The Sully County watchman., August 25, 1883, Image 4

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From Coffin"* "Ship* at Hm."
1 hitvi s1,i|r- i IihI w»*nt
Jf"tv than furty years ajro:
Tb*-v liiiM' in''i-r I'niiif Imok t'i in*.
Tin y sailing i ami fn:
H»\v I'lHii'' mi- in my
HnJlintr ihnaikrh th«* stormy
^Vltli liltU*ri*il sails Hint !!•.'* ii»l hull*.
lVhili- ununl tin-in wrwim tlw grill*.
Flying low. livltiK low:
Evtry sailor in the jx*rt
Known that I have Khip-t at mm.
11atoof
windH jui't navm the M|Hirt.
A nil tlx* nailers jiitv m«»:
TV-y I'uiiif to an- in their walk.
ToooiiMoli- me with their talk.
Saying: "You will live th«* lay to mv
Your proud Khijw enme lmek front »wa,
*ne anil all. one ami all
Tbouph 1 liv«- a thoiMAwl yearn,
Thev will ne'er «*oiiie Itaok to tne.
Bat iti xtiile of hopes anil fears
They'll *ro snilim o'er the sea.
Anil iiiy lo'-e who naileil away.
£h* will ne'er coine l»ack to me.
But forever tun! a ilay
Rhe'tl gt -vikiliritr
o'er
the sej*.
Krer timiv rvi»nil«uv.
JUST A WILLFUL WIRL
From tb* Overland Monthlv.
"0. well, if you like it perhaps it's }]\lt
of
of
folding."
jeated
in ever s^
pained look in the soft eyes, and her
breath came quick. "If you want a
new dress there is some money, some
silver, laid away in the 1K»X there—
but we can get along—and you must
use it."
She stopped it seemed that the
crowding tears would not let her go
farther. Her voice gave out.
"Esther"—and the pretty young
girl took that pale, quivering face in
her two slim hands—"you thought I
was in earnest.' You thought I could
take that money? No, I will never
joke
again. I will always be in dead
earnest. 1 have noticed before now
that I get into a great deal of trouble
l**cause
my foolish habit of joking.
And now—now
kiss
me."
Was not that sad-faced, gentle ladv.
with the tears not quite vanished from
her own eyes, proud to touch with u
soft
caress the round cheek turned so
prettily towards her?
"You know your pretty way of jok
ing makes one of my greatest pleas
ures." she said: "and lam a foolish
old woman but if you want the
dress
"Willst du mir nicht einen Kuss ge
benr" called a clear voice from tne
open window. Both women turned:
a pleasant face—blonde, with a blonde
}eard. and pleasant blue eyes, smiling
from under thick waves of curling!
fair hair—was peering in at them.
"O. Joseph, is it you.'" two voices
spoke together. This smiling appari
turn, Mr Joseph Muller, held out a
dewy knot
{lowers all green leaves,
white, buds, and linv tendrills. Their
exquisite fragrance tilled the room.
"It is my contribution," he said,
flushing behind tiie curtain that he
pushed back with ono, ^and. "I got
them as I came along, at Floyd's
"Ah. ah how beautiful! how can
we thank you. Joseph O, why was I
not born a flower, just a white rose
from
like this? Then I should not have to
trouble about a new dress. Now. Miss after sucli a person as that:
Esther Pavne'" "O. tlit*ji you mean our friend
The bluJ eyes of the young man had Joseph—t he one who makes quota
l»een
the first lixed on this slim, |,OMS
Happilv he only saw the face, the',mir-
brown hair ruffling on the forehead,
the lovely eyes that laughed at him:
the low. sweet voice that patronized I
him.
"O Blume, weisse Blume!" he re-
rapturously.
"Please don't taJk in that awkward
German," cried out Tessy, pettishly.
"It only makes me think of my school
lessons. and I can't understand it,
either. How can I tell whether you
un- laughing at me or paying me a
compliment.
The young man laughed. "O
Blume!" he repeated flower 1 was
paying you a comuiiuieiit, and just
tribute."
"And the other—when ran first
came if"
Joseph blushed a*d fidgeted.
