The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, May 17, 1879, Image 1
TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MAY 17, 1879. VOL. 111.-NO. 46.
TIlE GOLD OF HOPE.
Bright shines the sun. but brighter after rain;
The clouds i at darken make the sk'y more
clear ;
So rest is sweeter when it rollows pain,
And the sad :arting makes otir friends more
dear.
'Tie well it shoulti be thus ; our Falther knows
The things that work together for our good;
Wo draw a awmotuc as froin our bitter woos
We would not have a'l suushinb if we cou'd.
The days with all their beauty and their light
Come froni the t'ark and into dark return ;
Day speaks of earth, but heaven shino
t:rough the night,
Whero in the blue a thousand star-fires
burn.
Hu runs the law, the law of recomponso,
That binds out life on earth and heaven in
ono ;'
Faitlh cannot live when all is eight and seoneo,
But faith can live and sing when thesn are
gone.
We grieve an' murmur, for we can Lut see
Thu single thread that ili a in silence by
When If wo only saw the thiings to be,
Our lips would breatho'a song and not a
nigh.
Wait then, myi soul, and edge the darkening
cloud
With the bright gold that hop, can always
lend
And if t'-day thou artb with sorrow bowed,
Wait till to-morrow and thy griof alall end!
And nh% n we reach the sunmmit of our days,
Beyond the reach of ahadows and of night,
Then shall our every look and voice be praise
Toshiru who siiies, our everlasting light.
The Gold Hunters.
"'Put ie down as Holiday, if you have
any call to mention ie ; then any of the
old boys that may be around yet and sec it
will know It is me. Roliday was a sort of
purser's namle, you see, that I wore Onl thle
Slope In '49."
The speaker was a genuine '49cr, short
of stature, lean of "ody and limb, wiry and
tough, somewhat ulo.V of Speech and low
voiced, nearly sb ty years old, but active as
most men are at hialf his tge. Bit to hiis
story:
"There was lots of money lost in the
mines in themi days that wasn't spent for
whisky nor bucked against a gaine. We
had no safe-deposit, companies and no say
ings banks. Every man hid his nuggets
and his (lust just the best way he could.
Sometimes it would be in a hole deep tin
der the fire in tie earth of his cabin, or
ome other place In the earth floor; some
lines in the gronid under a tree in some
!onesonie, unlikely-lookin' place ; or, may
be in the open, a certain number of feet
toward sonic pl'int of the compass, fromt ia
littie innocent-looking stick stuck down, or
a big stone. It wasn't uncommon for them
cachecs to be lost by their real owners and
found by other fellows. I know'd of a
Frenchman that 1i1 about $9000 worth of
dust, and went on to tle American River
prospectin', and when he came back, three
months after, lie couldn't find it. Sonic
body had kicked out the little stake lie had
put down to mark it, and lie was al) at sea.
He dug all around where lie thought it
It might be, but never found it, and ttt last
ivent off heartbroken to 'Frisco. Then,
when he was gone, a siart 011111) that had
been watchin' him set to work and ground
sluiced the whole place for two acres around
and got the pile,
"There was a fellow on the Tuolinumne,
where I was, by the name of IHannford, I
think; but I can't be certain now, it was so
long ago. Anyhow, they used to call him
Bill. He was in with two pards, And they
had a good claim and was doin' well, when
l is brother came out. Well,. of course,
Bil11 couldn't take himi In, seeiri' as their
gang was full, so lhe advised him to strike
out prospectin' for hiself. The young
chap didn't take to it very kindly, for lhe
was a greenihorn in mininin' ways, and didn't
think lie stood much show ; still lhe did the
heat hie could. One day whien lie was goin'
hack to camp dead-beat and~ dlisgusted, lie
sat down undier a tree to rest hiisself, and
while lie sat there the idea come to him:
'Why the devil should the goid be all out
in the opent, down In the hairs, where the
sun Is hot enough to blister a hair trunk?
Why mightn't It jtust as well be in the
shade, like under this tree, where a feller
could work in comfort? And who kniows
b~ut what it is?' So In a sort of iindifferent
way he set hisself to dig a hole, thinkin' to
pan out some of the s'ile, for lie was alto
gether green, you know; but wvhen lhe got
dlown a hit lis pick struck somethin' of
metal, and In a minute or twvo lie had hooked
up a tin can wilth mor'ni $3000 in it, in
(lust and little chunks and nuggets of prietty
good size. Of course 1he had sense enough
to know that gold didn't come naturally
that way in tin cans, puit up) like fruit or
turkey ; but lie knew also that out. there in
thlemi timeh a man hadn't much clear title
"to anythina' lhe didn't have lisa hand on, and(
'flndin's is keepin's' was the general rule.
So he froze to that big streak of luck and
took it into camp with him. Then he wvhis
pored to lis brother the rich find lie had
made, and Bill took a mighty lively interest
ini it.
"Where did you find it ?" says lie. And
the young fellow described the place to hhn
as well as lie could. 'Why, you unholy
buccaneer,' says 13111, 'that's my cacho
you've beeni a plunderin,' anud It's my gold
you've got.' Thlen lie wenit on, before look
ing at the gold, to describe sonme of the big
gest nuggets, to idenitify it by. 'Thero's a
flat one biggcr'n my thumb nail," says lie,
'of the shape of an Irish harp, and another
like a dumbbell; two blobs with a thin bit
between 'em, and'half an Inch long ;and
one like a ham, with a star oni one side.'
