Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 December 1871 — Page 6

"FOUND DROWNED."

BY AVAXKLL* HOLMES.

Hi ey brought ber up from the river oo%e, And laid her down on tbe reeking wn*rf: With her drawled drews, and ber tattered shoes,

And ber bosom croued by a laded scarf. Bach afalr young thing! A low, broad brow, •haded by cneotuut nweepn or hair CoriK la*h»*H cliuging to chwk* of snow,

And hiding the «leep of a dumb despair Sweet, pale lip*, with tbe pitiful pain Of a grieved child's sharpened by something sadder. That blotted the face like a dismal stain.

And made one wonder when It was gladder Slender hand* hanging helplessly down. "The Angers taper, and white, and small, With one dainty tip pricked rough and brown 3y a needle's keen point—that was all! All —"-Found drowned!—a woman, unknown!"

Yon read the notice and so did I— And they took her away to her grave alone, And nobody cart-d as they bore ber by— Nobody carol, poor wasted life,

Gone out alone in Its darkness and woe, Pacing the world in desperate strife. And crushed In Its mire like a flake of snow!

A woman, unknown!" so tbe record stands, To bp read by the careless eyes of men, And forgotten ax If it were left on the sands

For the restless waves to wipe out again. Rut 1 wonder when was she born, and where? "What did the years of iter childhood

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Was her *ky blue, and her sunlight fair?

Were her flowers all roses? Did nettles

sting her?

W»*re h'-r feet light on the low, green slopes, And through the cool aisles of the summer woods? Ild she drink sweet dew from the opaline euns

Of the lilies asleep In their solitudes? Could she hear what God said in the breathless hymn,

That stirred the weird shades of the plumy pines? bid her heart grow full, and her her eyes grow thin?

Did she feel the far real of types and slgnt? Or was she born In some alley conrt, lt'-ekiiix with slit and filth and nhume?

Was she her mother's Joy or hurt? Did the *un mean more than the stieet lamp's flume? Were her baby feet dimpled? or did they lack

The pretty roundness of pink and white? lid »he play In the street with its grimy, hlaek,

Uncanny creatures that hurt the sight?

IU1 any one kiss her? Had she a friend? HikI she a «lst*r, or brother, or lover? Did life neein s.idder than that wvl ••ml?

Did Bhe pray as the waters gurgled above hi-r? How came she there In that treacherous liver?

Did she »lip from the brink, or leap out through the black? What name was frozen in the pitiful quiver

Of I hose while lips? Did f.hecure toeome hllCk?

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Doesn't nny one miss Ker now she N gone? Is noUsly sorry for not l»'liii{ kindui? When she doesn't eotne baek as the long days go on,

Won't WHIM- one be seeking her, halfcmztd to tliyl her?

l'oor little girl! Poor lost, thwarted life! Was she nobody's "one little ewe luinb" to cherish? Was *he nobody'* darling? nolxxly's wife?

NolKxly's mother? llow dreary to perish, And leave not a trace of one to be wept

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4 over, Ami kept in some memory like a rare blossom! 1 ad! and put down with no lilies or clover

To spill their baptismal dew over her bosom! Oil, la sad! I am breaking my heart $§

Over this horrible dumbness of death, That mocks at my seeking to know If some pait

Of her life were not better than that drowned beneath The pftl ohs river! who know*, or can know?

Well, we can hojo that, since Uod cftreth lor A hurt sparrow, ho saw her, his arms lie lielow

The waters, and may be he eared for her more.

Gripper's Mistake."

One of tlio first sottlenf In tho Wild lliver region wiih David Somerby. llo H'.is a quiet, well meaniiik man, con4 «nt llvo upon tho results of honost 4 11, and anxious to render unto evory man bin duo. He bought his lao«i when it was cheap—in fact, when tho price hul been merely nominal and vital with hunting and fishing, and cultivating such land as he was inclined to clour, ho managed to llvo yory comfortably.

Anothor of the oarly sottlers was Jas per Gripper. Hut Gripper was a differ out sort of man from Somerby. Ho wan clone and tricky, and could boar down very hard upon his own neighbora in pursuing his own interests. llo boosted to his friends that no man •honId overreach him.

