Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 August 1871 — Page 6

[Prom the Atlantic Monthly.] A OREYPORT LEGEND. 1797.

BY BKET HABTK.

They run through the streets of the seaport town. They peered from the decks of the ships where they lay. The cold wa-fog that came whitening down

Was never as cold or white as they. "Ho, Btabuck and Pinckney and Tenterden!

Run for your shallops, gather your men, Scatter your boat* on the lower bay."

Good cause for fear! In the thick midday The hulk that lay by the rotting pier, Filled with the children in happy play,

Parted its moorings and drifted clear. Drifted clear, beyond reach or call,— iH Thirteen children there r»- in all,—

All adrift in the lower bay!

8aid ahard-faceu skipper, "God help us all! She will not float till the turning tide!" Haiti his wife, "My darling will hear my call,

Whether in sea or heaven she bide." And she lilted a quavering voice and high, "Wild and strange as a sea-bird's cry,

Till they shuddered and wondered at hTside.

The fog drove down on each laboring crew. Veiled each from each and the sky and shore. There was not a sound but the breath they drew,

And the lap of water and croak of oar: And tliey felt 'lie breath of the downs, fresh blown

O'er leagues of clover and cold gray stone, But not from the lips that had gone before.

They cohie no inftVe. But they tell the tale That, when fogs are thick on the harbor reef, The mackerel fishers shorten sail,

For the signal they know will bring lief'or the voices of children still at play

In a phantom hulk that drifts alway Through channels whose waters never (all.

It Is but a foolish slilpman's tale, A theme for a iKet .s Idle page. But still when the mists of doubt prevail,

And we lie becalmed by the shores of age. We hear from the misty troubled shore The voice of children gone before,

Irawing the soul to its anchorage.

[From the New York Tribune.]

The Jim town Romance.

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A imoSlbJR ROUNDELAY. The corner brick storehouse—in fact the onlv brick building in Jimtown— wits to sold at auction and consequently, by ton o'clock in the morning a considerable body of men had collected near the somewhat dilapidated house, directly in front of which tho auctioneer, a fat man from Indianapolis, mounted on an old box. began crying, partly through his tobacco filled mouth, and partly through his very unmusical nose, as follows: "Come up, gentlemen, and examine tho new and splendid property I now Oiler for sale Walk round tho houso men, and view it from every side. Go into it, up stairs and down, and then .give mo a bid to start with. It it) a •vory desirable houso, indeed, gentletiion 1"

Witfl such a preliminary puff, the apeakor paused and glanced slowly over ins audience with tho air of a practiced physiognomist. Tho crowd before him was, in many particulars an interesting one. Its most prominent Individual was Dave Cook, sometimes called Dr. Cook, but more generally answering to tho somowhat savage sounding soubriquet of Dig Medicine. A man somo 3." years of ago, standing six foot six in his ponderous boots broad, bony, muscular, with a strongly marked Roman face, and brown, shaggy hair. Ho was dressed in a soilod suit of blue jeans, and topped oil with A plug hat that would have made an antiquarian frantic to seo. He stood quite still, near the auctioneer, smoking a t'iay pipe, his stalwart arms folded on his breast. As lor the others of tho crowd, thoy wore, takon individually and eolleetivoly, about such as one will always seo in a 'dark corner,' such lis parts of Boono county wore a fow yours ago, before tho ditching law and tho Indianapolis, Bloomington A Western Uailway had liflod the fog, and enlightened the swamps and miasmatic ponds of that region of elms and burroaks, frogs and herons.

Ilig Medicine soeined to bo the only utterly complacont man in tho assembly. All the others discovered evidence of" much Inward disturbance, muttoring to each other mystoriou*ly, and casting eager and inquiring glances at an individual, a stranger in the place, who, with a pair of groen spectacles on and his nrms crossed behind him. was •lowly sauntering about tho building offered for sale, apparently examining it with some caro. "Awful good clothes he's got on! Must a' como from Missouri, or some other big city!" ono remarked. "Chaws mighty line tobackor, I tell you." said another. •'Them there boots!" observed another. it generally, I bot," suggested a fourth man.

Meantime the subject of these very characteristic If not over-lucid expressions continued his examination of the old house, the while some happy frogs hi a neighboring pond rolled out a rattling jubilant chorus, and the summer wind poured through the leafy tops of the tall elms and athletic burr-oaks with a swash And roar like a turbulent river.

