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VOL. III. NO. 6. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1872. IgS^SSS
The Ballad of Hiram Hover.
Where the Moosatockmagnntir
Ponrs its waters in the Skuntic,
Met along the forest side
Hiram Hover, Huldah Hyde.
she, a maiden fair and dapper ;
He, a red-haired, stalwart trapper,
Hunting beaver, fox and skunk,
In the woodlands of Bqucedunk.
She, Pentncket's pensive daughter,
Walked beside the Skuntic water,
Gathering, in her apron wet.
Snake-root, mint and bouncing-bet.
" Why," he murmured, loth to leave her,
"Gatheryarbs for chills and fever,
When a lovyer, bold and true,
0.?;ly waits to gftthcr yon ?"
"Go," she answered, " I'm not hasty ;
I preler a man more tasty ;
Leastways, one to please me woll
Should not hare a beastly smell."
4i Haughty Huldah," Hiram answered,
" Hind and heart alike are cancered;
Just look here! these peltries give
Cash wherefrom a pair may live.
" I, yon think, am but a vagrant,
Trapping beasts by no meaus fragrant;
Yet?I'm sure it's worth a thank?
I've a handsome sum in bank."
Turned and vanished Hiram Hover ;
And, before the year was over,
Huldah, with the yarbs she sold,
Bought a cape against the cold.
Black and thick the furry cape was,
Of a stylish cut the shape wrfs ;
And the girls, in all the town,
Envied Huldah up and down.
Then at last, one winter morning,
Hiram came without a warning ;
" Either,'.' said he, " you are blind,
Huldah, or you've changed your mind.
" Me, you snub for tracking varmints,
Yet you take tbe skins for garments ;
Sinee you wear the skunk and mink.
There's no harm in me I think."
" Well," sai dshe, " we will not quarrel,
Hiram, I accept the moral;
New the fashion's bo, I guess
I can hardly do no less."
Thus the trouble ali was over
Of the love ot Hiram Hover;
Thus ho made sweet Huld&h Hyde
Hnldah Hover as his bride.
l.ove employs, with equal favor.
Things of good and evil savor;
That which first appeared to part
Y?"armed at last the maiden's heart.
Under one immortal banner,
I.ife, the hunter, love, the tanner,
Draw, from every beast they tnare,
Comfort lor a wedded pair !
A SKETCH FRO* LIFE.
On the moorland in the sunset hour,
and it is all ruddy and golden hued.
There is a busy, plashing little water
fall running heedlessly on its way from
the hills to the s?a. It knows no pain,
nor ill, and it passes every object un
heeded by ; away it goes, madly, indifferently.
carelessly. Surely ou all the
moorlaud. and in all wide Nature, there
is nothiug souusympatlnsiug as this one
little burn, which hurries 'carelessly
through the copse of birch trees.
Fust along the rough path into the
nest of trees ; there, standing on the
banks of the burn are feeble, tottering
walls. Every stone of them is genererally
letting go its hold on its neighbor.
Clearly this tells of a time that is past.
Only ruins of old cottages, nothing
more ! and fliey yet hold to the old
place, and cry on Nature arouud for
sympathy.
And the birch trees cluster over them,
clasping and twining their weird fantastic
arms above, and the briars and honeysuckles
h >ng lovingly auu picturesquely
about them, and the birds build theii
nests there, and they sit in the birch
tree* overhead aud siug their songs.
Oatside tue walls grows the bracken fern,
which turns golden in Autumn ; and inside,
where once were odd little room.",
where children's voices and footsteps
echoed, is now a purple garden of heather
with deeply-set roots. Over all there is
an utter stilluess.
l'ass on, and on the steep hillside you
will see another cottage, with the ground
on one side of it so sloping that it is on
a level wi th the roof. It is only separated
from the ruins by the plashing burn.
In the sunset glow which comes glid.
ing through the trees, there is a wonderful
color about this roof; it is thached
with brown red heather, and is a perfect
garden of feathery gras&ft, golden flowers
and ruddv leaves. Rising up from
among them is a tlun line of blue, curling
snioke ; and this was all there was to
tell that this cottage had aught to do
with life.
Before the sun had quite disappeared
behind the hills, an old woman descended
toward the cottage. She stood in the
sunlight, in tier short gray homespun
petticoat and brown jacket. On her
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Dae* sue carrieu u targe uuuuie 01 gumeQ
tinged bracken, and the sunlight
played among it. She stood waiting
and looking in the direction of the cottage,
for a stranger stood there looking
about him. There was about as great a
contrast between them as can well be
imagined, for while the old woman seemed
to be part and parcel of the old cottage,
the stranger was a young man,
evidently a touiist.
He advanced to the old woman, and
told her that he had come to see her and
her house. Then she extended a hand
to him, and without another word she
threw the bracken on the ground and
set herself down beside it on the grass,
and clasped her hands around her
knees.
The sti anger sit down beside her, an 1
aske 1 her whether she had lived long
alone in the cottage.
Sli told him that she lived with Mary,
but that Mary was out, and that .Mary
was so deaf that she was quite useless,
and that she had no English.
