The true northerner. [volume], July 28, 1876, Image 6

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HV-JtUYANT.
ivVtfkhW til MiKi;.iiNriiuM Willtani
ull. ii llryant'a new poem, "Tin? Flood of Vwi."
the wli(Je of Which ,wl!l found in H-ribucr'a
lMraru tf tlliiy 2(tuulW. I Thlt ium will
liev lor litnuv an hiU rtt akin t that of Mr, Liing
f allow .MjtltkUiMlutU4tui."t . v
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8a tly I turn, aud look before, where yet : i
Tbtxrlt irnwt fa, nU I ItUold a tuiat .. -
WtxT&riu triscotviiiK forius? th hrool of 1U,
Divinely fair, tiiat rent n banlin of flowera
Or wander among rainbow4,'fa4iug noon
.Aul rvapjx iinntf, haply giving il ic
'To hIjiijm-h f uriwly aapm't, uoh n Fear '
lohiH from the Hlo air; wheroai rpeot lift
Tho lMfcid to Htnke, and ttkelctoiiH Ktretch forth
Tli turn; arm tit menace. Further on
A belt of tUi knew aeeuit to bar the way,
Iong, low. ami distant, where the Life Uiat In
'1 ouchca the ,if to Com. The Flood of Years
ItlU toward it, near ami ucarer. It xiiiint puna
1 bat Jiui U barrier. What U there bejoiul?
Hear wltt the wine ami good have nidd. Hcyond
That Ik it ot ilarkueH mill the year roll on
More gently, but with uot lean ninthly awep.
'Tlu'y gather up at?a'u and aoftly b. ar
All the tweet lived that late were overwhelmed
And I mt fo ntyht all that In thorn wan Rood,
Noble, and truly great and worthy of love
The live-of iufautw and iiwenuourt youtlm,
H ik.'k and faintly women who have made
Their boiiHchoUU happy all are raided and borne
Hv Uiat great current in it onward aweep,
Wandering and rippling with careaniug waveH
Aronud Rifou Inland, fragrant with the breath
Of flower that never wither. So they pan8,
From Htik't" to Htaie, along the Hhiniug course
Of that fair river broadening like a .
Ah it niuooth eddies rnirl alonj their way.
"ITioy bring old friend together; hand are clasped
In i iy nDHpe.-ikabln: the iuotur'a arm
Again arc folded round the child he loved
And lout. Old Borrows are forgotten now,
Or but remembered to make aweet the hour
thrtt ovi-rpayH them: wounded heart that bled
Or broke, ure healed forever. In the room
Of thiH jrriT-hudowed Present there nhall be
A lVeent in whoe reign no grief shall gnaw
The heart, and never shall a tender tie
11 brokenin wIioha reigu the eternal Change
That wait on growth and action hhall proceed
With everlasting Concord hand in hand.
THAT HOME-MADE ICE CREAM.
"Good gracious, mar !" said Angel
ica Crauo to her over worked parent, at
nightfall of a memorable day a day
that marked the beginning of the young
Squire's Christmas holidays at home, and
every minute of it crammeJ and crowd
ed with labor for the entertainment in
his honor at the Crauo homestead
"good gracious! you ain't goiug to
have some home-made cream, surely ?"
The young lady's nose, which was ex
ceedingly retrousse already, -was perched
high in the air with disdain. "If there's
anything I can't abide," she said, " it's
frozeu com starch ; and that's all you
can make of home-made cream any way
.you fix it !"
" Iloid your tongue, Angy," said her
mother; Vyou're tie most onfeelin'
creetur I ever hee. You'd have me har
ucss up the team and drive away to
town and pay out a mint of money,
when I Lin just as well hevit fornothin'.
llaiu't wo got a primo new freezer,
and cream and eggs and ice, without its
coKtin' a cent? What more do you
want !"
"A prime new freezer!" scornfully
echoed Angy. " You'll waut half a
dozen of 'em !"
"Well, can't I borry 'em?" said her
prudent parent.
" And who's going to hang over 'eni?"
said the young lady, whose sty at
boarding-school had not obliterated the
homo dialect. "They need to be turned
and turned, and everybody's worn out.
It's nearly time to dress now, and you
want a little coolin' off yourself. You're
as red as a beet."
"I'll stay if I can be of any service,"
fwiid a voice in the doorway.
"Why, Sally," said Mrs. Crane,
" you'll want to return homo and dress,
won't you?"
" Oh, I'd rather not," said the voice,
this time trembling a little. "I don't
feel fit for any fun, Mrs. Crane. It
don't seem to me I ever will again."
