Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, April 16, 1874, Image 1
VOL. IV. NO. 28. PORT ROYAL, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1874. ' { .^u'^YSSS: ?/
Int*mL
A BeTerie,
Only a pebble, washed on the shore,
m Shaken by the Ocean's sullen moan,?
Weak and small,
Helpless all,
In the wide hollowness of its home:
On Creation's face,
Only a pebble!
Only a blade of grass, upward growing,
Pointing a finger to the stars,?
Tremblingly,
For yon and me,
Pointing a finger up to tho stars :
In the space of God,
Only a blade of grass!
fOnly a thought, a thought of death,?
For the time will come, and the day,
The cold
And mold,
The decay and crumbling away
In eternity of mind,
Only a thought!
A BRATE WOMAN.
Some few autnmns ago the rector of
a little seaside parish sat conning his
books in the quiet of his own study.
Mr. Fergusson was puzzled over his
work, bothered by it in fact; finally,
he sought assistance of his wife, who
sat opposite to him, busily knitting
children's socks.
" I shall be glad when we get rid of
this money we are keeping for our people,"
he said, as he replaced the bags
which he had been examining. "lam
so unused to having snch a sum as ?70
in the house that I don't feel quite safe
with it. It's to be hoped we shall never
be rich, Kate. I've been accustomed
to ?200 a year so long now, that I should
feel out of my element with a larger income."
" By the bye," he continued, after a
pause, "was not Sarah to come home
to-night ?"
"Not till to-morrow. She wanted
one more dav to see a sailor brother who
was coming home. I think I shall not
keep Sarah any longer than Christmas.
I don't like some of her ways. I did
not know so well when I engaged Sarah
what a bad character her family bore ;
one brother has been in prison twice."
"All the more reason for keeping this
girl Bafe from evil influence. You
shouldn't be too hasty, Kate ; you are
a dear little soul, but, like all women,
you judge too impulsively, and? Who's
that, I wonder ?"
A heavy step passed the window, followed
by a ring at the hall belL Mrs. i
Fergusson opened the stndy door as :
Jaue, their elder servant, passed down
the stairs, candle in hand.
Jane soon returned withalarge, damp
envelope.
The message was from the rector's
brother at Fordham, a place forty miles
distant, and ran. thus:
" Come immediately?a third bad fit
?my father anxiously expects you."
The rector kissed his wife aud children
and was soon on his way to his
brother's home.
Jane and her mistress looked two
very lonely and deserted females indeed,
as they stood peering out into
the darkness, listening to the wheels.
"Come, Jane, this will never do,"
said her mistress at last, wiping some ,
raindrops and drops of another nature
from her lace. " Let us Bee that all the
doors and windows are fast 1 Get your
supper, and come and tell mo when you
are ready for bed." ,
Then she herself re-entered the study
and sat down to collect her thoughts '
somewhat after the hurry and turmoil t
of the last half hour.
This illness of her father-in-law;
would he relent at the last, and let her
husband share his property with his :
other children ? Differences arising out ;
of John Fergusson's marriage with a
dowerless woman, fomented by petty
family Jealousies, strengthened by the ,
independent attitude the young man
had assumed?such differences had 1
been, after all, the heaviest grief of
Mrs. Fergusson's married life. And
now sb e wondered and pondered on
ttiAm till tiia aIoaIt nn thA <?himnev
Eiece struck the hourof ten and startled
er out of her meditations.
It seemed to the mistress of the house
that she had slept so long that morning 1
must be near, when she awoke with an
inexplicable feeling of fright?a feeling
of something, or some one, close by
her.
" What is it ?" she cried, starting up
in the bed, and instinotively catching
tho sleeping child in her arms. No
answer.
Only a distinct sound of breathing,
and then a movement like a hand feel- 1
ing along the wall?towards her.
She began to tremble violently; nothing
but the presence of the child on her
panting bosom saved her from faint- 1
ing.
" Who is it ?" she cried, her voioe
so shaking and hollow that it awakened
Ruth, who clung to her, sleepy and
scared. 1
This timo she had answer.
" We will do you no harm," a voice
spoke out of the darkness, " if you give
up that money you've gotand then,
beforo Mrs. Fergusson could muster
courage and breath to speak, another
voice, out of the room apparec tly, added
in a rough undertone, "And tell her
to look sharp about it, too !"
"Two of them O God, help me 1"
she whispered to herself, and Ruth be
gan to br?ak into screams and sobs.
" Keep that brat quiet," angrily muttered
the voice ou the landing, " and
don't keep us here all night."
