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The Philosophy of It,
Why do I love you i 1 don't fcnow 1
They say love never gives a reason;
But that he has one I don't doubt,
Do you? You do! That's downright treason.
Not always, let me telfeou, sir,
Love practiced suoh excess of prudence;
'Twas once his custom to explain
The why and wherefore to his students.
And how to solve each puzzling oa^e
He taught by rule and illustrations;
But skeptics, such as you, have made
Love shy of giving demonstrations.
' Why foolish mortals love a* all,
.. v * Why we two bold each other dearest;
... , . How long 'twill last, aod where'twill end.
. ' v You'd like to know, you precious querist ?
' You never will! I'lll tell yon that,
Yet still maintain my first assertion;
Love understands what he's about,
And blinds you, first, for his diversion.
Ah, why I love you! If I kn6w,
I won d not te?l you?no, no, never!
K . . \" For souis like yoois were made to seek,
And m n9 to hide, yon see, fortver.
There's little, sir, yon uon't fiud out,
But since that little makes life pleasant,
I think I'll keep it secret still,
And so keep you, too, for the present.
* Trara nrwRiws Txmir
: UVU.il VVillUVl IV ilU U1XI
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, * In the year 1849, John Goiirov, who
- had been admitted to the bar in the
State of Massachusetts, finding that his
native town was pretty well stocked with
lawyers, made up his mind that he
would leave his home and seek his fortune
in the South. He was a young
. man of good talents and great industry,
x but, being poor, had not the means to
sustain himself until he could acquire a
reputation in the profession th-.t would
yield him a requisite income. He therefore
gathered his little store of money,
aud'set out one cold winter day to seek
some place, to locate on the Mississippi
t. river. At least, such was his intention.
The most trifling circumstances, he
remarked, frequently turn one's destiny
^ for gopd or evil. I had spent some little
: * time in most of the towns along the
Mississippi, and finding nothing that
seemed to justify a youDg lawyer of
* Northern birth in liviug there, I Anally
: arrived at Columbus, Tennessee, just
eight months after I had left my home.
'Twas here I met a gentleman who gave
me a letter of introduction to a lawyer residing
in Hickman, Kentucky, who he
thought could assist me in my efforts to
become established.
It was a bright moaning that I mount
ed my horse, aiid with my letter safely
* stowed away in my saddle bags, set out
on my journey. 1 had ridden until late
- in the afternoon, and was somewhat
weary when the rc ofs of a small village,
situated about a mile in advance ofkne,
came invitingly before my vision. M)
tked horse must have discovered them
about the same moment as his master,
for he pricked up Lis ears and commenced
to accelerate his pace. Turning
- ' from the highway and following a lane
bordered w.th green sward, I made a
short cut to the village street. But jii6t
before I reached the houses I met a
short, puffy person on horseback who
was coming down the road.
? " Good day, sir," he said,reining up
his steed, which, at a glance, I saw was
thoroughbred. "Good day, sir. Are
you going to halt here, or do you go
anywhere in the neighborhood of the
Kentucky State line ?"
Not bemg acquainted with the topo
graphy of the country I could not answer
his question directly, but told him
that I was going to Hickman.
"Ah," he rejoined, "that is all right.
You'll have to pass my place, and perhaps
put up there tor a night. Now, sir,
1 would be obliged to you if you would
do me a small favor. My name is Northup,
E1 listen Northup, and I live only
some fifteen miles from Hickman.
" I shall be happy to oblige you, it in
my power," I replied; " but permit me
to ask you if you are in any way related
to Lawyer Northup of Hickman ?"
"Yes, sir," he replied, "he is my
brother."
. , '* I am very happy to meet you, sir,"
I continued, " for I bear a letter of introduction
from Major Saunders, of
Columbus, to your brother." And I
immediately opened my saddle bags and
got out my letter, which I handed ray
new made acquaintance to read.
"Old Saunders," he said, with a
smile, as he finished reading it, and
handed it back to mo. " He is a good
fellow. Is his nose as red as ever ? I
haven't seen him for a couple of years."
"I must confess," I replied, with a
laugh, "that the major's nose is pretty
fiery."
"He is an awful drinker," said Mr.
Northup. "Few men can hold the
night with him, I assure yon."
" You astonish me," I replied. I
was at the hotel a week with him, and I
n^ver once remember having seen him
at the bar."
" No, no," exclaimed Mr. Northup,
" Saunders don't drink at a bar. He's
a very peculiar man, very methodical
all his drinking is done at the club.
There's where you'll see him lay nif
oompanions out liko ninepins. Bui
really I'm detaining yon. My objeel
was to ask you to inform my daughter
whom you will find at home, that Jak<
has run away from me again, and I sup
pose has taken to the woods. Tell her
if you please, to inform Thompson, th<
overseer. No doubt he'll be sneaking
around before I return."