Aye, Jasper dripper, but thou mayst Overroaoh thyself. We shall see. Time passed on, and it beeamo known to the lutnbormen of tlto Mas•aquoit th it tho l©st nine in the country came from the Wild lliver region. Ono day in oarly spring a gentleman (mild up from a distant city and looked up and down tho river on Jasper Grip-

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tor's land and on tho following day was Joined by two other gentlemen. Grlp|er had often thought what a •plendid place that would be for a dam and mill. With a Arm dam the power would bo enormous. There was only quo trouble: the extreme freshets to whieli the river was subject In tlie Spring and autumn would render it difficult to tlx the dam. Hut there

were engineers who could overcome all such difficulties. Finally the gentleman who had first Visited the fall Introduced himself to Mr. Dripper as Mr. James Hues, and frankly stated that he had been commissioned to examine the fall and if be I thought proper, to pure hi*' it. Jasper

Orippei was keenly aud sharply alive. Ills eye teeth were cut. He knew that for several years the attention of lumbermen had been directed to the Wild Hirer pinea, and that, lately, people 4ad discovered that the land was of tiie veiy boat quality. And. moreover, he knew that tbe fail upon his was tbe ©tily site upon tbe river anywhere in that region, where tbe dam could be safely erected. There waa another fell •ix miles below on David Somerby's estate but it was of a wild, roaring, turbulent character, locked in tbe Jaws Of towering granite, where no mills tiould lx» poaalblv built. "Of course," said Mr. Bite*, "vrs oan«ot think of paying much for the wa4or privilege, and but very little for tbe land wlticb would bo required for oar feuildlug*. Tbe expense* of erecting a Suitable dam will be very great, and at iNMRt wo run great riak. \ou will be the «doer iu ever w*jr. Not «hly "will it open a ready m^k»t Ibr your lotnber, bttt tbe t«b«

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ur surrounding had will be graatty ii Mr. Gripper wbilled and then nodded He bad hut own interest* to l«»ok aAer. be did n*»t look after them bo was re nobody else would. Attw a owl thinking be said he would «eU the \eriiMivtlego, together with W#

V»d «4J^«»otv for two thousand (Ml

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It made no odd* trhat he (Orlppett had paid. His prioe bad been named, and the company could take it or le( it b©*

Mr. Bates was not anthorized to aocept such terms. He must confer with bis principal#. And he Wbnt away.

In a few days be gmub again, this time in oompany with throe others. They went up ana examined the water privilege, and then came back to Mr. Uripprr's boose, where they informed that tndividusl that if he would throw in ten more acres of land, they would accept his offer. dripper thought he had them. He had thoroughly digested tbe matter, and had come to the concUMon that the water power would be of inestima ble value to a company able to improve it, and that they were bound to have it.

Gentlemen," said be, "my offer of two thousand dollars wss made for your acceptance several days. ago. I did not leave It open to vour pleasure. I have since been examining the property more thoroughly, and have concluded not to sell for less than three thousand."

Why. Mess your soul, man!" cried one of the company, "do you realize how our mills, erected on that site would benefit you The value of all your property would be doubled—aye, quadrupled—tbe moment our wheels were set in motion. We had supposed you would freely give the water power to a responsible company who would improve it."

Mr. Gripper laughed scornfully. He knew his own interests better than that. They could take up with his offer, or they could leave it as they pleased.

After much discussion Mr. Bates spoke thus: "Mr. Gripper, we would like your final offer to remain open three days,at the end of which time you shall have our answer. Will you accommodate us

When I said three thousand dollars," replied Mr. Gripper, "I meant to include only ten acres of lind' If you want ten acres more, I must call it thir-ty-five hundred."

And with this monstrous proposition which was to be open for three days, the parties separated.

One of the gentlemen of Mr. ites' party was Ueriton Mcintosh, the most accomplished civil engineer of the day. "Yon spoke of another fall below here," he said, after they had left Grippe's residence, "Yes," answered Bates, "bnt you will find it utterly impracticable."

Still, Mcintosh desired to look at it, and thither the party bent their steps.

The fall was found to bo a tumbling, ishing flood pouring down a declivity of at least seventy feet in a distance of twenty rods, leaping and surging over jigged shelves or rocks into a boiling chasm below, while on both hands arose perpendicular walls of solid granite, showing that at some period far remote the mountain torrent had literally cut its way through the adamantine ledge.

Mcintosh examined the lay of the land below the fall, and at a point not far distant in that direction he found a shallow swell, or gully, overgrown with grass and shrubbery, but with a deposit of river sand upon tho bottom. The appearance of the place attracted his attention. "Probably," said Mr. Bates, "it is where tho incited snow and hoavy rains find their course from the hills.