'And so on. And, sure enough, when
they came~to look, it was lia gold, and see
in' It was his brother's, the youpg fellow
gave it up.
"In '5,. there was a big excitement about
Australia, and a good many of the chaps,
thinking they'd have a hotter chance there,
the reports boin' so big, strucek out from
California for the new Australia diggin's.
Among 'the rest, a prlze-flghttinmg gang at
Murphy's ~camp, at Calaveras county, made
up their 'minds to go. There was Johnny
O'Brien, Samn Banty, Mike McGee, and one
they-called Sir Lisle Clcly-all pretty well
known names, that a good many lIii' now
East as well as West, will remember-that
weore goin'. They set a day to start, and
O'Brien lie went to dig up his gold, which
lhehad buried in the grourid floot of' the ca
bin, in a certain spot oleoe 'down br the
wall. He dug and dug and It wasn't there.
Ha shonted he was robhad, and there was
big excitement, but all to no good. -There
was a hole where he swore he had cached it
three months before, and the hole was emp
ty. Johnny was 'mio :razy, but fiad no
idea of the thief who r'bbed him. It seem
edthat he would liave to give up goin' to
Australia, for he couldn't start broke ; but
he was it good fellow, and the other fellows
wouldn't leave him behind, so they chipped
in all around enough to give him as much
as any of them had; and that fixed it. But
the day they"vere 'to start, just as they
were desertin' their cabin, Billy Canfield
you must have heard of him--,come over
from Coulterville, and wheit they told him
how Johnny had been robbed, "olibed be
blowed ' says he. l e asked about where the
gold had been burried, and Johnny told
him it was in the floor, just below. a nick
he'd made lit one of the logs that the cabin
was built of Billy went .into-the empty
cabin and looked around, says le:
"Where's the nick ?"
* '"They had got high-toned wheit their
luck was good, and lined their walls with
nmuslin, so the nick was covered up.
" 'It's Just there,' says Johnny, pointin'
to it spot above-where he had been diggin'.
'"Bill said-nothin' but, ripped down the
muslin, when, lo, and behold I the nick
was a good live feet from where Johnny
had thought it was ; and when they dug
down under it they found his gold all right.
You see, he had clean disrememberol the
location of his mark.
"But the queerest thing 1 ever did know
of I was interested in myself,.and it was a
real robbery, with no person guilty after all.
Two men named Vesey and Kidder-at
least then were the names out there--were
working partners with me on a clain at the
city of 'Tuolutimne, in Sonoma county, 'n
1854. We were doin' real well, and each
of us had-his share of several thousand dol- I
lars, in coarse gold and little nuggets, hid
away in what we considered a safe place.
We lived together in a little cabin next to
the United States 1 Totel, that Greenwood
used to keep the'n, and. Vesey thought the
safest place for .his pile was to bury it in
the dirt under the pork-barrel. One day he
went to it, to add at good handful to what
lie already had, and when lie came to dig it
lie turned white its a sheet and said to us:
" 'Boys, it's gone. I've been robbed '
'"It was mighty unpleasant for is, for we
supposed we were the only ones, as we
thought, that knew of his hidin' place, and
lie might very readily have suspected us.
Whether he did or not, I never knew. At
all events lie said nothin' of the sort, and
went right on with his work ; but lie found
some new place to hide his gold, which lie
didn't happen to mention to either of us.
'lhe rainy season came on, ad one day,
when we were all three in the cabin, unable
to work because of the rain, which waspour
in' down ill as if the flumes aloft wits turned
loose, our little adobe chimney got soaked
with water and tumbled down.. -Of course,
we hnd to go out with shovels and picks
and fix it ill) the best we could, without re
gard for the rain, or else be smoked out of
the cabin. I was diggin' up some earth at
the corner of the cabin near the chinmey,
to patch it up, when my cye cauglhf the
gleam of a little yellow nugget. I picked
it u), and saw several more. In a minute
more we were all three down on ofr knees
in the mud, forgettin' all about the rain
aud the chimney, scrapin' ip the gold and
congratilatin' ourselves on having struck
the richest kind of a claim. But directly
Vesey got some of the nuggets in lia hand
lie knew them, and says he:
" 'Why I Blast my eyes, if it isn't my
own gold!'
" (Ile recognised the buttons lie had incited
down and broken up himself ; and right lie
was, as we made no manner of doubt.
If we'd had any doubts, though, they would
soom h ive been set at rest by our discovery
of how lie had been robbed. A gopher had
burrowed its holo along under the corner of
the cabin, and beneath the solid dirt floor,
and accidlently strtuck his gold, which was
putt dIown in a buekskin bag. If it had
been in a tin can, It would hitve beent safe
enough, for the gop~her wanted neither tin
cans nor gold, but it did want the buckskin
bag; so it gnawed the ba'g and dragged it
away along its burr'ow.scattering the gold as
It went, iad that was how we Caime to
strike the trail. We followed tip thie hole,
and recovered within half an otunce at most
I guess of all that 11ad( been lost; and I do
believe that Kiddler and me were a sight
more glad than Vesey himself was.
He Didn't Want a Medal.'
