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VOL. II.
SALISBUEY, C03O"., FMBAY, FEBEUAKY 14, 1873.
NO. 31.
"ILotcTou Love."
Old Jones, the village pedagogue,
The grammar lesson called one day.
Young Bess, a maid of sweet sixteen,
Bogan the well-known wards to say.
" First person, I love," first she Baid.
Sly Tom, beside her, whispered, " Me f"
" Second person, you love," Bess went on.
" Ay, that I do !" said Tom" love 'ttiee .'"
' Tliird person, he loves," still said Bess.
Tom whispers, Who the deuce is ' he .' "
" Oh, Tom !" said Bessie, pleading low,
' Do hold your peace, and let me be !"
" No whispering !" callB the master, loud,
And frowned upon the forward youth.
' First person, ve love," Bessie said,
'By George!" Tea whispered, "that's the
truth!"
The lesson o'er at last, poor lass,
With cheeks all crimson, took her seat,
While Tom, sly fellow, tried in vain
The maiden's soft blue eyes to meet.
But when the recess hour was come
Tom begged a walk with coaxing tone,
And 'neath tho trnas Bess Baid again
The lesson o'or for him alone.
THE BOUND BOY.
" I don't caro I" sobbed Julius Kings
ley. " You're real mean so yon are !"
And lie threw himself down on a pile
of disjointed kindling -wood, in a
paroxysm of childish rage.
"Is that the way to talk to me?"
angrily demanded Mrs. Parley, bestow
ing a most cordially given box on eith
er side of the doomed young victim's
head, "and you nothing on earth but
a bound boy 1 I ha'n't no patience
with you and Job himself wouldn't,
have r
"Gently, mother, gently. What's
the matter now?" demanded Farmer
Parley, cautiously thrusting his sun
burnt shock of hair into the wood-shed
door.
" Matter !" echoed Mrs. Parley.
" Why, just look here! Thom wheels
off the old wheel-barrow hysted up to
the ruff, with the second-hand harness
you bought o Deacon Silsbury and the
strips for the new rag carpet and all
the wood tumbled down, higgledy-piggledy,
to mako room for it. And the
hens an't fed, and the cows an't gone
after and there an't nothin done that
ought to be! I tell you I ha'n't no pa
tience with his experiments and his
tricks. Get up, Julius, this minute,
and go for the cows; and not a blessed
mouthful of supper will you get this
night."
Julius Kingsley obeyed sulkily, and
with down-drooping head. He was a
bright looking boy of about thirteen,
with dark gray eyes and thiok brown
hair, which hung over a square low
forehead; and as he walked he clench
ed his boyish hands until the nails in
dented the flesh in orescent-shaped
marks.
" I-won't stand it !" muttered Julius
to himself. " They've no business to
treat me so."
And then the wrathful mood subsided
in some degree, as he remembered the
many deeds of kindness that he had re
ceived from both Mr. and Mrs. Parley
the care in sickness, the neatly mend
ed clothes, the many little tokens of
watchfulness so new and grateful to the
orphan boy; and little Alice, too, who
trotted at his heels when he went to
gather apples in the orchard, and
thought the wooden toys his ingenious
jacknife furnished the most marvellous
of creation. "
" I suppose I am a trial," sighed Ju
lius; "but she needn't have torn all my
machinery down; and then to box my
ears, tool '
It was rather a derogatory process to
tho boyish dignity of thirteen.
" You an't in earnest about his sup
per, mother ?" said Farmer Parley, as
they sat down to the well-spread eve
ning board.
" Yes, I bo. Have some quince sass.
Alice?"
Remember he's a growin' boy "
pleaded her husband.
"I can't help that; he's got to learn
to behave himself. There an't no other
way of managin. him. It was only yes
terday he blowed the- top off my best
presarvin' can, to show Alice "how a
steam-boat worked; and last week I
'most got poisoned with a bottle o' some
stuff he'd got tucked n -y on the shelf,
that I took for vinegar. ' "
" Sulphuric acid, nuLher," said little
Alice. " It was to "
" I don't car what it was for," inter
rupted the farmer's wife. " J ulius can
behave well enough when he's a mind
to, and he's got to."
And the farmer knew from the way
his wife compressed her lips together,
that she was in unmitigated earnest.
Julins Kingsley went supperless to
his room, but before he had begun to
undress a Boft knock came to his door,
and Alice's voice whispered:
"Julius! Julins!"
" What is it ?"
" Open the door. I've got a piece of
peach-pie for you, and two rusks, and a
bowl of milk." '
''But what will your mother say,
Alice ?" r - y
" She's gone to Mrs. Badger's, and
she thinks I'm in bed, but I got up and
dressed myself. I couldn't sleep, Ju
lius, thinking how hungry you must
And she nestled down close at the
bound boy's side, as he eagerly de
voured the supper which she brought
him.
" I was hungry, Alice," said Julius,
as he took a long draught of milk, "and
you're a good little thing. I'll do as
much for you some day."
Alice laugnecl.
"I don't get i
Julins."
get into scrapes like you,
" That no sign you never will."
Mrs. Parley, secretly relenting in the
depths of her motherly heart, gave Ju
lius the brownest cakes and the juciest
bit of meat for his breakfast the next
morning.
" He'll behave himself now, I guess,"
she thought; but in this she was mis
taken. Julius "did up" his chores in the
shortest possible period of time that af
ternoon, when Mrs. Parley had betaken
herself to the Sewing Circle with little
Alice, and the farmer was gone to the
neighboring village, and applied him
self with more zeal than discretion to
the f urther prosecution of the experi
ment that had ended so disastrously for
the preserving can.
"The tea-kettle isn'tof glass," thought
Julius, "and I know I can make that
work.
Vain unction to lay to his soul; for
iust as that experiment, whatever it
lappened to be, reached the culmina
ting point, up flew the tea-kettle from
the stove, tortured by much caloric, and
bang went the iron lid right into the
dresser cupboard that held Mrs. Parley'
best set of china.
