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VOL.111. NO. 17. BEAUFORT, S. 6., THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1873. 8&S&Y82:
Snow-Bound.
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Ho* did it happen ? Well, you wee,
('barley called for Mary or me; <
Sleighing good, and neither loth, I
^ Only wished he could take ua both. '
Ho he said. And grandmother smiled,
Nodding at me, " Dreee warmly, child.''
He looked at Moll 1
As if to sav:
Too bad; but we
Shall ride some day. j
While I, half prompted not to go,
Yet feeling, somehow, forced, you know,
Kan to get ready, blithely hamming,
ever dreaming of what was ooming.
A dear little sleigh and robes?so nice!
And thongh the air was cold as ice,
I didn't care one bit. not I.
And that horse of Charley's seemed to fly;
While the sleigh-bolls' ching-a-ling, clear and (
sweet, ,
Kept tune to my heart's bewildered beat, ,
With a clnng-a-hng-ching,
And Charley singing, 1
" What would you do, love ?"
Through their ringing.
Every thing was so perfect and bright
And sweet and Warm?for a winter night- That?that?in
fact, thoucli onlv sleighing.
I hardlv knew what Charlev was saving.
1
Snow-bound ? Ah, that is only hie joke ;
There wasn't a storm, and nothing broke,
And we weren't half dead with cold and fear, 11
Nor buried in drift, as he'd have it appear.
It's only his way of letting you know
Of what befell o'er the crispy snow,
While cliing-a-ling-ching
We slid along,
And Charley forgot
To end his song,
And I?well, I was quiet too,
For where was the use, when Charley knew ? (
All in a breath the past grew clear, I
And life shone forth, bo dear, so dear! j
" Drifts," indeed! and " Pity we went!"
V?J might have guessed what Lis " snow
bound" meant. ,
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Early Tract's of Men. \
Wlien quarrymen uncovered slabs of ,
Connecticut Band stone, bearing im- ]
pressions exactly like bird tracks, geol- ,
, ogists reasonably inferred that, at tho
time the rook was forming and was as j
yet kut wet saud, there existed gigantic ,
birds or bird-like animals, wlAch strode ,
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teiong nuese ancieui sea suorett uiucu us (
beach birds do alang the shores of to- ]
day. The fact that traces of birds had j
never been found before in strata so ,
ancient, much less the popular theory ]
that birds were of luter creation, did ,
not invalidate the inference; one posi- ,
tive fact, as is well known, outvalues .
any amount of negative assertion, and (
tlie old theory had t* give way.
"When workmen, digging a canal near
Stockholm, came upon a buried hearth (
with charcoal on it, exactly like those ]
which uncivilized people now make and (
use, the naturul inference was that some ]
one of mere than brute intelligence hud ]
lived thero before the overlying earth (
was deposited. Had the hearth been (
slightly buried, suy six feet below the ,
surface, there would have been no ques- j j
tion of its artificial origin; it wouldhave
been accounted the work of man as j
surelv as if a human skeleton had been (
found lying beside it. Should the in- ,
forence* be considered less legitimate ]
because there happened to be sixty feet ,
of earth above the hearth ? True, that (
accumulation of erratic blocks and sand ,
and sea shells gave unmistakable evi- (
deuce of great geological changes since j
the hearth was last used?glacial action, ,
submergence of the land and its subsequent
elevution,?all involving long
periods of time; but that told not sos,
much against the testimony of the ,
hearth as against the belief that man |
was of more recent creation.
Now that such witnesses have been
multiplied to an almost infinite number,
forming a continuous chain from the
earliest historic times far back into the
nnw'/ul flirt AlM/lanAO iu AVA1** t
whelming; the "alleged" antiquity of
man, as it is styled bv those who have
never investigated the matter, passes i
from the domain ef hypothesis into the
region of demonstrated fact. The vista
f human antiquity opened up by these
surprising discoveries is indeed vast, so
vast that even those who have most patiently
followed them and assisted in
their development are overwhelmed
with the thought of it. No wonder,
then, that those to whom it comes as u i
sudden revelation should flatly refuso
to admit its reality.
As Mr. Evans remarks in the closing
paragraph of his magnificent w?rk on !
the ancient stone implements, weapons 1
and ornaments of Great Britain, " it is
impossible not to sympathize with those
who, from sheer inability to carry their
vision so far back into the dim past, and ,
from unconsciousness of th? cogency '
of other (than the fossils described in
the work above mentioned) and distinct '
evidence as to the remoteness of the origin
of the human race, are unwillingto
believe in so vast an antiquity for man
as must of necessity be conceded by j
those who . . . have fully and fairly
weighed the facts which modern discoveries
have unrolled before their
eyes." Yet while we sympathize with i
tire natural incredulity ot those wh*
lack the basis of intelligent judgment,
we need not imitate their unreasoning
assurance in contradicting the deduc-1
tiuus of science wliile refusing to exurnine
either the ground of their own convictions
or the evidence of the different
convictions of others.
