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GOUD-RY. PROUD WORLD!
BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
<Joofl-by. prowl world ! I’m going liome;
Thou art not my friend, I am not thine;
Too long through weary crowds I roam—
A river ails on the ocean brine;
Too long am I tossed like the driven foam;
But now, proud world, I am going liome.
Good-by to Flattery's fawning face;
To Grandeur witli his wise grimace;
To upstart Wealth’s averted eye;
To supple office, low and high;
To crowded halls, to court and street;
To frozen hearts, and hasting feet;
To those who go ami those who come—
Good-by, proud world, I’m going home.
I go to seek my own hearth-stone.
Bosomed in yon green hills alone—
A secret lodge in a pleasant land.
VvThose proves tho frolic fuirics plrnincd}
Whose arches green the livelong day
Echo the blackbird s roundelay,
And evil men have never trod
A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
•O when I am safe in my sylvan and home, Rome;
I mock at the pride stretched of Greece beneath the pines,
And when I am
Where the evening star so holy shines,
I laugh at the lore and pride of learned man, clan;
At the sophist schools and the
For what are they ail in their high conceit.
When man in the bush with God may meet?
SECRET OF A LARCH-TREE.
A lady, young, beautiful, blonde,
sparkled with diamonds as she danced,
herself the magnet of all eyes, amidst
the music, light, and revelry of the Au¬
gust night at Silver Spring. Diamonds
twinkled in the fair hair, poised there
as a butterfly ; diamonds trembled like
dew-drops about the snowy throat, and
formed a blazing pendant medallion
amidst the flowers of the satin corsage ;
diamonds flashed in the tiny ears and
on each dimpled Horton, wrist. do the
“Professor you see
lady with the diamonds ?” inquired the
Colonel, with his soft, good-natured
laugh. What then?’ retorted
“Yes, I see her.
the professor, grimly. all, only the Silver
“Oh, nothing regarded at fashionable
Spring will be as a
resort, what with the new Bellevue
Hotel and such guests. Next year we
will he able to hold up our heads with
Saratoga and Newport, if we can add a
race-course and club-house, sir.” Here
the Colonel rubbed his hands together
with a gesture which has become traili
tional with the hotel proprietor of all
ages. face of Professor Horton lean,
The was
sallow, and dolorous, on the contrary,
and was clouded by the discontent of
one who has a grievance to lay at tho
door of circumstances.
He retorted, sharply, “Mrs. Delaunay
is the name, eh? Are the diamonds
real?”
“Real! They are of the purest water,
and cost seventy-five thousand dollars, I
am told. She was an heiress, you know,
and when she married last year, the
accumulated interest of her minority Such was
invested in these jewels.” was
the Colonel’s glib partner?” explanation. pursued the
“Who is her
Professor.
“Oh, the French Marquis Delaunay de Ratti.
They say he followed Mrs.
here, after being all about in society at
New York and Washington last winter. ”
"I do not believe in foreign noble¬
men,” grumbled the Professor. “They
prove to be valets and barbers more
often than not. He looks more like a
prize-fighter than a gentleman; but per¬
haps the prize-fighting element is the
highest evidence of blood among the
nobility,” mused this republican specta¬
tor. ‘‘Humph ! I should not care to
meet him on a dark night. He might
crack my skull like an egg-shell between
finger and thumb. Oh, tlie customs of
fashion? That young husband, leaning
against the wall, permits tlie Marquis
to waltz with his wife, instead of knock¬
ing him down for his impudence.
At this moment a pretty girl appeared
behind the professor and the landlord,
with round fair face and hair meekly
brushed back from the temples, and in¬
genuous blue eyes. The pretty girl
smoothed her neat apron and lowered
her eyes demurely as she demanded, in
the softest of voices, “If you please,
sir, may I have my tea ?”
“Mrs. Delauuay’s English maid,
Alice,” explained the Colonel, when he
had granted the request. Horton follow the
Wliv did Professor
English maid, so young, so genteel, so
demure, with his eye ? He could not
tell. He saw her pause outside another
window, where the Marquis de Ratti
was taking the air, the dance being
over, and it seemed to the observer that
the two exchanged a glance, a smile, a
signal, before tlie girl disappeared
around the corner of .the house.