Julius stood staring aghast at the
ruins. All housekeepers have their do
mestic idols, and this new "iron stone"
set was Mrs. Parley's. Tho tea-pot lny
noiseless and demolished before his
eyes, three cups were broken, and the
handle was dashed off frem the cream
pitcher, while the knob was chipped
neatly off the cover of the sugar-bowl.
Julius only paused for one glance at
the general ruin, then he turned and
fled ingloriously from this Waterloo of
his scientific efforts.
And the next day all Bickerton knew
that Farmer Parley's bound boy had
run away, after first demolishing all
Mrs. Parley's china, out of sheer re
venge, because she had boxed his ears
the day before.
"I always knew that boy wouldn't
come to no good," said Deacon Jones.
"There was a vicious look in his
eyes," croaked Miss Lavinia Denham,
" and I only wonder he didn't set fire to
the house, or burn you all in your beds.'
But little Alice cried bitterly, and
treasured more tenderly than ever, a
goggle-eyed doll, with arms out of all
proportion, and feet several degrees
larger than Jier head, which was the
last wooden exploit Julias had present
ed to her.
" I'll neVer have another bound boy,"
asserted Mrs. Parley.
" Well, well,', sighed the farmer,
" how time dona nlin ntrav frntn us tn
be sure! Alice is nineteen to-day, and
it aon t seem right she should be away
from us on her birthday. " She's been
three months in the city now, wife."
"Yes," said Mrs. Parley, nodding
her head sagely, " and I don't b'lieve
she'll come home alone, neither."
"Eh!" tho farmer opened wide his
blue eves: " von rlon't n'nnsA nlm'n n.
gaged to that Mr. Clinton ?"
You men are so slow to put two and
two together," said Mrs. Parley, with a
conscious smue. "Ave suspicioned it
this long while, and Mrs. Carter writes
that it'll be a snlendid matnh. and half
the young ladies in Boston are envying
X 1 xl ... .
ui uiiuu uuuuirj gin. vjmj tninKI
won't it be nine tn havA nnr AIiaa a.
rich lady, livin' in a big house in Bos-
1 Ml. "
ton r
Mr. Parley stared stead f an tW nt th
fire. ' "
" Who is he. ftnv wn.v V fiA noli-a1 in
a troubled voice. " She's all the child
we've cot. wife. We can't trivo Iiai- tn a
man without knowin' who and what he
iB."
"You needn't wawv." ai.l Ma nn'fa
with the Rlinerior fmlmnona nt rtna nrlin
is posted. "He's as steady-goin as
you do yourself at least so Mrs. Car
ter writes and he's an inventor, what
ever that mAV riA. Anv uroir Via m.fla o
great fortune out of a patent he's sold
to me government. Alice won t have
to work a' i her days as hard as I have
done, and that's one comfort."
And when Alice's hv W.tor. whinh
implied far more than it told, intimated
that she was nomine linmo nnrlnr Mr
Clinton's escort, the old farm-house
i t i
was amy swept ana garnished fpr the
reception of the honored guest. Mrs.
Tn.lA ..- V 1 A. "TI .
j. micgr pun UU nor UUHb LUNCH. B11K, ana
the farmer donned his butternut suit,
which seemed to him as gorgeous as it
had been on the . day he bought it,
twenty goou years ago.
"I wonrler whinh train tnairU sma
vm. w.i J VW1UO
in," said Mrs. Parley, reflectively. " I
should hate 'the worst way to have that
turkey spoiled."
liut such a catastrophe was happily
averted, for the travellers arrived ust
as the Stormv twiliffllt mnrla tli a
the great wood fire doubly grateful.
mi i1 l m .
xnere was tne cruncn oi wneeis in the
deep Bnow without, the opening of the
door, and then Alice was in her mother's
arms.
In the baokoTOlind n tall fimirn hI-W1
ntlltnlT ftnil r i cm iftnA art A milf.innt.:n'
with jet black hair and grave violet-
gray eyes, ana tne larmer made his best
bow as Alice introduced "Mr fllintAn "
with a deep red flush upen her cheek.
"You must like him very much,
father, for my sake," she said, "be
cause because I have promised to be
his wife." v
When the hospitable meal was over,
and Mrs. Parley came in from the
kitchen, pulling down the sleeves that
had been rolled up above her elbow,
and tying on a clean checked apron,
a.uce sprang to ner ieet.
"Mother." she rniiil. -with lor fo oil
smiles and dimnloa. Mr f'H
brought you down a present."
- a prosenti cried Mrs. Parley, " and
forme!"
" It's out in the porch, in a box ; and
father must get a hammer and screw
driver and open it very carefully, for
it's china." '
" China ?"
' " Yes, real china, imported from Can
ton. BO transparent von run lnnlr thnvimVi
it. with bees and hntterfliea nninWl nn
it in the colors of lifo. Oh, it is so
V t At
Deauuiuif
She stood bv. clAAfllH-ir lnnin Vioi.
hands as the treasures were unpacked,
l.,x,f,.l :i xl "t
uxxo uwuuiui lingua mings one ny one
made their appearance from countless
wrappings of silver paper.
"How kind it is of you, Mr. Clinton!"
said Mrs. Parley, looking up with
beamincr eves. " I alwnvn did net Rtnrn
bychin:." ,
"riot kind at all," said the young
man quietly, " it is simply the settle
ment of a very old debt."
" A debt!" repeated the farmer's wife,
with puzzled eyes. " I don't think I
fairly understand you, Mr. Clinton."
He smiled. " It is to replace the set
which I broke, trying experiments,
twelve years ago."
Mrs, Parley stared, beginning to
have uncomfortable doubts as to the
entire sanity of her daughter's lover.
And then, as he smiled again, a sudden
light broke in upon her brain.
"It an't never "she began, and
then stopped short.