The geological pr<*ofs of the antiquity
of man, to which Mr. Evans alludes,
are of threefold character :
1. The association of human bones
with tho bones of extinct animals, un- \
der conditions which prove them to be ;
f equal age.
2. The signs of human action on the
bones of extinct animals: the breaking
of them to extract marrow, after the
manner of existing savages; the shapi
lug and polishing of them for use aud
i ornament; and more instructive skill, !
I the tracing on them of the outlines of ;
\ mammoths and ?ther animals now extinct
or driven by change of climate to
distant parts of the earth. m
3. Tho discovery of wrought stone
implements, weapons and ornaments
under undisturbed strata demonstrably
belonging k> periods reaohing as far |
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back as the pliocene period, if not far- j
ther.
Detailed descriptions uf these various (
evidences* Which are marvelous in num- \
bor, may be found in the elaborate!
works of Lyell, Lubbock, Wilson,
Evans and other English scholars as;
well as in numerous French amTCrerman
writings f or the evidences them- (
selves may be studied in situ, and in i
numerous rich collections of arclueogeological
specimens, by any one dis- 1
posed to do so. The purposes of this
article admit but the briefest mention 1
(4 a few of the most ancient of these
teaces of early man.
First, for our own country. Perhaps >
the oldest skull vet discovered is the
one found in the pliocene strata of Ca- 1
ble Mountain, California, Having no 1
eompanion in its almost incredible anti- 1
quity, it was natural at the time of its I
discovery for men to ridicule the age |
accorded it, and to take refuge in the
assertion that it never came from the 1
place alleged, or if it did, it must have
come there by irregular means. But (
when many corroborating evidences of
human existence during the pliocene,1
period are found, as they have been, in I j
the some strata under conditions which j
nanlnmof flint tflO fitrftts 1
94*1*11 J VUl^ilU gVVlV^?u?
had not previously been disturbed, the J
astonishing character of the testimony : j
is not sufficient ground for flatly reject-1
iug it. At a meeting of the San Fran- j
cisco Academy of Science, in May last, j
Dr. Blake presented the society with a 1
number of perforated implements of |'
serpentine, which had been taken from
stratified rock near the summit of the 1
coast range, 1700 feet above the sea. I
They were found, embedded in argil- 1
laceouB shales, in digging away the 1
side of a hill for the foundation of a J
house, and, says Dr. Blake, were "evidently
fashioned bv the hand of man or 1
some animal capable of using its anterior
extremities so as to fashion objects 1
to meet its wants, and apparently pos- 1
jessed of sufficient intelligence to use !
Lines or nets for catching fish; as it
would seem thatthese instruments must 1
have been used as sinkers." Dr. Blake
pronounces the rock in which these in
teresting specimens of primitive manu
facture were discovered, to be of an age i
not later than the pliocene period; while 1
Professor Whitney, the State Geologist, |
is of opition that it is still more ancient. 1
\.nvhow, man appears to have antedated !
the* uplieaaval of the coast range and the j1
ittendaut geological changes; a remote- |
aess in time which makes the fossil JI
skeleton found at Natchez and New Orleans,
and the human fragments under J
the Florida canals, seem comparatively
modern. Yet at that distant period man j
had existed long enough to overspread
i considerable portion of the earth, if
aot the whole of it, since traces of such
primeval men linve been found* wher- ;
?ver they have been diligently sought
for.
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ncarceiy a uecaue mis jmnscu sjuuq i
geologists began to admit the possibility
of finding traces of men in glacinl
?r preglacial strat.; yet already human
bones or unquestionable evidences of
human handiwork have been found in
tho deposits of those early times, in
connection with the remains of supposed
prehuman animals, in England,
Scandinavia, Belgium, France, Spain,
Italy, Germany, India, Australia, and
ioutli America, as well as in our own
country; and the more carefully the 1
seurch has been conducted, the farther
back the history of man has been pushed
int? the distunt past. Every inch
of the ground has been fought over, tHe
Arm mviction of the early inve. tigators
that man could not be so old a creature
causing them to receive every discovery
with downright disfavor.
Such an upturning of all the reco- j
gnized foundations of history seemed ,
of necessity to involve some hidden j
er^or. But it did not. The faetp are
so' numerous and intelligible that the j
most skeptical enquirers have been con- j
vinced, and now not a few of them hold
high rank among the authorities of the
young scieiceof archspogeology. Among
these is the venerable Sir Charles Lyell,
whose caution is not less remarkable
than his courage. After studying
some of the earlier discoveries of human
fossils, lie admitted their preglacial1
origin and thought we might expect to
find the remains of man in the plioceno
strata. Writing ufter the discovery of
such pliocene remains, Sir John Lub-.
bock set the time of the first beginning 1
of the human race as far back as the
miocene, or middle tertiary period;
while Alfred Wallace carries the date
still further back, into theeocene period;
this, however, on theoretical grounds,
since the traces *f men earlier than the
pliocene period we few and somewhat
questionable. In what is said to be
miocene strata near Poutlevoy, France,
a M. Bourgeois has found numerous
wrought flints in the stratum containing
the remains of a long extinct animal1
allied to the rhinoceros, and beneath a
bed which contains the mastodon, the
dinotherium and the rhinoceros. Similar
evidencesof man's presence and skill
have been found in the miocene beds of
Aurillac, with the remains of animals
long since extinct; and at Pouance, another
observer, M. Delaunay, has dis-!
covered a bone of a herbivorous cetacean
of the miocene period, which bears the '
marks of cutting instruments, such as
must have beeu made when the bone'
was in a green condition. Doubtless
these faint foreshadowings of man's
presence in the middle tertiary will be j
strengthened by future discoveries, as
the first evidence of his existence in the j
later tertiary nud quarteraary period !
have been.
