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THE TRIBUNE.
Y0L. I.--NO. 44. REAUFORT, S. C., SEPTEM HER 22, 1875. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
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In the Shelter of the Fold.
There wore ninoty and nino that safely lay '
In the shelter of the fold ;
But one was out on the hills away
Far off from the gates of gold.
Away on the mountains wild and bare, i
Away from the tender Shepherd's care. j
"Lord, Thou hast hero Thy ninety and nino ;
Aro they not enough for Thee ?"
Bui the Shepherd made answer: "This of (
mine
Has waildered away from me ;
And althongli the road be rough and steep, I
I go to the desert ts find my sheep." j
But none of the ransomed over knew j
How deep were the waters crossed ; ,
Nor how dark was the night that the Lord
passed through, I
'Ero Ho found His sheep that was lost.
Out in the desert He heard its cry,
Hio.lr an 1 linlnlnao o??*1 '
??? ??v ..V.J.IVO.7, Muu i vaUJ (.U UIO. I
"Lord, whonce aro thoso blood tracks all the
way
That mark out tho mountain's track ?"
" Thoy wore shod for one who had gone astray
'Ere tho Shepherd could bring him back."
tl Lord, whence are Thy handB so rent and
torn V"
" Thoy are pierced to-night by many a thorn.'
And all thro' tho .mountains, thunder riven,
And up from the rocky steep,
Tiiore rose a ory to the gate of heaven,
" Kejoioe ! I have found my sheep !"
And tho angels echoed around the throne,
" Rojoico ! for the Lord briugs back His
own !" ?Moody awl Sankey's Hymn.
"WILD ROSE OF CAPE COD.
Nearly nil the roses in Massachusetts
uro born iu June, but Wild, the little
daughter of John Rose, was born in
l^ecember. and on C!nr>? C!nrl. ton
Well, 011 Capo Cod, as I said, Wild '
Rose was born ; but tliat was twelve '
years ago, so, this last December, was
celebrated lier twelfth birthday. It 1
wasn't much of a celebration, to be sure, 1
for there weron't many persons to cele- 1
brate it?only Mrs. Rose and Johnny, 1
and Wild herself, for Captain Rose was 1
gono on a fishing trip. 1
At tea that night there was upon the
table a big load of ginger-cake?frosted, 1
too?aud around about it?not on it, (
mind you?twelve small tallow candles. 1
41 Twelve dips," Johnny said, " that 1
made as much light as the Highland it- 1
self." And Johnny ought to know, for \
the keeper of Cape Cod light is a great 1
friend of Johnny's and often in summer 1
lets the lad go up with him to see him J
"light up."
This Highland light stands out on the I
blenk cape, and is oftentimes the first i
light that greets the sight of seamen i
when approaching the coast of New England
from over the Atlantic ocean. j
Even in summer the wind blows so
hard at the Highland that it blows the t
wings of yonug turkeys over their heads, <
and in winter it blows nobody knows
how hard. 1
I am quite certain you never saw a 1
homo like Wild Rose's home. It is hidden
away in the very bottom of a big 1
hollow in the sand, and is protected on 1
all sides by a high fence to keep the
sand from covering it up. In the first 1
place the house had been built upon 1
spiles driven into the sand, but the
I?>nco wag uftorwards added, and outside 1
of the fence was a barricade of seaweed, i
Over the stilts, fence, sea-weed and all I
was the fisherman's cabin, as snug and
warm and comfortable as anywhere on i
Capo Cod could be. Not far away on
the Atlantic coast was a charity house, ]
not a poorhouso where poor folks could I
go and livo when they hadn't anywhere
else to live, but a rude room, inclosed i
by a rude outside, into which a poor ^
shipwrecked mariner might crawl and i
possibly keep himself from freezing to ?
death until help should arrive. Wood i
and matches and straw are supposed to
bo kept in every charity house along the
coast. I
Johnny Rose was two years younger 1
than his only sister Wild, but a ton- 1
year-old lad on Cape Cod knows more of
the sea and ships and fishing than the <
wipesi grown-up man in the world who
lives inland.
