Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1878 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, . ; - INDIANA.

THE' CLOUD. The cloud lay low in the heaven*, Such a little cloud it fieeoied; . duet lightly touching the hcii'h broad breajit, Where the roee-light lingered acroae the Wet, Soft and gray a* innocent rest. While the gold athwart it gleamed. It looked -uch a harmleee cloudlet. Soon over the .leeping wave; ■ . Yet the keen-eyed mariner .book hi* head, A. .lowly it crept over the diuky red, “See the rocket line* are clear, he nan!. And Mb lipe net .tern and grave. And or over the eve wa« midnight. That cloud wan lowering black: Dimming the light of Mar* away. Dimming the fliuih of the funoua .pray, A. the breaker, craabed in the northern bay; Wind* howling on their track. 80, in life'* radiant morning. May a tiny care or croee Ju.t trouble the peaceful courve of love, A* if the strength of its away to prove, A* if to whisper, My aurfacb may move, Bnt my roots can laugh at loss. . It may seem such a little jarring, Only Experience sighs, For with Time’s sad learning to sharpen the glance, Ho sees the "rift in the lute” advance. Knows how fate may seize upon circumstance To sever the closest ties. Ah, me ! in the fiercest tempest The life-boat it. work may <l<H J — : —rBut what can courage or skill avail. When the heart lies wrecked by Passion's gale. When change or death have furled the sail. When treason has bribed the crew? Then watch, oh hope and gladness, Watch for the rising cloud, Hun it away, frank warmth of youth, Blow it away, bright breeze of truth. For oh, there is neither mercy nor ruth, Should it once your heaven enshroud. —All the Year Round.

MY ST. GEORGE.

It is ten years ago to-day since Georgie May and 1 went to “ Captain Kidd’s Cave” after sea-urchins. Georgie was a neighbor’s child with whom I had played all my short life, and whom I loved almost as dearly as my own" brothers. Such a brave" bright face he had, framed by sunny hair where the summers had dropped gold dust as they passed him by. I can see him now as he stood that day on the firm sand of the beach, with his brown eyes glowing and his plump hand brandishing a wooden sword which he himself had made, and painted with gorgeous figures of red and yellow. ‘‘You see, Allie,” he was saying, “ his name was Saint George, and he was a Knight. And so there was a great dragon with a fiery crest. And so he went at him, and killed him; and he married the Princess, and they lived happy ever after. I’d have killed him, too, if I’d been there!” , A “ Could you kill a dragon?” I asked, rather timidly. “ Course I could!” replied the young champion. •“I’d have a splendid white horse—no, a black one—and a sword like Jack the Giant Killer’s, and—and oh, and an invisible ring! I’d use him up pretty quick. Then I’d cut off his head and give it to the Princess, and we’d have a feast of jelly-cake and cream candy, and then ! would marry her!” I could only gasp admiringlv at this splendid vision. “But mamma said,” went on Georgie, more thoughtfully, “that there are dragons now; and she said she would like me to be a St. George. She’s Dto tell some more to-night; but s getting angry, that’s a dragon, and wanting to be head of everything, that’s another, and she and me are going to fight ’em. We said so.” “But now?” I asked, with wide open eyes. “ I don’t see any dragon when I’m angry!” “Oh, you’re a girl,” said Georgie, consolingly; and we ran on contentedly, wading across the shallow pools of salt water, clambering over the rocks, and and now and then stopping to pick up a bright pebble or shell. The whole scene comes vividly before me as I think of it now—the gray and brown clifls, with their sharp crags and narrow clefts half choked up by the fine, sifting sand, the wet “snappers" clinging to the rocks along the water's edge; the sea itself clear and blue in the bright afternoon, and the dancing lights where the sunbeams struck its rippling surface. A light wind blew across the bay. It stirred in Georgie’s curls, and ewept about us both as if playing with us. We grew happier and hanpier, and when at last we saw “ Captain Kidd’s Cave ” just before us, we were in the wildest spirits, and almost sorry that our walk was ended., There was plenty to be seen in the cave, however, beside the excitement of searching for the pirate's treasures, which the country people said wore buried there. The high rocks met, forming a wide, arched cavern with a little crevice in the roof, through which we could just see the clear sky. The firm floor was full of smaller stones, which we used for seats, and one high crag almost hid the entrance. It was delicious to creep through the low doorway, and to sit in the cool twilight that reigned there listening to the song of the winds and waters outside, or to clamber up and down the steep sides of the cave, playing that we were castaways on a desert island. We played, also, that I was a captive Princess, and Georgia killed a score of dragons In my defense. We were married, too, with the little Knight’s sword stuck in the sand for the clergyman. Quite tired out, at last, we went into the cave and sat on the sand-strewn floor, telling stories ami talking of dragons and fairies, until a drop of rain suddenly fell through the cleft in the roof. Georgie sprang up. . “Wo must go home, Allie!" he cried. “What if,we were to be caught in a shower!” Just as he was speaking, a peal of thunder crashed and boomea right above us, and I clung to the boy, sobbing for very terror. “ Q Georgie!” I cried, “don’t go out. We’ll be killed! Oh, what shall we do?” But Georgie only laughed blithely, saying, No, we won’t go if you don’t want to. Let’s play it’s a concert and the thunder's a drum. It-will be over in a minute.” and he began to whistle “ Yankee Doodle,” in which performance I vainly endeavored to join. But as lime went on, and the storm became more violent, we were both frightened, and climbing to a ledge about half-vzay up the wall, sat silent, clinging to each other, and crying a little as the lightning flashed more and more vividly. Yet, even in his own terror, Georgie was careful for me, ami tried to cheer me And raise my heart. Dear little friend, Lam grateful for it how! At hikt, leaning forward, 1 saw that the Water was efeeping into the cave and covering the floor with shallow; foadilng waves. Then, indeed, we were frightened. What if the rising tide bad covered the rocks outside?.

