Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1883 — Page 1

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A PKKTTY POF.M OF THE WAR BTI H. STODPAKP. I walked the street* at midnight, * But my thoughts were far away, tor my leaf of light, now withered. Was green again with May. The mows of twenty winters Had vanished from my brow. And I (ah me!) looked forward, As I looked backward now. Why should I not look forward ? I knew my soul was strong; I knew there wap within me The might there is in song. My heart was light and friendly; I loved my fellow-men. And I loved—how ranch!—my comrades. For I bad comrades then. Where are those dear oldjellows? Ah! whither "have they flown? 1 asked myself at midnight. As I walked the streets alone. There was Fitz, the Irish singer, And Fred, the tender heart, And Harry, who lived for Woman, And Tom, who lived for Art. * Poor Fitz’s song is over, - And the heart of Fred is still; One went down at Yorktown, The other at Malvern Hill. Wrapped in the blue they fought in. They buried them where they lay; And elsewhere Tom and Harry, Who wdre, poor lads! the gray. As I walked the streets at midnight, And remembered the awful years - That snatched my comrade* from me. My eyes were filled with'tears. I thought of bloody battles, Where thousands suh as they Had met and killed < ach other. For w» aring bine and gray. Of happy homes that were darkened, * Of hearths that weri desolate. Of tferrtb. r hearts that were broken. Of leva that was tr.rned to bate. I pitied the wretched living; I think I did the deal; I know I sighed for Harry, And, diQpped a.tear for Fred. “Poor boys!” I said. Bnt pondering What was, and might h ive been (What I am in the a n lea”, And they were int!;e green.) I pitied my dead no longer; 1 did not care to. No. They went when they wr re summoned— Before, they cou’.d not go. When we know what life and death are. We shall then know what is best; Meanwhile weJivej<nd labor—- ? Their lanMapne’ thoy rest. The eaitlflies heavy on them. But they .do not complain; They do not miss tlin sunshine. They do not feci I he rain. If they are ever consc'ous, In that long sleep of theirs. It is when, past the winter, > We feel the flrat spring airs. When the birds from tropic countries Come back again to ours, And where of late were snow drifts. The grass was thick with flowers'— Snch flowers as will to-morrow Be scattered where they lie, The blue and gray together, Beneath the same sweet sky. No stain upon their manhood, - No memory of the past, Except the common valor That made us one at last! —•Aarpur’s Weekly.

THE GENTLEMAN BEGGAR.

One morning, many years ago, I called by appointment on Mt. John Balance, the fashionable pawnbroker, to accompany him to Liverpool, in pursuit for A lev anting customer, foi; Balance, in addition to pawning, does a little business in the 60-per-cent. line. It rained in torrents when the cab stopped at the passage which leads post the pawning boxes to his private door. The cabman rang twice, and at length Balance appeared, looming through the mist and rain in the entry, illuminated by his perpetual cigar, As I eyed him rather impatiently, remembering that trains wait for no man, something like a hairy dog or bundle of rags rose up at his feet and haired his passage for a moment. Then Balance cried out with an exclamation, in answer apparently to a something I could not hear; “ What, man alive! slept in the passage! there, take that and get some breakfast, for heaven’s sake. ” So saying, he jumped, into the “hansom,” ans -we bowled away at ten miles an hour, just catching the expless as the doors of the station were closing. My curiosity was full set; for, although Balance can be free with his money, it is not exactly to beg-; gars that his generosity is usually displayed; so, when comfortably ensconced in a coupe, I finished with: “You are liberal with your money this morning; pray, how often do you give silver to street cadgers? because I shall know what walk to take when flats and sharps leave off buying law.” Balance, who would have made an excellent parson if he had not been bred.to a case-hardening trade, and has still a soft bit left in his heart that is always fighting with his hard heart, did not smile at all, but looked as grim as if squeezing a lemon into his Saturday night’s punch. He answers slowly: “A cadger—yes,. a beggar—a miserable wretch, he is now; but let me tell you, Master David, that that miserable bundle of rags was born and bred a gentleman; the son of a nobleman, the husband of an heiress, and has sat and dined at tables yyhere you and I, Master only allowed to Mew the plate by favor of the butler. I have lent him thousands, and been well paid. The last thing I .had from him was his court suit, and I hold now his bill for £IOO, that will be paid, I expect, when he dies.” “J¥hy, what nonsense you are talking. Yoji must be dreaming this morning. , However, we are alone; I’ll light a weed in defiance of railway law; you shall spin that yarn; for, true or untrue, it will fill np the. time to LiverP OO . ' “At* for yarn, ” replied Balance, “the whole story is short enough; and, as for truth, that you easily find out if you like to take the trouble. I thought the poor wretch was dead, and I oyvn it put rhe dut infecting him this morning, for I had a curious ‘dream last night. ” “Oh, hang your dreams. Tell us about this gentleman beggar that bleeds vou of half-crowns—that melts the heart even of a pawn-broker.” “Well, then, that beggar is the illegitimate son of the late Marquis of Hoopborough by a Spanish lady of rank. He received a first-rate waa Wougfit up in his father’s house. At a very early age he obtained an ap- ■ polntment in a public office, was presented by the Marquis at court and received into the first society, where his handsome person and agreeable map~ ners made him a great favorite. Soon after cojnijigf of age Jhe married the Sir v ■ortraght Kim a wery handsome fortune, which was . strictly settled on herself. They lived in splendid style, kept severed carriages, a house in town and a place in the country. For some reason or other# idleness, or. to please his lady’s pride, he resigned his appointment. His father died and left him lathing; indeed,.he seemed at that time very handsomely provided for. “Very soon Mr. and Mrs. Moilnos Fitz Roy began to disagree. She was cold, correct—he was hot' and random.

