing.
What kind, for instance ?" ?
"Driving a wagon, porterage, any- 1
thing." t
"A company of us have started the 1
lnmViAr hnsiness hicrh ud the river, at f
Maple Bend. Got a saw-mill going 1
tolerably lively already, and it will move
faster soon. It is going to be a big ?
affair, I think. If yon want hard work c
there is a chance for you, bat it won't 1
be dainty work. Can you help pile
lumber, or take it to the rafts, or cut 1
down a tree, if neoessarv ?" '
"Certainly, I can, and will be glad to
doit." y
"I don't say but what you may work
your way to something better, but that c
is the way you will have to begin, j 0
am afraid it won't suit you." 8
"Tea, it will," said Bernard, eagerly.
" I wish I could prove to you how 0
anxious I am to go to work."
" Do you see that row of flour bar- v
rels, ranged out there, ready to be ,
shipped ?"
"Yes, sir."
" That sloop has come in sooner than a
was expected, but those barrels ought
to go on board of her this afternoon, ?
and all the hands are busy." s
" I'll do it!" said Bernard, smiling. ^
He went out in high spirits and be- 1'
gan rolling the barrels up the gang- I
plank, eager to show Darryl that he h
was not Afraid of work. He was ao- a
customed to handling heavy weights d
at the gymnasium,- for his amusement, b
But, before his present job was half si
done, he found out the difference be- a
tween work and play. When it was
three-quarters done he wished he had P
let it alone. When the last barrel was h
on the sloop, and Bernard went back to 8,
the office, Darryl noticed that the
brightness had died out of the eyes, o
and the old, sleepy look, had come back d
to them. b
"That was well done, Leyburn," J
said Darryl. " You'll make a splendid h
workman. When will you be ready for n
up the river ?" b
"I have not quite decided to go. I tl
must think it over." h
"This is Wednesday. I must know p
your decision by Saturday." i<
" What has come over youug Ley- I
burn ?" asked Darryl of Jessica, when I
lie paid a visit to the old farm-house d
that evening. " Ho came to me to-day ii
to ask for work." And then he related, H
with a good deal of humor, the adven- y
ture of the barrels. It was well they H
were out on the porch with no light but P
the stars, or he would have seen how g
Jessica's eyes were sparkling with tl
pleasure. b
" I told liira if he would go up to o
Maplo Beud he would find plenty of b
rough work to do, getting out lumber, ti
He was all eagerness, before his tussel a
with the hairels, but very cool afterwards.
Ho is to decide on Saturday, I
but I feel so sure he will not go I shall J
say nothing to anybody."
" But I will I" thought Jessica. "I b
would not encourage him by any hope a
of my loving him. But I will give a fi
little push?ins1 to start him off. I will
tell everybody in town."
And she did. That is, she told half a n
dozen carefully selected individuals, si
and they told all the rest, that Bernard
Leyburn was going up to Maple Bend si
to learn the lumber business. It was
not until Friday that this report ob- d
tained general circulation. Thursday V
evening, Bernard visited Jessica, but b
not a word did he say of either love or h
lumber. The next day he was con- v
gratulated everywhere, and everybody ^
he met wished him good luck. d
" I had half determined not to go,"
he thought, with vexation. "But ti
Darrvl has spread the report about, and I
now i'll have to go up and give it a
trial. I shall find it a horrible business, n
I know." tl
Bernard had not returned since first r
he went up, now nearly a year ago, and i1
he had not written Jessica a letter, or 11
sent her a message. His uncle's family
had told her that he wrote to them in n
good spirits, apparently, but that he t
said nothing about his bnsiness, and
they believed and hoped he was fast y
getting cured of his folly, for they un- a
derstood that he worked like a common o
day-laborer. She sometimes questioned t>
Mr. Darryl, but he would merely reply:
"Theyoung man is doing pretty fairly,"
which was certainly not very enthusias- s
tic praise. Mr. Darryl had good reason s
for his reticence, for he remembered t<
how she had spread the report of Bernard's
going to Maple Bend through all ti
Perkinsville, while the matter was still n
undecided, and after he, Darryl, had y
told her he should tell no one. n
"It's strange," thought Jessica that
afternoon for the hundreth time, " that ^
Bernard never writes to me! I am
afraid he is not doing well. I wonder v
if he was foolish enough to literally be- r
lieve that I did not love him, and never a
would love him? Or it may bo he has b
learned to love work so much he don't
care for anything else. A pretty result n
of my advice! But, I am not sorry I h
aroused him from his lethargy, even if c
I never see him more!" +
Here the gray eyes filled with tears, s
which might perhaps have fallen but ji
for a sound that now struck upon her t
you would never consent to make me
happy, Jessica ! Oh, why did yon not
tell me that before ?"
