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• • '1 » t < • - » 1 -....•• -• • , - 1 1 • - <, vrrxs j f— ... , . M ' PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY J -AT- )Bt. REGIS FALLS, i THANK LIN COUNTY, N. T. tRBMS-tl.OO FEB YEAR, •TJUCTLY IN ADVANCB. itt letters tad' eomannlestleni ihoold fee aeV drlited to M. 1 ROWELL, Editor and. Publisher, *t. Regie rail; N. 1'. ..-4 p..^ ^ * •' ••-• • *% '' ' ^OND^ Devoted to Unocal News *r w/w and Home Interests. VOL. I. ST. KEGIS FALLS, N.- Y., SATURDAY, JUNE 1L,V1887 NO. 14. THE gydirontlatti Sews i • • i \• ALL KINDS OP JOB PRINTING SUCH AJ Csrd; Letter-Beads, Nate-Head*, BlU-Heads, Statement*, Envelopes, Handbill; Vestere, els., VIATLY AND PROMPTLY KX1CDT9 AT TEE L0WE8T LIVING PRICES FOB CAJH. Ws •f tlM its* l SOME DAY. Pom* day I shall bo dead; , Rome day this tirod head, With all the anxious thoughts it aew doth know, Shall be laid low. . This body, paln-rnckod r ill, , Shall lie at length, and still, Under the clover and the wind-swept gross. | NoV hear you pass. ^ That were indeetTstrango sloop: When—even you—might weej* And come and go—even you—unheard of me As bird or bee I Nay, sweetheart, nay !—bol love There is no cause to grieve; One no wayworn, so sore opprtwt, Is glad to rest. . Perchance when that release , Hath wrought its spell of peace, « O'er this unquiet heart long vex/d with W|e— Hearts-ease may grow. * Who lov» • me will not ween When that I lio asleep, But rather joy to think such sorrow may Ifave end some day. ' ' —Helen Hunt. the mpment she ncthinjr moro un- *ible if she were TEUE AS S-ftEL.' VI do wontfer why those little savages are allowed to mako a coasting hill »f the public highway!\ grumbled ait uncom- monly pretty girl, us she hesitated in great pcrturbationlfalf w.*y up the im- provised slide mcutioucd. It was aH irregular and rather precipi- tous cross street of a suburban village. It was treacherously iey aud swarming with juvenile coasters, one of whom had carried a *trip of silken ruby flounce with him as ho darted past her. •'It is <|yitc too bad! and my very nicest dress, too,\ she complained, men- tally, as she stopped to draw back and pin together the dunmik'd bit of drapery. In the annoyritfcVo did not reflect flint * pleasant was quite pc not vigilant. She was quite too engrossed to hear boyish shout* of warniug in the road above her, or to see an agile figure that was springing affrighted ly toward her. A big sled, freighted .with half a dozen reckless urchins, had started down the tempting descent; on the glassy track it bad become pirrtly, unmanageable; in a •econd more it would bo upon her unless the heed those warning shouts or a miracle interposed tosavolrcr. > Beforo she reully had time to compre- hend hor peril or understand the sudden, •hrill vociferation, thero WA**A wild whirring in the air and a tingling shock, And the next instant she felt herself violently whirled aside by a strong arm which had seized her as Iho sled flow past. Tho agile flguro of a manly pedestrian, whose aftMghtod gestures sho had not no- ticed, hud flung himself between her and death, or worse, and she was safe. , At she struggled to her foot ft cry of gratitude and pity quivered from her startled iini. Hho fully realized what hor porjl hnd been and her pity was for her handsomo rescuer, who wus lying stunned and bruited and blooding beforo her. 4 'Oh, what can J say to you?—what can I do?\ she faltered, m a distressing voice, as tho bent ovor him. His handsomo features wero alarmingly pallid,and there wero tiny drops of warm fed blopd staiuing tho fro/cV>now which pillowod hJi fallon head. But tho bright dark eyes unclosed with a flashing smile which was delight- fully tranquilly.! ng. 1 'Say only that Ihavp mado 'a charm- ing friend,\ he smiled, as with a wince of pain he uplifted himself to a sitting posture. \I am not 1)adly hurt. I have ft turfaco gash on my cheek, I think, and I have a notion there is a sprained limb. I ahull not be able to get to my destina- tion—that's certain.\ ho ftdded, at ho mado an heroic attempt to stand uprigfht, only to sink back again with ft sup- pressed groan. Just then the big sled waVhaulcd back up tho street, the reckless coasters all peniteutand terrified, aud eager to rondor every service. A helpful idea brightened the girl's ftnxious face. • Vlt would be\ an hour beforo proper assistance could bo brought to you here,\ •no said, in her quick, sweet, girlish voice. ••But there is u dear, motherly old iftdy living in that littlo cottago at the top of tho hill.. Let tho boys put you on (ho sled aud take you up to hor. Sho it my friend and alio will do whatever I with.