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IT IS A FACT
THAT
W, E. CLEMENT
K OFFEKIXO FOU SALE, AT PRICES
AS LOW A3 GOOD WORK CAN
BE' AFFORDED. A LAEGE
VABIETT OF
FIRST-CLASS
FCMITURE
AND
CITIZEN
CHAMBER SETS,
8M WcM Sit Clairs
Bedsteads,
Mattresses,
Lounges,
PAOLO
ttc.j
FOBfflTOSE
MORRISVILLE AND HYDE PARK, VERMONT, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1882.
VOL, X. NO. 3.
TERMS $1.50.
THE FARM EE.
A llics Assortment cf Camp Ciiairs
The txst placo to bay
CAEPETS,
A ha has ever Twenty-five Different Styles to
elect from, at Doston fnces.
Paints, Oils, Varnisiies,
In Laqje Stock and Best Material.
AGENTS FCS THE AYERILL AND AS
BESTOS PREPARED PAINTS.
A.1 kind! of FAINTING done at reasonable
rate, and by the best of help.
SEWING lAGHiE
For Snl nnd to Rent.
ftj- Call ard examine (roods and prices be
lore pnrcoaBiDS eisewuere.
W. E. CLEMENT,
MORRISVILLE, VT.
WE H, BLAKE, 2d.
Wholesale and S ;ta".l Te Jer iu
UnilJin- and .helf
HARDWARE
From the Xew York Ledger,
The king may rnle o'er land and sea,
The lord may live xht royally.
The eoldisr lide iu pomp and pride,
The sailor roam o'er ocean wide,
Bat this, or that, whate'er befall,
The Farmer he must fatd them all.
The writer thinks, the poet sings.
The craftsmen fashion wondrous things,
The doctor heals, the lawyer pleads.
The miner follows the precious leads,
But this, t r that, whate'er befall,
The Farmer he mint feed them all.
The merchant he may bay and sell,
The teacher do his duty well,
But men may toil through bn-y day",
Or men may stroll through pleasant ways,
From king to beggar whate'er Ik full.
The Farmer he must feed them all.
The farmer's tradn i one of wcri'i
lie a partuer with the sky aud eaitu,'
He's partner with the sua and rulu.
And no man loses for his gain,
And m n may rise, or men may fail,
But the Farmer he mutt feed them all,
The farmer dares his mind to speak,
He had no gift or place to seek,
To no man living need he bow ;
The man that walks behind the plow
Is his own master, whate'er befall,
And king or beggar he feeds us alL
God bless the man who sows the wheat,
Who finds us milk, and fruit, and meat ;
May his purse be heavy, his heart be light,
His cattle and corn, and all, go right.
God bless the seeds his lands let fall.
For the Farmer he must feed us all.
Lilub E. Babr.
Little Carrotson's Holiday.
Tron,
jSails.
Grlass,
PAINTS. OILS, VARNISHES
BRUSHES,
Brooms, Wooden Ware,
Tin Ware,
TABLE AND POCSET
Cffliis HM oM EMail?
SUPPLIE
Of Every . I;;vOi'iij tioi;.
SARVIN
PATENT AY JI EELS.
ORIGINAL
Concord Axles.
HAZARD'S POWDER.
KO. 1 BLAKE
8 WANTON, VT.
BLOCK,
JOB
priimti:
Done at this Office
JTOTE HEAPS,
LEITHh HEADS,
STATEMENTS,
SHIPPING TAGS,
ETC., ETC.
Prices the Very Lowest.
Mr. Cntbill was a busy la-fryer,
bachelor and not very fond of children,
so that his married sister, 'who lived in
the country, made a mistake when she
wrote to beg that he would provide a
day and an evening's amusement for
little Carrotson, who was returning to
Westminister School after his Christmas
holidays. The boy was due at his
tutor's hous3 in Dean's Yard on a Wed
nesday; but Mr. Cutbill's sister sug
gested that if he came up to London on
the Tuesday her brother might make
him spend an agreeable day and talfe
him to see a panioniiine afterward.
Little Carrotson was not related in any
way to Mr. Cutbill's sister, but he was
the son of a friend of her?, and was said
to be an intelligent boy, well worth
knowing.
Mr. Cutbill consented to entertain
the youth, and little Carrotson accord
ingly arrived at the lawyer's private
residence in Go wer street one January
morning, toward nail-pastmne. J.twas
raining hard, and Mr. cutwji tnougut
it would never do to "take the boy cut
of doors in such weather. He would be
gettirjg wet feet, catch cold, and bo
forth ; besides, the- lawyer was abso
lutely obliged to go to his office for
two or three hours ; so, as boon as Car
rotson had been installed opposite a
cop of coffee and a sausage, Mr. Cutbill
said to him, in a tone that meant to be
paternal:
"Look here, Jame3 ; can l trust you
to be a good boy while I am out ? I
shall be back for luncheon, and then
I'll take you to see the wax-works, and
in the evening we'll go to Drury Lane.
So, as you're going to have two treats
to-day, I hope you' 11 keep out of mis
chief."
'Oh, certainly, if you wish it," said
little Carrotson, eying the lawyer with
some surprise.
"If tou'U mind not to leave thi3
room, and not tp play with the fire, I'll
see if I have any picture books." n
"Don't trouble yourself, sir," an
swered the boy, on whose chubby face
there was a slight flush of offended dig
nity. "There's a friend of mine who
lives in the neighborhood, and I
thought of going to hunt him up."
"A friend ? Is he a boy, like your
eelf?" - ;
"Well, he's fourteen."
It was so long since Mr. Cutbill had
been a boy that he had forgotten all the
habits of the species and ike manner of
addressing them. In the red-headed,
blue-eyed, merry faced lad before him
he saw only a mere child who wanted to
go and splash about in the rain, per
haps to make mud pies and to be xun
over by cabs.