"Bun away ?" I ventured to observe
"Yes," replied Mr. Northup.
was taking him up to Larkiu's plants
tion to sell him, for he's no manue.r o
use to me. So he managed to slip awa;
soon after I arrived at the village yee
fcerday."
Promising to attend to Mr. Northup'
request, we bid each other good by
and separated. After a good night'
rest, I set out the following morning o:
my journey.
It wa almost dusk when I rode up t
Mr. Northup's mansion. A dozen o
more hounds seem-d determined t--> di?
pui^ my p^sa&e nj> the lane, a:. : i
barking had the effect to bring hlit
Northup to the front porch, where sh
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welcomed me and received the message
her father sent me.
" Jake is a bad fellow," she replied.
"Papa has borne with his bad conduct
for a long time, and, strange to say, he
never had him punished until last
week. The wretch cut out the toDgue
of one of our favorite hounds, and papa
then ordered Thompson to whip him?
and as Mr. Larkin was willing to buy
him i o work in his lumber mill, papa determined
to sell him."
" Ho must be a bad fellow," I replied.
"Indeed, you are quite correct," she
answered ; " but I knew he had escaped
before you arrived, fqr he visited the
quarters about daylight. Thompson
only neard of it at noon, and started
away with some neighbors in pursuit of
him, and he has not yet returned. It's
a wooder papa had not turned back, but
now that I recollect, he had some business
at Cranoh's creek. Did he say when
he would return ?"
" J. think not," I replied.
During the evening we had a pleasant
conversation, and I took occasion to inform
Miss Northup of the object of my
visit to Hickman.
" I dare say, uncle will be glad to eee
yon, for he is really wer-worked with
business. He took a young gentleman
in his office a short time ago, but they
oouldn't get along at all; so they separated.
Uncle is very forgetful and nervous,
scarcely any one can manage to
endure him, but he is a kind man at
heart and very generous. Papa and be
are so very different in temperament,
you wouldn't suppose they were brothers."
It was ten o'clock when I started to go
1 to bed, and Miss Northup came up the
stairs behind me, accompanied by her
maid, who carried a couple of candles.
On the upper landiDg I met an enormous
black cat with green eyes, who crouched
as if she intended to spring upon me.
I always had an aversion to cats. I am
not superstitious nor inclined on the
side of the metaphysical doctrines of
those who support them, but a strange
and unaccountable feeling irept over
me its I stood in front of the animal
with its glaring orbs and raised back.
At a word from the girl, however, the
cat glided down the stairs and was lost
to sight.
When I reached my chamber Miss
Northup remarked:
'' Your door has a bolt on it, and I
believe it is the only room in the house
that is secured."
" Don't you lock your lower doors ?"
I asked.
on,1 ?or>li'od " Wn TlAVPr
U11U cuiiiou ctu'.t A V |/tivu ?? W |
thick it necessary."
Musing on the strange custom which,
by-the-bye, I did not consider very safe,
I went to bed and tried to sleep, but
found it unable to do so. Strange vis- .
ions floated across jny brain, and I lay
twisting and turning in the bed, vainly
desiring 6lumber. I heard the dock
down in the hall strike two, and then
some chanticleer, as sleepless as myself
perhaps, gave a prolonged crow. As
the voioe of the rooster died away, there
came a noise as of a person jumping
from the window sill to tho floor, and
then followed the light and almost
noiseless step of one ascending the
stairway. Miss Northnp'a room was in
front and adjoining mine, and I listened
wrh a quick beating heart to the creak
upou the stairs. I got up quietly, and
slipping on some of my clothes, seized
one of my pistols.
Step by step the creak came toward
my door. I put my ear to the keyhole,
and could hear the breathing of the villain.
I stood motionless, the pistol
grasped firmly in my hand. Not a muscle
moved nor a nerve was slackened,
for I felt that Heaven bad selected me
as the instrument to effect its purpose.
Tho step passed on and reached Mias
Noithup's door. I heard it open eoftly,
and I also opened mine; the moon
was shining almost as bright as day.
Stepping softly along the entry I slightly
opened Miss Northup's door. No
object was visible, save the bed within,
upon whose snow white sheets lay the
intended victim of the assassin. I
opened the door still wider, and saw
Hannah, the maid, in a sound sleep on
the floor, while in the further corner of
the chamber stood a tall man, armed
with a knife. Ho saw me, and was evidently
in tho act of making a spring
upon me.
My heart swelled into my throat almost
to suffocation, and I made a bound
into the room, and Miss Northnp startnn
with a scream, the villain made
a spring for mo and I fired, taking deliberate
aim. The blood spouted from
his mouth, and Jake fell his full length
upon the floor, shot directly through
the brain.
For an instant Miss Northup did not
comprehend the situation, and implored
me not to murder her. But the noise of
the pistol aroused all the household, and
the truth w>:s soon understood.
?
