North Carolina Newspapers

Frank IPTO THj'TD XJ JLMJL! 1 llil-lrU GEO. S. BAJSZER, Editor and Proprietor. : '&HC7 V i Z !rj TERMS: S2.00 pcr'AnnumV VOL. III. LOUISBUEG. N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1874. NO. 40. Too Old for K luges. My nnclo Philip, bale old man, ITai children by the dozen ; Tom. Ned, and Jack, and Kate and Ann Iiow many call me " coufcin ? " Good bojn and girl, the beet was Bess : I bore her on my shoulder ; A littlo bud of loveline H8 That never thonld grow older! Her cyH had nch a pleading way, They seemed to Bay, Don't Btrike me ;" Then, growing boH, another day, " I mean to make you like mo." I liked my eoaiiin, early, late, Who liked not littlo miBees : Bhe usod to meet me at the gate, Just old enough for kibeea I Thin waH, I think, three years ago JJefore I went to college: T learned one thing there how to row, A healthy sort of knowledge. When I was plucked (we won the race), And all wan at an end there, I thought of Uncle PL-ihp place, And every country friend there. My couhin met me at the gate ; fihe looked five, ten years older A tll young woman, btill, sedate, Willi mannero coyer, colder. She gave her hand with stately pride, " Why, what a greeting thia in ! You uncd to ki me." bhe replied, " I am too tM for kuscB." I loved, I love my cousin Eosb : Bbo'h alwayd in my mind now ; A full-blown bud of lovelineea Tlio roue of womankind now 1 Hho must Lave Buitorn ; old and young Muht bew their heads before her ; Vows muut bo made and aongtj be eung Liy many a mad adorer I Iiut I must win hor : she must give To mo her youth and beauty ; And I to love her while I live Will be my happy duty ; For she will love me soon cr late, And be my bliua of blisses, Will como to meet me at the gate, Nor Lo too old for kisses ! signed my place, but my interest in the concern was too large to be trifled with, though I determined there would be a change in that board of directors an other year.. ' About a week after this our secre tary returned from Boston on the even ing train and brought with him. fifty thousand dollars, and all in greenbacks, il M m me proceeds oi our monthly outs re ceivable. He brought the money in bills because the day following was our pay-day. "I was in a most perplexing state of mind when he handed me that money. I knew the office safe was no protection whatever, and yet if I carried the money home with me I was assuming a great responsibility. Without saying a word to any' one 1 determined to keep the money with me. I found an old dinner-basket in the office and I carried it home in that. "You may be assured that I did not feel very comfortable .that evening. I thought of every nook and corner in the house, and wondered where would I be the safest. Jit last I determined upon dividing it', leaving half here and the rest in . my own room. I had not mentioned the matter at home,not even to my wife, but plead a headache when reminded of my preoccupied air. "I came in here and placed twenty five thousand dollars in that "ottoman 1 Mm A a m at your leet. ee I the top is on hinges, and is fastened by this hook on the side. This ottoman I pushed near 'Nap.' The balance I carrie'd to my own room and put it in the stove.think- ing that would be the last place where public sentence A Trick of the Zouaves. We commend the following authentic i story to the attention of th inuumera- I ble admirers of the French Zouaves, who have won such a conspicuous place in military history. The Arabs of the Beni-Bnassen tribe are great amateurs of gunpowder, and never neglect an op portunity of prowling bout the French camp, and offering the soldiers large sums of money for the coveted article. They pretend to be Arabs of the neigh borhood, friendly to the French, and say they want powder for hunting. One day it was discovered that the zouaves had been selling their powder. To paint the fury of the officer in com mand of the Arab bureau is an impos sible thing, but he resolved to discover the culprits and punish them severely. An Arab in the service of the bureau went in a mysterious way in quest of powder. An old aouave brought him four cartridges, and asked him twenty francs for them. The bargain was struck, but the spy instantly disclosed his official character, and brought the cartridge vender before the comman der. " Is it you then," cried the officer. "coward and knave, who would, have your comrades assassinated by the Benni-Snassens ?" "Yes, commandant, I did it." " You have committed a base action." "I admit it commandant; but with this same powder that I sold, I am .going to blow my brains out ; that will save the trouble of a cQurt-martial, and the zouaves will not be dishonored by a Terlls of Office Seek Id?. The Hon, Albert G. Brown, of Mis sissippi, recently wrote a letter to a young lady friend, wherein he laments that he ever made a political speech or held an office. Ex-Governor Brown was for thirty-three years, previous to 1865, continually in high official and political station, and would therefore seem to