The tribune. (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, September 27, 1876, Image 1
The Beaufort Tribune.
VOL. II.?NO. 45. BEAUFORT, S. C., SEPTEMBER 27, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
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Whore flows the river by, to take, we two, our
place
And boo it flow,
To watch the clouds that como and go in
space i
Still come and go,
If at the horizon bnrnB a thatch, by chance
To see it bnrn. 1
Should flowers the sweetness of tho air en- i
hanoe,
That way to turn,
Hangs there ripe fruit, tompting the hov'ring
bees
To bend that bough,
Sings there aloft a wild bird 'mid tho trees,
To listen now.
And at the willow's foot, to hear the stream
Go murmuring past,
Taking no heed while lasts for us this dream
That time doth last,
No s'rougth of passion bringing to oar life
Hhto in adoring,
And unaware of this world's woe and strife,
It all ignoring, \
Happy alone, wbere wearinets doth reign,
And weary never,
Feeling that love, whore all things ebb and <
wane,
i nduroth ever.
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DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. i
Two men met in New York. They 1
wero merchants.
" What do yon think of Carlton's affairs,
Mr. Elder?" asked one of them.
" 1 tiiiuk we shall secure a pretty fair
percentage. Don't you?"
Yes, if we wind him up."
44 That we shall do, of course. Why
let him go ou ? It will take liir two or
three years to get through, if at all."
44 If he cau get through in two or
threo years, I shall certainly be in favor
of lcttiug him go on. Times havo been
rather hard aud business dull. But
everything looks encouraging now."
441 don't believe in extensions, Mr.
Highland. The Barest way, when a man
gets iuto difficulties, is to wind him up
anil secure what you can. Ten chances
to one, if you let liin. go, you lose every
oent."
441 have granted extensions in several
instances, Mr, Elder," replied bis oompauion,
44uni obtained, eventually, my
whole claim, excopt in a single case. '
44 It's always a risk. I go by the
motto, 4 A bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush,' " returned Elder. 441
am always ready to take what I can get
to-day, and never trust to the motiow.
That is my way of doing business."
44 But do you uot think the debtor entitled
to some consideration!"
44 How ?" with a look of surprise.
44 He is a man of like passions with
ourselves."
" I don't know that I understand you
exactly, Mr. Highland."
" Mr. Carlton Las domostio relations
as well as you and I."
" I never doubted it. But what of
that?"
" If we break him up in business, the
evil will not visit him alone. Think of
the effect upon his family."
" In trade we never consider a man's
family relations."
"But should we not, Mr. Elder?
Should we not regard the debtor as a
man ?"
" A a man who owes us, and is unable
to pay what is duo ; but in no other
light, returned Mr. Elder, with a
slight curl of the lip.
" Thoro wo differ widley."
" And will continue to differ, I
imagine. Good morning, Mr. Highland
I"
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iiiu iiwu men partem
An hour previous, Mr. Oarlton, about
whom they had been conversing, eat
with his family, a wife and three daughters
at the breakfast table. He tried to
oonverse in his usual cheerful manner,
but too heavy a weight was upon his
heart. There had come a crisis in his
affairs, which he feared would not be
passed without ruin to himself. If the
effects of his misfortune would not
reach beyond his store and countingroom;
if upon his head alone would fall
tho fragments of a broken fortune he
would not have murmured. But the
dieastor could not stop there. It would
extend even to the sanctuary of home.
On t.he duy previous he had called on
a few of bis creditors and asked of them
an extension. If this were not given,
it would be impossiblo fo* him to keep
on longer than a few weeks. The spirit
in which most of the oreditors had reoeived
the unexpected announcement
that he was in difficulties, gave him
little to hope. Ho was to liavo another I
interview with them during the day.
From that, as it would exhibit tho re- i
li If. nf a nmlif'a A1
- ? "ru "llt1 1
minds of his creditors, he would be j
sble to see clearly his chanocs of beiog 1
sustained in business. He awaited the I
hour with nervous anxiety. When it ar- i
rived, and the fow creditors oalled in i
had assembled, ho saw little in their <
faces to give him hope. Tho first who t
spoke out plainly was Elder. I
" I, gentlemen," he said, firmly, "am 1
opposed to alt extensions. If a man oan- i
not pay as he goes, I think he had bet- 1
terwindup." i
" If all do not agree in this matter, it I
will be no use to attempt extending Mr. 1
Carlton's time," remarked one of the
0?, creditors, who thought and felt as did i
Elder, but was not willi g to come out i
so plaiuly. 1
" ihat is very true," said a third. ]
A partial extensiou will be of no use." i
The heart of poor Carlton almost <
oeased to beat.
