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AN ODD BAPTISM
With a Chain Rattling Around
His Neck.
CHARLEY EDWARDS MAKES HIS EXIT.
Clarkesville, Ga., October 14.—[Special.]
gThis morning the clock in the steeple struck
One, and Charley Edwards, the murderer of
William Echols, realized that this was the first
hour of the last day of his existence on earth.
The sun rose and Charley might look on him
for his last time with mortal eyes. The waves
©f human beings which passed by told him
that many would come from far and near to
Witness his awful departure. He now felt the
Sting produced by murdering an innocent man.
He could look with the,eye of imagination and
(Bee the house of William Echols empty. With
all this weight and crime upon him he said
that God has forgiven him, and that soon his
Spirit will be in a better world. Ho says the
iron chains which hang about his neck soon
Will be off, and in its stead will hang a robe
Washed white in the blood of the Lamb.
A sensational incident occurcd on yesterday.
Thomas Scott, colored, of Toccoa, arrived at
the jail where Charley Edwards is confined.
Xie had been sent for by Charley for the pur
pose of baptizing him. The authorities had
granted him that privilege, and soon the male
members of the colored Baptist church were
at work building a dam across the branch, just
below the jail, for the occasion. The hour of
twelve came, and with chain around his neck,
accompanied by the sheriff, his deputy, and a
guard of five, with double-barrel guns,. Char
ley came out of the jail and slowly walked
down to the water’s edge. Ho stood by the
Bide of the old preacher, looking calm, not in
the least excited.
The third chapter of Matthew was read, af
ter which the preacher said:
“Charley says he b und Jesus precious to
his soul on July the 7th, and let us pray.”
The prayer was fervent and earnest. He
then sang, assisted by the surrounding few :
Down to the sacred way,
The Lord of him was led.
He then went down into the water, and
Charley was baptized. He rose and imme
diately exclaimed:
“Glory, glory to God !”
Then with a more satisfied look he was led
back Io the cell to spend his last night this
side of eternity.
■ Sun-up found your c i respondent at the jail,
.snd found Edwards awake.
“How do you fe< l, Charlie, this m- 'iiing?’’
“I never felt better.”
“Did you rest well last night?”
He did not answer to this question, but ro. e
slowly from his couch and knelt down and
prayed about five minutes. He then rose and
’paid:
“I retired at 1 o’clock and did not go to
sleep till 3 o’clock. 1 then slept soundly till
■you came.”
“Do you feel prepared to die?”
' “Ido. The thought makes me happy.”
“Do you feel more satisfied to die since you
Was baptized ?”
“I do. All is well now.”
“Do you still claim io be guilty of killing
Echols ?”
“I am guilty of that charge, but have never
Killed any other man, as. has been reported. 1
wilbmake a public conie.-sion and toil you all
except what 1 want to come out in my life
Which I have written.”
“You expect to have it published, then?”
“I will give it to my wife, and she can do as
she pleases with it.”
He then took out his pipe and lit it, and
fiecmed to enjoy the smoke.
By 1 * o’clock the throng was immense,
numbering ower five thousand. At that hour
the prisoner was taken from the jail, drawn by
two horses. Ho sat robed in white with black
cap on, and was carried slowly Io
the gallows. He .sang hymns all the
way to his last place of existence.
At 12:20 the sheriff led him on the sc.rtfo’d
accompanied by rhe county officers, Solicitor
Ervin Thompson, Drs. Houston and Burns,
A. J. Ketron, McJunkin and Moss, also two
.pr I three newspaper representatives.
Preacher Scott, colored, presidedin the reli -
ions exercises. Charley rose to his feet and
said:
I want you all to know this, I am the man who
killed William Echols ; no one but me and the Al
inighty know X did it. No man knew that I was
Hull g t-» kill him. I willdie feeling >• r_, for what
I have done; 1 outfit to die. I have
been licensed of killi.g three other in;.
j did not kill them. I only killed
William E hols. You v» ill find what I >a-.' in my
Mfe written by my own hand. Before Ihlling Mr.
Echols I stood by the i <l, one mile » cow Mmt
Aiiy. and when ! saw h.m ecmin ;1< i I m»t n i
to kill him, hut in tin- • !.■. \1 t nought 1 s.i.. him put
his hand in his bosom, s > 1 shot him with a pistol
twice. Lie tell, but not (ivad. Ii- said:
• Oli, Lord! On, Charlie, do not leave me; lamin
trouble!
I dragged him out of the road and itirk’h; i
tin co time' with a stick. I was sorry ah the time
that I shot him.
A question was asked from the multitude:
“Did you shoot him for money?”
“I did not shoot him for money. Lizzie
Jxinsy was the cause.”
He then said:
“1 love everybody. I hold no malice toward
anyone. I hope to meet all my friends in a
better world. Grieve not alter me. I a a
sorry to my heart. The Lord is my help.
Farewell I”
The rope was adjusted at 1:30 p. m., and the
trigger sprung by T. J. C.istley, sheriff. The
body was suspended fifteen minutes. One
minute before his pulse was 130, temperature
99. The body was tak( nto Mount Airy by his
friends for interment. Order was preserved
all day.
STORY OF THE CRIME.