The time required for all the geological
changes which have take place since
man demonstrably entered upon the
struggle for existence is simply inconceivable.
The glacial limit lately set to
his history has been overpassed, and his
dominion extended perhaps further beyond
it than it is back of the present.
" We of the present generation." says
Sir John Ly dl, "when called upon to
make grants of thousands of centuries
in erder to explain the events of what
is called the modern period, shrink
naturally at first from making what
seems lavish an expenditure of past
time." Yet, however much the imagin-'
ation may take alarm at the immensity
of such periods, the sternest reason declares
them to be necessary unless we
stand ready to deny the orderly sequence
of events. The same sqit. of
evidonce which proves the existetfCc of i
mail Oil earth six thoasnud rears ago
protes his presence here as many thousand
centuries.?Scientific American.
A Horrible Story,
As the day of the murderer Cluck's
execution approaches, horrible and
ghastly topics are discussed in workshops,
around the evening store, in the
corner grocery, nnd in many jplaCes of
public resort. Children shuuder and
cling closer to their mother's knee as
the garrulous old visitor narrates some
story of a hanging, or the details of
some dark crime that occurred when she
was a girl. The solemn, the mysterious
and the superstitious, which always
surround a hanging, seem to bo in the
air; and, although the topic is a disgusting
one, it must be confessed?not
to the credit of humanity?that a morbid
appetite in the public craves and
demands the minutest detail of the horrible
barbaritv. One of the monv re *
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eauea Bionen vuicu toe wruc unuu mc
very wind, tlie following was told to a
reporter of the Indianapolis Sentinel a
night or two ago, and, to add to the
liorrid surroundings of the story, he
was in a coffin shop, viewing the coffin
which is to contain the last remains of
the condemned Cluck. The Btory may
be a true one; move likely it is false,
but it is given as it was detailed, and it
may he that some one still living may
remember the circumstance and write
the tale.
Some years ago there was a wellktewn
engineer, whose name is not given for
good and sufficient reasous, ran a passenger
train on one of the most popular
and most travelled roads that runs out
of Indianapolis. At a certalq place on
the road, eveiy night for about a week,
as the passenger train run by this engineer
came thundering along* it was certain
to be (brown from the track by obstructions
placed there. Several of
these mishaps to the train caused loss of
life, and the company was becoming
considerably alarmed, and the ability of
the engineer was being seriously q?estioned.
One night as the unfortunate
train was nearing the fatal spot, the engineer,
who had been sitting gruin and
silent at the throttle, turned to the fireman
and said, " If this train jumps the
track at this place to-.?ight, you follow
me; don't stop for anything, but Keep
close after me. aomeoouy nas weu
throwing this train off the track, ami I'm
going to catch him." When the train
arrived at the usual place it struck a
misplaced rail and was banked. The
engineer, closely fallowed by the fireman,
jumped from the engine and ram
into a corn field, and started up a man
that lay concealed there. Upon bringing
the culprit back to the wreck the
enraged passengers wanted to lynch him,
but the engineer, a etern, eoid, determined
man, prevented them, saying he
would take charge of him, and through
the intercession of the conductor the
trembling wretch was left in charge of
the engineer. The train was righted
and was soon speeding on its way. The
prisoner, who had confessed his fiend*
lshness, had been seated on tbe engine,
and the fireman placed beside him as a
guard. When the train was on a smooth
piete of track, howling along at a speed
of twenty-five miles an hour, the engineer
beckoned tbe fireman to stand out
f the way. The fireman stepped aside
and the engineer picked up a roend
stick of wood and struck the criminal
such a blow upon the head that it completely
stunned him. He then caught
the -quivering form of the poor wretch,
and, opening the furnace doors, threw
his boiy into the hot, seething hell of
flame. The doors were shut, the train
fattled along, and never, until upon his
death-lied, the engineer confessed the
act, was it ascertained what had been
the fate of the fiend who had been in the
habit 'of throwing the train off the
track.
Au Extravagant Suit.
A costume of amethyst velvet, fur
trimmed, having a flounce lined with
bird of paradise satin, clashed at intervals,
and one comer held back by a
border of ermine, which formed chevrons
round tho skirt, was lately worn.