I think not," said "Mcintosh. This sand is from the river—not from the hills—and you will observe that it could not have been backed up by any r.se of tho water below. Lot us lollow It."

And they struck into the evident waterpath, and followed it up around the ledge by an easy and gradual ascent, until it led them out UDon the rivor bank, nearly a quarter of a mile from tbe fall. "Eureka!" cried Mcintosh, clapping his hands exultlnglv. "Here we nave a water-course, marked out and graded by Nature herself, which will yield a power immeasurably superior to the one above. And moreover, all danger from flood is debarred."

Tho others quickly comprehended the value of the discovery. They saw that by cutting a canal along the old water-course—a course over which the river had poured a stream at Its highest floods—thoy would be able to control the water at will, and to use it over and over again for the consumption by mills, set ono below tho other along the gracefully curved track. And two things more: The sites hore wore more favorable for building than were those alwve, with better timber land surrounding andjthe furious cataract would not be between their mills and the market.

The next question was,, who owned tho newly discovered privilego? It belonged to David Somerb}'. They visited liim, and carefully opened their business.

Look hers, gentleman," he said, after they had beaten the bush awhile— thoir experience with Gripper had made them cautious—"let us understand each other. Tell me plainly what you want, and I will tell vou as plainly what I will do on my part."

Mr. Bates made up nis mind that he had an honest straightforward man to deal with, and ho stated his case plainly and frankly. He not only told how the company would develope the water power and erect their mills, but he went on to point out the advantages which would result to the owner or tho adjoining land, both in enhancing the value of the land In Itself, and also of the magnificent pine and suruce timber with which it was covered.

Mr. Somcrby listened attentively, and at length told them to call upon hiin on the following morning. He wanted to sleep upon it.

That evening Jasper Gripper called down to see his friend Sotnerby. He wanted to purchase five hundred acres, more or less, of the pine intervale and spruce upland adjoining bis land. Gripper fought shy, and hung on, and Somerby only got rid of him by assuring him that be was at present not at liberty to sell. "Ahat" chuckled Gripper. "Them mill Ihlks have been here. They want tbe land. Well, well, let 'em buy It. I shall own all the land between it and their mills, and they'll find it bard work to gel their logsMp without my consent,"

And Gripper returned to his bofne, firmly pen-uaded that the oompany Lad determined to purchase his water privilege O why bad he not asked thorn five thousand for it

On the following morning, Mr. Bate* and his ftiOMia w»r* punctual and when Mr. Somerby bad boeo asked what «Hicltt»ioa be had arrived at, hr spoke as follows: "GentWin-n, have thought the matter all over, and have made op my mind. I have lew proportions to auks, aud yon cafl anAfM which you cbooea. All told, I own about fifteen hundred acres of land la this section, and the river cats It nearly In halves Pall half off fat rich intervale, ooverv* with plnr, and the rcat Is upland ami hill, with spruoe hemlock, and oak.

6 TERKHrliAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. DECEMBER 2~ 1871.

and lem the power and

give yon all tho land neceeaary for your mill buildings, provided that s*l on your part, will set at once about developing and improving the power and putting up the mills or, I will turn all my land Into the stock of the company, at a fair appraisal, and become one of you."

Mr. Bates was authorized to accept tbe first offer on the spot, and to give bonds, if necessary, for the nerforraanoe of the company's part of tne contract. But he liked tbe second offer best, though before accepting it he must oonfer at headquarters.

Mr. Somerby informed him that the offer was open to him for so long as desired.

On their way back, Mr. Bates and his companions called upon Jasper Gripper. "Gentlemen," said Mr. Gripper, as soon as mutual salutations had been exchanged, "you will understand that when I offered tbe twenty acres of land I did not intend, lor the price named to include tbe timber standing thereon." "It makes no difference," returned Mr. Bates with a smile. "We have concluded not to purchase your water privilege." "How ?—not purchase?" gasped Grip per.

No. We do not want it." Mr. Bates didn't think it necessary to tell him of the better power which they had discovered.

But—gentleman There must be some mistake." They assured him there was no mistake at all.

Gripper was in agony. He would take two thousand dollars. He would take fifteen hundred. He would take whatever they were willing to pay. He would give them the water and the land, if they would put up their mills thereon.

