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lewis vi. grist, proprietor.! ^11 Jndependcnt ^family |tapapcr i <Jfor the promotion of the political, Social, ggrieultural and Commercial Jnterests of the jeiouth. TERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. 36. " YORKVILLE, S. C? WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1890. NO. 32. Ihe ftcmj Icllci'. JUMPER BILL. A CALIFORNIA EPISODE WITH A YOUNO GIRL AS CHIEF ACTOR. Reckon ye've decided to locate out yer?" said the driver, who was taking the three Norrises to their claim among the foot hills. "Yes," Mrs. Norris replied, "I have filed my application in the land office and we are going out now to begin work." The driver was very friendly and sociable, and he liked these three Eastern people ; but there was something about the situation which seemed to amuse him, for he spent sometime in chuckling over this ^l^ev ye got plenty o' shotguns?" he asked at length. It was George Norris, the seventeen-yearold man of the family, who answered this question. "No," he said, "I didn't bring any gun along this time. You see, I won't have much time for hunting just yet." "Wal, ye'll need about three guns apiece, an' meboe a cannon or two throwed in," responded the driver with another chuckle. "Why, Is there so much game, and does it insist on being shot ?" Kate Norris asked with much animation. She was two years younger than her brother George, but she had quite as much pleasure as he in the prospective delights of this life in the wilderness. "Ef ye calls Jumper Bill game, ye'll hev plenty o' him*," said the driver, laughing outright. Then his friendly interest in these strangers and his knowledge of the trouble before them made him grave and he went on seriously enough. "Ye see," he said, "this yere Bill Buckley?'Jumper Bill,' we calls him?he has his eye on all this region, an' he don't 'low to hev no homesteaders a comin' in here to interfere. You hev your claim all right in the land office, I make no doubt, but he lays out to establish a shot gun claim that will jest make every homesteader sick." "But surely the law will protect us!" was the troubled answer of Mrs. Norris. "P'raps it will ef ye lives to git to the court house and hez money enough to fight the hull length o' the law. Ye see, Bill an' them that's in with him kin straddle the top rail o' the law 'bout ez well ez anybody. You jest jarit a twenty-four-pound cannon an' then git the drop on Jumper Bill, and then ye're all right. Thars yer best noit." A short time before this friendly but rather disturbing advice was given, the United States government had been declared the owner of a large tract of land in the San Joaquin valley in California. The courts had set aside the doubtful title claimed under a "Spanish grant" which did not exist; and the government at once declared the land open for settlement under the homestead laws. When this fact was published, the Norris family had a temporary home in San Francisco. There had been four members of the family when the Pennsylvania home was given up for the allurements of the California climate. But the invalid husband and father, for whose sake the change had been made, found that he had come too late. He died soon after reaching the Sunset State, and only a few months before the opening of this story. But little wealth was left for the wife and children, but Mrs. Morris was a woman of pluck and energy and George and Kate had their full share of the same qualities. They all liked California and they determined to make a home for themselves there. When the land in the San Joaquin Valley was opened for settlement, Mrs. Norris was one of the first to locate a claim therr under the homestead laws. She efHBe her "quarter section" among the foot hills on the San Joaquin river, and determined to establish a vineyard, and perhaps an orange grove and an almond orchard there. one nieu ner ciaim in me mnu omce ai Sacramento,. and supposed that all difficulties had been disposed of, save such difficulties as had to be conquered by all Sioneers everywhere. The remarks of the river who took them to their claim when they went there to begin their work of home-making, were the first intimation that any of them had of the troubles which settlers in California some years ago had to fear from "claim jumpers." The troubles which these men made were many and various. Their general plan of operations was to drive away the legal settler on any desirable tract of ground and claim the ownership of it themselves, appropriating all the improvements the rightful owner might have made. Sometimes violence was used, and sometimes the poor settler was "frozen out" by means of expensive litigation and perjured testimony. At first the Norris family were much disturbed by what their friend, the driver, had said. They were not of the kind to retreat from a trouble not yet in sight, however, and they went bravely on with the work they had laid out. A house substantial enough for the requirements of the indulgent climate was put up, land was broken and grape vines and some orange trees were set out; irrigation ditches were constructed, and the improvements required by the law and by their own plans were industriously carried forwara. And still no signs of trouble appeared. "That fellow didn't know what he was talking about," George declared one day when they were recalling the driver's warning. "I am not so sure of that," his mother replied. "I suspect he knew a good deal more than we did or do." "Pie was just trying to scare us, mamma, dear," George declared with the superiori ty oi seventeen masculine years, "ji 'Jumper Bill' had any mischief in him it would have shown itself before now!" "If 'Jumper Bill' wants this land?and I suspect he does?he shows very pood judgment in waiting until we've made it still 1 >etter worth having. I am by no means sure that we will not hear from the gymnastic William yet!" was the rather grave reply of Mrs. Norris. And sure enough, the very next day the mischief in "Jumper Bill" made itself manifest. A formidable looking legal envelope was handed to Mrs. Norris, and it was found to contain a still more formidable looking legal document, signed William Buckley. In this document Mr. Buckley set forth, in effect, the interesting statement that he was the rightful owner of the land on which the Norris family had wickedly established themselves; and to save trouble he hoped they would lose no time in taking themselves off, as he desired to possess his property at once. "I shall go at or.ce to San Francisco and secure the best legal advice," Mrs. Norris promptly declared, when she had mastered this startling proposition. "And I'll go with you and get those guns and cannon Mr. Buckley's acquaintance suggested!" George answered in warlike tones. "We'll see whether highwaymen are to have things their own way under the stars and stripes!" "And while you are away I'll stay right here and hold possession!" was the plucky announcement of Miss Kate. "Now, don't make such an outcry. I'll be in 110 danger. Xohodv's eoincr to hurt a cirl. Even land sharks don't bite girls. If things get too unpleasant I can always run away, you know; but they won't. Possession is nine points of the law, and I'll just hold on to those while you're off after the other one point." The combative maiden was finally induced to compromise by agreeing to spend the night at the house of the nearest neighbor ; and with that modification the suggested programme was carried out without loss of time. Mrs. Norris and George started for San Francisco, and Kate, when evening approached, went to the neighbor's house and slept the sleep of healthy youth. She was awake and astir early the next morning, and hurried home to renew her hold on those nine points of the law she had spoken of. A surprise and a difficulty awaited her, and every one of the points was apparently out of her reach. Since "Jumper Bill" had begun negotiations with such a show of formality, none of them had felt any serious ap8rehensions that he would take any furler steps until he should have received their equally formal reply. But the neighbor at whose house Kate had spent the night by no means shared this confidence. "You jest take this home with yer," he had