\ ^ And so a few minutes later tho injured young gentleman wits snugly ensconced on a fcosey lounge of tho cosey little cot- tage 'and a physician had been sont for. Ah, you will bo all right again in a few days,\ the docJor said, cheorfully, \only you must keep yourself perfectly quiet, and not try to exert yourself in •ny* way.\ \I can reconcile, myself to tho situation easily if you will promise to cheer my Imprisonment occasionally.\ tho gentle- man snid,'with one of his flashing smiles toward the pretty girl, who readily prom- ised what ho seeiued so eagerly to (Jcsire. And that was tho beginning of pretty Doriuda Grey's acquaintance with tho handsomo young strungler whom she had exalted to a hero—a king among men. lie had done only what any other man Would have dono in similar circumstan- ces. He had simply snatched her away from the track of tho flying sled. Ho had perceived no risk to himself, no sacrifice; ho had been sufcly beyond any collision with tho coaster—it was his own ftwkwsrd stumble on tho treacherously glassy incline which had oaused hit mis- hap. Tho peril was over when ho had slipped upou one of his hoclt aud fallen. It might have happened just tho same even if ho had not hastened gallantly to the rescue of a distractingly pretty girl. But trfWe wero trifling littlo truths which he did not deem absolutely necos- tary to reveal. • It was too pleasant to pore as a wounded hero, and to have his temporary confinement enlivened by tjio visjts of his graceful and interesting now acquaintance. Ptfr his own sake he pre- ferred not to spoA her Iitl|ie illusions on the subject. '• .. . ', And so Dorinda went homeward, tak- ing with her the image of an elegant fig- . ure and handsome countenance of a fasci- nating young stranger, whpso tones were like music, whoso smile was like a flash of sunlight, whoso brilliant black eyes had gazed admiringly, almost tenderly, into her own. 4 Her own great browu eyes were bright as stars, her ,checks flushed with a curi- ously wavering rose tint, as she at length entered tho floe old yellow stone mansion at the further*end of the village street. \What on e»rjh has kept you so long, Dodo?\ queried a tall and stately young Jady in an elegant morning dress Of Sevres Wut ffttin. ,1 P^ &<>£ tart At fciud of pacha braid I wanted at thj store?—or did you forget your criftnd, and stay all this time gcaniping. with that simple old Mrs. Merroni\ The rose tint deepened to crimson on Dodo's pretty cheeks, but the did not choos i to explain what had deterred her at Mrs. Mcrron's cottage on the hill. \I couldn't get the braid, Greta; thoy don't keep it, slid answered. \It is a bonnet braid, anyhow, and,that wouldn't do for your dress.\ \A bonnet braid dear rno! How stu- pid a dressmaker can bciP' Gretthen ex- claimed, impatiently. \But if she will only havo/^nc dress llnishcd somehow by the time f\f. Lcstraugc gets here I won't grumble Wbout minor blunders. And now, Dodo, do bo obliging and help mo with the trimmings of tho ancient ball •gown.\ \It is too ancient to be rejuvenized, Greta; it ought to be replaced by a new gown altogether,\ said Dodo, looking with decided resistance at the task sug- gested, 'i ) \Itjrdcpcnds on you, Dodo, whether we, auy of us. over have ; anything new again,'* sighed ft faded little woman frpm her iu valid chair before the fire. Dodo looked distressed, and all the lovely color suddenly paled from her pretty cheeks. \Oh aunty, how does it depend on mo?\ she faltered, although the guessed what the aliu$ion meant. \I think you will never quite forget ie hours 'which we have passed together the here,\ he said, with seemingly a regret- ful glance around the room, and at moth- erly Mrs. Merrou, aslccpjover her knit- ting before the flrO. \They have bcin hours to l>e remembered by both of usl\i Ho had bent over hcrf until his dark mustache brushed her forehead; he had clasped both her hands. There was the tendcrest Mgnilicanee in his musical tones; iho fascination of What seemed tend'jipt love glowed in the brilliant eyes. / Doflo trembled. She had mado him her (hero undoubtedly; but in that in- Ktant her whole being recoiled from him. Why, she could not have explained; she only know she was aroused somehow to a true knowledge of her own feelings. He had charmed her fancies for the mo- ment, perhaps, but ho love—tweet ftnd supremo—would ever thrill her soul for Mm. ! | . \I ought to hnvo^fono before,\ he continued, uneasily, as If ho wero (Load- ing some reproach from Dodo hcivclf. \But I was hardly presentable with a puiTcd and purplo bruiso decorating a goodly half of my countenance. And my destination it nearer than you guessed, Dodo; my dear little girl, y>u and 1 aro to meet again, and often. 11 ' Dodo noMccd tho uneasiness of his tones, hit entiro changod expression, and wTO a sudden quick instinct tho grasped tho truth. You aro—aro—-Mi Lwtrnnge ?