Locomotive, Volume 44, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1858 — Page 1

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THE PERILS OF THE BORDER. While reading recently an account of thefri";litfiil massacre of several white families by the r$,ck-foot Indians, tve were reminded of a thrilling event which occurred in the "Wild West," a short time subsequent to the Revolution, in which a highly accomplished young lady, the daughter of a distinguished officer of the American Army, played an inijiortant part. The story being of a most thrillingriature, and exhibiting in a striking manner the " Perils of the iSorder " we have concluded to give an extract from it, as originally published, as follows: The angle on the right bank of the Great Kanawha, formed by its junction with the Ohio, is called Point Pleasant, and is a place of historical note. Here, on the 10th of, October, 1774, during what is known as Lord Dunmore's War, was fought one of the fiercest and most desperate battles that ever took place between the Virginians and their forest foes. After the battle in question, in which the Indians were defeated with great loss, a fort was here erected by the victors, which became a post of great importance throughout the sanguinary scenes ot strife which almost immediately followed, and which in this section of the country were continued for many years after that establishment of peace which acknowledged the United Colonies of America a free and independent nation. ' At the landing of the fort, on the day our story opens, was fastened a nat-boat of the kind used by the early n'avigators of the Western rivers. Upon the deck of this boat, at the moment we present the scene to the reader, stood five individuals, alike engaged in watching a group of persons, mostly females, who were slowly approaching the landing. Of these five, one was a stout, sleek negro, in partial livery, and evidently a house or body servant; three were boatmen and borderers, as indicated by their rough, bronzed visages and coarse attire ; but the fifth was a young man, some two-and-twenty years of age, of a fine commanding person, and a clear, open, intelligent countenance ; and in the lofty carriage of his head in the gleam of his large, bright, hazel eye there was something which denoted one of superior mind ; but as we shall have occasion in the course of our narative to fully set forth who and what Eugene Fairfax was, we will leave him for the present, and turn to the approaching group, whom he seemed to be regarding with lively interest. ' Of this group, composed of a middle-aged man and four females, with a black female servant following some five or six paces in the rear, there was one whom the most casual eye would have singled.out and rested upon with pleasure. The lady in question, was apparently about twenty years of age, of a slender and graceful figure, and of that peculiar cast of feature, which, besides being beautiful in every lineament, rarely fails to affect the beholder with something like a charm. . , , , Her traveling costume a fine brown habit, high In the neck, buttoned closely over the bosom and coming down to her small pretty feet, without trailing on the ground was both neat and becoming ; and with her riding-cap and its waiving ostrich plume, set caily above her flowing curls, her appearance contrasted forcibly with the rough, unpolished looks of those of her sex beside her, with their linsey bed-gowns, scarlet flannel petticoats, and bleached linnen caps. " Oh, Blanche," said one of the more venerable of her female companions, pursuing a conversation which had been maintained since quitting the open fort behind them, "I cannot bear 'to let you go ; for it just seems to me as if something were going to happen to you, and when I feel that way, something generally does happen. " Well, aunt," returned Blanche, with a light laugh, "I do not doubt in the least that something; will hap pen for I expect one of these days to reach my dear father and blessed mother, and give them such an embrace as is due from a dutiful daughter to her parents and that will be something that has not happened for two long years at least" "But I don't mean that, Blanche," returned the other, somewhat petulantly ; "and you just laugh like a say and thoughtless girl, when you ought to be seri ous. Because you have come safe thus far, through a partially settled country, you think, perhaps, your own pretty face will ward off danger in the more perilous wilderness but I warn you that a fearful journey is Oetore youl scarcely a boat descends the Ohio, that does not encounter more or less peril from the savages that prowl along either shore ; and some of them that go down freighted with human life, are heard of no more, and none ever return to tell the tale." " But why repeat this to me, clear aunt," returned Blanche, with a more serious air, "when you know it is my destiny, either good or bad, to attempt the voy age r JHy parents have sent lor me to loin them in their new home, and it is my duty to go to them, be the peril what it mav." ' " You never did know what it was to fear ! " pur sued the good woman, rather proudly. " No," she repeated, turning to the others, "Blanche Bertrand never did know what