The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, April 21, 1881, Image 1
TRI-WEEKLY EDITION- WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 21, 1881- ESTABLISHED 186
BLIPPING AWAY.
They are slipping away-those sweet swift
years,
Like a leaf on the current cast:
With never a break in their rapid flow,
We watch them as one by one they go
Into the beautiful past.
As silent and swift as a weaver's thread
Or an arrow's flying gleam;
As soft as the languorous breezes hid,
That lift tio willow's long golden lid,
And ripple the glassy stream.
As light as the breath of the thistle down,
As fond as a lover's dream:
As pure as the Bush on the sea-shell's throat,
As sweet as the wood-bird's wooing note,
So tender and swees they seem.
One after another we see them pass
Down the dim lighted stair;
We hear the sound of their steady tread
In the steps of the centuries long since dead,
As beautiful and as fair,
Tlhere are only a few years loft to love;
Shall we waste them in idle str.fo?
Shall we trample the i under our own ruthless
feet
Those beautiful blossoms rare and sweet,
By the dusty way of life?
There are only a few sweet yeara--ah, let
No envious taunts be heard :
Make life's fair pattern of rare design,
And fill. up the measure w th lovo's sweet
wine,
But nevr :'n angry word?
Two Lively Beaux.
"Oh, such a lovely face I" sighed Miss
Amelia Hartwell. "Such eyes-such a
mustache-really, I couldn't help it, Kitty.
Oh, I really could not."
"Yes, Amy; but suppose Miss Hess
should find it out?" said Kitty.
"Well, wcll, what could she do about
It ?" said Amy. "Tell ma and get me
scolded, and lose her situation. I should
tell her about the governesses, and I think
she'd keep quiet. A girl can't live with
out any romance in life."
"Only nobody ever introduced you to
each other," said Kitty, "and my ma says
that you can't tell what any one is If you
haven't a proper introduction."
"Yes, and then they introduce you to
soein stiff old creature, and he pays you a
little attention, and you marry. Kitty, I
inoan to have my fun out. You can tell
if you please, but-"
"Oh, Amy," cried Kitty, "I'm no tell
tale, It's oily for your good."
Lr;#.V, ,,,1 .. u 1.- -- n itty
fifteen and Amelia seventeen.
Amelia had not as good a dispositioi as
Kitty, and her mother was a mere fashion
able woman, who kept the girl as much in
the background as possible, lest she should
make her look old. So Amy, as she liked
to be called, being really grown, and yet
treated like a child at home, took her af
fairs Into her own hands, flirted with all
the college boys, wrote notes to them,
waved her handkerchief from the upper
windows, and behaved disgracefully with
out any one having an inkling of what was
going on but serious little Kitty, who was
too honorable to betray her cousin, and too
young to know how terrible such conduct
really was. 8ehool-boys and college stu
dents were bad enough, but now there had
come upon the scene quite a new person, a
young mnan of five and twenty, whom no
one know, but who, having managedi to
scrape acquaintance with Miss Amy, deC
ciared himselt an Enghusi nobleman, and
spoke of great estates, of which, In uime,
he wouldi be master. Amy s wallowed the
whole story, and for weeks had taken long
walks with him,hA accepted a ring, which
she dared not wear whoen at home, and
o onsidered herself engaged.
All was going on delightfully, in her
opinion, and poor Miss iless, the governess,
was quite hoodwinked. Kitty, trembling
little confidante ias she was, was quite In -
terested in the affair, but felt herself guilty
in keeping the story from her miother. But
Amy had no such compunctions,
Now a now scheme was on foot. Trho
lover desired to pay Miss Amy an evening
visit, and a time had boen selected wheni
mamma and papa were to attend a wedding,
and Miss Hiess away on a dutiful visit to
her old German _grand-parents.
"You may call, but you can't stay late,
Theodore,"' Ay had said. '1'hat dragon
of a governess, will be at home at half pamst
Len.'"
And Trheodoro had protesltedl thatli e
would niot stay late,
'1, shall bring a friend," lie said, "and
he can be company for your cousin, siuce
you Insist on having her with: you. We'll
have a lovely eveniing.".
Then hie sighed and looked "so lovely,"
as Amy declared to Kitty, who, flattered
by the idea of the friend who was to "be
attentive".to herself, felt it time to preach
the little sermon above recorded, but with
out effect. The visit was to be paid.
Miss Amy was to receive her admnirer.
Kitty was with lier, Miss less had temi
porarily departed. Tlhe carriage hiad borne
mamma andi papa to the scene of the wed -
ding festivities.- The servants were hay
ing a comfortable supper in the kitchen,.
aiid thie door bell rang.
"No matter-I'll go, Bridget," called
Amy over the balustrades, to the waitress,
whio was delighted to run back to her sup
.per and a few friends and cousins who had
just (lropddtn; and the young lady of the
house hocrse i admitted her callers.
They eat -,d rather cautiously and with
ninny glanc ap the stairs, which Amy
attr earof her cruel parents. hei
pwas attired In the latest
at andwore large pin and many rIngs;
but his friend was, it is to be confessed,
rather shabby, and not over clean.
