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CRAWFORDVILLE - - GEORG f A.
WRITTEN IN BLOOD.
(|ctcNUefl , i Letter »• lb* U*nr-H»w n
Prlsonrr Ynlurrf n lillwipue of ilie »Ly.
A St. Petersburg dispatch of Oct. 22,
savs that the new Nihilist journal, the
Messenger of the Will of the People,
contains a letter from the Nihilist pris¬
oner Netehaieff to the Czar. Tho origin¬
al letter was written in blood. It says:
“Sib: On taking charge of tho fort¬
ress, the new Commandant Ganetsky
addressed his subordinate officers in the
ravelin on the event of March 13. The
character of the speech, and also the
fact that it was made in the hall not far
from my cell, showed to mo that it was
intended for my ears. And, indeed, I
beard every word of it. But this intimi¬
dation did not reach its aim. Tho indi¬
rect threatening of Gen. Ganetskydid not
frighten me. It showed me that, under
the influence of the late events, even the
highest representatives lost their heads of and the
Administration have
feeling of jiersonal dignity. I would not
mind tho trick of His Excellency if, for
no fault of mine, he did not aggravate
my lot, which has already exhausted my
endurance.
“The Alexis ravelin is a secret prison.
No supervision is allowed there. The
late Commandant Baron Meidel, used to
restrain to a certain degree, the thievish
Warden Philimonoff. While fulfilling
his hard duty, he did not torture the
prisoners to gratify his personal cruelty.
But after that speech took from of Gnnefsky, last the
thief Philimonoff ns the
crust of bread, saying of imptidenlly Commandant. that
such was the order the
In order to get in favor with the new
Commandant, tlie officers of the ravelin
have tried their utmost to flppress politi¬
cal prisoners in all possible ways. For
montlis they have kept me in my cell,
without permitting that me to see daylight.
Ganetsky ordered even the warm¬
ing-holes in mv cell should be closed, on
the pretence that. I might there get soot
and make ink of it. The upper pane of
my window was oloan, and through it I
could see a part of the sky. It is nec¬
essary to experience the horrors of a
Inn g solitary confinement in order to nn
derstaml wliat relief a prisoner gets from
the sight of passing clouds and shining
Btars. Ganetsky closed that pane. The
two Commandants, six of the chiefs of
gendarmes, and even the chief of the Su¬
preme Commission, Gen. Melikoff, while
visiting me, saw the clean pane and did
not think the State was letter in danger on ac¬
count of it. [Here the was illegi¬
ble.!
“Ten years already I have suffered
here. The further aggravation of my
lot cannot proceed but only from from any the political cruelty
consideration,
of the man to whom you have entrusted
the fortress. Oenernl Mezontoeff was
my personal enemy. For two years lie
kept me in heavy chains, and yet he did
not shut me up out of sight of the sky.
I had another enemy, General Potaiwiff.
He insulted me in words, ami I slapped
his face. Of course no hated me, yet
he did not take revenge. He knew that
to take revenge upon a man who is bound
arms and legs would bo an action fit only
for a wild beast, and General Potapoff
a mau anybow. Gonotskv enjoys
the sight of suffering prisoners. Perhaps
he expects to bring mo into a state of
despair in order to see tears and the pas¬
sion of helpleHB madness, and to listen
to insane shoots of rage frojn me like
those I hear from a neighboring cell,
where a comrade at the end of a long
confinement lias liecomo a lunatic. Oh,
no. I will not treat Ganetsky to such a
pleasnre. hnndreth I hopo of he the will calm preserve and even self
a part bo
oontrol I possees when ho shall car¬
ried to a scaffold.
“In 1875 the Government requested
me to express my views on tho (date of
affairs in Russia. In my memorial sent
to your late father I explained that the
time of absolute power was gone, that
the unlimited monarchy was undermined,
and that a liberal Constitution might
yet gave Russia from the horrors of revo¬
lution. I insisted upon the need of lib¬
eral institutions which, and which only,
could stop the series of daring attempts.
I said then that in a few years even a
Constitution wonld l>o too late. Stilrae
qnent events have justified my views.
The reaction which set in after the catas¬
trophe of Much 13 was a matter of
course. It was in the nature of things.