have had as extensive and fa- What He Wanted. Stephen Decatur was most emphati cally a "sailor's man. When, on ship board, we would say of an officer that the sailors respect and love rum, we gar he is a "sailor's man." Decatur The Com Id; Hone, The New York correspondent of the Boston Journal writes : " We have here a banker who in a quiet war has been gathering for some time the speediest horses of the country. He A LETTER IXOX B1ZA15E. Urn tll WfcrlleB twr. waa every inch a sailor, and every inch has a quiet stable out of the city, about Tr , . - l I 1 T . a Hero, lie inspired nis men wiui a love that was devotion, and came near being adoration. In one of Decatur's vorablo an experience as any of his con- actions before Tripoli, while engaged a. . tt . I ? - i i s- . r. - We quote rlY 1)00 HAP." any one would look for it. 1 went to bed, but it was nearly midnight before L feu asleep. "l was awakened to nnd a man s hand on my mouth, and to be informed that he did not intend to harm me if I kept quiet. My hands were then tied 1 -m - i oenind me, a towel fastened in my mouth, and the muzzle of a pistol placed against my Head. Another man was treating my wife in a similar manner, mi - r - iney had a darJt-lantern and wore masks. "After securing us they began to search the room. First my clothes, then the bureau drawers, under the bed everywhere but where the money was. 1 began to think I had outwitted them, when one said to the other' 'How's that stove?' Another minute and they were pulling out the money. "imagine my leeiings n you can. Even if they left with this amount it was no small sum to lose. I could al most have cried right then and there, One ran over the amount and said to the other, ' Only half here.' My heart grew colder than before. They went to the easy-chair and cut open the stuffed seat ; they picked up the otto man, examined it, and went out of tho room. "lwas trying to get up when one came back the other had the money he pushed me back into the bed, saying I had belter be quiet. I heard the other man walk down stairs and I knew my money was gone. They evidently knew how much money I had, and f roei the way they had ripped open chaii-s and cushions in my room, they would not be long searching for that which was down fitaiis. " The fellow must have come straight to this door. I heard him turn the latch, and then a most unearthly scream I I knew that ' Nap was doing his duty. In a flash I jumped to the floor, and in doing so gave a wrench to the band about my wrists that broke it, and then before the man on guard could fire, I caught his revolver. He made a stroke at me, I dodged it, caught him by the legs and threw him his hold on the revolver. " I cared nothing for him, I wanted the man who had the money ; so I dash ed down the stairs, only to see him go ing out the hall door. I fired, but missed him ; I fired again and heard a cry of pain : I fired once more and broke his ankle and down he dropped. The other man jumped out of the win dow and escaped. " Ui course l secure l my man, re covered my money, and old Evans had to admit that he had been wrong for the robbers had first gone to the office, and came to iay house only when they found the safe empty. Another revela lation that the morning brought was a confession from my prisoner that our book-keeper was one of their gang and posted them about our affairs. The book-keeper did not. come to work that morning, nor have we ever seen him since." " - And the dog ?" I asked. "Yes, the dog had all the credit. You see, the thief supposed by the si ence that there was no dog about the premises, and he thought he was done for when he opened the door and ' Nap sprang at him." i " But," said I, " he was frightened rather easily ; these fellows usually do not care much for a dog. dog ns 'Nap' was that night," said Alick, laughing. " I had lubbed his eyes and mouth with phosphorus, and put on the strong spring. I don't blame the fellow for imagining the evil one was before him. " 'Phosphorus ' and 'strong spring 1' I exclaimed; "what are you talking about ?" " His eyes are glass, you know." "Glass 1 Have you been drinking, or have I ?" " Why, old fellow, don't you see that ap is a fraud? I jumped to the dog, and sure enough 1 had been badly sold the dog was India-rubber ! Alick laughed loud and long at my sheepish face. " Is the story as true as the dog ? asked. " Oh, the story is true as preaching. I bought ' Nap when 1 was in Paris. have springs hied on the door and in the floor - so that when the door is opened the dog stands up, and when he is up there is an arrangement in his throat that makes the growl you heard Bv Tjuttinff on that upper lever he is blow of the Turk's sabre upon his head, stable is just now the centre of a good Being so near to the striker, the blow deal oi interest. Among borvemen it did not penetrate the skull, and the has been known for a long while that a honest fellow survived. When James Methodist minister owned a colt of had recovered from his wounds, and which marvellous