In the meantime the old woman, who
was talking, had a somewhat peculiar
English of her own ; she translated from
- Gaelic, and as there is no "it" in that
lanfuige, it occasioned some confusion
of gen ler. Mary, she was always spoke
of as "he." She told the stranger that
Mary thatched the house, sowed their
tield, looked after thocow and did everything.
He gave his opinion that Mary
mi s-. be very clever.
"Oa aye, he's rael clever," was the
answer.
"And do you two live here quite
alone ? "Why, this house if? a mile or
two from any road. How old are you?"
"Eighty-eight," was the answer.
"And how old is Mary ?"
"Weel, he'll be eighty-four, or eightysix,
or eighty-seven, I canna tell; onj
way, he's four years younger nor me."
"And you two lire here quite alone, i
I)o you never weary ?'*
"Weary, och, no ! I never weary."
And then she told a great many cf the
concerns of their dairy life. In speak
iug of the cow, she said that he had
taken u habit of waadering which was
very troublesome to Mary in the gloaming
; that sometimes he would keep
them up till eleven o'clock at night,
when he would return ; then he milked
him and went to bed.
Rut they had little comfort in bed
she said, for the rats were so terribh
*troug that they had to lie in bed with
sticks to drive them off; even the cats
tied in terror at the sight of them. She
also mentioned that once all the cats had
kittens at the same time : the number
of kittens was therefore greater than
desired, and she took them all in her
aprou to a pool in the burn whereiu she
1 A,>/v nviYt* *'Rnf ^ all*
uepusueu bur jruuuii Uv, uu.
added, "they did na like the water, an' 1
rouldna ran after them, and they were
hame again before me.
It was strange to note the difference in
the two faces, as they sat and talked side
oy side, whilst the sun disappeared behind
the hills. That of the young man was
smooth and well cared for; an unobservant
face, with no remarkable feature or
expression. The old woman's face was
wriskied, withered, and weather-beaten
to the utmost degree; but she was eightyeight,
and had lived perhaps more out ot
doors and in all weathers, than indoors;
every wrinkle aad line in her face told a
tale of labor and hard work?perhaps ot
suffering and hardships; for here were
two women on the lone'hillside, far away
from all friendship and assistance, toiling,
planting and gathering, thatching eveD
their own house, and doing everything for
themselves to keep life going, although
their days were more than threescore
years and ten.
Whilst she talked, her eyes wandered
carelessly over the roof and across the
burn to the ruins, but she ever now and
then looked enriously at the stranger; on
one feature of her face Time had strangely
spared his ravages; her eyes were still
verv blue and almost bright Plainly
enough, they must have been beautiful in
their day.
The stranger asked her whether she
would give him a light for his pipe, and
she instantly arose from the ground with
an agility that was snrprising, and led tlrfe
way to the house.
" Have these cottages been standing in
ruins long ?w he inquired.
"It will be perhaps thirty years since
they were lived in," she said ; and, without
once looking at them, she entered the
house.
It was a wonderful interior, which at
first impressed you with the idea that the
whole place was going to fall about your
ears. There were two beds, approached
I Kv o in thp wfllP ami thev looked
dark and dreadful inside. Along the roof
were shelves tilled with all kinds of things,
among which were Gaelic books over two
hnndred years old.
The stranger filled his pipe, and offered
tobacco to the old woman, which sh*
took, and with her wrinkled hands filled
her own pipe, and sat down on the stone
floor, and with her knees up to her chin,
smoked ; every fresh position she took, a
perfect picture.
Even over the careless strauger came
an impression that the woman and her
cot age were entirely in keeping with one
another, and tnat neither of them seemed
to belong to the present day.
By and by some one entered, and the
stranger looked up, and concluded that
this was Mary. It was a woman with
short grey petticoat and brown jacket, a
sturdy, powerful frame, and with almost
masculine movements. She instantly advanced
with a smile and held out a hand
to the stranger, whom she greeted most
cordially, although she had never seen
him before, and knew nothing about him.
It was, of course, impossible te guess
what her face might have been in youth.
Now it seemed coarse and stupid, and her
movements were ungainly; but about the
face of Maggie, the elder one, there was
somethiag which attracted you, you scarce
knew why, and her movements were per
feet, weird and strange a3 they were.
"Will ye tak' milk?" she inquired of
the stranger, and without waiting for an
answer, she cried out to Mary, who was
still standing smiling beside the stranger,
j " Get a bowl."
Mary was, however, very deaf, and at
first did not hear, and Maggie again cried
out with a marvellous power of lungs,
" Get a bowl! " this time with success,
f >r Mary turned about and directly fetched
; a bowl from the dresser, and apparently
understanding all that was desired, filled
it with rich creamy milk.
Whilst she was thus occupied, Maggie
told the stranger that Mary had two days
! before walked to Brodick and back, sis
miles each way, and that she had bought
a loaf of bread, and ou coming home had
; placed it on the shelf above the bed : but
the next morning they found that the rats
! had been busy with it in the night and
had not left them one scrap of it.
The stranger asked them whether they
would not like to go down and live in the
, village amongst people; but they told him
they had lived all their lives where they
were, and that it would be impossible for
them to live for a day amongst "people,"
and that it would kill them to hear children's
voices.