•But, being carried too far. even the re¬
action will bring about quite unexpected
results. I do not expect any relief from
the new administration. I shall not lie
surprised if my lot lieoomes still harder
on account of the present letter. Louis
XYI. realized the horrors to which tho
prisoners of the Hostile were subjected
only when he became himself a political
prisoner. Skrok Neti'raiefe.
"I write this with my nail in my
blood. 8. N.”
In December, 1882, Netehaieff was
tortured by the Warden, and soon after
wai found dead.
Nearly Buried.—A ghastly story is
reported lrom Mscheno, iu Bohemia. A
mau, who was apparently dead, had just
been lowered into the grave, when the
mourners were horrified to see theoofliu
lid begin to move, and the liueu shroud
gradually appear, until the corpse at
iwt sat lip. The man heard said that all that he had had
throughout his illness
been said. He was aware they thought
him dead, but he was unable to make
any sign. From the graveyard the man
was taken home, and there is now every
prospect of his recovery.
Poor Ia—T he Fenobecot Indians,
who have been a part of the history of
Maine for 300 years, have intermarried
until they have become almost white.
Oidtown, the seat of their mission, has
dDUrfa sa d from a population of 8,000 in
1625 to s mere hamlet of a few hundred
•ouls in 1883.
God is glorified, not by our all groans, goes!
ten onr thanksgivings; gxxsi claim and
thought ami actum a natural
alliance with good oheer.
LIKE A. LITTLE LIBERIA
A COMMV OF COLORED PEOJFI.B IN
TIIK METROPOLIS.
kept hr a White Jinn—The Grades of
its .Society.
In a large city like New York, says
the New York Times, it is customary
for the lower classes of each foreign
race to dwell together in some particular principal
portion of the town. In the
American cities the colored people follow
this rule. More persons of that race are
to be seen on Thompson and Bleecker
streets and on Sixth avenue than in auy
other parts of New York. But the lo¬
cality which is nlost thoroughly given here
up to citizens of African descent
consists of the three little thoroughfares
which are mentioned in the Htreet
Directory as MinettarStreet, Minetta
lane, and Minetta-place, respectively.
This loenlity which may properly be
called Minetta, is a very peculiar one.
Though an extremely quiet place, it
links three busy thoroughfares, in which
the street car bells keep up an nnceasing
jingle. Minetta-street begins at Bleecker Church,
street opposite the Universalist
and, turning at a slight angle abont half
way up its length,emptieaintoMinetta- the foot of Sixth
lane, which runs from
avenue to No. 124 Macdongal street.
The street and lane form a figure T,
which, owing to the angle in the former,
is a little shaky al>out the knees. The
length of the street is about equal to
that of the average block, while the lane
is considerably shorter. A short open
passage leads from Minetta-street, near
its head, to Minetta-place, which runs
parallel to the street, and is of miniature
proportions. Minetta is old-fashioned lo¬
a very
cality. The inhabitants have kept it in
nearly the name condition as they found
it a number of years ago. The most
notable exception to the rule is a five
story apartment house of fashionable
build, which overlooks the rest of
Minetta. Here dwell the aristocracy of
tho colony. But few white people Jive
within the limits of Minetta, and they
quite properly look uj>on themselves as
belonging to an alien race. They con¬
sequently feel obliged to submit to the
domination of the more powerful na¬
tives. On a pleasant afternoon, when
the pavements swarm with dusky
skinned children at play, the white-faced
little ones are obliged to keep their dis¬
tance, and when allowed to join in the
sport they must subject themselves to
the discriminative rules laid down by
the young lords of Minetta. Some of
tho young oolored lads aro provided
witli bicycles, out of the way of which
it behoove* the white child to keep it¬
self. Many of tho youngsters are well
dressed, and their clothes appea r to have
been made for them. While occupied
in manly sports hues they appear skin to advan¬
tage. The dark of their make
the oolorless faces of their humble white
companions half-baked. appear Many by oontrast of the maidens tallowy
and
of Minetta are comely, even if they can
not be truthfully spoken ot bloom¬
ing. The men appear as a rule quite re
homes injectable. in Mftetta. Scry few The na#r«> women loafers are in¬ ,