" Yes, it is mother!" cried - Alice,
radiantly. "It's Julius our Julius!"
" Wlios'i ears you have boxed deserved
ly so many times," laughed the young
man.
' ' And he has made his fortune, mother,
and he is a great man now ; and I al
ways knew it would be so," went on
Alice, flushed and excited. " And it
all came from the experiments he was
always trying."
; Well, I never!" cried Mrs. Parley ;
will 1 A ill A fflrmAr mVtVt? Viia mrkMAau
and laughed a low chuckling laugh,
which expressed his perfect content
ment better than all the adjectives in
Webster's Dictionary could have done.
Ana tne emu xsecemDer moon Burn
ing through the far-off window, beyond
tVlA A.Kif l).A A..
happier household in all the land than
Kuuiereu mat nignt rouna j armer par
ley's hearth-stone. Ledger.
The Quaker village of New Sharon,
Iowa, charges $1,100 for a license to sell
hqur.
Au Actor's Trick.
Stock actors in theatres when allowed
a benefit make the most of it. The rea
son is obvious. The actor whose regu
lar salary may be from $10 to $25 per
week has, on this occasion, one-half of
the entire receipts of the house. He is
supposed, through the influence of his
friends, to increase those receipts to
double what they usually are. To do
this they must, unless they have a num
ber, rasort to expedients not ususually
recognized as legitimate. An actor in
the West being given a boneiit, issued
a couple of thousand tickets entitling
the bearer to "free admission in the
boxes on his benefit night." These
tickets were assiduously dropped at
every cross-road, tavern, and grocery
for som few miles in the vicinity on
the night previous to the benefit. The
bait took; and fellows and their gals
might have been seen advancing on the
good old town "ere evening shadows
fell." The doors of the theatre were
regularly besieged by the pleasure-seeking
rustics. When the doors were open,
and a stout policeman r two had been
prudently picketed at the point of en
trance, a rush was made in order to get
the best seats in the house, as is always
the case with your constitutional dead
head. To portray the mingled phases of as
tonishment, anger, and honest indigna
tion of these liberal patrons of the rus
tic drama when they were severally in
formed by the urbane and gentlemanly
door-keeper that all those red tickets
were frauds (and, indeed, as the reader
knows, his information was strictly
true,) is beyond the power of my feeble
quill. As most of the young fellows
were accompanied by their sisters and
sweethearts (for the supply of gratuitous
pasteboard had been diffused on a most
liberal scale), it would seem shabby to
back out without seeing the show. So,
with many a rueful expression while
fumbling for evasive quarters, and many
whispered solicitations for temporary
accommodations, they filed in pair after
pair, and filled the little theatre to its
utmost capacity.
To cap the climax of theatrical au
dacity, the beneficiary himself, between
the pieces, stepped in front of the cur
tain with a pack of the rejected tickets
in his hand, and in a most eloquent and
indignant speech, denounced the con
temptible scoundrel or scoundrels who
had attempted to injure him by such an
outrageous imposition on the public.
In the whole course of his professional
experience, whether in England, Aus
tralia, California or America, he had
never been so grossly insulted, "and,"
continued he, warming to his work, "if
the cowardly blackguard or blackguards
are in front of this house to-night, I
dare them to meet me at the door of the
theatre, and I will give them each and
all any satisfaction for the language I
have used. Aye," he concluded, shak
ing his fist defiantly at a harmless me
dallion of Shakspeare that decorated
the front of the second tier, "and at
any time and in any way they may se
lect." This plucky demonstration won all
hearts, and prolonged applause greeted
the injured stranger as he proudly, de
fiantly and slowly bowed himself off.
That young man nas been a financial
success, and still lives "a prosperous
gentleman."
Thieves at Their Work.
To show the extremes to which the
thieves of New York city carry matters,
we quote from a local paper as follows:
As a gentleman was entering a street
car on Monday and in a erowded thor
oughfare he was met by two well
dressed men, who leaped upon the op-
Eosite side of the platform and prevented
im from entering the doorway. Two
other men stepped up behind him, and
at the same moment the car was stopped
to allow a lady to get on. The gentle
man was then crowded to the edge of
the doorway by the thieves, who were
diffuse in their politeness to the lady,
his arms were seized, raised to the level
of his shoulders, and firmly held, and
one of the gang grasped a small satchel
which the victim held in his hand and
on receiving a remonstrance apologized
for the act. In the mean time, various
fingers were searching the pockets of
the mat' bo beset. These movements
were of the most rapid character, for
the car had gone only lialf a block when
the gang jumped off. In the course of
their explorations, they had withdrawn
half way from the gentleman's pocket an
old newspaper which they neglected to
take. The romance of the incident lies
principally in the fact that in that old
newspaper were wrapped 20 $50 bills, or
$1,000 in current funds. The newspa
per, in this instance, fulfilled the inten
tion of its owner, as the thieves were
deceived by the package, which was
prepared for such a contingency. The
conductor was evidently aware of the
character of the four passengers who
left the platform so rapidly, and, in
deed, he witnessed the whole proceed
ing, for, in response to an inquiry, he
said he had not dared to interfere, as
his life would have been endangered if
he had attempted it with no one upon
whom to rely for aid and protection.
Peat.
According to a statement in the Coal
and Iron Record the supply of peat fuel
in Amcrioa is one hundred and fifty
times greater than that of Ireland. In
Orange and Rockland counties, New
York, the peat beds contain, at a low
estimate, 225,000,000 tons. Beds are
also known to exist in more than one
hundred different towns in Massachu
setts. The Dismal Swamp of Virginia
will yield five hundred million tons.
There are thouaands of acres of peat
bogs in New Jersey; and there is a bed
in Westchester county, New York,
which will yield nine hundred thousand
tons. Long Island has a million tons.
