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VOL. VI. NO. 4. .BEAUFORT, 8. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1877. $2.flfl per Amohl Single Copy 5 Cats. *
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Falling Leaven.
They are falling, 6lowly falling,
< Thick upon the forest side?
Severed from the noble branches
Where they waved ia beauteous pride.
They are falling in the Talleys
Wher/the early violets spring,
And the birds in sunny springtime
First their dulcet music ring.
They are falling, sadly falling,
Close beside our'cottage doorTale
and faded, like the loved ones
That have gone forever more.
They are falling, and the sunbeams
Shine in beauty soft around ;
Yet the faded leaves are fallingFalling
on the grassy mound.
They are falling on the streamlet
Where the silvery waters flow,
And upon its placid bosom
Onward with the waters go.
They are falling in the churchyard,
nimv t.Ul MilUlW unvvwj ? "t
Whore the idle winds of summer
Softly o'er the loved onee weep.
They are falling, ever falling,
When the autumn breezes sigh When
the stars in beauty glisten
Bright upon the midnight sky.
They are falling when the tempest
Moans like Ooean's hollow roarWhen
the tuneless winds and billows
Sadly sigh forevermore.
They are falling, they are falling.
While our saddened thoughts still go
To the stnny days of childhood,
In the dreamy long ago.
And their faded hues remind us
Of the blighted hopes and dreamsFading
like the falling leaflets
Cast upon the toy streams.
THE SHADOW ON THE WALL
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a / a ova AO ATDAT7VQTA VTT AT. tmiWCn.
Captain James Stuart, who had gone
all through the Mexican war, was a man
of great great force of character and of
unflinching bravery. He had a winning
address and the moat placid temper
I have ever known, but his principles
were as fixed as his feelings were
loft*.
He went to California in 1849 and settling
in Tuolnmne oounty, then one of
the principal mining counties of the
State, was fleeted sheriff, an office in
those days, when they were far removed
from State or Federal aid, carrying
with it all the dignity and responsibility
which that ancient title implied. In
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byrelniiugmaDy reauniseenoes of soenee
in his early life whilst in that State, one
case particularly, of positive and circumstantial
evidence against an innocent
man, which I give you in almost his
exact words.
James Lyons lived on a farm near
Sonora, antf many were the stories of
persons having disappeared after having
been seen near his place for the last
time. A roadway up to the tnountiins
had been made across the laud of Lyons,
but he was always displeased about it
He cut down trees and let then fall over
the road: he built barricades to present
people from passing, although not a
blade of grass ever grew upon that part
of the farm thus used. One morning a
well-respected teamster was found near
the Lyons obstruction riddled with bul1.
lets.
A short time after this Jim Lyons
went to the mountains to take charge of
a water ditch ; he gave his farm to his
brother, who afterwards sold part of H to
the Morrison brothers, who paid one
thousand dollars down, giving their
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notes ior me inuhuit, puj?ui? m
yew.
At the expiration of that time Hike
Lyons came back to collect the notes.
The Morrisons seemed very willing to
settle ; they figured op the interest, and
thumbed over the notes, told Lyons
they would have to go to Sonora to get
their money to settle, that they would
, go down with him in the morning, he
could have his papers with them and
they..would figure up a little more on
them and settle next day in Sonora.
Lyons left his papers, and the Morri%
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sons destroyeu uieiu. jjjwub uaum wu
them for his money, they told him to go
to the deuce. *
Stung by this piece of sharp practice
Lyons hurried to Sonora and laid the
matter before a lawyer named Watson.
The lawyer told Lyons he had no case
as there was no evidence at all to sustain
it, but said he, we will bring the
suit anyway. 441 want to get a chance at
the Morrisons, and will give them the
best blackguarding they ever got in all
their lives, and before I get through
with them they may wish they had paid
the money to the persons entitled to it"
The suit was brought, the trial came
on, and as expected Lyons lost it: He
had no evidence to show there was any
amount coming to him, and tba Mornsons
swore point blank that they had
made payment in full.
Then rueful mutterings were heard on
all sides as to the danger of the Morri rtti
hrr?tVi?r? 141 would not live on that
farm for all the money in California,"
said one. "Nor I, nor "I," repeated
others. Thus it went from lip to month
* with shake of head which brought to
mind all the old troubles of the Lyons
place, the mysterious disappearances
and the horrid appearanoet of all the
unfortunates connected in anyway with
that fatal locality. I was at the trial,
said Captain Stewart, and remember
well these fearful prophesies.
It was not long before a terrible
tragedy was enacted in return for the
masking farce that had been put off on
the Lyons. The trouble predicted by
those who knew the desperate character
of Jim Lyons, was not long delayed.
"But a few days after the lawsuit,"
gays Captain Stewart, "I was aroused
by a man saying the Morrisons had all
been murdered and their house burned
down."