We should have to stay all night in that lonely place; for, though the tide went down before midnight, the way was long and difficult, and we could not return in the darkness. “Hurry, Allie!” cried Georgie, scrambling down the side of the cave. “ We can wade, mhy be.” I followed him, and we crept out upon the beach. The water had risen breast-high already, and I was nearly thrown down by the force with which it met me. T ~r~ “ “ Dean on me, Allie,” said Georgie, throwing hie arm about me ‘ and Struggling onward. ”We must get to the rooks as soon as we can.” It was with great difficulty that we passed over ' the narrow strip of sand below the high cliffs. I clung wildly to Georgie, trying in vain to keep a firm footing on the treacherous sand, that seemed slipping from beneath my feet at every step. The water had reached my neck. I cried out with terror as 1 felt myself borne from my feet. But Georgie kept hold .of me, and, bracing ourselves against the first low rock, we waited the coming of the great green wave that rolled surging toward us, raising its whitening crest high over our heads. It broke directly above us, and for a moment we stood dizzy with the shock, and half blinded by the dashing salt spray. Then we ran on as swiftly as was possible in the impeding water. Fortunately soy us, the next wave broke before it reached us, for in the rapidly rising tide we could not have resisted it. We were thoroughly exhausted when, after a few more struggles, we at last climbed the first cliff and sat on the top, resting and looking about us for a means of escape. It was impossible for us to scale the precipice that stretched along the beach. We must keep to the lower crags at its foot for a mile before we could reach the firm land. This, in the gathering twilight, was a difficult and dangerous thing to attempt. Yet there was no other way of escape. We could not return to the cave. I shuddered as I looked at the foaming waves that rolled between us and it. “ What shall we do, Georgie?” 1 cried. “I can't be drowned!” “Hush, Allie!” answered Georgie, bravely; “we must go right on, of course. This place will be covered soefn. Take off your shoes. You can climb easier. There now! take hold of my hand. I’ll jump over to that rock and help you to come on, too!” Well was it for me that Georgie was a strong, agile boy, head and shoulders taller than I. 1 needed all his help in the homeward journey! I tremble even yet as I think of the perils of the half-mile that we traversed before darkness fell. The rough rocks tore our hands and feet as we clambered painfully over them. They were , slippery with sea-weed and wet with the waves that from time to time rolled across them'. More than once I slipped and would have fallen into the raging water below but for Georgie’s sustaining arm. Looking back now to that dark evening, Georgie’s bravery and presence of mind seem wonderful to me. He spoke little, only now and then directing me where to place my feet, but his strong, boyish hand held mine in a firm grasp, and his clear eves saw just when to seize the opportunity, given by a receding wave, to spring from one rock to another. “ Georgie, shall we ever reach home?” 1 sighed at last, as we gained the end of a spur of rock over which we had been walking. Georgie