The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, August 17, 1880, Image 1
*J. 'TRI-WEEKLY bDTO .r WINNSBORO, S..A AUGUST 17, 1880,VLL.-O 9
S. BY-AN-Y.
Be quiet, restless heart I Toe long light ties
n gleams of lingering sunshine on the hill;
The homue-bound swa.low, twittering as lie
files,
Makes alienee seem more still.
The shadows deeper grow, and in the woods
T% air a latent sweetness bolds in fee;
Ate odor faint of yet unblossomed buds
So like, dear heart, to thee I
Far distant in the soft oeruloan deep,
Where the horizon bounds the nether world,
Great ships becalmed, like br,.oding birds
asleep,
Lie with white sails loose furled.
In peace the day is ended, and the night
Falleth as doth a veil upon the sea :
Along its bosom comes with swift-winged flight
The gray mlet silently.
0 anxious heart, how Nature speaks I Her
power
How leisurely she uses. How intense
The infinite peace of her most fruitful hour I
How soft her influence I
Time hath she for her storms to sweep the
man ;
To rock the treetops with he r winds of
wrath ;
To bring forth fragrance in the summer rain;
And time for snow she bath.
So dear, for all thy eager soul desires.
She keeps sweet times and seasons. In her
mood
Is bid for thee all passione's subtile fires,
To round thy womanhood.
Cease, then I and in this dewy twilight, move
As one who asks not whither, cares not why;
'Ihis gift for all holds still the eternal love
God's endless by and by.
A Pretty Game.
On the porch of Mr. Everson's fine resi
dence in M--, on a beautiful evening about
sunset, stood Julia Everson, a beautiful
young lady, with deep blue, lustrous eyes,
tmnd Francis Rowley, a tall handsome
young man, lite face glowing with health
and his deportment that of a perfect gen
tienan.
"Your father," said Francis, addressing
Julia, "Il as determined as ever, I suppose,
about this affair of--of the marriage?" His
look was averted from her while he pro
nounced the words.
"Determinedt'" Julia Everson exclaimed;
"Why papa Is so bent upon my becoming
Mrs. Upjohn, that he would die of rage,
I think, were my resolution known
to him
"And that resolution is, Julia-"
"To give Mr. Upjohn plainly to under
stand that the times we live in are not
those which tolerate the affiancing of two
children in their cradles, merely because
their parents happen to be friends. Be
sides this George Upjohn has the manners
of a regular clod, and has passed his whole
life in some obscure place out West. Do
you felleve in proverbs, Francis?"
".Why (1o you ask?"
"Because i do." Julia Everson's face
wore a look of very firm determination as
she'spoke."
"To what particular proverb do you
have reference just now?" Francis asked.
"To the one which says, 'Where there's
a will there's away. ' I think, that you
and I may test its truth,' if we are so in
clined. Of course, I wont elope with you,
Francis. I dont consider olopements res
pectable. I shah never marry you if I
have to d') it--there!" She looked serious
enough to keep her a esolution.
"You mean then Julia by coming the
mightily eloquent over your father?" Fran
cis asked.
"And get pooh-poohed for our pains,"
she replied, with a slight laugh, "No I
mean something else. Papa is still asleep,
and likely to remain so for an hour. Let
us take a stroll through the garden, and I
will disburden myself of a weighty
secret."
"Is Mr. Everson at home?"
George Upjohn was the enquirer, and
he was shown into a small sitting-room on
lie ground floor of the house. Presently
the door openedl, andl .Julia Everson en
tered the room,
"Mr. John ECverson," said she has been
unwell for several days, sIr, and he has
lately fallen asleep; his daughter, Miss
Julia, does not consider it advisable to
awake him. But she will be happy to
see Mr. Upjohn herself, provided he
wishes It."
"Of course --of course-by all means
certainly," stammered ,Upjohn, to whom
the immediate prospect of beholding his
fiancee was thoroughly overwhelming. "lBe
good enough won't you to tell her so?"
Soon afterwards a tall young lady (who
struck him, the more he looked upon hier,
as an unnaturally and disagreeably tall
woman) attired in a show ill-fitting dress
and wearing, upon a couoLenance full of
"broad-blown comliness, red and white,"
about the most thorough from ear-to-ear
sort of' smile that Upjohn ever remem
bered having seen, entered the room.
"How d'ye do?" said the gigantic vir
gin, accompaning her salutation with a
boisterous laugh. You're Mr. Upjohn, of
course? Well 1 dont like your looks a bit.
Ilow do you like mine?"
"i-I- think there must be some mis
take," he answered in amazement. "I tin
dterstood Miss Julia Everson was to-"
"Well, I am Julia Everson."
"Impossible!"
**Perhaps you mean I disappoint y..u,"
she cried out In a loud, coarse tone. "I
dare say you're a good enongh kind of a fel
low, but then you're decidedly not the fellow
for ime. Saw that the instant I clapped
eyes on you. i'm the sort of a girl that
likes plucky, sporting.mnen with lots of 'go'
in them, and a general air of being 'up to
snunf." You're not that sort of a chap."
"No!" exclaimed Upjohn, with a pale
embarrassed countenance-"no, Miss J ulla,
I am not the type of manhood you admire
Is-i--your father in? Can I see film for
a few moments?"