said, handing Kate a loaded revolver. "Can't use it? Well, the sooner ye lam to use it with Jumper Bill 'round the better. I'll be over thar an hour from now to keep fuard with ye. Say, gal, don't you let umper Bill git the drop on ye. You git the drop on him!" With this admonition in her mind and with the revolver in her hand, Kate had hastened away to confront the surprise and difficulty which awaited her. As she approached the house, holding the revolver very carefully for fear it should go off, she was surprised to see the front door standing open. - ' r.?i She stood still to ininK over uus met. She knew perfectly well that she had shut and fastened that door. She knew also that it could only have been opened by breaking the lock, for the only one key to it was in her pocket at that moment. Only one person in the world that she could think of was likely to take violent possession of the place, and that person was Jumper Bill. Here was a state of things! Was Mr. Buckley still in the house, she wondered. That she meant to find out, and must find out without his knowledge. Without going nearer to the front of the house she left the road, wuit swiftly and silently across the little garden and crept softly up to the back of the building. Peeping cautiously in at the window, here she saw something that made her grip on the handle of the revolver grow firm and steady. The table was drawn up in front of the open door, and sitting behind the table was a man. He sat facing the door, and seemed watchfully intent on every shadow that might appear there. A gun stood within reach of his hand. On the table were paper, pens and ink?her's, all of them? and the man had evidently been writing while he watched. "Hands un." The stranger evidently knew the meaning of that command, for. as though a string had been jerked, his hands went up above his head. "If you make one motion, except as I command, I'll shoot you." And the girl meant exactly what she coin r?r fhmitrhf rlirl "Now iook this way and tell nie what you are doing in my mother's house." The man was a coward, as all bullies are, and had a wholesome fear of the pistol he saw aimed at him, but he seemed even more disturbed when he saw that it was a young girl who aimed it. It was mortifying to be trapped in this manner by a girl! "I jest came in to take possession o' my property. Possession's nine points of the law, ye know, an' I thought it'd be pleasanter fur the ladies if I took holt when they warn't 'round!" the fellow replied, with an uncomfortable grin. " Your property ? Then you are William Buckley, I suppose?" "Yes." "Well, William Buckley, you have no claim here, and you know it; and I'm going to make you say so, and sign your name to it. Now you take that pen and write exactly what I dictate, and if one finger moves toward that gun you're a dead man!" The man reluctantly took up the pen and wrote, from Kate's dictation, a full acknowledgment of Mrs. Norris's rightful ownership of the property and a disavowal of his own claim, ending with a solemn pledge never to interfere further with the owner's right of possession, and signing his name to the paper. "Hi! What's goin' on here ?" The neighbor who had advised Kate so effectively about "getting the drop," stood at the open door, surveying the remarkai ble group with astonishment. He had not given the girl his only pistol, for he held one in his hand ready for business. "Oh! I'm so glad you came, Mr. Billings," said Kate from her window. "Mr. Buckley has just been writing something for me, and I want to read it. Will you please see to him until I get around there?" She hurried to the door and to the side of the discomfitted interloper. The paper was read carefully, and save for some eccentricities of spelling, was found to be all right. "Now, Mr. Buckley," said Mr. Buckley's hostess, "as soon as you have acknowledged your signature, and Mr. Billings has witnessed it, you can go. And I am sure I can trust you to keep this pledge, Mr. Buckley, for your face is much more honest than your record." "Mr. Buckley's reply was unexpected. "If so be as you'll let me shake hands with the only gal I ever see as had sand in her," he said, holding out a trembling hand, which was unhesitatingly grasped. "Which I jest want to say," he continued, "that I hain't never goin' to interfere with the only gal as ever got the drop on me; an' what's more, I hain't goin' to 'low nobody else to interfere with her!" And whatever his previous record may have been, "Jumper Bill" kept his word that time. "AJT OFFSCOURINO." BY ELEANOR KIRK. "Well, yes, ma'am, I have stole!" "Why, John!" "You asked me, didn't you ?" "Yes, I asked you!" the mission teacher replied, a sad, almost disgusted expression on her sweet, young face. "What did you ask me for if you didn't want me to tell you ? I could 'a' lied!" the boy went on in his stolid sort of way, and yet with a ring of feeling in his voice. "No, you couldn't, Johnny," the teacher answered with a smile, "because you promised, you remember, that you would always tell the truth to me." "Well, I didn't go back on it, did I ?" "No, Johnny. Have you any objection to telling me now often you have taken things that didn't belong to you ?" "Mebbe I couldn't remember them all," the boy replied; but I never lifted anything very partikeler. Once, when the old woman where 1 hang out got sick, and cried a blue streak for oranges, and nobody had any money to get 'em, I asked the old cove that kept the grocery store to trust me for a couple till next day. He wouldn't do it, and that night I stole six from him." "Why, Johnny!" "Why didn't he let me have em, then ?" the boy went on, doggedly. "I'd a paid him, 'cause I said I would. Anyhow, the old woman got well oil'them oranges." "Then you are not sorry you took them ?" the teacher inquired. "Well, the old woman had to have them oranges and somebody had to get 'em for her." The teacher's.face was very grave, and as her companion looked up he saw the tears in his eyes, a sight which had a curious effect on him. "Don't make me tell you any more, please ma'am," he said dropping his eyes, while his face flushed scarlet. "I ain't nothin' but an offscouring, anyhow, and it ain't no use to fret about what 1 do. I was kinder dragged into this place, else I'd never bothered you." "Granny Leeds always said J was a offscouring, and so I am." "What is an offscouring, John ?" "O! the leavin's of something that ain't no good." "Granny Leeds, as you call her, was very much mistaken, and you are very much mistaken about yourself, Johnny," the teacher renlied. "You are not an offscour ing, but God's own child, and he is giving you a chance to make something of yourself. How much do you think the things are worth that you have taken in all, Johnny ?" "Them oranges was worth four cents apiece when I took 'em; that's twentyfour ; and then two loaves of bread I lifted for two fellows that froze their feet last winter, and a mackerel to make the bread go down. It's awful tough to eat bread without nothing with it; and then a base ball that was worth fifty cents, and all them things would make near hard to a dollar. Iidon't remember anything else." "Well, John, I shall give you a dollar, and T want you to go to those places and pay for all those things." "Then I'll have to own up!" the boy interrupted, in his bewilderment relapsing at once into slang. "Wouldn't you feel better to confess, Johnny?" the young lady inquired, not a little troubled at the effect of her words. For a moment the boy seemed lost in thought, and then lifting a frank face to his companion, said: "I ain't never felt partikeler had about any of them things 'eept the base-ball, and that I could 'a' done without; hut if you say so, Miss Lee, I'll give the whole thing away; only as I ain't lifted anything lately, and don't never mean to again, they would always suspicion me, and make me out a thief when I ain't no such thing. Don't you think 'twould do, ma'am, if I dropped the money in them places so they'a be sure to find it? If you don't think so I'll blow the whole thing, if it takes me to the Island." "What will you do, Johnny, if somebodv needs bread and oranges and you haven't any money to buy them with?" "That's a sticker, ma'am. I dunno." "And it wouldn't be strange