"No, I must positively forbid that,"
he said. "You are under my charge
to day, and must do as I tell you.
Think what your mamma would say if
you were brought home on a stretcher."
Then, suddenly, a happy thought oc
curred to Mr. Cutbill. Why should he
not set the boy to do a little useful
work by way of making the time pass ?
He had read somewhere that boys enjoy
a half-holiday better thau a whole one ;
eo he darted out of the room and re
turned with his washing-book. "Look
here, James ; I'll see how you can do
sums. Just go through this book, add
up all the weekly accounts of the past
quarter, and thon divide the total cf the
number of weeks so as to get at the
average of my weekly expenditure. If
you do all that correctly by the time I
return, and without making any blots,
I'll give you half a crown to spend at
school."
Having said this, Mr. Cutbill retired,
thinking he had hit upon an ingenious
device for keeping his charge out of
mischief. Little Carrotaon's face was a
picture.
Public school boys have strong ex
pressions for describing such men as
Mr. Cutbill ; they call them " howling
snobs."
The egregious " cheek" of forbidding
Carrotson " to play with the fire," end
the utter, villainy of compelling him to
do sums in a house where he had come
as a guest in holiday tlm?, could only be
matched by the impudent offer of half a
crown to one who had no less than four
sovereigns in his pocket. The whole
thing was indeed bo " rich," that after
a brief spell of speechless indignation,
Carrotson laughed. He took np the
lawyer's "beastly" washing book, and
got through the work set bim in half an
hour, after which he added soma sup
plementary averages of his own. He
computed how many shirts Mr. Cutbill
would wear in the course of a lifetime,
snppoeing he lived to the age of seventy,
and how mach he would disburse in
getting his socks washed during the
same period, and so forth, but these
calculations only amused him for an
other half hour. Thon he yawned,
Biarea out 01 tne window, ana was
startled by the postman's double knock,
What devil of vindictive mischief was it
that made him whisper then : "By Jove,
I'll juBt answer the old cad's letter for
him 1"
Jjiuie tjarrotaon smns into the pas
sage and found four letters in the box.
He left one, in case a servant should
come np and collect the delivery ; but
the other three he carried into the din
ing-room where he had been working,
Tho breakfast things had not yet been
removed, and there was some water in
the slop-basin, by means of which the
boy speedily nngnmmed the three en
velopes. To say that he felt the slight
est compunction at what he was doing
would be incorrect ; he thought only of
having a lark, and paying out old Cut
bill for hia snobbery.
Tne ii'st Uttor was a-printed invita
tion to dine with a Peer ; the second
was a note from a lady who signed her
self "Flora Higgins," and wrote thank
ing Mr. Cutbill for a legal opinion he
had given her in a friendly way. She
alluded Eeveral times to her daughter
Ross, who was so pleased to hear Mr.
Cutbill's cold was better, and hoped so
muoh Mr. Cutbill would look in soon to
take a cup of tea, and hear her sing one
of his favorite songs which she had
been practicing. The third letter was
in a man's hand, and referred evidently
to some differences that had arisen be
tween Mr. Cutbill and the writer. The
Iatt er one Brown wrote, however, to
say that he trusted Mr. Cutbill would
frankly accept the explanation he had
tendered, and that the painful misun
aerstanaing between them would now
cease.
It has been said that young Carrotson
was an intelligent boy. He proved it
by the calm deliberation with which he
now went to work; for, having found a
sample of Mr. Cutbill's handwriting ia
the adjoining study, to which he re
paired on tip-toe, he applied himself
during half an hour to imitating that
writing till he attained proficiency. He
then indited the three following answers
to the lawyer's correspondents, his face
being as serious as a judge's whilst he
wrote, though there was a suspicious
twinkling in his eyes.
To the Peer he addressed himself
thus :
" My Lokd It is very kind of yoa
to invite me to dinner, but I am afraid
I cannot accept, because since I last
saw yoa I have suddenly changed my
political opinions and think yon are al
together wrong about everything. I
shall be happy to make friends with you
again if you will agree to think as I do;
but, perhaps, being obstinate, you
won't like to do this.
So no more at present. From your
lordship's obedient servant,
"LoNO CCTBIM,."
Next came Mrs. Hig-gins's turn.
"Mi Deab Mrs. Higgcs Your kind
letter has pleased me so much, because
of its allusion to dear Rosa. I am so
fond of her that I have been quite
miserable from wondering all night
whether she would marry me, and that
must excuse the shakines3 of my hand
writing this morning. I am sure I
should make a good husband if Rosa
would promise to keep my washer
woman's scccunt correctly balanced.
am very particular about this. Please
think over the matter and let me have
an early favorable answer, which will
oblige, yours truly. Long CutbilIi."
P. S. Shouldn't I like to catch dear
Roe a under the mistletoe.
ihe gentleman who wanted to be
reconciled to Mr. Cntbill came in for
this kindly missive:
"My Deab Brown It was I who was
in the wrong all through our quarrel,
so please say nothing more in the mat
ter. I have a vile temper, which I free
ly acknowledge, and if yoa had kicked
me down stairs when we last met it
would have served me right, though I
might have objected at the time. Pray
come to dine with me on Saturday even
ing at seven o'clock, and we will have
one of the best bottles of champagne ont
of my cellar. Don't trouble yourself to
write and say you'll come, as I shall be
out of town to-morrow and next day,
but will be back m time for our dinner,
wmcn wiu be a rouser, pver your
friend, L. Cutbill.
T ."ill. r. i i. .
uuue fjarroison put me letters in
envelopes, directed them, and stamped
them with stamps of his own, after
which, having hesitated a moment, he
flung the three original letters into the
fire. He had thought at first of restor
ing them to their covers and laying
them on the lawyer's table, but he con
cluded that the fun would be much
greater if he simply suppressed them.