" I have not told it now. Yon
dragged mo into the discussion, and I
was only carrying out your supposition."
" I will go to work to-morrow, if you
will only promise to love me."
" I have spoken for your own good,"
said .Jessica, "and I have but one thing
more to say; never, from this moment,
say to me one word of love until you
can offer me something of your own.
The log cabin is enough, but it must
be your own. Mind, I don't say J will
listen to you then ; it is probable I will
not. But, in the meantime, love must
not be named between you and me."
" It is clear she does not love me, and
she might as well have said so without
i insulting me with all that .talk." Such
I were Bernard's thoughts after Jessica
' had left him, and he stood idly kicking
pebbles into the river. "She has said
some pretty stinging things. That is
the way she thinks of me, is it ? I
would be a fool to give up all I have
and work like a common laborer. She
is always as busy as a bee herself, and
;ars?the quick tramping of footsteps
h rough the long grass and daisies.
Eer heart beat fast, bat she would not
lurn her head.
" I knew I would find jou under the
ish-tree."
"Bernard." And now the heat!
mrned, and she held out both hands.
Ee squeezed them in a very uncivilized
nanner, that ho must surely have
earned in the lumber Tegion.
"How you have changed!" she exilaimed.
She saw at a glance that the
jreat brown eyes wore alive with active
bought; that the mouth was firmer,
ind the whole bearing of the man,
-esolute and manly.
" If he has not suoceeded, he has not
riven up!" was her mental oomment.
ihe made room for him on the bench.
" And you, not all! Tou are the same
(essica I left! I do believe this is the
rej-y dress you wore when I last saw
rou!"
" How can you be expected to know
>ne white dress from another ?" c
"It is not your wedding-dress, I r
lope, iou are not married, jesBioa r t
"No, I am not married," she said
lemurely. I
"Thank Heaven for that! What ]
iave you been doing this long time ?" t
" The Bame old round of duties. 1
Jewing and helping mother with the t
lousekeeping, and the children with t
heir lessons. There is no end to [
woman's work, you know. Onlv, I 1
lon't believe you know anything about
t." I
" I know you were always as busy as J
i bee, and I used to think you must
onsequeutly be unhappy, but I have s
earned better than that now." i
" Indeed ! And pray what have von
>een doing that you are ashamed to r
rrite to your old friend ?"
"JL>id you expect me to write to t
ou ?" a
" We generally look for common s
curtesy from those who pretend to be
>ur friends, and neither letter or mes- t
age have you sent me." h
" I was waiting for 'something of my v
wn.' You see I have not forgotten a r
ertain conversation under the pollard '
rillows yonder." r
Jessica turned away her head. "I a
lid not say you were to treat me with t
he ordinary politeness of an acquaint- F
nee." c
" I know. I resolved to see you no 8
lore, to speak to you no more, until 1 8
hould have retrieved my manhood. I ;
rent to see Darryl who told me of his ;
imber business at Maple Bend, where 11
could get work as a common laboring
and. It was rather a staggering offer,
nd I took a couple of days to oonsider
i. I was at first somewhat inclined to
aok out of the scrape, but, at last I
nmmoned ud the necessarv fortitude. 6
nd went." H
Jessica tbonght of the report she had y
urposely spread around him to force \
im to go, but, like a discreet woman,
he held her peace.
