Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 January 1871 — Page 6

Uwt thine

Ever made by the hand above? A woman's heart anl a woman's life— And a woman's wonderful love?

Willi the reckless dash of a l»oy?

You have w»ltt'm iny lesson of duty out— Man-like you have (jticxtioned me Now stand at thelmrof woman's soul," l'litll I shall question thee.

On the day she is made a bride.

I require all thiugt that are good and true, All thlnus tiiat a man should If vou glv (his all, I would stake my life to be all you dtruand of me.

A WOMAN'S A NKWERTO A MAN'S drink, and Tell down dead from hoartUESTION. disease before reaching tho counter. 1 The rumor went abroad suddenly urn

I»Y LENA LATIIKOH. tho respectcd and lamented deceased— .v .. wlio had immigrated from Northern Do you know you have asked for the cost-

You require your mutton shrill heal way .shot. Your NockH and shirts l«- whole ifjuire your heart sliall be true as God's stars,

And pure a* Heaven your soul.

You require a cool for vour mutton :uid beef I require a far greater thing A fteainstrctut you're wanting for socks aul for shirts,

I look for a man and a king

A klru for the beautiful realm called home, And a man that the .Mak'-r •Shall look upon as he did on the first,

And say "Jt 1» very good."

am fair and young, but the row will fade I-'rom my soft, young cheek one dayWill you lo\ *»e (hen 'mid the failing leaves

As you dll '.'Dong tlie blooms of May?

I* your heart an ocean so Mronfc and deep I may launch my all on it.s tide? A loving woman finds heaven or hell

If vou cann«t ie this—a laundress and cook Vou can hire, and little to pay Hut a woman'" heart and a woman's life

Are not to be won that way.

[Trom Applcton's Journal.]

Concatenation Bill.

BY ALBERT S. EVANS.

When and where he picked up the sobriquet which, once attached to him, became a part of his personality, and stuck to him thenceforth through life, and will be inscribed upon his tombstone—should Fortune so far change her mood as to allow him to have one, which is a matter for doubt—we never knew. It is doubtful if he knew himself. it was all he had to show lor his labor in some mining camp when he left it, and, as the camp itself is probably long since numbered with tho hi rigs which were, but are not, what matters it where it was located, or who labored in it? In any event, it usurped, the placo of tho name given him in baptism, and, like most California nicknames, was appropriate.

You are

nut

Ho reached 1'laeorvUle at last, and got at an hotel,

who came

Ca ifoniia pr

'it

IX you know you have silked for tilts prJce-li-ss thing As a child inljfht a*k for a toy? Demanding what other* haw died to win,

of luck," said a rough

miner, to whom he had detailed his ,ad misfortunes and wanderings fi an hour. "Out of luck! Well, 1 wish to Heaven I was you may gamble on (hut but I ain't. Why. Coil bless you, stranger. I'm just in a*streak of luck from morning t'o night, and from one year's end to another, and the eu.ssedest luck! Wliv, I have just had more luck than •would sink a ship, and havegot it yet." And, to do him justice, he had.

Ho crossed the plains in He had good oiltfit supplied him by his neighbors In Illinois, who fitted him out,"on shares," as a speculation. They are still waiting in expectation of dividends on tiiose slimes—that is, what

best horse was stolen I'mm him near.St. Joe, and lie traded the other and the double harness olV for a pair of oxen, yvwilh a cow thrown in. One of his oxen was gobbled Up by the Indians on the l'lutte, and he soli), uuye away, or threwawav, half his load of provision, yoked tlie cow up with the remaining i\, and started on again. The cow died on the bend waters of tin .Humboldt, and he rode the ox down to "I he Sink," where it gave out as well and he made the remainder of the journey alone, footing it by day, and camping with any family who would give him a supper anil the use of a spare blanket at night.

a job, waiting on the tahh ai good wages. At the end of lb" see- who were compelled to retreat onii month lie tried his hand at a game meat

of faro, and won eleven hundri I and eighty dolUiH. There was a gn-hing voting lady, who tended a bar in a dmieo-houso, who knew him before he made this "ten-strike,*' She suddenly discovered that he was very good fellow, and not bad-looking. She suggested to him that it would be a "good thing for them to go into partnerhi|. matrimonial and financial, and start an hotel ai Coon Holler, a new and promising enhip no! far from Piacervllle, or, as it was I hen familiarly known. 11 mg(nwn. The tin uieial partnership was