made no answer, and 1 turned, in surprise, to look at him. His face was very white, and his great eyes were staring out into the twilight with such a frightened gaze that I looked about me with a sudden increase of terror. I had thought the worst of the way over, and in the gathering darkwess had hardly where we were going, following Georgie with perfect trust in his judgment. Now, 1 suddenly saw that we could proceed no farther. We stood, as I have said, on a long ridge of rock. Before us, at our very feet, was the wildly-surging water, tearing at the rocks as if to wrest them from their foundation. Beyond, we could see the strong cliffs again, but far out of reach. Behind were only the narrow rocks over which we had come; and on either side the cruel sea cut us off from all hope of gaining the land. I sank on the slippery sea-weed, in an agony of terror, sobbing out my mother’s name. Georgie sat down beside me. “ Don’t cry, Allie!” he said, in a trembling voice. “ Please don’t! We may be saved yet. Perhaps they’ll come after us in a boat. Or we can stay here till morning.” “But oh!I want to go home! I want mamma,” I sobbed; “ and I’m so cold and tired, and my feet ache so! O Georgie, can't we go on ?” Georgie was silent for a few moments. “fJo,” he said, at last, “we must stay here; but don’t be afi’kid. Here, I’m not cold, take my coat, and I’ll tie our handkerchiefs round your feet. i There, lean on me, now. We must 1 hold on to the rock, you know, or we might tumble. Now, let’s both scream ‘help’ as loud as we can. May be, some one will hear us and come.” But though we shouted till we were hoarse, the only answering voices wore ’ those of the roaring wind and “ the , wild sea water.” Lt was quite dark now. I could sec nothing as I clung there, half sitting, half lying, with mv face on Georgie’s shoulder. Strangely vivid were the pictures that passed before my closed eyes. I saw my pretty nursery, with the clear lamplight falling "on the: pictured walls and little white beds; I' saw my mother seated by the Are, with ; the baby in her arms, and heard her low, sweet voice singing: ’’ Bleep, baby, sleep. . Thy father watohe* th? sheep!” 1 saw my father, laughing and frolicking with my little ’ brothers, as his wont was on a leisure evening. Howl longed to be among them. Then my hair blowing across my eyes, blotted out the pleasant picture, and the hoarse shouting of the sea drove the sweet cradle-song from my ears. Georgie’s voice stopped my weary sobbing. “ Allie,” he said, softly, “mamma told me that true Knights prayed for help when they were fighting. So 1 shall ask God to ‘help us now. I think He will.” Then, clear and soft, amid the roaring of the storm, arose the childish voice repeating his evening prayer: “ Now I lay me down to deep, I pray the Lord mv *oul to keep! If I should die before I wake. I pray the lx«d my soul to take.” I felt a little quieter when he had finished. Georgie’s strong, sweet faith strenghtenedme unawares, and involuntary | repeated the little prayer -also. Then we were silent fqr a long time. 1 was strangely weak and weary. The fear of death was gone now; I thought no more of even my mother. I think I was fast lapsing‘into when Georgia’s voice half-aroused me. ! “ Allie! Allie!” be cried. “Wakeup!