"Our girl told you he was asleep, didn't
she?" was her indifferent answer. "Be
sides, as you've come to stay several days,
and have brought your portmanteau, any
time will (10, I suppose, at which to hold
your confab with pa".
Upjohn, stiffening visibly in manner,
abruptly answered:
"Since I cannot see your father it is
better that I should at once take my de.
parture."
"And why so Georgy?"
"Ocorgy/' Could lie believe his own
cars? Was this vixenish, overgrown fe
male the Julia Everson whom he had wor
shipped in dreams as his future wife? He
would rather die than become the husband
of so hideously ogreish a creature.
"I have no reason to give for leaving so
aprubtly," lie said. in sharp. cold tones.
Julia made some odd sound between a
giggle and a chuckle, and as lie was about
to retire, she said:
"Oh you don't like fun, d'ye? Have a
cigar won't you?"
"Heavene!" exclaimed the bewildered
Upjohn, stumbling backward in astonish
ment "you can't possibly mean that you
smoke?"
"Certainly I do," was the reply, Miss
Everson biting the end of a very nice-look
ing Figaro as she spoke.
Mr. Upjohn walked deliberately far
ward, and took his portmanteau, and.
having bowed wal about quitting the apart
mont, when Julia exclaimed:
"I hope I haven't offended you, Pa'll
be frightfully mad when he hears you've
gone in this style. He'll be sure to blame
me, too. I wish you'd leave him a litt'e note,
explaining that you go of-of your own
free will, as it were."
"I shall be very willing, Miss Everson
lie said, "to leave a note for your father.
What is It you desire ie to write?" taking
a card-case and pencil from one of his
pockets.
"Only that you don't think we suit each
other well enough to get married. Please
don't say anything about smoking, because
pa don'tknow I smoke, and-"
Upjohn delayed no longer, but wrote the
following on a card, and handed it to Miss
Everson as a message to her father:
"Sin: -I desire to have the agreement
broken concerning my future marriage
with your daughter. I have held an inter
view with her, and I confess to being
wholly unwilling that such a lady shall be
come my wife.
"GROOR UPJoHN."
"Thats precisely it!" boisterously ex-.
claimed Miss Everson, seizing the -cigar.
"Old fellow you've got a handsome streak
in you, if we dont like each other." Up
john rushed from the apartment, and short
ly afterward taie hall door closed upon
his retreating figure.
"Francis, you have certainly been
making the most utterly revolting creature
of yourself that It is possible to conceive of.
I have been listening in the dining-room
yonder to every word you said." And the
real Julia Everson surveyed her disguised
lover with laughing eyes.
"There is my chief trophy." exclaimed
Rowley, waving above his head the card
which contained Upjohn's message to her
father.
Upjohn put in no further appearance.
Mr Everson was deeply indignant on read
ing his card, andl ultimately consented to
Julia's marriage with Francis Howley the
man of her choice. So much for tihe clever
disenchantment and the verification of
Julia's invorite maxim- "Where there's
a will, there's a way."
Thust was too Much).
The tenant of a house on Crawford street,
Detroit. who was always behind in his
rent, was some aays since ordered to va
cate, and then lie put his imagination at
work to invent excuses to remain in the
house, He first hind his wife fall sick, and
thereby got a week. '[hlen lie was taken
with the chills and got in four days more.
Then lie got two (lays in which to get
another house, and when an ol!lcer wecnt
there for the key lie found the man (lying.
At least his wite said such was- the case,
and acted like one greatly distressed in
mind.
"T[his is very sudden," remarked the
nonplussed officer.
"Very sudiden, sir. lIe had just said to
me that we would begin moving atter din
ner, wheui he dropped on the floor and lie
has been lying in a stupor ever siuce. The
doctor says lie may never rally again."
"Can I see him?"
"Oh, yes, but please don't speak above
a whisper."
She led the way to the bedroom. There
lay the unconscious man, but somehlow he
didn't look as a sick man should, and his
breath hiad a strong smell of whisky. The
oflcer felt of his pulse and made up his
mind that it was a game to beat the court.
Ho therefore began: "Well, Mrs. Blank,
I congratulate you. In a few hours more
you will be rid of him forever, lie Is a
great loafer and a hard drInker, and but
for this lie would have dIed In the state
prison."
The wife opened her eyes in astonish
ment and the officer continued:
"I'll leave word with the undertaker as I
go down. Any sort of a box will do, or
may be they'll haul him out on the com-.
mons. It's of no consequence what be
comes of these old mioakers. Yen will be
a happy woman when the old galoot goes
up the spout."
At this point the dying man rose up,
and took a cool survey of the officer and
quietly observed:
"Sir y,ou are no gentleman! No sir, you
are net! .I'm no soaker or loafer, and I
want you to understand that I'm able to
have as decent a funeral as yeou can. You
con take your old house and go to bangs
with it for all of me. Mary hand me my
clothes, and we'll show this vulgarian that
we can move out of this Qhd shanty, and
into a residence in about forty minutes."
in about twenty minutes all their goods
were on the walk and the aa itemse lke lp
The Deadly Parasol.