The Little Katie was Captain Rose's 1
fishing schrtoner, and the Little Katie
was frozen fast in the ice right ill sight <
from the laud up the bank above the
cabin. Two weeks passed by and still
the ice held the fishing boats and would
not let them go. Stout little steam tugs ]
went rasping away with firm bows and
good intent at the ice day after day in
order to break it up and tow the boats I
out of danger, but the cold came down
stronger than ever and knit the ice i
cake - firmer and firmer. Every day,
Johnny, bundled up until he looked like <
I don't know what, made the toilsome
journey over to the Highland to look I
through the "glass" at his father's <
scnooner, ami, every ingnt ior two 1
weeks, with a faoe on liro from the fric- i
tion of the wind, he came back with the
good news, " No signal up yet." '
"No signal up yet " meant that there j
was still something left to eat and wood I
to burn 011 the Little Katie, and hopes I
also of gutting free of the ice without ?
sinking. 1
Now and then a neighhor came down
into the hollow and walked in without !
knocking at tho cabin door, to inquire 1
how Mrs. Rose was getting on, and to
say yet again: "Cape Cod has seen
harder times than this, Mrs. Rose. 1
Keep up a stout heart, and we'll hnvo 1
the fleet safo into Providence harbor be- l
fore many days." And then Mrs. Rose
would put on a bright look and say, in a
cheery voice, " Oh, I hope so," but in
her heart she feared all tilings, for did
she not know that every dwelling
on Cape Cod had its widow sooner o
later ?"
At last there came a dav when Mrs
Roso said that Wild miglit go to th?
light with Johnny to learn tlio news.
The two children set off iu high glee
The sky was clear, and the wind wai
blowing from the west. The Highlant
lighthouse was not more than a mil<
away, and what could happen to tin
children ? Nevertheless, Mrs. ltos<
gave them many commands. Thei
were to return as soon as they found ou
what news from Little Katie, and. if i
should biiow, they were to go back o;
forward, whichever way should be tin
nearer, and, if near the coast, they en
to go to the charity house iu tlio bauk
and wait there for rescue.
The wind helped them on tlier way
and, to write the exact truth, blew st
hard and so fast, that it camo very neai
blowing thorn past tho lighthouse ove;
the high bauk into the ocean.
" It's a tough day, a tough day, evei
for the Cape," ssid the lightkeeper, whei
they reached the lighthouse, "and tin
boats have drifted, Johnny. For tin
tho life of me, I can't make out tho Lit
tie Katie." Hut Johnny made her oul
without the slightest difficulty. O;
Bourse ho did 1 Does not every Cap<
Cod boy know his father's boat ? Mon
than all, there hung the signal of dis
tress. The light-keeper saw it, and Wilt
looked at it, and Johnny looked again
ffld declared that: " Come what would
he'd get out there, and find out what tin
matter was."
Then the glass was put away, ant
they all went down, and the children
thoroughly warmed, started for home.
A little cloud over Cape Cod bay grev
ind came nearer and spread more ant
more, and at last began to drop dowi
like white snow on the sand.
" Come ! pitch into it as fast as yot
Ban while we can see," said Johnny,
seizing Wild's hand and bowing-to tlit
wi ud. "We're three-quarters home ant
we'll make it iu no timo."
It was not dark, and Johnny know tin
land marks well. Here a bnneli of nnv
arty grass and there a forlorn clump o
bayberry, whose outlines he knew jus
is he knew the outlines of the boats anc
jails, served to guide him when the oil
was thick with snow.
