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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The regatta of Washington and Lee
university and the university of Vir
ginia will occur in June.
The civil engineers in convention at
New Orleans visited the jetties, finding
the greatest depth of water seventy feet,
and the least depth twenty-twe feet.
Sheriff Holmes, who was shot
through the bead at Trinity Texas, the
11th ult., .while attempting to arrest!
Captain McGee, late of Indian territory,
died the 26th ult. McGee is at large. !
There are 375 appointments to be
made on the police force of New Orleans, |
and there have been 2,500 applications j
(only), and, Governor Nicholis having
been consulted, is of the opinion that
the 375 vacancies won’t stretch to the
desired capacity. ,
The old “Virginia Building” at the
centennial has been taken to pieces and
shipped to Richmond, where it will be
erected on the state-fair grounds, as it
has been generously donated by Colonel
Knight, ex-president of the agricultural
society.
Moody and Sankey have concluded
their Boston labors The Advertiser
says: “ Boston has.not been profoundly
stirred. A large majority of our citizens
have been no more effected by it than
by any other temporary phenomenon
which they knew was an occasion of in
terest to many, but which assert no im
perative demands upon their attention.”
“ Yankin wak!" is the Turkish cry
of fire, and instead of ringing alarm hells,
the Constantinople authorities discharge
seven Krupp guns. The locality of the
fire is indicated by flags or lights. The
firemen are called “tumulbadgis,” and
the different companies often fight each
other, as in Christian countries. The
sultans themselves used to run to the
fires, but they are now more dignified.
New Orleans Democrat: The cot
ton-gin created a revolution in the cost
and production of this important fleece.
Decently another invention has been
patented which may produce almost as
marked an effect as the cotton-gin. It
is the ’picker. It is a wagon-like ma
chine, which is driven through the
ripened folds, and picks clean every
scrap of cotton, and nothing except cot
ton, and saves the labor of one hundred
hands. Where the price of the staple
may go to with this invention in general
use it is impossible to fathom. This
machine is a North Carolina affair, and
is said to do good work.
Appropriations by congress to
southern waters: Mississippi, Missouri,
and Arkansas, a balance of $25,000;
Ouachita, Arkansas, a balance of sll,-
200 ; Yazoo, Mississippi, $14,000 ; Little
Kanawha, West Virginia, $7,300 ; Hia
wassee, Tennessee, $10,000; mouth of the
Mississippi, a balance of $10,0u0; Appo
mattox, Virginia, $15,000; New river,
Virginia, $15,000, Cape Fear river, North
Carolina, $22,5000 ; South Branch Eliza
beth, Virginia, $5,000; Norfolk harbor,
$3,600 ; Perquimons river, North Caro
lina, $2,500; Nansemond river, North
Carolina, $5,000 ; French board, North
Carolina, SIO,OOO ; and this exhausts the
appropriation.
Indian territory has a larger popula
tion than the state of Nevada, number
ing 77,000. It is a sad mixture of
whites Indians and negroes. There are j
wild Indians “by blood,” called “blanket j
Indians,” composed of Osage, Cheynnes, j
Aarpahoes, Kiowas and Pawnees. These
do pot till the ground, and are not much ,
mixed with each other. They number j
about 20,000. There are other “Indians j
by blood,” that are not wild, such as j
(,'herokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws j
and Chickasaws. They are partly civil- !
ixed, and much mixed. There are white
persons, who have married Indians, and
are called “ Indians by marriage.”
They are entitled to all the privileges of
the tribes. The negroes of the nations
of Cherokees, Creeks and Seminoles were
made free by the treaties of 1866, and
are called “ Indians by treaty.” Of the
civilized “ Indians by blood,” “ Indians
by marriage,” and “ Indians by treaty ”
there are 55,000. There are, however,
6,500 negroes who are not “Indians by
treaty.”
O VER-BENBITIVENESS.
A great deal of discomfort arises from
over-sensitiveness about what peo- I
pie may say of you or your actions.
This requires to be blunted. Consider
whether anything you do will have much
connection with what they will say.
And, besides, it may be doubted whether
they will say anything at ail about
vnu. Many unhappy persons seem to
imagine that they are always in an am
phitheater with the assembled world as
spectators; whereas all the while they
are playing to empty seats. They fancy,
too, they form the particular theme of
every passer-by. If, however, they must
listen to imaginary conversation about
themselves, they might, at any rate, defy
the proverb, and insist upon hearing
themselves well spoken of.