It was on the 29th of May last, at 9 o’clock
at night, that William Echols, of Rabun Gap
Junction, Habersham county, Ga., was on his
way home from Mt. A ry, wiienJJharlcy Ed
wards, colored, met him, one mile below Mt.
Airy, and with a 32-calibre Smith Wesson
pistol, si tot Echols dead.
He was not satisfied with one shot, but re
peat* dit four times. Edwards told one of the
Important witnesses that after he had shot ids
victim the first time that Echols liked his
hands .and exclaimed:
“Oh. Charley, what have I done that you
<sho i’.d treat me in this w. y?”
Edwards thought he heard some one com
ing, .:o be dragged the dying man o : <-f the
road and down the hill, and there riddled Lis
body ■■•- ith bullet . N< atisd with
took a club and beat the dead man’s brains
out.
Edwards was arrested immediately after the
murder, and on circumstantial evidence was
placed in Habersham county jail.
The circumstances were so strong that no one
doubted his guilt. The fact that he had rmule
murderous threats rind that he was missing at
the time of the murder, and stronger still,
that his shirt, panis and hat wore spattered
With blood, all told th( ' tory of the deed. B :t
again—he told one of the prisoners was i®
the same cell, that the pistol with which In*
killed Echols was buried under his hon e, and
on examination was found where he had pat
it, and showed traces of blood. This cvid neo
was enough, but what war. still sty i. ger, Char
ley E-l wards says that ho himself committed
the dec 1.
On Thursday morning, the Bth in-tant, the
town of Clarksville wa crowded to hear the
trial. At 3:30 the shvrhf and deputy -i<‘d the
prisoner into the courtroom. A g:eai many
tallymen had been .subp -.nacd, but h< b re t. c
regular twenty-four nd b- «-n c?.’•.• u.t -1
twelve men were sole cd to sea! his fate. Ax
Edwar '•> had no art v th? state appointed
one ; nd the case wa > •«< n opened.
The evidence win so o'.envUliiJiig that all
the w :iu . -es wore not -v. »rn. Th: attorneys
did i.or argue the co , for to speak for or
A'ya’nM w's uncles-. J id.e Welborn, in mak
ing h charge to the iy, id:
II y : •.1 ; p< ■ u
Edwa- . irn?y. i' l ’’ "• d : eyms ; ‘ I
dcs.r ■to imnrixm I r !•?, \i.i* •yr’ ve J.' •
We, th- -y. find th- >■ .i-i-t-_-u.it>- wiia u : .
jsivnd.m »• tonur• y.
In a ry .-'bort tnnr th r vevdmt was r*nd r
ed with ntore emph » i than the j- . • re
quired: “We,the j oy, end tho < nd::i.t,
Charb y Edwards, y m ; of murder in t:.c ii: t
deg- .”
This sealed the ft to of tho poor wretch, but
co him it was no su.f..r he knew v.Lat
his doom would l»e, an i , <r rnouthj had pr: yed
that God might e him. In fact, wli< n
Vie Sentence of death was paxstd upon him on
the following Saturday, he seemed to be better
satisfied; and while in his cell, with a chain
around his neck, tho jailer says he seems more
content than before the trial.
There has been no effort whatever to post
pone the hanging, the time being set for Octo
ber 14.
The doomed wretch requested tho ordinary,
. D. Hill, to come to his cell and allow him
to make his will. He gave one of his town
lots at Mt. Airy to his adopted son, and the
other,with his dwelling and personal property,
to his wife and only child.
Charley Edwards, previous to tho time that
lie commenced to visit Mrs. Lizzie Kimscy,
was considered to be of very good character,
being accused, one time, of stealin g a pistol
from J. AV. House, while employed by the
Northeastern nil road. This pistol proved to
be tho one which shot William Echols, and
the property of one of our fellow townsmen.
Edwar«ls was twenty-six years of age and born
111 *L ;:{ ‘kson county Georgia.
William Echols was a man of very good
character and of some property. He was born
in this county, and had never been looked on
as a bad man. It is true, ho visited the house
of Lizzie Kimsey. but when he found Charley
Edwards was visiting the sUme house he told
his brother he would never go there, again.
Mrs. Lizzie Kimsey is a citizen of Mt. Airy,
and was indirectly the cause of tho Echols
murder, but was not tried in the superior court
under charge of being an accessory to the
crime, but has been tried and convicted of
adultery with Charley Edwards, and sentenced
to pay a line of and cost or twelve months
in the chaingang. The evidence in the com
mitment court was not sufficient to implicate
her in the murder. When the woman was
sentenced she giggled outright.
John Brown—Felon or Saint?
Ex-Congressman E’.i Thayer in the Boston Herald.
