Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1879 — Page 9

DARING STAGE BOBBERS.

Some Exciting; Experiences .witt Hilarions HigowajmeD, who Waylaid Travelers.

" Gentlemen " of the Boad who Politely Salute the Ladies and Kefase to . Take their Money.

The Utter TJselessness of Carrying; Vmpou or Offering; Resistance to the Desperate Boughs.

San Tranciseo Golden Era Old California and Nevada stage drivers, in ' relating their experience of the past, always speak with pride and affection of the "Placerville route," which has heen the scene of many startling adventures. Indeed, the State is not even now, free from the ravages of marauding hands, who rohon the highway and would steal from a church. Many daring stage robberies have heen committed on the Placerville road, between Sacramento in the valley, and Placerville, in the mountains, which was also made famous

bv "Greeley's Hide." A picture of

the coach, with Hank Monk on the hrix and Mr. tireelfiv's venerable bead

bursting through the top of the coach now adorns the walls of the Ormsby House, in Carson.

some years ago 1 was a passenger on one of these coaches, and it happened to be just at a time when stage robberies were unusually

frequent. We had a full list of passengers,

but I was the only lady among them. I was

in charge of a gentleman friend of the family, who made such boasts of bravery that it was confidently expected that I should be safely delivered into the hands of my father

at Placerville. I had with me a case of

jewels (which I may here state that no woman had any use for at that time), which

I intended to send by express, but my valiant

escort declared that the express box, which

would be on the same coach, would be the first thing seized, and I had much better in

trust them to his care.

HE CARRIED TWO REVOLVERS AND A KNIFE,

. which he said he intended to use in case of . attack, and did not mean to be robbed of

anything unless his life was taken. The stage-

drivers never seemed to take any interest in . these little affairs. They were unarmed;

carried nothing of value about them, and simply halted when commanded, and drove

on when ordered to do so. Their discretion

was certainly commendable, as resistance

. was useless, and if they did not lose their

. lives then, they would certainly be assassin

ated if they attempted another trip. These ' trips are made with no stoppages, except for a change of horses and drivers, and for meals. Six horses were used, and a mad gallon th

only salt. J. he nrst night out there was no

., apprehension, as we were not on

dangerous ground, . and the . passengers

dozed and chatted, and complained ot the rough road, and altogether man aired

to pass the night as comfortably as could be

, expected under the circumstances. As dark-

ness closed in on the second evening, the

passengers examined their arms and decided

not to sleep, but keep on the lookout. The horses must have kept the road from instinct, for the darkness was almost Egyptian in in

tensity, when suddenly, with a swerve that almost upset the coach, they came to a full

stop. 1 hough we heard no word of com

TnAnd tbe insiril WAA-immpdintalv in

A STATE OF COJfFUSION, ,

supposing it to be the road agents, and my valiant protector hastily transferred the

jewel-case to me, along with his own watch

and purse, saying they would be much safer in my possession. This scarcely occupied a

moment's time, when the driver called out

that it was onlv a fallen tree, and he would have to find some way - of getting around it, and if that could not be done, the passengers would have to assist in cut

ting it away, axes being Btored away under

the seats in anticipation of accidents

of that kind, which , occur frequently,

We heard the driver climbing down from

his perch, and as he struck - the

ground he utterrd a smothered exclama

tion, and at the same moment, in a c.ear

commanding tone, came the order. "Hold

np your hands, gentlemen 1" and each side of

- the coach bristled with barrels of shotguns.

it is needless to say that the order was

instantly obeyed. They "went through" the

party in much less time than I can relate it.

and in the meantime I sat paralyzed in the corner with my valuables in full view. At last, with an effort, I handed them to the leader, who was keeping my escort "covered." He held his revolver with his right hand,

and with his left politely raised his hat, say

ing: "Jliss you wrong me.

"I SEVER ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM A

LADY."

- The driver was then allowed to resume his seat, and those who were holding the horses showed the way around the tree which had - been felled for the purpose, and, while the

- coach wag still kept "covered," the order was

given. "Drive on, and don't . look back!

