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Fleeting Joys.
Time goes in for funny freaks,
Man's a toy he likes to play with;
Notice how he lines onr cheeks,
Mark what glee he makes us gray with.
Pleasure comes to soothe our hearts ;
Often, like the rose, 'tis prickly ;
Soon its radiance departs?
TI..nrkrxwtArk + ki vaniflh '
UIVUIVUIO fHUMM ? v Supposing
you by fate's decree
Love a girl aud long to greet lier,
Don't the minutes seem to be
Leaden-winged until you meet her V
When the hour arrives at last.
And all care away you banish,
Then the tyrant travels fastHappy
moments quickly vanish !
Here upon this earthly ball
^ Joy awhile will make us gayer.
But wheD sorrow gives a call
Oftentimes she proves a stayer."
Hope, thou swiftly glidest onFragrant
are the flowers thou pickest,
Soon, alas! their bloom is goneHappy
moments fly the quickest!
Never mind, we needn't grcan ;
Teardrops, showeriike, refresh us ;
After ad, we re bound to own
Joy is like a sweetheart?precious.
Ca-<t away regrets and sighs,
Though our cares beset us thickly,
Ilappy moments let ns prize,
Ev. 11 though they vanish quickly !
HARRY, THE ERRAND BOY.
"Papa," said little Lucy Weston,
climbing upon her father's knee, "what
pleases you so much to-day? You have
l>< cu smiling to yourself all diuuer
time."
" Something has pleased me to-day,
Lucy. If you aud Johnny would like
to hear the story, draw up your chairs."
- - - *? 1 Wr ITT A. 1 i_ I
" a 8lory, said iuts. wesiou, ioo&wg
up from her sewiug. "May I hear it
too r
"If you are very good," said Mr.
Weston, smiling. " Let me see, how
old are you, Johnny ?"
" Twelve, sir."
" Well, my story is about a boy just
your age. It is nearly a year since I first
saw him. I was busy one afternoon last
winter, when I saw a little boy comiug
into the store, whose face attracted my
attention at once. It was earnest and
bright ; a strong, good face, if ever 1
saw one. The boy was poorly clad, but
his clothes were clean and whole.
" May I see the boss?" he asked.
" 11 am the boss,' I answered, * what
can I do for you?'
" ' I want to ask the price of a firstrate
sewiug machine; not a fancy one,
sir, but a good worker?'
r " 'Sixty dollars.'
"'Well, mister,' said be, earnestly,
' can I work it out ? I have every afternoon
from half-past two till seven, and
I can run errands or do any work about
the store. You see, sir, this is how it
is : Father died two years ago, ar?d
mother she wants me to stay at school
for a year or two louger, but she has to
work awful hard to keep me there.
Father was a bricklayer and mother owns
the little house he almost built himself,
aud that is all. She sews, sir, so I
thought I would see if I could earu one.'
" ' But it will take a long time,' said I.
' If I give you a dollar a week, it would
take sixty wet k9.'
" ' Will you give me that?' he said,
his eyes fairly dancing. ' I can come all
day Saturday.'
" Can you ? suppose we say a dollar
ami a half ? Aud if you do well, you can
have the machiue a little less thau retail
price.'
" You see, Lucy, I was interested already
in the boy, with his honest, frank
face, and resolved, if he was faithful in
his duties, to help him along. So we
made an agreement, he to give me all
his spare time out of school, and I to
credit him each week with a dollar and
fifty cents toward the purchase of a machine.
" Every day lie came, pnuctual to the
minute, rain or shiue, and ho was the
most prompt errand boy I ever employed.
Little by little the dollars
rolled lip on the account, until one evening
in the fall I was here after dinner,
just before you and your mother came
home from the country, when thb
door bell rang, and in walked Harry
Cummings, my errand boy.
44 4 1 found this, 3ir,' he said, 4 when
I was sweeping out the store,' and he
handed me a roll of bank notes I thought
safe in my pocket.
44 4 Please to see if it i3 all right, sir;'
4 it was under the counter.'
441 counted the notes, two hundred
dollars, and then takiug out one twenty
dollar note, I taid :
44 4 I should have offered a reward for
this, Harry, if you had not found it.'
44 4 1 am glad I saved you that, sir,'
he auswered. 4 I'll bid you good
night.'
44 4 But you have earned the reward,'
I said, putting down the twenty dollars;
4 will you take it, or pass it down to the
machine money ?'
44 4 Mine! all that 1 Oh, sir, pass it
to tho machine. You see, I'd have to
toll mother where I got that money, and
the machine is to be a surprise.'
441 never spent twenty dollars with so
much pleasure in mv life, Lucy ! This
was a great lift on the machiue, and this
afternoon, when Harry came, I told him
to pick out one for his mother.
44 We selected a first rate oue, handsome,
too, and I promised him ouo of
our best teachers should go and show
his moth er bow to woik upon it.