He was seated by the fire, studying the
police reports in the timeSj and looking
as innocent as possible, when Mr. Cut-
bill returned home toward one o'clock
Now, if the lawyer had behaved
" like a gentleman " for the rest of the
day, little Carrotson might have had
mercy on him. The boy was in doubt
about posting the letters he had written,
and. kept them in his pocket like loaded
weapons, ready for reprisals if Mr. Cut
bill cheeked " Lim any further. Un
fortunately, the lawyer was a dull per
son, and committed blunder upon blun
der in dealing with his email but sensi
tive guest. He took him to the Tus
saud show, but opposite the wax effigy
of William Rufus he asked him at what
date that monarch had ascended the
throne. He refused to let little Carrot
son go into the Chamber of Horrors,
saying it would excite him. He bade
him admire the noble brow of Richard
Cobden, and took a mean advantage of
the occasion to bore him about free
trade. Finally, he drew down on him
self the contempt of Carrotson by mis
quoting Shakespeare as they were sur
veying Charles Kemble in the part of
Hamlet: " That's Hamlet saying, My
kindom for a horse,'" remarked the
mendacious lawyer.
At Drury Lane in the evening it was
worse. Little Carrotson derived some
amusement from the pantomine, and al
most relented in his revengeful pur
poses ; but the miserable lawyer refused
to stay for the harlequinade. He said
that little boys ought not to be keptout
of their beds after half-past ten. Little
Carrotson silently ground his teeth, and
from that moment Mr. Cutbill's punish
ment was decreed beyond hope of par
don. . The three letters were posted in
the pillar box of Dean's Yard on the fol
lowing day, when the boy returned to
school.
They were destined to have very re
markable effects on the lawyer's future.
In the first place there came to him on
the Friday morning a short but sweet
note from Mrs. Higgins:
"My Deab Mb. Cutbill Your
original and amusing way of proposing
for dear Rosa's hand has made us both
laugh, but my beloved child is quite
alive to the honor which yon are con
ferring on her, and I cm promise yon
that all the affection which yon lavish
upon her shall be amply repaid in kind.
Please come at once; she is waiting for
yon. Very faithfully yours,
Floba Higoins."
"What the deuoe does this mean?"
asked Mr. Cutbill, with a blank look.
He wrote at once for explanations, and
then received a curt note, begging him
to call at Mrs. Higgins's. Thet lady
and her daughter imagined that the
lawjer cherished the nnchivalrous
design of retracting his proposal, and
this they were determined to prevent,
Mr. (J. was confronted with his own
handwriting. He vowed it was not his,
but was driven at last to own that
possibly he had written the letter in his
sleep. He had heard of such things
happening, and though he did not
believe he was a somnambulist, he could
not, of course, swear that such was not
the case.
'iiut if yon wrote the letter In your
sleep, did it betray your unspoken
thoughts?" was the clever Mrs. flig
gins 8 next searching question. She
smiled kindly as she said this, and Mr,
Cntbill gave in. After all, why shouldn't
he marry dear Rosa ? He returned to
Gower street an engaged man ; but by
that time he had come to guess who was
the culprit who had played him this
trick, and thought with indignation of
the precocious depravity evinced by lit
tle Carrotson.
Thin was on the Saturday and Mr.
Cutbill had scarcely reached home when
Brown, his quondam friend, marched in
with a beaming face. It should be said
that this Brown had behaved very badly
to Cutbill, but now there was emotion
in his eyes as he advanced upon the
lawyer and forcibly grasped his hand.
"Yon have acted nobly in forgiving me,
Cntbill. I shall never forget
it. No more generous letter
than yours was ever penned : but
enough, I've brought a good appetite
with me."
I don't in the least understand
you." Mr. Cutbill was about to say,
coldly, but he checked himself. Since
Brown praised him for his generosity,
it was as well to take credit for such a
rare virtue. Brown had evidentlv come
to dinner, and as the lawyer always dined
well, his sudden arrival did not matter
much. But over their wine, by-the-by.
when the two gentlemen had quite
cemented their reconciliation, Mr. Cot-
bill thought it beBt to tell the truth,
and avow that it was to a pestilent
Westminster boy, named Carrotson,
that he was indebted for the pleasure
of having Brown to dine at his table,
As if to corroborate that assertion, that
very evening's post brought a letter
from the lawyer's third correspondent,
the Peer, which ran thus:
"JUY JJEAB MB. UCTBtLL What On
earth is the meaning of the enclosed
note, which, I presume, is a forgery ?
Yours truly, C.'
A visit which Mr. Cutbill paid to
Westminister School on the Monday
night might have had distressing con
sequences for little Carrotson, bat for
Mrs. Higgins's interference. As it was,
the lawyer only went for the purpose of
asking how many letters Carrotson had
thought proper to write in his name,
and he smiled rather a grim smile,
though in cautioning the boy against
practical jokes for the future. Little
Carrotson laid the leBson well to heart,
He got many a welcome reminder to
this end from dear Rosa, who, after her
marriage, become his ally, and often
invited him to dine in Go wer street
where she gave him no washing bills to
balance, but treated him like a man,
and tipped him sovereigns, earning in
response his unqualified opinion as to
her being a "brick."
Hard Work for the Princes.
Dr. Richard S. Rosenthal, who has
been a tutor to the imperial family of
Austria, is in Boston. He gives an in
teresting account of the studies of the
little princes and princesses, saying :
"At two years of age the imperial
children have French nurses, who talk
nothing else but their own tongue. Thus
a perfect accent is acquired. At the age
of six the child is provided with a Ger
man tutor, who is in the society of the
prince or princess half the time ; so the
child adds German to his French. At
eight years of age an English tutor ap
pears on the scene;vthen the child's day
is divided into three parts one de
voted to French, one to German, and
one to English. As soon as the young
archduke is able to enter the officers'
school he is provided with a Hungarian
adjutant, who talks to him continually
in that difficult tongue. In another
year a Bohemian instructor comes on
the stage, and so on, new languages
being gradually added to the linguistio
stock of the young prince. Yon will
realize what a many-languaged em
pire it is that the Austrian Emperor
rules over, when I tell you that the
Austrian paper florins caoh contain ten
languages in their printed regulations.
