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PUBLISHED EVERT . THURSDAY
EATON, OHIO,
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equality.
DID SHE LOVE THEM ALL.
. I keep then In the old, old box
That Willie gare me Tears ago.
The time we parted on the rocka ;
His ship lay winging to and fro,
At waiting in the lower bar !
I thought my heart would break that day 1 '
The picture with the penal re eyea
la Willie T No, dear, that's young Blake,
Who took tbe West Point highest prise
fie went half crazy for my sake. -Here
are a lot of rhymes be wrote,
' And here's a button off his coat.
Is this bis ring T My dearest May,
I nerer took a ring from him I
This was a gilt from Howard Clay ;
Just see, tbe pearls are getting dim.
They aay that pearls are tears what stuff I
The setting looks a little rough.
He was as handsome as a prince ,
J And jealous I But he went to Borne
Last fall. He's nerer written since,
r I used to visit at his home
A lorely place beyond Fort Leo;
His mother thought the world of me I .. -'
Oh, no I I sent his letters back.
These eame from Washington.
Bnt look, what a tremendous pack I
Ha always wrote ma three for one.
I know I used to treat him 111
Poor Jack ( he fell atChaneellorrrtlle.
.. The rignettea ail that lot are scalps
I took in London, Napiee, Nice,
At Paris and among the Alps ;
These foreign lorers act like geese ;
But, dear, they are such handsome men,
' We go to France next year again.
This la the doctor's signet-ting.
These faded flowers 7 Oh, let me see ;
Why, what Tory curious thing I
Who could bare sent these lowers to me T
Ab 1 now I bare it Count de Twirl ;
He married that fat Crosbie gixL-
Hla hair was red. Ion need not look
8o sadly at that raren tress.
Toe know the head that lock forsook ;
- tyou know but you could nerer guess I
, Krtr would I tell ran for the world
v bout whose brow that ringlet curled.
Why won't I tell f Well, partly, child,
Because you like the man yourself ;
But most because don't get so wild I
I hare not laid him on the shelf
.. He's not a bygone. In a year
" m tell you all about him, dear.
AN ERRAND AT MIDNIGHT.
[Youth's Companion.]
On tbe east bank of tbe Bed River, op
posite the. town ' of Alexandria, lies a
long stretch of pine barrens, which ex
tend a great many miles. On the west
ern bank of the river the soil is as .fer
tile, or more so, than tbe. rich lands of
the Mississippi Valley, so of course no at
tention is paid to the poor sandy soil of
the Pine Hills. Yet to a certain extent
these were utilized by the wealthy plant
ers,' who built their summer residences
here before the war, and spent three
months out of the twelve where they
could enjoy "the pure fresh air and deli
cious spring water of the Pine Hills.
Mr, Lay ton, an impoverished planter,
had found himself compelled to make a
permanent home of his pine woods
refuge. There be and his two children,
James, a boy of twelve, and Effie, a girl
of two years younger, lived, with no
neighbors nearer than three miles. About
four miles from Mr. Layton's place was
the little village of Pine ville.
To a planter accustomed to rich lands
and heavy crops, the meagre sandy hills
were a sore trial. But Mr. Layton
brought ' seme scientific knowledge to
his farming, and in spite of its natural
poverty, wrested some very fair crops of
corn and cotton from his pine lands.
Then his two motherless children were
healthy and happy,, for they remembered
no other home. " -" -
James, was his father's assistant, and
Elsie, in spite of her extreme youth, was
almost as helpful and useful as if she had
been twenty instead of ten.. '
Such a grave, thoughtful little woman
as she was 1 Very pretty, too, with black
eyes and yellow hair,, and a certain odd
precjseness of speech, which grew out of
her lonely life with books, which frere
her usual companions.
It was a clear, bright September even
ng. - Elsie sat in the broad gallery in
front of the house, sewing, and watching
her father, who was driving his wagon
through' the lane with the last load of
corn. ,' '
"Have., supper ready before dark,
Elsie," he called out to her. "I've sent
James ten miles off on business, and he'll
not get back until to-morrow. I'll have
to work after supper to get all this corn
in, liut.it will be moonlight until mid
night, so it don't matter much."
Elsie put up her sewing, and before dusk
supper was on the table. Her father eat
hastily, but stopped as he went out to
kiss her. ;
.v"Yort are the best little daughter in
the world,' he said, " and what would
papa do without his Elsie? Don't sit
up for me, dear, for I may be late to
night," , ... . .
But to go to bed without a final good
night to her father was impossible for
the "little girl. She had her lessons to
study, and a new Youth's Companion to
read, and Elsie, like many other children
in Liouisiana, thought tbe little paper
was the very nicest in -the world. So she
read on, every now and then stopping to
listen to the thud of the corn as her'
father threw it up in the barn, and to
his cheery whistle. .
"Isn't it a pity papa hasn't any one
to help him f" she thought. ' Here's
Tom gone to see his wife " (Tom was a
hired man), and James away too, and
poor papa won't get through for hours.
O dear, and it s Saturday night, too 1"
What farther thoughts passed through
the child's mind were suddenly arrested
by a terrible crash, and a loud cry from
the barn, which was but a short distance
from tbe home. Elsie sprung to her
feet, her heart full of terror. She flew,
rather than . ran, to the barn, but
before she ' reached it she heard her
father's groans, and found him lying on
the ground.