it was to fear, I believe !" ' "Just like her father 1" joined in the husband of the matron, the brother of Blanche's mother, the commander of the station, and the middle-aged gentleman mentioned as one of the party ; "a true daughter of a true soldier. Her father, Colonel Philip Bertrand, God bless him for a true heart! never did seem to know what it was to fear and Blanche is iust like him." By this time the parties had reached the boat; and the young man already described Eugene Fairfax, the secretary of Blanche's father at once stepped forward, and, in a polite and deferential manner, offei cd his hand to the different females, to assist them on board. The hand of Blanche was the last to touch his and then but slightly, as she sprung quickly and lightly to the deckbut a close observer might have detected the slight flush which mantled his noble, expressive features as his eye for a single instant met hers. She might herself have seen it perhaps she did but there was no corresponding glow on her own bright, pretty face, as she inquired, in the calm, dignified tone of one having the right to put the question, and who might also nave been aware of the inequality of position between herself and him she addressed: " Eugene, is everything prepared for our departure ? It will not do for our boat to spring a leak again, as it did coming down the Kanawha for it will not be safe for us, I am told, to touch either shore between the different forts and trading-posts on our route, this side of our destination, the Falls of the Ohio." "No, indeed!" rejoined her aunt, quickly ; "it will be as much as your lives are worth to venture a foot from the main current of the Ohio for news reached us only the other day, that many boats had been attacked this spring, and several lost, with all on board." " No one feels more concerned about the safe passage of Miss Bertrand than myself," replied Eugene, in a deferential tone ; "and since our arival here, I have left nothing undone that I thought might possibly add to her security and comfort." " That is true, to my personal knowledge," joined in the uncle of Blanche ; "and I thank you, Mr. Fairfax, in behalf of my fair kinswoman. There will, perhaps," he pursued, "be no great danger, so long as you keep in the current ; but your watch must not be neglected for a single moment, either night or day ; and do not, I most solemly charge and warn you, under any circumstances, or on any pretence whatever, suffer yourselves to be decoyed to either shore!" " I hope we understand our duty better, Colonel," said one of the men, respectfully.

IND. SATURDAY, MAY 51, 1858.

" I doubt it not," replied the commander of the I Point ; "I believe you are all faithful and true men, or you would not have been selected by the agent of Colonel Bertrand, for taking down more procious freight than you ever carried before ; but still the wisest and the best of men have lost their lives by giving car to the most earnest appeals of humanity. You understand what I mean ? White men, apparently in the greatest distress, will hail your boat, represent themselves as having just escaped from the Indians, and beg of you, for the love of God, in the most piteous tones, to come to their relief ; but turn a deaf ear to them to each and all of them even should you know the pleaders to be of your own kin ; for in such a case your own brother might deceive you not wilfully and voluntarily, perhaps but because of being goaded on by the savages, themselves concealed. Yes, such things have been known as one friend being thus used to lure another to his destruction ; and so be cautious, vigilant, brave and true, and may the pood God keep you all from harm!" ' i ' As he finished speaking, Blanche proceeded to take an affectionate leave of all, receiving many a tender message for her parents from those who held them in love and veneration ; and the boat swung out, and began to float down with the current, now fairly en- ' tered upon the most dangerous portion of a long and perilous journey. ' i . , The father of Blanche, Colonel Philip Bertrand, was a native of Virginia, and a descendant of one of the Huguenot refugees, who fled from their native land after the revocation of the edict of Nantz in 1665. He had been an officer of some note during the Revolution a warm political and personal friend of the author of .the Declaration of Independence and a gentleman who had always stood high in the esteem of his associates and cotemporarics. Though at one time a man of wealth, Colonel Ber trand had lost much, and suffered much, through British invasion ; and when, shortly after the close of the war, he had been fain to accept a grant ot land, near the Falls of the Ohio, now Louisville, tendered him bv Virginia, which then had jurisdiction over the entire territory now constituting the State of Ken tucky., . The grant had decided the Colonel upon seeking his new possessions and building up a new home in the then Far West, and as his wife had insisted upon accompanying him on his first tour, he had assented to her desire, on condition that Blanche should be left among her friends, till such time as a place could be prepared which might in some degree be considered a fit abode for one so carefully and tenderly