dustrious. Many who have time to
snare after attending to their domestic
duties earn considerable sums by taking
in washing or going out to work. Some
are cooks in restaurants, while their hus¬
bands are waiters, mechanics, washers
in white, or laborers. Near the head of
Minetta street is a neat, one-story gro¬
cery store, which is kept by n colored
man. There is but one bar-room to bo
found in Minetta, and this is a small one
and difficult of access. To the credit of
the neighborhood, bo it said that this is
not On kept pleasant fiy a oolored days the man. windows of the
neighborhood ore full of dark faces, or¬
namented with white teeth and bright
eyes. In cold weather, happy little
“ooons” flatten their noses against the
well-oleaued window panes. Old women
who have once been slaves and still
oover their heads with bandana handker¬
chiefs aro frequently seen at the win¬
dows. The wild whoop of the licensed
render will bring them to the doors brthe
score. Even among the best people of
Minetta the prejudice against The poor most for
eigners is very strong, ac
oomplislied colored lady will not hesitate
to leave her door and scold like a fish
woman at tho slovenly Italian gnrhage
buuter who has the hardihood to dese¬
crate her osh-barrei with his loathsome
hook. No hawker of razors would d»r<
to eater the precincts of Minetta and bv
his presence remind the ordinarily quiet
matron of the weakness of the colored
man for secreting a razor in his boot ns
a weapon of defense. Old-fasliioued
cellar doom, opening on to the highway,
abound along the street and lane. Old
fashioned stoops rise from one side 01
the houses, instead of from the fr<u“
leaving tho approach to the basemen!
open. Old-fashioned knockers still hang
on many of the doors. Their marks
still remain on others, although long
since removed. The houses are low,
mauy lieing not more lhau two stories
high. The fronts are of brick and are
generally quite neat, but many of the
1 mcks are rather shabby and are of wood.
Lines run out from the rear windows in
all directions, and on these are dried
the clothes which are brought there from
nil portions of the city to lie cleansed.
Even this little Lilieria has its aristo¬
cratic and its low quarters- Minetta
place may be deserilnxl as the Fifth ave¬
nue of the colony, while the Ians is the
Bowery. Minetta place is very neat.
The houses are of brick, with green
bUnda and clean steps. The walk in
front of them is kept scrupulously neat,
Ainong the luxuries of the place neatlv- are a
pump and a lamp-post, A In
painted wooden fence hides the yards
the rear of the houses which front on
Minetta street. But the view from the
winuiws of # the place is spoiled , . by AX the
shabby, nnpamted backs heavflv-loaded of the opposite Imre
housos and the long drying
from which float hundreds of
patrician undergarments. These look
ch^au, but the fact 80
r> 5 >eulyex!>osed give* the scenes the houses vulgar
air. The contrast between
fronting on the place and those belong¬
ing to the street is very striking. Mi
netta street is much more respectable The in
appearsuoo than the lane. latter
nkrt a cheap look. Two or three rather
uninviting-looking courts run out from
it. One of these is so crowded with
clothes-lines that it is almost impossible
to see the sky from the ground. Signs
in front of the doors are quite common
iu the lane. One ef them reads: “Mrs.
Anthony, Washing and Ironing, Going fol¬
out to Day’s Work.” Another is as
lows: “Fashionable Dress and Cloak
Maker. Ladies’ Suits Made Over Equal
to New.” Another announces the fact
that “Cheap Dress-making and Family
Sewing” is done inside. At the entrance
of a basement is the sign: “Mason-work
and Plastering Done,” with a slate over
it for orders. “Lodging for Gentlemen”
is on another sign. Other signs an¬
nounce that artists who have devoted
themselves to chimney-sweeping and
whitewashing respectively are to be
found within. *
Minetta has the appearance of
been a suburb many years before
surrounding streets were built up. The
houses have an ancient look and their
architecture is that of a past generation.
Its former inhabitants were
driven from their quiet retreat buildings by the
advance of business, the of
which sprang np around them on all
sides. Something of an ancient air
respectability still seems to linger there,
and it is still comparatively snrronnds it. free from
the bustle which A
steps will suffice to take one of its in
habitants from his home to he noisy
outside world.