if something of that kind were to happen any day." "No, ma'am. There's something putty gen'rally to pay with the folks now." "Well, Johnny, I will tell you what to do," the teacher replied. "Here is my imwl nnil when onv nf \7m1r nnminintnnnes """1 *???? ....J J ~ are in trouble I wish you would come directly to me; and if anything is amiss with you at any time be sure and send a messenger. You had better come up to-morrow, any way, Johnny, for I want to give you some warm clothes and then it will be easy for you to find the place next time." Johnny hung his head. This kindness had overpowered him, and not a word could he speak. "I didn't mean to hurt you, Johnny," the tender-hearted teacher hurried to say. "You are willing I should help you, are you not?" "I guess you had better let me git now, Miss Lee," the boy replied huskily. "You could knock me down with a eye-winker. You needn't worry about my remembering all you've said; but just now I am all broke up." "And I can trust you, Johnny?" the lady inquired. "It is a go, ma'am," the boy answered, simply. Miss Lee tucked a dollar bill in his hand, and Johnny hurried out of the building. It took considerable tact and skill, as well as time, for the boy to satisfactorily manage the business which his teacher had provided the money for. For instance, the grocer from whom he "lifted" the oranges had sold out to another man, and Johnny was obliged to hunt him up. He was at last found, poor and ill, and the boy without a moment's hesitation confessed the theft and produced the money. "I guess I can make it thirty cents," he said, "and that'll be a little interest. If 1 wouldn't like to give you five dollars then you may shoot me for a crow." The ex-grocer was so surprised at Johnny's confession and subsequent generosity, that he shook the boy's hand heartily and invited him to step in again soon, which the lad promised as heartily to do. By nightfall these "back debts," as Johnny naively called them, were all settled, and then, after a scanty meal, the boy started out with his evening papers. About o nn?rfpp tn oiorhf ho hnrl snld out. and then as fast as his feet would carry him, he hurried to the neigborhood of the Academy of Music to watch the people go into the building. It was opera night, and this was one of Johnny's greatest pleasures; and so, with his back to a lamppost, he gave himself up to the delight of watching the gay throng. Johnny wondered what it would be like to drive round in luxurious carriages and have plenty of money to spend on fine clothes. lie thought of the bread and herring he had eaten for his supper, and tried to imagine what it would be like to have turkey and cranberry sauce every day. Every Christmas Johnny had turkey and cranberry sauce for his dinner and lie knew from experience how nice they were. He had once ridden in an ambulance with a friend of his?a newsboy?who had been run over by an express wagon, and this was the nearest approach to a carriage ride Johnny had ever enjoyed. He wondered, as he watched the happy, gayly-dressed people, why it wasithat some people had all they wanted while others were cold and hungry, and sometimes starved to death. This was not the first time that Johnny had been perplexed with such thoughts, but they had never made him feel quite so uncomfortable as on this occasion. He called to mind the warm underclothing and tidy jacket and pants which Miss Lee had given him that day, and tried to comfort himself with the thought that there was one person in the world who cared for him. There had been a heavy fall of snow that day, and as Johnny, still absorbed with his thoughts. started to cross the street he saw something sparkle in the snow at the side of the crossing. There had been a rush of carriages, and a few had not been able to pull up at the curb. As he picked it up he saw that it was an ornnament in the shape of a cross, and studded with diamonds. Johnny knew they were "shiners," as he called them, as soon as he looked at them, so with his heart in his throat lie tucked the precious jewel in his pocket, still holding it firmly in his hand. Johnny's ambition had been to start a coffee and cake establishment, where newsboys could be entertained at very low rates. For more than a year he had entertained this project, and here was a chance to carry it into execution. There were nine stones in the cross. Disposing of one at a time, so as to avoid suspicion, there was money enough to last him "for years and years" he told himself. It puzzled him to know where he could keep the "shiners," for there wasn't a soul among his acquaintances whom he dared trust with the secret. Not until he crept In his poverty stricken bed, with his treasure carefully hidden among the straw, did the thought occur that he ought to try to find an owner for it. Then followed a hard battle between the natural honesty of the lad and his very natural desire for creature comforts. The person who could wear a gold thing like that, "chock full of shiners," he said to himself, "must have money enough to buy more shiners." Here he was cold and hungry half the time, with 110 prospects before him but to be always hungry, if not always cold; and here were these "shiners," which would set him up in business and give him a chance to help the boys. Johnny honestly wanted to help the boys. Why should he find the owner of this cross when he had nothing and the owner had everything? This fight conni\l?l if 11*00 f imn f/?n tl?A liwl f a uiiu^u uuui iv uao uiuu iui uiu iuvi iv start out witli the morning papers. All through the busiest part of the forenoon the battle still raged, and the newsboy's thoughts were so occupied with his new found riches that he almost forgot to attend to his customers. About half past ten, as he crossed city hall park, he noticed a gentleman in earnest conversation with another gentleman, and as lie passed he heard the words "diamond" cross spoken. Johnny slackened his pace and listened. "The diamonds were all of the first water," the gentleman said. "It was a present to my wife from her father, and she is terribly cut up at the loss. 1 don't suppose we shall ever find it." "You will advertise it, won't you ?" his companion inquired. "Oh, of course," the gentleman replied; "but more than likely it has fallen into some dishonest hands, and unless the reward is made equal to the value of the diamonds, we shall probably never see them." When the gentlemen separated, the one who was interested in the diamonds enterered the city hall, and after a little inquiry Johnny discovered that this gentleman held a very honorable office in the city department. After finding this out the lad took a turn around the park to think it over again. "Oftinnv r,PCfl?s snul I nH'vrMiirinir and Miss Lee says I ain't," he argued to himself. "If I keep these shiners granny'll he right and Miss Lee'll be wrong. She said the Lord was giving me a chance to make something of myself. Well, now, the question is, am I, or am I not a offscouring? Ifl keep these shiners I am ; if I give them up I ain't. Well, I ain't."' And with these words on his lips Johnny started for the gentleman's office. Nothing daunted, he entered, and presented himself at the desk. "Some of your folks have lost something, ain't they?" he asked. "They have," said the gentleman. "Will your honor tell me what it is like?" "It is a gold cross set with diamonds," and the gentleman described the relative position of the stones. It was lost either in the Academy of Music last night, or on 0 the way to or fro. i that place." j Johnny's coat wa? off in a twinkling and with a rip at the switches which confined his treasure, he took it out and put on his coat again. "I s'pose this is it," he said, handing it to the gentleman. "I wanted ( to keep them shiners awful bad," he continued. "They'd set me up in business, them shiners would; but you see I couldn't r get to be such an offscouring as that, though r I have been trying to be a thief all nignt long. If I was your folks," he went on, j "I'd get a stronger string to hold them, for fear they'd be gone for good and all next time." ' e "What is your name?" the gentleman c inquired, as the lad with his cap in his j hand, stood modestly before him. ^ "John Resney," the boy replied. ^ "Have you a father and mother?" was l the next quesiion. * "Nobocly, yer honor, but myself." c "Which would you prefer to do, John- ( ny?" the gentleman next inquired, "go j into business or go to school?" * lillTt T 1 -1 Xt X~ - 1 1 " \> ny, x woum miner gu 10 suimu, ieu ? to one," replied Johnny, "but there ain't c no show for that." . a "We will see," said the gentleman. c Will you come into my office, Johnny, c until I see what is best to be done?" ,vf"v | "Yes," Johnny replied, the tears starting ^ in his eyes. "I shall want you to go heme with me c in an hour or two, and give my wife her s diamonds, and see what she thinks of ' you." J The following Sunday, Johnny went to the Mission school for the last time, and in c such good clothes that Miss Lee hardly x knew him. The grateful boy told his j teacher all that happened and concluded f as follows: "I am going away to school to-morrow, j and if I've got the learning stuff in me I can go to college; but Miss Lee, if it hadn't been for you and God, I should _ have been an offscouring all the days of ' my life."