things were told, was able to come on deck, Decatur The animal was black as a raven ana! called him aft, and having, in the pres- bore the name of Blackwood. The ence of the crew, expressed the deepest value oi the horse, in the estimation ox " it is all vanity and vexation gratitude for his heroio devotion, bade him sav what reward he would nave. The old salt hitched up his trowsers, I The horsemen on the street laughed and knew not what to say. His mess- I that a plain Methodist parson, in the mates gathered around him, and whis- wilds of Kentucky, offered his animal pered to him that now was his chance. I for $60,000 ! The banker alluded to advised him te ask for a boat- " Lio down, lie down, sir !" Vftly ilV. T AUaUVA llllUy JL J.CSUA AVs won't hurt you ; go right in." "Oh,, yes," said I, "it is all well enough for you to say 'never mind him,' but, by George, he looks as if ho would boar a great deal of minding. "Nonsense," said Alick, laughing; " I tell you the dog will not touch you; but, if you will not believe me, wait a moment and I will go along with you." I certainly was afraid to go into the room alone, and I think you, my read er, would have thought discretion the bettor part had you been in my place. Alick was talking with his agent as I came to the hall door, and had walked toward his library tcTwait his leisure ; bat when I opened the door a large black dog that had evidently been lvinjr on the floor started to his feet with a growl, and exhibited a row of teeth that would have made a good stock in trade for a first-class dentist. He was a villaiuous-looking brute, and7 1 de clined triif-ting myself to his mercy, as I have told above. 1 Alick finished his business; then took mo by the arm and led me into tho room tho dog slowly dropping on his hiyncliea when he saw his master, and I paid no more attention to him until 1 had finished the business I had in hand. " What in the world do yeu want with such a vicious dog ?" I inquired, as I lit the cigar my friend gave me. " I dou't think much of vour indiT- ment if you call him a vicious-looking As he fell he gave up dog, waa the answer. " What breed is ho ?" " He's a cross of several breeds." "Yes, I Bhould think from the way he showed mo his teeth that he was all cros.'" "Oonio, come, Frank, you must not run down old 'Nap.' He has been too good a friend for me to listen to any thing but praises of him." " What did he ever do that was par ticularly friendly?" I inquired. " Nup ? I'll tell you what he did ; ho saved me fifty thousand dollars dur ing war-times." I waa ubout to give an unbelieving chuckle, but a glance of Alick's face told me that he was in earnest, so I beg ged for tho story. " It was about the middle of the war," Haid Alick, ".when I was treasur er of tho Grafton Drilling Company. Our office safe was as unsafe as a pine box would have been, and I disliked to leave a dollar in it. There were several burglaries about tho place and all of them wero skilfully planned and executed. V One night our office was visited, tho safo pried open with wedges, and tho contents carried off. The burglars found but a few hundred dollars, but the worst feature of it was that they j had hit upon a night when there ought -' to have been a large amount of money there. We had received a large cash payment the day before, but instead of trusting it to our old safe I had taken it home with me. " Wo wondered if the burglars had any knowledge of this payment. If they had, then they must have extraor dinary moan of gaining intelligence, and would know whenever we received anv large amounts again, and would they not come at once to myhouse, now that they had seen I did not trust the safe? The question was a very perplexing one, and I had an angry de bate over it with some of our directors. I was in favor of getting a reliable safe and employing a night-watchman, but I was out-voted. "Old Evans, indeed, went so far as to say that, as lightning never struck twice in tho same place, neither did burglars visit old safes the second time. And he was inclined to think ourmoney would be safer if left in the office than if carried to my residence. And he talked so many of the others into his way of thinking that a resolution was passed declarincr it against their wishes I made to jump as high as a man's head to have any of the company's funds and that jump was what frightened the kept anywhere except m the office safe I ," Of course, the effect of this was that if I carried the money home and lost it, the loss would fall on me indi vidually, and not upon the company. Tin UiKiy LU lUtTO ID' With these words the zouave took a cartridge, loaded a pistol with it, drop ped a round ball in the barrel, and with superb coolness, put the muzzle to his head and pulled the trigger. The wea pon missed fire, and tho zouave burst into a hoarse laugh. "The Judge has acquitted me. he said. " How so?" said the commandant. " Why, you see, commandant, that the powder I sell to the Benni-Snas sens is only ground charcoal ; the balls are made of clay, the whole done up in . 