"Miss Amy," said Theodore, with an
air, "this is my friend Adolphus. A fine
fellow, but under a cloud J rst now. Ills
grandfather, the Earl, won't pay his club
debts. However, he'll come round after a
while. This Is Miss Kitty, Dolph."
Dolph made a bow, and backed against
the wall.
"Come In," said Amy. . "Every one is
out. Oh I Isn't this lovely ?"
"Iheavenly I" said Theodore, looking at
the bronze ornaments on the mantel and
letting his gaze rove to small ornaments.
"1o you are alone, eh ? How delicious I I
say, this is a flue place. Not so flue as we
are used to at home, but pretty good for
America. Your father must be well off,
Miss Amy "
"Yes," said Amy, "1 believe he is."
"Lots of silver, and all that P" said the
nobleman. "You ought to see the plate
at-at the castle."
"Yes," said Amy. "The silver is all
up stairs now, though. Ma locks it up
when she goes out. There's a great closet
between the rooms above. Bhe keeps her
jewelry there. It is quite a nice place,
for burglars wouldn't be apt to find the
door If they didn't know it. It slides In,
you know. Pa says it is better than a
ftafe."1
"Why, it must be," said Theodoro;
"how ingenious I There, sit down, and let
us chat; or suppose you plny for us."
"I'd rather talk," said Amy, sentiment
ally.
Meanwhile Kitty was growing very mis
crable. The person introductd as Adol.
phus was awkward and said litlek. 11e
was not handsome like Theodore, and lie
smelt of tobacco and whisky. Ills grand
father, the Earl, must have been angry
with him for some tine, she thought. She
began to wish that something would hap.
pen to break up the party, that they would
at least go. Neither of them were gentle
man, she felt assured. They stared around
thenm oddly. Theodore arose and dropped
the silk curtains over the windows. The
men exchanged glances, Could not Amy
see that something was wrong I '
At that moment Theodore pushed the
door into the hall quite shut, and returned
to Amy's side. As he did so he put his
hand into his pocket, and took out a sponge.
"Curious, isn't it ?" he saki. "I think
a sponge is such a curious object. See the
little cells."
"I've got one, too," said Adolphus,
huskily. "lave you ever seen such a ig
one?"
"It Is large, " said Amy.
Kitty, who had been expecting some
lose-.uaking, and was disappointed, only
curled her lip; but the next moment both
girls sat staring speechlessly at each other,
each with a great sponge thrust Into their
mouths.
"Tie her to a chair, Dolph,"cried Theo
dore, rapidly binding Amy's arms and
ankles with a crd he took from his pocket.
' Now, young ladies, you are not going to
be hurt. We'll just help oursiAves to the
pretty things of value that can be carried
off easy, and get the sliver out of the slid
ing-closet above, and be off. Dont't try to
scream-you can't. And don't kick-you'll
only hurt yourselves. Day-day."
Away they went up the softly -carpeted
staicise. Amy heard the sound of open
ing drawers aind doors overhead. Kmt.y
thought she even heard the clink of silver.
But they could neither movo nor cry out.
In a few momne"' the two thieves accomp
hishied their purpome and descended the
stairs again, each with a bundle on lis
back.
"G od evening, young ladies," said
Theodore. "We're sorry we must go, but
pa might come home unexpectedly. By
by."
T~hey were off. The (loor clanged shut.
TIhe servants at their little supper know
nothing, and the two girls both nearly suf
focated. Their slenider wvrists, cut by the~
cords that bound themi, remained fastened
to their chairs.
Glad were they when the good-hiumor ed
voice of Miss Ihess was heard bidding some
one good night on the doorstep, and when,
bustling into the house, she threw up her
hands with exclamations of horror, called
for help, and as soon as p~ossiblo dragged
the sponges from the mouths, cut the cordis
that bound them, and asked for the terri
ble story, which, with many tears -andl sobs,
Amy told truthfully.
There had been a heavy robbery-money,
silver andl jewelry were gone. -Vainly
papa strode the floor, scolding his daught
er andl bewailing his "ducats."
"I never thought English noblemen
could do such things," sighed Amy. "No
bod.y could think that, papa."
"'English noblemen I" laughed the de
tectivo, who had ap~peared upon the scene.
"They were two English thieves, Mise,and
this Is their regular dodge-making love to
young ladles and then get'ing lot In. It
has to be the servants in England, but the
Amt ricani young ladles are such flirts, and
so eathiy taken In, they've changed their
plans."
"I, at least, will not 1)0 50 ea'ily takeni
in again, and I shall flirt no mznore," salo
Amy.
She kept her word.
-in 1880 Corn anu waeat exported,
$288,087,00); beef and pork, exported,
$127,948,242; cotton In baies, exported,
$2i2,000l,000; g,.ld and silver, produe,
of 1880, $80,000,000; tobacco and its
manuuactue, exported, $18,422,278;
p~etroleumn, exported ,ror finaL year,
$86,208,025.
The mattock will make adeeper hole
in ihn gru~and than luhtning.
Agricultur-o an the Hol land.