?[Christian Union. Farm nits to the Front.?In all ages j of the world, nations have been strong in t the proportion that agriculture was prosperous and carried on under the substantial condition of proprietorship. The rural homestead has always been the altar of patriotism and every public virtue, and t when this characteristic was lost, anarchy f and disintegration has followed. A rural t citizenship has always been the prey to i designing men who coveted their substance without emulating their homely ( virtues. Knowing but little of the cun- I ning ways of those versed in statecraft, de- c pending solely upon honest toil for bread, and removed from those populous centres that breed all manner of vice, they have J been made victims of vicious greed, and i by degrees have surrendered the birth- a right secured and defended by their stur- J dy arm and resolute patriotism, and have ^ sunk into servility. Their downfall has c presaged that of their country. f But these were ancient times. To re- i peat itself history must deal with repeated i conditions. In these days and in this I country the farmer is a different man. c He knows his rights and, unless all signs ( fail, will maintain them. He may be f slow to realize the necessity for doing something, and this tardiness may have i been construed as silent consent on his f part to drift with the tide if he sinks with ^ the ship. But when he hangs his coat on i the fence and goes to work in earnest, he c is always equal to the emergency, and i those who think otherwise deceive them- 1 selves. When the country needs saving, and others refuse to do it, an immense i host of farmers, accustomed to hard work, i will be found ready. They have simply been steerage passengers on the ship of State, trusting to the officers and crew to carry them safely. If they find that the officers are drunken and the crew disor- , derly or mutinous, they will not hesitate to man the tiller and the yards. They , may do some rough, unscientific work at the start, but what they lack in skill, they make up in main strength and awkwardness. And that's what's the matter with { many place holders who have let the interest of the people look out for itself, * while they gave their whole attention to party expediency as affecting their tenure A of office.?[Farm and Ranch. 1 t t > t ii A Good Name.?A young man does not t always find it easy to get on in the world i without education, or family influence, or personal friends, or property, or health; but he will find in the long run that it is \ far easier for him to make his way among , men without any of these advantages than to make substantial progress in the world A without the reputation of a good character, c even though he has all these other posses- r sions. Character stands for something r everywhere in spite of its frequent slight- t ings. Men who are themselves lacking in f a good character appreciate and value it in 1 others. A band of robbers would want an t honest treasurer. ^ The young man whose word cannot be s believed, whose honesty is not above sus- c picion, and whose personal life is not what ^ it ought to be, is not the young man that 1 the business world has open places for. He t may have health and wealth, and family position, and a host of friends, but if he is ( -- it J. -1 L 1. ~ ~ A ~ .1! 1 A wunuui cnarueier, ne is at a uisauvantage in every position in life. When a young man who lias lost his good name makes an honest effort to recover it, he finds that t his way upward is a hard one?a great t deal harder, in spite of all other helps, i than it would have heen if he had made 5 a right start without these helps. Friends t are comparatively powerless in their ef- 1: forts to win confidence for one who has c proved himself unworthy of it on for- t mer occasions. Then it is that the young c man is likely to realize as never before \ that "a good name is rather to he chosen i than great riches," even as a worldly in- c vestment. Because it is so hard to get on r without a good name, or to regain it when ( once surrendered, every young man who 1 has that possession ought to count it above price, and to have a care lest he lose it. ?[Sunday School Times. 1 ?????? | An Indian Millionaire.?There is one Indian in the United States worth one million dollars. lie is known as Matthias Splitlog, and is chief of the Wyandotte tribe. His mother gave him birth in the woods near a split log, hence his name. He is now seventy years of age, and can neither read nor write. For all this, he is a great money getter. Some timo ago he was persuaded to sell a tract of land on the Kaw bottoms for one hundred and forty thousand dollars, the money to be paid to him at ten o'clock on a certain morning, at a bank in Minnesota avenue, Kansas City. The Indian entered the bank shortly before ten and took his seat, keeping his eye 011 the clock. When the clock struck ten and the capitalists had not arrived, he walked promptly out of the bank. On the street he met the men who were to buy his land, and when they asked him to return to the bank he refused, and set the next day at the same hour. When they all met the next day Splitlog refused to sell for one hundred and forty thousand dollars, and wanted one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. The syndicate wanted the land, and fearing another rise in real estate, accepted his terms. The Theory of the Federal Fled- { tion Bill.?That the negro is a [Republican and a voter : that he has the eonstitu- , tional right to vote the Republican ticket, ( and none other, and to have his vote counted whether he casts it or not; that when he does not cast it he is kept away from the polls hy the malignant whites; that, therefore, an army of Republican supervisors . must be raised to see that he does cast it, or, in default of this, to cast it for him, and j" to see that it is counted ; and finally, that no matter how many Democrats may be j: elected to the Fifty-second congress by the North, enough Republican certificates of ^ election must be returned from the South f to enable Mr. McPherson, the present clerk ; of the house, to make up a roll showing a prima-faeie Republican majority, is the s platform of principles, the declaration of ? fact, the pledge on which the Republican ? leaders have planted themselves and they 4. cannot escape it. Jtisagroundhogcji.se. [Henry "Watterson. toy Mr. (Jeo. W. C'hikls, of Philadelphia, e who began life with nothing, and has become one of the richest arid best known f< "newspaper men" in the world, says that o the source of his greatest pleasure in the g world is doing good to others, and that n "being generous grows on one, just as be- a ing mean does." ' t Ittiscclliiueous |U?iUmj. S INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE. pe Hi MPT. SHELL OPPOSES A PROPOSED CON- (|t EE HENCE OF THE FACTIONS. j-j, The following letter was addressed to the w nembers of the State Democratic com- el< nittee: 1 9? Rooms of the State ) Democratic Executive Committee. - ur Columbia, S. C., July 17th, 1800.) f Dear Sir: It has been suggested that, rV is a means of allaying the excitement and Tn :ontention within the lines of our party ar n this State, the State executive commitee shall invite a conference at an early ; lay in the city of Columbia, to be com>osed (in addition to its own members) of . he members of the Advisory campaign ommittees, headed respectively by Capt. *. W. Shell and Gen. John D. Kennedy. 