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THE BEAUFORT TRIBUNE
AND PORT ROYAL COMMERCIAL.
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VOL. y. NO. 39. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1877. $2.00 per Aim Single Copy 5 Ceots.
Little Words.
A POEM IX WORDS OF OXE SYLLABLE.
Think not that strength lies in the big round
word,
Or that the brief and plain must needs be
weak;
To whom can this be true who once has heard
The cry for help, the tongue that all men
speak
When want, or woe, or fear is in the throat,
So that each word gasped out is like a shriek
Pressed from the sore throat, or strange wild
note
Sung by some fay or fiend ! There is a strength
Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fine,
Which has more height than breadth, more
depth than length.
Let but this force of thought and speech be
mine,
And be that will may take the tleek, fat
piiTMU
Which glows and barns not, though it gleam
and shine;
Light but not heat?a flash without a blaze.
Nor is it mere strength that the short word
boasts:
It serves for more than fight or storm can
tell?
The roar of waves that clash on rock-bound
ooasts;
The crash of tall trees whon the wild winds
swells;
The roar of guns; the groans of men that die
On blood-stained fields. It has a voice as
well
For them that far off on their sick-beds lie;
For them that weep, for them that mourn the
dead;
For them that laugh, and dance, and clap tho
hand
To joy's quick step, as well as griefs low
tread?
The sweet, plain words we learnt at first keep
time,
And though the theme be sad, or gay, or
grand,
With each, with all, those may bo made to
chime,
In thought, or speech, or song, or prose, or
rhyme.
The Music of the Waters.
And so all I had to do was to go into
the country and enjoy myself for six
weeks?that is what it came to.
Why, if any one had struck me with n
feather at the moment the doctor uttered
his verdict I should certainly have been
knocked down; fortuuately no such
atrocity was attempted, so I maintained
as erect a posture as my enfeebled
health would allow until the eminent
licentiate of the College of Physicians,
whom I was consulting, bogged me to
resume my seat.
"You are utterly smoke-dried," he
said.
" London or tobaoco ?" I inquired.
" Both," he answered. " No physic ;
fresh air is all you want?mountain air,
if possible ; perfect rest and quiet; abstemious
habits, early hours aud no tobacco."
" And then ?" I blankly inquired.
"Then? Oh, then," he answered, i
"get married and settle down.
It certainly was fortunate I was not
standing up at that moment, for it wonld
not have needed a touch of the aforesaid
feather to have laid me low. As it was
I sank back in my chair aghast. " Get
married !" I thought; I who was utterly
insensible to female attractions, and who
had been always taught to have an eye
to the main chance, and regard matrimony
as a clog, unless associated with a
great heiress. I get married on a salary
of ?300 a year ? Whew'
I left Savile row with scarce another
word, oonvinced that for real, downright,
unpractical men there were none to compare
with doctors.
Thus I took the plunge, and within
five days found myself at a snug little
inn in North Wales, hard by a celebrated
spot known as the " Devil's Bridge," a
few miles inland from Aberystwith.
The change soon refreshed me. I
was astonished at feeling neither dull
nor lonely?for the tonnst season had
hardly set in, and I had the little inn
wellmgh to myself. So I wandered
about and gazed wonderingly at all I
saw, especially at the deep, craggy,
wooded gorge or mountain river bed
across which his satanic majesty's engineering
skill was supposed to have
been displayed.
As I stood looking down upon it from
the bridge near the inn, it certainly
seemed to me a wondrously romantic
spot. Steep rock-bound banks, crowned
with trees, hemmed in the rushiug foaming
river, its channel becoming irregularly
narrower and more precipitous as
it reached the head of the valley in the
r depths of which it lay. Here there was
/ a waterfall, as I then thought, of stupendous
magnitude, and yet a little
nigher up, a second, still larger. As I
made my way down to the river by a
well-worn path through a wood, the
Bound of the descending waters, as,
wafted on the soft summer breeze, it j
rose and fell in liquid cadenoe, fascinated
me from the very first.
The weather hitherto had been superb,
midsummer sunshine, and not a drop of
rain.
The sunshine glinting through the
trees; the pnre sky above; the song of
birds, not yet all hushed, in the woods ;
the fresh breezy odors?these all became
such novelties and charms as T had never
a t>? a. i. i
conceived possiDie. x>ut seated on an
isolated rook, it was still, after all, out
of tlie " music of the waters " that I got
my chief mental enjoyment.
At last there was a sudden change of
wind. Heavy olonds swept over the
landscape, hurrying in mist or occasional
showers all forms save those close at
hand.
