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The Beaufort Tribune
VOL. II.?NO. 46. BEAUFORT, S. C., OCTOBER 4, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
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Dcranger and Lafayette.
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Tlio fol'< wing p<if ni in a truncation from the ]|
French of Derange'', and celebrates the arrival c
of Lafny< Do in the United States on the occa- b
eion of h's visit fifty yenrH ago, when America ti
gave the hero a reception worthy of hiB services
to freedom in the old world and the k
now. An h warm tribute to America from the J
bard of tbo French people it deserves note ?
just now i.i connection with the ceremonies of j
dedicating i now statue to Lafayette.
I.A FAYETTE IN AMKlllCA.
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"Tell me A\liat bannered barga is bither ^
sweeping ?' (
" A warrior old unto our shore it briDgB." Q
" Dears he a king's high pledge in Bolemn v
keeping V" d
" lie kindled the undying ire of ki 'gs." r
" And ! *' be mighty ?" " Lono he crossed the a
ocean." fl
" Wli.it has lio done?" Broke chains?the v
bond made free! c
(Jlory to bim who's won two world's devotion t:
Triumphal days shine out oe r land and eoa!
" Child of old Europe, bore where loud re- c
soundoth v
The glad acclaim that countless thousands il
rake. 1'
Sorfloes and strifeless, hroadthc reign about doh
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Of laa a?u labor, peace and homely ways. v
Touching this shoio th' opprcttod are slaves ^
no longer;
Yea, tryauny has peopled waste audlea. p
Hero stands ih' Almighty 'twixt man and his f
wronger. n
Ttiumpbal days shine out o'er lind and p
sea!" a
" What Llood it cost, wli&t long days of disss- ^
t?,r J F
We iv.o cd in^luom, LutTiuf ijolte sped here, J
Pointed to Franco, had Washington for mas- c
Ur; n
Fou-lit, conquered and the English fled in \ a
fear. c
Bine ) for fair Franco, for Ubcrtv the sainted. I
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II )'ss grown the gioat or iu adversity :
We'd smooth tho furrows Austrian fetters b
pf iiited, v
Trin'jpbal daye shine out o'er land and eea!" a
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" 11 j whom our Father prized, this friend and n
chief, lot 1]
Jlem'ry tell while we'eome shakos the morn, o
llessed fifty years agono? first bad and leaf- D
let? y
Too tree of liberty, then newly born 1!
Jlht look ! toUay thick leaved it spreadetb, 1
S2I>r*ving f.re bolt and icy blast, our tree;
Ho comes to rest beiita h the shale it shed- ?
detb, ^
Triumphal days Bhine out o'er laud ai.d eea!"
"Around him pahorcd see our cbiofa and ?
eagOB. j,
Each feature scanned by comradee of his ^
fame; ^
A mighty nation in hie praise engages; v
Tho redskin eomoB at mention of his namo. n
The sacred tree has b! ado enough to cover a
This host, 'noath branches ever greeu to bo; s
The wind its seod shall spread the wide world t
over, t
Triumphal days bhine out o'er land aud sea
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Ho who had heafd these fervid wordaoctpour- a
U'8 0
_ Followed a conq'ror, served the need of
kings; E
'Foro whom tho Blave-bou:id peoples knelt C
adoring; a
A fiee laud's homage grander honor brings. 8
"Alas!" bo mirt ?'?' ?"J
? , ...... u vi wiiu wavoa mat u
bluHBom, ^
A far, dear clituo be ?onght ont wistfully, J
" M'?y virtue draw the two worlds breast to .J
bosom, 1
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Triamphal days sbiae oat o'er l&nd and sea!" ^
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THE SNOW FLOOD. \
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A TALE OF EASTERN SIBERIA. *
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" They'ro np, I tell you, and out in I
foi?e, aud there will be blazing roofs, f
and blood spilled all along the Chinese a
frontier, from Kara Sou to Dostvornik. g