111 't is believed that such a conference will fur- 111 . .. .. .. . . . . r. HI ner tne onject naa 111 view oy tne ttxecu- ? ive committee, in ordering the August onvention, so as to bring about an orderly re nid peaceful settlement of the existing ,, lifferences, and use the combined influence v1 the State Executive committee and the at wo Advisory committees in securing such n* at agreement on all sides, as will prevent ?* my cause for dissatisfaction in the final c mtcome of the present agitation, thereby w issuring the unity and harmony of the 01 >arty when it comes to confront the com- jy non enemy in the general election. Impressed with the force and pertinency ?.( >f this suggestion, coupled with the desire 0 preserve intact the organization of the democratic party in this State, J respectully submit the matter for your considerition, whether or not you will authorize . ne to invite such a conference with the 111 Vdvisory committees aforesaid. If you egard the matter favorably, and think cc ucli a conference is advisable, please tele- cc :raph at once to the secretary, Wilie &1 lones, Esq., Columbia, S. C., or send him ai 1 message to the contrary, if you do not ,. ipprove the proposed meeting. Very 111 ruly yours, James A. IIoyt, 111 Chairman State Executive Committee. fe uj The answers returned to this letter au- n{ horized the chairman to invite the con- in erence whenever he was informed that se lie Advisory campaign committees would tli mite in such a conference. re The following letter was addressed to lii Japt. G. \V. Shell, and also to Gen. John St d. Kennedy, as representing the Advisory cc :ommittees: m Columbia, S. C., July 10,1890. m My Dear Sir?I have asked the State democratic executive committee to author- as ze me to invite a conference in this city at dt in early day, to be composed of the said st Executive committee, together with the cc Vdvisory campaign committees, presided >ver by yourself and Capt. G. W. Shell, ^ i f *\nOL?iklo ur lilt; puipuau in it pusoiui^) ipon such a line of policy by each comnittee as will best insure the unity and mrmony of the party in this State when existing differences are settled. The object sa >f this conference is to talk frankly and ']e reely over the situation, as Democrats, ?\ md to use the influence of the several com- tu nittees in bringing about a better state of cc eeling among our people. If you are villing to unite with your campaign com- jn nittee in such a conference for the welfare cj >f the party as a whole, will you please let 0l ne hear from you at the earliest practica- ar )le moment, so that J may call the confer- ea (nee without delay, if the Executive comnittee approves the suggestion. Address g( ne at Greenville. Yours truly, w James A. Hoyt, tv Chairman State Executive Committee. w ui The following reply from Governor Ken- te ledy was promptly received: In Columbia, S. C., July 17,1890. . ?ol. James A. Hoyt, Chairman State Com- P' mittee: " My Dear Sir?I am instructed by the Advisory committee, of which I have the jY lonor to be chairman, to say that if the neeting referred to in your letter of July ^ Gth, inst., is called, we will accept the in- V dtation and attend. We appreciate the notiveswhichaetuateyouandwillco-operite in every consistent manner in effecting r' he patriotic purpose you have in view. {\ Vwaiting further advice, I am, yours truly, J. D. Kexxedy, Chairman. ^ [Capt Shell replied that he was anxious fr o have an interview with the chairman >f the State Executive committee, but w vas prevented from coming to Greenville in account of court convening in Lauens, and asked for a visit from the chair- , nan. He was willing for a conference be- JY ween the State Executive committee 111 aid the Campaign committee of the Far- |ll ners' association, and expressed his desire 08 o restore peace and harmony to the party. S11 further correspondence ensued, and re- w ulted in a personal interview at Laurens >n the 2;3d instant, in which Captain Shell w vas urged to make a definite answer to the imposition, and which was followed by he annexed letters.] )v Laubexs C. H., S. C., July 24,1890. ? Ml. James A. Hoyt, Chairman State Democratic Executive Committee, Green ville, S. C.: rC Dear Sir?I have given the subject mat- 0f er of our interview of yesterday careful (), bought, and can see no reason to change w ny conclusion previously made known to ^ 'ou. I will repeat that it is my desire st hat unity and good will be restored to the >ody politic; that in future, instead of the tpposing factions indulging in abuses and n >itter denunciations, criminations and re- uj riminations, all true Democrats should be V( villing to unite in healing the wounds and f0 njuries complained of and let the Demo- j , ratio party present to the world that mag- e^mnimous spirit characteristic of South 'arolinians, remembering that "to err is ()j luman, but divine to forgive." jn For the State Democratic Executive comnittee I entertain the highest regard, so jR ilso with my distinguished friend Gen. n, fohn 1). Kennedy, for whom I feel more (j( han ordinary concern,but I cannot, to save ne, see any good that could result from a jK oint conference such as proposed by you. The August convention meets in twenty w lays. Its action will be conclusive as to the .q natter of primary or no primary?the lat- [r( er condition being most probable. I dep- C(] ecate the thought of precipitating a pri- w nary upon the people during the campaign, t j, ind nothing could he devised that would ontribute so much to divide the Demoratic party. The very least friction just ni low is the most desirable thing hoped for, uid the adoption of any suggestion looking m oward the perpetuation of conflicting in- v( luences, such as would result from a hotly ontested primary election, a quarter of a +|, entury would hardly heal the breach incilent to such a proceeding. tu It is my opinion that the complexion of he August convention will reflect the ul- w imate result of the September conven- (j ion, which, if true, should be sufficient o satisfy all reasonable minds, and would fa ilso give abundant time and opportunity o heal all the hitter disappointments aj aused by reason of defeat. For these reasons,I most respectfully de- m line to invite the committee over which I fr. lave the honor to preside, to participate in he conference proposed by you. (/r I have the honor to he very respectfully, ^ 'our obedient servant, G. W. Shkll, ' 'hairman Campaign Committee Farmers' j.^" Association, S. fe( be (inkenvim;i:, S. C'., July -(?, lWin. m ('apt. (i. W. Shell, Laurens, S. ('.?My tli )earSir: Yours of the 24th instant was 111 eceived last evening. J regret that you lave adhered to a decision against the pro- Gi msed conference, as I am sure you have ha nisconceived the main object of confer- wi ing together upon the political situation, an t is also unfortunate that our personal in- wi erview, (which was had at your request, ch o avoid such a result, as 1 understood it,) ed houkl have failed to impress you with the in eal purpose of the conference. I sought vc o convey the idea that the paramount ob- t\\ ?et in view was the concentration of tli arcos to a particular end, namely, the wi inity and perpetuity of the Democratic wi tarty in South Carolina at the close of an as xciting and eventful campaign. It was not my purpose to make the con- vc srence an occasion for urging the adoption a f the primary system in choosing dele- ea ates to the September convention. That pi natter will be settled at an early day, but dc s you seem to hinge much objection to he he conference on this score, allow me to y that f do not at all agree with you a the effects of a primary election for del ;ates, such as is proposed for the consul ation of the August convention. Th jople are going to have primary election every section of the State, and to elec slegatos by this method is not "precipitn ug" anything they do not want. I ould be easy enough to arrange for th ection of delegates at the same time th unty