1 ! -WT genuine cartridges, xou nave ust seen a proof of it." It was true. The zouave had cheated his customer, and he added with an air of triumph : " The first bme the Benni-Snassens come into action, all their pieces. will miss fire, and you will gain the battle." " Then you have sold a good deal of powder?" " Bather and the zouave exhibited a formidable pipe, set with solid gold. Though the Arabs may be pretty sharp fellows, they are no match in cunning for, the zouaves. In a Western Court, "This 'ere case is a sad one," re marked Bijah, as he brought out Cath erine Judy, a woman of fifty. It was disturbing the peace. The officer says he won't swear that he smelled whisky, but he is willing to deed his house aid lot to any one if he can't say that the echoes of her gentle voice reached him as he was leaning on a hitching post hve blocks away, bhe was mad, ugly and stubborn, and she made awful threats against his life. She had, however, partly compensated temporaries and associates. as follows : True, as you say.I held many offices. Indeed, I may say that I never knew defeat in any of my aspirations. And it is just because I had success which people call wonderful, that I feel com petent to administer a word of " cau tion" to the young men of this genera tion. My young friend, do not be de ceived by the glitter of office, I am now past my three-score years, and am fast traveling into the ten. I have held al most every office in the gift of the peo ple, and I can truly say "with the preacher, of spirit. Looking back over a long, and I hope A. 1 1 -W . m not unsucessiui me, i can say, with a ciear conscience, my greatest regret is inai i ever made a political . speech or held an office. There is a fascination in office which beguiles men, but be assured my young friend, it is the fascination of a serpent; or to change the figure, it is the ignis fatuu8 which coaxes you on to inevitable ruin. I speak of that which I do know. If my young friends will be governed by my advice, I have this to say, after all my successes as a public man, now, when my head is blossoming for the grave, I feel that it would have been better for me if I had followed the occupation of my father, and been farmer. The mechanical arts are all honora ble. To be a blacksmith, a carpenter or an artizan of any sort is no discredit to any man. Better than to be a jack- leg lawyer, a quack doctor, a counter hopper, or worse still, a wretched seek er after office. Of all pursuits in life that of a farmer is the most respectable. It may have its trials and its disappointments so do all others. The mechanic may lose the wages of his labor, the professional man nia lees ; the editor may weep over delinquent subscribers, but the honest, industrious farmer is morally certain oi a lair retain for his labor. True, "Paul may plant and Appollos water, but God must give the increase." But where is the faithful cultivator of the soil, God's heritage to man, who ever yet suffered for bread ? Allow me again to "xjaution my young friends against the beguiling in fluence of office, and to advise them most earnestly to stick to mother earth. in a hand to Land connict wiin a pow erful run-boat captain, he was attacked from behind by one of the Turks, and would have been cut down, had not an old sailor nameu James, who had al ready been severely wounded in the right arm. rushed in and received the an nour s nde awtv. 11 ere ho has a track, and without observation he is recording some marvellous rpeed. He says nothing about his stud on the street, and will net be questioned. No one can get access to his hones without a written permission from himself, and that is rarely given. Amo ig his treas ures is a brother of Dexter, a gamey, speedy horse, of which marvellous things are told. This out-of-the-way Marshal Baxaine, the French Oeneral whose escape from imprisonment has caused something of a sensation, has written a letter to the New York Her ald, in which he speaks of the kindness and sympathy he has experienced at the hands of American travelers in Europe, who have gone out of their way to meet and express their kindly feelings. The Marshal says in his let ter : I should not even have attempted to escape from prison had ray former comrade seen fit to lea&en the severities of my captivity. During my trial I should have emploved the same wea pons thai MseMalon used against me. I should have shown in my do fence how MacMahon had been beaten, and had evacuated All ace without en deavoring to defend the Ycwge, with out resisting the march of the eneaay. without utilizing the railroads, leaving the owner, msy be teen by the pleasant 7 ngbt uncovered and not little price that wis put upon him. withstanding tfo order ;fcohd The horsemen on the street lsurhed not to repass before Naner. IhonU One advised him te ask lor a swain's rate ; another for double pay ; another for a double allowance of grog ; and so on. But James elbowed them aside, and said he wanted none of their