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Ik* pmn.iamm EVKHT THURSDAY MOBHETO. WM. BEADFOED, Editor. TIB MS or aOBSCBIPTIOH: 1 copy one jw - - - - "/S U “ one year ----- 10 - u0 TEEMS—Cash In Advance. Address, ADVERTISER PUBLISHING CO., Csoastowk, Ga. Cedartown Advertiser. OLD SERIES—VOL. VI. NO. 23. CEDARTOWN, GA., AUGUST 21, 1879. NEW SERIES—VOL. I. NO. 36. Site Advertiser. ADTESTIS1NO RATES. 3 inched.... WC 1UIOQ-. Hcounn.. 3 = 0 ft Uu| Id Ot 7 AOjSb W OU{40 O 1 LIFE IS TOO SHORT. Life is too short to waste In QQiTailing tears. Too short to spend in bootless grief. In coward doubt* and fears. Too short to g ve it np To pleasure ; or to sow One hour in guilt, to yield at last Eterni y of woe. Time lass not on its way. Bat spans our days in haste ; If life should last s thousand years ’Tweie still too ehort to waste. For. abort lived as we are. Cur pleasures yet. we see. Vanish too soon, they live, indeed. E'en shorter da .e than we. Bat ever with as here Bides sorrow, pain and care ; The shortest life is long enough Its Totted grief to boar. To the old the end is nigh ; To the young far off it seems ; Yet neither should dare to toy with life Or ua te it iu idle dreams. For by each Time’s servant waits. Though not for servant’s wage ; And the same wjrm nibbles the bud of youth That gnaweth the root of age. Live, therefore, as he lives Wt-0 earns his share of bliss ; Strive for the prize that Virtue wins. Life's not too short for this. Phantom Lovers. Before I begin my story I must tell you I am a commercial traveler, bom and bred, go to speak, to the business. I have ray wits about me, aiad, as I often happen to have a good many valuable arti cles also, I have need of them. I am an Englishman—English to the back-lx)ne—and live on roast beef, bottied ale and old port wine. If you could feet my anus, and look at my cheeks, and measure me across the shoulders, you would have no doubt that I am one of the men who does not dream and don’t fancy. When ! see a thing I see it. When I hear a thing I hear it. And what I saw and what I heard on one particular occasion I mean to tell you. You will not offend me at all if you doubt it. I should doubt it myself if any one had told it to me. I cannot expect of-any one the credence that I would not give myself. Neverthe less 1 shall, as I said, tell the story. It was in the year 18—, and the month was May, and the place was England. I had left London live days before, and now 1 was miles and miles away from it, in the very heart of the country, traveling to ward a little town where 1 had business. It was an* old fashioned place, and the people were kind and obliging. You do not look for such qualities on the road now-a-days, if you are a traveler of experience ; but here they came upon me at the inn I stopped in a way to make me think better of human nature. Travelers did not stop often at that inn, I suspect, for they were as particular about my meals as though I had been a prodical son come for the holidays. They killed the fatted chicken for me, and to crown all, as the train did not stop to take me on as I wanted to go, and as it was only a matter of five miles or so, what did the landlord do but hunt up a rusty old coach that was tucked away in the coach house, and order his man to drive me over that evening. It wasn’t an extra mind you. It vas sheer good will. So 1 shook hands all round, and I * re membered the chambermaid and the waiter with half a crown each, and off I rode—the old coach creaking, and the old horse wheez ing, and the old driver coughing up on the box, and it was like a bit out of an old story, with an adventure in the middle of it. It was getting dark fast, and the road wound away among the hill in a very ro mantic sort of way. I do not know much about art myself, but I think if that painter with the white umbrella that used to sit about in the mud making pictures could have seen some of those points, he would have touched them np with pleasure. When the sun went down and the moon came up wliite and bright, and up against it on the rocks you could see all the deli cate, trembling little weeds and grasses, and there were big, black shadows under the trees, and glimpses of you did not know what under the bushes. Why, it made you think of ghosts, if you were a commercial traveler. “Here’s the place,” says I to myself “where the gentlemen of the road would have liked to meet me and my black bag fifty years ago.” A pretty joke it would have been to have handed my valuables over and danced a jig for their amusement besides fifty years ago. A hundred years ago, anyhow, I shouldn’t have felt so safe as I do now. Just then the coach came to a sudden pause. “Hallo!” cried I out of the window, “what’s the matter ?” “It’s more than I can tell, sir,” said the man. “Black Jane has turned sulky. She won’t move a step.” “With that he began t') shout and crack his whip, I, with my head out of the win dow, watching him, and suddenly the beast started off like mad, and I drew in my face and saw I had company. While the coach was at a stand still, a lady and gentleman had slipped in. They sat on the seat opposite me; and though it was an intrusion, I had not the heart to find fault, for a prettier pair I never saw in my life. If he was twenty-one, it was as much as he could be, and she was not seventeen. I have seen a pair of china lovers on the mantel-piece, the perfect image of what they were, and they were as pretty and dressed much the same. His hair was powdered, and hers too. She had on a yellow silk, lower in the neck than a would like a daughter of mine. of the coach, I pray you, and tell me If he is gaining on us. ” I looked out of the window. “There’s a man on horseback riding up the road,” said I, for I saw one. “Oli, heaven!” said she. “Courage, Betty,” said the young fellow. “They shall never part us.” Then I knew it was a runaway match. “I see how it is,” said I. “Keep up your heart, young man. If the young lady likes you she’ll stick to you through thick and thin. I’ll do my best to help you.” ‘Oh, heaven!” she cried again. “Oh, my darling, I hear the horses’ feet There are more of them. Oh, sir, look; tell me!” I looked through the little back window. The road seemed full of men. I hadn’t the heart to tell her. “Closer to my heart, Betty,” cried the young man. “My beloved, they come.” He drew his sword. Among other odd things, he wore a sword. I pulled my pistol from my pocket. We all stretched our hands forward, and at that moment the coach turned a rocky point of the road, and I saw we were on the margin of a precipice. All this time Black Jane kept up her furious speed, and I saw we were in danger. “Have a care 1” I cried. “Faster!” screamed the young man. Suddenly there came a jolt, and a scream from the lady. I heard him say : “At least