What d'ye offer mo fbr the magnificent pn|M*rtv? Come! give me a bid! S]Hak up lively! What do I hear?"

Tho auwtioncer let his eyes wander up the walls of the old brick building, to where he blue-birds and the peewees had built in the cracks, and along the warped window-frames, and just then it chanccd that a woman's face appeared at one of those staring holes, which, with broken lattice and shattered glass, still might bo called a window. The face was a plump cheerful one, rather pretty, and certainly winning and intellectual, after the manner of good, true womanly intellect.

Fortv dollars for the house, 'oman and all f" cried Bin Medicine, gaxing up at the window in which the smiling face was for the moment framed.

The man with the green spectacles darted a quick glance at the speaker. I am bid forty dollars, gentlemen, tortv dollars, d"ve hear? Agoing for forty dollars! Do I hear ftftv?" cried lhe auctiuwr.

The crowd now swayed earnestly forward, closing in solid order round the store box. Many whiskered, uncouth but not unkindly faces were upturned to the window only in time to sw the face disappearing quite hastily. "Hooray fbr the

sal!" cried a lusty

lad, «rhow pale blue ey*» m»dc no «bo'w of contrast with his md«i hair and aguish complexion. "Dad, can't y® bid agin the doctor, soa I can claim .her?"

Fifty dollar*!" shouted the sunburnt man addressed aa Dad. This made tht crowd lively. Kvery man nudged his* neighbor, and the aguiah blue-eyed boy grinned in a ghastly selr-satlatied way.

Aftoinfr at fifty dollars! Think of

it 1 A house worth four or five thousand dollars at the least! Pshaw! bid up lively, men!" cried the auctioneer.

Six hundred dollars," said he of the green glasses. in a soft, pleasant tone. "Six hundred dollars!" echoed the auctioneer, triumphantly "now, then that sounds like business! Agoing—a going—bid up or you lose a bargain "Hooray for hooray, and hooray's daddv!" shouted th^ tallow-faced youtfi.

The frogs pitched their songs an octave higher, and the blue-birds and pee-wees wheeled through the falling floods of yellow sunlight, and lower and sweeter rose the murmur of the tide of pulsating air as it lifted and swayed the fresh sprays of the oaks and elms. The well dressed stranger took off his green glasses, wiped them carefully, ana put them in his pocket.

The Roman face of Big Medicine was just then a most interesting one. It was expressive of more than words can rightly cosnvey. The stem of the clay pipe had settled back full three inches into the firmly-set mouth, so that there was imminent danger to the huge brown mustache that drooped over the fiery bowl.

Six hundred and ten dollars," said Big Medicine. A going, a—" began the auctioneer.

Six twenty," said the stranger. A go—" "Six twenty-one,"growled Big Med icine. "Six twenty-five,"quickly added his antagonist.

Big Medicine glanced heavenward, and for a moment allowed his eyes to follow the flight of a great blue heron that slowly winged its way, high in the summer glories, toward the distant swamps, where tho white sycamores spread their arms above the dark green maples and dusky hazel-witch thickets. The auctioneer, a close observer, saw an ashy hue, barely discernable, ripple slowlv across the great Roman face as Big Medicine said, in a jerking tone

Six twenty-live and a half!" The stranger smiled and threw out his chew of tobacco. No more impertuibable countenance could be imagin ed.

Six twenty-six!" he said gently Take the old house, and be derned to you!" cried Big Medicine, looking furiously at his antagonist. "Take the blamed old shack-a-merack, and all the cussed blue-birds and peer-weers to boot, for all I care!"

A-going, a-goiiur—bid up men !—going, going—who says live more? All done Going, going! last call—£one to Abner Goluing for six hundred and twenty-six dollars and cheap as dirt!"

Tho salo was over and the crowd broke into small fragments, composed idi

generally of three or four individuals. Golly, doctor," said the tallow-faced youth to Big Medicine "golly, doctor, but didn't that 'are gal make that 'are ole shanty look pooty when she looked out?

You see this ere bundle of bones askod Big Medicine, holding up his enormous fist for the young man to inspect. "Guess so," was the reply.