The Opium Curse.
The latest case of the terrible work of
opium that is, the most notable that has
come to light recently, is that of a mid¬
dle aged woman Who, born in affluence,
weaitn and refinement, becomes a slave
to the opium demon, and sinks in the
lowest walks of life. The woman
from a home in the State of New York,
with her two children, to that Denver, Gol.
When she had arrived in city a year
ago she had forty thousand dollars in
nn) ney, many valuableldiamonds and a
large number of rich the and Windsor costly dresses. Hotel,
She took rooms at
the moat fashionable and costly in the
city, end soon began to indulge her
f alBe and unnatural appetite for opium.
She went from tho Windsor lower and
lower for her place of living until now
her money and jewels are all gone, her
honor “or fled and she and her little ones, heaA
whose sake a natural mother's’
Z would have object kept her from her degrada
all are of charity. The case
in its details is indeed one that ex
cites sympathy as the woman is the
daughter of a prominent army officer
and has been sent by the Woman’s
Humane Society to her fathers' home.
She could not be trusted with a ceut of
money or be sent alone, so great was her
determination to get the drug which
had wrought her ruin as she wonld
pawn anything and everything to ob
tain it, so a lady was Bent east with her
to see that she and her children were
again in the keeping ot her relatives and
friends. A movement to abolish the im
portation of opium should be iuaugu
rated and a severe punishment iufiicted
on those who deal in the drug for other
than medicinal purposes. Tliis drug is
on the list of secret sms. It is taken on
the sly at first, but in a hoit t me
aud degrade? * For tins, mi otbei
reason it is worsethan wmsky, and besidi ot
that it leaves its mark on the children
^ZZph^fcS^ndmontelly’wtak There is argument
hiiman bemgs. off but thousands no
in favor W: of reasons
against 2ft the of opium and the puniX stri*
legislation with the severest
mentis should be promulgated Ugilmst it
How Soldiers are Swindled.
CLAIM AGENTS EXACTING FEES FOR WORK
THAT IS NEVER DONE.
Judge Ferris, the Second Auditor of
tiro Treasury, has submitted to the
Secretary his annual report, iu which he
says that on July 1, 1882, he had 38,440
accounts and claims on hand ; that 27,-
502 were received during the fiscal year
1883, that 24,104 were disposed Jahi of, leav¬
ing 41,028 unsettled on 80. The
net amount drawn from the Treasury in
payment of claims and in advances to dis¬
bursing officers was $23,878,043.49. The
Auditor states at some length the condi¬
tion of the public and business fifty intrusted to
liis charge asks for additional
clerks to enable him to dispose of ac¬
cumulated work, there being more un¬
settled claims on hand than at any time
since 1872.
Judge Ferris says that not one in
twenty of all the pending claims was
filed upon the suggestion or by the
voluntary ordinary action that of the establish claimant. the The
causes rela¬
tion of attorney and client do not exist.
The attorney seeks the client-. An agent
is employed and to solicit business in a cer¬
tain section his advent is announced
by advertisement Ho is armed with
blanks ready to be filled up, and repre¬
sents to the nni’iformed, more geuerallv
the colored soldiers or their heirs, that
they have not been paid all that is justly
due them ; that some new law or new
construction of existing law entitles
them to more bounty or further pay. A
small fee in advance is required, general¬
ly $2 or $3, sometimes more, in fact all
that can l>e got, with the promise that
no more will be demanded unless the
claim be allowed. The fee is paid, the
application filled, and in the end rejected.
It is a very common thing to receive in
one package fifty or a hundred.,such
claims. The alt', rney rarely looks After
them, as it does not pay. He has’ re¬
ceived his little advance fee and it pays
better to hunt up more victims.
Judge Ferris says that another class of
purwxirthlessclinnis claims for bounties is constantly already increas- paid—
mg
imd renews his former recommendatioD
‘ i)f * be Presage of a law of limitation,
A . " ... R^eition.-Two „ , Mormon r
nnssiounnes reoemir presented tliem
^Jvesat tho door of Farmer de Armond
iu rrsuk lin Countv. night.* Indiana, and asked
to ^ owr He told them they
cmld not W' entertained. They insisted
on n'main in g. He went out to the bam
and brought in a corn-knife. “If you
, <flv j'jj eu t xour heads off,’’ said ha
They loft.-AVn.‘«oAy Journal.