" I fell from the loft." he gasped. " I'm
terribly hurt in my leg and side. I can't
move, and no one to help me. What
shall I do?"
, " Oh, papa, can't I and Mammy Martha
help you to the house? and Elsie tried
to restrain her eobs. Mammy Martha
had nursed ber father in his infancy,
and clung to him in his reverses.
" Call her," he said, faintly.'
Bnt Mammy Martha had heard the
fall as well as Elsie, and came hobbling
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up as fast as her rheumatic limbs would
let her.
" Oh, my blessed master 1'.' she cried
out; " what you gone done, honey, wid
yourself? Fell from- de loft, eh?. Oh,
Mars Walter, is yon never goln' to stop
cavortin' round and climbin' as ef . you
was young? Whar is you hurt mostest,
honey?"
.- " Don't stop to look now, bnt try and
get me in the house."
Elsie was terrified at her father's
ghastly face, plainly visible in the moon
light, and his faint voice.
It was an agonizing journey over the
few hundred yards between the barn and
the house. With the assistance of the
woman and the child, Mr. Layton pushed
himself along, though the excruciating
pain would compel constant pauses. To
Elsie it seamed' as if. hours must have
elapsed before her father was dragged
into a sitting-room on the ground floor,
for he could not be lifted up the steps to
his bed-room. To get down mattress and
pillows was a minute's work, but as they
placed him on the pallet he fainted
away. '
" Don't scream, honey," said the old
woman, who knelt down to examine his
injuries, "he ain't dead; he's only
swoundedaway. He's mighty bad hurted,
though, and I'm feared his leg is broke.
Oh, child, ef we don't have a doctor to
him right away he'll die, sure. What
we gwine to do James and Tom away,
and it most midnight, and we alone?"
She wrung her hands in the extremity of
despair.
As the old woman spoke, Elsie had
seized a shawl and wrapped herself in it.
" I'm going for Dr. Wilson, mammy,"
she said.
"You, chile you go four miles through
de woodby your lone self? You'se crazy,
sure."
" I'm going," she said, moving to the
door with a white, determined face.
" I'm not afraid, and when papa asks for
me, don't tell him where I've gone."
In a moment she was out of the house,
and running down the lane. She paused
for one minute to see if any hone was in
in the lot that she might ride, but the
bars were down and the lot empty.
Elsie was a fearless child, and every step
of the way to Pineville was as familiar to
her as her own yard.
On she sped, through dark thickets
and open spaces, where the tall, Whisper
ing pines made scarce any shadow; over
shallow, pebbly-bottomed creeks; the
little feet never pausing, and the little in
nocent heart knowing no thrill of fear save
for the father she was speeding to save.
Three miles were accomplished, and she
passed a large house some distance from
the road the Hill Farm, where her two
friends, Rose and Jennie, lived. There
was a light still burning in one of the
rooms. A sob rose-in Elsie's throat.
"Little do they think who is passing
by now," she thought, "and what a
dreadful thing has happened."
.Another mile, and she was knocking
at Dr. Wilson's door, who, fortuately for
her, had just returned from a professional
visit, and whose horse, unsaddled, stood
at the door.
" Elsie Layton 1" cried the astonished
doctor, who answered her summons.
" Child, what are you doing at this time
of night, alone and on foot, too? What's
the matter?"
Her story was soon told to two sym
pathizing listeners, for Mrs. Wilson had
joined her husband at the door.
"Fortuately, my horse hasn t been
unsaddled," said the doctor. . '' Go in
with Mrs. Wilson, child, and she will
give you a cup of tea, and then we'll
stait. You can ride behind me."
No, Elsie wanted no tea. She wanted
nothing but to be off and on the way
home. But Prince had never carried
double, and he wasn't going" to begin for
Elsie or anybody else. He reared, and
backed and pranced in such an alarming
manner that Elsie had to slip off as best
she could.
"No use trying," faid the doctor.
" Prince has made np his mind that he
won't take you. Stay with Mrs. Wilson
to-night, my dear, and rest assured I
will not leave your father."
He put spurs to his horse, and was off
like a flash.
Yes, come in, Elsie," said Mrs. Wil
son kindly. " You know you can start
back at daylight in the morning, if you
choose."
For the first time that evening Elsie
broke down utterly, and burst into a pas
sion of tears and sobs.
" I can't stay," she cried. " I would
die if I had to stay away from papa to
night. What will hurt me? I'm not
afraid ; I'm not tired. Oh, Mrs. Wilson,
I must go !"
And go she did, in spite of the good
lady's prayers and even anger.
I suppose there is really no danger,"
she thought, "but to think of that little
creature being in the woods at this
hour!"
Elsie herself now that she had gained
her point, had pretty much tbe same
thoughts. The moon was going down,
and the shadows lay black on the
hillsides. Fatigue was beginning to tell
upon her, now that the strain was re
laxed, and her heart throbbed wildly
whenever a sudden sound broKe upon
the stillness of the night.
She wag not far from the village when
the noise of voices and of horses' feet on
the road behind her caused her an in vol
untary panic, which she could not ac
count for herself at the time. She stepped
into a thick cluster of bushes, and crouch
ing among them, waited for the riders to
Just as they reached her hiding-place
one of the men (there were two of them)
with an oath stopped his horse and dis
mounted.
" It's this rotten girth again," he said.
"Hand me your knife."
