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The Wilkins ville Advance 1 .
VOLUME I.
THE KTAUK DRIVI K S STOltV,
BY WYOMING KIT.
I know it’s presumin’ for one rich as me
For to talk to a lady so grand ;
It’s jist like an imp from Satan’ 8 domains
Chinnin’ one from tha heavenly land!
But you’ve axed for my story, ma’ am, neat and per
lite,
And I’ll tell it the best thet I kin;
Leavin’ out all thet’s rough or of vulgar degree,
Sklppin’over all techos of sin.
I cum to these mountains in ’3°, and hyar
I’ve remained as yer see ever sence;
I drove on the Overland Line ’til the keers
Slung the coaches ’way over the lence.
An’ then 1 tried minin’,'an’ went through inv pile
In a manner most decidedly flat;
Then [ chopped on that lay, an’ got in fur to herd
Texas cattle up tliar on the Platte.
“ From the States?" do you ask? ves, I fust saw the
light
In Ohio, an’ right thar I stayed
Till I tired o' the civilized rocket, ye see;
Couldn’t coon to legitimate trade.
Then I packed up my duds an’ bid—someone - good
An’ headed my hoss for the West.
An’ cum to these mountains to buck agin luck—
To swallow my dose with the rest!
“ Got a wife?” lookee hyar, ma’am- I’d rather not
talk
On sich subjects as that, iur ye see,
moutn’t be Matterin’ to let out the truth;
It perhaps’d reflect upon me.
Got an object in axin,” ye say? Wal, I ewnr!
I can’t see how I'd interest you;
An’ I guess—eh? “ you must know?” Wal, then,
wife ma’am, thet I had
A was noble an’ true.
Ye see, ’war like this: When I lit-ed in the States
Somehow I war aii oulen lueb,
Au’ 1 stood in with nothin’ hut cussed hard times,
No matter what racket I struck;
Till at lust. I gin up au’ concluded to leave —
An’ Mary approved o’ the plan,
An’ Bed, “ Go along, Tom, an’ when ye git rich
Ye'li find yer companion on httu’. ”
But the same cussed luck follered right in my trail,
Fur So I 1 jist wanted quit a writin ’ back home—
the folks tliar to think White wai
dead.
An’ continue as usual to roam.
I strayed hyar an’ thar—with no settled place—
Fur to camp—with no object in view;
No ambition to rastle fur more than enough
To grub me—indeed, ma’am, it’s true!
“ I>o I Jove Mary yit?” Why, ma’am—(darn it all,
Thet smoke keeps a smartin' my eves,
Makes ’m water as though I war drappin’ sum
When weep —
the wind’s south thet smoke oilers flies).
4i What an answer?" Wal, ma’am, i inns' say (darn
thet smoke)—
I mils’ say thet in all these long years
She’s hin right in niy thoughts, au’ many’s the night
I lay Ihinkin’ oi Mary—in tears.
Her picter I carry right hyar in my heart—
Jist a thought of her fills me with bliss,
An’ the. day grows as dark as the bottomless pit
When I think p’raps she’s dead afore this.
I’ve treated her skaddy, but, ma’am, ’twar hard
luck
Thet made me shake home in thet style,
An’ I’m hopin’ till yit the keerds ’ll soon change
An’ begin to run right nrtcr a while!
An’ if ever I git jist a small stake ahead
I’m agoiu’ to toddle buck thar.
An’ I’ll ax Mary’s pardon an’ settle right down,
An’ be decent—I will, ma’am, I’ll swar!
What’s that! lookee hyar, ma’am; great heavens!
Yer jist face turn
more around ter this light!
Hist yer veil - great Lord of all marev above!
Why, Maiv Elizabeth White!
—Detroit Free Press.
THE CUCKOO S SONG.
Ten o’clock had just struck in all the
clocks of tho little town of H--, in
the canton of Berne, and a metalic un¬
dulation seemed still to vibrate in the
air, prolonging from itself from house to
house, street to street, to indicate
that the morning was advancing. The
streets were crowded with passers-by,
workmen, peasants, lab rers and idlers,
rich and poor. This little town was but
a merchants great capital uncovered on a small scale. The
thir goods and re¬
moved the dust of the night. The gos¬
sips the midst passed from one door to another in
of the universal activity, and
each one on crying good-morning said
little evil of one, a great deal of another,
and thought still more of his interlocu¬
tor-so you see it was the whole of
society in diminutive.