A recent writer says nothing can well
exceed the desolateness of much of the
Holy Laud. Treeless It is for 20 cr 30
iniles together. Forests whicit did exist
80 years ago-for Instance, on Mount Car
mel and Mount Tabor-fast disappearing;
rich plains of the finest garden soil asking
to be cultivated. at beet but scratched up
a few inches deep in patches, with no
hedges or boundaries; mountain terraces,
naturally or artificially formed, ready to
be planted with vines, as the German
colony are doing at the foot of Mount Car
mel; the villages nothing but mud-huts,
dust, dirt and squalor; the inhabitants with
scarce clothing enough for decency, their
houses ovens; large tracts without a horse
or cow, siep or dog; no pretense at
roads, except from Jaffa to Jerusalem, and
this like a cart-road over a ploughed field,
the rest at best like sheep-walks on the
Downs of Sussex, but for far the most
part like the dry bed of the most rocky
river, where, amid blocks of stone, each
makes his way at a foot-pace as best he
can, or on smooth, sloping rocks, or over
loose stones thrown down from the old
walls on either side, which no one offers a
finger to remove; nothing upon wheels,
not so much as a barrow, to be met with
in a rie of over 300 miles. Everything
is taxed: every Iruit-tree, so none nr w are
planted; every cow or horse, etc.; every
vegetable sold out of a private garden.
Every eighth egg is not taxed, but taken
by the government. In some places the
taxes of the district are sold to the highest
bidder. The farner is unable to sell a
measure of his corn till all has been col
lected into a heap and the tax collector has
ret his sun upon it, from which there is
no appeal. Double taxes are expected
this year, because, after three years of
scarceness, the harvest promises to be
abundant. Nothing like a small farm
hi-Juse is to be found'far or near. If there
were, the owner is liable to have soldiers
or revenue ollicers quartered upon him, to
be boarded and lodged at his exprense.
The towns are filthy in the extreme, none
mui.re so than Jerusalem itself, where, how
ever, taxes are levied froin every house
for lighting and cleaning the streets, while
a sprained ankle or a splash into a hole of
blackest dirt is sure to be the result of a
momentary carelessness. Nothing is done
for the good or improvement of the people
or the land by the government. Not only
so, but every offer-and I heard of severat
made by private individuals, or by coi
panies -is at once refused, unless a bribe
be first given to the authorities. This is a
picture, I believe, in no way overdrawn of
that land which was once "flowing with
milk and honey." What might it, not be
come again with fair usage and good gov
ernmient? But there is no hope for Pales.
tine while it remains in the hands of its
present rulers. The writer goes on to
show that the country ie worth little to the
Turkish government, the entire revenue
t 1jib jif(r 1- * h- * .. . .. t
dollars a year under this wretched system
of nisrul! an oppiession. He suggests
that in the present condition of in
finances, the porte might be glad to "sell
out" for twenty or thirty millions of dol.
lars in hard cash and that an internatioal
company for tihe p :rchase and government
of the country (a. er the pattern of the old
East India company) would find such an
investment, even of fifty millions, highly
remunerative in the long run. A n-ercan
tile crusade of that sort might accompiisii
what no military one was ever able to
achieve,-the rescue of the Holy Land
from "the unspeakablo Turk," and its
restoration to its ancient prospority.
.tories of the 8ea.
The delights of solitude have been fer.
vidly extolhed by writers who took good
care to keep) themselves within hail of the
busy hunm of men ; buit Its iancied charms
have soon p~alled upon unfortunates of a
silent life, either by their own whim, the
tryanny of others, or circumstances over
which nobody had any control.
Three weeks' experience of Crusocing
sufficed to bring an unwilling solitarian to
death's door, but lie was a imere lad, want
ing three years ho be out of.his teens. T1hae
youth's name was Lord. Getting separated
fronm his messmnates while seeking wood
aiid water on one of the GJalipagos Islands,
he lost hinself in the forest.' Aftcr passing
an uncomfortable night there, daylight,
sawv Lordt roving in quest of what he might
devour, and linding nothing save a big
snake, unavailable for staying his appetite,
and wvhen night came around again, lie wats
still wandering In a maze of trees, weiiry
with wialking, and faint for lack of food,
fearing to sleep on th~e gronnd~ lest lie shou d
intrudle on the privacy of sonic deadly
serpent. Trhis diflcuht~y he surmotnted by
climbing a very tall tree, amid roosting in
its branches, unaware that, he had a fellow
lodger in a big owl, until, on leaving his
airy. chamber in thme morning, lie knocked
the bird down, and turned the accidenit, by
breakfasting upon the owl, without any
further preparation than strippimg it of its
feathers.
Trhat night ILord was out of the wooId,
but was not much better off, for, sleeping
at tihe feet of a mountain, he was drenched
wvih a rain, ai~d when nu ruing broke was
in anytumig but, a condition ior climbing.
Jlinib the miountain, howvever, lie did;
fromi thme summit beholding the bay ini
which his whaler had bee,', but was not.
lie saw a brig there, but sac was imakinag
her way out. Mladly lie dashed down the
mountain sidle to gain the beach all too
late, and becoming oblivious af his disap
piinimeut by goinig off into a (lead faint.