Along both sides of the Kankakee river,
Indiana, extending from South Bend to
the Illinois line, is a peat bed mere than
ixty miles in length, with a width of
three miles. In some places it is over
forty feet deep; but even though it av
erages only half or one-quarter of this
depth, the aggregate amount of fuel it
contains is beyond computation. This
does not include one-fiftieth part of the
peat bogs of the coutry.
A Futnt Fellow. At Nice there is'a
Russian who made many millions b
roubles by his speculation. He now re
fuses to go into society, and receives at
his house none but the persons whom
he knew in the happy old days when he
had not a sou. To them he makes lit
tle presents of a thousand or two thou-'
sand roubles, and bo on.
-When Cardinal Richelieu told De
Mauprat that he must pay his debts,
that youth promptly replied: "True,
my Lord, but where shall I borrow the
money ?"
Enoch Arden Ont-Ardened.
A few days ago the Hon. John R.
Porter, Judge of the Police Court of
Omaha, received a dispatch from James
Sexton, an old friend, announcing that
himself and wife would pass through
the city in the afternoon on their way
East. The meeting of tho judge and his
old friend Sexton was an event full of
pleasure to his Honor, for concerning
Sexton there is a deeply interesting and
truthful history, which rivals Tenny
son's romantio " Enoch Arden."
In the year 1849 James Sexton was a
young married man living in Independ
ence, Mo. He loft that place the same
year with a train of traders bound for
Santa Fe, leaving a young wife behind
him. When the train arrived at Albu
querque young Soxton was taken down
with typhoid feverandwas not expected
to live, and so his comrades were in
formed of thefactby the physician. The
train moved on to its destination, and
the traders, on their return home, told
Mrs. Sexton that her husband had died
of typhoid fever.
Sexton, who had been left behind for
dead, had the good fortune to fall into
the hands of a couple of Spanish nurses,
who by their kind attention saved his
life. After his recovery from his illness,
which had lasted several weeks, he re
mained in New Mexico over a year, and
then returned to Independence, expect
ing to find his wife awaiting his arrival.
But alas! what must have been his dis
appointment upon his return home to
to find his young and beautiful wife
wedded to another man! He came back
altered in appearance, his hair thin and
gray, and his features almost entirely
changed, so that even his nearest
friends failed to recognize him.
He had, by inquiry, learned that his
death had been reported at home, and
that thus his wife had been led to mar
ry again. Like Enoch Arden he stole a
glimpse of her, and being almost broken
hearted he did not make his presence
known, but hired out to another trading
train bound for Lower California, where
after his arrival, he began dealing in
cattle, and became very wealthy.
It was in the Cocomongo range, fif
teen miles east of the Los Ahgeles, that
Judge Porter, who has had an extensive
experience in New Mexico and Cali
fornia, first met Sexton and learned his
romantic and sorrowful story.
It was after Sexton had been in that
country several years that another very
startling and romantio episode occurred
in his life, and which reduced him to his
former state of melancholy.
Accompanied by Judge Porter, he had
arrived at a mining camp called " Wil
liams' Ranche," witli 8,000 head of
shoep, and while dispming of them in
formation was brought him that his wife
was living not far dL;imt with her sec
ond husband. He immediately sought
an interview with her, and when she
became convinced that he was really her
first husband, whom she had supposed
dead, she fainted away and was sick for
a week.
She had borne him a child while he
had been absent in New Mexico, and
since her arrival in California with her
second husband had also given birth to
another.
After her recovery Sexton again met
her, and tried to induce her to live with
him and desert her second husband.
This she would not do, as the child of
her second husband was still an infant,
and she thought she owed him the
strongest allegiance. Finding that
neither money nor entreaties would ac
complish the desired result, Sexton
compromised the matter by obtaining
possession of his own child.
Shortly after these events happened,
Judge Porter left the country, and nev
er saw Sexton since till Wednesday
afternoon at the Union Pacific depot.
What was his surprise, upon meeting
him, to learn that the wife who accom
panied him was nene other than the
woman whom he had married at Inde
pendence, Mo., and whom he had after
ward met as the wife of another man, at
" Williams Ranche," in California. It
was all explained by the fact that the
second husband had died, and Sexton
had been re-married to his widow as
well as to his own wife, and thus were
united again. They have probably
reached their eastern destination ere this,
and will undoubtedly enjoy the remain
ing years of their life upon the hand
some fortune amassed by Sexton during
many years of hard labor. Verily, truth
is stranger than fiction.
Drawing a Bear.
" Ou my return march to Sirdarpore,"
says Gordon Cumming, "I sent my men
ahead to mark game on the Vindyah
hills, and on reaching my tent, four
miles from Tirla, I found that two bears
had been marked. The grass had been
burnt and the ground was perfectly
bare throughout the jungle.
" On the sido of a very steep slepe,
thinly studded with tall treas, was a bit
of rock scarped to the height of seven
feet, and extending some twenty yards
along the face of the hill. Under this
rock were some holes, into which the
bears had gone in the early morning.
We went very quietly down till we
reached the edge of the scarp, when one
of the men, pointing over, showed me
the snout and two forepaws of a sleep
ing bear protruding from a hole at the
base of the rock. At the mouth of this
hole grew a peepul-tree, and the noise
made by the rustling of its green leaves
in tho wind prevented the bear from
hearing our footsteps. The body of the
beast was inside the hole, and the only
effect of a low whistle was to make him
move his head to the right and left. At
length I oast down a small pebble,
whicli he made a grab at with his fore
paws, and then throw himself back in
the hole with his hind lgs protruding.
At length he disappeared altogether,
and though we threw down sticks and
stones, ho would not show.
"The afore-mentioned peepul-tree
grew up the face of the rock, and I now
directed one of my men to climb out
into the tree, and having tied a stone
into the end of his turban, to shake it
over the mouth of the hole. The ruse
succeeded admirably. The bear rushed
out, and as he rose on his hind legs and
furiously attacked the dangling turban,
I shot him through the head, and he
fell. We then went down to the mouth
of tho hole, and lit a fire of dry grass,
wood, and green leaves. A dense smoke
was carried into the hole, and soon after
the she-bear bolted with the cub cling
ing to her back. I shot the old one,
and then running- in, captured the cub,
which we took home alive.