we die together.” And the coach lay fiat on its side—not over the precipice, but on the edge of it. A man is a little stunned by a thing like that. When I’d climbed out of the window, and helped old Anthony up with the coach, and coaxed Black Jane to quietness, I re membered that no one else had got out of the vehicle, and I looked about in vain for my pretty lovers. They were not there, nor were there any signs of the troop of horsemen I had seen dashing up the hill. They could not have passed us in that narrow path by any possibility. “We ran a chance for our live«, master,’ said Anthony. “Yet I’m called a good driver, and Black Jane is the kindest thing I ever saw in harness generally. Thank God for all His mercies. It’s a strange thing we’re not over the cliff. “But where did they go ?” I asked. “"Who?” said Anthony. “The two lovers—the pretty creatures in fancy dress. The people who were after them, where are they ?” “Where are—” began old Athony. Then he turned as pale as death. “All good angels over us!” he cried. “We’ve ridden with Lady Betty. It’s the tenth of May. I might have known better than to try the road to-night. Protect all! Yes, yes, we’ve ridden with Lady Betty.” “Who is Lady Betty ?” said I. “As pretty a creature as ever I saw at all events. Who is she ?” Old Anthony stood looking at me and shaking his head. “It’s an old story,” he said. “Book- larned folks tell it better than I. But a hundred years ago and more, on this blessed night, my Lady Betty Hope, the prettiest lady of her day, ran off from a county ball with her father’s young secretary. ‘They put one cloak over their heads, and an old servant drove them, knowing it worm nia lire. But before they had gone far, behind them came her kinsfolk, armed and ready for vengeance. And when they reached this point, tlisy saw that all was over. •Better die together than live apart, ’ he said, holding her dose. Then he called out to the servant, ‘How goes it ?’ ‘All lost, sir,’ says the man. ‘The horses can’t hold up five minutes longer.’ ‘ ‘Then drive over,’ says he. ‘The man obeyed orders. ‘Tha angry kinsfolk could only stand on the cliff and look over at the dreadful sight that lay below, when they reached the top. “But ever since that night, sir, as sure as the tenth of May comes around, there’s plenty here will tell you that whoever drives a coach past this bit of road after nightfall, won’t ride alone. “There’s noliody that remembered the night would do it for a kingdom, but I for got. I’m getting old, and I forget things whiles; and so we’ve ridden with Lady Betty.” That’s the story old Anthony told me, and what went before is what I saw and heard. I’m a solid, sensible man, but facts are facts, and here you have ’em. •‘.Sa-lutinic tlie Bride.” There-was a marriage at the upper end of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Road the other day. A great big chap, almost able to throw a car-load of lumber off the track, fell in love with a widow who was cooking for the hands in a sawmill, and after a weeks’ acquaintance they were married. The boys around th e mill lent William three calico shirts, a dress-coat and a pair of white pants, and chipped in a purse of about $20, and the couple started for Detroit on a bri dal tour within an hour after being married. “This ’ere lady,” explained William, as the conductor came along for tickets, “are my bride. Just spliced fifty-six minits ago. Cost $2, but dum the cost! She’s a lily of the valley, Mary is, and I’m the rignt-bower in a new pack of keerds. Conductor, sa lute the bride!” The man hesitated. The widow had freckles and wrinkles and a turn-up nose, and kissing the bride was no gratification. “Conductor, sa-lute the bride or lookout for tornadoes!” continued William as he rose up and shed his coat. The conductor sa-luted. It was the best thing he could do just then. “I never did try to put on style before,” muttered William, “but I’m bound to see this thing through if I have to fight all Michigan. These ’ere passengers has got to come up to the chalk, they has.” . The car was full. William walked down the aisle, waved his hand to command at tention, and said: “I’ve just been married; over thar’ sots the bride. Anybody who wants to sa-lute the bride kin now do so. Anybody who don’t want to, will hev cause to believe that a tree fell on him!” One by one the men walked up and kiss ed the widow, until only one was left. He was asleep. William reached over and lifted him into sitting position at one move ment and commanded: “At’ ye goin’ to dust over thar’ and kiss the bride?” 4 ‘Blast your bride, and you, too! ’* growled the passenger. William drew him over the back of the seat, laid him down in the aisle, tied his legs in a knot and was making a bundle of him just of a size to go through the win dow, when the man caved and went over and sa-luted. “Now, then,” said William, as he put on his coat, “this bridle tower will be re sumed as usual, and if Mary and me squeeze hands or git to laying heads on each other’9 shoulders I shall demand to know who laffed about it, and I’ll make him e-magine that I’m a hull boom full of the biggest kind of sawlogs, an’ more cornin' down on the rise. Now, Mary, hitch along an’ let me git my arm around ye!” Circumstantial Evidence. A young lady—I forget the name, but we will supply fictitiously—Mary Adams, as missed from her home. Her disap pearance caused intense exitement, and that excitement ran wild when it was at length announced that she had been murdered. Her body had been found on the shore of a tributary of the Hudson River, with bruises upon her head, which gave ample evidence that her death had been a violent one. Such bruises might have been gained by falling upon the rocks above the spot where the remains were found, but there were other circumstances that pointed in another and more ghastly direction. A young man named William Claypole was arresteu uiiucr accusation of ti»« u.m- der of Mary Adams. A preliminary ex amination before a Justice afforded suffi cient evidence to bind him over to appear before a jury. Claypo e had waited upon Miss Adams for a year or more, and during the two or three months last past their in tercourse had not been of the happiest kind. She was proved to have been gay and laughter-loving, with a light, volatile dis position, a heart warm and impulsive, and impatient of restraint. Claypole, it ap peared, had been exceedingly jealous and exacting, prone to fault-finding, and ready to make his affianced miserable and fearful if she dared to look smilingly upon another man. It was proved by several witnesses that Claypole had threatened Miss Adams with terrible vengeance if he ever caught her do ing certain trifling things again; and a man of the town—a man respectable and relia ble—had seen the twain together in