Lawyer Northup and myself agreed
1 very well indeed, and the reader will
net be surprised to learn that I ultimately
married his niece, whose life I certainly
saved. I have now lived many
i years in Kentucky, but I invariably
ke*?p up the old Northern custom of
i looking up my house when I go to bed.
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The English Schools,
[ The subinspector of English factories
[, gives many striking particulars of the
hostility on the part of the wording
\ classes to the educational provisions now
_ made for their children. " Is this your
skuleboard ?" asked a woman ; " I wish
j my maister had dropped down dead be
_ fore he'd gone to vote for it." "May
5 my arms drop off," said a man, "Ifi
ever vote at any kind of an election
i again." Another remarked: "Talk
about England being a free country,
f when a man can't do as he's a mind wi*
his own children!" "in a parisn 01
j. 50,000," asserts the government inspec
tor, " if the question of schoolboard or
no school board could again be put, there
8 would not be 300 votes in favor of a
e board."
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u Faithless. ? The Indiana supreme
court has just made a decision of no lito
tie importance to faithless swains and
ir forsaken maidens. In the case of Paris
1 vs. strong it is held that if a promise of
ir j in trri.i^e is by it j terms not 4o be peris
I formed within a year, it is void unless
,e j in writing and signed by the parties.
POR'
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BEAUFORT, S.
Keep On Churninr.
After the battle of Long Island, which
was fonght Ajig. 27, one hundred years
ago, and after the capture of New York
city by the British, Gen. Howe made
his headquarters in New York, leaving
Staten Island in command of Col. Dalryinple.
The wounded from the bloody
Brooklyn field were taken to the island
and billeted upon the farmhouses. It
was Howe's custom to visit the temporary
hospitals regularly, in order to satisfy
himself that his men were receiving
proper care. On one occasion, during
a heavy storm, he and his staff took
shelter under a farmhouse shed. Farmer
Cole, seeing the party outside, approached
them with a hearty invitation
to enter the house and rest till the storm
should subside. Mrs. Cole was churning
in the kitchen, and the guests occupied
the sitting-room. "We are very
hungry," said a member of the staff;
"can you give us something to eat ?"
"I can't leave my churn/' said the
practical housewife.
" I'll churn for you," said a splendidly
uniformed officer.
Forthwith he was set to work, Mrs.
Cole having taught him how to use the
dasher.
As she proceeded with the culinary
work, ever and anon she glanced at the
toiling officer. " Well, "said she to his
brother officers, "if he can't use the
sword better than the churn dasher, he
must be a mighty poor soldier."
This sally raised a hearty laugh, in
which the volunteer churner joined
heartily. He kept on gallantly, the perspiration
streaming from every pore. It
was the hardest work he had ever doDe
in his life.
" That's right," said Mrs. Cole, encouragingly;
"keep on long enough
and you'll fetch butter."
When the storm had ceased the military
gentlemen took their leave, first
offering to pay for their entertainment.
"We don't keep tavern," said Mrs.
Cole, with the short and decisive snap
of the independent farmer's wife; and
the officers rode away.
"Keep on long enough and you'll
fetch butter," became a household expression
in the British army, and was
taken to the other side of the water,
where it was uttered many a time to
encourage those who were striving to
accemplish.results under difficulties. A
shcrt time after the occurrence at the
farmhouse, Mrs. Cole received a parcel
from New York. It contained a splendid
black silk dress and a letter of
thanks and compliments from Gen. Sir
William Howe. It was he who had done
the churning. The dress is an heirloom
in the Cole family, and the letter is preserved
as one of the few pleasant reminiscences
of a war in which the weaker
party carried out to a successful issue
the suggestion made by the farmer's
wife: " Keep on long enough and you'll
fetch butter."?Sun.
The Hollering Woman.
There is, says tho Burlington Hawkcuo
mio Ulinllorincf wnrnftn " in
i.yv, ~ ? ~ J
street. A woman who never goes after
anybody, but always calls across the
street; who never looks for her children,
but rushes to the front gate and shrieks
for them, uatil, in tho pauses of her
shouting, she hears them answering
from the room she has just left. Every
street has one " hollering woman." No
street has more, for as soon as two
"holleriDg women " are thrown by pitiless
fate upon one street, the neighbors
vacate and immigrate until rents come
town, or, as it often happens, one of
the " hollering women " pulls up stakes
and goes elsewhere, for they cannot
brook opposition. The "hollering
woman " generally manages to keep her
street in a lively state of elocutionary
excitement, and if yon happen to live
within understanding distance your diurnal
serenade is somethiug like this:
" Tommy 1 Tom-mee! Tom-my! Oh,
Tom ! You Tom I Come right along
here and break up some of this dry
wood, or I'll break your back I Mary !