Recently, when the Princess Stephanie,
of Belgium, was betrothed to the Aus
trian Crown Prince Rudolph, she had
to take up the study of two of the most
intricate and puzzling languages in the
world, Hungarian and Bohemian, in
order that she might be fitted to assume
her future plaoe as Empress of Austria
Hungary. I assure you that the prin
cess, who is still studying, has shed
many bitter tears over tlieie languages."
A Singtjlab Amusement. While
Madrid runs to bull-fights, and New
York to walking-matches, Lucknow,
par excellence the sporting town of
India, finds combats between quails
her most popular pastime. A nativa
writer asserts that there is scarcely a
Mahometan iu the plaoe who does not
keep a training establishment. An un
trained quail is worth from one to four
cents, but when a bird becomes' a
famous fighter its owner can cet ftlOO
for it any day. Distinguished aaail
live prondly in gauddy decorated cages
and in the pit eviece great valor and
dexterity.
AN AMERICAN SHIPMASTER.
One of the Old Style and His Pecu
liar Wat a.
R. B. Forbes writes to the Boston
Journal as follows : 'In one of your re
cent marine yarns, I observed that the
writer says that he never knew cf a
colored mate on board of a respectable
ship. When in China, many years ago,
I met Capt. Saulsbory, of Providence.
I think his ship was called the "Wash
ington. Hia chief mate was a full
blooded African. It seems that his late
mate had been caught asleep in his
watch, and had otherwise given offense
to Saulabury, who told him that if he
was ever again found asleep in his watch
he should be put into the galley and
that the cook f ho- !d be promoted to
his place. It W;j3-3i that there hap
pened to be a blaCf man as mate on
board the 'Washington. On his way
home on that or some other voyage, he
encountered a cyclone near Madagas
car, and lost pretty much all bis spars ;
that is to say, he was dismasted fore and
aft, leaving only ten or twenty feet of
his lower masts standing but Sauls
bury was not given to panic, and he
carefully saved most of his sails, blocks,
rigging and portions of her spars.
The gale soon moderated, and the
ship did not leak. . Before anything
could be done to make sail a fine French
ship came along and sent a boat to the
Washington offering to take off the
crew, but Saulsbury langhed at the
idea, and said, " give me u few bolts of
canvas, a spar or two, and I shall be all
right." The Frenchman complied, and
inquired where he intended to put in to
refit The emphatio answer was, "Am
sterdam, for which port I have signed
bills of lading.' The Frenchman left
him, and in a very few days the Wash
ington was so rigged as to be able to
carry sail about equal to double reefed
topsails and courses, jib and spanker.
When approaching the toast of England
one morning the same French ship was
seen close by all a tauat-ho, excepting
the loss of his mizzen topgallant mast.
He had as usual with French ships of
that day visited the Cape of Good Hope,
St. Helena, and perhaps Ascencion.
Saulsbury hailed, saying, I see you
are in distress ; where do yon mean to
put in for repairs ?"
In these days ship3 were tot abandon
ed when they met with grave accidents
Another anecdote of Baulsbury I can
vouch for. He was driven on shore in
a "Tay-foong" in the vicinity of Cum-
smgmoon, not very far west of Ltntin,
China, The tide was very high, and
when the gale subsided the Washington
was found hign and dry fin hundred
feet or more from salt wa'ee. Sauls
bury removed all his ballast, the ship
having no cargo on board, stripped the
ship of everything
ground tackle, hired an army of labo:
era, male and female, and began to dig
a dock, leaving an embankment on the
outer side. About this time Mr. The.
Dent, the chief of one of the prominent
English houses at Canton and the agent
of a local insurance company, anchored
his little boat near by and came to pay
Saulsbury a vifit ne expressed the
opinion that all thia was labor lost, and
that the ship oould never be floated.
Saulsbury replied:
"She must come off; she is not in
sured !"
Suffice it to say, the big mud hole was
made, anchors were got out and planted,
well backed, and when a high tide came
the embankment was removed, and the
ship was floated. A similar case oc
curred later near the same locality when
Capt. Win. Cole saved the bark Kent,
of Boston. The record of such oases
should be kept before our young sea
men as examples worthy of following.
People I Don't Like to Meet.
"Dftr' am sartin fjlkses I want to
keep away from," began Prest. Gard
ner, of the Lime-Kiln Club, as the
voices of the Glee Club died away on
the last strains of "Sarah Jane's Baby,
"I mean dat class of people who groan
ober de wickedness of de world, an' who
have heartaches an' sorrows to peddle
aroun' de kentry at de reg'lar market
rates. Dar' am de ole man Turner. He
oomes ober to see me now and den, but
he can't sot still kase somebody stole
his dog, or hit him wid a brick-bat, or
beat him out of seventy-five cents. He
fully believes dat de world am gwine to
smash at de rate of fifteen miles an
hour, an' it would eanemost kill him to
lose his ole wallet an' find a man honest
'nuff to return it.
"Der widder Plumaell comes ober to
borry some butter fur supper, an she
draps down on a cha'r an' heaves a sigh
as big as a barn doah an' goes on to say
dat dis am a cold an' nnfeelin world.
'Cording to her tell all men am dis
honest, all women extravagant, an' all
chill'en just ready to come down wid de
measles. Tears run down her cheeks as
she tells how she has to work an' plan
while eberybody else has money to frow
inter Lake Erie, an' she wipes her nose
on her apron as she asserts dat dis
wicked world can't stan' mo' dan fo'
week 8 longer.