angry the jailor aud demanded to see the prisoner ' who had been accused of her murder. An Elephant Hunt In Sumatra. rens was still clinging, who, violently sha ken by this shook and by fear had nearly The jailor came nigh to fainting with! I had often, in my childhood, heard Su- 1 followed the colossus in his fall, superstitious terror; but by and by the ap- matra spokep off, and had for a longtime j Several elephants were extended lifeless plicant succeeded in convincing him that! experienced a desire to visit an island which j on the ground; some were staggering like she was a thing of flesh and blood, like i promise so many mountains and marvels toj houses about to fall and could only stand other women, and he admitted her to the my imagination. | by leaning against those who had not yet prison. We need not describe the scene'*' So, when I landed on the southwest coast been struck and who supported them m a that followed the meeting of the lovers. Injof the island, I was enamored with the fiaternal manner. There a as something In due time,: beauty of the climate, that I had not cou- some respects it was secred. the custodians of judical power and autho- rage to find it too warm. And yet my ther- rity came to the prison, where they listened^moraeter marked in the shade thirty-seven to a new revelation. centy-grade degrees. We were in June, Mary Adams was not dead at all! The 1848, precisely at the period when it was story which her lover had told was true, warm also in the streets of Paris. I may On the night of the quarrel, fearing that he be permitted to prefer the fires of Bengal might do some rash thing, and really desi- to those of cannon. Not that Sumatra has rous, for the time, of getting out of his way, 1 never enjoyed revolutions; this beautiful and beyond his knowledge, she returned country, like so many others, has had her secretly to her home, where she made up a : own, but they are not the principal merit small bundle of necessary clothing, and of this island, neither does this lie in its then, unknown to any one, she crept away, productions, which rival those of the tro- and before morning was beyond the possi-}pics; it is, dare I avow it, almost entirely bility of reach or recognition. in its elephants, its most ancient as well as Having found a new home in a far-away, : its most legitimate sovereigns. Their mountainous region, she nad not seen any strength is disputed by no one, and their newspaper until she had been several week^d“eds, if not words, are in every mouth, in her new home. She read the account In order to judge of them, one must see of her own death, and the arrest of her old them on their own territory, through the lover for her murder with * astonishment, large trees of the forest, and in the free and now she had come to set matters right, exercise of their powers, I soon had an As fortune would have it, on the very upportunity of observing in an exciting day of Bliss Adam’s return an officer from hunt in the company with the Marquis and an insane asylum appeared in search of an Marchioness de Fienne, amiable Parisians, escaped patient, whom, after weeks of la- [ whom affairs of interest had brought to bor, he had succeeded in tracing in that di-1 Sumatra. There was a third person, a rection He saw the garments which had j French Jew, a banker of profession, Mr. been taken from the body of the dead wo- Isaac du Laurens, a friend of the marquis, man, and recognized them at once as liav- A great lover of hunting, a still more intre ing belonged to his patient. The initials, “M. A.,” which had been supposed to stand for Mary Adams, were really meant to represent ‘‘Mortonborough Asylum.” The officer saw Miss Adams, and declared that if he had met her on the highway or in a crowded public conveyance pid boaster, there was no trophy of this kind to which he could not offer you a counterpart. Such were the members of our expedition. We were joined by some na tive chiefs as guides, and a great number of Indians, laden with munition and arms, or leading packs of dogs impatient to enter he should certainly have arrested her. j upon the campaign. The rendezvous was Her resemblance to the patient he had fixed beyond a great lake which separated sought was wonderful. ! us from the forest, where, according to the And so the truth was known at last. By j Indians, the elephants were in the habit of a fortunate revolution of the wheel light j coming their for their sports. Arrived on came to Mary Adams, and her reappear-1 the opposite shore of the lake, we left our ance upon the scene came with saving \prahoua (a species of pirogues), and re- power to William Claypole. ! paired to the Spot where, according to the The lovers went away from the prison j latest advices, we were to find the eleph- together, and certainly we have just ground i ants. We advanced resolutely, M. de for the belief that the ordeal through w'hich j Fienne, the marchioness and myself, having they had passed had been sufficient in its I besides us the native chiefs, and M. du terrible experience to lead and sustain them in the only safe and peaceful way in life— the way of trustful love and wise forbear ance. Robinnoo Cruitoe. Laurens—behind us. Very soon the sight of giant tracks corn- very affecting in the scene. But it was less than that of which we were witnesses an instant after. A young elephant, grie vously wounded, maintained his equilibrum with difficulty, and with the aid of his mother who was watching over him; at last he fell on the ground before the con tinual fire of the huuters; the poor mother did not desert her post; she uttered howls of anguish and fury, and tried to protect the corpse of her child; but she soon paid for maternal devotion with her life. The marchioness, whom this picture moved to tears, wished to obtain the life of this noble animal; she even solicited it earnestly, but it would have been dangerous to have granted it, and the tiring continued. There were no more enemies on the battle-field; only corpses strewed the ground in eveiy direction. The air echoed with a joyous merriment, and each began to relate his ex ploits. The hunters celebrated the victory most noisily were, as usual, those who had not dared to take part in it.' There are men who, in times of peril and emergency think they afford much aid by expending their action in words and cries. Such was the dear and deafening Du Laurens. He had descended from the tree only after the danger was passed, and, by own account, it was he who had killed the most ele phants. “What there is prodigious about it,” said Mme. de Fienne, ‘4s that you have ac complished these fine exploits without burning any tinder. But perhaps you used the sonorous instrument with which the soldiers of Joshua made the walls ef Jeri cho fall. In this case, worthy