“Ten o’clock,” cried lhe l>ig, brawny
butchef Herman—whose sponge vigor¬
ously wielded was making the slabs of
white marble brilliant where were ranged
the quarters of beef and mutton. “Ten
o’clock! and our neighbor Samuel Stauf¬
fer still sleeps 1 It is astonishing!” His
face, tinged with red fibrils, with its
expressed, heavy, square chin and pale blue eyes,
,l in fact, complete amazement,
That’sso; you are right!” responded
the grocer, who came out on his door
step twisting forward a long cornet of paper and
leaumg a little in order to
phenomenon penetrate more which materially into the
curved and elevated
the brows of the butcher like the arches
of a of bridge his shutters The broker has not raised
one and nothing teems
to be moving in his house; yet his
domestic, Jean Mulh r, is habitually an
early riser, and this is the first time that
11 ? a £\ f 7 e w! 3en beI °, re blW ,\
“Bah! l M hat trade could he , make
this morning? Perhaps the storm of
last nisht hindered his sleeping, and he
is “Oh, makmg up font now.”
what a storm it waal’remarked
thegrocer. “ I scarcely closed my eyes;
the shutters rattled and the hinges
creaked, and bang, a chimney tumbled
into my court. I have rarely heard
such a high wind since I have been in
business here.”
“Without counting,” added the
butcher “the thunder, hail «Dd rain,
one could almost say the devil was con
ducting hisiUtle a dance. And lie accentuated
shook his joke stomach with and aloud laugh, which
shoulders so that
U6 fit on h s chin and cheeks had ter
nWe convulsions.
. SgPh! kT’ Herman, leiiere never e/ say ’ that! It
Oh 1 what superstitious .>? fellow ,
a you
are, frieDd Bloch, One must have a
laugh now and then.”
‘I admit that suoject of conversa
every ‘“f tune tepugnantto that hideous me, name always; is men- for
"Xte tioned, there is misfortune lurkiDg
of the butcher increased at
£ ligbt01 thepale ^ ofhiswmpan
£^^Z-bit “^f , |i we !l. you are fi wScirK timid. I will
ue^ dTng ng
be ’”
■' UJ, .. hi, *». Wh« do
k^dirinv indie., d a W ‘ ■ lh u u- h l,, j‘ a n > ?er "'
'
Si*? wiuiout budging, the tee house s of , Samaei,
C Tosrard iT'VW
directs! his *ten* »eps toward the
rfhad two b-.^7d floors ? n
utLn * »nd to (n *
-I »ii»i »?d if* fv.in# ^ V -flu f C r'H* re ' 1
-Hh l' t, ' orfi
j . * » ?r j ■ i
Vh. ,rJ
Pied tbe whole » 1 ,„U ,r cl tbe ground-floor, -a «
r t
The wooden shutters solidly fixed by
large bars of iron, and the frontdoor
with its tight bolts, kept an unaccus¬
tomed silefice. On the floor above, the
blinds stopped up tbe windows hermeti¬
closed cally, and this house with its eyes
in the midst of the morning
bustle assumed an ominous aspect. On
the roof the weather-vane turned by
the wind emitted every now and then
a mournful cry, that resembled the
moan of a sea gull across the hurricane
which agitates the sea.
The butcher struck the bars with his
by fist, and listened to the echo transmitted
the solitary knock through the corri¬
dors of the house. He waited a few
minutes, loudly then knocked again, and called
with his strong voice. No answer.
A vague terror stole in to his breast and
made his heart beat with quickened mo¬
tions. He felt under the influence of
the silence, broken only by the sad, irri¬
dared tating cry of the weather vanes, and he
not knock again.
“No answer!” cried Bloch to him
from afar.
Then he advanced slowly, pushed by
curiosity only exceeded by his alarm.
“ It is extraordinary! I cannot
ex¬
plain it. How is it that neither Samuel
nor his servant answer to my call.
Could they both be dead ? Bloch, I think
it is our duty to summon the chief of
police. Wait here,” I will send one of my bovs.
When the police arrived, accompanied
by his men, a surgeon and a locksmith,
he was obliged to traverse a dense crowd
which increased every minute, surging
around like the waters of a river over¬
flowing its banks, and showing an eager
desire to penetrate the secret. The lock
was thrown back in a few minutes and
the door opened.
obscurity Every thing lent to the mystery. The
gave to the lieteroclitic ob¬
jects fantastic shapes. Samuel Stauffer
bought and sold everything, furniture,
collections, novelties, antiques, silver
goods and kitchen utensils—each was
an article of trade to him. A thickdust
—a sort of secular ashes, and always re¬
spected, was everywhere blending the
colors and softening the angles. The
spiders, ished working without fear, had fin¬
by uniting bronzes, paintings agd
crockery.
Tbe door was guarded by two police
men to prevent the ivasion of the curi¬
ous crowd. The chief, conducted by the
butcher and grocer, both familiar with
the household, and followed by the sur¬
geon, ascended the stairs slowly, one
after the other, and arrived in front of
the old Jew’s room. They knocked —
pure formality. The door, closed only
with a latch, offered no resistance.