" I s'poso not, deary," said the farm
er's wife, with an expression of pity,
minpled with relief, " "It'll be dreadful
convenient to hev you stay, Sally, if you
kin. There's a power to do yet, and
only one pair o' hand to do it. I s'poso
you wouldn't keer to go up in tho par
lor ; but tho freezers'll bo in the cellar,
and the heater keeps it nice and warm
down there ; and while you're a-makin'
tho cream you kin listen to the music,
and hear the noise and all. It'll como
kind o' i.ice to jou that way, won't it,
Sally V
"Good life, mar!" laughed the viva
cious daughter; "is that what you call
nice? It reminds mo of the little hun
gry boy who went to smell the steam at
the p'u-tvy cook's."
"You den't know nothin about tho
way Hally ft els," aaid Mrs. Crane, "nor
1 don't think you could if you tried. I
Ik li'-vo you'd dunce and whis'le about be
f uie Ihu grn.-is took root ovi r your puppy's
Tiive; but Sally loved hern, poor child,
And she can't help tliinkiu' of tho poor
school-' iir;ter Ivin out there in the snow,
wui nere ne was, oniy a did ago, as
click and smart as anybody. It's no
. knowin' whose iiiru it'll be next."
Whether the good woman had any rca
isou of her own for thus dwelling upon a
melancholy subject, it decided poor little
je)llj's aversion for the merry. making,
and put to iliiht the gay Angelica, who
wan in no humor for red eyes and noses,
wvhen tlx? young Squire would shortly
viooie, and it behooved these features to
bo nt their bst.
Hut Sally fell to sobbing outright, not
giving a thought to tho deleterious ef
fect of tears upon ner beauty, although
once upon a time it was bright and bon
ny enough to ensnare the young Squire
hirusWf. Lot; g ago, when lxj drew her
to school on his haudsome sled, he made
many a stumble over the ic iu looking
back npn the sweet face under its sear
let hood, the little cheeks nil aglow, and
.the yellow curls wantoning about witit
Ihe brink wintry air. Sally's was always
tho iigc;e-t upplo from the finest tree in
the oteimid; the most luscious grapes
from til grapery found their way to Sal
ly's d :; .nd in the intervals of his pos
sessing a j en-knife young Master llan
dall left ix 1 hint peucilin Sally's sachel.
Win n it became necessary that ho
fdioul i : ent to a plaoe of instruction
helittii v f: s station in life, and the liat
liad go-..- i. rth that the dear old days nt
the vil!.i,.;e Kchool should become p.nt
aud parcel of tho past; when he must
bid good-by to his romps in tho now
mown hay, his races; with the young colts
in the t-n-acre Ibid, his berrying und
pic-nicing, his coasting down the glo
rious nld hill; when he mu-t part with his
dog Lancer, and his gun, and his pony
al:ove nil, with Sally it was a heart
reudi:! t iru. Whatever grown-up folks
may tl.mk A theso childish griefs, they
are u.- t j'.ifli to lnar hm the tieavier ones
thot ooiae liter, and they leave great
uplv scar; that nro sometimes only half
healod over.
When Will IUndall cut Sally's r.nmo
and his own deep into the bark of tho
old walnut tree at the foot of the lane,
it seemed to him that tho knife went into
his i heart with every turn of the letters
iu her precious name" Tears rolled out
of his eyes in Pplto of his manly endeav
or to choke them down; as for Sally, she
had given way long ago, and, tvith her
Bunlwnnet tight down over her face, was
watering the gray old moss at the foot
of tho tree with floods of childish woe.
At last it was done; there wero the in
itials linked together deep in tho ruggod
bark; the crimson light from tho west
ern sky shone full upon each and all.
Will put his knifo back in hi pocket
with a click of determination, gulped
back his tears at onco and for the last
time, and, taking Sally from tho ground,
ho smoothed back her yellow locks,
coaxing her into quiet with the solemn
promise of his loyalty henceforth and
forever to tho lovo between them. Ilo
declared that tho names linked there
upon the tree should never be separated
while life remained to him, and with
many a vow of fealty coined from the
books ho had devoured among the lum
ber in tho garret, and simplo plaints of
love brought up frcm the depths of his
little, swelling heart, Will bado littlo
Sally good-by.
But alas for tho inexorable decrees of
fate and fashion ! Seven long years had
passed and gono since that last trysting
time, and although the two names wero
still linked together upon the old wal
nut tree, the two little lovers had drifted
far apart.
Young Master Randall went from one
place of' instruction to another till he
reached the eummnm bonttm of a veri
table college Taking advantage of tho
absence of their son and heir, tho big
folks at the hall went abroad; the house
was closed, and although many an apple
and bunch of grapes from the old place
reached Sally, with tho rest of tho vil
lagers, she never cared to tasto these
luxuries from stranger hands. Will
speut his holidays away, aud Sally would
not even have heard the sound of his
name had it not been for tho sojourn of
Angelica Crano at a boarding school
near tho college, rerhaps Sally would
rather not havo heard his namo than
thus from the lips of Angelica, whose
bump of reverence was small, and who
held the young Squire pretty much as
she held everybody important in tho
ratio that they contributed to her own
pleasure.