" Hard work it was," continued Ber- 8
ard after a pause, "and dreary and p
isagreeablo, helping to get the lumber ^
3 the rafts, and down to the vessels,
'his labor lasted for three months, and
f it had not been for my pjositive deter- J
lination that nothing should force me
ack to the old life?and for one other i,
[ling?I think my endurance would
ave given way. At the end of three
lonths the business increased so rap- *
ily, and so many hands came up, that o
was promoted to a partof the business y
liked very well?filling out the or- p
ers, that caine in pretty fast, by select- (]
ag the proper wood, and measuring tl
lie lengths, etc. But, I need not tell p
ou all that, and how one thing led to a
notber uutil now I hold quite an im- c
ortant position, with a fair salary, a v
ood knowledge of the business, and tl
lie prospect of doing better still. And, a
esides these, I have the funniest mite ?
f a house tliut lopks as if the wind had <<
lown it together, aud might, at any a
ime, blow it apart, and yet it is snug a
ud tight for all." tl
" You have, indeed, done wonders, j,
tern ard. I knew you could do anything tl
ou wanted to do." 0J
"If I had got nothing from my work
ut the consciousness of independence c
nd manliness, I would consider myself e
ally repaid." tl
" Of course you would!" tl
"But then you see I got something ti
lore than this, and I shall expect e
omething worth more than all." a
" Oh, you do! A mill of your own, I 2
uppose!" <
" No, you little demure witch, you f(
on't suppose anything of the kind. Q
fnnlil T linvp mmii rlnwn hnrn in nnr t
usiest Heason for that ? No, I came to p
sok for a jewel without which my life a,
rill bo nothing?my Jessica's love. Q
Vill you refuse to listen to me now, w
arling?" y
There was no need for words ; Jessica ?
urned her blushing, happy face to n
lernard, and he clasped her in his arms, j,
" At last!" he said rapturously. " Oh,
ly dearest, I have waited long for t<
his. If I were not so happy I would t]
eproach you for having been so cold K
nd cruel to me. But, you love me at p
ist!" * E
" I will make a confession to you 81
ow, Bernard; I loved you all the e
ime."
" My darling! And you let me think
ou did not care for me. Why did you
end mo away without the least glimpse
f hope for your love ? Why did you y
ell me you despised me ?" y
" No, no, Bernard, I never said that!" n
" What you did say amounted to the
ame thing, and you would not even 11
often it by saying that you would try T
o love me." ti
c< tit U?AAAMm'ttr WATlM T Viqtta Vl q/1
Y Y UUl OCtUiil'J nviuu A MWfv
bat, after you bad won me, you would
ot relapse into your old self ? I loved 15
ou, but I wanted you to be worthy of ol
ly love." t<
"You are mine now, at all events." u
ind he held her more tightly. w
"But," he said thoughtfully, "what a:
rill you do up there in that rough it
egion, away from your old friends, y
nd you will not have the comforts you y
iave now in the old farm-house ?" E
" I would a thousand times rather be y
:p there than in your uncle's fine y
louse. But we have plenty of time to tl
onsider all that." tl
"Not so much time! I can only 1<
tay four days, for we are very busy u
ust now ; and we ought, by all means, y
o be married the last of the month," a
The head war quickly rained from the
ihoulder. " Why Bernard! Are you
irazv?"
"By no means. What in the world
s the use of our waiting ? We have
mown eaoh other all onr lives, and how
lo you suppose I oan take the time to
lome philandering down here every
reek? In fact, I ought not to he here
tow, but I made a confidant of Darryl,
md he took compassion on me. At the
md of this month he thinks they oan
lo without me for a week, and then we
nust be married. It is not so bad up
here, after all. It is a beautiful connry,
and we have a little society. The
uperintendent'fc wife, and the wife of
he engineer live there in funny little
louses, just like mine; and they are
>oth ladies. And there are a good many
abins dotted here and there in the
roods, and the laborers' wives are nice
indly women."
Jessica laughed.
" You will make it out a sort of Paralise,
I expeot, if I let you go on. But
nay I ask if you had the house built
lecause you felt so sure of me ?"