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He wa* quite dependent 6n her, and she made ‘him. feel it. When he began to get into debt he came to me. At length «o«as shocking quarrel occurred; some caHtof jealousy on the wife’s side, not withput reason, I believe, and the end of it was Mr. Fitz Boy was turned out of doors, The house Was hie Wife’s, the furniture was his Wife’s, and the fortune washis wife’s—he was, in fact, her pensioner. He left with a few hundred pounds ready nfbney and some person al jewelry, and and Went ton hotel. Ofi these and - credit he lived* Being illegitimate-, he had hO relations; being a tool when he spent his money he lost his friends. The world took his wife’s part when they found she had the fortune, and the only parties who interfered were her relatives, who did the best io make, the quarrel incur able. To Uro wn atl, one night,he was tun Oyer by a cab,, was carried to a hospital and lay there for months, and was, during several weeks of the time, unconscious. A message to the wife, by the hands of one of his debauched companions, sent by a humane surgeon, obtained amintimation thafr‘if he died, Mr. Croak, the undertaker to the family, had orders to see tel the funeral,' and. that Mrs. gwas ?n the point of starting for tinent, not to return for some When Fitz Boy was discharged* to me, limping on his court suit, and told me’his t was really sorry for fellow,euch a handsome, thoroughbredlooking man. He was going then into the West somewhere to try to hunt Out a friend. ‘What to do, Balance,Hie said, TdonJifcknOW. I can't dig, and unless somebody will make me their gamekeeper I.must starve, or beg, as pay Jezebel bade me when we parted.’ ‘ “I lost sight of Molinos for a long time, and when I next came upon him it was in the rookery of Westminster, in a low lodging-house, where I was searching with an officer for stolen goods. He was pointed out to me as the ‘gentleman cadger,’ because he was so free with hia. money when ‘in luck.’ He recognized me, but turned away tlien. I have since seen him and relieved him more than once, although he never asks for anything. How he lives, heaven knows. Without money,. without friends, without, useful education of any kind, he tramps the country, as you saw him, perhaps doing a little hop picking or haymaking, only happy when he obtains the means to get drunk. I have heard through the kitch en whispers, that you know come to me, that he is entitled to some property, and I expect if he were to die his wife would pay the £ICO bill I hold; at any rate, what I have told you I know to be true, and the bundle of rags I relieved just now is known in every thieves’ lodging as the ‘ gentleman cadger.’”

This story produced an impression on me. lam fond of specuh.tion and like the excitement of a legal hunt as much as some do a fox chase. A gen'tlernan, a beggar, a wife rolling in weajth, rumors of unknown property due to the husband; it seemed as if there was pickings for me amidst- this carrion of pauperism. Before returning from • Liverpool I had purchased the gentleman beggar’s acceptance from Balance. I th.-n inserted in the Tinies the following advertisement: “Horace Molinos Fitz Roy. If this gentleman will apply to David Discount, Esq., solicitor, St. James’, he will hear of something to his advantage. Any person furnishing Mr. F.’s address shall receive £1 Is reward. He was las| seen,” etc. Within twentyfour hours I had ample proof of the wide circulation of the Times. My office was besieged by beggars of every degree—men and women, lame and blind, Irish, Scotch, and English, some on crutches, some in bowls, some in go-carts. They all knew him as the “ffentleman” and I must do the regular fraternity of tramps the justice to say thaf toot one would answer a question until he made certain that I meant the “gentleman” no harm. One evening, about three weeks after the. appearance of the advertisement, my filerk- announced “another There came in an old man leaning on a staff, clad in a soldier’s gray coat, Jill patched and torn, with a battered hat, from under which a mass of tangled hair fell over his shoulders and half concealed his face. The beggar, in a weak, wheezy, hesitating tone, said,: “You have advertised for Molinos FitzRoy. I hope you don’t mean him jjny harm; he is sunk, I think, too low <for enmity now; and surely no one would sport with such misery as his.” These last words were, uttered in a sort of piteous whisper. I answered quickly: “Heaven forbid I should sport.with misery; I mean and hope to do him good, as well as myself.” “Then, sir, I am Molinos Fitz-Roy. “ While we were conversing, candles were brought in... I have not very tender nerves —my head would not agree with them—bat I own I started and shuddered when I saw and knew that the wretched creature before me was under BO years of age and once a gentleman. Sharp, aquilme features, reduced to literal skm and bone, were begrimed and covered with dry, fair hair; the white teeth of the half-open mouth chattered with eagerness, and made more hideous the foul pallor of the rest of the countenance. As he stood leaning on a staff’, half bent, his long, yellow, bony fingers clasped over the crutch-head of his stick, he was indeed a picture of misery, famine, squalor and premature age too horrible to dwell upon. I made him sit down, and then sent for smqe refreshment, which he devoured Jm e a 'ghoul, and set to work to unravel his story. It was difficult to keep to the poiflt; but with pains I learned what convinced me that he was entitled to some property, whether great or small there is no evidence. On parting, I said, “Now, Mr. F., you must stay in town while I make proper inquiries. What allowance will be enough to keep you comfortably ?” He answered humbly, after much ( pressing, <r Would you think 10 shillings too much?” r, ; I don’t like, if I do these things at all, to do them shabbily, so I said: “Come every Saturday and you shall have a pound.” He was profuse in his thanks, and all men are as long as distress lasts. . ' I had previously learned that my ragged client’s wife was in England living In a splendid house in Hyde Park gardens, under her maiden name. On the following day the Earl of Owen called upon me, wanting £5,000 by 5 o’clock the same evening. It was a case of life or death with him, and so I made my terms, and took advantage of of his pressure to excuse a coup de main. I proposed that he should drive me home to receive the money, calling at Mrs. Molinos’, in Hyde Park gardens, *on qut way. I knew that the coronet and liveries of his-father, the

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Marquis, would insure me an audience with Mi s. Molinos Fitz-Roy. i cheme answered. I was introduced into the lady’s presence. She was, «nd probably is, a very stately, handsome Woman, with pale complexion, high, solid forehead, regular features, thin, pinched, self-satisfied mouth. My interview Was Very short. I plunged into the middle Of the affair, but had scarcely mentioned the word httsbfcfid when «he interrupted me with, U 1 presume you have loaned this profligate person money, and you want me to pay you.” She paused, and then said: “He shall not have a farthing.” As she spokh her white face beteame Bcarlch “But, tnadanij the into is starving. I have strong feasoiis for believing he is entitled to property, and if you refuse . any assistant I must take other measures.” She rang the bell, wrote something rapidly on a card, and, as the footman appeared, pushed it toward me across the table with the air of touching a toad, sAyiug: “There, sir, is the address of my solicitors} apply to them if yott think you have Any claim. Robert, show the person out, take care he is not admitted again. ” So far I had effected nothing, and, to tell the truth, felt rather crest-fallen Under the .influence of that grand manner peculiar to certain great ladies and to all great actresses.