Elsie saw his face in the waning light
and recognized it immediately. It was
Dick Simmons, a noted ruffian, who had
fled the country six months before for
crimes that hehad committed, and whom
no one in that parish ever expected
see again.
The other was a negro, but she did not
know who he wag until Dick called out:
"Now, Bill Lyons, you are sure of
what you tell me T"
Bill Lyons, she - remembered, was a
blacksmith employed on the Hill Farm,
" Course I is," he answered. " I was
a standin' on de gallery by de parlor
door, when Hill he corned from Harris
onburg, where he had been sellin' a lot
ob cattle. I was fixin' de lock, an' he
neber seed me. I seed him put de money
in de top drawer ob de desk, an' he said
to de ole ooman: 'Sally, I'se sort o'
'feared to keep all dis money in de house
to-night, but it too late to go to town.' "
. ".Very well ; I'm going on your word,
and if you've lied, you know how I set
tle with folks, don't yon ? Now do you
remember all you've got to de?" ;
"Yes, I'se got de kerosene an' de
matches, an' we'i to fire de barn, an'
when de folks runs out we'a to break in
to de drawer an' take de money, and den
we're to share an' share alike."
"I'll be bound you remember that,"
said the ruffian with a hoarse laugh.
"Is the parlor locked?"
" Ef it is, here's a key," and he held
something up.
" Very well. Now for my mask. I've
got an account to settle with the old
man at the farm, for he's been a perse
cutin' me, and I reckon he'll lose some
money to-night, .and something else, too,
if he don't keep out of my way."
The man mounted his horse, and, shak
ing in every limb, Elsie watched them
ride slowly down the road.
What could be done to save her friends
from the evil fate which was creeping
upon them ? Like a flash she remem
bered an unused path which, stsiking
from the road, cut off more than half a
mile. She could not be far from the
path, which led directly to Mr. Hill'a
back yard; in fact, it was one made by
the little girls and herself on their nut
ting expeditions. The men were moving
slowly down the road.? She conic, strike
across and get to the farm before them.
The little tired feet grew fleet when
she thought of this. Yes, here is the
turning, for dark as it was getting, the
starlight showed her the hickory tree
which stood where the path entered the
road. She plunged into it, the briers
tearing her at every step. But she felt
nothing, heeded nothing, until she stood
beneath the window of Mrs. Hill's bed
room. The dog had growled at her, but'
at the sound of her well-known voice had
grown quiet again. She rapped at the
window.
" Who is that?" called out Mr. Hill,
startled from his sleep.
" It's me Elsie Layton. Don't make
a noise, but let me in." .
"Elsie!" cried the astonished couple,
opening the door, and the little girl stag
gered in, and for a moment thought she
would faint, so utterly exhausted and
overcome was she. But there was much
to be told, and as soon as Mr. Hill'under
stood the peril before him, he called his
son, and posting him in the room where
the money was deposited, hastened him
self to the barn.
"Don't be scared," he said as he went
ent, " if you hear a shot or two. I'll have
tbe advantage of the rascals, for they
won't expect me, and I shall be looking
for them. Willis, too, is well armed,
and I reckon two are enough to deal
with such fellows."
Nearly a quarter of an hour passed,
and the dog barked furiously, but sud
denly ceased.
"He knows Bill," whispered Mrs.
Hill ; " that's silenced him."
The light had been put out in the
house, and the watchers sat silent and
expectant. Then came a shot at the
barn, and another loud report, and Mr.
Hill's voice shouting : -
"I've got one of 'em safe. The other
is running as fast as his legs will carry
him down the road."
In a few minutes Mr. Hill was back at
the house.
" I haven't killed the scamp, and am
very glad of it; I only intended to
wound him, so as to prevent his doing
mischief. It's Dick Simmons, and . Pve
secured him so that he will be safe until
the authorities can take him to town.
Now, wife, I want a mattress and some
linen. If the fellow is a scamp, he must
be treated hnmanely."
Now that the excitement was over,
Elsie's thoughts returned to her lather.
"Oh, I must go!" she cried. "I was
afraid while those men were on the road.
Good-night all."
Mr. Hill laid his hand on her shoulder.
" Going to trot back on those tired lit
tle feet of yours, eh, and past midnight?
Willis, harness up the buggy right off,
and take Elsie home; and he can bring
the doctor back with him, if he's not
needed by your father. I haven't
thanked you, my little girl, though
you've saved my property, and possibly
my life, too. But I'll never forget it,
and possibly I may be able to do yon a
good turn before long. I'm proud of
you, -my child, and your father is a hap
py man to have such a daughter."
Speeding along in the buggy, the night
seemed a hideous dream to little Elsie,
Would she ever forget it, or would her
heart ever cease beating so strangely?
It was a dream, however, which had a
happy ending, for when she reached
heme and entered her father's room to
the utter astonishment of Dr. Wilson,
who thought her safe in Pineville she
found matters going on well. Her father
waa sound asleep, and not as seriously
hurt as he had thought, although' his leg
was fractured.
So little Elsie knelt down to her pray
ers with a heart full of thankfulness.
She will probably never forget the ter
rors of her midnight walk, but then she
will also remember the good it accomplished.
to
A simple way to make a long dress
short for wear in the streets is to place
small brass rings on the back breadths in
a manner to slope like the train and then
raise it by means of a linen tape or cord
which is run through them.
