The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, October 04, 1877, Image 1
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A Silt Old Man.
'Hid all the nasty tlings that come to make
our tempera mart,
It's very nice in middc age to have a childish
heart,
To feel?although yoi've g>t a house, and
taxes ooming dm?
The little joys of early Ife potsess a charm for
you.
My boys and girls are glowing up; I'm fifty in
a day;
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AUU BU WC Utku WiHfc auuvumo uwo VUAUVU w
double gray;
And yet I jump and skip ibout end sing a song
of glee,
Because we're off to spend a moiih beside the
sounding sea,
Where I shall wear my lollanc clothes, and
tuck them up and wide,
And buy myself an &ir-ball?on, a tucket, and a
spade.
I've packed my box and coded it, and seen my
boys to bed,
And now Fm in the drawh?-room and standing
on my head ;
I really can't contain mysef, I shout and rub
my hands?
Oh, won't I built a castle witla moat upon the
sands!
I know this week Fve lost a lo of money upon
'Change, .
I know the kitchen boiler's brst and spoiled
the kitchen range,
I know my wife declares she rants another
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JJUUUIUU pUiUJUO ,
And I should weep and tear mj hair because
I've ample grounds ; *
But visions of to-morrow's blii bid all my
sorrows fade?
There's comfort in an air-ballcxi, a bucket,
and a spade.
I ought to be a solemn chap, and cess in black,
and frown,
And do as other fathers do when ping out ef
town;
And swear that all the packing up ill send me
nearly wild ;
And when I reach the lovely sea I onht to take
a seat,
Op w ilk ahnnt. a mile a dav'and irrtuikle at the
heat;
But oh, I can't contain myself, I'm oflmy head
wiih joy,
And won t I get my trousers wet ad be a
naughty boy,
For I shall wear my Holland clothes, ad tuck
them up and wade,
And buy myself an air-balloon, a bucket and a
spade.
Moses Williams's "B03."
The other night when the dark cbuds
rolled up in the West and the mutts* of
distant thunder warned pedestrian to
seek shelter, a man sat on his bee of
straw aud rags in the basement of an old
house on Franklin street. His'wife ras
buried four weeks before?dead fnm
kicks, cuffs, starvation and a broken
heart, and the four children who Ud
come to his knee had each lived loig
enough to realize that they had a wid
beast for a father, and had then bem
starved out of the world. The wife wa^
perhaps, glad to die. Heaven and thj
children were beyond the grave, sin
hoped, while life was simply a dark midnight.
The husband lay drunk in the
honse when she died, and he had not one
word of sorrow or regret. As the body
was being taken out of the house for
burial a voice called out:
" Moses Williams won't live three
months, and when he goes his death will
be an awful thing to see !"
" Ton lie?I'll live fifty years yet!"
he growled as he looked around to see
who had dared speak thus plainly to
sncli a bnrly big brute as he was. He
marked the speaker. It was a boy some
ten years ola, having great bine eyes
and an old-manish dignity. He saw that
boy before him as plainly as you see
these words, and yet no boy was there !
No one else saw him, and when Big
Mose advanced to grasp the yonth he
shut his fingers on nothing but air. The
boy was in plain sight of Mose, and yet
ho could not grasp him nor kick him nor
hit him with missiles.
" The tremors' are coining on him!"
whispered one to another, and they
began to draw away out of his sight.
"I'll oome and sit by you in your
dying hour!" said the white-faced boy
to Big Mose, and the half-drunken giant
was observed to run across the street
and strike at the air with savage vengeance.
,
Delirium tremens did not oome, as
predicted. The man was still stout and
strong, and perhaps he drank less for a
few days. He crept in and out of liis
den with baiting step and red eyes, and
the family above moved out one day for
fear he might become insane and murder
them. Some days he slept the heavy
sleep of a drunkard, and then again he
leaned over the bar of some low dive
and hoarsely said:
" Give me-something stronger?something
that will burn like a red-hot iron
as it gurgles down the throat!"
And the rumbling of the thunder the
other night broke a sleep which had
lasted for thirty hours?such a sleep as
wild beasts indulge in during the weary
weeks of winter. He sat up And listened,
and as the flashes of lightning lit
up his face they found it deathly pale.
His eyes were wild and bloodshot, his
chin quivered, and he peered this way
and that through the gloom of the basement
and felt sdraid.
"I have come to sit with you," whispered
a voice beside him, and Big Mose
almost screamed out in his sudden surprise.
There was no light in the room,
but the man knew that his visitor was
the strange boy who had warned him
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weess oeiore.
44 We are awful poor, but we must
have a light on this night!" continued
the boy, as he moved about the room.
The light he placed on a rickety old
table was a piece of candle stuck into an
empty whisky bottle. The grease had
run down over the the bottle, and the
wick burned with a dull glare when
lighted.