My next visit was to the attorneys, Messrs. Leasem & Fashun, of Lincoln’s Inn Square, and there I was at home. I had had dealings with the firm before. They are agents for half the aristocracy, who always run in crowds like sheep after the same wine merchant, the same architects, the same horse dealers and the same law agents. It may be doubted whether the quality of law and land management they get on this principle is equal to their wine and horses. At any rate, my friends at Lincoln’s Inn, like others of the same class, are distinguished by their courteous manners, deliberate proceedings, innocence of legal technicalities, long credit and heavy charges. Leasem, the elder partner, wears powder and a huge bunch of .seals, lives in Queen square, drives a brougham, gives the dinners and does the cordial department. He is so strict in performing the latter duty that he once addressed a poacher who had shot a Duke’s keeper as “my dear creature,” although he afterward hanged Inin. Fashun has chambers in St. James street, drives a cab, wears a tip, and does the grasd ha-ha style. My business lay with Leasem. The interviews and letters passing were numerous. However, it came at last to the following dialogue: “Well, my dear Mr. Discount,” began Mr. Leasem, Who hates me like poison, “I’m really very sorry that poor, dear Molinos —knew his father well; a great man; a perfect gentleman; but you know what women are, eh, Mr. Discount ?. My client, won’t advance a shilling ; she knows it would only be wasted in low dissipation. Now, don’t you think (this was said very insinuatingly) —don’t you think he had better be sent to the work-house ?• Very comfortable accommodations there, I can assure you —fheat twice a week, and excellent soup; "and then, Mr. Discount, we might consider about allowing you something for that bill.”

“Mr. Leasem, can you reconcile it to yoftr conscience to make such an arrangement? Here’s a wife rolling in luxury and a husband starving. ” ..“No, Mr. Discount, not starving; there is the work-house, as I observed before; beside, allow me to suggest that these appeals to feeling are quite unprofessional—quite unprofessional, ” “Bq.t, Mr. Leasem, touching this property which the poor. man 'is entitled to ?” “Why, therey again, Mr. D., you must excuse me; -you really must. I don’t say he is; I don’t say he is not. If you know he is entitled to property, I am sure you know how to proceed. The law is open to you, Mr. Discount—the law is open, and a man of your talent will know how to use it. ” “Then, Mr. Leasem, you mean that I mpst, in order to right this starving man, file a bill of discovery to extract from you the particulars of his rights. You have the marriage settlement and all the information, and you decline to allow a pension or afford any information ; the man is to starve or go to the work-house. ” “Why, Mr. D., yon are’so quick and violent, it really is not professional; but you see (here a subdued smile of triumph) it has been decided that a solicitor is not bound to afford such information as you ask to the injury of his client.”

"Then you mean that this poor Molinos may rot and starve, while you keep secret from him, at his wife’s request, his title to an income, and that the Court of Chancery will back you in this iniquity,” I kept repeating the word “starve,” because I saw it made my respectable opponent wince. “Well, then, just listen to me. I know that in the happy state of your equity law, chancery can’t help my client, but I have another plan: I will go hence to my office, issue a writ, take your client’s husband into execution; as soon as he is lodged in jail I shall file his schedule in the Insolvent Court, and when he comes up for his discharge, J shall put you in the witnessbox and examine you on oath, ‘touch®ing the property of which you know the insolvent to be possessed,’ and where will be your privilege communication then?” The respectable Leasem’s face length* ened in a twinkling, his comfortable, confident air vanished, he ceased twiddling his gold chain, and, at length, he muttered: “Suppose we pay the debt ?” “Why, then, I’ll arrest him thq .day after for another. ” “But, my dear Mr. Discount, surely such conduct would not be quite tespect“That’s my business; my client has been wronged, I am determined to right him, and when the aristocratic firm of Leasem & Fa shun takes refuge, according to the custom of respectable repudiators, in the cool arbors of the Court of Chancery, why W discounting (attorney like Davjiir. discount need not hesitate about cutting a bludgeon out of the insolvent court. ” “Well, well, Mr, D., you are sb warm —so fiery. We must deliberate, we must consult. You will give me until the day after to-morrow, and then we’® write you our final determination. Tn Mie meantime send us a copy of yoW authority to act for Mr. MolinoS dljf course I lost no time I the gentleman beggar to sign a proper letter. ■- I •Oh-the appointed day cams a communication with L, & £ seal, jbich J