0 U!,s

ought to

vn

Southern Oregon on ae-

count of a prospective lawsuit invoking the title to a horso—had died just after, instead of just before, swallowing a glass of Concatenation Hill's best whisky. It was warm weather, and the cold and copper seekers of that district were at that time an excitable set, with no wholesome restraint on their conduct in tiie sliapo of courts and legal enactments. In an hour fifty men were examining his stock, and testing it as a committee of the whole, bv way of deciding whether it would kill or not. it did not directly kill those who drank it then and there without paying for it but it led to a light, in which two honest miners were "laid out with bulle* holes through them and the indignant citizens, with the crude ideas of justice then prevailing, held Kill responsible for the result, and, when the row was over, organized a vigilance committee 'with tlie determination of "going tor him" as soon as daylight came, to enable them to beat up his hiding-place in tbe chaparral. Laickily for him, he learned of their amiable intentions jn season, and, before morning broke over the Weaver Mountains, he broke in that direction himself. They heard from hiin next bv a Mexican, who met him at Granite \V LS1I, forty

of the river, and, having cooled down a little meantime, concluded not to pursue him.

Next lie turned up at W lckenburg, «n the Ilassivampi. Wickenburg was a livelv place'at that time. Jack Snel1 iii" was a capital fellow, but inclined to be too pi a fill at times, and indulged in little practical jokes, which usually resulted in somebody being sent out of town perforated like a colander. Jack was festively inclined on the day on which our friend arrived, and had been around town and compelled all the traders to close their shops and go home, on pain of instant death. As Concatenation Hill rode down the single lont street which formed the city, Jack sighted him, and, mistaking him for a man who had once insulted him by refusing to drink with him, 'went for him" the moment he dismounted, and thrashed him within an inch of his life before he discovered his mistake. Concatenation Hill accepted Jack's apology and a drink, but thought business too lively to bo permanent in Wickenburg, washed tho blood from his face, bound a piece

of nv bcef

I

,on

one of his eyes, and started on the next morning before sunrise. In tin course of his travels he was N:'cn at Hooper it Co.'s store, on the Gila. and for some time lie was at home at Tucson.

Two or three years after the adventure at La

Has,

Concatenation Hill came

down Hill William's Fork from Dale Creek and Preseott, and for some weeks was one of tho fixtures of the coppermining cam]) at the Groat Central and Hlanet Mines, twelve miles above tlio mouth ot the Fork, near Aubrey City. Nobody asked him to stop, and nobody seemed to care to ask him to leavo so lie partook of the hospitalities of tho camp, never missing a meal, nor paying a cent, day after day and night after night, until it was whispered round among the miners that he was a heavy stockholder in the company, and that it would be well to keep on tho good side of him.

It was lnidsnintfiPr, and the heat was terrible. All day long the naked red mountains absorbed the fierce heat of the burning sun, and all night they

art) left of tliem nbov.) ground. His gave it off, us the bricks of the bakor's-

oven give back to tho atmosphere within it the heat received from the blazing wood (ire just raked out. Sleep, until tar into the morning hours, was an impossibility, in doors or out, and the miners were wont to stretch themselves on their blankets beneath the long verandah at the hacienda and whiling away the early part of the night, fighting mosquitoes and swapping lies, that were about equally abundant in that camp.

Not long before this time the Mojavos of the Colorado went to war with tho .Pimas and Maricopas of the Gila. The lirst skirmish resulted in tin* rapid retreat of the Pimas, with the loss of four bucks and one squaw. Hut the second tight was disastrous to the Mojaves, with

loss.

Now, it so happened that Concatenation Hill had been on the Gila at or about that time, and either saw -tho fight, or heard tho details from some one wlvo did, anil he had worked up the incidents into a wonderful romance, of which lu was the prineinal hero, and never tired of telling. No one about 1 he camp knew aught to the contrary, and the story, for want of contradiction, became one of the .acknowledged and respected legends of the Fork. Hut Ibr an unfortunate incident, which I shall presently relate, it would have

to be immediate and absolute, and tho passed into history, and been handed matrimonhl one prospective and contingent. Tim arrangement suited him tbcv rented tho hotel, and she started do\vii tc Saryptuuento to buy sohio necessary articles for the bar before going So "keep a tavern." She took his mmiwith her, and—did not come back, lie borrowed fifty dollars from an ao 'luaintaneo, followed her down to Sacramento, and there learned that she had gone to "the Hay," in company

lown to posterity with all the claim to reverence and credence which attache* to that of William Tell, or the infant G. W. and his hatchet and his father's cherry-trees. One day, just as the sun was going down in tho orange-hued western sky, and the sweating cook was calling the toilers at the mine to dinner with the welcomo clangor of his W», a gime-looking young frontierstin, in nuckskin garments and broad in