44 When it was on the cart, ready to
go, I invited myself to go with Harry to
se? it delivered. He asked me to write
a note telling Lis mother the price was
honestly earned, and I told Lim 1 would
( tell her.
" So away we went, and when we
reached the little house, the cart was
0 just taming the comer of the street.
Harry opened the d>>or very softly, and
the man lifted the machine into the parlor.
Then Harry led me to a small sitting-room
at the back of the house
where a pale woman in a widow's dress
was sitting sewing busily. She rose and
offered me a chair, and I told her I came
to see if I could obtain Harry's services
at five dollars a we?.k. Y a sioikd have
^ seen the boy's eyes.
LNDA
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44 4 He can go to the evening school,'
I Raid, ' and I will see that he has some
time to read and study. I cannot spare
him now, having had his services so
lODg.'
44 4 My afteruooua aud Saturdays,
mother,' Harry said. 41 told you I was
not in mischief. I was earning you a
present. Come ami see.'
44 And he fairly danced into tho par
lor, his mother and I following.
44 4 It's yours,' ho said, dancing round
the machine; 4 all paid for, and lessons
on it. too. Ain't it splendid ?'
4'His mother was as delighted as he
expected, and that is saying a good
deal.
4 4 4 Oh, sir,' she said to me, 4 he's been
a good son since his father died. Every
morning, summer or winter, he's up
and makes the fire while I'm dressing,
and while I get breakfast be brings up
all tho coal for tho day, so I won't have
to go into tho cellar; aud every step he
can save me he does. But how he ever
made all the money to bny a machine
out of school hours, I cannot understand.
'
44 4 1 got a dollar and a half a week,
mother, for errands, and twenty or
thirty cents extra when thero was snow
to clean off the sidewalk, or any other
job, and Mr. Weston gave me twenty
dollars.'
4 4 4 No, you earned that as well us the
rest,' I said, and his mother fairly broke
down and cried when I told her about
the roll of money.
44 So, Lucy, now you know what
pleased me so much to-day. To-morrow
Harry becomes my errand ooy, ami 1
know he will be a faithful one. There
is the making of a noble man, Johuuy,
iu the boy who can work steadily and
faithfully for such an object as Harry
had, never taking one cent from his
hard earned money for his own pleasure,
never failing in his self-imposed
duties. Harry is a boy only twelve years
old, but I honor him.'
44But, papa," said Lucy, 44you are
rich, why didn't you give his mother a
machine ?"
44 Because the pleasure would not
have been so great to either Harry or
his mother. Think how proud she will
be of her good sou every time she
touches her machine, and how glad she
will feci that he persevered so well whenever
she sees it. It is a little sunbeam
in the dull routino of business for both
them, as for me."
44 Any mother would bo proud of such
a son," said Mrs. Weston, gently, 44 and
when he has a holiday you must let bim
spend it here. We will be glad to see
him, will we not, children ?"
There was a very hearty 44yes ma'am,"
and then the brother and sister, thanking
their father for the story, opened
their school book", ami went busily to
their duty for the evening, Johnny won*
leriug a little if he could havo the selfdenial,
industry and patience of Harrv
Ctimmiugs.
War us It W as and as It is.
The following is an extract from an
address read before the Yale law school:
Somo 2,000 years before Christ wo
read that a certain king, one of the
kings of those days?the head of a tribe
or city?boasted: 44 Three score and ten
kings, haviug their thumbs aud great
toes cut off, gather their meat under my
table." When tbe men rf Judali made
this royal mutilator a captive, according
to the received lex lalionis of the age,
they cut off his thumbs and great toes,
cast him iuto a duugeon at Jerusalem,
?nd left him to die of hunger. When
Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem he slew
the sons of King Zedekiah before his
face, carried him to Babylon, put out
both his eyes, and left him to end his
days in prison. At the close of the long
Jngnrthiue war, Marius brought Jugurtha
to Koine, and, in accordance with the
established usage of the Roman triumph,
chained to his chariot wheels this deposed
king, this gall tut soldier, dragged
him in triumph through the streets,
amid the insults of the populace, and
when ho turned his chariot from the
forum to ascend the capitol, ho unchained
the royal prisoner from the
chariot wheel, cast him nearly naked
iuto a dungeon, where lie was not strangled
until ho had contended rix da s
with famiue. When Carthage was taken
it was blotted from tbe map of nations,
its past destroyed, its ships burned, aud
its inhabitants sold as slaves. The campaign
against Corinth ended in the ex
tinction of that luxurious city and the
enslavement of its inhabitants. The
curse which Joshua pronounced agaiusl
the man who should presume to rebuild
Jericho : 44 Cursed be the man who shall
rise up and rebuild this city Jericho
He shall lay tho foundation thereof in
his first born, and in his youngest s? n uc
shall set up the gates of it," was but the
expression of the common sentiment?
the common law of ancient times; at the
height of Greek and Roman civilization,
after every battle, every man, woman,
and child?every human being not slain
?became an exile or a slave. A campaign
usually ended in the destructior
of a city ; a war in an extinct nation
ality.
