North Carolina Newspapers

V 1 n i. 7t: H GEO. S.- BAKER, Editor and- Proprietor, TVETRMS: S2.00 per Annum. VOL. Ill LOUISBUHG. N. C FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1874. JSTO. 38. rl TA -rr-TrTnT ir-rr- .b RANKLIN . V L L' u it'a iry-topp'd Farewell rarcwell to the boras where in youth's giddy uour I revell'd and hmgbed 'neath roof, Wher I grew ln life's dawn, like a bright, HmilhiR flower, Atwa UionU iiOt of trouble, and krww not of reproof. a a - u . aweet were the dreamw then that came to my pillow, hen I rented at night in my soft tiny bed ; Jiut now changed are those dream te a trou- ble-toH'd billow, ('uiniiii iae vuiodu mai iiit tnro my head. Farewell to that hearth, where my dear mother taught me To pray to that Being, who guardeth the TfreaV, wiiTfl tniiing presents my friends often brought me, a - - .. . Aiwi wiiHper d the path that wsh proper to o more Khali I gaze on their sweet, beaming fa-en, That Kmil'd on the laaghing and venturesome iy, iiw more tuni i ieei ineir neart-warm d em- braceB, That male me each meeting bo dearly enjoy. farewell to' the room where the ssun's early rihin, Oft I gazed on with pleasure anj youthful delight. lo the Htream h daubing waters, to me then Hurprming, A tear for theo etartH as thy beauties 1 write ; The old crumbled bower where oft in my gam bol, I climb'd on each gable decaying w ith years, ISO more hi i all I eee thee, nor talk of those rambles Tli at have HUM my fond mother with doubt ingH and fear. farewell! O, farewell, no more shall I view theo, Dear scenes of my childhood, I bid thee adieu, E'en friend are all lied, who once gladly knew Alan ; mat tneir iriemmuip euoulii prove so untrue.-) , farewell ! ne'er again Bhall I gaza'on thy towers;' of my fathers, art gone to Thou home decay ; No moro shall I taste of those sweot, happy hours I've spent 'neath thy roof 'mid the festive and gay, THE HOARD FENCE. " Shoo, fihoo, get home, you plaguy critters !" cried Mr. Babcock, waving his arras as ho chased a dozen sheep and lambs through a gap in the fence, It wa3 a wooden fence, and when he had succeeded in driving the animals the other side of ir, he lifted it from its reclining position, and propped it up with stakes. This was an operation he had found himself obliged to repeat many times in. the courieof the season, aud not only of that season, but of sev eral previous seasons. Yet Mr. Babcock was neither slack nor thriftless ; in fact, ho rather prided himself on the orderly appearance, of his farm, and not without reason. How then shall we account for his negli gence in this particular instance ? The truth was that this fence formed the boundary line between his estate and that of Mr. Small ; and three gen orations of men who owned these es tates had been unable to decide to whom it belonged to rebuild and keep it iu repair. If Ithe owners had chanced to bo nieu of peaceable dispositions, they hud compromised the matter and avoided a quaiiel ; but if, on tho con trary, they belonged to that much larger class who would sooner sacrifice their own comfort and convenience than their fo-celled rights, this fence had been n source of unending bicker ings aud strife. And of thi' class were the present owileM. Again and again they had consulted their respective lawyers on the subject, aud dragged from their hiding-places musty old deeds and re cords, but always with the same result. "I say it belongs to you to keep it in repair ; that's as plaiu as a pike-staff," Mr. Babeook would say. " And I say it belongs to you, any fool might se'e that," Mr. Small would reply, and then high words would fol low, ahd they would part in anger, more determined aud obstinate than before. The lawyer's fees and the loss v bv damages from each others' cattle had already amounted to a sum suffi cieut to have built a fence round their entire estates, but what was that com pared to the satisfaction of having their own way i There was not wanting in the neigh borhood peace-makers who would gladly have settled the affair by arbitration but to this neither of the belligerents would listen for a moment. At last, one day. Miss L-etitia Uiil. a woman much respected in the village, and of some weight as a land-owner and tax-pnyer, sent for Mr. Babcock to come and sort her on business ; a summons , wlrich he made haste to" obey, as how could l o do otherwise where a lady wo concerned. Miss ljetitia sat at tier window sew ing up a se.iru, but she dropped her work and took off her spectacles when Mr. Bibcock made his appearance. 