In the August number of the Century Maga
; i io Messrs. Nicolay and Hay have made seve a e
rors of omission and commission which sliovl .l be
corrected in the interest of true history These
wr.ters say, on pate 317: “In asto iation, habit, lan
guage and conduct he was clean, but coarse; honest
but rude.” Two circumstances, however., indicate
that l:c was practicing a deception upon the com
mitteiS '.nd the p üblic, lie entered into a contract
with a b u ksm.th in Collins\i le, Co m., to manu
fat ture for him 1.000 pikes of a certain j attorn, to bo
completed in ninety days, > n I paid 5730 on the con
tract. There is no record that he mentioned this
matter to any committee. H’s proposed Kansas
minute men were only on • h mdredin number, and
the pikes could not be for them. His explanation
to the blacksiu h ‘hat they wou’d be a good weapon
of.’, 'use for Kansas settlers was clearly ft subter
fuge. Tas pikes, ordti d about March 23, 1837,
were witbo.it doubt intended for his Virginia in
vasion, and, in fact, the identical lot, finished after
lorn; delay, under the same contract, were shipped
to him in September, IS">9, and were aetiitilly used
in his Harper’s Lorry attempt. Tho otiO- circum
stance is that a’ out the time of his contract fur the
pik<he also, without the knowledge of commit
tees or friends, engaged ft worthless adventurer
named F nbes to go west and give military instruc
t uiis to his < o npany, a meam e neither useful nor
pn cticftble for Kansas’ defense. These two acts
may be taken us the first j reia»ati- n for Harper’s
Ferry. These aie Cun t active lies. But John
Brown made i:of many other- u his preparation
for the X i-;a v iwhich were in no way doubt
ful or Oiidvocal.
1. He came to me in Worce t>r to solicit a contri
bution of arn.s or the defen-e of some Kansasset
tlemcnt ', which he said ho knew were soon to be
i-.t a . tLy parties already organized in Missouri
for that purpose. Not doubling his word, I gave
him all t’e arms I had, in value about 530 J.
2. t n :<t the same false ] retcnce he secured an
other contribution Lorn Ethan Allen & Co., inanu
factme sos arms in this city. These arms, also,
were never taken to Kansas, but were captured at
Harper s ferry.
3 Before liis attack upon the Unite 1 States arse
nal he spent several weeks in Virginia. He pre
teiideu to be a mineralogist, and went about w.th a
hamniur breaking off the corners of io k I ndcr
the ; etc- tof seeking lor copper he found opportu
ne os for tryin t» enlist slaves in his little rebel
lion. The i;-p.c ontutive in c ingress from tiie H.u
pei's Furry district gave me these sac s.
I. I’nd r the same fake ■ retcncc of aiding the
settle:.s in Kai:, as he procured funds from several
New 'i < rk merchants, one of whom says that he
gave him ?50.
3. In I'3) ho made a raid into Missouri, murdercd
Mr. Crews, a peaceable old farmer, and took away
eleven slaves, with about St,OuO worth of oxen,
mules, wagons, harness, .‘addles and oilier property.
As soon as he had got outside of the state he sent
agents in ail dir? tionsto solicit and gff the eleven
ne. ;• 03 to Can. di. He was from December to April
Leiting th m through. This sow movement was
<’oiii>ii ■ for the purpose of pro! n .ng us much us
possible the tim fur his agents to procure funds.
His plunder ai d Ms collections went, probably, to
mctua e his liar, e. ’s Furry fund.
<k He often asserted that in the above raid he
liiu:. 1 s-vend slaves without bloodshed and
witl o it the us : of we:q onlt is proved that Mr.
Crews was killed in that raid.
7. 11“ ic] eitedly s : iid that he was not present at
the Pot*l'.walomic midnight ma • acre. It is proved
that he was i resent a u commander of the assassins.
'. He repeatedly afil med that he took no part in
those 1 murders, though he approved of them. It i
brew i'.bat th lint unariDcl victim, Mr. Doyle,
was killed by Brown’s own hand. There is abun
dant o'her proof that in all his murders and rob
berics, whether in Kansas, Mi-souri or Virginia,
his creed was that'‘The end justifies the means,” and
that lying in his case was a holy vocation. Docs
the e.-. pics ion ‘ honest but rude” truthfully describe
John Brown? . . .
At th. ! time (1859) I was serving my second term
in congix: s, and ha I every opportunity to know the
minds of members regarding John Brown’s raid.
There was not one member of the house of repre
s. n .dives wh > considere 1 his punishment unjust.
A very few (an • I was one of them/ thought it inq o
litic, and said that it 1 ave been; better to put
the criminal in a madhouse for life. This method
w-.uld have made ridiculous any atteuqts of the
ra i n disanioni.sts to consecrate “old Brown”
either as a “martyr” or a “saint.” Had any repub-
Ecan member <d’congre-s defended the course of
tl’.e in vader and murderer, or denounced the courts
of Virgin! if< r properly punishing him capitally,
such a re; üblican would have been, expelled from the
party without notice or delay. Henry Wilson was
one of the iii'i> r Mical of the republicans, hwt he
said .i E .htun, alter Brown’s raid and before his
cxv-u’.ion, in wor Is m r emphatic than elegant,
“John Brown is a d—<l fool.” Later he said in the
('nit -I '•bates senate: t ic allegation that Mas-
s.icl.o t s wjjqa-hi.e 1 wiili John Brown's inve
lon df Vi n and ted i ? vera >r v.: o n
dor rl it, I wish to in’e po e n emphatic denial.
.Such a charge i a iibul upon th..- republican party,
upon the state of Mas.-aclu s :tts, and upon her gov
ernor. ’ Only a ! w months after Brown’s
ezecution the national republican convention met
in C i at o to noinii.ate a candidate for president.