, which order was strictly and promptly

oDeyea. uur passengers were a crest-fallen

. lot, and nothing more was heard of resistance, as they had all been deprived of what ..-had proved to be useless weapons. We " 'reached our journey's .. end ' without further interruption. The Tom

Bell gang was for many years the terror of

Vtne mountain districts, and many tales are " told of their lawless deeds. My father was

. interested in the building of the Donner Lake

. wagon road, and in an encounter with this

- gang managed by strategy to save a large

sum oi money, lie was accompanied by

friend whose route lay with his a portion of

the way, but to him he did not confide the

fact that he was carrying any considerable . sum of money, as his friend was naturally a timid man and he did not care to add to the

fears which already possessed him. About 10 miles from their destination their roads divided, the friend going to the place where the workmen were quartered, and my father : to the house of a friend where he intended to

. , pass - the night. He jogged along . leisurely

-, for a mile or more, and, as it was about 6 - in the evening, was thinking of hastening

before dark, not .expecting any trouble in

. daylight, when

HE WAS SUDDENLY JOINED BY A. HORSEMAN

The civilities of the day were exchanged, : and they rode on together, eon versing upon

topics of current interest, work on the

road, -mining in the neighborhood, etc. ' At length the stranger asked carelessly where

He was going, and asked u be was not Mr.

, the contractor. ' Papa said he was not, j

but they came up together, and tney had separated a few miles back. At the next by path the stranger left him, and he learned the next morning that his friend had been surrounded by road agents, and all his protestations would not make them believe that the right man had gone the other way. It seems they had a description of the man thev wanted and of the road he was expected to go,

I but the coolness of his denial and his going mother way, coupled with the fact that his friend's description was in some respects sim

ilar threw them oft the track. As this gang

were robbers and not murderers, probably

saved the.ohter man's life, for at that time

highwaymen were known to have mnrdered men simply because they had no money. A por teamster on the moun

tains was once stopped by a couple of men and his money demanded, but when they

round he had none, they contented them

selves with both kicking him heartily and

cursing him tor a deceitful beggar lor traveling without money. One of my relatives, a brother-in-law, member of a San Francisco commercial house, has often said he would

not submit to being

ROBBED WITHOUT RESISTANCE,

but would be certain to shoot at any man who attempted it. He always traveled well

armed, and fortunately never met with any robbers until about three years ago. He had some heavy collections to make through the

bouthern part ot California, and in one town

where he stopped had several firms to call upon. As he came out of one place where

he had called he saw a man standing at the door, but did not think of it again until he

saw him at a second place he visited. He

had been conversing with a member of the firm, and said among other things that he had taken a buggy to go to several small towns in the vicinity . and would

be . back in two . or three days:

that he was then . going to the

livery stable for his team. Just as he turned to leave the store, the same man passed out before him. On his way to the livery stable he stopped at Wells, Fai go & Co.'s express

office, as was his custom, and sent his coin to

San Francisco. A few hours after leaving town he found himself on a pleasant but lonely forest road, and the day being warm,

he was beginning: to enjoy the coolness of

the shade, when the horse suddenly stopped, and refused to move. The rest I will tell as

nearly as possible in his own words:

LOOKING INTO A PISTOL

"As I raised my head to see what was the

matter, I was' met square in the face by the barrel of a pistol. 1 had looked into many a

one before, but this is the first one thai

I had . seen with a whole in it big

enough to crawl into. "Throw up your handsl" As the lines were hanging

on the dashboard, I had nothing to hinder

me from doing it at once, which I did like a little man. The fellow's pal went through

me, and while doing so if my arms dropped

a little, " Higher! " was the sharp order, and

up they would go as high as 1 could reach.

I. had only . if U, which seemed to surprise

them, as they thought I had money they bad

seen me collecting ; so they cursed me and their luck, looked at my watch to see the

time, examined my weapons and put them

all back into their places, said that was a nice diamond ring for a poor man to wear, but did not take it, saying they oaly wanted

money, and in these times such things al

ways gave a fellow away. They then told me to sit down.- gave me the lines and told

me if I looked back before I reached the next house they would blow my brains out.

I didn t look back.

HOW MUCH CAN A MAX EAT.