The tunic was bird of paradise moire
with revers of amethyst velvet, on which
were laid bands of ermine, finished by a
velvet quilting and a deeper one of rich
fragile looking point, which fell upuu
the moire. Tiie ermine was thrown mto
purest relief by the velvet, and blended
admirably with the bird of paradise hue;
forming a study of color which would
have enchanted the eye of a great artist.
The open bodice, with velvet revers
edged by a double pleating of moire
and wide luce with shoulder-knot of velvet
and treble silk cord, recalled something
of mediieval splendor, carried out
by the chatelaine of topaz and diamonds,
which fell in long links to the waist,
ending in a costly pendant of amethyst
and topazes fringed with brilliants. The
cost of this sumptuous bit of iiodern
imagination was ?1,700 for the dress ox"' "" n
<>f fli? In pp. and >*2.000 for the
chatelaine; but tiiese were l'liris prices,
not American ouch, which would lie
something ruinous to think of.
A Pickpocket's Stout.?A really
hard case came before a Cincinnati police
court last week in the affair of one
Edward Anderson, who from the proud
position of being admittedly the most
expert pickpocket in the State, had
fallen to the degradation of mere vulgar,
unskilled stealing of anything he
could lay his hands on. He explained
this unprofessional course bv pathetically
assuring the Court that dnringthe
three years*imprisonment from which
he had just emerged he had quite lost
the steadiness of nerve and delicacy of
touch requisite for the prosecution of
the higher branch of his art, and was
unwillingly compelled to return to
coarser work, which he felt was beneath
him. Uuder these circumstances the
sympathetic magistrate mitigated his
sentence to thirty days' sojourn in the
Workhouse, with an admonition to
leave the city at the expiration of that
period. Such merey should be tempered
with simple justice to the extent of
affording the gentleman an opportunity
to regain his former dexterity before he
is exiled from his provincial home to
compete with the labor of the metro
polis.
A Chat ttlth Clergymen*
Mr. H., a well?kuown clergyman, says
Dio Lewis, came to consult me about b
bis throat, and began by telling this g
storV: *
"1 worked on a farm till I was twenty 5
two, when 1 was contorted, and iminedi- t<
ately resolved to study for the ministry, t>
We used oxen, and indulged in that v
unearthly habit of telling at them all i tl
dav long. The neighbors who lived ; v
full two miles away declared that they :
heard me from morning till night. I ^
reraemlier that one old man in the | b
: neighborhood said when he heard that j f
I was studying for the ministry: n
" 'Well, there is one thing about that I o
chap; he'll make 'em hear anywhere in t
the country. When he onfle gets , *
into the pulpit, if he tells an lend as he j t:
does at them cattle, they'll hear him all ] a
over heaven and all through the t'other i c
place too.' c
"And now," continued Mr. ,H., "In
have been preaching seventeen years; i 1
and although I have had no attacks of j o
sickness, have gradually lost my health ( v
and strength, till preaching one sermon ,#
a week completely exhausts me. I don't' ii
feel like speaking loud before Wednes-; t
day; and besides this, 1^ have lost my j r
! legs, until I can't walk two mileH with-1 a
out complete exhaustion. My church 8
| has given me a vear's vacation, and now ; F
' I come to ask what I had better do?" v
First," I said, "I'll tell you what nut j J
; to do. Don't go to the Holy Land! ;
The dirt and discomfort which you ,
must encounter there won't hfclp you, 8
j while the lack of opportunity to use , f
! your faculties, physical and mental, is 8
I every way unfavorable. This sliinate v
| is an excellent ouo?this Society is ex- t
! ceptioually good; so I advise you to re- r
j main here, and -after visiting a week
i or two with friends, go back to your . c
work and follow this regimen: t
| "1st. Go t? bed at nine oVlock every 1 o
night, and sleep fcilf an hour iu the fl
j middle of the day. j 8
| "2d. Eat a good beefsteak or mutton fi
cliop, with stale bread and Mutter aa
libitum, for breakfast, with xa cup of *
weak coffee. For dinner, at two o'clock, F
take a large dish of oatmeal or cracked
wheat. Eat no Bupper.
"2d. Bathe your skin in the morning H
; with cold water, and rub it hard with ?
; rongh towels. On going to bed at night *
rub yourself all over with hair gloves. 0
"4th. Work five hours a day out-!'
doors in some legular employment, like j t
that of farming or that of a carpenter. |
Keep up your habit of morning study. H
"5th. Don't bo extra good?I mean *
to say, don't be solemn and reserved. T
Be j^lly. Have a good time. Even if I
you think this life a weary pilgrimage, ^
act, for the sake of your health, as j J
though the world were a pleasant home '
and designed for happiness rather than *
jaififiiy." c
Mr. H. engaged with one of his par- ; *
ishioners, a carpenter, and bargained to fl
begin at nine o clock every morning and . (,
work till two. He was to have what he 1
could earn, which, at the end of a month, *
was thought to be a dollar a day. With- ; c
in three months he could frame timber J
as well as the best af them. |8
The only disagreeable result from
! this prescription is this: Since Mr. M. !
i got well (aid he declares that he never I
1 felt so well in liis life) he has taken to
1 preaching this sort of table and out-door I
] work to his people, and thus, ^rou see, j I
deprives me of the opportunity to re- ^
! peat this prescription to others at live c
dollars per head. In this way my fam- <
ishing children are deprived of that 1
| bread which, but for this clerical inter- j?
i ference, their father would Bupply to ' 1
! them from the sweat of his brow. * ?