Now surely if ever a woman was in a
miserable plight, Mrs. Fergusson was 1
that woman. Not a house nearer than 1
the Hollands', a full quarter of a mile
off; no soul near to help her, for Jane,
who worked hard by day, slept hard by
night, and slept moreover in a queer
little room at the very top of the house:
all alone?worse than alone, utterly
helpless, and a woman who confessed to
the usual feminine share of cowardice.
Still, she drew her breath, and there
flashed from her heart a cry for help;
and then, for a few brief moments, she i
thought?thought with all her mind and i
soul?Was there any way for her out of
this ? I i
And her reason told her there wat
none.
" Come," said the voice in her own
room, 44I'm a good tempered chap
enough, but my mate's in a hurry: don'l
provoke him. Look alive, and tell ue
where to find the swag?money 1
She groaned and shook, and all hei
limbs turned cold as the voice drew
nearer and nearer; and at the last words
a heavy hand was laid upon the bed.
Then, further to torment her, oame the
thought that once this money were gone
there would be none to meet the people
with?the people who had saved it week
S* week, day by day, all the past year 1
>avy drops ran down her shaking
form ; her hands turned numb and her
lips clammy and cold, while the beating
of her heart was like the quick tolling
of a bell?louder, louder?till it deafened
her.
"IH find a way to make her speak,"
growled the seoond voice; 41 here's another
kid in this room." Then in one
instant a thin streak of light shot across
the landing, and the next
44 Mother, mother, mother 1" shrieked
Rosie's voice; and at that sound Bath
redoubled her cries, and the unhappy
mother sprang up, clasping one child,
mad to protect the other.
44 Silence, you fool 1" said the man
by her, speaking harshly for the first
time. 44 You'll drive that fellow yonder
to do the child a mischief, if you won't
do as I tell you. Keep down, won't
you ?" For she was struggling wildly
to pass him, to get across the troom to
Rose?Rosie, whose ories were sounding
strangely stifled. 4'Look here, if you
don't cive ud this same, by the Lord,
he'll knock you on the head, if I don't."
And clasping one wrist like a vice, the
man held her fast, while with the other
hand he turned on the light from a
small lantern slang at his side. She
lifted her eyes slowly, as fearing whom
she might see; bat there was little
enoagh visible of the burglar's face?a
wide hat, a thick red dish, beard, and a
loose, rough gray coat, were all she saw.
"Hush, hush," she murmured to
Ruth. " Mother will send them away ;
don't look at him." And she turned
the baby's face towards herself; then
raising her trembling voice, " Rosie,
my darling, your mother is ooming 1"
But Rosie did not answer her. " O my
God 1" she panted, and looked up wild>y
" Mate,'' said her captor, loud enough
for the other man to hear, " take your
hand off that child's mouth if you aren't
in a hurry to be strung up." The
Btrange muffled sounds upon this broke
out again into the old cry, " Oh, mother,
mother 1"
"Now," said the man, "one good turn
deserves another. You're plucky enough
for a woman, but I can't waste all the
night talking to you;" and then he gave
her a look that made her shiver from
head to foot anew. "Bundle those two
brats of yours into one bed, and come
and get us what we want."
She seemed powerless now, and her
very soul fainted within her as she
crept after the tall dark [figure over the
landing into Rosie's room.
"Oh,'my child !" cried the poor woman,
and essayed to run to the little
bed where lay the small figure, pinioned
down by the heavy grasp of a taller,
darker man than her own captor.
"Hands off, missus," growled the
jailer.
"Hands off now ! Just put that other
one in here along of this one, and I'll
take and turn the key on 'em both,
while you take us yonder to what we're
lookin after."
No choice again but to obey; twopassionate
kisses and a low "God keep
you;" and between the two men she was
marched from the room, followed by
the children's pitiful cries, their wild
frightened sobs.
She led them down the first short
flight of stairs to the door which, as we
have already said, was partly overhung
with a curtain. This door opened into
a room which had been used by Mr.
Fcrgusson's predeoessor as an oratory.
The rectory had been built in the time
of the late rector, and built consequently
very much to suit his taste and
fancies.
One more peculiarity of the room to
note: tne aoors?ior more wore n*u?
fastened with a spring on being pushed
to, and could only be re-opened by a
baud accustomed to the task, and they
also were furnished with heavy bolts on
the outside; one door opened on the
lauding; the other, a smaller one, in
one side of the recess at the further
end, led into a bedroom which had been
Mr. Fergusson's predecessor's, and
whenco he could get in and out of his
favorito oratory at any hour of the day
or night, as it pleased him.
Here, as the kitchen clock below
Btruck the hour three, stood the strange
trio?the muffled disguised men, the
trembling white-faced woman.
But one of them carried a light, the
other had left his lantern outside.