WHEN HE CAME HOME,

he walked into the house and laid his pistols

down, saying that he would never carry

them again. When asked why he said,

Twas of no use to carry weapons," and told

the story I have just given. It is related of

Joaquin Murieta, the famous bandit chief, that the day after one of his most daring

exploits he rode up to a saloon in a mining camp, went in and drank with the crowd,

and heard his own story told over and over

by the excited throng, and what they would

do, if they ever met him. He asked if they

had ever met him. JN one of them had, but they could all describe "the murdering greaser." and -would be glad to meet him

the sooner the better. Joaquin then or

dered a drink, went to the door, mounted his

horse, rode up to the bar, leaned down and

took the glass, drank to the crowd

tossed the glass on the floor, and as quick as lightning drew his revolver, dashed his

ipurs into his horse, and shouted back to

them, "Caraja, Americano! Here is Joaquin

Murieta 1" And . before , the bewildered

miners had collected their senses he was out

of sight.

How to Deal With Rata.

A writer in the Scientific American sava

We clean our premises of these detestable

vermin by making whitewash yellow with

copperas and covering the stones and rafters

in the cellar with it. In every crevice in

which a rat may tread we put the crystals of

the. copperas and , scatter the same in the

corners of the floor. The result, was a per-

feet stampede of rats and mice. Since that

time not a footfall of either rats or mice has been heard about the house. Every spring a

coat of the yellow wash is given the cellar, as a purifier, as a rat exterminator, and no typhoid, dysentery, or fever attacks the familv. Manv persons deliberately attract all

the rats in the neighborhood by leaving fruits and vegetables uncovered in the cellar, and

sometimes even the soap is left open for their

regalement. Cover up everything eatable in the cellar and pantry, and you will soon

starve them out. These precautions joined

to- the service of a good cat will prove as good a rat exterminator as the chemist can

provide. , W e never allow rats to be poisoned in our dwelling, they are so liable to die between the walls and produce much annoyance.

Mark This, Hoys. "Did you ever know a man who grew rich

by fraud, continue successful through life, and leave a fortune at death?" .

This question was put to a gentleman who

had been in business for 40 years.

After reflecting a while, he replied: "Not

one. 1 have seen many men become rich as if bv ma trie, and win golden opinions: when

some little thing led to an exposure of their

fraud, they have fallen into disgrace and ruin

acbuii, perjury, uiuruer aim surciue, are common crimes with t jee who make haste to be rich, regardless of the means."

Boys, stick a pin here. lou will soon be

men, and begin to act with those who make

money. The Zulu women are sold in marriage for

a certain number of cows. The bridegroom furnishes the cows, and his prospective t'ather-

in-iaw utaes vuem. iu -utvm&eu countries the sale is made for other consideration.

Some Very Wonderful Japanese Dishes.

(New York Times.7

The question asked by a correspondent as

to the quantity of food necessary to support

lite is, we suppose, rather intended as an inquiry as to the quantity needed by an adult person in the ordinary vocations of life. In a recent publication reviewed in the Tiuies

"Hygiene and Public - Health; ' Buck the fullest answer may be found. From this

work and other sources can be gathered the

exact quantity of food necessary for a soldier or sailor, which may be taken as typical of the wants of the individual. An American soldier has daily given him 22 ounces of

bread, 12 ounces of pork or bacon, or 20

ounces of fresh or salt beef, 16 ounces of potatoes three times a week, 1.6 ounces of

rice, with 1.6 ounces of coffee, 2.04 ounces of sugar, .64 of a gill of beans, .32 of a gill of

vinegar, u.Ib ot a gill or salt. As to the

quantity of this food, it is larger and more

abundant than would seem at first sight to be necessary, but the liberality in food has this great advantage, that in time of hard work, the fatigue of the individual

is diminished and the power of recuperation

sensibly increased. The total quantity then,

provided for a soldier ot the L uited states

army is larger than is consumed by tho general working man. Of course, various condi

tions of life, climate and locality have to do

with the quantitiy of food. Thus, an idle person can get along very well with 2.75

ounces of nitrogenous food, and 20 ounces

of carbonaceous food (flesh and cereal or

vegetable food), when if the same individual were walking or in active outdoor life,

double this quantity lnigb. be used. Per

haps the Esquimaux represents the heaviest feeders in the world, for Parry tells of a young native who devoured in the 24 hours 9 J pounds of sea horse, half raw, half cooked,

lj pounds of bread, 11 pints ot good, strong

soup; If pounds of ship bread, and 9 pints of

water, not counting grog and spirits, Uotn Sir John Ross and Dr. Hayes, from personal observation declare that the daily ration of an Esquimaux, may range from 12

to 20 pounds of flesh food. On the other hand, it is quite remarkable how small a quantity of food a man

may eat, and still retain his health, though,

as to the point of mental vigor engendered by scarcity of fare, that is another question.