'So von got my message ; thank yon for coming, I'm sure. Sit down, do. I suppose my man Isaac told you I wanted to consult you on a matter of business, a matter of equity, I may sav. It can t be expected that we women folks should be the best judges . about Mich things, you know ; there's Isaac, to be sure, but then he lives on the pince, and maybe he wouldn't be exactly impartial in his judgment about .our n flairs. " Jes so," said Mr. Babcock. Well, the state of the case is this When Isaac came, up from the long ". meadow to dinner. they're mowing the meadow to-day. and an uncommonly good vield there is. when he came up "to dinner, he found that certain Btray cows had broken into the vegetable garden," ., t'-- -:-r 94 He aid. herT" "You 8n fancy th. riot they Bad I declare, Isaac w ta almost ready to use proiane language. I m not sure that he didn't say deuce,' and I'm not certain he did say ' darn ; &nd after all, I couldn't feel to reproach, him very severely, for the pains he has taken with that garden is something amazing; working in it, Mr. Babcock, early and late, weeding and digging, and water ing, and. now to see it all torn and trampled so that you wouldn't know which was beets and which was cucum bers, it's enough to rouse anybody's temper. "It is so," said Mr. Babcock. " And that isn't allfor by the looks of things they must have been rampag ing a full hour in the orchard and clover-field before they had got into the garden. Just you come and see and putting on her sun-bonnet, Miss Letitia snowed Mr. Babcock over the damaged precinct. "You dont happen to know those animals did the mischief ?" said Mr. Babcock. Well, I didn't observe them in par ticular, myself, but Isaac said there was one with a particular white mark something like a cross, on her haunch. "Why, that's Small's old Brindie. cried Mr. Babcock. "I know the mark as well as I know the rose on my face. he had balls on her horns, didn t she? " Yes, so Isaac said. " And a kind of hump on her back ?" "A perfect dromedary," said Miss Letitia. "I noticed that myself." "They were Small's cows, no doubt about it at all," said Mr. Babcock, rub bing his hands. " No sheep with them hey?" - " Well, now I thiuk of it, there were sheep, they ran away as soon as they saw JLsaac. xes, o irtamiy tnere were sheen." said Miss Letitia. " I knew it, they always go with the cows : and what you wish of me "Is to fix the damages, said Miss Letitia, "As I said before, women folks are no judges about such mat tors.". Mr' Babcock meditated a moment, and then said, "Well, I wouldnt take a cent less thamseventy-flve dollars, if I were you, not a cent. "Seventy-five dollars! Isn't that a good deal, Mr. Babcock ? You know I don't wish to be hard on the poor man, all I want is a fair compensation for the mischief done." ' "Seventy-five dollars is fair, ma'am, in fact, I may say it's low ; I wouldn't have a herd of cattle and she p tramp ing through my premises in that way for a hundred." " There's one thing I forgot to state, the orchard gate was open or they couldn't have got in ; that may ma&e a difference." "Not a bit, not a bit. You'd a right to have your gate open, but Small's cows had no right to run loose. I hope Isaac drove 'em all to the pound, didn't he?" "I heard him say he'd shut 'em up somewhere, and didn't mean to let 'em out till the owner calls for 'em. But, Mr. Babcock, what if he should refuse to pay the damages ? I should hate to go to law about it." "He won't refuse ; if he does, keep the critters till he will pay. As to law, I guess he's had about enough of that." " I'm sure I thank you for your ad vice, said Miss j-ietitia, ana l mean to act upon it to the very letter." And Mr. Babcock took his leave with a very nappy expression oi counte nance. Scarcely was he out of sight when Miss Letitia sent a summons for Mr. Small, which he obeyed a3 promptly as his neighbor had done. She made to him precisely the same statement she had made to Mr. Ball cock, showed him the injured property, and asked him to hx dameges. It was remarkable that before he did this, he should ask the same question Mr. Babcock had askod, namely, whether she had anv suspicion to whom the animals belonged. " Well, one of them I observed had a terribly crooked horn." Precisely it s Uabcock s heiter. I should know her among a thousand. She was black and white, wasn't she ?" " Well, now I think of it, she was ; one seldom sees so clear a oiacK- and white on a cow." "To be sure, they're Babcock's ani mals fast enough. Well, let me see what you want is just about a fair esti mate, I suppose ?"'.'. " Certainly." " Well. I should say ninety dollars was as low as he ought to be allowed to get off with." O, but I fear that win seem as n l meant to take advantage. Suppose wo call it say seventy-five ?" " Just as you please, of course ; but hanged if I'd let him off for less than a hundred, if twr.s my case. And rf he refuses to oay ? " Why, keep his animals till he comes round, that's all." " But there 8 one thing JL neglected to mention: our gate was standing open ; that may alter the case." "Not at all, there 8 no law against your keeping your gate open ; there is acrainst stray animals. " Very well, thank you for your ad- vice, saiaiuiss xjeuua; ana xar. omau departed with as smiling a countenance as Mr. BabcocK nad worn. But at milking time that night he made a strange discovery old Brindie was missing ! At about the same hour Mr. Babcock made a similar discovery the black and white heifer