Few people have any idea of the amount
of eyes that are anually ruined by the para- n
sols of small wives. In the year 1879, it ft
is estimated that in the United States alone r<
two hundred and sixty eyes were totally i
put out, and seven hundred and nine were a
more or less injured. No accurate table ti
of the number of divorces produced by the 0
same cause has been made, but the fact a
that about two-thirds of all the divorced i
men in the State of Illinois are one-eyed c
gives us some idea of the extent to which el
the parasol in the hands of a wife objec- ct
tionably small ruins the peace of families. of
What is the proper remedy for this giant ti
evil? This Is a question for every mau who ii
contemplates taking a small wife. It will t:
not do to increase the length of the para- ai
sol-handle inversely as the height of the fil
wife. There is a certain standard of length a'
for the parasol-handle beyond which it can C(
not be increased, for the reason that when bi
the handile is too long the parasol does not
cast a shadow which can be kept In posi- IE
tion over a bonnet with any certainity. hi
Equally impracticable would be any device w
for increassing the height of wives, so as to ot
bring their parasols above the level of their of
husband's eyes, Already the boot-heels pi
are made as high as possible, and if any re
attempt Is made to increase their height, ae
women would be totally unable to walk. fo
Of course the wise men who are still un- ti
married, and who know the dangers that at
accompany the parasol of the small wife, ti
can resolve to marry no woman whose N
parasol will not at least reach six inches e
above the level of his eyes, but the man a(
who is alre.ady married to a small wife si
cannot better his situation by making good ll
resolutions as to the selection of his second a
wife. a
It may be said that the small wife L1i
should be required to hold her parasol in ti
such a way as not to endanger her hus- 01
band's eyes. Of course, this Is physically se
possible, but lie knows little of the nature nl
of women who fancies that any wife will di
submit to dictation as to how she shall til
carry her parasol When her husband re- lil
marks, "There my dear! my other eye is ti
gonel" she merely says, "How can you be ti
so stupid" and calmly lays all the blame le
on him, If requested to keep her parasol bi
out of her husbands eyes, she either flatly p(
refuses and tells him to mind his own
affairs-as if lie had no right to feel any p
interest in his eyes-or she bursts into so
tears, and says if lie cannot walk with her n
without insulting her lie had better stay at le
home. The parasol is probably dearer to
a woman than any other earthly thing, and so
she will carry it in what she considers w
the proper way, though ill the male sex inl
should be blinded thereby. ni
The only apparent defense against the at
parasol is to cover the ends of its ribs with at
large India-rubber fenders. On each end ge
should be placed a sphere of solid rubber hi
of at least an inch in diameter. By no st
possibility could the human eyebe injured, es
by contact with so large and soft a sub- eu
stance, and the husband of a small wife, fc
whose parasol should be thus rendered in
nocuous, could \valk with her In a crowded
street in safety, It is evident however,
that nothlmin except stringent legislation
will induce the women of our country to ,
consent to have their parasols decorated
with rubber spheres. If merely reques- to
ted to do so by their husband, they will tin- ca
hesitatingly refuse, and in most instances, f
will asse:t that the request is deliberately
intended to make them ridiculous. The 18
Legislature, however, can very properly P
make and enforce laws for the protection ."
of the eyes of male citizens. That a wo- is
man should be allowed to carry a weapon w
that constantly menaces her husband with
blindness is a reproach to our civilization.
We forbid men to carry pistols and knives, w
and we should equally forbid women to car- to
ry the dangerous and sometimes deadly
parasol now in constant use. -C
A Lazy Mian's Views
k
Let us analyze this lyinig in bed. We
maintain that, In the mere fact of lying ini rc
bed, there is something healthy amid re- a
cuperative to the system. The wheels of mi
life are oiled and eased. The proper and ci
legtimate purpose of stop)ping In bed is to W'
go to sleep. There is no tonic or medicine fa
in tihe world like sleep. Thme more sleep vi
the brain gets, the bettor does the brain Cc
work. All gremitt brain-workers have beeni am
great sleepers. Sir Walter Scott could aln
never do a th less than tenm hours. A fool tIe
may want eight hoturs, as George IHI. said 01
bitt, the philosopher wants nine. The to
men who have been time greatest generals til
are the men whlo could sleep at will. Thuts ii
it was with both Wellington and Napoleon. b
Thme greatest speakers in the House of Corn- gi
mRona hmave been men who caa go to sleep '1
as much as they like. This explained the w
juvenility of the aged Palmecratomi. There am
is a man whmohaa been Atty. General, whom di
I have seen bury his face inm lis hands over til
his desk and sleep soundly until lis own wV
ease should come on. "Sleep,'' says the li
Greek proverb, " Is the remedy for every Li
disease. If lie sleeps well lie will do well." ki
A friend told mie that Ite treated himself th
for a fever. 1HT wvent to bed with a large e'
p)itchier of lemonade by his side. lie drank th
and slept, slept and drank, and slept him.m sij
self well again. When you take to your IV
bed, get all tIhe sleep you can, even theimghm, hi
to quote Dick Swivoller's sayig, you have to
to pay double for a double bedded room,
confessing that you have taken a most uin
reasonable amount of sleep out of a single
bed. You will hmave a whole store of re
cuperativo energy. Even if you cannot C1
sleep, still keep your bed. There is no Pi
more pestilent heresy than that you shoul T
get ump immediately when you awake. If ey
it is time early riser who catches the wvorm, am
tIhe worm is a great kidlot in rising still It
earlier ini order to lbe camughit. If you do m
not sleep by lying in bed, you get rest. de
You scure tihe fallow ground which will i
hereafter produce a good harvest. Bleep w~
is of course the proper enjoyment for a bed. a1
but if you don't sleep you can lie and read. i
We don't believe that time man who gets up o1
really learns or does more thtan time mani M
who lies in bed. Of all the sleep in time ye
world there is noneo so good as what you ,im
got in time way of treasurc -trove, after the wi
usual time of waking, whemn ini point of tc
fact, you have given upi time expectation of tI
getting any more sleep. As for "being ai
called," as time saying goes, that is simply ei
a relic of time barbarem of our ancestors. cl
We should quarrel with any nman wvho ia
would presume "to call" us. One of thmo 8
main beauties of an occasional day in bed a
is that you get an extra stock of sleep, cd
which goes to the creditsaide of time sanitary y
account.
