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REV*. A. L. HAMILTON would respect
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MONDAY, October 1, 1877.
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CUTHBERT, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1877.
The f>eath Trap.
BY C. T. llarbaugii.
The ringing sound that came
from a blackened smithy told that
steel was smit'hening steel, and the
smith who swung the ponderous
hammer was a man of no common
muscle.
lie was young and remarkably
handsome ] but there was an evil
lurking in his cold, black eyes which
would have repulsed the close ob
server. The light of his forge r e
rendered ghostly the objects it. e
remote corners of the shop ; but it
fell brightly upon the bright look
ing piece of steel which he was
hammering.
It resembled the jaw of some im
mense trap, strong enough to hold
a bear, and the wonder was that
the strength of man could prepare
it for its prey. If any man in Mid
dletown could control such a trap,
it was the man whose hands were
fashioning it.
For a long time David Thrall had
been working of nights, with his
shop barred to visitors, and the
clang—clang—clang of his hammer
has sounded in the furthest corner
of the growing village. 110 was a
man of strong passion, the first to
resent an insult to a friend, and
the last to give up an argument
when he found logic against him.
No person had bothered him
while he swung the hammer over
the terrible steel trap which he was
making. It is true that a few boys
looked in the window at the inaug
uration of his work, but his mad
dening threats against litem had
kept the prying urchins away.
“I told her that she should never
laugh at my love and live to boast
of it to another man !” said David
Thrall, aloud, one night as lie paus
ed to wipe great drops of perspira
tion from his brow.
“She laughed then and told me
jiqJ, to let anger get the best of me,
and thought I would forget it.—
Forget? Never!’’and the hammer
came down vengvlully upou the
glowing steel.
“I am making.litis trap because
you rejected my love, Agues Tem
ple, but it shall not tear your prettv
skin. No—no! I would not injure
one of your golden hairs ; but I am
going to teach you that there is one
man in Middleton whose heart can
not be trifled with.”
Thus he talked to himself, while
he stood over his hammer, whose
every Jalow told on his horrible
mechanism, and hurried it toward
completion.
That night he finished it. He
held it in the light of his coal fire
and pronounced it perfect, smiled
upon it with pride, and showed
that lie had strength enough to
master its jaws.
“Now, my boy, we’ll try you”.
David Thrall put his trap into a
sack; smothered the fire and left the
smithy.
lie walked rapidly towards the
outskirts of the village, seen by no
one, for the night was dark and
the wind high. It was in the fall
of the year, and the yellow leaves
of time fell around him in a golden
shower. But he did not notice them
any more than to brush an occasion
al one from his long beard, begrim
ed, like his face with the soot of his
shop.
He did not come to a halt until
he reached the iron track that ran
over the road which he was travers
ing. Middleton had not been lions
oied by the steam cars, which, as if
to taunt the place left it half a mile
to-the west.
David Thrall threw his burden
down and a sigh of relief escaped
him. Then he struck a match and
looked at his watch.
It was eight o’clock.
“He passes about nine,” he mut
tered.
“The passenger goes by at ten,
then the lightning express.”
lie spoke with a fiendishness al
most foreign to the human heart,
and set to work fastening the strong
chains attached to his infernal trap
to the rails.
He had evidently studied this part
of his work, for he performed it in
darkness and then rested.
But the end was not yet.
Throwing himself upon the spring,
he set the trap, and the terrible jaws
were ready to close upon their vie
tim.
The wind threw leaves over the
trap as if intent on aiding the jeul.
ous blacksmith, and as the clouds
scurried westward, he saw the star
gleams fall upon the leaves that covs
ered it.
It was a picturesque place which
David Thrall had selected for the
deed upon which he had set h’s
heart. The road was narrow, indeed
not more than a path which led to
Middeleton, and the home of Agnes
Temple. He knew the man he ha
ted would traverse it before morning,
and he knew too, that bis trap would
hold him to the iron track.
It was a revenge almost too ten i
b!e to be recorded.
“There!” exclaimed the smith,
as he removed a pace and triumph
antly surveyed the result of nights
ol toil in the sooty* shop. “Now let
the prey come ! The trap is ready.
I wish you a pleasaut time of it, Ju
Man Wingford. To be plain, I
should like to know bow a man
would feel between two such jaws.
Then he picked up his sack and
started back towards Middleton.