The policeman advancing a few steps
'oun a himself in the most profound
obscurity, and demanded if some one
h ad-brought a light. No one had thought
of it.
butcher; “Walk straight ahead,” said the
“the window is opposite the
fioor
JK blinds ”■<
which intercented the licht of
the h1i! room’, lit up a hornble tableau, nip!!,,
ter, H iho'stnod hlhinH H^TolicrTnin’ mossed"
Ifmdiwwdcrpdhpd was nnfordv ^ ’
Imi am? • tko T.w lt? ,i
Shout 'k? d™l
On tbo p7r,lu L e 'a««\ „,i,- U ,?a J h
UaO ibp UrnVoJ
J?oL rofn na nriiii too tor J <inA i
‘ o ! f „
’ ‘ ’
victim . against . . a muruerer. ,
in front of the bed hanging on the
wall was one of those clocks called a
cuckoo. But what a hideous sight,
One of the weighted chains which hung
from the cuckoo was wound about the
neck of the unfortunate Samuel ^tauf
ler > suspended four inches from the
u 00 /- inflated a ready convulsed, purple, showed the
features and
tnAt a11 ho P e wfl s lost. -Samuel was
rte “
Toe surgeon hastened , , to ascertain, . as
soon as the body was stretched on the
bed. The iron chain was deeply in
crusted in the flesh, making a fearful
bloody The hands collar, horrible clock, to see. arrested
of the on
the, face pointed to three in the morning.
There were therefore seven hours that
the broker had ceased t<*Sve. The mo
‘J 0 ” h av f left the clock at the same
time that the 4 t last breath left the lips of
ine dead man.
Was it murder or suicide? Justice
. her turn should decide. If
m one
judged simply from the inspection of
the place, the struggle was a starting
evidence of murder. The broker had
been surprised in his bed, sound asleep;
be had resisted as long as his weak body
and age would permit. Two chairs
overturned, the broken glass, noises
which were lost in the storm ; the mur
derer seizing the chain of the cuckoo
and strangling the Jew ana leaving him
hanging just grazing the fliTor; this wtas
of the i-rdieeman-a theory
p ausible that the assistants and even
the surgeon listened without dispute.
H you imagine a suicide, recom
meuced the policeman, who was warm
,n rL* P ‘^h b Ja
arms, then Samuel Stauffer got unon a
chairand, kicking l over with his ooy,
remained hanging by tbe neck. It ,a
laadmpjsable the broken glass? How Why can two you chairs explain over
turned instead of one? Why the dis
ordered state of the bed, the blankets
-^1° ctc^
SS» of8Uicide and explain
lie stopped out of breath. Every one
hrTrnr eDt ’ regSrdinK the COr P“ w,,h
aZV a •,
| “ I'ardon the and how could
cto.e ssj-a-s,, he
have_oj«ened the dixjr.
j , A ou th,nk te'Jh WiM tuic ide, ^ said the
But raid 7 ' big ,i
the butcher, , ,, coming •
Samuel .-tauffer had a »er
„ \P e .^fryani. ah . , , I hft'J , , forgottea ,
.
i h l- ; u ',- ’ tai ' 1 [h e I* »>‘b a iHum
. jTj
r !. ^urgton.
i I iS Herman lc * go ««d and find tbe nun. chief |.reci|.itued
W1LKINSVILLE, GEORGIA. MARCH 17. 1880.
themselves into the room nhich was oc¬
cupied In by Jean Muller.
one corner the domestic of the Jew
—a young man of twenty-five, half
dressed—was crouched on the floor like
some wild animal, holding his head in
his hands, without voice, without life,
haggard rible and appearing to be under a ter¬
What impression. asked
“ are you doing?” the po¬
liceman, No who dared not approach.
They lepiv. him Muller did not budge.
assisted to rise and supported
him under the arms. He let tricih do it
with complete indifference. Herman
handed him his jacket and supported ou
each side the young man was conducted
into the presence of his murdered mas
ter.
When he recognized the room of
Samuel Stauffer, a trembling seized his
limbs and by a quick motion he a‘
tempted to escape, but the iron hand of
the butcher checked the despairing ef¬
fort
The chief of police turned his head;
his suspicions were beginning to be con
firmed more and more.
Brought before the bed opposite the
corpse pidly, already cold, he regarded it stu
but without fear. It was not
until he turned and saw the fatal chain
that any terror seemed to possess him.
He trembled violently, his teeth chat
tered and falling on his knees he ap
peared sound issued to ask tor mercy. But not a
from his lips; he made only
the most Incomprehensible gestures.
“The boy was not dumb before?”
asked the chief. “He spoke without
doubt?”
“Perfectly,” replied Bloch.
“ Go ahead, Jean, answer! Tell us who
killed your master, the old Jew?”
The domestic did not reply.
“This man appears to be unable to
speak,” said the surgeon, who examined
Muller attentively. “It may be that
this murder has struck him in a terrible
and unexp?cted manner. We have
celebrated examples of such eases among
the witnesses of harrowing scenes.”
“That is well enough for witnesses,
but do you think the same effect can be
produced on An assassin once his crime
is accomplished?”
“ That, I do not know.”
“ But will the law admit this weak
circumstance? We can judge of it very
soon. You must know that mental de
rangement and dumbness are two great
ways of vindicating culprits. I have
setn criminals pretend insanity for en
tire months, in such a manner as to
defeat science and physicians and to
avoid thus the capital punishment that
they merited.’''
crime,” “1 cannot, however, believe it a
In responded the surgeon.