.T1'ng pupil of' the eye hmas to be lashed, a
The Cat Uird and Her Nest.
We knew of so nioy cAt-bird's nests
utrer home, and had such good facilities
ir examining then in a thicket of syringa,
se and wax-berry bushes op our pre
ises that we did not think of fuch at thing
i looking for them in our summer explora
one, but we were glad indeed to linger
rer one which we came i across that
ternoon in the most retired part of the
,tle wilderness that we aftervards alost
uine to look upon as our own property,
nce nobody ever seened to go there ex
pt ourselves. And this reminds me anew
the deep satisfaction we hadiall through
ose long June days In wanderiug or wait
g It its leafy receses, where flecks of
inlight brightened the green half-twilight
kd dappled the soft floor, variegated with
Ilen leaves and hundreds of shy plants
id tender wild flowers, where our only
>mpanions were the manyA brooding
rds and their mates.
This cat-bird had (one a 'fiarvelously
genious but most risky thing in locating
ir nest between two small he locks, just
here the tip of the outermosk' branch of
kC lapped a bit on the corrcsjondling tip
the other, so that If the wind had hap
med to sway them ever so slightly the
suilt to the nest would have been the sane
if It had been left loose in space, its
undations on nothing more tangible
an air; and it would have followed the
ic law of gravitation which influenced
e falling apple made famious by Sir Isaac
awton. But our wise little friend had
iculated upon such a catastrophe, an(d
ted accordingly, using some kind of fore
ght which we should call reasoning if a
inan being had done it. It chanced that
thin shoot of alder, tough and sinewy as
whip-lash had growni up near by. This
c bird had seized upon as the needful
Ing to make the place available. The
ror-lapping hemlock twigs were made to
rve as the bottom and the walls of the
-st, on which were laid up some fibres of
y roots and a few dead birch leaves; then
e alder had beon bent down and bound
cc a withe around the hemlocks el raining
eat together, then passed around and
rough the nest, in v?hich two green
aves of it were- growing from the out
Le as luxuriantly as if nothing had hap
ned to it.
The bird must have had a hard tine of it
iling the alder into place and making it
taut, but the result was beautiful-a
at of shining green with t vo paler oval
ives fluttering in it.
She had the usual number of glossy,
lid-looking eggs; and ten days later there
ore five awkward, yellow-tiroated, gap.
g cat-lings. We afterwards saw several
sts as we followed the river, all built of
rips of grape-vine bark, dry roots and
raw-like gi ass, and most of them in dan
rous places, either on the alders which
Ing over the water, where the young
>od a chance of being drowned. or so
posed that a hawk passing above could
sily spy out and pounce upon the de
nceless brood.
Bacheior louse-Keeping.
We suppose everybody knows what
rass-widow" means-a woman living
mporaily absent from her husband. We
n think of no corresponding terms to ap
y to a man in like condition, unless it is
grass-widower." We know of one who
just setting up his cabin on a northern
airie, prepared for a sumnmer campaign of
ireaking" prairie sod. A boy of fourteen
with hin as "chief cook and bottle
Faher." We feel a deep interest in their
ork, particularly in the house keeping.
lie boy's success or failure in cooking,
ashing, etc., will bring credit or discredit
his mother. We have lately heard the
ther in4tiire anxiously concerning his
pabilities--Do you know how to cook
t meal?" "Catn you make such graham
cad as this?" "Does lhe understand the
tack of making dried apples eatable ?"
You know how mamma seasons maca
ni, dont't you?'' etc. Botht arc very fond
milk, and if they get a cow, or finid good
ilk for sale close at hand, the cooking and
iting business will be simplified. Milk
>es well with abntost everything that our
Ike eat, as we never use pickles, and
negar very seldlom. To make sure of
i>kmtg the oatmeal, cracked wheat, rice
id hominy, properly, they have taken
ong a steamer made after the farina-ket
3 plan. They are dlirected to use one part
t meal, rice or hominy, or cracked wheat,
four parts of cold water in the inner ket
with plenty of water to keep up bollIng
the outer one. To secure a good graham
cad. they have provided the best of
ahami flour and dried Yeast Cakes."
he cook will set a thin sponge at night,
ithi half a yeast cake, and flour
id warm water enough to make a large
ipping-pan loaf (all they can hake at otto
nue in their Oven), and in the moring lie
ii 0(d( sugar and graham flour until hto
is a stiff ba'ter well beaten. Ti will be
rned into the butter bread-pan without
lendilng, allowved to rise qjuite light and
en baked. It is pretty sure to be good
cery time, for the same cook has gone
rough the same mlovenments many a thme,
upilly helping htis mother, but unconscious
educating himself to lie a great help to
a father in tis emergency, and1( possibly
himself later mn life.