But he had not gone ten yards
before he halted. “The trap might
have been set a little easier, he said
to himself. “It has not been work
ed much, and the easier it is set,
the surer I shall be of my prey.”—
Intent upon readjusting the dev
ilish invention, the blacksmith re
traced his steps, attd for the second
time in that lonely and beautiful
spot bent over the cross ties.
He placed his knee upon the spring
to prevent the jaws from closing and
catching their maker, while he tam
pered with the trigger.
He was in the midst of this work,
when from some unaccountable
cause, his knees slipped from the
spring, and—oh, horror ! the mighty
jaws closed on his wrists !
With aery, indescribably full of
agony, the entrapped man tried to
spring to his feet, but *' e trap, fas
tened as it was to tie held him
securely down.
The sharp teeth seemed to cut in
to the very marrow of his bones, and
he was experiencing the horror of a
human being caught in the trap. —
He tried to crush the spring, but it
would not yield to the power which
it bad lately owned, and then he
tried to tear himself loose.
But the pain occasioned by his
efforts was so great that he was forc
ed to desist lest he should faint, and
in that condition be caught by the
train.
“If it bad but caught my leg!”
he cried, “I could tear it loose ; but
oj.! these precious arms of mine !”
It was a terrible moment for the
entrapped man.
All at oiH3), in that hour of terror,
lie thought of the man for whom he
had prepared the jaws of unyielding
steel.
He would doubtless reach the
crossing and release him before the
train was due, for Julian Wingfold
was not a vengeful rival.
All thoughts of revenge against
the beautiful Agnes Temple had
left his mind ; he looked up nt the
stars, and they seemed to mock his
misery ; he cried for help from the
terror-stricken depths of his heart.
But no footstep sounded upon his
ears. God and man seemed to have
left the hater to his fate.
Suddenly David Thrall started,
and a cry of despair welled from his
throat.
The shrill shriek of the locomo
tive told him the one dread hour
of his captivity had passed away
and that the end of all was near at
hand.
“God in heaven have mercy !” he
cried. “Do unto me not as I would
have dore unto another !”
But no deliverance came and
the sound of the whistle died away
with a mocking echo.
Within live minutes the iron
monster would he upon him, and
the most terrible drama ever enact
ed in that lovely country would
have reached its tragic finale.
He heard the rumble of the train,
which seemed to approach on the
wings of the wind. lie raved, he
cursed, and tried to wrench his
wrists from the jaws of steel, tried
to break them otF, and bear life and
bleeding stumps away, but in
vain. With the tenacity of death
itself the Samsouian trap held him
down.
The locomotive shrieked again,
and David Thrall paused and look
ed over his shoulder. He saw the
headlight now ;it dazed his eyes,
and he could not shade the precious
oibs with his hands. Then he
shrieked at the top of lus voice ;
but the cars came on.
“Ho deliverance !’’ oh, heaven 1”
he exclaimed, sinking back in the
fetv seconds he had yet to live. “I
have merited this. What a terri
ble thing retribution is! lie will be
happy and she will smile upon him
with all her dazzling beauty. But
I—l—oh, God ! pity wo. Chained
to the track—caught in the trap
made by my own hands for a fellow
being. It is just. Heaven forgive
me, and comfort my poor ”
The roar of the coming train
drowned the sweetest word that
ever parted his lips—“mother.”
* * * * *
The rumbling of the train had
scarcely died away in the distance,
when Julian Wigford, returning
from the home of Agnes Temple,
crossed the track. He stepped
where the instrument ol death had
been placed, and passed on without
noticing its hand work. If he had
but glanced down, he might have
seen two battered steel jaws, closed
now, upon the lifeless hands only,
of his rival, the blacksmith.
The remains were discovered on
the following day, and the presence
of the trap told the awful story.
David Thrall’s widowed mother
soon followed him to the grave.
The little smithy still stands in
Middleton, and the superstitious
say that at night David Thrall can
be heard beating steel with steel be
fore bis forge.
Julian Wingford is a happy hus
band and father now, but be never
thinks of that one night’s walk with
out a feeling of thankfulness as well
as of horror.
jHolliers.
“I shall never forget,” said Kant
m his old age, “that it was my
mother who caused to fructify the
good which is in my soul.” Cu
vier, it is said, attributed to his
mother all the pleasure of his stud
ies and the glory of his discoreries.