" I did not feel at all sure of you, but
' oould not help a little feeling of hope.
did not believe you would care so
nuoh about the life I led if you did not
ove me the least little bit. However,
he house was already built. One of
he members of the oompany used to
ive in it. Everything seems to have
lappened just) right for us."
"You take too muoh for granted, Mr.
Jernard, I have not yet consented to
'our arrangement."
" But, you will darling ? Just conider
how much you will make me do
rhen you get up there ?" 1
" Tbi? is a consideration, certainlv." f
eplied Jessica. 1
"Oh I I know well I.shall have a | j
lard task-mistress. Bnt yon will make i
, happy home for me as a compen- 1
ation." 3
Perhaps Jessica felt she had beeD ar- t
litrary enough. At all events her lover c
tad his own way and the wedding day 1
ras fixed to snit him; the bride elect \
efleoting that her simple trousseau r
rould not require much time for prepa- c
ation. Ruffled dresses and trailing c
ilks would be entirely out of plaoe in a
he lumber region. They were so hap- t
iy, sitting there under the drooping a
ranches of the ash, with the silvery 1
ands at their feet, and the river gliding a
;ently by, that they forgot U go up to l
he house to tell the wonderfil news to t
he family until the dusk of the even- t
Qg stole upon them. a
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1
U. 8, Patent Office Report. i
The Hon. M. D. Leggett, Commis- j!
ioner of the U. 8. Patent Oflce, has
ubmitted his annual report for the a
ear ending December 31st, 1873, to '
>oth Houses of Oongress, in conplianoe ?
nth section 9 of the Patent Ac; of July c
>, 1870, which requires that sfficer to r
irepare, and present to Congress, a &
letailed report of the operations of his ?
iffice, in the month of January each n
ear, for the preceding twelve-month. a
From this document, which is quite r
sngthy, and contains mauy valuable k
uggestions, we glean the following in- t
eresting facts: The number of appli- t
ations for letters-patent filed during ft
lie year 1873 was 20,414; .number of ?
atents granted (inoluding reissues and '
esign-patents), 12,864. It appears "
hat, in 1872, 18,246 applications were
resented, and 13,590 of them were ?
llowed, and patents granted. The inrease
in the number of applications is ?
erv marked, and so is the decrease in
he proportion of patents granted?an ^
bnormal condition of affairs which the
!ommissioner explains by stating that a
'the decrease in the number of patents J
rises partly from more thorough ex- ?
minations, and partly from the fact
hat some applications are not be- 0
lg prosecuted to issue, because of
he disturbance in manufacturing,
aused by financial disturbances."
Two hundred and seventy-three ap- '
lications for extension of existing pat- 8
nts were received and decided during ?
he j ear, of which 233 were granted?
1U8 addiDg seven years to their lifeime.
It also appears that 4,482 patents ,
rpired during the year; and we .
re informed that no less than .
,783 patents, which had been
allowed," did not issue (were
irfeited, in other words) on account of
on-payment of the final fee of $20. [j
'his is the largest number of inrfoited s,
stents for many years, and can only be '
ccounted for on the score of the un- jj
sual stringency in financial matters ,
hick, during the latter part of last
ear, affected all classes of society, and (
'as particularly hard upon the working
len, to whose ranks the greater part of g
lventors belong.
There were received 534 applications
) have trade marks registered, and of ?
i /-v# it a I n
iese 4yz were auowea. ui ine patents ,
ranted, 12,371 were to citizens of the JTnited
States ; 341 to citizens of Great
tritain ; 34 to citizens of France; and g
8 to the citizens of other foreign goy- t]
rnmonts.
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Beccher's Advice. ^
Henry Ward Beecher gives to the M
oung this advice : "Use fiction as *
ou would spices in your diet. No n
lan takes a quart of cloves, nor ex- ti
austs the cruet, at a single meal
'hese things may be used with moderaon
to season one's food with, but they "
re not to be used alone; and so fictions, ^
c
hile they are not to be resorted to ex- jj
lusively, may be used with discretion v
> season life with. If you find that d
sing them brings you back to duty n
ith more alacrity, with more cheer, p
nd with more aptitude, if you find that a
; makes 7ou better in your relations to fi
oar fellow-men, then it does not hart tl
oa, and yon are at liberty to nse them, e
tut if yon find that using them makes t<
on morose; if you find that it gives p
on a distaste for work ; if yon find a
lat it inclines you to run into a hole b
lat you may get away from your fel- e
)w-men; if yoa find that it makes you s
nkind, disobliging, and selfish?then o
on mav be sore that whether it injures f<
ny body else or not, it injures yon." fc
Bnrned at tlie Stake.