! The stranger thought them a queer old
( An nln on/1 than t aal? hia /lano??tni?o TVia
\ uuaiiu uaii n/ua 1110 uvj'ai tuiu. uiw
two old women 9toed at the door watching
him go. whilst the sun had passed the
hill tops and was bidding good-night with
| the purple and gold lights down the glens
; the moorland looked gray and cold, aid
they returned indoors and closed the door
behind them, without so much asone look
on the ruins on the other side of the
brawling burn.
T1 e/ never looked across to them,
never wandered round them in the gloaming.
thinking of auld lang syne, and yet
long ago they had loved and lived there,
at the time when there had been many
j other houses on the hillside, in the long
dead days when Maggie and Mary were
blooming lassies, and had lovers in plenty.
And there was a strange history cencerning
these two old women, for they
' I were not sisters, or even relations; it
I wis only incidents which "had happened
in youth that had brought them together.
In tho3o days Maggie was the bonnier
of the two, but Mary had her full share
of good looks, and a light, merry nature
which perhaps drew her more admire] 8
than fell to Maggie's share, and Mar>
divided her smiles pretty equally amongst
them all; but after a time she became
engaged to a certain Alist?r McPhail, and
for a time he was somewhat the most
tavored of the train. Bat only for a time,
for Mary was somewhat changeable in
her affections, and although she had
promised her hand to Alister McPhail,
she still encouraged the rest to follow
her about and pay her attentions.
But there came a day when Alister
wearied altogether of this treatment, and
then he fell in love with Maggie.
One night Mary dreamed a dream that
Alister was lyiDg dead amongst the birch
trees, and that she plainly saw his body
lying stiff by the light of the aurora borealis.
So strong was the impression thai
she rose, dressed herself, and went away
out into the night.
There, as in her dream, the aurora was
flashing and flaming across the sky from
the north, and at a short distance the
copse of birch trees. Into this she weni
us fast as possible; as if led on by a magic
hand, along the little footpath by the
ournside. In the silence of the night she
plainly heard voices talking, and by the
light of the aurora she perceived two
figures leaning against the trees. It was
Alister and Maggie talking of the love
chey bore one another, and Mary overheard
the words.
Under those broken boughs there was a
terrible scene that night; hard words
spoken and sore hearts left; and for many
a day there were black clouds between
.the two girls.
But it was not very long before Mary's
lightsome nature again changed, and she
found out that she liked Peter Black
better than any one. This was a partner
in a fishing smack with Alister McPhail,
and she became engaged to him, and
laughed at herself tor the anger she had
felt with Maggie and Alister. So the
clouds cleared off, and there was every
prospect of peace and happiness, for
Alister and Maggie loved one another
trnly and well. But when things looked
brightest and happiest; when the two
girls were looking forward to the day
that was to see them both married to
those that they loved ; a great blapk
clond a$>so without warning or notice;
and burst upon their heads. A few days
before that fixed for their marriage,
Peter and Alister were both drowned in
the smack in a terrible storm at sea. The
two girls thus drawn together, clung to
one another from that day. They made
n ? vows never to part, only they felt that
their lives were to be passed together.
They lived with Maggie's aunt, until she
died at the age of a hundred and three.
Neighbors about then died; the house?
about them fell into decay and ruin;
gradually the places where they had stood
knew them no more; only the ivy and
birch trees kept standing a few walls of
the house where Alister and Peter had
lived. The cluster of houses were all
swept away; the dwellers in them dead
and forgotten ; only these two lived on,
drawn together by the strange bond made
in youth, keeping the old house above
their hoAds by the labor of their own
hands : the hard working hands which
had toiled side by side through life towards
death.
What a 6trange thing is life ! that two
blocming lasses, hope, and vigor, youth
and love, should -cotne to be these two old
women with every leeling numb or dead,
struggling and working for no end but to
carry their existence through another
day. Did a second thought ever crow
them as they walked through the copse of
birch trees, or did they ever watch the
dashing, flaming aurora borealis.
Does Maggie, the old woman of nearly
ninety, ever think of youth and love, and
Alister ? Does Mary ever think at all ot
those old days ?
Time to Study.?Undoubtedly the
best time for self improvement comes to
us in our youth. Life is so short that but
little can be accomplished without a careful
husbandry of what there is of it. Two
hours in the morning and two in the
evening, devoted daily to study, will make
a wide difference in a single season between
a young man who adopts this practice,
and one of equal natural capacity who
sleeps through his mornings, and dissipate*,
or even idles away his evenings. The
eatly morning hours are favorable to
I nf. o,1t. vrmnrr nmn adont- the
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practice of two hours systematic reading
before breakfast, lor six months of the
year, and he will find that he has acquired
in that time knowledge which he would
not part with for any price. Something?
a cup of coffee, for instance, or a piece of
bread and butter- should always be taken
before beginning to road. Study upon an
entirely empty stomach is too exhausting
to the system. Try the experiment of
rising in winter, and study or reading bofoie
breakfast, and you will never wish to
give it up. This is all important to young
men whose habits are not yet formed. It
will make a wide difference to them in the
degree of intelligence which they will
possess, and in the character and staudiDg
which they will acquire in the community.