"Deacon Striper draps in to eat pop
corn wid me of & Friday evenin' an' he
hardly gits out from under his hat be
fo' he begins to tell what his first wife
died of; how his seoond run away; how
hia third broke her leg by fallin' off a
fence an' cost him $28.14 for doctors'
bill, an' befo he gits frew yon couldn't
make him believe but what de hul
world was dead agin him. He prediots
a late spring, a hot summer, poor crops,
high prices, a bloody war, an' goes
home feelin' dat he am stop pin' on airth
only to accommodate somebody.
"I have no sorrow of my own. I've
been robbed, but dat was kase I left a
winder up. I've been swindled, but dat
was kase I thought fo' queens would
beat t)' aces. I've bet on de wrong
hoss; I've bought lottery tiokets whica
didn't draw; I've bin sick unto death
an' I've bin shot in de back wid a hull
brickyard, but I do not sorrow and I
do not ax fur sympathy. De world
am plenty good 'nuff far de class of
people livin' in it. Honest men am
not lonesome fur company, an honest
women am sartin to be appreciated.
De janitor will now open fo' winders
an' we will purceed to bizness."
Detroit Free Press.
Sad Incident of the Flood.
The Ancient Mounds.
A curious theory has been develop ad
among the thinking community here,
says a Vicksburg, Miss., letter, with re
gard to the ancient mound builders
that may go far toward solving a vexed
problem. It appears that these mounds
are now the principal points of refuge
in all the overflowed districts, not only
for the people but for Btock and the
wild animals. The idea advanced is
that the ancient inhabitants who lived
remote from the hill country built these
mounds for the purpose of entrapping
game during the overflows, which, of
course, must have been of more frequent
occurrence and of greater magnitude
than they are at present. It is claimed
that tho bones and hunting implements
found thereon substantiate this theory ;
but, be this as it may, the fact cannot be
disputed that these works of the mound
builders, which are plentiful through
out the present oveiflowed dist ricts, are
serving a beneficial par xse a t nresent
in preserving both lifed property.
I he only thing against the theory
lies in the fact that the mounds extend
up into the prairie lands of Ohio and
Illinois, all remote from the lowlands cT
the Mississippi.
Alexander Jasper, an old man from
Crittenden County, arrived in this city
recently, bringing with him hi4 wife
and two boy3. lie seemed to hi) in
great distress, and when questioned by
a Gazette man he told the following sad
story:
"You know," he said, "that the
whole country is under water." I am
one of the snfferers of the flood. I lived
in the Mississippi bottom, not far from
Madison. I settled there several years
ago and opened a small farm. I had
heard of high water, but the plaoe
where I settled seemed to be high, and
I did not feel any fear. Well, high
water came repeatedly, but it never
reached me. Night before last, while
myself and family were at supper, we
were startled by a. terrible roar. I
went to the door and looked out but
could see nothing. My wife suggested
that the noise might be caused by
water, but I did not pay much attention
to the remark, for I did not see how
water could break through with such
force. While I stood listening there
came a mighty rush, and before I knew
it the whole country was flooded with
water. I called to my wife to help me
secure the children. The house was
full of water. I seized one little girl,
and my wife seized tho other. The
house moved. The lamp fell and was
extinguished. I called to my little boy,
and received a strangled reply. I
rushed through the flood to the place
from which the sound came, and called
again, but received no reply. The
house went to pieces. I seized my wife
and struggled with her to a slight ele
vation. The roar was deafening. We
remained there until morning. When
light came, a rushing torrent swept
over the site of our home. My little
boy was gone." Little. Book Gazette.
ALMOST BURIED A LITE.
Josephine Itynian's Horrible Expert
ence while Lyiug in a Tranoe.
Scenes Amid the Waters.
Potatoes from Abroad.
Talk about carrying coals to New
castle. In the windows of the grocery
shops on our populous avenues will be
seen placards bearing the following in
scription: " Potatoes from Scotland and
Ireland." " Cabbages from Holland."
"Battel from Holstein." This latter
dairy product, by the way, is said to be
the finest in the world. The Circassia
last week brought over a bundl ed pack
ages of it It is well known in England,
where it sells at higher prices than the
Amerioan product. No wonder the
belance of trade is against us, when we
are importing vegetables and dairy pro
ducts from Europe. It is scarcely more
than a year since Mr. James Caiird, after
a",viait to this country, advise! Scotch
and English agriculturists to stop grow
ing wheat and turn their attention to
market gardening and dairy products.
Ae drought of lat summer on the
eastern seaboard of this oountry gave
an immediate point to Lis reoommenda
tion. N. Y. Htmr.
The Old South. A subscription
paper at Boston ia taking pledges to
ward reducing the Old South Churoh
debt to $100,000, tho interest on which
can be paid by rents. The present debt
is $208,000, and about half the needed
sum is pledged.
Viotoby
vering.
belongs to the moat perse-
Mr. W. L. Nelson, of the insurance
agency of Nelson & Hanks, of New Or
leans, and Mr. John King returned from
the southeastern portion of Louisiana.