The Wild Dogs of Africa.
Almost ievery quarter of the globe,
where the large varieties of ferce naturoe
are' not thoroughly kept in subjection,
has its variety of wild degs. These ani
mals almost invariably combine in large
numbers for the purpose of circumvent
ing their prey, which, as a rule, consists
of the noblest variety of game.
In Indian the dholes even attack and
overcome the royal tiger, while the
North American prairies and plains re
sound with the long-drawn and wild
howl of the coyote while on the track
of deer or other large game of the forest
or plain. In Africa, and especially in
the Somali country, and even nearer the
regions in the directions of the Cape, a
variety of wild dog exists, which commits
terrible ravages amongst the flocks and
herds. When these are too well pro
tected, 'and hunger drives them to seek
a meal elsewhere, they, like their con
geners, turn their attention to prey of
which it would be thought they would
have an instinctive dread. With them,
however, they appear to be aware of tbe
grand principle that union is strength,
and, accordingly, they vnite in a vast
pack, and, with the aid of their wonder
ful instinct and exquisite noses, hunt
the largest, fleetest and most wary of
the large African game to a standstill,
and then tear it to a piecemeal.
The Hon. W. H. Drummond, in his
notes on " The Large Game of Africa,"
says it is a marvelous sight to see a pack
of them hunting, and drawing cover
after cover, their sharp, bell-like notes
ringing through the air, while a few of
the fastest of their number take up their
station along the expected line of run
the wind, the nature of the ground, and
the habits of he game, all taken into
consideration, with the most wonderful
skill ; and then to see them after they
have found, going at their long, unswerv
ing gallop, so close together that a
sheet might cover them, while those who
have- been stationed, or had stationed
themselves it is hard to say which
drop in one by one, as they find them
selves unable to make the running any
longer : and the chase, generally a gnu
or a water antelope, pressed first by one
and then by another, though it may dis
tance the pack for a while, soon comes
back to it, and is almost invariably run
into. "The only thing to which I can
compare these animals," says Mr Drum
mond, "and their instinct, as people
call it, is a pack of hounds, hunted and
whipped in by members of their own
body, and combining in one human rea
son and brute cunning and power."
He states that they do not show the
slightest fear of man, and although he
has shot one or two at various times, on
other occasions he has not dared to med
dle with them for fear of their combin
ing in an attack on him. Mr. Drum
mond says that he once remembers com
ing upon a pack of them scattered asleep
in the long grass on the side of a hill,
before he knew they were there. One
jumped up at his feet, and, running a
few yards, faced around and began to
give tongue. This -signal roused up
more, until the grass seemed to become
alive with them, some jumping around
him and joining in the chorus, but none
attempting to run away. Being rather
alarmed, Mr. Drummond picked out the
two most clamorous, and shot them,
whereupon the others retired, but only
very slowly.
They are curious-looking animals, and
have, as is common with all wild dogs, the
erect ear. Their skins are variegated,
and they can, according to Schweinfurth,
be trained to hunt, when tkey become
almost invaluable to the natives. In
deed, Livingstone mentions that the na
tives of the Kalihari Desert break and
train them for hunting. There are two
varieties mentioned by some authors, but
Mr. Drummond says he has only met
with one, of which Burton gives the fol
io wing account: "The WarabaorDurwa
is, according to Mr. islyth, the distin
guished naturalist, of the Asiatic
Society's Museum, at Calcutta, Cam
pictut tea Venaticus (Lycaon pictut, or
wild honde of ' the Cape Boers). It
seems to be the chien tauvage or chyme
of the French traveler, Delagorgue, who,
in- his ' Voyage dans L Afrique Aus
trale,' minutely and diffusely describes
it"
A Magnetic Actress.
Miss Adelaide Neilson visited the Vir
ginia Legislature recently, and was the
target of many admiring glances shot by
the Solons of the Old Dominion. As
she turned to depart, one of the delegates
was speaking. Although he was address
ing the Speaker, he managed at the same
time to hear that the actress was leaving
the House. He looked around to see
her before she left, and as his eyes fell
upon her he stopped in the middle of a
sentence, in the midst of the most con
vincing part of his argument and in the
most eloquent portion of his speech. He
forgot Speaker, House, and Common
wealth. "Mr. Speaker 'er 'er 'er;
yes, Mist 'er'er Speaker," but he
could get no further on. It was evident
that he could not speak and look at Miss
Neilson at the same time. This wander
ing of mind and eyes was more than even
the sedate, stately, and grim House
could stand. The House of Delegates
of Virginia roared. This restored Mr.
Clarke, and, like a man who bad waked
from a dream, he went on with his
speech. When the fair Juliet was at the
Boston Theater, three or four years ago,
one of our most accomplished legislators
at that time took a front seat every night,
and. when the lady left here and went to
Providence, he, too, was there to join in
her enthusiastic welcome.
A wager has been made in England
which may have some political signifi
cance. Earl Dudley, who is sixty years
old, has offered twenty-five thousand to
twenty-five dollars that the son of Napo
leon III, will be officially proclaimed
Emperor of France during the Earl's
lifetime. The odds were at once accepted
by the Prince of Wales and by three
other persons.
OHIO LEGISLATURE
In the Senate, February 13, Mr. Bate, pre
sented a memoral from business men of
Cincincioati, setting forth that tbe Miami
and Erie Canal is in a runiooi condition.