Let us skip over two thousand yean
to our present civilization. The nine
teeuth century saw all Europe undei
arms, from Siberia to Archangel, fron
the Atlantic to the Vistula; ships bat
terod each other to pioces in every sea
When these wars closed, by a treaty o
peace, some boundaries were altered
some dynasties were changed, but it i
not necessary to say that all prisoner
were released and no property de
stroyed, for such is the settled law o
Christendom. And when the allies too!
Paris by siege each Cossack paid for
cup of coffee handed him by the Frencl
waiter, and the publicists and moralist
of Europe got angry in discussing th
refined question whether the allies ha<
a right, under the law of nations, to r?
store to the museums and galleries c
Italy and Holland the pictures and stal
nes that Napoleon had taken from thei
as trophies of war.
Silk in Mexico.?Raw silk isobtaine
for the Mexican silk factories froi
China, though there are plenty of sill
worms and mulberry trees in Mexic
i itself. The State of Mexico is dow o
fcriug a premium of 60,000 pesos for tL
i first wool factory, which is beiDg e
i tftMisbed wi?h a c pital of 100.000 peso;
i without consideiiug tUal Mt-Xicau wo
is usually of the very worst quality.
por1:
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BEAUFORT, S. C.,
The Turkish Hodja.
There were in the time of the hodja
three monks learned in all the sciences. 1<
These monks traveled hither and thither, <3
and at last came to the states of the Sultan f
Ala-Eddin, who invited thorn to become f
I Mussulmans. "This we will do," said 'J
j the monks, "if you will cause answers a
to bo given to all tbo questions wincn we
will ask." It was so agreed, and the c
sultan assembled all bis wise men aiul J
theologians, who, however, could not answer
any of the moDks' questions. "How r
is this," said the sultan, "that among I
so many learned persons there is not a
found one to answer these men ?" While I
he was thus dissatisfied, one of those 3
present cried out: " There is none that i
can give the solution of these problems I
except the hodja.*. So the monarch 5
ordered the hodja to be sent for, who ?
hastened to present himself before his 8
majesty. After having received the e
salutation of the hodja, the sultan 1
caused him to stand forward. " May I r
know," asked the hodja, " for what rea- 1
son tbo kiug of kings has desired my i
presence?" Upon this tbe sultan in- ?
formed him of the matter." I
"Well, what are your questions?" t
said tbo hodja to the monks. s
One of tbein, coming forward, re- 1
plied : " Wlioro is the middle of tbo 1
earth ?"
The hodja, stall in hand, descended 1
from his ass, and marking a spot between
tbe auimal's fore feet, said: ]
" There is the middle of the earth ; it is
between my ass' fore legs."
"You say so, at least," replied the t
monk. 1
"If you don't believe it," rejoined 1
the hodja, " measure, and see if you find 1
either more or less to add to my state- 1
ment." f
The second monk came forward and 1
said : " How many stars are there in the J
sky?" 1
"Just as many as there are hairs on <
this ass." ... 1
"Bat liow do von Know mat, 11 you i
have not counted thetu and compared
the number?" '
"And how do you know to the con- t
fcrary, Mr. Monk, if you have not 1
counted ?" . (
" Answer me auother question," said j
the monk, "and I shall know if your i
count is right. How many hairs are 1
there in my beard ?"
" As many," answered tho hodja, " as
on my beast's tail."
" Bat how do you prove that ?" i
" Why, if you don't believe it, count ]
tbem." I
But tho monk not beiug eatisfied with i
this offer, the hodja added : i
" If that does not suit you, come, we
will pull out the hairs of your beard and
the hairs of my ass' tail; then we can .<
tell very soou." .<
" Oh, no," said the monk; " let nothing
of that sort bo done." j
Aud at this poiut the three monks <
tsays the story) humbled themselves be- ;
fore God, and all three became Mussul- <
mans and fast friends of the hodja.? 1
Harper'8 Magazine.
A Sagacious Cat J
One very strange thing I remember 1
happening at the house where I was once *
visiting, says a writer. I had been J
teld of it, but never fully realized how
l>eculiar it was until I witnessed it my- 1
self. The family consisted of my friend, \
I her husband, and four children ; and \
when news was brought that puss had
five new kittens, each begged so hard to (
l>e allowed to have one that orders were 1
given to save four and drown the remaining
one. Whether Mrs. . Puss
missed her remaining child or not I
don't kt-ow, but she seemed very well
satisfied with thoso left her, and was
more tbau usually happy when any of
the children would pay her a visit at her
snug quarters under the kitchen table. ]
A dozen times a day or more would the 3
luckless kittens bo dragged from their ]
bed to be kissed and petted and hugged. 3
( But it so happened, that from some ,
. cause or other, one whole day passed ]
, without any one going to see the kittens, (
[ much to their mother's grief, who had :
frequently gono to the nursery in search
, of her young friends. Evening came ; .