-4 Mvskeoon young man , has married . ,
his aunt. Now let some paragrspher bc
gin calling the man uncle to himself
brother-in-law to his own mother, and
son-in-law to hia own grandmother.
IF.
If you your lips
Would keep from dip*,
Five things observe with care;
Of whom you speak,
To whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.
If you your ears
Would save from jeers,
These things keep meekly bid;
Myself and I.
And mine and my,
And how I do or did.
— Christian A dvocate.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Our content is our best having.
Keep potatoes in a cool, dark place,
Apples keep best on shelves,
Lemon-juice will usually remove mil
dew; place the fabric in the sun.
A HAla , SOMB woman plea8es the eye;
b t 8 ^ “ charis the “ heart,
not until you are told of . oppor
Unities to do good; inquire after them,
Love without esteem cannot reach far,
1180 very high; it is an angel with
one mn 8- *
“Yes,” said the merchant, “I’m in a
,great hour hurry. I’ve got to go and wait an
in a barber’s shop.”
A Little Bock man found a cake of
soap and for days carried it as a curi
as nobody could tell what it was.
"It’s a weigh! have,” remarked the
butcher as he let his band rest on the
scales while weighing the meat.
He whose first emotion, on the view
of au excellent production, is to under
value it, will never have one of his own
to show,
“The dog has queer taste in matters
of dress; he wears his pants in his
mouth.” Yes, and the man’s pants, too,
sometimes.
It is said that a hot shovel held over
furniture removes white spots. It will
remove young gentlemen callers
when they stay too late.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill
manners the'eompuny, as flattery. If you flatter all
you please none. If you
only one or two, you affront the
rest.
VI > ? , the ° ld « eutle ,, “ aa W ,
tis daughter is coming on and he iras
Ulke 8na our P 8 advice l ,aok at and let * wel1 *1 enough, b
enou «
alone.
Profane swearing is a voluntary sin.
Most erring people, when they do wrong,
count upon some good to be derived
from their conduct, but for profanity
there is no excuse.
Old Gent— “Ah, Mrs. B., did you
keep a diary during your visit to
the country ?” Mrs. B., indignantly—
“No, sir, I didn’t. The family bought
milk from the neighbors. ”
At the roadmaster’s office a few days
since a report of material used was re
ceived with this indorsement: “Charge
to Mrs. Lane’s account." Investigation
,vod that miscellaneous account was
| ^nded.
, AT waa quite rigM whon he said that
1S a great blessing that night never
i |i'n Mere vith an llonest man’s work? but
[ ays f when the day’s work is over and
, el ow ls aU ti red 0llt .
Howells and Mark Twain are. to com
hme . and write a book on American
bumor / Bball 8 et out of the bum
* right . away, while we are. yet safe.
American humor won Utand much more
' vntul 6 about .-Lowell Chhr.cn.
“Handsome is that handsome does,”
quoted a Madison avenue man to his
wife. “Yes,” replied she, in winning
tones. “For instance, the man who is
always ready to hand some money to his
wife for fall clothes.” She won.
It must be admitted—and the fact is
greatly to our credit—that Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge is being lionized al¬
most as much in this country as the
English prize fighters and pedestrians
who preceded him .—Norristown Her¬
ald.
A Little Coal Mine. —DickLuke is
the owner of a whole coal mine in
Michigan, and yet he is not much of a
capitalist, He personally for it is a works very the small only prop¬
erty. tun¬
nel, into which he crawls in the morn¬
ing, coal to before get night. out an average of a ton of
Writing Uuder Difficulties.
Wilkie Collins writes most of his
Novels with his own hand, but now and
then rheumatic gout gives him such
pain that he cannot hold a pen, and then
ne employs an amanuensis. The greater
part oi “the Moonstone'’ was dictated,
and Mr. Collins says it is the only one
of his works which he has not read.