"Regular Welsh weather, sir!" said
a fresh-colored elderly gentlemanlike
man in a tourist's suit, whom I found
the next morning in the coffee-room.
" My party will be house-bound for a
couple of days at least, if I know anything
of this country; shocking place for
weather. Been here long, sir ?"
I told him how long, and that I had
not had a drop of rain the whole time.
" Disadvantage in that, too," he went
on; "mountainous scenery wants mist
and rain to drift'round the peaks, fill up
the torrents and bring out the waterfalls.
This one here will present a fine sight
alter another four-and-twenty hours of
such weather; it was a mere dribble last
night when we arrived."
I was consoled by this gentleman's
words; for having to spend the best part
of the day indoors, there was a new sensation
then yet in store for me; and I was
a little disappointed to find, when early
the following afternoon a lull in the
weather enabled me to go down to my
favorite rocky haunt, that there was very
little perceptible difference in the volume
of water coming over the fall.
So here I sat, I suppose, for more
than an hour in my accustomed state of
El acid indolent enjoyment. With eyes
alf shut I was saying over to myself the
first few lines of Southey's "Lodore,"
and trying to make "the music of the
waters " fit into them as an accompaniment,
when there suddenly sounded in
uiy cms u xutu ou wuu, <uiu wucmuig du
rapidly in volume, that I started, and
looking up perceived that now indeed the
fall had become grandly augmented. It
was swollen at least to twice the size it
had been ten minutes before; it looked
magnificent. I turned toward the stepping
stones by which I always regained
the precipitous bank of the river. To my
horror they had all disappeared, and in
their place a boiling, bubbling ferment
of brown water and frothy foam was
sweeping along at a tremendous pace.
Then in an instant I knew that the river
was rising rapidly. Anyone but a fool
would have forseen this as the natural
consequence of the increase in the waterfall.
Eight and left and all around the
river had now become a boiling caldron
of broken water; I was cut off from all
hope of retreat, and should be cashed
awav like a flv. I knew.
Helpless and scared, I stood irresolute
yet a moment longer.
I recollect in this dire emergency suddenly
observing a still further increase
in the volume of the fall, and almost
simultaneously with it feeling my legs
slip from under me as the brown water
gurgled in my ears and glistened in my
eyes. Then there was a choking, helpless,
tumbling pressure forward, several
sharp blows upon my legs and arms, an
effort to strike out, met by coming in
coutact with more rocks, and then a whirl
and twirl and spinning round as if I had
been a cork.
The swimmer's instinct, however, was
of some use after all, for, in the first
place, it enabled me to retain a little presence
of mind, and, in the second, to
bring my head up to the surface after the
first plunge. I saw I was already a long
way from the upper fall, and an additional
pADg was given to my sensations
by the recollection that I was being hurried
on toward the lower, over which if I
T mnol inorifoKlT VlO (IrnWTI.
HUB WUtlUI X U1UOII UiVllwuii wv
ed. Fortunately, just now I was carried
l>y a current close in under one of these
sheer-down sides, and for the fiftieth
time sent spinning round in the eddy
like a cork.
I made a helpless grab at the smooth
and slippery surface, much as the drowning
man catches at the proverbial straw,
for I was by this time getting exhausted
and suffocated by the constant rolling
over which the torrent gave me. I did
just manage to get a finger-hold in a
crack, and to steady myself somewhat;
but the water was very deep just here,
and I could not lift much more than my
chin above it, whilst a foothold of any
sort was out of the question.
Yet to remain where I was much longer
was impossible. Could I but have raised
myself some two feet I should have been
able to reach an overhanging bough of
one of the thickly growing young ashsaplings,
the roots of which projected
from the earthly top of the rock a yard or
two above. #
Oh, how I longed for a giant's arm, that
1 might touch that bough! Twice I
made a futile effort to spring out of the
water at it, but only exhausted myself,
and had the greatest difficulty in retaining
my support.
Wftfl T mntin cr and losinc conscious
nets? and is this to be the end, I
thought, with that music still in my ears ?
And, lo! what vision is that which I behold?
Surely an angel's face looking
down from amidst the leafy roof above
me ! Yes; my life must be passing away
in a dream of beautiful sights and sounds.
For a moment or two more such was the
vague conclusion floating through my
dazed mind, nor was it at once dispelled
by a perfectly audible and silvery voice
saying:
" Try to reach it now; I think yon can;
quick, try !"
This can be no illusion; this is no
phantom born of a drowning man's
fancy; this is a sweet reality; and in
that bending branch, now steadily descending
to within my grip, I see my
life restored to me and my hopes renewed.
I have the delicate end of the bough
in my hand; yes, automatically I have
seized it, and already it helps to lift me
higher out of the water.