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opened, not without professional eagerness. It was as follows: “In re Molinos Fitz-Roy and Another. “SiR: tn answer to your application on behalf of Mr. Molinos Fite-Roy, we beg to inform yon that Under the administration of a paternal attnt Who died intestate yotit client ik entitled to £2j500 8s fldj 8-per-cente; £1,500 19s 4d, Reduced; £I,OOO long annuities, £SOO bank stock, £8,500 India stock, besides other —securities, making up about £IO,OOO, which we are Sred to transfer over to Mr. os .Fitz-Roy’s direction forthwith. ” Herb a Windfall, it quite took away m.jr breath: As dusk came iriy gentleman beggar, and What puzzled me was how to break the news to him. Being very much overwhelmed with business that day I had not much time for consideration. He came in rather better dressed than wen I first saw him, with only a week’s beard on bis chin, but, as usual, not quite sober. Six weeks had elapsed since our first interview. He was still the humble, trembling, low-voiced creature I first knew him. After a prelude, I said: “I And, Mr. F., you are entitled to something. Pray, what do you mean to give me in addition to my bill for obtaining it?” He answered rapidly: “Oh, take half. If there is £IOO take half; if there is £SOO, take half.” “No, no, Mr. F., I don’t do business in that way; I shall be satisfied with 10 per cent.” It was so settled. I then led him out into the street, impelled to tell him the news, yet dreading the effect; not daring to make the revelation in my office, for fear of a scene. I began hesitatingly, “Mr. Fftz-Roy, I am happy ,to say that I find you are entitled to * £10,000.” “Ten thousand pounds,” he echoed; “£10,000!” he shrieked; “£IO,OOOP he. yelled, seizing my arm violently. “You-are a brick. Here, cab, cab.” Several drove up the shout might have been heard a mileoff. He jumped in the first. “Where to?” said the driver.

“To a tailor’s, you rascal.” “Ten thousand pounds; ha, ha, ha!” he repeated hysterically when in the cab, and every moment grasping my arm. Presently he subsided, looked me straight in the face, and muttered with agonizing fervor: “What a jolly brick you are!” The tailor, the hosier, the bootmaker, the hair-dresser, were in turn visited by this poor , pagan of externals. As,, by degrees, under their hands, he emerged from the beggar to the gentleman, his spirits rose; his eyes brightened; he walked erect, but always nervously grasping my arm; fearing, apparently, to lose sight of me for e moment, lest his fortune should vanish with me. The important pride with which he gaye his orders to the astonished tradesman for the finest and best of everything, and. the amazed air of the fashionable hair-dresser when he presented his matted locks and stubble chin, •to Ue“6ut and shaved,” may be acted—it cannot be described. ~

By the time the external transformation was complete, and I sat do s wn in*a case in the Haymarket, opposite a haggard, but handsome, thoroughbredlooking man, whose ait, with the exdeption of the wild eyes and deeply browned face, did not differ from the stereotyped man about town sitting around us. jflk Molinos Fitz-Roy had already almost forgotten the past; he bulled the waiter and criticised the wine as if he had done nothing else but dine and drink and scold there all the days of his life. , Once he wished to drink my health, and would have proclaimed his whole story to the coffee-room assembly in a raving style. When I left he almost wept in terror at the idea of losing sight of me. But allowing' for these ebullitions- -the natural result of such a whirl of events —he was wonderfully calm and self-possessed. The next day his first thought was to distribute £SO among his friends, the cadgers, at a house of call in Westminster, and formally to dissolve his connection with them; those present undertaking for the “fraternity” that for the future he should never be noticed by them in public or private. I can’t follow his career much farther. Adversity had taught him nothing. He was soon again surrounded by well-bred vampires, who had forgotten him when penniless; but they amused him, and that w'as enough. The £IO,OOO were rapidly melting, when he invited me to a grand dinner at Richmond, which incliided a dozen of the most agreeable, good-looking, well-dressed datidies of London, interspersed with a display of pretty butterfly bonnets. We dined deliciously, and drank as men do of iced ■dines in -the dog days—-looking dpwn from Richmond Hill.

One of the pink bonnets crowned Fitz Roy with a wreath of flowers; he looked—less the intellect—as handsome as Alcibiades. Intensely excited and flushed, he rose with a champagne glass in his hand to propose my health. The oratorical powers of his father had not descended to him. Jerking out sentences by spasms, at length he said: “I was a beggar—l am a gentleman—rhanks to this—” Here he leaned heavily on my shoulder a moment and then fell back. We raised him, loosened his neckcloth—“Fainted!” said the ladies. “Djunk I” said the gentlemen. He was dead.

There is a great waste among consumers in the use of tea. They put in too much of the leaf and boil instead of steeping it. The fine qualities of a tea are brought out by the simple process of putting boiling water on just enough tea for one cup. In all tea-sets there is a hot-water urn, after the English method. A pinch of the leaf which weighs about one and half scru-. pies, or what a silver 5-cent piece weighs, is sufficient for one cup. On this boiling hot water should be poured anfi little covets put over the cups for a few moments to allow for steeping. This saves the pungent flavor which the water absorbs. A little sugar and a trifle of milk being added the beauty of the tea is soon perceived. Europeans drink tea in this fashion. The Chinaman never puts milk and sugar in his tea. The Russian follows this latter fashion, but adds lemon. There is more tea used in America than in any other country in the world, and for this reason the consunfer should be all the more careful in purchasing the herb. There is no drink tliat is finer than “the cup that cheers but does no inebriate* when the material used is honest.— lnter Ocean. Young women clerks in New York shoe-shops are complained of by fastidious mothers for kissing the children whom they fit witfi shoes.

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THE BAD BOY.

