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THE OLD BARN.
Rickety, old and crazy,
Sbingleless, lacking some doors,
Bad in the npper story,
Wanting boards in the floors,
Beams strung thick with oobwebs.
Ridgepole yellow mud gray.
Hanging in helpless innocence
Over the mows of hay.
How the winds turned around It—
Winds of a stormy day—
Scattering the fragrant hay seed.
Whisking the straws away;
Streaming in at the crannies,
Spreading the clover smell.
Changing the dark old granary
Into a flowery dell.
O j. bow I loved the shadows.
That cling to the silent roof.
Day dreams wove with the quiet,
Many a glittering woof;
I climbed to the the highest rafters.
And watched the swallows at play.
Admired the knots in the boarding.
And rolled in the billows of hay.
Palace of King couldn’t match it,
The Vatican loses its charm.
When placed in my memory’s balance.
Beside the old gray barn.
And I’d rather scent the clover,
Piled in the barn’s roomy mows,
Than sit in the breath of the highlands,
Poured from Appenine brows.
Barb’ry Tom.
He stood and looked at her.
Mabel Freeman was evidently a new
creation to Tom. In a morning wrapper of
blue, that set off her fair complexion some
what as the azure of the sky contrasts with
the white of the snow, with soft brown hair
and tender brown eyes, with her rather tall,
slender figure, she affected “Barb’ry Tom”
even as a flower that suddenly springing out
of the ground and blooming at once into an
unusual beauty would challenge all our
admiration.
And she stood and looked at him. He
was known as “Barberry Tom,” or, more
correctly, “Barb’ry Tom.” He daily
hawked about the red clusters of wild fruit
now piled up in his basket. This stout,
9turdy l)oy was about fifteen. His clothes
were rough, his feet were bare. And yet,
from the very' moment the young lady at
the door saw Tom’s eyes, darker than her’s,
but like them in their tenderness, with a
complexion as fine naturally, only turned
up to the sun too long, she was magnetical
ly attracted toward him.
“Don’t you want to buy any barb’ries ?”
lie said, hesitatingly, and dropping liis eyes
as the blue morning-glory hung its petals
over him.
“Tell him. we don’t want to buy any
barb’ries to-day,” screamed a voice within,
sharp as if there had been a life-time of
filing to make its edge as disagreeably fine
us possible.
4 ‘Sorry, ” said the young lady; ‘ ‘but—but,
perhaps, if you will coaie another day, we
limy want some then.” Her voice was so
kind and musical that Tom wished he had
something else to l»e refused, so he could
They kept on making their guesses, low or
high, .according to the standard of their
daily culture.
‘Now tell me,” said Mabel, “what sacri
fice you think would be the greatest ?”
Tom’s soul felt the pressure of Mabel’s
influence. She was touching the deepest-
finest keys of his being.
‘I s’pose, teacher, it is what you read
about last Sunday, when you spoke of Him
who laid down His life for His enemies.”
‘It would be hard to do that for friends
even, sometimes, Tom.”
Tom said nothing. He looked up with
an honest admiration in his eyes, and
thought it might ersily be done for some.
A third interesting conversation took
place a few days after. Mr. Freeman and
Mabel were walking down a road leading to
Long Bridge. It crossed a wide pond. The
pond had once been used for picnic purpo
ses extensively. Pleasure parties had de
serted it for more fashionable resorts, and
the bridge had been left to the gentle decay
of old age. The floor timbers were weak.
The railing was still weaker. Mr. Freeman
and Mabel were so absorbed in something
he was saying that they did not observe the
warning with which the entrance to the
bridge was placarded.
“Mabel, I want to have a talk with you.
I suppose you do not remember further
back than the age of four.
Mabel did not recollect.
“I have a confession to make. Dear to
me as if you were my own daughter, it may
startle you to know that you are not. Per
haps you have suspected that. Have you?”
Just a flush of Mabel’s agitated features
told Air. Freeman that she had had her
suspicions. Then the color went like the
glow of a fire vanishing from a window-
pane, leaving as little trace on her white
face.
‘After our long residence in Europe, we
chance to have come back into the neigh
borhood that was your early home, and we
are near the family from whom I received
and adopted you.”
Mabel was now looking up to Mr. Free-
an with a most anxious gaze of inquiry.
The glow of the fire within name again to
her face. She stood leanin^ against the
railiig of the bridge.
“Don’t lean on that railing!”
It was a cry' of warning from some one
hurrying along the bridge. The cry came
too late. The railing had already began to
crack, and it abruptly broke, letting Mabel
down into the deep, dark waters. To
Mr. Freeman, who was struck with amaze
ment and astonished into helplessness, it
seemed only the lapse of a moment when
some one rushed swiftly to the gap and
plunged down into the water. When he
came to the surface, bringing Mabel with
him, Mr. Freeman saw that it was “Barb’ry
Torn."
Mysterious Crimes in Paris.
A great number of capital crimes
have recently been committed in and
around Paris without the police being
able to lay hands on the authors, and it
appears that the old dictum of “Murder
will out” no longer holds good. A few
years ago five or six murders were
committed in rapid succession, and evi
dently by the same person or persons,
at Limoges, but the assassins still enjoy
immunity, in spite of all the efforts of
the Paris detectives. Only to deal with
the crimes committed this year, we find
the police are unable to unravel the aff
air of the Ogress des Lilas,a woman who
managed under various pretenses to get
hold of new-born children, who were
never more heard of. The Ogress is |r.
prison, hut the police have been unable
to discover who she is, oi what has be
come of the stolen children. The affair
is enveloped m mystery,impeneti able to
the eyes of the Rue Jerusalem, which
is our Scotland Yard. At the St.
Maude, one of the most ill-lamed quar
ters of Paris, a grocer boy was recently
found in his cart with his throat cut,
but the murderer is still at large; nor
have the police been able to obtain any
clew to the would-be assassin of M.