“We only lack the gallantries of noble
taen and ladies’-maids to complete the
ruin of ouf Silver Spring,” muttered
this stern moralist, whose ideas were so
old fashioned. He sought his own
chamber gloomily, for in addition toper
turbation of mind, owing ti having his
sylvan retreat invaded by the Philistines
of fashion, he was literally broken by
bodily fatigue. He had rambled many
miles that day, botanizing in the valleys, ad¬
and seeking geological specimens dusty, on hb
jacent hills. His shoes were
raiment brier-tom, his loose sack-coat
freighted with the “rubbish” precious pockets, to
the savant in the wide external
while rheumatic twinges in knee and back
reminded him that he was no longer
young, thereby increasing his exaspera¬
tion. Then to return to a hotel where
all the world was dancing, and one wo¬
man was decked like an idol with seven¬
ty-five thousand dollars’ worth of dia¬
monds. The Professor's cup of bitter¬
ness brimmed over at these reflections.
The room was stiffiingly hot, but he
lighted liis lamp, and forced himself to
read an extract from Dr. Dollinger,
while moths blundered about the flame,
frying themselves to a condition of un
Dleasant pleasant crispn°ss enspmss, and anumosquitoessiu. mosquitoes stung ,.
his temples. ‘ His watch marked mid
OJ 4 1 cHU the movement of the ball
riE's'.ta.'"' lhe
* 3
Squeak, squeak, names fiddles l Boom rx>oni
5 ^
W m^ic bv oftSture? means Ih
the A >” Here
the listener clinched his teeth, with a
t ulrediabolical expression of contenanco,
is nre violins shuddered over his nervous
system, snatched up his broad felt hat,
and strode out-of-doors, actuated by tie
impulse of escape.
Tixe night was sultry and oppressive,
The Professor breathed a sigh of rebel
as ho quitted the vicinity of the hot-el,
which sparkled with many lights through
die trees like an ogre's eye. Darkness
and the obscurity of shrubbery wel
corned him abroad at this unusual hour.
II'•strolled about the gravel paths, fan
uitig himself with his hat, and paused
beneath the projecting roof of the oruu
rnanted kiosque of the Silver Spring.
"There will be a thumb r-storm before
morning,” soliloquized the Professor, re
placing his hat.
All was deliciously still here, and fai
below. guarded by the encircling basic,
bubbled the Silver Spring, cool ami
limpid, source of health, as the Professor
lirmly believed. Had not the nymph oi
the fountain spread her wings in startled
flight in the disastrous change from rural
tranquility to a fashionable resort ? Th.
Professor leaned on the parapet, ami
peered into the crystal depths of th.
sjiring, musing in this vein. As he did
so he perceived two persons advancing
from opposite directions to meet a f w
yards distant from himself. They proved
lo be a man and a woman, and they
scarcely paused before separating again
with the had same rapidity of movement as
they met.
“Wait for me,” said the woman. “I
shall have to manage, to get away ai
all.”
“I will wait till morning,” replied tin
man.
“She is sure to dance to the very last,
you know,” added the woman.
“Don’t lose your head, that’s all,” ad¬
monished the man.
“I lose my head, indeed !” retortei
the woman, whose voice and bearing
were youthful. Professor moved slowly
The awai
scarcely heeding these words wafted t>
his ear by a passing breeze. At an angle
of the path was a rustic bench beneatn
a larch-tree, known as Professor Horton’s
favorite seat. Hither he directed his
steps in an irritated mood, and sank down
on it in sheer weariness. The scent oi
flowers reached him, while the foliagi
seemed to spread above him “fragrant
robes of darkness.” Grateful repose
succeeded noise and light, lulling all hi
senses to soft oblivion ; he fell asleep.
He was awakened by a terrific peal ot
thunder, and opened his eyes with a be¬
wildered uncertainty as to surrounding
objects. The trees swayed wildly in the
rising wind; a few large drops of rain
fell quivered heavily among horizon. the leaves; lightning
on the Suddenly a
female form bent over him, some small
object was thrust into his hand, and a
voice whispered iu his ear:
“I am early. She had a headache.
Quick 1 take them, or I shall be missed.”