"That—O, that was just uonsense
must ask you to pardon it," he stam
mered.
The grave, soft eyes of Miss Payne
looked at him as if she would say she
Jiad no fear he would sav then? to
them aught that would be liispleaaing.
fshe glanced at his dress, and then
.jliaid doubtfully
"Wert* you goinK to the Park-were
you on your way?"
Joseph shrugged his shoulders,
umiliug.
"I shati
go
presently. But I shall
wait till the brass baud and the
Both of the women laughed at his
unmistakable look of distaste. Therese
nodded at him from over her shoul
der, her little white hat with its blue
bells and snow-drops making
a shadow
i
for her eyes to shine out of into his.
i ), querulous musician I I wonder
that a young jmun who has such an
ear for discord can't make lietter
I music of his own, especially when he
is the owner of. besides the cat, a
[genuine Paganini violin. There, I
"It is really too shabby I
not to wear it. had I? I ought not to ,,
g.0 and helplessness a hart! world only
"Dear, you look so pretty and soi berown frail life and Joseph. For
dainty in *it, what can you 'say! I'm
sorry, but—"
Joseph loved the charming, home
sweet Tessy Esther was sure of that.
T^.v: A,h: sl,1P
onlv that I have worn it so manv Bhinie, truly—the white flower
times the lace is mended
ah°ut
many places it's really such an old «ingnig its plaintive song till it should
friend. Esther, that I am tired of it, die.
and must get a new one somewhere." wish—O I wish and Esther
"Tessy, Tessv. 1 can't bear to hear clasped her hands together with ner
you talk like that, not even in jest," yous force— "I wish Tessy could
The pale, sweet face of the elder sister him. coulu the happy then
had grown paler still. There was a
"Did you have ft happy day, my
Tessy?"
"Oh. yes, was the answer, given
with magnificent indifference.
"And—was Joseph therer"
"Josef you mean old Josef, the
band-master—of course he was there.
1,1
fair flower-bud of a girl, who was hov- j'*an'e*!- ^'"S. certainly lie was there,
jring over his gift iu an ecstasy of de- "l|t I did not see much of linn.
light. The eyes flashed now with ''But why? And now Miss Pavnes
pleasure, as she took a spray of buds: grew grave, her voice fell, "But
from the bunch and turned to her sis-'
ier "O, I don know. Tessy stretched bird.
••You mav put these right there, if! »P
lw«
dress," explained Miss Pavne to the I the big paviMon getting our tea at
voung man in the window. ^he tables. And that horrid Nelly
"Her dress: Whv, what is the mat-! M^rchmont was there and Joseph
ter with it he asked, opening his1 at her table and stayed there
eyes wide.
"It is old, and it is old-fashioned,
and it is ugly," ejaculated Tessy, with
emphasis.
"Why, I was just thinking how
pretty it is. and I wondered if you had
made it new for the occasion." re
marked that stupid voung man. "All
that green color with the white, just »»»«'ed it. but I got a hateful fancy
like an apple and a bud I thought that it was only because of her dress
vou must be a flower bud yourself un-!
you please--there, in that bunch of them indolentlyabove her head. You princess did get the bird in one way
curls over my forehead so that im-! when he tirst made his if not in another. And I wonder if
proves the matter."
apjHarance
on the scene we had left the young knight quite loved her
"She has been fretting about her fll,! «rrolfluls- .Most of our girls were when he saw her eating it!"
... 4\...
:n:—
a loi.£ time.
"Well, what then!" Tessy had
paused in her recital, and was lying
half kneeling, her soft flushed cheek
resting on her sister's arm She mil
ed a little gravely when Esther sjKike.
"What thenr" O, nothing but this:
first, I suppose I should not have
th:lt
he
ly
i
Miss Payne smiled, but Therese' "Tessy!
made a dainty face.
""The lace is mended all over but
then, it's real lace—real Mechlin," she
•observed, bewildering her masculine
admirer with grave technicalities.