“ waiting the trial, the law which
I represent, and which ought to protect
society, Muller, arrests and imprisons Jean
accused until further proof of
crime of homicide, intentional and
P® rtla P 8 premeditated, on tbe person of
master, Samuel Stauffer, merchant
.»„
!ed without manifesting ttie least emo
tion ' The l wlice surrounded him to
P rotect llim from Ui e insults of the
mob
The cuclioo to which the unfortunate
man was hung was carried to the prison
and disappeared behind the heavy door
bo118 of llie i««
On the day after they buried Samuel
Stauffer, his goods were sold at auction,
for j»e left no will or hdrs. But they
C'luld not find a purchaser for the house,
which was closed, and passed imme
diate’y for a sinister and dangerous
dwelling. night fell, It was strictly avoided when
and often the grocer Bloch,
who dwelt opposite, would shiver with
agony between his sheets, believing he
heard sounds behind the blinds of the
late Samuel Stauffer.
q w0 roonlhs spe( j by __ lwn j on _
mon ^i, s during which life had retaken
habitual course—two months in which
a thousand incidents of the act had ac
cumu feted slowly on the terrible event
wh ich took place the night of the stor m.
The little house at list found a pur
chaser, when they had almost despaired
of peddler, ever finding one. It was an old Jew,
a who announced his intention
to take the business of Samuel Stauffer,
But he had not opened shop yet.
The little town of II-was in a per
f ec t flutter of excitement. The people
crowded and pressed around the court
house. Jean Muller was about to be
tried) ari(1 the curiosity which had reached been
its increasing culminating day by point. day had now
Jean had not yet spoken. His lawier
himself had not been able to draw bym
from h is obstinate dumbness which
8ee med almost supernatural. What
cou jq he hope for? The law face to
face with the horror of the crime would
be pitiless toward such stubbornness—at
least unless the insanity of the unfortu
nate man could be proven bcen’adopted and it was
this course which had by
hia lawyer, who not only saw no other
way to save him, but he had come to be
li, ve it himself.
The trial began; tbe judges and jury
jB en took their places. Hanging on the
wall was the fatal cuckoo. It had be
come an ingtrument of certain
oroof 0 f the crime . There it was, a
silent, sinister witness marking the hour
„ f thr( , e This clock was a little larger
, tHan ate usually % made, which explains
j how it A couid of aa niche ort in the the weight woodwork of a
maD sort “
hW the , )ird from H ght) who Hll the
. The public could not J.xik at it
| w jtbout fear Every one felt the in
; zwrjxz'™ lhe600,0
The prisoner was ordered *o appear
The crowd swayed like a field of wheat
*» f'e wind. All heads were turned to
sound ceased and a silence like death
j tumultuous weighed on this but multitude instant so before. restless, so
an
Mailer ad vanced between two guards,
tall, thin and fair, with a gentle look j
j his eves troubled and his head lowered,
He walked without knowing what he
did. Not a Hound encaped hU lipn; Lin
movements were tin »e of an idiot! bis
j | gfane« fiaod on tb« irrouflo
lie witnemes gave t^-eir testimony—
1 it *11 tended towards a crime. He w»s
alone in the house with bis master; he
was hidden when they made .he di
covery ; he had neither confessed nor <U
nied the murder. One question alone
remained to decide his late. Had he
committed the murder in cool blood or
in a lit of insanity.
Jean Muller had not raised his eyes,
lie teemed neither to hear nor under
stand, it was like a torch extin
guishrd.
there Suddenly in one corner of the hall
arose a murmur, which increased
little ranks. by little till it reached the front
A man traversed the crowd, using his
fists and elbows to make himself a free
passage, and arriving near the prisoner
he looked at him with a strange sneer,
then leaping lightly over the railing
which separated the tribunal and the
judges: public he addressed himself to the
make “ Gentlemen, will you permit me to
a test to recall this unfortunate
man to reason? I am called E’ias
Wolfmann, Your Honor. 1 sold this
clock to the late Samuel Stauffer, my
worthy co-religionist.”
A shiver ran through his hearers at
this declaration; the curiosity was re
doubled; every ear was wide open,
lar The Jew Wolfmann with yellow was a till), angu
personage, a heard float
ing in two points from his chin; his
nose was sharp and hia small gray eyes
were hidden beneath the bushy eyc
brows; a continual sneer hovered
around the corners of his mouth. He
gathered wore a long coat reaching to lbs ankles,
at the waist with a wide belt
and immense brass buckle. His cos
ttime was not flattering and the rosi
dents of H--did not associate with
him willingly. that looked It was with great in
his terest dress and they scrutinizing at him, detailing
his features.
He appeared false and perfidious,
“ I ask but one thing,” said he, “ the
permission granted. to put in motion this clock.”
it was Then mounting a
chair he put in motion the pendulum.