Sow the Indiana* Disposed of One of
Their Unfortunate Women.
It is a matter of history, as every one
is aware, that the penal laws of some of
the Indian tribes snrpass in rigor and
severity those of civilized nations, and
the penalties inflioted by the breaking
of these edicts, which have been handed
down for centuries, are of a singnarly
crnel and learftfl nature. One of
;he most stringent of these decrees is in
-eference to the chastity of their fenales,
death being the pnnishment if
it any time one is known to have broken
he law. Job Vatures, an old mountaineer
and trapper, gives a Nevada paper
the following particulars of one of
these fiendish acts of cruelty lafely
perpetrated by a band of Indians near
Fish Spring Valley:
For two weeks prior to the oocurrenoe
)f the events abont to be narrated, the
[ndians had been building signal fires
)n the elevated portions of the mountains
for miles around the surrounding
jountry. As it was their regular huntil
g season, muoh surprise was mani68ted
as the lights appeared night after
light, calling the absent portions of
the tribe to the general rendezvous. On
n?- -* ti..:. a
lUeBtlUDlUg BUUIO U1 IUDU UUIUIA71, kUOJ
vere, contrary to their usual manner,
*eticent on the subjeot, and only redied
to questions put to them ooncernng
the unusual occurrence that "white
nan no sabe."
Vatures, however, who speaks the
anguage like a native, heard enough to
latisfy nimself that a rite was about to
>e performed which was of rare occurence,
and on questioning a half-breed
vho frequently accompanied him on his
ranting excursions, he learned that a
roung woman, a member of one of the
ribes in that oountry, who had abauloned
her people a year or so sinoe to
ive with a wnite man, had returned,
>ringing with her a babe about three
nonths old. Here was the same old,
?ld story, so common with us now-alays.
After a short spell of happiness
md pleasure, he who had brought her
o her ruin became tired of his victim
rnd abandoned her to her fate. She,
ike thousands of others placed in the
ame circumstances, sought refuge at
ler home and among her people,hoping
0 find a shelter for herself and ohild;
rat with the terrible penalty of the law
he had broken before her, and with the
ndisputable evidence of her guilt in
ler arms, we wonder at her hardihood
n placing herself in the power of those
rhom she must have known would show
ler no mercy.
Nothing that she could offer in pallition
of her offense would be reoeived
>y those who only knew that their eared
law had been broken. Having
ieard that the terrible decree would be
arried out on a certain night, the trap?er
secreted himself in a position where
ie could obtain an unobstructed view
1 all they would do, and he arrived
tone too soon, for already the prelimitaries
had been arranged, and around
stake driven in the ground the warior
braves were marching in a circle to
he solemn, mournful music being
ilayed upon the native instruments of
lie band. Prominent among them was
be chief, 'who had not as yet taxen an
ctive part in the proceedings; and as
be solemn cirole passed him, each of
be braves would let fly an arrow from
is bow at Bome imaginary enemy.
After the dance of death was finished,
be chief, by a gesture, gave some order
3 a brave iu waiting, and from a cirular
tent emerged the women of the
ribe, surrounding the victim who was
3 bo sacrificed to offended justice.
7ith the exception of a light covering
round her waist, she was utterly deoid
of clothing, and seemed unooniouB
as to the terrible death awaiting
er. Her babe, which was carried by
ne of the women, uttered the most pitous
cries, trying to attract the attenon
of its mother; but she was not aimed
to touch her infant, and with a
>ok such as only a fond mother can betow
she gave one earnest, passionate
lance at her offspring, and walked
ravely on to meet her death.
