Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, October 26, 1876, Image 1
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IF03R.T ROYAL
Standard and Commercial.
VOL. IV. NO. 47. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1876. $2.00 per Aim. . SiflEfc Copy 5 Cents.
Be Careful What You Say.
I ?: oaking of a person's faults,
i is;, don't fcrget your own ;
Remoc ber those with homes of glass
She - 1 seldom li.row a stone.
If wa La nothing else to do
Bat talk of those who eiu,
'Tis better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
Until he's fiirJy tried ;
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults?and who have not ?
The old as well ks young ;
Ferhapa^we may. for aught we know,
Have fifty to their one.
j. u leiiyouor a neuer pian,
Aud one that works fall well:
I tjy my own defect* to cure,
Ere 1 of others' toll.
And though I sometime* hope to be
No worts than some I know,
My own shortcomings lid me let
The faults of o? hers go.
Then let us al, when we commence
To slander fiitud or foe,
Toink of the harm one word may do
To theeo who hide know.
Remember, curses, sometimes, like
O r chickens, "roost at home."
Don't speat of others' faults until
Wo have none of our own.
HIS OWN MEDICINE.
The Story of a Village Doctor who was
Always Drunk.
OKI Dr. Banker was a stout, red faced
man of abont sixty, in a perpetual state
of intoxication. Sometimes he was
worse than at others, but he was always
drunk.
"Now, only see," some admirer would
exclaim, 44 you go to Dr. Bunker and
state your case, and he may be so drunk
as to be scarce ly able to open his old saddle
bags, and yet he will give you some
thing that will go to the spot and no
mistake. What a man be would be if
he would only keep sober."
This fame of the doctor's, however,
came to a tragic ending. vvenaa among
US widely known and muoh loved, a
little girl sadly crippled from her birth.
Her delicate and morbid condition seemed
to stimulate her brain, so that she
became renowned throughout the valley
as an intellectual prodigy. Unable to
walk, she was carried to school by her
parents. She was an only child, and it
was pitiable to note the pride they oot
in her cultnre. At best she was not
long for this world, aud h?r exit was
beiug hu'ried by the cramming to
which her ?fond friends and relatives ,
subjected htr. Her pure white soul
seemed to shine through her delicate
face, which even traces of pain and the
sad, waiting patience of frequent disap- (
pointment failed to mar. At spelling
bees and other public exhibitions of the j
schools crowds would gather to applaud
the clear, silvery voice that so readily
responded to the vexing questioLS. lu
this way Lucy Hooper came to be so j
generally kuown and so much beloved.
"Little Lucy," one would say, "has
an answer ready to any question; and as (
for spelling, she's ahead of the master." (
When about ten years of age little ^
Lucy developed a new torture iu the i
shape of paroxysms of pain that were
known to the country as fits. The poor
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tacks lasted, and Dr. Bunker was called,
in on a gallop to administer relief. Tliis 1
he did on several occasions. But the
evil hour came when, more intoxicated ,
than usual, he sent the medicine to the
suffering child. The powders were administered,
and Lucy, instead of beiDg
bettered by th^m, grew suddenly and ,
alarmingly worse. She said, between
paroxysms of intense pain, that the pow- '
ders did not taste as the others tasted.
The doctor was again sent for, but
found insensible from driuk. The ,
neighbors, who sought in much excitement
to sober their favorite medical adviser,
felt that the little pationt had but
a brief time to allow for remedies. They
poured cold water over his head and hot
ooffee down his throat. At last he was
sufficiently aroused.to justify his being
hauled in a wagon to the house of Lucy's
parents.
Daylight was stealing softly into the
rude room when the doctor staggered in.
A greater curer of life's ills than he had
entered before. There is a tide in our
vitality that finds its ebb between midnight
and early morning, and how often
are we called to note the coming of
death and .layb'gkt together ! The cool,
nmn*nf/ walks in lustv streDcth
over the eastern hills and the birds sing
and the rills sparkle, while the cows
low and the chickens crow, as if all nature
felt a new life, with a renewed lease
on all that is y'ea-aut and beautiful. At
that moment, as if in mockery of us, the
sick unto death ft el their hold weakening
and the shores of life receding
swiftly aud silently from them.
Lucy's parents were poor people, inhabiting
a log cabin to which had been :
added a porch, and one end of this
porch had been turned into a bedroom
for the little favorite. It appeared neat
and cleanly, but there was no curtain to
the window, no carpet npon tl e floor.
One could almost cover the rude furniture
with a blanket, but each spoke in
an uncouth way of tenderness and affection.
When the doctor entered there
was a profound stillness in the little
apartment.
"She is better now," whispered the
unhappy mother to the doctor, 44 but
she has been very sick."