Simmonet, at Montreuil, and Mme.
Ratillon, at Aubervillers. The perpe*
trator of the crime at the Courcelles
Station has also to be discovered. This
station, he it remarked, is almost in the
centre of Paris. Between the St. Laz-
are terminus and that station a young
man got into the same carriage with
Henriettie Picot, and because she resen
ted his familiarities he stabbed her, and
quietly got out of the train at Courcel
les, leaving his victim weltering in her
blood on the floor of the cariiage,
where she was discoved on the train
reaching the Porte Maillot. The poor
girl is not dead, but the information
she has been able to give as to the ap
pearance of the man has not led to
his arrest. A few days ago two young
men were found poisoned in the Rue
de la Petite Truanderie. How they
came be poisoned no one can say. A
learned professor declares they must
have inhaled mephitic gas, hut how
and where is more than they can tell.
Nearly a month ago Maria Fellerafch, a
woman of had character, w as assasina-
ted, and a Pole was arrested on suspi
cion of being the author of the crime;
but, although Jules B. is still in prison
Quick, sir!” gasped Tom. “Lean over
and—pick her up—when—I get to—that
Pl The piue'neirest'Tom was soon reached, j the P oliue llave been unable t0 aub -
Tom clung to it with one arm, and sup-1 stantiate the charge against him. The
ported Mabel with the other. Mr. Free-; Pole had been in Maria’s company ear-
man acted like one stricken with a night- j ly in the evening, and bad been playing
mare. He recovered, however, liis self- j at cards with her mother, who, in addi-
possession sufficient to reach one arm down £j 0n to being a concierge, acted as
toward Mabei, almost touching her! char . woman t0 her daughter. Jules
“Try hard, sir. Do! do! was Toms: _ , , , . . * ,
appeal j B., w ho had long been an ardent ad-
Mr. Freeman tried and failed again. I mirer of Maria Fellerath, declares that
“Thank you.”
Mabel laughed. “What do you thank
me for?”
“Why, folks ain’t always so kind in
their way. I’d rather liave some folks step
on me tlian have others pick me up. They
would step on me so kind, you know. But
1 don’t believe you’d step on anybody.”
Mabel laughed again at these complimen
tary remarks. Tom, this gatherer of
Flora’s red coral, slung hi9 basket upon his
arm and slowly went down the lawn path,
“There 1” said Mabel, in a minute.
“What did I let that boy go away for ? I
like him. I might have him in my Sunday
school class.”
I)owu the path she flew, gracefully as a
blue bird. “Look here, please one mo
ment. ”
Tom looked around, and then stepped
back.
“I liave come here to spend the autumn,
and have started a Sunday school class in
our house. Wouldn’t you like to join it ?”
Tom’s eyes flashed like diamonds with a
light behind them,
“When will |t bp, miw?”
“Next Sunday afternoon, at twp.
“I wijl come, I ain’t been since father
end mother died. Granny and the children
needed me so much I couldn’t spare the
time to take the long walk to church; but
1 can come here. ”
“Do come, then!” and Mabel said the
“do” like a bobolink making his sweetest
whistle.
So “Barb’ry Tom” came to Mabel’s
school. It was noticeable what a change
took place in him. Tom’s poul was like a
musical instrument where some of the keys
are broken, and yet a skillful hand can find
and bring out notes of sweetness and ten
derness. Tom’s soul responded in that way
Jp Mabel’s touch. lie dropped a certain
roughness of manner. He showed in a still
more marked degree at home the kindness
and self-sacrifice native to him, Ho became
prayerful, studious of God's Word, and
used reverently the day once given to fish
ing in his odd momenta. Tom was a faith
ful attendant at Mabel’s school, Aud Ma
bel was a faithful visitor at Tom’s home,
She cheered up the blind old granny, giving
her a look out upon the world through her
own bright eyes. Mabel had traveled a
good deal, and her memory was a gallery
of scenes worth looking at. She gave the
cliildren better clothes, mended the torn
curtains, and hung pictures on the dull
walls.
An interesting conversation happened one
day in Mr. Freeman’s house.
“I think I ought to tell Mabel,” observed
Mr. Freeman.
“Tell her about her family ?”. asked the
same voice we have already noticed, and
that the years had filed down to a knife-like
sharpness.
“Yes, I ought to tell her. Mabel is not
really our child, although legally adopted.
True, she knows no other parents; but then
here we are, after our long stay in Europe,
near the home we took her from Her
brothers and sisters have growm up since
her adoption, or haye cqrnc into tjie
jffter tliat date. She dqn’t know about
them, or they about her. Her old granny
is blind and can’t indentify her featured.
Still, I think 1 had better tell her how it is,
or she may find it out in an unpleasant way.
I think she sometimes suspects she is not
our child. I ought to have told her long
time ago, ”
“I should hate to haye the low things
from that home running over me,” sque*lefl
Mrs. Freeman. “’Twoulfl be flke an |n;
y&sjon of spiders.”
There was another interesting conversa
tion the next Sunday in Mabel’s/fiass. The
subject was the making of sacrifice for
others. “Boys,” said Mabel, “I want you
to tell me some way in which we can give
Others proof of our love for them?”
Jimmv Puff, the avenue to whose finest
susceptibilities seemed to run through his
appetite, thought it might be to let some
body else have “the last piece of pie,”
” Billy Boyd, who had a great passion for
rod and line, thought it might be to give
“another feller the beet chances for bites.”
What could he do? He lookedjabout him,
4*uui flaw -where-ft timber .ran' nnder tbe
bridge; and if he could reach it lie could
reach Mabel. He frantically worked at a
plank in the flooring of the bridge, dis
placed it, and, lowering himself, reached
the timber. He heard on ugly splash!
Tom and Mabel both had disappeared.