son walls of Israels, I will no longer be astonished at the sound of your trumpet. ” During this time the Indians were des poiling the elephants of their enormous jaws, and preparing to carry them home as a rememberance of this glorious day. Thus ended this famous elephant hunt, a scene of excitement and some danger. away look out of his window. Then he would draw a huge bowie-knife from his coat pocket, and, after strapping it upon his boot, he would run his thumb along the A Boy’s Adventure. municated the first emotion to the beaters the effect was electric; M. du Laurens turned pale. Each took his post behind an . . . ,,. . ..... am-bush of canes which had been raised his kite and his pet pigeon with the dangn against the stags. The corner which we Little John Green, of Louisville, Ky., having heard how once upon a time Benja min Franklin experimented with a kite, re solved to do something in that line himself. His idea was to test the relative strength of of basing some grand invention upon the result. So he took kite and pigeon and wended his way to the nearest common several days ago. He ran the kite up to the limit of 200 yards of cord, the wind blowing a stiff breeze fioin the north west the while. Then taking the pigeon from his basket he tied the bird by the leg to the end of the kite string which he had held in his hand. The pigeon, feeling half was directly tween which he worked upon his pale, he mentions, a few pages further on, and in connection with his sad lack of tools, that, “It was near a whole year before 1 had finished my little pale or surrounded habit ation.” Here it is plain enough to anyone not willfully blind that it was the habita tion as a whole, not that part of it only comprehended in the pale, that required near a whole year to finish. Umbrage is taken at the “still more curious slip,” which “ occurs when he speaks of taking fish, for he says that he had a long line of ropeyarn, but no books; yet in the same sentence he states that he frequently caught fish enough, without in the least indicating how he did it.” The critic suggests on his own account: “Defoe probably meant to . describe some contrivance, but could not discussion on the very night of the disap-1 0 f anything at the moments and for- pearance. | got to supply the deficiency.” We have He had been on his way home on foot, j nQ ^ our “Cmgoe ” by us as we write, but and walking leisurely along, by the nver s our remembrance of this passage is that it A writer in the Saturday Review, points out some lapses of memory in the j occupied was not less than two or three writer of Robinson Crusoe. He says2! feet wide; so all the huuters could, tnanks Crusoe mentions that he had brought from |*to the underwood, hide there comfortably, the wreck pens, ink and paper, “yet in the They inspected their guns and carbines; next paragraph he audaciously makes this! the hunting knife, the klcwang and the statement: * I now found I wanted many ! lances gleamed. All was the most lively things, notwithstanding all that I had j anxiety. amassed together, and of these things ink Already the Arrzos were sent to give the nieeon was one. In his diary-he states with much ! tn ollr , lnf i their nacks of do^s • i neia ms na , , 1 ue evannena. that hia nal« nr inf Insure in ; , l ° ° U , r a | US , an( l l ^Cir paCKS OI UOgs, f fl ew towan j home, which was directly fixrat oMi^cave^was^be^un on^anuarr 3d' ^ ^ against the wind. The resistance of the l 1 f howls, uS ! «“■? upward, and, ceding 31st day of October ho tells about j from the /enter of the forest and froze us shooting the mother geat, and>dds: ‘When; with ter ror. j t seemed to me as if a hum- UtG 10 ^ bl ° the ai . I earned the old one upon my shoulders 1 bad passed through the foliage. There the kid followed me quite to my enclosure, j waa n0 room for doubt, a herd of elephants upon which I laid down the dam and took j were there, in the inclosure, at a few paces the kid in my arms and carried it over my from us. There u-aa nn iootuni pack, pale’—about two months before any pale <» error . The ide’* 8 which we had, aud with was begun.” These nninf*^really are,-in a , Vc-ason, or iuc extraordinary strength of 8inall wav, well taken, and they are the . jbese animals, who could overthrow every- only points well taken in the entire charge, j thing in their passage, little disposed the A considerable stress is laid upon the fact | men t 0 await them with firm foot. The that, after giving the dates, as above, be- = hunters therefore disbanded. Though native The RuHsian Soldiers. The Russian officer has the splendid valor of his nationality; he is no braggart but does his fighting as a matter of course, and as part of the day’s work, when he is bidden to do it. As for the Russian pri vate, I regard him as the finest material for a soldier that the soldier-producing world, so far as I am acquainted with it, affords. He is an extraordinary weight-carrying marcher, tramping mile after mile with a good heart, with singular freedom from re liance on sustenance, and with a good stomach for immediate fighting at the end of the longest foodless march. He never grumbles; matters must have come to a bad pass, indeed, when he lets loose his tongue in adverse comment on his superiors. Inured to privation from his childhood, he is a hard man to starve, and will live on rations, or chance instalments of rations, at which the British barrack-room cur would turn up his nose. His sincere piety according to his narrow lights, his whole hearted devotion to the Czar—which is in grained into his mental system, not the result of a process of reasoning—and his constitutional courage, combine to bring about that he faces the casualties of the battle-field with willing, prompt and long- sustained bravery. He needs to be led, however; not so much because of the moral encouragement which a gallant lead er imparts, but because his reasoning fac ulties, for lack of education, being com paratively dormant, he does not not know what to do when an unaccustomed or unlooked for emergency occurs, He is destitute of perception when left to him self. Somebody must do the thinking for him, and impart to him the result in the shape of an order; and then he can be trusted, while physical power lasts, to strive his prettiest to execute the order. But if to wear it, and her anus would have been ; there is nobody in front of him or within bare only for her long kid gloves. i sight of him to undertake the mental part She had pearls in her ears and on her i of the work, the Russian soldier gets dazed, throat, and she had just the most innocent Even in his bewilderment, however, he is little face my two eyes ever rested on. * “* J 1 bank, not a hundred yards from where the dead body had been found. He had heard Claypole use language of