Wlth-uirtg fallow known as Study Hob,j Pike County hat, rode down the steep

out i! ii her from New York, declivity of the Bed Mountain and and who, I

'u"r husband, made his way into camp. H« made

No use going any five of the camp, and turned ill with the rest on the verandah at night. Stories came on in due course of tiuie, and n? a hint from some one of, the crowd,

farther aW* After Jus bo. uved fifty dollars were all expended, he got a situation as "assiMnnt bullwhaeker" on an ox-tr.iiu, and made his way up to Fiddlatown, true and romantic history orthe"C?reat c&mo uci'u^ UiouU, lio Indian light on the Cila, Ihns ho look him into partnership in a• I'lncpt went. on: \J irold-elaini, then opposed to wortu* Well, you see, boys, the elu ehicfa 1 1 tfo of tho

Concatenation Hill started in with tho

Pimas and Maricopas found all

ed slashing about right and left,

Concatenation Bill never told us what happened after that. When ho commenced tho story, the stranger, who

was

lying some feet away, listened attentively for a few minutes, and then glowlv rose to a sitting position, and then to his feet. As the story progressed lie moved quietly toward the snot where Hill was lying, and startled that worthv by suddenly appearing over him towering up like a giant in the moonlight, every feature convulsed with excitement.

You did that, stranger?" exclaimed he with sentorian lungs, and accents indicative of great..rage repressed until it seemed as if at the point of bursting

Yes, me'" was Hill's reply, but delivered in a slightly less confident tone

^The^st'ranger jumped about four feet into the air, cracked his heels together so that the report sounded like the firin" of a musket, swung his revolver around to the front so as to be ready for instant use, and, as became down, fairly yelled: "Well, bv the great horn spoon, stranger,' that i* singular! I hope I may be sunk in this minute if there was but ono white man thar, «n' rm thai man!"

The camp

miles

eastward

report of a revolver, and waited in breathless silencc for the crowning catastrophe. it the man "Y cats of look at me. I can just cat any ten men that dar say any thing to the contrary!"

yit IIIL/ U1«W1 4

things was going agin Vm after tho first, fight, and they looked about 'em for a loader who knaw how to put up thai 'bo plot. Tho Emperor cedes Stras pins for a victory. They pitched onjbourg and Met*, and* accompanied by Inc. and I drawrd up fie plan o{ the his Marshals, puts himself at tho head

tons, Thov "stru- it rich In works, sold out for a "big stake, and started Cor 5an Fn»ucl«co. On tho way down the SacramentoHl\Vr Oil a steamer, Concatenation Hill took a hand in a ^inic uokcr. just to pi-ss-eway tho time, Wid, not only lost every cent campaign right away. 1 -it his own money, but all bin partner's laid for tho Mojaves, and got 'em. Thoy share as, veil, in San Fraticisco lie had came up the river, veiling like devils, varied ndvontttres, flwtingcmpiovmcnt and drove our picket guard hot ore 'em iii a donen different kinds of business, like chaff but. when! got Vm just iu support tho empire, relievos tho onlv to bo thrown out of it bv some the right spot, I gave the won!, and wo German guard before Paris, the Gorman unfortunate occurrence, and tin*l him-j rbt on'em. I never did feel guiUy at forct* i^lng home, except such part as s*»lf "divui broke" every time, lie went taking human life Iwforo, but. the fact: may be neecssary to keep under tha to Kr« Itiver, and came back broke is, that slaughter was frightful, and it ceded provinces. Tho»o that nflirni then to Washo,* and came l»a«tk broke came to b« a perfect butchery before wt this tale to bo true ask what reason •ijrain Then he made his wav south-! got through. It swear to man that the is there why it should not bo believed. ... \vard fished for sharks, nnd gathered Gila ri* orera foot, but I doi.'t say it There would be civil war in France, of Soldiers sobbed on their pillows. All thai ones at San Pedro, and, after a time,' was aU owing to the blood which run course, but the German Chancellor may

initio himself generally useless upon a into it. Thetv was about two thousand view this eonseqndneo with somfti

stock rancho. The ArUsona gold excite- dead M\javes floating down tho stream, equanimity. Civil war in France would