"We're lost!" said Wild, pulling
back and trying to stop Johnny; but tin
sturdy little fellow declared that thej
wern't-lost at all; didn't he know a!
ibout it? Hadn't lie "fogged" it mam
l time to the light and back ? Why
there, right ahead, was a polo that h<
knew. Of course it was, right on top o
borne; and there was mother calling tlii
minute, not fifty feet away.
All of which statements were quit
true ; and in five minutes they were saf<
in the cabin, and had told their newi
from the ice bound boats.
"Nothing to eat, maybo, and cold
perhaps. Not sick, I hope," said Mrs
wild ; and then, in rather -a dismal way
die set forth the little table for tliei;
evening meal.
" I should think you'd feel gladde:
ibout our getting homo Bafe, mother,'
laid Wild ; " for just see how it snows.'
" I am," said Mrs. Wild ; " but I wai
dunking of some way to help you:
father."
"Do you think there is a way?" askei
Wild. " You know the boats can't ge
there, and the ice isn't safe."
" If I was God," said Johnny, " I'<
fetch a big wind along that 'ud cracl
;liat ice up small as fisli scales in u<
time."
"Yes, and sink every boat in no time !'
suggested Wild, with scorn.
"Oh, dear 1" said Johnny, "I gues
[ was in too much of a hurry ; but some
thing's got to be done!"
The wind had boen blowing two hour
liter dark, ana tlie snow and sand wen
whirling abont in a long, ronud dance
iftor the fashion of Capo Cod sand an<
mow, when Wild called ont of the dark
less to Johnny:
" Are you asleep t"
Johnny guessed he wssn't asleep, al
bough he had been fast asleep whei
Wild's voice reached him, and waute<
Jo know what was the matter.
'I've thought of away, I guess, w
san reaeh the Little Katie, Johnny."
" How ?"
Johnny was up in the bed, leaning oi
lis hands, interested, in a moment.
"You know that big hank of net-twin^
>f father's ?"
" What of it ?" with disappointment
" Don't you believe 'twould reach ?"
" Whoso goin' to reach it, I shouli
,ike to know ?"
" When the wind blows right"?
"What, then, Wild Roso ? Are yoi
talking in your sleep ?"
"Send a kite over!" suggested Wild
aot heeding the interruption.
"Whew !" exclaimed Jhhnny, sinking
lown into his warm bed again.
He didn't speak, and poor Wih
thought ho held her scheme in oxtrenn
ierision ; nevertheless, Johnny wa
.1. -/i? ?
^uuiniug, oveu uner mo tiibUJr wai
ileeping.
The next day it snowed all day
rhere was no chance to hear one won
From the fishing fleet. Johnny declare!
that he must go to the nearest neigh
bor's house. He know the way wel
snougli; but it was after nine o'clocl
before he set forth.
Presently he returned wit'n his friend
Peter Petit, and the two lads spent tin
morning, with barred door, in Captoii
Itose's net-room.
Wild peeped into the place when tin
boys were out of it eatiug tlioir dinner
and beheld, to her amazoinont, the skole
ton of a lingo kite.
"Oh, Johnny! aro you going to tr
it ?" she cried, running out to liini.
At first, Johnny was vexed that sin
had found it out, buj in a minute or tw<
he was all over the pot, and was in higl
r glee when Wild and her mother joined
in the work. An hoar before the sun
. went down across the bay, the kite was
0 done and the snow ceased to fall. It was
too late to go to the Highland light to
. see the signal on the Little Katie ; it was
s too late to do anything with the kito,
1 even had the wind been right.