When lie recovered his senses hunger got
the butter of despair, its pangs being none
the less bitter from lthe knowledge that
there was abundance of food ini the wateis
washing his prison, and that lie had neither
nook to bait nor bait. to boon, and must
p~erforce, live as best lie inight upon
berries and seal flesh.
So thie dismal days dragged on, the only
event, breaking their imonotonious misery
being Lord's nearly conming to grief aito
gether in grappling witn a great semh, roll
ing into the sea with it, and scraimtiing
out, alone as quickly as his weakness ali
lowed. After thIs bout, ho contrived tc
crawl up the mountain agum, and to lis
joy descried a large sipl making for thme
island. Trhe sight gave himi new strength,
and lie managed to get, down to the beach
lust as the ship entered the harbor. Soon
a boat was lowered, and lie knew no more
until his eyes opened upon a crowd of
friendly faces, lie cried out, for wvater,and
lie drank till he swooned again, when
kindly armis carried him to the boat, and
he was soon safe in the nara of the famous
explorer of the seas, Captain Cook.
Lord did not 1ind the Gallipagos Islands
so much to his mind as did anIrishmatn, who
let his ship depart without hin, and set up
his rest on one of these volcanic islets;
dwelling there for severi years in a hovel
of his own building, living upon tortoises,
seals and fish, washed' down with rui
obtained from ships in exchange for the
pota-os and pumpkins he buiid himself
in raising.
In 1818, an American Pallor was takon
off a deso late rock in the South Seas by a
boat's crew belonging to 11. A. 8. Queen
Charlotte, whose attention had been drawn
to the spot by the smoke of a seaweed tire.
ie had, three years before, been left there
with three compaulons, all of whom had
quickly succumbed, whi'e he had lived on,
sustaining life by fceaing upon the flesh of
birds and drinking thei' blood.
The find of the Queen Charlotte's men
was not so surprising as that of the Flemish
seaman Pickmian, when, in 1016 his ship
grounded near a small island-rock between
Scotland and Ireland. S-nie of his men
going in search of eggs, came upon a black
hairy creature, who by signs entreated
them to come to close acquaintance and
finding the strange object to be really a
man, they took him on board with them
to tll the skipper his story. It was a
nialancholy one. He an( two others, occu
pants of the passage boat between England
and Ireland, had been captured and after
wards cast off by a French privateer.
[:aving nothing eatable save a little sugar
aih thein, one 'of the three soon died ot
s:atrvation, the others. lived to be driven on
the island, where they built a hut out of
what was left of the boat, and for six
weeks lived upon the sea-mews, sea-dogs,
eggs and water. Then the partners in
misfortune parted conipany, one of then
disappearing, leaving his forlorn friend in
utter ignorance of his fate; lie could only
surmise that lie had fallen into the sea
while searching for eggs. Alonthe passed,
and the poor fellow lost all hope o' deliver
ance. Winter came and found him clottnes
less. Compelled to keep within the hut
for days together, he only kept starvation
at bay by catching sea-mews, as hungry as
himself, by baited sticks thrust through
the openings in the hovel's walls. So lie
kept himself alive, until the accidental
advent of the Londin-bound Fleiuibh
timber-ship released him from his dreary
durance.
It might be supposetI tmat a castaway
would receive a brother unfortunate with
open arms. It was not so with Pedro 8er
rano, when he caught sight of a man float
ing towards the island still bearing his
name, of which he had been undistur'jed
lord for nearly forty years. ie jumped
to the conclusion that Satan had found him
at last; while the 'newcomer was not a
whit less horrified at seeing a creature as
naked as Adam before the fall, With a board
reaching to his watst, and a body covered
with brietles. When both had rec'>vered
I-in their frirht, errano. awakeniux to
the duties Ot "oplusmaLy, piaceU ti> tDest
food his ihmlted larder affixded before his
uninvited guest. For a little while the
pair lived amicably together, but only for
a little while. Tuen they dissolved part
nership, and avoided each o.ier; becom
ing reconciled again to embark as friends
on board a ship attracted to the island by
their signal fire. Pedro reached 8pain, was
presented to Uharles the Fifth, pensioned
by that monarch, and passed the remainder
of his days in ease and comfort at Panama.
ILis companion, less fortunate, died on the
voyage.
Esquimnaux Vurpenry.
The builder selects snow of the proper
consistency by sounding a drift with a
cane made for the purpose of reindeer
horn, straightened by steaming, and worked
dlowin to about hialfan Inch in diameter,
w th a ferule of walrus tusk or the tooth of
a bear on the bottom. By thrusting this
into the snow lie can tell whether the
layers dlclosited by successive winds are
sep~araited by batnda of soft snow, wvhich
would cause the b~ocks to break. When
the snow is selb cted he digs a p~it to the
d zi th c~f eigh t en inches or two feet, or
about the length ol the snow block, lHe
thea steps imo the pit and p~roceedls to Cut
out the blocks by first cutting down at the
ends of the pit, and theni at the bottom
afterwards, cutting a little chianmnel about
ain Inch or two deep, making the thickness
of the p~roposed block. 190w conmes the
part requiing pracie e to accomplish suc
cessfulhy. The expert will, with a few
t~hrusts of his kifie In just the right placer,
split ol the snowblock and lirt it carefully
out to await removal t.o its positioni en the
wall. Tihe tyro will .alniost ineyitably
break the block into two or t:,ree pieces,
utterly unfit for tihe use of the builder.