" Have you any objection to retiring
tor a lew minutes if" eaul Mr. Highland
tfi the debtor.
" J will withdraw, oertainly," returned
Mr. Carlton, and left tho room.
" My own view, geutlcmon," mid Mr.
Highland, "is, that we ought to grant
all that is asked. Mr. Carlton's business
is good, and ho will get over his
present difficulties easily, if we only
assist him a little. We should bo just,
as man toward man; and this I do not
think we should be in thiB case unless
wo consider Carlton as well as ourselves.
He is an honest man, and an honest man
in difficulties is always entitled to consideration."
" That is all very well. But when a
man gives his note payablo at a cei tain
day, ho ought to be very suro tuat ho
will be able to take it up. Creditors are
entitled to Fomo consideration as well
us debtors. Too cry of poor debtor ' is
soon raised, but who, I wonder, thinks
of tho poor creditor ? I, for one, am not
prepared to extend."
This was said by Elder.
" As for me," spoke up another, " I
take but one view of matters like this.
If I think I will do better by renewincr.
I am ready to so; if by winding up
tlio party now I cau do better, I go for
wiudiug up. I have confidence in Carlton's
integrity. I believe ho means
well. But cau he get through ? that is
the question I"
" I believe he can," said Mr. Highland.
44 And I doubt it," returned Elder.
The efforts of Elder to efface the impression
the words of Mr. Highland had
made, proved in vain. It was agreed
that tho debtor should receive tho extorsion
he asked. When informed of
this decision, Carlton could notf hide
bis emotions, though he strove hard to
io st. His grateful acknowledgments
for the favor granted, touched more
than one heart that had been cold as ice
toward him a short time before. How
iifferout were his feelings when he met
bis lamily that evening, and silently
thanked Heaven that the cloud which
bud hovered over and threatened to
break in desolating tempest had passed
from the sky.
Long before tho arrival of tho time
for which an extension had been granted,
Mr. Carlton was able to pay off everytLiug,
and to look in the face without
u:q leusant emotions every man he met.
Strange things happen in real life
Mr. Elder w.is a shipper and extensively
engaged in trade. For a series of years
avorything went on prosperously with
him. His veutures always found a
good market, and his consignments safe
tud energetic factors. All this ho at
iiibutod to his own business acumen.
"I never make bad shipments," he
(could sometimes say. "I never consigu
to doubtful agents."
A man like Mr. Elder is rarely permitted
to go through life without a
practical conviction that he is in the
rand of One who governs all events. It
s rarely that suoh a one does not bojome
painfully conscious in the end
;hat human prudence is as nothing.
The lirst thing that occurred to chock
;1 e confident spiiit of Mr. Elder was
;ho loss of a f-hip and cargo under circumstances
that gave the underwriters a
'air tloa for not paying the risk. He
med and was cast. The lost was twen;y-five
thousand dollars.
A few weeks after, news came that a
ihipment to the South Amerioan coast
lad resulted in a loss. From that time
everything seemed to go wrong. His
idveutures found a glutted market, and
liir return cargoes a depression of
prices. If he held on to a thing in the
Pope of better rates, prices would go
iown, untd, in a desperate mood, he
would sell; then they would go up
itcodily. The time wa? when he could
x>nfiue himself strictly to legitimate
trade. But a mania for speculation now
took held of him and urged him on to
ruin. He evon ventured into tho bewildering
precincts of tho stock niart.
lured bv the hone of nnlemli<l re.
raits. Here he stood upon ground that
loon crumbled beneath his feet. A loss
jf twenty or thirty thousamd dollars
jurod him of this folly, and ho turned
with a aigh to hia counting-room, to digest
with care and prudent forethought,
sorro aufe operation in hia regular business.
But the true balance of his mind waa
oat. He oould not consider with calm
loss the buaiue8a in hand. A false move
was the consequence. Lohs instead of
protlt was the unfortunate result.
Seven yoara from the day Mr. Elder
apposed an arrangement with Mr. Carina,
which should regard the debtor as
well as the creditor, he himself found it
impossible to provide for all his heavy
payments. For some time he had kept
liis head above water by making sacriUcG-t,
but the end of this came.