counsel. He would not lose entirely the privilege of being the commodore's heard so much of this colt thst he took a trip down to Kentucky to look at him. He saw him move. He describes him aj a marvel. His nostrils become red as fire ; his eyes dilate, and he seems tr&nsformed. The captivated New Yorker offered $30,000 for the colt. The creditor to the amount of his gratitude. I owner received the proposal with dis- Still he would not venture a request. And he informed his commander, after much deliberation, that he would like to be excused from holy stoning and scrubbing deck. The whimsical re quest was cheerfully granted, and from that time forward, when all hands were trioed to "scrub deck." James perched himself clear of the sand and water, and looked on in dignified ease and com fort. He sailed with Decatur while they both lived, and upon the untimely death of his patron a goodly pension was granted him by tho Government, and he was allowed to retire npen his laurels. The Bandit and the Ilea Boots. The chief of a very desperate gang of banditti who had amassed consider dain. He did not even reply : ordered the horse back into the stable, and went into his house. Another visit was made, and the horse changed owners, $50,000, it is said, being the pricc,' Japanese Tea CnltlTatlon. Tea culture is very simple. First the seed is deposited in hollows four or five inches deep snd eighteen inches wide, made in the ground at intervals of four or five feet : then the earth is sprinkled lightly over the seed. The sowing is usually done in November or Decern- nlin or ardor t defeat followed defeat. t S ' 1 A 1 I I . . oer, ana auer uie ppnng rams nave when nothing remained we were fallen the plants rise in clusters from completely in the power of Oermany. each seed-bed. Manure is occasionally The pretended motive was to ssve the applied to them, but aside from this national honor, but the Army they require little care except to be Rhine had aaved it before the hsv shown his lj-norance or the tm clerical slrength and the movements of the enemy ; his prcsutapUon in accept ing battle blindfolded ; his Impudence in risking the reputation of the old Af rican troops which he commanded in one battle. I could have shown clearly how, in forgetting the first duties of a geneial in order to play the part of a fighting soldier, he must be regarded as one of the first authors of our dis asters. ' " ' The loss of Aisaee Las been imputed to me. but the truth is thst Alaac was lost after Reichschoppen. ' Even after the disaster, and after the precipitate retreat of the army, Metx could have been saved when Thiers, who alone re tained his common sense, esme to pro pose peace ; but tho strugle waa con tinued in order that the dictatorship might be retained and the organization of a definite government prevented. The enemy could never have ucen crushed with raw levies without disci- keDt free from weeds. Tho first rron able wealth was taken by a soldier and of leaves is not yielded till three years A Touching Incident. The Chicago Times, has tho follow ing : A little incident like the follow ing will tend more toward bringing about a healthy feeling of kindness be tween the North and the South than all the formal reconciliations that officious and ingenious minds can devise. A New York lady, noticing that Major Jones, of Montgomery, Ala., in pro nouncing an oration over the Confed- for them by weeping all night long, and erate dead, had none but kindly words conducted to the governor of the prorinoo of Ekalerinoslaf. Great re ward had been offered for the person of this man, and it was supposed that he would, of course, be immediately knouted. To the astonishment of the soldier who had been the means of his apprehension, a few days only had elapsed when ho received a visit from the robber. He had been able to bribe the governor sufficiently to procure his release, in consequence whereof he had been liberated from confinement. "You have caught me," said he, addressing the soldier, " this time ; but before you after the planting. They are then transported in order to give each plant more space for growth, and are placed in rows six or eight inches apart. Some times the bushes are kept low by prun ing and to prevent their spreading and overgrowing each other. After seven or ten years they are cut down, so that the young and tender shoots below may hsve a chance to grow. The critical season in tea-culture is when the leaves have to be picked, the time fer which, in two or three pluckings between March and August, varies in different dis tricts and with different plants. The set out on another ex'pedition in search picking is generally done by women, . 