"Now," aaid the darker of the men,
' here's the room, you say ; we can flush
this business pretty quick."
The small safe, let iuto the wall, was
directly before them ; below it four
drawers reaohed down to the floor ; in
the lowest of these, at the back of it,
Mr. Fergnsson had laid the key.
8he pointed silently to the drawer,
which they at once dragged out, with
too much strength, for they jerked it
quite out on the floor. One of them
suddenly turned particular about making
a noise, and bade their unwilling
helper " shut that door." As she felt
the spring catch securely beneath her
hand, there suddenly flashed upon her
a thought?a hope?a way of escape for
herself, a way of saving yet that fatal
money.
From the look the men had cast
around the room, Mrs. Fergusson was
sure they knew nothing of their whereabouts.
"Shut the door," the man had said,
and never so much as cast a look towards
where was the other door, completely
coneealed in the shadow of the
recess !
Every pulse beating wildly, she
glanced furtively across the room;
through the tall, narrow, churoh-liko
window yonder she could see the moon
struggling through thick clouds, and
she could see?her sight quiokened by
the peril of the moment?she comld see
a faint thread of light on one side
i which told her that the further door
stood unlatched,
i " O, Heaven help me, and give me
> time !" she prayed; but her hand shook
; so that it could scarcely obey her swift
i thought. Another moment, and she
took in her exact position: the men
stooping over the keys, the lamp on the
' door, and the next she had flung her
i shawl over the lamp, darted across the
floor, out into the room beyond, and
i flnng to the door with force,
i Yet more to be done. She drew the
i bolts with frenzied speed, above, below
?that way was safe; then, with the passionate
strength of the moment, she
sped through the room, out on the landing
to the curtained door, and made
that fast from without, while the furious
captives beat at it from within; and
then? Ah, then, poor thing, her fortitude
forsook her, and a thousand fears
sho had not counted on most cruelly
beset her.. She slid down a few stairs,
clincrinff to the rail: then, losing her
bold, fell heavily on the stone floor of
the hall below.
Mr. Fergusson had reached his nearest
station in safety, had sent back the
wraps his careful wife had guarded him
with, and started by the ten o'clock
train to Fordham.
The rain beat on the windows as the
train flew along in the darkness, and
presently a prolonged whistle told him
that they were approaching a certain
junction whore he wou^d have to wait
some ten minutes or so.
Two or three lamps on the platform
by which they drew up stowed some
few passengers and a couple of sleepy
Dorters. Another train had just come
in irom the opposite direction, from
Fordham, now only fifteen miles distant;
and some of its passengers had
alighted and were making their way
past the line of carriages.
Looking out upon hiB fellow-travelers,
without much curiosity or interest, Mr.
Fergusson caught sight of a face which
he had little expected to see. Shouting
to a porter to open the door of his compartment,
he sprang out and grasped
the arm of a man very much like himself?in
fact his own elder brother.
11 George," he claimed, "were you
going for me ? Is my father worse ?"
" What on earth do you mean, and
wherever did you spring from ?" was
the answer he got, accompanied by a
look of profound amazement.
" 0, George," he said, with a* gasp'
"did yen not telegraph mo this even
ing that my father had had antoher fit V
" Most certainly I did not."
" O, my wife, my wife!" said the
clergyman; and then he staggered up
to a heap of luggage and sat down and
hid his face in his hands. His brother
saw the matter was serious ; so he let
his own train pass on without resuming
.his journey, and was soon in possession
of all the explanation John Fergusson
ooald give.
" Porter," he asked, "what time does
the night-mail go through to Wheelborongh
?"
, "1:25, sir," answered the man;
"reach Wheelborough 2:15."
The distanoe was five-and-twenty
miles ; the present time a quarter, or,
by tho time the explanation was ended,
half-past eleven.
" No help for it, John, we must wait
for the down-train; we couldn't pick up
a horse, nor yet a pair, that would be
ready to start this time of night and get
us to Wheelborough before a quarter
past two. Come, old fellow, cheer up ;
l'ts no use taking for granted everything
you dread!"
But George Fergusson thought in his
own mind that matters looked black
enough to justify any amount of fears,
and had hard work to find hopeful talk
for the next two hours. He tried family
matters?anything to pass away the
time?in vain; his brother's mind wsb
filled with overwhelming anxiety, his
eyes peering up the line to catch the
first glimpse of the approaching train.
At last tli6 shrill whistle, the glaring
lights creeping nearer and nearer, tho
minute's stoppage, and then off again
homewards?homewards/?and ho began
to dread the moments he longed
for.
At Wheelborough the two brothers
struck out at once from the station on
their five-mile walk ; and, a3 they left
the further outskirts of the town, the
church clock chimed half-past two
o'clock.