The first "kersplash" of the spring sea
soin of 1879 resoundled near the foot of Rain
(dolphi street its a stranger attemnptedl to walk
on niothing and brotught tip In the river.
ie wasn't the nman to fool arotund in the
liquid element longer than was 'positively
necessary, and a few yells brought him as
sistance. When iandi~ed on the wharf . he
wits met- by an old sailor who heldl a medal
In his hands and began:
"My unknown friend, I am deputized byr
the Society of Anclin' Marine Liars t
"o away--I'm freezIng I" yelled 'the
shaking stranger, as lie tried to break
through the crowd.
"Th'is medal," continued the sailor, "wvas
voted by the association last winter to the
first spring victim of-"
"Blast your medal - l'm all chilled
thirotighl" howled the stranger, as chills be
gan to claw tip and down lisa spine.
"As I was saying, the Soehty of Ancient
Marine Liars desires to reward merit whecrev
er merit Is found, and now, on behalf of
that-".
"I tell you I don't want any of your
dtrned old medals ! Where's a~ fire-where's
a red-hot stove-I am freezing I"
"As I was saying, the Society desires to
present-you thIs medal, not as a gift of
wealth, but as a reward of-"
The old sailor was upset at this point,
*and the stranger made a break tip-town.
Over thirty liars took after him, but only
stucceded In tearing off his larboard coat
tail and securing his hat.
Given Up by Doctorn.
- "Ia it possibletlhat Mr. Godfrey is up
and at work, and cured by so simple a
remedy ?"
"1 assure you that it is true that he~ is
entirely cured, and with nothing but
H1op Bitters; and only ton days ago his
doctors gave him up and said he~ must
diet" -
"Well-a dayl That Is remarkiable!
I will go this gay and get jome for nay
poor George. I know hops are good."
A 'singo word wvili blaSt a reputtion
a modultlon of tone wiltoo f, a 'tar
inou sisnua'lon-a passin g noyili
determine he occupatitob ofr litei
A Fignt with i Bear.
4ust at day-break, we came to a crossing
of the bayo'i where felt sure the bear must
pass on the way to his den. IUrvey placed
le, the dogs, and himself. A fallen tree
was in front, and through its interlaced
roots I could see lin every direct ioi. Ilard
ly had we completed our ambush when a
quick. movement of one of the dogs startled
ie. But, in a moment, noticing that his
looks were directed toward the crossing, -1
too, looked thither and heard the sound of
a heavy aniinal sauntering slowly over the
soddeln ground and approaching my lair.
In al instant a pair of yellow eyes glared
at ie, and with as wide a look of surprise
as there was in mine. Recovering myself
I fired at the ionster, which appeared like
a huge, animated b)lack clouid as ie rose uii
-before ie. The brute disappeared with the
smoke of my gai, but in a imloment I was
startled by the report and shock of a second
discharge. Tie other load of my gun had
been accidentally exploded. Looking in
the direction that the hear had taken, I saw
he had run along the other side of the fallen
tree and met the two dogs at the farther
end, wheni he turned about and cai toward
ile at his most rpild speed and imi savage
humor. Then there was a f'arful crish
and rush. The black mass came on, with
eyes gleaming, aid bewildering Ime with
the reflection of their glare in the sunlight.
I was .onisciouis that miy gun was useless,
and so instilietively grasped my pistol, but
found it hopelessly entaigled in iy belt.
For a second, despair camt1e upon me, but 1a
sudden revulsion aroused every sense an([
prompted me to defeise for life. Quickly
drawing my knife, it. wis presented at a
thrust ats the dark 111M sprang at ime.' At
this moment, one of the huge (hogs leaped
at him so flierculy as to divert the monster's
atteintion fron myself and make him miss'
his bite. lie reared, and as he again camte
down on his fore feet alnd was in the act of
going over the bank, I plunged iiy knife to
the hilt into his body, in the region of his
heart,. Ile tumrntd and made at terrible
backward sniap at, lily legs, but at t.he limo
ment I fell backward over a bush, and so
we all went into the bayou together, floun
dering in the water and mud. I scrambled
to the edge of the slough, and watched with
intense anxiety the result of the battle. in
another mmnient, and when tile bear had
nearly retched the farther side of the pool,
desperately fighting with the (logs every
inch of the way, I heard a rushing soundi
and the whirring flight of more of the pack
as they sprang over me. In. the sane in
stant a flash shot out from the brown barrel
of Ilarvey's rille, and the bear rolled over,
though lie still feebly fought the pack, and
kept oil fighting to the last. mi'nllit, of his
existence. To ily mortification, anl exami
iation of tle huge circass showed that lily
shot had not made any visible mark oil the
animal, and that my knife had not (utite
reached his heart. 1 larvey's shot had kilhlet
him. The weight of the savlge aimll was
over live hundred pouinis.
The Storrows of a Oianit.
A person who las a great liking for look
ing at giants, and dwarfs, and abnormally
thin and fat men and women, and other
such entertaining natural curiosities, was
walking down the Bowery one cold night
last winter-walking lpret 3ty bi .skly to keep
warm, and looking with some interest at
the art treasures liing up ilk front of the
museums-when lie heard a deep bass voice,
evidently coming out of the gutter, saying:
''I won't go there iny more. 'liere's no
use saying another word about it. I tell
you I won't do it, I've lost ten good poun(
now, and another week of it would take off
tell more and ruin eile. I won't do it, and
I think it's a shame to ask mi1e. But I've
been imposed on and run over ever since
I've been with you, Shameless."
It was tivo o'clock in the morning, and1(
tile streets were almost empity. The speak
er wias sitting on thke culrbstonles talking to a1
gentlemanl ill a long ulster and a silk hat.
lie was the giant, from thle mnusemn (directly
ill front of which ho siat, alnd whlen hke spoke
his whlole 400 p~ounlds shook wvith emotion.