Well, would vou like a mess of it Can't say as would." Well, then, keep yer derned mouth shot!"

About this time the purchaser of the corner brick walked slowly in the direction of 'Squiro Tadmorers office accompanied by the young woman who had looked from the window. As Big Medicine saw them enter the office, ho picked up a stick and began to whittle it with his jack-knife. "Orful joke on me the boys'll have now," ho muttered to himself. "Wonder if tho 'oman's tho feller's wife

A low minutes later, 'Squire Tad more's little boy came running froin the oflico to where Big Medicine stood "Mr. Big Medicine," said he, all out of breath, "that 'are what bought tho old houso wants to seo you pertickler."

Mischief, he does Tell him to go to— no. hold on I guess I'll toll him myself."

With these words Big Medicine moved at a long shambling pace down to tho door of the 'Squire's office. He placed his groat hirsute head inside the room and gruflly said "Stranger d'ye want to see me?"

Mr. Golding got up from his seat, and took Big Medicino familiarly by the arm.

Couio ono side, I wish to speak with you," said he very pleasantly. Big Medicino went rather sulkily along. After they had gone a little distance from tho house, Mr. Goldiug smiled and remarked with a shrug of his finely cut shoulders "I out-bid you a little, 1113' friend,but I'm blessed if I havn't got myself into a ridiculous little snap."

How's that growled Big Medicine. Why, I'm short a half dollar.

You're what!" I lack a half dollar, and I thought I would rather ask you to loan me the money than anybody here."

Dig Medicino stood for somo moments in silence, whittling away on his stick. Dreamy gusts of perfumed heat swept by from the shining fields of blooming wheat, little whirlwinds played in the dust at their feet, and far away, faint and tenderly musical, were hoard the notes of the country dinner horn.

Big Medicine burst at tho mouth with'a laugh that went battling and echoing round tho place. Mr. Golding laughed too.

I say, mister," said the former, "ain't you railly got but six hundred and twenty-five and a halt?" "Just that much, to a cent, and no more," was the reply, with a pleasant comical smile.

Big Medicine roared again louder and longer than before. Well, I'm uerned if 'tain't quare," said he, musingly, "you out-bid me a half a dollar and didn't have the half a dollar neither—wha, win, wlia, wha, wha-ee!"

At the end of this he took out his leather wallet and handed Mr. Goldiug the required money in silver.

A week passed over Jimtown. A week of as rare June weather as ever lingered about the oool places of the woods or shimmered over the sweet clover blossoms where the field-larks piped and the laden bees rose heavily to seek their home. By this time it was known by everylxxiy that Mr. Golding would soon bring on a stock ol "dry goods, groceries, and boots and shuea, and set op a "store" in the old comer brick but Big Medicine knew more than any of his neighbors, fbr he and (folding* bad formed a partnership. uiis Abner Golding had lately been a prominent retail merchant in Cincinnati, but, bad failed, saving only the merest remnant of his goods and a few hundred dollars. Thus he came to Jimtown to begin lift and business anew.

The week had been along one to David Cook (Big Medicine) why, it would not be easy to tell. He was often standing out before the corner brick gaaing up at one of the. vacant windows, where pieces of the broken lattice w*re swaying in the wind and c^»«.- "»nally he muttered to hiu.vif:

6 TERlO^-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. AUGUST 26 1871.

Ther's wher I ftist seed the gal." Four big wagons (loaded with boxes) three of them containing the store goods, and one the scanty household iurniture of Mr. Golding and bis daughter Carrie, came rumbling into Jimtowu. Big Medicine was on hand, a perfect Hercules at unloading and onpacking. Mr. Golding was sadly pleasant, Carrie was roguishly observant,

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womanly and quiet. In due time the goods were all placed on the shelves, and Mr. Golding's household furniture was carried into the upper rooms, where he purposed living, Carrie keeping house.

On the first evening after things had been put to rights, Mr. Golding said to Big Medicine: "I suppose we ought to advertise."

Do how Advertise." ,% Sartinly," said Big Medicine,though he hadn't the faintest notion of what it meant.

Who can we get to do our fence advertising A gleam of intelligence shot into the eyes of Big Medicine. "O, I know what ye mean, now! I'll find some feller what'll do the thing," he said then after musing a few seconds he avlded with a start and a curious grin, "The moon shines to-night, don't it?" "Yes why?"