"Bo very cautious," says the voice
once more. " Take great care, or it will
snap. There, wait so, whilst I pull this
strong one down, and that will hold your
weight better; now, so;" and in another
minute I have grasped this stronger one;
I manage to raise myself by it a little,
and to put the tips of my toes into
the fissure of the rock by which I had
so long held with the tips of my fingers.
Then a soft, firm hand is held out to
me, and taking it I fimtlly, by one supreme
effort, pull myself well up among
the underwood and twisted roots at the
top of the cliff,
Too exhausted to speak or think, I
threw myself down upon the steep hillside
among the long grass and ferns between
the trees, Then I think I did
really lose consciousness for a while,
for I do not remember seeing the pretty,
graceful girl who had saved my life until
I found her kneeling at my side, endeavoring
to raise my head as she wiped
the streaming water from my forehead
and hair.
"Wait here," she said, "and I will
run to the inn for help ; I won't be
long. There, lean against that tree
trunk."
"Pray, stop," I stammered, feebly;
" I shall soon be all right. I am really
very much obliged to you."
" Oh,never mind that," she answered, I
brightly; " if you can walk, so much
the better. Get up, and come along
at once; you must get your wet clothes
off."
I rose and shook myself, feeling very
bewildered, sick and scared.
" Here?up this way," she cried. " I
think we can get through the wood this
way; follow me."
I had scarcely started after her, as with <
a firm, light step she sprang up the slope <
among the trees, when I heard from the <
top a cry of:
" Hilly-o ! Lucy, hilly-o! where are
you ?" ]
"Here I am," she cried; "all right ]
Come down, papa, and give this gentleman
a hand. I have just helped <
him out of the water?he was nearly
drowned!"
"What? Eh, my dear? What are
you talking about ? Gentleman out of
the water?nearly drowned?" said a
cheery voice; and looking up, I saw two :
or three figures coming against the sky
over the crest of the hill. Then there
was a little hurrried talk as they met my
preserver, and presently my middle-aged
friend, who had spoken to me about the
i weather at the inn the day before had a
vice-like hold npon my arm, and was i
lending me very material assistance in '
my ascent.
"What a fortunate thing! Only to <
think," he said, "of Lucy happening to i
see yon ! We were wandering about,
and she had gone on ahead by herself to
look at the fall; then all of a sudden we
missed her and wondered what had become
of her; and then, lo and behold !
all the time she was qualifying for the
Royal Humane Society's medal.
We had stopped, when a second young
lady, evidently a sister of my guardian
angel, came running down toward us, exclaiming
:
"Oh, papa, do come up quick; Lucy
has fainted. She was just beginning to
tell us all about it, when in a moment
she went quite off."
Whereupon I hastened up the remainder
of the slope in company with
my new friends, to find the brave girl
quite insensible, her head resting on the
lap of a lady, evidently her mother.
Then all solicitude, very properly, was
turned from me to her; but she soon rerevived,
and then, and not till then, I
allowed myself to be hurried off to the
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inn to get ory ciomes. xuese, auu ?
little hot stimulant, soon put me to
rights, with no further damage from my
ducking than a few superficial bruises
and scratches.
But what wasthis tremendous internal
wound that I suddenly became conscious
of ??that had not been inflicted by projectiug
rocks or slippery crags or foaming
water! No; of a certainty that was
the result of a sympathetic glance from
a pair of bright brown eyes, which had
gone straight to my heart from the moment
theyjiad looked down upon me in
my peril.
I now suddenly awakened to the possibility
of what the doctor had called
" settling down." There absolutely appeared
a chance of my taking to the
idea, and of so carrying out his prescription
to the letter. What a wonderful
and beneficent effect it was working !
"Why, there she is in the garden at
this moment, and how beautiful she
looks 1 Now that I have made mvself
presentable," I thought, "I will go down
immediately and thank her like a coherent
being and a gentleman."
She was sitting in a little arbor at the
end of the inn garden. As I approached,
a blush, the more evident from the paleness
winch her undue exertion and subsequent
faintness had left, overspread
her sweet face?that angel face, which I
had at first thought a dream, and which
to me now, with my newly-awakened 1
poetical sensibilities, scarcely seemed a
reality.
I cannot describe it Why should 1 ? ;
Other people would not see it with my
eyes ; there were hundreds and hundreds
of faces in the world doubtless far more |
beautiful.
"I hoi>e you are feeling better," I ;
said, "f am afraid that what you have '
done for me has overtaxed your strength, '
I shall never forgive myself if it has
made you seriously ill."