was nowhere to be found ! A horrible suspicion seized them both. a suspicion which they would not have made known to each other for the world. They waited till it was dark, and then Mr. Babcock stole round to Miss Letitia's, and meekly asked leave to look at the animals which had commit ted the trespass. He would have done it without askinr? leave, on rv that thrifty Miss Letitia always locked her barn doors at night. Whild he stood looking over into the pen where the cows were confined, and trying to negotiate with Miss Letitia for the release of the heifer, along came Mr. Small, . in quest of Brindie. The two men stared at each other for an instant in blank dismay, and than hung thtir hadi ia confnjjoa. It was useless to assert that the dam ages were too high, for had ther not fixed them themselves ? It was useless to plead that Miss Letitia was in a manner responsible for what had hap pened, on account of the open gate, for had they not assured her that circum stance did not affect the case ? It was useless to say that she had no right to keep the cows in custody, for had they not counseled her to do so? As to goisg to law about it, would they not thus become the sport of - the - whole town? " 'He that diggeth a pit. he himself shall fall into it,' " said Miss Letitia, who read what was passing in their minds as well as if they had spoken, for tne light of Isaac s lantern fell full on their faces. "However. I don't wi-h to be hard upon you, and on one con dition I will free the cows and forgive you the debt." "What is that?" Both looked the question, but did not ask it. . ' " The condition is tnat you promise to put a good new fence in place of the old one that separates your estates. dividing the costs between you, and that henceforth you will live peaceable together as iar as in you lies. Vo you promise? " xes, muttered both, in a voice scarcely audible. " Shake hands upon it, then," said Miss Letitia. They did so. "Now let the cows out, Isaac; it's time they were milked," said she. And the two men went away driving their animals before them, with a shame faced air greatly in contrast to the look of triumph with which they had las quitted her presence. The fence was built, and the strife ceased when the cause was removed but it: was Ion sr before Miss Letitia's part of the affair came to the public ear; for she herself maintained a strict si lence concerning it, and enjoined the same upon her man-servant Isaac. Youth's Companion. In a Gambling Den. The San Francisco Bulletin relates th's following t ' The demolition of the Mead House. at the corner of Montgomery and Pine streets, has developed some facts- of startling interest. The Mead Hoare was a rendezvous for the gambliLg frater nity from early in 1865 to December, 1871, when the police raided upon it and disturbed operations. Until this raid the game of faro was conducted in the building in a quiet and orderly manner and with profit, the net earn ings reaching $65,000 for a single year. This was in reality a workingman's bank. Here the working classes de posited large sums of money and were not troubled with bank books. A few days ago, while the workmen were tak ing down the walls a number of sus picious characters were observed hang ing about the spot and watching the proceedings with great interest. While knocking away the wall of one of the lower rooms the workmen were some what puzzled by the manner of the strangers. Three of them suddenly walked up to the spot and watched every blow of the ax with the keenest scrutiny. Suddenly a gap was made in the wall, and the next blow of the ax caused a peculiar sound as if a musical instrument had been strnck. On ex amination it was discovered that three Ben Spinner's Vacation, If there is a thing which at first I thought I would be glad of and am now dreadful sorry for, it is because school is out for keeps till the celt term. It is most unusually the way that when school don't keep there is Elenty of work studied up for me to ave to do. That's the way it fits me every time. It's my kind of bad luck to be raised to have industrious ways. My father is everlastingly telling me that idleness is the parents of vice or some of that sort of disagreeable Eng lish language that I dont want to Lear, and that I must keep busy at work at something and not gad about with other indolent boys and race the streets from morning till night per petual. Last vacation they put me into the garden, wheie, they said, I could obtain some habits which would do me some good when I became grown up into a useful citizen. Well, to have to be a useful citizen is all very fine silk, but if I could only have my own way only just once I would rather sell pea nuts on the railroad. But they have got me in the same hardships which I was into last summer, only it is rougher because there is more of it. If they think it's proper for me to have to bug the potatoes, and weed the onions, and thin out the roobarb, and raise up a lot of frarun trash for to go to seed and wires