*Why don’t yon take an ioe-pick and clean the dirt out from under your fin-ger-nails,” said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in the store and stroked the eat the wrong way, as she lay in the sun on the counter, on a quire Of manila paper. “Can’t remove the dirt for thirty days. It is an emblem of mourning. Had a funeral at Our house yesterday,” and the boy took a pickle out Of the tub and put it into the cat’s mouth, and shut her teeth together on it, and then went to the shoW-case, while the grocery man, Whose back had befen turned during the pickle exercise, thought by the way the cat jumped into the dried apple barrel and began to paw and scratch with all four of her feet, and yowl, that she was going to have a fit. t. “I hadn’t heard about it,” said the grocery man, as he took the cat by the neck and tossed her out in the back shed into an old oyster box full of sawdust, with a parting injunction that if she was going to have fits she better go out where there was plenty of fresh air. “Death is always a SAd thing to contemplate. One day we are full of health and joy, and cold victuals, and the next we are screwed down in a box, a few words are said ovfer our remains, a few tears are shed, and there is a race to see who shall get back from the cemetery first, and though we may think we are an important factor in the world’s progress, and sometimes feel as though it would be unable to put up margins and have to stop the deal, the world goes right aMng, and it must annoy people who die "to realize tliat they don’t count for game. The greatest man in the world is only a nine spot when he is dead, because somebody else takes the tricks the dead man ought to have taken. But, say, who is dead at your house?” ■ s

“Our rooster. Take care, don’t you hit me with that canvassed ham, ” said the boy, as the grocery man looked mad to learn that there was nobody dead but a rooster, when he had preached such a sermon on the subject. “Yes, how soon we are forgotten when We are gone! Now, you would have thought that rooster’s hen would have remained faithful to him tor a week at least. I have watched them all the spring, and I never saw a more perfect picture of devotion than that between the bantam rooster and his hen. They werb constantly together and there was nothing too good for her. He would dig up angle worms and call lief, and when she came up on a gallop and saw the great big worm on the ground, she would look so proud of her rooster, and he would straighten up and look as though he was saying to her, ‘l’m a daisy,’ and then she would look at him as if she would like to bite him, and just as she was going to pick up the wermhe would snatch it and swallow it himself and chuckle and walk around and be full of business, as though wondering why she didn’t take the worm after he had dug it for her, and then the hen would look disappointed at first, and then she would look resigned* as much as to say,. ‘ Worms are too rich for my blood anyway, and the poor, dear rooster needs them more than I do, because he has to do all the crowing,’ and she would go off and find a grasshopper and eat it on the sly for fear he would see her and complain because she didn’t divide. Oh, I have never seen anything that seemed to me so human as the relations between that , rooster and hen! He seemed to try to do everything for her. He would make her stop cackling when she laid an egg, and he would try to cackle and crow over it as though he had laid it, and she would get off in a corner and cluck in a modest, retiring manner, as though she wished to convey the idea to the servant girls in the kitchen that the rooster had to do all the hard work and she was only a useless appendage, fit only for society and company for him. But I was disgusted with him when the poor hen was setting. The first week that she-sat on the eggs he seemed to get along first rate, because he had a couple of flower beds to dig up, which a press of business had caused him to neglect before; and a couple of neighbor’s gardens to destroy; so he seemed to be glad to have his hen retire to her boudoir and set, but after he had been shooed out of the gardens and flower beds he seemed to be nervous, and evidently wanted to be petted, and he would go near the hen and she would seem to him to go and take a walk around the block, because she hadn’t time to leave her business, and if she didn’t attend to it they would have a lot of spoiled eggs on their hands, and no family to bring up. He would scold, and seem to tell her that it was all foolishness, that for his part he didn’t want to hear a lot of chickens squawking around. He would seem to argtie with her that a brood of chickens would be a dead give-away on them both, and they would at once be classed as old folks, while if they were alone in the world they would be spring chickens, and could go in young society, but the hen would scold back, and tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself to talk that way, and he would go off mad, and sulk around a spell, and then go to a neighbor’s henhouse and sometimes he wouldn’t come* back till the next day. The hen would be sorry she had spoken so cross, and would seem pa ned at his going away and would look anxiously for his return, and when he came back after being out in tire rain all night, she would be solicitious after his health, and tell him he ought to wrap something around him, but he acted as though he didn’t care for big health, and he would go out again and get chilled through. Finally the hen came oft the nest with ten chickens, and the rooster seemed very proud, and when anybody came out to look at them he would crow, and seem to say they were all his chickens, though the hen was a long time hatching them, and if it had been him that was acting >e could have hatched them ou»i» a week, or died a trying, Bui the gap osure told on him, and hes«nt and one morning wi* font id Do you know, I lien that seemed to dHhmity as she did. TShe looked pale, and her eyes looked red, and she utterly crushed. If the CMWfeis, which were so young they couls realize that they were little IfecaKte; noisy, and got to puilfegfewf h£ul»g; over a worm, and conducted- themselves' in an unseemly jpwjpem she..wpnld talk to them in hen ’in ? At first she was ihdignAM*j to tell him he oughttojaPO"dbotrt his j business, and leave her alonft Ijlit the J dude kept chicking, andpriMfryjseim tlie l widowed hen edged ito iliej

and then the chickens went out m the alley, and the hen followed them out. I shall always think she told the chickens to go out, so she would have .an excuse to go after them, and flirt with the rooster, and I think it is a perfect shame. She is out in the alley half the time, and I could cuff her. It seems to me wrong to so soon forget a deceased rooster, but I suppose a hen can’t be any more than human. Say, you don’t want to buy a good dead rooster do you? You could pick it and' sell it to somebody that owes you, for a spring chicken.” >• “No, I don’t want any deceased poultry that died of grief, and you better go home and watch your hen, or you will be bereaved sotae more,” and the grocery man went out in the shed to see if the cat was over its fit, and when he came back the boy was gone, and after a while the grocery man saw a crowd in front of the store and he went out and found the. dead rooster lying on the vegetable stand, with a paper pinned on its’breast on which was a sign, “This rooster died of. colix. For sale cheep to hording house only.” He took the dead rooster and threw it out in the street, and looked up and down the street for the bad boy, and Went in and hid a raw hide where he could reach it handy*.— Peck's Sun.

Tricks of Diamond Smugglers.