officers are chosen in this way, am is possible to do so without friction o inecessary excitement. I confess that the adoption of this methoi selecting delegates would interfere wit! e prevailing mode, by which a few mei e deciding upon representatives fo hole counties, but nevertheless I giv e primary plan the preference in al ses. But I wish to say on the main point a me, that it was expected to meet in con rencc for a free interchange of opinio: )onthe political condition of the State id not to gain advantage of any faction >r 10 innu any one 10 a given cours ;ainst honest convictions of duty am sponsibility. The strained relations existing betwee e factions, and the unusual heat engen ;red by the campaign now in progress, d it augur well for the future harmon; the party in South Carolina, and m lief object in suggesting the conferenc as to secure adherence to regular metb Is and recognized usages, so that ther ill be no reasonable excuse for splittin ie party in twain, as has been threater L in certain contingencies, nor justifict >n on the other hand for the enactmer] ' measures that will prove offensive c igrading to any portion of our partj Te are fellow Democrats, and wliatevc fectsoneof us will surely touch the otlie . our political relations. So long as there are open questions to b nsidered, there will continue friction an inflicting influences, and it is idle to te own men that they can secure peace b i ignoble surrender. But when the contest is over betwee ic factions, there will be the test of tru anhood and exalted courage as to wh ,n best serve a united party. The man st duty of all is to preserve the honor an ihold the integrity of our ancient Con onwealth. Believing that the patrioti lpulses of the gentlemen composing tli veral committees would readily sugge ie means for this most desirable end, an lying with confidence upon their wi ngness and readiness to serve the who] ate, I made the suggestion for an earl insultation as to these means, and ver uch regret that you have declined t eet us for this purpose. As the newspapers are already surmisin i to the brief interview we had the oth( ly, and to prevent any possible misunde anding of its purport, I will furnish th irrespondence for publication. With sincere regard, very truly yours, James A. Hoyt, Chairman State Dem. Ex. Committee. DIFFERENT WAYS OF VOTING. Though men have been voting for thoi nds of years, few communities have yi arned how to vote in the best manne t this very time several of our legish ires have, or recently have had, uhd< insideration improvements in the art. In ancient Greece, as the historian Grol [forms us, the people had a way of ostrs zing, or "shelling,"- a troublesome ma it of the city. When two rival politic is had become so violently opposed 1 ich other that their feud threatened tli iblic peace, or rendered the passage < )od measures too difficult, the votei ere called upon to decide which of tli iro should leave the city. Every citize ho chose to vote put into a large metal: 11 a small shell upon which he had wri n the name of tne man whose banisl ent he preferred. If six thousand votes in all were cas it not otherwise, the shells were exan ,ed, and the man who had received 11101 ites was condemned to ten years of hoi able exile. Mr. Grote was of opinio lat this method of getting rid of a to ihement politician, often resulted a( intageously, and sometimes saved Ather om civil war. In some ancient Mediterranean Stat( iere was a pretty variation upon the vol ? shells. The voter wrote the name < s candidate upon an olive leaf. Thi as called peltahsm, or leaf-voting, just f e shell method was called, ostracism om a Greek word signifying a little shel The great jury, hundreds in iiumbe: hicli condemned Socrates to drink th jmlock, voted in another way. Thos ho desired his death cast into a bra* >x a little ball of metal or stone, whic as either black in color or pierced throug ie middle. Those who voted for his a< littal threw into the same box a whit til, or one not pierced. There was nail majority of black balls, and thus h as doomed to die. At the present time, in club election! e often use the same simple method id we say of a defeated candidate, "II as blackballed." This way of votin as probably one of the earliest attcmpl secure secrecy. The Romans had some interesting modt voting. When a law was submitted t e people to ratify or reject, each citize ceived two small, square, smooth piec( ' wood, called taballae, or tablets. O ie of these was written the letter A hich stood for Antiquo, "I reject." 0 ie other, were two letters, U. Ji., whic ood for Uti 1 togas,?part of the Lati ntence, "A/70 hanc legem, uti rogas,jube> im censeo,"?I think this law should li titled as you propose,?or in other word Let it pass."" One of these tablets tli >ter put into a large bronze urn provide r the purpose, which he could do secre if lie wished. The question was decit I by a majority of the votes. In a similar manner the judges in a coui justice gave in their decision, after heai g the testimony. To each judge wer ven three tablets, one marked A, whic eant Absolvo, "I acquit; another wa arked C, which meant Condemno, "I cor mmthe third was marked N. L finding for Non Liquet, that is?"It doc it appear," meaning, "I am in doubt." With these tablets thejudges voted, an hen the votes were all in, if there was urality of Absolvos, the accused was sc ee. If the Condemnor prevailed, he wa mdenined. If the Non Liquets had it, i as about equivalent to a disagreement c e jury. The object of all these simple expedient as to give the voter perfect freedom b aking his vote secret. But at a ver rly period unscrupulous politicians foun cans both to intimidate and bribe tli iters. As long ago as the trial of Socrr s, B. C. st)!), voters were bribed in wlm e (1 reeks styled delcadx, or tens. If readers who are studying Greek wi rn to their Greek dictionaries they wil ul, in composition with the word dekc hich means ten, a melancholy story c recian politics; for they indicate tlia ibing voters, ten in a lump, was quit miliar to the Athenians. It is to he feared that corrupt voting i most as ancient a practice as voting itseli re may infer this from a considerabl nnher of ancient methods of preventing tud. in some countries of Southeri urope, instead of voting by shells, leave tablets, which could be concealed abou e person in great numbers, and put int e urn surreptitiously, the voters wer quired to use wands or rods five or si: st long. These were deposited in a lonj >x through a small slit in the lid. As iv an could conceal a stick six feet long e voters were prevented from castinj ore than one vote. Even at the present day, the people ii reece vote with black balls and whit lis, as their forefathers did, althougl ith special precautions against briber; id fraud. The duty of voting is investei ith solemnity by opening the polls in th urches and on Sunday. Entering th ifice, the voter sees before the altar a any boxes as there are candidates to b >ted for, each box being divided into o compartments, one painted black an< e other white. A clerk comes to hin ith a wooden bowl full of bullets, fron liich the voter is given as many bullet there are candidates. To conceal from the by-standers how li ?tes, the elector thrusts his hand dowi long funnel, and drops one bullet int ch box. If he wishes to vote "Yes," li its his bullet into the white half of th ix; if "No," he puts it into the blacl ilf. The paper ballot, Mr. Palfrey thinks, i s a Yankee invention, first used in 1(542 I- get out of office Gvernor John Winthro I- who had become unpopular. The pari e opposed to Winthrop were confident of s majority if the people could vote withoi :t fear. To this end, the freemen of the cc t- ony were required to vote with pap t ballots. e The election was held at Boston, in e church. The voters were required to con d in at one door with their votes ready wri r ten. lay them down on a table before tl court, and then pass out of the buildir d by another door. Absentees could set h their votes by proxy, and blank votes we n counted as negatives, r In 1(543, it was ordered, in Boston, th e in future elections the freemen should ui II beans instead of papers; white, to me* "yes;" black, to mean "no." ,t The