" Oh, no," she answered, "I was only
a little out of breath with the running
and the scramble through the brushwood
and trees ; but I was sure that if I ;
was to be of any use there was no time
to be lost. Please don't say any more j
about it."
" Oh, but indeed I must; you must 3
tell me how you saw me and how you '
were able to reach me.""
Oh, I had merely gone down to look ]
at the waterfall?I knew it would be
very much swollen?and the moment I J
came upon it, to my horror and surprise
I saw you standing upon that rock in ]
the middle of the river. I felt sure that
you would be drowned; but before I
could even call out you were washed ofl !
it, and I saw you carried away. Well, I
don't know what it was that made me do it, 1
but I ran aloDg through the wood by the 1
side of the river as fast as I could. I !
don't suppose I thought of being able to
save you, but it all seemed so dreadful;
and then I lost sight of you. But I still
ran on to near the top of the second fall, 1
and got close down to try if I could see I
you ; the trees were so thick up above
that I was obliged to get close to the 1
edge. I was lookingiall about for you, 1
when I suddenly saw you just under- 1
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lieain wnere i was suiuuiug, wu ujiu^
to reach that bough. Well, then I '
pushed it down to you, that's all."
"All, indeed!" I cried. " Can I ever 1
repay you for that * all!' You simply 1
saved my life; I should never have got 1
out but for you."
"Hope you are not much the worse
for your ducking sir ?" here broke in '
her father's voice. "I and my wife :
hope that you will give us the pleasure '
of your company at dinner this evening;
you must be a little dull and lonely here
by yourself."
* Of course I would, and of course I did, <
and of course, too, I spent the very
pleasantest evening I had ever known in
my life. I told the family who I was
and all about myself; and they told me
a great deal about themselves?father,
mother and two daughters?and how
they had come out for their annual run,
as they called it, and how they often
made very pleasant acquaintances on
their tours.
"But it's not often," said my host,
" that we make one in this fashion; it is
not to be wished. We don't expect to
become heroines of a domestic drama
every day. Ha, ha! but, by Jove, it was
very lucky Lucy saw you."
After this evening followed a succession
of the most delightful hours I had
ever known; morning, evening and noon
were spent in the company of my new
acquaintances, and at the end of a very
short time those acquaintances had bem
come fast friends. I was as completely
over head and ears in love as I had been
over head and ears in the tnrbnlent 1
water, and I told her so.
"Save me once more," I said; "give
me that hand once again, and let it be '
mine forever; otherwise it would have y
been kinder to have left me to drown ]
outright."
She dropped her head, but held out 1
her hand, that hand which at this moment
has just touched my arm, as a silvery 1
voice says: 1
" Come, Billy, stop; I have been peep- J
ing over your shoulder. You neea not '
am' fa an-a more! neonle can cm ess the 1
rest. I would rather you did not enter
into details."
"Very well, dear," I answered; " as it
is nearly twelve years ago since it all
happened, perhaps you are right Yes,
settled down for twelve years; who would
think it! And in a week or two we must
be off, for the nineteenth time together,
on another holiday diversion. What
shall it be and where shall we And it ?"
" Oh, I am still all for the country,
you know," she cries. "I am never
tired of rural sights and sounds."
"Nor I," is my reply; "we'll go
where:
' Gentle winds and waters near,
Make music to the lonely ear.1
as Byron says. Fancy my quoting Byron
! What a transformation in a man I
Only we shall not be lonely, shall we ?"
" Indeed, no," she says, " we will only
take care not to sit in the dry beds of
mountain streams when we want to listen
to 4 the music of the waters.' "
Words of Wisdom.
It is hard work to teach people who
can learn nothing without being taught.
Take away from mankind their vanity
and their ambition, and there would be
but few claiming to be heroes or patriots.
io T-infViir.fr an PAfiv as to be wise f
for others ; a species of prodigality, bythe-bye?for
such wisdom is wholly
wasted.
Most thoughtful men have probably
some dark fountains in their souls, by
the side of which, if there were time,
and it were decorous, they could let
their thoughts sit down and wail indefinitely.
Every morning we enter upon a new
day, carrying still an unknown future in
its bosom. Thoughts may be born today,
which may never be extinguished.
Hopes may be excited to-day which may
never expire. Acts may be performed
to-day, the consequence of which may
not be realized till eternity.
An instant decides the life of man and
his whole fate; for after lengthened
thought the resolve is only the act of a
moment; it is the man of sense that
seizes qp the right thing to be done ; it
is ever dangerous to linger in your selection
of this and that, and so by your
hesitation gat confused.