44 Boy ! Til kill you !" muttered Big
Mose, as he recovered from his first surprise.
44 That wouldn't be your first murderj!"
ooolly answered the child, as he
drew the only chair in the room up to
the bed and sat down.
The drunkard raised his fist and struck
with all hit might, but the boy tat there
utt the ttoe , a sad look upon hit face
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and a grieved expression to be read in
his big bine eyes.
44 Don't you remember little Daisy ?"
asked the boy in a soft voice, " don't
you remember how she was tossed upon
your knee, clasped in your arms and
kissed with a true father's love ? You
remember her, don't you ? And you remember
that when she was a babe you
had a house of your own, a store, lands,
and friends by tne hundred ?"
44 Daisy ??Daisy ??Daisy ??yes, I remember:
her," mused the drunkard.
44 And you remember how you came
home drunk one night, fell over her
cradle in the darkness, and your heavy
knee crushed the life out of her little
body! You called it an accident, but
your wife knew the truth. Almost from
that hour you began to go down hill."
441 will kill you?I will kill you!"
hissed Big Mose, as he rose to his feet
and ma.le a grasp at the boy. The child
did not move an inch, and yet no blow
could fjdl upon him.
44 You remember the twin boys,Charlie
ahd Chester, don't you?" continued the
bey, in the same pleading tones. 44 Your
wife was grieving herself toward the
grave over your conduct, and your store
had bean taken from vou when thev
came. Ah ! they were rosy and bright,
and color came again to the mother's
cheek as she taught them how to kiss.
How did they die, Mose Williams ?
Don't you remember how one night you
were fished out of the gutter, beastly
drunk, carried home by friends and left
on the steps ? Your wife helped you into
the house, saying never a word, but her
eyes full of tears. Her forbearance
angered you, and vou seized the lamp
and hurled it at her head. It passed
beyond, struck the bed on which the
children lay, and the flames which leaped
up and consumed half your house burned
those little bodies to a crisp ! Answer
me, Moses Williams, do you remember
that awful night ? do the terrible cries
of the children and the fearful shrieks
of your poor wife come to your ears
as the sun goes down and -the night
creeps on ?"
" I?I?you lie?I'll get my knife and
kill you!" shouted the excited man.
His face was white as chalk, his eyes
fairly blazed, and the truthful words
of the strange visitor were knives in his
heart.
" IT slash your throat across !" he
hissed, as he rose from the bed and
started to cross the room. He made oDe
steD. halted, and then with a wild scream
he sprang on the bed and crowded back
close to the wall.
"Snakes? Yes, they are here," remarked
the boy; as he turned his head
toward the other end of the room. " See
them creep and twist! Hear them snap
and hiss ! There'll be more along presently,
and it will be an awfal sight to
look down upon them ! Bat let me finish
my story: The awful death of yonr
children had no effect on you. The
tears and prayers of your wife were unheeded.
The entreaties and argnments
of friends did not turn you one liair's
breadth from your downward career.
The day came when you had nothing,
and the day came when a fourth child
wailed at your dreary hearthstone. Yonr
wife was in rags, your cupboard bare, and
through the broken panes the snowflakes
of December softly crept to chill
the poor child's soul! Do you remember
those days, Moses Williams? Days
when you even pawned the Bible from
the house, and robbed your wife of her
rags, that vour beastly appetite might
hp cTftfifip.d for the moment! Look at
lie while I ask you if you remember
iow that child died 1"
"Snakes ! More snakes!" whispered
lose, pointing into the darkness.
"Yes, I see. How their eyes glitter
ii the darkness! How their tongues
dirt out and in like threads of tire ! But
dcvou remember that awful night iu
milwinter when you slept on a tavern
beich, leaving wife and child without
fool," fire or light? How the wind
scnanc ed and howled that night! How
thecold crept into the houses and made
people shiver in their warm beds ! What
did you find when you tumbled home
next clay?not with food or fuel, but to
beataud abuse vour patient wife and go
backto your he41 again ? The child was
dead, frozen to death, and your wife
had tnt little life left. She had burned
the Blaw in^fcie bed to keep the icy hand
of de,th away, and had then wrapped
the babe in the tick. You murdered
that bibe, Moses Williams ! Ah ! your
hands are red with blood?the blood of
the iiuocent, the suffering, the patient
and k id 1"
"I'llthrottle you?I'll tear you limb
from linb !" howled Mose, as he sprang
from th? bed.
The b#y's great blue eyes looked into
his with pitying expression. The drunkard
g asjed at his throat, struck at his
face, and screamed iu wild rage as his
hands torched nothing but thin air. A
sharp hisi at his feet made him cry out
in terror, ind as he sought refige on the
bed again the boy went on :
"Look around this room ! Bare
walls, brolen floois, torn paper, great
spidere swmging from their webs in t1 e
dark wrnen ! To this den your crippled,
heartbroken wife followed you. Only
one in a million would have thus clung
to a fiend like you. All the kicks and
blows and cruel words and suffering of a
score of years had not been enough to
harden her heart against you. In this
dark end noisome den she hungered for
food and felt afraid of the dark shadows.