Tom, in trying to make his hold on the
bridge more secure, had lost that hold and
lost Mabel, In a moment up came Tom
again, still clinging to Mabel. Mr. Free
man could see that Tom was much exhaust?
ed; but he struggled for the bridge and
reached a pile once more. Mr. Freeman
now grasped Mabel and drew her up to his
own position. He saw the light of a great,
triumphant joy in Tom’s face; and then,
like the light of a torch, it was quenched as
the face sank under the water. Mr.
Freeman hardly realized all this at the time;
but afterward he remembered each detail.
He lifted Mabel to the bridge and carried
her to a grove near by.
“Oh! help! help!” he shouted to some
men that passed. “I can’t swim and there’s
a boy drowning!” The men searched and
found Tom. They carried liis body to 3Ir.
Freeman’s house; but all attempts at resus
citation were fruitless, and everything wa*
then made ready for the grave.
“I want to see him,” said Mabel, who
bad come out of the chamber whither she
had been led, her face white, sweet and
pure as a lily rescued from the drowning
waters of the pond. Mr. Freeman led her
into the room where Tom lay in the hush
of death. He raised the lowered gas-light,
turned back the sheet and took off the white
face cloth. The triumph that Mr, Freeman
saw in Tom’s face just before sinking still
lingered in his features, though softenefi
pow, like thp p^le lqstfe shefl from a golden
crown held above his head.
Mabel thought of the conversation upon
sacrifice in the Sunday school class, and
burst into a fit of violent weeping.
“Mabel,” said Mr. Freeman, “I did not
finish our conversation this afternoon about
your relatives. Barb’ry Tom was your
brother!”
after leaving the concierege he went to
the Passage ^aloier imft liTTGCKctl at
Maria’s door. As there was no an
swer, he went away. He returned a
couple of hours afterward and got into
the apartment by a skylight, and found
his mistress lying dead on the floor.
He immediately gave the alarm. Ma
ria appears to have been murdered with
a Japanese dagger; on the floor was a
sleeve-button with the initial C.; a
robbery had been committed. Neither
the dagger nor the button appears to
have belonged to the Pole, and, if he
plundered the victim, it was probably
only with the view of misleading the
police. Here the police are once more
at lault, and it must be said that the
evidence at present elicited is very
nicely balanced. One-half is sufficient
to condemn, and the other hall to ex
culpate the prisoner.
A Qaeation of Bones.
or for a man to have the toothache near
to his toes, was in violent antagouism
to all precedent, as well as to the as
certained facts about bnman physiolo-
Chtldhood, Youth ami Manhood.
It is man’s destiny still to be longing
after something, and thus the gratifica
tion of one Bet of wishes but prepares
gy, he said the man’s teeth may have the.unsacisfied soul tor the coi^ception
been shifted by disease or something, | Ql anot jj e r.
and maybe that was what killed him.
He said his grandmother knew a man
in Illinois whose teeth slipped down
and began to grow upon his ribs, with
fatal results.”
“Had he his grandmother’s affidavit
to that effect?”
“He neglected to produce it if he
had. The skeleton’s left foot was com
posed of the horse’s breastbone. It
looked as much like a foot as a clothes
pin looks like the Goddess of Liberty,
and as the other foot was made up of
about three teet of the animals spinal
column, while the neck was formed o*
the horse’s upper jaw. I remonstrated
strenuously with the coroner.”
What did he say?”
He said that kind of a man was the
kind, speaking generally, that was put
together in the Garden of Eden, and
while I might think I could get up a
better one, he wouldn’t trust me to
tack together an idol for a Digger In
dian, or words to that effect. Bo I re
plied, and he hit me with the horse’s
fibula. I retaliated with the tibula,
and in about two seconds he had heav
ed all the skeleton at me that 1 hadn't
heaved at him. Then he winked at
the Jury, and it suddenly brought in a
verdict of death from cause or causes
unknown,’ and then I had him arrested
for assault and battery.”
The magistrate held the coroner in
bonds to appear at court, and when
that functionary had given the bond,
he moved off to collect liis fees for the
inquest.
A Strange Experience.
Spanish Merinos.
It is said that the origin of Span
ish Merinos dated back to the Roman
civilization, and thence to Greece. The
Romans had a herd which they called
Tarrentine, from Tarrentine, a Greek
colony. Hence, they were called also
Greek sheep. Their wool is of exceed
ing fineness* and it is related of them
that they were protected by coverings
of skin, carefully housed, combed and
bathed with oil and wine. From this
we may infer that at that time they
were highly bred. Columella, who
lived before the Christian era, relates
that his uncle, M. Columella, transport
ed from Cadiz to his farm lauds, which
were in Boetiea, some wild rams of ad
mirable whiteness brought from Africa
and crossed them w?th the covered or
Tarrentine ewes. The offspring pro
duced rams with a fine fleece. Strabo
says in his account of the geography of
Spain, that in the time of the Emperor
Tiberius, wool of great fineness and
beauty was exported from fludilania, a
part of Boetiea, and that the rams were
sold in that province for improving the
breed, for a talent each or about $1Q0Q,
When the Roman empire was over
run by the barbarians, the Tarrentine
stock of Italy being very tender became
extinct; but the improved stock of
Boetiea, living in the mountains, sur
vived, and perpetuated by the Moors,
who, skilled in the sextile arts, could
appreciate its value, still exists as the
Merinos of Spain. If this view is cor
rect, tne Merino is the most important
surviving relic of the material civiliza
tion of the Greeks and Romans.
—Silk was spun in China 3000 years
and mere before Christ was bern.
“What are the facts in this case, doc
tor?” asked the magistrate, as Dr.
Busby took the stand.
“Why, you see,” said the doctor,
“Joues, the coroner, here, yesterday
discovered a lot of old bones in the cel
lar of a stable which was torn down.