But they would not do it. lie had pushed them just one step too far. In seeking to overreach them he had overreached himself. And they left him a prey to remorse and bitterness of spirit.

The company before whom Mcintosh laid the report, appointed a commission, with full power to decide and negotiate and upon visiting David Somerbv's section, and carefully surveying his territory, they coucluded to accept his second proposition. So he surrendered his land into the stock of the company, and became one of them and we may here remark that six months later he was not a little surprised upon being appointed superintendent of tho lumbering gangs, with a salary such as his wildest dreams of wealth had never grasped.

The water power was developed under the engineering of Benton Mcintosh, and it proved even greater than he had anticipated. The mills were erected—first mills for sawing lumber and then mills for grinding grain and in time other mills for making cloth, and for fabricating various other arti cles nocessary to the comfort of man.

The land of Jasper Gripper was of course raised in value but it availed him not. The sight of David Somerbv. wealthy and respected and honored with olfTlces of profit and trust, while he was shunneo and shut out from the public confidence, filled him with wrathful suflering. Verily he had overreached himself in his narrowness and selfishness of spirit.

To-day a flourishing town is upon tho sito of David Somerby's section,and the hum of thousands of busy spindles makes cheerful muslo for tho prosper-, ous and happy operatives and .froili its tireless looms and clanging forgds flow out wealth to the nation.

RE.VJNJSCENOE OF itJCXR* ^^OhATTAm Sir Jonah Barrington, in his pleasant "Sketches," thus relates an interview which took plaoe upon the introduotion of Aaron Burr and John Randolph, of South Carolina, to Henry Grattan: "We wont to my friend's house on tbe evening before he was to leave London. I announced tnat Colonel Burr, Mr. Randolph, (from America,) and myself wished to pav our respects, and the servant informed us .tljat his master would receive us in a short time, but was, at tbe moment, much occupied on business of consequence. Burpr's ex-

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ectatlons were all on the alert. Ranwas also anxious to be presented to the great Grattan, and boUHmpatient for tho entrance of this*)®"108" thenes. At length the door opened, and in hopp«d a small, bents Hgure-t-meagre, yellow, and ordinary one slipper and one shoe his breeches loose at tbe knee, his cravat hamnng •down, his shirt and coat-sleeves tunced up high, and an old bat upon bis head. This apparition saluted the strangers very courteously asked (without an3' introduction) how long they had beeu In England, and Immediately proceeded to make inquiries about General Washington and the Revolutionary

War. My companions looked at each other their replies were curt,and they seemwd quite impatient to see Mr. Grattan. 1 could scarcely contain myself. but determined lo let my eccentric countryman take bis own course. He appeared quite delighted to see his visitors, and was the most inquisitive person in the world. Randolph was l«r the tallest and most dignified-looking man of the two, gray-haired and welldressed. Grattan therefore took hitn for the Vice-President, and addressed him accordingly. Randolph at length begged to know if they could shortly have the honor of seeing Mr. Grattan. Upon which our host (not doubting but they knew him) conceived it must be his son James for whom they inquired, and said he believed he had at that moment wandered out somewhere to ainuse himsolf. This completely disconcerted the Americans, and they were about tom ike their bow and tbPir exit, when I thought it high time to explain, and, taking Colonel Burr snd r. Randolph respectively by the hand, introduced them to Right Hon. Henry Grattan. I never saw people stare so, or so ranch embarrassedt Grattan himself now perceiving the cause, heartily Joined In the merriment be pulled down bis shirt-sleeves, polled up hh stockings, and in bis own irresistible way apologize for the outr« figure be cut, assuring tbem that ho had totally overlooked It in his anxiety not to keep tbem wailing thU be was returning to Irelsnd next morning, and bad town busily packing up his books itid pipers in a cloaet full of dust sod cobwebs! This iaaident rendered the interview more interesting the Americans were eh arm ad with their reoepion, and, after a protracted visit, re.irra highly gratified, while Grattan returned «f4tl in hi* hooks and cob*eba."—Renek and ROT, BY J. L, 2K£e*

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A* enthusiastic clergyman, who h*d laoorad fal hfally to onwvort tho officers «nd erew of ship in wbicb he h*4 taken hi— ign nr Rurope, lo*t alt Influence .irw tho owcta of bU solicitude daring severe gale, la eonsrqueace of th* ex*»alre mffhl ho exhibited at tho lutmsdiste pnwpwt of going to heavoa. m- A1 -V 5*