We are safe enough, of course, here iu n
Kiachta, behind our strong stockades t
and brass cannon. But there is scarcely n
a post to the eastward that can be called v
secure, now the Mongols are over the j<
border." f
" Surely, however," said I, looking tl
. up from my desk and the invoice iu o
which I was dnly recording packages of b
brick tea, coarse silk, the
ous brass pecaliar to China, and other p
imports to the Flowery Land, " the n
Mongols will content themselves with v
sweeping off some flocks and herds, and v
not venture on attacking any of the c
settlements. The Russian military v
power "? v
"It's a far cry, as they say in my a
oountry, to St. Petersburg, or even to y
the Wolga," grimly rejoined the first s
speaker, whose name was Gilflllan. g
" These Tartar thieves know well n
enongli that, short of Irkutsk, there are ti
but some weak detachments to bar their o
way. Even the sotnia of Cossacks has e
been withdrawn, and, for the moment, v
the whole of eastern Siberia lies at the h
mercy of the Mongols." s
I, Frank'. Richards, had been, daring r
two out of the three years which I had v
passed in this outs)f-the-w.<y cornor of s
tho Russian dominions, a clerk in the t)
firm of Merton & Paulovitoh, the man- a
aging partner of which resided at Irk- ti
utsk. Mr. Merton was one of those
Anglo-Russians of whom many are to tl
bo fouud in the higher mercantile so- n
ciety of 8t. Petersburg. He was a man e
of considerable property, and a member S'
of the Fur Trading Guild. li
It was with auger and annoyance that '1
bo rich merchant learned that his clerk
ras in love with his only daughter, Elsn,
and that tho sentiment was reciprocal.
Mr. Merton, as was very natural,
lad other views for his daughter's esablishmeut
in life.
'I like you, Richards," tho morchant
iad said to mo, not unkindly; " and if
ou, and Ellen, too, will bo but roosonble
and promise to forget this folly?
ih 1 well, then, there is no help for it,
see."
And thereupon we parted.
On the fourth day after the outbreak
f hostilities ,there arrived iu Kiachta a
;roup of Englishmen, engineers and I
Jornisli miners, from a valuable mine i
>n the further bank of tho Amoor, the
rhole plant of which had boen wantonly
lestaoyed by tho Mongol raiders. They
eported the station of Cherinsk, with
11 its factories and dwellings, to bo in
lames, while the European residents,
rith such of their property as they
ould contrive to save, were Blowly roreating,
under the protection of a mili
ary escort, toward Irkutsk.
Toward Irkutsk!" I exclaimed, inrodulously;
you mean, surely, toward
Kiachta. It would be ruuuing
nto the lion's mouth to attempt the
pug march over tho open, plains that
io between the northern end of Lake
lakal and the mountains at tho hcadrators
of the Amour. No one iu lvis
enses would givo such an advantage to
be fleet foote d enemy."
But my informant was positive as to
ho route which the caravan of refugees
rom Cherinsk had adopted. A Cornish
ainer, dispatched thither to purchase
towder for blasting purposes, imme .itely
before tbo inroad, bad rejoined
lis comrades with tbe news. It an
ears that tbe decision, perilously uiiriso
as it seemed to me, to select tbo
oilier and more northerly Hue of
anreh, bad been formed by Count Anleukoff,
who commanded the troops,
nd wbo was a young man, new to tbe
ountry, and over-confident in his own
u^gment.
Hitherto, it was added, the Mongol
inrsemen had contented themselves
rit.h hovering, like hawks on the wing,
r< >und the destined prev, keeping at a
espectful distance from the rifled
ausketsof the soldiery ; but there could
kj no doubt that they were waiting the
ipportnnity, in some unguarded moaont,
of swooping down upon the camp,
rhile the movem nts of tbe fugitives,
ncumbered as tl: y were by a heavy
laggago train,- ai d accompanied by
evenu ladies and ehildren, were of
iec< ssity slow. That Ellen and her
ather wore of tli-j company was all but
ertain.