You crept down here time after time and
beat her with your fists, and cursed her,
and sought to murder her. Do you remember
her death, Moses Williams?
Does it not cone up to you like letters
of fire?how you staggered down here
one midnight and dragged her off her
dying bed and left her on the floor t)
breathe her last! Her last words were
of her children?and of you ! You have
lived on, glad that she was dead, but now
your hour has come I"
44 Great God 1 but see there !" hoarsely
whispered Big Mose as he pointed
across the room.
441 see them," calmly replied the boy.
44 They weave to and fro ! They crawl
over each other ! Their eyes are growing
brighter! The serpents delight in such
old dens as this! They hiss at the fat
spiders crawling along the walls?they
dart their red tongues at the strips of
mouldy paper swaying in the jniglit
wind."
441 see de?ila !" shrieked the ipsp m
he hid his fwe in hie hands*
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I " Yes, they have come. They are the
friends of the serpents. Both have
followed you for fifteen long years,
knowing that they would find you in
such a place as this at last. Do you
see their eyes dance with delight as they
come nearer? Do vou see them wave
their bony arms above their heads, as
they long to grasp you?"
" Keep them away?don't let them
clutch me !" screamed Big Mose as he
rlrowr roorrrArl nnilf. nvpr hid liP.ad and
nestled in the musty straw.
" It is terrible to die this way," mnsed
the strange boy as he looked around
him "The angels would hesitate to
come into such a place to bear away the
soul of an innocent babe. But tnis is
your end. You have murdered wife
and children ; you have turned the hap?iness
of life into gloom of midnight.
ou have been a curse to the world when
you might have been followed to the
grave by tears of sorrow that a good
man had passed from earth forever.
More devils are trooping in to gloat
over your miserable death?more serpents
are writhing' across the floor to
utter their hisses in your ear !"
Big Mose flung the quilt away and
sat up and looked around him. Such
terror?such awful horror?never came
to human face before. The white froth
gathered on his lips?his eyes glared
and as a writhing, hissing snake raised
its head above the bed the man sprang
to the floor with the scream of a wild
beast and dashed up the broken stairs.
The river was only a few hundred feet
away. Down the wet and deserted street
a shadow swiftly passed, halted for a
moment on the dark wharf, and then a w ild
scream and a heavy splash startled the
watchman on a lone vessel anchored near
bv The echo of the wild shriek floated
back to the strange boy in the basement.
He waved his hand, and the serpents
glided away. He rose np, and the goblins
hurried over the broken floors and
were lost to sight.
** It is the end," whispered the boy,
and the candle flickered, blazed up for
an instant, and then midnight darkness
swept into the old den and hushed every
sound?embraced everything in its ghostly
clutch.?Detroit Free Press.
Carious Facts.
It is a very singular fact that the shark
is always preceded by a pilot fish, which
actually performs the part his name indicates.
This is a well-established fact,
tested again and again by sea captains.
These fish attend the shark everywhere
and carefully direct his motions.
An artesian well in Ventura county,
Cal., spouts up fish. In a meeting of
the San Francisco Academy of Sciences,
specimens of the fish, supposed to be
trout, were presented. The well was
bored in 1871, and every year since has
thrown out immense quantities of
freshly spawned fish' in April and May.
In the course of his researchas into
the habits of insects, it was found by
Lubbock that an ant, which has a large
number of larvae to carry from one place
to another, goes and fetches several
other ants to help in the work, while, if
there are only a small number of larvae,
but a few helpers are called.
Recent excavations at Big Boone
Annntir TTv lmvfi brnncht to liffht an
immense number of animal remains.
Among them are immense teeth, tnskR,
jaws with teeth in them, ribs, spinal columns?in
fact there are bones from
nearly every part of the mastodon, besides
many that are not like any ever
before found at that place.
The Banyan tree of India is sometimes
found to spread out as to show with one
parent trunk 4^ree hundred and fifty
stems descending, and again taking root
in the ground, each stem equalling a
large oak tree, while there are thousands
of smallar ones. This tree is so expanded
as to form a small forest of itself,
wherein 7,000 persons could stand.
Kentucky's claim to the title " dark
and bloody ground " is attested by the
numerous fortifications and warlike implements
to be found on her soil. Cast-metal
balls, from the 6ize of a walnut to four
and six-pounders, have frequently been
unearthed, and under such circumstances
as to indicate that they were used by a
civilization long anterior to our own.
The sea mouse is one of the prettiest
creatures that lives under water. It
sparkles like a diamond and is radiant
with all the colors of the rainbow, although
it lives in the mud at the bottom
of the ocean. It should not be called a
mouse, for it is larger than a big rat It
is covered with scales that move up and
down as it breathes, and glitter like gold
shining through a fleecy down, from
which fine, silky bristles wave, that connlionrra
fmm Ano VinllioTlf. tint fn
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another.