The now sobered physician took the
^ candle from the stand. was a tallow
dip and burned dimly at best, but now
haid a long unsnufled wick, and a gutter
of ball melted tallow running like a
stream of lard from the summit. Believing
Lacy to be asleep, the watchers
at the bedside had neglected the candle.
44 She is sleepiu' seemingly very comfortable
now," again whispered the;
mother.
The doctor nearly rut the candle out j
^ in a clumsy attempt to snuff it, and i
then threw such light as it had upon
the face of the girl. Alas! the sleep j
w?s not one to be courted. The eyelids {
covered but one half the ball, and
through the white, the only part visible,
death stared. The doctor hastily seized
a thin little hand and felt for the pulse.
He felt in vain. Bending over the poor
sunken face, he listened at her paited
Sips for tidings of life in her breathing.
He listened in vain.
" Lucy, my girl," said the doctor,%
"how are you?"
There was no response beyond a quivering
of the eyelids eo faint that it w is
almost imperceptible. This was the
last signal thrown out by the little soul,
then more than half way over the cold
river.
" The powders," continued the mother,
unaware of the change going on in
one dearer than life to her, "didn't
seem to act like the others, and Lucy
said they tasted differently."
" Have you any left ?'' asked the doctor,
hastily.
" Yes, one; here it is," and she handed
the medicine to the physician. He
looked aud then touched the white substauee
to the tip of his tongue. In an
instant his face became as ghastly as
that of the dead child before him. His
hand shook so violently that he spilled
the powder upon the tloor. Throwing
out his arms as one orowning, he seized
the father frantically and cried, in a
hoarse voice:
41 Tom Hooper, take me out of this,"
and as he went the agonized parent
heard him mutter: 44 Poison; my God,
poison!"
The word poiioa was enough to excite
the valley to a frenzy. A coroner's
inquest was demanded, and physicians
summoned from a distance to make a
posl-mortem examination. Enough was
fouDd by these learned men in the veins
of the deformed girl to insure death,
r ooner or later, without the help of any
poison administered by a drunken doctor.
He was summoned to appear and
offer any explanation he might see fit to
make. The coroner found him in his
office. He was for once sober, and more
wretched in appearance than when intoxicated.
41 Have yon come to arrest me?" he
asked.
44No, doctor," replied the officer;
44 you're wautvd as a witness."
44 As a witness," he repeated, looking
at tho ccrouer in a vacuit, absent^ortof
way. 44 Yes, yes; I see. Well, I'll be
a witness; I'll show 'em. Wait a minute."
Baying this he took from a jar a
white snbstanoe that he proceeded to
measure off into small powders. He
made six of these as well as his hands,
that shook as if palsied, would permit
him, and throwing the several potions
together lie did up the dose in a bit of
paper w deli ho placed in his vest pocket.
Then he accompanied the coroner to the
house of the dead girl, where the jury
*at in that solemn deliberation of stupidity
so common to coroner's inquests.
\fter being duly sworn, ho^was aeked to
tell all he knew concerning the sickness,
treatment, and death of Lucy Hooper.
44 Gentlemen," he said, in response,
,4 this mquesfc originates in a belief that
there lias been malpractice in this case,
md that the patient died from the ef
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fects of poison aummisiereu Dy me,
md not from the convulsions to which
<be wa* subject. In this last illness I
prescribed for her but onoe. J?'rom the
time she took the medicine I sent her
she grow rapidly worse until she died.
To prove to you that my intent was hon3st,
and to show you hov harmless was
the remedy, I now proceed to swallow
ten times as much as I prescribed for
my patient."
Before any move of remonstrance or j
prevention he had swallowed the drug. [
The deadly character of the powder was j
shown in hi' death, that followed twelve j
hours after.
"It's all right, gentlemen," he said, j
between paroxysms of pain, "it's all j
right; if you want further testimony, {
meet me at the bar of God."
The doctor's memory is cherished iD
the valley, where it is generally believed ;
he did nut commit suicide, but had a j
mistaken confidence in his own reme- j
dies, and they always wind up with :
"What a doctor he would have been
had he kept sober."
Dividing it Up.
A certain peasant visited the hodja of
Trirkwv one dav. and ?resented him
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with a hare. The giver was treated with
great consideration, and a soup was
made of the hare.
Next week the peasant came again.
44 Who are you?"
441 am the man who gave you the
hare."
44 Oh, yes;" and he was again well received.
Some time afterward camd several
persons and demanded hospitality.
44 Who are you 9"
44 We are the neighbors of the man
who gave you the hare."
44 Oh, yes; you are welcome;" and they
also were well received.
Not long after this appeared quite a
troop of people.
44 Who are you ?"
44 We are the neighbors of the neighbors
of the man who gave you the hare."