After a sleepless night the merchant
darted one morning for his store, oppressed
with the sad conviotion that before
the day closed his fair fame would
se larnisned. As lio walked along Mr.
arltou catno to his sido with a choerful
wlutation. Mr. 0. was now a largo creditor
instead of a debtor. On that very
lay, bills in his favor bad matured to
tho amount of five thousand dollars, and
these Elder oonld not pay. The recollection
of this made it almost impossible
ror him to reply to the pleasant observations
of his oompnnion. Vividly, an
if it had ooonrred yesterday, came up
bcfdre his mind the cironmstanoe that
bad transpired a few years previously.
Ho remembered how eagerly he had
sought, from the merest selfish motives,
to break down Mr. Carlton and
throw him helpless upon the world, and
how near ho was to accomplishing the
an rchaut's total overthrow. Such recollections
drove from his mind the
li"po that for a moment had presented
iUelf of enlisting Mr. Carlton's good
feelings and securing bim as a fri
in the trial through which he was ah
pass.
Several times during the walk he
on the point of breaking the mattei
Mr. C.t but either his heart failed 1
or his companion made some remark
which he was compelled to reply,
length tliey separated without any a
siou by Mr. Elder to the subject
which he was so desirous of speaki
He hud not the courage to utter
first word.
But this was only postponing fc
very brief period the evil day. Sev<
remittances were auxiously looked
that morning. Ho broke the seali
letter after letter, with trembl
anxiety. Alas ! the mail brought ]
no aid. His last hope was gone. N<
ing now remained for him but to t
his fueo bravely to tho threaten
storm and bear up agninst its fury.
For a whilo he debated tho quest
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pursue. At one time be thought of |
iug no informatiou of bin cnnditi
until the notary's protest should sta
them from their ignorance. Then
thought it would bo best to notify
holdt r of paper due on that day tin
would not bo tuken up. Then it seer
to him best to givo notico of his c
dition. He prepared brief notes to
but Mr. Carlton first. His heart fai
liim when ho attempted to write
name. Vividly, as if it had occur
but tho day previous, came up bef
his mind all tho circumstances atte
ant upon that gentlemau's appeal to
creditors. His cheek bnrned when
remembered the position he had assur
in that afiivr.
Hut, even though such wero
feelings, when he came to dispatch
notes ho had prepared he could c
find courage to send tho ono written
Mr. Carlton. Tho other creditors, wh
bills had matured that day, he thou
he would go and see ; but half an h
{>nssed without his acting upon the r<
ution to do so. Most of the day
spent in walking uneasily the floor of
couutiug-room, or in examining cerl
accounts iu Ins ledger, or entries in
bill book. He was bending, all
sorbed, over a page of calculations
his desk, when some one who had
tered unperceived pronounced his nai
Ho turned quiokly and looked Mr. C
ton in the fuoe. The color mounted
stautly to tho temples of Mr. Elder.
tried to speak, but could uot.
' Your uoto has taken me altoget
by surprise," said Mr. Carlton. "J
I hope things are not so bad as j
suppose.1'
Mr. Elder shook his head. Do tr
to speak, but could not.
*' How much have you to pay to-daj
asked Mr. Carlton.
"Ten thousand dollars," was tho
ply, in a husky voice.
" How much have you toward it ?"
" Not two thousand."
" How much falls due to-morrow i'
" Four thousand."
" How much in a month ?"
" Fifty thousand."
" What will bo your available
sources ?"
" Not half the amount."
" Haven't you good bille ?"
"Yes; but not negotiable."
Mr. Carlton mused for soino time,
length he said:
" You must not lie over to-day."
"1 cannot help it."
" If yoti will transfer to me, as sc
rity in case you have to stop payme
the bills of which you speak, I will lc
you the amount you want to day."
The color retired from tho cheeks
Mr. Elder and then came back witl
quick iiush. He made no unswer, 1
looked steadily and doubtingly into 1
Carlton's face.
"I havo been in difficulties mys
and 1 know how to sympathize w
others," said tho latter. " We shoi
aid if we can, not break down a fell
merchaut when in trouble. Indorse b
to my order for tho sura you want, a
I will till up a check for the amount.'
Elder turned slowly to his desk a
took therefrom sundry notes of hand
tho favor at various Cates from six
twelve months, and indorsed them p
able to Carlton, who immediately a;
biin a ?dieck for cigbt thousand doll
and lei t the store.