Sam Weller'8 Engagement.
"Now, in regard to the matter on
which I, with the concurrence of these*
gentleman, sent for you," said Mr. Pickwick?
44 i hat's the pint, sir," interposed
Sam ; 44 out with it, as the father said to
the child, ven he swallowed the farden
- "
44 We want to know in the first place,"
said Mr. Pickwick, 44 whether you have
any reason to be discontented with
your present situation." *
44 Afore I answers that 'ere question,
genTmen," replied Mr. Weller, 441
should like to know, in the first place,
vether you're a-goig' to pur^ide me
with a better."
A sunbeam of benevolence played on
Mr. Pickwick's features as he said :
44 I have made up my mind to engage
you myself."
44 Have you, though?" inquired Sam.
Mr. Pickwick nodded in the affirmative.
44 Wages ?" said Sam.
44 Twelve pounds a year," replied Mr.
Pickwick.
44 Clothes?"
44Two suits."
44 Work ?"
44 To attend upon me ; and to travel
around with me and these gentlemen
here."
44 Take the bill down," said Sam emphatically.
44 I'm let to a singie gentleman,
and the terms is agreed upon."
44 You accept the situation ?" iuquired
Mr. Pickwick,
"Ccrt'oly," replied Sam, 44 If the
i elothts flu ma half as well h the place,
I hej'lldo,"
FOR'
ROYAL CC
3., THURSDAY, OC
Words of Wisdom. I
Duty cannot be plain in two diverging
paths.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road
to error. 1
Only the astrologer and the empyric ]
never fail.
Poverty makes some hnmble bnt more <
malignant. i
There is nothing more frightfnl than 1
bustling ignorance. (
A tedious writer is one who uses many
words to little purpose.
All religion and all ethics are sum- .
moned up in " Justice." f
The magic of the tongue is the most <
dangerous of all spells.
Active natures are rarely melancholy. <
Activity and melancholy are incompati- '
ble. 1
Show a haughty man that you do not
look up to him, and he will not feel that
he can look down upon you.
The character of any particular people !
may be looked for with best success in .
their national works of talent
Talk of fame and romance?all the (
glory and adventure in the world, are not ,
worth one hour of domestic bliss.
One can never by chance hear the rat- i
tling of dice that it doesn't sound to him <
like the funeral bell of a whole family.
An avaricious man is like a sandy
desert, that sucks in all the rain, but !
yields no fruitful herbs to the inhabitants.
Value the friendship of him who !
stands by you in the storm ; swarms of .
insects wiil surround you in the sun
shine.
Amongst men of the world comfort <
merely signifies a great consideration for i
themselves, and a perfect indifference i
about others.
Of governments, that of the mob is i
most sanguinary, that of soldiers the <
most expensive, and that of civilians the 1
most vexatious. i
There is not one among us that would 1
not be worse than kiDgs, if so continually 3
- ??1 nrifli o QArf nf trot*- *
uurrupueu HO lUCJ nic nitu u> Win V* IV?min
called flatterers. *
Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme !
passion. This doth make them fools '
which otherwise are not, and show them
to be fools that are so.
There is nothing so ravishing to the (
proud and the great (with all their re- :
sources for enjoyment) as to be thought :
happy by their inferiors. j
Education is a better safeguard of lib- <
erty than a standing army. If we retrench
the wages of the schoolmaster we
must raise those of the recruiting ser- 1
geant i
A proper and judicious system of reading
is of the highest importance. Two :
things are necessary in perusing the
mental labors of others namely, not to
read too much, and to pay attention to
the nature of what you do read. Many 3
persons peruse books for the expressed J
and avowed purpose of consuming time;
and this class of readers forms by far
the majority of what are termed the :
" reading public." Others, again, read
with the laudable anxiety of being made
wiser ; and when this object is not attained
the disappointment may generally j
be attributed, either to the habit of read- <
ing too much, or of paying insufficient j
attention to what falls upon their notice, i
The sweetest, the most clinging affection
is often shaken by the slightest 1
breath of unkindness, as the delicate ^
rings and tendrils of tne vine agitatea oy
the finest air that blows in summer.
An unkind word from one beloved often
draws blood from many a heart which
would defy the battle-ax of hatred or the
keenest edge of vindictive satire. Nay,
the shade, the gloom of the face familiar
and dear, awakens grief and pain. Those
are the little thorns which, though men
of a rougher form may make their way
through them without feeling much, extremely
incommode persons of a more
refined turn in their journey through
life, and make their traveling irksome
and unpleasant.
Quaint Methods of Punishment.
Mr. H. E. Scudder tells some quaint
things in Harper'% Magazine eoncerningMr.