Withl a chlivalrous spirlt that rebelled1 at
seeing thle strong ihnpose8 upon tile weak,
t~le person took the liberty to ask the gery
tleman in the ulseter wvhat was the trouble.
"Oh, lhe's 1the most uknreasonable giant
that ever lived," said the gentleman, whlo
provedl to be tile giant's manager. "lie
ouight to live iln a Fifth avenue hotel, ho
ought."
''Now, Tony, said the gianit in a whim
poring voice tha~t soimdedi like a dhkild's,
"you're not doing me fair; you know you
are not. All I ask is enloughi to keep up me1
'ealth. But 1've boarded over in that place0
1.i1l it's beginnilng to tollio me11. It dlon't (10
for ime to lose fiesh; flesh1 1s money; and for
me to be fed contlinually on oat meal amnd
(dried peachk pIes will soon1 t'ake 'thle bread(
out of my mou01th. Get 1me * ulalce where
I'll have enlotighk to eat, andl~ I m go ; othker
ise I'll stay here till you find al policemanli
bIg enough to p)ick 1neup.
The person was moved wvithk sympathy
for the suffeinigs of the gIant, and before
leavinig hii.i to his uncertain fate made an1
ap1pointmenft, to mee~t h11i nxt afternloon Iin
theO museumi11, amnd possibly give hhn 8011e
useful advice. Th'le gianit was found thke
following afternoonl surronlmded by a crowd
of admirers, each1 of whiom insistedl upon0
piinchiing his logs, to make sure that hke was
hkumana. In a lull In the pr'oceed(lings the
gIant gave thle persorr this little isighit into
the private affairs Qf living curiosities.
".Nw,I I'in not like a dwavff," said the
giant-(whlichk was very true, Is height
beIng a trifle over eight feet)--"a dwarf cain
go withkout eating a long time, and rather
imnprove his appearance. But 1 muist eat.
Feed a giant, and -starve a dwarf-that's
tile idlea. In the Bowery, here, there's
more than a hundred people that the public
has to pay to get a sight bf. Of course, it
is pleasant to be distipguishled, and to be0
courted by thle people, and all that; but thenl
such a life has Its troubles, too. You see,
it wouldn't do for us to miake ourselves too
conmon in the streets, If giants and
dwarfs shlould once be commuon ill tile streets
thle business woukhl bo (1011 for; so we have.
to be boarded near to thle exhlibitions. Thlere
Is a place two blocks lip from hlere, oni tile
other side of tihe Street where they board
nearly all of ums, anid we go up in wagons,
late at night; yes, that's the reason you
never see us in publio. There's the Austra
lian ehildren board there, and the Circas
sian lady, and the Tiny Tkim., and the fat
woman, and thle fat. girl, and the hiving
skeleton, and the tattood man, and two or
three dozten more. Well, they send us two
meals a-day from there, aid then' wienwe
go hbine at n~khi We have anothei i ~.
That makes us three, meafqady h
oaerdhg house-k6pr say *~lifie~
every week, and .4 guess he docs; but that's
no reason why I ou01ld lose liesh every
week, and I can't oiTord it, and won't stand
it. You see, If a giant weighs 400 pounds.
he's worth so much a week-a sum not at. i
all c(qual to his size, I can tell you. But if t1
he lets himself run down, so that he only c
weighs 350 poiulnds, why, lie's not worth 4
more thia half asimuch. I've seen the time tl
when I weighed nVarer 600, but that was
when we were onthe road, and chickens
didn't roost so high. to
"If you'll proihiise never to give It away," m
said the giant, stooping down two or three p
feet, and whispering, "I'll tell you some- 3
thing. - But I Wouldn't like any of the p
others to know thit I told It, though they
all know it's true.4 It's the living skeleton y
that's made all this fuss, though lie didn't 1)
know it himself, and lie's a nice noble- v
hearted mpan, the skeleton is. But when el
the manager firat talked with the landlord a
aibout boardi ng us. the landlord -he a kind of o
checked u1s oil. in 4s mind; I know how Iit!
was. 1 Ie said to himsel f, here's two giants, hi
three dwarf, two bearded women, and the
liviii skeleton-bpt, we won't count him t
lie can't cat anything. Bless your soul, o
there was whore .he made a mistake. It It
was a very natural mistake, of course. To n;
look at the skeleton. any one would think a h
peanut Would give him indigestion for i V
iiuonth ; but eat! why, tle poor, ignoriit A,
landlord had 1no idea of it. le'd eat R I
butcher shop dry in one afternoon, WVhen Ii
lie sits down to that table at night, nlid rests b
one of those elbow-bones of his oi each sid d
of the plate, then look out for famine aid wv
desolation. Mebbe you'll not believe me, a
sir, but lie eats more than ie and the fat r
Woman111 both together; lie does, indeed. Ito
eats everything he e1n get his hands oil.
And the more he ents, the thinner lie gets-;
that's tlie beauty of him; that's What Ilalkes 01
that Rman111 so valiugble. This, you see, is It
what makes the landlord keep the rest of u1s II
onl short allowance. lie mistligured about ti
the skeletonl, and lie's losing money oRn the r
run. iat's what makes it so bad for Rme."