I ho acres of Farmer Ciano were broad
and wide, and outnumbered by many a
score those that belonged to the Itandall
family; it was whispered that even the
goodliest property of the old Squire was
heavily mortgaged to tho shrewd and
forehanded countryman, and that a
match between Miss Angelica and tho
young Squire would net be a bad thing
for tho latter. On tho other hand, these
plain folks at tho Crano homestead had
spared no pains to show their willing
ness to f urther wliatever plans wore made
for the joining of theso two goodly
estates.
Angelica herself had confided to Sally
that she had nioro strings to her bow
than one, but that she knew which she
preferred, and had often tortured the
poor little maiden, when during Angeli
ca's holidays they had t pent a night or
two together, by reading her, among
other love letters, some productions
from tho eloquent and ardent pen of
Will Randall, poor littlo Sally's perfid
ious lever. Long after Angelica's curl
papers had ceased to rattlo upon the
pillow, the soft, silken rings of Sally's
yellow hair wero wet with toars of envy
and girlish despair.
But as years went by, and old timo
softened tiie bitterness of those holiday
stabs by dealing others of a more vivid
and startling character, when cares and
grids close at hand crowded about her
and hemmed her in, she became resigned
to this one among tho rest, and even
talked with Angelica of her loves and
lovers with a cooluess that astonished
herself. There became a less and less
grievous similarity in the description of
the young Squire to that shy, sweet mem
ory of Sally's of long ago. Ilo had now,
it appeared, an incipient mustache, kis
hands were white, he was more aud more
" perfectly splendid " with every fresh
confidence; and this brilliant figure left
the old simple, tender likeness all to it
self in Sally's young heart, and it became
dead nnd buried like all tho glad things
of life, along with her lather, tno school
master, and tho palo young mother she
could just remember; and as she turned
the ice-cream freezers that niht in the
cellar of Farmer Crane, not ono thought
of jealous spite or envy of the fair An
gelica cinio into her littlo head.
Sho did listen to tho music, and heard
the noise above, and it was " a sort of
nice," as Mrs. Crano had said; and as
she turned nnd turned one freezer after
another, Sally became interested enough
iu her work to forget more important
trials close at hand.
It made the soul of tho farmer's wife
glad within her, when she went down to
tasto tho cream, to find it beginning to
bo all that her fancy painted.
"It's prime" sho said, smacking her
lips nnd holding the spoon to Sally's
pretly mouth. "Jest taste it, and tell
me if that ain't fur ahead of Towzer's
stuff in town. It stands to reason,
Sally; there's real cream in that ar
none o yer nasty skimmin's ! Now keep
right on, dear ; bo jest as keerf ul as you
kin, 'cause n-iw's tho resky timo when
the hull thing kin bo rp'iled by a mito
o' kcerlessness. Just turn und turn,
dour, first one, then t'other, this a-way,
und that a-way. The idee of that p sky
da'ter o'mine tellin' me only a rainit ngo
she knowed it'd be lumpy and soft !
And, Sally, she'f; tho most unfecliu'"
"It's only her fun," raid Sally.
"Fuu I" trhoed the vexed matron.
"Wa'al, it's a menu kind of fun, and
it'd sarvc her right if sho e.imo out the
little end o' the horn yet. Hut we'll
take keer o' the cream, won't wo Sally V
"That wo will, ma'am," faid Sally,
warmly.
"Jest turn cud turn, you know," said
tho poor woman, e-iul went up the cellar
steps, not knowing that destiny had
some work of her own to do that night,
and had ruthle.-ijly ehosea the farmer's
wife for the ugeut f her own discomfit
ure. At the top of tho steps sho met
the young Sqvirc. Ho said that, like
the young woman in tho ballad, he was
veary of dancing, nnd proposed to havo
tho old ganvi of Copenhagen and could
sho tell hiru uhero 1m could get a rope ?
"Why, ye," said Mrs. Crane, "there's
one rij-'ht 'down hero in the cellar. I'll
git it, Will that's right; hev nil tho
fuu you kin; you can't bo young but
once;" and Jown she went into tho cel
lar again.
Nov it she liad only contented herself
with getting the rope and handing it to
tho young Squire, who stood waiting at
tho top of the steps, all would havo boon
well. He had scarcely left Angelica's
side the whole evening; he had whis
pered lots of pretty things in her ears :
he determined to tap no hand but hers
in the ring. If Mrs. Crano had only
handed him the rope without a word !
but she couldn't help it, poor woman;
it was the fault of destinv. as I said bo-
fore. Something compelled her to stand
right at the foot of the stairs and whis
per:
" Keep right on, Sally dear turn and
turn, like a Rood little Jass.