Being a little hungry for fees he de
termined (o hold an inquest, and he
sent for me to g6t a professional opin
ion. They were bp nes of a horse; you
know; but when I got there, Jones
bad them laid out on the ground ip
something like the form of a man; and
when I remonstrated with him, he said
they certainly were the bones of a man,
and he was under a solemn obligation
to hold an inquest.”
“You say,” asked the justice, “that
they did not resemble the bones of a
human being?*’
“Well you know, he had one leg
made out all right, but when I called
his attention to the fact that the
bone of the other leg ran clear up into
the body and stuck out eight inches be
yond the top of the skull, he said the
mau may have been peculiar, he may
have been deformed. He said he had
an aunt whose leg bone projected so
far from her head that she had to put a
hole in the top of her bonnet.”
“Did he produce the said aunt?”
“No. And when I showed him that
the right arm had three elbows, while
the left contained no joint of any kind,
and looked like the breastbone of a
chicken, he said there w as a man in
Peru w ho had eiqht elbows, and that
his oath as coroner did not obligate him
to account for all the phenomenal freaks
ol nature.”
“Had the remains any ofher elbows
about it anywhere?” asked the justice.
“Not unless you count the joint in
the middle of the back. The coroner
had the horse’s hind leg inserted just
below his man’s shoulders. A real
man, you know', built in that way,
could knock the back of his head
against the back of his coat-tails
and I doubt if he could keep from turn
ing back somersaults most of his time.”
“You say the coroner was not im
pressed with these views?”
“No sir; he allowed that the man
may have been a circus actor, and have
had a hinge put on his back on purpose.
But when 1 pointed out that the man
had a row of teeth in his shinbone, an
that some of them were as big as a wal
nut, and show'ed him that for a man to
attempt to eat hit meals with his shins,
There resides near Oak Hill, in Utah, a
man by the name of William Garrett, who
has a remarkable history as one of the few
survivors of the terrible Mountain Meadow
massacre, in 1858, where nearly two bun*
dred men, women and children were slain
by the Indians and Mormons, under the
leadership of John D. Lee, who recently ex
piated his crime with his life. At that time
Garrett was a boy ten years of age, and with
his sister Malinda, then six years old, was
captured by the Indians after they had
butchered big parents, and for twenty long
years he remained a captive. During the
Indian campaign in which General Custer
was killed he was captured by United States
soldiers, and being found to be a white man
an investigation finally resulted in estab
lishing his identity. He was taken to the
home of his childhood, and at once recog
nized the place. He has an uncle living at
his old home in Henry county in Missouri.
The girl long since had become the wife of
Red Cloud, the well-known Sioux Chief
and has by him three children. She prefers
remaining with her Indian friends. When
rescued Garrett had forgotten his mother ^
savage. He remembered only his own and
fiis sister’s name, and the horrible scenes of
the massacre, which nothing could blot
from fiis memory. He visited the Mirror
office recently, and gave some interesting
incidents in connection with his twenty
years’ life among the savages. In appear
ance he is a little above the medium height,
erect and muscular, with dark hair and
beard, florid complexion, and bright, keen
blue eyes. He says the Mountain Meadow
massacre was undoubtedly planned by Brig
ham Young. He remembers visiting 8alt
Lake with the Indians and seeing the Mor
mon leader pay the savages for the scalps
of men, women and children, thus offering
them an incentive to murder those not of
the Mormon faith. Garret was adopted by
the “medicine man” of the tribe, and in
ducted into the mysteries of the treatment
of disease by the Indian method, and be
came a great Indian doctor, a fact which
he has turned to account since lfla restora
tion to civilized life. He has the reputation
of possessing great skill in the treatment of
the sick in the neighborhood where he has
married a wife, purchased a farm, and now
resides. He has sufficiently mastered the
English language to make himself under
stood, and is a man of more than ordinary
intelligence. He is devoting a portion of
his tiipe to study, with the design of pub
lishing a narrative of his life in the wilder
ness. and a work on Indian medical knowl
edge.
and his utterance last iriglit was the
first that any of the family or anybody
that knows him has heard since.”
“Do you think there is any truth in
the neighborhood report that the cler
gyman commanded hitai to stbp speak
ing in case he recovered fr6m his sick
ness in 1865?”
“No, sir; I am satisfied that part of
his history is without foundation, lor
nobody knows what passed between
the prigstand my father at that time.”
“Tfcledtfrou think he lost his speech'
in consequence of that sickness?”
“Yes. I think it was the work of
God; but that is about as far as I can.
go.” ■ '
“Then your father has only made
the tw'o exclamations you speak of
within the past fourteen years, so far
as yourself or any of your family
know?”
“Yes, sir.”
The subject of this sketch is a far
mer in moderate circumstances, and is
one of those quiet, easy-going stay-at 1
home kind of men, who seein to aspire*
to dething of a higher sphere in life.
He has an interesting family, and at
tends to his daily labors with a sound
body, hrifid and Tiearing, but either
cannot orwffl not talk. There are^.
people hying in the neighborhood who
believe Uiathe could if he would; ami
.there are others who say positively
At fifty he want* oscsUeat dinners*
and considers a nap in the afternoon
indbpensible.
The respectable old gentleman of
sixty wants to retire from business
with a snug independence of three or;
four thousand, to marry 1 is daughters,
set Up his sons, and live in the country;
and-<hen, for the rest of his life, he
wants to be young again. \
Harnessing: an Elephant.