George Fergusson could barely keep
up with his brother's rapid stride, and
thought him half-crazy with excitement
wnen lie saw 111m liguuy leap a aucu,
anil start running across a broken
piece Of earth.
" George," cried the rector, pointing
to his own house, not a stono's-throw
distant, " look at that light!" And
through the long narrow window of the
oratory a light shone plainly.
" Great God, if we are too late!"
The brothers scarcely knew how thqy
covered the short remaining distance.
A blow at tho hall window, and their
united force at the shutters within,
and they made good their entrance to
see?Kato Fergusson lying senseless on
the floor; to hear tho wailing and crying
of children overhead; anda strange
sound of low voices whispering and
hands cutting away at wood-work.
Late indeed they were, but not too
late. An outdoor bell, set clanging,
soon called ready help from the village,
while Jane, already roused by the
sounds, but too frightened to venture
from her room alone, busied herself
over her unconscious mistress.
The captives in the oratory fought
like cats, and one of them gave George
Fergusson a bite in the arm, the mark
of which he will carry as long as he"
lives?that was " Rough Dick." "Gentleman
Jim" turned sullen, and submitted
to the force of numbers at the
last with a better crrace.
When on their trial, two months
later, "Gentleman Jim" paid Mrs. Fergusson
several compliments, and politely
assured the judge before whom they
were tried that he esteemed it no disgrace
to have been "trapped by such a
brick of a woman 1"
Home Again.?Santa Anna, who is
seventy-six years old, is going to Mexico
to spend his remaining days in the
land of nis birth and early glories. He
says he returns under President
Lerdo's proclamation of amnesty, but
is firmly resolved to take no part in
Mexioan politios.
Employment for Children.
The annual report of the Massachusetts
Labor Bureau, just issued,
oontains many interesting statements
concerning the employment of children.
The report says that the Bureau
had difficulty in obtaining answers to
its letters of inquiry in a very large
number of cases. Twenty-one towns,
however, reported 1,830 ohildren under
ten employed, while twenty-eight more
reported that such children were employed,
but gave no numbers. Twentyeight
towns reported 1,723 children
from ten to fifteen employed, who had
not received the legal amount of schooling,
and twenty-nine towns reported
children thus employed, but gave no
numbers. These figures, in the opinion
rarr i n a rl on n (iffll V ran.
Ul IUO 1/U1VUU) ? J
resent tbe number of the children
really employed. Quite a number of
towns and oities have half time and
evening sohools. " Upon this subject
of the eduoation of mill ohildren,"
says the report, "there can be but one
opinion -that the matter is not attended
to either by the State or local authorities
; that legislation is needed to
oompel attendance, to punish illegal
employment of children, and to provide
proper schools for the instruction of
operatives along vrfth work. Personally,"
it continues, we believe in the
extremeBt legislation in this direction,
and, oould we have the power given us,
we would not allow a girl under sixteen
years of age to be employed in any kind
of a factory or workshop. If she could
be free till she reached the age of
twenty, mankind would be the gainer.
This is a physiological matter, and the
result of our investigation of facts in
this connection, and our careful consideration
of this subject, leads us to
express the hope that, if no other subject
connected wlthlhe labor question
is thought worthy of legislation, this
mav be seleoted for legislative study
and action. No argument is necessary
to convinoe people of the importance
of giving the years mnder sixteen in a
girl's life to the gftwth and development
of her organisation, on the
healthy condition of which so much
depends?her own health, happiness,
and usefulness, not only to herself, but
to those dependent upon her, either for
care or sustenance."
General Jackson.
The late Peter Hagner, for many
years third auditor of the United States
Treasury, appointed originally under
Washington's Administration, and continuing
in the Treasury Department
until Qeneral Taylor's Administration,
used to tell the following characteristic
anecdote of President Jackson: '"It
seemed that some politician had been
long making efforts to have Mr. Hagner
removed to make place for himself.
He discovered that Mr. Hagner, many
years before, when General Jackson was
in the army, refused to pass certain of
his accounts, amounting to some 815,
000, for want of sufficient vouchers,
which he had lost in an aotive campaign.
Armed with this information he approached
the General, and made the
unfortunate mistake of proposing to
him, that if he was appointed the account
could be audited and paid. This
roused the ire of the General, and
threw him into a violent passion; he
called his servants to turn 'the infernal
scoundrel out of the house,' and directed
one of them to go to Mr. Hanger
and order him to come to him instantly.
Mr. Hagner was quietly sitting in his
office when he received this peremptory
order, and immediately obeyed it. He
found the General walking up and
down the room in a violent passion, and
the first salutation he met with was?