A Cincinnati firm employed a new
drummer and Bent him out to solicit
orders. They didn't hear from him for
about six weeks, when he made his
appearance. ' ' Did you get any orders?"
asked the boss somewhat angrily.
" Yes," said ; the new man, dejectedly,
' one man gave me an order. " What
was it?" "He ordered me out of his
store."
Instinct of the Bearer.
A letter from Ottawa, Canada, rela
ting to the lumber trad of Canada', in
terlines the following sketch:
I started with a trap and an axe for a
beaver dam about three miles from the
depot. It was in early winter, and only
about six inches of snow was on the
ground. By following a blaze made on
the previous day, I soon got in close vi
cinity to the dam. When I got within
a hundred yards of it, tho snow began
to look as if it had been firmly trodden
down and was covered with a coating of
ice. Stumps of small bushes protruded
in every direction, and were cut off close
to the ground as neatly as though done
with a knife. Previous to the freezing
over of the pond tho beavers cut down
every small bush near by and drag it to
the pond, where they fasten them on the
bottom to serve as provision during the
winter. All birch trees, too, upon the
edge of the pond, are cut down so as to
fall into the water. They also serve as
provision.
The instinct of the beaver in selecting
and cutting down these trees is wonder
ful; it is rarely a tree is seen which fell
away from the pond, instead of into it.
As they come out of the water upon the
snow, the water dripping from their
bodies as they crawl along, and their
heavy tails, shaped like trowels, drag
ging after them, beats the snow down
compactly and covers it with a coating
of ice. As I stood upon the banks of the
pond near the dam, I could see the
Btumps of numerous trees near by which
had recently been cut down, and close
to me were two trees still standing upon
which the beavers had been at work the
previous night. One of the trees was
about eighteen inches in diameter and
was cut about half through, the cat en
circling the tree; the other was just
commenced. The cut has a gnawed
appearance, though the piece taken out
is smooth and in size is as large as a
pea. A track from the tree to the pond
showed where the beaver came out.
The place was covered with a thin coat
ing of ice, though the ice on the rest of
the pond was a foot thick.
As late in the winter as they are able
to do so, the beavers keep open a hole
in the ice by occasionally coming out
and returning at the same place, always
taking good care not to be gone long
enough upon the shore to get fastened
out. Even as I was watching the open
ing, I saw a trail of bubbles moving
along under the ice, and before I di
vined the meaning, the thin ice broke
upwards, and the head of a large beaver
popped out. It was a perfect surprise
party for us both, -and for a few seconds
wo stared at each other with open
mouths, and then, without even stop
ping to say " good-by," the beaver dis
appeared. Moving along the dam I
came to their house, which rose in the
form of a mound about two feet above
tho level of the dam. The snow was
completely gone from tho top of this
and for quite a distance around it, being
melted away by the breath of the beav
ers. Reaching tho weakest part of the
dam, I cut a channel througn it about
eighteen inches deep. Then driving a
heavy Btake into the bottom of the pond,
I fastened the chain of the trax to it and
set the trap in the passage. On visiting
the trap the next day, I found it upon
the dam, sprung, and in it a beaver's
leg. The beaver that had been caught
in it had succeeded in getting out of the
water and had then gnawed off his leg.
Thjs is always done by a beaver when
he can get out of the water, upon the
shore. I provided against a similar oc
currence by fastening a large stone to
the bottom of the trap, and set it again,
and the next day I found in it a full
grown beaver. I obtained assistance
from the men working near by, and car
ried it to tho shanty. We put him upon
the scales and he weighed eighty-six
pounds. At niglrt we had him cooked
ill a pie and ate it. The flavor of the
meat was not unlike beef, though of a
muoh stronger flavor, and it had a pecu
liar taste."
' Beet Sugar.
The Sacamento Beet Sugarie is lo
cated about three miles from the
city. The main building, with its
adjacent buildings and enclosed ma
chinery, has cost more than a quarter
of a million of dollars. The total area
of ground amounts to 1,450 acres, and
the yield of beets was last year about
7,000 tons.. Engines aggregating five
hundred horse power, are used for
operating the machinery, and one hun
dred and sixty men are ordinarily em
ployed. Next year about 400 acres
more will be put in tillage for the best
crops. The sugar is stated to be of the
best quality, and the refuse pulp is
used for fattening cattle, and the sale
of it affords an incidental profit to the
establishment. It is claimed that the
juice from beet roots grown on the
lands of tho Sugarie yields twelve per
cent, of sugar, a statement that we are
somewhat disposed to doubt, for the
average of Continental beet roots is but
eight per cent., and ten per cent, is a
heavy yield on the best foreign beet
root farms.
But the success of the Sacramento
works, with its large capital and great
acreage, is in itself enough to explain
why, until different methods of manu
facture are adopted, the profitable mak
ing of sugar from beets will be imprac
ticable in most portions of the United
States. Sorghum proved ameasurable
success because the outlay of a few
hundred dollars would enable any one
to enter into tho business, for it is
easier for a thousand men with small
farms to invest a thousand dollars each
on the crop that promises well, than to
bring a capital of a 'million into the
same field to contend with untried diffi
culties, or to attempt the woiking out
of unsolved problems. In like manner,
when there is a possibility of making
sugar from beets with profit on farms
of eighty to one hundred and fifty acres,
and with no greater outlay than would
be involved in putting up a first-class
cider mill is demonstrated, the produc
tion of. the staple will assume a quite
different complexion.
A New Flao. The English Republi
cans have adopted a flag, a tri-color with
horizontal stripes. The first, green,
represents the fertile earth, which
should be common property ; the sec
ond, white, represents purity, to be the
universal virtue in the coming republic,
and the third, represents heaven, in
which all men shall be eual.