The race of mankind would perish did
they cease to aid each other. From the
time that the mother binds the child's
head till the moment some assistant
wipes the death-damp from the brow of
the dving, we cannot exist without
mutual help. All, therefore, that need
aid have a right to ask it of their fellowmortals.
No one, who holds the power
of granting it, can refuse it without
guilt.
The education of the human mind
commences in the cradle, and the impressions
received there frequently exert
their influence through the whole of life.
Principles which take the deepest root
are those implanted during the seasons
of infancy, childhood and youth. The
young pupil takes early lessons from
everything around him ; his character
and habits are forming before he has
any consciousness of his reasoning powers.
A Novel Sausage Skin.
A writer in Nature says: We may
mention a circumstance of especial interest
to scientific men, in connection
with the manufacture of this new food.
The Nrbsicurst, or pea-sausage, was
produced by the Germans in such large
quantities during the Franco-Prussian
war that it was found to be absolutely
impossible to procure a sufficient number
of skins and bladders to contain the
preparation. All sorts of substitutes i
were tried. Oil fabric and vegetable <
parchment, as well as waterproof mate- i
rials, were essayed in vain, for an en- <
velope was required which was elastic ]
and unaffected by boiling water. At :
last a chemist stepped in and solved the I
problem. He proposed the use of gela- 1
tine mixed with bichromate of potash, i
or in other words the process employed <
by photographers nowadays in producing !
what are termed carbon prints. It is i
well known that if a solution of gelatine i
and bichromate of potash is spread upon i
paper and exposed to light, the gelatine !
becomes insoluble in a very short time,
and will effectually resist the action of 1
* n 1 1 A^ "1A Ihin
com or not water w iubwiyo h?, Lino | .
principle being in fact that upon which
photographic prints are produced, the 1
portions of a surface which refuse to ]
wash away constituting a picture. This <
same mixture was used for treating the 1
sausages. The food was pressed into
proper shapes and then dipped into the :
bichromate^ gelatine solution, after !
which it was exposed to daylight for a I
couple of hours, when the gelatine i
formed a rough skin around it, capable
of being boiled with impunity. i
i
Definition of Bible Terms.
A day's journey was thirty-three and
one-fifth miles.
A Sabbath day's journey was about an
English mile. ]
Ezekiel's reed was eleven feet nearly, i
A cubic is twenty-two inches nearly. ;
A hand's breadth is equal to three and '
five-eight inches.
A finger's breadth is equal to an inch.
Shekel of silver was about fifty cents.
A shekel of gold was $8.
A talent ef silver was $538.32.
A talent of gold was $13,809.
A piece of silver, or a penny, was thirteen
cents.
A mite was less than a quarter of a
cent.
A gerah was one cent.
An epha, or bath, contains seven gallons
and five pints.
A bin was one gallon ami two pints.
A firkin was seven pints.
An omer was six pints.
A cab was three pints,
CALIFORNIA'S MONEY KINGS.
Snormonn Wealth Accnmnlated Within
Twenty Yearn.
The San Francisco Bulletin says:
tfo doubt the richest mining firm in the
vorld is that of Flood & O'Brien,
Vlackey & Fair. Their interest in two
bonanza mines, at the present depressed
srioes, cannot be less than $23,000,000.
fhey own the Bank of Nevada, with a
3aid-np capital of $10,000,000 and a reserve
fund of $2,000,000. They are refuted
to own $20,000,000 in United States
xmds. Their real estate and other
Droperty in sight cannot be worth less
;han $3,000,000. .Besides these investments
they own a controlling interest in
several other mines, some of which, like
L- Dal/iVifl. ora hAlipTPii to t?e
JliC JDC3U Ob JL^ifuui, | imv v
m the line of rich deposits, and may at
wme future day be classed in the list of
"bonanza mines." Add these items
XDgether and we have a total of $60,000,XX),
which is an underestimate of their
wealth, but how much so we cannot say.
Die annual income on this property is
lot less than $20,000,000. The individual
interests cannot be defined, but we
should hesitate to indorse the statement
if the German financiers in this particuar.
It would not surprise us, however,
f satisfactory proof were offered, that the
entire assets of these four men would
foot up $100,000,000.
Next in order we should estimate the
wealth of the four principal owners of
he Central Pacific railroad and other
connecting roads of California?Stanford,
Huntington, Crocker and Hopkins.