terrible signifi cance, and one sentence, spoken loudly and distinctly, he could repeat word for word, and swear to it. It was a bright moonlight evening, and he had gained but a short distance from the angry pair when he saw the man grasp the girl by the arm and fiercely exclaim: “I’d rather kill you and throw your body into this cold flood than live under such torture as you’ve made me suffer for the last few weeks. Beware! I tell you, wo man, I am desperate. ” To this the man swore most positively. He remembered the circumstances and the exact date, and this was the evening on which Mary had left her home not to re turn. William Claypole was committed for trial, and in due time he was brought before the jury. If anything, the evidence before the jury was more conclusive than had been the preliminary evidence. There was more of it, and it all pointed directly to the accused. In fact, if Mary Adams had been killed, it was an absolute impossibility that any one else could have done it. That she could have killed herself was a proposition not to be entertained. William Claypole told his story. Most of the evidence he had heard he acknowl edged true. He had been exceedingly jealous, and he had threatened the girl, and though he could not clearly remember all that he might have said under the influence of strong passion, yet he would not deny that the man who had reported his last terrible speech upon the liver’s bank, had reported it correctly. He said he had been there with Mary on that evening, and he remembered that he saw the witness on the road. After seeing witness, he spoke the angry, impulsive words to Man*. He could only swear to the simple fact that very shortly after using contained something, either expressed implied, to the effect that the ease with which the fish could be caught without a hook was another strong proof of how ut terly unknowing of man were the creatures living upon the island and within the waters which girt it round about. Skipping what really is a wholly unintelligible objection relating to Crusoe's desire to remove to the “pleasant valley ” (where he subsequently built the “bower”) and his final determin ation to remain in the cave, we come to the As for the boy, lie had a chocolate velvet coat and white silk stockings, and lace ruf fles at his wrists. And they had one large cloak—his, I fancy—cast about the two of them, though it had dropped back a bit as they sat down. “Two young folks going to a fancy ball, proof against panic, and we saw him with sore hearts at Plevna, on the 30th of July, 1878, standing up to be killed in piteously noble stubbornness or ignorance, rather than retreat without the ordors which there were none to give. The Turkish soldier is his master in the intuitive perception of fighting necessities. The former is a born perhaps,” says’I, “and just took a lift on ; soldier, the latter a brave peasant drilled the way.” into a soldier. If the Turk advancing fiuds And I touched my cap to them, and himself exposed to a flank attack, he needs ^.q i. ' no officer to order him to change his front; “Fine evening, sir.” he grasps the situation for himself, and this He did not answer me, but she looked at i is what the Russian soldier has neither in- jne and stretched out her little white hand, j tuitive soldierhood nor acquired intelligence “Oh, sir,” she said, “look out at thiback 1 to do. chiefs, more experienced, in vain retained their courage, the confussion redoubled, and most of the Indians fled toward the lake. Unfortunately, the lake is full of cay mans, and the cry arose: Bceaja! bceaja! They knew not which way to flee; on all sides they saw themselves surrounded with monsters. Several had climbed the trees; M du Laurens was of the number. The sight of this insensate fear restored our courage, and we regained our post with the greatest coolness. When I say our cou rage, it is a plural which is singular and regards only myself, for M. de Fienne had not shrunk for an instant. The marchio ness, firm also, yet tietrayed the most live ly emotion. She was impatient to see the conflict commence, and prepared, not only to be a spectator of this drama, but to play a part in it. Suddenly thirty elephants issued from the higher the bird seemed to liavd the best of the struggle, making slow progress for at least a square, but in spite of all efforts to take a direct course, flying higher and higher. After the bird had reached an altitude of perhaps four hundred >feet, the kite be ing about one hundred feet higher still, it was plain that the latter had greatly the ad vantage. It was flesh, blood and feathers against the untiring winds. Unable to con tinue the strain the pigeon changed his course to one side, thus slackening the string and causing the kite to fall, slanting from side to side in a helpless sort of way. But feeling free again the pigeon once more made a break for home, when, the string being pulled taut, the kite, with a spring, glancing in the sun a thing of ^ife, rose rapidly and gracefully from its former level. Soon both bird and kite became mere specks and at last vanishing in the southwestern sky left Johnny to weep over his unexpect ed loss. Next morning, when the little fellow went to look in his empty cote, there stood the pigeon nodding its head in pride. It had broken from the kite, a piece of the string still hanging to its leg. NmonHneu. Every organ and every muscle in the human body depends for its action on the nerve-force, elaborated by the brain, or , , . spinal ganglia; and so does every thought forest, arranged in close columns, and ad- , and feeling,—the more active the thinking, vancing with a majectic air. They were formidable to behold; they marched with their trunks high and threatening, like a wounded serpent; their large ears beat their temples with redoubled blows; their breath would have overthrown a man, and the ground seemed to tremble benealh them. The moment was critical and there was not a moment to lose if we did not wish to be destroyed. When they were four or five paces from the thicket, which concealed us for bass in Hogan Creek, near Aurora, they were disturbed by a splash in the water, as of some animal jumping into the stream. Looking in the direction, they saw a large black hog, which had evidently come dowi. from among the roaming lot of porker* ^ ^ w which make life a burden in and around th* the language just presentled he” had become j town, swimming rapidly toward the oente* startled by his own fierce passions, and had i of the pool, wh»ch was about 100 feet widi sent the girl from him—had bade her go to ■ and eight feet deep. At about the cente* her home, telling her that he hoped he j the animal disappeared, remaining unde might never see her again. With that she j the water for a considerable time, and oi had