'Did you settle it about where you shouldi
sleep last night?" the person asked liin. b
"Yes," replied the giant in a sorrowful g
tole; "it Could oily enld ole wily: I had to ta
give inl. I'm i poor, lonely, lioniless, de- tU
dendent creature with nothing to live on w
but.mRny shape, and mlly ) shape a-leiving 1me
every day. I'll never grow thin enough- to
be a skeleton, and I'll just go to the (logs;
I know I shall. Don't youR never grow to u
be a giant, if you care anything about. your- o-'
self." at
.lst at this minute the ~miusic struck up ti
agii, an(I the stage manager, a very maill fr
1111d slight man, seeing the giant in conver
sationi with the person, sprnig fiercely it
him, salying:
"Come, now, is this the way you attend 1
to your business, talking to strangers? And oR
it's not the first time I've had to speak to Ic
you about it to-day, either. Oet back to d
your place, will you, and don't let it hap- Ic
pen again, or I'll attend to your case, I
will." S
The giant stel)pd meekly and silently i l
to his place. ti
A Rominoe of Pearls. tU
I will tell you a circuistalnce that, hap- ti
peied twenty-five years ago, when I was sc
reslding in Calcutta One morning our
friend, the late Dr. N Ass, Surgeon -of the
Royal Army, brought to my husband, Dr. -
John (ran1t, a box containing twelve or
thirteen pearlsi of various sizes, saying : IL
"Grant you are a well-known man in Cal- (1
cutta, and I wfant you to hear the curious ai
account of these pearls and take charge of w
the box and let ic know any change you a
may see in them. Their history is as fol
lows: About forty years ago a lady at Am
boyna gave a pearl to each of two sisters,
saying, 'These are breeding pearls; take g1
good care of them; never touich them with
the hand, as heat injues them, and feed
thiem on rice.' One of thecse sisters has just
conio to Calcutta, and she has lent the box
.to me) to show to you. Ini the forty years
she hats 1had( It this is the result-twelve or
thiirteeni you~ng ones)." The b)ox was openedC~ ci
and there lay on the cotton the mocthuer' w
p~earl, a rather large but hI-shaped indi..- br
viual. 'rTe eldest daughter, as I called it shi
was a lovely pearl about the size that jew-~ ya
clers generally set three in u . .g. The
others wvere perfect in shape, but gradlually
decreased In size; twvo very smlall ones I
called the twins, as they stuck together, and
the last was a wee seed pearl. According dr
to listructionis, rice was put Into the box, di
which was locked in a secret drawer In tihe ai
cabinet, of whlich my husband alone had iw
the key. Aftei' some days we opened the
box, anld to our'astonishiment we found that
every grain of rice had been nibbled. I
cainnot think of a better word. How nib- g~
blod I cannot hmagine, but that one fact I thl
can vouch for. A few weeks later we had wv
to leave Calcutta. The box was rettirned( sai
to Dr. Vase, and~ what became of it I knowv he
nlot. I have often mentioned it to my Lii
friends, and sonme years ago I saw in a book
that av upon my friend's table that poople0 "
In the I'ast believe in breeding pearls.
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M
Rorrors of a Prairie Fire. o
A few weeks ago Mr. Montgomery, of it
Lincoln county, Kalsas, anld his son1, a boy wi
of about twelve, were in the field at work, so
when they dliseOvered a fire coming froma de
the wvest. They stopped theIr wvork to keep hi
the fire from tile hledge, when the wind sud
denlly chianged to the north, blowing very
hard and cold, and bearing. before it a see- ot
cnd fire, which camne with th e speed of P1
a hlorse. There wvero two fields near on im
eithler side, and seeing their danger, the boy at
started to one0 feld and the father to the ti4
other, .,Tho boy was~ caught Ila the flames
andi fell to the ground listan~tly. A neigh- w
bor, h~anc PfaY, who was passing near onti
a mule, galloped uip to Mr. Montgomery sp
anld indluced hlim to mnount the mule behind Is
hin and ride to the field. Mr. Montgom- ar
ery mnoutited, but seeing his boy fall, lost T
all presence of mind and threw his arms.ti
around Mr. Pfaff; catching the brhdle-reins I'
and holding the mule stIll wille thley were el
enveloped In the flames. Both men drop- m
pod to the ground and the lire passed over lh
thiem,' .ho tuutle rani a short distane aind C
fell dead. The two men aroso to theIr feet jkc
and the wInd and fire took their clothIng jo
fr-om them as they Walked to the nearest hl<
field, about one hiu. dred yards distant.
Mr. Pfae' feet were " badly burned that
his boots fell from him as he walked. A *~
Mr. Manng came to them from the nearr a
eat house5 with a couple of qtuilts, which hie alk
wrapped about the two men, and carried nm
them to the house. I19.then corried in 'the
dead boy. Both men wore perfectly ra- 0
tional, and conversed freely with thoc I r
around themn up to within a few hours of' O
their death, - Se
Tame' HitThloon.