1 the whole family were together, the two 1
younger ones being on the floor, when, ,
[ io their astonishment, in walked the cat, ,
carrying a kitten in her mouth. This 1
she carried to one of the children, and 1
1 i-o soon as she saw it was kindly received ,
! ran quickly away. Bump, bump, was (
soon heard, and in came tlio art with
I another kitten, which was deposited near (
[ another ol the children. Curiosity was
I now excited ; "the two elder children took
st ats on the floor, to see if kittens would
. brought to them, and in a very short
\ time they were. Then was pussy's hap.
niness complete; she would purr loudly,
, mb herself against each one in turn and
try by every means to show how pleased
she was.
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The Hearing of Bees.
The questiou whether bees have the
power of hearing is a mooted point among
j naturalists. Sir John Lubbock has tried
. experiments wifh his bees in order to
r elucidate the matter, lima ne nas
l played tbe violin close to bin bees, bo
. has tried a dog whistle, a shrill pipe, a
tuuing fork, and sliontiug, but no noise
f seemed to disturb tbein in the least.
Nevertheless a curious occurrence took
s place a few days since at Windsor.
s Colonel Stewart, commanding officer
. Second life guards, reports that a few
f days since, when tbe regiment was returning
from a field day, a swarm of
n bees, attracted by- the music, followed
h the regiment into barracks, flying about
s over the beads of tbe baud. On are
riviug at tbe barrack yard the baud
,] formed up to play tbe regiment into
barracks; the bees followed their ex,f
Minple, forming up also and settling on a
branch of a tree over tbe beads of tbe
n bandsmen. They were at once taken
prisoners by the corporal of tbe guard,
and are now hived in the barrack yard,
d Tbe distance over wbieli tbe bees foln
lowed tbe band was more than a mile.
i- We have heard of spelling bees, but
;o these are musical bees with a vengeance,
f- It is a common practice iu the country
le to collect be< s 1 y means of rattliDg a
s- warming pan wiih a piece of iron, 01
s. -shaking a stone in a tin kettle, and the
ji idea that bees will fallow sounds is as
old as Virgil.
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THURSDAY, SEP]
The Society Girl.
A r/mnrr nftTHA into A hotel DIM"
** /"""B '"**J ?
or at Saratoga with her twenty-eighth
Iress. She has been at the Springs
our teen days, and has displayed a
resh toilet every morning and evening.
L'hese dresses cost on an average $125
.piece, or about $3,500 for the lot.
During this time her father has worn
>no cheap flannel suit, costing perhaps
535.
And this young lady, whose father is
lot considered wealthy, is supposed to
>e in the market. She is looking for
ind expects to marry some man of sound
>rain and good looks. She is a good
'oung lady, but not brilliant, and she
s far from beautiful; but she is so well
>red that she does not paint or powder.
Ihe is the average New York girl, who
;oes in mediocre society, but who conitantly
struggles to get into the best
et. But the set here, who base their
jositions on family and wealth, will not
eceive her. She is respectable, but
ler respectability is not of long standng
enough to admit her.' So the poor
;irl, with all her dresses, is really on
jrcbation. She wanders around, cntiug
half tho people in hor own set, and
itroggling to get into tho set above?
ler father and mother both pushing
ler forward.
When they ask who hor father is, the
eply comes :
"Oh, he's a merchant somewhere in
STew York."
" Who is her mother?"
Nobody knows. They have only just
;ome out. In fact, they would never
lave come out at all were it not for the
purpose of chaperoning this daughter
vhom they love better than life. They
vonld never have known Saratoga but
'or this daughter. They would now be
ivmg in a little duck nuueu uu?ru uu
Eleventh street. At present they live
lpon Fifth avenue, and spend every
loliar of income, and even eat into the
principal, to dress and bring out this
laughter.
It is an unhappy struggle all around.
They laugh and seem to enjoy themlelves,
but, alas I in their hearts they
rate Saratoga, hate their own rich
Iressos, and really sigh for the little
)laiu house where they used to live
within their incomes before the daugh?r
came.
Bnt she must be married off.
Who will have her.
If she were beautiful somo rich man
would take4ier. If she were rich, some
lundsomo fortune hunter or some thrifty
nisiness man vonld take her. As it is,
lobody wants her. She is a dead
weight.
She is based on clothes.
Not brain, family, or money, but
urn ply twenty-eight dresses from her
dock m trade.
If 110 man comes up this year to projiose,
her dear father will carry the
;ostly stock over another year, and next
> car we will see her again, with twentysight
new dresses, costlier and more
joautiful than the last.
And then, if no aristocratic lover
affers, she will be offered in her own
Jet. Even old admirers who have been
rejected will be encouraged. Pride will
Heep her from marrying beneath herself.