<£ljc Jeauji Sentinel.
VOL. I.
THE DOWNWARD SLOPE.
I>owu life’s western siope alone
1 seem to tread my lonely way;
Behind are yeers forever flowu—
Before me one •terual day.
Ah, ara I uow indeed alone?
Is there for ioe no friendly gnide ?
No willing hand within my own t
No loving helper at my side ?
No one to earthly vision dear,
To cheer, to help ? No mortal hand—
No loving one—no friend Is near
To guide me o’er the darken'd strand ;
Yet Bweetlv felt in waking hours,
And dimly seen around my lied,
At night, when sleep the lorm o’erpowers
Are darling oues the world calls dead.
They are not dead ! They speak to me
In gentle accents sweet and clear:
Telling of jpyj that are to be
And of a h<7tvn that's ever uear.
And soon this feebly-beating heart.
Will cease the passing time to count,
Spirit and body kindly part,
The soul on wings of light will mount,
Oh, joyful thought! Oh, vision bright!
The lonely homesick soul to cheer i
Remain to bless my spirit sight,
That I may know thee ever near;
Then the declining slope I’ll tread,
With fearless step and joyful heart,
And cross the valley of the dead,
Nor sigh when call’d from earth to part.
SINGULAR INCIDENT.
Uoir a Valuable Diamond Breastpin teas
Recovered from, a Dishonest Servant
through a Dream.
San Francisco Chronicle : A singular
incident happened in connection with a
theft in a mansion on Vann Ness avenue,
a few nights ago, which spiritualists will
immediately seize ujkmi as an evidence
that departed spirits are really wont to
return to this mundane sphere and exer
cise theirpporerw r er for good or evil on the
inhabitants thereof. In the elegant
mansion referred to lives a lady who has
recently been visited by a s’ster, one of
those fortunate mortals who is the pos
sessor of diamond jewelry and gold coin
in abundance. Shortly after her arrival
the lady of the house, for some good
reason, discharged a female servant and
employed another in her place. A day
or two after this event the visitor, desir
ous to go on a shopping expedition, took
her purse, containing a valuable diamond
pin and a respectable amount of coin,
from its place of security in a drawer and
laid it upon the bureau. >She went from
the room several times in making
her preparations, and when ready for de.
parture the purse with its contents was
missing. The alarm was at once given,
and the two Indies, assisted by the new
servant, made a thorough search. The
house was swept, the furniture moved,
and every possible crevice into which it
could have fallen examined, but ail to no
avail; the purse had disappeared as com
pletely as though the earth Md opened
and swallowed it. It was late at night
before the search ended, and completely
tired out, the household retired. In the
middle of the night, the lady of the
house was wakened by the entrance of
her sister, who was acting in the most sin
gular manner, and asking constantly for
writing materials. Her nervous system
seemed to be highly excited, and she did
not appear in her right mind, though it
was not a case of sonambulism. Paper
and pencil were given to her, and she
immediately covered the former with
scrawls, which were decipherable. She
soon quieted down and lapsed into her
normal condition, when the two ladies
set themselves to work to decipher the
writing, in which they were
finally successful, finding, however,
it all to be a repetition of
the sentence, “ She has hid it under a
stool.” They decided that “ she” meant
the new servant, and proceeding to the
latter’s door they knocked for admit
tance. The girl soon unlocked the door
when.the latter informed her that she
could not sleep, the loss of the purse
made It impossible, and that she must
dress and assist them in a further search, j
She grumblingly obeyed, and as she came 1
out of the door the ladies entered. At the
foot of the bed stood a covered stool, the
cover reaching to the floor. Highly ex
cited the ladies rushed to it, tipped it
over, and there lay the lost purse, with
its conteuts intact. The servant from
the outside had closely watched the
ladies’ movements, and as they placed
their hands upon the stool she turned,
and ran down stairs, unlocked a door,
and rushed into the street and away
before she could be apprehended, and i
she has not been seen or heard
of since. So far from being a spiritualist, ]
the lady is very positive in her disbelief
of any such agency, and moreover, is an
old-school Presbyterian, and in accord
ance with her religious doctrines is op
posed to any such theory as spiritualistic
influences. She ascribes the incident to
the fact that her nervous system was
very much overwrought; that she had
been thinking and dreaming about her
loss, and as there was no one upon whom
the blame could be charged, she accused
the servant of the crime, though an ap
parentlv unexplained circumstance is the
fact that she had never been in the ser
vant’s room, and knew nothing of how it
was furnished. The facts occurred,
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1577.
however, precisely as above stated, and
spiritualists and anti-spiritualists will
each undoubtedly be able to furnish a
satislactory explanation.