The recollection of the agony he suffered
Vhile dictating it deters him. “For a
long time, while that book was writing,”
he says, "I had the utmost difficulty in
getting an amanuensis who would go on
with his work without interrupting him¬
self to sympathize with me. 1 am
much like*a beast in many ways—if I lay I
am in pain, I must howl; and, as
in the bed in the corner yonder, I would
often break forth in a yell of anguish.
Then my amanuensis would urge me to
compose myself and not to write any
more. Between the paragraphs I would
go along nicely enough, having in my
pOnd just what I wanted to say, and
these interruptions would drive me mad.
Finally a young girl, not more than
seventeen, offered to help me, and I
consented that she should, in case she
was sure she could let me howl and cry
out in mv pain while she kept her place
at the table. She did it, too, and "The
Moonstone’ finally came to an end.
But I never read it—never.”
Blasting Fruit Tress. — Sufficient
nas l*een said on autumn planting in for¬
mer months. How long it may be con¬
tinued will depend upon tho season.
Wherever the soil is in good condition
trees may should still they be be planted, if the but ground by no
means set
is partly frozen and unfit to come in con¬
tact with the roots. In such condition
of the soil it will be better to heel-iu the
trees until spring.
--—-
Postal.—T he estimated postal reve¬
nue for the next fiscal year is $47,104
078, and deficiency ttje expenditure of $2,958,11L $50,062,189,
leaving a
JOHNSON, THE PACER.
Oily 92*000 ConiniiiMti on for a Ilorf
Sale*
[From the Denver Tribune. J
Some men are unfitted by nature to be
the owner of a fast horse, and Mr.
Mather, who recently sold the pacei
Johnson to Commodore Kittson, is one
of them. Mr. Mather is a banker of
Berlin, Wis., and discovered the now
famous pacer in that sylvan nook some
three years ago. At* that time Mr.
Mather was the owner of a pair of gray
driving horses, whose speed he rated at
about a mile in three minute®. It was
while driving these moderately rapid
steeds up the road one day that he first
saw Johnson. The owner of the pacer,
a man of moderate means, conveyed to
Mr. Mather the information that the bay
gelding suggested could go along pretty well, and
that the ownership of a half
interest in him would be a good thing,
even for a banker. Mr. Mather, judg¬
ing everything in the the way of horse flesh
from the standard of gray team, told
his neighbor to start up the road with
the pacer while he (Mather) kept along¬
side with the gjays, and noted how the
horse went. ft is hardly necessary to
say that Mr. Mather viewed the per¬
formance from a considerable distance
in the rear, but tliis fact so
him that he became a half owner in the*
pacer, paying the less than $500 for his
share of animal. Later he secured
the other half, and in the summer of
1882 found himself the owner of a horse
that could go a mile in about 2:15.
Last spring the animal was placed in
Peter Johnston’s hands for training, and
soon after that Mr. E. H. Smith secured
a controlling half in the horse for $5,000.
When the trotters and pacers began op¬
erations in Michigan, Mr. Mather con¬
cluded to go across the lake and see how
his horse would perform. He reached
Detroit in time to see Johnson win his
race with ease. At the Chicago races
Mr. Mather again had the pleasure of
beholding Johnson win, and at the end
of the second heat the entire field that
started against him had been distanced.
Then came a cloud on the hitherto rose
tinted horizon of Mr. Mather’s turf ex¬
perience. At Pittsburgh the horse was
taken sick. Mr. Smith, the other part¬
ner, wanted to buy or sell. Mr. Mather
reflected—and bought out Smith.
Chicago, this fall, Johnson paced a mile
in 2:10. In the mean time Mr. Smith
had secured an agreement from Mr.
Mather, which was to the effect that in
case Smith could sell the horse for over
$18,000 the surplus was to be his com¬
mission on the transaction. Negotiations
with Commodore Kittson were opened,
the price of These Johnson being placed at
$20,000. figures were satisfac¬
tory, provided the horse could show
three good heats. He did that, and
then nothing remained but to pay the
money, Dan Woodmansee was the pay¬
master. Mr. Matfier suggested that the
entire $20,000 be handed over to him
and he would settle with Smith. Mr.