I mounted my horse and went immediately
to the spot As I approached, 1
saw a crowd of miners looking about the
ruins by the light of pine knots which
they carried in their hands. I dismounted
and went close to the smoking
ruins. They had found the bodies of
two of the Morrison*, the third was
missing.
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One of the bodies was a mere trunk
without head, arms or legs. I turned it
over and counted twelve buck-shot holes
in the small of the back. The body-of
the other Morrison lay outside of the
fire line where he had dragged himself,
his rieht arm shattered from a gun-shot
wound; he was mangled and braised but
still alive. I put my lips to his ear and
asked him, who did this ? He said, " It
was Ed. Watson, the lawyer, who had
killed his brother."
I was astounded. I knew Watson had
abused the Morrison's in court at the
suit of Lyons, and had poured out on
their heaas the bitter invective of a
deeply injured client, but that he should
follow it up by a murder most foul, which
should glut its vengeance by committing
to the wrathful flames the bodies of his
victims and their earthly habitation, I
could not conceive.
I knew Watson had no pecuniary interest
in the suit; I knew he did not
expect a verdict in his favor, but that ho I
had tried it as much to satisfy these men j
that an effort would be made to right
their wrongs, as anything else and to
prevent, if possible, anything like the
very trouble which had oocurred in the
terrible vengeance on the Morrisons.
This was my firm belief, and when he
told me " Ed. Watson, the lawyer, did
it," I was more shocked and surprised
than when I heard of the principal oceurranoe,
the killing of the Morrisons
and the burning of their house.
I had been afraid something like that
, would overtake them, and its realization
only brought confirmation to my uneasy
apprehensions. The eye for eve, tooth
for toetli, life for life doctrine had been
practiced there every day, bnt here
three lives were pacrifioed, I might say,
to their own greed. Here was retaliation,
not in kind, bnt with dreadful accumulations.
I thought of course Jim
Lyons had done it, but as if to add new
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gasping, (lying man said, "Ed. Watson,
the lawyer, did it."
Several of the best known miners or
residents came close to the man and
heard his declaration.
I mounted my horse and rode back to
town, roused the lawyer and made him
go back with me to the scene of the fire
and murder, brought him up where Morrison
was laying and putting my lips
close to the wounded man's ear, asked
him to look up and see whether this was
the man ! Morrison opened hie ayes for
an instant and then shutting them tightly
said, firmly:
\" Yes, sir ; that is the man who shot
. my brother." Watson went almost wild
at this ; he clutched his long beard with
both hands, wheeled about once or twice,
and coming closer to Morrison, said ;
" Ww fXrJi at* to fttoro r?n nnioiliilifv nf
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your being mistaken ?"
The dying maD opened his eyes and
said, iirmly : " No, sir."
I knew if I let "Watson remain * there
many minutes longer they would lynch
him, and very likely roast his body in
the burning ruins of the building. I
pin eked him by the arm to oome, and
as we turned the glare of Ught threw
bis shadow on the wall. I was transfixed
with astonishment I stopped
Watson and pointed with speechless
anxiety to that shadow which thrilled
me through and through. He stood motionless,
apparently not comprehending
my feelings, too mnch terror-stricken
by this accusation to be more than half
alive.
The first words I could utter were as
if i had been tongue-tied for an age. I
raised myself up, and struggled as if I
was being smothered, and my voice broke
out in a loud call?" Bob Pore and Sam
Lyons did this"?The shadow on the wall'
wus the exact picture of " Bob Pore, the
half-breed," who worked evil with
Lyons, and it seemed as if some other
voice than my own spoke through me. I
was in a perfect ferment of excitement.
There was the wounded man who had recognized
tjbe lawyer as the murderer?
and there I was, the sheriff of the county,
with the accused in my charge; and yet
that shadow on the wall compelled the
loud exclamation from my lips, from me,
who should have been the last one to ac
cuae any one, bat should have waited m
calm dignity the deliberations of the
law; in fact, I was there to see tbat snoh
deliberation was had.
I suppose the fear that an innocent
man would be executed, together with
the knowledge of the bad character of
the half-breed, Bob Pore, and of Lyons,
who had a real grievance?I suppose
! these things heightened my nervous ap|
prehensions that a great wrong would be
; oommitted if that crowd hung Watson.
These feelings innst have invested the
shadow on the wall with what then
seemed to be almost a supernatural
apparition. It went through me like an
: electrical shock and compelled me in
i stantly to cry out, " It was Bob Pore and
! Jiin Lyons who did this." I hurried the
accused back to jail and started with a
warrant of.arreet for Lyons and Pore. I
found them in the meantime about daylight
the following day. I said to Lyons
"I want you as a witness in a case, and
asked him if he had seen Bob Pore lately."