'Give me your hand, sir; you're an
honest man ; I respect you ; you did
right, sir, in not passing my aocount.
I lost the vouchers. By the Eternal 1
to be insulted in my own house !' Of
course all this was Greek to Mr. Hagner.
The affair had happened many
years before, and was entirely forgotten
by film. It was sometime oeiore no
succeeded in quieting the General
down, when he asked him what it all
meant. The General then told him the
circumstances, adding?'Go to your
office, sir ; make yourself perfectly easy;
there shan't be a hair of your head
touched as long as I have the honor to
fill the Presidential chair.' "?American
Historical Record.
A Curious Custom
Talking the other day with the traveling
salesman of a London woolen warehouseman?jobber,
we should call him
here?there came to light a curious
custom which prevails in England in
ihat line of trade. A tailor, instead of
having a heavy line of stock for his customers
to select from, keeps on hand,
in many cases, only a fall line of patterns,
representing the stocks of the
leading warehousemen. The customer
selects from the patterns the style and
make that suit at once his fancy and his
purse. Then, his measure having been
taken and his order booked, an order
goes up to the warehouseman for the
oloth. He sends it down by his porter
?the whole piece?who leaves it with
tho tailor. The tailor cuts off what he
wants, and the next day tho porter
looks in and carries back tho piece to
its owners, who had it measured before
it left them, and again measnre it on
its retnru, charging the tailor with the
difference. Oar "jobbers" have
learned that a shorter way is to cut off
what the tailor wants and send it to
him ; bat this idea does not seem to
have oo iurred to oar cousins over the
water, or else it is too new-fangled and
simple to snit their ideas of business.
? Commercial Bulletin,
Thb Baptists.?The "Baptist Yearbook
for 1873 gives the total number of
Baptists in the United States at 1,633,939,
an increase for the year of 48,707.
The present number of Baptist ministers
is 12,598, an increase of 706; number
of churches, 20,520, an increase of
800.
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Queer Medical Facta.
The following paragraphs are fa
from a recent lecture by Dr. Br<
Sequard:
We are indebted to the observa
af a very intelligent negro, whose i
ter was affected with a disease of
spinal cord, which produced con
sions in the lower limbs. The mos
tense stiffness would manifest itse
the lower limbs. They were rigid
a bar of iron for a time ; and after
minutes of this extreme rigidity 1
began to have violent jerks. The j
then disappeared and the rigidity
turned. All day long the lower li
were in this state of muscular conl
tion. His servant, the negro, ha'
to dress him, found it very diffi
to put on his pantaloons.
One day he by ohanoe took hol<
his big toe, and found as he pull<
that the limbs became perfectly
and movable. The convulsions
disappeared altogether. The n<
certainly had a natural genius
science. He learned that wheneve
wanted to push his master's pantah
up, he had only to pull his big
down. He succeeded every time,
as the master found the cessatioi
nanfnl sal: nfliAl* fi
bUO UVUTUiatuuB u?v?u* H? w.-w- w
besides when he was dressing,
negro was asked very frequently to
on the big toe in order to effect
This fact is not a unique one. I 1
sees fourteen such cases. Many of
medioal friends have seen them als<
A friend of mine, Dr. Waller, a i
intelligent man, a man of genius, fo
that by pressing on the neok he c<
produce the most interesting phj
logical phenomena. He has suoce<
in curing headaohes, neuralgia of
faoe, ana many other affections
which there was pain or great oon
tion of the head. An attacK of epih
may be stopped in that way. hi
physicians before him had prodi
some of those results, but thej
thought it was from a pressure of
carotid artery.
Dr. Waller has the merit of shoi
that it is chiefly?he thought it
only, but I have found that it is chi
not only?through an irritation of
nerve, the par yagnm, that the mo
of the heart is arrested in those cf
and that a diminution of the beatin
the heart was followed by an ameli
tion in the circulation in the hee
oessation of an attack of epilepsy
of ^various other complaints. It
something, therefore, quite diffe
from the mere pressure on the car
artery. These views were not absolr
complete, as I have found that ano
nerve which goes to tbe blood vei
of the brain is also irritated by the
cess ; and that the pressure cxerte
the neck produces three effecte:
(1) It certainly diminishes the
ront in the carotid artery, and, ind
stops that curront altogether if
pressure is considerable; (2) it
minishes the circulation considers
and may induce a profound stati
syncope by acting on the par vag
and (3) it also acts on the cervical t
pathetic, and produces a contractic
the blood vessels in the head,
means of whioh a part of the gooi
feet is obtained.
Mr. Sumner's Will.