Colonet Ezra Miller has a tarIm In
Few Jersey, and has beena eXprimlllent
rag iII raising biffaloes and tialig
tema. In a recent interview he des
ribed them at som1e lengthI as follows;
We have laud no trouble lin raisinag
1en,"' the Colonel said, "and they
erd with the other cattle on tle best
f terms. What surprised tie is their
-eaknoss. I supposed they wore very
owerful; but they are not. I have
-en a yearling Alderney bull putisi
Ill, the bufl'io hitll , wlien he was threo
ears olu, right up 1hill. They are fast,
Lat they are not stronag. ihey are also
mry cowardly, very playful and very
inning. I have studied their hablis
id have beena greatly iamused. 1I' one
them sees you sht, a gate, he'll go
id open it iminediately after you ; but
3 won't go oit, of the gate. I had
tem in a lot, and noticed that a length
C the fenco that soptratetl the laustu r
'olII a lI.d( of rye was down. I sent a
an to nill it up. Bill stood just be
ind him, and watched him closely,
he uinan had not .got to tihe house he
a-e Bill gravely walked up to the
nec, put his horns tiuder the lower
)ard and ripped the whole leigthI
wn, and then quietly turned antad
alked auway. One day men were
orking on the side of a Ihill with bar
oys. At noon whIle they were eat
g dininer uider a shed, ley heardi a
Lttle, and down came 13111, the haindle
the barrow oi each hiorn, whteling
lie wheeled it to tie Foot of die
11, when it tutirned over. Then lie
led to get it. back. I have seet him
11 a barrel half' way up tihe hill and
ien let' It roll udowna ndevery time the
trrel bouinced over a stone, Bill
'unted and Jerked up his riideulous
11. Thoy don't, bellow lIke our cattle
ey grunt. One day some girls who
ore visiting here trom New York,
ent on the hill for blackberriis carl
I ig a siall tiin pall such as tile llena
e Ii carrying salt whena t103' salt, thae
tithle, Bill saw tiae pall, and ihough
'raid of the girls, walked towards
tci. They slowly edged away. Bill
llowed. The girls walked faster; so
d Bill. They rana ; Bill broke into a
ot, and down the hill they caale, the
ris still holdIng tile pall, atid fright
led out of their wits, aud Bili behind
naging for salt. Ilanged It tile girli
dl" e1111mb) a fence within three
igtls of all Open gate. They never
Wv it. Bill stopped with ia grunt and
Jerk of lile tail. A curious thilg,"
e Colonel said, "is their dance. I
11 it their war dance, and .1 believe
0e I ndians got the ido of the dance
0111 them. as ell its the grunt. Those
roe bufl'aloes would go tip itinolg
1 codars, and Bill would reair ut)
;aIlust one, put his fore legs around it
id bond it down to the ground. Then
c others woiuld Join h1im1a, aid thbey'd
I stand1 over the bent sapling. Sid
mly, at a given - grunt, they'd jump
vmy, ad(], as the saplitig sprang tip
tit a switch, they'd start in a eia'ele
oun1(d It, one behind tile Other Jump
g stifX logged, coming downil on all
ur feet at a time, and at each iaump all
'litillg."ao
- A Chamnberaidsui ChraIistas.
A seranit ghil i boarding-oause,
ho dlishlar'ges the ariduious duties of a
*ambler-mlaid's p)ositlin, .whlena she
as driessIng haerself, enltered1 Into a
lef mlental calculatIon of the presents
e wvould be likely to receive from thae
ri'ous boar'derse of the establishmnent.
kira. A. in tihe big front oaa the second(
or." salid this female Almaschaar,
vill probably give me that black silk
e88 she used to hlave for a seCondl-best
ess, anow thaat shae lase got a anew one;
.d Mr's. B. In tile bac1k r'ooml asked mie
1 had1( a new shaawl thae other' daty, anid
hien 1 said( I hadn111't, said( tht perhlapsl
ata Claus would( br'Iing meo onae, so [
iese thuat's all r'ight; andl upl on the
Ird floor Mrs. C. wanated to know
bat my second name11 wats, andt so I
1)1)08 she's going to give mea a box of
ndlkcehiefs ilth my) mionlogr'am on
emla; and1( Mrs. D). toild mae nlot to waste
one0y buylang a par'asoh, for one0 of the
airdlers would be sure to give tme onie
Chistmaas tie; andc that-'widowv
r'e. E. with the spim1I-compllla1inted
lid, oughat to give me soametinag If
s-oaly a paIr of cnlls an~d a collar,
hich ia about the manaiest that a1 p)er
n in a boalding house can aff'ord to
." Ilavinag sett~ledl thaese attter's to
ri satisf'actin, the faiifthfuldomfestie
snat downa to breakfast andl toild the
her' girls what the boairders lad
omisal to give her , then whent that
mal was concluaded, took her' (duster
d went out to levy her contribu
mns. Arrived at Mrs. A.'s roomn she
shed that lady the comlpllImbents of
e season wi'th much war'mth an1d re
eet, and Mr's. A. 5sa(d, "D~ella, here'
a little 'Christmas present for you,"
d gave her a small pasteboard box.
toeochambermald's face was e'lonagated
1 It reached down to haer brooch, and
e closed the door with some warmth,
ittlering to hersol f', "the old painted
g I I wIsh I couald make haer eat her
liar and cnffs with those false piano
y teeth of haers that she hasn't paId
r y'et." Tiaklng a reef In her face,
wever, she trIpped smilIngly into
rs. B.'s room, and( Mrs. B. saId :''Ah,
la, merry ChrIstmas to you; here's
solhtar and pair of rf fis." "T1he mean.