He said he had not seen him for
several days, but that he was at the up?er
ice-house. The snow was deep, but
started up. I came across a ditchtender,
who told me Bob Pore had just
passed up a ^little while ago from the
direction of tlTe upper dam, where I had
just left Jim Lyons, and that he was all
drabbled and wet
I pushed on and a little further up I
spied Pore. He began to run when he
saw me, and I called to him that I wanted
him as a witness on that old case,
referring to the one he was in. This
seemed to quiet him, and he returned
with me. We called back for Jim Lyons
and brought them both back to jail. In
the meantime the coroner's jury had
met, the suspicions against Lyons had
been cleared up and the murder and the
burning fixed on the lawyer. When I
returned with the two prisoners, I
looked them up iu our somewhat insecure
jail and the coroner continued the
investigation. He had previously given
out warrants to arrest Bob Pore ana Jim
Lyons as witnesses in the case. The.
trial of the lawyer was the first business
now on hand. Summary punishment
was then the rule, and the law's delay
i but provoked swift retribution. There
was no putting off until terra timeu
Right now, was the word with those
! men in that rough life, who still carried
j with them the notion of well-regulated
society, and the lve of liberty and
justice in their harts. The accused
could not prove an libi. He bad been '
at home aick for seeral days, and the
' law did not allow hiiwifeto testify. The
wounded man swort directly and point ;
blank that he saw te lawyer shoot his ,
brother, and a Mexran swore that he .
saw the aooused theight of the murder j
Sass his door on a >vhite horse with a 1
ouble-barreled gunover his shoulder,
and he could not e mistaken. This |
seemed to flnish the use. (
During the trial,a German laborer ^
came to me and sauthat on the morning
after the murde^ a young man had ,
come to his house win a double-barreled ,
gun on his shoulder that he said he had
fallen down, sfcruol the trigger on a
atnnp and discharge both barrels : that ,
he worked for Mr. jyons up at the ice
house. I went out at once for Mr.
Wallace the young xan described, and
in bringing him in said : "Wallace,
you are a young max; this is a bad business
to be mixed p in. There was
more than one man {resent at that murder.
Lawyer Watso. never could have
done it all himself, and that story of
you falling down xnd striking the
double-barreled gnnigainst the stones,
sounds suspicious. fow do not let any
'one put you in a hoe in this matter ;
life iB still before yu, and it may be
bright and suooessfj." Wallace said
nothing in reply exopt to ask what the
law officers would dtif any one would
tell the whole affair I told hhn they
often let that one gc unmolested. We
reached the jail. Ixut him in a cell,
! and before leaving, tiked again to him.
! As I closed the do<r to leave him, he
' rapped on it and calld me back. " Did
you say " asked he, (that any one had
blowed the whole natter." "No," I
said. " but some on< might and your
young life would b gone." "Well
Mr. Stewart," said Wllaoe, "I will tell
you all about it JirrLyons, Bob Pore,
and myself did it! Ye went there on
Saturday night I wis stationed outside
near the back ioor to shoot any
one who came out thai way, Jim Lyons
shot fthieagli the window and Bob Pore
put the mattress nn&r the stairs and
set fire to it"
I rushed out for seme citizen to come
Cv* auJ Uaa? oomo fifniwr on/1 wKllflf
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they listened to it, I \ent to the prosecuting
attorney, and hid the matter before
him. "I cannot he said, promise
him impunity; if le wishes to take
the chances with the piople and the officers
of the law let him do so." I
hnrried back and tolc young Wallace. *
He said be would *&k?the chances, and
then he went into a ilinute aacoiuit of
the movements. He said that "about
one hundred yards fron the house was
a little cave ; we stomed there several
tioaaa. Yon will find ^ you go there, a
broken lipped bottle tsat had whiskey
in it, a tin box with cjps ond balls, and
some crackers and cleese all wrapped
up in a wotted handterchief."
I went there at once and got the very
articles he descr'bed. On mv wav back
I stopped at a store; tie suspicions bad
already been wide spread that Jim
Lyons had done the bosiness. The
store-keeper told me h( didn't believe it
because Jim Lyons bal stopped on Friday
night at his place and bought some
things to take with bin to his home in
the mountains. He dseoribed the articles,
and said he bad.Trapped them up
iu a spotted handkerchief. *' I openeil thie
satchel," said Stewart and handed the
articles qut. " Does that look like
them ?" " Those are the very things,"
said the storekeeper.
I hurried back to the court house
only to be astonished at the full confession
of both Bob Pore and Jim Lyons
confirming the statement of yonng Wallace
and implicating a man named Duncan.