The thunder roiled, the trees swayed,
the woman vanished. Professor Horton
winked several times, and opened his
mouth to speak, then closed his lips
without sound. The object thus unex
,1 pecteillv consigned to his care was a
'aall leather bag, scarcely more than a
tobacco pouch, and heavy. Mechanically
he thrust it into one of the wide pockets
of his loose coat. Hark ! A heavy foot¬
step crushed the gravel on the path to
the right. The Professor rose to his
own feet as if moved hv a spring, his
kneeB shook, his teeth chattered, a deadly
fear smote him.
Fear of what evil ? He did not know.
To shrink to the left, gain the next clump
of shrubbery, and conceal accomplished himself, was
the work of a moment, and
with the more ease that he knew every
inch of ground from long familiarity.
Had he not planted many of these tiees
which now proved friends ? The hiding
place gained was a larch surrounded by
stiff little Japanese cedars, and forming
a sort of labyrinth. Scarcely had the
Professor glided into this shelter than a
vivid whole sheet of lightning side. illuminated himself the
country He saw
seated on tlie rustic bench beneath the
larch-tree ! He could not believe tho
evidence of his own senses ; the breath
remained suspended on his lips. Had
he been a devout Catholic he would
have crossed himself, invoking the pro¬
tection of a calendar of saints ; a chill of
superstitious blood. dread certainly stagnated
his Was he to believe that his
hour had come ! There sat his own
image on the rustic bench, the soft felt
hat pulled down over the brow, the broad
shoulders, the slouching nondescript at¬
tire ; nothing was lacking to complete
the resemblance. Was he still asleep,
victim of nightmare, or had he gone
mad ? He pinched his flesh and rubbed
his eyes violently. The figure under the
larch-tree did not vanish. Swift realiza¬
tion of the truth dawned on the drowsy
scholar. He was alone, at a distance
from the now silent hotel, and he had in
his pocket a bag which belonged to the
other. What if this unknown had found
him still on the bench? What if he
emerged now, accosted the stranger, and
gave him the bag ?
“I should be murdered as surely as
there is a Heaven above us,” shuddered
tlie man of letters, with a conviction for
which he could give no reason.
At this juncture the wind freshened,
and the rain fell in torrents, while the
lightning bpcame less frequent. Pro¬
fessor Horton quitted the. larch-tree.
reached the hotel with surprising agili
ty, found a window of the recent ball
room unfastened, groped his way through
that deserted apartment, and gained his
own chamber. The bag was gone. He
had lost it from the wide pocket, proba
bly in his flight. His watch marked two
o’clock. The Professor extinguished the
the candle, opened the shutters of
window, and seated himself with his
eyes fixed on the eastern horizon. He
was a prey to the most exciting emo
tj onfl _
Professor Horton was the first votary
of the Silver Spring abroad next morn
ing. If he was feverish and haggard,
with a stealthy, even furtive aspect, the the
1)0 y at the fountain did not notice
Qrtnmstance. : r „ nmstance Always Alwivs an an earlv eariy riser riser,
:fle Professor sipped a glass of the spark
^£Srt a ^srA£Sst
larch-tree, «niiZS laugh and approached triumph the usSstt escaped larch. the A
drv of
■ l* lay,
-lent A leather bag, half pouch,
concealed by the long grass, beneath the
spreading boughs. The largli-tree had
kept its secret well. The bag remained
wnere it had fallen from the Professor’s
wide pocket. He clutched it, returned
to his room, and proceeded to iuvesti
gale the contents. The little bag held
the Delauuay diamonds. Necklace,
bracelet, butterfly ornament—nothing
•••<» lacking in this precious heap swept
hastily troin cumbersome case and
casket, landlord
Five minutes later the rosy
.as seized by the collar, confronted dragged into by
his private office, and
Professor Horton, whose agitation
verged on sheer lunacy, uhe latter took
bom his pocket a little bag, and poured
oat the Delaunay diamonds, telling .
wild and incoherent talc meanwhile
about a larch-tree and midnight ram
bles. it,
“Nobody would believe you
know,” said the Colonel, coolly. The
hotel proprietor is never surprised in this
world.
“Take the trinkets, and restore them
in your own way. Do not mention'me
in the transaction.” retorted the Profes¬
sor. He stooped and plunged his fin¬
gers once more into the rainbow cf pre¬
cious stones with a sort of intoxication;
the starry rays of rose and blue dazzled,
blinded him, “Beautiful and fatal parched gift
to man!” he murmured, with
lips.