0 The ue\t morning the wind blew just
a right, and almost at the break of day
0 the boyV set forth, accompanied by live
p or six men, for idlers are always to be
t found cu Cape Cod iu winter.
t The kito was made of good stout par
per, and was covered with messages to
9 the captain of the Little Katie, or any
3 other captain over whoso boat it might
, chance to fall, or get entangled. The
wind was ofl shoro, and away went the
, kite, the men paying ontthe seine twine;
) but alas! the kite went high above the
r boats and did not roach them. It was
r cold work flying kite on the awful icebound
shore, but the novelty of it
1 brought a crowd of men to tho spot. To
l their own surprise they entered into tho
3 work with spirit, but every attempt that
3 morning failed. Tho kite fell short, or
- flew too high, or wont off in the wrong
t direction.
f " Run home, laddies, and get your
3 dinner, and get warm clear through
3 your bones," said one of the men to
- Johnny and Peter, about eleven of the
1 clock, "and we'll see what can be done
, with the kite this afternoon."
, When Johnny reached home he de3
clared that he wasn't cold the least bit,
nor hungry the least atom, but ho sat in
1 front of a blazing drift-wood fire and
, ate like a giant, and got up to go to the
coast again.
Wild didn't Beo why she couldn't go,
too. It was her fathor just as much
as Johnny's, and sho cared as much
about tho Littlo Katie as any of them
diil. And so Wild, bundled up until
all resemblance to a twelve-year-old
girl was lost, set forth, toiling through
the snow and sand to the coast. At a
short distance in the rear, Mrs. Wild
followed on. It seemed to her, as Bhe
Jrew near tho shore, that half the inhabitants
of the next village were gatli,
ered to see the flying of a kite.
It was just ready to start on its over-ice
journey when Wild came upon the sceno.
44 Don't you see, there won't be anything
to catch hold of ?" she said to
Johnny.
44 Catch hold of?" repeated Johnny,
who #felt that he could not, in justice,
despite Wild's suggestions any more.
44 I'll show you," she said, 44 if you'll
hold on a minute. Tie some long strings,
now and then, near the kite, that will
s hang down."
The strings were tied on, half a dozen
s of them, at intervals, and away went
e tho kite, with more 44 string to it," than
s any other kite that ever flew.
44 Twon't reach ! It flies too high !
, No go ? Let out! Give it string I
. Hurrah 1" as the kite seeming to meet
, wind in another current began to flutter,
r turn, and actuallv did fall on the ice
within reaching distance of tlie Little
r Katie's crew.
' Then such a shout as went up from
'* tlio Cape Cod shore, for, was there not a
3 line fast from one of the ice-bound boats
r to the firm old mainland, and did it not
mean tbat bread at least could be drawn
1 across the frozen sea to thd famishing ?
t Tho men on the Littlo Katio wero
pulling in the kite, which looked a good
1 deal worn, but still tlioy gathered around
? it, and read in Johnny's boy-hand tho
*> words : ' If you get the kite, don't pull
in the string, for we'll put something to
" eat on it if you are hungry, and you can
pull it over. Everybody's well over
8 here. Wild and Johnny."
i- Captain Roso read the words, and then
he and his crew tried to shout back, but
b tho wind carried their voices across tho
o bay.
, Within tho next twenty Jour hours tho
.1 cord had been doubled, and food in
small packages went along the novel
roadway from hour to hour, until miles
of seine twino lay on the deck of tlio
[- Little Katie, and many loaves of bread,
a with small packages of "salt meat,"
.1 sugar, tea and coffee, had been secured
from the sea.
o The next morning the wind blew again
on Capo Cod. The inhabitants were on
the watch for the kite, and, lo I it was
a seen rising in the air. On, on, it came.
It sailed over the heads of the group on
0 shore ; it went right across the "Wrist"
of Capo Cou. It would have gono out
,. upon the ocean, but for the Highland
lighthouse, that caught and held the
1 great fluttering bird of man.
Wild and Jolinny were the first to
reach the light and cry out "What
a news?" to the keeper, who had just succeeded
in recovering the batterod kite.
, " Come and see with your young
eyes." Wild and Johnny found the
5 words: "We had had nothing to eat for
two days. Now we'll weather the ice,
1 God willing, and get in all right. We've
a supplied the Mary from our stores."
s And there, right at the door, the firsts
comers, who had followed the kite, were
Mrs. Rose and the friends of tho men
. of the Mary.