' American clergymen should be the t
j healthiest men in the country. Their i
! life healthwise may easily be made the '
| ideal one.
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Such a Kingdom.
Mark Twain says of the Sandwich Is- j
i laud that they are gavemed by a King? ,
! and a Parliament?and a Ministry?and ;
; n Privy Council?and a (Standing army i ^
j (200 soldiers)?and a navy (steam ferry- ' r
, boat and a raft)?uud a'grand bench of : j
supreme justices?and a lord high sher- j j
j iff to each island. That is the way.it is ' ?
| done. It is like prtmelling a sardine j
! dihli with the Great Eastern's machin- ; (
; erv. Of the drink of the Islanders he j
says thp native beverage, awn, is so ter- 1 {
I ritic that mere whisky is foolishness to 1 (
it. It turns a man's skin to white fish
j scales that are so tough a dog might j (
bite him, and he would not know it till f
j he rend about it in the papers. It is ! t
made of n root of Bome kind. The J \
I.. u.:. u? K-..? j
quniliy unilK luia iv H>U1F cakui, "uun
tlio E*cisc law has placed it almost bo- i
; yoiul the reach of tlio plebians. After t
| una, what is whisky? I
! Many years ago the King and his j
I brother visited California, and some
Sacramento folks thought it would be i
fun to get tliein drunk. " So they gath- j
| ered together the m*st responsible J
I soakers in the town and began to fill up I
' royalty and themselves with strong j
i brandy punches. At the end of two or
| three hours the citizens were all lying
i torpid under the table und the two
princes were sitting disconsolate and
. saying what a lonely, dry country it
: was! I tell it to you as it was told to '
, me in Sacramento. !
(?ood*Ity.
It is a hard work to speak. Some
may laugh that it should be, but let
.them laugh. Icy hearts are never kind.
1 It is a word that has choked many au
! utterance, and started many a tear. The
! hand is clasped, the word spoken, we
! part, and ure upon the ocean of time?
1 ?... rio/1 nnltt bnonm I
! WtJ lu illCCl llgUlll, VJWVl vuij Ikliunn |
| where. It may be soon; it may be nev- :1
1 er. Take care that your " good-bv " be j
I uot a cold one?it may be the last one
i that you can give. Ere you meet your ;
, friend again, death's cold hand may j
have closed his eyes and hushed his lips
forever. Ah! he may have died think'
ing you loved him not.
Again, it may be a very long separation.
Friends crowd around and give i
their hand. Row do you detect in each <
good-by the love that lingers there; and
how you bear away with you the memory
of these parting words many, many
days! We must often separate. Tear
not yourself away with a careless boldness
that defies all love, but make your
i last words linger?give the heart its full
j utterance?and if tears fall, what of it ? I
! Tears are not unmanly.
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A Fiendish Woman.
Mr, and Mm. X. of Pittaburgh are
elieved to hare lived as happilv toether
aa man and wife commonly do in
heir social position. Borne time ago
Irs. X, with or without reason, began
o fancy that Mr. X preferred Ida D.
o herself. This young girl had, for a
-hilc, kept honae for the hnsband in
he temporary absence of the wife on a
isit to relatives.
One day Ida received a message from
Irs. X., requesting her to call at her
ionse, aa sne (Mrs. X) had a letter
rom thfc country for her. In the afteroon
Ida dressed herself in her best
lotheB and went to Mrs. X's house,
rnere she was met at the door by the
roman, who kissed her, inauired paricnlarly
about the state of her health,
nd placed her in the most comfortable
hair in the room, an armed rockinghair.
Mrs. X. offered the girl refreshments,
which were declined, with a repest
for a glass of water. This was at
nee brought by the amiable hostess,
rho herself took a drink.
The WQmau then went into an adjoinag
room, from which she speedily reurned
with a strong cord of rope aranged
in the form of a noose. Smiling
nd talking pleasantly all the time, she
tepped behind her visitor, and, drop
ling the noose over her neaa ana anus,
rith a sudden jerk, she soon boilnd the
oung girl h.'lpless to the chair. Ida's
eet were next tied to the chair.
" Now.'isaid the woman, "yon shall
ee how I?avenge myself; wneteupon
rorn tluj, table drawer she took a pair of
hears, a large knife and revolver, all of
rhich implements she spread upon the
able before her victim, by tbjjs time
eady to faint wifh terror.
The tormentor's next step was to cut
>ff the girl's hair as close as possible to
he skin, leaving only a single handful
in the top of the head, for the purpose,
.s she explained, of facilitating the
uosequent ope rati of scalping. The
firl screamed and called for help as
oudly as she could, but the house stands
n n lonely place, and no d^iverer ap>eai*ed.