1- -II ! I -1 Ml 3 .1 1 I of me, I will pair of red by oft repeated promises that her fu ture life should be as full of sobriety as a sunflower is full of seeds. " I hope so, Catherine I hope so," replied his Honor, as she made, the same promise to him. " You are aged and gray, Mrs. Judy. Yon are rapidly traveling toward that last receptacle of for those who fell on the other side. and expressed himself eloquently and feelingly .in favor of reconciliation, commissioned a jewelry firm to send him a silver cup, suitably engraved, as expressive of her. appreciation of the sentiments he expressed and the regard for him which they gave rise to. : Her accommodate you with boots for the journey." Boots made of red leather are common ly worn in the Ukraine ; but to give a man a pair of red boots, according to the saying of the Tartars, is to cut the skin round the upper part of his legs, and then cause it to be torn off by the feet. This species of torture the ban ditti are said to practice, as an act of revenge ; in the same manner the American Indians scalp the heads of their enemies. With this terrible threat he made his escape, and no fur ther inquiry was made after him on the part of the police. . The undaunted soldier finding the little confidence that children, and old men working in gangs of ten or twelve each, hired for the har vest, and paid according to the amount of tea picked. With hard work forty pounds per day may be gathered, which quantity will yield ten poucds of tea when dried. First, the leaves are placed in broad sunlight ; they are then brown ed and roasted over a furnace. Locust In China. In China, where locusts are wont to the human form, and it won't be long name was withheld, at her desire, but could be placed in the commander, de- she answered, before the sod closes over-you for ever. " I believe the same, trying to shed a tear. 'I believe you want to be good," he continued. " I believe so because you have said so fifteen or twenty times at this bar. You have promised and promised, and coaxed and begged,, and my heart has every time been touch ed." ' "That's nice," she said, smiling lovingly at Bijah. " I want to let he went on. her letter to the jeweller was forwarded with the testimonial. - In it she said, " The war widowed me and took away my two sons. For a long time I felt as if 1 could never forgive those who Blew the defenders of the Stars and Stripes,' out when l think of the war-widowed mothers of the South, and see such lan guage as this, it makes me tenderer and juster to the South. I feel that men like this Major Jones must be no ble and true in heart, and fought and termined to take the administration of justice into his own hands, and once more ventured in pursuit of the robber, whose flight had spread terror through the country. After an undertaking full of danger, he found him in one of. the little subterranean huts in the midst of the Steppes. Entering the place with pistols in hand, You promised me," said he, " a pair of red boots ; I am come to be measured for them." With these words he discharged one of his you off this morn " I am certain that von would never get drunk again, and that I should never behold you at this bar as a prisoner. But I can t do it. The people of the great State of Michi gan are at my back ; they demand that you be sent up for two months. It's an awful thing to see a woman hfty years old going to the House of Cor rection, but I can't help it, I am only a middleman, and I must obey the law. Couldn't make it half an hour," she asked, anxiously. " Couldn t be less than sixty days, he answered, and she went back and eat down on the stove hearth, and said she would be dead ere the rosy hues of sunset had commenced to gild the west ern skies. burglars." I sympathize with that burglar, and I hope he did not lose caste among his professional biethren, for certainly the dog was a villainous-looking brute as well as a most unmitigated swindle. New England Independence. Burleigh writes to the Boston Jour nal: "In New York the restaurant keeper greets you with his coat off, sleeves rolled up, face red. and a breath indicative of lager. In New England, your caterer is probably a man sub stance, lie is willing to accommodate you. lie reads tne paper wniie tne coffee is boiling. The Atlantic Month ly lays on the book-shelf , and he can tell yod all about the subjects discussed at the last scientific convention. The young woman who hands you your coffee is his daughter, one took the medal in algebra, and has been two quarters at the academy. It would be lust as well if her tongue was not quite to sharp, but then" she is as good as anybody, and only waits on you fer your accommodation. I have been amazed to see a New Yorker give his order. He has been waited on in New York by girls German, Irish, French, and Italian ; bat this is his first ex perience with a Yankee girL She hands the guest a bill -of -fare, and waits like a school-teacher who has given a dull boy a hard problem. ' Can I have some hard boiled eggs?' 'I presume you can.' 'Have you buttered toast? 