And sho might better havo spoken
aloud. Her whisier was of that stento
rian description that it cut the air ; it
fell swoop upon the ear of tho young
Squire, and presently ho heard a sweet,
low voice iu reply :
" Yes, ma'am, I'll attend to it nicely."
He went back witk the rope in a daze.
What was to be turned and turned, and
who was tho turner? What Sally was it
that owned that sweet, low voice? and
what sweet, low voice owned that
dear name of Sally ? Will Itandall had
been famous at school and college for
solving problems ; ho never would, in
fact, leave ono unsolved ; and presently
ho slipped away from the ropo, out of
the room, and made his way direct to the
cellar door. Ho opened it softly, closed
it carefully behind him, and went slowly
down tho steps. The bull's-eyo f the
furnace glared at him as if tho genius of
fire within was bent upon some spree of
his own one of these davs ; ho heard
squeak, squeak, squeak, a little off in the
dim distance, and followed the mysteri
ous noise, confident it had something to
do with that problem ho was bent upon
solving. He walked on tiptoe, passing
many a coal bin heaped to the top with
coal ; his locks brushed many a ham
and tongue and juicy bit of bacon ; ho
saw many a hanging-shelf filled with
Christmas cheer ; it was fit to soften tho
heart of this young scion of a noble but
impoverished house. Ihe squeaking
noise became more and more distinct.
lie turneti tno corner of a preservo
closet, and suddenly ho stood still, be
cause ho couldn t go on; his feet stopped ;
his pulse almcst ceased to beat ; ho saw
something that sent the blood Hying to
his heart that perfidiously false yet
faithful heart. He saw the slim, little
figure of a woman perched upon an old
broken hen-cocp, her bkek dress tucked
up out of tho water that escaped from
half a dozen freezers around her, her
littlo right hand turning one freezer, her
littlo left hand turning auother ; her
soft, silky yellow hair all Huffed about
her pretty head that yellow hair that
would match exactly with tho exquisite
color of the one holding tho place of
honor among all his locks of hair ; her
sweet lips parted with anxiety for the
fate of tho cream, as they had parted
long ago with a far deeper and warmer
anxiety those sweet, sweet lips I Could
it bo I Oh, was it his own littlo Sally
his one, only Sally, tho pure idol of his
boyish love ! Oh, what divine, rap
turous problem was this given to him to
solvo
That pumping apparatus about his
heart began to work again with a will.
He crept around tho preserve chest, be
tween lie freezers, and putting one hand
upon Sally's lips, with the other drew
her close upon his heart.
"Hush, darling, he whispered ; "it
i9 I Will your own faithful Will. Oh,
Sally! Sally!"
Her little falling head he caught in
time, and kissed her fainting lips to life.
He said more in a minute to Sally than
ho had whispered all tho night above.
Ho decided her fate and his own in tho
twinkling of an eye, nnd unblushingly
believed he was but f infilling all the
vows of long ago under the walnut tree.
ts for Sally shy, trembling Sally sho
was in a rapturo of bewilderment, of joy
and bliss, that is seldom reached by mor
tals, until suddenly tho collar door
opened ; then, indeed, tho crimson in
Sally's cheeks paled, tho stentorian whis
per of Mrs. Crane was heard upon the
steps.
" It must be just right now. It's bin
turnin', you know, long enough now ;
it kin set by, and Sally might jest as well
as not hev a little fun. I lay anything
it's jest the primest stuff you ever see."
" lho cream is spoiled, whispered
Sally, her big, loving, tearful, happy
eyes upon Will's.
" rot a bit of it, said her companion.
And although that cream was certainly
lumpy and a httlo soft, Will declared it
the best he ever tasted, or would tasto
for tho remainder of his life ; and as tho
cream was made lor mm, wnat ilul it
matter.
Angelica, having plenty of strings to
her bow, didn't mourn over it grievous
ly ; but poor Mrs. Crane from that timo
forward bought her cream at Towzer's.
An Egyptian Way.
Here is a pleasing talo which illus
trates the stylo of doing things in Egypt:
A woman was mortally wounded by tho
falling of a wall. A neighbor took her
in, tended her, and brought a female
doctor to see if anything could bo done.
The patient died in the neighbor's house.
The doctor in attendance must sign a
certificate that death U from natural
causes before tho body can bo buried.