Gardner, the lAte master of the
Boston Latin school. His modes of
punishment were as various as the offences.
One class had behaved, as he
thought, in a silly, childish fashion.
He sent out for some muslin and con- 1
fectionery, and drawing out the "house- 1
wife," which he kept in a drawer of his 1
desk, made up little bags of candy,
which he presented to each boy. One
urchin in the first class, who had been
tormented by his neighbor in recitation
?a teasing fellow?finally lost his temper
as his hair was twitched rather harder
than before, and slapped his persecutor's
face. It was at that moment only
that Mr. Gardner looked up. u There !
there!" said he, "Let's have a public
exhibition. We must all see this performance.
Boys, go up on the platform
and up they went to the great
stage at the end of the room, "^ow,
W , yon pull H 's hair," and the
first offender enjoyed a second twitch.
"AndH , you slap W 's faoe,"
which was done, when the boys were
allowed to come back, crimsoned with
mortification.
?
Revaccination.
The vexed question as to how often
vaccination is needful is again discussed
by the London Lancet, the best English
medical authority, which distinctly deprecates
the frequent repetition of revaccination
as being useless and tending
to unsettle the. minds of people in
regard to its preservative power. It
states that revaccination, onoe suflicienti"
at r\r flftflr nnhertv- need
V -V w. i
never be repeated. The nurses and
other servants of the London Small-pox i
Hospital, when they enter the service, <
are invariably submitted to vaccination, t
which in their case is generally re vaccina- j
tion, and is never aiterward repeated; '
and so perfect is the protection that, ]
though the nurses live in the closest i
and most constant attendance on small- ]
pox patients, and though also the other i
servants are in various ways exposed to ]
special chances of infection, the re3> <
j dent surgeon of the hospital, during his 1
[ forty-one years of office there, has never ]
j known small-pox to any of these
! bu*?#? or servants.
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)MMERCIAL.
TOBEE 4, 1877.
FARM, WARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
A f^w Stable Hints.
There are very many horses which are
made to suffer unnecessarily, or for a
prolonged period, through the want of
knowledge or neglect of the owner.
During the work season what numbers
:>f farm horses do we see with galled
shoulders, which Keep getting worse till
the bad condition of the collar and sadHe
galls makes it necessary to stop
work until they heaL If a horse has
proper care, no galls will be made by
collar or saddle. The horse must be
well and regularly cleaned each day,
and the careful farm hand will give an
extra rubbing off, especially during
warm weather, noon and night. Before
commencing work the harness and collar
should be mude to fit properly ; if it is
found that the animal shows signs of
becoming galled, bathe the affected
parts two or three times a day, but not
while the animal is hot from work. And
right here we would say that we have
found that bathing the shoulders of
work horses with water during the
season of hard work, hardens the skin
and prevents any liability to beoome
chafea or galled. Prevention is always
preferable to cure. A galled back, on
account of the saddle being more apt to
chafe, is more difficult to remedy, especially
in driving horses. When a driving
horse gets a sore back under the carriage
saddle, do not pad it heavily with rags,
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ing a cure that way, as some do, bat discard
the use of the saddle entirely till
the animal is entirely well, which can be
readily done by taking off the saddle,
bringing the back strap ap to the top of the
harness, where it is fastened. For "tugs"
or straps to hold up the shafts, use small
straps with loops in them for the ends of
the shafts, fastening the opposite ends of
the straps to the eyes in the harness
through which the lines go. Put on a
choke strap, use a surcingle for a bellyband
to keep the shafts from sliding up,
and you have your rig complete. Waph
the effected parts of the horse well evfery
morning with a soft sponge and good
castile soap, after which apply a mixture
of suet, fresh lard, and flower of
sulphur until the sore heals. If the animals
blood is impure?which is readily
seen by the condition or appearance of
the sores?give a tablespoonful of the
flower of sulphur?about two or three
loses in as many different days?in a cut
mess, taking care to prevent the horse
from taking cold by driving fast and
then neglecting to oover, for the sulphur
effects a purification of the blood through
the pores of the skin.
For bruises and sprains on horses, the
best and simplest remedy we have found
is crude coal oil, just as it oame from the
well with a small quanity of oil of spike
mixed with it. Vigorous nibbing should
accompany the application.
In regard to blistering and bleeding,
we must enter a protest, for we have
never yet found a necessity for doing
either, and have seen evil results follow
both practioes. There may be necessities
for both, though we have never
found it with our horse stock.?D. Z.
Evans Jr. in Practical Farmer.
Recipes.
Corned Beep and Cabbage.?Select a
good-sized piece of pretty fat and tender
corned beef (the rump is the best), wash
it in hot water and put iu a stew pau of
adequate size with fresh water to its
height; set to boil, skim thoroughly and
cover; then simmer slowly for about two
hours, according to size; remove the
gret nest leaves; quarter and core two
cabbages, parboil five minutes, drain,
add to the beef and simmer about an
hour longer; drain and dish up the beef,
irain also the cabbage, arrange them
around, and serve.