A PKfrUhB OF MA&CfTBST, In* the bronzed sky, at sunset, strangoly-ohapOd etoua hangs Over the plain, undv thia motionless covering are hundreds of bristling chimneys, ss tall as obelisks. huge and black mass la nut dlatinguishable then endlnca,a Bable of bricks. Walking through the city, and seeing it close at hand, the

leas rows of build inga,and wo enter tbe ks. og impression made is still more dismal. The air and the soil sppear to be charged with fog and soot. Manufactories, with their Dlackened bricks, the naked fronts, their windows destitute of shutters, and resembling huge and cheap penitentiaries, succeed each other in rows. A large bazaar for the sale of low-priced goods, a workhouse to accommodate 400,000 persons, a prison for convicts condemned to penal servitude —such are tbe ideas created by the spectacle. One ot these buildings. is a rectangle of six stories, in each of which are forty windows. It is there that, lit up by gas amid tbe deafening noise of the looms, cabined, classified, immovable. men mechanically drive their machines every day from morning to night. Can any form of existence be more opposed to and at variance with nature7

About 6 o'clock, a bustling, noisy crowd pours from the mills into the streets. Men, woman and children flock along in the open air. Their clothes are filthy, many of the children are barefooted, the faces of all are pinched and gloomy. Several halt at the gin-palaces the others hasten toward their hovels. We follow them. What wretched streets! Through the half open window may be Seen a miserable room on the ground floor, sometimes below tbe level of the damp pavement at the threshold a group of while fat untidy children, breithe the loulairot tbe street—less foul, however, than that of the room. A strip of carpet may be perceived, and clothes hung up to dry. We continue our walk in the direction of the suburbs. There, in a moro open space, rows of small, cheap houses have been erected as a speculation. The back street is pavea with iron slag the low, red-tiled roofs stand forth in lines against the prevailing gray sky yet each family dwells apart, and the fog it breathes is not too impure. These are the select, tbe happy lew, *aud the timo is Summer— the finest season of the year. One asks oneself, "What a sort of life do they lead in Winter when the fog bathes, chokes, engulfs all nature?" And one feels how heavily man is oppr. ssed by this pitiless climate, and this industrial svstem. Even a walk through the qua'rter of the rich is depressing. Ten, fifteen, twenty houses in succession have been built in the same style, and succeed each other with the mechanical regularity of draughts on a draughtboard. The trim lawns, the small gates, the painted fronts, the uniformity of the compartments, make one think of painted menageries of neat playthings The ornamentation shows bad taste capitals, Grecian pillars, railings, Gothic roofs and other forms have been copied from divers forms, and places, the whole being fresh and inharmonious. The display is gingerbread and trumpery, like that of a man who, having suddenly become rich, bedizens in the beliefth.it he is adorning himsolf. It is a good thiug to work and it is a good thing to be wealthy, but to work and to be rich are not sufficient.—llenry Tuint at ti

HORSE-MEAT IN 1'ARJS. Horse-meat was largely used in Paris several years before the lato siege of that citj'. M. Duroix states that in July, 1866! horse-meat was allowed to bp sold publicly in Paris. Six months after this, its official introduction, not more than a dozen horses were slaughtered each week. Two years later about eighty were killed every week, and about fourteen butcher-shops were engaged exclusively In its sale in- the capital. From investigations made by Paris authorities, Che horse yields a percentage of moat to his live weight

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of sixty-five to seventy, which is more than that obtained frhtti the 0x41 The price of the meat varies according., to tbe pieces—tenderloin, at the tiftie alluded to, was one franc per pound and pieces of the nock and breast, five sous per pound.

In 1868 there were in Paris four restaurants of horse-meat, and flvo establishments where sausage was made from horse-flesh, and sold at half the the price of other sausage.

The provinces were«ven then beginning to follow the example of Paris in slaughtering and selling horse-meat. There was much less prejudice against its consumption than when it first commenced.

The horses slaughtered were generally old and worn out, but free from internal disease. When reasonably fat, tbe meat was sold In pieces like beef when not fat, it was used for sausages when very thin, the meat was not offered for sale in any form. The authorities exercised vigilant supervision over the meat as regards quality and wholesomeness.