You are slipping down! Oh, Allie, dear, do try to get up! You’ll be drowned!” But even this failed to arouse me from the stupor into which I had fallen. I felt myself slipping from my seat. Already my feet were in, the icy water, and the spray was dashing about my face. I heard Georgie call me once again, felt my hands firmly grasped in nis, and then I knew nothing more. •‘ Alice, dear little Alice!” I opened my eyes at the words. Somebody’s arms were about me; warm tears were falling on my head, and the scent of roses was in the air. Where was IP Was this my own little bed, with its snowy curtains and soft, fresh pillows? Was Baby Robin lying beside me, stroking my cheek with nis tiny hand? 1 was not dead, then? Where were the water and the cold sea-weed? A kiss fell on my forehead, and a voice murmured soft love-words in my ear. “ Allie! my little girl! Mamma’s darling!" Then 1 raised my head and looked straight into my mother’s sweet, tearful eyes. “Mamma,” I said, throwing my arms around her neck, “O, mamma, I was so afraid! I wanted you so!” “Butyou are safe, Allie, now. Lie down again, dear. You are weak yet.” So I lay back on the soft pillow with a feeling of rest and content in my heart, such as had never been there before.. I cared to ask no questions. It was enough that I was safe, with my mother beside my bad and the early sunbeams flickering on the wall opposite. It was a long time before I thought of even Georgie. When 1 asked for him, mamma’s eyes filled with tears. “Dear Allie,” she said, “Georgie saved your life. My little girl would have been taken away from me, but for him. He caught you when you slipped, and, tired as he was, held you up till help came. He fainted as soon as papa took him into the boat. We thought you were both dead!” Her voice broke in a sob, and she clasped me closer in her arms. “He is better now,” she went on. “ Allie, we must never forget his courage. Thank God, he was with you!” “Mamma, O mamma!” I cried, “he said he was trying to be like Saint George. Isn't he nke him? He saved me. and he prayed there in the dark—and, O mamma, I love him so for it!” “Yes, Allie,” answered my mother, “ not one of the old Knights was braver than ours, and not one of all the saints did better service in the sight of God than our little Saint George last night.” —Alice Maud Eddy, in St. Nicholas.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A tramp at Bennington, Vt., asked for work the other day, and was told there was nothing else to give him to do unless he gathered potato-bugs at ten cents a quart. “ Very well, I’ll try,” said he. The first day he “picked” thirty quarts, aud the next day twentyfive quarts, amounting to $5.50. Thea his employer put him to doing something else. —A family in Paterson, N. J., trains toads for pets, caring for them in great numbers in the garden, where they follow people about like kittens through the walks- In the cellar, where there are half a score or more, these social creatures sit about, looking wisely upward while the churning is done, and one warty old fellow always occupies with evident satisfaction during the operation the boot-toe of the churner, a perch that he never quits so long as he is not shaken off. —As furniture in a tenement house at Fall River, Mass., was being transferred to a wagon, the wife carefully wrapped in a large comforter her little baby and put it on the bed in an upper chamber. A little later some one down by the wagon called to a man who entered the chamber to throw down something to use for packing to protect some articles. The man seized the rolled-up comforter and flung it out of the window. It was caught by a woman,who, finding a lump in it, unfolded it to find the child unharmed. —The circulation of almanacs being limited in Texas, the negroes in the path of the late eclipser aid not know what was to happen, and were overcome with fright. On Senator Coke’s plantation, near Waco, they fell on their knees in the fields, and exclaimed that the day of judgment-had come. In Buchanan, where the eclipse began, Ephraim Miller ran into his hut, split his son’s head open with a hatchet, ascended by a ladder to the roof, and cut his throat from ear to ear. His wife at the same moment ran out into the fields to hear Gabriel’s trumpet, and screamed, “Come, sweet chariot!” —The 6:10 p. m. express from Boston was struck by lightning yesterday afternoon on the Charleston grade, and narrowly escaped disaster. The bolt struck the engine by the right cylinder, enveloping the whole machine in an electric flame, knocking the fireman, Flaherty, partially insensible, and for a moment disabling Osgood, the engineer, whipping his hand off the throttle and nearly blinding him. The tender was sent several inches into the air, but reached the track again all right, and the whole train was jolted as though off the track. The passengers’ hair stood on end for several minutes, but .none were hurt. — Springfield (Mass.) Republican. —A notion peddler in Clarion County, Pa., dreamed that he had found a hidden treasure, and prevailed upon a farmer, named Logue, to accompany him to the spot. The peddler pointed out a large oak as the one he saw in his vision. It was apparently sound at the butt, but, about twenty feet up, a limb had been broken off. Mr. Logue did not feel like humoring what he supposed to be a superstitious whim, but Goodman had such confidence in his vision that he offered Mr. Logue one-half of the spoils if he would help him cut down the tree. When the tree fell there was a rattle of coins near where the limb had been broken off, and a small Hollow was found. Ensconced therein were loads of silver.! Both seemed to be wild with delight, and on counting it up, found the pile amounted to $5,000. The peddler expressed his unwillingness to carry around so much silver in his pocket, and inquired where he would bo likely to get greenbacks for his share. Mr. Logue having considerable money in the house, immediately gave Goodman $2,500 in paper money and took charge of the entirybulk of silver. On endeavoring to pass some of the silver, it was found to be counterfeitof the poorest kind. It was.a clever job of a gang of counterfeiters. Ahkl, !r Hebrew, moims Mid a lielle in English has milch the same signification.— London Fun. ■ ■ .x. . b ' Wb*ll have our preferences; but no one prefer* to hear a crying baby when the fact is Jo well known that Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup would at once quiet it,