They hoped to make a brilliant
natch for her, and, failing in this, she
will eventually be an old maid, aud her
name, instead of figuring with the old
uid aristocratic families on charity ball
iuvitatious, will be printed among the
Sabbath school teachers in her own little
jhurch, or may bo she will manage the
more aristocratic charity concerts.
Poor child !
How strange tho world is.?New
York Sun.
^ Transporting Oil.
a ia tn fulnntod for the
IX Jiun I'uui au r
purpose of transporting oil from the oil
regions to the principal Atlantic seaboard
cities. Tlie plan proposed is to
run the oil through a four-inch pipe laid
mi tho surface ; the forcing power will
be 900 pounds to the square inch ; there
ire to lie stations at distances of fifteen
miles, at each end of which an cngino of
100 horse power will be erected to work
a pump to continue the flow from point
to point. Thirty thousand barrels of
Dil aro consumed in the United States
Jaily, aud up to tho present time the
railroad charges for transporting the oil
aggregate $79,000,000. Tho minimum
cost of transporting oil by rail is fifty
cents per barrol, and the minimum cost
by the pipe process it is believed will be
sixteen cents. The average ehargo by
r il is $1.25.
Tho feasibility of tho enterprise, so
far as the passage of the oil through
pipes is concerned, has been fully established
by the present ^system in
operation in the oil regions, where the
aggregate length of the pipes conveying
the oil from the several wells to the
reservoirs is nearly 250 miles.
The first objective point or terminus
will be Baltimore, as being the most
feasible and direct route for the pipes.
Following which other termini will be
established in Philadelphia, New York
and other places.
Will Not Yield.
The New York &un has the following :
We have received several letters requesting
us to employ whatever influence we
may possess with Gov. Tilden in the
direction of getting him married. Wo
respectfully decline. Not that we have
any doubt that his felictv, and oven his
public usefulness, would be much
increased in the married state; but love
and wedlock are strictly private affairs,
and must not bo mixed up with the
sterner interests of government. For
the benefit of the many ladies who are
beginning to look upon our great philosophical
statesman with that feeling of
tenderness and of personal aspiration
which a woman so naturally cherishes
for a great man, we add also the suggestion
that such hopes are likely to be
fruitless. The governor is an old stager,
has long lived a life of celibacy, and has
doubtless resisted innumerable attacks
from beaming eyes and smiling lips,
and we have no notion that we will surrender
at this stage of the battle. If he
obdurately prefers to remain a bachelor,
let us pay the tribute of regret to his
resolution, but not seek to overcome
the p lrposo of a determine 1 and ob
stinate man.
X\A?L
domiv
rEMBER 21, 1876.
THE TRAMPS' PARADISE.
CnmPA of Idle Vmrnnis In the Ncw.lerney
WwnmpN?IIow They Live.
Tho main retreat of the tramps in
Eastern New Jersey, a correspondent of
tho Sun says, is in the groves and
swamps bordering the Pennsylvania railroad
a short distance above Wfaverley
station. As this point is nearly midway
between Elizabeth and Newark, the
officers of both cities disclaim jurisdiction
over it. and tho tramps, recognizing
it as nentral grounds, have takffi possession.
Night after night durnlg the
past four months their camp fires have
lighted up the swamp, and crowds of
males and females have held carnival
beneath the trees. Tramps of every
nationality, age, and condition resort to
this rendezvous, and the farmers of the
adjacent district have suffered so severely
from their depredations that they
have determined to take the matter into
their own hands, and drive out the maauders.
The Pennsylvania railroad
company has also suffered from their
piracies and lawlessness, as new and old
ties have been burned, telegraph poles
have been injured, and trains have been
stoned by somo of tho drunken miscronuts.
A few nights ago at least thirty
of these ontca^ts were congregated in
and around a blazing log tire far iu
among tho trees in the swamp. Interspersed
among the crowd were five
hideous looking women. One of the
peculiar yelps of one of the men in tho
gaug, while passing a farmyard at night,
it is said, will set every dog in the neighborhood
to howling, and he is further
- - - " - ? if- - A. - 3 *1
distinguished as one or ine most auruit
thieves on the road. Not far off sat four
men playing "seven up " for pennies,
and scattered around in various positions
were a dozen of more, chatting or making
preparations for " turning in" for
the night. Empty tomato cans, ham
bone?, broken crackers, and feathers,
the debris of former feasts, were scattered
on the ground.
A short distance above, cooking their
evening meal, were several strange
tramps, ragged, filthy% and, judging
from their language, "down on " the
crowd below. One of the party, dirtier
and more piratical in appearance than
his companions, was pointed out as
"French Lou." He said that ho had
just reached "the retreat" the night
before, and had been robbed of a silver
watch by the other gang, pointing over
bis shoulder. " Wait and see," said another,
in a significant way, "if we don't
get square yet wid dem fellows. We'll
put up a job on 'em that'll make 'em
sick." When questioned as to work and
tbo prospects, the Frenchman?who
spoke excellent English ? replied :
" Work 1 What do wo care for work
when there's plenty to eat without it?"