were running np through the wall waste, why, then, I suppose its all right from floor to ceiling, ln a few minutes no less than half a dozen were about the place examining the wire, the three strangers looking at each other signifi cantly. An investigation of the walls of the whole house was now commenced, and the revelations were, indeed, of the most startling character. In one of the rooms on the upper floor was an ar rangement which enabled a player to know exactly what his opponent held. Directly over the table in the centre of the room was a small hole in the ceiling, through which the confederate watched the game. Wires ran along the ceiling to the floor, and terminated in levers beneath the carpet, upon which the cheating gambler placed his foot; as these wires were pulled, the number of Keeping Bmoxed Seats ln Sumner. There are various plans and devices for keeping smoked meats for summer use from the attacks of flies and beetles which infect hams, smoked beef, etc., if left where they may have access to them. Among the more common is wrapping each piece separately in strong brown paper and then packing in barrels filled in, about the packages, with ashes or other absorbent material. Another plan is to place the pieces in sacks well surrounded with cut hay, or in tight barrels, with cut hay or straw closely pressed around the pieces. By this latter plan, however, the meat Is apt to mold. To prevent this, it should not be entirely excluded from the air, and where air and light can enter in sects are apt to follow. A better plan when the trouble and expense is sot IUa of Interest. Fee simple Civic a waiter ten cents and expecting to have a good dinner. The elephant is said to be dying out. Ferhape that's the reason why so many insist on seeing him on every occasion. The Cincinnati Gazette is curious to know what the brewers of that city do with the tobacco stems they purchase. TU Cnban Blasters. are arriving at the conclusion that growing pineapples and bananas for the American market pays better than tobacco and coffee. ACalifomian-whotlfs one end oi a rope around his waist anj lassoes a cow with the other can generally end of the first half mile, whether ho s got the cow or the cow's got him. No recommendation. Ouahmg r ar ty "There's a view now I Magnificent I grudged is to wrap each piece separate-1 HarelY vouU admit that deserves ly in paper and inclose in sacks cut, to I nraia 1! . Frastical Sail-made man. A A. 4" A f 1 . fit. Sew them np and dip in thick lime-wash, and hang in an airy but cool place. Some, indeed, claim that meat may be kept perfectly and indefinitely by simply rubbing the surface with pepper before smoking, but it is almost no protection at all. The best, and in the end cheapest. way to preserve meat is to have a smoke house built in such a manner that. while it is tight and dark, it shall at the same time, be well ventilated. All that is neoessary to secure this is a chimney on top protected by blinds so that the rays of light cannot enter, while at the bottom is a tube connect ed with the outer air. In such a smoke- if I could only see it, but when a boy has studied diligently all winter I don't think it's exao'ly the fair thing to keep him too tenacious at work in vacation. InvVt aw tViofa rrtv nniniAn ViiaTi T sav f f ucv 0 vsvaaaa. w uivu a I jvu iUJir er aaA v St iuucuiuwij I mm" JT , . throw in. There ain t a very great deal I by occasionally causing a smoke during I ihe igypuan voverumeni, mm uciku Well. I don't know. It has made no effort to deserve it didn't make itaelf !" A teacher, who. in a fit of vexation. callea her pupils a set of vonng adders. upon being reproved lor nei languagr, apologized by saying that she was speaxmg v uiose j mt ivuiuimuu their arithmetic ! The Chicago Tmet thinks the base ball club of that city can best serve Chicago by quitting their perambula tions about the country, and taking positions as hod-carriers. The number of pilgrims who yiaited the tomb of Mahomet at Mecca this year is said to have been 30,000, and house you may keep meat indefinitely owing to the Precautions opUd hr of real pleasure in digging potatoes where the bugs is about a barrel full to the acre, and when a boy has to bend his back down to try to pull up weeds which grow clean through and clinch on the other side, it's a kind of miserable occupation which I would like to get half a good chance for to slip out of. summer, if the meat has been proper I Iy cured, it will keep sweet. If the in sects cannot get access . to the place where it is kept, they cannot lay their eggs therein and consequently there! cannot be either skippers or beetles or their larvae. The smoke-house may be used lor a Pulpit Franks. We are sometimes amused that will be better than to sav anvthine severe taps telegraphed the course of action to but when you have to do it there is no at the posture of some preachers. They seem not to kntfw what to do with their legs. They were, doubtless, made to stand on, to give the body a firm