A chirk was instantly dispatched
tho bank and then Mr. Elder sunk ii
a chair, half stupefied. He could hur<
believe bis senses uutil tbe cancel
notes wero placed in bis bauds.
On the next morning, Mr. Elder w<
to bis place of business with feelii
but little less troubled than tbey L
beeu on the day before. His paymei
wore lighter, but his means were for I
first time exhausted. The best hecoi
do would be to borrow; but bo alrea
owed heavily for borrowed money a
was not certain that to go further \
practicable. He thought of Mr. Ct
ton; but every feeling of bis heart f
bade him to seek further aid from hit
" I descrvo no consideration the
and I cannot ask it," he murmured,
he pursued his way toward his sto
Tho first thing that met bis oye on i
tering his counting-room was a pile
ship 1< tters. Thero bad been an arri
from Valparaiso. He broke the Real
the first one he took up, with eagerne
" jnauK uooi" was ms almost immc
ate exclamation. It was from one of
captains, and contained drafts for flit<
thousand dollars. It also informed b
that tbe ship Barah, commanded by s:
captain, would sail for home in a we<
with a return cargo of hides and spe
amounting to thirty thousand dolln
The voyage had been profitable beyc
expectation.
Elder had jnst finished reading 1
letter, when Mr. Carlton came in. 8*
tho kiutl hearted merchant by the h&i
end nud pressing it hard, ho said, with emoiont
tion :
"Carlton, you have Raved me I Ah !
was sir?this would bo to me a far happier J
r to moment, if, seven years ago, when you (
him wero in trouble, I had as generously
i to aided you."
At " Let tho past sleep in peace," re- 1
llu- turned Mr. Carlton. "If fortune has
on smiled again, permit mo to rejoice with (
ing. you, as I do with all who are blessed ,
tho with favoring gales. To meet with dif- j
flculties is of use to tis. It gives ur the (
>r a power of sympathy with others; and (
u-al that gift we should all dosiro, for it is a
for good thing to lift the burden from shoul- ]
ng, d:-r& bent down with too heavy a weight,
ing aud throw suulight over a heart shaded j
him by gloom."
>th- Mr. Elder recovered from hia orippled ,
u;u condition in the course of a few mouths.
iug Ho wns never again known to oppress a j
si;fferiDg debtor. (
lion
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jiv- Tales of My Grandmother.
Hoogloy'e boy has been spending his
j10 summer vacation with his grandfather 1
and grandmother, down East, says an
exchange. He got home this week, and <
Qej a few evenings ago, while sitting on the |
on- curbstone adjusting a rag on his sore 1
all heel, ho was telling Squeaky (one of his 1
iled chums) what a good time he had. The 1
bjg following is his story : I've goo the old *
Ted hoss grandmother for tellin' stoiies, and '
:ore dou't you forgit it! She is as much as
two hundred years old, with a great, '
jjj8 loug, crooked chin, and her face kinder '
jj6 looks like pork scraps, but she's a bully
ned nm* cuu ^ ?he tell soma awful *
Iujuu stories. She says she's got three ^
. . mattresses stuffed with Injun's hair that '
'j18 my giandfatlier killed and scalped when 1
j he was a yonug man. All of my grand- '
'u|y mother's pillers is stuffed with Injun's 1
to hair, too, she says. My grandfather he's 1
?w au flintlock gun that I guess was 1
8 1 made when Noer cum out in tho ark. '
^ur My grandfather used to shoot bears'n
J8?" tigers'n elefuuts'n crockerdiles'n all 1
IT88 Rinds of birds aud everything. My '
. grandfather shot his gun inter a lion or 1
'?1.u wolf one day, and the wolf growed 1
l mnd'n run out of the woods'n run inter (
" a nab< r's houso'n swallered three little *
children. My grandfather he runs'n '
en" grabbed the wolf 'n skinned him'n saved 1
tho children fore they's et up. Pirust '
a. used to sail up the river in front of my 1
3" graudfather's house'n they used to rob 1
tle folks and murder "em and git their !