That co:: .'uDtion pa-au l unanimously a resolution
denouncing the - arm'; 1 invasion of a state, under
whatever pretense, as one of the gravest crimes.”
.. .. Eve;y stump s/icuker for Lincoln in the can
v: s denounced the John Brown raid unsparingly
and inc-saintly. Had there been any doubt upon
tais subject, the republican party could not have
carried a single state, and probably not a single
town, incl! the northern states.
T i aui.ve men at that time in urging the claims
of Jo’.n Brown ns a “saint” were the same ones
; who, at the South Farmington meeting on the sth
<1 July, i d. apMaiv'el William Lloyd Garrison
v. o' : " He p<:eieiy l.'urn-.d a copy of the constitution
of the United Sti.tes. They arc the same who have
writ'en now- claiming to be John B own’s biogra
j/ ie-'. f h-y are tmj decorators of their “saint”
I wi'h the u.-c of various u .lore-1 feather;:, stuck here
' Rnd there, an ’ man / bits of picturesque a lornment
■ In riM • :a’.d !!ann 1 rags, all of flaming colors, so
j that L“ h -> h ■ m.o at Inst much more grotesque
i than Ihidge W.ldfire e.ur w.us, sin;?, unaided.
. vu... r ...r. OftbU Hurt •l.cu; tile
anarch;*-'- 'ho sought to make a “.saint” of John
Br mnumbe: they.woreuttctlyinslfpolficant,
. c ni-ti:’. g lv-.: ts.un on in 20,»0r jxjople in the
i r.uit*.•••;■• .V vo'ers they were nothing, since
they u gii l not contaminate their sing t- or their
!co jh -ic:; with any vet whlsh had the proto-lion
I .ti j : ji, '. i’ I by them “a league w.th
, da L and a cove::, nt with hell.” But in brazen
; c ;H'u <■; 1 w’, and ,n rp.t.ml din and no-se,
; l ?. 'A idisw'-hy, these “howling dcr
• \ . r I ;I i a iucd V> call tfrm—
| cquJl M -jiympian Jo .' with all his thunders
A W s Age.
i A woman, it is said, is no older than eh c
looks. M '.uy women, however, look doubl o
; tin ; r actiml a_c by re:won of those functional
j ilisoj ders w;.i i) wear upon tho nerve:-, and
. vb dily, and wl 'h, if unc’u? ckod, are liabul to
! cl ang j the moot r bust woman to a weak,
biokcn-dov n alid. Dr. Mercc’s “Favorite
PruKciiption” will positively cur© every irregu
larity and weakness peculiar to the sex, and
| require , but i* single trial to prove its surpahs
ing merit. Fciuo reduced to ouu doli<u-. By
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 18.1881
A SAD STORY.
Material With Which a Nove]
Could be Written,
A PECULIAR CASE IN BROOKLYN
From the Brooklyn Time?.
In a little white frame cottage on Liberty
avenue, near Wyckoff street, in tiro town of
New Lots, twenty-seven years ago, lived Louis
Hart and his wife, Catharine. They had four
remarkably pretty children. Throe were boys,
and the other, the youngest, Marguerite, was
a beautiful little girl but 18 months old. She,
of course, was tho pet of the family.
The father of this interesting family was a
hard working man, and earned but small
wages, barely sutlicient to supply the neces
saries of life, In addition to this ho was af
fected with lung trouble. Ho was a brush
maker by trade.
Next door to tho Harts lived a>middle-aged
gentleman by tiro name of Edward Wilder.
This Wilder was a rich man. His east New
York residence he occupied only a few months
in summer. His winter quarters wore in New
York city, not far from Fifth avenue. He
formerly had a butcher stand in Washington
Market, where after years of patient labor lie
amassed a competence. He then retired from
business. Some lucky investments in real es
tate made him a millionaire.
Mr. Wilder, although passionately fond of
children, had no little ones of his own. Ho
often called upon tho Hart family, and ad
mired the little Marguerite. He had noticed
tho struggles of tho head of the family to
keep the wolf from tho door, and observed
with sorrow that the poor man’s strength was
unequal to tiro tasks imposed upon it. Tho
baby antics of the little Marguerite had also
worked upon his affections, and a great love
for the little one arose in his heart.
Ono day Mr. Hart returned from his work
sick in body and mind. Destitution stared
him in the taco. His rich neighbor’s sympathy
was aroused, and, calling upon Mr. Wilder, tho
latter made a proposition to him. Ho stated
how he had become attached to little Mar
guerite, bow bo had noticed their circum
stances, and wound up by offering to adopt tiro
little one.
Tho poor man could not bring himself at
once to let the child go, and asked for time to
consider the matter. But Mr. Wilder had set
his heart upon gaining possession of the little
one. and offered to settle an annuity upon tho
boys if his proposition were accepted, lie also
offered to divide between the boys a valuable
plot of land lying in the northern part of New
York state. Ho .stipulated that when he should
once have possession of the child it should
never again be reclaimed by its parents under
any circumstances, and that. Marguerite should
never bo made acquainted with the fact that
he was other than her own father. Quite an
affecting scene ensued. The parents did not
want to let the child go, but. at last cantc to tho
conclusion that it was the best thing under the
circumstances, and gave tiro child into Mr.