Cornapo, who wrote a treatise on long lite,

subsisted for 58 years on 12 ounces of vege

table matter and 14 ounces of wine per diem,

while another case is cited of a man existing

for not quite 20 years on 16 ounces of flour per diem, made into some kind of a pudding.

All such stories of people who have lived on

a minimum ot food when tueir means or circumstances allow them to procure more,

should be taken with a certain amount of

doubt. There is nothing in which deception

is more likely. The expression is often heard.

by people who understand very little about it, that "we all eat too much." This is very

rarely the case it should rather be

expressed, "we eat too much of

one thing or of the same kind

of food, because cooks and housewives are so very ignorant." The advantages of a gener

ous diet have been frequently written about

in this column. It is perfectly impossible for

a human being to exert hu best faculties ll

underfed. 1 here never was a strong man

with a strong brain who could keep up the

physical and mental drain without an ample

supply of food. Certainly, there are gluttons and gluttony is a physical disease, but it is

just as much a malady of a mental character

tor people to think that they assume a distinguished phenomenal manner by the appearance of a distaste for good food. When

people, then, do not leel well, there is some

thing wrong either with their heads or their

stomachs.

Ci vilization not only prides itself on the

qualities of its foods, but on the decoration

of its dishes. The ornamental talents of the

most distinguished chef might

pale before that of the Japan

ese artist who prepared the late

imperial state dinner at Nagasaki partaken

of by General Grant. There was a first

course, a main course, an interval course,

and a final course, followed by a kind of addendum quite as comprehensive as the whole of the rest of the menu. How peculiar must be zauni, something made of orane,

pauyu, beche de mer, sea-weed potatoes, nee, bread and cabbage. Choku, rather peculiar as to sound, indicating strangulation, was made of powdered bonito, flavored with plum-juice and walnuts. For a piece monies, commend us to shimadai, which was a dish decorated with peony . and schakio (a

doll with long red hair), and composed of i a i , T ' i i f a

nasnea nsa, kisbu ym, peculiar Kino, oi neuj, shrimps, potatoes. rabbits, gold-fish and gin

ger, in the shape of flowers. Here is a des

sert: Buzuributa, compounded of mashed

fish, eggs, shrimp, plum-cake, bl'.ck mush

rooms and finely-cut oranges. As to fruit, pears prepared with horse-radish must have been most peculiar. As the Japanese are

great fish eaters, out of the 64 dishes represented at this banquet, fish enters into rather

more than three-quarters of the whole of

them. It is to be hoped that General Grant enjoyed his dinner. At the Centennial full opportunities were given to some of the tasters to become- acquainted with the excel

lence of the . Japanese fish preparations,

Smoked salmon were put up in the Dutch

style, which were excellent, and as to those compounds of sea-moss, those manufactured by the Japanese were far superior to any made either in America or England. This

preparation of sea-moss is made by the Japanese for the Chinese trade, and is an im

portant article of commerce.

The Lightning:-Rod Man.

The Chicago Tribune tells the following

story of a visit made by a lightning-rod man

10 an oia iarmer in isconsin:

"I thought I see you round here a year or two ago, selling another variety of them

condiments," observed the old agriculturist

"and you said that these here lightning-rods

were traudsr

'Oh, yes; that was when I was in the bonds of sin and the gall of bitterness," said the

agent, contritely; "but I've been converted

since. I often shudder now-a-days when

think if my foot had slipped when 1 was putting up one of the inferior articles which I was then palming off upon a credulous and unprotected community, I might have

gone plumb down to perdition with a lie on

my lips and a hammer in my hand, now I am endeavoring to atone for the evil which I committed by exposing the inferior quality of the lightning-rods I then put up and replacing them with thoss for which I am now agent at cost price." The old farmer said he didn't exactly know that be wanted to put up any lightning-rods, but the agent said to him: "I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll put up a set of lightning-rods forg ou, and it you don't like them I'll make you a present of them." The farmer's eyes sparkled at the proposi-

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tiuu, hue ngeub nnub wo worn, aim wueii ue had completed his task he slapped the Iar

mer on the back and asked him it be liked

the material of the rods and tb workmanship.

ihe farmer said he didn t "All right!" said the agent

"then pleasantly; the rods are yours, and I don't charge you a cent. Our company always sticks to its word, and

would rather loose a million dollars than do

a job that wasn't satisfactory to the custom

ers.