An elephant keeper in Philadelphia,;
Pa., tried the other day to get a vener
able animal named Old Chief “to draw
a wagon. Old Chief (fidn’t object riiucfi
while the harness was being placed on
him. He merely ^linked steadily and
now and then cast a glance at his per
secutors, as though lie would say that
histjrae had come. His actfohs puz
zled his keepers not a little, and they
began to suspect that he was brewing
some mischief. At length they got
him hitched to the wagon. The gap-
ingfpectatort lookeddifwith deep inter
est. - Chief n&znifqstgdno tfign that lie
was going to move. The trainers put
their books iutohis trunk and begau to
pull on him. Chief snorted a little-and
shook his head disapprovingly: They
pulled harder. Chief snorted and
flapped his ear* like ,.tbp .£pofa pf^two
houses coming together. They ^gaye
his trunk a jerk. Chief lifted his ears
njag\irli jn yell ma£e a ^»b ftfJWifflco the captain was taking to I
ward, jerking the trunk free of tfie a boy lie had uoiigtix far $30. “
TVs child of a year old wants little
food and sleep; and no sooner is he
supplied with a sufficient supply of
either of these things, than he begins
whimpering or yelling, it may be for
the other.
At three, the young urchin becomes
enamored of sugar plums, apple pies
and confectionery.
At six, bis imagination runs on kites
marbles and top3, and abundance of
playtime.
At ten, the boy wants to leave school,
antfhave nothing to do but go bird-
nesting.
At fifteen, he wants a beard, and a
w atch and a pair of boots.
Ai twenty he wishes to cut a figure
and ride horses; sometimes his thirst
for display breaks outlu dandyism, and
soumiiffds lfl£6et¥y {^YWLnts sadly lo
be in lqve, and takes it' |or. gran ted
that all the ladies are dying for him.
The young man of twenty-five wants
a wife; and at thirty he longs to be sin
gle again. : *
From thirty to forty he.wyauts to,be
rich, and thinks m.er$ of making money
than spending it. About this ti|ne ne
dabbles 1n politics, and wants an office.*" "that be cannot talk now, or'lie / woft&
do so. because previous trf his sickness
in 1865! he was an imieseftnt talker. The,
tect, however of his making two dis
tinct ptterances, understood fully by
those who heard them, renders the case
a very remarkable ond, at'any rate.
t*m jj a s
Ir»de 11} Chlldron.
naturalist travelling ltl llrazH, tell
jabout a practice pfeevaiUagMdang the
tipper Amazon,_as follows : Atom? of
the houses we met.a trailer who had
come from the river Japura. He had
on board a boy anil-girl of the Miranha
tribe:for sale. Settor. B^ttUhia^oaght
the hep, alwightrlaqkiug. little fellow,
for flftv mifrays, qr $25: ‘rfieTutle'glpl I .
cried pitifully when separated from myself aside; and he must have over-
. 1. . .... * ... t : . • randier! himself for the knife stuck, ml
A Prairie Adventure.
Several years ago I was with, a party
.mospecting for silver higb up in "the Gila
river. We had left the Piiuos village a day’s
journey behind us, when we fell in with a
man traveling the same way we were. He
was without food, and As he was on foot
and destitute, we permitted him to ride
one of our spare mules. We found him
taciturn, never speaking unless he was
'spoken to. When we camped he would
take the saddle off his mule and go off by
himself, never helping’tq get the food ready:
and When it was ready, he would come and
pitch in with the r&t of us.
, However, though Wb did not like him or
his actions, we said qothing, thinking he
might have some secret sorrow that we had
no right to pry into.
We had travelled two days, when while
camping at noon near a stream, we all con
cluded to take a bath beneath the cotton
wood trees. We stripped and were soon
enjoying ourselves gloriously.
I had a belt around me with several twen
ties in it; and I tpok it off, tp give me free
play in the water. I laid it down on my
clothes carelessly, never thinking of hiding
it from any: of the: company, as they, all
knew I had.the-money; and I had no idea
that the stranger w’ould be tempted to take
k. As I came out of the water I noticed'
the stranger looking lovingly at the belt but
thought, no m^re ahout it.
That night fronfsqinc'cause, I could not
sleep ~Wfcll; and. when:fffell into a state of
uappnapimisruss, I was troubled with such
wild like dreams .that I would rather that I
liaid remained broad awake. At last, about
m&rflgiit,. I went to * sleep soundly. How
Jona j lay Iflonot know; but Iwasawakencd
to nnd ‘some one kneeling over me, and
vjaiy carefully cutting my shirt open.
I felt myself in anything but an enviable
situation, knowing t^at' the slightest indica
tion on my piirt that 4 was awake would
cause the .villain to gfre me, between the
ribs, the length $f his bowie or the content?
of lii^mstoh lor, although I could not see
the pistol, 1 felt sure'that he had it handy .
To'secure my pistol w ithout letting him
- Erne6t Morris, the young Amei l^aii’i^Sow tliat I was aw^Se was a very delicate
Operation.
But pistol aiwhbowie w T ere. both un
der niy saddle,* whiQh Ij used for a pillow.
I threw my right’handsover my head, and,
taking care nOtJo touA the robber, yawned
as'if .1was half awakQ, jind iu a second my
hand was on iny revolver. In an instant
he struck at me With lift knife, but I could
botEeach the pistol. *-
By a "splicE involuntary movement, I
Second Explosion.
They were in the back yard. One
was a boy of twelve, and the other had
seen only half as many years. The
younger ope sat on a barrel, and the
older one had two ounces of powder in
one hand and a turning stick in the
other.
“I don’t waut to beblowed,” W’hined
the boy on the barrel trying to get
down.
“Keep right still, bub, commanded
the other. This thing has been figured
right to a science. If forty-five thou
sand pound ol explosives raised Hell
Gate twelve feet, two ounces of powder
will raise you jnst exactly the fiftieth
part ol an inch. Don’t make an alarm
ist of yourself.”
“But it’ll hurt,” persisted the small
boy.
“It can’t, I say! Haven’t I figured on
it? You may unbutton your coat, and
keep your mouth shut, but that’s safe
guard enough. Now, ther, keep quiet
and listen for rumbling noises.
The pow'der was w’ell confined under
tbp barrel. Figures were at fault. The
head of the barrel went up, the small
boy w r ent up, the big boy went end-
w r ays, and when the smoke cleared
away things were badly mixed up.