The Experience of as Editor.?The
editor of the Arizona Miner says: "It
will soon be ten years since we first arrived
in tbis Territory, and, in looking
back over our long residence here, memory
fails te point out one week in which one
or more white men have not been murder
* 1 T rolnnKlo nrn.
1 t?Q UJ illUliUJ>, UHU IU nuim laiuuuiv. (..w
perty has not been stolen or destroyed by
the same people. For five years of this
time our duty as editor ot this paper has
compelled as to record most of the bloody
deeds that have been enacted, as well as
to note and comment on the losses that
Lave been sastained by our citizens. And
again, it has (alien to our lot to view the
mangled remains of many of the victims
of savage ferocity, to feel (or those whose
last dollar's worth of property was taken
from them; to lose property of our own;
to be made a target of by Apaches; to be
ou the watch against 6urpnse, and to have
our hair erect itself, and to stand tide and
walk in (ear and trembling of the lurking
savages. Need wo say, then, that we arc
tired of this state of affairs, tired of the unpleasant
duty it has forced us to perform [
Scarcely."
A matter-of-fact Danbuiian fceing asked
if he saw Kibeestein wh?i in Nev
York, vacantly responded ; " "Why, no
ffas he looking for me ?v i
Oxeu us a Substitute Tor Horses.
The all-absorbing horse question has!
reached that point, where from discussing t
the proper remedy for the disease, we f
advance to the consideration ot' what (
means may enable us to escape in future 1
the delay and inconvenience attending i
the withdrawal of so many horses from 1
service. We find, in Hon. Erastus C. i
Benedict's interesting work, " A Run J
Through Europe," the following account i
of the use of oxen in Ttaly. What is <
there to prevent such an employment of \
them here? i
" I noticed here what I do no! remem- <
her to have ever seen in a city before. I 1
had seen oxen nsed more variously than
with us. In crossing the Appenines, a 3
yoke of oxen was added for an extra pair <
of leaders to take our diligence up the 1
mountain steeps, which was a little odd.
In Italy I had often seen an ox harnessed i
sometimes with a horse, and sometimes <
with a donkey?but here in Trieste oxen :
appear to be the usual beasts of burden 1
for the dray service of the streets?and, 3
what struck ine as a useful economy for 3
the drayman of small means, was the <
practice of working a single ox, as we
work a single horso in the cart or dr^y 1
service of our cities. A single ox hardly i
costs a quarter the price of a good horse,
will draw quite as large a load?is even 1
more reliable and trustworthy?is maintained
at less expense?is more hardy and I
patient, and, when his life ceases to be '
useful, his death brings back, in the price
of beef, all his original cost. Here they 1
have the Roman mouse color, and are '
often crossed with the bnfFalo. Yon see
them lying down at their drays, and chewing
the cud all about the public wharves.
The single ox is harnessed between the
of hi* drnv. and in solitary useful
ness moves solemnly through the streets
and along the wharves, dragging his fourwheeled
dray, the wheels not more than !
eighteen inches in diameter, and his wagon
body, often a vast wicket basket of
nnpeeled willow twigs, light strong, and
capaeious. So, too, a p ir of oxen is
worked in a long, low, narrow wagon.
i
Facts about Presidents.
There are some very curious facts connected
with the Presidents of the United
States. Genera] Washington, the first
President had no children. He was re
elected. John Adams, the second President,
had children?sons and daughters. <
fie was notre-cleeted. Thomas Jeffersc .,
his successor, had no sons, hut two daughters.
He was rechosen. The fourth i
President, James Madiapn, like Washington,
had no children. He was re elected.
The fifth, James Monroe, had a daughter
but no son. lie was President eight
years. After him came John Quincy
Adams, who had children?sons and, we
think, daughter. Ho failed of re-election.
The seventh President, Andrew Jackson,
had the fate of Washington and Madison,
in being so unfortunate as to have no 1
descendants. Martin Tan Buren had
sons, and was continued in office only a
single term. Gen. Win. II. Harrison, his
successor, had children of both sexes. lie
died in one month after his inauguration.
After him caino John Tyler, who had a
family of sons and daughters. He was an
aspirant for the Presidencv, but was defeated.
Then came James K. Polk, whose
domestic condition was that of Washing- 1
ton, Madison and Jackson?lie had no
children. General Taylor, who followed
him. died in office, fifteen months after his 1
accession. He had both sons and daughters,
one of the latter of whom was the
first wife of Jefferson Davis. The thir- j1
teenth President, Milliard Fillmore, had j
a daughter, but no son. He was not re-1
elected. Franklin Pierce, when he came
to the Presidential chair, was a childless
man. So also was the fifteeuth President, i
James Buchiman, who was a bachelor.