You Mar-ree I You get right down off
that tree box this minit, you great tomboy,
Oi I'll skin you within an inch of
your life 1 Ma-ree? Oh, Miss Pink?
hard ? Miss Pinkhard ! Oh-h-h ! Miss
Pinkhard I Won't you tell your milk
man when he comes to stop at my gate ?
Mine come this morning before we was
up E-ras-mus! E ras-musI E-e-rasmus
! E-e-ras-mus ! Come right home
and take this pail of molasses right back
to the grocery and tell him if he can't
send what I ordered I don't want any !
Erasmus, I say ! Oh, Miss Haralson !
How's the baby's measles ? Did you try
that tea I sent over last night! Who
cut your new polonaise ? Ma-ree!
Mary! Where's Emeline gone to, I'd
like to know ? Didn't I tell you not to
let her go out of your sight a minute ?
XTrtwr taii hrmk h#vr nn ami hrinc her
j v"-? ~ ?r o
right home. Good-morning, Mrs. Barnaby
I Did you know they was burglars
ever to Troopses last night ? Got in at
the kitchen winder and took a pair of
Mr. Throop's pants with a dollar and a
half in 'em, and Miss Throop's big jet
breastpin! Where are yon going ? Tommy
! Tommee! Oh, Tom! Mary, I
say! Eras-mns ! Oh, Miss Pinkhard !"
The serenade continues at random all
day long, and is familiar to every one
who has lived within a gunshot of the
"hollering woman."
Banks in the United States.
There are to-day in the United States
907 chartered State banks, 2,118 national
j banks, 666 savings banks, and 2,375 private
banks?6,066 in all. The pioneer
was the Bank of North America, established
in Philadelphia by the Continental
Congress in 1782, with a capital of
8400,000. It issued notes redeemable
in Spanish dollars, and aided Robert
Morris in carrying the colonies throngh
the closing years of the war. Two years
later the Bank of New York was opened
in Walton House with Alexander Hamilton
on the board of directors. In 1799
the Bank of the Manhattan Company
was organized with Aaron Burr as one
of the managers. When the second w.u
with Great Britain broke out eighty-nine
banks had b?en organized under State
charters, with a capital of over $40,000,0~0.
The State banks at the presenl
!ime have n capital of $164,366,669, while
the national banks nave attracted ove:
$500,000,000 to their support,
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C., THUKSDAY, 0(
The Poetry of the Throttle Yalre.
Not long ago an engineer brought his
train to a stand at a little Massachusetts
villago where the passengers have five
minutes for lunch. A lady came along
the platform and said: "The conductor
tells me the train at the junction in
P. leaves fifteen minutes before our arrival.
It is Saturday night; that is the
last train. I have a very sick child in
the car, and no money for a hotel, and
none for a private conveyance a long,
long way into tho country. What shall
I do ?"
" Well," said the engineer, " I wish
I could tell you."
" Would it be possible for you to
hurry a little ?" said the anxious, tearful
mother.
" No, madam, I have the timetable,
and the rules say I must run by it."
She turned sorrowfully away, leaving
the bronzed face of the engineer wet
with tears. Presently she returned and
said: " Are you a Christian ?"
" I trust I am," was the reply.
"Will you pray with me that the Lord
may in some way delay the train at the
junction ?"
" Why, yes, I will pray with you, but.
I have not much faith."
" Just then the conductor oried: " All
aboard." The poor woman hurried
back to the deformed and sick child,
and away went the train climbing the
grade.
" Somehow," sail the engineer,
" everything worked like a charm. As
I prayed, I couldn't help letting my engine
out just a little. We hardly stopped
at the first station, people got on
and off with wonderful alacrity, the conductor's
lantern was in the air in a half
minute, and then away again. Once
over the summit it was dreadful easy to
give her a little more, and then a little
more, as I prayed, till she seemed to
shoot through the air like an arrow.
Somehow I couldn't hold her, knowing
I had the road, and so we dashed
up to tho station six minutes ahead of
time."
There stood the other train, and the
conductor witn tne lantern on ni? arm.
" Well," said he, "will you tell me what
I am waiting for ? Somehow I felt I
must await your coming to-night, but I
don't know why." " I guess," said the
brother conductor, " it is for this poor
woman, with her sick and deformed
child, dreadful anxious to get home this
Saturday night." But the man on the
engino and the grateful mother think
they can tell why the train waited.
blood Living and Dyspepsia.
Good living is said to cause dyspepsia;
but the most healthy people we have
ever known have been among those who
lived well? who ate freely several times
a day of the most nutritious food. By
some it is said that tobacco, enuflf, tea,
coffee, butter, and even bread cause this
complaint; but whoever will make inquiries
on this subject throughout the
community will find that this is seldom
true. In fact dyspepsia prevails, according
to my experience, altogether the
most among the temperate and careful?
among those who are careful as regards
what they eat and drink, and the labor
they put upon the stomach, but exceedingly
careless how much labor they put
upon that most delicate organ, the brain. i
Such people often eat nothing but by
the advice of the doctor, or some treatise
on dyspepsia, or by weight; nor
drink anything that is not certainly
harmless; they chew every monthfnl
until they are confident, on mature reflection,
that it cannot hurt the stomach.