Sho refused to do so without backsheesh
(a gratuity). Tho man in whose houso
tho pei son died would bo held responsi
ble without such certificate. He there
fore favo tho backsheesh. Tho certifi
cate had to bo countersigned by tho
Government doctor. He also refused,
and the man, ngiin afraid of the alterna
tive, ngitin paid backsheesh. Finally,
the zabit, or head of tho police, refused
his permission, which i also necessary
in such cases. His backsheesh was tho
biggest, and the man could stand tho
tax no longer. Ho went to tho
zabit and said: "Now, look here,
this body has been out of tho ground
four days. You are bound to bury it in
twenty-four hours. You are tho caus
of the delay. Unless you sign at once,
I shall go to tho moudir nnd report tho
non-burial of a body for four days, and
you will lose your place." Tho zabit
was defeated, and signed at ence.
Ton gallantly rescuing Freddy Frael,
of Mankato, Minn., lroia drowning,
Hiram Finch, aged 15 years, has been
presented with a handsome silver watch
by the father of Fratl.
EMi LAM) AND KUSMA.
A l'olnt fur the Flrat to Iecld The
Kinauciptitloii of Kluv The hperta
torr'a Opinion on the Kuatrrn (juration.
11 The Spectator of July 1 says that the
Soint on which Englishmen havo now to
eclde, and decido at onco, is whether
they will fight Russia in a great war, be
cause from selfish motives sho is help
ing to emancipate 13,000,000 slaves.
The right of populations like those of
Turkey to take theii freedom if they can
in fair battle is (tho Spectator says) as
clear as the right of any man to keep his
own possessions. We have no more
right to help a power to commit atroci
ties such as are going on in Bulgaria,
because the power is useful to our in
terests, than to help a Ribbonman to
murder because he votes straight. And,
as we maintain, in so helping Turkey we
are injuring Europe and our own po
sition in the world. There is an under
lying idea in many quarters that if tho
South Sclavs succeeded in oversetting
tho Sultan's throne, and compelling the
Turks to fill up their depopulated but
beautiful territories in Western Asia,
they would be mere dependants of the
Russian Czar. They would, on the con
trary, be tho most dangerous enemies
the Russian Government ever encoun
tered in its career. Prince Nikita, at the
head of the eight States, or better still,
tho Archduko Albrecht, would bo at tho
head of a power which Bismarck would
court, because without its consent Russia
could not move; which Austria would
court, because it alono could guarantee
Hungarian obedience; and which Eng
land would court, because it could give
precisely that security which we are al
ways hoping in vain to obtain from the
Ottoman caste. What is there in 6uch a
prospect which should induce English
men to expend blood and treasiu-e in re
jecting it; or why, if we must fight and
wo do not deny for ono instant that
Russia is dangerous should wo not fight
when Europoan Turkey has been freed ?
The Federation would hold tho keys of
South Russia, and would bo so dreaded
in St. Petersburg as to bo forced to de
fend itself by external alliances. Russia
may "rush" Constantinople? Nonsense!
Which ii easier to fight Rnssia, on tho
borders of the Sea of Marmora, a thous
and miles from Ler resources, for tho
independence of the Sclavonic Federa
tion, or to fight her in tho Crimea, on
her own ground, for tho right of the
Ottoman caste to misgovern 13,000,000
reluctant subjects? If, indeed, there
wore a possibility of making the Otto
mans at once so civilized that their rule
was no injury to Europe, and so secure
that this rule could be lenient to its sub
jects, something might, at all events, be
said for adhering to tho tradition which
has cost so much; but not even Mr.
Disraeli believes in a possibility of tho
kind.
The Resources of Russia.
A correspondent of the Edinburgh
Scotsman, writincr from Russia, says :
"Nine-tenths of this vast country pro
duces littlo else than firewood. In tho
South there are black-soil districts, and
they raise beautiful wheat there, but tho
wheat finds only ono market Englaud,
which seems to be the stomach of the
world and in the market they have all
the world, from California westward to
New Zealand eastward, to contend
against. In Finland is iron almost as
eood as Sweedish, and in tho interior of
Rusria coal and irr n in vast fields, but,
strange to say, although the Government
and tho proprietors would assist in every
wav, none of the English engineers who
havo examined tho districts have report
ed cf them favorably enough to induce
capitalists to work them. They prefer
such out of the way places as South
America to Russia. In the Ural mount
ains there are gold, silver, copper, and
platma mines, yet the largest coin ono
fin Is in circulation is of base silver
nominal valno sixpence, actual value a
little over three-pence. The other 're
souices' of Russia zvo the raw materials
s lo exports hides, tallow, tar, rags,
bones, etc., but theso exports are not on
tho increase. Yet the great extent of
soil, tho vast country possessed by Rus
sia, is in itself a great part of her recu
perative power, say some wise people;
look at the United States of America !