After cutting off the hair, Mrs. X.
irouglit a Uekiug-glass that Ida might
ee the change produced in her features,
^s the girl begged for release, saying
hat she was freezing, she was told, with
i plentiful application ?f mocking epiiiets,
that she would be warm enough
>efore she got away.
Mrs. X. then put the poker in the
tove, and while calmly waiting for it to
>ecoihe red-hot, she told her victim
rhat she intended to do with it. " First,
. will burn your eyes out," etc., etc.
Ind she really "began to execute her
hreats, but when she was trying to
iliud the girl, the latter, by a supermmnn
effort, tcicceeded in releasing
>ne of her hands, with which she seized
he globing poker, and for a while
irrested the monster in the perpetration
>f her crime. The interruption made
t necessary to reheat the poker, aud in
he meantime the unlooked-for return
? i *?*?j ~n f i,,,
>1 ner IIUHUHUU WHH till buuk nmv* vitv
firl from prolonged torture and death
it the hands of Mrs. X.
Pulling n Tooth with a Door-Knob.
The rough sort of dentistry described
jelow hns occasionally been practiced as
i trick, with more or less success; but
re have rarely heard of a patient's
>L?osing the door-knob method of liis
>wn accord.
A rough, Western farmer came into a
loctor's office to have a tooth extracted,
jut flinched at sight of the "instrunentsand
agafn and a^ain the doctor
ried in vain to get a gnpper into his
nouth.
At last, the Hoosier declared " that
ere new-fangled tiling to be no account,"
ind wanted to know if the doctor could
ie a string around the tooth; " for,"
taid he, "that's the way I used to pull
em out, an' I guess it's better'n all ver
lew-fangled fixtures."
The dentist, to please him, said he
vould try, and producing from a druwer
i "fine strong piece of fish-line, after a
rreat deal of trouble, and yells of pain
xom the Hoosier, it was firmly secured
tronnd the tooth. The Hoosier then
jroposed to fasten the string to the
loor-knob, which was accordingly done.
The backwoodsman then commenced
i series of easy jerks on the line, each
>t which was followed by yells of pain.
The doctor resumed his seat, and
nin1il.lv behind his naner. oeca
tioual]^' glancing toward tho door, ami
lien turning quickly again to tho piper
0 hide behind it his merriment.
Thus matters stood, until at last the
ire burned low, and the dentist arose
;o replenish it. As he threw in the
vood, and stirred the red-hot coals into
1 blnze, a brilliant idea seemed to strike
lim, for his face brightened wonderfully.
Arising from the floor, he left
he poker in tho fire, and, seuting him<elf,
awaited the change of affairs.
The buckwnodsmnn had relapsed intc
lespondeucy, far a melancholy expresiion
had settled on his face. He steadilv
fazed downward, as if he were in deep
thought.
The dentist, as I have said before, returned
hiH seat, but threw asido his
paper, and ant looking intently into the
ire, with an expression of merriment
[ilaviug\on his features.
'l'lius he sat for some time. At last,
noiselessly rising from his chair, lie
drew tho poker, one end of which whs
(flowing with n red heat, from the fire.
He suddenly brandished it in the air,
Mid brought it rapidly towards the
Hoosier's nose. Tho backwoodsman
threw himself back with a jerk. The
cord did not break *or the door-knol:
come out; hut the tooth loosened from
its roots, and bounded against the dooi
with a click like n bullet.
Sagacity of thje Blind.?Oases lik
the following almost make ns exclaim
" What's the use of eyes ?" The accocn
plishments of a sightless man are thin
told. Reading, Penn., owdb the per
son, but leaves it for a Berks count?
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Oenman paper to immortalize mm. n<
is a German, ninety years of age, keepi
a tavern, ( which is known as biin(
Hartman's,) is expert in the handling o
money, and baffles all attempts to chea
him with spurious currency. He walk
out alone, can point to any piece o
real estate in the town, and to crow:
all, mends clsck* and repairs musics
instruments.
Something About Carpets.
In its home corner the New York Htm
gives the following hints: <
First, we will give you some idea as
to the cost of carpeting. As we do not .
know the size of the rooms we cannot {
! estimate the entire value, but must confine
our statements to the price per
: yard. Ingrain can be bought for $1 and j
$1.25, but a good urticle?one that will J
! wear well?is valued at 81.45 and $1.50 '
' per yard. Three-ply ranges in price
; from $1.60 to $1.75 per yard, and is <
, really the most durable carpet one can 1
; invest in. It is not only strong and 1
substantial, but can be used on both ]
( sides, which good quality can also be
attributed to the ingrain, while t ipestry j
| or Brussels can be *orn only on the one ]
: side. i
In Brussels carpeting we find two i
i kinds?English body Brussels and tapestry.
I.