old-fashioned English way of votii i- by word of mouth, long practised in Vi n ginia and other Southern States as well; ;, in England, was lively and picturesqi i, enough. Not unfreouently the candidat e themselves attended at the polls, and r d warded men who voted for them with "Thank vou. sir!" and a low bow: b ti when we consider that in England tl i- candidate was likely to he the employe o or landlord of the voter, we do not need y be told that an election was little mo y than a formal endorsement of the lan e lord's preference. l- In this way Mr. Gladstone was, at 1 e first appearance in politics, thrust upon i g unwilling constituency by a great lan i- owner. This was a lucky chance for t] i- English people; but for one Gladsto: it brought into public life in this way, the >r were a hundred incompetents. r. We have only to look into the Engli r novels of the last century and the first hi >r of the present century to see that the vi\ voce method of voting was the very woi ie ever practised in the world. It render d popular elections scenes of general ri< 11 fraud and bebauchery. y Probably more trouble has been tak in the city of New York to secure go n election methods than in any other pla< ie and, of late years, with considerable si o cess. Entering a voting place in N< i- York, the voter sees before him a loi d row of large glass globes, one for each < l- fice to be filled. He hands to the offic ic in charge of these his bunch of ticke ie each of which the officer places on the 1 d of the box to which it belongs. When i d is ready, the ballots are simultaneous 1- dropped into the globes. This method i le sures secresy, if the voter takes the ob1 y ous precautions to have it so?not oth< y wise. :o But all the old ways of voting mi yield in convenience and security to t g Australian method, which has been ado] jr ed already in one form or another r- several of the United States, and is und is consideration in several others. Und this system the voter in his enclosure li the feeling of being withdrawn from t scrutiny of men. He is alone with 1 voting paper, his pencil and his cc science. One large sheet, folded together lik< sheet of foolscap, contains the names of: the candidates, conveniently arranged, a: J. described by their party designations. ^ this practical solitude the voter calm marks with a cross the names of the en didates for whom he wishes to vote. 1 e one can see how he votes. lm When he lias done, he folds the sh< n together again, and places it upon t j. automatic ballot box. The officer 0 charge of the ballot box turns a crar ie and with a click the ballot disappears. 3f It is the neatest and most effective ( rs vice imaginable. It makes voting ie real pleasure.?[James Paktwx, in T n Youth's Companion. t- THE POLICE COURTS OF PARIS, l- Paris is policed in excess. You see t guardians of the public peace, as they c t, now called, in every part of the city, whi l- might, for this reason, seem to a Strang 3t always on the point of an outbreak. Th l- are as prevalent and as conspicuous und n the republic as they were during the ei >o pire, the opinion of those in author! 1- being that Frenchmen need to be w is watched. Of the municipal police there are abo is six thousand, and these have so remark :e ble a capacity for self-distribution that o )f might think them ten thousand at lea is Everything is regulated there, from t is sale of food to the holding of public i l, semblies. 1. Any violation of law or order evokes t r, ever-present police. They appear to i e little or nothing, to be part of the dai ;e pageant of the metropolis; but the bureai is of the police magistrates?which we cj h police courts?tell a different tale. The h are bureaux in every one of the twen j- arrondissements, and each morning t ;e persons arrested the day before are broug a before the magistrates, who decide th< e cases, inflicting a fine, in default of whi they are sent to prison. *, A frequent accusation is "attempt to i ; cite a riot," a matter about which Pari e ans are naturally sensitive, as tneir city g and has been for ages, the most excital ts in the civilized world. They shuddering remember the insurrection of the coi js mune of 1871, which, while it lasted, e o ceeded for ferocity and desperation t n reign of terror. is An extraordinary proportion of worn n appear at the bureaux, not a few of the I, arrested for trying to provoke a tumu 11 These are apt to be the coarsest and m( h miserable class. But some of the worn n who are arraigned before the magistral i- are often young, pale, wretched, plain ie sufferers from extreme poverty and all t 3, ills of life. Perhaps they have been d e covered in a theft, or perhaps they ha d been taken from the Seine, where tli t- have thrown themselves with suicidal pi I- pose. "I cannot earn my board," th somethinies say, weeping. "I have noi t friend in the world, and yet the law w r- not let me die!" e Poverty is the chief sin of many of t h miserable prisoners, and for that they a is held guilty. Hardly any one thinks i- the wide prevalence of want in Paris ai ., of the terrible struggle to escape it co s stantly making by thousands and tens thousands. d Some of the men are so brutal and cri a in appearance and manner that one wo ?t ders if they can be of the same race as t ts polite, prosperous, elegant frequenters it the fashionable cafes and the Bois de Bo )f logne. Usually they receive the sentence of t :s magistrate in sullen silence; but their da y eyes are menacing, the expression of the y whole faces revengeful. They seem to d biding their time, as if marking the ol e eials they have already doomed, i- The worst of these men are from t it Batignolles and Belleville, quarters of pe: and lasting discontent. Men are fined II imprisoned frequently for beating wome 11 Women are often arraigned for violen t, toward one another, and they remain ?f enraged after their cases have been dispc .t ed of that the police, or their friends a e obliged to keep them apart. The police magistrates deal with son s of the most distressing and pitiable of h r. man beings; but they seldom show coi e passion for them. Familiarity harde g them to sights and sounds of woe. Th< a go through their daily routine mechan] s ally, their sole concern being to get rid t it as soon as possible. But at long inti o vals some prisoner, usually a woman, to e asiniplestory in self-justification, manifef 1 Xl. _ 1 ~ X XI. ...L f ~1_ 1 J.1 \ ly uie simple iruin, wiucii iiutK.es even u g callous magistrate merciful, llis e; 0 moistens and he discharges the poor wrote ;, Then the on-lookers, some of them savag g looking, raise a little fund of sous and ha francs, and give it to the miserable outcaf 11 The most ignorant and degraded Parisia e have their humane side. Ii An occurrence lately made known at tl y police court revealed a marked Frent 1 quality. A youth, in the quarter St. A e toine, had, by report, knocked his moth e down, and the report having circulated, ] s was set upon by a number of laborers, wl e might have killed him if he had not be< 0 rescued by the police. The examinatii 1 showed that the mother was a thorough a bad woman. She had often attacked h a unolfending son, a pale and puny, but i s dustrious lad, and beaten him cruelly. I supported her, for the most part, returnii e good for evil. On the occasion of his si a rest, she had again assaulted him, ai o when he tried to get away, she had seiz< e a knife and had attacked him with thi e In pure self-defense, he struck the weap< k from her hand. In spite of this expiaation, when tl s magistrate acquitted the boy, the on-loo to ers would have handled him roughly, rep, membering only the original charge; and ty he, seeing the danger, asked to be locked a up for protection. Throughout France, ut particularly in Paris, maternity is so su>1 premely revered that the mere name of er mother stirs a Hood of that superabundant sentiment for which the nation is renowned, a Here is an example of the sudden and le complete change of feeling peculiar to the t- French mind, aud of the strong influence le thereon of a plausible story. A man was lg taken to the police court accused of trying id to pick a pocket of one of the promenaders re in the China Elysees. He was suspected of being a hardened