AN ACTOR'S Doo.—Reynolds, tbe prolific dramatist, onee prodnced a musical afterpiece at Drury Lane, called "Tbe Caravan or, the Driver and His Dog." The music was good, and it had k»profitable run. The chief attraction of the piece was a dog named Carl6. One day, Sheridan, being then manager, went to see tbe performance of this wonderful dog. As he entered the green-room, Dignum—who played in the piece—said to him, with a woeful countenance: "Sir, there is no guarding against illness 1 It is truly lamentable to stop the run of a successful piece like this, but really

Really what?" exclaimed Sheridan, interrupting him. "I am so unwell," continued Dlgnum, "that I really can not go on longeFthan to-night." "Isthat all?" exclaimed Sheridan.

My dear fellow, you frightened me thought vou were going to say the dog Kras taken 111

.W KLT. IsrORMK® LaDlRa. How muirti more intelligent and fascinatii^? tbe majority of young ladies would be were they to give a little more attention to newsp »per reading. We d«» not Bsin tbe flash papers of the day which are filled with matter which if it does no harm, can certainly do no good, but to newspapers—those which make us familiar with prssent character and improvements of tho ago. It is well enough to know something of tho world'* history, but it is with the present wo have mainy to deal, au4 we know of no more engaging trait in a lady's character than a fair ecquaintanoe with psasing events. Kvery young lady should have an Intel 1'gent opinion ott the moral, montal, political and reHgfoas satgeeM of the times, and tho and indeed the only way to Aod thK to to read good newspaper* ddlgently.

Am Dtcrataojr^s factoring rooslpts for the last two years akMM saoantad to nearly

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THOMAS JEF^FERSON. 'e most make room for tho description of Mr. Jefferson's domestic life and habits after his retirement from public life, written by his grandson, Col. Jefferson Randolph:

His manners were of that polished school ol the Colonial Government, so remarkal^le in its day—under no circumstances violating any of those minor conventional observances which constitutor the well bred gentleman, courteous and considerate to all persons. On riding out with him when a lad, we met a negro who bowed to us he returned his bow I did not. Turning to me, he asked:

Do you permit a negro to be more of a gentleman than yourself?" Mr. Jefferson's hair, when young, was of a reddish cast sandy as he advanced in years his eye, hazel. Dying in bis eighty-fourth year, be had not lost a tooth, nor had one defective his skin, thin, peeling from his face on exposure to the sun, and giving it a tettered appearance: the superficial veins so weak as upon the slightest blow to cause oxtensive suffusions of blood—iu early life, upon standing to write for any length ot time, bursting beneath the skin it however, gave him no inconvenience. His countenance was mild and benignant, and attractive to strangers.

While President, returning 011 horseback from Charlottesville with company whom he had invited to dinner, and who were, all but one or two, riding ahead of him, on reaching a stream over which there was no bridge, a man asked him to take him up behind bin? and carry him over. The gentleman in the rear coming up just as Mr. Jefferson had put him aown and ridden on, asked the man how it happened that he had permitted the others to pass without asking them.

He replied, "From fheir looks, I did dot like to ask them the old gentleman looked as if he wouid do it, and I asked hitn." He was very much surprised to hear that he had ridden behind the President of the United States.

Mr. Jeflfefson'sstature wascommanding—six leet two aud a half inches iu height, well formed, indicating strength, activity, and robust health his carriage erect step firm wild elastic which he preserved to- his death his temper, naturally strong, under perfect control his coungo cool and impassive. No one ever knew him exhibit trepidation. His moral courage of the highest order—his will firm and inflexible—it was remurked of him that he never abandoned a plan, a principle, or a friend.

A bold and fearless rider, you saw at glance, from his easy and confident seat, that he was master of his horse, which was usually the fine blood horse of Virginia. The only impatience of temper I10 ever exhibited was with his horse, which he subdued to his will by a fearless application of the whip 011 tho slightest manifestation of restive ness. lie retained to the last his loudness for riding horseback he rode within three weeks ot his death, when, from disease, debility and age, he mounted with difficulty, llo rodo with confidence and never permitted a servant to accompany him he was foud of solitary rides and musing, and said that tho presence of a servant annoyod him.

He held in little esteem the education which made men ignorant and helpless as to ibe common necessities of life and he exemplified it by an incident which occurred to a young gentleman returned from Europe, where he hud been educated. On riding out with his Companions, tho strap of his girth broke at Che hole for the buckle and thoy, perceiving it ai\ accident easily reineaied,~fodo on ai)d left him. A plain man coming up,,and seeing that his horse had mado a circular path in the road iti his impatience to got on, asked if he aid him. "Oh, Sir," l^jilied the young man, "if you could onlgLasfrat me to get it up to the next hole.