At the fourth stroke the niche opened
and the cuckoo appeared on the thres
hold, and singing Hardly three had times announced
the hour. it finished when
music hidden in the body of the clock
played the “Rauz dts Vochcs,” but in a
manner so piercing and wierd that it
awed everyone.
At the moment when the cuckoo rang,
Jean rosed himself like one awkened
from i ream; he gazed at the clock
with i...n outstretched, and his mouth
open, “Oh!” expressing said an trying awful fear,
he, to cover his
face with his hands.
The clock had resumed its monoton
ous tic-tacand the hands moved meeban
ically arcund its face.
When the music ceased Jean stood
erect, and said with a steady voice, look
ing at the judges, “ What do you wish?
Why have I you will arrested it. me? My I am in¬
nocent. swear master
killed himself. I am saving nothing
rt %^i '■.I'Z'rZZ 7’£
ful one, as you all know, 1 taid the young
man ; “a storm mixed with rain, hail and
thunder, so that nothing which trans
pired neighborhood. at inv master’s could be heard in
the Samuel Stauffer en
tered the house at nine o’clock in the
evening carrying this clock under his
arm, ami it was 1 who hung it solidly to
the wall of his own room opposite his ids
bed. He seemed enchanteil with
bargain and talked of it incessantly. At
ten o’clock I assisted him to regulate
the cuckoo and to put it in motion. At
half past ten it struck for the first time
and heard. played the air which you have just
disrobe. I was helping turned Samuel abruptly Stauffer
to He to me
as if something had struck him.
“‘Do you not think that music
strange?’ said he.
shaken “I told him effectually little, that which it had ’he
my nerves a at
laughed heartily.
“‘Well, well!’ he you.’’ explained ,‘go to
bed; that will calm
“ i left him then alone and ascended
into my room just above his, where,
owing to tbe age of tbe house, a pie;eof
displaced plastering enabled me to see
all that passed in mv master’s room. I
was preparing for bed when 11 o’clock
struck and the music began again I I
heard my master turn in his bed, and it
disturbed me so that I cast a glance into
his room. He was standing in front of
the clock, a candle in his hand, gazing
at it with an anxious air as if the sound
irritated him. J went to bed and in ten
minutes slept profoundly and’ff
“ The time flew bv, I’l.eard o’clock bad
bf just struck when beneath an explosion it
furious cries me. Then
was that I witnessed a horrible spectacle
—Samuel Stauffer foaming at the
mouth his eyes starting from their sock
ets shook his fist at the clock but’you crying
‘you will cause my death ’ will
more” '
not ring anv
“In an instant be leaped upon a chair
and passing one of the chains around
his neck, pushed the seat from under
him and remained hanging. The clock
stopped Pale instantly with horror, ar-3 o’clwk. 1 looked him,
“ at
unable to help him. i had example-W a frightful
desire to imitate hia ,
gone lielow it would have been certain
death, i do not remember anything
more until to-day.
“ That is the whole truth gentlemen,
and you must have felt the strange o? im
pression produced by tbe song ihis
cuckoo.”
As he finished the half hour struck
and held anew every one with its inex
$h*:r ^ wl £
thof iu rf,:italma ' lcby
The iurv retired to deliberate When
they entered, the verdict was simply the
acquittal of Jean Muiler. The verdict
I fore the bar. “ You will be conducted
| to the gates foot of the inside city, and forbidden The
to ever hou'se step again. 1? price
of Uie bought by you will
j funded, publicly and this infernal clock shall be
burned.”
The hour was about to strike but the
movement wan arr#*Ht«d.
j Conducted outside the walls, the Jew
j Wolfmann never reappeared, and fh<
1 cuck.ro was burned ort tip place before
the prison.
i
I The grocer Block is certain that the
devil constructed the chick, and his
j neighbor Herman, more credulous now,
dared not ■contradict him.
The little house of Samuel Stauffer
I j was in ruins. given to He Jean icplaced Muller, who it by let it fall
a new
building soon, for everybody tried to
assist him, and they go to his shop to
listen to the history of the death of the
Jew and the terrible song of the cuckoo.
fVl.at it Boy Could Ho.
“ When shall we know that the
enemy has given in ?” asked a lad, a
tailor’s apprentice, who had run away
from his master and entered the British
Navy as a common boy about the year
10S0.
“ When that flag is hauled down,”
answered the sailor addressed, “the ship
will he ours.”
“ Oh, if that’s all; I’ll see what I can
do!”
Now tliis tailor’s hoy, when he ran
away from his master, joined a ship
which had the good fortune, a few
hours after heenteied the service, to fall
in with n French squadron, and a warm
action, bravely foughton both sides, was
maintained. After fighting for a short
time, the boy was impatient for the re¬
sult, and addressed the above question
to a sailor. No sooner had he been told
that the withdrawal of the flag from the
enemy’s maslhe ul would be the signal
that the action had boon decided, than
he determined to “ see what he could
do.”