No time was lost; the " medicine
lan " quickly boujd her to the stake;
rush and faggots were placed around
er so thick as to rendei Lor invisible
) the fiends, who were now rending the
ir with their shouts and cries. The
yre was lighted, and the flames seemed
ossessed of hellish joy as they en wrapt
be form of the woman. Thickly the
moke curled spitefully around her, yet
ot a murmur, not a groan escaped her
ps. She appeared a statue, meeting
er fate with that wonderful stoicism
nd bravery which characterize her
ice.
The fire, which at first thrust out its
ery darts at intervals, was now a sheet
f flame, soon burned down, leaving
othing but the charred bones of her
'ho, but a few moments since, was a
ving human being; and her execuoners,
who had, in their untutored
linds, satisfied the wrath of the Great
pirit, and removed the stigma on the
ribe, silently departed from the scene
f their horrible act, and separated to
gain seek their homes, leaving our
'atcher alone with the dead victim,
* ? ? -? naativad r\f V* 1 a
'lie, as soon as u? woo boouicu vi ?..?>
afety, departed from the place; bnt
nch was the impression left on his
lind that he bid farewell to that porion
of the country forever.
The End.?The great end of prudence
i to give cheerfulness to those hours
rhich splendor cannot gild, and aclamation
cannot exhilarate! those soft
itervuls of unbended amusement, in
'hich a man shrinks to his natural
imensions, and throws aside the ornalents
and disguises which he feels in
rivacy to be useless incumbrances,
nd to lose all effect wnen tney Decome
imiliar. To be happy at home is
be ultimate result of all ambition, the
nd to which every enterprise and labor
ands, and to which every desire
rompts the prosecution. It is indeed
t home that every man must be known,
y those who would make a just estimate
ither of his virtue or felicity; for
miles and embroidery are alike ooaaional,
and the mind is often dressed
or show in painted honor and fictitious
enevolenoe,
In a Granger Lodge.
The Grangers are in order now, and
the fanny writers are after them. Here
is the report of the opening soene in
a Grange, that even the Granger himself
cannot fail to see some good points
ii'
On being brought into the ante-room
of the lodge (Greengrocer Temple, No.
101), I was told that I had beeD balloted
for and accepted. My informant, who
was securely masked by what I afterwards
learned was a large burdook leaf,
perforated with holes for the eyes, tol<J
me that if I valued my life it would be
necessary for me to strip.
A sepulchral voioe from within asked:
" Who oomes ?"
My guide answered: "A youthful
agriculturist who desires to beoome a
granger."
Sepulohral Voice?Have you looked
him carefully over?
Guide?I have, noble gate-keeper.
8. V.?Do you find any agricultural
marks about his person ?
Guide?I do.
8. V.?What are they ?
Guide?The oandidate has carroty
hair, reddish whiskers and a turnup
nose.
8. V.?'Tis well. Why do you desire
to become a granger ?
Guide (answering for candidate)?
That he may be thereby the better enabled
to harrow up the feelings of the
raseally politicians.
8. V.?You will bring in the candidate.
My worthy stripling, as you cannot
see, I will cause you to feel that
you are received at the door on the
three points of a pitch-fork, piercing
the region of the stomach, which is to
teach you the three great virtues?
faith, hope and oharity. Faith in yourself,
hope for cheaper farm maohinery,
and charity for the lightning-rod peddler.
You will now be harnessed, and
in representation of the horse, Pegasus,
will be tested as to endurance and wind.
The candidate is here attached to a
small imitation plow, by means of a
hempen harness. A dried pumpkin
vine is put in his mouth for a bit and
bridle?he is made to get down on all
fours, the guide seizes the Dridle, and
urged on by a granger armed with a
Canada thistle, which he vigoriously
applies at the terminus of the spine,
the candidate is galloped three times
around the room. While making the
circuit the members rise and sing :
Got up and dust, you bully boy?
Sjo wouldn't ha a granger ? :
o thistle's prick (Ton t cause you joy.
To feeling you must be estranged, eh I
After this violent exercise ho is rubbed
dry with corn-cobs, beeswaxed
where thistled, and brought standing
up before the great chief?the Moat
Worshipful Pumpkin Head.