A Washington telegram to the Pi
dclphia Press says that in Septem
1872, just before Senator Snmner
for Europe, he wrote, in his own h
his will, by which he bequethed all
papers, manuscripts, and letter-bi
to Henry W. Ipngfellow, Franci
Balch, and Edward L. Pierce,
Trustees; all his books and autogri
to the library of Harvard College ;
bronzes to his friends of many y<
Henry W. Longfellow and Dr. Sai
G. Howe. He gives to the City of
ton, for the Art Mnsenm, his pict
and engravings, except the pictur
" Miracle of the Slave," which h<
qneaths to his friend Joshua B. Si
of Boston. To Mrs. Hannah Richn
Jacobs, the only surviving sister ol
mother, he gives an annuity of $
There is a bequest of $2,000 to
daughters of Henry W. Longfell
$2,000 to the daughters of Dr. Sat
G. Howe, and $2,000 to the daugl
of James T. Furness, of Philadelf
of whom he says: "I ask then
accept in token of gratitude for
friendship their parents have sh
me." The will directs that the res
of his estate shall be distributed in
equal moieties, one moiety to his sii
Mrs. Julia Hastings, of San Franci
Cal., the other moiety to the Presii
and Fellows of Harvard College
trust for the benefit of the col
library, the income to be applied to
{rarcbase of books. In referenoe to
ast moiety fhe will adds: "This
quest is made in filial regard to the
lego. In selecting especially thi
biary, I am governed especially by
AAnAl'/lAHn^'AM iViaf oil rr? XT llfa T 1
VUUQlUClAblUU luou uu u*j m?w ? .
been a user of boohs, and having fe
my own, I have relied on the libn
of friends and publio libraries, so
what I do now is only a retnrn for \
I freely received." Francis E. Be
of Boston, formerly Clerk to the Se
Committee on Foreign Relations, v
Mr. Sumner was chairman of that c
mittee, is designated sole executoi
the will. Mr. Sumner* estate is va!
at 8100,000.
Pensions.?Georgia is the first of
States lately in rebellion to pass a
giving publio money to persons
became helpless in the Confederate
vioe. The bill made a donation of I
to those .who had lost both eyes
reason of servioe rendered to the (
federate St*tea. It was disapprove<
the Governor on a technicality, tl
being no entry on the journal to s
that the act passed by a two-th
vote, as is required by the Consl
tion, though in fact it did so pass.
It has been aptly suggested by as
change that some one month in <
year should by general aonsent be
apart for the return of borrowed b<
and to pay the printer,
H
Imaginary Terror*.
iken Instances of the deadly influence c
>wn- fear on the minds of children are by n
means infrequent. Many a little sul
,tion ferer has undergone agonies in th
Daa. " dark oloset" that some parents mak
, their ohoioe instrument of punishmenl
which have had an influence on th
ivul- mind for life. To many ohildren of a<
t in- tive imaginations it is positive tortur
If in B'oeP a dark room, and they hav
... hours of terror at night, by calling u
e visions and shapes of terror suggeste
' I?11 bv their reading. It is useless to sool
they at them, and cruel to laugh at them, fc
erks it is a part of their nature which the
cannot change. Sara Coleridge, th
daughter of the poet and philosophei
8 passed through untold agony from thi
cause. The ghost of Hamlet seemed t
V1D% haunt her chamber. Milton's pictui
of Death at Hell-gate rose before her i
, - the darkness. The horse with eyes c
, flame, in Sonthey's ballad of the " 01
1; Woman of Berkley," was worse tha
either. She said, pitifully, " Oh, th
agonies I have endured between nin
9^ro and twelve at night, before mamm
?r joined me in bed, in presenoe of tht
r k? hideous assemblage of horrors 1" H(
>?ns Uncle Southey laughed heartily at he
tale of suffering. Her mother soolde
d her for getting out of bed and goin
1 0 down into the parlor when she coul
bear the fear no longer. But her fathe
? understood the case, and directed the
a lamp should be left burning, andfroi
; " that time all her sufferings ceased. A
*ftve parents Bhould guard their childre
my from such terrors.
).