I'll dp the paintin' to-night. I'll fix it." So the thing was settled, and Big Medicine was gone all night.

The next day was one of sluice rain. It poured incessantly from daylight till dark. Big Medicine sat on the counter and chuckled. His thoughts were evidently very pleasant to himself. Mr. Golding was busy marking goods, and Carrie was helping him. The great gray eyes of Big Medicine followed the winsome girl all the time. When night came, and she went up stairs, he said to Golding:

That gal of your'n is a poorty little thing." "Yes, she's all I have left," replied Mr. Golding in a sad tone.

Big Medicine stroked his brown beard, whistled a few notes cf a jig tune and jumping down from the counter, went out into the drizzly night. A few rods from the house he turned and looked up at the window. A little form was just vanishing from it.

There's whar I fust seed the gal," he muttered, and then sighed and went his way.

It is quite probable that no fence advertisements ever paid as well or stirred up a greater "muss" than those painted by Big Medicine. If space permitted I would copy them for your benefit, but I must be content with a few random specimens, taken from memory with an eye to brevity. O11 Deacon Jones's fence was scrawled the following: "Deni yer old gizzard, ef ye want cheep coffy, go to Goldin, and Cook's new store!" John Butler, a nice old Quaker had tho following daubed 011 his gate: "Ye thievin, duck-legged, ya and na old cuss, ef the sperit moves ye, go get a broad brimmed hat at Goldin' an' Cook's great stand at Jimtown." The side of William Smith's pig pen bore this: "Bill, ye ornery sucker, come and traid with Goldin' and Cook, corner brick. Old Peter Gurley found writing of the fallowing import on his new wagon bed

Et yer dry or ennything, ye'll find a virtoos kaf rye licker in the back room at Goldin' tfc Cook's." On a large plank nailed to a tree at Canaanib Cross-roads all passers by saw the following: "Git up and brindle! Here's yer old and faithful mule! Come inr gals, and get yer dofunny tricks, and fixins, hats, bonnets, silk pettycoat sleeves, parvysols, and other inducements! Rip in, we're 011 it! Call at Goldin'& Cook's great corner brick."

Some people sworet some threatened to prosecute, and finally everybody laughed, and went to the corner brick to trade. Jimtown became famous on account of tho corner brick.

The sun rose beyond tho quagmires east of Jimtown, and set past the ponds and maple swamps to the west. The winds blew, the weather was fine or bad, tho herons flew over, the bluebirds twittered and flew away, the peewees went and came till a whole year had rolled round, and now the brick store flourished, and there was talk of a railroad through Jimtown.

During the flow of time Big Medicine had feasted his eyes on tho bright curls and brighter eyes of Carrie Golding till his heart had become tonder and happy as a child's. They rarely conversed more than for him to say, "Miss Cirry, look there," or for her to cry out, "Please, Mr. Cook, hand me down that bolt of muslin." But Big

Medicine was

content. It was June again, about 10 o'clock, and Big Medicine was slowly making his way from his comfortable bachelor quarters to tho corner brick. A peculiar smile was on his face, his heart was fluttering strangely all on account of a little circumstance of tho preceding day, now fresh in his memory. Great boy that ho was, he was poring over a single sweet smile Carrio Goluing had given him

The mail hack stood at tho Postoffice door, and Mr. Golding was coming thence with a letter In his hand. Big Medicine stopped and glanced up at the window. There stood Carrie. He smiled and muttered:

Right wher I fust saw the sweet little thing!" Mr. Golding passed him hastily excitement flashing from his face. Big Medicine gazed Jwonderingly after his partner, till he saw him disappear up the stairs, then he went into the store room. He thought he heard a wild cry of joy, but it might have been the wind." when an hour had passed, Mr. Golding and Carrie came down to the storeroom. How strangely beautiful the girl was now!

Mr. Cook, I have glorious news this morning," said Golding. And what mought it said Big Medicine, as a damp chillness crept over him and his face grew almost as pallid as the spotless bosotn of his shirt.

The banking house of Kelly A Krofton has resumed payment, which will give me back nearly all my lost wealth."