11
i
s|eech-making are
over. I don't wish' "There was a little snot of marshy
to le deafened and disgusted at the ground in tlx1 path, ami the rain had
same tune
have got some of the southernwood 'so winsome, so worthy of love—of a
I on me. and if they smell me in ad- $***! man s lest lover How could she
|vance
r. Aiiu n* mt- niurii uic in imi-
,,he "weisse
which the swan might circie
The large tears rose and fell
"Surely, a girl's heart is not so
hard to win—if one knows the way."
And the trouble was that Joseph
did not "know the way." He was
good, he was gentle and kind: he
would flush and stammer when the
merry little maid asked him but to do
something for her: then he would
rush and stumble
over
his own feet a
dozen times in the effort to obey her—
and Tessy would laugh at him.
"Willst du mir nleht einen Kuss
gebenr" I think, said Esther to her-
place
1
But just here the trouble was.
Joseph was afraid. His great love for
the young girl, the "white flower" of
his song, made him a coward: but it
was a noble cowardice, and
far to help him some dav
heroic deeds. "\undid not wait once to think of
brown, curling love-locks veiling that The girl spoke in a mecking way,
bright head. but a moment after she began more
Miss Esther Payne touched with a' he bade his cook kill the bird and
lingerof gentle reproof the naughty serve it."
lips of the naughty speaker. Here Tessy paused a moment, for
"Did you think I should inquire a sound as of tears was in her voice.
German to show that he is
w"y« l".v
was very becoming to her,
and I suppose Joseph paid hercompli-
speak to me—I was engagi.nl to danci
with Henry Wister. I really hadn't
time to waste on Joseph. Iliey—the
other Josef was playing my favorite
imisie."
The witch stop{ed and began to
hum one of Gounod's delicious aim.
"And I really didn't see him."
"O, Tessy how could you do so?—
and Joseph is so kind." There were]
tears ready to break through the'
tremble of Esther's pained voice.
•Kind broke in Miss Tessy. indig
nantly. "I don't know what vour
ideas are but I call it far from kind
to snub rue so. And after all, I don't
think he would have minded it so
much—so very much—but a slight
shower came up while we were danc
ing. and we all rushed back to the
pavillion."
Here Miss Tessy paused again. A
dimpling smile stole into lier round
rose cheek.
made it worse. So when we came to
that -you see I had on niv light shoes
Henry threw down his coat, and
nothing to do but I must walk over
it. And when I looked up, just as we
.entered the pavillion. what an expres
sion there was on Joseph's face! 1 do
believe he was swearing to himself—
in German."
Esther was silent, with a pained
fear at her heart. What could she
sav: How could she chide this beauti-
ful young creature who was so dear,
they will tliinic a whole village help and not hurt?
iv school is coming. Good bv, "Well:1 exclaimed Therese, author
tired of the
Sundav school is coming. ..
good bv." itatively, growing
The two young people went away
1
len(*e.
of
oun-ht pretty. voting, brown-haired maiden -have reached the pavillion safely, as
v
-Mv
inoppositedirections, and Miss Pavne, i "My dear'1 said Esther timidly, nimseit w'tii aqueer
left alone, sat for a long time in* the "don you tliinlc, with me, that Mr. w»rd«L faint heart never won fair
little i*ootn in tin* lowering sunshine*, istcr s nttontion was u little out pushed the door op6n unci
silent, but not sad at lastjiier smile
Place that it was -conspicuousr in.
was stronger than her tears, and held Miss Tessy vouchsafed no reply to Tessy was there alone, playing and
its place on her placid mouth. For it this. singing softly to herself The jump
'was Tessy she was thinking of, the "Don't vou think, dear, you might jH'
nr»t I ix'tweeii whom and utter loneliness the others did. simply by walking on Stay, lie said quickly I did not
the bare ground'?" i come to disturb you I came to listen.
"I am tired and sleepy I must go! Tessy stopped and stood silent, with I
to bed." said Tessy, suddenly getting bent face.
up.
Then she glanced at Esther's face,
"Smile!" she commanded. "Do
you think I am going to say good night
to such eyes as those? Smile at
once!"