The Colonel closed one eye, with . the ,,
aspect of a sagacious bird. bed,
Professor Horton sought his
slept heavily until four o’clock in the
afternoon. He was awakened by voices,
and peered through the shutters of his
window. A carnage waited to take the
Delaunay party to the steamboat on the
lake. Mr. °’'- 1 Mrs. Delaunay were al
ready seateu, while Alice, the maid, had
paused to reply to the head waiter, after
which she re-entered the hotel. At this
moment Professor Horton’s door was
opened, and the Colonel entered with
the bouncing swiftness of moment pecu
liar to fat men in haste. If the conduct
of the Professor had been extraordinary
in the morning when he had restored the
jewels, that of the Colonel was not less
so in the afternoon. He locked the
door, made a warning gesture to the
Professor, and stole on tiptoe to a second
door at the extremity of the large and room,
where he lay down on the floor ftp
plied eye and ear to the crack. Yoi< es
became audible in the adjoining chain
ber .
“I was there at one o’clock, and gave
it to you,” lie said waited a woman. all night, and
“A ! I yon
did not come,” said a man.
“I gave it to a person under the
tree, and he took it,” gasped the
woman. Get
“Fool! Then the game is up.
yourself dismissed at Newport, and cut
to New York. H I believed you were
tricky, my girl, it would be the worst
for you.” sound of footsteps, and
. There was a
immediately afterward tho Delaunay car¬
riage rolled away.
The Colonel rose to his feet, chuck¬
ling at the success of his stratagem.
“Set a thief—ahem !—I mean a wom¬
an to catch a woman. My wife thought back
of having the English maid sent
search of the missing bag, in tide
give her a chance to communicate with
her accomplice in the hotel, if she hail
one. The bag was dropped in the empty
room next to you, for tlie purpose, and
a man joined her there. Your story is
amply corroborated, you see, by the few
words exchanged. ”
“I believe the Marquis de Ratti is the
accomplice, and no more a Frenchman
than you are,” exclaimed the Profes
sor it?”
“Sodol; but how to prove re¬
joined the Colonel.
“Yon should have them arrested,”
urged the Professor. ”
•‘What is the charge? Your adven¬
tures of the night? The noble Marquis
is caught whispering with a pretty girl ?
No, no; I gave back the diamonds to
Mr! Delaunay—with a suitable them explana¬ in
tion—aud he has carried away a
money-belt. Wo alone know the whole
truth."
“And the larch-tree,” added the Pro¬
fessor. “It was the noble larch-tre«
that kept the secret, my friend. Well,
well, fashiomfble I lnpe you are attracted pleased with the
elements to our
Silver Spring. Doubtless the Marquis
de Ratti and the demure English maid
Alice belong to one of those bauds of
English thieves who are said to keep a
map of country-seats with reference to
the plate chest, and are now trying their
fortune in America. How beautiful they
we re—those diamonds!”
The Marquis de Ratti departed by the
nine o’clock boat that same evening.
His foreign accent was never more ap
parent than when he took leave of Silver
Spring. *
Illustrlous American Shoemakers,
In an article on shoemakers a writer in
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says:
“A long list is at hand of the shoe¬
makers of our own country who have, in
one way or another, distinguished them
delves or risen to places of honor and
power, but no name in the catalogue is
more honored than that of Noah Wor¬
cester. He was the founder of the
Peace Society, which now has branches
j n every civilized country on the globe,
One of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence was a shoemaker, Rogei
Sherman by name, a man who was re¬
ported never to have said a stupid thing
in his life. No less than seventeen mem
bers of Congress, at various times in our
history, have been shoemakers, one of
them was fr m Missouri, and is living in
honored retirement at the present time
in St. Louis. The ^te Vice Pr« hi
dent Wilson, in his youth, was a shoe
maker, and Andrew Johnson was the
next thing to it, having been a tailor,
John B. Whittier, the Quaker poet, was
a shoemaker, and made his living by the
trade until after he was grown. In
short, in America, even more than in
Europe, * .’ the ancient and honorable busi
ness of shotmaking , has , lurtmnea furnished men mw
“ t,;;!
stands so much in the need of talent that
men of mental power are obliged sooner
or later to f me forth to its assistance no
matter how lmmble the calling in wrneb
they may be engaged.
IVAN THE TERRIBLE.