At that moment the vessels were en¬
gaged yard-arm to yard-arm, and were
obscured in the smoke of the gnus. In
an instant the hoy mounted the shrouds
passed from the yards of his own ship to
that of the enemy, and ascended with
agility to the maintop-gallant masthead,
struck and carried off the French flag
unperceived, his and got hack to the yard¬
arm of own ship in safety. Before
he could get down to the deck the Brit¬
ish saw that the II ig had disappeared
and shouted, “Victory! victory 1” The
French crew, seeing also that the flag
had gone, and thinking that it had been
struck by order of the Admiral, fled
from their guns, and, although the of¬
ficers attempted to rally them, the con¬
availing fusion was themselves hopeless. of Then the British,
the opportunity,
boarded the French vessel and captured
it.
In the midst of the excitement the
new hoy came down from the shrouds
with the French flag wrapped round his
glee body, and the displayed astonished it with no little
to tars. The news
spread blushing quickly to the quarter-deck, and
the boy was led into the pres¬
ence of the Admiral, who praised him
for bis gallantry and rated him there
and then as midshipman; and it was
not motion long before and promotion followed pro¬
; the tailor's apprentice was
known as one of England’s most gallant
sailors.
Washington Society in is-jr,.
| At Inn lie Monthly.]
The circle of what was termed " good
so-.iely ” at Washington limited had been, and
then, very in its extent and
simple in its l.al.ils. Few Senators or
Representatives their brought their wives to
«hcer Congressional labors, and a
parlor of ordinary size would contain all
those who were accuitomed to attend
social gatherings. A few diplomats,
with the officers of the army and navy
stationed at l,<':ui(|uar<erH, were accom
panied by their wives, and there were
generally a lew visitors of social dis
Unction. intercourse The prevailed, most friendly and who cordial
and those met
at dinner iiarlies and at evening enter
tainments were like members of one
family, The in general sympathy, ladies classic
costume of the was
. Ts scantiness, especially at balls and
* n
parties. The fashionable hall dress was
of white India crape, and five breaths,
each a «,u > iter of a yard wide, were all
H'at was asked to make a skirt, which
came down to the ankles, and was elah
oraUdy trimmed with a dozen or more
narrow (I.unices, hilk or cotton stock
'"S were adorned with embroidered
ch ess, and thin slippers were orna
w, ’ h Hlk ronettCH and tiny
Fboso gentlemen who dressed fasluon- .
ably t wore “ Bolivar frock-coats of
,aret ; gay-colored clot >, h ue, or green,
" r c > with large lapels anil gilded
buttons. Jiieir linen was ruffled; their
Cossack trousers were voluinnioin in
niz-, and were tucked into high “ Hes
R,an boots and with gold tassels, i hey
wor,! two fsjmcUmes three waist
coats, each , of different colors, and from
tlielr with watch-pockets bunch dangled a ribbon,
a of large teals. When in
flll! gentlemen wore dress coats
with enormous collars and short waists,
well-stuflM white cambric cravats,
*mal!-clothcs, or tight-fitting pantaloons,
«»k stockings, and pump*.
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A Bad Pistol.
A . ,nan was arraigned before Judge
Stevenson 0 , of Little Rock, Ark., on a
charge of trying a revolver.
‘ Haven t you got better sense than
V’ <:“ rr y “ k '' ll >»f •*** the
Judge, holding up a pepper box pistol.
‘ 7“" ' , the . law says
you shall he fined \V> ’
Y .es, sir; but i d.dn t know it was
barm to carry such a pistol.'
“Rut it is, sir. Any man who would
® l ber Jeliow would run away. You
^'l l V nTtiUon worttZs ilistol
in Hl fwV t U p a to the
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: w!ukl hii^«
% ”, 1 ko I dft ‘ ,,at w >,jI onte "Y ’ >urt *
■ ,
' ?
: dKt ’
I -
j that TllR i?v»l man who profisws to believe
only tbe undfcr of K^iods
the dark side oI the moon, and properly
a component part of human life, will
never have the satisfaction of dying
from Information on the brain.
A LAI)Y ON HEALTH.
1'oHiis Will I* I up nntl WnnlilitK
TIh’iiim'Iach io llrnlli.
For years past 1 have been convinced
that the mania for gymnastic exercises,
athletic development and muscular
power has been productive of a great
deal of harm. Years ago the theory in
vogue for gaining health was dieting,
and hundreds of people dieted them¬
selves into insanity or the grave. Now
the mania is for exercise, and hundreds
of young men, and (although it may
seem a ridiculous statement) young
women “exercise.” also, are killing themselves by
Nature rebels at “knotted '
muscles, and requires the full payment
of a serious penalty whenever the folly
is business, perpetrated through of developing the swinging muscle dumb as a
of
bells and Indian clubs. The long walks,
which with quite are too taken much too frequently vim, under and the
influence of a spirit of emulation or to
win a bet. are productive of far more
injury than benefit. But, most of all,
I want to call attention to the idea of
daily suicide, bathing. lacking It the is element a simple of form crime, of
because done through ignorance, lack¬
ing the horror, because it also lacks the
crimson stains and mangled form of the
ordinary suicide.