Ant Ice Gorge ini July.
A remarkable ice gorge exsints in Sussex
munty, New Jersey, near Swartewood
>nd, in a gorge of the Biue Mountaine,
hte gorge is several hundred yards in
Etent, ten to thirty feet de2p, with caves
id clefts in the rocks, where the ice aye ;
is located a very short distance from the
ountain. The shtade at thte gorge is very
mee0, the sun apparently never penetrat
g it. The bottom of tihe gorge is covered
ith ice, and the little caves and crevices
'e filIled with it. It is a natural ice house;
indreds of tons might be taken out with
it appreciably decreasing the whole.
utch of it htas no doubt lain there for
3ars, the manss gradhially incidng anid be.
ig add(edl to each year. 'lThe thermtomecter,
hich registered in the nineties in New
n, marked 38 diegrecs at the botom of
is gorge, too cold for one to remain there
iy length of time. A few feet from one
di of the gorge a spring~ of the most deli
ous, sparkling water bubbles up. The
'ater In ti spring stands at 84 degrees.
ununel Thompson, who owns the farmi on
htilh this natural curiosity was found, in
mnversat ion with the reporter, said: "Why,
es, I 'pose It Is rather remarkable, but
e don't think very mutch about it excep*
lien we want ice. Tme neighbors all
roundi goes over there for their Ice."
FJayings A bout Oats.
For "living a cat or dog life" the French
say, "To live like cats ant dogs;' and this
leads us to observe that many of the say
ings which are current in one language
appear in others more or less modified.
'hus, we say "to bu) a pig in a poke;"
but in France, Flanders and elsewhere they
say "to buy a cat in a bag." A scalded
cat dreads cold water, just as much as a
burnt child dreads the lire; anti though a
scalded cat will not go back to the kitchen,
the Spanish idea is good, "One eye on the
not, and the otheron the cat." Tho Italian
means cat when he Is earnest, does not
mean cat when he is lit Jest, and plays the
dead cat when he dissiniulates. Ile calls
the cat when lie speaks plainly , he sets
about skinning the cat, when he undertakes
a hard task; and when lie sees no one he
flnds neither cat nor dog. That evildoers
are caught at last, he shows by sayln the
cat goes so often to the bacon thatshie leaves
her claws there. fle goes to see the cat
drownded when he lets himself be Imposed
on, and he cheats another when he gets
him to go and see his fish along with the
cat. Though every cat would like a bell,
the cat of Messina scratched out its own
eyes in order not to see the rats. The Span
iard, like the Italian, plays the cat. when he
dissimulates, but it is not a dead one. The
Spaniard says the cat would be a good
friend if lie did not scratch, and lie thinks
a cat which mcws is not a good mouser.
An Italian says one had better be the head
of a cat than the tail of a lion; a wary Ger
man goes like a cat round hot broth, and
believes it too late to drive the cat away
when the cheese is caten. Many believe
that a good cat often loses a mouse, that no
Cat is too small to scratch, and that you
cannot keep away the cat when it has
tasted cream. The Russian thinks that,
play for cats icans tears for the mice; the
Arab says that when the cats and nice are
on good terms the provisions stiffer ; the
Turk tells us that two cats can hold their
own against one hon. Another Turkish
saying is, it is fast day to-day, as the cat
said when it could not get at the liver. The
Enghbhmian fancies that some people have
as many lives as a cat-that a cat, in fact,
has nine lives; yet lie holds that care will
kill a cat, and that May kittens should be
drowned. Ile is scarcely alone in thinking
that the more you stroke a cat's back the
higher she raises her tail-in other words,
that flattery feeds vanity. le lets the cat
out of the bag; but so do others, and they
till agree that it is in the nature of a cat
always to fall on its feet. Only lie talks of
turning cat in pan, and of raining cats and
dogs, or sees folk danc like a cat on hot
bricks. Tie Spatmard says, Has the cat
kittened? when lie sees a place full of
lights; and lie asks, Who has to take the
cat out of the water? when something nll.
pleasant has to be done. That anyone
watches as acat a mouse, is Frenchi as much
as English. The French also say, she is as
daility as a cat; it is nothing to whip a cat
for ; their singers have a cat in their throat
when the throat is not clear; and the
phrase "cat music" is not unknown. If
one has a scratched face, lie has been play
ing with the cats; and aii impossibility is
a mouse s nest in a cat's car. That people
should sometimes go like a cat over hot
coals is intelligible enough.