Ihe Tyrant of Russia Surntuned the Ter.
rible.
Ivan the Terrible was an embodiment
both of the Byzan tine autocrat and the
Tartar Ivahn. The title of Great Prince
was too insignificant for him, and so he
called himself the Czar, by which title
the Russians used to address only the
Khans. Ivan became ruler when only
three years ohl. On reaching his thir¬
teenth year, lie ordered that Prince
Shuisky, the head of the temporary Gov¬
ernment, be thrown to hunting dogs,
which tore him to pieces. That was his
Russians first independent realized act as a ruler, ami the
that their little crown
bearer had become a real master. Ho
established the oprichniki, the gen¬
darmes of to-day. From their saddles
hung dog’s heads and brooms, which
signified that they were always ready enemies to
cut off the heads of the Czar’s
and to sweep treason from the face of
Russia. Thus autocratic terror was es¬
tablished. The Red Prince before the
Kremlin was kept literally red with hu¬
man blood during the reign of the Terri¬
ble, which lasted fully half a century. Wliat
TVliat tortures did he not try ?
ways of putting to death did he not
practice? But then he was pious, too.
Ho ordered the priests of the convent of
St. Kyrile to pray for the repose of the
s'uIs A of his own victims. In his list, or
lodio> tliere are found 3,470 names,
ypy of which were accompanied with
suggestive words, “ and family”
or “ an ,} sona ” or “ and family and ser
fyf.nD.” There is also found this elo
quent item: “ Lord, remember the
souls of Thy servants, The the Terrible Novgorodians,
p505 in number ! ” put to
death the Boyards not only with their
families aud servants, but also with their
cattle and the fishes in their lakes 1 No
doubt the Czar surpassed the Kahn,
However, Ivan feared for his own life,
all( ] j le corresponded with Elizabeth,
Queen of England, on the subject of an
asv lum for himself in case of need. His
character was a strange mixture of gran
c jeur and barbarity. Ho was a cruel
maniac with lucid intervals, when he
waa a genius. One day ho was a despot,
the next day he listened to the counsel
0 f q le people’s representatives. One day
j ie SW nm in human blood, and another
day lie turned his dreadful oprichniki
j n i~*- ^nks, himself acting as their prior,
Once, as he was confessing before his
brethren, a Boyard remarked that the
Czar was humiliating himself too much.
“Keep your mouth shut, brute!”
roared the terrible prior. “ I can hu¬
miliate whom I myself please.” as much as I like, before
Once in his rage he struck his belovi d
son with liis iron stick and killed him on
the spot. It was under the Terrible that
Emiak, with his valiant comrades, con¬
quered the Siberian czardom. The free¬
dom loving Cossacks never dreamed
that they hail furnished the Czars with a
horrible prison for the sons and daughters
of history.
A Shocking Affair.
Old Mr. Middlerib got tired of having
the mischievous boys in the niighbor
hood sneak up, yank his front door hell
half way across the street and then nin
,'ki dee? for the nearest corner. So lie
I finached knob, made a powerful connections batterv with to the zinc inside plate
a
on the door step, and waited for the hoy
to come along and close the circuit. But
the hoy liml had fun enough for that
flay, and didn’t come back for any more.
Mr. Middlerib grew tired waiting and
at last forgot all about the whole matter.
It probably that would day, not have occurred to
him again had not the minister
made his pastoral call that afternoon.
The dominie gave the hell one gentle,
ecclesiastical pull, then he jumped into
the air so high that he looked in at tho
transom, yelled like a wild Indian, liis
hat shot off, he fired his umbrella
through a side light, and moaning pit¬
eously, sank down while in a nerveless heap
on the sidewalk, the glad voice
of Mr. Middlerib, who heard tho row
but couldn’t see the tableau, rang out
from a side window, “ Pull it again,
will ye—ye flat-footed limb of the imp !
Pull it again, will ye ?” By tlie kindly
services of the house dog the pastor was
returned to consciousness and wrath be¬
fore Mr. Middlerib got down stairs. He
reluctantly accepted the hospitalities of
the medicine chest, but said his mind
was in too shattered a condition to listen
to any explanation just then. And as he
walked stiffly away Mr. Middlerib ad¬
mitted that lie would have to double his
subseiption this year, and about half
made up his mind that he would sell two
or three half-grown boys to tho Keokuk
medical college to raise the extra sub¬
scription. And he would do it, too, if
he could catch the boys.— 11 aw key e.