When t wo men are builiding an igloo onme
cuts the blocks andi the other erects the
wall. When sulliclent, blocks have been
cut out to conuinence work with thme builder
mnaika with his eye or perhaps draws a Liue
watii his knife dlescribing thme circtumf rence
of the buildinig, usually a circle about teni
or twelve fiet in (diamleter. Th'le first row
of blocks is then arranged, the bilockrs
placed so as to incline lnward" and res mug
against each other at the ends, thins afford
ing miutual support. Wheni this row Is
completed time builer cuts away the first
and second blocks, slanting in from the
ground upward, so that the second tier,
resting upon the first row, can be con
tinued on anid arounid spirally, and by
gradually Increasing the inward slant a
per fect dome is constructed of such at rengthi
that, the buier cani lie fiat uploni the out
sile while chiniking the interstices be
tween the blocks. Th~e chinking is, how
ever, usually done by women anti children
ats the buildimg progresses, and aditionial
protection atecured tromt the winds in very
cold weather by baiiking up, wit~h at large
snbow shovel, t~he sinow at the bause often
being piled L<. the dephthi of three or four
feet. This makes the igloo, peoi fectly im-.
perviotis to thme weather. WVhen the house
is compiLeted the budlders are walled in.
Thlen asmnall hole about two feet squiare is
cut, in time wall on the side awa) 'rom
where the entrance is to be located si'd is
used to pa a In the lamps and bed& hg.
.It, is then walled up and the regular door
cut about two feet .hIgh and niched at tho
top. It would bring bad luor to carry the
bedding into the Igloo by thie saine door it
wotild be taken out. Before the door Is
opened the bed Is constructed of snow.
blocks, and made from one to three or four
feet high, and occupies three.fourths of
the entire space. Th'ie huigter the bed and
the lower the door the warmeor the igloo
will br.
Ethel and lortimer.
Very near us in the steamer Bristol, on
the sound sat two people. le wore the
face of a inim who shaves three tines a
day, and that waite necktie had never
seen the starlight before. There wa3 pearl
powder oil the shoulder of his coat and a
tender, dreamy look in her lovely eyes.
They sat and looked up at the stars and
they di'ln't care for any solitary thing,
any nearer to this earth. "Mortimer,"
she muirinured softly, "Mortimer," hI
name appeared to be Mortimer, though I
couldn't. learn whether it was his front
name or his after namne, "Mortimer, dear,"
she said, 'if we could only live apart from
this buity and sordid, unsympathetic
world, in one of you arlittering orbs of
golden radiance, living apart from all else,
only for each other, forgetting the base
things of earthly life, the coarse greed of
the world and its animal Instincts, that
would be our heaven, would It not, dear?"
And Mortimer, tie said that It would.
"There, heart of my own," he said, and
his voice trembled with earnestness, "Amy
own darling Ethel, through all the soft
cued radiance of the day and all the shim
mering tendernese of night, our lives would
pa-s away in an exalted atmosphere above
the base born wants of earthly mortals and
far beyond the chattering crowd that lives
bat for to-day, our lives, reflued beyond
the Commliloni ke---"
And just then the man with the gong
came out. Mortimer, he made a grab at
EthAst's hand and a plunge for the cabin
door. Ethel just gathered her skirts with
her other hand, jumped clear over the
back of her chair and after him, and
away they went clattering down the ml'n,
upset a chair, ran into a good, sweet old
Qiaker lady and banged a bad word out
of Ler before she had time to stop it,
down the sta irs they rushed, collared a
couple of chairs at the nearest tible, feed a
waiter, and opened thei acti.)m without
skirmishing. I ia; a tnm of e mse II muld
an I an eari-born a)pe.ite myself, an I I
wouldn't live in at star so long as I cokild
find a good hotel in America, but long,
long before I could get seats at the tatble
for my family, Mortimer and E betl lod
eaten two blue-fish, a little rare beef
steak, some corai bread, a plate of hot
cakes, two boiled eggs, and a bunch of
onions, and the waiter had gone out to
toast them sone cheese. We have during
oir wanderings, niet several people wh:2
wanted to live in a star, where artlh
born people with animal appetites coulidn't
trouble tien, and we- always found the
safest placo for an earth-born inan when
tihe star-born. soul started for the dinner
table, was behind a rock. Ditrust the
aspiring moittil who lives In a plane 6o
elevated that he requires the use of a
telescope when 11e wauts to look down at
the rest of us. And if he ever wants board
at your humble table charge him $15 a
week and feed aim lots of soup or you'll
lose money on him.
The Emprob, of Autnia,
This titled lady is winning goiuen
opinions for herself among the votaries of
the chase down in Shrophshire, England.