Suppose wnriet it out aJiole or two on the ollwdpdef" said the man., lli&hajjflHpbre regular aud systematic. lie wasaHiUser of Jiis time, rose always at davgp,^wroto and read until breakfast, breakfasted early, and dined from three to four retired at nine, and to bed from ten to eleven. He said In his last illness, that the sun had uol caught hitn iu bod for fifty years. lie always made his own fire. He drank water but once a day, a single glass, when ho returned from his ride. He ate heartily, and much vegetable food, preferring French cookery, because it made the meats more tender. He never drank ardentspirits orstrong wines. jBucli was his aversion to ardent ddSlgp* that when in his last illness flBmysician desired him to use brai'.SySs an astringent, he could not induce him to take it strong enough.

'y ARTEMUS WARD. *,

Mark Twain Lectures About Artemun Ward—Something he said About Him at Philadelphia.

Artemus Ward was born a humorist, was funny from his cradle to his grave. Once when a school boy he aud a frlbnd got hold of a pack of cards and indulged heavily in cucbre. A Biplist. minister was stopping at the house, and to secrete the cards they placed tbem in bis black gown which hung in a closet. But what was his horror to nee tbe minister one day, in the river baptising his converts, and presently tbe eards.commenced to float upon the water, the first cards being a couple of bowers and three aces. Well, he got walloped for this, and bis aunt pictured to him the humiliation of the minister. Said sh^: "1 don't see how ho

Son't

ot out of it." Artemus replied "I see bow be could help going out on a band like that."

Artemus, as you know, was Charles F. Browne, born in 1834, at Waterford, Maine. But he wasn't very stout he was built on the glove-stretcher principle. He came of good old Puritan stock, aud he was proud of It. He says himself: *,Ttie Wards are descended'

from that noble race who fled from despotism ta a land where they could enJoy their own religion,-and prevent everybody else from enjoying his."

Mr. TwJln here referred to his own ancestors. S-ild he: "I had them In the Boston massacre, and at Bunker Hill, wber they were always to be found among the dead, wounded and missing. They were generally missing before the first shot. You see they were always prompt that way.

Artemus did not have much education, and tbe reason w.a» that he didn't like to work or see other* do It, and once presented a plan to tbe State by which the tre duiills. in which convicts walk, should beruu by stoam. He was

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ot his bo ma, and was a dbtiful, wing sim. The first u*e he made of bis money was to clear off the debts bis old homestead.

Artemus hid to make his living when quite a boy, commencing with a printer lo 8bowUi worked hard ha mat disgustad.bat lo*®d the naose of tUaowbeffan. It reminded blm of the beautiful Spanish names it sounded so different.

About Lhe age of sixteen he won Boston and got on "Mrs. Parti Owpet Bag.» Than it was -ho wwte ^ls first piece, and dropped,jit.stea)tur ly into the office,,and how proud Qa felt next day, when they gave it .to hii* to set up then he commenced to writa and write generally. He touched everything. He even wrote a column of a scientific essay, entitled, "11 Cats Uw ful?" and sent it to the jSuiithsonis. Institute.

Then he swung around generally and got to Cleveland, where he became a reporter. Here he made hlithbelf well known in his particular line. Alluding to a very slow railroad, be said the railroad was a breeder of injustice. He told of a convict who was started to ge, to the Jail at the end of the road, but got so old while going that he didn'l answer the description when he go a there. Speaking of this same road, hs* once told the conductor the cow-catch er should be on the other end—there the danger lay. "You can't," said he, "overtake a cow, but whatVto hinder one walking in the back door and biting the passengers."

He once said "to be attached to thing makes it precious to us, but he knew a horse that had been attached* for weeks and weeks to a dray, and he knew Iroin his own personal knowledge that the horse was down on tha.U dray."