"That's so," chimed in another. "It's
no use for us to attempt to work; we
couldn't get any if we tried. Down in
Philadelphy, the other day, I was arrested
and locked up for asking for work,
and do you think I'll run that risk
again ? Why, the country is rich enough
to support such gontlemen as we be,
and then not feel it. Talk about hard
times, why theso are just bully!"
" How alnnit the coming winter?"
The tramps made no reply for a minute
or so, when a little driod-up fellow
answered : " We'll get along well
enough. We understand our bnsiuess,
and if there isn't hot times in tne Dig
cities by Christmas, I'm la fool."
" 'Tain't going to be like it was last
winter, yon can just bet your bottom
dollar," said another. ''We'll have
something to live on; and if we have to
tight for it, why we'll do that."
The night following, a Troy molder,
whilo walking along the railroad track,
with a little bundle in his hand, was accosted
by three tramps from the swamp,
who demanded his money. The molder
knocked the spokesman down; but before
he could realizo his peril was in
turn knocked down, and was robbed of
$1.50?all the money ho possessed. Two
of his assailants even wanted to hike his
bundle, but were persuaded by the
third of the party to let him retain it,
and ho was suffered to go on his way
upon giving his promise not to tell the
police.
"The retreat," as it is knowp to the
tramps, is silent during the day, its
regular denizens being out on begging
tours in adjacent towns or cities, or
among the farmers in the vicinity. Toward
dusk they may be seen returning,
"dropping iu " from the railroad track
and country road, singly, or iu paits,
aud are lost sight of in the thicket which
screens their haunts from the road. A
farmer who lives iu the vicinity estimates
that, since the commencement of
j the present year, fully one thousand
chickens, yonug turkeys aud geese have
beeu stolen from himself and his neighbors;
their fences havo been torn down,
their cows milked in their pastures, and,
iu several instances, their orchards
stripped of the green fruit. They are
now apprehensive that the corn in the
fields will suffer unless prompt action
for the driving aw&y of tramps is iuaui
"i
guraieu.
Looking Out for the Worst.
Whatever may be thought by the
"bears" in Wall street, several foreign
princes are putting their trust in lands,
tenements, bonds, and stocks of differ
eut cities and corporations in the
United States. Several of the most expensive
buildings in Broadway arc
owned by the ex-Empress Eugenie, whe
derives from them an annual rent oi
802,000. The Duke of Nassau, one ol
the dispossessed German princes of 1800,
was hero in 1808. Ho had bills of ex
change to the amount of 81,500,000,
He purchased tenements in Allen streel
that to-day are nominally owned by Ger
man lawyers or notaries public, and thai
yield him twelve per cent, on the capi
tal invested. The Grand Duke oi
Meckler.burg-Schwerin, Frederick Fran
eis the Second, is the owner of lots anc
houses in Elm street, and Queen Vic
toria owns considerable real estate ir
Broadway. It stands in the name of ai
Englishman. The king of Sweden owni
8500,000 worth of real estate in Nov
York, and the Grand Duke Alexis owni
a hotel in Broadway. King Bombi
bought six houses in Greeuwich stree
iu 1852, and they aro held by Italians fo
his son, Francis II.
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NEW YORK AND LONDON.
The Coot of Living In the Two title*, and
the L'ompnrlwon In Vavor of London.
The question as to the relative cost
of housekeeping in London and New j
York liaa often interested me greatly,
says Mr. Jennings, in bis World correspondence,
as I doubt not it may have
done some of your readers.
A very good bouse, with eigbt bedrooms,
dining, drawing and reception
rooms, can be bad in Kensington, a
fashionable suburb, for ?100 a year. Go
a little further into the suburbs, and
you can do it for much leas. For instance,
I know of a family which lias a
small but neat and comfortable house?
six rooms?near Dulwioh, that is to say
between three and four miles from London
bridge, ?25 a year?$125. I really
do not know where I could find a house
anything like it within twenty miles of
New York for three times the money.
There is a small garden, both back and
front. For ?50 a year an excellent house
can be got in the northern part of London?that
great region extending from
Islington lo Higbgate. These are houses
chiefly intended for what are called the
" middle classes," and certainly no one
need be ashamed to live in them. Another
house of which I know is at Kensington
not far from the South KensiDj?ton
museum, and is pleasautly situated.
It has nine rooms, a small garden, and
the rent is ?100 ($500) a year. The locality
about corresponds to Fiftieth
street, below Sixth avenue, in New York.
It is difficult, of course, to make suoh
comparisons between two cities, but I
think this does no injustice to either.
