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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*. - - — ---- 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 ^ .....- J™™' * »•_* : 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,