Memorialists ask the appointment of a com
mittee of the Legislature to examine into
the condition of the canal. After listening
to the second reading of two bills, the Senate
adjourned. The House met at half past
two o'clock, and their being no quorum
present, adjourned until to-morrow morning.
The Senate, February 14, spent most of
the morning in Committee of the Whole on
the code. The entire afternoon waa spent
in a discussion of Mr. Richards's House bill
for compulsory education. The speeches
on both sides were able and much interest
was displayed. Messrs. Barns, Monahan,
Ransom, Barrows, and Swanaker spoke for
the bill, and Messrs. Andrews and Owens
against it. The debate went over the whole
field, from the incipiency of the system
in Prussia to its last trial in New York.
After nearly four hours of spirited debate,
the bill waa passed by 21 to 10 In tne
Honse, a petition waa presented by Mr.
Wiltseefrom twenty-three citizens of Hamil
ton County, for a bill to prevent the occu
pation of McLean Avenue by the Southern
Railroad. Petitions were also presented
from one hundred and fifteen citizens of
Clinton County for a Local Option
law; from citizens of Jefferson County
to . limit interest to six per cent.
Mr. West introduced a bill to authorize
Loveland to liquidate a loan en a hall debt.
Mr. Bates's Senate bill to authorize incor
porated base ball clubs to operate skating
rinks was defeated. Mr. Bates's Southern'
Railroad bill was referred back to the Com
mittee on Municipal Corporations by a vote
of the Honse. Several new bills were
introduced, one of which authorizes Cin
cinnati to purchase and run the gas-works.
In the Senate, February 15, on motion of
Mr. Stanton the vote was reconsidered by
which Mr. Richards's Honse bill, making
education compulsory, was passed yester
day, and the bill waa laid on the table. The
Senate bill of Mr. Brown, of Lncas, to amend
the game laws so that persons convicted of
trespassing npon improved property may
be committed to -prison until the fines
assessed against them are paid, was read
the third time and passed. Mr. Wilteee's
Honse bill to authorize Express Com
panies to charge storage on packages not
oalled for, or whose owners can not he dis
covered, was read a tnird time and passed.
Honse bill to authorize filling of vacancies
occurring in Township Trustees by Senior
Justices of Townshtps, was passed
In the House, Mr. Beach's bill to re
quire the vaccination of children at
tending schools and working in work
shops was read the third time and discussed
daring the remainder of the morning ses
sion. Mr. Sellard'i bill requiring Marshals
of cities of second class to keep a record of
all property falling into their hands and to
account for same. Passed. Message from
the Governor received transmitting report
of Centennial Commissioners. Laid on the
table.
In the Senate, February 16, Mr. Monahan's
Senate bill to authorize the Board of Educa
tion. of Portsmouth to borrow money, was
passed. Mr. Blake's Honse bill to allow
township agricultural societies to hold forty
acres of land, was passed. Mr. Bates intro
duced ft bill to allow incline plaine railways o
consolidate with connecting street railway a.
The bill to authorize the transfer of funds in
the Highland County treasury, was reported
back without recommendation by the Com
mittee on Finance, and indefinitely post
pones .........in tbe House, Mr. isrown's sen
ate bill to provide that the directors of street
railroad companies shall not number less
than three, nor more than seven, at the dis
ere iron ol tne stoeK-nomers, was passed.
Mr. Converse offered a resolution
asking Congress to make an
appropriation for building a monument
over the soldiers' graves at the Green Lawn
lemetery. Tne resolution referred to tne
late rebellion- as a war between the States.
On motion of Mr. Wiltsee, the resolution
was amended by striking out the words
"war between the States" and inserting
" late rebellion." All bnt four agreed to
this amendment. Mr. Dalzell then insulted
npon offering an amendment to make the
resolntion declare the late war a Democratic
rebellion. Rejected; after a hot disenssion,
85 to 4. The resolution was then passed.
Newspaper English.
T. W. Field, Superintendent of Public
Instruction in Brooklyn, in a lecture on
" Vernacular," touches np the press in
the following manner :
That horrid, scrambling, worried nar
ration and comment on current events
which is the very necessity of newspaper
life ; in which a day is old age and thirty
six hour two generations breeds and
fosters a style not to be studied for
elegance, or cultivated for its terseness
or precision. Phrases a thousand times
hackneyed are used as ready shaped ex
pressions convenient and common-place;
platitudinous, but brain-Baving. They
are a stock in trade to draw upon, when
original terms are exhausted a sort of
literary bricks which will build up into
any kind of structure. Every editor has
a store house of these stock phrases, and
every reporter at least a brown paper
parcel of them. Horace Greeley had
stores of these jointed and squared words
and phrases to fit into any chink of an
article, for which novel terms failed
him. One of theee was "I judge" for
Isuppose or conclude. I was present at
an encounter between Beecher and Mr.
Greeley, which afforded me much grim
satisfaction in detecting the peculiar
lingular style the idiosyncratic phrases
which characterized each of these dis
tinguished writers. I had brought these
and other celebrities together by the in
centive of a fruit festival, and with the
exception of Mr. Beecher the company
were seated at dinner. He soon after en
tered the room by a door opening directly
behind Mr. Greeley, who, professing
to be unobservant of his arrival, without
turning his head commenced in his
peculiar, squeaking, highkeyed tone this
assault: "I judge that no community
can have a greater nuisance than
preacher who batters the pulpit on Sun
days and runs around the country on
week days to lecture at two hundred dol
lars anight." Beecher, who hadBtood
quietly listening near the door, added
" Gcd has afflicted humanity with multi
form trials, but when he made an editor
who batters the King's English every day
and preaches every night, he overtasked
human endurance."