Wilder’s keeping.
Mr. Wilder immediately took Marguerite to
his New- York establishment, and she grew up
to be a very beautiful young woman, admired
by all. She w-as of the blonde type, with deep
bine eyes and golden hair and sirin like ala
baster'. Her figure was superb. She was the
belle of her set, and many were In r suitors.
But she had not as yet met her atlinity.
In the summer of 1883 her father took her to
Newport, where she was tho acknowledged
belle. It was generally known that she wa.an
heiress, and that, with her beauty, brought
many suitors to her feet. Among these was a
handsome young lieutenant of the L'liited
States navy. He was a young man with many
virtues and but few- faults. He was a fre
quent attendant at divine services. They met
at the church. A mutual reciprocation sprang
up between the young people, and they were
often seen upon the sands of New-port enjoy
ing one another’s society. 'They were a
handsome couple, admired by all but en
vied by none. Society began to w hisper that
it was a match. Society for once was right.
Tho friendship of tho young couple in course
of time ripened into a warmer feeling, undone
beautiful moonlight night the young man rose
to the occasion and the inevitable “proposal”
was made. Marguerite had been expecting
this for some time, but, like a dutiful daugh
ter, asked for time to consider her answer, ami
in the mean time referred tho whole matter to
her father. Her reasons for so doing were
that she was an heiress and he was compara
tively poor. I’eoulo would look upon this as
a misalliance. She was not sure but that iior
supposed father might also.
Mr. Wilder listened attentively to Marguer
ite's story, and at tho conclusion he smiled,
and, clasping her to his bosom, kissed her, at
the same time assuring her that if he found
the young man’s character ami antecedents to
be satisfactory, liis poverty need be no bar to
tho consummation of then- happiness.
That same day Mr. Wilder went out and did
not return until late. He appeared to bo de
pressed, and went to bed without saying a
woid. 'Tho next day at the breakfast table he
proposed to his little family that they take a
trip to Europe. Marguerite had noticed ids
altered manner, and when this proposition was
made she understood it as meaning that her
father would not give his consent to her mar
riage, and her heart failed her for th.' moment.
There was something wrong. She asked him
for his answer. Mr. Wilder evaded her ques
tionings as long as lie could, but when she
stated that if she did uot get his consent to
their union she would leave her supposed
parents and go to her lover, tho old man was
obliged to divulge tho secret of years, and in
formed her that the man she loved was her
own brother, Frederick Hart.
Tiro poor girl fainted. When she camo to
she was delirious. She was removed to her
bed, where she remained for several week,;,
and when she arose it was seen that her brain
was seriously affected. Her lover’s name was
constantly on her lips.
When Mr. Wilder started out to inquire into
the young man’s character and found that he
was none other than his adopted daughter’s
ow n brother, Fred Hart, be was stunned. The
young man was made acquainted with tho fact
of his relationship an<l took it to heart. A
few days afterwards his body was found in tho
river.
After Marguerite had recovered sufficiently
to bear the news, her adopted parents told her
of the death of her lover. She became rileetcd
with melacholia, and has gradually grown
worse, until now it is thought necessary to
place her in some institution whom she will
receive proper treatment ami possibly recover.
With that end in view Mr. Wilder visited a
well-known medical expert in this city yester
day and arrangements were made for placing
her in a orivate institution in this county.
■< ..
PAltlS AND LONDON.
A Bundle of Contrantß- I‘oDilm of I>iffor<-nc
in the Social Customs of the Two Cities,
In n book with the title Anglotorre o
France, M. Felix Pvat—who knows England
well, having lived there as a political refugee
for thirty yean; - has indicated, in an original
aud picturesque fashi<»n,inany pointe of dis.si
dence between the social customs of the two
nations. Tho following is quoted from the
preface of M. J’yat’s work:
Paris is right-handed, London lefL-handed.
The Parisian coachman keeps to tho right,the
London one to the left. The former is seated
in front of his carriage, the latter behind.
Paris is comp;u:t, London scattered. Tho
heart of Paris is the Hob 1 <le Ville, that of
London is the bank. Paris has '» din of
fortifications am! an octroi, fjondon has neither
wall not town did les. Paris increase 1 b/ air
sorption, m by expan ion. Paris i.s
built with stem >, London with bricks. Paris
has high ho:i.->es ami narrow str cts, London
wide streets and low hoc «s. Ho.; u-s in Paris
have wide doors for carriages, in London the
doors arc small. In fa<q, Paris ha» its doors'
larger than its windows, whilst London has its
windows larger than it; door.s. Paris has
espsignolette windows opening like doors,
London guillotine windows. Paris
Las its shuttles outside, London in
side. Paris is ». , ojlcctivi >t, London
imlividi.mh.st. Paris dv/f-l's in mt. cs, in.dde
barracks and convents; lomlon lives in pri
vate, a home for each family. Paris has its
j orticr tdc-orkerp' r/, London its keys. Paris
lias its public cases, London its exclusive
clubs. Paris ttloeps in a Led placed alongside
the wall, Ixmdon in the middle of the room.