and commanding bearing, and impressive dignity. They stand on one leg and crook the other round it like a cork screw, and keep up a perpetual twist ing as if they were winding themselves up. Then they shift and wind up the other side, and it seems all the time as if what they were saying was worked below. Of course such an unnatural and ungraceful posture as this de tracts very much from the effect of their preaching, because it excites your sym path or something else unpleasant, for they seem to be in pain all the time. In this position every gesture is awk ward, for the hands are needed to sup port the body. Then what a part the pocJtet-handKerchiei plays with some preachers. One spreads it lengthwise in the Bible as if it were accessory or a help to his sermon.! He makes it a kind pursue. The laro room was the most ingeniously contrived thing in the house. In the first place, wires ran from the door so that a signffl was given when it opened, and in an instant every thing was in readiness for the drop. This was accomplished by two levers and a space beneath let into the floor. In a second the gamblers withdrew from To have to wade into the garden early I variety of purposes when not filled with in the morning when the dew is on in meat. The first four feet should always your bare feet, and get smart weed up be built of brick, both as a protection your trousers leg, is a worse thing than against fire ahd as affording a most con- the Erie fcipuis and the lever and ague; venient receptacle for ashes, in all dis- tncu where wood is burned lor meu use for to try to shirk out. I went back on the job once, but I never went back on it twice, because once was enough. I was roped in and coaxed by some If our readers have no permanent smoke-house yet build in which! to keep their meat, we advise them to built one without delay. Where farmers depend boys to go off on the commons to play I so much, as they necessarily must in ball for a whole day. Late in the even ing, when I came in home the back way, and desperate hungry, the governor gave me an abundance of stars and the country in summer, on preserved meats, they should have a proper place to keep it sale from insect enemies. the table, each man of course grabbing stripes, which I have got them yet, and his checks and money, and by a motion could show 'em if I was only in a swim- oi tne levers tne yawning noor openea, and down went the whole 'lay out. The carpet was then drawn over the spot, and when the officers hove in sight there was nothing in the shape of gamblers' implements to be seen. In the house there were taken out no less than 150 wires and several contrivances for suddenly hiding gambling imple ments. After the discovery an endeavor was made by the three strangers to hush the matter up, but the affair had become noised abroad, and already a good many btrangers were about the place, drawn ming. 1 found out thai it is a bad habit for a boy to get into, to leave his work without permission, and it's the best way always for to obey orders if it of the coming American hotel : " The . A Chicago Hotel. The following is a translation oi an article in. a Berlin paper, which will convey an' idea of the German estimates almost breaks your back. Bat I have got awful sick of this vacation business, and if I can find a school next yesr which will keep in the year round, it's the one that I want to go to. That's what kind of a boy I am. Interest on Friendship. latest American progress in building will be the 'mammoth hotel,' soon to be erected in Chicago. This enormous hotel is to have a frontage of three Eng lish miles long, and a depth of six miles ; the height of seventy-seven stories will measure 3,480 feet from the ground floor, to the roof. The hotel will have no stairs, but 500 balloons of Elisha's mantle with which to divide thither by curiosity. The developments F - - I A ? 11 . .In. 1850 a young man named Osborn, will always be ready to take visitors up the waters, to make a passage for his' ardent spirit, and he seems to rely on it for that purpose. Another rolls it up aa a compact arkrument, and gripes it and looks at it and talks to it, as muoh as to say, "Now I've got you." An other maKes it into a bail, and seem ingly hurls it at some stronghold he is bent on demolishing ; and still another makes a ram's horn of it, not the "little horn which Professor Stearns so learn edly describes, but such as Joshua used against Jericho, only he puts it to his nose when he blows the demolishing blast. We cannot explain it, but there are some things done by small men that would excite mirthful ness, which in a large man would produce no such enect. And we do not wonder, when a a very small man rose to preach as a candidate in a certain place, whose head could scarcely be seen above the pulpit, and gave out his text, " It is I, be not afraid, that the whole congre gation were moved to laughter. A Thrilling Situation. The following story, which is given as a tact, can hardiv be surpassed even by the