reared, r. r Blanche would gladly have gone with her .parents; but on this point her father had been inexorable declaring that she would have to remain at the East till he should see proper to send for her ; and as he was a man of positive character, and a rigid disciplinarian the matter had been settled without argument. . " When Colonel Bertrand removed to the West, Eugene Fairfax, as we have seen, accompanied him; and coming of age shortly after, he had accepted the liberal offer of his noblebenefactor, to remain with him in the capacity of private secretary and confidential agent. On taking possession of his grant, the Colonel had almost immediately erected a fort, and offered such inducements to settlers as to speedily collect around him quite a little community of which, as a matter of course, he became the head and chitf; and to supply the wants of his own family and others, and increase his gains in a legitimate 'way, he had opened a store, and filled it with goods from the Eastern marts, which goods were transported by land over the mountains to the Kanawha, and thence by water to the Falls of the Ohio, whence their removal to Fort Bertrand became an easy matter. To purchase and ship these goods, and deliver a package of letters to friends in the East, Eugene had been thrice dispatched his third commission also extending to the escorting of the beautiful heiress, with her servants, to her new home. This last commission had been so far executed at the time chosen for the opening of our story, as to bring the different parties to the mouth of the great Kanawha, whence the reader has seen them slowly floating off upon the still, glassy bosom of "the belle of rivers." ' , The day, which was an auspicious one, passed without anything occurring worthy of note, until near four o'clock, when, as Blanche was standing on the fore part of the deck gazing at the lovely scene wliich surrounded her, she saw a seemingly flying body suddenly leave a limb of a gigantic tree, (whose mighty branches extended far over the river, and near which the boat was then swayed by the action of the current,) ;and alight with a crash upon the deck of the boat, not more than eight feet from her. One glance sufficed to show her what the object was, and to freeze the blood in her veins. The glowing eyes of a huge panther met her gaze. The suddenness of the shock which this discovery gave her was overpowering. With a deafening shriek she fell upon her knees and clasped her hands before her breast. The panther crouched for his deadly leap, but ere he sprang, the hunting knife of Eugene Fairfax (who, with the steersman, was the only person on deck besides Blanche), was buried to the nilt in his side, inflicting a severe but not fatal wound. The infuriated beast at once turned upon Eugene, and a deadly struggle ensued. But it was a short one. The polished blade of the knife played back and forth like lightning flashes, and at every plunge it was buried to the bilt in the panther's body, who soon fell to the deck, dragging the dauntless Eugene with him. On seeing her protector fall, Blanche uttered another shriek and rushed to his aid ; but assistance from stouter arms was at hand. The boatmen gathered round, and the savage monster was literally hacked in pieces with their knives, and hatchets, and Eugene, covered with blood, was dragged from under , his carcass. Supposing him to be dead or mortally wounded, Blanche threw her arms around his neck and gave way to a passionate burst of grief. But he was not dead he was not even hurt, with the exception of a few slight scratches. The blood with which he was covered was the panther's, not. his own. But Blanche's embrace was his a priceless treasure an index of her heart's emotions and affections. It was to color his whole future life, as will be seen in the progress of our story. Slowly and silently, save the occasional creak, dip, and splash of the steersman's oar, the boat of our voyagers was borne along upon the bosom of the current, on the third night of the voyage. The hour was waxing late, and Eugene, the only one astir except the watch, was suddenly startled, by a rough hand being placed upon his shoulder, accompanied by the words, in the gruff voice of the boatman : " I say, Cap'n, here's trouble!" , " What is it, Dick ?" inquired Eugene, starting to his feet. . - " Don't you see thars a heavy fog rising, that'll soon kiver us up so thick that we won't be able to tell a white man from a nigger ?" replied the boatman Dick Winter by name a tall, bony, muscular, ashletic specimen of his class. " Good heaven 1 so there is ! exclaimed Eugene, lookin" off upon the already misty waters. " It must have gathered very suddenly, for all was clear a minute ago. What is to be done now ? This is something I Was not prepared lor, on such a night as this. . "It looks troublous, Cap'n, I'll allow," returned Dick ;" but we're in for't, that's sartin, and I 80036 we'll have to make the best on't" " But what is to' be done ? what do you advise ?" asked Eugene, in a quick, excited tone, that indicated some degree of alarm. " Why, ef you war'nt so skeered about the young

lady; and it warn't so dead agin the orders from head quarters, my plan would be a clear and easv one-r-I'd.