Why, then, are they dyspeptics? Because,
with all their carefulness, they
pay no attention to tho excitement ot
tbe brain. They continue to write two
or three sermons or essays every week,
besides reading a volume or two, with
magazines, reviews, newspapers, etc.,
and attending to much other business
calculated to excite the mind. It is not
strange that such persons have nervous
and stomachic affections. The constant
excitement of the brain sends an excess
of blood to the head, and therefore
other organs are weakened, and morbid
sensibility is produced, which renders
the stomach liable to derangement from
very slight causes.
Why he Did It.
The Cincinnati Enquirer tells, in illustration
of Mr. Kerr's simplicity, a
delicious story. It is to the effect that
when the Pacifio Mail subsidy was on
its final passage the lobby that had been
sorely troubled by the a'tacks of Mr.
Kerr inquired eagerly for their enemy.
"Gentlemen," responded Sam Ward?
more generally known as Uncle Samuel,
king of the lobby?"Mr. Kerr is sick,
and I am his nurse." Kerr was already
too ill to be out of his bed, and some
time after, at a little dinner party where
the eminent Congressman was, the name
of Ward was mentioned. " That is a
singular man," said Kerr; "I have
known him for some time as one of those
lobbyists, aud had treated him rather
roucrh on two occasions. Do you know
last summer when I was so very ill he
not only sent me beautiful flowers and
costly wines, but came and nursed me
as if I had been his child or brother."
" He is as kind hearted an old fellow as
the Lord permits to live," responded
one, conversant with the facts; " but his
solicitude exhibited in your behalf,
Kerr, did not come altogether of a kind
heart," and he then proceeded, amid
roars of laughter, to toll why Sam Ward
nursed M. 0. Kerr.
After Twenty-Three Years.
A few days ago some workmen in
Allegheny, Pa., while excavating for a
cellar, came upon the bones of the leg
and the arm of a man. It was immedii
ately recalled by the neighbors that
about seven years ago the skull and a
portion of the spinal column of a skelei
ton were found in the same place.
Rumor has it that the remains are those
of John Busch, who disappeared sud>
denly on the night of Christmas, 1853,
r having gone out to purchase some toys
> for his son. He fell in with a conn try
man, one Ernest Rinehart, and the
i two spent part of the evening in John
; Harris' saloon. From that place th?<
two departed. Buscli was list seen at
t or near the house of one TTart. At the
) lime Hart was suspected of the murder
r and arrested for it, but the evidence did
1 not warrant a commitment.
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0OM1V
^TORER 12. 1876.
THE YASKEE BRIG,
A Story of Two Quaker Brother, and their
Shlpiiliiff Experience.
1 heerd tell of a skipper once, says
an old sailor, who is telling the story, as
got charge of a big jackass brig as belonged
to a old Quaker firm of two
brothers, as kep' a place down to Qainchis
slip, the name bein' Frost, the
brig bein' called the Harpe; which this
skipper's name were Brown, of Kennebunkport,
she bein' one of these vessels
etarnally nnlncky, stickin' on the ways
in launchin', and never doin' nothin' ar-"
terward; they havin' tried many captains,
in hopes of a betterin' things,
were delighted for to fall in with this
Brown, who had jaw enough for two
sets of teeth, and wonderful salt in his
talk; so much so that he were able to
eat the freshest meat without season in';
a makin' 'em b'leeve that he took this
jackass brig jist to accommodate 'em,
bnt that a big three masted ship were
his just desarts if he got 'em; and two
or three other Darties down to Maiden
laue a bitin' their very finger nails off
with jealousy, 'cause they hadn't secured
this gem from Kennebunkpert;
wages bein' no object, but had taken a
likin' for the brig, which I'll say for her
were as handsome as she were unlucky.
These two honest Quakers considered
themselves very fortunate to get him;
she bein' loaded with flour and Yankee
notions bonnd to St. Thomas, with orders
to oruise among the islands, if so
be as how freights sarved good; this
hero Kennebnnkport chap bein' giv' full
charge to do all her business arter she
left New York, and was even giv' a
power of tarnv for to sell, if so bo as
he got a offer consistent.
Well, sir, with five men afore the
mast, two mates and a cook and steward,
besides the chap from Kennebnnkport
as skipper, off she goes to sea. Nowadays
they wouldn't have giv' her more
thau three afore the mast, and no second
mate, but they manned vessels better
then, which were forty years ago if a
day; I bein' but a young chap which
shipped aboard of her to larn my first
splicin', and much of what I didn't see
on the v'yage I were told afterward by a
chap as were in the office in Qninchis
slip, which made a blackguard of himself,
and took to the sea afterward, him
and me bein' shipmates in the little Sutton
Charleston packet, full rigged, and
carrying three r'yate, and sne only 280
tons.