There is, it is true, that similarity be
tween the North American continent aud
Russia, that both have vast uncultiva
ted district", but along with it comes
tho slight diiferenco that, while grcit
parts of America aro worth cultivating,
very little of Russia is. Tho population
of America increases through immigra
tion from tho whole world; the popula
tion of Russia does not increase, and no
body dreams of emigrating thither."
Their Original State.
Among women, in the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries, elegance had
scarcely any exigence, and even cleanli
ness was hardly considered as ' laudable.
Tho use of linen was not known ; and
tho most delicate of the fair sex were
woollen underclothing. In Paris they
had meat only three timos a week ; and
ten pounds was a largo "portion " for a
young lady. Tin better sort of citizens
used splinters of wood and rags ' dipped
in oil instead of candles, which, in those
days, wero a luxury rarely to bo met
with. Wino was only to be had at the
shops of the apothecaries, where it was
sold as cordial ; to ride in a two-wheeled
car along the dirty, ragged streets, was
reckoned a grandeur so euviablothat
Philip tho Fair prohibited the wives of
the citizens from enjoying it. In the
timo of Henry VIIL, of England, tho
peers of the realm carried their wives
behind them on horseback when they
went to Loudon ; and in the samo man
ner took them back to their country
seats with hoods of waxed linen over
their heads, and wrapptnl in mantles of
cloth, to secure them from tho cold. A
woman was littlo moro than a domestic
chattel, and completely subservient to
her acknowledged master, man.
Scotch Marriage Laws.
Mr. Forsyth said in Parliament in a
recent debato that tho present law of
marriage in Scotland was a crying scan
dal. At pros -nt, if a man and woman
in Scotland, perhaps half tipsy, said be
foro a witness, "This is my wife,"
"This is my husband," it was a lawful
marriage. There was a well-known
story of thoo dest son of a Scotch peer
who, having quarreled with his father,
we; t into a house of bad repnto in Ed
inburgh nnd acknowledged a woman
there as his wife. This was held to bo
a good marriage, and ho iras tied to this
woman for life. ' ' ' -
SIOUX WARK10KS.
The Terrible Ordeal of the Sun-lan-e.
Fort Lincoln Cor. Chicago Tribune
On the lfith of June, Sitting Bull and
his allied bands fell upon Gen. Crook,
and achieved a partial victory. Run
ntrs were immediately, dispatchod to
lukewarm tribes around the ugencies, to
carry the news and to drum for recruits.
Accordingly, a number of young braves
left Standing Rock, Cheyenne Agency,
and Fort Peck Reservation, and joined
Sitting Bull. Before, however, they
could be accepted, they had to pass
through the ordeal of the sun-dance.
Theso ceremonies wero held in a
wild canon of the Big-IIorn mountains;
and a graphic description of them has
been given me by W. C. Gooding, a
youEg Massachusetts trader who is study
ing the aboriginal character, previous to
applying for a position on the Indian
Peace Commission as a humanitarian.
The sun danee commenced on tho after
noon of the 18th of June; and, from its
commencement to the end, 200 warriors
wero not to eat or drink anything. Un
der shades made out of cut boughs, Sit
ting Bull and other warriors wero gath
ered to witness tho ceremonies. The
200 young warriors were ranged around
a medicine-pole, their bodies blackened
with charcoal, nnd wearing nothing but a
short ekirt of buckskin around their lions,
and eagle-feather coronets. They would
dance at intervals of half an hour, and
wero then allowed a Abort respite until
again called out by the tom-tom. A
warrior was suspended from tho medi-cino-polo
by the ends of a lariat fastened
to two thorns stuck in tho llosh of his
back ; in each hand he held a long pole,
which partially supported him ; but
every few minutes he wou'd swing the
wholo weight of his body upon tho lariat,
in an effort to tear tho tnorns from his
flesh. After hanging for three hours in
tho glaring sun, he was cut down and
carried away. Another young warrior,
who wanted to show what a bravo heart
he had, lay down on his face and had six
thorns put in his back and shoulders;
then turned over, and had two more put
in his breast. Then, rising to his feet,
buffalo skulls were fastened to the thorns
in his back, and a lariat to thoso in his
breast, and ho was mado fast to tho
medicine-polo. Tho tom-tom struck up,
and the Indian began to dance ; and, as the
skulls toro the thorns out of the flesh one
by one, Sitting Bull and tho chiefs would
shout their approbation. Then, bracing
back till tho lariat pulled his breast out
like a woman's, he danced with renewed
vigor; and, as the thorns tore from his
ilesh, and he had demonstrated terrible
powers oi endurance, tue cuiets gave
him loud cheers.
Theso are tho kind of men who are
now on the war-path against their hered
itary foe, tho pales-face. Is it any won
der that tho bravo Cutter fell beforo
them?