"es, by the bloody jumping tomof'Jerusalem—ME! Take a good

The silence grew deeper. Concatenation Hill lay motionless for a moment, looking up at his opponent in the moonlight then, apparently satisfied that he was a man of his word, and was able to carry it out, slowly turned over on his side, and, drawing the corner of his blanket over his head, remarked, with a voice as free from excitement as that of an infant quietly resting in its mother's arms:

Well, I reckon that lets vie out!" A peal of laughter from all but the two rang out on the desert air, and was answered by a wild yap-yap-yap ya hoo-oo-oo! from the startled wolves, which were prowling around the camp by dozens. The stranger went sulkily back to his blankets and lay down. Again and again the loud laughter pealed forth on the air, but not a word or a sound of any kind came from Bill to denote his consciousness. He had played that hand for all it was worth, and was fai-ity raised out at last.

When tho" summits of the distant Ilarcuvar Mountains were glistening with the rays of the rising sun, the miners of the Fork were up and stirring, as was their wont. The breakfast bell sounded, and a rush was made for the dining room. A familiar face was missing, and there was a vacant place at the table for the first time in weeks. Concatenation Hill was gone. The camp which had known liim so long was to know him no more forever. In tho gray of the dawn he had stealthj risen, folded his blankets, packed his traps, saddled his hipshot in departed, as silently as a ghost deigning even a grulf good-byo body about the premises. WJ canfe of him we never knew road to La Paz ho had travellc ten that to Salt Lake was Iliinlapals ami that to Pi Tucton was lined with Apai he take "the road thatW: went?" We shudder at thotbl but in sheer desperation, ho riiia done so.

Brussels, is cited as corroboration

The next night I if tbe Imierial Guard, who are conveniently placet! at Mayonce, and, reinforced" by the ."WO,000 prisoner* in Germany, or by as many as may lx» trusted

mciit of took him across .the and they probably eboked it up at somo J?**®. time to consolidate tho ad- tsllting in his beautiful delirium of tho desert to the Colorado Hiver. Near IA p'int whore it narrers like, and so set ministration of Alsaco and Lorraine. 'Spring tlnJKS and tl& flowers, and his V%z he found a small rein or deposit of tbe water back more or loss. Itight in On the other hand, tfi« Imperial Mar- ,*^1 pftsscd out of our sight to where "silver copper glance" ore, on which he the thickest of the fight, when it seem- shals may bo well content to close with located, and sold to a San Kmnciscoex- ctl for a few minutes as if tbe Mojaves the plan. Bazaine would try whether liort for three hundred dollars and, j—who was game to the last—wss going he could not be more succesaful with with th« money thus obtained, he start- to get the best of us. I went for their NapoleonIII. Trochti thsn with ed a email, "dead-fall," proposing toi chief, and downed him with a fclow MaxitmllUn agsuost Juarcx. We must iODulv (ue honest miners with liquor from my revolver, and was cocking my acknowledft® the plausibility of these iuid nnlft at a handsome advance on weapin to give him a settlor, when old argument#, yet there are counter conoriffinal cost. Tho first day's business Ickthormiree, his second in command,. slderatlons. The rigk* 4Mtinct of the waa a success, and he eutertaioed high and about half a do»a li«ut«i.nt«. Kmptwi iq|egtNl Mr flan wlw imnM of change of fortune for the, made for me, and al! clinched and it waa first mooted to her, and if the lwTir^r Vain hope! On tho second I went down. I got one arm loose, and. Emperor had consented to the last day a avail nunc into his shant far a pulling out my bowie-knife, oommenc- lingering belief in his political sagacity

TrBpy-tiUITF. SATURDAY EVENING MAI1* JANUARY 14. t871.

was as still as death in an

instant. Every man expected to hear

the

must bo torn away. Whatever else might betide the plan would bo fatal to him. Despite his Marshals and the Im-

terialfrom

eson

A few days later, the writer party of frontiersmen friends pan before a lowly grave on tho road Skull Valley, over which some wand ing Mexicans had erectcd a rude or of stone in 'estiniony of the fact that there rested the remains of a C/iri.sfiauo. There was an empty bottle by the side of the grave, and on the label the initials "C. H." Did those initials stand lor "Cognac Hrandv" or "Concatenation Hill?"