The big boy had sore legs. The little
boy was as black as a coal and choking
with the odor, and a w'oraan ran out
and shouted, ‘I’ll blow—you good-for-
nothings \ There’s a shilling barrel all
split to pieces, two pair of pants to be
patched, one coat-tail on the roof, and
the other just hanging, and the poor
dog is wedged under the house so
tight that he will have to be drilled out
bv a machinist.”
hook and projecting it out before him
like a bayonet, tearing through the
yard with the wagon at his heels,
scattering the affrighted spectators in
every direction. He went tearing di
agonally across the long yard, taking
in a pile of tent-poles in his course and
making straight for the gap in the low-
*er corner of the enclosure. As he
dragged the wagon over the pile of
timber a party of half a dozen, who
had retreated there for safety, ran for
their lives. One man tried to jump a
six foot wall and fell back to the ground
white as a sheet. When he looked up
he saw the wagon, a complete wreck,
not ten feet from him, and Old Chief,
with the broken harness clinging to
his body, standing wedged in between
the corner of the wall and the corner
of the stable. He had knocked out the
whole corner of the stable, scattering
forty or fifty bricks over the ground at
his feet. After a good deal of trouble
his keepers succeeded in backing him
out of his tight position and he was
sent back to the stable, still snorting
and defiant. No moderate estimate
cover the amount of punishment Chief
will have to receive before he is reduced
to subjection.”
Speaking JHardly Ever.
her brother. The tAde liv children is
spoken of by Bates, who whg at 'Jtefife
twenty-five yqaTg ago;it'is prohibited
by the government^bat^openly carried
on. The Miranhas are the most powei^
iul tribe on the jipurd'; fh'ey are a
warlike nation, who for a knife or
Ion of rum, sell captured''children.
Numerous raids ^use qiade by them upon
their weaker neighbors; and men and
women are kflTed atid £he CfMdYfen sold
into slavery. At Teffe*'tbere 18 not a
house in whhfli you will not find chiUl-
'ren of all ages, as you also'will at Mati-
aos. On my tetnfn on the-stdamer Ru
Para
The-
reason for this,” said Senor Batalbia,
is very simple—we must have servants
and they make good ones; besides they
are not Brazilians—they are Indians of
New Grenada.” This trade in children
is carried on more extensively every
year, and is a disgrace to the govern
ment.
reached himself for the knife stuck into the
paddle and so tight that he could not pull it
out.
In trying to get my pistol, my hand
touchc^the cold silver handle of my bowie.
Ins£tncttvcty l took hold of it, abandoning
the pistol, and was about nerving my hand
for tjie blqjv whei^Lfelt the cold muzzle of
a pisioT againkf my forehead. I struck out
—Trade prospects in Paterson, N.'J.,
are very flattering. It is estimated
that in 30 of the large mills from 8000
to 10,000 hands are employed.
—The last descendant of John Bun-
yan died lately in England. She was
an ancient dame of 84, and her name
was Ann Webster.
—The newest ornament for a bonnet
it a shell of silver, with a pearl resting
in it and a bearded fringe of fine silver
beads hanging from the shell.
In 1865, an old gentleman living
about three miles east of Nelson Fur
nace, Kentucky, named Lloyd Wimsatt,
was taken violently ill with a disease
that kept him in confinement for many
weeks, and at one time his family and
friends as well as his attending physi
ciansv age him up. Being under the
impression that the next hour w'ould
be his last, yet at the same time pos
sessing his faculties and with full power
of speech, Mr. Wimsatt requested that
the priest then officiating at the church
at New Haven, Ky., be sent for, and
the minister was early at the bedside.
The room was at once vacated by the
family, and for some time the patient
and the representative of the church
were alone. What happened then and
there remains a mystery, as the patient
recovered, and in a short time was up
and about; but ever since then, save
upon two occasions, he has not uttered
a word. Yesterday an Enquirer report
er heard that Mr. Wimsatt had spoken
to his son, and in order to be satisfied
that he had, interrogated Stephen
Wimsatt, aged about 19, upon the sub
ject, the result of which was as fol
lows ;
“They tell me that your father spoke
to you last night. Is it so?”
“Yes, sir; he raised up in his bed and
said: ‘Oh, Stephen ’ My mother heard
it and we all got up and tried to get
him to talk more; but he seemed to be
entirely speechless, as heretofore.”
“Do you know what caused him to
lose hi« speech?”
“Sickness, I think. He can hear and
answer by signs. He will not notice
a stranger, however ?”
“When did he speak 4ast before
this?”
“About three years ago. 1 cut down
a tree and it commenced falling before
1 noticed it, add he halloed to me say
ing, ‘Look out, Stephen,’ so I did look
out, otherwise I would have been
killed.”
“What did he do after that exclama
tion?”
“He then began making signs again,
The Pine-Apple.
This noble fruit is a native of Brazil and
Mexico, and has been introduced into all
tropical and semi-tropical countries on the
globe. It is not so delicate a plant as many
people suppose, as it will bear a higher de
gree of heat and a degree of cold which
would destroy the foliage of the vine and
peach in a state of vegetation. It flourishes
unprotected in the open ground near Na
ples, in Italy, which is about 40 degrees
north latitude, or very nearly the same as
the latitude of New Y'ork city. It is growm
extensively in the Bermudas, which are in
latitude 32 degrees, or about the same as
Charleston, and in Florida the islands and
keys, as well as the peninsula, as far north
as the 49th parallel, are peculiarly fitted for
its successful cultivation without protection
from frost. Above the 29th degree the
plant would require protection in winter,
but not more than the New Y r ork state
people are required to give their grape-vines
and other tender fruits. And how many,
pray tell us, in the northern states do with
out the luscious grapes because it requires a
little time and trouble to protect them from
frost during the winter. Every garden in
northern Frorida should have its bed of
pine-apples. A plot of ground fifteen feet
square will be sufficient to cultivate 100
plants, which may be set in rows two feet
apart and one foot apart in the row. On
the approach of winter this bed or plot may
be inclosed with boards two feet high, some
strips of lunjber or poles laid on top, and
the whole covered with straw, palmetto,
pine tops, weeds or anything else that comes
handy, till danger of frost is over. The
soil should be rich in plant-food and the
cultivation thorough, to insure fine pines
with good flavor. The best varieties are
sugar-loaf and white Providence. These
are the yellow and white fruited, and about
as hardy and fine-flavored fruit as any now
known.