The farmer asked the lightning-rod nan

to come in and have some dinner, and the lightning rod man said he didn't mind. There seemed to be something funny on the

lightning-rod man s mind, for be would look at the farmer every minute or twe and laugh to himself and gently, when asked what was wrong say, "Oh, nothing, nothing," and then choke with inward mirth. All through the meal he entertained his hosts with interesting reminiscences of houses that had been struck by lightning bow in one case every

thing metallic within, the building was fused and a fac-eimile ot a campaign supplement was indelibly imprint

ed upon the woman of the house, while her

beautiful daughter was driven through a stovepipe-hole, leaving great stripes of her

soft white flesh on the ragged edges of the sheet-iron. When he "was climbing into his wagon, the fit of mirth with which he was seized so nearly approached the proportions

of an apoplectic seizure that the honest

farmer got alarmed and asked him what in

the name of Charles Foster he was laughing

at.

"I was laughing ha, hal he, hel hi. hi!

ho, bo!" panted the merry agent, "to tbink

that you think vou ve got ahead of me. '

Got ahead of you: well, 1 did get ahead

of you," said the farmer; "I got them lightning-rods for nothing."

Yes, gasped the agent, in paroxisms of

mirth: "but go and look at those lightningrods and see if they are wound np ho! ho! ho!" 3

"Well, and suppose they ain't wound up;

what difference does it make?"

"What difference does it make?" echoed

the agent, in well-feigned astonishment.

"Shade of S. F. B. Morse, here is a man that doesn't know the difference between positive and negative electricity! Just you go up to the house, and if you have Wheatstone's

Pragmatic Analytical Synopsis of Diffcr-

ensiated Electricity' the edition of 1876 is the best overhaul the eleventh chapter.

and you'll see what the difference is."

"1 haven t got the book, said the farmer;

"what is the dill'crcnce any way?"

Ihe dincrcnce is that a lightning-rod

when property wound up conducts positive

electricity from the clouds to the earth; when

not wound up it conducts negative electricity from the earth to the clouds.

1 bat's all the difference there is The earth, as Huxley says, is a great reservoir chockfull of electricity which is constantly seeking affiliation with the oxygen and

metheghn of the atmosphere. lour light

ning-rod is probably the only one in the

Northwestern states that is not wound up;

conseq.n:ntly the surging currents of elec

tricity which have been meandering all over the country striving to find an outlet, after

vainly trying every other lightning-rod are accumulating beneath y.ur house, and

corruscating and dilating and titillating all

along the surfaaeof yourlightningrod. Wait

till ltgets dark and you 11 see a pale, lambent flame playing all along its. surface. The first

touch of a thunder-storm you have up here the spectacle of hwful grandeur presented

by your lightning-rod 11 knock anything ever seen the combustion of Sodom

and Gomorrah. By the way there's a dark

blue cloud coming up yonder. I guess we're

going to have a thunder-storm. Good-bye;

l must get out ot here, tor l owe it to my

family to preserve my life. If your daughter survives don't you worry about the future. I'll

make proper provision for her, because it will

be $100,000 in my pocket to be able to point to her as the sole survivor of a man whose

house was knocked into brick-dust and matchsplints because he wouldn't take my advice about the arrangements of his lightning-

rods.

I'll get an axe and crow-bar and tear the

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oum ming uown, saiu me iarmer, auer

moment s irresolute pause.

All right; only I want as a special favor

to ask you not to begin till I am over the hill and out of sight. With that lightning-

rod instinct with negative electricity, as it is,

it is sure death for any uninsulated man to

approach it."

mi Hold on I said, the unlortunate

farmer; " I'll give you $5 to wind up the

thing tor me.