PROPHECIES FOR 1872. Zadkiel's Almanac/or 1872 has appeared in London, with its usual assortment of prophecies, of which the Daily Newsa&ya:

His Majesty of the Netherlands will, it appears, suffer a misfortune in Janu-' ary. Then there is a strong hint to Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli lor Febrr ry. On March next the German Ei ror, in consequence of Aries squa ng Jupiten, will not do as much liar as ho otherwise might. "The old get tleman," writes the Seer,' will bomon pacific than in 1870, when ho waa in close conjunction with the Sun, and, stirred him up to deeds of blood 'at' which history shall yet blush." I?f April wo are to apprehend iroublu from Ireland but any one might havtr prophesied that. Passing over a gulf of the future, we hearken to tho voice of the stars for November, and observe that in that particular month the Prince of Wales will uot be in as high favor with the clergy as ho has hitherto been. He is also advised to look after his purse-strings.

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But it is upon the Emperor Napoleon that Zadkiel spends most of his erudition and attention. He claims to have predicted in 1852 the downtall of the Bouapartos. lie exhibits the Emperor's nativity, and provis plainly enough that the loss of the throne of France was owing to Saturn in an oviL hour having squared Napoleon's M(ton,f From that moment Napoleon was a doomed man. Here Zadkiel is so struck with tho amazlnu realization of his prophecies that he bursts into fits of admiration, with his hair on end like Katterfelt's at his own wonders. Ho insists that he has demunstrated himself to bo an honorable successor of Claudius Ptolemy and tho old Ohaldeans.

MRS. SIDDONb? FIRST STUDY OF LADY MAUBETJr. It was my custom to study my characters at night, when all the dontrtfHc" uures and business of the day wore over. On the night preceding that in which I was to appoar lor tho fi.st tini^ in this part, I shut mvself up as usual, when all the family hud retired, and commenced my study of Lady tcbeth. As the character is very short, 1 thought I should aoon accomplish It. Being then only twenty years of age, I believed, as many others do believe, that little more.was nocessary than to get-: the words Into my head, for the necessity of discrimination and the development of character, at that timo of my life, had scarcely entered Into my imagination. I went on with tolerable composure, in tho silence yf tho night (a night 1 never can forget) till I came tb the assassination scene, when the horrors of the ftcone rose to such a degree which made it impossible for ink to get further. I snatched up my candlo and hurried out of the room In a paroxysm oftorror. My dres» was of silk, and tho rustling of it, as I ascended the stairs to go to bed, soemod to my panic-struck fancy like tho movement of a spectre pursuing inq. At last I reached my chain I or, where I found tuy husband fast asloep. I elap-

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ed my candlestick down upon the ta-^ without the powor of putting lb«| candle out, and I threw myself on 111^' bed, without daring to stay even to take off my clothes. At peep of day, rose to resume my task but so little did I know of my part when I appeared in it at night, that my shame and confusion cured me of procrastinating my business for the remainder of my life.—The Kemble», by Pcrcy I'hCgcratd.

ILL«K8HBD IONOHANOK IS NKWFOUNDT.AND.—And now for out author's story. He is describing tho island of Nowfoundlond,* and savs "Many of the inhabitants of the more reuioto bays have never left the neighborhood in ticy were born the ignorance of some of these

which thc^

people ...

it.

lie is hardly to be

credited. A short time since, on the

discovery of a mine on tho oast coast of the if land, some horsos and cows were transported thither a horse happening to stray away was shot

by

a settler as

an uuknftwn wild animal. In the course of skinning tho beast the man discovered its iron shoes this appeared to him such an extraordinary occurrence that he attributed It to a supernatural agency—as Ignorant people are liable to do things they do not understand—and departed quickly from the spot, lesving the horse where he had killed

The people at this remote

place, on first seeing a cow, exclaimed, "Here comes an animal with powder horns growingon its head 1" They had used cow horns for that purpose all their lives without knowing their origin."

A great many children in CliIcHgo will not receive Christmas-presents this

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unless tbey are furnished by tbe lnd and open bands of friends at the East. And Santa Claus. or some other saint, has suggested that Eastern children furnish Christmas gifu for their unknown brothers and sisters in this stricken city. The ides is an excellent one, and we hope it will be promptly acted on. In preparing presents It would be will to remember that the Chicago have no stockings. —Qotdm Agt,

Thb Tltasville (Pa.) Herald, says: I "French beela have beA almost eiittrely discarded in Oil City, the sidewalks being made of fatted lumber and fuU of peg boles, the girls frequently ,una their neels fast, and a whole section of sidewalk had to be torn up before they eould oontinae their promenade. Tbe authorities bava psdsed an ordinance lately reqairiag every sidewalk own© ta kaep a est

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jask-screws and pu! lev-

blocks on the resale ss in readiuess for.

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