These men are the largest owners of railroad
property in the world. Most of
his property is encumbered by the issue
if mortgage bonds. But we suppose
hat these four men have a clear margin
if rising $50,000,000. Besides railroad
property they own a great, deal of land,
town sites, alternate sections, country
eeats, city real estate and so on. It is a
low estimate to say that they are worth
?12,500,000 apiece. Prospectively they
Al? Tf mair
ire worn vuouj muic, jh ? ??,
turn out, with their nearly three thousand
miles of railroad and their large
imount of real estate, that six or seven
(rears hence they may be, if not now,
he richest men in California, or in the
United States. For the present, how3ver,
we adhere to our estimates, and set
iown the men who are the principal
owners of the Bank of Nevada and the
jreat bonanza mines as the richest men
n this State, and set down the four men
svho are the principal owners of the Central
Pacific railroad and connecting roads
is ranking next in order, with the qualiication
that we do not hold ourselves responsible
for these calculations. They
aave at least the merit of shrewd
guesses, with considerable data to fortify
he opinion. '
The number of men who are millionaires
in this State was njver so great as
low. None of them were rich twenty
rears ago, and very few had fortunes
3ven ten years ago. Quite a number of
;hose who had large fortunes five or six
pears age do not now figure in the list of
millionaires. The ups and downs of
mining interests have made the principal
lifjerence. A considerable number,also,
who were not rich five years ago, have
large fortunes to-day. financial "ruin "
in this State only means that men in the
hazards of business have lost, with the
strong probability that they will more
than make their losses good in the future.
If it is a land of "ups and
iowns," there never was a country where
men got up so soon as in this. There is
spring, untiring energy?men who have
faith in themselves, in the country and
in the good Providence which is on the
side of all who honestly try to help
themselves. There is not another country
under the sun where so many men
have made large fortunes in so short a
time without capital for a start. There
is not another young city in the world
which contains so lar?e a population of
wealthy men. These facts illustrate in
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if this coast. The men whose fortunes
liave been enumerated are only middie
iged. It is more than probable that
3ome of their heirs will be the richest
men in the world.
He Smelled Smoke.
When the railroad excitement was at
its height in Newark, Ohio, a stalwart
citizen felt the necessity of bracing himself
up. The mayor had ordered the
closing of all saloons and drinking- i
places, and the police had enforced the
regulations rigidly. But there was a
back door in Gingerbread Row, and behind
the bar there was long range lightning
whisky. The stalwart citizen
srept in, got his drink and beat a retreat.
Soon he was overwhelmed with burning
sensations in his stomach. Something
3eemed to be blazing there, and he burst
into a doctor's office exclaiming: " For
Heaven's sake pump me out quick."
"What is wrong with you?" inquired
the doctor. '' Get the pump ready while
[ am telling you. I'm burning up inside.
Hurrv. I took a drink down on Gingerbread
Row. They have put a job up on
me. I am poisoned." The doctor suddenly
interposed: '' Why, I smell something
burning myself;" and opening the
patient's waistcoat found a hole three
inches in diameter burned in the shirtfront.
While the stalwart citizen was
taking his drink he had dropped a cigar
stump between his waistcoat and shirt.
" Didn't you smell smoke?" asked the
doctor. " You're right I did; but I
thought it was coming out of my mouth."
All One to Him.
A Schleswig correspondent writes: A
little time back a country woman was
buying various articles at a shop here,
all of which seemed to indicate a projected
immigration to America. The
tradesman asked the woman if such was
the case, and received the following reply:
" You see I have two daughters and one
of them was engaged to a man who is
gone out to America, and who promised
that as soon as he made enough money
to support a wife, he would send out
money for .the journey, and then they
should be married. But several years
had passed, and my daughter had found
anotner sweetheart, when one day a letter
comes from America with money
enough to pay the passage. Well, now,
I made up my mind to send my second
daughter instead of the elder. The two
lasses are as like as .two blades of grass,
and it will be all one him which pf
'em he gets for a ^nfe."
The King and the Stable Boy.
During the visit of George the Third
to the royal stables a boy belonging to
the grooms took his attention. There is
no ooconnting for fancies; but there was
something about the boy that won his
royal master's favor, and the king treated
him kindly in many ways. But a time
of temptation came, and the poor lad fell
into disgrace ; he had stolen some oats
from the royal bins, and, being detected,
the head groom discharged him. The
fact that he was noticed by the king
may have aroused the envy and dislike of
others and it may be that the occasion
was gladly seized by the groom to have
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idea of speaking to the poor lad about
the wickedness of taking the oats, and
abasing the confidence of his master, bat
only determination to treat him as he
deserved. Who knows what a kind
word might have done for an erring boy,
who gave way to wrong doing in a moment
of temptation ? Bat sach was not
the case; he was turned adrift, with a
stain upon his character, to the great
grief of nis parents.