impinag thing," said the chaanber
id, as' aeon as the was 1,n the hfll
co more; " 'next time her 1usband
es to ing me on the stairs see if I
Sout and soiatch his face, thaW allW
* ftfdetu t es quiaro With 1i~' f
this.'' Proceeding up to the next
flight, Della called at Mrs. C.'s room,
and when Mrs. C. said archly, "Ah,
Della, can you guess what I'm going
to give you for a Christmas box ?" the
poor girl's heart sank clean down into
her slippers, and she answered, "A col
ar and a pair of cuirs," and when she
had received her gift didn't say "'thank I
you,'' but slammed the door so veheim
eneitly that Mrs. C.'s pet china vaso t
was knocked oil' the mantelpleco anad
smashed, which was some consolation,
aimyl.w. Mrs. 1) gave the girl abeam
Ing smile and a pair of culls and a col
lar, and the grateful recipient of her
bounty said to herself, "If ever that
wall eyed camel wants to got the sheets
changed on Thirsday again, perhaps
I'll do it! Oh yes; of course!" and s
with a bitcer laugh she strode into Mrs. I
C.'s Ioom, and when the Widow said, 1
"Delia, yotl've been a very good girl
since I came here to board, and If you'll
opei I lie top drawer of the bureau over
there you'll find a little pasteboard box
- .'' Tlis was the list hir1 tIt
broke the chambermaid's heart., and I
with a yell of disgust she exclaimed,
"Keep yoI Old 11 measly collars and a
cull's. If I couldn't afl'ord to give a Ia
chamberlady amything better than a
collar and paIr of culls, I'd go and
board at the poor-house."' And hler
overtaxed nature found rellef in tears
"Della," maid Airs. I. with ley severity
''I often feared that you drank, but
n1ov I'm certaimn of. It, I was about to P
Iay that iI thalt drawer you would fid
a simall pastehoard box containing a
pair of earrings and two five dollar
gold plieces, but after your impertinent I
conct I shall certainly not bestow b
allythilig oli jomm, y3 u nutideservimg
IlliX.''
Mon" (if Lou1ift Ph1Ittype.
Of the flve Sols of louis Philippe,
who was King of tho French for nearly c
eghteen years, four survive. Tihe
lne D'Orleans, the eldest, who was I all
aiible and popular was a sort of ul
French Prince of Wale's, 'uid was kill
ed by tihe overturn of his carriage In I
18,12. It I his eldest sors, tei Coint (1 o
Paris, nlow forty-oni.e years old, who
was the Orleans Pretenidro to the soy
creiinty of France. Tihe Dtc de No
mliour's, the sgecolld son, obtained time o(
rank of Lieutenant Gpneral during his II
fatheri' reigm, and before lie !adi at- go
tained his legal majority had been of
fered an(d declined the thrones of l- T
gliu and G reece. ie is a man of mod
ern'te abilities. De Joinville, the third 1
of' the Orleans Princes, became an Ad
mnir'al while hils father reigned, and, W
with two of his nepiews, witnessed hc gi
proceedllfigs of the Vhiginia campaign tv
of 1802, and published hIs observations
thereon iII Revue Deux Jondes on hIs
return to Europe. Tie Duc d Mont- la
penser, whose marriage In 181.1, to the
infanta Louiaa of Spain, led to the bf
break-up of the French monarchy of
1870, is Lotis Philippe's fifth son, and iIn
appaently a common-place man. The it,
1)no d'Atimale appoars to deserve the "
reputation which lie has acquiii'ed of a
being the ablest of theoOrleansPrinces. w
lie wias also the mostfortunate. Louis th
Philippe was so immensely wealthy th
that lie couild richly provide for' each si
member of his family, but d'Aumnale,
the fourth son, succeeded ini 1830, when T~
lie was onily eIght years old, to the vast v
prioper'ty estates and moneys of the last ar'
of the Pinmces of the House of Condo, en
lid when lie obtained his mnajority the
accunmlation of all his wealth 11nade1 ta
tL'Aumaiule one of the rlchobt men In 10
Eur'ope. Th'le Orleans Princes it Is no
torious, are all wealthy, and also very to
eonomic in their expendhitumre anid liv
Ing. Th'le Due d'Aumiale wvho Is now -p
flfty-seven years 0old, was highly edui- bt
oated, and1( as the ilstoian of tile Condo 'Oll
'amiily, may be regardedl as a man of' wv
letters, ie served with distinction i a
thme army befoi'e tihe revolution of 1848,
anid Pr'esident Tihiers was greatly )
blamed, not only for restoring him to E
his military raiik on his return from A
exile in 1871, but for subsequently in
p)lainiig himii in commamnd of' one of the
great (divisions of the army. In 1848, d
wihien Louis Philippe and his familyt
had to fly for their lives from France, 8
the Duem dl'Aumale was Governor-Gen- ta
oral of Algeria,.
Siul
The 13oam Loomnotive.
te
Uncle Dick wveighs sixty-five tonisp
andl he Is sixty foot long from his head th
light to the roar end of his tender. lie ji
Is the biggest locomotive in the world, 0(
and( Is for duty on tihe preelpmtous Iln- v
olinos of tihe AtchIson, Topeka and
Banmto Fe Railroad, A boiler 21 foot
long sup~plies steam for cylindors 20 y
inchies by 20, and gives motion to eight to
12-inch divors, while a large tank sur- atm
mounting the entire structure niot only cC
carries a water supply, but helps to
give Uncle Iek a tighter' grip on the 0
rails, ils driver will have coni~rol of s
three independent systems of airb'rakes oi
and can binmg to boar at once upon his It
hieels a -restraining force of 75 tons, o1
which is none too large inestnucoh as a
"shoe pressure" o'f'6,000 pounds is re. nlI
rjuired to koep him when standing still 0c
and alone op the steep road .over' tiue
liuton Pass, from surrendering -to, .i
gravitation and rushing down hill by lii
his own weight.' How heavy those 4h
grades are cant be understood whet
Is noted that one end' of Uncle 1i~ h
will. often stand moreo tlag~ thie4 ftet'
higher than thiy.otheor so thd in tra%
allhing his own length jie Willdo .tIe'
pend1iculaug.tMrlAd et~g~ ~ g
star frejolbingn1 hi~WE
u H~i6 11414 d
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
To give pain Is the tyranny, to make
kappy the true emijre of beauty.