Too Smart for Him.
Wjudly; and* as I difl-so, there was a stun
ning report of liis pistol.
llow I escaped I do not know. My face
was blackened with the powder and my
■whiskers burned off;. but this was all the
damage jfoqe me. My blow, though struck
a^ranefcm, proved a severe one. My knife
had gone into tW left side of liis neck, in
side the collar-lione.
The knife must hav./ reached his heart;
Tortus i -drevrdt-otft strike again, he fell
on me with his whole weight, and his blood
spurted all over my face. He gave one
quiver, and stretched out his whole length,
and lay perfectly still, stone dead.
The whole transaction did not, take over
three-quarters of a minute. The report of
the pistol had aroused the company; every
man sprang to his arms. Some were look-
for mules, while others were asking
who fired the shot, and where the Indians
were. I called to the boys to take the dead
man off me; for I was as weak as a child.
A couple of them did as I requested, while
others threw fresh sage brush ou the fire,
and w r e soon had plenty of light to see what
had happened.
I told the boys all about what had oc
curred. IV e found all the mules in their
places but mine which was staked off about
twenty yards from camp, with the saddle
and bridle of one of the other boys on her.
I went to the river and cleansed myself
from his blood, and then sat down by the
camp-fire, where I remained until morning,
being unable to sleep.
Don’t Pull the Bell Cord.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Homer Rose takes pride in the fact that
Poughkeepsie is the place of his nativity.
He is a young man, natty in dress, and of
fluent speech. Rose boasts of once having
being been a law student, and delights in
telling that his uncle is a country magis
trate.
“You are charged,” said his Honor,
“with violating a city ordinance in pedd
ling without license.”
“We plead not gnilty, and demand ar
examination,” responded Rose.
The officer testified that he saw the pri
soners enter different houses; asked them
what they were doing; Rose said he was
peddling powders, and Wimpelbergh
claimed to be sellingsoap; neither had a
“Did I say I was selling powder or only
distributing it?” asked Rose.
“They told me in a bake shop that you
were selling.”
“That is no evidence. Judge, I told
him I was distributing samples of worm
powder and afterwards collected testimo
nials of its efficacy upon which orders from
drugguists are secured. We give it away
wherever it is needed for this purpose,
The manufactory is at 61 Fulton street.”
“Very likely,” drily remarked his
Honor. “Of course you don’t sell the
powder—give it away in every house you
visit. I have my opinion on the question,
but as there is no testimony to support the
officer’s charge I must discharge you. Of
ficer, he has the best of you this time—a
little too sharp for you.”
The prisoner left the court room chuck-
On the Old Colony Road during the time
when the steaml>oat express train left Boston
for Fall River at 5.30 p. m., a train bound
for Plymouth, from Boston, rolled into the
depot at South Braintree about 6 o’clock, on
time and all right. Due about the same
time, but on this occasion a few minutes
late, the train from Cape Cod, bound for
Boston, rolled in on the other side of the
same depot. The two trains usually waited
for an interchange of mails and passengers,
the operation being performed in a very
short time. It was Saturday night, and, as
has been said, the Cape train was just a lit
tle late. The steamboat express was within
a minute or two of being due, but always
came on time. The Plymouth train stood
upon the roadway over which the express
w’ould have to pass, and the latter made no
stop, nor even slackened speed. Immedi
ately after leaving the depot the Plymouth
train would branch off to the left and take
another track, leaving all clear for the ex
press to go down the same road over which
the Cape train had just come. The conduc
tor of the Plymouth tram gave the signal to
lift engineer when he knew he ought
no longer to stand there, although he
had ample time to get his train dear in
season. The train was eleven cars, or
something over 500 feet long. It started,
and had cleared half its length upon its own
track when the bell-cord was jerked, and
the train was stopped as speedily as possi
ble. Fully one-half the cars were now di
rectly in the track of the coming express,
which would not be able to see them until
close upon them, and the express was due
in a few seconds. The conductor had not
pulled the cord: he did not know who had.
He was fully impressed with the importance
of the situation ; but wliat should he do ?
For all he knew in the darkness half-a-doz
en women or children were under the
wheels of liis train, or some of his rear cars
were off the track. If he should undertake
to go through the train, long before he could
reach the rear the express would be down
upon them. He jumped upon the depot
platform and called aloud to know who had
stopped.his train. “I did,” replied a gen
tlemanly season-ticket holder, who stood
upon £he car platform. “IV hat s the mat
ter?” The lives of all on board two trains
had been put in peril that a negro girl who
had arrived on the Cape train and wished to
take the Plymouth might be gratified. She
had become bewildered in the darkness, and
was wandering around in that way when
the tram started. In a second of time the
train was again in motion, and cleared the
track, as the headlight of the express appear
ed rounding the curve, and rushed past into
the darkness, its passengers all unconscious
of the danger which had been so near them.
—The American Consul at Florence
informs Mr. Evarts that American
manufacturers could successfully fur
nish steel wheels for the Italian rail
ways.
—Gardner Colby, of Boston, has pre
sented acaseof valuable books to Colby
University, Wateryille, Me.
—The great fire of London occnrred
September 2,166G. It destroyed nearly
the w hole city.