Five dollars! said the agent with

sneer ; " why the fact that your house was

burst into twenty hundred thousand million

pieces 11 be worth $oU,0U0 to the company

as an awful example. U lang there I '

" Hold up," yelled the agriculturist; "will

you wind up them lightning rods if I pay

you for them

" Well, 1 don t know that 1 should,

responded the . agent ; " ycu see, you said they weren't quite according to your taste,

and it doesn t seem exactly right

be taking a man's money for a thing that be isn't quite satisfied with. Beside, it is taking

thousands and thousands of dollars out

of the company's pocket, because what we

want is an awful example to scare other fellows into takiifg our rods just as we put'em up. - However, seeing it's you, and as 1 don't want to have your blood on my hands, I don't mind doing it. Hand over the $90 and I'll fix it" The farmer produced the money, and the agent gave him a receipt; then taking a monkey-Trench he . approached the lightning-rod and gave it a couple of twists; placed his ear close to it, hit it again, and then returned joyfully to the farmer. ''It's all right now," he said; "it has been wound up and is now prepared to conduct positive electricity in large or small quantities from the atmosphere to the earth at the shortest notice. But if I bad been half an hour later, I should have been too late, for already the lightning-rod was

beginning to bulge and throb, and scale off

in places with the fiery element confinded within it"

A VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH.

Saved by a Workman's Presence of Mind.

Bradford Era. The infernal (yet very useful) compound

is so swift and terrible in its work, and so annihilatory in its effects that many persons experience a singular feeling if even in the

presence or the harmless-looking fluid. They know that a slight concussion would send

them into eternity with the rapidity of the

lightning flash, and hardly a trace of their

bodies be found. Men who are accustomed to handling nitre-glycerine are supposed to

have none ot these feelings, and nerve is a necessary requisite. Nevertheless the presence of appalling danger sometimes flust rates the best of them, as will be seen by the following incident:

At a certain factory not a hundred miles

from Bradford, were gathered the members of

the Arm and some workmen. The gentlemen

were inienuy watcning me process oi manufacturing the explodent when one of them incautiously dropped his cigar stub on the floor which was covered with running water,

bearing on the surface small particles of

nitro glycerine. The latter caught fire and burned brilliantly with a sputtering noise. To say that the spectators were alarmed would

he to put it very mildly. They were simply

paralyzed with terror and watched the

spreading fiery stream with the helpl

fascination with which a victim is said to look in the glittering eves of a rattlesnake.

Alfaround them were cans filled with nitro

glycerine, enough to annihilate an army, and every man felt as though he was the victim

of a hideous nightmare which held him pow

erless, flight was impossible; their limbs refused to perform their office and an awful

death seemed inevitable. The apparently doomed men saw the little lake of fire spread slowly but surely on the floor, but the flames hissed as though in triumph

at the certain death that seemed to await their

victims. None of the spectators will soon

forget this thrilling episode in their lives, and

money could not hire them to repeat the ex

periment. When the fire had almost reached a can filled with erlvcerine one of the work

men roused from bis lethargy, and taking off

his cost, spread it on the floor and extinguish

ed the flames, when of course all danger ceased. One of the gentlemen present when describ

ing hu experience, said: "1 never knew before what it was to be sick from fear. When

I saw the infernal stuff burning, and felt that

every man of us would be blown to atoms in

ve seconds, every muscle of my body seemed

pa .-led. 1 gasped tor breath, my bead swam,

and 1 telt a deathly sensation of nausea in

my lomach. All present turned an ashy

paleness ot the lace, l ben l vainly wondered whether there would be any pain in the

death stroke, l he remembrance ot a niro-

ueaLU mruKB. xue reineuiurance oi amro-i .itfrninn. llAKn. -V, n n V, n U;11 I

f 'f,, -;.; . fli,ij able contrivance, which can be fastened over

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nig urai . oi uuc ui iui vituuu was piiKea up

a minute after the explosion came to mind

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T .n..,; f,oto l,, i . wnue snaving nis customers, n is maae oi

dergothat Strang experienc'e after being torn J JX

from my body. The thought or my family , ; - A Vv , , f. , caused me the' most poignant anguish, and ' ,8eiW"h l"??! a,Ld "S h",? tears coursed down my cheeks. Then aeve-' - Pr'ce",$2'50;

ral incidents or my life, of which 1 can not';" " - speak with pride, 'were vividly presented, to , Jli ilJ ' C

my mind s eve and induced vague reflections r , r il i CT, 7 " , on the subject of future punishment Some-, ch.k a of th hest chilled steel, times in my dreams I have felt myself in the ' . Th?.B?nne Grapple.-This little machine

presence ot trigbttui periu such as Ivinp in - . & - . . . .

reat many privileges he would not take if e was not permitted to do so. He will give

your arm many loving squeezes and sly

twists that he could have no opportunity of doing, and the opportunity is just what he is after. A few more words of advice and I close.