The recent sale of smuggled diamonds was the largest in the Custom .House record, and shows the audacity with which this fraud is practiced. The method is very ingenious, and the system has been so well arranged that our officials have been compelled to employ spies in foreign ports, who telegraph the departure of suspected persons. As soon as the latter arrive they are taken to the searcher bureau in the Custom House, where, if necessary, they are stripped to the skin. The clothing is also searched, even to* the seam, and sometimes the heel of the boots are removed to see if they are not hollow. Even the hair is combed, and a wig (if one be worn ) is throughly examined. In one it stance a passenger by one of the Cunard steamers had SIO,OOO worth of precious stones concealed in the lining of his boots, which were discovered and confiscated. The man was a dealer in these articles, and was determined to continue in the traffic. In a short time he went again to i London and soon returned. On this occasion he Was closely searched, but nothing was found. As soon as he was released, he went back to the steamer and carried off a large quantity of diamonds he had secreted in his room. Some time age the authorities received notice of the departure of a notorious diamond smuggler from Europe for this port. On his arrival he was taken to the searchers’ bureau and thoran invoice of eighteen precious stones, and his clothes were examined, each garment by itself. The officers were gratified to discover the precise number mentioned in the invoice, and allowed the man to depart. When he went home he removed a plaster from his back, in the ridges of which he had concealed the true diamonds, those discovered being merely imitation, placed there in order to deceive. The ingenuity with which these frauds have been practiced has aroused still closer search and one of the results is the seizure of the last-mentioned invoice'.— New York letter.

Gambling in Leadville.

The gambling business is as openly conducted as the dry-goods stores —in fact, more so, since the stores do close up once in a while, which is more than can be said of the “tiger dens.” Ihe principal business is carried on in twelve or fifteen places, all run in connection with saloons. Most of the tables are on the first floor, and in several saloons operations can be plainly seen from the street. Some few have an up-stairs apartment, a little more exclusive and more handsomely furnished, which it seems to be the fashion to call “reading-rooms.” Faro, roulette and poker are the most popular games, and. everybody plays, from the small boy who mdkes bets of a quarter each, to the man who has “struck it rich,” and lays down a pile of S2O gold pieces on the ace. The element of risk and uncertainty in mining operations—in which everybody out here is in some way interested—seems to stimulate this feverish anxiety to take a chance in something, and the gambling table affords the same kind of excitement tc be found in the occupation of the prospector and the miner. To the man who is poverty-stricken to-day and possibly a wealthy man next week any ordinary amusement is entirely too tame. Then there are men here who have made fortunes at gambling, but they are the dealers. The players themselves almost lose more than they win.— Leadville letter.

Where the Cost Does Not Exceed the Estimate.

The Mexican architect plans his house something after this fashion j The site he selects must be free from any suspicion of verdure or shade; the hotter and drier and sandier it is the better. He then mixes up some mud, stirs in some, rocks, and with the mess proceeds to erect his mansion. .The design is not elaborate— straight up-and-dow walls, witMfut any such nonsense as bay-windows or mansard roofs; a window may or may hot be thrown in, and, when the structure is complete, the owner may stand on the ground and touch the roof, which is of mud also. The interior is sometimes divided into two rooms, and if the owner is a bloated aristocrat—say worth S3O or $10 —he adds a sort of porch across the front, and the thing ia done. A whole village of such edifices is , a very cheerful spectacle. But Mexican architecture is improving. From the cliff and cave dwellings of 500 years Sgo (perhaps a 1,1)00, for all certainty we have of the subject), they have arisen to the present mud huts above ground ; and give the Mexican another 1,000 years, and he may take on some semblance of civilization in the dwelling he inhabits.*— Cor. Boston Transcript.

A Field Bigger than Rhode Island.

The largest ranch in Texas is that of Chhtles Goodwright at the head of Red river. He began four years ago with 270,000 acres, bought at 35 cents per acre, and has con tinned buying, paying as high as $2 per acre, and now controls 700,000 acres. To inclose the land 250 miles of fence is required. He has a herd of 40,000 ««attle. As the State of Bhcde Island covers only--674,944 acres, it will be seen, that this .n sen’s poi > ess 'or s cover territory enough for a commonweaitfii,

NUMBER 25.

A BORDER TRAGEDY.

Assassination of Officials in Grand County, Col. They Are Cruelly Shot Dowa in Cold Blood.

[Denver Telegram.] From * multitude of conflicting report* constantly being received concerning the Grand county tragedy, it is difficult to got the real facts in the ca.se. Texas Charley tells the following story of the fight, which is deemed authentic: Day, Webber and Dean left Mra Young’* boarding-house for town, apd when about twenty-five paces from thehouse were passing a lot of pines and rocks, Webber wanting thirty steps behind Dean and Day. Four masked men jumped out from behind the rocks and pines ana shot Webber in the back, just above tne hips, the ball, passing through his body. Webber cried: “I am shot,” and ran toward Day and Dean, amj fell before them. The leader of the masked party (Mills) then sprang on Dean, knocking him down, and began pounding him over the head with his gun. Day drew his revolver and shot Mills behind the ear, from the pistol burning his hair. Mills fell on top of Dean. As soon as Day was shot the man ran back toward Mra Young’s ice-house, and some masked men came up behind him. Day shot at him, and ifls believed wounded him. A shot from behind struck Day and the ball passed through his heart. He ran fifteen stepg and fell dead in the pa h. Webber was uncon scious after falling, and at 11:80 the same night was dying. His last words were: “Poux some water on my wounds. ” Webber’s and Day’s bodies were taken to Webber’s ranch on Frazer’s farm, from Whence Day’s body was taken to the springs, where it will be buried. Mills will be buried at Grand Lake Dean is at Grand Lake alive at last accounts Coffin, Martin and William Redmon, supposed to be of the attacking party, have so far eluded arrest The trouble that led to the shooting was the result of an old feud, dating back to 1879, when the county was created by act of the Legislature and the seat located at Hot Sulphur Springe At the election held in 1880, the people by a vote changed the county Beat to Grand Lake The matter was taken to the District Court and then to the Supreme Court Meanwhile the hatred existing between the two factions was growing in intensity, culminating yesterday in the bloody work. Grand county has three Commissioners —Barney Day, R G. Mills, and E. P. Webber—a majority of whom, ' Day and Mills, were in favor of declaring the vote illegal that created Grand Lake the county seat and removing the records back to the Springs. The Commissioners had a regular meeting at Grand Lake. Just What was done is not positively known, but it is reported they decided to declare the office of County Treasurer vacant because of his refusal to file a satisfactory bond During the meeting Day, Webber and Clerk Dean stopped at Mra Young's boarding-house, a quarter of a mile around the end of a small lake. The road leading from Mra Young’s to town is through a thicket of small pines It was while passing this point that the officials were snot down in tine manner described. J. G. Mills, one of the Commissioners killed was a man of unenviable reputation. He came to this State from Mississibpi, a fugitive fromjustice, having, in company with one Q. S Lee, shot and killed W. jL Hill and Thomas Ballard The affair occurred'Oct 1,1875, in Holpes county. Mills was for a time local editor of the Cheyenne Leader; leaving that paper tn 1879 and going directly Into Grana county, and became identified with the North Park Miner. He was a bold writer, and bore the reputatio'n of being a wholdtsouled fellow. He was a native of Vermont E. P. Webber was a young and energetic lawyer,, who was for five years Assistant State’s Attorney for the State of 11l nois, at Chicago. He was a man generally well liked, and preferred the law to violence in the settlement of any question, although he wets by no means a coward Barney Day was an old-timer in Colorado, having been one of the first to come overland to Denver about twenty years ago. He emigrated to Middle Park in 1875, and ♦has lived there almost continuously ever since. He had a large number of warm bersonal friends, and leaves a wife and one Child « T. J. Dean was a native of Michigan. He entered the army at the breaking out of the war, and distinguished himself for bravery and ability, and was breveted Colon*), He was afterward wounded and taken prisoner, and was for a long time on* of the unfortunates who were confined in Libby prison. He was disabled from his wounds, losing one eye and being otherwise seriously hurt Upon getting out of prison he came. to Colorado, and has been here since.. He went to Middle Park in 1874 or 1875.. Heis about 55 ; tion of County Judge of Grand-county.