The difference between the two is
! considerable, both in texture and price. !1
The tapestry Brnssels comes in just as 1
desirable colors and patterns as the! J
other, but the threads or loops are not
fastened on the under side. This car-!
pet can be distinguished by taking a i I
piece of the carpet and pulling one of j1
: the threads, when the loops will oome (1
out just like knitting or crotchet. If j <
: carefully used, one of these carpets will 1
wear well ; but rough sweeping, and J
Vw-Krtfa or clioaa with tiu>ks in them, will ' '
soon cover the floor with strings of dif- i
, fereut colors. The price per yard is i
from 81.50 to 81.75, Tarrying according 1
to quality, colors, and newness of |
j pattern. i
The English body BrusseL# is higher
priced aud more substantial, although
to the inexperienced it does not appear
any better, or, in truth, different from
tapestry. It is more desirable than the
I ut r for this reason : The loops are
fastened on the under side, aud therefore
canuot be pulled out, either by
, drawing the threads or by pulling at
the loops. 82 to 82.35 are the regular
prices asked for English body Brussels, |
( but sometimes the newest designs sell
1 as high as 82.50, while those two or |
three jears old are sold for 81.75 perj
yard.
Underneath tlio carpets, limngs are j
now used, consiiting ?f two thicknesses
of stout brown paper with cotton between.
These soften the floors, and
make the carpets w^ar better. You will
i have to pay about fifteen cents a yard
! for the bekt qualities.
The most fashionable aud convenient
stair rods are round, and are arranged
j in the steps with springs, and of course
I are much easier to manage than the old
style flat rods, which need to be pushed
: into place and held there over the heads
1 of large screws. We find different
qualities of these rods, those of ornamental
brass being 83, 810, and 812 per
dozen, while the wooden rods with brass
ends or tips cost only 85 a dozen.
Oil cloths you will need for your1
1 closets and lower haHs. A good article i
| will cost from 81 to 81.25, and then, too, ,
mats add to the appearance of neatness
in the house, and they do not cost so j
very much. Cocoa mats range irorn
J $2.75 to ?3. Brussels cost $2.50, while
j those of skiu range from $3 to $5. Ottomans
ready-made cost anywhere from
$2.54 to $5 eaci, according to size and
quality of the carpet used for covering.
They are not only convenient but very ;
pretty ornaments for a room.
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Billing a Wife.
A man named Taddles, in Virginia, i
lias got his wife in proper subjection, j
and mcaus t? keep her so. "Oh," says !
he, in telling about it, " there ain't i
many men who know how to rule a wife '
! properly. Now, my old woraau is one
of the best natured woman in the world, !
but she's got a deuce of a temper. I
; Whenener I see she's got her madness |
! up, if it's a dozen times a day, I just;
quietly say nothing, but rather humor j
her, and she comes around all right after
a while. Even when she throws:
things at me or gives a wild dash at me
with the broom *r rolling-pin, I (just j
; dodge a little, ami she never hits me a
third time before I get my eye on her. .
and let her know I disapprove of such
, actions on her part. Perhaps I have to
; leave the house to show her this, but I
; elie sees the point. Then, bv being j
careful not to irritate her, and letting
her have her own way, I manage to j
make her do us I please. And you bet '
I make her understand aud appreciate
my discipline. Oh, I keep her under
perfect control. A man has, you know,
got to be master in his owu house, or
your wife will ride you down as if you
j wasn't nobody. My wife is a perfect
| angel in her natural disjHisition, but'
* i any other man but me would spoil her."
I
At her Husband's Iiicr.
Mrs. Kdwki Forrest, the tragedian's i
wife, was, according to the statement of
1 a reporter, at licr husband's funeral. He
" says: "Sittiug nt the window faoiug
Broad street, and with no one near her,
1 her arms resting listlessly on her knees, I
: her fingers nervously drumming and
, toying each other, was Catharine SinI
clair, the divorced wife of the dead. If
1; any one knew who she was they appear
ed to keep their distance. She arrived !
in the morning and entered tlie house !
i at half-past twelve. She was dressed in 1
, deep mourning, with a double black j
1; crape veil flowing nenrlj- to her feet.
She moved nervously toward the rear
' parlor, where the remains were lying.
' There were but five or six personsinthe
II room. Throwiug aside her veil she
' stood for nearly ten minutes, idaced her
' hand upon his head, and followed the
1 arm down to the hand, which she
r grasped for a few minutes. Then she
; glided toward the foot of the coffin and
1 plucked *ue or two flowers from the
cross which lay upon the dead man's
Uhe the* moved rapidly to the
! front parlor, where she was seated until
, the ceffin left the house."
;|
? I The Texas cattle-breeders have ald
ready discovered by the infallible test
9 of the markets, that it pays to raise
1 better stock, and they have already
f commenced te breed by system aad
t thus improve the form of their animals
s and the quality of the beef. If this is
f found profitable in Texas, where the
i cost of raising a steer is next to nothing,
1 how much more will it be true in tne
East and West?
Items of Interest.
The Union Pacific has hod no serious
lelnys from snow this winter.
An unknown brig went to pieoes off
he Isle of Wight,and nine persons were
Irowned.
An official adrertiseinent of property
<o be sold for unpaid taxes in Chicago,
QL, occupied 180 columns in the Chicago
Evening Pott.