I could no longer emluro the safe inctiun
of life at Kiaehtn, and accordingly
formed a resolvo which to many of my
riends appeared rash and willful. This
no to make my way, us best I might,
the caravan, the tardy pace of which
rculd readily be overtaken by a well
aounted rider, and to persuade Ellen
ml her father rather to trust, themelves
to my guidance back to Kiuchta,
hau to persevero in the arduous march
hat otherwise lay before them.
I was excellently mounted, and felt
hat, should I fall in with the enemy,
heir shaggy ponies would not easily
omo up with my flue Turcoman steed.
The lirst long days' march brought
ae to a cluster of black h-.lt touts, conial
in shapes pitched on the bank of a
hallow brook, while hard by grazed the
lieep und buffaloes that made up tLe
mly wealth of the horde. I rodo up to
horn without fear?for theso ramblers
hrongh the plains of eastern Siberia
lave little harm in tin m?and recognized
n the headman of tho oamp an old ac[uaiutauce,
who apoko a little ItnssiaD,
iU-,1 often brought in lambskins, yaourt,
,ud wild straw Ixjrries to tho market at
ftdchta.
" 1 wonld not pnsh on woro I yon,
}<<spodinf" Haiti the white bearded pariarch,
as he set before me the simplo
are?milk, cheese and mutton kabaubs,
kuwered on a twig of the arbntns?that
le had to offer. "They were here with
is yesterday, some hundreds of the
ight fingered rogues from across the
rentier, and it cost mo ten fat sheep,
,nd many fair wordp, to coax them into
;ood bohavior. They had two white
den's heads, set on spear points, for
heir standards, and their leader swore
iot to go bacli to Mongolia without siler
enough to plate the shriues of his
das-house. They're after the poor folks
rom Cherinsk by this time; not that
bey'vo any more fancy for the whittle
f a leaden bullet than other neoplo
ave."
The gift ot a golden eagle, and the
iromise of two more coins of tho same
3int.ago, induced the headman to send
?ith mo a barefooted lad of his tribe,
rho would, I was assured, prove quite
ompetent to conduct me to a place
rhouce I conld easily overtake the caraan,
and also to keep up with my horse
t any pace short of a gallop. And
ouug Kazim ran gallantly bosido mv
tirrup over weary leagues of grnziug '
rounds, aud stretches of stony barreness,
till at length ho stopped, poiutiug
riumphantly to a number of footpriuts,
f horses, oxen, camols and men, stampd
into tho half dried mud of a shallow
ratorconrse, and with a wave of his
and toward a distant wreath of blue
moke, sure sign of a bivouac tire, he
eceived from me the glittering eagles,
trapped tho gold in a scrap of raw
heepskin, and thrust it into the gourd
hat dangled by a thong from his waist,
nd thon, with a grin of leave taking,
rotted off homeward.
1 ha 1 not ridden half a mile toward
he camp tire before I saw approaching
ie, at a lumbering amble, ungainly
uough, but swift aud silent, Rome two
core of laden camels, urged on by four
01 semen whose lancos and tho block
,'artar caps they wore suggested their
nationality as Mongolian. Two of them,
as soon as they espied me, dashed at me,
with loud execrations and cries of
"Feriugheo! ltussky! kill! kill!"
My revolver was out in a moment,
and the eight of it produced soruo effect
on tho wild riders, for they wheeled off
to right and left, galloping round mo in
circles, still brandishing their spears,
until u third horseman spurred forward,
calling out something, which seemed as
if by magic to suspend their murderous
intentions, and then rode tprietly up to
my side, and held out his bony hand for
me to shake.
j " brother !" ho said, in a strango jar'
gon of mingled Turkish and Russian ;
'vrry good friend, llatnschka ! Has
English lord forgotten poor Sing-Si?"