The party were about equally divided on the question of the probabilities but it is a rule on tho frontier never to miss sueli an opportunity merely for an uncertainty, so we reverently drank to the memory of tho illustrious departed, the. hero of "tho (Jreat Indian Fight on the Gila," then rode away into new scenes and new dangers and henceforth, to all the reckless party save the writer, Hill was as dead, and as almost as thoroughly forgotten, as

The little birds flint sain A liuiulretl years n«o.''

IS [SMA 'AT AND NA I'O IEON. The London Times publishes a lengthy editorial, from which we reproduce tho follow ing interesting passages:

Tho uncertainty of the present military positions, coupled with the certainty that the political position of the Germans would be full of cmbarrasRtneut, even should thoy succeed in taking Paris aud defeating every force brougiit against them in the field, naturally occasions much speculation as to Count Hismarek's plans. Mon ask themselves how he proposes to escape from the difficulties that beset him, and from speculating on his plans it is easy to step to framing plans for him. This

Guard the army he could bring ack captivity would melt away before an infuriated people. Tho seige of Paris would bo instantly raised, and the armies of tho South and West, marching toward the northeast frontier, would receive the accession of wholesome deserters from the forces supposed to bo hostile to them. The Emporor would bo compelled to fly back to his friends, and tho original war between France and Germany would be renewed on the borders of Lorraine. These results would so certainly follow that it is very difficult to believe that the Emperor and Count Hismarck \vould not both foresee, and that, foreseeing them, the one would propose and tho other would accept the scheme we have described. Yet, as we have said,the difficulties, present and prospective, of tno actual position may have impelled Count Bismarck to promote anew the plan he certainly once entertained, and the high contracting parties may have resolved upon it, either careless of consequences or blindly overlooking them.

WEATHER FORECASTS OR PREDICTIONS. What will the weather be? is a question the solution of which has long been tried, but hitherto not satisfactorily attained. Empirics have ventured, with the conceit of ignorance, to issue almana'.s predicting the weather that will occur on each day of the year, while science, with becoming modesty, has only attempted predictions made a few hours before an expected change. The electric telegraph now brings daily a complete meteorological register from all parts of Europe and the United States, and it is on such data alone that any chance of weather prediction depend. Even this is generally limited to a following period not exceeding 24 or 3(5 hours. Admiral Fitzroy was the lirst to employ such means for the purpose of foreeassing storms.

As regards the winds. a south-west one is generally accompanied with rain and a north-east by dry weather. In regard to tho barometer, it always stands highest with a north or easterly wind and lowest with a south or westerly one. If the barometer fall and the thermometer rise, wet may always be expected, and the reverse action of the mercury in the instruments is generally accompanied with fine, dry and cool "weather. The slower the changes that thus take place, tho longer will bo the probable duration of the coming change. Sudden falls of the barometer always precede high winds, storms and cyclones. The ctouds give a general indication of changes of weather. A rosy sunset protends line weather, while a red sky in tho morning indicates wot. Inky clouds foretell rain, while light scudding clouds indicate wind also. Streaks and wisps of clouds show rain and wind, and the appearance a halo round the moon is almost invariably followed within 12 or IS hours by rain.

There are numerous indications in naturo arising irom the instincts of animals. He to re a storm or rain seabirds fly in-land swallows and rooks fly low and keep near home frogs are unusually noisy: moles throw up much earth cattle aiid sheep huddle together and seek shelter.

.1 RHENISH LEGEND. Zurich correspondent of the St. uis Republican, writing of the town Shuiriiazcn, Switzerland, says 'here is a lino old cathedral there, dafrom 110-1 a castle or fortress comanding the town which dates fro the *h cenvurv. It was renewed during

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great famine of 1"(!1 in order to afford support to the indigent. Like all old castles it has its legends. One of the most interesting connected with this old cathedral I will relate.

The legend saith, that during the Crusades the lord of the castle went over to tho holy war, leaving behind him a young wife to whom he was but recently wed. After along time he returned, lie arrived one very dark night precisely at nine o'clock on the bank of the lihine opposite his castle. Impatient to behold the wife from whom he had been so long absent, he could not brook the delay of the boat or daylight, but plunged into the rapid waters, attempted to swim across, and was lost.