Must Leave Dublin.
James Carey and the other informers
who testified at the trials of the Phoenix
Park murderers have been notified that
(hey must indicate the places out of tlie
country to which they wish to be sent.
Carey in reply protested that lie would
remain in Dublin, but the authorities
pointed out to him that he would recieve
»o police protection and that on no con¬
dition would ho be allowed to remain in
Ireland. Countless warnings were given
Carey that lie would be killed as soon as
he was set at large, and it was supposed
by everybody that lie would fly in dis¬
guise from Dublin to the ends of tho
earth the moment the police let him go
ree. Instead of this, lie gave notice at
the time of his release that he would con¬
tinue to live in Dublin, and then pro¬
ceeded to deal harshly with men who
owed him Carey _ protests
money. of Dublin, not
against being driven out
by tlie Invincibles, whom lie says he
docs not fear in the least, hut by tho
Government he baa served. The assur¬
ance that he would receive no police him. pro¬
tection in Ireland did not trouble
This informer has given a curious exhi¬
bition of nonchalance.
Weeds.—W tT7 hen , . removed, - dc .
a crop is
not allow the land to grow a crop ot
weeds. It may be sown to buekwheat,
pcas, or other plant that will smother
the weeds the crop to be plowed oi
spaded under before the frost
Ivory. —Connecticut has the largest
cZLbZ ivorv f»o»orv S in the world It is at
It sometimes has $125,
000 worth oi ivory bleaching.
HOW THE. AMADOR WAS FOUND.
The IHIne which Enriched Senator Jones
and Many Others.
I have recently heard, says a news
newspaper correspondent, a story
touching the early life of Senator Jones
of Nevada which is most interesting, and
which I am told is true in every respect
and illustrative of the characteristics of
a class of men almost passed away—the
“forty-niners” in California. This is my
story: Jones had gone to California
witli thousands of others when the won¬
derful discovery e'very of gold in and that far-off
land thrilled hamlet village.
Ho had good and bad fortune. Among
those who went to seek their fortunes
there was a man named Hayward, from
Vermont. He was rather the superior
of his associates in education, and totally
unlike theta in habits. They and were
working in pretty good-pay dirt, at
first had fair success, and finally one
after another went to more promising
localities, until Jones and a few others,
among them Hayward, were left at the
old diggings. Hayward had a claim on
the mountain side that had as yet shown
no particular promise ; still he stuck to
it. One hot summer day, when the Red
Hills were quivering with heat, Hay¬
ward came to see Jones. Said he:
“Jones, I am very near to a wonderful
vein. I know it; I feel it, but I am flat
broke, I want $2,000; with that I will
make both our fortunes.” “Now, old
fellow,” said Jones, “I have known just
1,000 men who were exactly in y our fix.
They only needed $1,000, and some
times only $100, to make their eternal
all.” Hay ward entreated. Finally Jones
said: “f will give you this money. I
have $3,000 buried under the fireplace,
and when the fire goes out and my
Chinaman loaves I will get it out for
you, but don’t ask mo for any more ; I
cannot afford to lose more than that, and
I give it to you with tho utmost hearti¬
ness, don’t ask me for any more.”
Hayward got tho money and said :
“When I strike it I will give you a
quarter interest.”
One afternoon about a month after
this happened Jones was sitting in bis
cabin, when Hay word suddenly burst in
as white as a sheet. “Jones,” said he,
“I have struck it.”
“Struck what?” said Jones.
“I don’t know just what yet,” an¬
swered Haywnrd, “but I have struck the
richest vein I have ovor seen. ”
They went together to look at it, .and,
sure enough, bonanza, Hayward “pocket,” had struck of an
immense or pure
gold. it Jones, the richest with his mine experience, California. saw
was iu
They sent to San Francisco for Eugene
Kelly, then a young mining expert of
great ability. Ho pronounced it the
greatest strike in his time. Hayward
had found the New Amador, the richest
gold mine in the world. He sold it to
Wells, Fargo and some others for
$5,000,000, anfl the day the sale was
made lie gave Jones $1,250,000. Jones
afterva d married Hayward’s daughter.