1 looked at the man's broad flat face,
and did indeed recoguizo a Tartar of tho
name above mentioned, whom I had, a
year before, bought off, at an expenditure
of some six shillings sterliug, from
a Cossack patrol about to hang him on a
dwarf oak for being captured, red
handed, us a sheep stealer. lie had
siuce then worked for us, as a porter,
for some mouths in Riachta, but the
vagrant instinct was too strong in Sing- '
a: l.~ 1?i it * *
UI, nun uc UUU LCI lurow up II1B employment
and fled to the steppe.
The other three Tartars became amicable
enough when they*found that
their companion hailed me as a friend,
and I gathered trom tho rascals' talk
that they had been acting as guides to
the Clierinsk caravan, and bad seized an
opportunity of ranking off with forty
camels and their leads, with which, as I
made out, they intended to join their
cousius, the robber Mongols. All this
Sing-Hi, whose moral liber was of the
coarsest, related as an excellent joke ;
but when ho learned that I was on my
way to join those whom ho had just deserted,
his countenance assumed a
graver expression.
" Hark ye, English lord," he said,
cautiously, as the others begun to goad
on their camels with blows and lance
pricks, 44 we of tho steppe love a friend
as we hate a foe. Sing Si does not want
his former protector to leave his bones
to bleach on tho plains, with those of
yonder unblessed ones and bo shook
his fldt at tho far-off smoke ; 44 and sure
as death their shroud is spiuning fast."
" What do yon mean i" 1 asked,
anxiously.
441 mean," hissed out Sing-Hi, putting
his ugly face closo to mine, 44 that
we of the old Tartar stock have no cause
to be fond of the Muskov, and a pretty
trick we have played them. Hist ! did
you never hear of the snow flood ?"
T )...< ... *1 r I
j iinu, iu tut: uuiirhB ui Ill y 1'1NIU> UCO
in Sib< lia, heard vaguo stories of such
a phenomenon of the far northern
steppes, aud I nodded, waiting to hear
more.
"Tho Russians will feel it soon,"
chuckled Sing Si ; "the blind moles!
Already the wind is from the north, already
the threads of the fatal spinners
span tho sky, and we have led them where
there are no mountains to break tho fury
of tho blast; no barrior to chock tho
rush of tho white wave that shall overwhelm
mau and beast. Away, Englishman,
whip aud spur, as you love your
life, for even hero you are not safe, and
rido to the left, mark mo, westward, to
the shelter of tho hills. As for me, I
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And, spurring his rough pony, off ho
clattered in pursuit of his party. I rode
at a brisk gallop toward the camp fire.
| Tho snow flood! There crowded ou my
mind all the tales that I had ever heard
of caravans, of solitary hunters, or ol
detachments of troops, overtaken by the
resist'ess drifton those illimitable plains,
whore not a tree, not a hillock, existeu
to stem the violence of the wind. Aud
as I sped on I felt convinced that SingSi's
warning was a true one.
On reaching tho encampment I found
my predictions of impending evil received
very much as were those of Cassandra
in old Troy. Count AunenkofF,
a vain vnnnr* r.f nntivnmA
mm ?? ? ? J " ??*'Q V/* nuj'iv iliO rwiu
for civilians and foreigners, lidiculed
my advice, and declined to regard my
informant Sing-Si as anything but a
scoundrel who had absconded with a
portion of the baggage.
' Excuse my incredulity, mon cher
he said, coolly, "butyour snow flood, as
yon phrase it, appears too nearly related
to Sinhad's valley of diamonds, and the
other eoutes of the "Thousand and
One Nights," to command credence;
and I shall nso my own discretion as regards
tho route to be followed."
The other Europeans, if less supercilious.
wore almost emiallv deaf to all 1.1m
arguments which I could urgo. None of
them had witnessed, though nil of them
had hcui'd of. the fell force of that
snowy tempest to which the Asiatics had
given so picturesque a name; and none
wero wilting to lUU the gauntlet of the
prowling Mongols in order to elude a
danger which might prove mythical.
But Ellen, who believed in mo bemuse
she loved me, used all hor influence with
her father, aud with such good effect
that Mr. Merton yielded a reluctant consent
to havo his own aud his daughter's
horses resaddled aud to set off, under
my guidance, in the direction indicated
by Sing 81.