AS EXTIt iOUUIXAItY II -S T U UNT.
The Sacramento (Cal.) Union of the
12th inst. says: “The large, double
building on the north side of M street,
between Third and Fourth, owned by E.
Torrev, and occupied asaboarding house,
has of late appeared to be the headquar
ters of a vast number of bats, which
managed to get in between the ceiling
and roof through small apertures along
side the water-spout. The vampires be
came a great nuisance, and Mr. Torrey
concluded to make an effort to get rid ol
them. With this end in view he pro-
cured a five-gallon coal oil can, and nr
ranged it something like a rat trap, bo
that the bats might enter it readily, but
could not get out. A number of small
holes were also punched in the can to
admit light. The can was on Thursday
placed in such a position as to completely
cover the opening through which the
animals passed in and out of the build
ing. The result was that a short time
alter dark it was filled with the little
pests, who made a great scratching and
squealing. The remainder of the bats,
finding their usual place of exit stopped
up, looked about for another, and dis
covered a small hole in the plastering of
the ceiling. Through this they made
their way in great numbers, and found
themselves prisoners in the sleeping
apartment of two young women. The
latter aroused from their slumbers by a
mysterious noise, and feeling their faces
fanned by invisible wings, became
alarmed and sprang from the bed, but
their feet came down upon a mass of
squirming, scratching and biting some
things, while other somethings struck
them in the face, and on the head and
body, chattering viciously, and having a
disagreeably cold and,damp feeling. It
was not a pleasant situation by any
means, and the girls opened tlie door and’
hastened into the hall, calling for assistr-
ance and closely followed by their tor
mentors. Other occupants of the house,
alarmed at the noise, opened their doors
to see what the trouble was, but were
glad to close them again to keep out the
bats, some of the boardersdesired to go
down stairs, but every step was a bat
roost. and they had to get out upon the
balconies. After much hard work, which
lasted nearly until daylight, the animals
were driven or swept from the upper
story down into the basement where
they were gathered into a heap, so far as
possible, and killed by the application of
boiling water. Those thus killed num
bered, by actual count, 760, and the
girls subsequently killed four more in
their room. The trap was placed in a
wash-tub filled with wafer, and its occu
pants drowned. There being consider
able curiosity to know how many bats a
five-gallon measure could hold, they
were counted and amounted to 228. The
slain, all told, filled four buckets. Yes
terday the opening in the ceiling was
plastered up and the trap set at-ain. Last
evening it was well filled, judging from
the noise, and it was estimated that there
was a ‘ right smart chance ’ of bats about
the house still.”
what TROum.KH ./oriy rtr/ir..
It is the Russian performances in Asia
Minor that no doubt trouble John Bull.
The public assurance of the Muscovite
commander-in-chief, that the czar's ob- j
ject is not conquest, makes very little
impression. Perhaps it only irritates
England and the more because all czars
and all Russian commanders have told
that touching falsehood so often. Mr.
Gladstone believes it, of course. In bis
j resolutions he does not even venture to
| regret the presence of the Muscovites in
their neighlxir’s territory. If the czar
announced that there was no truth in
the assertion that his troops had crossed
the Truth, Mr. Gladstone would believe
it. His hatred of Ird Baconsfield and
the Turks is so great that it blinds him
to everything else, though the utter fail
ure of his last sensation pamphlet has
opener! the eyes of his publisher to the
fact that a great man who has worked a
lifetime to build himself a reputation and
a name may level the edifice to theground
in a few short months. The reading
public will not buy Mr. Gladstone’s
latest work at any price. It has fallen
as dead as Ginx’s-Baby-Jenkins’ attack
on the government. When the shadow
of sword has ever appered in the politi
cal atmosphere of England it has been
the patriotic habit of all parties and all
I classes to rally round the government,
and the great bulk of the people resent
the unstatesmanlike and un-English ef-
I forts of Mr. Gladstone to break down
[ this honest and loyal practice.- - London
I Cor. New York Timet.
CHINA’S A WFUL FAMINE.