Abraham Lincoln, who succeeded him.
had children, both sons and daughters,
and he was twice chosen President. An- 1
drew Johnson had ohildren of both sexes, '
and was not re-elected. Grant has both '
sons and daughters. 1
English Farm Laborers.- The Mark
Lane Express, says the condition of the
laborer continually comes to the surface,
and this difficulty is gradually but certain
ly assumiug a new complexion. The laborer's
case is no longer a matter for mas
ter and man to adjust, but it has been
found necessary to look down a little
deeper. There are certain contingencies
beyond the actual amount of wages which
go to make a good and resp ctable woikman,
and the very first of such essentials
is a decent and " handy" home. For some
years past on many of the large landed
properties in England a systematic effort
has been made in precisely the opposite
direction. The aim has been not to Identify
the men with the place, but to lot liirn
understand that when his day's work i?
' - 1 - -".-1 1 lr ?ir
(li)lic, tIl<? sooner ue liiae* uiuim-ji mi,
the further he goes, the better. Nothing
could naturally for all sorts of reasons b
worse than this kind of wlicy. As the
head of one of the labor organization"
lately remarked, "it is not altogether
a question of wages " A conspicious part
of what is asked is " good cottages, sufficient
water supply, garden spot", and, for
men who have shown thrilt by saving i
money, the opportunity of keeping a cow."
English Paipehs.?An English Board
f (iuardians has come to the conclusion,
after patient investigation of the subject,
that there inay possibly he a better plan
of dealing with insane pa^j>ers than the
one now in vogue in London, which i?. to
place the lunatics under the treatment of
the parish medical officer, with the stipulation
that he is to be paid for hfs services
if he fail to effect a cure, but is to receive
nothing for the cases in which the paticrt
gets well. We should hesitate to beli.ve
that even official stupidity could have tolerated
such a system, il we had the tact
upon any less trustworthy authority thin
that of the London l\'eirs.
Califobxia axi> the Consumptive.?
For the sportsman Southern California is
a Paradise, and for the consumptive its
air is almost as life-iriving as a d? aught
trnm the macic Floridian fountain.
Within a line or a few* miles he finds
different conditions of the atmosphere,
some one of which is certain to he exactly
what he needs. All winter the days are
mild and bright, the gardens are full of
flowers, and the grass is green. There
are warm medicinal springs in which to
bathe ; the roads are good, and horses are
. to be had cheaply everywhere; the
r invalid does what he pleases; and with
; the exercise and the delicioas air he rarely
falls to get a new 2*1* 01 utt
/ !
Daniel Webster's First Plea.
Ebenezer Webster, father of Daniel,
,vas n farmer. The vegetables in his
jarden suffered considerably from the
IcpredatioDS of a woodchuck, whose
lold and habitation was near the premses.
Daniel, some ten years old, and
lis brother Ezekiel, had set a trap, and
it last succeeded in catching the'trespasser.
Ezekiel proposed to kill the
mimal and end at ouee all further trouble
&ith him; but Daniel looked with compassion
upon his meek, dumb captive,
md offered to let him go. The boys
jmild not agree, and each appealed to his
'ather to decide the case.
''Well, my boys," said the old gentleman,
"I will be Judge and you shall be
jounsel to plead the case for and against
iiis liberty."
Ezekiel opened the case with a strong
lrgumeat urging the mischievous nature
jf the criminal, the great harm he had
already done, said that much time and
labor bad been spent in liis capture, and
now, if suffered to go at large, he would
renew his depredations, and bo cunning
enough not to be caught again, and that
he ought now to be put to death; that
bis skin was of some value, and that,
make the most of him they could, it
would not repay half the damagS he had
already done. His argument was ready,
practical, and to the point, and of much
greater length than our limit will allow
us to occupy in relating the story.
The father looked with pride upon his
son, who became a distinguished jurist
in his manhood.
''Now, Daniel, it's your turn; I'll lieai
what you've got to say."
It was his first case. Daniel saw that
the plea ot his brother hud sensibly affected
liis father, the judge; and his
large, brilliant black-eyes rested upon
the soft, tin id expression of the animal,
and he saw it tremble with fear in its
narrow prison house. His heart swclle-!
with pity, and he appealed with eloquent
words that the captive might go five,
God, he said, had made the woodehuck
He made him to live to enjoy the bright
sunshine, the pure air, the fields and
woods. God had not made him or anything
in vain. The woodehuck h id as
much right to live as any other living
thing; he was not a destructive animal,
like the wolf; he sirapiy ate a few common
vegetables, of which they had
plenty, and could well sparo a part; hf
destroyed nothing except the little food
he ate to su-tain his humble life; a d
that little food was as sweet to him and
as necessary to his existence a < was tc
them the food on their mother's table.
God furnished their own lood. Hcgavi
them all they possessed, and would they
not spare a little tor a dumb creature
who re.illy had as much right to his smal!
share of God's b juuty as they themselves
had to their portion? Yea, more; the
animal had never violated the laws ol
his nature or the laws of God, as mac
olten did, but strictly followed the simple
instincts he had received from the hands
of the Creator' of all things. Created
by God's hands, he had a right from
God to food, to liberty, and they had
no right to deprive him of either. He
alluded to the mute but earnest pleadings
of the animal for that life, as deal
to him as were their own, and the jndg
raeut they might expect, if in selfiisli
cruelty and cold-lieartedness they took
the life they could not restore again.
During the appeal the tears had started
in the old man's eyes, and were fast
running down his. sunburnt cheeks.