*4Oh, yes; you are welcome."
So they were shown in, and the hodja
presently set before each of them a cup
of clear water.
44 The man is a fool," they said, upon
beholding such an entertainment as
that.
But the hodja answered: 44 This is j
the sauce of the sauce of the hare."
Follow Your Leader.
P.ide has much to do with the courage
of mankind. Less than a century
ago there was a game among the merchants
of New York called "follow your
leader," the fine of the participant who
failed to do so being his wounded pride j
and a late supper. This game came to
an end one night when an intrepid challenger,
who-e pride had on one occasion
can ied him in the wake of his leader
over the end of a North river pier in
among the ice floes, coolly 6eated himself
in his office upon a twenty-pound
keg of gunpowder from the bunghole of
which a paper was lighted at the end
extending across the room. "Follow
your leader!" he said to his friends, but
they left precipitately when the paper
had burned up to the heel of bis b ot,
which rested against the keg.
Adjusting ft Loss.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin has
the following : Keen fellows those insurance
agents. There was an alarm of
fire the other clay, caused by a gas explosion
in the " saloon " of Mr. Michael
McGowan, at the North End. As soon
as the excitement had quieted down a
little Mr. McGowan started for the insurance
office, where he had taken out a
policy on his " shebeen " and its contents.
Soon after Michael left, a quiet looking
gentleman entered and interviewed
Mrs. McGowan on the subject of gas.
He was very severe; he thought the gas
had been improperly used; he doubted
if the company would put pipes in there
again if so much damage was done.
Mrs. McGowan was alarmed. She
knew that much of Mr. McGowan's
business was transacted " under the gas"
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ngni, ana Bne vomoiy pruwwwju ;
" Aisy, sir, av ye plaze; is it the gas and
the fire ? Divil a harrm have they done
anyway, barrin' Mike drivin' the head
av him thro' the windy, but manny the
worse lick he's got whin lie's been out
wid the byes. Burn, is it ? Nothing
was burnt but Mike's ould coat. As fur
the whisky, it wouldn't burn if you'd
trow it on the fire. Damage, is it?
Wait till I get a drop o' whitewash, the
morrow, and divil a sign of a scorch
ye'll see."
Meanwhile Mike, with his head bound
up and wearing a woeful countenance,
was waiting at the insurance office.
Presently the agent arrived,and Mr. McGowan
opened his case at once.
"Good marnin', Mister Premium. I've
jist drapped in fur me insurance, sor.
The bloody gas works, bad luck to 'em,
busted the stoofing ahl out avthe pipes,
and sit fire to me place, and trow'd me
clan troo the windy, wid me head agin
Murphy's wall, as kapes the grocer's
shop, that came from oounty Cork an'
knows me well, barrin' he'll sell a glass
a whisky on the sly, which, being a grocer,
is agin me rights."
As soon as Mr. McGowan stopped for
wind, the agent quietly inquired :
" How much do you think your loss
is, Mr. McGowan ?"
" Well, I do not know, sor. What
wid me place busted, and me stock
burrned, me clothin' destryed, me hed
bruk, to say nothin' av the bind on
Murphy's wall, I'm thinkin' a matter of
five hunder dollars wud be squaring
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me.
"Mr. McGowan," said the agent,
drawing a bank note from his drawer,
"I have been up to your place this
morning and seen what damage has been
done, besides having the pleasure of an
interview with Mrs. McGowan. There
is twenty dollars to-pay for a bucket of
whitewash, a pane of glass, and your
broken head, and don't you ever try to
play games on insurance people."
Mr. McGowan's face lengthened inch
by inch, and his square jaw dropped as
the insurance man continued. Finally,
his eye falling under the gaze of the
ether, he pocketed the money, signed
the necessary papers, and merely remarked
:
"So ye've had an interview wid the
ould woman, have ye ? Be gorra ! I'll
have one wid hor meself agin I go
back."
Mr. McGowan was tnie to his word,
for he paid the twenty dollars to the
clerk of the police court the next morning
for, as Mrs. McG. described it,
" batiu' her like an ould carpet."
The Hay Fever.
An essay is devoted to the treatment
of hay fever, and contains much valuable
material which may be appreciated.
"Removal to a non-catarrhal region.
This is the great almost unfailing
remedy." These regions ure designated
as the villages and hotels among the
mountains where subjects have escaped
the disease. The practical value of this
to those seeking refuge from their enemy
"an hardly be overestimated. Preventive
treatment is given, and includes the
best possible means for preparing the
subject to endure that which cannot always
be wholly avoided. While the author
has little faith in any specific drug
or class of drugs, he has evidently great
confidence in preventive and palliating
means of treatment, and in place of recommending
one cure for all cases, he in
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and treated by itself. This is certainly
the best enidence that he is a sound
therapeutist. The best idea of this part
of the work may be obtained from the
summing up at the end, as follows:
1. Remain in a non-catarrhal region
during the critical period.