Thf Vend AI read;/ Numbered by Million*.
The famine which our Shanghai cor
respondent’s letter describes this morn
ing, is a disaster of woful magnitude. It
extends over a very wide region of the
empire, it is carrying oft the population
by thousands, and there is no near hope
that its ravages will soon be over.
Through the north and east of the coun
try, from the near neighborhood of the
imperial city and from the shores of the
Yellow sea, beyond the line of the great
wall which shuts off China from the
western world outside, the terrible visi
tation extends. The suffering, we are
told, is beyond description. In addition
to the multitude who have already per
ished under it, there is the larger num
ber of those who are just managing to
keep alive, and from whose exhausted
ranks fresh victims are continually added
to the dismal roll. Anything that will
allay hunger is eagerly sought after, no
matter how uninviting or unfit to he used
as food. The rotten thatch of the houses
and dried leaves that serve generally
for fuel are not now neglected as nause
ous or unsatisfying, and lucky indeed
is the man who can get a full sup
ply even of these. The government
is making the semblance of an
effort to relievo the widespread misery ;
but the means it employs are wholly in
adequate. An expression of verbal sym
pathy, a grant of money which allows
about a farthing a day lor the relief of
each case of distress, and some well
meant but mistaken edicts, which have
had the effect of simply making matters
worse than liefore, are the measure of
assistance which the Chinese rulers can
bestow. The famine proceeds in spite of
them, and matters are rendered worse by
the intense cold which was prevailing at
the date ol our correspondent's letter,
the snow which lay so deep as to
prevent the people from picking up any
of the wild produce of the soil. As
summer advances and as the weeds begin
to grow and the trees to l>e covered witli
foilsge, there may be a change expected
lor the better. Meanwhile there is no
remedy to be found, except in the readi
ness of he people to do anything and
submit to anything that will furnish
them with the bare moans of supporting
life, and in the willing but insufficient
relief found which is subscribed among
the foreigners resident in China and dis
tributed by the I’rotestant missionaries
in the North.
The cause of the famine is the same
as that from which India is now suffer
ing. The crops of last summer were,
we are told, almost entirely destroyed
by drought, and the peasantry have
now come to an end of their slender
reserves of grain, and have nothing left
on which they can fall back for support.
China is a country in which at the best
of times the population presses very
closely upon the means of subsistence.
There are no waste stores anywhere.
Everything is already turned to account,
and when the necessity comes there is
little room for any further saving or
reduction. Land and water are alike
taxed to the uttermost to furnish food
and dwelling-space for the teeming
multitudes which cover them. The
Chinese are hard workers, contented with
slender fare, and able to put up com
fortably with a general scale of living
; which would be simply intolerable to
j Englishmen. These qualities and habits,
| which turn to their advantage abroad
when they ar brought into competition j
with other races, arc a source of danger
to them at home. The Chinese can j
undersell the Irish immigrant and the!
native “white trash” in the distant
labor market of California. They can
j not be equally sure that they wiil obtain
| the poor pittance with which they will
;be satisfied in China. In ordinary seasons
they can pull through well enough, and'
can thrive and think themselves well off
on the slender material supplies with
which they have learned to be content.
But when the pinch comes, as come it
must sometimes; when the parched
earth will no longer yield its accustomed
increase, or when the store of food for
any reason begins to fail, the suffering
is speedy and severe. It is a question
then, not of the surrender of luxuries
which can tt any rate le spared, hut of
the want of the hare necessities which it
Is impossible to forego and live. To the
:great eastern hive, thickly swarming!
with its uncounted millions of inhabi-j
tants,'the chance of famine is never far
distant, and the worst reality of famine
arrives very easily It is present among
'them now, and it is fearful to think of
the intense and widespread misery which
1 it will bring with it before it lias run its
' course. There is the bojie, our corre
i spondent writes, of good crops in the
NO. 40.
coming season for those who survive.
The snow, which does much to aggravate
the present distress, is at least a security
against the reoccurrence of another
drought. But it holds out no early hope
of relief. When summer comes all will
he well for those who Are alive to witness
it, and to enjoy the plenty which is in
prospect for them. Meanwhile, in the
dreary weeks which still remain the suf
fering is growing worse. The people
have been driven already to their last
resources, and they have proved to be in
sufficient. The total loss it is not easy
to estimate. We hear of villages of five
hundred families with three hundred re
ported as dead from starvation. This,
or something like it appears to be the
actual condition of some 8,000 villages,
and there are others besides in which the
pressure is less extreme, but still terribly
severe. The numbers of the dead, it is
clear, must be already reckoned by mil
lions, but we can hazard no conjecture
as to the total which will have been
reached before the return of summer.—
London Time*, May 1.