The grieved look melted swiftly into
each other's neck, the two sisters cried
silently. But their good-night kiss was
the sweeter for those tears.
drew Tessy to her. The young girl
self—"I think if Joseph would say came and knelt by her side in the old
that to her some day iu earnest, and
claim a kiss alid take it as his right, i
he might win my little Therese.
"Dear," said the oldest sister in a
low voice, "you never sing for me
now."
"No," answered Tessy. slowly. "It
might go niust be—I don't know why—unless—
to° high, I don't think of it."
It was late when Tessy returned. Te*sy, you sang because you must."
Miss Payne had been sitting gloomily that does make a difference,
alone in the room where shaded lamp-I J*? feel the music in one. When a
light and flooding moonlight, pouring i "Irt* i* being cooked and eaten 1 sup
through open window and door, made pose it does not feel like singing.'
the
a bower of golden dusk. world do you mean,
Tossing aside her hat and little child
white shawl. Tessy flung herself on "Mean Nothing: I never mean any
the floor at her sister's feet, Esther thing that is why I get into so much
placed a loving hand oil the soft.
(trouble."
seriously
"Do you know, Esther, I was read
ing this morntng the old story of the
knightly lover who hail a beautiful
bird that his lady coveted. He was
verv poor, but lie would not sell his
bird. But one line day the princess
How could there be a brass band sent a message that she wax coming to doetors are begming to belive that
without old Josef to lead it?" replied dine with him. and as he had nothing none of the importaiit towns will
again Miss Tessy. in his larder lit for so dainty a lady
She put her hand over her eyes.
"It is such a tender story, Esther. I
can't tell it as it ought to IK- told but
tin? young knight must have sat and
looked at her—can't you fancy it?—
while she sat at his table and ate his
frugal dinner—and then—she said she
would .'ove him—be his owu true
princess—if he would give her his
slender white haiuls, clasping "Well," .said Esther, smiling,
^«r that he wm
ashamed to be seen with me
"O, 1 know it was mean of me but
she was beautifully dressed. She is
dark, you know—dark and she was
all in dark tissue, with broad bands of
gold oil her arms and waist and in her
tears. With loving arms twined around simple ones. They are only English
In the quiet days that followed
perhaps because they were living
nearer together, more in sympathy
with each other—these two sisters
noticed, Esther that Tessy was] more
than usuallv silent, that under her
joyous laugh shone the glimmer of
crowding tears but Tessy that Esther
grew more thin and wan, that her was sobbing her grief and joy and re
strength seemed to be consumed as by sentment all out together on Joseph's
some eating fire. shoulder.
One evening. Esther iu her chair He drew her thus close for a little
space, and then he held her out at
arm's length away from him.
familiar way, the pretty bronze-brown illst du mir nicht einen Kuss ge
love-locks ruffling over her lap, the j*511' said, laughing and then
white arms softly uptbrown. Tessy lifted a flower fair face and Jo-
'the
hardhearted woman!"
", you
feesy. "I thought of that,
cried Te
too."
Then rising with a quick change of
manner, she said: "I wonder if
Joseph would contribute his beloved
violin to make a lire for me if I were
freezing."
Esther began to understand.
The next day Miss Payne was not
so well. She was lying on the sofa in
the little parlor, when Tessv came
and knelt by her, and took her two
hands. The girl hail strange,
feeling, as if she were lost in a wood,
with no one to show her the way
out.
"I don't know what to do for you,"
she subbed. "Yor are getting worse,
Esther what is itf Shall I send for
some one? (), why does not Joseph—"
She stop|ed suddenly, but Esther
heard, and the next (lay a message
fOUI1,|
ts
meuts in German.
"Child"—anil Miss Payne pinched
with a smile the little pearl-pink ear.
"Well, at all events, he couldn't
call her his "weisse Blume -his white
flower- could he?" quoth Miss Therese
triumphantly. She sat up and rested
her chin oil her arm to begin again.
"And so when he at last began to serious? I am so sorry.
make his way across meaning to Esther smiled gently but he grew
way to that youug man. who
answered in }ersoii
He walked straight up
chair when he came in.