left him, and he knew no more. j reappearing was seen to have in his mouti Claypole*8 story bore the stamp of truth 1 a live bass about eight inches long, witl final attempt to make a point against the from their view, we received them with a exactness of Defoe. Robinson Crusoe, it ! ciose fire from our carbines, which we had may be remembered, when ill from the taken care to load with balls of tin and cop- ague, has a dream which frightens him per. Woe to us if we had used leaden much, and in telling of his feelings on balls, they would have been flattened by awakening he says: “1 had, alas, no divine the large ears of the elephants, and have knowledge; what I had received by the rendered them more trouble to us, without good instructions of my father was then having the chance of killing one. “Near worn out by an uninterrupted series (for ; the ears! near the ears!” was the exclama- eight years) of seafaring wickedness, and I j tion on all sides, and each cne suddenly re- was all that the most hardened,unthinking, turned V the charge, aiming at the sensi- wicked creature, among common sailors can tive spot which made at first, more noise be supposed to be; not having the least than they did harm. sense, either of the fear of God in danger, Bleanwhile the monsters, seized with ter- or of thankfulness to God in deliverance/’ 1 rorj reC oiled and retook the road to the for- It is strange that Defoe, when writing this ^. but the barking of the dogs, which did impressive passage, should have forgotten l not bite, constrained them to turn back al- that he made Crusoe say, after describing mogt immediately. Their numbers bad ra the manner in which he was first washed crea ^ed to sixty ; a great part of these ani on shore, that directly he found himself ( ma ] 8 bad not come out from the woods at safe he began to look up and thank Proyi- the first attack. dence that his life was saved. , yy e bad had time to charge anew our IT u__ guns and carbines; and, more assured, like * * soldiers after the first fire, we received the An account sf a remarkable incident anemy in a more vigorous manner than at comes from Aurora, Ind. A few days ago, first. The elephants then disbanded with a as a trio of young men, one a son of a terror mingled with fury, crushing every- prominent citizen of this city, were fishing thing in their passage, and, seeking a re fuge, uttering cries which were enough to make one sink into the earth. There was something gigantic in such a spectacle. These elephants were for the most part twelve and thirteen feet in height. Their refusal to combat contrasted strangely or the more intense the feeling, the greater the expenditure of nerve-force. The little white threads that run in branches through the body from the brain and spinal cord are merely conductors of this force, just as the decline wires are of the electricity. The brain-battery, when in a vigorous condition, elaborates enough nervous-force, not only for all ordinary, but for a vast deal of ex traordinary use, directly from the raw ma terial in the blood, for in such case the raw material is furnished in proportion to the expenditure. But in “nervousness” of every form the balance is disturbed; the supply is not equal to the demand, hence there is a state of nervous exhaustion. By carefully guarding the outgo, the person may enjoy a tolerable degree of health; but he feels, often to prostration, a little extra demand, especially if protracted. Generally self-control is weakened; one is easily startled; laughter and tears come at trifles; the pereon is touchy, perhaps hys terical; the blood is impoverished, and hence no organ or tissue in the body is properly fed, nor can fully do its work. This deficiency of nerve-force may result from a deficient diet; the abuse of stimu lants ; too little sleep; protracted overwork of brain or muscle; long-continued care, anxiety or grief; sensual or emotional ex cess of any kind; lack of recreation. Escape from Death. One of the most extraordinary escapes from death ever recorded occurred at Mel bourne, Australia, to L’Estrange the aero naut. In the presence of thousands of spectators he made an ascension from the agricultural grounds, on the 8t. Kilda road, in the balloon Aurora, the same, it is said, which was used to convey dispatches dur ing the Franco-Prussian war. When the balloon had attained the great altitude of a mile and three quarters it suddenly col- with the powerful organization with which ! lapsed, the gas bursting through its side; they were endowed. The marchioness, by j but the parachute came into play, and, in- the aid of her interpreter, manifested her 1 stead of the wreck falling like a stone it astonishment on the subjrrct to one of the | came down in a zigzag course, and finally Indian chiefs, who replied; with uncourte- struck a tree in the government domain, ous frankness, that the herd was composed only of females. Madame de Finne smiled, and, by way of reply brandished with her uiaypoie s story wore u*b stamp ui uuiu w , ’ •» - . • - ... , , , , _ everything save the bearing upon it of | which he swam ashore, and proceeded D pretty hands the gun which she had been the fact already stated. Everybody was i eat with the avidity and relish peculiar D vialiantly using. sorry. • Nobody believed that William | his species. After having swallowed tie Hardly she had given it to the Indian to Claypole ever nourished murder in his! last vestige, with a grunt the animal agaii reload, when an enormous elephant, se- heart. It had been but the creature of dreadful impulse. Yet the evidence was all against him— all, all—and not a point whereon to hang a doubt, and he was found guilty of murder. One bright, pleasant day, while William Claypole lay crushed and broken in his dark cell, and while the people shook their heads in sorrow that one so young and pro mising should meet so terrible a fate—on such a day Mary Adams appeared before betook himself to the water, and agan parated from the herd and larger than any dived to the bottom. Coming up with i snort, he made agam for the shore with ai- other fish, which he dispatched as quick}' as before. This was repeated a third tine, and on the fourth trip the animal secureda small turtle, which it also carried aahon, and after some difficulty managed to dii- patch, breaking the shell with ita stroig teeth, after which it ambled off, satisfiti with iu fishing experiences of the day. of the rest, came toward the ambush behind which we still remained. It was furious, and seemed to wish to revenge the defeat of his brethren. He was fourteen feet high! “It is a male! It is a male!” exclaimed the native ehiefs; and more prompt than these words twenty shots of the carbines hit aDd struck dead hia new enemy. He staggered a few yards and fell exactly at he