imaginary situations that mark many specimens of the modern drama Near the city of Detroit, a man by the name of McArthur was crossing the railroad track in the night time, when his foot caught fast in a " frog," and his euorts to extricate it were of no avail. His boot fitted so closely that he could not draw his foot out, and at length he could hardjy move his leg from pain. Me found that he must either be run over by the next train or make known his situation. He shouted himself hoarse, but no one came. After having been prisoner for upward of an hour he heard the whistle, lie had a match-box in his pocket, papers in his bundle, and the idea came to him to signal the train. Tearing the paper off his bundle, and getting at some letters, he rolled them into a heap, and for fear that the names would die out too sud denly he added his clothes. The bun dle was then made fast to the end of his walking stidk, and he waited until the headlight of the locomotive should ap pear. It finally greeted his vision and he struck his match, but a gust of wind blew it out. Another match was struck, and in an instant he waved his signal back and forth, and just when he thought death was certain he heard the whistle for brakes. He was saved, but the, engine had only thirty feel more to go to crush him. In Prison. Young Walworth, who is now in the Auburn prison, is of no use to the con tractors. He has developed epileptic symptoms and is employed in the hos- a x i -w . - pitai to wa on pauenis. xngersoii, the Tammany Bing swindler, has from the first been a well-behaved, tractable and mi r wr wuung prisoner, xie is employed in a shop wheie rush horse collars are made. At first he was assigned the ordinary tasks, but the. contractor soon found was nt was more valuable as an over seer or general clerk, and he now fill that position in the shop, though he is required to march and ea trith his gang, and Oceania k cell ft night the iaimu alifricaeri. are creating some stir with the gambling fraternity, but the leading sports of the city denied all knowledge of .the exist ence of the peculiar arrangements by which the unwary were fleeced. Plucky Girls," Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Decovey, of Akron, O., being absent from home, their two elder daughters.- Gertrude. sixteen, and Eva, fourteen years of age, back, but do not worry jourself and in keep their house and have the care of jure your health in trying to make- the who had recently arrived at the mines from the East, penniless and friendless, was taken sick. He told his condition to a fellow adventurer named Hitch cock, who was a little better off, and the lattei promised to "see him through." The promise was kept, and when, after two months of illness; Os born arose from his bed, his friend handed him $250 to bear his expenses and to procure tools, saying to him, "If ever you get able you can pay me to their rooms. No loom-waiters are to be employed, but visitors will be served by a newly patented automatic, put up in every bedroom, who will do all shav ing, shampooing, etc., to the guests by has been unusually good. According to a local journal, the rattlesnakes in the knobs of Lincoln county,; Ky., have formed a " corner in water, and the supply oi some i ami lies is cut eff. They gather in large numbers around the springs, and suffer no one to approach. The famous, and at the time popular. hotel, tlte Danforth House, Fitbole City, Fa., which cost $28,000, was sold a few days ago for a Siu note ; ana vam furniture, which east $3,000, brought less than 100. Six months after the city was founded it had seventy-four - AlS hotels and boarding. houses, ana uiieen thousand innaDitanvs. juw umj ua families remain. Years ago an old man and his daugh ter Diana started to cross a marsh in Lake Charles parish, Louisiana. They were never afterward heard fsom. A short timo since a hunter's dogs started a wild animal in the marsh, and the huntsman was about to shoot, when he saw that it was a girl, nude and wild. He reported his discovery, was told the storr of Diana, and acting on the idea - - . ..- will endeator to get a glimpse ox ner again. An Sable Chasm. The following stories connected with the glen are well authenticated : Until a ew years ago a bridge spanned the Chasm at the point where it is narrow est. This bridge was suffered to decay, and was finally disused. There re mained of it at last only a single squared girder. Over this a mad-cap boy would sometimes venture, for a freak, but nous was known to cross vj three young children. On Tuesday night, or rather Wednesday morning about one o clock, Gertrude was awakened by a noise outside the house, and, on going to the window, dis covered a man working at the blinds of the bedroom below, occupied by Eva and the youngest child. On finding that he was discovered the fellow sprang from money too quick. une year ana a half irom that time Osborn sent Hitch cock $1,250, with the following note : " I'll pay interest on friendship." His labors proved