We had brought the wounded Morrison
in to the trial and had him at the
hot^l. I went to the jail and taking
Bob Pore with me, I marched him down
to the hotel to see if the wounded Morrison
would recognise him. Before
going up stairs I threw my short cloak
over bis shoulders and taking his long
>>oi? T aknviwl it nn nmfar his nflt. ah this
was the way Wallace said Pore was disguised
the night of the murder. He resisted
somewhat at this, but I finished
it and walked him up. The wounded
man opened his eyes and at once exclaimed
"God forgive me for what I
have said against Mr. Watson, bat this
is the man. This is the murdererJ"
Then the shadow on the wall became
a living creature. I grasped Pore convulsively?few
would be his steps to the
grave.
Pore had worn a loose cloak the night
of the murder. His beard hung loosely
but his hair had been tucked under his
hat as described by young Wallace and
as confessed by himself, Watson's
shadow on the wall was the exact and
striking picture of Ben Pore as he now
stood before me.
Watson was cleared. Young Wallace
was released and Bob Pore and Jim
Lyons were executed" at the scaffold
where they again confessed their guilt.
Texas tiirls.
Pale blofeded, languid fashionable i
belles whose very rings seem too heavy j
weight for their listless fingers, seem I
quite a different type of beings from the !
lithe, brown cheeked Texas girls, whose
habits a San Antonio letter thus describes:
"Someof our dainty dames
should see the Texan girls ride in for
the fair, mountecf on hardy little mustangs.
Sometimes the rider and mustang
are nearly covered by a huge sunbonnet
; at others, the rider boasts a
orewux lurmci ihbuiujib uuhuwou nuiu
an anoienfc fashion-book. I saw a fair
creature in a hooped ?gown canter into
one of the plazas, evidently conscious of
being perfectly "in style" in her accoutrements.
The hoop was not very
graoeful on horsebeck, but it had a novel
effect, and was greatly admired by some
of the critioal loungers? of whom there
are always plenty. A Texan girl, if she
live in the country, generally possesses
one unique accomplishment. She can
lasso the wildest oow while you would
be thinking of mounting your horse.
This lassoing business requires a welltrained
horse, a firm seat in the saddle
and u steel-like strength of wrist, be.
sides long practice. She delights in
long curls that flow down her back. She
is as healthy as an Amazon should he,
and sometimes very pretty. i
TRAINING ELEPHANTS.
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i Keeper'* Account of how the Unwieldy
Beaut* are Trained?Peculiarities of Elephant*.
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A New York Sun reporter has had an f
interview with the keeper of five ele- *
phants, performing in a circus at Gil- *
cnore's Garden, and obtained from him [
the following "points" in regard to *
training such animals:
"I suppose," said the reporter, "yon 1
know the elephant's nature pretty thor- J
Dughlv?how to care for them, and how t
to handle them f"
" Well, I ought ta< I have been with j
thorn over nineteen yfars, and liave had 1
charge of a good many. I have never j
hp an verv hfldlv hurt as vet. though I
Lave been in the hospital three times '
through in juries they gave me. I was 1
onoe laid up for fire weeks; but I suppose f
my time will come, for almost every ele- (
fhant trainer is killed or disabled finally. 1
was with Forepaugh's circus when the
vicious Borneo killed his keeper, a good 1
fellow named Williams; I afterward had
charge of the elephant Williams thor- 1
oughly understood his business, but long !
familiarity with the beasts had made him
careless, and he paid ior his carelessness
with his life. Borneo had one tusk j
broken off short, and it was a fearful
weapon. He was subject to ugly spells, 1
and then it was not safe for any qpe man \
to go near him, unless others were near *
at hand to give him assistance if he
should need it. His keeper knew this '
well; but one Saturday morning when
Borneo had one of his spells on him,
Williapas, over oonfldent, went up to and 1
spoke to him. In an instant the beast 1
knock*! him down, jumped on him with
hi 8 fore feet, drove his terrible tusk ,
nearly through him, and?poor fellow? _
almost before he could cry out for help
he was dead. We rushed up as quickly |
aB possible, scared the brute off, and
picked up tne body of Williams. You '
would be astonished to see how thor- ;
with and frisks. ele
phants can mangle a body."
*' What did you then do with Borneo?
confine him?"
"Confine him? Well, that is good! j
Why, there was not a house in the place,
nor chains in the village strong enough
to hold him. In his blind rage he would
have torn everything to pieces, and if he
had got away from ns, heaven knows how
much property he wonld have destroyed,
or how many people he would have
killed. We did as we-alwaya do in such
cases. With ropes, chains, and bars we
tripped aud threw him. Then we set to
work to bring him into subjection.
Half a dozen men, armed with hoop
poles, big blacksnake whips?such as
mule drivers use ? and anything .else
that would hurl but nei break bones,
thrashed him, laying* ou the blows as
hard as they knew how. When they
were Exhausted others took their places,
and so we kept it up for four hours before
the brute squealed, and then wo let
him up."