Not long afterward, when the king
again visited the stables, he observed the
absence of the boy, and asked one of the
grooms what had become of him. The
man, fearing to tell the truth yet not liking
to tell a falsehood, said he had left
His majesty was not satisfied with the
groom's answer, and suspecting wrong,
called the head groom to him, and made
the inquiry again. " I have discharged
the boy, sire."
" For what reason ?" asked the king.
" Ho was discovered stealing the oats
from one of the bins," was the reply,.
" and I sent him away."
The king felt sorry for the poor boy
who had disgraced himself thus, but determined
not to give him up, and ordered
him to be sent for immediately. The
order was obeyed, and without loss of
time the boy was brought to the king.
What a scene was this?face to face with
the king of England stood the boy, a confniftf
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"Well, my boy," said his majesty,
when the poor lad, trembling and looking
very pale, stood before him, not
knowing what awaited him; "is this
trne that I hear of you ?"
The lad could not look up into the
king's face, but with his bead bent down,
his only answer to the kind inquiry was
a flood of tears. He had not a word to
say for himself; his mouth was stopped,
for he knew he was guilty ; he had not a
word of excuse. The king, seeing the
poor boy was sorry on account of his sin,
spoke to him of theov;!?how he had not
only taken what was not his own, but
abusedthe confidence reposed in him.
"Well, my lad," said his majesty, putting
his hand kindly upon tho boy's
head, "I forgive you." Then, turning
to the head groom, said : " Let the boy
have his former place, and let him be
cared for."
What a thrill of joy did the lad's heart
feel as the king uttered those three
words: "I forgive you." Instead of
being ordered off to prison and punished,
and disgraced, he was restored to favor,
and restored to the place he had lost.
What gladness this gave the boy's
heart! It seemed almost too good to be
true. Yet who could dispute it ? The
king himself had forgiven him, and then
the highest judge in the land had not a
word to say against it; he was a guilty
one, but now was forgiven, and that by
the king himself. Will our young readers
learn the beautiful lesson contained ?
Age of Vegetables.
The species of vegetables we now cultivate
have been raised and eaten for
centuries. Even before the Christian
era many of them were in use.
Lettuce has been used at the table for
thousands of years. Herodotus tells us
that it was served at the royal table centuries
before the Christian era, and one
of the noble families of Rome derived its
name from this plant*
Spinach, asparagus and celery nave
been cultivated and eaten among the
eastern nations thousands of years.
Jesus took the mustard seed as the exponent
of a parable.
Badishes were known and grown by
the Greeks, and were offered at Apollo's
shrine wrought in precious metals.
Parsnips were raised and brought
from the Rhine to add to the luxuries of
Tiberius' table.
Beets were*most esteemed centuries
ago, and carrots were in such repute in
Queen Elizabeth's reign that the ladies
of her court adorned their huge stractions
of false hair with their feathery
plumes.
Peas, at Elizabeth's court, were very
rare, and were imported from Holland
as a great delicacy.
Fruits, also, were in great reputo
among the ancients.
The currant was cultivated centuries
ago in European gardens, and was called
the Corinthian grape.
Evelyn in his charming diary, speaks
of his berries as Gorinths ; hence the
name of currants.
The damson plum was extensively cultivated
at Damascus, whence the name.
The cherry came frow Cosus, a city of
Pontus, and the delicious peach, king of
fruits, was first known in Persia.
The quince was a holy fruit, dedicated
to the goddess of love, and was called
Cydonian apple.
Pears were as ancient as apples, and
are mentioned among the Paradisal
fruits.
Grapes were known at a very remote
period, and are often mentioned in the
Bible.
Removing Birthmarks.
"Professor," in the Tribune, says
that birthmarks or moles may be removed
by the following means:
For removing moles or birthmarks,
croton oil tinder the form of pomade or
ointment, and tartar emetic, tinder the
form of paste or plaster. The following
is_the mode for nsing the latter; Take
tartar emetic in impalpable powder, fifteen
grains; soap paste, one drachm;
and beat them to a paste. Apply to
nearly a line in thickness (not more) and
cover the whole with strips of gummed
paper. In fonr or five days eruption or
suppuration will set in, and, in a few
days after, leave a slight scar. Croton
oil ointment effects the same, but less
completely unless suppuraed, by producing
a pustular eruption, which, however,
does not permanently mark the
skin,
A Prorcrb.
I'm not a superstitions man,
With any blind belief in fate,
But through my reins a shiver ran
At something which I read of late.
I glanced a book of prorerba through,
To pass some moments spent alone,
And there the saying met my view,
That " Soon or late all things are known,
I laid the book aside and thought
About the secrets of my life,
A wild career, with failings fraught,
And long-repented errors rife.