They report a terrible condition of
things existing in that country, not
alone from the effects of the overflow,
but as a consequence of the failures of
the crops for the last two years. The
water from Tripp's Station to Arkansas
City ia from Ave to fifty feet deep, and
the trip conld be made by no other
conveyance than a boat. All along the
route could be seen colored people
quartered in the lofts of houses. The
water ran swiftly through the main
rooms, and cats, dogs and hogs gathered
upon the roofs, while the cattle that had
escaped drowning were standing upon
narrow strips of ground or quartered
upon rafts not far distant Tbey went
to Monticello from Pine Bluff by rail,
and for five miles the track could not
be seen, being under water to the depth
of four feet. The whole country for
many miles was one vast sheet of water,
and it seemed that nothing conld be
expected of it in the future unless the
general government devised some means
and put them into successful operation
for the prevention of overflows. Thou
sands of cattle are drowned, human be
ings are living like animals, houses are
torn to pieces and knocked from their
foundations, fenco rails ' are floating
around by the thousand. All these cir
cumstances add to the terrible condition
of things that prevailed before the flood,
and make the situation appalling in
deed. But what they saw in the bot
tom between Tripp's Station, Arkansas
City, though bad enough, was not as
dark as some of the soenes around Rose
dale and Riverton which were related to
them by eye-witnesses.
Somb men smoke for dyspepsia, some
for toothache, corpulency, eto. Smoke
will oure most, an v thing. It will cure
i even a " haw."
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Jsephine Ryman, a fair-haired, bine
eyed young woman, is just recovering
from a remarkable illness at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Brown, in this place.
Her parents died some years ago, and
Josephine went to work in St. James, a
little village near Evansville, Ind. One
Saturday night last winter she went to
singing school. She had not been in
her seat long when she felt a very
strange sensation about the head, ac
companied by pains in the back. She
arose to her feet, as if to start out of
church, when she fell in a dead faint,
and was carried home. Her friends at
first thought that-the attack was- but a
mere fainting fpell, and the usual re
storatives were applied, but the girl
continued to lie as if dead. Sunday
came and went, but still there was no
change. The body .became colder and
colder, the eyes were open and staring,
the lips were apart, there was no per
ceptible pulse, and every indication
pointed to death. Physicians pronounced
life extinct. The priest was Bent for to
administer the lost rites, and the weep
ing sisters and friends of the family
prepared to bid Josephine the last fare
well. The coffin was ordered, busy
fingers began to prepare white clothes
in which to bury the corpse, and, m
fact, every preparation was made for
the final scene.
Thus passed Monday. On the even
ing of that day there was a slight ohange
in the appearance of the body, which
gave the startled watchers a faint hope
that the girl lay in a trance, and that
this was but death's counterfeit. The
body lay on its back, with arms folded,
just as the attendants had placed it.
There was not the least perceptible
breathing ; the eyes still had that stony,
unmeaning gaze ; the face was as pallid
as white marble ; but the iciness of real
death was wanting. The feet and limbs
were not warm, but they did not have
that chilly touch that is a sure accom
paniment of actual dissolution. There
was sufficient doubts in the minds of
those in attendance to warrant caution,
and so another day and night passed.
On Wednesday, or the fourth day after
the girl was first stricken down, the
priest was again sent for. After criti
cally examining the case and consulting
with the physician, he said: "It is a
trance. She may come to herself, but
it will be but momentary. When she
relapses all will be over. She can't
live." Accordingly tho funeral was eet
for the next day. Imagine the feelings
of horror which possessed this girl
when it is know that sho was cognizant
of every word that was spoken in that
roora. and could Fee the- forrrs? of her
friends and watchers about her couch,
Her terrible situation is best told by
herself. She said to me recently:
" Oh, sir, it was horrible. As I lay
there on my back, stretched out on the
boards, with my arms crossed and feet
tied together, wirh the lighted candles
about my head, and could see my sisters
and neighbors come and peer into my
face, it was awful. I heard every word
spoken. My body, limbs and arms
were as cold as ice. I thought of the
agony ot being buried anvo, oi Deing
nailed in a coffin and lowered into
the ground. I tried to make some
noise, or move just a Utile, to let them
know that I was alive, but it was impos
sible. I saw my sisters come in one by
one and look into my face. 'Poor
Josie, she's gone.' Their tears dropped
on my hair, and their kisses were warm
to my lips. As they turned to leave
me, it seemed as if I must make an
effort to attract their attention, if only
by my moving my eyelids. But I could
not do it. I felt like screaming. I tried
to, but I couldn't move a muscle. The
priest came in, and felt my arms and
wrists. He shook his head. Then he
placed his ear to my heart. It was no
use. He could not hear it beat. After
saying a short prayer for the repose of
my soul, ne, too, turned ana leit me,
and mv agony and horror were re
doubled. Will no one find out that I
am alive ?' I said to myself. Must I
be buried only to wake when it is too
late ? Must I come back to life when
they put me in the vault, and all of the
people have gone away, only to die of
fright and horror and suffocation ?' The
thought was maddening ! Why doesn't
the doctor do something to bring me to
myself ? I am not dead ! It was no
use. There I lay thinking and listening
to every word that was said. I could
hear a woman giving directions as to the
shroud. I heard the time set for the
funeral and all. I could see every one
who came to look at me. I tried to look
serious and let them know that I under
stood it all, but it was impossible. It is
a wonder I did not dio of fright and
agony. I often think that I would
sooner die, a thousand times sooner,
than go through that experience again.
"Finally, when all was ready, when
the shroud was finished, and all had left
the room but two or three, some one
said : ' Ain't you going to cut her hair
off?' My hair was done up in long
braids, and fell down my back. ' Yes,'
said my sister, we'll cut it off now.'
Then they got the scissors and came up
to me. While one of them took hold of
my head and turned it to one side, the
one with the scissors began the outting.
I could feel the cold steel on my neck.
I realized that this was about the last
thing they'd do before putting me in the
coffin. The woman began to clip, and
in a second or two one long braid of hair
was taken off and laid aside. My head
was then turned the other way to allow
them to get at the other braid, but this
was not touched. Thank God ! some
thing in my condition or some move
ment, I don't know what it was, caused
my sister to scream, and I was saved.
The scissors dropped to the floor with a
loud noi3e, the woman jumped back
nearly soared to death, and I sat up.