Of course, them times there weren't
no telegraphs, neither no steamers, and
the little Quakers had to wait a while
afore they got to hear any tidiu's of the
brig. When they did hear they got a
letter sixteen pages long from the skipper,
givin' 'em a full description of the
v'yage out and how splendidly the jackass
brig had behaved. It were a reg'lar
yarn and fit for to be printed into the
newspapers. How she had been hove to
in a gale of wind off Hatteras, and only
but for her bein' the finest bit of wood
as ever floated, and only for the great
skill of the chap that commanded her?
he didn't say this right out, but it stuck
out in fifteen and a half of the sixteen
Daces of the letter? he'd a been a
goner sure. He gave a conple of lines
oat of the sixteen pages to the fact that
he'd had to throw over some cargo to
ease her. There were talk too of a hurricane
which he'd had down amongst
the islands, ord barely weatherin' a pint,
her keel having touched a bit, he said,
as she went by.
' Well, soon arter this come the skipper's
wife with a order for a good bit of
money, which light glad was these here
honest Qaakere for to see that their captain
were sich a good provider for his
family, and paid at once. Arter that
some time went on, and they heard
nothin' of him or the jackass brig. Then
come a letter tollin' of a splendid
freight he'd got for the vessel to another
island, and more than ever delighted
was they to find him doin' so well. Arter
that there was some news of his sailin',
with a sight draft onto 'em for a small
sum, as he'd found hisself short ju in
settlin' up, and then they found on gittin'
the accounts that what with payin'
for the cargo he'd hove overboard, and
what with expense of takin' the jackass
brig out of water to repair her shoe,
which had been knocked off when she
jist touched in weatherin' the island as
he'd writ about, and what with expense
of loadin' and unloadin', all the outward
freight were nsed ud. and he'd found
hisself a trifle short, for which he'd
draw'd onto them.
vVell, they comforted themselves that
things was no wcrse, and hoped with
the splendid freight he'd writ about
that at the next port when things was
settled up the balanco would be on the
right side, and they'd git a remittance
instead of a draft. By-and-bye came
more letters, and everything were lovely.
Nothin' could be better than the
performance of the jackass brig; she'd
made a lovely passage, and though there
was some hints of port charges highei
than had been expected, they waited in
hope, and was still inclined to think
that they'd got a treasure in the chap
from K( nneb mkport.
The captain's wife agin put in an appearance,
with rather a big order, which
they paid, admirin' the provident care
of the man as would giv' all of his money
to his family, keepin' nothin' for his
own soendin'. At last come the accounts
and they seed that one side pretty nigh
balanced the other. The port charges
was high; "rascally," the captain said
in his letter, and the small balance left
in. favor of the jackass brig, he thonght,
he'd better keep for exigencies at the
next port, for it was really too small to
draw agin. He congratulated 'em on
his havin' had sich a tirst chop freight,
else thero would have been a big deficit
for which he would have had to draw,
and he gladdened their hearts by tellin'
of 'em what a splendid rate he'd got for
the next port., and they looked as pleasant
as they could under the circumstances,
and hoped for better tidin's.
They didn't come. The next they
heerd were that misfortin had overtook
that jackass brig, she being struck by a
white f quail and knocked down onto her
beam ends, and to right her the skipper
had had to out away her topmasts. Under
these circumRtences it didn't surprise
'pm much when news of the i:oxt
settlin' come, to git along with the acf
bottomry h-oid for quite 9 big
j amount, and then tney concluded that
I they'd order the brig home*
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$2.00 per A
There weren't much of a freight
home, and the trip to New York didn't
pay expenses, and come to settle all up,
they found that what with sums advanced
to his wife and what he'd spent
on the v'yage, this here Kenncbunkport
J skipper had overdrawd about $1,000.
ft won't surprise you if 1 tell you tnat
tbey begin for to think about this time
that it were best to try some one else in
the jackass brig, and atwixt the two old
Quakers they argued it some considerably.
One on 'em were for doin' it anyhow,
but the other said: *' Thee knows,
Gideon," which weie his name, " that
he had a power of 'turny to sell, and he
didn't do it; now, if we turn him oat
and put another skipper in, he may go
and sell and put the money in bis
pocket, and so we'd lose not only the
arnin's, but the jackass brig likewise.
Besides, he owes us money, and if we
don't keep him to work that out, that
will be a dead loss."
" There's truth in what thee says,
Reuben," says the other Quaker, and so
they tried the Kennebunkport chap for
another v'yage, and he went off and sold
the vessel and topped his boom and
sailed large, and tbey never seen him
nor the jackass brig no more.? World.
Mining in Germany. .