Effects of a Meat Diet. An experi
ment recently made in a factory at
Tours, France, showed that when the
workmen were fed on an almost exclu
sively vegetable diet they lost on an
average fifteen days per year, but when
an increased portion of meat was sup
plied to them, the average of loss be
came reduced to three days per annum.
Hungarian Desperadoes.
Szegedinn is a little town in Hungary.
Since 1860, according to the Lloyd, of
Pesth. the inhabitants of this town have
! ben kept in such a state of terrorism
that they regularly barricaded them
selves in their houses at dark, and even
during the daylight dared not venture
into the street unless armed to the
teeth. Bands of desperadoes roamed
the town and tho surrounding country ;
robbery, arson, and assassination were
constant ; and the stage coaches were
attacked and robbed in the very market
place.
How such a state of things could be
permitted to last for nearly fifteen years
m any country claimed to be civilized,
would seem incredible to any. Arrests
were made from time to time, but they
generally turned out to be the victims
and not the perpetrators of the atroci
ties ; for the chief of the bandits, named
Sandor, who scared on his own side
most of the authorities of the luckless
town. It was a virtual bandit ring
which ruled Szegedin, and only after a
dozen years of this kind of thing does
it seem to have but thought worth while
by the central authorities to attempt to
put an end, to it. At last, however, the
outrages became too numerous and
frightful to be any longer passed over
in silence, and a Royal Commissioner
was dispatched with powers of investi
gation and suppression. His inquiries
soon revealed the existence in the dis
trict of not one. but several distinct
bands, each thoroughly organized, and
acting independently in a well-refined
field, but lending mutual aid for grand
enterprises. Thus two of these com
panies joined forces, marched upon a
bank, and dragged the safe out of the
vaults into the street, where being un
able to open or remove it, it was found
next morning.
The discoveries of the Commissioner
did not stop here. He found out that
the bandits numbered their accomplices
by the score in every department of the
municipality, while noblemen ia the
vicinity did not scruple to act as re
ceivers of the stolen goods. In Szege
din alone were arrested two judges, four
employes of the Treasury, a commissary
of police, and forty-six detectives.
After that, it got to be pretty plain
sailing, and a number of brigands, in
cluding the great Sandor, himself, and
a hardly less distinguished coadjutor.
Bajdor, were soon in cuBtedy. By an
ingenious system of torture, even the
heroes were brought to confess. Sandor
for example, like all great rascals, well
known to be exceedingly vain of the
magnitude of his rascality, and accus
tomed to look down upon lesser ruf
fians as "chicken thieves." A number
of them were thereupon induced to
salute him as a " fellow-chicken thief,"
which so outraged the great Sandor's
pride that no immediately made a full
confession. If the means seem comical,
even to the ludicrous, the resulting re
velations were rather appalling. Crimes,
whose existence was not even suspected
by the authorities, were freely acknowl
enged by these panic-stricken ruffians,
some of them committed thirty years
ago. In all, they have been brought to
light the startling number of eight
thousand offenses, of all sorts.including
murder, robbery, pillage, and arson,
the robberies alone bding four thousand.
Regarded in any light, whether as to
the extent of the immunity accorded to
this banditti, the number and enor
mity of their crimes, or the suddenness
with which their hardihood collapsed
when confronted with justice, this is
certainly one of the most extraordinary
cases on record. With all the enterprise
our native soonndrels boast of it is
doubtful if they can ever rival such an
exhibit as that, and Hungary must here
after rank among the formost bandit
bearing countries of Europe,
"As the Twig Is Bent."
A party was given by the parents of
a young miss of eleven years, at their
sumptuous residence in Brooklyn, the
guests being exclusively the compan
ions, male and female, of the daughter
referred to. The party was a full-dress
affair, the hours appointed being from 8
P. M. to 2 A. M. From 100 to 175
guests were present, who were received
by their young hostess with as much
ease and self-possession as a matron
could assume.
The dresses consisted of white, pink,
yellow, lavender, and ceil blue silk,
elaborately trimmed and decked with
spangles. The hair was dressed in the
latest style frizzed, puffed, powdered,
and adorned with flowers. Four-buttoned
white kid gloves were generally
worn, while French kid boots, matching
the dresses in color, encased the feet.
Only one thing was lacking in the
miniature representation of an adult
party, a New York paper observes, viz:
enamelled faces. Powder, however;
was freely used, but so artistically as to
almost defy detection.
One little girl (if she could be recog
nized as. such) particularly engaged at
tention. She could not have been more
than nine years of age, and in addition
to the powdered hair and dazzling cos?
tumes she sported with true apprecia
tion a pair of diamond earrings, a gold
chain, and a watch studded with dia
monds. Upon each arm was a braoelet
of elaborate workmanship, which she
held up for display, exclaiming as she
did so, " There s no sham about these;
they're the real stuff, for mother said
so.,s
Another child of seven summers was
arrayed in a rose-colored silk, $7 per
yard, trimmed with three-point applique
flounces; a galaxy of diamonds and other
expensive jewelry; a gold belt, the
buckle of which was literally covered
with diamonds; a band of gold encircled
the head, and from a pendent there
from sparkled a solitaire of great value.
Her mother was heard to exclaim exult
ingly that the price of her child's outfit
for that evening was $7,000. A jealous
mother overhearing the remark, de
clared, " Upon the next occasion my
daughter shall be dressed in tea-rose
silk, which is by al means less common
than pink. As for jewelry, she shall
surpass Miss Nellie or I'm greatly mis
taken." A New Cure. A new cure for ague
originate'd " out West." It is simply to
crawl down stairs head-foremost. "You
may laugh at the idea if you please,"
remarks the inventor of this novel
remedy, " but do your crawling first ;
you can then afford to laugh. Just as
the chill is coming on start at the top
of a long flight of stairs, and crawl
down on your hands and feet, head
foremost. You never did harder work
in your life ; and when you arrive at the
bottom, instead of shaking, you will
find yourself puffing, red in the face,
and prespiring freely from the strong
exertions made in the effort to ' support
yourself. Try it. It won't cost you
near as much as quinine or patent med
icines, and if it fails it will only do what
they d every 4ay."