1 "Whose idea was the kite?" asked an
1 old fisherman.
- ' " Wild's," shouted Johnny.
1 [ "Johnny made it though. I couldn't
i inako ft kite," paid Wild; but not a soul
sftvo Johnny heard her, for the wild air
about tho light was ringing with the
a shout of "Long livo Wild ltoso of Cape
! Cod!"
9 Coarse plug tobacco made Into a
, strong solution, will, in two or three
- applications, kill ringworm. An equally
sure remedy for this disease, mange in
P animals, or itch, is equal parts of blue
precipitate, soft soap and lard, mixed,
a rubbed in and kept on over night
J washing off with castile soap and warm
i water in tho morning.
Insanity in tlie Sexes.
A contributor to Popular Science
Monthly says : We obtained an idea
of lovo differentially as it exists in tho
sexes by observing the degreo to which
it affects men and women as a probable
cause of insanity. In the same manner,
I think, wo can gain a knowledge of the
comparative intensity with which emotions
and states of consciousness, common
to both sexes, exist in intellection,
by observing the extent to which they
react as a probable cause of mental
alienation. For my purpose I shall use
Dr. Kirkbrido's report for the Pennsylvania
hospital for the insane. The analysis
is based upon tho supposed causes
of iusauity in 6,899 cases. Domestic
voluo, to his heirs, remarking coolly that
'' means would be found to eay*y his intentions
into effect." Mallett: Ay, I
remember the fact very well, and I remember
also that means were found, and
that a large sum was raised by public
subscription to pay off his debts and
carry his intentions into effect. I wonder
if the public would do that for us?
Belton : Immediately after his death a
statute was proposed to bo erected to
him, and, in view of the debts ho owed,
Outis suggested that it should b?* cast in
brass from tho aars alievo ho left. Mallett
: Bravo ! And I believe it was the
same person who remarked on hearing
that this same great person ago had paid
tho debt of natnre : " Thank God 1 It
is the only debt I over know him to pay."
Detroit Free Press CiirrencyTlie
mosquitoes haven't put in a very
profitable season thus far.
Thn?a ,1/xI.^aa .1 11- 1
uuicuicies are 1110 proDaDie causes 01
mental diseaso in forty-Beven men and
eighty-six women. Nearly two to one
expresses the difference in intensity in
the action of this cause. Fright resulted
in insanity in sixteen men and thirtysix
women ; grief affected soventy-seven
men and two hundred and fifty-six
womon, a difference of more than three
to ono ; religious excitement acts as the
cause in seventy-nine men and one nundred
and twenty-seven women, a difference
of sixty-two per cent. ; nostalgia,
seven women and no men ; from mental
anxiety there are one hundred and sixtyfour
men and two hundred and sixty-one
womon insane. These causes, which
present such dissimilarity, have one
band of union ; they affect the emotional
part of the physical nature. From
this I would not conclude that women
are loss able to bear the operation of
theso exciting causes than men; but
that the emotional nature of women is
more largely developed, and thus more
exposed to the action of such causey as
directly affect it. If I am right in this,
W3 would expect to see in women the
emotionnl forms of insanity devoloped in
excess of the same in men ; and this is
just what we find. Continuing to an
myze iuo uiuie.s oi ut. narKunue relating
to the same cases as above, we find
the number of women to be 3,220, the
number of men exceeding them by 459 ;
and yet thero are 1,032 cases of malancholia
among the women to 832 in men.
Prof. Maudsley defines this form of in
sanity as " great oppression of their
self-feeling, with corresponding gloomy,
morbid ideas."
Loud Manners toward Ladies.
Recent events, says a writer, liavo
called public attention to the intimate
relation of morals and manners. It may
be said that there is no greater peril to
morality than much that is called merely
free and easy manners. Young men, and
even young women, permit themselves a
freedom and license of manner which,
having all the aspect of impropriety,
may very readily acquire its substance.