Among the stock phrases the following
occur perpetually in newspaper English
"These 'are facts more easily told than
realized ;" " The position of such a man
can be more readily imagined than de
scribed." The terms are specimens of
cheap antithesis, which indolent writers,
too lazy to reflector too poor of brain
i nvent noveltiesof expression, constantly
borrow to eke outheir poverty of language.
" Pa, I guess your man Ralph is
good Christian." " How so, my boy
" Why, pa, I read in the Bible that
wicked, shall not live out half his days
and Ralph says he has lived out ever
since he was a little boy."
Interview with a Man Who Claims
to Have Been Bitten by
a Mad Dog.
[Indianapolis Journal.]
A Journal reporter yesterday started
out in quest of James Walters, who was
supposed to be suffering from that dread
disease, hydrophobia. The reporter was
directed to a cabin situated about half a
mile north of the Insane Asylum, and i
the place was found without much diffi
culty. He expected to find a veritable
madman, tied down to an iron bedstead
with a cable, and when he knocked at
the door it was with misgiving and hes
itancy: His knock was answered by a
tall, lank man with a shock of black hair
and a frame that could belong to none
but a thoroughbred Hoosier. The vis
itor was politely invited to come in. and
take a seat, and he did so, stating his er
rand at the same time.
" Waal," said thelanky man, "I guess
I'm the man you're looking for.. My
name's James Walters."
" Were you bitten by a mad dog?"
inqired the reporter.
" That's what they say," was the re
sponse.
The reporter intimated that he had
expected to interview a corpse, and wag
agreeably disappointed to learn that he
was not to have that sad doty to perform.
Mr. Walters facetiously remarked that
he couldn't think of dying while money
was so tight and before the Presidential
difficulty was settled. He then got
down to business, and related the cir
cumstances surrounding the case at point.
He went into the minutest of detail,
and described how and why he chanced
to be at John Martin's farm honse two
weeks ago Thursday morning. He went
over on a neighborly call, and while
there proceeded to an adjoining field to
inspect the sheep, chickens, and other
livestock it waa while enjoying this
scene, so inspiring to rural eyes, that
Mr. Martin's dog " gathered him by the
ankle and commenced chewing on it."
The attack was unprovoked," said
Mr. Waltere, " and I guess I used a few
oaths, didn't If and he turned to Mr.
John Martin, who occupied a chair near
at hand, "but the thing hurt scandal
ously, and I don t think it 11 count."
The narrator then went on to give an
autobiographical sketch covering the
time from the Thursday in question until
last Saturday. The wound had healed
up in that time, but on Saturday pains
began to shoot through his body origin
ating in the bitten ankle and extending
clear up to his neck. The day follow
ing the. pain grew worse, and he had
symptoms of lock-jaw. Dr. Porter, of
Mount Jackson, wag called in, and gave
a prescription which did no good, and on
Monday about noon he was attacked
with convulsions.
Mr. Walters had no very clear recol
lection of what occurred for the next two
or three days, but from what he had
gathered from those who did know, he
felt justified in making the statement that
he wag bad, very bad. Mr. Martin wag
one of the neighbors who had remained
with .him through all his trouble, and
from him it was learned that the patient
had growled, and. barked, and tried to
chew up the bed-clothes during the con
tinuance of his spasms, and it required
the combined strength of six or seven
men to hold him down. The convulsions
the first day lasted from two o'clock in
the afternoon until six o'clock in the
evening, at which time he succumbed to
the effects of a powerful hypodermic in
jection of morphia, his muscles relaxed,
his breathing became natural, and he ap
peared quite rational, though very weak.
He talked intelligently with those jibout
him. It is related that during the
spasms, which followed each other in
quick succession, Walters frothed at the
mouth, but no mention is made of an
aversion to water.
He remained in a rational frame of
mind until toward morning, when he
again came under the dread influence,
and for five or six hours he was tortured
with terrible convulsions, which in
creased in violence until his physician
gave him up and pronounced his recovery
hopeless. The morphia again produced
an effect, hewever, and a few hours later
he was again apparently sane and tran
quil, though, as before, extremely faint,
and almost dead from sheer exhaustion
A close watch was kept npon him, but
fortunately there was. no return of par
oxisms or any of the symptoms of hy
drophobia, and the patient continued to
grow better and stronger, and when our
reporter visited him he was sitting up
apparently on the high road to recovery.
He is positive that he has passed
through a genuine case of hydrophobia,
and expresses fear that the experience
of last Monday and Tuesday may be re
peated ere long. Mr. Martin can not
believe the rabies theory, and to show
that he has no fear, he has not even fast-
tened up the dog, which is still allowed
to run round with the children and other
members of the household. The brute
is cross, and has bitten four children
within the past month, but none of them
except Mr. Walters has experienced
much inconvenience from the bites,
Milking Buffaloes.
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It is stated in the Turf, Field, and Farm
that the farmers in Nebraska have com
menced the domestication of the buffalo.