Paris rises < ally, London late. Paris pro
nounce* cocao, Jxindon <%x>zu. • * •
I'ar wu» | Los.dc r; cuonnom. l'»rru diuc.i,
London oats. Paris takes two meals a day*
London four. London, says Voltaire, has a
hundred religions and one sauce; Paris has a
hundred sauces and no religion. London has
a throe-pronged fork, Paris a four-pronged
one. Paris uses a napkin, London the table
cloth. *• * * Paris eats corn, London
drinks it. Paris eats boiled meats, London
roasted. Paris eats fried potatoes, London
boiled. Paris loaves are long, Lon
don loaves are square. Paris likes tho white
of turnips, London tlie green. Paris serves
oysters on tho concave shell, London on the
convex. Paris puts butter in its brioches,
London on its bread. Parish drinks wine,
London beer. Paris takes coffee, London tea.
i aris at table is sociable, London isolated.
1 arts has the table d bote, London tho dining
room box. Paris is gay, London dull. Paris
whips the horses, London Ilogs its criminals.
Paris lounges, London goes. Paris makes laws
during the day, London during tho night.
Paris has spring showers in March, London in
April.
London has but few soldiers, Paris too many.
In Paris tho soldier is a power, in London a
nonenlity. The Paris soldier wears rod trous
ers and a blue coat, tho London soldier a red
coat and blue trousers. The former is always
. tll ° hi ter carries only a short stick.
.1 he 1 arts soldier is a conscript, the London sol
dier a volunteer. In Paris priests celebrate
marriages, in London they themselves get mar
ried. In Paris girls are rigidly kept, in Lon
don they are free. In Paris married women
are tree, in London they are not. Paris
opens its museums on Sundays, London on
week-days. In Paris churches are always
open, in London they are nearly al ways closed.
lans has sedentary judges, London ambula
tory. Paris has her milkmaids seated, London
her milkmen with “ rounds.” Pari . warms her
selfwith wood, London with coal, I’arisbinies
her dead too soon, London too late. Paris
throws her refuse into the streets, London
keeps it inside. Paris retains her sewage in
the house, London throws it at once in tho
river. Paris has more mad people, Len lon
more idiots. Paris has more suicides, Loudon
more homicides. Paris is more of an artist,
London more of a merchant. In Paris men
are more, lively than horses, in London horses
are more frisky than men. Paris works, I on
don traffics. London is religious. Paris humane.
Pari , is democratic, London aristocratic. Paris
workmen call each other citizens, London
workmen mechanics. Tho former work in
their blouses, tho latter in coats. Working
Paris wears a casquctto (a cap), working Lon
don a hat. Canaille Paris fights with the, feet,
a l.omlon mob fights with its fists. Working
Paris calls the pawnbroker “my aunt,” work
ing London “my uncle.” Working London
says, like its queen, “ ’Dion ct mon Droit,’
Huie Brittania,” working Paris says, like the
republic, “Kights of Man, Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity.”
THE LOWEICINIM ALS.
Fromthc Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Teuton who, in response to an inquiry
from his spiritual father as to his creed, re
plied: “1 fear God, love dor viinin ami hato
schnakcs, especially doso rattle-heads ami cop
per sehnakes,” camo very nearly expressing
the popular idea of the relations existing be
tween us and the brute creation since the days
of Moses. Indeed it would seem that Moses
ami tho rest of tho hierophants who assisted
him, if he had any assistance in getting up tho
code named after him, interpolated their
own and tho thou generally prevalent
idea regarding onr dumb friends, viz:
That they must of necessity bo enemies of
the human lace. There couldn’t, indeed,
bi any doubt about the status of tho serpent,
bat one might, suppose that Moses, who got his
edm ation ami early bias in Egypt amid tho
worship of cats, onions ami bulls, would have
been a friend of the lower animals. Unfortu
nately lor the brute creation, tho early impres
sion that “in Adam’s fall wo sinned all,” and
that brutes also shared in the decadence of
morals, was widespread among the children of
Eber. They had been taught that the Lord
said: “[will destroy man, whom 1 have cre
ated, from the face of tho earth; both man
and beast, ami the creeping thing,
and the fowls of tho air, for it
repenteth me that I have mado them.” Only
the fish escaped the proscription, and yet our
brook trout would have been unclean to Moses,
'i'lio idea almost every where sot forth in tho
Old Testament is that brutes were allowed
to exist solely for tho uso of man,
and while his weapons wore confined
to the swoid, spear, bow and arrows, some of
the brutes were no mean antagonists. Whether
i: he true, or not that a serpent once obstructed
the passage of a Roman army across a river, in
I'l'un.un that until lire arms becamo commo)
the lion and tiger had but little fear of man
ami they did not decrease visibly; and we are
fold in Exodus xxiii., 23, that the Hivite, the
Canaanite and the Hittite w<‘re not driven out
of their holdings in a year, “lust the. land be
come desolate ami the beast o the field multi
ply against thee.” A,inf in Leviticus
xxv i., 22, the Israelites were threat
cm d in case of disobedience .with
this, among other evils: “1 will also send will
beasts among you, which shall rob you of you,
children, and destroy your cattle, and make
yon lbw in number, and your highways shall
Ik; desolate.’’ Ina nation whieTi numbered
fitX),(XX) lighting men, a population of 3,900,000,
it n ads strangely now that fears existed that
wild beasts should inullply against them to an
injurious extent in a country about one-fourth
the size of Pennsylvania.