Edward addresses Emily with a loud and
jesting intimacy of tone and conduct,
which might bo expected in the sailor
saloons, but which is repulsive and odious
in the drawing-room or among refined
or gentle persons. Edward and
Emily would be amazed to be told that
they have not the manners of a gentleman
or of a lady. They think that they
above all others know what is the rule
of high society. But they are merely
vulgar, and have the manners of those
who aro worse than merely vulgar.
Coarseness cannot be gilded into refinement.
The young woman who habitually
calls her young friends of the other
sex by their Christian names, or who
suffers anything that can bo called familiarity,
although it fall short of actual
indecorum, should reflect carefully.
"Sir," said a lady to a policeman who
took her elbow to pass her over the
street, "if I wish you to touch me I
will ask you." No woman of a high
sense of personal dignity wishes any
man to lay his hand upon her thoughtlessly
or unnecessarily. Nor will such a
woman permit any kind of rudeness in
the tone or manner of men.
The Vineland Case.
Mr. Carruth, the editor who was shot,
and his family have returned to Vinelaud,
N. J. Carruth, says a correspondent,
has become very corpulent and
looks remarkably woll. His sight is very
much impaired, and he has to move his
head to cover the width of a newspaper
column. Ho thinks the ball is lodged
behind his right eye, and if it should
trouble him seriously in that region he
intends to have the eye taken out, so
that the ball may bo sought through the
socket. He can walk or ride without
much inconvenience, but exertion is invariably
followed by loss of strength.
In addition to the thirteen acres of land
which ho owns in Vineland, and which
is free from incumbrance, he owns
property in Wisconsin. Ho is determined
to spend tlio remaindor of his
life in his Vineland homo. If his incomo
bo exhausted before his death, he
says he will go to the poorhouse of
Cumberland county. Ho has no', made
a complaint against Eaiulis, as he says he
supposes the people will do what is right
about it. His recollection of the incidents
attending the shooting are very
much confused. The report that negotiations
were progressing lietween him
and Landis on the question of damages
is unfounded. Neither party lias as yet
made any advances to the other on the
subject.
A complaint is made in an English
magazine that instead of studying her
own maritime interests, England has
uicntuii iivd unvui liuweifl, VHTIllIlIiy ,
Turkey, Spain, Brazil and Peru, by permitting
tlie construction, on the Tunnies
ami Clyde, of iron-clads superior to any
in lior navy for these countries. It is
urged that tlie lords of the admiralty
should take immediate steps to have
this business broken up.
i xucou uiu imi.1. buu uuuuirj aro
very annoying to old drunkards.
"I'll talk it over with Susan," is tho
last slang expression coined in New York.
Keep it in mind that it isn't positively
necessary to strike each separate stair
in falling down stairs.
It is believed that a good many more
people could increase tho conscience
fund if they only would.
Army regulations aro to bo altered so
as to allow men to enlist as cooks. Tho
question is, can a cook be a patriot ?
"How much is a meter*?" asks a
Cleveland paper. Wait till the gas man
comes around?he'll give liberal figures.
A Now York tailor says that if all men
would pay cash down for clothes the
tailors could knock thirty cents off of
prices.
There is no such word as " liar " in
the Chinese language, and the Chinese
get along about as well as any other nation.
A Wyoming lius'oand has givou his full
consent for his wife to run for office, but
he didn't give it until after a conflict
which broke every dish in the house.
The Pall Mall Gazette defends the
practico of man kissing each other's
wives. It may do for England, but the
practice has fallen into decay on this
side of tho ocean.
Would you think that Gideon Welles,
when you stand and look at him, over
carried candy mottoes in his pocket or
ever sat on the stile with his girl at twilight
and chewed gum ?