But this is tlie history of the New Ama¬
dor, and of the great start in life of
Jones of Nevada.
Not One Missing.
It is a common belief in Mexico that
Moiitezunia, at tlie -time ot the Cortes’s
invasion, ordered all liis treasures to l>e
hidden. After his order had been
obeyed, he put to death those employed
in carrying it out, so that only two per¬
sons, himself and hiding-place. the high-priest, were
cognizaut of the
Occasionally stories aro told which
seem to indicate that some of the Mexi¬
can Indians know where Montezuma’s
treasures are conoealed. Some fifty
years ago, a priest received Several valu
uahle contributions to his church from
the poorest oi liis congregation. The
priest learning through the confessional
that the valuables were procured from a
cave, and were supposed to be part of
Montezuma’s Treasures. Ho persuaded
a man to lend him to tho cave, on con¬
dition that ho, the priost, should ho
blindfolded.
The clever priest, thinking to outwit
the Mexican guide, took several rosaries
with him, and contrived to drop the
beads one by one on the road. After
seeing the cave and its treasures, and
returning home blindfolded, the shrewd
priest was thus addressed by his
shrewder guide;
“I have kept faith with your Rever¬
ence; you had the misfortune to break
your rosary, and drop the beads on the
the way. I picked them will all up, find and
return them to you; you not
one missing. 5
Afraid of Privateers.
A Paris correspondent saya that it is
feared in France that the greatest dan¬
ger in the war with China will arise
from the fact that the Chinese govern¬
ment will lie free to commission Ameri¬
can privateers to prey upon Fronch com¬
merce in all parts of the world, for tin
reason that the United States is not a
party to the Declaration of Paris of
1856.
The Paris compact declares that “pri¬
vateering is and remains abolished.”
The original parties to it were Great Bri¬
tain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria,
Sardinia, and Turkey. It has since beer
signed by nearly all the other European
Powers and most of the South American
States. China is not a party to the dec¬
laration, and hence China may issue
letters of marque to privateers to prey
upon French commerce. In like man
ner Franee is free to send out privateers
against Chinese commerce. But, as the
commerce of China is insignificant corn
* are( j w qh that of France, a resort to
ivatee ring would obviously put tin
p> renc jj to a very great disadvantage,
jj or the United States a party to the
Declaration of 1856. This government
refused to agree to the compact in ite
original form, and although it expressed
a willingness to assent to it with certain
reasonable additions and qualifications
its terms were not accepted abroad and
the qj p i oma tje correspondence on thf
su Bject J was brought e to a close.
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tob]e ■■ Ba „] ;i ( 3 r , ln mi< r to u West
em landlord “that is not suspaased l even
by the best hotels in Chicago. “Yes? what
repliedthe pleased landlord; “and
is that ? “The salt.
DOWN UNDER WATER.
What a Diver Saw that Very Badly Fright¬
ened llim.
“Several years ago, about the begin
uin’ of the war,” says a diver. “I got an
order to go down to New Orleans, and
from there down the Gulf, to overhaul
a steamer that had gone down. She’d
been claimed by a party who found her
topmasts out: but whether she was full
of cotton or iron, a gunboat or merchant¬
man, worth a pound or a thousand no¬
body called knowod. I was loafin’ at a place
Petit Arise at the time, and was
on the spot in less’n four days, with a
young lingo lad, who, accordin’ to liis own
and general talk, was barehanded
the best diver in the State. At that
time mostly hells was used, but we didn’t
have any, and concluded to try and float
her by haulin’ down kegs. So we laid
along-side Grampus—he in a schooner, and young
was a black chap—offered
to go down and see how she looked. I
gave him a hook block to fasten to her to
lead the barrels, and with a ten-pound
bar as a sinker he slipped off her to’ gal¬
lant crosstrees, which was all clear at
ebb tide. For about two minutes I fol¬
lowed him by the air bubbles, and saw
lie was a workin’ aft, and then all at
once come a reg’lar boil, and I knew he’d
bust, and a second later up he come,
risin’ half liis length out, and gavo a
veil that made the cook spile his duff and
brought all hands up a-standin’. I first
thought a shark had him, but afore I
could say a word ho was alongside and
jerked aboard. I ain’t goiri’ to say his
wool was turned white, but ef ever a
black man turned palo that was the
timo. He was literally failin’ to pieces,
a-shakin’ and groanin’, and I’m blessed
of he wouldn’t a-oome all apart ef we
hadn’t stopped his guff with aguardi¬
ente.