<>!•• MODEKN BIRTH.
Th? idea that the brute creation Lave any
rights that humanity is bound to respect is of
lucent growth, and it is not much Io he won
dered at in countries whose laws ami religion
are strongly tainted with the teachings of tho
law of Moses. The American Indian ethnolo
gist seemed to .‘ how a descent from tho people
of whom Columbus supposed him to be, when
he, the 1 ndian, classified the dog as a connect
ing link between himself and tho negro. Ho
put the while man first, the Indian next, the
dog next and the negro next, and ho shows
his regard for tho dog in his belief that his
faithful friend shall accompany him in the
happy hunting grounds, but be comes very
no;ir cannibalism in his partiality for roast
puppy. It is true that Solomon said: “A
righteous man regardeth the life of his beast,”
but. Solomon would have fell himself
defiled if a dog had licked his hand in friend
ship, and would have been ill at ease until he
had gone through a purification. Ladies did
not. pet poodles in Judea. Among people in
which man’s most faithful dependent was thus
contemned wa m ed not wonder at the order:
“Now go and smite Amalek, ami utterly de
stroy all that they have, and spare them not:
but slay both man and woman, infant and
suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”
Doubtless the impression that everything
created below man is wholly devoted to minis
ter to his comfort ami amusement is as old, or
nearly so, as tho race itself, and it rapidlv de
veloped into another that tho powerful had a
right to convert to their pleasure tho weaker
of their own brethren, hence slavery, which
exists, and al was has, in some form, since the
beginning of history.
But the sentiment of love and pity for dumb
animals i.s strangely distributed. As Borno one
has said, it may inspire the heart of a Toruue
rnada ami bo absent in that of a Howard. Two
centuries ago tho Society for Prevention of
Uriicity to Animals would have been regarded
by the pious bull ami hear baiters an<l cock
fighters of the restoration as an assemblage oj
loony cranks, ami the members would navs
been fortunate if they escaped tho Block'-;
There are people still living (who
can remember when cock fighting was a
fashionable amusement, witnessed by
thousands near the Jones Ferry
landing on tho south side, and it is compli
mentary to the civilization of tho present that
people who still enjoy such brutal spectacles
are forced to do it by night or in out-of the
way pirn es. The ex predion, “Spare the rod
and spoil the child,” is not heard so froquonty
as it was forty years ago, and school “masters”
arc no longer eho' cn, mainly on account of i
their ability t<> whip the largo “scholars.’*
PROTECT 1 HE GAME.
But while the most cruel may forselfish mo
tives take some measure of care of domestic
animals, the law for the protection ol game in
this state is almost a nullity. The claim of
rilit to kill, maim and harass the wild animals
in our forests would scum to be an outcrop of
the spuit that, lid year-) ago tho leg
i laturc to pass “an act to oncouDigo tho kill
ing of Squirrels in the provin o of Pennsylva
nia,” and today under tho clause
allowing farmers to kill g:iino in
jurious tx> ciops, squirrels and birds, oven song
ami insectivorous birds, are slaughtered in
season and out of season, ami even a member
of a society for tho protection of game has been
charged with killing fish with dynamite. But
notwitstanding infractions of tho law, squir
re’s and birds might stand some show were it
not for the, senseless vanity that prompts oven
men who seek to dignify themselves
with tho title of sportsman, to kil
as many as possible, merely for the
pleasure of boasting thereof. Tho pot
hunter who kills for the market is proba
bly beyond redemption, but the unprofitable
ness of his vocation in the thickly settled por
tion of this country protects them from his
ravages. Though tho woods are at present
glorious enough to subdue the passions of an
observant person, the following couplet doos
not reach the perception of the average hun
ter, even though he may be a member of a
sportsman’s association:
Not a beauty blows,
And not an opening bl< -s-om breathes in vain.
You hear tho average squirrel shooter boast
that he killed so many squirrels, ami it is
evident that ho, while sneaking through tho
woods, was oblivious to forest charm. These
murderers do not in the hWo of nature hold
communion with her in her visible forms, as
Bryant ex; rosses it, but, animated by the
spirit that King Saul was exhorted to show in
his war on Amalek, they are beat on indis
criminate slaughter of the innocent denizens
of tho forest, that aro thought by experience
to dread man more than the rattlesnake ami
all other marauders combined who merely
hunt to support existence. Tho first of
September is the last day of grace for
the squirrel in each year. From that.day until
there is scarce seed left for the next year’s
crop these hunters sneak into the woods before
daybreak and like assassins lie in wait for their
prey. The squirrel comes forth with sharp ap
petite for his breakfast ami i.s shot by sports
men (?) with a shotgun that covers a circum
ference 30 inches in diameter with its leaden
hail. Aud this is called sport! Any boy who
has patience to sneak can perform the feat
■with ease, ami with mo t of these hunh rs any
thing is fish that comes to their nets. They will
shoot grouse or quail as quickly wit hout.giving it
tho option of flying as they will a squirrel, and
once they get it into (heir game-bags they are
as secure as though the 15th of October had
come. The result is that although there are
yet noble forests in Allegheny county that tho
woodman has spared, they are so completely
despoiled of animate charm* that they would
not now inspire the desci iptive genius of Bry
ant. or give Mrs. Sigourney heart to discourse
of the beauties of Indian summer; nothing
that suggested to the imaginative Gruek
Naiads, Oreads, Zephyrs, Sai; rs or the mighty
Ban, but. on tho contrary su st ions of.
waitings of tnc spirits of .‘.laughtered innocents
that once by their gambols ami melody lent an
irresistible charm loan American sylvan scene
in autumn.