M. W. P. H.?Why do you desire to
be a granger ?
Candidate?(answering for himself)?
That 1 may learn to extinguish sewing
machine agents.
M. W. P. H.?Have your hands been !
hardened with toil ?
Candidate?Not extensively, but then
I am not running for office.
M. W. P. H.---Tis well, for oar lodges
oontain several who are supposed to be
ready to sacrifice themselves for the
good of their constituents.
A Revival of Mohammedanism.
It is well known that Mohammedanism
has been making great progress in
India of late years, to the alarm of the
Hindoos, and that instead of being a
dying religion, it is undergoing a great
and ominous revival. Recent information
on the subject is as follows: A
census of Bengal lately taken makes the
population 67,000,000 instead of 40,000,0?X>,
as was estimated. In some
districts there are 600 to the square
mile. The numbet - f Mohammedans
is far in excess of popular estimate.
They number 20,664,000. Of all who
call themselves Hindoos in faith, there
are 42,674,000. The Buddkiscs are 85,000
in number, and the Christians 93,000.
Of the aboriginals, included in
neither of these classes, there are over
two million. It is stated that the Mohammedans,
with their armies of missionaries,
their theory that all faithful
are equal before OoJ, and
practice of raising any convert at once
to full social equality, are becoming so
numerous, that by 1900 they will l>e
half the population, and ultimately will
control the religions destiny of Bengal.
Throughout many of the richest districts
they aro already nearly or quite
one-half of the population, and in some
they exceed the Hindoos by twenty |
per cent., tne moat aaiouuuiug iuohuv ?.
of wholesale conversion in modern history.
A Desperate Incendiary.
At the recent Meuse assizes, says a
Paris correspondent, a man of the name
of Jnlien was placed at the bar ; he was
nearly sixty years of age, rich, was married
twice, and has children by both
wives; in I860 he was named mayor of
his commnne, and exercised his function
for seven years. In the course of
1867 he unjustly accused a neighbor of
theft, and the whole village took part
against him. Julien determined to
avenge himself, and in three years no
fewer than eight fires took place in the
village, all due to incendiarism, and out
of forty-six houses twenty-seven were
destroyed. No one doubted the guilt
of Julien, but such was the terror which
his name inspired that no one oould accuse
him. A few months ago the prohoard
of the affair and instituted
UUl?t _
proceedings. At the trial ninety-two '
witnesses gavi evidence against the 1
prisoner, and it tnrned out that on some !
occasions Jnlien fired his own property
(which was insured) so that the flames
might extend t o the neighboring houses. '
One poor Jellow was burned out five
times. Several of the families wbioh 1
appeared before the court had been ut- '
teny ruined. The prisoner was defend- '
ed by Maitre Laohaud, but was found 1
guilty, and sentenced to hard labor for |
" Flesh for fuel" is theVay they head <
kerosene fires now.
Items of Interest. m
Octagonal watohes are fashionable.
" Semi-dress " is the masculine gender
of " demi-toilet."
Waynesboro, Penn., has a haunted
distillery. Jnst the place for spirits !
Pittsburgh has 31 bottle, 24 window
glass and 25 flint and lime glass factories.
Hare no respect for any man who has
to feel the publio poise to learn his private
doty.
It is a wonder what troubles well
meaning persons fall into in every-day
experience.
There are only eight gold watehes in
Harrisbnrg, Pa.?aooording to the official
tax levy.
The National Grange has selected
Charleston as the place for the next
annual meeting.
The vintage of the Australian vineyards
is estimated at 500,000 gallons.
That of California for 1872 was 4,000,000.
In Carthage, 111., boys under the age
of 16 are, by a oity ordinance recently
passed, prohibited from chewing tobacco.
John Carter, a Duluth boy of sixteen,
hung himself the other day' because he
had a fight with the school teaoher and
failed to oonquer him.
It was an expressive remark of a practical
man regarding the woman of the
period reoently: "She don't know
enough, sir, to boil water."
An old maid in New Jersey has
twenty-eight pet rabbits, and with these
for pets and a hot briok for oomfort she
manages to get along very nicely.