“I used to draw under her superin
tendence, and read aloud books of
history and general literature. It is
thus that she developed in me that
love of reading and that curiosity
for all things which were the spring
of my life.” Byron's mother awo
man “full of caprice and pride,
whose narrow mind was only ex
panded by vanity, hatred and re
venge, who pitilessly made a jest
of the natural infirmity of her
child,” engrafted in liis heart her
corrosive passions, ami made his
life a curse to himself and to others,
"despite his genius. Lamartine,
over whose cradle was shed the
light of a Lender mother’s love, un
der her tuition developed that gt>n
ius ( t spark of which is said to be
implanted in every soul) until it
resembled incense, the perfumes of
which are diffused over the earth ;
but which burns only for heaven ”
It lias been Said “Good teachers
make good scholars, but it is only
mothers that form men.” Rather
should it be said—lt is only moth
ers (or women with mother-hearts)
who possess the power of inspiring
that love of virtue and knowledge
which, when once established in
the soul, enables a mail to “mould
his own material, quarry his own
nature, and make his owu character”
what it should be; for this is a
work that no one can do tor him.—
Home Journal.
Worth Thinking Of. —Parents
who do not see their family circle
supplied with at least one good
miscellaneous paper, leave a very
important duty unfilled. Such a
medium of instruction has many ad
vantages over books : first, because
no books of equal capacity in quan
tity, can be offered so cheaply as a
newspaper: and secondly, none are
so interesting, because the newspa
per consists of a variety measured
out in proper quantities, as to time
and quality. Being new every
week it invites to a habit of read
ing, and affords an agreeable and
easy mode of acquiring knowledge,
causing many hours to pass away
profitably and pleasantly, which
would otherwise be spent in idle
ness and mischief. It is easy to
decide whether a family is in the
habit of reading a good paper or
not, by a few moment’s conversa
tion with its younger members.—
These simple facts are worth re
membering.
Lie With Your head to tiie
North. — A German physiologist
states that the heating of the earth
by the sun ciuses magnetic currents
from the equator to each pole.—
Such being the case, persons who
suffer from sleeplessness should pay
attention to their positions at night,
and lie in the direction of these cur
rents. Restlessness and want of
sleep result from lying across them.
The head to the north is the best
position—to the west the worst.—
Physicians in charge of hospitals
attend to the directions in which
the beds are placed and with the
best results. —* *
A Wonderful Lake.
We have more than once heard of
the wonderful properties of the wa
ters of Deep Spring Valley lake,
but, until the present, not with suf
ficient of detail to give the story
full credence. Lieut. Wether
spoon, company D, twelfth United
States infantry, in command of the
relief party for Capt. Joe’s Indians,
passed several days last week in the
valley, and bears witness to the lit
eral truth of the remarkable phe
nomena. These are that at certain
times the ducks, which visit the lake
in great numbers, become so loaded
down with crystallization of borax,
salt, or some other substance, that
they are utterly unable to fly, and
while in this condition become an
easy prey to the Indians, wlio wade
into the water and pick them up in
their hands. In fact, this substance
often collects upon the bird’s bills
in such weight as to actually drag
their heads under and drown them.
As asserted by Mr. Bcasely and
family, who have lived near the lake
for years, the ducks are often loaded
with several pounds, weight of this
substance —not loss than ten pounds
in some instances. During the first
stages the crystals are quite evenly
disposed over all the bird’s feathers
above water, sticking them together
aa firmly as it glued. Then it accu
mulates in bunches of strings, form
ing drags or rafts with which the
bird can swim but slowly, if at all;
and, if formed from the bill or head,
soon causes its death by drowning.
The crystallization always takes
place in the night time, and entirely
disappears after a tew hours expo
sure to the morning sun, or in the
fresh water springs on the border of
the lake. The condition necessary
to produce the crystals in this man
ner are uo less remarkable. It occurs
during the spring months only, and
only on clear nights with a north
wind—never on cloudy nights or
with the wind from any other quar
ter thau the north. The hike, which
is about a mile and a quarter in
length and, perhaps, a mile in width,
is not over three feet in depth at
the deepest. Strong winds, no
matter from what direction, agitate
its waters to the bottom, giving
them a milky or yellowish cast.—
If this effect were produced by the
desiccating north winds exclusively,
it might afford some clue to ' the
cause of the excessive crystallization
at such times, but it is not; other
winds stir the gases from the bottom
quite as much or more than that.