Our young men are not content until
they are barber, ecrupped bald-headed by the
willing and look in their youth
very “nearof kin,” indeed, totheiraged
grandsires. Were it not for the exceed¬
ing tenderness and the quick rebellion
raised when the whiskers are tampered
with, and the fact that fashion benevo¬
lently and fortunately would guards them, no
doubt they, too, be shampooed
out of existence so effectually as to save
ing the adornment. “coming man” without that becom¬
Tne poor body is literally scrubbed
out of existence. Nature guards her
do out doubleduty ousts very jealously, but she can not
in one direction without
signal quently, failure when in some other. Conse¬
the surface of the body
is daily denuded of the cuticle tinder
the vigorous application of the barbor
ou» “coarse towel” she must repadam ir
ages at tbe expense of the digestion or
the natural eliminations of morbid mat¬
ter; some organ loses the harmony with
its fellows which is necessary to a per¬
fect whole. Cleanliness is not only
“next to godliness,” but a very large
part of it, and it is highly important
that bathing should be employed as a
hygienic force; bu* not the shower bath
when an exhausted body is slowiy wak¬
ing from an exhausted sleep; nor a cold
sponge when the day’s duties have ex¬
hausted mind and body both. To change
the clothing frequently and permit a
surface thorough airing, body to for expose the entire
of the a few moments
to the air of the room on rising and re¬
tiring, a light brushing with a soft
brush or a fine towel, and a good hath
once or twice a week are ali that an
American can endure and retain health.
Light, exercises of those muscles not
called into play in the daily routine is
also thenic, desirable, but it should be calis
include not gymnastic, founding and should of not the
chest, a vigorous
than which nothing can he worse
for the lungs. A Lady Physician.
A Burlesque Miser.
figure A striking, of if not picturesque-looking, he in New
a rm n can seen a
Jersey town, lie meal-bags is dressed in a canvas
shirt, with two for breeches
reaching ragged-edge! to his knees; on his head is a
hat, full of holes. He is
“gol.l blind,” whatever that may he;
that m to nay, he imagineH that every
thing has the hue of gold; at any rate,
he gathers sticks anil stones, under the
impression that they are coins, and
boasts of his treasures hoarded in the
swamps where he dweils. He calls Rt
the snops for advertising cauls and
imagines them hank hills, and the
bright colored be placards of patent medi¬
cine vendors treats as United States
bonds. He, cries and wrings his hands
when anyone threatens ti enter his
shanty in the swamp, and spends half
the night counting over his fortune.
In fact, he seems to enjoy life as well as
the miser who hoards real gold, and (he
community's diminished sloes thereby. of wealth is in no
ways He is a liv¬
ing caricature accumulating of men who find pleasure
simply in •other money of and pro¬
cure no others. advantage it for them¬
selves or
Oyster .. . UVHy.
“Are raw oysters unhealthy ?' asks
an exchange. Sometimes they are. We
saw several the being other day that unhealthy; had tbe
appearance of very
they bad evidently been picked too
long — Waterloo Otwr.
ft is agreat mistake to which pick oysters
too long, hut it is an error many
oyster-raisers fall into. They should
" ever b( ' allowed to grow more than
four feet long, because after they reach
that length they are apt virtually to get good sun
burned, when they are
for nothing. them Mbps, for however, may be
cut from setting out. Oysters
can not be tis> carefully raised. Tbe
ground should be thoroughly prepared,
and, if possible, a start should be given
them in the hothouse. At any rate it
U well to cover them with glass in the
early spring .lays, when cold winds and
rains are apt to retard growth. Ihey
should be carefully attended to, hilled
'ZeX
£3, % i
An oyster picked longer gKb ' is no '‘° more fit '‘
lha " lhe e en f " W
C,,CUmbcr '
_
OrbU, „W,. b.lU Foil Ki«r
are lbc stopped at 1‘Jo’clocg the clergy, by the police, prin
at request of whose
cipal is dew-cistion complaint is. of not the that FabteUb, late dancing though
a
that point is mentioned, but that the
dancers are too sleepy in church on the
billowing morning to p*y attention to
|r i* veiy daoaerou#for a man to find
any start on thi*- 1 "a/1 glote; that is
sweeter to him than bis home,
NUMBER 2.
WAIFS AM) WHIMS.
A MAN has been floating through objection¬ the
air down iu Kentucky. Some
able suitor, probably, who has been fired
out the front door of an up-town resi¬
dence by the young lady’s box-toed pa¬
rent., and hasn’t landed yet.
“You have not given me my change,”
said the gentleman to the saloon-keeper; know.”
“I gave you a #5 bill, you astonished
“Sbange, shange?” was the
reply; “vot you mean? Wasn’t you a
gandidate don’d it?”
Wilv, Queen Victoria | allow a New
York editor to surpass her in liberality?
Mr. Bennett is rich, to ho sure, but lie
isn’t worth much more than the Queen’s
annual income.