Smith objected gently, but firmly. could He
would take $2,000 and Mr. Mather
have $18,000. At this juncture Mr.
Mather sought consolation and advice
from John Splan, who was one of the
"Does it?” replied Splan. “I think
you aro getting off remarkably cheap.
As a rule, when the boys sell a horse for
a man, they just split the Stnount in two
with the owner.”
“What! Is that really the custom?’
"Certainly. When Barns was sold
for $30,000,‘I got $17,500 he^toio foimy part,”
Mr. Mather wanted to more,
but went across to the Paimeb House
rotunda at a 2:20 gait iu order to sign
the bill of sale. After the sale had been
concluded and the draft for the money
handed over and vouched for by a bank,
the party again fell to chatting. Smith
"Don’t you think,” said Mr.
to Mr. Mather, “that now you have got
all that money you could afford to buy
me a nice cigar ?” to,” the reply,
"I should like was
"but I have only just time to catch my
train,” and a grab was made for his
satchel. John
* You’d better look out,” said
Splan. “Every saudbagger iu Chicago
has been waiting for yon to get that
money, and they are lining the road
from here to the depot now. ”
"Oh, I haven’t got the money,” re¬
plied Mr. Mather, earnestly. "I put it
all in the bank except $15. Good day,
gentlemen.” "Good day,” replied Mr. Smith, “and
God bless you.”
A Little Change.
A wealthy man from the old German
country of Pennsylvania would said think to that me,
says Gath: “You not
in our region it is hard to get domestic
servants, where we have so many strong,
farm-raised native girls to whom work
is the chief education. Yet it is true,
and I attribute it to the radical change
money has effected to the real injury of
the well-to-do people; for of wliat reliable use is
our money if we cannot get
cooks, nurses and maids ? Not many
rears ago we raised the best household
servants in the country and there were
plenty of them at easy wages. Then
we were not so puffed pleasant up with money with
and onr girls had a relation
the family and when their work was
done would come upstairs and Now, hear since what
was being talked abont.
some of us have become rich, they are
no longer invited upstairs and must sit
in the kitchen, and as they are social
animals they will have their company.
They say, ‘they don’t care anything
about us. We* owe them nothing.’
And,” said my friend, “it is rapidly com¬
ing down to a s rt of eight or ten hour
law among servants. certain They will get your with
breakfast at a hour and stay
you till evening, and then they are going
up in the village to have recreation.
The fact is,” said my acqnaintance,
"that they are Americans like ourselves,
and if we want to draw the live on them
they mean to draw it on us. There are
disadvantages about dividing classes.” our repub¬
lican peoole into two
A fragment ot conversation between
Toung girls: “Do you know what a
preface Ts?” “No, do yon ?’’ ‘ ‘Not ex¬
actly; only I know that it is at the be¬
ginning of books.” “Oh, well; then it
must be the same as when we are courted
before entering on marriage.”
CHOPPING DOWN A TREE.
DescriplUiu of the l’roress as Practiced l»
the Maine Woods.
[From the Boston Transcript.]
The chopper works upon one bended
knee. Before beginning to cut, he has
looked to see which way the tree is in¬
clined. For this he steps back a short
distance to where he can see its very top.
If he is in doubt he lifts his ax by the
end of the helve and lets it hang freely
suspended. This gives him a plumb
line by which he measures the inclina¬
tion of the tree. But it is not enough
to determine in what direction the tree
will fall most readily. It may be that
large trees are standing right in the way
of its failing on that side, and against
these the tree will be lodged. It mast
be carried to the one side or the other,
and herein consists one of the mysteries
of woodcraft—the skill to guide a tree in
its fall. He will direct it with the
greatest ease. Having decided where
he wants it to go to avoid the risk of
lodging against other trees, or of being
broken by falling on uneven ground, or
to have it lie so that the logs will be
convenient of removal, the chopper first
undercuts the tree; that is, he cute
upon the side toward which he will have
it fall, and in such a manner that the
line of the kerf shall be exactly at right
angles with the line along which the
tree is to lie. If the tree stands nearly
perpendicular, and has no inclination to
fall as he wishes, the chopper cuts a little
beyond the heart on that side. By do¬
ing this he removes the base when the
tree is ready to fall, and rests upon a
base of but an inch or two in breadth, se
much? from the center of the stump.