1 beheve it is on the bill-of-f are.' Can you get me a glass of milk ?' ' I can.' in this matter-clf-fact way the colloquy proceeded, to the utter astonishment of the man of Gotham. died because they thought it was right, pistols, and killing the robber on the spot, returned to ms quarters. Hard for the Fanner. Two Kansas farmers, gnileless of city ways, arrived at Chicago loaded with money, and were speedily enticed into a gambling house, where they were fleeced. They had the gamblers arrested and fined. But the gay " knights of the card appealed from the judgment, and the farmers wero required to fur nish bail as witnesses. They, having no friends in town, of course could not secure the proper bail, and were there fore sent to jail, where they were kept two weeks. When they emerged, they were informed that the man whose pun ishment they wished to secure, "was said to have left Chicago," and that the loss of their money, their two weeks' im prisonment, and their chagrin, were looked upon as good jokes by the city authorities. The gambler had taken advantage of his acquaintance with a "professional bailer " to place himself beyond the reach of the reluctant jus tice of the Chicago city authorities, and, while the Kansas farmers were sweltering in jail, was probably haunt I want them to feel that such senti ments echo in the Northern heart, and in truth ' tend to draw the whole coun try together for its sealing." The cup, as received by the major, was in scribed as follows : To M1JOB THOMAS O. JOX1LS. The Orator on Confederate Memo rial Day, April, 1874; from A Northern woman, widowed and bereft . of her two sons by the War, As a token of her appreciation of the Soldierly words, spoken in kindness of The xsorthern Dead. i The Gardener's Lesson, Two gardeners had their crops of peas. killed by the frost. One of them was very impatient under the loss, and fret ted about it very much. The other went patiently to work at once to plant a new crop. After a while the im patient, fretting man went to his neigh bor. To his surprise he found another crop of peas growing finely. He asked how it could be. vvwav javkuiifi muu ai ira UVigU KJJ L 9 " But don't you ever fret ?" he asked. " Yes, I do, but I put it off till I have repaired the mischief that has been done." " Why then you have no need to fret at all." " True," said the friend, " and that's the reason I put it off." Honest at Last, A countrywoman went into a store on Hanover street. Boston, the other day. and putting, four dollars on the conn- I prime of life, and there ter, remarked to a clerk : " There : fourteen years ago, 'twill be fifteen this fall, I bought something next door and gave them a dollar bill, but they couldn't give me the change ; so they sent a boy into the next shop, and he brought me back the change for five dollars instead of one dollar. I took it ; but 'taint no use, I ain't agoing to keep it any longer ; so there it is, all back again." And before the astonished clerk had time to make any inquiries she waa gone. A Mild Man and Terrible Inventor. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial writes as follows : "In appearance, Dr. Gatling would be taken for a Prussian officer. He has unusual precision of gait and manner, joined to strong indications of keen perceptive powers. The eyes are particularly fine, and there is a pleas ing show of humor and kindness in the hues about his mouth. He is in the is no sign of his inventive genius being on the wane. As much as twenty-five years ago he invented a method of applying com pressed air as a motive-power to ma chinery. His applications for a patent were defeated on the grounds that it was a discovery, not an invention. Now the Gatling gun is recognized as the ravage the country, the authorities, whether civil or military, are held re sponsible for the stamping out of these insects as soon as their sppesrsnce has been reported. They are required to summon a large body of men, and at once surround and destroy the locusts; the expenses of the maintenance of the men and compensation for the crops trodden down during the chsse being supplied by the Provincial Treasury. Should the local authorities succeed in stamping out the locusts within a lim ited time their services are favorably reported to the Emperor; but should they fail, and the locusts spread and do damage, they are liable to be deprived of their posts, arrested, and handed over to the proper board for punish ment. . A certain sum per bushel is paid to the peasants bringing in un winged locusts, and half that sum when the locusts are able to fly, while com pensation is given for crops trodden down in the chase. The locusts are swept with besoms into trenches dng at the sides of the corn field, in which a vigorous fire is kept up. The best time to capture locusts is when they are feeding at dawn of day, when their bodies being heavy with dew and their wings wet, they are unable to jump or fly. i How the Carllsts Get War Material. A letter in the London Time gives some curious information as to the mode in which war material is smug gled into Spain by the Carusts. By far the greater portion of arms that enter Spain bp the seacosst proceed from Bordeaux, concealed in wine bar rels, or from Nantes, hidden among sardine boxes, and consigned to mer chants