During the lieutenant’s stay in the
valley the wind one night was from
the north, but the sky was overcast.
As foretold by Capt. Joe, no ducks
were caught next morning. The
following night the wind was from
the same point but there were no
clouds. On such occasions the In
dians spend the entire night in sing
ing and in their peculiar incantations
in full faith that they truly inspire
an abundant harvest of ducks in the
early morning. Their faith was
fully realized on this occasion, for,
before the sun’s rays had touched
the acrid water, Capt. Joe and his
band had caught scores of the hap
less birds.
The principal supply of the lake
is from two immense and bottom
less pools or artesian waters located
quite close to its edge. The valley
itself is entirely surrounded by high
mountains, its soil and general char
acteristics being nothing unusual to
the contrary. —Ingo (Cal) hide
pendent.
Butterine. —The chemical prop
erties of butterine, properly prepar
ed from ox-suet, are almost identical
with those of ordinary butter, the
only difference being a tew percent,
of volatile fatty acids forming butter
ine in the true butter. Fully 90
per cent, of both butter and butter
ine consists of the more liquid facts,
common to both. The butter, in
fact, is practically the animal fat
passed by the cow through the ud
der in the milk from which it was
manufactured ; while butterine is
made from the finer part of the fat
which the ox stored up in its suet.
Both fats are equally cleanly and
wholesome.
“Tommy, my son, fetcli in a stick j
of wood.” “Ah !my dear moth- j
er,” responded the youth, "the
grammatical portion of your educa
tion has been sadly neglected.—
You should have said : “Thomas,
my son, transport from that recum
bent collection of combustible mater
nal upon the threshold of this edi
fice one of the curtailed exc resenees
of a defunct log.”
Oakland (Md.) Correspondence Register.
A Sh ausc Story.
Thirty-three years ago a family
named Benton, consisting of father
mother, son and daughter, resided
in oae of the wes ern states near a
small town called Blank. The fath
er was wealthy and lived in style,
his daughter Mabel a child between
two and three years of age, was al
ways elegantly dressed, and George,
tho son, a boy of seven, was pre
paring to enter an eastern school.—
One day little Mabel disappeared,
and her parents never heard of her
again, although they spent thou
sands of dollars in searching for her.
Tho heart-broken mother soon
died after the loss ot her darling,
and the father wandered over this
country and Europe, and finally
settled in New York, where he
died. Georgo grew to manhood,
and the memory of his lost sister
was almost effaced from his mind.
In his twenty-seventh year, while
visiting a married friend, lie fell in
love with the governess of his
friend’s children a beautiful girl of
about twenty three, and after oino
months they were married and lived
happily for five or six years, a boy
and girl being born to them during
that time.
By the death of an uncle in San
Francisco, George was left a con
siderable fortune, and the lawyer
who conveyed the inteligence to
him also stated that his sister’s ca
reer had been traced. A tramp on
his death bed in St. Louis police
station, confessed that ho and two
companions had stolen little Mabel
Benton for her clothes and a locket
which she wore, and that she bad
continued with them for several
years, when her bright, pretty face,
attracted the attention of a kind
hearted lady*, in Ohio, who adopted
her and sent her to school where
she remained until her patroness
died. Mabel then became a teach
er in a large school in Ciucinna’.i,
but as her health began to fail she
applied for a position as governess,
and was now in the family cf Mr.
M., or at least that, was the last
place he had heard ot her being in.
“What was the name of the fam
ily she was with ?” askgd George.
“M.,” was the answer.
“What name did my sister have ?”
“Mabel Ferris.”
“My God !” cried George in ago
ny. She has been my wife for five
years.”
Upon further investigation this
proved to be the truth, and the
girl nearly went crazy, as she w r a6
a devout Episcopalian. A separa
tion ensued, all property being
equally divided. The children
were placed with friends, as nei
ther parent could bear the sight of
what was to them, the fruit of a
crime against God and man. The
poor girl is still living in a quiet
city iu New England, while the
husband and brother, after spend
ing all his property save a few
hundred dollars in dissipation, shut
himself off Irorn all communication
with his friends, and is to-day a
poor farmer in the county of Gar
rett, among strangers, and where
few know his sadly remarkable sto
ry*
llec Raising.
In an article upon the value of bees
the Rural Sun says : “Bees are as
useful as chickens, and easily raised.