HOME, FARM AND HARDEN.

—We give it up. Of all the weeds in this world we supposed the oocklebur, while it was the most offensive, was the most worthless. But it is now recommended as a certain cure for hydrophobia.— loioa Stale Register. —Cleaning Cistern Water.—Add two ounces powdered alum and two ounces borax 'to a twenty-barrel cistern of rain-water that is blackened or oily, and in a few hours the sediment willsettle and the water be clarified and fit for washing and even for cooking purposes. — Exchange. —The Country Gentleman gives the following remedy for chicken cholera: Five grams of powdered prepared chalk, the same quantity of rhubarb, and three grains of cayenne pepper, mixed, and formed into a pill with mucilage, may be given, and if the relaxation is not speedily checked, a grain of opium and a grain of powdered ipecacuanha may be given every four or six hours. Give water to drink in which is placed some unslacked lime. < —A German farmer sets a high value on pigs a» exterminators of field mice and other vermin. He believes that the plague of mice so prevalent in Germany is in great measure due to the present system of keeping swine penned up instead of allowing them the range of the fields, as was formerly the custom. He states that a careful observer may often detect pigs in the act of snapping up and devouring a good-sized mouse; beside which they may have an extraordinary keen scent for the nests, grubbing them up in search of the young mice, which they eagerly devour. —Rules for the Care of Sheep.—l. Keep sheep dry under foot with clean litter. This is more necessa'-y than roofing them. Never let them stand or lie in the mud or snow. 2. If a ewe loses her lamb, milk her daily for a few days, and mix a little alum with her salt. 3. Never frighten sheep, if possible to avoid it. 4. Separate all weak, sick or thin sheep in the fall from those that are strobg, andgive them special care. 5. If any sheep is hurt, catch it at once and wash the wound with a healing lotion. If a leg is broken, bind it with splinters tightly, loosening as the limb swells. 6. If a sheep is lame, examine its foot, clean out between the hoofs; if unsound, apply tobacco, with blue vitriol boiled in a little water. 7. Shear at once any sheep commencing to shed its wool, unless the weather is too severe. Keep none but the best, and see that they are properly attended to.— Exchange. —What are termed ices consist merely of the juices of fruits sweetened witn sugar sirup and then frozen, like icecream. It is stated that the best ices are made by first cooking the sugar in the form of sirup, having the strength of 30 deg. The fruit juices are strained through a sieve and then added, with a little water and the whites of a few eggs, to the prepared sirup. The final mixture should have a consistence of 22 deg. It is then frozen in the usual way. To make the best icecream, says the Scientific American, it is necessary that the cream should be of the best quality; and the utensils in which it is made must be absolutely clean. With every quart of the cream mix six ounces best pulverized white sugar, a very little vanilla bean, and the white of one egg. The latter imparts a smoothness and delicacy to the cream that cannot otherwise be obtained. The prepared mixture is then to be stirred in the freezer until it is entirely congealed. Those who desire first-rate ices or cream should follow these directions carefully, and avoid the use of corn-starch or other thickeners. Instead of vanilla as a flavor for the cream, a trifling amount of any desired flavoring sirup or juice may be used, as strawberry, pineapple, orange, lemon, etc.