An Anclnt utch Viago
Wormeldingen Is a eurious village. Its
trees and houses closely resemble a big lot
of Nuremberg toys just unpacked. Imagine
a double row of dwellings, all squat, all
pretty, all spotlessly clean, all vivil colors,
all. built exactly in the sanie way, with the
same materials, placed in two long lines,
symmetrically intersected by straw colored
woodwork. Before these two lines of
houses plant two rows of little old trees,
with thick trunks and sparse foliage, all
chipped, shaped and( p)ointed; all of the
same size and forming a kind of screcn, no
thicker or higher at one end than at the
other, nor in the middle than at the two ex
tremities. Trheii in the strect-dusted,
cleanied, scraped unremittingly; where the
houses are washed andt waxedi until you
could not, find a spot upon them, nior so
much as a straw lying about, where thet
trees have a brushed andl combed look, and
not a leaf is out of its place; picture a pop)
ulation of honest folks all dressed after the
samne fashion-the son like the father and
the father like the grandfather; the little
girl like the grown up girl andl the mnamnma
like the old grandnmothier, andl you have
Worineldingen as nearly as I can give an
ideca of the plaee. Be careful to remember that
each little house, taken separately, is a p)ret.
ty bonboii box; aniit thait the costaunes,
takeni sep)arately, are charming. Th'lese
peasamits, great andI small, dlressed entirely
in velvet and black cloth, with their knee
breeches; their coarse stockings, their shoes
with silver buckles, their high waistcoats
with a dloublle row of buttons in filigree
silver, their coats cut into their waists,
their belts with silver clasps andi their gold
buttons at thme neck, look remarkably well.
Complete tis costume by a gracefully
shaped felt hat, the brim raisedl buliind and
sloping in front, so that, it forms a sort of
visor, andi you will have a notion of the
diress which is worn in Zuld-iBeveland. fThis
costuie looks pretty on the childlren, ele
gant on the men andi pictuiresqlue on the
old people, andi it is always and every
where most, original anti characteristic.
'rhe unifonin of the women-for I really
must call it so-is equally curious and equ
a .ly tasteful. From their most tender
youth to the pitiless age at which the body,
bent by years, is bowed down towardi t.he
e-arth sooni to be its last resting p)lace, the
form and(larrangemient of the women's attire
are iunvarmablc. F"rom the cradle to thme
tomb all the stout peaants have bare arms,
tihe buat conflued by a very tight bodice,
over which lies, in graceful folds, a hiandi
kerchief, fastened by a coral brooch. Th'lo
face ms framed in a coif iwitht wide borders,
wvhichi resembles a veil rallier thani a ca1.
A iat piece of' gold hangs dlowni on the
forehead; corkscrews of gold adorn the
templlest; on thme neck is a coral necklace;
rings and brooches abound-in a word,
these women wear a profusioni of valuable
ornaments. So nmuch for the upperC part
of the figure, which is highly adlornedi and
generally slim and (delcate, The slender
ness of the women's figures is rendered
more striking by an enormous petticoat,
three yards wide, which is held( out by a
monstrous hoop resembling a bell thme body,
from thte waist up,representing the handle,
andi the two slender legs the clapper. When
seen from a dietance thus attired and
standing still, the women might easily be
takein for large dol11s. The ruIned houses,
the mnutilatedi buildings,theo torn up squares
transformed into pits andt holes, all fornm a
hideous scene of ruin and devastation; and
In the Midst of it all the author places a
group of pretty girls, in the widely-hooped
costume of the period, laughing behind
their fans at the indiscret speeches of a gal.
lant cavalier. Perhaps he-wants to make
the frightful picture that 1e places before
our eyes seem more striking from this con
trast.
The interior of the vast and ancient
church presents a mournful aspect. Its
wide nave terminates in a ruin; it is sep
arated by a wooden partition from a gigan
tic transept, and the latter, transformed
into a covered passage which leads from
or:O end of the quarter to another, opens
Upon ai spiae,, once occupied by the choir,
which lias long since disappeared. Noth
Ing can be more impressive than this great
empty piece of ground,covered with briers,
where there are few great trees, where the
grass grows hard, dry and scanty, as
though in a cemetery, and where the eye
seeks in vain among the undulations of the
soil for Iraces of (lhe vanquislied choir.
Those great ogival haya, now masked by
common masonary, and those majestic
arcades, whose tine architectural curves re
main unfinished, produce a dreary effect.
btill more melncholy is the transept,
which has been transformed Into a passage,
and is now a receptacle for mutilated
tombs, headless statues and broken grave
sials. A great company of heroes have
been laid to rest in this noble sanctuary.
Tle ancient seigneurs of Bergen had their
place of sepultire wit bin its precincts; and,
after them, the governor of the city. Mor
gan, who repulsed the duke of Parma; louis
of Kethel, who opposed Spino: t i, wcre in
terred here. The gratitude of the iiiiial
itants had decreed pompo.us inscriptions,
as reliefs and statues to these valiants
heroes; they rested under the shadow of
great, porticos of marble; but the cannon of
1747 disturbed their eternal slumber, and
mingled their ashes by breaking into their
bomb. Of ill these Superb monuments
there remain only a few fragnents, und we
may tWink ourselves fortunate to be able to
make out from whence they came.
iluck WItas.