The disconsolate wife had an immense bell of silver mi-do, hung in tho great tower, and set apert a large sum of money, the inter.of which was to support a person whose whole duty should be to ring this bell every night at nine o'clock, in commemoration ot the sad event that occurred precisely at that hour, and as it happened only lour or livo or six hundred years ago, we know the time to be exact. After this loud expression of her grief she retired to a convent for life, thereby setting widows a very exanipbiry example. In the course of'time the French stormed the castle, and veryungallnntly melted this bell for mercenary purposes. It was replaced by one of baser metal, which is rung for fifteen minutes, beginning at nine o'clock every night, and will be bv tho conscientious Shafl'hauzenitestill the end of time. Tho present bell-ringer is an old man, who told me he had performed this duty nineteen yea s.

HOW BRA YE MEN DIE

that the Empress has passed oyer tqjonc of the Saxon wounded died. Ho

Both French and Germans have men

is perhaps the origin of the strange ru- of heroic mould in their armies. A lato mors that reach us, but we must ac- p-urr to thrt Cincinnati /a~ctle men-! knowledge that it is just possible that they may bo true. It i» confidently declared that the Chancellor has filled back on Ilia old notion of slipping out is os it on a in E pcror into ii. Tho report affirms that

tions two, as follows: General lienault is dead. Amputation could not save him. As his breath shortened a Sister of Charity said, ••Shall wo pray for you?" The dying soldier replied, "Pray for France.

terms of peace are settled, if not signed, These were his last words. They were between tho King of 1,'russia and the earnest as death. Tho scene was captive at Wilhelhistiofie and the fact, touching. But there was a more touchft '{,pre is trustworthy evidence,, ing one at tho American

Wrre

ambulance.

you. Everything has been douo

[Fiom the N, Y.'Mall.]

HOW PRINCE SALM SALM MET HIS DEATH. When I wrote and pnblished in tho Evening Mail a few weeks ago some paragraphs of reminiscences entitled "The Sulm Saluis," nothing but the brief words announcing his death had been transmitted across the cable, but I am now in possession of somo interesting facts concerning the events which culminated in his death on the battle field of Gravelotte. It is well known that he had a most enthusiastic attachment for the unfortunate Maximilian, and counted it a high honor to share his captivity in Mexico. The fate of that ill-starred Emperor, whose soul was as chivalrous as his judgment was weak, provoked in liim an almost frenzied desiro to mete out vengeance to his French betrayers. At Hazaine's door he, in great part, laid all Maximiliam'a misfortunes, and he was mad to meet him and reckon with liim.

During the years that elapsed between the downfall of the empire in Mexico and tho breaking out of tho present war, these feelings'burnpd within him with unabated ardor. Joyfully he hailed the prospect of hostilities between France and Germany, and more joyfully still, when the time came, did he press forward among the foremost to offer his services to assailed Germany. The Princess Agnes, who has always been as one with him in his wnv of thinking and acting, went as gladly with him to the battle-field, and took upon herself tho trying duties of nurse in a field hospital. Tho last words that ho spoke to any one just before leaving Berlin for the front were to the effect that it was his dearest wish, a^ a soldier, to die in defending Germany from France, but that if he might add another—still dearer, because more personal—it would bo that he mi{jht meet Bazainc face to face, and with avenging shouts of "Maximilian!" "Queretiiro!" press a loaded revolver to the traitor's breast.

When, on the liith of August, in consequence of tho defeat at Woerth, Bazaine took the chief command of tho French army, and the German guards were drawn up facing him, Prince Salm Salm exposed himself so recklessly that the other commanding officers expostulated earnestly with him. He was then trying to eu his way up to Bazaine, and instead «.(" heeding them he merely looked bae\ over his shoulder, displaying a untenance which, naturally ruddv, was now inflamed by terrible and revengeful feelings, and cried out "Ah! you cannot understand how I feci—vou have but a country to protect! But I* in addition to this,have to avenge tho death of my Emperor, who was also niv lriend

Saying this, he held on in his rash and headlong course, and a few minutes later was struck by the fragment of a shell, which inflicted a mortal wound. IIo dropped swiftly and silentlv, and was carried at once, in the arms* of his men, to tho very place where his wife was ministering to tho wounded, and shortly afterwards diod with his head on her bosom. "Maximilian! Querotaro!" Doubtless, for poor Carlotta's sake, if for no other, the avenging cry will not die away ail at oneo.

IIoWAHD GlYN'l)ON.

A CHINESE STORY.