The wild animals, while young, are in
troduced among herds of the tame Btock,
only one or two at a time. Half and
quarter breed are found to be very hardy,
and in the yield of milk the cows raised
of mixed Btock give even more than the
average yield of rich milk. The experi
ment promises well, as the endurance
the wild animals is imparted to the do
mestic stock. In this way the extermi
nation of the species will take a new
form, and when wild buffaloes become
legendary creatures the progeny of the
race will still exist in modified, though
probably more useful form.
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the
;
When
young man encircles
partner's waist for a dance, he will
wisely to keep his fingers still. Nothing
aggravates a young lady more than
imagine you are trying to count
whalebones in her dress.
The Shanty-Palace the King of
Dahomey.
[London Standard.]
The king's palace is situated in the
suburb of Abomey, called Jcgbeh, about
a couple of miles southwest of Abomey
proper. It stands about half a mile to
the left of the road leading from the
coast to the capital, the residence of
Hahansu, the heir of the throne, being
at the forks of the road, one of which
leads to Abomey, and the other to
Jegbeh.
Externally nothing more is visible
than a high wall of red mud, thickly
stuck with cockle shells, and having at
frequent intervals a gate, with a high
pitched roof of thatch, and earthen
benches, also under cover, on either Bide.
The area of the palace within the walls
is about equal to that of Regent's Park,
while before each Pwe shed, as the cov
ered gate-houses are called, is a large
open space, cleared of trees and obstruc
tions, wherein troops dance and go'
through their military evolutions, such
as they are.
Inside the palace is divided into a
series of large court-yards, with intricate
mazes of passages between them, and it
is the delight of a Dahomian host to be
wilder his guest by conducting him
through court after court ere he reaches
the audience chamber. In the inner
most court the private apartments of
the king are Bituated, consisting of mere
barn-like structures, kept scrupulously
clean by frequent sweeping and lime
washing. Around the Amazonian Kposi,
or leopard wives, the actual wives of the
king, each have their separate suite of
apartments or huts; while beyond the
Amazon body-guard have their quarters,
to the number of perhaps four thousand.
In one of the courts a shed is erected
about twenty feet square, with a high
gable roof surmounted by a silver image
of a tree with an antelope eating the
branches, and a bird building its nest
thereon. . The tree denotes the king, and
the bird and antelope, representing the
Dahomian people, show that the king
provides shelter and nourishment for his
subjects. Within the shed is a mys
terious something carefully wrapt np in
a cloth, wherein the spirit of the present
king is said to reside. This is carefully
guarded by a priestess, who after the
death of the king is the recipient of his
soul and is consulted by the fetichista.
When the king hag an important
matter in hand he consults this custot
tpiritut, and dnring the present custom
dozens of unfortunate men have been
carried bound and gagged into this
spirit-house and there decapitated, their
blood being sprinkled on the cloth en
veloping the spirit.
Massacres in Arizona.
.
Dispatches from Tucson, Arizona-
state that the Apaches are killing and
plundering the settlers in Southeastern
Arizona, ten being killed in the Senorita
Valley on the 4th inst., and the work
still going on.
Governor Safford hag sent a message to
the Legislature, recounting the depreda
tions and murders committed, dwelling
on the inefficient manner in which mili
tary operations are being conducted, the
troops moving slowly with heavy trains,
and unable to reach the more mobile
enemy. He recommends that the Legisla
ture memorialize the Secretary of War,
asking for the appointment of a bodylof
Indian scouts to operate with troops, or
else appropriate money to raise and
equip a force of whites and friendly In
dians and carry on a vigorous campaign.
lie says as military operations have been
conducted for the last six months, the
whole army of the United States could
not subdue the hostiles in the next
twelve years, while he believes a scout
ing party of twenty-five citizens and as
many Indian auxiliaries could accom-
plifh the work in three months. He ex
presses a fear that under the present con
dition of affairs Southeastern Arizona
must be abandoned by the settlers, and
the success of the hostiles is liable to in
duce an outbreak among the reservation
Indians, resulting in a general war.
Between Cup and the Lip.
The proverb that many things fall out
between the cup and the lrp is 'a literal
version of one in Latin "Multo inter
poeula libra eadunl," the origin of which
wag as follows: A king of Thrace had
planted a vineyard, when one of his
slaves, whom he had much oppressed in
that very work, prophesied that he
khould never taste of the wine produced
in it. The monarch disregarded the
prediction, and when at an entertain-
ment he held a glassful of his own wine
made from the grapes of that vineyard,
he sent for the slave and asked him
what he thought of his prophecy now
to which tbe other replied, " Many
things fall out between the cup and the
lip;" and had scarcely delivered this
singular response before the news was
brought in that a monstrous boar was
laying waste the favorite vineyard. The
king, in rage, put down the cup which
he held in his hand, and hurried out
with his people to attack the boar ; but,
being too eager, the boar rushed npon
him and killed him without his having
tasted of the wine. Such is the storv
related by some of the Greek writers
and, though evidently apocryphal,
certainly is productive of a good practi
cal moral.
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The new Episcopal Chnrch edifice
(Trinity) Boston, which has been
several years in building, is now nearly
completed. It will cost, with the land,
$750,000. The structure is of the French
Romanisque order, in the shape of
Latin cross, with a semi-circular chancel.
It is a massive and imposing structure
granite, with brown free-stone trimmings
and elaborate and beautiful decorations.