2. Strengthen the system by food and
tonios.
3. Avoid dust, smoke, night air, and
the vicinity of plants known to produce a
paroxysm.
4. Dress warmly, with flannels next
the skin.
5. For the cough?Mild narcotics; various
household demulcents.
6. For asthma?Smoking stramonium
leaves, saltpeter, espic cigarettes, inhalation
of sulphuric ether, carbolic acid.
English Country Towns.
The inhabitants of a country town in
England, says Louis Jennings, if not
jolly, are contented. The squire in the
neighborhood is not quite such a despot
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perity of any man in the town near him
depended on his nod. The idea of setting
up a shop without his gracious patronage
would have been mere madness.
He was generally very much opposed to
more than one child in the family being
sent to school, and had no very good
opinion of workingmen who could read
and write. Now all is changed?the
owner of the large house and park is
very liberal in contributing to the support
of schools and churches, and although
he is still a person of importance
in his neighborhood, the people are
no longer afraid of him. His custom is
worth having, but in these days the bulk
of his supplies for the house is brought
from London, and vegetab'es, fruit and
game he gets from his own estate. The
shopkeepers, therefor *, make very little
out of the "big families," and I often
wonder how they manage to live. I was
talking the otuer day to a poulterer and
fishmonger, and he told me, confidently
y,that it was hard to make both ends
meet.
The Reign of Terror.
Daring the reign of terror all the
prisons of France were filled with victims.
These were generally the most
worthy people in the community, whose
otdy crime was in being obnoxious to
the ruling powers. Those who were
suspected lied, if possible, but were
generally unable to carry away their
property. Millions of property were
confiscated. The prisons were crowded
with the rich, the elegant and the cultivated
classes. Thousands were guillotined;
and universal fear and anarchy
reigned without a parallel. Deputies,
even those who had been most instrumental
in bringing about the revolution,
were sacrificed by the triumphant
Jacobins. Women and retired citizens
were not allowed to escape their fury
and vengeance. Marie Antionette and
the Prinoess Elizabeth and Madame
Roland were among the first victims.
Then it was that terrible scenes became
of daily, almost honrly, occurrence.
Delicate and beantifnl women knelt before
the bloody autocrats of the revolution,
offering a vain appeal for the eafety
of those dear to them. But the savage
cruelty of the republican leaders, tasting
for the first time the sweets of power,
was not to be satisfied until the populace,
sated with gore, arose en masse
and stilled their proceedings with the
menacing cry of "No more blood|
shed!"
Marat and Robespierre themselves
shared the fate of their victims. Upon
the former, vengeance was wreaked by
the haDd of a woman. From the town
of Caen came Charlotte Corday, and,
after many unsuccessful attempts, made
her way to the presence of Marat. The
so-called "father of his country" was
seated in his bath. A. cloth had been
thrown over him, and he was writing
upon a board, which he used as a desk.
He put a few questions to his visitor,
who suddenly approached the bath,
and, leaning over it, struck the occupant
with her knife. The blow was
dealt with such force that the weapon
entered Marat's l osom up to the hilt.
He uttered a single cry, and expirevl almost
immediately. Robespierre's death
occurred upon the scaffold. In the
diary of Charles Henri Sanson, executioner
of Paris during the revolution,
occurs the following entry: "Robespierre
was the tenth to appear on the
platform. He went up the steps of the
scaffold without any assistance whatever.
His demeanor exhibited neither
weakness nor assumed bravery; his eye
was cold and calm. The men were ordered
to take off the linen in which tiie
prisoner's face was wrapped. They did
so, and uncovered his jaw, broken by a
Mow from one of the mob. The pain
must have been horrible, for Robespierre
uttered a fearful cry. The blood
trickled down from the jaw, and the
mouth remained wide open. He was
immediately strapped down, and, less
than a minute after, the knife fell. The
j uead was shown to the crowd, like that
| of the king."
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How he Got a Coat to Fit Him.
A middle aged son of the Emerald
Isie went into a Detroit clothing store
the other day, and said he wanted a
"good, chape coat." He was a big,
round shouldered man, and his arms
were almost as long as those of Sir Dan
Donnelly, who could "button the extremities
of his knee-breeches without
stooping." The largest trade size of
coats is No. 42, and the salesman took
one of that size from the pile and tried
it on his customer. It was too small
every way, particularly in the sleeves.