THIS COSSACKS.
The Cossacks are divided into several
corps—the Cossacks of the Don, the Cos
sacks of the Ukraine, the Cossacks of the
Caucasus, etc. Each of these divisions
has a chief, who is called an ataman,
and holds the rank of general, and all the
Cossacks of the empire are united under
a single chief, who has the title of the
‘ ataman general.” The latter title al
ways devolves upon the hereditary Grand
Duke. The Cossack clothes and equips
himself and his uniform and his horse lus
hing to himself. He wears a large, round,
low cap made of skin from Astrakan,
wide pantaloons stuffud into his boots
and reaching just below his kneeH, the
whole covered by a kind of overcoat but
toning on the back and having three
long flaps reaching to thefoctnnd fastened
on the full length. On his breast to the
left and right in vertical cases he carries
six cartridges at each side. In his belt he
carries a poniard. A bald rick liangH
from bis right shoulder and passes to
the left side, where it supports a long
saber in a leather scabbard. On his back,
hanging from a bandoleer and wrapped
in a case made of goat’s skin, he carries
his rifle. The Cossack always carries in
his hand a whip, with a short lash, which
he calls kirjal. His horse is small and
rather ugly, and though he is made of
good stuff his form is somewhat angular.
To form an idea of' the Oossack saddle,
imagine an ordinary saddle upon which
would ho fastened by a strap a square
leather cushion about four inches high.
This is the reason that at first sight one
is so much surprised to see this curious
looking cavalier perched up so high on
his saddle. Jle sticks on his horse’s hack
by sticking his kr.ees into the animat's
sides witli all his strength, which gives
the legs the appearance of a pair of pin
cers. The stirrup is an equally curious
thing. The bottom is round and thick
enough, but from that up it resembles
very much one of those tin boxes in
which preserves are gold. It has been
already said that the Cossack’s horse is
his personal property, and it may bo
added that he turns it to business ac
count by hiring it out. .Since the arrival
of the troops at Kischeneff they have
ibeen the delight of the collegians, who,
for a rouble an hour, have been enabled
to make promenades on horseback in
bands on these valiant little animals.—
1 Kuchenrff Cor. of the tino York Jhrali.
A local correspondent of the Boston
Transcript writes: “One Sunday, in
the absence of the teacher, I took charge
of a class of boys of from four to six
years of age. ‘Speaking the truth,’ was
the basis of our conversation together.
I asked the hoys if either of them could
tell the story of George Washington and
| his little hatchet. One of the boys
promptly began telling the story, and
; was listened to most attentively by the
i dozen or more of the class. One little
fellow, who had given the most careful
attention, turning his head a little ta
j one side, his bright eyes snapping, and
with a most determined expression upon
I his face, exclaimed, “ Well, Mr. B ,
r don’t care, my father had an oleander
| hush and I cut it down. He asked me
jjf I did it. 1 told him I did—and he
licked me.’ ’’
A Blackwell’s island prisoner es
caped in this way : “He took a large
beer keg, knocked out one of the head
ings. and bored air-holes in the other.
Then he stuck bis own head into the
keg and jumped into the water. Those
who saw the keg in the water had no
idea that there was a man under it.”
THAT NASAL TWANG ; it is Ca
tarrh : cure it at once, before it shows on your
face, iiyDr. J.H. McLean’s Catarrh Suuß.
It sootne* irritation, cures Stores in the nose,
; iaee or skin. Trial boxes M cue, by mail.
I Dr. J. 11. McLean,3l4 Chestnut ST., St, Louis.
Git A VE AND GAI.
There never was a good war, or a
bad peace. —Franklins
A letter from one tramp to another
was picked up in Fairhaven, Vermont,
the other day, which closed as follows:
“ u won’t ketch me in this stat agin my
advise to u iz tu go back tu york ceep
clereof Vermont fur it iz not a good hum
for a sensativ tramp.”
..I)r. Holland wants to know “Who
can tell what a bltby thinks ?” Well,
what would l)r v Holland think himself
if he had to wegr clothes a mile too long
for him, and have his back stuck so full
•f pins that tliere,wasn’s room on it for
half a square inch .of prickly heat?