"I did not know you were ill," he
said and oh, the sense of comfort, of
rest. that the invalid felt when she
heard his voice—when she looked
into his clear eyes! Is it anything
to Esther's!
grave with a startling fear when he
saw the change in her.
"It is not painful only a little
troublesome, and I should not
mind it so much, but Tessy frets over
me."
Joseph looked for the first time at
Tessv, who was sitting apart bv the
window. She barely glanced up as
he spoke, but then
flush in her eheek.
he had been unnecessarily harsh with
iier: she was so young-just a slip of
a girl, a white Hower unfoldin.
if I were a young man, hiving a shy,
half-frightened girl. I should say to
myself I should always say to myself I
this truth 'A faint heart never won
fair ladv."
Joseph looked at her his face turn
ed red and then white, and then he
burst out into a curious, hysterical
laugh.
"God bless you. Miss Payne. I be
lieve you are the best woman in the
world." he said earnestly. He kissed
her hand how cold it was! how wan
and sad and tired she looked? but—
not a meddler: no.
When Joseph took his leave, as he
walked ahaig the hall he heard behind
a door half open the notes of a piano
andalowvoiiv singing—Tessy's voice.
Joseph hesitated a moment, then
plucking up courage, Repeating to
himself witli
l,P
w«Jf-
little smile the
when she saw who her visitor
.. ... ...
Won't you sing me one song?" he
pleaded.
But Tessy turned away, and liegan
to gather up her scattered music
sheets.
"I can't sing in German." she ans
wered coldly. "My songs are all
songs. not worth listening to."
lit looked at her, hesitated once
more for the last time, then took a
step forward.
"Why do vou treat me in this cold
way, Tessy !'r he burst out "Havel
offended you in any way? What have
I done.'"
"You? No it is nothing, only—
only—"
And then it was all over, and Tessy
sepli took his kiss.
"Lielwhen," he whispered tenderly
and oh. the beauty of that old sweet
German word as Joseph sjM»ke it!
"Liebehen, shall we tell Esther now?"
Then he l«Kked at her more closely.
"And you have got on the beloved
white dress. You must alwavs wear
it. weisse Blume."
Tessy laughed. "Come to ISsther
now," she said.
Fiyuro
escape the contagion." The correspon
dent proceeds to explain that the
Kamauan fast has begun, and that
during a whole month all Mussel mans
will fjist form sunrise to sunset. He
fears the want of suflicicnt nourish
inent and the drunken revelry in-'
dulged in by the lower classes of so
cietv after sunset would predispose
the population to catch the cholera.
I The invincible dislike of the Arab
to enter a hospital is also considered
i likely to spread the disease but the
Fi(/nro
i
But alas! Esther was asleep.
Asleep, and her darling was safe."
The Cholera in Egypt.
The
publishes a long dis­
patch from Alexandria which des
cribes the epidemic as rapidly spread
ing. It says that cholera exists at
Samanoud, Zagazing and Chibineel
Kom, in the very center of the delta,
"The march of the epidemic seems to!
be regulated by the direction of the
wind. With a north wind the inor
tality decreases, whereas it augnfents i
with a south wind. The town of'
Mausourah is partly deserted. The i
correspondent contends that
"the profound repugnance of the
Arabs to enter a hospital is justified
by the badness of those institutions.
Moreover, then* is no hospital either
at Damietta or Samonoud, or in any
of the little towns. There are hospit
als of the native population at Cairo
and Alexandria, but they are bad ill
every respect. A European doctor is
generally the nominal, though not
the real dii*ector of the Arab hospitals.
At Alexandria Dr. Warenhorst is at
the head of the native hospital. It is
true there is the European Hospital
kept by the sisters of Charty, and also
the German Hospital, which are both
model establishments." The medical
service in the provinces is, according
to tliis corres|Mindent, iu a most de-'
sad pl°nikh' condition. In large villages
with several thousand inhabitants
there is seurcely more than one
doctor. As for medicine there is none,
ami the only remedy prescriled is
laudnunt. In conclusion lie says San
itary Inspector General of Lower
Egypt, who is an Italian, cannot pos
sibly do all the work which falls to
his share.