The German Mining Annals states
that the proprietors of most of the mines
in the districts of Dortmund, Bonn, and
Halle have been at considerable ex
pense in providing (or the use of workmen
coming from a distance sleeping
houses And canteens. Nearly all these
buildings have been erected upon the
model of similar establishments belong
ing to the State at Saarbruck and elsewhere.
The workmen are lodged in
them and are provided with food from
Saturday till Monday, and many of the
unmarried men take up their residence
in them altogether. These establishments
have accommodation for from
fifty to three hundred persons each ;
and, as a general rule, the proprietors
let them at a trifling rental to a contractor,
who is bound to lodge the unmarried
men for a moderate sum, and to
afford them facilities for cooking their
meals in the houSe. The price of lodging
and food varies from 5d. to Is. 3d.
a day, but is rather more iu Westphalia,
where tko workmen get coffee twice a
day aud meat once. Lights ?nd firing
are iu nearly every case supplied gratis
by the proprietors of the mine, though
there are a few places where the workman
pays 3s. a month for bed, lights
and firing. The dormitories have from
six to ten beds, and the workmen are
provided with bedding and linen. A.*
the end of last year the district of Dortmund
alone possessed twenty-eight large
und seven small sleeping houses, with
canteens attached, capable of receiving
4,800 lodgers. Several of these houses
contain reading-rooms, libraries, lecture
halls' etc., and in a few of them are to
lie found baths, to which the occupants
have free access. One of the best is at
Silberau, near Ems, standing npc-n
2,500 square feet of ground, and large
enongh to lodge 200 workmen in
dormitories, with from three to seven
beds in each. The refreshment-room
on the ground floor is constructed to
hold 300 people, and all the rooms are
heated in winter by hot water stoves.
The building cost ?4,500, or at the rate
of ?22 10s. for each lodger.
Flogging a Garroter in England,
A prisoner named William Leonard,
who was convicted of a highway robbery
with violence from a young lady,
received recently in Newgate the first
installment of the forty lashes awarded
him. The prisoner had been previously
flogged in 1870 for a similar offense, and
the present is said to be almost the only
instance in which the punishment of the
cat has not proved effectual in preventing
the offender from repeating acts of
violence; and Mr. Commissioner Kerr,
having regard to this fact and to the
prisoner's previous bad character, sentenced
him to undergo two separate
floggings of twenty lashes each at an
interval of one month, and then to be
kept in penal servitude for seven years.
The prisoner, it is stated, greatly dreaded
the punishment, and frequently appealed
to the governor to relieve him from
it, representing that he was ill and unable
to bear the flogging. Dr. Gibson,
the medical officer of the prison, was
consulted, but he could find no reason
in the condition of the prisoner to justify
any remission of the punishment.
The moment he was brought into the
room where the punishment was to be
inflicted, the reporter says, he began
howling and appealing to Mr. Smith
and Dr. Gibson to have mercy upon
him, and it was with some difficulty that
he was fixed to the whipping block.
At the first stroke he shrieked for mercy,
*Vio reorripn who was admin
ttliu UIgCU iuu .T
isterirg the punishment not to give it to
him too hard. He continued shrieking
and crying all the time the punishment
was being inflicted, and when it was completed
he pretended to faint, and he was
taken back to his cell.
Simple Remedy for Scarlet Fever.
Take an onion and cut it in halves,
cut out a portion of the center, and into
the cavity put a spoonful of saffron;
put the pieces together, then wrap in
cloth and bake it in an oven until the
onion is cooked so that the juice will run
freely, then squeeze out all the juice
and give the patient a teaspoonful, at
the same time rubbing the chest and
throat with goose grease or rancid bacou,
if there is any cough or soreness in the
throat. In a short time the fever will
break out in an eruption all over the
body. All that is then necessary is to
keep the patient warm and protected
from draught, and recovery is certain.
Half Hanged.?About half a century
ago au old man was haDged in Sootland
for complicity in murder. The rope
bioko and he fell violently to the
ground. His first words, when he re
covered his breath, were : " Ah I sheriff,
sheriff, gie us fair hangin'." His sons
leaped forward to claim their father's
life on the ground hat the law had no
i right to exact a second hanging. But
the old man cried out: " Na, bovs, I'll
; uo gang barae to hae people pointin' me
; ojt, and saying : " There's John 0.,
the half hangit man.'"
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Unsatisfied.
",Oaiv a housemaid!" 8hp looked from the
kitchenNeat
was the kitchen and tidy was she ;
There at her window a aempe trees iiat etitcLi
ing;
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Were I a sempstress, how happy 1 a db ;
44 Only a qneen!" She looked orer the waters?
Fair was her kingdom and mighty was she ;
There sat an empress, with qaeerj for her
daaghtera;
44 Were I an empress, how happy I'd be!"
Still the old frailty they all of them trip in!