Those eyes alone are beautiful which
re luminous anid not sparkling.
The perfectly contented man is also
>erfectly useless.
lHe Is happy who has coniquered
aziness once and forever.
The truest end of a life Is to know
he life that never ends.
Our dead are never dead to us until
re have forgotten them.
lie who spends all he gets -is on the
igh road to beggary. -
The ideal saint of the young toralist
cut fron salppy timber.
Th , are never alone who are accom
anled with noble thoughts.
An angry man opens his mouth and
bIuts his eyes.
Everybody complains if bad memnot y
ut nobody of bad Judgment.
The man who minds his own busine- s
is a good steady employment.
God furnishes us the line wheat; bit
,o ourselves must knead it Into bread.
Ile fneds no a.;her rosary who.e
tread of life is strung wit.h beads o'
)ve and thought.
The most terriflc storm of real woe in
man's heart rarely flings its froth
li) 11 as high as his lips.
The pralse and blame whieh hang onk
te lowest boughs, and iaity be easily
lucked, are'generally worthless.
Never pass between two personA
ho are talking together without an
)ology.
N' or lend an articla you have bor
wtd inless you have permission to (1o
Never exhibit anfty anger, impatience,
exciitement wheni an accident hap
aIts.
Anything we cainlove and reverence
Weomes, as it were, the Sunday for the
Ind.
l'ollteness is money, which enriches
t him who receives it, but who dis
ml1ses it.
A man that astonishes at first, soon
akes people linpatient if lie does not
mtitiue to doe it.
teproaches, unsupported by evidence
klet only the character of -him who
ters thei,
Philosophy, like.medleine, has abun
nlce of drugs-Iew good remedies,
ad scarcely any specifies.
In general, there is no ofie with
hom life drags so disagreeably as with
mII who tries to make it shorter,
Censure is most effectual when mix
I with praise, so, when a tault is dis
'vered, It is well to look up a virtue to
> in company.
Single-minded men always stleceed.
le vedge, says Carlyle, will rend
eks, but its edge must be sharp and
ugle; if it be double, the wedge ha
'ulsed in pieces and will rend nothing.
He who makes a man laugh twice
here he would only laugh once Is a
'enter benefactor than lie who makes
ro blades of grass grow Wihere there
ts but one before.
The hour is whole, and so is the dol
r ; but take a minute from the one, or
penny front the other, and, for want
its smallest part, the whole ceases to
1.
The habib of resolving without act
g is'worse than not resolving at all,
ianuch as it gradually sunders the
tiral connection between thought
Ad deed.
They are like the linoh-pin to the
beel, on which depends the safety of
e vehicle; they are like tle rudder to
e vast shll) which it guides; like the
mtder nerves to the bulky muscles.
it is with nattions as with inidividuaals.
aose wvho know the least of others
ink the highest ot theomseivos, for the
'aole familly of pride agpd ignorance
e lincestuous and eventalybee
cli other, talybet
We can easilyTnanage if we will only
ke, each dany, the burden' ap~poinitedi
r* it. But the load will; be too heavy
r us if we add to its weigh~t the bur
ni of to-morrow befbre we are calld
bear it,
Witty sayigs are as easily lost it the
arias slipplug oflf, a brokent string;
.t a word of kinad ness is seldom -spok
in vaini. It is a ed which, even
Lien dropped by chance, springs up as
flower.
It is never well 'to 'put' ungonerolis
nstructions wvhen otliers 'eqilaliy
iuslble and more honorable-are ready.
t US ra'haer fellow .the adylce of Sir
rtnur Hielps, and "nmplo our imag
ations in the service~ et , rity'.''
Tlhis 'canntaot be other wise; for groat
ings are only a series of lIttle ones,
closely compacted together that they
ke the appearance of, an d, indeed, be
me a whole, just as the otur is miate
a of minutes, and the dollar of cents.
The wvise physicierr is on friendly
rms with death., it is ats mudh. a
aysiologlheal necessity- as lifer and
ough, like thoe visitor of am 9Ahleer f
stice, its entrance' must'not bo ow
without a proper *aldrant; gottie
nrant is surpe to be istied all ast.s
The greatest lossofttnie is delsay did
peetathon whioh doppndsingon 'the
ture. We lot' go ts p awhi
a have in etur powet~a and ~ *#c
that which depend0' ui n b h~'e,
d so relinaquish a ceraiI,fonn'aan
Words are nothing to. a:Inq -
a~ love, a mother'8 00~~a~p.
,by's-slnile Centatus the iiais
nee0 of 'all earthiy1 lbbih'
id's love Soothe.W t~~tpken~g
derhands so ngghti
4 is blesse6
edenlly bu ~e~~a
d aid th tm in p41
The mu~id dteh%4