UP IN A BALLOON.

A North' Carolina Child’s Thrilling Aerial Voyage. A recent telegram from Morehead City, N. 0., says: The 3-year-old daughter of Mrs. Robert .Elliott'was brought here a month ago to recover from an attack of fever Yesterday morning a strolling Italian made his appearance with a large clifSter of those red bladder-like toy balloons. Maj. Hawkins of .Alabama, to amuse the child Birdie, tied the cord around her waist, and then, as is so often done to amuse children, gave her a toss of five or six feet in the air, and .held held ont his hands for her to return. “Great God! she is gone,” cried the Majqr, as he saw her rapidly going up, up, up, until she had passed the house tops. Floating in the olouds with outstretched hands, the little angel could be heard distinctly calling “Mamma! Mamma! Mamma!” untilhervoice became drowned by the whistling of the ' -‘All to your beats!” shouted old Capt Dixon, “and never a feon of a man turn baqk until that child is brought to ita mammy. ” Minutes appeared as hours and the babe was flying southeast like a kite, and woul<J .be out over the Atlantic is lets than no time. Away went twenty or more knpllmanned boats amid the shout® of men and screams of women and children. These boats were joined by a like number from Beaufort, all of which kept as near under the little angel in the dona as possible.. Mr. Charles 3. roorheeet, of the Southern Express Company, with a party of gentlemen were out taking a sail Mr. Voorhees is one of the most expert riflemen in the country, hnd had on board his Smith A Wesson “Bang!” Went the rifle, but no change in position. Again, again and again—at the fifth shot one balloon disappeared amid the shouts of the boatmen. At the eighth shot it became evident that the balloons could not logger carry the weight of the littfe floating angel, as she wasgraduailyflefccfsßing, not in a straight line, but in a southeast direction, toward Harker’s island—but whether dead or alive none could telL Down, down, down she comes, as gently, as if handled by human hands, and to fall m a bradle of sand. Toland, toland, and all pdt to shore s fast as the sails would propel the boats. Then began the race for the baby, and she had come down on a sand bank only a few hundred yards distant With fear and trembling all ran up, Ben Pivar in in front. “Gentlemen,” says he, “Use’s alive and kicking.” There sat little Birdie, playing with a lot of shells, and as she was picked up she clung to a handful, sajing, seis for mamma." u At the wharf, after everything seemed safe, then little Birdie came the nearest of losing het life. Col Whitford, a man of generous impulses, seized the little angel in his awns, and at a lightning speed started for Its mother, who was then lying in an unconscious state, under the skillful care of Dra Haywood. Arendall and Kelly of Louisiana. But, before the kind-hearted Colonel had gone far, amid'the dense crowd and confusion, he ran off the wharf into water eight feet deep. Several jumped oveiboara and aided h'm in landing his prize. The child was none the worse for the ducking. One of the mighty subjects to be discussed at the Concord School of Philosophy thia year is “The Distinction of Reality and Potentiality from True Actuality.” When that discussion fairly seta in, it will be time for the rest of the world to take to the wmida- Buffalo Express.

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JULY CROP BULLETIN.

Indications of a Crop of 800,000,000 Bushels of Winter and 125,000,- • 000 of Spring Wheat. large Increase in the Area Devoted to Corn—A Total of 68,000,000 ' Acres.