Away back in 1852 there was ia dispute
over a placer mine i Yuba river, at Park
lar, in California. Stephen J. Field was
retained. Suit was brought before a
Justice of the Peace for ani alleged forcible
entry and detainer, a form of action in
vogue for the recovery of mintng claims,
because the title to the land was vested in
the United States. It was prosecuted
solely as a possessory action. Tthie con
stable who summoned the jury had receiv
ed $20 to sumn1non the parties anamed by
the other side. This fact was ascertained
beyond controversy by evidence placet in
the hands of Air. Field. While in bed at
Park Bar li overheard a conversation be
tween a juror and one of the opposite
parties in an adjoining tent. The juror
assured the party that everything was fixed,
and that the jury had agreed to render a
verdict in his favor. Tile trial was held it,
a saloon crowded with spectators, mot of
whom were favorable to the other side.
In summing up Mr. Field addressed the
jury for three hours. lie showed conclu
sively that his client was entitled to a
favorable verdict.
"Gentlemen," said lie in closing his ar
gumnent, 'we have not endeavored to intlu
ence your verdi.t, except by the evidence.
We have neither approached you secretly
nor sought to control you. We have relied
solely upon the law and the evidence to
maintain our right to this property. But
our opponents have not thus acted. They
are not satistled to allow you to weigh
fie evidence. They have endeavored to
corrupt your minds and pervert your judg
ment. With uplifted hands you declared
by the ever living God that you would re
turn a verdict according to law. Will you
perjure your souls? I know that you
(pointing to a juror) have been approached.
I)id you spurni the wretch that, made the
piroposal, or did( you hold1( secret counsel
with him? I know that you (pointing to
aniothecr juror) talked over t,hIs case last
night, for 1 overheard the conversation,
the promises, andi your led(ge. Canvas
houses are as one here. Wordls uttered in
one are voices In all. You did nlot
direamn that you were heard, but, I was
there, and I knowv the details of the foul
bargain."
At this anl ominous "click, click, click"
was heard. A score of pistols were heard.
"There is no terror ill yoir lato1s, gen
tieemen," continued Mr. Field, inl an, thril
ling tone. "You cannot win your case by
shooting me. You can win it only by show
ing title to the prop)erty. You can nuever will
it by bribery or threats of violence. I openi
ly charge attenipted biribery. if it is un
trite, let the jurors speak from their seats.
Attempt ed bribery I say.-whether success.
ful or not will dlepend upon what imay oc
cur hereafter. Jurors, you have Invoked
the vengeance of IIeaven up~on your souils If
you fail to render a verdict according to
the evidence. If you are willing to sell
youir souls, (decide against us. Thle address
was effectual. After an absence of a few
minlutes the jury rett lned a verdIict in favor
of Mr. Field's client. Some admitted that
they hiad been corruptly approached, but
add(ed that they were nuot Sc) base as to be
influenced il that way. Wilthin t,wo weeks
tile owners took from the placer over $90,
000 in gold dust.
A I),omied City.
Th'le town of Covington, Iowa, is literally
a doomed city. Situat,ed 0on the bend of
the Missouri river, the b)anks are gradiually
being eaten awvay, anid the grotund onl whlich
the court house stood a year ago is niw
coveredi by many foet of fast flowing water.
The cutting away Is done by fits and starts.
A week ago the current set In shore and1
took off a strip of land thirty feet wl(de In
a few hours. No invasions were mIadie for
another week, when anothler slIce was cut
off. Trhen about half a dozeni buildings
were mnovedi back some thirty feet, andl the
nlext daly the land on which they had stood
was all gone. Trhe citizens have trted to
moor trees and logs to thec batik in the hope
of forming a barrier for the flood, but the
current is so swift, and the water so decep,
that these attempts have failed. Tro give
an Idea of wvhat the town of Covington has
suffered in the past, live years, the case of
the ferry house and the principal hotel may
lie instanced. Trwo years ago thuere were
660 feet of ground betweeni the buildimg
andi the river bank ; now you can toss a
stone out, of the hotel wInIdow into the river
*nd buildIngs are now being plut on rollers
for removal.
A stirring dwarf we do allowance
give before a sleepy giant
Tom Barber's Mistake.
"Yes, sir," said burly Tom Barber, of
Towsontown, to a reporter, as he turned up
osue of his heavy, hob-nalled boots, and
knocked the ashes from his pipe, "I've
been considered for some time 'bout.the
best man in this 'ere region, and, ter go
further, I kin lick the headlights clean
off'cr any man that bristles his neck-feath
ers 'round this part of the country. I've
done It in my time and kin do it again. . I
lammed big Sam Shoeck, of the Hartford
road, till he wasn't no more'n half a man,
and as for that feller out at Govanstown
that evrybody said could fix me up, why, I
met him one lay when both of us were
purty full, and I cooped him like abar'l. I
just tell you I ain't no slouch-it's all sct
ence-and it you doubt the strength of my
arm, why just-"
"Thanks, thanks," said the reporter hir
riedly; "don't rise on my account. The
fact is, I am not a pugilistic character. Yes,
yes--that is, you were saying-"
"Why, I was a saying," resunned the
giant, slapping hischest, "that the boys out
here all havegrudges against me for knock
downs at various times, an' they put up the
meanest Jobs on mie 'bout the time that feller
Miller -was a trainin' for a walk with the
Scotchnian, Hoss. You see, I didn't know
Miller from a side of sole-leather-hadn't
never seen him-and one day I walked into
Jake Sims' place down thar near the car
track, and there wuz a gang of the boys i
the saloon, a drinkin' an' foolin' aroun' an'
a right stout i'lookin' chap I hadu' never see
before was a-showin Johnny Alareo sonic
sort o' foolish little kinks with the gloves,
an' Johnny was a-pluggin' away at him, but
couldn't tech him. I thought it wuz one o'
these daried city chaps come out here
thitkin' lie wtuz some shakes with his props
and, bein' a little pert that way imysel', I
sot up imnipatient-like and watched 'em
foolin' away like dumhill chickens kickin'
upl the dirt, and I sort o' leant over to Siti
Johnson and whispered as how I would like
to give tlim. city chap a little turn. Sam
grtinnedit a few, an' turned un' hollered t
ihe boys an' the big feller that Big Tom
wiited to put. 'em on with the stranger.