just run over to the Kaintuck shore, and tie up." " .No, no, said Kugene, positively; " that will never do, Dick that will never do ! I would not think of such a thing for a moment ! We must keep in the current by all means 1" " xA you can, repined the boatman; " but when it gits so dark as we can't tell one thing from t'other, it'll be powerful hard to do ; and cf we don't run agin a bar or bank afore morning, in spite of the best o' us, See, ther bank at all, nor the water eyther; the stars is gettin' dim, and it looks as if thar war a cloud all round us." . "I see 1 1 see !" returned Eugene, excitedly. , " Mer ciful Heaven ! I hope no accident will befall n here and yet my heart almost misgives me ! for this, I believe, is the most dangerous part ot our journey the vicinity where most ot our boats have been captured by the savages." ; baying tlus,i,ugene hastened below, where he. found the otheri boatmen sleeping so soundly as to require considerable effort, on his part, to wake them. At last getting them fairly roused, he informed them, almost in a wiusper, ior ue aiu not care to oisiuro me oinerw, that a heavy fog had suddenly arisen, and he wished their presence on deck, immediately. " A tog, Uap n t exclmmed one, in a tone which mdicated that he comprehended the peril with the word, ..XT , I.. . I . , . . J I Hush !" returned Eugene ; there is no necessity for waking the others, and having a scene. , Up 1, and tol low me, without a word!" " ..... He glided back to the deck, and was almost, immediately joined; by the boatmen, to whom ho briefly made known his hones and fears. . .. 1 They thought, like their companion, that the boat would be safest if made fast to an overhanging limb of the Kentucky shore ; but frankly admitted that this could not now be done without difficulty and danger, and that there was a possibility of keeping the current. "Then make that possibility a certainity, and it shall be the best night s work you ever performed! rejoined Eugene, in a quick, excited tone. , . r i "We'll do the best we can, cap'n," was the response; "but no man can be sartin of the currnet of this here crooked stream on foggy night." A long silence followed-tbe voyagers slowly drifting down through a misty darkness impenetrable to the eye when, suddenly, our young commander, who wa3 standing near the bow, felt the extended branch of an overhanging limb silently brush his face. . He started, with an exclamation of alarm, and at the same moment the boatman on the right called out: "Quick, here, boys! we're agin the shore, as sure as death! Then followed a scene of hurried and anxious con fusion, the voices of the three boatmen mingling to gether in loud, quick, excited tones. "rush oft the bowl cried one. "Quick!-altogether, now! over with her!" shouted another. . , . . , . . "Jthe de il s in it! she s runing aground here on a muddy bottom!" almost yelled a third. . .Meantime the laden boat was brushing along against projecting bushes and overreaching limbs, and every moment getting more and more entangled while; the long poles and sweeps of the boatmen, as they attempt ed to push her ott, were often plunged, without touch ing bottom, into what appeared to be a soft clayey mud, from which they were only extricated by such an outlay of strength as tended still more to draw the clumsy craft upon the bank they wished to avoid. At length, scarcely more than a minute from the first alarm, there was a kind of setting together, as it were, and the boat became fast and immovable The fact was announced by Dick Winter, in his characteristic manner who added, with an oath, that jt was just what he expected. For a moment or two a dead silence followed, as if each comprehended that the matter was one to be viewed in a very serious light. "I'll get over the bow, and try to get the lay of the land with my feet," said Tom Harris; and forthwith he sot about the not very pleasant undertaking. At this moment Eugene herd his name pronounced by a voice that seldom failed to excite a peculiar emotion in his breast, and now sent a strange thrill through every nerve; and hastening below, he found Blanche, fully dressed, with a light in her hand, stand ing just outside ot her cabin, m the regular passage which led lengthwise through the center ot the boat "I have heard something. Eugene," she said, "enough to know that we have met with an accident, but not sufficient to fully comprehend its nature. "Unfortunately, about two hours ago," replied Eu gene, "we suddenly became involved in a dense fog; and in spite of our every precaution and care, we have run aground it may be against the Ohio shore it may be against an island it is so dark we can't tell. But be not alarmed, Miss Blanche," he hurriedly added; "I trust we shall soon be afloat again ; though in any event, the darkness is sufficient to conceal us from the savages, even were they in the vicinity. " I know little of Indians," returned Blanche : "but I have always understood that they are somewhat re markable tor their acuteness of