A New Way of Growing Strawberries.

There is no doubt but that in many parts of the country the “ hill" or “stool” plan is a failure because of hard winters. Fruit is much larger and finer grown by the “ stool” system (that is keeping the runners clipped off), and the reasons for this are that the ground gets better cultivated, and the plants, being worked on all sides, make a luxuriant growth and bear in proportion. Now, if we can adopt some plan by which the soil can be better stirred ail around the plants, we know fine fruit will be attained. Therefore we propose what we style the “ matted hill system,” which is as follows: Prepare the ground well, mark it three or three ana one-half feet each way, as for corn, and at each crossing of marker set a strawberry plant (or, if you have plenty of them, two in each place will be safer and better). Keep the cultivator running both ways, and quite often, as plants commence to run freely; and by doing this, and when cleaning the hills by hand, drawing stray plants and covering with earth, a matted hill will soon be found one andi one-half to two feet across. We haves noticed that when there were vacancies * in matted rows, and clumps of plants here and there, the fruit was much ; finer than where the matted rows of' plants were continuous. Roots of strawberry plants run much further than one would suppose, and where the ground is filed with them the finest is not so fine as'when they can have more room. We advise the trying of this plan by those who have plenty of land and horse help. After they are through bearing, a small plow with a sharp knife or wheel, can bo run through both ways, and hills plowed down closely, ground leveled off, and cultivator ana hoe run through as before. — FrtMl .Recorder.

Uneven Heels on Horse-Shoes.

The advantage or disadvantage of having calkins either on the fore or on the hind shoes, or on both, wilt vary in different cases. But there should be no difference, under any pretense whatever, between the outer and inner heel of the same shoes, in point of elevation. We know that a difference is frequently made for the purpose of preventing brushing, or probably for some imaginary reason; but it is highly improper, because in the long run it will lie sure to induce lameness in the leg, in consequence of the weight of the body being thrown more on one side of the joint than on the other. It is just as barbarous and injudicious to shoe a horse on this plan as it would be to oblige a man to walk in aboot with one side of the heel double the thickness of the other. However, our interposition on behalf of humanity to the contrary, the notion will likely prevail that one side of the florae’sshoe must be higher than the other in order to prevent brushing (interfering or cutting); so, as it has to be done, it should be made in such a manner as to bo at least of practical utility. VYemay* andean, in many cases, effectually prevent a horse