Big Medicine was silent. I have determined, on the moment to give you this house and all that's in it. I can't t*ke time to write the deed and fix the matter now, but I will not neglect it. Carrie and I must hasten at once to Cincinnati. The hack is waiting, so good-bye, my dear friend God bless you!" Mr. Golding wrung his partnerscold limp hand without noticing how fearfully haggard that Boman face had suddenly grown. "Good-bye, Mr. Cook come to se® us very soon. It will be so lonesome without you." Carrie spoke thus frankly as she gave her hand also.

Big Medicine smiled a great flaming smile, bat be spoke no word. Carrie's woman's heart sank nnder that look,

ey were gone, mi.iw

mumbled out: "She ain't here, and what do I want of the derned old store!" The wind rustled the elm leaves and tossed the brown locks of the man over his great forehead the blue-birds sang on the roof, the dust rose in little columns along the street and high overhead, in the yellow mist of the fine June weather, sailed a great heron, going to the distant lakes.

He closed and locked the door, and went out into the woods. A month passed ere he returned. Meantime where had he been? Only hunting for Mr. Golding and Carrie. He found them, after a long search, in a splendid cottage on the heights just out of Cincinnati. Mr. Golding greeting him cordially, but somehow it did not seem to Big Medicine that Mr. Golding was re»lly before him. His heart did not realize it.

Carrie is in the garden. She will be glad to see you. Go out through the hall, you will see the little gata."

Mr. Golding waved his hand after the manner of a rich man, as he spoke and smiled patronizingly.

With a hesitating step and a heart full of unreal sensations, Big Medicine strode into the flower garden. Suddenly a vision, such as he had seen in the dreams of his childhood, burst on his dazzled eyes. Flowers and vines and statues and fountains, on every hand rich colors, perfumes so mixed and intensified that his senses almost gave way, long winding walks, fairy bowers, and—music. Ho paused and listened. A heavy voice, rich and manly, singing a love ballad to the tinkling accompaniment ofa guitar, and blended through it all, like a siiverthread, tho low sweet voice of Carrie Golding.

Two steps forward, and Big Medicine towered above the lovers thus reunited after along separation.

Carrie sprang to her feet with a startled cry then recognizing the visitor, she held out her little hand and welcomed him. Turning to her lever, she said

Henry, this is Mr. Cook, papa's late partner."" Henry Marshal was a real gentleman, so he took tho visitor's great hard hand in a cordial way, and said he was glad to see him.

Big medicine stood for a moment holding a hand of each of the lovers. Presently a great tremor took momentary possession of his powerful frame. He did not speak, but putting the sweet girl's hand in that of her lover, he turned away. As he did so, a tear—a great bitter drop—rolled down his hag gard cheek. A few long strides, and Big Medicine was gone.

Shrilly piped the blue-birds, plaintively sang the pee wees, sweetly through the elms and burr-oaks by the corner brick blew tho fresh summer wind, as just at sunset Big Medicine once more stood in front of tho old building, with his eyes fixed on the vacant, staring window.

It was scarcely a minute that he stood there, but long enough for a tender outline of the circumstances of the past year to rise in his memory.

A rustling at the broken lattice, a glimpse of a sweet womanly face—no, it was a fancy.

Big Medicine raised his eyes toward heaven, which was now golden and flashing respiondontly with the sunset

glories.

High up, almost among the

urning clouds, a great heron was toiling heavily westward. Taking the course chosen by the lone bira, Big Medicine went away and the places that onco knew him know him no more forever. .. •,

WHO ARE ENTITLED TO BOUNTY LAND

The commissioner of pensions will soon issue instructions and new regulations for procuring bounty land warrants through that office. 'The following instructions will bo of interest to many:

The acts of Congress now in force granting boynty land entitles each of the surviving persons in the following classes to a certificate of warrant for such quantity of land a§ shall make, in the whole, with what he may have heretofore received, H50 acres, provided he shall have served a period of not less than fourteen days, to-wit:

I. Commissioned and non-commis-sioned officers, musicians and privates, whether of the regulars, volunteers, rangers or militia, who were regularly mustered into the sorvico of tho United States in any of the wars in which this country has been -engaged since 1700, and prior to March 3, 1855, to-wit:

II. Commissioned and non-commis-sioned officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, flotillamen, marines, clerks and landsmen in the navy in any of said wars.