Some years ago, when tho Tai-ping rebels were devastating tho most fruitful provinces of China, a novel plan was invented for discovering the money and other treasure concealed by tho terrified ineiehanis and people on tho lirst w:)r.)ing of tho approach of tho rebels. Some ingenious Tai-ping thought within himself that, as men are all devout worshippers of gold and silver, something composed from man would, in all probability, be more efficacious than any thing elso in discovering hidden treasure, without putting men to the pains of pulling down each separate brick of any suspected place, to got at the coveted hoard. Ho therefore seized tho first prisoner ho could lay hands oil, and quietly proceeded to cut him up and put him into a large caldron, wherein ho was allowed to simmer until a sufficient coating of oil had collected on tho surface. this was carefully skimmed off, and then a roll of cioth was spread out and soaked in tho human oil, after which it was tightly rolled up and converted into a torch.' The rebel then lit his torch, and, in a fever of expectation, started in quest of a likely house. Having found one to his taste, ho entered, and slowly waved the torch in all directions, intently watching tho flame, which shortly commenced flickering—like a man's" fingers clutching at gold! The rebel was overjoyed at this sight, and felt sure that this was a sign that treasure was concealed exactly whore the torch flickered ho accordingly set to work and pulled down that part of tho wall, and sure enough there discovered a goodly hoard of silver. This plan was afterward universally adopted in the Tai-ping camp, and became so notorious that, on an imperial officer—in whoso suite was niv informant—taking one of tho rebels prisoner, he questioned hi in as to the truth of the report, remarking, at tho name time, that lie could not possibly believe it. Tli" prisoner declared that such was their method of discovering hidden treasure. Whereupon the officer replied that, «s the prisoner persisted in vouching for the truth of the report, he would do himself the pleasure of testing its truth or falsehood on his person. The prisoner was immediately killed, cooked, and converted into a torch, and used with the grout est success!

AN EXAMPLE FOR YOUN/ MEN. Those extra nice young men, who never wish to soil their hands with

a

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the dbwers aever wither, and where there is bat Oneaosnon, and "that one season an carnal Spring.

TITASA**, Osrur DIFMSBUXT.—Josh Billings, the other day, aaw tbe inscription. "United we Conquer."

He waa so struck with tbe want ofortbogrsphv, that hs sltered it himself. Of conrse," esid Billings, "it mesn* 'I*sited we ensoar,' that's ft!"

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some. Some were trough*- Al Xow, as he walks the rooms of his lino the large tent were deeply affected.

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team, he has a consciousness that if his riches take to themselves wings and fly away, he is furnished with the means of getting an honost livelihood, and make a fortune for himself. He was a greasy mechanic, and is not asham3d of it. Labor and its accompanying dirt are not dishonorable nor degrading laziness and its almost necessary evils are disgusting and destroying. Dirty hands ana a sense of independence are to be preferred to kid glores and a consciousness of being a mere drone in the hnman hive. Toois rust from neglect wear oat from use. Neglect is criminal nse Is beneficial. 8o with man's capabilities—better wear them out than let them. rust.

THE IIISTOR OF A MORTUAR MONUMENT.

AN KDITOIt'S KItROK.

An editor in New Jersey, says a western exchange, had a little nephew onlv six months old, aud the little nephew died. Some of the editor's friends considered that it would be a good thing to give the alllicted uncle a substantial expression of their sympathy, so they contracted with a* local sculptor for a gravestone. The design consisted of an angel carrying a little one in her arms and flying away, while a woman sat weeping on the "irround. It was executed horribly. Tho tombstone was sent to the editor, with tho simple request that he would accept it. As he was absent the junior editor determined to acknowledge it, although he hadn't the slightest idea what it meant. So the next day he burst out in the paper with the following remarks: "Art News.—Wo liavo received from the hands ot our eminent sculptor, Felix Mullens, a comic baa relief designed for an ornamental lire-board. It represents an Irishman in his night shirt, running away with tho little God Cupid, while the Irishman's sweothearfc iiides her head indifferently in tho corner. Every true work of art tells its own story and wo understand, as soon as wo glance at this, that our Irish friend has been coquetted with by tho fair one, and is pretending to transfer his love to other quarters. There is !V lurking smile on tho Irishman's lips, which expresses his mischievous intentions perfectly. We think it would have been bettor, however, to havo clothed him in something elso than a niglit-shirt, and to have smoothed down his hair. Wo havo placed this chef d' anivre beneath our mantol-pioee, wherii it will surely be admired by our friends when they call. Wo are "glad to en-en-courage such progress in local art."