Jay
(ionId's
Tomb.
A New York letter says: Jay
Gould's tomb is to cost and
will have room for sixteen persons.
In design this "mortuary chapel.*' as
the builders are proud to call it. is a
miniature Greek temple of |olished
granite. It is to be twenty feet wide,
thirty feet long, and flanked with
columns, eight on each side and four on
the ends. No stone used in the con
struction is to be less than six feet
square in size, anil the roof stones are
to 1M-six feet wide by fifteen feet long,
weighing several tons apice. The
doors of the chapel are to le of bronze,
modeled by Augustus St. Gaudens.
whose bill for the service is to lie $2,
T(K». Inside, the original plan was to
was a bright red i'"Hjf """j1 ?f sixteen coinpartnients
And her eyes—
a
Presently Tessy slipped from the
rtxini.
"Come closer. Joseph," began Miss
Payne, nervously clasping and un
clasping her hands "I have but a
moment, and I wished to sav to you
perhaps I am meddling- 1 am sick
and have many fancies—but, Joseph, the polite to his cook
ol.
how soft and appealing the? were, as! cemented in place. The latest iuten
thev looked at him so briefly' Perhaps
1
P*»hshed marble to be
ho,W"V, r.' ,SK
U
finiKh,lhe
~..i. the chapel in bronze, as being more
durable than marble. Facing the door
of the chapel is to be a window of
msldv
stained glass, probably by Lafarge, I
representing the resurrection.
It makes a man mail to suddenly!
round a corner, meet u richly-dressed
woman, receive a charming bow, i
doll' bis hat nearly to the ground, ami
then discover that he has oeen doing
FOR THE FARM KB
PreMrvfd Butter
From the New York Tribune.
In a recent number of the Milch
Zeitung. Dr. Fleischmann. Germany's
highest authority on matters pertain
ing to
the
dairy,
discourses
on
"Preserved Butter"—not butter pre
served by the addition of some antisep
tic. but by it. own good quality,
secured by extreme care in its manu
facture, and by careful packing in
sealed ten cans. The phrase has long
been applied in German and DuU-h
seaboard cities, to select butter intend
ed for export or for use on shipboard
in long voyages. It is expected that
such butter, for which Denmark has
the highest reputation, will keep for
two years under any weather when so
packed.
It has a golden yellow color, much
like that of fully-repened oat straw.
When the flat side of a knife-blade is
gently pressed down on its surface,
minute drops of perfectly clear brine
should appear, not in the least milky:
and no nutter, but only droplets of
the same clear brine, should adhere
to the back side of the trier when
drawn out. These qualities should
be exhibited when the sample of but
ter has stood long enough in a cool
room at a temjKM-ature of about56
Fahrenheit to take this temperature to
the center of the mass. The analysis
of several samples of the butter shows
that it contains an average of only 2
per cent, of salt—4 per cent, being
usually added to the fresh butter, and
half of it worked out. I
Its remarkable keeping qualities
seem to le due not to a large propor
tion of salt nor yet to an unusually
small proportion of the nitrogenous
matter of the milk, in which matters
the decomposition ending in rancidity
is supposed to start it keeps so well
largely because of the perfectly un
tainted condition of this
matter
when
the butter is first made. If, through
carelessness in the management of the
milk or cream, or untidiness in re
sjx'ct to the utensils of the dair\, the
smallest quanitv of detained nitro
genous matter is left in the butter, the
seed thus sown may soon spoil the
entire mass.
The difficult which all lovers of fine
butter, living in country towns often
find in supplying their want, seems to
show that carelessness or untidiness
semewhere is the rule, rather than
the exception in the home dairy. It
has been found that this long-keeper
butter can be made from sour as well
as from sweet cream. Those who
handled it have also observed that
Summer butter, and especially that
made in late Summer and early
Autumn, has the best keeping quali
ties. Much cart in the inter feed
ing of cows and iu keeping their
still Is clean and well ventilated is re
quired in order to get butter from
stall-fed cows in any season, whether
Winter or Summer, whichVquuls that
from cows that run in pasture,
W«nan as an Englnttr,
Apropos as the education of women
and of the callings for which they are
suited, it is a remarkable fact, says
Xutnre,
that the recently opened
Brooklyn bridge, of which we have
heard so much, as one of the greatest
triumphs of engineering, owes its ex
istence partly to the genius of a woman.