As we left the camp, lighted by a
broad, full moon that bathed the steppe
with silvery brightness, I observed that
the northern sky was growing very dark,
aud that the long filaments of gray
cloud had become knit together, as
j though the Valkyrs were indeed busy at
the loom of death. The wind, also,
blowing in fitful gusts, had become
piercing cold, aud our very burst s
snorted and sniffed the air, as though
they scented tlio approach of some
viewless peril.
By the time wo had ridden, as I
guessed, somo two miles from the halting
place, the northern sky had darkened
still more, aud the slow sobbing of
tho desert wind had swelled into a
shriek, while the temperature was perceptibly
lower, so that Ellen shivered
mere from cold than fear. Wo pressed
ou. Mr. Mertou, as I havo said, had
been unwilling to take my counsel, in
opposition to tho scoffs and remonstrances
of his friends, but now he said,
in an altered ?oue:
" I begin to think, Richards, that you
and tho Tartar were right. God bloss
you for your unselfish kindness, my
boy, whatever comes of this."
Before I could reply, a terrified outcry
from Ellen's lips made mo turn my
head, just as tho first quick snowflakes
came whirling down, and there, behind
us, throwing before it, as it came, a
ghastly gleam of light, came from the
north a shapeless whiteness, rolling pitiless
on.
" The snow! the snow!" we exclaimed,
as with olro voice, urging on
our affrighted horses to their fullest
sjh'ed, while behind us, liko the tide
rising fast over the sands of the seashore,
swept ou tho white wave, and burying
beneath it, as it advanced, bush, and
mound, and water course, and blottiug
out every feature of the landscape to the
northward.
men ueganaraeo indeed, tlie alarmrd
horses straining every sinew to outstrip
the pursuing fate; but with all onr
speed tho drift gained upon us, and
presently we found ourselves plunging
and floundering, up to the saddle griths
in snow. Tho moon's radiance was now
totally obscured, but afar off, to westward,
my eye had caught tho ruddy
glance of a tire Mich as charcoal burners
kindle among tho hills, and never did
storm-tossed mnriuer watch tho welcome
beacon of some harbor more eagerly
than I did this saving light.
Tho flre, as I had conjectured, was burning
high up on 0110 of tho wooded spurs
of the mountain rango near tho sources
of the Amour, but to reach it was no
trifling task. Our exhausted steeds,
woru out l>y the toilsome passage
through tho snow, could scarcely be
urged to fresh exertioup, while the rush
of tho deepening flood, and the blinding
showers that dashed iuto our faces,
th:eatened at eacti iustont to overwhelm
us. Wo reached tho Amour at last,
down the swollen current of which wero
whirling musses of snow, and here
Ellen's horse fell, and conld not be
raised, while that of Mr. Mertou, gasping
and spent, no longer answered to the
spur.
"Savo yourself, Frank! leave us!
why should all perish?" groaned the
merchant.
There was fiomo strength and spirit
yet left in the gallant Turcoman that I
bet-1rode, and, snatching up Ellen's
light form in my arms, I spurred into
the river, and, struggling through, deposited
my precious burden on the turf
beyond, under the shelter of a rocky
bowlder. I then recros ed the ford,
and, bidding Mr. Merton to cling tightly
to my horse's mane, for the third time
breasted tho current, and, half swimming,
half wading, wo get through,
though on tho further bank mj' noble
horse reeled and fell, with a faint, low
neigh, and so died. The carcasses of
the others wero already buried beneath
ti.o driving snow.
Tho rest of onr story?how, after
some fatigue, we sealed the rocky ra
vino where stood tho hut of the charcoal
burners, and how these rough but
kindly beings warmed and fed us, and
finally enabled ua to reach Kiachta in
safety?is a tale of mere commonplace
hardship. I have been for years tho
happy husband of Ellen, and a junior
partner in the thriving house of Morton
& Paulovitch, although our sphere
of business lias been removed to u less
romantic region than that of eastern
Siberia. Of tho fate of Count AunenkofI
and tho caravan under his charge no
survivor ever returned to headquarters
to tell the talo.