What mattered that above the heap
Tt,/* Unu nt vhtpfl a mrmnd had thrown.
The ax of Fate goes straight and deep,
And "Soon or late all things are known."
Nay, gentle reader, do not start
And picture me the man of crime,
Because I'm faint and sad at heart,
To think of what may come in time.
Let him be first to raise his hand
And cast at me the cruel stone,
Who feels he can unflinching stand
Where " Soon or late all things are known."
Items of Interest.
Give the tramps no quarter.
When is a chair like a lady's dress ?
When it is satin.
It is said that the pen is mightier than
the sword. Neither is of much use without
the holder.
The strikers resemble the Russians because
they have been endeavoring to
wreck Kara.
Several newspaper men have been
dwindled hv the new counterfeit five thou
sand dollar bill.
Six thousand children have been taught
to swim in two years by the London
Health Society.
It takes the Bnssian provost-marshals
four minutes to convict and shoot a spy,*
and the czar loudly complains of lost
time.
An intelligent paper in Switzerland
says that "Miss Mollie Maguire, of
Pennsylvania, has been hung for misl)ehaving."
The empress of Brazil has but $600,000
worth of diamonds, and some one
ought to feel like heading a subscription
for her benefit.
A landlady said that she did not know
how to make both ends meet " Well,"
said a boarder, " why don't you make one
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A German dairy maid in Jefferson
county fell head first into a tank of soft
switzer cheese last week. Here it is
again. A woman in the kase, as usual.
Muoh hfp been said about feats of
strength; but it is an actual fact that a
man of but ordinary stature recently
knocked down an elephant. The performer
of the great feat was an auctioneer.
"This summer, ladies are going to*
dress their hair as they did three hundred
years ago," says an exchange newspaper.
This makes some of the ladies
pretty old.
In Grass Valley, CaL, there is a snake
lying around loose which is forty feet
long. The editor of the local paper
there was informed that this snake, with
one stroke of its ponderous tail, smashed
a large Newfoundland dog to jelly.
"My articles do not receive a very
warm reception of late," wrote a lady to
the oonductor of *a monthly magazine:
" Our fair correspondent is mistaken,"
replied the editor; " they meet with the
warmest reception possible. We burn
them all."
It wasn't such a bad notion on the part
of a glove dealer who advertised as follows
in large type: "Ten thousand
hands wanted immediately!" And underneath
it was printed in very small
characters: "To buy my gloves, the best
quality."
A novelist tells of two lovers, who
agreed to wave their hands toward each
other, at a certain hour, across the Atlantic
ocean. One might suppose there
might be waves enough between them
without their trying to make any more
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W1W1 mvu liom....
More than 5,000,000,000 cans of corn
are now packed 'in Maine, annually, and
sold in every part of the world, yielding
a business to that State of about $1,250,000,
and givingprofitableemploymentto
from 8,000 to 10,000 people during the
packing season.
Constantinople has a circumference of
about thirteen miles. Its harbor, the
' 'Golden Horn," is a long capacious inlet
of the Bosphorus running along the
northeast side of the city, with sufficient
depth for the largest vessels and capable
of receiving 1,200 sails of the line.
There is a question of veracity between
a Chicago Times reporter ami a rioter.
The reporter says he shot the rioter dead,
and the latter stoutly denies the story;
and says he can prove the negative. It
is manifest that the rioter lies, and other
papers congratulate the reporter on his
prowess and pluck.
Killing Disabled Horses with Dynamite.
An English paper says: An interesting
experiment was ir.c<1e last week at a horse
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slaughtering esuroiiBiJimru* An iyuiuvjf
with the view of testing a new system of
slaughtering cattle by means of dynamite,
and thus puttiug them out of existence
more speedily and with less suffering
than by the ordinary pole-ax. Two
large powerful horses and a donkey (disabled
for work) were ranged iu a line
about half a yard apart under a shed,
the donkey being placed in the center.
A small primer of dynamite, with an
electric fuse attached, was then placed on
each of their foreheads and fastened in
position by a piece of string under the
jaw. The wires were then coupled up in
circuit, and attached to (he electric
machine, which stood about five yards in
front. The handle of the machine being
then turned, an electric current was discharged,
which exploded the three
charges simultaneously, and the animals
instantly fell dead without a struggle. The
whole affair was over in two minutes,
and the experiment appears to have been
a perfect success. It was conducted by
Mr. Johnson, agent for Noble's Explo.
sive Company, Glasgow, assisted by Mr.
Harris, one of the dynamite instructors.
By this means, it is stated, any number,
evefl a hundred or more cattle, may be
instantly killed by the same current of
electricity.
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