from cutting by using bevelled shoes: but this is not always to be trusted. We only prevent by this the sharp edge of the shoe coming in contact with the standing leg, which would otherwise be wounded by it. There are many horses that would still hit if they had no shoes on them, and if we could cut half the hoof away, they would still interfere. It is the position in which the standing leg is placed by Nature, and the direction of the moving or passing leg. that produces the failing. We cannot alter Nature, vye can only bring art to remedy to a certain degree the natural defect. Smiths are very apt, on being told, or seeing that a horse cuts, to shoe him “ thick-heeled,” as it is termed, on the inside, or to make his shoe altogether thicker on the inside than on the out. They tell you that by this mode they turn or twist the ankle further out of the way of the passing leg. This is true; but they are not aware that by removing the ankle of the standing leg —say an inch further out of the way—they bring the passing leg three inches nearer the standing one. To show the effect of this, let anyone place a bit of wood an inch thick under the inside of the tread of his shoe; if he does this by the right foot, he will find his body thrown out of equilibrium to the right. Let him, in this position, attempt to pass his left leg by the other he will find it inclined to touch the standing leg. Now let him remove the piece of wood, and place it under his right foot, on the outside of his tread; he will find, though it may bring his ankle nearer the left leg, that leg in passing will be some inches away from it. His body is thrown out of equilibrium to the left; the left leg follows the body, and try as he will, he will find that he cannot bring it, in passing, close to the rigtit standing leg.— National Live Stock Journal. —A strange story comes to us from down river. Mr. Frank Billings, an old fisherman, near the upper lock on the river, while running his trout-line a few days since, found that he had hung a monster catfish. In order to make sure of his game, he wrapped the line around his wrist. The fish, making a desperate effort for liberty, upset the skiff, and the fisherman, being unable to disentangle himself from the line, was dragged under the water-’and drowned before assistance could reach him. Some neighbors on the bank witnessed the catastrophe, and hastened to the scene, but too late. They recovered the body of the drowned man, and then secured the fish, which weighed 225 pounds. This statement comes to us so well authenticated that we cannot doubt its truth.— Hart County (Ky.) Democrat.

Malarial Fever.

Malarial fevers, constipation, torpidity of the liver and kidneys, general debility, nervousness and neuralgic ailments yield readily to this great disease conqueror, Hop Bitters. It repairs the ravages of disease by converting the food into rich blood, and it gives new life and vigor to the aged and Infirm always. Bee “ Truths," in other column.

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The History of Civilization

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Brigandage in Chill.

PThe Panama Star and Herald, of a recent date, says: “Brigandage is apparently on the increase in Chill. In the southern part of the State bands of desperadoes associate themselves together for purposes of robbery and murder. These bands are large and formidable, are thoroughly organized under apparently intelligent leadership, and can only be resisted and overcome by organized force. The record of their crimes is semething appalling. Murders the most revolting horrify the community, and are committed with apparently no other object in the world .than to destroy witnesses to the foul deeds, on the principle that dead men tell no tajps. One of these bands consists of. thirty men, who are under the command of a scoundrel who almost excels in ferocity Nena Sahib. They have their headquarters near Lebu, and no passer-by, except in daylight and under peculiarly fortunate circumstances, escapes with his property and life. The rural police appear to be utterly powerless to control the evil, either from want of strength or organization, or from lack of purpose. The evil has become so serious that it calls loudly for Government interference. The bandits are of the very lowest order, mostly half-breeds and vicious and ignorant, who were led to crime by their own fiendish instincts, and encouraged in it through the laxity of the laws and the inefficiency of the magistracy and the police. Now that their Congress is in session, Chilenos should see to it that this moral excrescence is promptly and efficaciously removed.” —' ■■ dto a —A Pennsylvania Brutus, revolver in hand, drove his son back to the owner of the boots the young man had stolen. The young man then stole them again, and Brutus took him to the stationhouse, to be placed among the other thieves. = To the victors belong about one-six-teenth of the spoils. I’ll take the other fifteen. — Beaconsfield, in the Detroit Free Press.

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