(jien. Sitting Bull as a French Sdiolar.
He is a Teton-Sioux, nnd only 35 years
of age. Capt. McGarry, of tho steamer
Benton, tells me ho has known Sitting
Bull about the Upper Missouri trading
posts for many years. His principal
bartering place was at Fort Peck, though
of late years he and his band havo fol
lowed the buffalo north on the Souris
and Pembina rivers, and have bartered
their robes an tongues for guns and
ammunition with tlie French half-breeds
of Manitoba, Sitting Bull was a convert
and friend of Father I)eSmet, who I aught
him to read and write French. He has
always scorned to learn English, but is a
fair French scholar. In the Dakota lan
guago ho is also versed, and declared to
be a greater orator than Little Pheasant,
Chief of the Yanktonnais. Capt. Mc
Garry says ho knows that Sitting Bull
has read the French history of Napoleon's
wars, and believes that ho has modeled
his generalship after the littlo Corsicau
corporal. Sitting Bull has never accept
ed an overture of peace, tho report that
ho gave in his adhesion to Sully to tho
contrary notwithstanding. He has al
ways been an unrelenting and vindictive
savage to the Americans what Schamyl
was to tho Russians. Father DcSmet
kept tho Teton-Sioux from the warpath
until 18G3. Ho then left tho Upper Mi' -sourij
and Sitting Bull became a chief.
No organized effort was mado to array
the Sioux nation ogainst tho whites until
after tho Minnesota massacre of 18G3,
when tho Sioux were driven west of tho
Missouri into tho bad lands and moun
tains of Dakota. Sitting Bull aspired to
tho leadership, but Red Cloud, Spotted
Tail, Littlo Pheasant and the Ogalalla
Sitting Bull chiefs repudiated him.
From that timo he has been a malcon
tent, and at war with tho chiefs of tho
Sioux nation, though ho has by his per
suasive arts of oratory seduced many
hundreds of their young braves into his
ranks. He is also largely reinforced by
young braves from the Crees and Assini
boins cf Manitoba. Every summer for
five years he has been up north among
these tribes, and now they aro flocking
to his standard. Dakota Cor, Chicago
Tribune. '
A Janie of Spit.
"Many years ago," said Gen. Eli H.
Murray to n Louisville Ledger reporter,
" Judge Stites had a Circuit Court down
in Southern Kentucky. Once a littlo
country tavern was full to overflowing,
so that four or live persons ha l to oc
cupy tho samo room. Tho Judgo and
four or five of tho big lawyers indulged
in draw poker until a late hour. Then
they went to lx;d, and left the candle
burning. The fire had gone out, tho
weather was cold, tho floor not clean, and
ncno of them liked to get out of his
warm placo to blow out tho candle. After
fruitless efforts to iuduco some one to
get up, tho Judge proposed that they
should put it out by spittiug nt it. I
can beat you said one. Money Fnys
yon can't,' answered tho Jnde. The
cold weather nnd tho dirty Uoor were
forgotten, as the rivals sprang from their
warm places. Money was put up, a
mark made, nnd tho contest was so ex
citing that tho others were soon drawn
out, andthero, in thechill, tireless, dreari
nesa of the best room of a country tav
nm. tliA Judco and four or live of tho
brightest lights of the circuit stood up
in their shirts ana spn ai a maris lor $ j
npieco."
West CiresTF.n, ra., has a colored pop
ulation of 1,190.
'in tjiu nUin:.
, 1 J . , A JHM,uiniiier''o!e. "
Ob for a lol?e in m irarde n of cncnmtKT !
Oh for hit icelx-rit or two at control
Oil for a v! wliU h at tuldJay (be rivw rnuaber!
Oh for a plt-amiru trip up to tho l'ulo !
Oh for a little one-etorjr thermometer,
1th uothlud but siroH all rant-t in a row !
Oh for a big doublo-barreltd Lyuruiut-trr, -To
lueatnra the xiiolnture that roll from my
brow I
Oh that thla eod world were twenty timet colder
(That'a irony rod-hot it anemeth to me)
Oh for a turu of it dreaded cold ahoulder !
Oh what a comfort an ague would be !
Oh for a grotto to typify heayen,
Scooped in the r k under cataract vaat !
Oh for a winter of dioontent eveu !
Oh for wt t blanket Judiciously cant !
Oh for a aoda-fourt npuuting up bold'y
From every hot laiup-iwt anainBt the hot aky !
Oh for a iroud maid to look ou me coldly,
Freezing my tout with a glauco of her eye !
Then oh for a drauht from a cup of cold plzen !"
And oh for a retnig-ila- in the cold ((rave I
With a bath In the H.yx, where the thick ahadow
Ilea on,
Aud deepeuH the chill of IU dark-running wave t
I'unckinnelln,
Wit and Humor.