hearing ; and if such is the case, there would be no necessity of their being very near, to be made acquainted with our locality judging from the loud voices I heard a few minutes ago. "I fear we've" been rather imprudent," said Eugene, in a deprecating tone; "but in the excite ment " . His words were suddenly cut short by several Joud voices ot alarm from without, followed by a quick and heavy trampling across the deck ; and the next mo ment beth Harper and Dick Winter burst into the passage, the former exclaiming: " We've run plum into a red nigger's nest, Cap'n, and lom .Harris is already butchered and scalped I - And even as he spoke, as if in confirmation of his dreadful intelligence, there arose a series of wild, piercing, ' demoniacal yellsj followed by a dead and ominous silence. So far we have followed the lovely heroine and her friends in this adventure ; but the foregoing is all that we can publish in our columns. The balance of the narative can only be found in the New York Ledger, the great family paper, which can be obtained at all the periadical stores where papers are sold. Remember to ask for the "Ledger," dated May 22nd, and in it you will get 'he continuation of the narrative from where it leaves off here. If there are no book-stores or news-ofliees convenient to where you reside, the publisher of the Ledger will send you a copy by mail, if you will send him five cents in a letter. Address, Robert Bonner, Ledger Office, 44 Ann street, New York. This story is entitled, " Perils of the Border, " and grows more and more interesting as it goes on. "When a house is infested by rats which refuse to nibble at toasted cheese and the usual baits, a few drops of the highly scented oil of rhodium, poured on the bottom of a cage trap, will almost invariably attract it lull ot the "mischievous rodents before morning. We have known this to be tried with extraordinary tin n sutcca. vv ucre a trap Daitea wnn an manner oi euibles had failed to attract a single rat, the oil of rhodi um caused it to be completely crowded night after night, until the house 'was cleared of the noisome visit ors. Ex. '. ' ; ,; .. ' ' A lazy fellow once declared in public company that he could not find bread for his family. "Nor L" re plied an industrious mechanic; "I am obliged to work for it" . i . ;.

NO. 13.

Divouced HfSBAjfPS and Wives A case re cently came up in this city which is of great importance to husbands and wives, citizens of New York, who have obtained divorces in other States and married again. A man who was married in this State several years ago, subsequently went to Indiana, leaving his - wife hero, obtained a divorce there, came back to this city and married a second wife, and was arrested and held to bail for bigamy. ; How the matter will be ultimately decided we do not know : but, of course, it will occasion the prisoner much mortification and expense, . 11 u nu ape kllV. UlabCB JJI JUG XLK'l' ID, WD laws ot New York do not recognize divorces obtained in other States for desertion, imcompatibihty of temEer, and the many other things for which divorces can e so easily got in some States, when the parties were married here and one of them still resides here. Per sons who run off to the West and pet divorces should ! remember this, and be careful how they come back here to get a second wife, or how they travel with her in tins btate, or how they leave any property here which the first wife or creditors can get hold of. ' Ihe above we have clipped from, one ot our ex changes, published in New York ; and it is another evidence of the abuse which is made of the Indiana Statute in relation to divorce. Our State is achieving a nice and enviable notoriety. If a couple married at the east violate the sanctity of the marriage relation, the party offending has only to come here and plead incompatibility of temper ; or something else equally as A ' ' 1 J A' ll V 1 t Z 1' X inviai, anu ioruiwim our complacent uuiciary granus the application for a divorce. It is high time a stop was put to this indecent proceeding.' It is high time that our courts cease to do the dirty work ot the courts of other States. It is high time that the sanction of the law was withheld from the nasty job of legalizing prostitution. The process of obtaining a divorce is now so easy, and so sure, that every six months a man may change his wife, or vice versa. Evansville Enquirer. , Thb Maple Tree. There is no shade tree so val uable as the maple, and no object more commendable than the encouragement of its growth, as proposed in tins article : " riant them by the roadside ; plant them in the farm lanes ; plant them by the side of rocks, stono walls, brooks, hill sides, and in waste places, and in your farm-house and stable yard ; you can tap them above the reach of animals, and hang your buckets, and the flow will be just as great as though tapped down at the rotts. , JNo tree can be planted with more certainty ot profit than the sugar maple. Its form and foliage are oeautnui ; us snaae aengniui ; its sap