^ Another of Them.
iuld France is the lostest contributor t
ded ^?oc^ ^rdea ?^&8S stories, an
the the oase, which has just turned up i
i in the Saone-et-Loire, is vouched for i
ges- every particular: A young man name
?psy Marnier, who had been married only
iced 'ew m?Qths when the war broke on
r all joined the Mobiles of the Vosges, an
the was taken prisoner. On arriving i
Prussia he was sentenced to seven
"Bg years imprisonment for striking hi
guard. During his captivity he wrot
ejjy? often to his wife, but receiving no repl
that concluded that his letters were not foi
t ion warded or that his wife was dead. Whe
ises, he was taken prisoner he threw away hi
g of knapsack, which was pioked up an
iora- worn by a comrade, wno managed t
a esoape, but who was subsequently kil
and ed in another engagement. The knaj
wa3 sack contained the papers of Mamie;
rent whioh were forwarded to his wife as th
otid last remains of her husband. Th
itely yonng widow, after a few months <
ther grief, took a second husband. Sine
jsels then Marmier having obtained a pa:
Prp- don, was allowed to return to Franc*
ld and on reaching his native cottag
found it oooupied by another, and
cb'* ohild of which he was not the fathei
eed, Here the drama ends for the present.
tu6 ________
.bij, Trades Her Son for a Dog.
o of About a month ago a woman wh
om , ??? liw'nn in ty,0 Third ward of Mi!
ivm- ""** "" " " ~
,n 0j waukee, took a fancy to a large Ne*
, by foondland dog owned by the landlad;
1 el- and she offered to give one of her littl
boys and $5 "to boot" for the anima
Mrs. Cooke aocepted the offer, and th
little Heinrich, who was about eigl
, years of age, was transferred to hi
Der? new mother, and the woman took th
left dog and departed well satisfied,
and, Thursday she returned and demanc
hjs ed the little Heinrich book again. Sb
, said the dog ate too much, and sb
8 couldn't afford to keep him. But Mn
s E; Cook would neither take the dog nc
as refund the $5, preferring to keep th
iphs boy, who had becorfe very useful 1
. . her and loved her very much. A war <
words ensued, and then a fight, bi
Jars, neither conquered, and they had to t
nuel parted by a policeman. Mother Cool
j}0B. still keeps her little boy, and she is d<
terminea to do it if the law will alio
her. The little Heinrich is indifferei
a ?' as to the result, but prefers to eta
) be- with "Mamma Cooke."
nith
lond The Legend of the Felt Hat.
' his There is a legend among hatters thi
S500. felt was invented by no less a personam
1 b? than St. Clement, the patron saint <
nue{ their trade. Wishing to make a pi
iters grimage to the Holy Sepulchre, and i
^hia, the
same time do penance for sundr
unexpected peccadilloes, the piou
own monk started on his journey afoot. A
idue to whether he was afflicted with con
two or kindred miseries, the ancient chron
'ter, cle from which this information is d<
isoo, yjygj silent; but, at all events, a fe
days' successive tramping soon bega
in to blister his feet. In order to obtai
'f??? relief, it occurred to him to line h
1 th? ?hoes with the fur of a rabbit. Th:
this h0 <iid, and, on arriving at his destini
b?* tion, was surprised to find that tb
??r warmth and moisture of his feet ha
3 worked the soft liair into a ciotn-un
' *"e mass. The idea thus suggested I
aave elaborated in the solitude of his eel
!W.0' and finally, there being no patent lav
ines jn exi8tence in those days, he gratu
tbat tously presented to his fellow morta
, at resuit of his genius in the shape (
a felt hat.
nate
hen
:om- Fate of Modest Men.
T ?j The world generally takes men i
ue their own apparent estimate of then
selves. Hence, modest men never ol
the tain the same consideration which bus
who *orwar<* men do. It has not tim
ser- or patience to inquire rigidly, and it i
$100 partly imposed upon and carried awa
1 by by the man who vigorously claims il
3??' regards. The world, also, never hi
1 by two leading ideas about any man. Thei
here i8 always a remarkable unity in its coi
how oeptions of its characters of individi
irds ais. If an historical person has bee
dtu- crnei in a single degree, he is set dow
as cruel and nothing else, although li
may have had many good qualities, s
i ex- not equally conspicuous. If a literal
sach man is industrious in a remarkable <L
set gree, the world speaks of him as on]
joks industrious, though he may be all
very ingenious*
if Nothing tells 00 much on man u a
o gossiping wife.
f. Three Territorial are knocking at the
e door of the United State a.
e A Bnftalo father keeps his boy in
nights by chaining him to the wall,
e Loafers are to be excluded from the
y- Legislative halls of Wisoonain. How
e long before these halls will be vacant f
e A New Tork paper says that if tea is
S ground in a mill like ooffee, it will 90
one-half farther. You will then get it
d down to a fine thing.
* A correspondent writing from Turkey
J says that tne interior of Syria is overe
run with plundering Arabs, who ffiur^
der and pillage with impunity.
0 Jenkins told his son, who proposed
e to bur a oow in partnership, to be sore
0 and buy the hinder half, as it eats
,f nothing and.gives all the milk,
d A man was boasting that he had been
n married for twenty years and had nerer
e given his wile a cross word. Those
e who know him say he didn't dare to.
a "Thin siimmer ladies are going to
lt dress their hair as they did three hun>r
dred years ago," save an exchange.