. munuy; they used to murder a tbou- ;
snnd folks a day sometimes and berry i
tLe gold in a cavo. My grondmotber '
^ou was all alone one day, and some piruts {
. cum and set the bouse afire, and my 1
ied gmndmother tbrow'd bilin' water on tbo '
? piruts, and tbey left four millions of 1
7 gold and ruu oil. You ought to see my f
giandmotber and bear ber toll things I" *
re- ]
'* The Same Old Drunk." i
' A judge recently fined an old soak (
five dollars and costs for drunkenness,
and gave him an admonition to get sober
as speedily as possible. A couple of
re. days after the same chap was again before
him on another charge of the same
kind, rnd again was he mulcted in the
sum of five dollars and costs. After
receiving sentence the prisoner fumAt
bled in his pocaet for a moment, as if
fh-hing for tbo wherewithal to satisfy
the demands of the outraged law, when
a happy thought struck him :
oa- "See here, judge." said he, "you
nt, haint given me the square of this
?nd thing."
" Why, what's the matter?" was the
of judicial response.
a a "Jest this," said the inebriate," don't
ont the Constitooshen of the United States
?r> say that you can't fine a mau twice for
tbo same offense?"
lelf " I believe it does say something to
ith that effect," answered the judge,
aid " Well, then, your forninst the Couow
stitoosben," ejaculated the special
ills pleader. " You liued me the other day, ,
nd >*Qd here you ko and clan on another I
" dose now." (
ind " Well, wasn't you drunk then?" said ^
in the judge. r
to "I expect I was," responded the ,
ay- prisoner. t
ive "Well, ain't yon drunk now?" thuu j
urs dorcd Nathan. ! .
" I admit tlio fact," was the retort of j {
to the prisoner. ,
uto "Then whnt are you raising a fuss f
Dy about?" said tlio judge. x
led " Cos this is the same old drunk," t
was the response.
Qn^ This settled the fine, and the prisoner (
igs walked with purso undepleted. ^
D,ta A Xe, if on mil a ml Dog as a Fire Patrol. '
iho t
jld The Waco (Toxas) Examiner says: v
aly The sagacity of a Newfoundland dog a
ind savod Tom Selman's resideuoe, near ti
pas East Waco, from destruction by tire, n
irl- About ono o'clock in the morning Mr. t
or- Sclman was awakened by the furious g
a. barking of the dog at the window of the c
re, room in whioh he slept. He arose, and, e
as going to the door, looked out, but saw n
ro. nothing. The dog ran to the rear of the ,1
bu- house, and wus followed by his master, fc
oi wno aisoovoreu mat a tiro iiAil broken
val out aud was gaining tapid headway iu
of the kitclion, which is attached to the v
as. main building. Witli UMsistance from e
di- others he succeeded, with considerable e
his difficulty, in extinguishing the flames, t
?en and no great amount of duuiago was s
dm done. The property wan saved by the J
aid dog, for had ho t>eeu silent the inmates J
nk, of tho homo would have known nothing c
cio of the tire uutil it had gotten boyond 1
irs. their control. The building caught tire I
>nd from a wooden vessel containing hot <1
ashes, which bad been loft setting on j
the the fl tor, a species of neglect which has i
liz- resulted, probably, in the destruction of s
ad, more property than auy other one oauso. f
Household Taste.
Commonplace taste is not confined to 1
pictorial art. If we are to believe those
who have given their attention to the A
subject of technical design, it prevadea
and vitiates the judgment by which we
are accustomed to select and approve
the objects of everyday use whion we
mm) around us. It crosses our path in
the Brussels carpet of our drawing-. '
rooms; it is about our bed in the shape
of gaudy chintz; it compels us to rest
011 chairs and to sit at tables which are
designed in accordance with the worst
principles of construction and invested
with shapes confessedly unpicturesque, c
It sends us metal work from Binning- a
bam which is as vulgar in form as it is
flimsy in execution. It decorates the ,
Quest modern porcelain with the most
objectionablo character of ornament. It a
lines our walls with silly representations *
of vegetable life, or with a masB of nninteresting
diaper. It bids us, in short,
furnish our honsos after the samo fash- tt
ion as wo dress ourselves, and that is v
with no more sense of real beauty than ?
if art wore a dead letter. ?
It is hardly necessary to say that the 4
jcucral public do not recognizo this
fact. In tho eyes of materfamilias there a
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... .... tuuiu ,,-jboiuij u
surpass that which the most fashionable h
upholsterer supplies. She believes in w
the elegance of window supplies, of ii
which so many yards were sent to the
Duchess of , and concludes that the fc,
liuner service must bo perfect which is p
iepcribed as "quite a novelty." When ^
lid people first adopt the notion that t<
tht? "last pattern out" mu6t bo the ^
best? Is good taste so rapidly progressive
that every mug which loaves the
potter's bauds surpasses in shape the P
a t which ho molded? In that case,
low superior our modern crockery ^
would bo to that of the middle ages, 11
I' d medieval majolica to the vases of ?
inciont Qreeco 1 ?