" WhAt do you mean by that ?"
*' Why, when an elephant squeals
from a licking, it is a signal that he is
conquered, that he gives in, and then
it is safe to untie him and let him up.
" I have here five Asiatic elephants,
which\rere captured near Ceylon."
" What is the best age to begin to
teach a trick or performing elephant ?"
"Well, about eight or nine years.
They then grow and develop slowly
until they are about forty-eight or fifty
?and then grow in treachery as they
increase in years. Chieftain, there, is
beginning to show his disposition already,
and ten years from now he will
be an ugly fellow to handle, jln captivity
their average age is from seventy-five
to eighty years, but in their wild state
they will frequently live for a century
and a half. These fellows have good
annetites. I crive each one about 125
pounds of hay, two bushels of oats, and
twenty-five or thirty gallons of water.
Every Sunday they are thoroughly
washed with carbolic soap, and they are
now in splendid condition. They are
very fond of water, and when we are on
the road, if we come to a pond or river,
it is almost impossible to keep them out
of it. When they do get in they splash
about and cut up as many pranks as so
many children. Like the children, too,
they never know when they have been in
long enough, and I frequently have considerable
trouble in getting them out.
A singular thing about them when we
are traveling, and have to camp out, is
that they never go in pairs. The females
go by themselves and the males by
themselves, and thev do not seem to
care at all for each other."
" Do you have muoh trouble in teaching
them to perform?"
"Yes, it requires a great deal of
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patience, ana mey are very umiu uuuui
mounting platforms, or going up and
down stairs; but they can go up and
down a steeper flight or a hill than a
horse. There is one satisfaction in training
them, though; when they have once
learned a trick they never forget it.
We use blocks and fails in teaching them
to raise their feet, legs, and bodies, and
after they once understand what I want
them to do, I have but little trouble
with them. Sometimes, when one does
particularly well, I give him a pieoe of
carrot or some other dainty, and he
knows what that means precious quick."
" Do you induce them to learn by a
series of rewards ?"
"Not e bit of it. If we were to show
them too much kindness they would get
the upper hand of us in a day, and the
trainer's life would not be safe for a
minute. Fear is the only thing that
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controls them. They most snow an me
time that they have a master. We never
punish them unless it is positively necessary,
and then seldom severely. Their
skin is as tender as a horse's,'and they
feel the lash quite as acutely. The instrument
they fear most, though, is this i
prod and hook, and the mere sight of it
will, on ordinary oocasions, bring them
to terms. It frightens them the same
as it would to tell a child you would
prick it with a knife blade. To show
vou how cunning they are: At rehearsal
they do their work quickly, and
make no mistakes; but at night they
will loaf on me?go round picking up
pieces of paper, or do anything else to
make time?simply because they know
I dare not punish them before an audience.
. The people would think I was
very cruel. If they knew how treacherous
aud savage the brutes are, and how
necessary it is to keep them under control,
they would think differently." ,
" Have you uo fear of them when in
he ring ?"
" No ; but I keep my eye on Chieftain
ill the time, and at the least miss, a tap
>f the whip reminds him that I am lookng
on. He understands this, too, and
mows just how far he can trifle with
ne. He is the leader, and as long as he
>ehave? I have n# fear of the others.
iVith performing 'dogs and horses the
nore kindness the keeper shows the
nore successful he is, and strong affecion
frequently exists between the brutes
ind then- trainers; but it is not so with
dephants. They never form any liking
'or the men who have the care of them,
ind when they have their ugly turns
heir keeper is the first one they will
ittaok. They will select him out of a
room full of persons, and then, if he
shows the least fear, he is as good as
lead. The long list of keepers slain
proves that."
" "Rnf. liaVP alenhants no affection for
mything ?"
"Oh, yes. They will form a strong
Attachment for a dog, or ft bear, or some
Dtlier beast. Baby here has a great
liking for the camel Dick, and whenever
lie is let loose will ran over to him and
mount guard over him; and he will not
then permit anybody to approach his
favorite. I should hesitate to go too
near the camel until I had first called
Baby away ; .but strong as is the afifeotion
they will thus form for a beast,they
seldom have any for a man, and never
the least for their keepers."
- 44 If they are so very treacherous, I
suppose you have to stay with them the
greater portion of the time ?"