Preserved Currants for Tarts.?
3et your currants when they are dry,
and pick them; to every pound and a
quarter of currants put a pound of sugar
into a preserving pan with as much juice
af currants as will dissolve it; when it
boils skim it, and put in your currants, <
and boil them till they are clear; put
1 ?A- ? - ? ? awa* ^10 fVinm 1
mem ixiiu u jar, my pupci uici, uiv/w
lown, and keep them in a dry place.
Mangoes.?Take green muskmelons,
ind squash peppers before they become
:ed; take out the seeds and put them in
jalt and water over night; then fill them
with onions chopped fine, horseradish 1
jcraped fine, mustard seed and cloves;
jew them up, -and put them into vinegar.
Tomato Figs. ?Take six pounds of sugar
? one peck (or sixteen pounds) of the
iruit; scald and remove the skin A the
fruit in the usual way; cook them over a
ire, their own juice being sufficient without
the addition of water, until the sugar j
lenetrates and they are clarified; they
ire then taken out, spread on dishes,
lattened, and dried in the sun; a small
quantity of the syrup should be occasionilly
sprinkled over them while drying;
ifter which, pack them down in boxes, i
seating each layer with powdered sugar ;
;he syrup is afterward concentrated and
x>ttled for use; they keep well Irom
rear to year, and retain surprisingly their
lavor, which is nearly that of the best
quality of fresh figs; the pear-shaped or
jingle tomatoes answer the purpose best;
irdinary brown sugar may be used, a
arge portion ot wmcn is rreiaineu in |
jyrup.
Wapfles.?One pound of butter melt- j
)d in a quart of milk, and ten eggs beaten
ight; thicken the milk and butter with
lifted flour, and add the eggs and a little
lalt; should be of consistency of pound
;ake batter; add enough yeast to make it
rise, the quantity to be regulated by the
piality of the yeast. Set it to rise in a
varrn "place. To be eaten in the evening,
he waffles should be mixed early in the ,
norning in winter, and in summer at
nidday.
A Miser's Present.
A noted miser who felt obliged to
nake a present to a lady entered a i
jrockery store for the purpose of making
i purchase. Seeing a statuette broken i
nto a dozen pieces, he asked the price,
The salesman said it was worthless, but
le could have it for the cost of packing
n a box. He rent it to the lady with ;
lis card, congratulating himself that
he would imagine that it had been
ruined while on its way home. He
Iropped in to see the effect. The
;radesman bad carefully wrapped each
piece in a separate bit of paper.
faith if necessary to victory,
RIBI
$2.00 per h
THE DEATH OF CRAZY HORSE.
How an Indian Chief Died?Breaking
Through Bayonet* and then Mortally \
Wounded with HI* Own Knlfe-gcene*
After Death.
A correspondent at the Red Clond *
Agency in Nebraska describes the cap- 1
tare and subsequent death of Crazy
Horse, a redoubtable Sioux cmei, at i
Camp Robinson. The correspondent i
says:
At Camp Robinson, Col. Bradley, (
commanding the District of the Black ]
Hills, l rdered the prisoners canfined in \
the post guard house, and Capt. Kennington,
the officer of the day, was ,
charged with its execution. The inter- ,
preters seemed to anticipate trouble, ,
and noticeably absented themselves.
Taking Crazv Horse by the hand, Capt.
Kennington led him unresistingly from (
the ad j utant's office into the guard house, j
followed by Little Big Man, now become '
his chief's worst enemy. The door of 1
the prison room was reached in safety,
when, discovering his fate in the barred <
grating of the high windows, the liberty- t
loving savage suddenly planted his hands t
against the upright casing, and with i
great force thrust himself back among '
the guards, whose gleaming bayonets in?
stantly turned against him. With great *
dexterity he drew a concealed knife from j
the folds of his blanket, and snatched j
another from the belt of Little Big Man, \
turning with them upon Capt. Kenning- (
ton, who drew his sword and would have
run him through but for another In- j
/linn whn intpmnsed. Manv of them <
were dismounted and were crowding
around the guard house door, some
protesting vehemently against liis
confinement, while others coolly insisted
upon non-interference.
Crazy Horse had advanced recklessly
through the presented steel, the soldiers
fearing to fire, and gainiug the entrance,
he made a leap to gain the open air.
But he was grappled by Little Big Man.