—The Mansion House (Londox») Hun
garian floods relief fund amounts to
$40,000
- -Mrs. John G. Northrop., of Bur
lington, Vt., has just given birth to her
seventeenth chjld.
—Gad’s Hill Place, the late residence
of Charles Dickens, is to be sold by
auction.
The State quarries of Northampton
county, Pa., have nearly all resumed
operation.
—It is proposed to celebrate, at Pom
peii, this summer, the 1300th anniver
sary of the destruction *of that city by
an eruption of Vesuvius.
—Only three murderers have been
hanged in Connectieut. during the last
twenty years, but there are now three
under sentence of death.
• —Bobie is a town in California. Six
mouths ago it bad 500 or 600 buildings
ind a population of 1400. Now it has
■tome 4000 buildings and a population
M 7000
During February, 14 vessels of a
otal of 18,20ft tons were launched on
cfle Clyde, Scotland. Of these six were
ocean steamers, ranging from 3000 to
3000 tons.
—A -large number of heavy, broad-
rired wheels were made in West Ches
ter and shipped to England, whence
chey will be sent to Southean Africa,
where they wili be used for heavy haul
ing.
—Ex-Sheri flTIogencamp.of Paterson,
New Jersey, who died recently
ieft exactly one hundred descendants
—children, grandchildren, great-grand-
clrildren and greHt-fgreat-grandchildren
nearly ail of whom were at the funeral.
—The rays of the sun, shining
through a stereoscope, set fire to a
cable in the house of George W. West
in Chichester, N. H., a lew days ago,
uid the building narrowly escaped
burning. •‘C.
—The amount of logs eat on the west
hrauch oft he Penobscot river, in Maine,
during the winter, is estimated at 25,-
000,000 feet, on the East?branch, 12,000,-
000, and on the Mattawamkeag, 20,000,-
000 feet.
warm ot bees took possession of
tiie chimney of a Middletield (Conn.)
Methodftt Church during the summer,
and when a fire was kindled in the
-'tove on a recent -Sunday the floor ol
the churea basement literally flowed
with honey.
—The foundation for a Jesuit Col
lege to cost $50(^fl00 has been begun iu
.San Francisco. i$ wilL comprise a col
lege, with all.the requirements of mod
em etfucatlofi, such as laboratories,
libraries, studies and rooms for the stu
dents and professors, a church and a
theatre capable of seating 5000 persons.
—Cyrus Degler, of Marion township,
Berks eounty. Pa., awoke on the morn
ing of his wedding to find the snow
drifted «o u. distance of ecvoral
hundred- yards ^lat hia-slolgh could UOt
be driven through it. He shovelled
out a roadway in two hours, and was at
the bride’s house at the appointed hour.
—The Annual report of the Massa
chusetts Bank Cominissiouers has just
oeen published. From it it appears
that the total deposits in the savings
banks doing business in that State ou
October 31, 1378, were $200,860,631.18,
being a decrease for the year of $34.-
735,033. This decrease includes $7,263,-
-00.62 in the banks iu the hands of re
ceivers.
—Thomas Millerchip, a surgeon at
Coventry, England, has been sentenced
by Lord Loieridge to four months’ im
prisonment, with hard labor, for failing
to attend a sick child in the district ol
which he was medical ofiicar. The
charge against him was that of man
slaughter by culpable negligence, and
tbe jury found him guilty, and strong
ly recommended him to merer.
—The first Marquis of France has
just died, the Count of Maillv, Prince
of Lisle and Marquis of Nesle. He
was the son of Marshal de Maillv, who
so heroically defended Louis XVI, on
the 10th of August, and great-grandson
of Louis de Mailly, Prince of Orange
and Commandant of the Gendarmerie
of France. The title is as old as the
eleventh century.
—When Queen Victoria sailed on the
royal yacht for France it was on one of
Lite stormiest and most disagreeable
Saturdays of the whole year. A writer
in a London paper, commentingon this
shows that Saturday is an unlucky day
for the royal house. William HI.,
Queen Anne., the four Georges, the
Duchess of Kent, the Prince Consort
and the Princess Alice all died ou a
Saturday.
—The Calilornia Woodpecker’s hab
it of dropping acorns and other nuts
into knot holes and hollow trees, as a
source ot future supply, is well known,
and an ingenious Napa farmer has
turned it into good account by knock
ing out a knot in.the side of his barn
and placing a trough underneath. As
the birds drop their acorus in his hogs
seize them, and are thus fattened at no
expense tp himself.
—There are twenty-five Mennonite
villages in Manitoba," with 480 dwe^
Lings and *2341 residents. The immi
grants from Russia have 18,740 acres
under cultivation, 3G2 horses and some
2500 cows and oxen, and have already
large stores of grain and other firoduee.
They are growing rich rapidly and
prove the very best of citizens, settling
ill their dispu’es among themselves
aud having in their colony neither a
constable nor a lock-up
—The present year is a memorable
one iu the development of the Russian
navy. Oue hundred torpedo boats and
numerous cruisers have been construct
ed- Three clipper steamers have been
launched, four steamers have been
bought in America, and two ironclads
.ire on the point of completion. Sever
al ironclads also have been lately launch
ed, but have not received their arma
ments. To these four cruisers have
been added by private subscription.
Salici/Ue acid i3 now extensively used
on the continent ot Europe by brewers,
who introduce it into their beers to
prevent secondary fermentation, a pre-
cess which has long been recognized as
injurious to the quality of the beverage.
The acid, if employed in the proper
proportions, checks the fermentation
without destroying any of the ordina
ry constituents of the beer, and appar
ently without affecting it so as to oc
casion any harmful results tp the con
sumer. It is too soon, however, to be
certain that this use of Salicylic acid is
not deleterious to health, although such
observations as has thus far been made
on the subject tend to that conclusion.
The anti-iernaenting properties of the
acid were discovered about four years
ago by Professor Kolbe, of Leipsic.