Bents suoh as are oommon in New York,
of from 81,200 to $3,000 a year, would
here suffloe to hire a mansion in the
most fashionable parts of the town, and
the class which can afford to pay ?500
or ?600 a year for a house is exceedingly
limited. I should myself, speaking from
personal experience and after careful in
quiry among ray fiiends, put down for
rent and taxes, in a very good locality,
?150 a year. For this you may obtain a
kmicLa in olmz-kfif aiiv direction?north or
south, east or west?such as you have to
pay, even now, from $1,200 to $1,500 a
year for in New York, not including
taxes. Here the tenant pays the taxes
?in New Yoik the landlord does?so
that the comparison cannot be made
with entire accuracy. And it must be
remembered that I have taken the
diminished New York rents?not the
prices of three or four years ago.
Servants' wages, Mr. Jennings says,
are much higher in New York than in
London. The cook in one case gets ?18
a year ($90 gold); in the other ?22
($il0). We used to pay from $20 to $25
a month in Ne^ Yorkfor a cook, andshe
was not so good as a ?20 a year cook
would be here. Twenty dollars a month
is about ?13 a year, currency.
Clothing, for adults as well as children,
is very much cheaper in London
than it is in New York, and a man can
get a very good pair of bo jts in London
for ?1 5--*., a lady for 16s., and a child
for from 4a. to 7s. 6d. 1 do not know
whero a well made pair of men's boots
could be got in New York for $6 or $7.
In London beef is Is. a pound, and
steaks (the best) Is. 3d. We used to
pay in New York, for precisely the same
description of beef, 30c. and 35c. a pound
respectively. Lamb is Is. 3d. a pound,
and 35c. in New York. Fowls are now
scarce and bring 7s. a pair. Eggs are
Is. 6d. a dozen; tea, 4s. a pound. For
tea not so good the New York price was
$1.50 a pound. Lump (or loaf) sugar
is 4id. per poir d, as against 14c. in
New York. The best butter is 2s. per
pound; wo paid 50c. in New York.
Bread is much cheaper and much better
here than in New York?the seven
pouud loaf now costs 7d. Potatoes vary
lroai Id. to 3d. per pound. -Fish generally
is very cheap. ColTee is Is. 8J. per
pouud (45e. in New York), aud rice2}d,
per pound (12o. per pound in New
York).
Taken altogether, I think that a family
of six or seven persons can live very
?' i i i- ? t.?am no
COmiOriilLny 1U ui ucol jjvuuuu ivt <wau
(say $56) a week, not including rent.
This would covor a reasonable tependituro
on "extras," such an newspapers,
postage, etc. To live on a similar scale
iu New York would cost $100 a week. I
am qui to sure that ?1,000 a year here?
which is what is generally called a middle-cla?8
iueorae?would go further here
than $10,000 a year would in New York,
when rent and all other expenses are
taken into account. Any family which
has an income of ?100 a month can afford
to live in a very good house and
have a well supplied tabl9. There would
not be enough for horses or carriage, or
anything of that kind, but a summer's
holiday might be got out of it, and some
provision made for doctors' bills and
other incidental expenses. 1 know, however,
of a la" ge family which lives very
well in the country on ?100 a year, and
1 another which is doing it on about ?700.
1 I also know myself of a country parson
! who brought up a family and lived com1
fortably on ?120 a year, but how on
earth he did it passes my comprehension.
Probably "butcher's meat"
scarcely ever wont into the house, vegetables
were doubtless grown in the parsou's
own garden, aud wife and daugh,
ters made their own clothes. In such
{ cases, too, the neighbors generally lend
a helping hand?perhaps witn a sack of
' corn or a side of pork, or a ham occaj
sionally. It was easier to live on a small
income a few years ago than it is now.
ltnfc if a man chances to go into one of
, the counties which are comparatively
f uncontaminated by the extravagant
f spirit aud luxurious tastes of the age?a
county like Suffolk, for instance?it is
' still quite possible for him to live like a
gentleman, ho and a family of four or
[ five children, on ?000 a year.
No Juggernaut.
f An East India paper says: For the
first time in a couple of centuries the
I Juggernaut car at Mahesh, .near Scram
pore, was prevented frofn being dragged
i along the streets, in consequence of
i some fears that were entertained by the
3 local authorities in regard to the suffir
ciency of the arrangements made for
3 preventing acciJents. Considering that
i these authorities are now held responsit
ble for all accidents, it is obvious that
r some discretion must be allowed to them
i, in the exercise of their authority.
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Making a Boy Tell.
John H. McCormick and Oliver B.
Clark keep a boot and Rhop store in
State 5=trr?i-t, Chicago. Th y are accused
of attempting to kike the administration
of justico into their own hands.
Four persona are engaged in the store
of McCormick & Clark. They are the
two partuers, a clerk, and Solomon
Swartz, a boy. The latter was suspected
of stealing $300 from the money drawer
" ~ a
in the absence of the partners, ana
Clark, to extort a confession, grabbed
the boy, and, in spite of his tearful protestations,
shored him forcibly into the
store cellar, and tying a rope around his
neck, swung him until he became insensible.