This Indian, as Ins name implies, is remarkable
both for his small stature and
great strength; his double joints would
secure him distinction, as well as a competence,
in the arena. Crazy Horse,
though powerful, was held in a vise, (
until, freeing his right hand, he was ob
served to thrust a long, "keen blade into 1
the musclar arm of his antagonist, who, '
avoiding the full force of the blow by a 1
backward movement, reversed the hands 1
which contained the dangerous weapon, <
and once more grasping Crazy Horse 1
as he made a second leap for his freedom,
the point accidentally pierced the quiv- i
ering groin of the chief, who sank in a ]
doubled-up posture upon the ground 1
outside the door. 1
Instantly every Indian present--and <
about fifty had gathered near?was ob- 1
served to load and cock his carbine; and i
the silence that ensned was broken only i
by the dark figure writhing in agonv on
the gravelled earth, until an old Indian,
Crazy Horse's father, suddenly leaped
from his pony, and with bow and arrow
in one hand, and a cocked revolver in
the other, advanced upon Capt Kennington.
He was instantly hurled upon
his bock and disarmed by the friendly
Sioux, Reassured by this, the officers
and guard approached Crazy Horse to
convey him to the guard room, this time
for medical attendance; bat ag^in their
movement was arrested by the click of
What nnnlil fliov /In 9
OOC&LUg UftlUUICO. TTUuv - J
No interpreter was present, and they did t
not know friend from foe. Ih this emer- i
gency the Indians themselves motioned <
to the open adjutant's office they had t
just quit as a compromise -between their t
contending parties, and into this room t
they wore permitted to carry the pros- 1
trate chief. Some of them subsequently j
desired to convey him to an adjoining ]
village, but this request CoL Bradley re- t
fused to grant; and with the exception of i
a guard of enlisted Indians, Touch-the- c
Oloud, and Crazy Horsf, Sr^ the crowd. <
dispersed.
Until now it had been feared that the
wily chief was only " possuming," but ;
when his wound had been examined and
dressed, Dr. Macgillycuddy,the assistant I
post surgeon, pronounced it fatal. 1
Touch-the-cloud, the old father of the (
dying chief,and several officers remained
11? ?J rtVi clmx'1 xr t
Ulim 106 tliUj WlliUii vuviiw* u*vn?j
and painlessly under hypodermic injec- t
tions of opium or morphine. He never
rallied, and only once spoke, indistinctly ?
about bayonets.
At about three in the morning, Crazy t
Horse's mother, a withered old bag, who t
was not yet aware of his death, was i
challenged by the outposts and admitted ?
to the room. Her outbursts of grief, in 1
which she was joined by her husband, ^
seemed uncontrollable. They tore their 1
gray hair, and shrieked so as to alarm ^
the garrison. Finally they became 6
quieter, and settled in a'crooning manner ?
on their knees, bending over and caress- t
ing the prostrate and lifeless form, both
chanting, in an indescribably weird manner,
the now famous Sioux death song.
The deep guttural of the one blended t
wildly with the shrill treble of the other, ?
and both were cracked by age. No one -
who witnessed or heard the old conpie s
in their savage devotion can forget the 1
sad scene, or their strangely impressive *s
and mournful dirge. Touch-the-Cloud ?
Beveral times grunted: " Washte!' i
" Good!" And once, pointing to the
corpse, he said: "That is only the tipi t
(lodge); the rest has gone to the Great <
Spirit in the happy hunting grounds !" i
A Chapter of Horrors. 1
The following incidents of (me day's i
life in Baltimore, were telegraphed to <!
the New York Herald one Sunday:
An extraordinary chapter of horrors
occurred here to-day and to-night.
William Herman blew his brains out 2
on the street. t
Joseph McCarthy, a boy, was <lisem- f
bowled by a street car, and died in ten
minutes.
Frank Beatty, a blind convict, who }
was serving out a ten years' sentence for (
ftffcpnmtad murder of Fanny Cole with a
hatchet, attempted to murder a fellow* \
convict in the penitentiary and then cut i
his own throat He will probably die. (
An unknown man was beheaded by a
train on the Northern Central railway 1
near the city.
George R. Dumbleton fell from a i
third story window and was found a 1
corpse. j
A boy had his skull fracture! by a
kick Jrom a horse, and will die. I
At midnight a man attacked another I
violently,and while handling a pistol i
Mentally shot ehild- <
JNE
hue Single Copy 5 Cents.
Items of Interest.
Indians are not at all contagions,
rhey are very difficult to catch.
It is not supposed that the crop of
Centennial anniversaries will be spoiled
iy the early frosts.
The annual product of all the oottonnaking
establishments in this country is
rained at nearly $2,000,000.
There is man somewhere whose mem>ry
is so short that it only reaches to
lis knees, therefore he never pays for
lis boots.
Sharks won't bite a swimmer who
teeps his legs in motion. If you can
seep kicking longer than a shark can
teep waiting, you'll be all right.
The squirrels are so numerous and
lea tractive in some portions of Kentucky
hat the farmers are offering a premium
'or scalps. Some hunters kill fifty squirrels
a day.