A .Boston man spent $13,000 in lottery
tickets nrnl drew about $600 in
prizes. If this isn't sufficient encouragement
for beginners we havo twenty sevon
other cases to bring forward.
Mr. Charles P. Clark, of East Gran by,
Conn., has tho original deed of tho farm
on which ho lives, and which has been
in the family one hundred and sixty-two
years, and also has in daily uso a wooden
vessel for straining milk which was usod
by his ancestors in the seventeenth century.
The number of sailing vessels has
gTeatly decreased throughout the world
since 1870, while a steady increase is
noted in steamships. According to a
report presented to a London society the
total tonnage of the great nations indicate
their relative rank an follows: First,
Great Britain; second, the United
States ; third, Sweden and Norway ;
fourth, Italy ; fifth. Germany; and
sixth, France. In 1874 tho total tonnngo
was 5,526,380.
Eccentric Will-Makers.
An eccentric old gentleman of his acquaintance
called upon him one day and
asked him to draw np a will for him.
" Certainly," said my father; "explain
to me how you wish to dispose of your
property and I will make a note of your
wishes and put them into regular form."
So the old gentleman began : "I wish
to give a hundred thousand dollars to
my old friend Alexander Tomkins. Poor
man, he is not very well ofY in worldly
fortune, but he is an excellent person
and I think this sum would make liim
comfortable for life. Please note that
down. Then another hundred thousand
to Mrs. Elizabeth Jones. I was in love i
with her once, but she married Jones, 1
and Jones has left her poor. Then there
is young Maulstick. Ho is showing a
good deal of talent?but he is suffering
from the ' rea angusta domi '?married
u rvenI tl?^11 T> ? L
? |/vv*| IJIMVVJ ^111 IUU UUI OIUIJ. JC lit
him down nt 850,000. And put down
850, (MX) to tho hospital of decayed gontlowomen.
It is an excellent institution."
My father paused, and looking up, said,
" I am delighted to see by these dispositions
of your property that you are so
rich. I had no idea that you possessed
such a fortune." "Fortune?" said the
old gentleman ; " God bless you, I have
no fortune. I am a poor man." "Poor?"
said my father ; " why, you have already
disposed to strangers of 8300,000, and as
I suppose you mean to leave your family
at least an equal amount, I should scarcely
call you a poor man." "Bless your
soul," Baid the old gentleman, "my
whole possessions would not amount to
one-tentli of tho sums I have named, but
1 put them down in my will to bIiow
what 1 would do if I had a fortune. I
wish to show my good will to all those
friends." Belton : That is precisely my
case. Excellent old man ! I wish I had
known him. Do you know it reminds
mo of the will of one of the greatest men
of America, who died not many years
ago ? He had, as ho said, lived like a
gentleman all his life?meaning, of
course, that he had spent all he could
get, and considerably more, and was
head over ears in debt ; but, liko this
old gentleman of whom you spoke, he
made a will disposing of large sums just
as if he had them, and leaving his real
wliinli wnfl mnrLTonrn/l fr* full
Items of Interest,
The American board of foreign missions
is behind 8200,000 for the year
closing August 81.
There has not been any one hanged in
Iowa for a great many years, and there
is complaint abont it.
Eastern Switzerland is afflicted with
the locust plague, and nearly all the
grain has been destroyed.
In the two hundred and twenty-five
churches in Brooklyn, N. Y., $170,850 is
paid annually for music.
Because two persons are of the one
mind it does not follow that they have
not brains enough for two heads.
It is estimated that during the last six
months over 96,103 persons in the United
Qi.l 1 1 v 1 v
outHjH uuvti uBt-ii Kxuea oj violence.
" Walk in & Sear " is the firm name of
two female partners in the skirt-making
business at Chicago, and people do.
A man in Paris has a pair of spectacles
in his stomach. He got them there in
an effort to produce vomiting by poking
them down his throat.