The church will seat 1,450 persons, the
pews being all in black walnut; five
hundred sittings arranged in the transept
galleries, which will be forever free.
Rev. Phillips Brooks, one of the most
able and eloquent of Episcopal clergy
men, is the rector.
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GREEN GRASS UNDER THE SNOW.
Tbe work of the sun is slow, .
Bnt ss sura ai hearen, wa know f
8o weTl not forget
When the skies are wet
There's green grass under the snow. ,
When the winds of winter blow, .
Wailing like Telcea of woe, -'
There are April showers,
And buds, and flowers.
And green grssa under the snow.
We And that it's erer so
In this Ufa's uneven flow, '
We're only to wait
In the (ace of fate
For the green grass under the snow.
If our paths must direr-go, be it so ;
For whaterer betides us, we know .
If we'll only be strong
We shall see before losg
The green grass under the snow.
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.
Ik olden times there were liars, but
now there are only men who misstate
the facta. This shows that the world
grows more courteous as it increases in
sinfulness.
- A Western paper, in describing tan
accident recently, aay a, with considera
ble candor: " Doctor Jones was called.
and under his prompt and skillful treat
ment, the young man died on Wednes
day night."
The grsre of Prentice rests alone, -Without
a mark, nor wood, nor stone, ,
Nor rhrthmlc epitaph.
This should not be, ye writers just
- The life and form that now is dust
Gare to your world the rerrM fust" .-"
The pithy paragraph.
Eimira Advertiser.
Philosophy is to poetry what old age
is to youth, and the stern truths of phi
losophy are as fatal to the fictions of the
one as the chilling testimonies or ex
perience are to the hopes of the other. -Cotton.
-
"So there's another rupture of Mount
Vociferous," said Mrs. Partington, aa
she put down the paper and put up her
pecks; "tbe paper tells us about the
burning lather running down the moun
tain, bnt it don't tell us how it got on
ire."
Lay your finger on your pulse and
know that at every stroke some immor
tal passes to his Maker; some fellow -being
crosses the river of death ; and if
we think of it we may well wonder that
it should be so long before our turn
comes.
Forty millions of people, dedicated
from infancy to adoration of the palla
dium of their liberties, will some time or
other flop over upon the inventor of
bulldozing" and mash him down,
down, down into the night of everlasting
nothingness. 1 .
Ths murmuring moonbeams their mnsic are mix
ing; '
The wandering wombat is watching the ware ;
The frolicsome frog hia finances is fixing.
And the grasshopper gropes in his grandmother
grare. v
Yet dark are the dangers and doubts that distress
me,
A horrible hearineas hangs on my heart;
Come, Caroline, come, calm, console and eareas me,
And tickle my.taste with a tumorer tart.
Then Tanishj ye rain and rotnminous Tapers,
That boss in my bosom and bother my brain;
Or promptly I'll publish your pranks in the pa- .
pers.
And lay up my lute till I'm lucid again 1
N. Y. Evening Mail.
Danbuby Newt: A back-woods chap
sent an Iowa editor a poem. The next
day the paper poured ont half a column -of
scarcasm against the young man, and
said that the poetry was not worthy of
an eight-year-old school boy. Then the
rural lad sent the editor a copy of
Horace g uaes, witn tne iear turnea
down whence he had copied the " trashy
poem." . "
A man noted for his close-fisted pro
pensities was showing an old coin to a
neighbor, when the latter asked, " Where
did you get it V "1 dug it ont of my
garden," was the reply. "Itiaapity
you didn't find it in the cemetery," said
the neighbor. "Why so?" asked the
coin-owner. "Because you could have
saved the hole to be buried in," was the
somewhat unexpected reply.
World 't interview with a millionaire:
I tell you, sir, this winter is awful bard
on the rich man. He doesn't even eat -his
dinner in peace. How can he, when
there are forty thousand who are dinner- .
lees? His money gets to be a reproach
to him, and he feels as if he'd like to
give the whole of it away in one lump,
and try tbe luxury of being poor for a
while. But you needn't say anything
about that, or I'll have a fresh battalion
here to-morrow, and half the idlers in
town will be writing me letters. In fact,
I wouldn't say anything about it if I
were you ; bat it's a fact, the rich man
suffers in a hard winter a good deal more
than the poor man. . Yon take my word
for it. And the poor don't pity him a
bit"
Ladies, Beware!
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If the ladies will wear rats, and puffs,
and twists, and braids, and other decep
tive hirsute jiggers, they must now and
then expect a joke to be played npon
them.
Rather a serious one it was with a
friend, who, passing a hair dresser's, was
struck with a beautiful set of curls
marked, " Cheap-only $25."
She entered the store, made the pur
chase, and had them adjusted to her
hair.
The clerk's attention being suddenly
diverted, she laid down her money, and
startarl hnniAwarrl. wnlkinc down Broad
way, and thence over to Brooklyn.
' The first to accost her at home waa
her huBbaud, who said, " So you're for
sale, eh?"
" Why, what do you meanf she an
swered indignantly. r
" Nothing; only I see yon labeled aa
'Cheap only $25 and I was thinking
of taking half a dozen at that price."
All of a sudden she thought of those
curls, and turning to the mirror, there,
sure enough, dangled the tag which the
stupid clerk bad forgot to remove, and
which had advertised her, down Broad
way and over to Brooklyn, as " Cheap
only $25."
Ladies, beware !