Whatever may be said or her taste in pur
suing such a pastine, far away f rom home,
andi at such an enormous expense to the
tax payers of the Austro-Hungarian
monarchy, there seems to be* but one
opinion as to her skill as a hunter of foxes
and as a horsewoman. Her feats in hunt
Ing three days in sumewtion immediatelv
after traveling nea -1 1 000 miks, In clear
ing stone wais, taking batit fences and long
w;.ter jump% are allowed on all hands to
be unprecedented. Her riaing has been
comptared with that of the two acknowled
ged greatest hors 3womiea In England, and
they are nowtjei e.' For elegance of style,
undaunted courage, beau tiful seat and
light hunds, she has no rival. And sne is
said to enter Into the sport w-t greater
enthusiasm tllan any old fox-hunting
squire in Leicstersire-the hleadquaurters
of the sport. Her favorite horse is a lirdit
hay full blood, who is said to have~ a
tenmper of his own. On her first mount,
when the cry of 'Tally hot Tally hol Uive
awayt' was heard, the bay broke away at
a tmaendous pace thbrough the crowd,seem
Ingly overpowering its rider, but the em
press soon provedl equal to the occasion.
She quickly pulled him together and turned
lumi around, giving him at thle samie tinie
such an Introduction to whip and spur
that lie has not i.t'empted any sindtr
prauks simuce. Iher habit is of dlark blue,
with trimilng of fur around the collair,
aind it Is said to be rather 'culty sark' ini
its longitude. She has a pocket in her
Saddle for a fan, which, after asharp spin,
she lakes out and uses fro~ly. Though of
ligtt weight,weighming only nine stoine, her
aiumcle and pow er of enduranice are some
thmng remarkable. One day she rode ten
hours over the most diflcult couty, with
out pulling up. To keep uip this form she
exercises oii a private course, going over
lIve pair of gates, water jumps, etc., every
day besides goig through a regular <o urso
of gymnastics. Inl this way she inimamus
a state of health which enables her to rIde
lonig distances without fatigue. She
brought ove'r with her ten liunters for her
own use. Thirty-five more are provided
for her suite and servants, as well as ten or
twelve average horses, whilst the total
number of her suite and servants Is no loss,
I am tol, than eighty.
Use o aort Word d
Ex-Governor Seymour advocated the use
of sbor t words at the Utica educational con
vention tbe other day. . Among other
ilgs lie saidl: 'I have always thloughlt
that, on the trial of John F. Knapp, for
murder, that the jury found him guilty,
not because the proof was so stronig, for
the judge thought It weak, but for ihe rca
soni that Mr. Webster, put before thiem the
scetie of the old1 man's dleath in a way so
graphic that they took his speech for
priof.
Wuillam II. Maynai d, a very able man,
wvhio stood hIgh in this county andl St ate,
onice wrote out a spoeh for tile Fourth of
July mi wvords of one syllable. Ills strength
was very much duie to the fact, thaut InI
thoug~ht and speech lie mlade It a rule to
use am lc w words as he could, and those
thatt were short, and clear. If lie had lived
out Ils termi of three-sdoro years lie would
have been known as one of the gocat men
of our State.
1 do not mean to say, that the mere fact
simply of the word being short, make it
ok ar, but it, Is true that moat clear words
are short, that most long words we get
from other tongues, and the mass of mna
do nlot know exactly what they moan, and
1. am not sure that scholars always get the
same ideas from them."
A Paolfio VoRnt Bandit.
Not long ago Governor Perkins, of Call.
fornia, Isaued a wat rant upon a requisition
from the Government of Lower California,
for the arrest of Clodimero Coto, and his
incarceration upon the Mexican man-of
war Democrata, to await departure4for
Mexico. Cota was once an ambitious
man of great influence in Lower California,
and has had an adventurous career. lie is
a nephew of General Emanuel Markes, of
the Mexican army, is about 50 years of
age, tail and well built and of handsome
and intelligent appearance. His career as
a bandit is perhaps due mainly to circum
stances which cefeated his ambitious pro
jects in alairs of Stato. lie aspired to. be
Governor of Caiforna, which he proposed
to govern its a provIce of his own. With
this setame in view ho was a faithful fol
lower of Lerdo and an uncompromising
enemy of* DiaZ. Upon the accession of
the latter to the Presidency of the Repub
lie Io lost most of his followers and all
hopes of success as a revolutionist, le
refused to suriender, however, and became
an outlaw. From this it was but a step to
the lite of a bandit, and lie became a terror
to the merchants and peaceable and
wealthy people aill over Lower California.
lie requentiy kidnapped wealthy persons
and held them for ransom, after the mau
ner of the Italian brigands, and pillaged a
great many smll towns along the coast,
relreating to the mountains when the oppo
sition became too strong for him. His
band, which six years ago numbeed about
200 men, by losses in his various predatory
incursions and desertions became reduced,
until about a month and a half agto, he
disbanded this remnant and with two of
his trusty lieutenants lied to San Francisco.