This was painful. A committee ealK* ed on the cuitor when ho returned, and explained tho tombstone to him and that night an assistant editor was soon coming down stairs six steps at a time,| and Hying up street without coat or! hat.

THE TEND ER- HE A TED ENGINEER. Locomotive engineers are a pociiliar class of people. Some of them are: very superstitious, and fool almost as% bad" about running over a man and killing him by accident, as though tlioy had done it purposely. Others look upon it only as ono of tho incidents of the profession. "That's tho eighth man I've killed," said Jack {Smith, gloomily, after the coroner had "sat" on tho victim. Jaok^ was engineer on tho Cleveland and Toledo Ilailroad, and ono of tho best that' ever ran into Cleveland, somo twov years ago.

Hundreds of people made it tlioir habit to walk on tho track for a milo or* two out and as there were several tracks with trains passing and repaas'ing constantly, careless or deaf people,, (and deaf people always seem to prefer a railroad track to walk on), in stepping off tho track to get out of tho way, l'ro-v quently got riizht in tho way of ono approaching unobserved in another direction. In such cases, however careful' an engineer may bo, he cannot prevent, a catastrophe.

Yes," said Jack, after brooding over -,- it in a very melancholy way, "that's? tho eighth nian I've killed iu jost that, way—walking on tho truck, and lhenk stepping right in front of my locOIBO-", five, 'thout once seeing me. But tMaJta the wust of all," continued Jack, producing his pocket handkerchief, mid blowing his nose with much tooling, "wust case of all. I feel dreadful about & if." His voice trembled, and a tear trickled down his bron/.ed cheek.

How worst of all, Jack?" I enquired. Why, you see," said Jack, "f«0 was a big fat man, and mussed my engine all ii])!"

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A )\l .VKEE PEDDLKit. Just before the Declaration of Independence, a Yankee peddler started down to New Yorktosolla lot of bowls and dishes ho had made of majrto. Jonathan traveled over tho city, asking everybody to buy his wares, but noouo was disposed to purchase.

It happened that a British fleet wag then lying in the harbor of New York, and Jonathan struck upon a plan oJ HO 11 I11'jf IiIH dishes. lie got a naval uniform, by hook or crook—for history does nnt tell whore begot it—and strutting up town, one morning, asked a merchant if ho had any nice woodrnwaro, as the commodore wanted a lot for his fleet.

Tho merchant replied tint ho had none on hand, but there was some in town, and if ho would send iu tho afternoon he would supply liim with pleasure.

Very good," slid ouroflieor "f will call." "Jonathan now cut for homo, by the shortest route, and had hardly dolled his borrowed plumage, before down came the inorehant, Who, seeing that Jonathan had sold none of his wares, offered to take tho whole if ho would deduct fifteen percent. but Jonathan said he'd bo goi-darned if ho didn't take 'em hoino, before he'd tako a cent less than his price,

Tho merchant Anally paid him down in gold his price for tlm wooden-ware, w'uch laid on his shelves for many a long djiy thereafter and Jonathan trottedThome in highgleo at tho su'-ecss of his maiKPii vro, whilo tho merchant cursed British officers ever after.

To KKKP WATEH PIJUK.—A recent discovery is very simple, but is of daily practical utility*. It is to prevent water from becoming putrid, and is founded on tho principle that iron bocomes rusty only in water that contains air. I is the oxygen of the air, containthat unites with tho

water in which there is no oxygen nor atmospheric air cannot become putrid. To prevent water from becoming putrid we have therefore only to put in it somo bits of iron. Homo pieces of sheet-iron not rusty, or iron turnings, ar) the best. Cast iron is not so good. Bv a practice of this, drink ng-water on ships may be kept sweet by putting it in sheet-iron tanks, or by putting bits of iron into the water casks Water in which leeches are kept will re-' main sweet without changing it, by putting a few sfiraps of iron in the vessel. The offensive smell from water in the vases of flowers will bo prevented^ by a few small nails, or bits of sheet-? iron in the bottom of yascs. Tho pu-iS? trefaction of water, so common in theft bottom of rain water cisterns, would be„„ prevented by scrape of iron or ironturning.

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How IT HAPPBSKD.—A Connecticut farmer, whoso load of fcay was found to develop several fcealthy boulders, remembered that lie "druY patty olus to a stun wall," OA Ills way to tho mar" kot.