Nothing makes a woman so mad as
to go to a shoe store to buy a pair of
cheap slippers for her husband and have
the clvrk try to sell her the identical
pair she hud worked for a Christmas
present to her minister.
Why is it when one man calls another
a liar and a scoundrel the insulted per¬
son almost invariably would asks, “What such do
you mean sir? ’ It seem that
language would not require a map and
a diagram to make it clear.
“ There is a time for everything.” music
In business time is money; in it
is measure for measure; in the pawii
shop it is necessity; and in the turki y
it is “ Btuffni.”
It is becoming fashionable for minis¬
ters to bestow platonic kisses on the fe¬
male lambs, but women must want kiss¬
ing leap-ye\r badly to gives accept the the platonic privilege when of
them
asking any young man for a kiss of the
real tonic sort.
What nm) is thm? to worry mol hot,
Anti vainly try more trouble to borrow,
When wo know tlmtafter tin*, sun has sot.
To-day will ho yoNlordny Hacktnsw'k t- -morrow J{fpublican. '/
—
The other evening a gentleman’s but¬
ton caught hold of the fringe of a lady’s
shawl. “ I am attached to you,” said
industriously the gentleman, laughing, while he "Thu was
attachment trying mutual,” to got loose, the good
is was
natured reply.
'Tw a s the spirit divine of the poetic
muse that inspired Miss Josie Hunt to
til! write: I prayed “Ana your lips bliss, clung to might mine
in my they
never We tremble unclaspfrom the that rapturous kiss.” had
for consequences
that prayer been answered.
A gentleman, observing a servant
girl who was left-handed placin'/ the
knives and forks on the dinner table in
the same awkward position, remarked
to her that she was laying them left
handed. “Ob, indade!” said she, “so
I have! Be pleased, sir, to help me
turn the table around!”
Mr. ItUBKiN is quoted as saying:
of “You others. fancy Now, you are tell sorry for the this, pain
I you just
that if the usual course of war, instead
of ing unroofing peasants’ peasants’houses fields, merely and broke ravag¬ the
china upon your own drawing room
tables, no war in civilized countries
would iasl a week.”
Bertha —“Mamma, Johnny is aw¬
fully naughty. He’s been banging my
new doll with all his might against the
floor!” Johnny—“ Pooh! I seen her
hang it herself t’other day.” Bertha—
“Well, what o’ that? Ain’t it my
dolly?” in There’s children. a deal of grown-up
wisdom “I want you to
understand,” said the child of mature but
years, “ that I don't allow anybody
myself to kick that ’ere dog!”
The following miserable poetical par
agraph don’t begin to end as you expect
would:
mi enuh,
Ami into thestn**,.
nm.Jfht’, right
Th.. littto maW™ nuiiini; »wwt.
She Mj 7i5ra.^M{5Z^' united; i>« you know the rest
The mailt eoafunnl, drew tmi lr from view,
Jh *Thi l a«rwmei , sSSn d hl *
7 maiden,
Lucky man—lucky
Who Are Rich To-Day.
Forty yeais ago a millionaire was phe
nomenal and a person of* importance
To-day the possessor of “only a million”
scarcely ranks among the. “wealthy.”
The one millionaires and demi-mil
lionaires are also to some extent realiz
ing that they are relatively the small
financial fish liable to be swallowed
whole by the mammoth millionaires.
The pressure of vast and swollen wealth
is now felt by other than tho “poor.”
T’hcs financial leviathan is inclined first
to swallow the big mouthfuls of legiti¬
mate plunder When before four he cruuches five of the the
minnows. or
monsters combine the destruction may
he terrific, and that among a class who
have heretofore deemed themselves safe
from the tyranny of monopoly or cor¬
poration. single Today, in dafe* certain specula¬
tions, no man to operate
alone. The field is left more and more
to tbe few mammoth millionaiffs The
small millionaire now begins to feel in
some degree the turn of those screws
which in time past were only applied to
the possessor of a few hundreds or
thousands.
A Uttll , Kuonn T( . at f „ r
distinguished German savau Rro
fessor ^uUsM f ager has recently published the
1 «h^ub ^ndhow
,<•' 11 “J ™ * l * a * " a u .^'pr^erv^d '" e J ’„ 1 *
f f, L.! r ,. "
^ ^oroHded , f!
against,' tendency to nmv <lLL he has hien
gVeatly diminished, (lence we see at a
i ar „ beneficial; Ifighlv^asoned why it W wiie tou-ehol
$ and U V tkToTlm "NlentiUtion io >d iu ill
o.
H itcinir and tied rooms, t.v preventing
IIIO isturc qu^i,. from in being the a(r nrtornt. .is in of anv the
one
rnont valuable of hh nitary hirer la wm a innn’i*
specific U good gravity, criterion Brof. of UU Hrmiglh maintains,
a of
.-rmstHution, hi* capacity for woik sod
hi* i«biv» r of re-Htlng d!*e*-e,