You should have seen that house a little
while after that, I thought everybody
had gone crazy. 'Veiie's alive 1'
Verne's alive !' The whole neighbor
hood came rushing in as soon as they
heard of it, and for several days there
was nothing talked about but me. My
folks thought I didn't know what had
been going on. Little they thought that
every word spoken in that room was
heard and understood by me. They
tried to keep everybody from referring
to the fact that my shroud was bought,
the coffin ordered, and the funeral
arranged. They made an excuse, too,
for part of my hair being cat off. They
told me the reason of it was that a plaster
had been put on the back of my neck
and my hair got no tangled in it that ia
had to be cut away. I didn't say any
thing. One day my little brother said
to me, ' Venie, yoa was goin' to be
buried last Thursday, and they cut your
hair off.' He never imagined that I
knew more about that than he did. The
recollection of those terrible days aud
nights will never leave me. I pray to
God that I may never be called upon to
pass through it again. I would rather
die."
A Batch of Reasons.
A great many people cannot under
stand why the female portion of the
o6mmunity prefer" sober men. The
matter is simple enough:
1. Wives like sober husbands because
they can reason with a sober man.
2. The sober man is more com
panionable.
3. Sober men have pride, and pride
is a woman's main hold.
4. Sobriety means a comfortable
home.
5. Good clothes for mother and
children.
6. A house of your own.
7. Evenings at home instead of in a
bar-room.
8. Better health and the enjoyment
of life.
9. An elevated view of life and a sense
of your responsibility.
10. You are a credit to your wife and
children.
11. People who once despised you
will now bless you.
12. Your word will be gauged as yon
resist the tempter.
13. Young men will pattern after
you.
14. Yon will be an ornament to society
and the whole town in which yon live.
15. The whole community will take
pride in yoa and wish they had more
like you.
16, Your family and friends will ap
preciate you.
17. Your enemies will admire your
path of sobriety.
18. Scoffers will be disarmed by your
works.
19, Your many qualities will grow
with your years.
How Senatorial Secrets Leak Ont,
That body, writes a- Washington cor
respondent, is composed of seventy
six old men. We have the maxim of
"garrulous age," and it applies to the
Senate as to all other collections of
grandfathers. Moreover, the Senate
does not keep a secret because it never
has. When a Senator comes to Wash
ington he is astonished to find the
sworn proceediijgs of the chamber told
to the world before the echoes have al
most died away. He keeps seeing these
reports day after day and year after
year until he accepts it as a matter of
course. In the progress of time he
makes acquaintances among newspaper
men, and finds, perhaps, that it is very
convenient to have friendly relations
with them. He gets in the way of tell
ing them what is going on. He finds
it mutually serviceable.
This being the case, and knowing very
well that what the Senate does in ex
ecutive session will be published the
next day, being very well aware that
Senatorial secrecy is a faroe, he now
and then gives his newspaper friend a
point " in exeoutive business. The
newspaper man has friends in his own
guild and they have Senatorial friends.
The reporters pat one and one together,
and then two and two together, and the
result is a very detailed and often very
correct report of the whole seoret. This
is the explanation of what seems to
many an inexplicable aud deplorable
lack of honor among the sworn officers
of Government. The proceedings of
caucuses get out in the same way.
A Detective Story.
A singular story is told at the expense
of Philadelphia detectives by a corre
spondent of the New York Post. It ap
pears that a lad in Philadelphia was
sent by his employers to collect a bill
of $65.85. He collected the sum, took
it home, and fearing burglars, hid it
under the carpet in the dining-room.
The next morning the bills conld not
be found. No other member of the
family had seen the money, and what
had become of it was a puzzle. The
boy went to the store and reported the
loss. An officer whom it is now known
has been receiving "hush money" from
criminals was sent to the house, and
after studying the spot where the $65.85
had been concealed, charged the mother
and father of the boy with stealing it,
and stated that unless it was restored
within twenty-four hours they would
be arrested. Rather than have trouble
about the matter the father paid the
firm tho sum that had been lost The
following night the father heard a noise
in his son's room, and upon going into
the apartment found the boy upon the
floor with a roll of bills in his hand.
Upon investigation the money was found
to bo the $65.85. The boy was a som
nambulist, aud perhaps while dreaming
cf the concealed treasure, had risen from
his bed, descended to the dining-room,
and removing the money from beneath
the carpet, carried it op stairs and
placed it beneath the matting of hia bedroom.
Displeased.
A dispatch from Berlin states that ac
cording to intelligence from St Peters
burg the Czar on reoeiving General
Skobeleff said: "I am displeased with
you. You doubtless wished to glorify
Russia. Look at the results obtained.
Before your speech Russia enjoyed a
certain authority in Europe. Now yoa
see her forsaken. Austria is irritated
and France is distant. Mr. Gladstone
has bis bands tied, and the Rnssopho
bist English party trinmpliB at fiuding
foundation on which to base its in
vectives against what it regards as the
bellicose disposition and grasping ten
dencies of Russia."
Feouliab. There was nothing peon-
liar about a reoeut Toronto wedding up
to the point when the married couple
quitted the churoh. Then the bride
dropped her husband's arm, got into
her father s oarriage, and returned home
alone. She refased either to see him
again or to make auy explanation of
her conduct.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Hope is the sng v ooating on the pill
of life.
"Nkcbssity knows no law." Neces
sity must be a Mormon.
Simples says his wife is splendid
sample of the "opposite sex."
Tab first petition we should make is
for a good conscience, the next for
health of mind and then of body.
Tommy asked his mother if the sohool
teacher's ferrule was a piece of tha
board of education. Waterloo 06
server.
It is said that "coal is king." Per
haps some of it is, bat the last lot that
came into this office, says an exchange,
was dust
Pianists are not always a be jeweled
set, bat did yoa ever see one who did not
like to display his finger-iug? Mutt
cat People.