Keep voune girls off the street except

when they have business. Teach them it is

unnecessary to go to the postomce every time they go out Tour girls can walk alone

just as well as your boys. Don't allow your

girls, if they must have a beau, to go with Boys much older than themselves. If possi

ble, instill into their very nature that tbey are safer in their own hands than they are in

the hands of any man preachers .not excepted.

Shakespeare and the Irayer-Book as s

Legal Authorities. Albany Law Journal. 1 Some new authorities have been discovered

on the domestic relations, namely, Shakespeare and the book of common prayer. In

snyder against Snyder, the common pleas of Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania, on the question of the custody of children as between disagreeing parents, "dropped into ' poetry," and cited Shakespeare, and ap

proved the situation by the counsel of the prayer-book, oa the relation of husband and wife. In relation to Christianity and the common law the court said: "That "law had been the product

of our civilization through centuries of experience, and is founded on the common precepts of Christianity incorporated into it,and so far the common law of the land." The court then quoted and proceeded as follows: " Thj ha. band is thy lord, thy life, thy kwper. Thy head, thy sovereign; one that caras for tbee. And for tbr maintenance; commits his bodj To painful labor, bo lb by sea and land. To watch the night in storms, the day in cold. While thou iiest warm at home, seenrs and safe; And crave no other tribute at thy hands, Bnt love, fair looks, and trae obedience. This, which Shakespeare puts into the mouth of women, is poetry, but at the same time law.. The man who uses his power to burden and not assist his wife, becomes a tyrant and not a husband. The woman who seeks no counsel from her husband, sets up her oVn authority against his, and does not, with love, yield him homage and respect has yet to learn the true nature of the relation into which she has entered," To the same effect only more so, is St Paul; but perhaps the court had not the authority at hand.

Two Valuable Inventions. Virginia (Ker .) Chronicle. The following new inventions by residents of Nevada have been caveated at the Wash-

i ington patent office:

A rSarbefs Muzzier This is a very service-

a barber's mouth to prevent his talking

the path oi an express train or tottering on

the brink of a vast abyss, but was utterly incapable of moving hand or foot for my preservation. So it seemed in this case. I could

not lift a finger though there was compara

tive safety in flight; paralyzed with terror was literally my condition. After what seemed an eternity of waiting for my inevita

ble late, my attention was arrested by a movement on the part of one of the work

men, who took off his coat hurriedly. Then

be bent forward and with the utmost deliberation laid it on the pool of fire, moving

it gently along and patting it with his hands until every spark was extinguished. The

reaction from the terrible suspense was Smith innninj

almost overpowering, and I felt weak as a J please let papa

i-uiiu, uua S S vub iuw kuc vyisix nit uij . n.e'B.ln

uiu itiLii" Duuug vauio uwh vciy taiiiuiy-

May I never have another such experience."

goers. It is an ordinary grapphng-book

with a rope attached. 1 he grapple is thrown

fiver any lady's bonnet which may happen to

obstruct the view, and the crowd behind caa always be depended upon to pull the rope. It sometimes disfigures the ladv's face per

manently, in which case she never returns to

again obstruct the view.

Johnny Lnmy'i Client. New Tork Sua.

Johnny Leamy, a blue-eyed, curly-headed

little fellow, in the Torkville police court,

said:

"I want to see the judge."

"What do you want Johnny?" Justice

go. He won't do it

Tally One for Bob. This is what Robert G. Ingersoll says of women: "I tell you women are more prudent than men. 1 tell you as a rule, women arc more faithful than men 10 times as faithful as men. I never saw a man pursue

his wife into a very ditch and dust of degradation and take -her in his arms. I never saw a man stand on the shore where she had been morally wrecked, waiting for the waves

to bring back even her corps to his arms;

but I ha ve seen woman, wi h her white arms,

lift man from the mire of degradation,, and

hold him to her bosom as though he were an

; angel."