foot of the tree in which brave Du Lau- edge. After scowling a few minutes more, ; aut * reduced the rate from 7 he would take oui a revolver, examine the ° * er < f ei . * chambers, to assure himself they were j, —Russia is the bank clerk’s paradise- loaded, mutter a few vigorous sentences, j f4 ,e,e 100 legal holidays in that and put it away again. j countr y. I watched him a day or two, and at last! —l* 1 Jh® year 1878 there were only 3 he saw me looking at him. He said • [.men killed bv Apaches iu Anzoua, ‘I reckon you think I am excited about j against 197 in 1868. something? Well I am! I am going up; —Mr. Robert Falkner, of Warren to Salt Lake to kill a man.” | county. North Carolina, is 105 years Indeed. How terrible! What’s the old and has voted eiglity-oue times in matter?” thus breaking the fall, and L’Estrange reached the ground half stunned, but alive. The excitement when the balloon came down was intense. Women screamed and fainted some fell on their knees with their hands slasped in prayer, while hundreds of men rushed into the government domain ex pecting to find a mangled body, but to their great astonishment they discovered L’Es trange alive and almost unhurt. The escape was certainly one of the most marvellous on record. The balloon U3ed was an old one, and L’Estrange patched up some rents in the morning; but the direct cause of the catastrophe was the inexperience of the aeronaut, who did not allow for the great expansion of gas consequent upon his rapid ascent Too Many Weddings. LOCaL NOTH bs—Ten cents p^r line nr on* Insertion. For two or more insertions, five cen.s per line each insertion. OBITUARY NOTICES—CUarged at halt r NEWS IN BRIEF. During the last trip I took over the —Mississiopi produced 640,000 bales Pacific Railroad, I noticed that after we i 0 f cotton last year left Omaha the man in the seat in front of j _ Mr r R Tini ' n?hlst cit e<litorof me appeared to have something upon his the Button Journal, has teen appointed mind. He would scowl dreadfully for “ State Librar;.,, of Massachusetts, moment, then he would gaze with a far- —The Illinois Legislature has appro priated $9000 for the monument to Stephen A Douglass in Chicago. —New York still retains her usurv “Well, you see—by the way, do you know Jim Stephens?” •‘No, no; I think not.** “Well, this is the way it came about: Twelve years ago Jim and I were friends, and when I got married Jim made me a present of the most splendid silver cake basket you ever saw in your life.” “That’s not what you are going to kill him for, is it?” “Of course not! And I felt so grateful that I took him by the hand, and said. ’Jim, I’ll get you a cake basket as hand some as that whenever you are married, as sure as my name is Jonathan Lockwood.’ Made him a solid pledge, you know. ” “Did he marry subsequently ?” “Marry ? O thunder! Ltt me tell you about it. About a year after he went to Utah and became a Mormon. Within a month he sent me cards for his wedding to Hannah Watson. So I went oat and bought a sublime cake basket, and for warded it by express. Two weeks later he wrote to say that Hannah’s sister, Ethel- betta, had been sealed to him, and he asked me out to the wedding.” “Did you go?” ‘No; but 1 sent him another cake basket. consecutive years. —The cotton mill at Natchez, Mis3. y can in one day niannfa' tnre goo la val ued at $1121, wiili a profit Of $142 over all expeu>es. —In t'.e ten yearsending June. 1861, the elilel English railroads had to pay $1 655.000 compensation tor injuries re ceived by railroad accidents. —Mr. Barr/ Sullivan, the English actor, prides himself on having played Hamlet more than 2,800 times in all quarters of the gloDe. —Iowa has 20 savings banks, with deposits aggregating $2,447,166, and 33 general banks, whose total assets amount to $3,783,065. —The Philadelphia mint coined dar ing April $50,800 of haif-eagies; 1,300,- OOo silver Hollars; $13 <>80 oi base coins (cents)—total 1 364.480. —The daily circulation of the most popular newspaper iu the dry of Mex ico. with a population of 200.000, does not exceed 2,000 copies. —A lady near Pedricktown, N. J., a short time ago ran a spiinter under ner finger nail, and has siuce died of lock jaw. —The Hotel de Ville, in Paris, the But hardly had a fortnight elapsed when ; lhe Municipal tvnvcru.u’eut, Stephens telegraphed to me that as old Mrs. . which was destroyed i.i 1871. is far ad- Watson, Hannah’s and Ethelberta’s mother, seemed so lonely now that the girls were gone, he had concluded to annex her, also. He promised to send full particulars by mail. That night a third resplendent cake basket went west in charge of the express company.” “You have paid three to one, then.” “Three? Wait till I get done. Well, I heard nothing more from him for a year or more, when one day cards came for his marriage with Louisa G. Carboy. I was pretty poor about that time, and hardly able to make presents to anybody, but I liad pledged my word: so out went another imposing cake basket.” _“Did he get it ?” “He wrote and said his darling Louisa thought it was beautiful, and he added a postscript in which he mentioned that he had arranged for a further consolidation on the following Thursday with Helene Bilk- ersham, relict of old Bilkersham the popular hatter.” “Did you respond ?” “I did ; I borrowed some money from a friend, and forwarded the most stupen dous cake basket I could find. At the anted in rebuilding, and will be com pleted in 1881, at a total cost ot about $4,400,000. —George Fordham, the jockev, un der the term of Barou Lionel Rjths- < hiId’s will, receives a present of $10.- 000 and an annuity of $1500 a year for life. —The English Factories act requires rliat no woman shall be employed con tinuously for more than four hours and a half. After working that length of time she must have a rest. —In the south, the centre and the west of France the grape crop will, it is said, suffer seriously. In consequence the importation of wines from Spain and Italy into France is increasing. —Mrs. Franlc H. Delano, of New York city, lias given$5000 toSt..l > aul’s American Church, iu Rome, with which to finish the aisle walls and put a railing arouud the church lot. —Secretary McCrary will retire from the Cabinet about the 1st of September next aud accept the United States Judgship for the Eighth Circuit, in same time I wrote to him and asked him | P 1 ** . of Jud «e Dillon, who has decided if he didn’t think it most time to knock off. i LO resl 3 u * He replied and eaid he was sorry I had —The rate of taxation in Buffalo was such narrow views about matrimony, par- re ^ ucei ^ year $6 on the $1,000 of ticularly as he had everything ready for an- rea ^ a,l( ^ personal estate. The assessed other marriage on the following Tuesday | vacation of Buffalo for the current with Mary Jane Wilberforce, a