III. Militia, volunteers and State troops of any State or Territory called into military service, and regularly mustered therein, and whose services have been paid by the United States.

IV. Wagonmasters and teamsters who have been employed under the direction of competent authority, in time of war, in the transportation of military stores una supplies.

V. Officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary war, and marines, seamen, and other persons in the naval service of the United States during the war.

VI. Chaplains who served with the army in tlie several wars of this country.

VII. Volunteers who served with the armed forces of tho United States in any of the wars mentioned, subject to military orders, whether regularly mustered into the service of the United States or not.

Each of the surviving persons in the following classes are entitled to a like certificate for a like quantity of land, without regard to the length of service (provided he was regularly mustered into service) to-wit:

I. Officers and soldiers who have been actually engaged in any battle in any of the wars in which this country has been engaged prior to the war of the rebellion.

II. Those volunteers who served at the invasion of Plattsburg, in September, 1814.

III. The volunteers who served at the battle of King's Mountain, In the revolutionary war.

IV. The volunteers who served at the battle of Nickojack against the confederate savages of the south.

V. The volunteers who served at the Attack on Lewiston, in Delaware, by the British fleet in the war of 1812.

In addition to these classes these acts Also extend to all Indians who served the United States in any of their wars previous to the war of the rebellion, the provisions of this and all the bounty land laws heretofore passed, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the Indians had been white men.

Where the service has been rendered by substitute, he is the person entitled to the benefits of these sets, and not his employer.

In the event of the death of Any per-!

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eine stood alone in the door of the cor- minor child or children, is entitled to a ner brick. He looked back over his} certificate or warrant for the same aitoultet» «i the well fll««tl shelv-s and qunniitv of land such decoded persons

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would be entitled to receive under the provisions of said acts if now living. A subsequent marriage will not impair the right of any such widow to any such warrant if she be a widow at the time of her application. Persons within the age of twenty-one years on the 3d day of March, 1865, are deemed minors within tho intent and meaning of said acts/

LABOR CONQUERS ALL TfflNOS. It is a well-established truth that labor conquers all things Everything that we do, has to have a certain amount of labor expended upon it, to bring it to a state of perfection. However difficult it may appear, however impossible it may seem to be, remember that if you attack it with energy, and labor with all your might, your efforts will be crowned with success. Inventive man, by the aid and application of labor, wiiis for himself a name that will always be honored, respected, and remembered by his fellow citizens. It has been truly said, that no excellence has been obtained without labor. Few persons conversant with the world, have failed to discover that in the race of life men of moderate means and attainments, frequently outstrip competitors endowed equally by the smiles of fortune and the gifts of genius. Difference of talent will not solve it for that difference is very often found in favor of the disappointed candidate. How often do we see issuing from the walls of the same college, nay, sometimes from the bosom of the same family, two young men, ono of whom shall bo admitted to be a genius of high order, the other scarcely above mediocrity j-et yon shall see the one sinking and perishing in poverty, obscurity and wretchedness, while on the other hand you shall observe the latter toiling up tho hill of life, gaining steadfast footing at every step, and mounting at last to distinction, an ornament to society, and a blessing to his country. Now whose work is this? Every one has the power of making himself respected, if he will but go to work and try to win a position worthy of commendation.

In 110 country is labor so highly respected as in the United States, and the humblest citizen has tho chance to raise himself to the proudest position in the Republic, if he will go to work with the determination to do something worthy of himself. Search the pages of history, and you will find that a majority of our great men were poor boys, and won their position by their own exertions. What has been done can be done again, for it is only those that work that win. Therefore, in our journey through life, should obstacles arise to obstruct our progress, let us remember that labor conquers all things.

CO URA QE IN WOMEN There is a branch of general education which is thought not at all necessary for momen—as regards which, indeed, it is Well if they are not brought up to cultivate the opposite. Women are not taught to be courageous. Indeed, to some persons courage may seem as unnecessary for women as Latin and Greek. Yet there are few things that would tend to make women hap-

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ier in themselves, and more acceptato those with whom they live, than courage.