A published sensational story which
charges him with stealing and carrying
away a wealthy Spanish lady to the moun
tains is said by well-informed men to be
untrue Ills operations have been directed
principally against the wealthy and lie has
many friends amiong the por peoplo. Al
though lie mado a gleat deal of money in
his raids he ilways scattered it witn a
lavish iand and ainong the criminal
classes was the beau ideal of a bandit
chief. However, thMi reigning powers in
Mexico and the business prtion of the
8,ate are very bter against him. People
who art familiar with his standing in
Lower Galifornia express the opinion that
if he reaches there Ie will be speedily tried
convicteu and sliot. Upon uelug tranR
furred to thme Mexican an-of-war Cotam
was recognized by the officers as the
leader of wbat was known as the Marquez
revolution in Lower California. in his
bandit career, at te head of about 250
fifibusters and guerillaq, tom ishing towns,
vliages and haciendas were burned and
destroyed. Daring one raid on tue towi
of LorLtto they tit d an old mnain to a tree
and sonC of the gang are said to have out
raged the three daughters of the helpless
victim. Tlhe gang woas finally broken up,
what was left of it, by a strong force of
zovernment, troaos an i so.u of the sur
vivors are said L 1IiomIc u. I&LU O a 12%4
prior to tuo departuro of tuoir leader ior
ban Francisco.
onotming fur t i way rravoimex.
Recent decisions of state supreoi
courts contain some points of interet to
railway travelers and others. A railway
company is liable for injuries to a person
traveling on a 'shipper's pass," although
such pass stipulates that the company shall
not be liable for injuries done to the per
son using it. The evidence of a person
injured as to the amount of damages
suostained by him is clearly incompetont.
lie may describe his injuries, but it Is for
a jury to determine the question of dam
ages A rule prohibiting passenfors from
l ilnig on the platform of a railway car Is a
roasonable regulation;and one who violates
It without somie reasonable excuse or ne
cessity, cannot be said to be free Ironm
negligence if the act contributos to his In
jury. An individual is not a passenger af
ter he has left a mioving train and is not
entitled to the protection of the railway
company. When one buys a ticket, of a
railroad corporation he is ordinamihly a pas
senger of tihe corporation for the time when
ho reasonably andi properly starts fromt the
ticket office or wah~iing moomn Ia the station
to lake his seat in the car of the train, un
til he has resched the station to which he
Is entitled to be carried, and has had ani
opportunity by sate and convenient moans
to leauvo time train at the station. It Is the
dimty of the corporation to furnish all the
mneans mand neciss.mry emplloyes to gu ard
passengers agaiist all injuries whli hui
inn foresight nuiy prevent. A passenger
heaving a moving train ceases to be a
pamssengter, and to have the rights of a
piasseniger, wl.e her lie leaves it when at ful
speed bet ween stations, or has been car
riuti past the platform of the station. lie
amust, wait until the train conies to a full
stop. A custom in 1,10 management or a
dejot, yardi o1 a raul r) u d czmpany th1 it.
is bwUung cars t~lb-rein it Is
not the comipany's duty to have a brake
msin of oth~er persmns on 0 mclh car or . group
I if cars,separately in motion, to give warn
uig to mmn at work hlu the yard, but, that
tihe meni ini ouch cases must look out, for
themselves, would not relhuve a brakeman
actually In charge of a moving car, who
should see It, approaching a workman upon
the track, fromi the duty of stopping or
warning him of its app~roach; and, there
fore, thme company would not be relievod
fmomi liability to such workmnan for any in
jury thus catised.
One of the most iateroling objects of.
feredl to public inmpection at the Sydney
International Exibition was a dwelling
house exclusively made of paper and fur
nishied throughout with articles manu
factured from the same mnaterial. Walls
roof, flooring, and stair-cases alike coi
slsted of cai ton-pierro; the carpets and
curtains, bed stads, lamups, sheets and
counterpanes, towels, boot-j acks, baths,
kitchen utensils, etc., were one and all
preparations of paper imacho, 'is were the
very stoves used ior iieaing the roomis, In
which large lirea were kept hurinming daily
thiroughout the duration ot to cxhim~ition.
beveral baniquets were givo in the paper
house by its owners to the/ coinmissioners,
imiombers of tho press at d foreigners of
distinction. All the platos and dishes,
kuifes and forks, bdtties and drinking
yessels, used at the entertainments wore
fabricated entirely and solely of paper.
hShould these paper buildings como into
vogue they may be expected to superinduce
some s-rikmg changes in the rates of fire
insurance, at present calculated upon a
basis of bricks and mortar
The Presidents' Mother.