41 k am never away from them for more
khan an hour at a time, day or night. I
have a room here in the building, and
when we are traveling I always sleep in
bhe same tent. I have a bed made near
them, and they are the most curious
customers yon ever saw. They will
never go to sleep until they see me go
to bed. Sometimes I sit up reading for
mi hour or two after the performances,
and they will all stand in line watching
me until I get through. It's a queer
Bight?the great garden dark as Egypt,
only an occasional watchman's lantern
flitting about, and I sitting reading at
my little table by the light of a solitary
candle, with these great brutes looming
up in the gloom, with flapping ears and
staring eyes, following my every movement
Frequently, if I get interested
in my book, and sit up too late, my
assistant will come to me and say,
' Come, George, do go to bed and give
the elephants a chance to get some sleep,'
and then I have to tnrn in whether I
want to or not, for I must keep my big
fellows in good physical condition, yon
know." /
tVhat Five Sheer Will De. J
H. G. Abbott, of Maine tells, in the
New England Farmer, what five sheep
will do. He says:
Five sheep will enrich one acre of
old, worn out mowhig land in three years,
so that it will produce one and one-half
tons of bay per year, for several years,
by n light sprinkle of seed each year,
sown in the early spring.
Fivo sheep will produce manure in
winter to the value of ten dollars, by
giving them suitable bedding.
Five sheep will get their living
ihroncrli the summer on one acre of
ground; the pasturing of same would
be three dollars.
Five sheep will raise five lambs,worth
fifteen dollars.
Five sheep will shear' twenty-five
pounds of wool, worth six dollars.
Now, let us see how the account
stands:
Ground improvrd by the sheep mm ing
on it me year $15.00
Valne of manure in winter 10.00
Fire lambs 15.00
Wool 6.00
Sheep get'ing their living on the land. .. 3.00
$49 00
The above being credited to the sheep,
let us see what it costs to keep five sheep
through the winter:
Fire sheep will est one and onc-htJf tons
of hav, which costs $18.00
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lcrereei at a iai
Care of sheep 10.00
$33.00
Deducting this from the first mentioned
figures we have a profit of $16.00 on
five sheep for one year:
Now, make it three years, and we have
a credit of $147 00
And debt of 99.00
Leaving, as the three years' profit... .$48 00
Now, if the above is correct, we have
a profit of $48.00, and a grass field
that will cut from one. to two tons of
hay for several years, and without the
usual cost of plowing and the application
of manure of some hind, which is
no small item. It may be found Ufest in
some instances, to plow the seed; that
depends somewhat upon the oondition
of the sod?but I am now speaking of
land with a firm sod. but bound out and
run out, as we term it, and producing
but a small quantity of hay.
You will see, by my statement, that J
have valued the manure from sheep onethird
more in summer than in winter.
From my own experience and observation,
I am fully satisfied that sheep
are of very great value on improved
land, and that they should always be
kept on the plowing land, and ahead of
the scythe.
Words of Wisdom.
I find the great thing in this world is,
not so much where we stand, as in what
direction we are moving?O. W. Holmes.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove
unkind.
Leisure is sweet to those who have
earned it, but burdensome to those who
get it for nothing.
Do not be afraid of diminishing your
own happiness by seeking that of others.
Keep goodmo cpany and be one of the
mmVvnt*
UUIUWA*
Riches gained by deceit cheat no man
so much as the gainer.
One day you will be pleased with a
friend and the next day disappointed in
him. It will be so to the end, and you
mnst make your mind up to it and not
quarrel, unless for very grave causes.
Your friend, you have found out, is not
perfect. Nor are you, and you canuot
expect to get mifch more than you give.
You must look for weakness, foolishness
and vanity in hnmau nature ; it is nnhappy
if you nrr toe Fbnrp in seeing
them.
SENSITIVE SENATORS.
Acinlulaceace* of a Reporter of the Debate*
la the United Htates Senate.
I " Mack " has the following in the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat: While on the
snbjectof Senators, I am tempted'to give
a few reoollections of the reporters' gallery
during severaf sessions when I was
employed as reporter of the Senatorial
debates for the New York Associated
Press. If it be true that no man is a
hero to his valet, it is more true that,
with few exceptions, no Senator is a
statesman to his reporter. The man
who sits in the gallery to make notes for
printing soon learns the large per cent,
of linman weakness that is in the composition
of the great men assembled
below. Before I had been very long in
my position I received a summons from i
Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, then a new-born
Senator. He wanted fame, and his
grievance was that I had cut him short
in the report of a big debate.- There
had been a warm time on the reconstruction
policy. Ben Wade had launched
out fearfully against Andy Johnson, and
Reverdy Johnsun, of Maryland had
come to the defense. The New York
papers arrived with full reports of these
two speeches and only a mention ot tne
other orators, among whdm was Mr.
Stewart, who had been cut off with a
paragraph. I was ushered into the
presence of the great man from Nevada.