Crapes as Food.
Tho Bostou Journal of Chemistry
says : Wo have ou former occasions referred
to the value of fruits as article s
of diet, both in health and in sickness.
Grapes may deservedly claim a high
rank among the frnitfl in this respect.
They contain a coLsiderablo amount of
hydro-carbonaceous matter, together
with potassium salts?a combii atiou
which does not tend to irritate, but, on
the contrary, to soothe the stomach, and
which is consequently used to advantage
even in dyspepsia. According to
Dr. Ilartsen, of Cannes, in France, who
lias recently contributed an article on
the subject to a foreign medical journal,
the organic acids in the grapo, especially
tartaric acid, deserves more consideration
than they generally have rocoived.
Their nutritive value has, he
thinks, boon much underated. It is
known that they are changed to carbonic
acid in tho blood, and p. ssibly
careful research may show that they are
conventt>io into ints. JJr. thirteen
thinks that they should bo ranked with
tho carbo-hydrates as food. They have
been found a valuable diet in fever, and
the success of tho "grape cures" in the
Tyrol and other parts of Europe ap
pears to show that they aro positively
iv uefieial in other diseases. No doubt
the good results of a residence at these
establishments nro iii a measure to be
ascrdied to tho climate and the general
hygienic discipline adopted. The advantage
does not wholly consist in the
fact that so many pounds of grapes are
oaten daily, but partly because other
less healthful things aro not eaten; and
pure air nn.l exercise nro also important
elemental!! the curative treatment. But,
after giving all duo weight to these
allied influences, we must allow no small
fraction of the beneficial result to the
grapes.
Municipal Taxation.
Daniel L< Harris of Springfield contributed
a paper, on "Municipal Ex- f
travaganoe, to the Social Science CJonvention.
Mr. Harris has brought a
great variety of facts to tho illustration
of his subject, takon fr im tho experience
of tho most prominent cities in Massachusetts.
These facts and figures he
has arranged iu tables whioli are a valuable
contribution to tho subject of municipal
reform. Some of the striking facts
disclosed by these tables are that at the
outbreak of tho war iu 1861 the actual
cost of mauagiug tho municipal concerns
of tho cities of Massachusetts, except
Boston, and itioludiug the payment of
eonnty and State taxes, averaged only
85.94 per capita; secondly, that in 1866
their expenses had risen to $11.08, and
that in 1875 they had liecome no less
than $17.11 per capita. In 1861 tho
combined funded debt of nil the cities
was an average bnrden of $'21.62 upon
each inhabitant. In 1875 tho same
dobt had risen to $84 19 apiece upon
tho duplicated number of inhabitants ;
or contemplating these obligations in tho
flnrtrncnla A-~ AIT AAA
u^^iv^niv, tunj nmuuutcu tu
000, and in 1875 to $70,500,000, the increase
being $59,000,000 in fourteen ]
years. A second tablo shows the aggre- 1
gate valuation, amount of taxes, and 1
amount of the funded debt of fifteen of
tho most prominent cities of the Union. <
Tho developments of the table, says Mr. 1
Harris, are simply astonudiug. Behold j
New Y< rk city submitting to an anunal j
tax of more than $34 per capita, and at
tho sarno time struggling to carry an
amount of debt averaging $126 for every
man, woman and child of tho popula- j
tion. Most of these cities, it seems, are .
tax'-d for current annual expenses far beyond
the entire net earnings of their re- *
spcctivo population. Mr. Harris concludes
that tho average net earnings or f
accumulations of all the individuals of 1
a City do not exceed $10 per capita, and 1
that the proper annual tax for defraying *
the mat of managing all the affairs of a *
city is $8 per capita. The question how
tbe people have mot tho high taxes of f
tho last ten years, Mr. Harris auswers e
by showing that from 1862 down to a i
very recent period, there was a steady s
inflation in the market value of all prop- f
orty, and especially of real estate in the
cities. This iutlation was duo to derange- i
meutof tho currency. All this is cbang- ,
iug now, and contraction is fairly under (
way. Henceforth the local taxes, when j
puul, must bo paid out of the current net
earnings, or accumulations of the
people ; antl it will be found that the
same legitimate tax per capita, which j
obtained before tho war, is quite as
heavv a burden as the r?enr?le nrn aKIe
to bear.