'Ihey all burst out latfin', but I thought it
wiuz at the Idee of seeln' me set him down
on the floor with my old underhander. So,
I got ip, stripped oil my coat, let down my
galluses, an' got the buckskins on. Tke
other feller was interdiucedi as Mr. Thonip
soi, tin' then pulled off his coat. 1 seed lie
hadn't on nothin' but, a sort o' udersbir,
tin' atn that lie wuz right sharp built aliont
the arms an' chest, but I didn't think for ia
mitnult who 'twas, though now I wonder
how I could a-iiade such it dog-goned fool
of myself, seein' ts how I had lieered 'bout.
the walkin' match, and sunm of the boys had I
been sayin' that Miller was goin' to walk
out to town every evening. Well, ntiy how,
we camie to time, the stranger sorter smilii'
an' a-Mhngin' him arnis around 'thout any
guard-sorter crazy like--an' I let out at
nim with some rip snorters ; but somehow
they didn't quite reach him, coz lie wts
kinder shy, and dodged Is head away. 1le
didn' hit back, and I thought i wtiz a- tak
Ing his gall from the fust ; so I went at,
him like a good 'an, and was givin himi the
best in the sho). I couldn't hit him, coz
lie kept keepin' away, but lie was smili',
so I kinder got mad. Once or twicelhe le I
out, sorter timid like, with his left, and
touched me on the noue, and that made ne
worse ; so I fixed to gin him a right-hander
and was comin' at him with my whole
weight, when lie kinder dodged his head
to one aide, and my fist wentf past, ll ILsead,
but my nose brought up against his list,
and the next thing I was settin' on the
sanded floor with a bloody nose, and till
the fellers wuz just a-killin' themselves
a-nudgm' one another aii' laffin', I sot
there, sorter stunted-like, when the strat
ger, lailln' it to bust, says: '0, git, up mIn,
you ain't half licked yet ;' but I told hilin I
had 'nough, and was then introduced to
Professor William Miller. Well I you
could it-knocked mie down with a feather.
Just to think;I had been stgging away tat,
old MIlhler, thinking lie was some softy, atnd
had been wonderin' why I couildn't hit himt
as I did the town gawks. Well, we wutz
the bost, of friends after that, and as the old
boy used ter walk outi here evety evenlu',
why, we met of tenor afterward, but never -
again with gloves on. Thbank you I A
little whisky 'thout any wvater or sugar.
in it."
Oldl Jim tiridigror.
One of the most noted characters on the
border twenty years ago was old Jima
Biridger, of Fort, Bridger, in Utah. On one
occasioni hie caime to~ New york. Hie did
tnt like the narrow down-town streets with
high bulkdings on oach side, andl comti
plainedi that he had once lost hia way in
"l)ey Street Canon," and been rescued wvithi
difliculty by tihe police. Hie liked the'
theaters, and exp)ressedl the utmost delight,
at a performance of the "Midsumnmer
Nighit's Dream." iIe hatd no clear Idea wvho
Shiakt a ea e war, but conc ved aund deveol -
ed tihe itost extravatgant, adt.niratin for
Returning to the fort, lie sold stock and
suipplies to emigrants and other travelers as
in time past. One day a man wished to,
b)uy seome ox'en, and Jim said lie could have
iiny except, one yoke, which lhe had mnade
up his mind to keep at all hiazards. In the
morning a messenger came to say that the
man wvanted this yoke, and none other.
"Hie can't have 'em," sai Jin. "There's
no use talkin',"
"Well, lhe wants them, and is Just
a-waltin' for them," said the messenger.
"lie's a-settin' there, readini' a book called
Shakespeare."
"Eli ?" yelled .Jim jumping up to lis feet .
"Did you say Shakespere?liere,-you,
give me miy boots.''
lie ran to the corral.
"Stranger," said lie, "jest give me that
book. and take them oxn.
"'Oh, no," said the mian. "'I only bough I,
the book to read on the wamy. 1 will give
it to you."
"Stranger," said Jim, resoeley "jest
you take them oxen, andi gve me tht.
book." And the man di.
Jhin hired a reader at fifty dolluars per 1
month, and listened to Shakespeare every
evening. All went well, until otne night,
as the reader caine to a proposed miurder of
the princes in the Tower, Jim sprang from
lis seat, with blazing eyes, anid yelled ini
thunder-tones, "Hoeld on there: Jest wait
till I git my rifle, and I'll shoot the --
scoundrel l'
As one of his old "parda" justly remark
ed, a sincerer compliment was never paid
to Shakespeare.
P'ockets are alwavays ripe enough io
piek.