" Why didn't you report my speech?"
said he. I replied that I had selected
the two representative men of the debate?Wade
and Johnson?and cut all
the others down. "But,"said I, very
modestly,/-*' You are not as well known
as Mr. Wade or Mr. Johnson; they
speak for their parties, and what they
say is of national significance ; you only
speak for yourself. "The deuce you
say!" said Mr. Stewart "I speak to
the Republicans of Nevada, and my
speech is as important as any body
else's. The result of the interview was
that, Mr. Stewart insisting that I had
wronged him, I agreed to send his
speech by mail to the New York Herald.
In response there came a note saying it
would cost $1,350 to print it as an advertisement,
and that they did not care
about printing it as news. Mr. Stewart
never bothered me after that There
were constant complaints to the effect
that I was always omitting important
debate, which the Senate desired to
have printed, and that I was always
making room for personal "spats,"
which the Senate desired to suppress.
To remedy that it was proposed that
the Senate should furnish its own Associated
Press report, prepared by a man
of its own choice, to be paid by the
Senate. I appealed to Mr. Hudson,
_ then managing editor of the Herald,
and to John Russell Young, then managing
editor of the Tribune, explained
the matter, and telling them that if they
would so order I would omit all the per""
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sonauties 01 aeoHie, uuu euuuuc io|a>iu>
to the more dignified points. Their
reply fully indorsed my selection; the
people, they said, were more interested
in the personalities than in the points.
As to the Senate's proposal to famish
its own expurgated report, there was
not a paper in New York whish would
agree to print it, except at the usual
advertising rate. One day there was a
personal spat between Fessenden and
Sumner at the close of a long debate. I
omitted the debate and put in the
spat. Next day two of the New York
papers had editorials on "plantation
manners in the Senate." The position
of Senate reporter for the New York
papers became very unpleasant from
that time forward and I soon after gave
it up.
A Literary "Cariosity.
Great interest attaches to the first book
in the English language printeu in this
country, usually called " The Bay Psalm
Book," from Massachusetts Bay. A perfect
copy was shown at the Caxton memorial
exhibition. It is dated 1640, and
now belongs to the Bodleian library at
Oxford, and is believed to be the only
copy in Europe. Here is a sample of the
rhyme and rhetoric which satisfied our
forefathers:
1. 0 blessed man, that in th' advice
of wicked doth not walk:
nor stand in sinner's way, nor sit
in chayre of soornfuhfolk.
2. But in the law of Iehovah,
is his longing delight:
and in his law doth meditate,
by day and eke by night.
3. And he shall be like a tree
planted by water-rivers:
that in his season yields his fruit,
and his leafe never withers.
4. And all he doth shall prosper well,
the wicked are not so:
but they are like vnto the chaife,
which winde drives to and frc,
5. Therefore shall not vngodlr men
rise to stand iu the doome.
nor shall the sinners with the just
in their assemblie come.
6. For of the righteous men, the Lord
acknowledged the way!
but the way of vngodly men,
shall vtterlv decay. ?Psalm 1.
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Aenai ieicgrnpnj?
Professor Loomis has been making
experiments in aerial telegraphy in the
mountains of West Virginia, his ides
being to send a wire up to a certain
height, reaching a 'particular current oi
electricity in the atmosphere. At anj
distance aWay this same current can be
peached by a similar wire, and communication
can be had immediately. The
' professor has telegraphed to partifes
eleven miles distant by merely sending
up a kite, at each end of the distance, a
* certain height, attached to which in place
of the ordinary string was a line coppei
wa When both kites, although el ever
miles distant from each other, touched
> the same current, communication wa*
had between them both, and message*
were sent from one end to the other bj
means of the ordinary Morse instrumenl
in connection with the instrument invented
by Professor Loomis. He has *
scheme now on fc*>t for a series of experiments
from a point on one of th*
highest peaks in the^Ups, in Switzer
land, to a similarly situated place in th*
i Rocky Mountains. If this succeeds, ol
course his invention will rank in impor
tance with that of the electric telegrapl
itself. All the money necessary to earn
od the experiments lias already beei
promised.
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THIRTY MILLIONS OF GOLD.
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The Wealth That Haa Bees Extracted Frea
Alder Galfh, Meataaa.
Iq the spring of 1863 a party of five ,
miners from Bannock took the trail for
the Yellowstone and Big Horn country,
which for some time had been supposed
to be rich in gpltL Shortly after crossing
the Madison on their way eastward
they encountered Indians, and were
drivei back across the spur west of the
Madison into the valley of the Stinking
Water. Following down this scream toward
its junction with the Jefferson,
they camped over night at the month of
a narrow gorge coming in from the east.
As usual, they prospected its bed, and
to their intense gratification found exceedingly
rich prospects. Stimulated
by success, they pushed explorations
next morning still further, and before
the day was over bad satisfied themselves
that the new creek was richer
than any vet found in the Territory.