remunerative, and by 1873 he was worth $350,000. While in San Francisco he met and recognized his old friend. When they parted, after several days companionship, a very simple and ingenious mechanism. I it except such as were possessed of the insanity of youth, una aara mgnt a clergyman on horseback approached it. He had been absent abroad for several yean. When he had been familiar with this section of country, the Au Sable Bridge was the uaual avenue of approach to his home. He knew noth ing of its subsequent ruin. Upon drawing near it in the darkness he con fidently spurred his horse onward. When the horse's hoofs struck the sin gle beam which remained of the bridge, the rider sought to penetrate the dark ness but could not. Dropping the reins upon the neck oi his bravo steed, he abandoned his thoughts to reverie. HUDDOsmor the guest reauires hot ws . V. f ... ter, the automatic will be able to call down stairs : 'A bucket of water up to room number one million three thou sand one hundred and seven,' and the water will be up in seven seconds by a patented elevator. Half an hour be fore table d'hote, instead of the ringing of bells, a gun (21 pounder) will be fired on each floor to call the guests to get ready for their meals. The tables in the dining-rooms will measure four miles each, attendance to be performed by twelve waiters on horseback on either side of the table. Music during table d'hote will be played gratis by eightjbands I He was passing over tbe wild gorge of the window and partially concealed him- Osborn gave Hitchcock a sealed pack- of seventy-five men each. For the con-1 the Au cable, with which he bad been r 1 1 T 11 . . 1 . 'LI 11 r A - . ' . - t . z A ' 11 V. I A . . Z 1 . Tenienoe ui TUiwn ratuuau wui ue Bcnuainiei in tuu.u iuu cut uau- built on each floor as well as telegraph hood, and where he had indulged in offices. The price for one bedroom will many a perilous adventure, long before bo from SI to 10. The cost of this the Chum had been prepared bv art building is estimated to be $680.000.000. ! for the easy access of the timorous visi- The billiard room will contain 900 1 tor. How many changes he might find self behind some objects a few feet dis tant from the house. Gertrude several times called to him that, if he did not want to get shot, he had better " clear out," but he maintained his position. By this time Eva had become awakened, and, seizing a loaded revolver, in the use of which she had had some practice, rushed up stairs. Gertrude again called upon the rascal to leave if he didn't want to get shot, and its he did not stir, sue pomcea out nis wnere abouts to Eva. who held the pistol in the direction indicated and blazed awav. The fellow fell forward on his hands and knees, and then raising himself, apparently with great diffi culty, made off into an adjoining field. After daylight the girls made a recon noisanceof the premises and the ad loing field, and not only the tracks of age, with the injunction tnat it was not to be opened until he was on the cars. There Hitchcock found that it con tained a deed for one-sixth of a rich silver mine, with a small note contain ing the words: "Interest on friend ship." Hitchcock has sold his interest for $80,000. TTaterspouls. When a whirlwind occurs out at sea, it agitates the waters, contained within its diameter to such a degree as fre quently to cause a column of spray to riso in the air. If the sky is cloudy, the upper strata of the whirlwind acts upon the lower clouds in the same man ner in which the lower strata acts upon the surface of the water, and tuns A causes a column oi vapor to aescena immediately above the spcending one. American, 00 French, and 1 English table, and, most of the visitors expect ed to be Americans, tbe billiard room will be fitted out with a spittoon of 100 feet in circumference. A Strong Witness. Some years ago a law suit occurred out West, growing out of the destruc tion of a quantity of growing corn, be longing to a Mr. Wilson, by hogs owned by a Mr. Brown. The Utter owned eight hogs, and Wilson declsred I reviewed. that they were all in bis field, and that, I threadlike pathway over upon his- return old faces buried, old landmarks removed, old bouses i&uen into decay. Before he had concluded this waking dream the hoofs of his trusty animal no longer echoed upon the bridge, but struck the solid ground upon the other side. He was safely over, without an intimation that he had risked the smallest danger. Not until he had reached his home, and was told by what route Le had come, did he learn of his tremendous peril. The next morning, when he m a m - m m a . a by the i:ghi or day, the Inch he had the wounded fugitive were plainly T fi :n : u. consequently, the havoc was immense, gone, his knees smote together, and he traced, but one place was found where 5. ih ? r l'tir,n for any Brown protested that he didn't believe uttered a prayer of thanksgiving for considerable period, become length- he had evidently lain down and rolled upon the