The cuffs were six inches ubove the
wrists, and the customer said he felt
like a pot of porridge that had boiled
over. The salesman handed the coat to
an assistant and said: "Bring here a
forty-four coat." The assistant fumbled
a little at the pile, and brought back the
same coat. It was tried and rejected,
the customer remarking: "Sure, if I
wore that coat they'd be fay in' I was a
gossoon that wasn't done growin'."
" Tou are an awful big man," said the
astute salesman, winkiug at his fellow
clerk; "I'll try a No. 48 on you."
" Make it forty-nine, for the honor of
ould Ireland," said the patriotic Milesian.
"Forty-nine was brought (the
same coat) and also found too smell. A
Napoleonic look of decision illumined
the face of the salesman as he confidently
cried: " Bring here a fifty-two coat.
I'm bound to fit you, anyhow." The
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the customer appeared satisfied. " I
never get sleeves long enough for me,"
said he, "but I'll get them lengthened
out, and then they will be all right."
He bought the coat.
The Question of Baggage.
The impossibility of handling promptly
and satisfactorily the huge quantity
of cumbrous baggage that has been
poured into Philadelphia, moves the
Ledger to make these suggestions : The
trunk or any other piece of luggage
that cannot be carried in the hand by
the visitor, and bo in the railway car
under the eye of the visitor while traveling,
is a perpetual source of anxiety,
disappointment, and vexation. Railway
depots have pyramids of tnem, which
I nwriora ncvi-)' boa Tin til nhnnt. to rfi
tarn home. What can be carried in
the hand valise, the sachel, or with the
wraps in the shawl strap, is all-sufficient
for visitors to the Centennial Exhibition.
The prevailing style of dress in
Philadelphia, at this time, is the dress
that people travel in. It is recognized
and encouraged as the proper thing for
all-occasions, whether for street dress,
dinner dress, or evening dress, and it is
universal at the Exhibition. Travelers
and vis.tors are here in sufficient numbers
to make the style. We repeat that
no luggage is needed at this time for any
purposes of etiquette or ceremony in
Philadelphia l>eyond what visitors travel
in aud can carry in the sachel, valise, or
shawl strap. Those who bring trunk*
are simply sowing for themselves the
seeds for a big crop of delays, regrets,
disappointments, and vexations.
An African Foundry.?Lieutenant
Cameron mentions an African tribe carrying
on an extensive iron trade, having
foundries fifty feet long by thirty feet
wide, where tkey frequently get 150 to
200 pounds of metal in a single smelti
ing, but we are not clear as to the locality.
A Grange Barbecue.
A granger in Jena, La., writes as follows:
What is a barbecue? Webster ]
defines it to roast a hog whole, and he is
considered standard authority^ For the i
sake of your many readers let me try to i
describe one st greater length, given by ]
Pine Grove grange. It was said to be ]
an average one. When a neighbor de- <
cides to give a barbecue a committee of ]
arrangements is appointed, subscrip- 1
i tions of money, provisions, beeves, I
hogs, sheep, goats and venison are taken I
up. Poultry, bread and cakes are cook- ]
ed at home by the ladies of the vicinity
and then brought to the manager of the i
pit. This consists of what might be 1
termed a ditch, about three feet deep, 1
the same wide, ?nd forty or fifty feet i
long, which is tiiled up with hard wood i
logs and poles, then set on fire. When I
well burned to coals, poles from six t
inches to a foot thick are nauled on both \
sides, close to the edge of the pit; by 1
this time the beeves are quartered and i
parboiled, nice peeled handspikes of i
sweet wood are run through the quar- I
ters and other animals and placed across
the Jarge poles, care being tak-n ihatthe 1
meat touch neither sides noi bottom. 1
In twelve or eighteen hours it is cooked. <
Coffee is made in large pots or small 1
sugar kettles. Plates, cups and saucers, <
kuives, forks and every requisite are i
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ceuter of a parallelogram dining table,
inclosing about ono-eighth of an acre.
Between the carving and dining tables
at either end is a small table, where little
boys eat at one and little girls at the
other, and their wants are attended to
by some school teacher or minister.
Some four feet outside of the main
table strong forks are driven into the
ground, fresh cut pine poles are placed
horizontally in them, the outside of
these are peeled, and the fresh pitch,
with turpentine, springs out like heavy
perspiration. Then woe betide the garment
that comes in contact with it, for
it has no respect of persons. This contrivance
saves the police some trouble,
as they have to stand guard most of the
day. They are known by wearing a red
ribbon on the le't shoulder. Waiters
are young or single men, and recogDized
by wearing a blue ribbon on the left
arm; half a dozen expert carvers cut up
the bread and meat. There is a sliding
pole near one corner of the square, so
when dinner is announced one of the
guards runs it back and another oounts
as the ladies come in by pairs. When
the complement is in for the number of
plates the pole is replaced, and no more
can enter. This prevents any confusion
inside. The speaker's platform being
raised, logs are hauled, with the ends
facing the stand, and strong planks laid
across for seats. The whole is placed
under a dense forest shade, near a cool
spring of water, so if all present cannot
eujoy themselves it must be their own
fauit.