Every feeling of a father's heart was
nhtiHA.1 m'f Inn l??m on/1 11 ft ffllf f*<wl
QlillILU 1V11IJJU 111 Hi} uu\i i j ^ iv/iu tuui v<v/m
had blessed him bey on 1 the lot of common
men. His pity was awakened by
the eloqueut words of compassion auil
the strong appeal for mercy; and, lor
getting the judge in the man and tb<
father, he sprang from his chair (whilt
D miel was in the midst of his argument
without thinking he had already won his
cuie), and turniug to his eldest son,
dashed the tears from his eyes, he ex
claimed: ''Zeke, Zcke, you let that woodchuck
go!"
Autumn Leaves.?The leaves should
be dried as rapidly as possible aftei
gathering them, or they will soon lose
rheir brilliant colors. They may b(
placed between the leaves of some boot
that is of little value, or between folds o:
paper?that which is porous and unglaz
pd b ing the best. The drying is some
times hastened by passing a warm flat
iron over the paper. Change the panel
every day until the leaves are quite dry
and then keep them betweeu the leave;
of a book, or in folds of paper, under :
moderate weight, until wanted for mo
TIipv m.-iv be tastefully arranged unoi
white cardboard iu the form of wreaths
bouquets, etc., may be used to decorab
lamp-shades, to surround pictures, etc
The leaves are first carefully oile l witl
boiled linseed-oil, upon the upper sidi
only. A little oil is applied with a bit o
cloth or a brush, and the surplus wipet
off 'nth a soft cloth. This in reuses tin
brilliancy of the colors, as well as thei
permanency. They arc afterwards fixe<
in place by means of strong mucilage.
Water-Spouts ox Lake Erie.?Sun
day morning about 9:30, when about nine
ty miles from Ene, and nearly abreast o
Cleveland, on our course to Detroit, wi
saw an immense water-spout, which a
first looked like the heavy black smoke <
a steamer. It gradually took the shap
of a column, and arose to the clouds
seeming drawing up and discharging ai
immense quantity of water. Soon afte
this spout arose others, which c.une ii
the same direction and six were visible a
thQ samo time, an apparently wumi nvi
or three miles of each otlier. They channel
locality a good ileal, and two of them ap
peared to pass each other. While tlies
"spouts," were in operation they appear
ed like long black clouds or columns, ois
charging immense quantities ol smoke
which appeared ti he caused by thefa'lin
water. Yiv'd lightning could be seen bi
yond these spouts, and by rlie aid of
glass it could be plainly seen that the lak
in the vicinity was terribly agitated. Th
India was about six miles distant fror
these spouts?perhaps a little more. The
lasted over half an hour.? Dc'roif Fn
Press.
Now that the cool nights are coming o
country people are beginning to fix u
[ their front gates. There was no use c
trying to keep them in repair as Ion
as the ov:nings were favorable to outsid
courting. Oie of the wants of this ug
is a gate hinge that will bear the weicl
of a young couDle without straining tb
gate hinge or ine lovers.
0 -*
Tartar Women.
The lives of Asiatic Tartar women o
the higher classes are thoroughly aim
less and uneventful, their ouly busiuesi
being to eat, drevs and sleep. Thei
costume is very rich and elegant. I
consists of a species of robe of rich sib
Of satin, sleeves being very large am
long, sometimes falling as low as th<
ground; the upper part of these robe
are emproidered in front with gold
Over this they wear a kiud of cipote
very wide, and gene-ally made of goh
brocade or some similar stuff, gorgeousl
emproidered. They weai on the head i
silk cap, bordered with fur, which hang
down on one side, and ends in a poiu
having a golden tassel attached to it
this cap is sometimes adorned witl
precious stones and ancient gold am
: silver coines. The hair falls behind i
long tresses, the ends cf which are tic
up with bows of ribbons.
Sometimes these tresses are cover?
with long bands, to which are attache
. various eoius and ornaments. They weal
moreover, a profusion cf pearls, neck
; laces, gold and silver bracelets, earring'
; finger-rings, chains, etc. The dress c
, one lady of rank, including jewclen
; frequently costs no less than a thousan
1 pounds. English extravagance thu
finds a parallel?though, to be sure, on
, belles seem to have more inducement
' to squander mouey recklessly for tli
purpose of self-adornment than thei
i Tartar sisters, who are kept entire!
; secluded in the houses and lmrems c
their parents and husband. They ar
allowed to remove their thick veils i
_ tl
their bedroom alone; not tneir oromer
; nor even their own uncles and cousii
. are permitted to behold their featurei
> The principal interest they have in lit
i is a desire to please their exacting iord
and to this task all their euergies ai
i bent. Th?y use cosmetics freely, an
! spend hours in dressing, varying tli
; monotony of their dozing existence b
, making and drinking copious drafts (
; strong green tea, and consuming quai
; tiiies of sweetmeats, and other rich mil
[ tures. They have no aims, no amb
. tions, few pleasure?, and yet are happi
; It is true that with enlightenment come
r discontent??London Saturday Reviei
Cookin? Animals* Boius.