Eye in her daughters is ever the e une;
Give her all Eden, she sighs for a pippin ;
Give her an empire, she pines for a name!
Items of Interest.
44 Does oar constant chatter disturb
Jrou?" asked one of three talkative
adios of a sober looking fellow passenger.
44 No, ma'am; I've been married
nigh on to thirty years," was the reply.
Some thieves who had oonoeded them
selves in the Daomo, at Milan, carried
off a part of the jewels with whioh the
statne of the Virgin is ornamented. But
the robbers were sold, as the stones are
false.
A boy of twelve, dining at his uncle's,
made such a good dinner that his aunt
observed : 44 Johnny, yon appear to eat
well." 44 Yes, aunty, replied the urchin;
44 I've been practicing eating all
my life." '
The ranks of the best paid branch of
the British army, the royal artillery, are
so uninviting to skilled mechanics that
this body was 1,300 below its complement
on January I, and on July 1 there
was a deficiency of 1,600 men.
An enterprising St. Louis piper gives
a fnll and narfcicular description of the
various valuable diamonds owned in that
city. The labor of gathering facto for
the article was not, however, exhausting.
The precious stones were all in the pawn
shops.
44 Are you there, my love?" he whispered
through a hole in the fence of
his beloved'8 bock yard. "Yes, darling,"
was the reply. "Jump right over."
He did so, and alighted in the presence
of her mother, a broomstick and a
policeman. '
A mother, trying to get her little
daughter of three years to sleep one
night, said : 44 Anno, why don't you try
to go to sleep ?" 44 I'm tryingshe
replied. 44 But you haven't shut your
eyes." 44 Well, I can't help it; urns
comes unbuttoned."
Two circuses pitched tent* at Marysville,
Ohio, on the sAme day, and the
rivalry was exciting. Prices of admission
were reduced to five and ten cento,
and, in the street parades, a man stood
on the top of each animal cago, shouting
the merits of the show to whioh he was
attached.
A Troy widower, we are told, sleeps
every night on his wife's grave in St
Mary cemetery. Such lodgings are comfortable
enough in warm weather, but
the chances are that after the first snow
he will be found sitting in some neighbor's
parlor until midnight alongside of
a hot stove and an interesting girl.
Something decidedly original Is the
advertisement of a restaurant; keeper in
Baltimore : 44 Should you sour on the >
homeopathic steak of your boarding
house, or its stereotyped mackerel, or its
herculean butter, or the Spartanie simplicity
of its puddings, then sweeten
your temper with a business dinner,"
etc.
A young man who was engaged to be
married recently committed suicide in
Cincinnati, and the mother of the damsel
whom he was to wed brought in a
bill against his estate of $128 for board,
and $50 for wedding expenses incurred
by the prospective bride. The court allowed
$100 of the account, and the matter
was finally settled by the payment of
$85.
"i n 1-?- oimn.mc (innri
The norm omuuuu ouj/uuv
decides, in State vs. JohDsen, that 44 a
son is allowed to light only in the necessary
defense of his father, and to excuse
himself he must plead and show that
his father would have been beaten had
he (the son) not interfered. If a father
and his adversary are engaged in a fight
on equal tenns, the son's interference is
not justifiable."
A newspaper man has been visiting
the Centennial Exhibition, and daring
his sojourn at that place he dined at one
of the French restaurants. When the
bill for the meal was presented to him
he meekly intimated that his boiled egg
contained a chicken. The polite waiter
said that he would have the bill corrected,
and soon returned with a new bill,
upon which the charge of thirty cents
for 4 4 eggs " had given place to au item
of sixty oents for chicken.
At the recent execution of two prisoners
within Kirkdale prison, Liverpool,
England, a very long drop was used,
which had the advantage of breaking
the men's necks with the faJL The coroner,
however, ordered the sheriff to direct
the attention of the government to
the fact that this method did not comply
with the letter of the law, which contemplates
hanging by the neck till the
culprit dies through strangulation,
a verv heavy fall causes death
through dislocation of the vertebrae.
Printing Office Secrets.
A properly conducted printing office
is as much a secret society as is a masonic
lodge. The printers axe not under
an oath of secrecy, but always feel themselves
as truly in honor bound to keep
secrets as though they had been put
through triple oaths. An employee in a
printing office who willingly disregards
this rule in regard to printing office
secrets would not only be scorned by his
brethren of the craft, but would lose his
position in the office at once. We make
this statement because it sometimes
happens that a communication appears
in a newspaper under an assumed signature
which excites comment, and various
parties try to find out who is the author.
Let all be saved the trouble of questioning
the employees or attacbees of the
printing office. Th^y are 41 know nothings"
on such poii.te as these. On such ?
matters they 44 have eyes and ears, but
no mouth," an^ ;f they fail to obstrve
this rule, let tin m be put down as dishonored
members, ?Ezch ange.