Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, January 30, 1873, Image 1

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r r v ! V. , . ^ t , The Beaufort Republican. V i i AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LlTERATTRE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. - ' ___* " ' " " ?? VOL.111. NO. 17. BEAUFORT, S. 6., THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1873. 8&S&Y82: Snow-Bound. I 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. , --?i ] 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 , i ? - i 1. ' 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 | i, 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. " * *? -- 1- 1 ? 1 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 * ' * - -1 I 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. ~~ I 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. \ 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? - ? TT 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. I * I 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