' In the year 1679 I'apin cooked bom
- iu pots of peculiar construction into
I j -lly, and claimed the merit of bavin
I discovered a new and wonderously chea
I k*'nd of food. His soverign, C larleg II
) was deposed to accept the fatal gift, an
impose it by law upou his people, bu
: fortuuately, the evil was averted by rid
cnlo. A loDg and sol? mn procession (
> dogs appeared at court, with petitior
I round their necks, in which they in
plored the king to leave the hones t
5 their own uufortunate race. But tli
f s ime experience was repeated with moi
1 though not better success in the sad dai
! of the French revolution. A distil
4 guished chemist, d'Areet, established tl
I doctrine that bones, cooked for man
1 hours, would give at least half as inuc
I food as pure, costly meat. The theoi
! ?was sound, aud the invention met ui?
applause. Bone-soup became all th
fashion ; it inundited hospitals, aim
houses and prisons. But nobody like
1 it except d'Areet. Was it prejudice ?
* " * 4? Ci. . ..4.1! 1.^...^.,^.. 41
1 iaie iuncy r o'uruiu^iiuntvcr, n
fact, that starving clogs even refused th
much praised soup, and at last a grove
? reported iu the i>ubhc papers that ra*
had broken iulo Ins store, and tkei
5 committed terrible havoc. They h?i
eaten his flour and his rice ; they ha
not spared the pa>te of his labels and tl
leather of his sh es; but, oil wonder?
I they had not touched liis bone soup <:
traetu! A committee was at last cboos?
to inquire into the matter; men lit
5 Dupuytren and Jlagendie took part i
i the researches, and after many years <
? careful and anxious investigation, tin
. reported against the new substitute.
appeared that bread and meat given wit
' the bone soup had been only as good !
without it and no better; that dogs 1 s
died of starvation before they would <:
1 the new soup; and that, chemical
speaking, the intense lieat required i
extract the gluten from the bones d
stroyed their nutritive power. ^
Thus it wus thaf ti^te obtained a si,
nal victory over sc enee, and showed tl
importance of those instincts with whit
we have been endowed by the wise ben
ticence of Nature,
The San Jaun Boundary Qi$ tion.
j Emperor William, of Germany,
! whom was referred as arbitrator und
the so-called " treaty of Washington
the disputed boundary line betwei
the United Stales and Great Brita
from the month of the Fraser riv
through the archipelago south of Va
couver's island, has decided in oi
favor. The facts in the case may I
tiius briefly explained. By the treai
of 184t5, in which the Oregon boundai
was. sunnused to have tieen settled.
, I was stipulated that it should ri
I j " upon the l!Uh p railed of north lal
I tude to the middle of the charm
! which separates the continent fro
, Vancouver's island, ai d thence soutl
. erly through the middle of said c.ia
nel to the Pacilie ocean.Under th
I* clause a dispute arose at once, whit
? has continued ever since, involvit
t the title to a large number of island
r lying south of the regular channel?
we claimed?some of them of considt
able importance. The largest and mo
I valuable of these was the island
II San Juan. A great deal of local e
r asperation resulted from the disput
11 and several hostile denn intratioi
t have b^en made by the people of tli
remote locality. A great deal of dip!
1 matic negotiation has been h:
- between the two countries upon tli
o disputed point, but no feasible plan f
- definite conclusion was ever arrived i
until bv the treaty of Washington
. was referred to the enmeror af G<
tr many as sole arbitrator. The potenta
? has just deeideil it adversely* to tl
a claim so long and so stubbornly mai
, taiued by Great Britain, thus dett
mining an issue of nearly a quarter o
L century's duration,
n *
y A Hardened Wretch.?A most bat
'f encd in iivi'tual is a Cbrcauoyuungsb
ased but nineteen years, who was cc
victed in that city and sentenced to ii
n prisonnient for lite. As the e'erk read t
- A " I- ' " !?'? rtl/1 fntliiii* n rr
[J UTriUIC V>U1U>, lUU UUJ "3 uiu IUVUV1 aiv
)f in a transport of affection and ,agony, a
g threw his arm aiound bis child's neck \vi
e a loud crv of pain. The son .shook b
;e ' off fiercely and, in an angry tone, exclaii
it cd, 4> quit thi;.** l'he old man shrn
e back in ni??nnv. and the boy hurri
1 away to confinement.
Facts an?l Fancies.
f The best barber in Terre Haute is a
woman.
^ San Francisco has 5,009 places where
| liquor is sold.
A herd of 200 antelopes was seen late,
y in Kam is.
S,jotted short veils or veiletfcos hive
. juite gone out of tasbion.
Large pearls are the correct thing in
hirt studs for full dress.
' People in Central Illinois are celling
x rbeir cattle on account of the scarcity of
" water.
Vinaigrettes are now made of dull gold
'o represent a hunting horn, nud hung at
j ;be waist belt.
[I The most fashionable bracelets now
i. trc made to twine around the arm and rec
quire no clasp.
Diamonds are now to u great extent set
> a dull filligrec work; the effect produced
(' s very beautiful.
Ten million dollars have been provided
: :>r the travelling expenses of the Shall of *
* Persia while in Europe.
A Troy two year old got a piece of
icanut into its windoipe the other day,
| ind died therefrom.