Some of a Chinaman's Yiees.
GAMBLING.
To surprise a Chinese gambling party
in flagrante delicto is considered the
iicme of police subtlety and daring. On |
every block is to be seen one, two, or j
three quiet faced watchful old Chinamen,
sitting on little stools in narrow i
doorways, set some twelve feet back ?
from the sidewalk. John passes Cer )
berus unchallenged,.threads the pas- ]
sages easily enough and finds himself in a
the temple of fortune, reduced to a dirty j
little gambling shop. But should t
officers X, Y and Z (or any other un- \
known quantity) make a tush on any of s
these little, old, watchful men, there
are a hundred chances to one that they s
will be quick enough to prevent him e
pulling a cord that sets a bell a-tinkliug. c
Once let that bell tinkle and though the e
iuvading force were fifty strong all i
would be in vain. For suppose they I
skurry past Cerberus and try the us- t
f-ault. Obstacle number one is a big \
door, three, five, six inches thick, with y
heavy cross-bars of wood and iron on a
the wrong side which would defy the (
whole force used collectively as a battering
ram ; and even were that door t
parsed in the first sweep, the passage is f
found to be a maze, with a barricaded <
door at every angle ; ingenious mechani- i
cal contrivances slip bolt and bar into 1
their heavy sockets quick as light, n
while the tinkle of the bell has sent the <
vi ^1 ?* U ?1% 4
I gammers nyiug uy sumo icw c^u w uj>
to the roof. One memorable time, a
certain wonderfully active and efficient
officer, while hotly pressing some flying
pigtails in one of these passages, suddenly
found himself hauled up to the
ceiling, with his neck in a noose, and
there he dangled until cut down by his
brother stars.
LOTTEBIZS.
Closely related to gambling are the
lotteries, in which almost every Chinese
storekeeper deals. On every ticket
eighty Chinese numbers are printed,
the buyer having the privilege of crossing
out five or more of these numbers,
and if any or all of these numbers when
drawn are found to be prizes the money
called for is paid. The prizes are five,
and vary from twenty-five cents to one (
hundred dollars, the price of the tickets \
being from ten cents to one dollar. \
The drawings take place twice a day. \
This much you arc told. White people j
patronize this petty system of robbery (
extensively. No drawing party nas yoi ]
been seized, and the whole business is ,
intangible and shady.?&cribner's. (
I
Life in California. t
Such incidents as the following are j [
still cornmou in stng^ coach traveling in ! *
California : The coach contained eight I(
raou and four wom^n, all unarmed. J j
When the coach reached a part of the I :
road lined by a thick growth of brush, j
into which it is impossible to turn a *
' loaded wagon or even a light one. two 1
} men sprung up and commanded tne ;
! driver to stop a. d throw out the express i
boxes. Both men wore white cloths *
j under their hats, one end being thrown
! up over the front of the hat and the
I other, with eye holes, covering the face. ^
| One man, with a double barreled shot- f
gun, aimed at the driver, and tho other ?
at the body of the coach where the pas- 4
j sengers mostly were. After a short I
parley two boxes of treasure were thrown 1
out, and the driver was compelled to 1
drive on, the shotgun corering him until c
he was hidden by a turn in the road. 1
A Legend of the Seneca Indians,
Herno, the great Thunder spirit, had
his lodge behind the sheet of water
which ponrs down at the falls of Niagara.
For a long time he dwelt there,
astonishing the Indians with his stunning
peals, bnt never venturing forth tc
practice his strange art before their
Byes. They could hear him and knew
he was there; but never as yet had he
been seen; nor is it all likely that he 01
the effects of the sun ever would have
t>een seen bnt for a little incident, the
results of which brought him forth.
A youDg and beautiful maiden residing
at Seneca village, just above the
falls, had been contracted in marriage
by her father to an old man of disagreeable
manners and hideous person. She
it once resolved to seek death rather
than drag out the life of misery which
such a union must bring about; and with
this object in view she launched forth
from the village in a oark canoe and
swept down the rapids of Niagara singing
her own death song until she took
the awful leap.
But death was not ready for her.
Eerno, the Thunder spirit, happened to
be wide awake; and when he saw her
3oming down among the foaming waters
be coolly caught her in his blanket and
conveyed her to his home behind the
falls.