But it is to bo feared that, instead of
progressing, wo have, for some ages at "
east, gone hopelessly backward in the p
u ts of manufacture. And this is true d
lot only with respect to the character n
if design, but often in regard to the g
letual quality of material employed. It tl
s generally admitted by every housewifo
who lias attained a mationly age, p
;liat linen, silk, and other articles of ei
textile fabric, though less expensive 0
than formerly, are inferior to what was 0
made in tho days of our grandfathers. M
Metal workors tell us that it is almost ](
impossible to procure, for the purpose
jt iuuii mum, unites siren as appears to
nave been in common use a century ago. fT
Ibiuery is neither so sonnd nor so artis- ?
lie as it was in the early Georgian era. 11
cheap and easy method of workmaniliip?an
endeavor to produce a show of "
inish with the least possible labor, and, "
ibuve all, an unhealthy spirit of oomx
iition in regard to price, such as was g,
111 known to previous generations?have rs
combined to deteriorate the value of rc
>ur ordinary mechanics' work.
A New Way to Lose Money.
Df
A short time ago a Frenchman, reconty
arrived in the United States from
Paris, introduced in New York a gam- .
>liug game hitherto unknown here, but
vhich has long been played in the ^
Prmch capital. It is called "Lea J
bourses," and is intended to ropresent a ^
aj? course and draw out the enthusiasm
or betting which is seen on a real race
:ourse. The Frenchman had one table
^instructed at a cost of $1,500. It is a
>quare table of oak, abont four and a j*
mlf feet from the ground, and six and a *a
lalf feet square. It is elegantly finish- j*
id, and is a handsome specimen of cabnet
work. On the top of this table are "
light concentric circular grooves, in "
ftch of which is a metal horse, support- **
;d on a metal road, each horse having a a
ichly dressed jockey. At four places in
inch circle is a broozo arch which repre- 8
units n quarter or a half mile post. To ci
inch of the horses is given a name, after si
anions racers. Pools are sold on each w
?l the horses, as for a real race, and fl
ickets are given to the purchasers, the rt
non? y received being placed upon a si
eceptado in the ceutcrof the table, cov- b
:red with green cloth and sup orted on
bur posts. Tho bets having been com- p
rioted, by tho touching of a lever the ax
101 st s are brought to tho score, after ef
vlii' li u crank is slowly turned, which Ht
tots them in motion, aud they start off" jn
lock aud-neck. The crank is gradually je
uruc d faster aud faster, and with the bi
ncreased motion of the crank the speed w
>f the horse is also increased. The orank
s then removed, and the horses coininue
in motion, and by the aid of some ^
ugeuious machinery in the body of the '
able, pass each other, fall behiud, catch ^
ip, and simulate exactly the perform- jn
inces at a real race. Sometimes they
irrive ut tho goal neck-aud-neck, aod ftl
gain, as is not infrequent in actual life, fr
he favorite comes in last. The whole
[ume is remarkably ingenious, being exiting,
and is said to be fairly conduotd,
while the facilities for losing money a
t it are as great as those enjoyed at Bfl
erome Park, Long Branch, or Sara- al
oga. ?
la
Sixty years ago occurred " the year
without a summer." Frost occurred in a
very mouth of the year 181G. Ioe formA
Kolf nr. innl. miob. in M at
\? nun ?u 1UVU KUiun lit iUIIJ | nuuw It) 11 O"
o the depth of ten inches in Vermont,
even in Maine, three in the interior of ti
few York, and also in Massachuseets in n]
tine; ice was formed of the thickneas of D]
octmon window glass throughout New b<
England, New York and some parts of at
'euusylvauia, on tho fifth of July; In- h<
liau corn was so frozen that the greater C
tart was cut down and dried for fodder ki
u August, and farmers supplied them- ol
elves from the oorn produeed in 1816 f*
or the seed of tho spring of 1817. si
Familiar Faces.
counted all the sunny days and faoee
My life bad known,
nd found they gathered round the friendly
faoes
I called my own,
.h, can a life have any Joys or graoes
That has no friends ?
Then fades the beauty of familiar faces,
Its gladness ends.
t
Items of Interest.