So lar from courage being unfemi nine, there is a peculiar graco and dignity in those beings who liave little ac tive powers of attack or defense, passing tiirough dangers with amoral couris equal to that of the

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age which strongest. We see this in great things. We perfectly appreciate the sweet and noble dignity of an Anne Boleyn, a Mary Queen of Scots, or a Marie Antoinette. We seo that it is grand for those delicately bred, high-nurtured, helpless personages to meet death with silence and confidence.

But- there would be a similar dignity in women bearing small terrors with fortitude. There is no beauty in fear. It is a moan, ugly, disheveled creature. No statue can be made of it that a woman would wish to seo her herself like.

Women are pre-eminent in steady endurance of tiresome suffering they ought not to be far behind men in a becoming courage to meet that which is sudden and sharp.

The dangers and the troubles, too, which wo may venture to say thoy now start at unreasonably, are many of them mere creatures of the imagination—snch as, in their way, disturb high-mettled animals brought up to see too little, and therefore frightened at any leaf blown across tho road.

We maj' be quite sure that, without losing any of the most delicate and refined of feminine graces, women may be taught not to give way to unreasonable fears, which should belong 110 more to the fragile than to the robust.—Literary Journal.

INFORMATION.

All animal and vegetable poisons destroy by deoxidizing tne blood. Heat has a tendency to separate the particles_of all bodies from each other.

The air is known to be a fluid, by the easy conveyance which it affords to sound.

Tho weight of goods in a vessel is indicated by the depth to which tho vessel sinks In the water.1

The ocean loses m'any ftiilllorw of gallons of water hourly by evaporation. On the tope of very high mountains water will boil much quicker than on tho plains, where the atmosphere is much heavier.

Caloric pervades all bodies this is not the case with any other substanco we know of—not even light.

The thermometer was invented by Sanctorius, an Italian physician, about the beginning of the seventeenth century, but it was improved and rendered useful by M. Boyce and Isaac Newton.

An iron wire only one-tenth of an Inch in diameter will carry 4ij0 pounds without breaking. A wire of tempered steel of the same size will carry near 900 pounds.

Tin must have been known very early, as it is mentioned in the Books of Moses.

Pencils of plHiriba|r) "werR nsed as early as 14«f, being mentioned by Conrad Gesner in his book on "Fossils," printed at Zurich in that year.

Dip paper into a strong solution of alum, and it will resist tho action of fire.

A batch of wire weighing 14 pounds will furnish material lor 4fevl00 needles. The eye of the butterfly consists of 17,000 lenses, each as perfect as tho human eye.

HPTROKO!*, the famous English preacher, baring been offered ten thousand dollars to write A life of Christ, sent word trfat AS good a life of Christ asoonld be /rritten was to be fonnd in the New Trfciwment.

MATRIMONIAL SNUBBING. Some people marry with a foregone conclusion as to the necessity of snubbiugonone side or the otheV and So, to make sure of not being the victim, are careful to take the initiative and be the executioner. They live in the perpetual exercise of the art, and by practice obtain a cunning .equal to that which enables a marksman to split a bullet 011 a penknife. Sometimes it is the wife who is snubbed out of all chance of the most elementary self-as-sertion. Sometimes it is the husband, for the good of whose soul the wife undertakes the task of his personal humiliation. Like the venom of certain reptiles, continuous snubbing hasv a curiously benumbing effect 011 ti, moral system, and after a time produi es a paralysis of the self resuectiii| faculties both odd and painful to wit nuss. People unused to snubbing, wh? go where the art is practiced, are"amaj1 ed at the quietness with which the patient receives impertinences which tbrill them with indignation 10 hear. They expect some kind ot protest, if only of the mildest kind, when the wifo, lookiug across the table, says, in a clear voice, audible to the whole''company, "John, you have told that story so often you seem to imagine it true— you know it never happened or when the husband cuts his wife short in her narration by setting her to rights, altering her dates, rearranging her facts, paring off her details, and so on, giving you to understand, by the manner of his snub, that she is "a fool, and he is the possessor of superior wisdom: which makes y»u long to kick hiui 011 the spot. But the husband accepts the rebnko with the patience of a pachyderm tickled by a straw, and the wife subsides into her assigned position of insignificance and inaccuracy, and both display a sweetness under discipline, saintly if you will, but surely, to tho deep insight, tragic on tho ono hand, and slavish on the other.

THE BITER BIT.

The sharpest and wittiest paper in all New England is the Boston

Po.st.