Of the 1,835,000,000 acres of land which
constitute the States and Territories of
his country, 1,154,000,000 acres are yet
o be explored and surveyed. This work
s progressing at the rate of 26,000,000
mnnally.
That boy that took a hornet's nest,
ind undertook to carry it home, thinkng
he had a bag of treasures, lost the
sag on his way, but succeeded in getting
he hornets to accompany him .to his
leetination.
"Do you play the piano?" he asked
ler. "I play that I play sometimes,"
the answered, "but when I play I am
lot playing, then I play better than I
ilav when plavina. When I play play
t is sorry playing, and sorry playing is
i contradiction, so I do not play at all.'"
A St. Lonis polioeman who was attempting
to arrest a man for craelty to his
nule, incautiously came in the rear of
the ill-treated animal, and the ungrateful
brute, with characteristic prompt1688,
struck out from behind with his
feet, and so disabled the polioeman that
le will be confined to his house for a
nonth.
Three English women recently distinguished
themselves in the Forest of
Dean. They attacked a grocer. One of
hem brushed him down with a tar
irush; another poured down his back
he contents of a pot of tar, and the third
[>ound him up to his neck with tarred
doth. The grocer complained and the
women were fined. ; . ,
In Louisiana oounty, Virginia, last
week, a Miss Knuckles died after a
painful illness. Her sister came into
he room where the body was lying and
hrew herself upon the bed in a paroxysm
if grief, and, as was supposed at the
hue, fainted. When her friends made
in effort to revive her it was fonnd thai
he was dead.
RED CHEEKS.
Oh lovelier then the light tbet break*
At morn, o'er Ceahmere'g pearly lake,
Id the go ft hue that ah tunes the roses,
And on my lady's cheek reposes.
That winey tint soon leaves the rose; ~
Bat on her cheek perpetual glows,
Love's flerv shade. Fair little syreu,
She would bewitch the heart of Byron.
Upon her pearly cheeks, divine,
The soul of Beauty o'er does shine,
Because all silly Joys forsaking,
She stays at home and does the baking.
Joseph Dnmond murdered a woman
ind two children in Merced county, Cal.,
ind a reward of $500 was offered for hie
lelivery to the authorities, "dead or
dive." Two white men and two Indians
itarted in pursuit. The fugitive wns
racked to his hidiug place, where he
lad made breastworks of logs. The
)ursuers advanced incautiously, and
Dnmond killed the Indians and one of
;he whites with his rifle, but he fell
nortally wounded, and hie body was
sarried away by the only survivor of the
ontest in order to secure the reward.
Rainy Days,
'Saints have beeu calm when stretched npon
the rack,
Lad Montezuma smiled on burning ooals ;
Jut never did housewife notable
Jreet with a smile a rain J washing day V
Nor could she ever be reconciled to
he thought that this world was not made
o haug clothes, lines on, and that the
rind "which whistleth about continudly
" is no respecter of wet linen.
One rainy day nurses more amiability
han half a dozen dry ones. It makes
he folly of ill-humor so manifest There
s no use trying to "fret or spleen"
igainst a rainy day, for the sky relents
10 more than a cope of lead, and its
vatery issues rather thicken than fall.
L dull spectacle! And yet it has ml- ?
rantages. Was it of a gadding, sunihinv
day, think you, when the world
ind his wife were abroad, and all crenures
parted, that Homer
" Heard the Iliad and the Odyssey
Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea ?"
No! surely not It is to rainy days
hat wc owe the conception of mo6t good
aid great thinkings, sayings and doings
_? dnv thnt Knlirits not or tickles the
>eii8e, plays 110 fantastic tricks with smileams,
bat stands over you with the
rast, gray, motionless, thought-molded
ispectof an Egyptiau sphinx. Wlmt a
oster-mother of studious thought!
Give me a rainy day fear close and couinnous
thought, and a rainy day for
>ne of those quiet, almost unconscionable
laps,Vhen the "patter-patter" of the
4 rain on the roof " lures you into sweet,
ovelv dreamland, far from the busy
vorla with its flurry and sunshine.?
Scrap Book.
Business on the Brain.
The Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle is
esponsible for this story : Last night
he wife of Justice Moses was aroused
rom a sound sleep by a stern voice :
'4 Are you ready for trial, I say ?"
44 Hush! Don't make a noise, or else
you'll wake the baby," she replied, enleavoring
to soothe him.
44 Don't talk back to this court," he
rjciferated. 4'If you've got anv witlesses,
bring 'em on, but let your lawyer
lo the talking."
44 Why, Tom, how you do take on I
Vhat is the matter?"
"I send you up for sixty davs?that's
vhat the matter, Here, Enders, take
ier away. Now I'm ready for that petty
arceny case. Bring up the prisoner."
And, jumping out of bed, he started
;oward the next room to summon a jury,
mt fell over a rocking chair, barked Ins
thins, woke up, and oaked m* wife what
?m the matter, anyhow,
; ^