" Muo? remains unsung," as the tomat
remarked to the brickbat when it
bruptly cut short his serenade.
According to a well known physician,
' it is dangerous to go into the water
fter a hearty meal." And it would be
very fishy one a man would get if he
id go in after one.
The proprietor of a forge, not remarkble
for his correctness of language, but
ho by honest industry had realized a
omfortable independence, being oallod
at a social meeting for a toast, gave :
' Success to forgery I"
A man in Buffalo pulled off his coat
nd jumped in the canal to save a woman
rom drowning, when a pickpocket stole
is pocketbook from the coat, and the
roman swore at him for pulling her hair
r bis efforts to save her life.
When we oome to think of it, there is
ut very little difference between a
ostage stamp and a boy hanging on beind
a cab. The first you have to lick
3 make it stay on, while the latter you
ave to lick to make him stay off.
A lecturer was dilating npon tho
owors of tho magnet, defying any one
j show or name anything surpassing
a powers. A hearer demurred, and
istanoed a lady, who, when young,
sed to attract him thirteen miles every
unday.
A fat Frenoh lady despairingly says :
I am so fat that I pray for a disapointment
to make me thin. No sooner
oos the disappointment come than the
lere expectation of growing thinner
ives me such joy tnat I become fatter
ran ever."
There is nothing that tends to destroy
opular sympathy for the working olawwi
so muoh as the habit a bricklayer has
f dropping bits of mortar from the top
f a five story wall into the eye of the
rondering man who stands under the
>fty scaffolding and looks up.
A little boy, six years old, and a little
irl, eight, were looking at the douda
tie beautiful summer evening, watohig
their fantastio shapes, when the boy
tclaimed : "Oh, Minnie, I Bee a dog
1 the sky I" "Well, Willie," replied
10 sister, " it must be a tky terrier."
"Oo&chman," said an outside passenBr
to one who was driving at a furious
ite over one of the most mountainous
lads in the north of Scotland, " have
3U no consideration for our lives and
mbs?" "What are your lives and
mbs to me?" was the reply. "I'm "
ehiud time I"
A I^urlin gton schoolboy views the
Ivent of school days without a tremor,
ecause, ho says, he is pained to an
s. that his father lbs. him without qr.
aarly every day, worse than ever his
'acher did, nor is he the only unhappy
r>y in town ; he says he kaows a owfe.
10 return of sohool days with eager
a patience.
A Western ooroner, having oooaaion
> investigate the cause of a man's death
tely, charged the jury that they were
? ascertain whether the " man came to
is death by aocident, by inoident, or by
te incendiary." The jury returned that
ho came to his death by inoidenoe, the
owie knife having incidentally torn hed
vital part:"
Lightning played a curious freak in
tow, Mass., lately. Entering by the
siliug a room twelve feet square, where
x young women were seated about the
all, it dropped on the center of the
oor in a ball, and exploded with a lond
sport and volumes of sulphurous
noke, but injured nobody, not even
nriling the carpet.
" Speaking of bathing," said Mrs.
arlington, from behind the steam that
oso from her tea as a veil to her blush*
i when touching upon so delicate a
ibject, " some can bathe with perfect
ipurity in water as cold as Greenland
y mountains aud India's ooral strands,
it for my pArt I prefor to have the
ater a little torpid."
Curiosities never seen : A fenoe
ado from a railing of a scolding wife,
plate of butter from the cream of a
ko. The small coins in " the ohange
' the moon." The original brush used
i painting the signs of the times. The
immor that broke up the meeting. The
limal that drew an inferenoe. Eggs
om a nest of thieves. A bucket of
ater from " All's well."
A oorresDondent writes : T
wedding a few days sinoe. Wishing to
iy something befitting the oocasion, I
)proached the fair yonng bride in the
>nrse of the day, and, after oongratnting
her on her departure from the
ito of single blessed ness, I wished her
pleasant voyage down the river of life,
he said sho hoped so, bnt they were
jing by railway to New Tork.
A carpenter who was always prognoecating
evil to himself was one day
pon the roof of a five story building
[>on whioh rain had fallen. The roof
sing slippery he lost his footing, and
< bo was desoending toward the eaves
o exclaimed: " Just as I told you !"
atching, however, an iron spout, he
icked of his shoes and regained a place
" safety, when he thus delivered nimilf:
" I krow'd it; there's a pair of
iocs gone !**