Luminous Moss. Oalignanl's Messenger. In many parts of the Alps, the Pyrenees,

and other mountainous districts of the south

of Europe, travelers are frequently aston

ished on entering caves or caverns to una them lighted up to a certain extent This appearance is produced by a small, elegant . i - . i . . i ,

moss, me ocnisiosiega osmunaacea, wnicn forms a monotype genus created by the naturalist jlobr, at the commencement of this century. Hedwig had placed the moss among the Gymnostomum, but afterward Mohr distinguished it foom the fact that the small covering which protects the fruit splits instead of being raised all in one piece like most other mosses, and from this circum

stance its name is derived, composed from

the Greek Schistostega (split-cover). In the dimly lighted caverns this plant usually inhabits the walls, or the ground where it grows appears to be lit up with a greenish glow which has been com paced to the reflection of an emerald. At first this effect was attributed to phosphorescence, but about 1825, when Bidel, one of the most distinguished botanists, published bis "Bryoloeia Universa," the phosphorescent theory

had to be abandoned, for he pointed out that

when the entrance to the cave was completely closed the luminous effect disappeared

This observation showed that the light was

due to reflection caused by -the particular

form of the delicate cells and with grains ef

chloropbyle composing the filaments to be observed at the base and in the neighborhood of the Schistostega. These fi laments are nothing else than the vegetative state of the moss itself which follows the germination of the spores and seed contained in the fruit of this small plant a state which botanists have termed pretonema. When the germination

ot a moss spore takes place, a filament is pro

duced containing grains of green matter;

soon this filament closes up and forms a string

of cells, then ramifies, and only after having

existed a certain time, varying with species, does the protonema give birth to shoots which take root and produce a stem and leaves.

Thus the moss owes its peculiar reflecting powers to a special disposition of the cells in the shoots it throws out for its reproduc

tion.

An Old Girl Who Knows How It Is Her

self. . . OUve Logan.

A woman s safeguard is to keep a man s hands off her. If you need his assistance in walking, take his arm instead of him taking

yours. .Just tell him in plain .English to "hands of." He may not- like it at nrst, but he will respect you in the future ten fold

more. Men will be and do lust what women

allow them to do. , Men will not do to trust Give a man your arm and you will find

him -very confidential, and he will take a

"Who's your papa?" "Jerry Leamy he was taken up by a

peeler last night He got drunk."

" here do you live "No. 917 Third avenue. Please let him goMa's sick. I got another little sister to-day, and ma wants pa home." "Is your pa good, Johnny?" "Yes sir; please let him go." Leamy, a respectable-looking young man, was brought from the prison. "Leamy," said the justice, "don't celebrate in advance again. There's a visitor at home. You may go. The other side of the profanity question: Young man, don't swear. Swearing never was good for a sore finger. It never cured rheumatism nor helped draw a prize in a lottery. It isn't recommended for liver complaint It won't insure against lightning.

sewing machine agents nor any of the ills

which beset people through life, mere is no occasion for swearing outside of a news- ' paper office, where it is useful in reading proofs and indespensably necessary in getting the form to press. It has been known, also, to materially assist the editor in looking over the paper after it is printed. But " otherwise

it is a very tooiisn and wicked habit w asniugton Sunday Republic.

A new flower receiver of silver and gold '

plated Britannia ware, intended as an epergne or center piece for a small supper, dinner, or luncheon table, is in the form of a small pleasure yatch with two masts and sails, the sails of dead white frosted silver, the

masts in oxidized silver and gold, the pennons in tinted gold effects. A single sailor is on deck at the helm. The hold is open for the reception of flowers. The whole craft is on a mirror of polished silver plate, on which on one side of the yatch a univalved triton shell in dead silver is fastened on a pivot

No Title a Distinction. Richard Grant White, in a clever article

on "Titles," in the Times, says: That ia the matter of personal titles Americans general

ly provoke the ridicule rather than the admiration of other peoples, is no new observation.

Esquire and bonoaable have become so common and so absolutely tnmeaning that fas

tidious men, of whatever position, prefer to see their names without those additions, and

with us generals and colonels and judges

and doctors of divinity and of laws are so

numerous that it is becoming rather a distiactipn to be without some such title. . The tenant farmers of England, according to a member of Parliament, will be satisfied with nothing less than: 1. Better , representatien'. 2. Security for capital. 3. Freedom of cultivation. 4. Liberty to dispose of produce to best advantage. 6. Abolition of distraint 6. Reform of the game laws. 7, Legitimate share in county government; and 8. .Fair apportionment of local burdens.