They afford us a luxurious food,
healthy and mighty cheap. Bees
need little feeding, little expense
and attention. They want only a
comfortable home covered from the
storm and suu, and protection from
the marauding miller. They will
make their own lives and do consid
erable toward the living of the
farm. Not many swarms can be
kept prosperously in one place, but
every farmer can raise honey for
his own use and some to spare.—
Every gardener, every villager
might do it. A single swarm of
bees, well attended to, will soon
produce tvs many swarms as can
be successfully kept in one place.—
All that bees make is clear gain.—
They get their treasure from the
flowers. We should have bees
enough in the country to have one
always sipping at every'flour. The
bee should bo always gathering it.—
if we had u bee to every flower,
honey enough would be produced to
supply the world.
During the last thirteen * years,
tTic'sum of §130,000,000 has be<Tri"
spent merelyin repairing our naval
vessels.
The Black JJjll’s country wauls
a territorial organization. It claims
prosperity and 30,000 voters.
NO. 48
Old Popular Superstition*
The following superstitions, han
ded down by traditions from the
past, are fervently believed in in
many parts of this country, and by
people who rank among the most
intelligent:
Whoever reads epitaphs loses his
memory.
To rock the cradle when empty
is injurious to the child.
To cat while a bell is tolling for a
funeral causes toothache.
The crowing of a hen indicate*
some approaching disaster.
When a mouse gnaws a gown,
some misfortune may be apprehen
ded.
He who has teeth wide assunder
must seek his fortune in a distant
land.
Whoever finds a four leaf trefoil
—shamrock—should wear it for
good luck.
When children play soldiers on
the roadside it forobodes the ap
proach of war.
Beggar’s broad should b* given
to children who ars slow in learn*
ing to speak.
If a child less than twelve months
old he brought into a cellar it be*
comes fearful.
A child grows up proud if suffer*
ed to look into a mirror while less
than twelve months old.
The first tooth cast by a child
should be swallowed by the mother
to insure anew growth of teeth.
Buttoning the coat awry, or
drawing a stocking on inside ont,
causes matters to go wrong during
the day.
By bending the head to the hol
low' of the arm the initial letter of
the name of one’s future spouse is
represented.
Women who sow flax seed
should, during* the process, tell
some confounded lies, otherwise the
yarn will never bleach white.
When women are stuffiDg beds
the men should not remain in the
house, otherwise the feathers will
coino through the ticks.
When a stranger enters a room
lie should be obliged to seat him
self, if only for a moment, as he oth
erwise takes the children’s sleep
away with him.
Domestic harmony must he pre
served when washing day comes,
in order to insure tine weather,
which is indispensable, as that.cere
inony is generally performed out of
doors.
Josh Billings’ Hems.
1 hav olten known the toe ov a
cowhide boot, located in the rito
spot, to be ov more value a
young man than the legacy of a
rich tinkle.
The man who expects in his old
age to be taken care ov hi the world,
bekase his life haz been spent in
their amusements or instruekshuns,
reasons like a phool and will starve
like one too.
I notiss that when a man runs hii
bed again a pose, he kussos the post
lust, all kreashun and something
else, last, and never kusses hicnaelf.
One quurt of cheap whiskey, the
cheaper the better, judiciously ap
plied, will do more bizziness for the
devil than the smartest deacon he
has got.
Young man, learn to wait, if you
undertake to sett a hen before sho
U readey, yu will lose your time
and confuse the hen besides.
Tharr is 2 men prowling around
who want close watching, the one
that iz all wuz prazing and the one
that iz all wuz konderaning him
self.
Those people who are trying te
git to heaven on there krecd will
find out at last that they dou’t hav
a thru ticket.
It takes a live man to do bizzints*
now a-days. I don’t care ev yu
hav got a coppy of the bible tu eell
yu hav got tu talk it up purty
strong.
I am willing tu admit that man iz
my brother, but I kontend at the
same time that I hav got a lot of
kussed scaly relashuns.
I hav never known a second wife
but what waz boss of the situation.
Whisky is a hard thing tu kon
vince, tharfore I never argy with a
drunken man.
Expedience is a good teacher, but
she is a dreadful slo one; before wo
get haff thru her lesson the bell
rings-and we are summoned -to judg
ment.
A Spinster lady ot fifty years ro
raaijved lately that she could go
alone at six months old. “Yes,**
said her hateful half-brother, “and
you have been going alone ever
since.”