After the Inauguration Mirs. Garfield,
the Presidents' mother was taken directly
to the White House by Mr. Webb Hayes,
and installed at once In the apartment
which she will occupy for the next few
years, which had been previously arranged
as it will remain. It is a large, square
room on the south aide of the mansion,
about midway In the wide hall that serves
as a sort of sitting and reception room for
the Preeident's family. Its three windows
overlook the flower-gardens and lawn in
the rear, the unfinished Washington mpnu
uuent and ague-breeding "Kidwell Bot.
toms" beyond, and the historic Potomac
dividing the District from the Virginia
hills. The room is a sunny one, made
more cheerful by a bright Axminster car
pet, and wi ndow drapings to correspond,
and a wood fire in a wide old-fashioned
grate with glittering brass andirons and
fenders. There are appropriate mantel
ornaments and little womanly trinkets
scattered about, and two or three hand
sonio Turkish rugs before the bed and
sofas. Beside- the rocker where the old
lady sits with her knitting, or muses upon
the checkered career of "son Janes" Is a
beautiful white Uearskin, with fur a finger
long, upon which rests her feet. To have
her home In the White House, the most
honored figure witnin its walls, Is certainly
a groat change from other days within her
reeinubrance when, left a widew In straight
oued ertrcumstances, she washed iiidcooked,
and toiled and saved that her children
night be educated. 11r stalwart son, who
over thirty years ago grow so tall that she
could walk under his outstretched aru
without stooping, still defers to her slight
est wish with the same obedience that he
rendered when a boy. Hers has always
been the post of honor at the General's
table, and, no matter what distinguished
guests are present, she is invariably served
first. A sweeter picture has seldom been
SeI than this little white-haLirod matron
miade, whosu head barely reaches her son's
elbow, when she came proudly forward,
vith tears in her cyos, to be t4c first to to
coivo him as ho entered the Executive
Manstou, President of the United Smates,
escorted thither by the graudest civil and
military display that Washington has ever
wit nossed.
Slow it Foot to & reese.
Jasper Parley, a Gatturaugus county far*
mer, nearly frozo to death recently. When
found he was insensible in the bottom of
iils sleigh. lie was rubbed with anow
and otherwise treated to revive the cirou-.
laion. After a good deal of thorough
manipulation and rubbing Porley was
brought around, when a fes . doses of whis
key suliced to rostore him to nearly his
normal condition. ,He thanked his restor
ers vsry heartily, and gave an account of
his ilsfortuine, which affords soino inklig
of the sensattons of people who freeze Lo
death. When he felt no longer able to
hold the reins with any grip he detormindd
LU Ou laho1Lr in the drcA iouno unuLttL waU
warmed. 1-lie tongue became still, theu
his arms, sharp chills ran down his back,
and finally it seomed us though his whole
body was being oongealed, causing an
almost jotal cessation of the heart'& action.
Tiis condition of extrenio sufferlag aul
debpoidency speedily gave place to a fuel.
tug of grateful watnh, suff ising the sys
tem anid ca:ising au exhilaratlng glow. By
this timb he had reached a houso, but ho
drove on, thinking that nothing was now
to be feared. The sleigh, Instead of crawl
lng.along at a snail's pace, appeared to
glide through the air with great swiftuess,
and the horses lairly flow like pigeons. A
souse of exultation filled the Uattaraugus
farmer's breast as he urged the horses to
still greater speed, and the woods on either
side were passed so quickly that they be
came indistinguishable blaca lines. Then
the sleigh belle sounded falnter and faluter,
until the chimes disappeared In the dis
lance, the farmer foil gradually iuto a del.
clous slumber, which came near being the
sleep that knows no waking, amnd lie knew
no mioro until brought baciC to life under
thes vigorous treatment.
Danota.
Granss king of Dakota, the proposed
now drtate. fueo territory lies in the
broad valley of tho MIssouri and that of
tme ied RIver of the North. The Bhlaolc
liills, with untold wealth, are partly within
her western borders, while on the east are
Iowit andl Minnesota, with their railroa Ia
reaching after her abundaiat grain crops.
Biesides gold and silver, coal is found ia
the northern and western districts, and
p~etroleum spring~s from the rocks in nmany
plaices. The clImate presents less that is
objectionable to the Eastern emigrant
than either of the adjoining States. Its
winters are mildler and its atmosphere is of
the most remarkable saiubrity. Tae soil
is a rich vegetable mould,- ranging fronm
the most fertile alluvium in the bottom
lauds-of which there are many thousands
of acres along the' MisSouri and its tribu
taries-to the more compact upland prairie,
th~roughily wvell ardapted to the~ productIon
of wheat and other grains. Oats, peas,
barley, and such small grains attain the
ripest perfection; but the great and crown
ing wealth of Dakota, outranking gold,
wheat, corn and all else, is her incompar
able crap of grass. Thousands of square
miles of her bottom lands yield two tons
or more per acre per year at a single cut,.
ting, wi e away north, in the ,R~ed River
valley, four tons per year are secured by
two cuttimgs. Fo'r stock raising, wool
growing, and the production of root crops,
Jiakota possesses unsurpacsed advantages.
lt Was Alt Iight,
Several peop~le were making purohases
in a grocery store when an .ld man wlth a
cane In one hand and a bundle in the other
stood in the door and asked:
"Did any of you drIve up here in a
slelgh I"
"Yes, I did," replied one.
"W~as it an old white hoss ?"
"And an old woman in the cutter ?"
"Yes."
"And can sheo manage the hos"
"I guess she can."
"Tnein it's all right," said the man of the
cane and bundle. "The old hose has run
away and the old woman is hanging to the
dashboard and yellhng murder I with all
her might, but if she can manage him
there's no use of anybody getting excited
over i6. Let me inquire what the price q
osanberrles is od.