. .Speaking of the great men that con
stitutes the Hayes cabinet, the Indepen
dent says: “Every one has great big
months, noses and ears. The size of the
fourteen ears and seven noses of the
cabinet is something remarkable. Mr.
Evarts’ ears and nose, compared with
his body, are immense.”
.. Notwithstanding her deplorable
mental condition the ex-Empress Char
lotte of Mexico is in excellent bodily
health, and it is said that she is now
more attractive in appearance than she
was belore her w'idowhood.
..America is ze queer country. T
viseet one lino house wiz a friend zat in
vite me. I say, “Beg parzen, I bin
mooch thirsty,” an’ ze peoples quickly
go bring one beeg—very Deeg pitcher
wiz glass and puts zem before me, an’
smilo an’ smile—oh! zo sweetly! An’
zat waz not wine—no, no, zat waz all’
watzer!—my gote !—I see nothinks zu
smile ’bout in zat watzer !
Alexander, pacing up and down be
fore his tent —“Bashaw! lad him wave his
Sandbag Sheriff, if he wants to. Would,
however, that Alexis, with his bold white
terrier, were here.” Enter a Cossack:
“ Sire, Djbtubrichktivohmagdebig is
taken!” Alex. “Upon me word!
Well, speed the news to Ivan Bull. Ho,
villian 1 Say to Nckopoitchitsky that
ere nightfall our flag must be in Wban
dispakoinensividsky 1 ” ‘ Retires to con
sult the map.’ .
. .The Burlington Hawkeye man is as
well as could be expected. He. gave the
baby some paragoric the other day and
launched out thus : “ I)eath, while pass
ing through lies Moines county one day,
met an lowa tramp going to Burlington
to beg his breakfast. l Ah 1 * exclaimed
the King of Terrors, with a grim smile,
‘l’d give SI,OOO to get hold of one of you
fellows.’ But the tramp only laughed
in a sardonical manner, and giving
Death a kick that made his anatomy
rattle like a street car, passed on to his
repast while the King of Terror sat down
on the hillside and cried witli vexation.”
And then he immediately turned right
around and did thus: “ A man on Bond
street went down to a New York bank
rupt sale the other day and bought a
beautiful spring suit, imported goods,
worth SB6 for $7.60. The first day he,
wore it he was caught in a drenching!
rain,.and then .as he walked out in the
sunshine his new clothes began to shrink
up around Lis shoulders and pulled liis
arms out of joint, and his trousers gath
ered themselves up like a halkv hdrse.
picked the rnan up, walked him along
on his tip toes for a half, a block* ai>d
were just on the point of twisting him
clear over a garden -fence, when ,fejjs sus
penders gave way and let them fly;right
over his head and he never saw them
again.” ■
J •• 001,1811 A ItMIRATION <>J' CItIMJ
SA LH.
If a jewel robbery is committed, we
always hear of the address of the robber,
who has discovered,where the jewels are
kept and the habits of the owners and
the weaknesses of the servant maids—
who has, that is, exhibited a little—often
a very little—of the skill of the most
ordinary ami half-experienced detective.
If a criminal escapes from prison, the
papers are full of compliments on his
ingenuity, patience ami skill in adapting
means to ends, though he has done noth
ing which an ordinary artisan, with a
difficult job of repairs to finish, does not
do every day. It takes more patience,
and skill, and perseverance, for instance,
to file a complicated door key than to
cut through any number of bars; and
the work is, in most cases, done at once
better and more quickly.
Forgery, a low variety of the common
est imitative art, displaying no power
except one posseseed by almost every
draughtsman —we doubt if there is a
portrait painter alive who, in a week,
could not imitate any signature— -always
moves reporters to admiration; while
swindling, if only the amount obtained
is sufficient, rouses judges and advocates
to a loudly exp:'sued conviction that the
swindler, had he only been honest, might,
with less exertion, have risen high in
any trade or profession. He would prob
ably not have risen at all. Industry is
wanting to all habitual criminals, and
though there have, of course, been
Exceptions, still, as a rule, the nio-t
successful “ plauts,” the robberies which
have excited the most attention and
, raised their authors highest in the crimi
nal claas, have demanded no qualities in
those who arranged them beyond those
which are displayed bv every minor
actor, or wandering jugzler. —London
Spectator.