grass as if in great agony. Bine Sky- and Whte Qonds. The ethereal blue color of the sky ened bv the pressure of the atmoe phere, and will ultimately join to gether. What are termed waterspouts in island districts are quite a distinct any of his hogs were in Wilson's field. but if any at all, certainly not more than one or two. and therefore the , damages could not have been so great 1 as represented. Wilson had a witness on his side delivetanee from a horrible death. A good -far-nothing character in the neighborhood was once caught in the act of theft, near the bridge just de scribed, la the days when it was the usual avenue of travel. It having been The ethereal blue color of the sky is phenomena. They are simply very T ? v . , . ;cuo "'Y? "1 TT. due to minute particles of matter which Eeavy Thowers of 7ain confinywitSn earned Jerry Parker, not a Try bright ryfully float in the air. Were these particles nTw iimits. These showers msy or young man. but noted for having a his morals might be T hJ.Z removed the appearance of the sky would be dead black. It is a fact in optics that exceedingly fine particles of matter disperse or scatter the blue rays of light, coarser portions scatter red rays, still coarser portions scatter all the rays, making white light. An atmosphere is full of acqueous vapor, the particles of which diffuse white light in all directions. When these particles are enlarged they become visible in the fdrm of clouds. The vspor particles of the white clouds are supposed to be finer and lighter than those of the dark clouds. That the dif fusion of light in our atmosphere, the blue coloring of the sky and the colors of the clouds, are due to the presence of matter floating in the air, has been conclusively proven byTyndalL On passing a beam of sunlight through a gl&ss tube the beam is rendered bril liantly visible by the reflection of light msv not be accompanied with a whirl wind motion of the atmosphere, but will, of course, come nearer our idea of what a waterspout may be when it is so accompanied. Scolding. Scolding is a habit very easily formed. It is astonishing bow soon one who indulges in it ax au Decomea addicted to it, and confirmed in it It is an unreasonable habit. Persons who once get in the way of scolding always find something -to scold about. II there .a . A1 were nothing else, iney wouia iaii a mldinc ai the mere absence of any thing to scold at. It is an extremely disagreeable habit. The constant rumbling of distant thunder, cater wauling, or a hand-organ under one's window, would be less unpleasant. contagious. Once lntro- The habit is from the dust particles floating in the I duced into a family, it is pretty certain air contained in the tube. But on re- I in a short time, to aSect au the mem wonderful imagination, lie came in late, and had not a very distinct idea as to how the case stood, but he had a very vague notion that it waa for Wil son s interest to make the number of hogs appear as large as possible. When he took the witness-staid he was questioned by Wilson's lawyer, who asked : "Jerry, did you see the hogs is Mr. WU&en's coxa-field, on the day in question T Yes, sir ; I did," replied Jerry. "Do you know exactly how many there were i No. I didn't count 'em : but 111 take my oath there warn't lass than thirty r The consternation of Wilson and his lawyer, at, this unexpected reply, may be imagined : and it was cot lessens 1 when Brown's lawyer arose and said : "Your honor, pending him by the heels for a brief season from the onage over au osute Chasm, Uiepunishraent was instantly inflicted. The cure proved enecxuaj, but the thief's morals were reformed at the expense of his intellect, lor be be came a confirmed, though inoffensive idiot. Hnaaa Testimony. Within a few mouths, says the Boston JYareler, a paper purporting to be a mortgage of personal property was frTH a prominent legal genueraaa on the witness stand in the Supreme Court, and he, under oath, stated that be saw the person sign the paper, ana that his name waa attached as witness his handwriting. He was closely in pressed trr the opposing counsel ... . - earelnllv examine ana see u ne aia i - . to see moving the dust particles, which is done by filtering the air by cotton wool, or causing the air to pass over a flame. the beam of light is so longer visible I iia tat taDt, bers.. If one of thembejnn finding fault about something or nothing, the others are apt very soon to take it up, and very tomeeessary bedlam . is created, onor, as my client has only the person sign it, and specially if hi- eight hogs, it is very evident tht those (the witness's) name was written u' M V -WT". 1 a aw a a mm Kal m mm I F VI am aWT 1 TW aaw which destroyed Mr. Wilson's" torn be-1 longed to some one else, and I ask; iudmextt for the defendant. . ..... . . The court granted uus request, ana poor Wilson, xrj nanrg too strong I wltaess, lot! toe ma, plied to both in the aSojJyH siierwaros appeareo, iwoa.v M.X. a. a SW . enoence, uu ua p copy of the on' by Us V