aencious ana healthful in all stages, from the water that flows trom the tree, to its honey-like syrup on the hot buckwheat cakes ; and its sweet products will always be saleable and 'profitable. . Maple syrup would outsell the very best golden syrup at any time in the cities, if it was for for sale ; and maple sugar is sold, tons of it, every year in the confectioner's shops and in the street, to be eaten like candy, at 30 to 40 cents a pound. There will always be a market for any surplus that the country can produce, but that is not the grand object with us in urging its increased production. It is because it will greatly increase in happiness the farmer's home. : It is for that we ask. -Are you ready?". , .. , , !;, ' ; Spurgeoit and the Lady- A witty literary ladj1-, well known in London, was travelling' the other day in a railway carriage. The only other occupant of the compartment in which she was seated was a fat, vulgar young man, with a white neckcloth, (soiled,) sleek hair, ; prominent teeth, and a self-satisfied air., The indi vidual contrived very auroniy to make tne conversation turn upon tne rtev. xur. opurgen. j.ne uiaiogue soon became exceedingly warm and animated, the lady expressing the utmost aversion for the preacher in question, as an illiterate mountebank, and the gentleman extolling him to the seventh heavens as the most glorious man of the age, and the Demosthenes of the pulpit. On arriving at the station where the lady's journey ( terminated, the gentleman said: '""Good morning, madam." 1 ' And the lady replied, with a bewitching smile: ' ' " "I wish you a pleasant afternoon, Mr. Spurgeon." '" The park street phenomenon was horrified; and drawing his hat over his brow, rejoined in a very penitential voice:.. ; ; , . , . ; ; . "I own I have been betrayed into vanity. But the devil promted me the devil prompted me." ' ...i.' .1 HI il L llf ' ' RULES FOR HOME EDUCATION.'' ' 1. ! From your children's earliest infancy, you must . inculcate the necessity of instant obedience. - ' ''. 2. Unite firmness with gentleness. Let your children always understand that you mean exactly what you say.: . .. ,T v . .. ,,. , - . 3. Never promise them anything unless you believe that you can give them what you promise, i 4. If you tell your child to do something, show him how to do it, and see that is done. .u ". i r 1 5. Always punish your children for willfully disobeying you, but never punish in anger.. , 6. Never let them see that they can vex you or make you lose your self-command. , 7. If they give way to petulance and temper, wait till -they are. calm, and then gently reason with them , on the impropriety of their conduct. 8. Remember that a little present punishment, when the occasion arises, is much more effectual than the threatening of a great one, should the fault be renewed. -, . , 9. Never give your children anything because they cry for it. ..: . .. : ,. , , . ; ., . , ., 10. On no account allow; them to do at one time . what you have forbidden, under the like circumstances, at another. . ; ... ... ,j. . ! : . 11. Teach them that the only sure and easy way to appear good, is to be good. . ; . 1 2. Accustom them to make their little recitals with perlect truth. ..... ' " The Prolific' Shad. Mr. Pell, of New York' before the Farmers Club, lately made an address on the peculiarities of fish. He thus spoke of the shad: . They ascend our rivers from the 1st. of April to the 10th of June, for the purpose of spawning, which they accomplish in the same manner that the bass do, except that the male fails to cover the ova; this necessary operation is performed by the ebbing and flowing tide.' . The organization of the fish, says Mr.. Pell, enables it to breathe either salt or fresh water, and, taking advantage of this fact, I have been enabled to breed them in ponds; and, from experiments, am led "to believe that shad live but a single year, and thus, when they pass down our rivers, alter spawning, they are so weak and emaciated that they fall an easy prey to voracious fish. They take the circuit of the sea, commencing in the regions of the North Pole, in schools equaling in extent the whole of Great Britan and France. When they reach the coast of Georgia they seperate into imense squadrons, and as the season advances, run up all the rivers on our coast, followed a little later by the herring. The shad lives upon suction, and feeds upon . the animalcule in the water while swimming. , Food has never been discovered in the body of shad when opened, and they never bite a hook. ! Definitions fom a Popular Dictionary Life A time to make money. . Money the end of life. Man A machine to make money. Woman A machine to spend it. Children machines to spend it on. Economy Buying things because they are cheap, whether you want them or not. It is recorded that an eminent bug-catcher chased a butterfly nine miles before he could catch him. .The chase for butterflies still continues, and some people expend all their lives in chase of them in some form or other.' ' I -: " ' .-;