Indian Ituuners.
* A correspondent in tho Sioux country ]
writes: This system of Indian ruuneis j
seems to be little understood. If im
portant news is to bo carried an Indian j
gorges himself with meat, takes a short |
nuji, mounts one of the fleetest of their j
posies, and rushes along like the wind
until his horse requires feed, when he
nods a few times while his horse satisfies ,
its hunger iroin the luxurious meadows,
when the ride is renewed. The runner <
needs nothing for his pony and takes
nothing for himeeif but bis arrows and
blankets, and will in the manner indicated
ride two or three dajs and nights,
panning over from sixty to one hundred
miles in each twenty-four hours. When
the nearest camp is reached his story is !
taken up by other Indians, and in like 1
manner carried in every direction. The j
speed with which the news travels de- !
pen is upon its importance, but in this !
way the Indians often boat the tele- 1
graph, and their first reports, if they 1
come direct, are usually to bo relied
np >11. The runner who brings great 1
news is feasted from one tepee to an- 1
other, and it is not until the story be- 1
gins to grow old that he lets loose his 1
imagination aud adds to tho original in *
order to keep up the interest in him as i
tho bearer of great news. There are al- i
ways volnnteors, aud frequently two or f
f.lir < will rIjii-I fnp flin enmn V...R i
the <me that pets in lost is bound to toll
the biggest story, if ho has to deny tho ]
statements of his rivals or cut his story <
out of the whole cloth in order to do so. j
Hcnco the conflicting reports. t
t
On Account of his Family. J
The other morning a hungry looking I
mau was bothering the melon dealers at c
a Detroit market to lind a live cent
melon. One of tho dealers became annoyed
at tho stranger's persistency, and
called out:
''Why don't yon invest fifteen or
twenty eonts in a nice melon aud take it
homo ?"
" I will at onco tell you why I don't,"
was tho soft reply. " I should kinder
hate to take a molou homo and sit down
1 A. -1 I I-.# ' *? ? '
hum I'm uy mi ueiuro my wire auu cnii- (
dren. Seems to mo it would look kinder
hoggish not to give them all a piece j
around, and so I will buy one and eat it
here."
*' And I hope the seeds will choke
.you !" shouted the dealer.
" But they won't. I am always very
careful to spit 'em out !" .
1
Considerate. ? " Considering that I
the mosquitoes are making their fall
raids, and aro particularly lively just \
now, my dear." said Jonos to his wife, 1
" don't you think it would bo a good <
idea to bring the baby's crib into our i
roomt Wo might divert the attention <
of the voracious insects a little from our- i
selves. 1 hate to bo broken of my rest, I
and baby cau sleep all day, you know." <
Mrs. Jones went in search of the tongs ]
at once. i
Items of Interest.
Misfortune comes on honebaok and
joes away on foot.
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians
rill not allow oolordd children to attend
heir schools.
If a young lady yawns half a dozen
imes in succession, young man, you
nay get your hat.
A Kentuckian whipped his wife betaupo
she attended her sister's funeral
without his permission.
"Wake up here and pay your lodging,"
taid a deacon, as he nudged a sleepy
itranger with a contribution box.
The principal countries of Europe owe
ibout $17,600,000,000, exclusive of the
mnecured paper currencies and home
lebts.
Liverpool is compelled to erect an adlitional
lunatic asylum, because the
lumber of insane has doubled in the
xnuity within ton years.
Tf. ia tKof. wn'Hiin loef
twenty-five years no less than 400,000
panes of glass have been destroyed in
London by thunder storms.