Diseased Meat In New York.
Bergh, the man who looks after the
animals of Now York city, says of the
infectious mutton business: According
to the report of my own agent there are
20,000 sheep slaughtered in the city of
New York weekly; from 500 to 2,000
of which are killed by each butcher.
This number, although formidable, is
considerably increased by the very ac
curate statistics of Miss Morgan, the
talented and reliable general reporter
for the stock yards of this country, who
gives the number at 23,000. Now, of
this vast number of animals, of one race
only, killed for human food, 60 per
cent, are ewes, 90 per cent, of which are
pregnnnt with from one to four lambs,
and cases often occur where the lamb is
born while the mother is being slaught
ered, or more frequently "the lamb
bag," as it is termed, is ripped open by
the butcher and the infants taken out,
which have been known to survive some
four months thereafter and ultimately
to be served as food. In order to give
an idea of this criminal and revolting
practice of sending ewes to market by
farmers, in the condition alluded to,' it
is positively asserted that there are more
lamb fostus received at the rendering
dock of New York city than there are
sheep killed!
Bear in mind that this is the food
furnished by one race of animals only,
and from my own personal observation
the beef, the veal, the pork, and even
the poultry, though in a less degree,
arojfataliy tainted by the inhuman bar
barities inflicted on them in the abat
toirs and during their transportation to
market over railroads and otherwise.
That all these and other still more
hidoons and disgusting features of our
animal food exist is well known, yet,
strange to Bay, the public, who are tho
consumers of this foul stuff, are reluc
tant even to hear of them, and the State
Legislature refuses to provide remedies.
I have applied yearly to the last three
Legislatures, and now again to this,
for the passage of aa act, which I have
prepared, tending to a thorough reform
in this particular ; but that gigantic
and continually augmenting power i,n
this country, the railroad despotism,
has smothered all legislation on the sub
ject. I have repeatedly appeared be
fore the judiciary committees of this
State to urge this bill, containing also a
provision which, if adopted and carried
into effect, would insure healthful food
to our whole population ; but this, too,
has been denied on the erroneous as
sumption that it is unconstitutional I
mean the appointment of inspectors of
living animals destined for human food.
It is all in vain that I have shown by
the constitution itself that the appoint
ment of such officials is authorized by
that instrument the offending clause'
has been stsicken out, and the pesti
lential flesh-food Btill corrupts our
bodies. There are inspectors of rum,
tobacco, and various other substances
which the world would be better with
out, while we are refused similar pro
tection from poisonous flesh. This
apathy on the part of the people I leave
you to account for if you can ; to me it
is a profound mystery. Moreover, the
dreadful cruelties inflicted on food
animals previous to and during their
slaughter, which all physiologists de
clare tend to the deterioration of the
flesh, and which I have striven long to
prevent, are frustrated by the injunc
tions of magistrates issued on applica
tion of the merciless butchers them
selves. I am your obedient servant.
Henby Beboh.
Prices of Stock.
The annual stock report of the Sta
tistician of the Department of Agricul
ture of the United States shows that
the prices of farm animals are better
sustained than those of other farm pro
ducts. Horses command improved
prices in nearly all sections of the
country. Sheep are somewhat higher
than last year, the appreciation being
quite general, though not equal, in the
several States. The prices of cattle
have advanced in some States from lo
cal causes and receded in others. Miloh
cows in the South were appreciating in
value and declining in many of the
Northern States. Swine bear lower
rates generally, though quite as high as
last year in the Eastern States. An
analysis of local differences shows that
the prices of horses have advanced in
New England, New York, Pennsylvania
and in the Gulf States. In New Jersey,
where prices rule higher than in any
other State, a small decline is apparent,
though rates are still relatively high.
Though lower prices prevail in Dela
ware, Maryland, Tennessee and Ken
tucky, a slight advance is seen in Vir
ginia, and in horses of full age in North
Carolina. In some States which pro
duce horses for the market prices were
temporarily reduced and sales limited
by the prevailing horse disease. Lit
tle change is noted in Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. In Minnesota, Iowa and
Nebraska, where the supply is unequal
to the requirements of widening opera
tions iu agriculture, horses of full age
bear higher prices. There is also an
advance in California and Oregon.
Working mules command advaucing
prices in tho South. A slight advance
is seen in Indiana, Illinois and Minne
sota. Young stock is higher in Ken
tucky, but the average for full grown is
about the same as last year. Small de
cline appears in several of the Western
States, with some exceptions, and the
rates for milch cows are not sustained.
In Maine, New Hampshire and Ver
mont cattle were sacrificed last season
on account of the partial failure of the
grain and hay crops; prices have rallied
with an increase of forage. There is
an upward tendency in the cotton States
which keeps pace with the movement
toward improvement in the quality and
the enlargement of tho dairy interest.
The decline in tho average in compari
son with last year is from $39.50 to 84
in New York, $37.36 to $32.18 in Ohio,
$36.86 to $33.32 in Michigan, $33.77 to
$30.73 in Illinois, $28.49 to $28.18 in
Iowa and $30. 77 to $28. 9 1 in Kansas.
Other cattle have appreciated in
prices in northern New England, and
to a email extent in most of the South
ern States. Little change appears in
Virginia, Louisiana and Arkansas.