The effect of this will be very great in.
moving the base so that the center of
gravity will fall on the side desired.
Though he works in so cramped a pos¬
ture, the chopper cuts the stump so level
and so smooth he thinks his little boy
could spin his top upon it.
Having undercut the tree with the
greatest care, the woodman now changes
his position a little, but remains on the
same side, rests on is, his other the knee, and
shifts hands, that wields ax with
the other hand forward. He now cuts
upon the other side, leaving the stump
two or three inches higher according as
he wishes to gain advantage for the last
few strokes. The work goes on with
little concern until the base is no
thicker than a aimed plank and full qnite the as even,
then a blow is at center,
and the chopper looks quickly at the top
to note the effect. If he perceives a
tremor in the trunk, or if a bit of bark
or moss is loosened from its hold, he
knows now every stroke will tell, and he
aims these with the greatest precision.
Soon as ever the top bows to its fall he
marks the direction to which it is mov¬
ing. If he wishes to bring it more to¬
ward him he strikes a blow upon the
further edge; if to cany it further from
him, the blow is given upon the side
that is nearer. These last strokes need
to be given with great nicety. If fee¬
ble, they will fail to effect their purpose;
if of too great force, the tree will be sev¬
ered from the stump upon is that side, and
then all cor <rol of it lost at once, and
it plunges Sdindly forward. A tall tree
Jjkp the pi ■ is broken from the stamp
shorter trees. In its descent the pine
acquires at its top lift a centrifugal force so
powerful as to the tree from the
stump and carry it forward five or six
feet before it reaches the ground. When
it does come to the earth the top and the
butt strike at the same time, and the
tree lies half buried in the snow’.
Beauty and the Beast.
A king had a son named Kusa, who
was heroicaby strong, but who, unfor¬
tunately. “possessed the 18 signs of
ugliness, and a face like that of a lion.”
Iu order that the youth might not know
how hideous he was, he was brought up
without ever having seen a mirror or
even the surface of standing water. And
when he married, he was ordered never
to show himself to liis wife in the day¬
time, or by artificial light, lest she
should find that she was wedded
to a monster. After a time, however,
the curiositv due of the Tibetan Psyche was
aroused, night she lighted a When lamp
and covered it up with a bowl.
her husband arrived she lifted the bowl,
and then for the first time she saw that
he had “the eighteen marks of unsight¬
liness and a face like a lion’s jowl,” so
she exclaimed:
“A demon ! a demon 1” and fled away
to her father’s bouse.
Sorrowfully did her deserted husband
seek to recover her. Several times he,
unrecognized, won bet heart by his ad
dress. But whenever she saw his face
she always uttered the same cry and
fled. At last he displayed such heroic
qualities in fighting against her father’s
foes, that the Princess thought excellently :
“As this youth Kusa is
endowed with boldness and courage,
why should I dislike him ?
So “she took a liking for him,” and
returned to live with him. All went
well for a time. But at length Kusa
went down to a pool one day to bathe.
Catching sight of the reflection of his
face in the water, he said to himself,
“As I have the 18 signs of nncomeliness
and a face like a lion, and as on that ac¬
count the Princess takes no pleasure in
me, it is needless that such n one as I
should remain alive. I will go and put
mvself to death.” Thereupon he en¬
tered into a copse and was about to hang
liimself, when Indra interfered and pre¬
sented him with a jewel which, when
worn upon his forehead, endowed him
with personal beauty. After which he
lived happily with*his admiring wife.
The story has been considerably dis¬
torted in its change from a mythological belonged,
to a moral tale. It originally of Indian
no doubt, to the large group >ed the for
legends iu which are deserfi
tunes of a brilliant and generally Divine- for
being, who is forced to assume a
time a sombre or even repulsive all appear¬ event*
ance, and to live on earth, at
during the day-time, as a hideous man
or even as so inferior a creature as a
pig or a frog, until at last the s r
wSiich binds him is broken, usually his- m
consequence of something done husband by be
w ife, and the long-degraded bright and glorious.*—
comes once more
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