Mrs. Washington Noebling, the wife of
the great engineer who was intrusted
with the construction of the Brooklyn
bridge, has been the chief engineering
stay ever since her husbend lirst fell
ill. When lie was disabled and could
not nnx-eed wiih his great work.
Mrs. Noebling began to study engi
neering. and her success was such
that in a short time she was able to
take her husband's place, and the en
ormous structure which Americans
not incorrectly call "one of the most
conspieious marvels ef the nineteenth
century," was completed under her di
rections. The honor of leiiig the
first to drive accross the new bridge
was well earned by Mrs. Noebling.
and the peculiar share which she had
taken in its construction, was rightly
held to justify a disregard of the old
superstition, which dooms the ill-luck
the structure over which a woman
has been the first to cross.
A Monster Alligator.
Reuben Cloud, who lived in the low
er part of this county, and who, by
the way. is a crack shot with rifle, re
cently killed the largest alligator seen
iu this section for years. His 'gater
ship had been depredating for a long
while Upon the rattle and hogs of
those farmers living in the fork of
Spring Creek and Flint River, and
many had ln-en the rille balls that had
flattened against his adamantine skull
to no purpose. He had taken up his
abode in a large, deep lagoon iu that
locality, and at eventide and in the
early morning his bellowings could
be heart! for miles, almost equaling in
terrible force the roar of the lion.
Learning his haunts. Mr. Cloud set to
work to kill him, and one day rwoiit
lv, lilling his powder-horn with pow
der and shot-bag with bullets, set forth
to hunt him. He found him sunning
on a log, and. fearing that he would
become alarmed, shot him first, at
about 10(1 yards, intthe hinder part of
the body. This shot entered the bow
els, and the writhings of the monster
were fearful to behold, and created a
commotion in the water almost equal
to a herd of wild horses. He soon
sought a landing, however, and crawl
ed out again upon a tree-top. bellow
ing like a mail hull. Drawing nigher
Mr. Cloud continued to perforate his
abdominal cavity until no less than a
dozen halfounce rifle balls were lodg
ed in him. and he lay still, dead. Ilie
was then drawn out, skinned, and his
be ul taken off for the tusks and teeth.
The monster measured 11 feet inches
from the tip of nose to end of tail, and
(5 feet -1 inches from end to end of fore
feet across the back, and would have
weighed probably s) pounds. His
skin wax brought to town and sold on
Saturday. Sixty-live of his teeth and
tusks weighed one and a half pounds.
His stomach contained parts of there
mains of one or more large dogs.
Buinbridge (Ga.) Duiuociut
A Treasury Surprise.
A Washington special to The Bos
ton Flera Id says The recently-pub
lished statements, ill effect that sever
al millions of dollars remain in sonie
mysterious depository in EUI-OJMJ for
the payment ot the interest on eonfed
crate bonds, with the eouallv interest
ing statement of Gov. Butler that the
United States treasury holds some
millions of confederate money which
ought to be first redeemed if any such
fund exists, led to some inquiries at
the treasury to-day. A long search
developed the fact that Gov. Butler
was right in his statement that the
government holds a quantity of con
federate money in the treasury. It
also developed another curious thing,
that very few of the oflicers of the
treasury were aware that such was the
fact. A long inquiry among leading
officials, includingsuch asActing Sec
retary French, the acting treasurer,
the head of the loan division, the cash'
ier of the treasury, and others failed
to discover any knowledge of any con
federate funds so held. A subordi
nate. however, ventured the statement
that the division of cAptureil and aban
doned property might have some.
There many millions of confederate
money and some bonds were found.