Of course, the maiden had romance
enough about her to be grateful for all
this, more especially when she found
jhe was entirely beyond the reach of the
monster her "cruel pa-ri-ent " had selected
to comfort her through life. She
fell upon the neck of the Thunderer and
wept sweet tears. The tears softened
lis stern heart, and led him to smooth
pack if not to toy with her golden tresses.
In short, to hurry through a long
dory, they got to billing and cooing?
hey fell in love?they made the interesting
affair known to each other; and
he wronged though beautiful maiden
became the wife of Herno, the Thunder
tpirit. And, as a matter of course, she
was very happy.
About this time the Senecas of the vi.age
above the falls were visited with a
pestilence which swept them off by hunIreds,
and while some prayed to the
3 rent Spirit for help, others gathered
iround the cataract and sent in their pe.itions
to Eerno. The tale of their
tufferings moved the Tnunderer, and he
sent the maiden forth to tell her people
hat a monstrous serpent was dwelling
peneath their village, just below the
mrface of the ground; that it was depending
upon their bodies for food, and
hat it came forth at the end of every
neon and poisoned the waters, in order
hat they might die and be buried within
ts reach.
As soon as the Indians learned this
hey pulled up and moved to another lo;ality;
conso<jnently when the great serpent
poisoned (ho waters as usual, the
?arth brought him no lood. This was
m affair so strange that he crawled forth
,o see whu.t it meant, when, to his snrpripe,
he found the village was deserted.
With many curses on the head of the
rhunderer, as the author of his misfor;une,
the serpent took the trail of the repeating
Indians &nd started away in hot
pursuit.
The maiden still loved her people, and
vhen she saw the serpent moving on to
'fleet their further destruction she appealed
to her husband to arrest him.
Terno was uot deaf to her entreaties,
ind so he stepped forth from his hiding
place and launched a hissing bolt after
he serpent, which struck him just as he
vas endeavoring to cross the narrows
lorne distance above the falls.
The wound produced was a fatal one,
uid the great monster floated dowu the
itream and lodged upon the verge of the
sataract, stretching nearly from shore to
ikore. The swift waters were dammed
ip by the obstruction; but they finally
proke through the rocks behind, and
bus the whole top of the falls upon
vhich the snake rested was precipitated
vith it into the abyss below, excepting
i small portion, which is now known as
ioat island.
It almost entirely ruined the home ot
;he Thunderer, for it reduced the great
?pace behind the waters to a very narrow
jompass. He Ltill occupies it as a sleep!
g apartment, however, and you may
tow hear him snoring under there as you
dand on the shore; but if he would exercise
himself in his favorite pastime o 1
ihrowing thunderbolts he is forced to
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Unreasonable as this myth may sound,
:here can be no doubt that the Senecas
jelieved every word of it. When they
vere to be met with in the Niagara
jountry they pointed out a place neai
he month of Cayuga creek, where th
aauks were shelved ont in a semi-circnar
form, and declared that it had been
lone by the serpent in his death throee
ifter having been wounded by Herno'e
;h under bolt. And to this tradition may
ae attributed their custom of putting
iway their dead upon scaffolds above
ground instead of burying them.
The Irish Medal.
The medal presented by the Irish
litizens of the District of UoiumDia to
:he member of the Irish team making
.he largest score consists of a beautiful
ive-poiuted golden star, depending
rrom a pin in the form of an eagle with
>ut9tre ched wings. The weight of the
nedal is sixty pennyweights. A diamond
is imbedded at each point of the
?tar. In the center of the star is an engraving
of the Capitol bnilding, on one
ride of which are the figures " 1776,"
ind on the other " 1876." At the lowei
>ait of the star a black and white enameled
target with a diamond as a bull's;ye.
Crossed over the upper part of
;h'e star are two rifles joined together at
he top and secured to the upper point
)f the star by a miniature laurel wreath
a gold. From the talons of the eagle,
vhich is of solid gold, in bold relief, are
itrc-tched to either side the American
ind Irish fligs done in enamel.
An Address.?O'Connor Power, M.
?., is on his way to the United States
or the purpose of presenting a congratulatory
centennial address to Presi
lent Grant on behalf or the Irish peo)le.
IrelaLd seems determined to acknowledge,
as far as utterance can con7*y,
the warmth of her affection for the
jouutry which has given a home to so
nauy millions of her children.
Items or Interest
' The creditors of H. A. Pierce, a
Springfield bankrupt, get one cent on a
' dollar.
A quack doctor advertises to this effect:
Cough when you can, for after
1 you have taken one bottle of my medicine
you can't.
, The city attorney of Des Moines,
. Iowa, recently talked eight hours in orj
der to prevent the discbarge of a pris,
| oner, against whom he had no case, until
| an officer could reach town with a war
h rant for his apprehension on another
, charge.
i It is easy in the constant nse of a fa
miliar saying to forget the circumstances
i which suggested it, and probably there
are but few people to-day who know that
i the author of theapothigm "It is the
t little things of life that make or mar our
i happiness," alluded to fleas and mosqui[
tocp.