This was Aider Gulch, which proved the
most productive mountain gorge for its
length that has probably ever been found
in any part of the world, and whoee history,
if it could be written, would pre- i#
sent, perhaps, the wildest tosses of diesis
pa Lion and lawlessness that could be
found.
The Fairweather party, the dicoverers,
immediately located and staked oat the
richest ground they could find, andr.,
began washing, meeting with unprecedented
success. For a time the discovery
was kept a secret, but ultimately
provisions had to be bought, and the
trip made to Bannack for these retailed *
in the publication of the news. Instantly
there was a tremendous rush to
Alder. The gulch was invaded by
thousands of the wildest and most un- ?
tamed of 4he pioneers of those days*
Prospecting disclosed the fact that it
was rich from end to end, from ths.bese
of old Baldv at its head far down into
the valley of the Stinking Water. Everjh
foot of the ground was taken up, and
much was claimed twice and three times,
a circumstance which instantly neoeantated
a large graveyard and a coroner.
With hardly an exception, everydata
in the canon became almost immediately
highly profitable. In twelve months, a
population of 15,000 had congregated#
there, and five miniature cities had *
sprung to life. ' Boring the summer of
1863 over six millions dollars in dtis^ a
yield almost incredible, bad been taken,
from the bed of the creek, and in the
spring of the following year the population
had increased through immigration- * jl
from all parts of the United Siatea, bgttf*
East and West, to nearly 20,000. Many
claims yielded to their owners $100,000;
and several doubled that amount. II
can be easily imagined how wfid mat
have been the days an that ragged i
senses could call placed" withfn
reach of the miners suddenly raising to
affluence. Ihe flush times*at Washoe
were child's play to these Alder Gulch
days.
Of the five settlements Strang along
the narrow seventeen miles of the creak,
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Virginia, beiug tfte most centrauy vjcated,
was the most prc:.iinent, and is
to-day the only one inhabited. . It: is
pleasantly located on the east bank of
the creek, and for a number of years
was the capital of the Terpiqgy.
During the four years succeeding its
discovery, this canon yielded the enormous
amount of $35,000,000.
The Fuirweather party, who discovered
the gulch, realized immensely from
their claims, and threw away than: geld
in all forms of excess and dissipation,
as was customary among the pioneers.
William Fairweather, the leadertifrthe
party, a character in our natiooai^istory,
not unlike Corns took, the discoverer
of the famous mines in .Nevada, died,
like the latter iu abject poverty wfflffew
friends, and with scarce shelter owerdiis
head. In both cases the discoverer was
forgotten or lost in the fame of his discovery.
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Necromancers of OM. ,.-v
The raising of ghoets was a fajflfite
exploit of the necromancers of old ; the ?
fame of Torraiva, the Spanish magician,
has been immortalized in Don Qnixbte.
The demons that the oelehjrated TH""
artist, Benvenuto Cellini, describee m
having seen when he got within the ponjnror's
circle, and which ainazelhent
magnified into several legions, are now .
believed to have been merely figures
produced by a magic lantern ; and their
appearing in an atmosphere of perfumes
is accounted for by the burning of ordoiiferous
woods, in order to dim the
visions of the spectators. When the
Emperor Charles the Fourth was married
to the Bavarian Princes Sophia, in
the city of Prague, the father of the
i tribe brought with him a wagon load of
' magicians to assist him in the festivities.
Two of the chief prottcienta m ine pan
?Zytho, the Bohemian sorcerer, and
Gtiion, the Bavarian? appeared qs rivale
in an extraordinary trial before an
exalted assembly. After "superhuman
efforts to astonish, Zytho opened his
jaws from ear to ear, and swallowed his
companion until his teetyi touched his
shoes, which he spat out because he said
they had not been cleaned. ITwsfelmir;
ation of the andience was sueoeoded by
feelings of horror, bat Zytho calmed
their apprehensions by restoring the
vanquished Guion in his perfect corporal
proportions to life?a triumph-of art
inexphcible. <
The Horse Chestnut for Rheumatism.
. Last year we met an Amen&A-born
fellow citizen with horse chestnuts in his
pockets, which he said he jeacried as a
safeguard against rheumatism. m We had
not known of such a reputation before,
and supposed the idea originated on this
continent. But Bouillon satn* that the
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[ I oil from nuts is nsea wiin numi^Q
( against goat and rheumatism, which
i shows the same idea prevalent in France.
r We farther find that in China the seeds
t of their species (.Escuhu turbinate)
is used to prevent museukr contraction
i in severe cases of rheumatism, If all
these experiences come from distinct
) observations, and each without soy
- knowledge of what the other has found.
) it may be that there may be more than
f mere imagination in the ebes&mt being
a rheumatic cure. Have any of our
i readers had any reliable expenesse with
r it ? For we suppose that the knowledge
i of its powers must be wider than we
know.?The Gardner'* Sfontht*/.
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