Xiz says that any full grown man
for ten days by chewing at a
pajr of boots, and yet therb are men
rhe will growl if they don't have mince
pie every meal.
The upper floors of the granary of
he Lion Brewery at Lambreth, England,
fell in recenily, burying the manigor
of the establishment, the dlerks,
wd other employes in the ruins.
Rev. H. W. Beecher lectured recently
on " Compulsory Education," at Association
Hall, New York, maintaining
hat the State should provide free
schools and compel all children to attend
them.'
A San Francisco man laughed nntil
tie had the cramp to see a woman fall
through a trapdoor in his sidewalk, but
lie never smiled when the court informed
him he must'pay five hundred dollars
for his sport.
Henry Megs, tlie railroad king of
Peru, recently presented President Balta's
wife with $150,000 on her birthday,
and at tlio same time sent her daughter
$50,000?mere little trifles with
Megs?something that he does every
day or two.
They are driving piles by gunpowder
at Baltimore. A small cannon is placed
mazzle downward over the pile, and a
ram having a piston fitting th? bore of
the gun is propelled by a small charge
of powder against the pile head. The
firing is done verv rapidly, and good results
are obtained
At a recent Connecticut wedding, in
repeating the words, "if you knew of
any just cause," etc., the minister looked
at a nervous young man direcfly in
front of him. The fellow sprang up
with much haste and trepidation, ana
blurted out, " Oh, no, bless me ! not
the slightest objection, sir."
A young man in Boston caused a pho
tographer to jump out of a fifth story
window the other day, merely because
the former had fixed up his face with %
water-colors to represent a bad case of
smallpox, which he WAnted photographed
to send home to a girl from whom he
wished to sever his acquaintance.
A young man named Gill, of Gaines.
Mi&higan, went to bed and dreamed
that a tree was falling toward him. In
his frantic efforts to escape he jumped
into the middle of the floo| and thence
through a window over two tree-tops,
landing in snow nine feet fiftm the
building aud thirty feet from Lis bod.
The window was badLy smashed, but he
wasn't hurt at all.
A merchant in Springfield, Massachusetts',
a few days since, pulled out his
money drawer further than usual, and
noticed a dollar bill hanging over the
bAck of the drawer. This led him to
investigate, and behind a partitipq was
found between sixty and seventy dollars'
worth of bills and scrip, most of
which had been badly mutilated bv
mice. Among the money was.a $20 bill
on a State bank, issued before the bonk
adopted the national system.
A terrible accident lias just occurred
at Hawick, England. A poor woman
who was employed in a factory went
into the boiler-house to warm nerself.
She soon afterward saw the fireman
coming, and knowing that he objected
to any one being there, she ran into a
recess to hide herself. In this fatal
corner worked a revolving rfhaft. The
clothes of the unfortunate woman were
caught, and she herself was dragged
1 L-ixx.u 1?,1 oil Immnn
rouna djihiiujihuhhu uuiv. ?
likene88.
Angry Word&?It is au excellent
thing to have a good memory as a rule,
but it in quite as good to nave a poor
one sometimes. There are some things
it would be such a blessing to forget.
Angry remarks and bitter retorts are
amongst them; but, alas! a thousand
good words are forgotten, while the bad
one in remembered for ever. It is far
easier to learn an idle, senseless jingle
of rhymes than a beautiful hymn or poem.
Do not waste your time and attention
over what you would some day give
much to forget. Slanderous words are
far better forgotten than remembered.
One of the best helps to forgetting is
never to speak of them, not eveu in a
whisper, if you hear a playmate say
something uukind of another, keep it
to yourself; she will forget it pretty soon,
and feel as kindly as ever towards the
person. But if you tell it, what a storm
yon will rnise ! How the girls will take
sides! and two parties will be formed,
and very likelv the girls' parents will
join the quarrel, and the whole neighborhood
will be in a great uproar just
because sf that cross word you hod so
much better let die. What would you
a ru.runn who went along pick
bliltm w* %m f VJ.U... w _
ing up all the old burn and thistles he
could find, and then fastening then^ on
to people? Just such nuisances are
these malicious, thoughtless words.
Don't pick them up, and they will do
but little hurt.
The New Yeah.?'Times have not
changed since, many years ago Charles
Dickens wrote:
" The streets were full of motion, and
. the shops were decked out gayly. The
' New-Year, like an infant heir to the
whole world, was waited for withpresents,
welcomes and rejoicing.' There
were books and toys for the New-Year,
glittering* trinkets for the New-Year,
aresses for the New-Year, schemes of
fortune for the New-Year; new inventions
to beguile it Its life was parceled
out in almanacs and pocket-books;
the cominer of its moons and stars and
; tides were known beforehand to the
| moment The New-Year, the Newi
Year. Every where the'New-Year IH
With somo regrets we may say good- t
i bye to 1872, aa to an old friend whb has J
served as faithfnlly and well. We will 1
| not forget him; bat since from him we
can only gather counsel and warning
i we torn hopefully to his vigorons an?^fl|
1 helpful Bnooeeeor?1878. A