The clink of silver money is for cash
ears. A boys' newspaper in Indianapolis is
10 cents a year, and "anybody sending
three names and thirty cents will receive
a set of jack stones."
How to keep children at school Nail
them to the seats. AVu; York Commer
cial Advertiser. Why not use whacks?
Norristoivn Herald.
A young lady on being asked what
business her lover was in, and not liking
toxsay tho bottled soda, answered : "He's
a practicing fizzician."
"Ir the keeper of a jail is a jailer,
why isn't the keeper of a prison a pris
oner?"' is a conundrum which, on some
account or other, the Providence Press
is prompted to propound.
CiiEttGYMAN to Tommy "What shall
I give you for a present ?" Tommy, who
respects the cloth, also truth, hesitating
ly"II think I should like a Testa
ment, and I know I should like a pop
gun!" A suit of ancient armor recently un
earthed in Rome proves beyond doubt
that the Romans used to feel the need of
protecting that portion of the body most
exposed when a warrior leaves the fight
and starts for home.
Ob, the pup, the beautiful pup,
Drinking hm milk from a chin. cup,
Gamboling around to f rirky aud t ree,
Firnt gnawing a bone, then biting a flea.
Jumping,
ltunuin?,
After tho pony,
Ueautif ul pup, you will eoon be Bologna.
Tiie weather was so hot in MossachuJ
setts the other night that a young man
tossed restlessly from Medford to
Maiden, the bed being directly over the
border lino ; but, in spite of this fre
quent change of townships, ho was sleep
loss. A young man in Auburn advertises
that he wants to become " the son-in-law
of some respectable and reliable party.
No objection to going a short distance
in the country. Is willing to marry a
young lady with an incumbrance of a
small farm."
Cynical citizen to waiter, after sur
veying the glass of milk he had ordered:
"I say, ah, waitaw ! Would you be so
kind now, mo boy, as to put a little more
milk in this wattah ? Just a trifle, please."
The waiter retires to consider whether
the man is drunk er crazy.
" Take that lamp up," said a mother
to her daughter, the other night, as the
young lady set out for her bed-chamber
with no illumination but that of her
bright eyes. "Good gracious, mother,"
was the laughing answer, " what kind of
a creature is a lamb pup "
The First Lord of the Admiralty, on
his first voyage from tho Thames, in
rather a leaky vessel, observed tho men
working tho pumps. "Dear me!" he
said, " I did not know you had a well
on board, Captain, but 1 am really very
glad, as I do detest tho river water.
Punch.
An Irishman in Iown was bitten by a
rattlesnake, but the liberal use of a
neighbor' whisky cured him. The next
day he was seen walking slowly on th
prairie, and looking earnestly for some
thing. Ho was asked what ho was look
ing for : "For theboite of a snake," was
tho reply.
An Irish citizen, in his grief, is asked
by his friend, "What's the matter?"
"Matter, indade ! Why, hero, I in
sured my brother's lifo only two weeks
ago, and yesterday ho got killed wid a
derrick. And when I came to theso in
surancers they'd been after making
some mistake, the blaguards ; they tried
to bribe me off wid five hundred dollars,
as if I was a haythen to sell me brother's
blood!"
"An," said the worthy old Mrs.
Stnbbs, as sho stood staring nt a placard
on which was inscribed, "Youth want
ed" " yes, I dare say. Most on us who
havo got a bit oldish, as you may say,
might carry a ticket about with ' Youth
wanted' printed on it. But what with
old Father Time, and what with troubles
and trials, most of us will have to go on
saying 'youth wanted,' I expect, for a
long time to come."
A man who is not clever at conun
drums, in attempting to get off one at a
tea-party at his own house, the otber
evening, beeanio exceedingly mixed.
He intended to nsk tho old question,
" Why is a woman like ivy ?" tho familiar
but gallant answer to which i, "Be
cause the moro you're ruined 'the eloaer
she clings." But ho put it, "Why is
ivy liko a woman?" which none of tho
ladies could tell, and so tho uufortunate
man told them himself that it was " Be
cause tho closer it clings tho moro you'ro
ruined."
A Campaign Lamp.
An ingenious Yankeo has invented a
" flash-torch" for uso in political proces
sions. The bowl of the lamp is packed
with cotton to prevent tho oil from drip
ping, and a small tube runs down
through tho handle, with a mouthpiece
conveniently placed, by blowing through
which a column of llame can be thrown
several feet into tho air.
In tho Worcester (Mass.) exhibit in
Machinery Hall can be seen tho press ou
which was printed tho first copy of tho
Declaration of Independence in this
country, and from which Isaiah Thomas
issued tho Worcoater Spy a century ego.
JIINKTYM-NJi