The acting head of the division said
"There are not many IMMUIS, but there
is a large amount or the money I pre
sume then' may lie $50,000,000 of the
money and bonds, all told. It was
captured during the war at various
times and places, and sent here. I
don't suppose it has ever been counted
since its arrival here. It simply lies
then', no secretary of the treasury
caring to take the responsibility of de
stroying it. Here is some of it now."
and he drew a $50 bill, bearing the
vignette of Jefferson Davis, from a
drawer in his desk. It read
Two years after the ratification of a
treaty of jieuee between the confederate
states and the United States the con
federate states of America will pay to
bearer, on demand, $50.
"Then this isn't an absolute prom
ise to pay any more than the bonds
are. is it
"Their payment is only promised
on condition that a treaty of peace is
made betwr-ui the two parties here
mentioned. They are only worth the
pajier on which they are printed," was
the reply.
"It is the sheerest nonsense to talk
of their being redeemed. Where is
the money coming from? I tell you
it is the scheme of some fellow over
there who has a lot of bonds he wants
toget rid of. lie hopes to get up a boom
and then sell out."
'•You don't credit the story thatsev
cral millions of money belonging to
the confederacy lies 111 some bank
over there awaiting an opportunity to
be distributed to the holders of the
bonds?"
"No, I do not.
It
is absurd, to be­
gin with. The confederacy did not
have such a plethora of finances as to
cause it to leave millions lying around
loose. Then, too, the agents of the
treasury have tried iu vain to find any
of those reported funds there. We
had some of our best nien engaged ill
the work, and, if there had l»een any
funds of any consequence there, we
should know something of it. You
can de|eud upon it the confederate
bonds and con fed crate
money will
never be redeemed."
Arming the Enemy.
Capt. George M. Jackson, speaking
of the Gen. Joha Morgan reunion,
said to a Republican Reporter that he
couldn help but thinlc how he, a
union captain, unwittingly he!|ed to
arm two companies of Morgan's regi
meiit during the war It happened
in this way: "I,' said the captain,
"volunteered in the 4th Kentucky
union regiment, of which Fry,
110
who
killed /ollicofler, was the colonel. 1
mustered in at 'Camp Dick Robinson'
and was elected captain. I felt pretty
large, wore the captain's straps 011 mv
shoulders and a tall hat with a feath
er as large as life, being then but 2o
veai-s old. I asked and obtained a fur
lough to visit Cincinnati. There I met
two old friends, named Cole and Kellv
the former now living at Tipton.
Mo. (hie of the IKVS asked me if 1
couldn tget them a permit to purchase
a pistol and ammunition in the city,
as thev were not known in the ciiv
and desired me to certify that thev
were all right. I said there would be
trouble about it. I took them to
the headquarters of ({en. Burnside.
who was then in command, and the
olliciul who had the granting of per
mits. Seeing that I was sound, hav
ing a union captain's shoulder-straps
on, and after showing him my fur
lough, he said: "I will give vour
friends permits to purchase all* the
pistols they need," which was done.
I parted with Cole and Kelly, but on
crossing the river I found thev were
carry in"1 their carpet-sucks heavilv
loaded down. I asked what they hail
in there that was heavy, and' thev
laughingly prevaricated, and I diil
not can* to be too inquisitive. I sub
sequenfly learned that with their per
mits obtained, xu I have just stated
thev made several trips to Cincinnati,
and procured 250 pistols, with the nec
essarv caps and ammunition, with
which thev armed two full companies
of John Morgan's brigade, of which
they were members. I kept the mut
ter to myself, and Burnside was never
the wiser for it."—St. I^ouis Republi
can.
Acharitableconclusion: "Whowas
that person who sat next to vou at the
table this morning?" asked onegentle
man of another at a fashionable out
of-town hotel. "I never saw such a
queer-acting thing how her arms did
fly across the table, first after this dish
anil then that!" "Yes," replied the
gentleman a« Id reused "probably she
was a Swiss bell-ringer
(roil
111
her earlier
Avas a
stranger
to me, thank
Yellow Fever.
WASHINGTON*. Aug. 14.—-The sur
geon general of the marine hospital
service lias received u telegram from
Dr. Rob \V ainegra, announcing his
arrival at era Cruz and reporting
yellow fever raging in the city among
VOfMuS.