Sooj will be heard the cry of the sea
side hotel keeper, ala Henry V. "Once
more unto the beach, kind friends I
The Judge.
A Boston paper says that it never
knew a detective to have a correct
theory of a murder until after the cul
prit was caught.
If Hendrix had mutilated the great
unfinished Washington monument, ho
would not have been arrested ; becausa
Washington was not a spy. Puck.
Ir the commissioner ot agriculture
would only issue a little treatise on tha ,
art of grafting new maple sugar on
peach trees he would save the reputation
of many a grocer for honesty.
Conscientious farmers are feeding old
hens on spring water so as' to have a
point on which to stifle conscience when
they calmly swear the birds are spring
chickens. Philadelphia Chronicle.
Tennyson's "Charge of the Heavy
Brigade" reads as if he wrote it while
galloping over a plowed field ahead of a
bull who wanted to see him for a min
ute or two; but most anything is poetry
nowadays. Free Presi.
The Boston papers mitigate tha crime
of a man who committed suioide there
last week, by saying that it was his first
offense. Very likely he had not been
long in the locality, or he would have
made the attempt sooner.
Two men agree to build a wall to
gether. One does four-fifths of the
bossing and the other three-tenths of
the work, and thsy finally conclude to
pay a man $18 to finish the job. Find
the length and height of the wall.
A west-end resident had a quarrel
with a plumber beoause he thought the
latter was trying to kill time, and ex
claimed : "Confound you, get out 1 Ga
and loaf on the street, and I'll pay yoa
for your time. I'll be hanged if I pay
rent on a house for yoa to loaf in !"
This is a stone Fence. It is bnilt
Strong. A Man can get over this kind
of a Stone Fence very easy. There are
some Stone Fences, however, that are
built much Stronger, and it sometimes
takes a Man two or three Days to get
over one of them. Yonker Gazette.
"Whxk I grow up, I'll be a man,
wbn't I?" asked a little boy of his
mother. " Yes, my son : but if yoa
want to be a man yoa mast be indus
trious at school and learn how to behave
yourself." "Why, mamma, do the lazy
boys turn oat to be women ?" " Most
of do, them my child."
We should have a great deal more
domestic happiness if we would com-"
mit to memory the lines which the
honest sailor composed for hia bweet
heart :
I'll be content with Annie Bread,
And won't bva any bat hw.
Is thebb a genius in this eon try who
can outwit the'Euglish sparrow? The
little nuisance will dodge a bullet, re
fuse poisoned food, stand twenty de
grees below zero, and begin rebuilding
his nest within two minutes after it has
been torn down. Detroit Free Prete.
" What ails tbat maid?" said Hpilkinj,
A 8 bo met a punning fair,
And saw ht-r eyes, 'neatb ' wave" and "crimp,"
Whicb o'er bif forehead dangled limp,
Give forih a t-tony stare.
" Meti.inks,' said Wilkins, scornfully,
As be tossed liu head in air,
" She bas no drains to cudgel
And so the bangs her hair."
"No," said the prominent Kansas
citizen "no, boys, I won't accept the
office of County Treasurer. I'm com
fortably fixed, like my home, and my
neighbors and my family I like. I don't
want to have to skip out f or Caiada and
leave all this. Muoh obliged for the
chance, but I can't accept"
In his lecture on "The Humor of the
Negro Race." Hon. 8. S. Cox tells the
following good one at his own expense:
"While in Georgia some time ago I hap
pened to be passing along the street
'Hallo, Sam,' said a particularly black
colored man. 'Hullo,' I promptly re
plied : whereupon the African aforesaid
retorted : ' 'Case me, sah, l'se 'dressing
another cnllud man.' "
Youno George D. having importuned
his father for a horse, the indulgent
parent presented him with the ancient
steed which for years had carried him
about the city streets. A few days af
terward the affectionate son interviewed
his father and renewed his request, say
ing, "lather, can t you give me a horse
a little nearer my own age one that
would be more of a companion for
me ?"
Tbanslated from a French paper :
A boy sits with a cloth-covered hand-
cirt at the foot of a hill. A walking
goer comes along, at whose approach
the boy to weep begins. Man "Yoang
one, why howlest thou, then ?" Boy
"I can with the cart not the hill np-
come. Man, good-humoredly "Welt,
then, see here I (Poshes the cart until
the hill np.) So there! (Himself of
the sweat drying.) Say once, what hast
thon, then, really, upon thy cart?"
Boy "My big brother Bleeps thereup
on.
A primary teacher, not a thousand
miles from the "Hub," is describing the
banana, and the children are to name it
Finally, she steps to the board and
draws an outliue of the fruit Up
come3 Johnnie's hand. "Well, John
nie, what have I described ?" "Cuoum
ber!" "Ob, uo; the encumber grows
here, and I told you this fruit grows in
the South ; besides, is not the cucum
ber a vegetable ?" Johnnie yields the
point and re' apses into a brown stndy.
Soon an idea strikes him and up goes
his hand again. "Are yon sure you are
right this time, Johnnie ?" "Yes'm,"
with self-assurance. "Well, what is
it?" "Sausage 1" is the triumphant re
joinder.
Bcrdette writes from Nantucket:
"Many of the old houses in the town are
shingled all the way over, reminding
one of the houses so common in St.
John. The shingler, when he shungle.
apparently began at . the baseboard,
shongle right up the front of the house,
over the cornice, np to the ridge-pole,
where he crawled over, went right along
shingling, and shangla head first on
down the other side of the house to the
ground. Perhaps it was not done in
this way. I 'o not assort that it was.
I only say, and I say it very meekly,
tint that ia the way it impressed me,
and if any man says I am a liar, I will
take it back, right i-umediately, and ad
mit that the shingles were pasted on
with gum arabio or the white or gg.