Then the junior partner cut the
rope and allowed the boy to fall to the
floor. The parents of young Swartz,
seeing their son coming home with a
bloody neck, decided to prosecute the
jonior partner. Boy and partner were
a;rested on counter charges, and the
man was held in $1,000 bail, and the boy
in $300.
The boy says that Clark threw one end
of the rope over a gaspipe that ran along
the ceiling. "He then caught rue by the
throat, choking the breath out of me.
McCormick was at that time standing
between me and the stairs so that 1
conldn't get away. Clark put the rope
around my neck, and, though I struggled
and screamed, I couldn't help myself.
I felt myself being jerked off my feet,
aud that's the last I remember. Qow
long it was I can't tell. It might have
been ten minutes. It might Lave been
twenty. When I came to myself I was
lying on the floor. A man named Hamilton,
who pretended to be a detective,
came np to me and wanted me to confess.
I was weak and scared. Clark
said: ' Well, if I can't hang him, I'll
roast him,' and started np stairs. -McCormick
then said that they would let
me alone if I would get the mc ney. The
idea struck me that by promising to get
the money I might have a chance to escape.
So I told them I'd show where it
was."
He'd Suffered Enough. . f
Capt. Bob Shaftoe concluded to run
for Congress. He had been in cue wars
?he had fooght and bled?and Bis record
as a soldier was of the very best.
Of course, having consented to ran, he
had to take the stomp. Bob conld be
eloquent upon occasion, esp(c?Ally whon
picturing battles sceues; and he indulged
rather freely iu this.style, for he
knew more about war than he did about
politics. His opponent was a politician,
and not a soldier.
One day Bob addressed an assembled
multitude in front of ?. .cross-ropd
grocery. He told the story of /his hardships
in tho field eloquently shd tonOhingly.
He told how ho had led a forlorn
hope; how ho had been strieken4down
under the very mnzzle Of the enemy's
battery; and how he had lain twAights
and one day suffering where ?tte 'fell before
succor oame. And other things he
told ueqally as thrilling.
When he had concluded, ontfof tho
Rovereigus approached him with sympathy
iu every look.
"Cao'n Bob, was all that'true you
told usV'
" True as gospel, my friend."
"Aud you railly tit right up to the
mouth of the enemy's cannon?"
"Yes."
"Aud got knocked over?"
"Yes."
"Aud come nigh dyin??two whole
nights in misery t"
"Yes, my friend, it is all true as I
have told yon. I was wounded four
tim s after that?"
"Well," said the interrogator, with
visible emotion. "I'm blamed if you
haint suffered enough for the country.
I don't see why we should send you out
amoug them Congress follows. They'ro
a hard lot. T*otlier man is younger
'n you, and ainfc of much account anyway.
I say, lot him suffer awhile ; so I
guess I'll vote for him 1"
How the Turkish Troops Look.
The correspondent of the London
Standard writes as follows: I had '
scarcely been two hours in Widdiu when
a part of the victorious Bashi-Bazouks
returned to the lor tress. No one who
had not seen the procession could form
an idea of the wonderful picture it presented.
The greater number of the
riders, mounted on their ugly, leau little
horses, which, however, seem capable of
bearing great fatigue, were Circassians,
in long black, gray or white coats, with
half a dozen little cartouch pockets in a
row on each side of the breast. Among
them were a few Turks.and Arnauts, a
eolorod man, two men in European
dress, except that they woro the ifez,
*" * Tr-?1 * ?.! Ammniiina.
I Tartars, Ajrguweo nuu ?
Each one was grossed differently, most
of them barefoot, many without saddles
or on high peaked wooden ones. The
Circassians carried their arms in a shaggy,
black woolen case, attached by a
strap to their racks, and every one held
the muskets taken from the enemy upright
in his right hand, resting the butt
ends on his leg. The samo hand held a
short whip, while in the left were the
reins, and from the shoulder hung a
scimetar in a leather case, red at one end
and black at the other. Men over sev
enty, boys under twelve; wliite, red,
green, and many colored turbans; yellow,
gray, blue, black trowsers, and in
some ca^es none at all; on all faces the
excitement of battle, the dark eyes glowing
with a dangerous fire; never was
such a motley group, and to put. the climax
to this strange sight, a gigantic
Circassian rode along under a green silk
parasol, and several of these savages
wore spectacles No prisoners were
brought in, as q iarter is not given.
Chinese Natube.?Mr. Margary was
long enough iu China to learn that " it
is the nature of Chinamen to give in to
anything which assertsjks superiority.
A kick and a few words In his own
tongue telling him bfcss an ignorant boor
will make a common Chinaman worship
you. Singly or in. small groups they a?e
the pink of civility, but a moo is rutin r
dangerous." -' '
There is one committee at the Centennial
Erpositicn that has not had a
vacancy since llip opening. It is the
jurors on wiuer, and they have sampled
over eight hundred different varieties.