An inquisitive young man visited a
>' State prison in New York, and among
his questions asked a girl the cause of
her being in such a place. Her answer
1 was that she "stole a watermiJl, said
went back after the stream that turned
1 the mill and was arrested." The young
man left immediately.
1 The Burlington Haw key e says: The
first step toward making a man of your
1 sou is to train him to earn what he
' spends; then the best way to teach him
to be frugal is to take away his money
' as fast as he earns it and spend it wisely
for yourself. There is nothing liae
' teaching the young by example.
The miners of South Yorkshire were
dissatisfied with their wages, and at,
tempted to-become colliery owners them,
selves. An association bought a colliery,
the profits of which were to lie shared
among them. The capital raised was
about $400,000. The enterprise has
proved unsuccessful, and the money is
! lost.
i The ire of a St. Louis paper toward
the editor of a Chicago journal is lot
loose in this way: He stands up and
, lies, sits down and lies, eats lies, drinks
lies and dreams lies. There is no other
i name but lies for his preposterous aud
unprincipled assertions. If there is
really a place prepared for liars, the
> smell of sulphur already arises to his
i nostrils.
? A large boy attacked a smaller and
cuffed his ears, but the uoble little fellow
* did not strike back. He bore it all patiently
till the big boy had gone, and a
silvery haired old mau had patted him
on the head and given hi in something.
Then he went around the corner and*
licked that big boy's little brother till
he couldn't stand up without leaning
against the walL -?
There has been an interesting inquiry
in Ppris lately as to which trees stand
town life best, and it is decided that be- ,
yond all question no tree is so good for <
urban wants as the plane. The same
verdict is returned in London. Smoke
does not seem to affect them, and few
hner specimens of this graoefui and umbrageous
tree can be seen than those on
Berkeley square in that city.
The annual Alpine horror has taken
place. George W. Johnson, a London
solicitor, and his guide, Franz Saarbach,
being precipitated into a crevasse over
a hundred feet deep, and buried with
ice and sngw. His companion, Mr.
Hayman, and the other guide escaped,
bat only after great suffering. Large
parties of guides have been ont, bat so
far have wholly failed to recover the
bodies.
It is the custom in Lima when any
, religions question is debated in Parliai
ment for the ladies to go to tho Hoo.se of
, Assembly, carefully watch the proceedings,
and, after a way of their own, take
part in them. For example, during the
last debate on liberty of worship, each
speaker who defended the proposal to
separate the church from the fcJfcate had a
Ann? ?> his head from
iOUU VTA nwuu
i the ladies' gallery, and the defenders
of the church were honored with
( garlands.
Piece Work,
While piece work is strongly resisted
, by the association of the Amalgamated
. Engineers in England in its corporate
> capacity, and by a certain proportion
| of the workmen is mack uisllked in
many important districts, tho men who
have' learned its value to the able and
, industrious mechanic would strenuously
, oppose any proposal to limit it^ operak
tions.
Here I cannot do better than give an
, extract from Mr. Brassey's essay on .
. "Workand Wages,"recording tho ex,
perience of the author's father, whose
, testimony is emphatically in favor of
, piecework.
My father, says Mr. Brassey, always
preferred putting a price upon the work
i rather than paying by the day. This
system was modified to snit the nsnal
habits of the people with whom he had
to deal. Piece work could not in ail
cases be adopted without some complii
cations and difficulties; but my father
1 always looked upon day work as a losing
f game, and all his work was carried out,
as far as possible, by sub-contract,
' which is piece work on a somewhat
I lam. ana\a ETCD tllO SCatToldiUC iOT
1 the erection of an iron bridge, such as
that over the Severn, near Colebrook
1 .iale, of 200 feet span, was carried ont
1 upon the principle of snb contract; and
| the same system was adopted for the
excavation of shafts and adjacent lengths
' of tunnel. Payment by piece is benefl
cial alike to the master and the man.
; The man earns higher wages, while the
master has the satisfaction of obtaining
1 an equivalent for the wages he has paid,
and completing the oontrrct which he
i has undertaken with far greater rapidity.
On public works the difference in
1 the earnings of the men paid by piece
' work and the men working by the day
was always remarkable. In the canal
making days men working in butty
gangs would earn four shillings, whi'e
i others working on the day system woi Id
not earn more than from two to thiee
shillings a day.
It seems to me that pieoe work is oca
of the many instances in which a friend
has been mistaken for an enemy; and .
that vreat calamity would befall those
who have denounced it if their d< nunci- %
utions were carried into practical effect.