dealing in wine and sardines at Bayonne, St. Jen de Lux, Passages and San Sebastian. The largest con signments are effected by land, and are received by merchants and private per sons. The writer has seen thousands of cartridges arrive at a hotel packed up as Swiss cheese, boxes of rifle bar rels labelled macaroni, hollow iron pil lars, stuffed with bayonets, and last, but not least, bales of . dry cod, con taining considerably more steel than fish. of. the dema gogues thought of doing so. In one day it had inflicted more loss on the Germans than did all the force of Paris in four months. MacMahon and I have been unfortu nate, bnt never ridiculous. No Ger man ever laughed while fighting me. Such sights as were seen at Paris and at Tours could only compromise the national honor. For myself, I am an old soldier, and do not understand poli ties. I mske war, not speeches, and do not allow myself to be frightened by big words. Jules Favre flattered me ; Gambctta called me a traitor ; bnt that did not move me. As regards Mexico, the Kmteror Lsd to choose between evacuation and a war with the United States. To avoid a conflict he gave the order to return ; bnt Maximilian wis unwilling either to teturn to Austria or to abdicaU, al though he well understood that Napo leon could not sustain a straggle with the United States. Maximilian, in pite of wise counsels, preferred to seek an honorable death. That is the truth, and that is the extent of each one's responsibility. For my consols tion the thought remains that even Washington did not escape injustice and that Lafayette passed through ordeals more terrible than mine. I am far from being rich ; but, be sides my liberty, there still remain to me immeas arable treasures. For com panions I have an American lady who gives me the strongest proofs of devo tion ; I hsve children I adore, a brother and some friends whe have remained faithful. Mv position is not hopeless ; if need should be I would follow tho example of the conquered Bichmond and take refuge in labor. Simple sol dier, I carried a musket ; labor does not dishonor. I do not look on my military career as ended; I enjoy health and bodily vigor. Some duties remain to be fulfilled, and I shall fulfil them when the time comes ; I hope for tune will grant me a Last smile, as she oft in doe to old soldiers. X Cancer Core. And now another cancer cure is her alded. A Bavarian physician, observ ing that cancer patients on drinking the mineral waters of the Tyrol, became much worse, made an examination and found that the mountains whence the streams flowed were principally com posed of gneias, and N. minute particles of that rock were also found in the wa ter. On the homeopathic principle, that like cures like, he trixi the ex periment of triturating guests, and ap- greatest invention of the age, and what I plied it as a dressing, the results being is of more account to the inventor, gen- eminently satisfactory, as of his patients e rally adopted, the. Doctor can turn his some seven or eight have completely attention to the motive-power of com- recovered, while all the others have im pressed air. proved noticeably. Thoughts from theTalraad. Ths thought of the tin is worse than the sin. The older the wise man gets the wiser he grows ; the' fool, when he ages, becomes but an old fooL He who studies for a good purpose, to him his study becomes a blessing ; to him who does not, it grows into a poison. A bad wife is like a hail-storm. Do not! dwell too long on your friend's praises ; yon will end in ssying things against him. Do much or little, so that you do it for a good purpose, Befined music is liked by refined people; weavers do not much care for it. Three . cry out, but get no pity, viz : He who lenus out his money without witness, the henpecked husband, and he who cannot get in one place and does not try another. Even the common talk of the wise should be pondered over. One goose generally follows another. Bd servants first ask only when they have committed a blander. The load is laid upon the camel according to its strength. If a word is worth a pound, silence is worth two. A pig is the richest animal, everything is a piece of good to him. Whoever does too much does too little. The greater a man, the greater bis pacsions. He who presses the hour, the hour will press him. Msy our fu ture reward be like that of him who re mains silent under a false imputation. One peppercorn is better than a hun dred gourds. A learned man whose deeds are evil is like a man who has a door and no house. He who prays for his neighbor will be beard first for him self. He who mames his daughter to an uneducated man throws her before a wild beast. He who throws out sus picions should at once be suspected himself. Three keep good fellowship strangers, slaves, and ravens. A fool always rushes to the fore. Do not cry out before the calamity has really happened. If a man aays something strange, beware to mock at it wantonly. Passion is at first like a .thin reed ; by and by it becomes like cable.