It is a fact that savages who live on
plain, simple fare, do not attain so great
in average age as the oivilized people
who indulge in rich oookety.
Three Arabs, bearing the Cayenne
jfficial's criminal brand in their forspends,
arrived at Boston the other day,
rod were immediately reshipped to
Africa by the Boston authorities.
A mathematical genius estimates that
;ho Methodists give forty-three cents a
nember for foreign missions, the Preset--nane
a little more, the Baptists a
itrlo loss, and the Episcopalians thirtytight
cents.
Nothing will surprise a married man
;o much as to go home and see his wife
imping round the house with her little
oc bandaged, saying that alio doesn't
lee why he has to keep such an infernal
idpo on his razor.
"I suppose," said a quack, while
'eeling a patient's pnlse, " that you oonlidc-r
me a humbug." 44 How odd it is,"
esponded the patient, 44 that yon can
10 accurately tell a man's thoughts by
eeling his pnlse."
41 So," said a lady, recently, to an
Aberdeen merchant, 44 your pretty
laughter has married a rich husband.
14 Well," slowly replied the father, 441
lielit-ve she has married a rich man, but
[ understand he is a very poor husban^."
Color is used as a remedy in an insane
asylum in Alexandria, Italy. Dr. Ponza,
the physician in charge, says that he
puts melancholy lunatics into red rooms,
and violent maniacs into blue rooms, the
resul s being astonishingly satisfactory.
John Chiddy lost his life in rolling a
atone out of the,way of an English rail- ,
rna.l train t.hlia nvAr finer a orwit, iIi'kiu
ter. Praiso of tbo deed was general;
pet an appeal for money to save his fam- *
ily from want resulted in raising only
ib'>nt ?4, the railroad company giving
nothing.
The recuperative forces of childhood
iro at times extraordinary. The boy
who left school sick at ten o'clook in the
noming will go to the circus at two p. m.
the. same day, fall off a seat sixteen to
jighteezi feet high, and-never hurt himself
more than to miss four or five
seconds of the performance.
A little misc., writing to her father on
the first day of her entranoe at boarding
school, says: "The first evening we
liad prayers, and then singing, and a
passing ronnd of bread, which I did not
lake, brcause, not being confirmed, I
bought I had no right to take oommonon
Atterward I learned that I had lost
ny supper."
The cannibal tribes in the Fiji islands
lavo farod badly in their revolt against
;ho new government. By the aid of
riendly natives, the British authorities
lavo indicted heavy punishment on the
lavages and re-established order. Religouh
freedom, it appears, was involved
the conflict, the cannibals being resolved
to punish the Christianised naaves.
Hothein says that he never plays
Dundreary twioe alike, explaining:
' When an andienoe sees the point of a
<>ko toward which I am working, I
ilwajs atop. I never pursue a point
lit) r there has been a langh. Audiences
lifter very much in quickness of appreciation.
Borne are so sharp that it is
jositively painful to nlnv to them ; they
iut me out of so much."
B?eot is childhood?ohildhood's over,
Kiss and part.
Sweet is yonth; but youth's a rover?
Ho'h my heart.
Sweet is rest y but all my showing
Toil is nigh.
Wo must go. Alas 1 the going
Say: "Good-bye."
A woman got into a Baltimore street
??r, took a seat and carefully examined
i loaded revolver which she took from
ier poeket. Then she told the conluotor
to let her out at John Nevins'
houho. A friend of Nevins heard the
remark, and, getting ont of the. oar
iliead of her, ran into the endangered
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mat) s residence ana w?iuea mm hi ay,
Ilie woman was crazy, and intended to
kill Nevins, against whom she bore a
jruilge.
Some one who has been searching history
announces that up to the Revolution
i o American had ever exercised the
olfloo of general. The highest field
rank ever permitted to a colonist was
colonel. In those "good old days "a
man might enter a crowded barroom in
the Sonth and say : " Come up, general,
and take a drink," wiMrout every
man in the room responding. It fs
different now.