charming $88,402,44o against $88,./6,51a girl of property.” “You didn’t send one to her, did you ?” “Of course! Couldn’t break my word! She got the most impressive cake basket I could lay my hands on. Well, Stephens didn’t stop there. That was two years ago. He has married eight times since, and I have come to time promptly with the cake baskets. Three days ago I received notice that he was going to many' again. ” “Again!” “Yes, again. That, you know, lets him out What does the man mean ? Does he suppose I own a cake basket factory, where they turn ’em out with a crank ? Does he suppose I have a mine where we excavate baskets by the bushel ? Has he got an idea that cake baskets grow on a tree, and thal all I have got to do is to knock ’em down with a pole when they are ripe ? Why, he’s an unmitigated ass! And as be won’t let me off from my promise I’m going out to massacre him. You understand ? In less than three days there will be a dozen or so widows in Salt Lake City going to see a man named Stephens buried.” Then Mr. Lockwood turned gloomily away, sharpened his knife again on his boot, and relapsed into silence. It was a little hard on him, I think my self. Winter In Summer. Those who arrived at the Glen House, Mount Washington, on the third of June were surprised to find the weather so cold and to see the mountain top9 covered half a foot deep with new fallen snow. Coming up out of more summery latitudes, thev found the thick underclothing and over coats they all had the prudence to bring with them, as comfortable as they would be at home in November or March. Not thajp the weather ir quite like that, for it is not; it is June, unmistakably, by its fresh, full verdure, and this all-embracing light of the year’s longest days; but up here among the mountains it is June and April strange ly mixed. The world looks green on all the Hills and vales below, and a morning bird is singing among the birches that fringe the babbling Peabody river, in front of this hotel, his morning song of joy tc the risen sun; but up there on those nigged moun tain slopes are numerous patches of snow. Our excursionists, on reaching the top, found the Summit House windows, on the exposed side, all snowed up and frozen up, and the promenade platform, like the rocks about, still almost over shoes in snow, and every post and northwest-facing rock still covered to a depth of nearly half a foot with Mount Washington frostwork. This frostwork is unlike anything we see in win ter at home. • It is a solid mass of snow and ice crystals—frozen snow and ice, seemingly mixed in about equal parts, and built out, inch by inch, against the wind. As it is built out per ectly straight, at right angles with the perpendicular object to which it is frozen, it speaks more eloquent ly than words of the force and fury of the blast that brought it. Picking my way up to the signal staff of the official survey which marks the highest point on the sum mit—a pole like a telegraph pole, firmly fixed in the rocks—I broke off masses of in 1878. —The second sale of Queen Christina’s jewels has produced $1,800,000. One oroad girdle of sapphires and brilliants -old for $8,420. and a magnificent neck lace. containing 529 pearls, brought $14,860. —Mrs. Hannah Cox, of Holderness, X J., celebrated her 103d birthday re cently. The venerable lady is in full possession of all her faculties, with the exception of her hearing, which is im paired. —During the first year of the reci procity treaty between the Uuited Slates and ttie Sandwich Islands, our imports Iroui the Islands show an increase of fifty-seven |»er cent, over the preceding year and our exports to the Islands of 125 per cent. —Milley Williams, a miser of Easton Cro*s Roads, N. C., was accustomed to invest her earnings in gold, $1 at a time. Her dwelling was recently de stroyed by lire, and lumps of melted gold, worth about 10,000, were taken from tbe ruins. A watch lost two years ago in & j barnyard, near Lebanon, Pa., was ‘ found the other day by a grandson of tbe loser in a meadow hard by while plowing. The face was broken, but otherwise the watch was complete but very rusty. —There are twenty-five Mennonite villages in Menitoba, with 480 dwel lings and 2,841 residents. Tne immi grants from Russia have 10,470 acres under cultivation, 362 horses aud some 2,500 cows and uxeu. aud have already large stores oi grain aud other products. —A return as to the religious persua sions of tne. non-commissioned officers and men of the British army shows ihat of a total of 91,842 men, 62.860 he- loug to the Church ot England, 20,872 are Roman Catholics, 7125 are PresDy- leriaus, aud 3385 are Protestants of other denominations. —Elmira, N. Y., is makingextensive preparations io celebrate the liuudredth inniver-ary of the battle of Newtown (now Elmira), which was fought Au gust 19, 1779, by Federal troops under General Sullivan. lowns air ng the route of General Sullivan’s match will contribute to the celebration. —Tbe next electoral college will not be based ou tbe census of 1880. The electoral votes of the states in the next presidential election, w ill stand as they •Jid in 1876, the whole number being three hundred aud sixty-nine, with one iiuudred aud eighty-live necessary for a choice. —The exports of Egvpt in 1778 were about $40,060,000; iu 1877 about $60,- 000,000, and iu 1&76 about $90.0(X>,U00. These figures, says a correspondent of the Loudon Times, are worthy of study by every oue who holds Egypt a rich country and able to pay her debt. The leasonof the falling off* is the falling off of the crops. —One million dollars in gold weighs 3.6S5 5-6 pounds avordupms; 1,000.000 trade dollars weigh 60,000; $1/00,1*00 of 412)£ grains weigh 58,928 47; $1,000,- 000 in fractional coins weigh 55,114 2-7; $1,000,000 in five cent nickels weigh these wintry crystals, that covered one side ^ of the staff, like a frosty beard, from top j 220,457”1-7; $1,000,000 in three cent to bottom. The crystals were built out to j 1B i e L.els weigh 141,856 1-7; $1,000,000 in nearly a foot in depth. On the day of our oue pieces weigh 685,714 2-7. arrival at the Glen House the snow on the j j t j s expected that the St. Gothard Summit is said to have been half a foot! Tunnel, through* the Alps, will be corn- deep. Patches of it, in size from a few pi e ted by the end of November. The acres down to a dinner-plate, are seen at point now reached on the Airolo side is different heights on all the slopes of the. 128I metres, that on the Goeschen^t White Blountain range. ; aide 649 metres from the centre of the I mountain; and It is expected that the In the twelye years ending with j junction of the two galleries will be 1878, Louisiana paid $9,361,095 as in- made some 300 metres Irom the centre terest on its public debt. 1 on iu southern side.