“ ‘Don’task mo to go down agin,’ was
the first word ho spoke. ‘I’se seen do
debble; jos’ put mo arihore. ’
“When ho kind o’ cooled down he let
on how he struck the fore hatch and
found her a side wheeler, and when ho
worked aft, there was the devil, horns
and all, a-breathiu’ fire out of tho starn
companion way. Of course we all gev
him the laugh, but ho wouldn’t go down
again, feel an’, kind betweonyou and mo, I hegnn
to o’ queer about it myself.
But there wasn’t much hanky-panky
about me, so I dropped over, and in fif
teen seconds was on deck. I swum aft,
and when I turned tho way I’m dangod
ef I didn’t for a minute get the cold
chills. It was kind o’ dark, and there,
a-lookin’ out of the way, was a critter
with horns, and all covered with fire.
And what do you reckon it was ? Give it
up? Well, it wasn’t nuthin’ but a big
Texas steer a-lodged in the hold. His
head was clear and a-wubblin’ up and
down, and his long horns a-scrapiu’
against tho woodwork. Ho certain did
look the old hoy himself.”
“But tho light,” suggested the re
porter. light. You critter
“Aye, the see, tho
was covered witli this ’ere phophores
cence, that you see on dead fish. She
was an old coaster, loaded with cattle,
about two hundred head I reckoned, and
the wreckers gev, her up, an’ I believe
she was raised two years after by a Mex¬
ican company.”
How Tiirpcutluo U i>bj?inetl.
They don’t tap a turjieutine tree like V
they do a sugar maple, but go at it With \
an ax instead of an auger. They first chop
a pocket receptacle at the which foot of holds the trunk, about making
a a quart.
If the tree is large pockets—nearly enough they always make
three of these
two—carefully leaving a few inches of
uncut space botweon them so as to pre¬
serve tlie circulation and life of the treo.
This cutting is all that is done tho first
year. About three quarts will he taken
from each of such trees, and this pro
duet is tho best quality the dip," treo ever
yields. It is calle d “virgin and
is used for fine varnishes.
The next year Hie Carolinian comes
round with liis little hatchet in the shape
of an instrument of steel with which lie
scarifies tho tree for about three feet
above each pocket, inoculate as him a doctor might the
do a patient to against,
small-pox. This starts the blood of the
pine afresh; and *'t again fills the pockets
and is borne away to tho distillery. The
next season the process is repeated higher
up, and so on, as long as the tree can
stand it, or as the necessity depend. and Most expense
of getting higher up of
the trees are ‘cut but three times. Of
course many are worked out. Manv
have lieen killed by burning. A match
applied to tho residuum in the pockets
will kindle a fire which will only go out
when tlie tree is burned or charred to
the green.
A Notable Western State.
Iowa is so filled up with people from
the Eastern States that the following
item will interest many of our readers:—
The semi-centennial celebration in Bur¬
lington, Iowa, on the 1st inst. was a
very spirited occasion. It was in com¬
memoration of the treaty with the Sac
aud Fox Indians, which went into effect
on June 1, 1833, and which gave over
most of the present State of Iowa to the
occupation of white men. The State has
good reason for in congratulation. Fifty
years ago it was the possession of the
savages. TlWrQ six years ago it had
only just been admitted to the Union as
a State, nlth a population population of some
116,000. l'o-day it has a of
1,600,000, and of a singular excellent
character, sober, intelligent, energetic,
and prosperous. During her brief career
as a State, Iowa has furnished to the na¬
tional Government some of the ablest
men that have taken part in it. Seven¬
ty-five thousand of her people fonght in
the national armies, of whom more than
12,000 gave their lives to the country.
A few years since Iowa was on
the extreme frontier of the great North
west. To-day she must be ranked with
the main body/if the vast peaceful army
which is moving steadily to take posses
sion < f the continent, and in vigor, people in*
telligence, and civic virtue her
give assurance sf a future progress even
^ore impressive than that of iier com
paratively ‘ brief pa«t ----■“
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Ax Old Ose.—A n
chimney wm taken doj^ recently to a
one story house in IXering, .name, anti
the twe space ve e jt^Joowpwd q made a room