criminal, thougn he was at less than thirty years old, and the prejudice se of the spectators, who attend the sessions in in large numbers and invariably constitute themselves the judges of the cases tried, lg was very strong against him. r- The sense of pecuniary honesty is so nrm as among the French people generally that a je professional thief is apt to excite their bites ter wrath. This man was allowed to tell e- his tale, and he told it most effectively, a He admitted his attempt to steal, but deut clared that it was his first violation of law. lie He had been driven to it by dire necessity, sr, he said; he was a widower, and had a very to sick child, a little daughter, who was sufre fering for want of food. He had endeavd ored to get work, day after day, to no purpose ; he had begged in vain; he believed lis the girl was starving. Rather than see her m die, he had determined to get, by any d- means, what would keep her alive. He he was eloquent; he was pathetic in his narne rative; he was a natural actor, like so re many of his race. At the close of his speech many eyes sh wei 3 wet; the magistrate, who was visibly ilf moved, discharged him. As he passed 'a- through the crowd outside the bar, men rst in blouses pressed his hand, offering to ed help him. Any one would have felt sorry it, for the poor fellow. An experienced detective informed me afterward that he en knew the man to be a regular thief, whose od glib tongue had often relieved him of ;e, trouble. His recital was a pure invention. ic- His morals were as bad as his manners 5w were winning. ng A girl of nineteen was brought in one Df- night, having been found by the police :er wandering in the streets. She was halfts, distracted, and could not for some hours id give any account of herself. When comall paratively calm, she thus recounted her ily antecedents, which bore internal evidence n- of truth, and were afterwards corroborated. - 2 T_T/\? AM UA/1 KAAM A II'AII 4-A /1A Iwi/loomon VI" ilCl lilllici iitiu uccu a ti cn-iu-uu uaucaiiiaiii ?r- but ruined by speculation, he committed suicide, leaving her mother, an invalid ist brother and herself in poverty. The girl he was good-looking and fairly educated, and at- her mother had been thought a beauty, by They had a hard struggle, earning a scant ler livelihood by sewing. Her mother marler ried againj and her husband treated her ias and the children very badly. The brother he died, and the step-father acted in such a lis manner as to drive the girl from the in- house. Having a fair voice, she was induced to 3 a engage herself to one of the singing cafes all near the Place de la Concorde; but her nd surroundings were intolerable, and she felt In obliged to leave. She drifted from one ily employment to another, and was serving m- as a waitress in a cheap restaurant in the \To Latin Quarter when she was falsely accused of theft. She had found that her ?et beauty was her worst enemy, and, when he released, she put a chemical preparation in on her face that destroyed her complexion, ik, Having tried many ways to earn her bread honestly, she, after repeated failure, swalle lowed an overdose of laudanum to end her a sorrows. It made her very ill, and affectbe ed her brain, and in this condition she had been found in the streets and arrested. Such sad romances as this are frequently disclosed in the police courts, which are jie mournful mirrors of the life of Paris. cr? YANKEE*D00DLE. ?er One evening, late in June, sitting beside ' the old well just at the rear of the Van ipr Renssalaer house, still to be seen at Greenrn_ bank, with the air of "Kitty Fisher's Jig" t" ringing in his ears, Dr. Shackburg wrote ?jj the words of "Yankee Doodle," and presented words and music to the officers of the militia. The tune was known in the times of Charles the First, and has even been said t to be of classic origin, having been chantjjg ed in the days of Miletus, certainly in the days of Herodotus, and possibly those of Homer. jie The words of "Yankee Doodle" have been variously defined, and to enter into a j? full discussion of the subject would involve too much space. The general acceptation is that "Yankee" is from "Yankin", mean,re ing, in the vocabulary of the early New tv Y'ork Dutch, to grumble, snarl, or yelp; and its derivative noun, "Yanker," meant jjt a howling cur. It was not in use save ?jr among the lower classes, for reasons which ' u to-day forbid slang being introduced into their homes; but it was a well-known ? word. In the collision between the New ai" Englanders, the New York Dutch, and the ',1" ' 1. ;ii r..i:__ n.n,.o<u1 :s Jiriusn, inucn iii-ieeiiug wua muuocu. j' The New Englanders despised the Dutch, ,1 v and the Dutch despised the New England^ ers, while the British ridiculed both. " Hence the use of the term to indicate the u" contempt which existed. Every circumstance points to its birth in this prevailing pn contemptuous feeling. To this day Yan,m kees are looked upon with some distrust j.. by the descendents of the real Dutchmen )S1 now outside of New England. e The hit of Dr. Shackburg became known ,0S throughout the army, and the song was i' sung in a sort of contempt of the colonials, [.g This contemptuous use of the songcon tinued until after Lexington. In 1775 the v" British troops tarred and feathered one ev Thomas Ditson, in Boston, marching to the tune as the best means of heaping con~ tempt on the Yankees. But this was changed at Lexington, and it was said jn that when the British commander was once asked after that how he liked the i p tune, he answered, "How they did make re us dance to it!" 0r "Doodle" was a Lancashire word for i trifle, and is thus referred to as early as _ 1G22. There is an early version of the 'f words in English, which runs:? "Yankee Doodle came to town Upon a Kentish pony ; K'l lie stuck a feather in his hat, 11- And called it macaroni " he In other versions the second line runs, of "Riding on a pony," and "Upon a little u- pony." The small plume worn by the militia in the front of their caps was called he in derision "macaroni." There is a trark dition in England that the original song ;ir was directed at Oliver Cromwell himself be under the name of "Nankee Doodle." fi Necessity of Sleep.?The blessing he upon the one who invented sleep has been ril echoed in the hearts of all the weary, or That is one thing that the poorest may n. share with the purple and linen fellows, ce often getting the better quality, perhaps, so from the absence of the conventional woo* >s- ings of the restorer. There is no better rere eipe for getting the best in a physical way that life affords than in the possession of oe good sleep. How often is the remark u- heard that one does not sleep well. Of n- course the system does not operate well, ns and trouble may be apprehended if the sy difficulty is not speedily relieved. Those ic- who go through the hot season with loss of and vigor and impaired health usually give -r- too little attention to getting sufficient and lis i*orriilor clnon Thn niorhts in this elimfttp st- are usually so delightful, even in the hotest he days, that there is great temptation to reye main up too late, and reduce the hours of h. sleep when there is really more need of this invigoration than at any other time, if- The heat makes greater demands upon the 't. physical powers than cold, and sound sleep ns must be had if one would keep the system in good condition. The young require he more sleep than the old. They absorb Jh more of tne nutritive elements, and can n- stand less drain on their vitality. Persons er who do not easily go to sleep can find aid he in the bath, and more especially in mental 'io satisfaction. An aged person, who is some2n thing of a philosopher, says his rule has m always been to allow his mind to dwell only ly on pleasing things. If there is anything er specially agreeable to it in his recent histon ry, he forces it to the mental front, and, in Ie his view, it adds a glow to the delightful ig sleep that almost invariably follows.? fWoonsocket Patriot. id id jfcaT A curious package was recently shipit. ped by express from Jacksonville to Balm timore. It was a small white casket, with silver trimmings, containing the le embalmed remains of a valuable dog, k- which died at the former place.