They are trying to acclimate the Florida
cedar tree in Germany, as it furnishes
the only kind of wood suitable for the
manufacture of lead pencils.
The Presbyterian Church in the United
States has thirty-six synods, 4,706
ministers, 606,034 oommunieants, and
520,452 Sunday-school children.
There will be a great gathering of
grangers at ljouisville, Ky., Oct 1.
The national and State executive committee
and all the purchasing agents
will be present.
An accommodating man?Buggs?
"Hello, rripe, moving?" Tripe?"Yes."
Buggs?"What for?" Tripe?"Well,
times are a little hard, and I am moving
to please my landlady."
A Milwaukee man mads three attempts
to blow his brains out, and then
his wife told him : "Don't try it again
John ; you haven't got any." He goes
about now saying that he owes his life to
that woman.
And again ihe watering place hotel
keeper lights big fires in his parlors,
puts on his overcoat and promenades
his vacant corridors, even wishing that
he were dead. But the coal dealer
saith "Aha!"
Lead and silver have been found at
Haverhill. Mum. r?n the farm where Hio
poet Whitiier was born, and a ahatt
twenty feet deep has been sunk, from
which ore equal to that found at Newbury
has been taken.
It is a singular coincidence that the
examination of the unearthed remains
of Azteo villages in Arizona and the
mounds in the Grand Traverse region of
Michigan reveal large quantities of charcoal
in close proximity to human bones.
Sinoe the year 1800 England has
waged forty-nine wars ; France, thirtyeight
; Russia, twenty-two j Austria,
twelve ; Prussia, eight; and in spito of
all the peaoe societies and international
conventions they all appear anxious for
another.
Respect old age. If you have a maiden
aunt thirty-three years old, and she
is passing herself off for a girl of nineteen,
there is no excuse for you to expose
her. The more you respect her
age and keep still about it, the more
she will respect you,
Danbury has the champion patient
boy. He comes from a chronically borrowing
family. .The other day he went
to a neighbor's for a cup of sour milk.
"I haven't anything but sweet milk,"
said the woman, pettishly. "Til wait
till it soars," said the obliging youth,
ainlting into a chair.
The recent discovery of extensive ooal
deposits in California will add much
to the prosperity of the State in more
ways than one. Last year the sum of
$10,000,000 was paid for iron, which
cest half as much more for transportation
from Eastern and foreign factories.
The following notice from the war
offico appeared m the London Gazette :
?" Half-pay ? Lientenant-Colonel and
Brevet-Colonel Valentine Baker, halfpay,
late Tenth Hussars, has been removed
from the army, her majesty having
no farther occasion for his services.
Dated August, 1873.
The Sultan of Zanzibar showed himself
generally a very smart chap to the
Europeans. He didn't wear any stars,
and garters, and crosses, and medals of
his own, nor would he accept of any, as
the wearing of such gewgaws is contrary
to the customs of his country, perhaps
because, as the evening and morning
dress of his subjects is simple nakedness,
they wonld have to cut buttonholes
in their skins to adopt such a fashion.
A chicken died in Auburn, Illinois
It belonged to Mr. Ney or Mr. Loch
ridge, whose yards adjoined, but to
which could not be determined. They
quarreled about it, and tossed the carcass
back and forth to each other over
tho intervening fence. Then Ney shot
at Lochridgo without hitting him.
Then Lochridge seised * a club and
chased Noy. In the fight that ensued
the revolver and the club were both used
freely, and Ney was killed.
A Chicago man accidentally struck his
gas meter with a base-ball club, and as a
result his monthly bills declined from
$30 to less than $5. Presently a man
came round to " have a look at the
mctor," and took it off with him, leaving
another one in its plaoe, which, being
uiiclnbbed, immediately set to work ana
rolled up a $30 bill against the leasee.
Tho simple fact that a means has been
discovered of persuading these unconscionable
gas meters into something like
reasonable conduct will l>e received with *
joy by thousands of citizens.