Th* July report of the National Department of Agriculture indicates very general improvement in the condition of cotton. Rains were general up to the 15th or 23th of June, and local shower* have been frequent tinoe. There has been an excess of moisture, Interfering with the cultivation and promoting the growth of grass. Clean fields are found only in favored distriota and on lands with prompt and pushing oulti▼atora Since June 90the growth has been rapid. In grassy districts the plan is are still small but healthy, and making gibab progress with recent cultivation. The only complaint ot drought comes from Central and .Sou hwestern Texas, from ths Colorado to the Gaudalupe. A lew counties in Routh Carolina and Georgia report a present need of t ain. There is promise of improvement during July. A gain of 10 pointe has been made in the Northern Zone, North Carolina and Tennessee, 7 in Georgia, 6 in South Carolina, 4 in Texas. 8 in Mississippi, 2 in Virginia and lin Florida Alabama and Louisiana stand as tn June. The July State avtanges are aa follows: Virginia, 83: North Carolina, 91; South Carolina 91: Georgia, 98; Florida, 95; Alabama 87; Mbsissippi. 89; Louisiana, 91; Texas, 98; Arkansas. 84; Tennessee, 88. Worms have wrought but little injury as yet. The caterpillar has appeared at a few pointe from South Carolina to Texas. In Butler, in Alabama, the second brood of worms appeared June 21 The- bdl-worm is at work in Denton county, Texas Picking will commence in Southwestern Texas about the 20th of July. * WHMT. There has been some improvement in winter wheat in Connecticut, New York, Virginia. South. Carol UaW, DMo, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and California which advance* tile general averThe indication* for July point to a winter spring wheat .a* « cobn. The area of the Sort* stop haa been increased about 2,500,000. a.re.->, ranking an aggregate of 68,000,0(0 acres. There has been some extension-as the area in nearly every State. The prouortion of increase is large in the Northwestknftln’the Southwest On the coast, from Virginia to MWtrtppi, the advance has been small In some places the reduction of price "from the enlarge ment of the supply last year had a discouraging effect. There has beentr-O much rain m the great Western maize ffistrtuta, and the failure pf stand* from planting poor seed, making the- stop late and the growth small, but the improvement has of late been rapid, raking all the States together, the average for coin is 88, against Bblast July, 90 in .Ibjl.and 1(X in 1880. The hveiages of the principal Stater are as follows: New York, 84; Pennsyl van’s, 89; Ohio, 83; Michigan, 78; Indiana, W; IllinOis, 82; lowm 80; Wourl 8£; KansM, 98; Nebraska, 87; Dakota 78. In the South the averages range from 90 in Tennessee to iu3 in Louisiana. other Mconuoto. The prospect for oats is nearly |ogood as in July of last year, the average being 99 against 103. The condition of barley is represented by 97. Last July it was 9». The average inNew York is 103;. Penn sylvan*, 91; Wisconsin. 102;. California, IXI There has been an increase of about 5 per cent in the area planted in Northern potatoea They are reported in high condition, averaging 101. The average of tobacco appears to have been diminished 7 per cent in condition. •

LAND SHARKS.

Expose of Enormous Frauds in the Matter of Entering Government Lunds. ■■ i > • [Washington Telegram.] Over 600 reports have been received by the Commissioner of the General Land Office from thirty special agents engaged in the hivehtigation of fraudulent land entries up to July 1. In many of theszreases supplemental reports have been called for, covering have Shown sufficient euideroe ot ifaaud to jexoepthm that the fraudulent entries, ((■whether homestead Or pre-emption, cover •the full area of land allowed by law’-lna’me-ly, 160 acres. The lapd already restored to the public domain upon the reports of these agents aggregates about-60.0 acre”. A great deal w located in rich valleys. per aci-e * The approximate* saving to the Government already . effected by the secretaservice division of the General Land Office isestimated at *125.000, anfl ft is maintained thatthdfee figures will bedoubled when actions reached upon reports yet unexamlned,; ■ The presppoe. of these special agents has haff the efft ct of checking many fraudulent schemes n6t yet dohsummated f „ ■."■‘.T.----'--...J;—-?• ;

OUT OF THE USUAL ORDER.

A GTccL took poison aftrir Writing letters to two beaus adjuring thorn by her love for them to take care or her.body. Of course she lived in The most enterprising strrot-car Jjcmin the world is run between Blllitogs and Coulson, Montana, thefare being 8S debts; which includes two glasses 4£ beet at« touison Nine gftls in St. Lbifis 5 baseball club. While, playingapnuftiee game the miss at the bat ref because the pitcher weffifelr “real hard.” . > . MkiYTBdAiWtT MT ■ < A young woman, aged 18 years, who lives In Lapeer, Minn., has now teen thrice nratried and thrice a wttWW. -All the eligible bachelors andwidowersot that town are fleeing for their lives. IN the Gulf Fibril A hen hatched a brood of chickens in a neat on the limb of a tree twenty-four feet from thb ground. Hens down there early learn the necessity of roosting high. ! . a •-«.. > A«EOT in Wilmington, N. 0., was bitten by a rattlesnake a few days ago, the fang of the serpent entering the end of Ms fiugew.When he seized a hatchet»which, happened to be near at hand and cut off his finger before the poison had time bespread* through Ms ; system. . - i • . in a skiff to nave a pierne by mtnHeii. wmi# paddling M’caughta BWe alligator, which bestonto whittle, In a short time the lagoon was fiUed Jgth its.kindred. lowed him to the wharf, di . . 14,1, A ThAVEifc*, "whSe Walking among the ruins* of Caracalla’s baths toiqmt, came sawasventured too neluf their neeta, and'they picked up stones in their talons.soaxed to a height of nearly fcet. and let them drop. Home of the stopeq weighed a potpd. The Lower Allo ways Creek oowespondent Of the. Salem (N. 3,) tttyndard adds to nls list of tough Stopes from’Wat Sec: ibn this: A cow belonging 1 to James Stackhouse, having no progeny of her own, has adopted a litter P* Pte* Wsßtgeare four in number, and when hungry they give notice to thefir foster mother tL Tubbing against her legs, and at the same time give vent to the well-known vocal sound of yoipig.iryme. Their guardian at once lirodoiya in.such a manner that the maternal fount Is readily accessible, and then each ptg’proceeds to gain a livelihood by seizing <M a teat. , | j Among the sight* which were witnessed on the dock yesterday, the most noticeable was There was only -one string on the instalment, but he rendered the most difficult s«r~-sr£s= different instruments. A large crowd Hsti