'J This makes some of tbe ladies pretty
d old.
g
d The town of Gaskil, Jefferson oonnty,
ir Pa., has two men named Samuel Yoah
it and Geo. Boad. Yoah weighs^835 pounds
n and Boad 828, and they live only two
11 miles apart.
n Lord Oxmonton, an English peer,
was jnst one year old the 15th of last
month. No member of the Honse of
Peers has led a more blameless and consistent
life than Lord Oxmonton.
Love me, love my dog! A German
d woman recently walked to Windom,
n Minn., ten miles, after a stray dog. On
n her return she died from exhaustion,
4 and was found with the dog in her
a arms.
t 'Tvehelped burr every man that ever
' sold me a drop of liqnor, exoept one,
d and I am arter himnight and dav," was *
n the cheery, good-natured remark of a
il temperance orator at Springfield, Mass.,
is the other day.
* A Peoria young man reoently oon7
veyod to a young lady a quantity of
r* corn in the crib, several horses, an old
,D lumber wagon, And some other farm
L? property, on oondition that she should
d become his wife.
? John Spinks, a Council Bluffs barber,
* mysteriously disappeared about three
weeks ago, and a garment saturated with
' blood was found in a shed near where
he resided. It has been discovered
that he went quietly to Nebraska.
e A oolored man in New Orleans has
r- just reoovered damages and expenses
9, inourred by him in the rescue of his
e daughter from slavery, to which she
a was reduced in 1861, after having been
r. emancipated.
What relation is a loaf of bread to a
locomotive? You'll never guess it.
Bread is a necessity, a looomotive is an
iuvention. Now as necessity, is the
10 mother of invention, the material rela1
tion of a loaf to a locomotive will be
p. seen at onoe.
jt A veteran observer says that "Old
I friends are like old boots. We never
realise how perfectly they were fitted
' to as till tney are cast aside, and
e others, finer and more stylish perhaps,
it but cramping and pinching in every
corner, are substituted."
,e A bill has been introdnood in the
Oalifornia Legislature to prevent the
1. wanton destruction of game and fish.
l6 Fish ladders are to be constructed in
ie the rivers over every dam more than
9< two feet in height, and the shooting of
>r game out of season is prohibited,
ie The extraot of taraxacum is a very effi:o
caoions but simple remedy for clearing
)f the blood, and consequently of ridding
it the face of all roughness and pimples.
>e It is best to prepare a strong aeooction
;e by boiling a quart of water in whloh
0- half a oup of tne ground root is placed
w down to a pint, adding a stick of liooit
rice root and sugar to taste. The dose
y is one spoonful on going to bed four
nights in the week, omitting it the other
threo nights to let it work in the system.
it ~
;e Fish In a Hot Spring.
>f A correspondent writing from Eldo,
1- Nevada, says that there are hot springs
it there in which numbers of fish can be
y seen swimming about, though the water
.s is so hot that eggs are oooked in " less
is tban three seconds." The explanation
is of this phenomenon lies in the fact that
i- these hot springs rise in the banks of
9* streams the water of which is intensely
* cold. The cold water, on aooount of
its greater specific gravity, runs on the
* bottom without mixing much with the
water above, and the fish keep in a oool
x stratum. The water above the springs
* showed a mean temperature of forty,
two degrees, and by means of a ther?
mometer fastened to the end of a pole
and kept as close to the bottom as pos.
sible, the temperature of the bottom
r'B water from above the springs to a point
" below them waa ionna w ue ra; w?.
This Btream is one of the many that
. form the head-waters of the Oolambia
River, and to this point, 1,800 miles
from its month, the salt water salmon
oome in hundreds in the spring andfal
to rpawn.
it '?
A Big Tree In Kentucky.
Mr. Oeorge Riley, of Shelby oonnty,
t- out a poplar tree on his plaoe a short
9 time sinoe whioh measured to the fork
[? 118 feet, and 66 feet top; the stump
j measured 6 feet 8 inches in diameter
ti and twenty feet in eiroamfereaoe.,
is There were in all ten cuts 10} feet! in
e length; five of these cut 765rail*, leaving
i- sufficient for 860 more. In. all, 1,126
i- rails, and seven loads of yopi from one
n tree. The tree had.been struck by
n lightning and a seam opewro from top
ie to bottom, but not in the least shatter*
11 ed or injured. It waa also perfectly
y solid and soondL without spot or blems
iah. The four butt outa averaged 176
ly rails each, and it is estimated that the
\o whole tree would have made. 86,000
shingleai