The prices of cattle four yoars old has
declined in Kentucky from $39.41 to
$37.54, in Ohio from $45.16 to $42.43, in
Michigan from $46.18 to $46? in Wis
consin from $42.38 to $37.08, in Minne
sota from $38. 46 to $36. 77. An advance
appears in Indiana from $36.53 to $39.06,
in Illinois from $36.40 to $38.83, in
Iowa from $36.16 to $38.83, in Missouri
from $29.72 to $30.15. The younger
cittlo commanded a proportionate in
crease in these States. 'Jiho decline in
hogs is quite small in corn-producing
States not at all proportionate to the
decline in products. In many locali
ties thriving store hogs command as
high rates for live weight as is obtained
tor tat slaughtered nogs.
Facto and Fancies.
Louisville is to be the capital of Ken
tucky. The Empress Eugenie will remain in
England.
A Newport man married his stop
mether the other day.
A large proportion of the sheep in the
Northwest are going, to the dogs.
Iowa is the fifth state in the Union in
the number of newspapers published.
Louisville, Ky., is trying to get rid
of her gamblers, but Btill encourages
lotteries.
Massachusetts has one mile of rail,
road to every four and three-quarter
square miles of territory.
TheU. S. Senate killed the Webb
Australian Subsidy bill by laying it on
the table by a vote of 33 to 31.
A Vermont hotel keeper has invented
lady clerks. When a guest wants infor
mation now ho always gets it and plenty
of it.
Lucca is accredited with this re
mark: "I never see so pad a plaiz as
se Philamadelfy to gif one so soro
troat."
It is now fashionable for ladies and
gentlemen, when walking in the streets
to lock arms, whether they are engaged
or not.
The editor of the Atlanta (G.a) Week ly
does not like the editorial " we." He
says, " It makes us feel as if we were
twins."
A gentleman from Ireland being
asked by a New York belle if he ad
mired small waists, responded, " not in
the laced."
When a man presents himself before
a publio audience, it often happens that
his body ;s inclined to sink, while his
head swims.
New York city still ponders and per
plexes its brain how it shall get from
one end of the island to the other inside
of ten hours.
To such a height was the snow piled
in Minnesota that a man could walk
from the second story of the hotel there
upon the drifts.
Several Paris journals announce that
the trial of Marshal Bazaine before the
special court-martial will begin in the
latter part of April.
It is a general remark that all classes,
of persons are ever ready to give their
opinions. .The lawyers must be except
ed they sell theirs.
Dean Swift believed that no person in
conversation should talk over half a
minute without pausing and giving
others a chance to srike in.
Santa Barbara, Cal., has an apple
tree which bears three crops a year,
having always on its branches ripe ap
ples, half grown apples and blossoms.
Americans read more newspapers
than any other people, but do not read
more books. Probably beoauBe the
average newspaper iB better than, the
average book. '
Austrian prisons are not so bad after
all. Every inmate is obliged to attend
school regularly .and popular lectures
are delivered to the prisoners on Sun
days and holidays.
The proceeds of the $300,000,000
United States 5 cents which has been
negotiated, will go to tho redemption of
the United States 5-20s of 1862 and
1864, in the order of their issue.
The clerk of a Sa Francisoo lawyer
guarded against the possibility of for
getting the secret of the combination
by writing it upon a piece of paper and
pasting i't upon the knob of the safe.
Miss Theresa Bailey, one of the pas
sengers lost by the recent wrecking of
the British steamer Germany off the
mouth of the River Gironde, France, ,
was then on her way to America to be
married.
A new dish is grape leaves fried in
egg batter ; it is called a French dish.
A contemporary remarks : "We can't
think of anything that would be more
delicious than fried grape leaves, unless .
it is a theatrical poster on toast.
For the third time sentence of death
has been pronounced on William Foster,
condemned for the willful murder of
Avery D. Putnam, with a car hook in
New York. FoBter was sentenced to be
executed on the 7th day of March next,
A singular case has just come to light
in New Orleans. A man was discovered
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111 LUC DVICOVO IIUIOU BUU IOHVUOU WMV.,
when taken to the police station, Baid
he had been thus used by p party of
men, and then robbed ol seventy-tnrce
dollars. . -
The German emigration to America
flowed in a voluminoua current during
1872. One hundred and thirty-nine
thousand of the children of Fatherland
embarked at the ports of Bremen and
Hamburg for the United States in the
twelve months.
Some of the stories told of the terrib
ly fatal effects of the late storm in Min
nesota are almost incredible. One
paper reports that a sleighing party of
six young couples, with their driver,
were all found frozen to death, buried
almost out of sight in the snow.
A vouner man in Southampton, Eng
land, avers that he has been three times
locked up for offenoes committed either
by his own wraith or a person in sub
stance extremely like uimseii. i e
young man's life has become a bane he
would gladly end were he not aiming to
thrash the fellow that looks so jolly
like 'im.
Ohio papers tell a pathetio story of a
little boy, twelve years of age, who was
adopted from a Homo for the Friend
less, and was made a cripple for life
through the effects of a fever. Ho be-
came languid, fearing that he was too
great a burden to' his benefactors, and
obtaining possession of some rat-poison,
swallowed it.
Charles Lamb tolls a story of a gn- '
tleman who had purchased No. 1,069:
passing a lottery office, he saw a placard
announcing that that number had come
up a 20,000 prize ; he walked around
five blocks to cool his agitation before
entering the office; on going back
again, he found that he had mistaken
10,069 for 1,069.
The Great Eastern Cirous was sold
at auction in Selma, Ala., a few'daya
ago. The elephant was bought for
$10,000. Six bay horses brought $3,
400. The den containing the lioness
and cubs, $5,085. The Bengal tiger ,
and leopards, $6,000. The buffaloes, '
$400 each. The ring horses sold at .
from $500 to $1,000 each.
' John Agie, a Chinaman, who does not
understand English, was Questioned
through on interpreter in a New York ,
Court as to his knowledce of the nature ;
of an oath. " What will be your pun
iBhment," asked the interpreter, " if
you swear to a lie?" "I shall never -return
to China, bmt always remain in
Hew York," was the reply.