That

it should be the victim ofa most transparent hoax is new proof of tho fallibility of man. It seems that Western Massachusetts, as well as New Jersey, has a town called Orange, and this gave rise to an itom, copied by the Adams Transcript, to the effect that in ono town in Western Massachusetts— meaning, of course. Orange, Franklin County—every male citizen is an Orangeman. Whereupon thei'o.vf sounded tho tocsin with tho following glorious peal:

The existence of Orangeism in Massachusetts has never attracted much attention—perhaps from the fact that all classes of citizens hero are better disposed than in Now York—and It is witl\ considerable curiosity that we read in the Adams Transcript, ofa town of several thousand inhabitants in "the wostern part of the State" where every male citizen is an Orangeman, and no man can liVe a year among them without joining their order. This will indeed bo news to most citizens of the Commonwealth, and it is not from curiosity alone that wo urge tho Adams Transcript to supplement its information with the name of the town and its more definito locality. The idea of a town of several thousand inhabitants, in this enlightened Stato, held so completely in the power of a foreign political organization, is repulsive 10 our views ot freedom and popular government. A society which demands tho alleginnce of every new comer before he Is allowed tho privilege of add--: ing to the prosperity of tho community Dy his labor, is as bad as the worst of the Ku-Klux are represented, and if any such exists, it is a matter of public interest to know where it is. If the dwellers in this Orange colony like it, nobody need feel called upon to interfore but there ought to be a yellow flag hung out from the town hall to warn unsuspecting settlers of the state of things there.

A TEM US WAR D'S CO UR TSHIP. 'Twas a carm still nito in Joon, when all natur was hustht, nary Zeffer disturbed tho serene silense. I sot with tho objok of ml hart's affeckshuns on tho fence uv her daddy's pastur. I had experienced a hankerin arter hur fer sum tim, but daraunt proclame mi pashun wall we sot thar on the fense a swingin of our foot 2 & frow A blushing as red as tho Baldinsville skulo liouce when it was first painted, & looking very cirnpul, I make no dowt. My left arm was okupido in ballunsln myself on the tense, while my rito arm was wound affeksnunitly round Scanner's waste.

Sez I, "Suzanner, thinks very much of yu." Sez she, "IIow you do run on."

Sez I, "I wish tharo was winders tu mi solo, soz you cood seo some ol my feelins," A I sido deeply.

I pawned here, but as she made no reto it, I continued on in the followstrane:

piy in si

Ar! cood yer know the sleeplis nites I parse on your account, how vittles has scast to bo attractive tu me A how mi limbs is shrunk up, ye woodn't dowt me not by no meens. Gaze on this wastid form A these sonken ize," I crido, jutpping up.

I shuid have continued sum time longer probly, but unfortunitely I lost my balance A fell over Into the pastur ker smash, taring my close and severely dainagin myself genorally. Suzan-, ner sprung to my assistance A dragged me ith in dubble quick time. Then drawn horself up to her full hlte sed:

I won't llstin to yur noncents eny longer. Jest yu sa rito out what you are driven at. If yu mean gittin hitched, I'm in."

THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE.—'Tho deep interest felt in scientific matters by^ young persons of the present day, andr tho spirit of investigation which is developing itself, are extremely creditably to our common school system. Out Pittsburg, for instance, much excittf ment has been created by the statement that the concussion produced by a kiss will make the gas jet flicker, and tho phenomenon has been studied with an enthusiasm and a nerslatence which are extremely creditable. Of course there i3 some opposition to the experiments conducted by young men and maidens, on tho part of bigoted parents whose souls are shroudedln Cimmerian gloom. Young Mr. Jones, who had been prac-3 ticing in old Mr. .Johnson's back parlor for six consecutive evenings, with the gas turned nearly all the way down, so:' that the gas would not flicker too much and alarm the family, was deeply grieved when old Johnson Jumped from behind the door with a serious club right in the midst of an interesting experiment. and after flogging him, kicked him down the front steps in an energetic manner. Home of these Johnsons, particularly the old ones, are awful ignorant of Science. They seem to take no interest at all in it and it is disgraceful.

CLOtrtW of locusts, with bright red wings and gold markings, dazzled the eyes of the people of Lyons, Frince durin: the tat in h'U wclthcr.