The Frenoh military tribunals engaged
in trying Communists have thus far
given 49,000 decisions, including 23,000
condemnation* and 2,300 acquitatla.
F. Sohonman, of Milwaukee, worked
hard for four years, did well, and then
sent over the seas for his Katrina.
When she arrived she died from excessive
joy.
Dr. Tietxe, of the Imperial Austrian
Mining Sohool, sent out by Baron Renter
for geological research in Persia, reports
the existenoe of extensive coal
fields near Gas via.
A London physioian, after a laborious
collection of the statistics of the trade,
oonoludes that the opportunity of constant
tippling shortens life an average
of three years and a half. #
"M. Quad," of ths Detroit Fr?
Preaa, has a patent kicker whioh annihilates
the man who "drops up" to read
the oT?htngfla nwr the iwpy, or ^
bore the editor in any other way.
A woman at Yassalboro, Me., recently
returned to her husband after a nine
years' stay among the Shakers. Her
husband invited all the neighbors to
celebrate the event and welcome her
home.
A housekeeper, writing of poor servants,
says that if women would study
housekeeping as their husbands study
law, medicine, and book-keeping, there
would be much lees oomplawt of* bad
servants.
Two thousand dollars is a pretty high
price to pay for a single rooster. That
is what Mr. Davis of Portland has
given Ira Batchelder for a black Spanish
cock ?considered the best game bird in
the country.
The hatred of the Chinese in San
Francisco is thus placarded in a cigar
store: "No Cninamen employed or
Chinese goods sold here. Established
sixteen years en the principle of white
labor only."
A proposed amendment to the New
Jersey constitution is that property of
ao kind shall be exmpt from taxation,
except that of the State, counties, and
municipalities, and burying grounds
lot held by stook companies.
No country upon the face of the
aabitable globe, having a railroad svsom
in operation, has so carefnllv t
ruarded against the possibility of oolisions
as the republio of Costa Rica.
[t rejoioes in a single locomotive.
A Titusville paper says: "A man
sailed at one of our stores and vainly
assayed to get on either numbers 11,
12 or 13 shoes. The store-keeper ?ugjested
that he should put on a thinner
>air of stockings and try on tb? box."
? . ii? once neti
Certain j.'inianitA??j-.? F ?
loned trie legislature of Massachusetts
o ordain that all hanging should be
lone by clersrymen. '? At a recent exention
in Gloucester, Eng., a doctor
iffered to operate gratuitously, for the
ove of the thing.
The National Grange, in session at
It. Louis, unanimously adopted a
nemorial to the Patrons of Husbandry
n the cotton States, arguing for mixed
msbandry in the South, instead of extending
the energies of the people in
aising a single crop.
The series of fourteen " extras"
ssued by the New York Tribune are
indonbtedly the cheapest and best
>opular scientific publication in the
rorld. The Tribune will send free to
my applicant a circular giving the full
iontents and details of this remarkable
' Library for One Dollar."
A prominent lawyer in St. Olond,
Minnesota, carried home a nice young
urkev, but he was told by the servant
firl that it must be very old, as it had
ost all its teeth, whereupon said lawyer
was greatly surprised, and replied
hat he had not particularly examined
he turkey, but had relied wholly upon
he butcher, who said it was young.
Two children belonging to the oomnune
of Rotbenbourg, in the Oanton
>f Luoerne, Switzerland, aged ten and
hirteen years respectively, recently
naltreated another child in so barbar>ns
a manner that it lost consciousness,
ind finally died. The motive for the
ict is said to be jealousy of the wayin
which their unfortunate little victim
- - -*? -A
lad distinguished himseu *< kuwi.
The Pennsylvania Agricultural College
ia not a profitable institution.
Joseph 0. Turner, one of the trustee*,
says that when he became a trustee
six years ago, the debt of the oollege
was about $112,000, and it has been increasing
at the rate of $6,000 a year
ever sinoe. The yearly inoome from
land scrip ia about $30,000, and, the
expenses about $36,000. The farmers
of the commonwealth take no interest
in the oonoern.