1( Sixty-five new colors in dress materials
.. lave been introduced to the notice of the
eminine world this Fall. ,
i Tight tittins sleeveless jackets of vel;
;et will be much worn over street costume*
? ?t silk during November.
Pride and vanity are purveyors of
rouble and danger; proud persons are
* icitber safe nor happy.
1 A insn in Bloomiugton. Illinois, lately
j i&d a bullet dug ouc of his arm which he
iad carried about for more than ten
-ears.
The complaints recently made by
he communist prisoners of ba 1 trea'tr
uent by their jailers have been officially
j ? e luted.
, Apropos of Mrs. Fair's lecture engagej
nents, tho Louisville Cnnvier-Journal
j kinks she could make more money by
i caching pistol shooting.
> A prominent Boston physician was
p iued $50 in the municipal court for uegecting
to give notice of a small pox
ase he was attending.
? Roussel, another prominent Commun.
ist, has been found giilty by a court
uartial of the charges brought against
, iim and sentenced to death.
The ceremony of laying the cornertone
of the first insane asylum for
i lomoepathic treatment in America has
i aken place at Middletown, X. Y.
} Switzerland has 2G8 head of cattle to
1 very 1,000 acres, and 557 to every 1,(10!)
' uhabitauts In Spain there are only 33
iead of cattle to every 1,003 acres.
A serious riot occurred at Demerara,
, Yost Indies, in which the coolies rose
j gainst the planers. The police had to
, >e called ont a.id fifteen coolies were
. cillcd.
Did you ever run about until the
tarspiration trickled from your two
' irows looking for your pen and spectacles
a ?ue of which was behind your ear and
le other on your fort head V
A landlady who rejoiced to find that
' ae could rent her upper rooms to a
' ?uple without children, writes to learn
ow long it requires for a middle aged
in to become an accomplished clog
1 lancer.
A man who never read* the papers is
u*nitig a comfortable living by getting
.. ha h ie Htormod sending his
It 1-, 7
tikireu to sch-.ol, preferring to instil
ito their young miutU lii? own progres1
ve principles,
The Common Council of Chicago
proved the assessment of city taxes t??r
, 872. The total valuation therein shown
h $283,473 320. This is probably about
j uveiity p--r cent, of ttre real value of the
arious kinds of property included in the
j ssessment.
u A man named Heallv put two charges
f shot and powder into a gun, Saturday ?
i ) sho't a ca4; with. The cat hasu't sit c i
I ) 'en ?e n, I u Mr. Ileally's right shouli
ir-r is about three iucues out o' plnmh,
id he Uas two new places to smell
p through.
Alarming repofts have reached Rome ^
1 '^specting disastrous inundations on
t ach side of the river Po, and the minuter
of public works has left the cby to
isit the scene, ? ut up to the preseut
imc uo details have been received of
t, auiagc or loss of life.
The samples of ribbon lately introduced
; in the London market are said to be of
-paralleled beauty, finish and vtiriety.
j Juder the single color of blue as many as
, welve d fferent and distinct shades are
Ll rodnced. Some ot the sashes and scarfs
I, re marvels of judicious coloring and
[ ffectiveness.
i". Some capitalists arc soon to m ike Rome
' auch more attractive .as n place of iasbiun"
?ble resort. A whole quarter is to be built
:i I n the crr.andest style of arc'iitccturc, and
4 ;wo canals arc to be c.it to br rig ttie salt
' vateis of tlto Meditcrrincm to the city,
-itnat there may be sea baths, and a race
'otirse Is al-o to be established.
The overflow of the river Po has caused
b -xcessive damage throughout the plains
f Lombardy and Piedmont. Whole
a illages have been inundated, the inhabtants
driven for safety lo the highlands,
0 -.(id all their crops and stock swept
x ..ay. Tho Minco and Ticiuo, affluent*
f the 1V>, have also overflowed and
,, reated much disaster.
:I The leported discovery of diamonds
? o Artz uu and Colorado appears to be
V ?ow quite well authenticated. Several
uckages of stones have been tested in
tl *an Francisco and proved to be dianonds
of the first water. D nvor is
>r atnral'y ablaze on the subject. Some
t, ro far enough to think that the diamond
i, ields of Colorado will eclipse even her
n wealth in silver and gold.
' Mr<. Gen. Gaines and her famom lawui<s
are aaain commanding the aucnt'on
f the people ol New Orleans, th:? time
d. with a pro^p^ct of a spi edy termination of
u, u?r long protracted battle in tlie court?.
,n The indelat'gable weman has proposed to
P/kimoil f/v AnmmovmicA lir?t* 1 oroo
(U jtU'; VHJ V/UUUlil I'/ ^ui|;iuuirw uvi
I) ;taims on the city, ba?<xl 011 judgement*
,?( igainst the innocent holders who hare purn,
hascd from the coi poration property which
ti he United States carta bare decided bein
oneed to Daniel CbrV< heirs. The New
m )rleans Times says it I ?oks very much as
i, ' Mrs. Games had the city in a corner on
et his point, and rxpi esses a bone that a
"reasim J?l$ compromise may be ellected.