SHOULD AMEND THE GAME LAW.
The legislature ought to add an amendment
to the game law, making it a punishable of
fense to shoot a s<|iii rrc I with a .shotgun, and
requiring every hunter to depose under tho
temporal pains and penalties of perjury that
lie. had shot every gray ami black squirrel
found in his posses ;ion with a rille. By this
means squirrels would bo given at least one
year to multiply, and it would greatly dimin
ish tho slaughter for many years. At tho same
time an army of .skilled marksmen would
grow up, the services of which the nation,
under our imperfect civilization, may yet
need.
Formerly very few squirrels were shot until
tho leaves fell, until
Tho groves
Tn fleeting colors wrote their own decay.
Ami leaves fell eddying on the sha: pjned bl.ill
T hat s ing their dirge,
and then there was some chivalry among the
hunters. They used rilles, and many of them
disdained to shoot a squirrel anywhere except
through the head. There are a few of tin so
old-timers left, and they still prt for the muz
zle-loader; and there are still a few sections in
this state where their style of squirrel hunting
can yet bo enjoyed. They and all other game
ami song birds in this section aro so ?t»-rroriz<‘d
that the hunter (an only bear the
plaintive notes of the clu-wink or
ground robin, the defiant squall of tho oat
bird, tho tapping of tho si) sucker seeking
for worms, and the discordant cries of the
chickaree, or redsqu’nrul, sciurus Iludsonius.
T he latter is an ishmaelito among squirrels,
and should bo held in abhorrence by tho
friends of the gray and black squirrels. He
wages relenth ss war on th<- malt sos these
species, and miscegonatcH with their females,
producing a mule of tho meanest appearance.
This variety is very easily killed, for it is as
impudent as a weasel, but its agility and
ferocity makes it a match for half a dozen of
the larger kinds.
If you would enjoy a squirrel hunt to tho
utmost take a train some day early in October
when the frost has stripped tho leave'; fioni
the trues on tho mountain ridg.s of eillu-r
l’< nnsylvania or West Virginia. Find some
place remote from towns. The hotel accommo
dations will not be iiist-ela: s, but the faro is
abundant and clean and b-ds warm. Arise
early in tho morning, and with a good rille
sally out before dayl»rc;'.k. T’hc more frosty
the morning the belter, provided (he day is a
clear one. About tho time tho sun reddens
the eastern horizon is the best for operations.
Il you haven’t secured a dog you can generally
get one at the first farm hou.su you come to by
SHOWING YOUR GI N
to the first cur that barks at you. Give him
something agreeable to a dog’s palate, and
that and tho gun make him your altemlant as
long as you stay in the neighborhood. If with
in a few minutes after you got into t he. timber
you do not see what you wan 4 , tho dog by yelp
ing at the root of jsome tree, will inform you
there is a squirrel on that one. Uso a long,
muzzle-loading squirrel rifle. Don’t lake a
rest—it isn’t fair. If you have Jncrve and
uyo you can kill squirrels by shoot
ing olf-haml. Wlrn tho dog has
indicated tho tree, if it boa black squirrel you
will generally see it at liirtt glance, if agrav
you will at first be apt to take his bushy tail
for moss, but a short experu neo will soon <-n
--ablo you to determine at a glance. You have
now an inch and a half to shoot at, at a dis
tance of twenty-five to thirty-live yards, much
better than target practice, and you need not
bo nervous, for, “if at first you don’t succeed,”
all you have to do is “try, try again.” The
squirrel is usually more afraid of the dog than
he is of you, and tho practice is better than
any to be found in shooting galleries. When
the squirrel drops you must allow the dog to
give tho body a shake. He regards it as his
right and as his part in the exploit. After he
has tossed the squirrel as a terrier do's a rat,
his work is accomplished, so far as that squir
rel is concerned, and he starts to tree another,
and If you aro not quick at loading you will
generally hear him yelp again before yon have
your gun capped. If you arc at all expert
ami tho wind docs nut blow, you
will have as many squirrels by night as anyone
not a hog can wish. Almo t all tho dogs on
those ridges have been taught to tree s»|uiir» ls,
and a cur of low degree is apt to do bettor than
any dog of fine breed. Ho enjoys the sport
with as much zest as the keenest biped hunter.
Some of them show the utmost contempt for a
poor marksman after the failure of his tilth
or sixth shoot--words could not expn s
it more plainly. No more than two
hunters should g<j together. Two can bunt
much more successfully than uno, as tho
squirrel will frequently foil one man by shift
ing round the tree just as fast as tho hunter
can travel, and as the squirrel has less < ir
cumfenmeo to tfavcl he can keep up tho play
the longest. No ardent spirits arc needed on
a trip ol this kind, and If the hunter feels that
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