\ the grasped,. with A ttrango look in her big brown eyes. \You aro mycoutin Greta's promised husband.\ Ho bowed in a mannoi so conscious and embarrassed that all Dodo's honest littlo foul arose to hot indignutlon against him. Ho wat no longer a hero in her tight. He was an inslnccro, shallow triflcr. who had amused himself with hor timplo blushes at his practiced flattery. Huch sublime audacity, such consum- mate falsity, stunned her. With a look of withering acorn the turned and loft htm in.utter dlguat. , s ''I pity.Grota, cross and Hiflih At sho is,\ Dodo thought, as she wroitiU>wly up tho steps of tho old yellow stono mansion. the feasant family pressed . rudely and tripped up tho almost convul- lair beforo the At tho entered sitting-room Greta sullenly past her aud ttnirs. Mrn. Gray wat woepinj • sivcly in her invalid c tifo. * r : ^ \What hn|a hrippen jd,\aunty?\ the girl queried, anxiously and affectionately. Dodo wat aincero y attached to hor invalid aunt, whoso*i trials had, indeed, boon many aud grievous. \It 1 is that mortgage,\ wat the piteous answer. \There is to bo nn immediate foreclosure. Wo shall bo absolutely homeless; there won't bo r $lOO left after tho sale. I non't Card for myself, nor so muqh on Greta's account—she can earn her own living it she chooses; but there aro tho poor children—Tommy and Willy! What will become of them?'' Dodo stopped and kissed her aunt in gentle sympathy, but she was silent. \Dodo I can't nsk, you to do akiything that mighi make you unhap )y,\ the weeping woman resumed, \and t seems cruel to remind you that I havo Icon liko ft mother to you. But, my dear, if you only would consider everything mid then decidi; to do what I would like. And David is waiting for you, dear. He is in tho parlor now.\ .Dodo's pretty face flushed •with A sud- den sim»o of her own lack of feeling for others. She had not considered every- thing ai/rtio might havo dono—that was certain. %\TH. Groj had indeed been Uko a •mother to licr. In her orphaned aud pon- niless childhood sha had been taken into the family as ono of their own. Bho had shared and shared alike with them in everything; no hint of her dependence had cvd> been permitted to pain her. Even tho selfish and sometimes d : sagree- ablo Greta had treated her entirely as a sister. And when tlijo dour, kind uncle left them she mourned him at ono who had been to her liko ajii indulgent father. Tho flush had vanished from her pretty cheeks; her faco wasi pale and her large brown eyes very serious as she opened the parlor door and advanced rather tim- idly toward tho gentleman waiting for her. I t * *~x—4 The serious eyes dropped and her voice choked as she glanced at tho earn- est face and fine Saxon-looking figure of her patient, true, old lover. How could she havo tried to shut her foolish heart against tho love of ono all noble and loyal evor sho wondered. But sho meant to be frank with him; she would confes9* t all her folly—sho would even tell him about that dreadful mortgage, and theft, if ho loved her no longcf, sho^couldl not blame him.. nclmisiiitcrpreted the agitation of the pale (|ace, and checked tho confession be- fore it was, begun. \IJsm not here to hurry your answer, Dodol!\ he said very gently. \YcAis/hall have your own timo about that, my ( dar- ling. I have come on quite a different er- rand. I nave just learned that your aun,t has been threatened with some financial trouble, and I hayc ventured to adjust the matter by buying the mort- gage. I know how hard it would be for her to give up her old home, and how hard itlwould be for you to see her in Ruch distress, when she has always been si^ch a good mother to you. And so I just took the aflair in my own hands and |w trouble |g e&dcd, Why, Podo, my little love, what it this?)' he finished in surprise. For Dodo had sudden! face downward on tho sofa, and was.cry- ing as if her heart wcWild break. \And it was the mortgage which had come between you and me, David,\ she cried, with a nervous laugh mingling with tho sound of tears.\ I wouldn't marry you just because poor aunty wanted your help about it, ana I tried to hate you, ana \ \Andyou<!ouldn*r interrupted, in a voice shaken with its sudden deep glad- ness, as ho took hor in his arms and kissed tho wet eyes and quivering lips. And to David Carlyon won his bride.\ . Greta became eventually tjio Wife of her elegant Mr. Lest range, aiid regards herself as the most fortunate of — New York Journal. women. WORDS OF wr§Doi DOM. It is a good rule to be doaf when a slanderer talks. Those are the most honorablo who aro the most lawful. Inordinate demands should bo met with bold denials. ; No man should so act as to take Ad- vantage of another's folly. ^ We are sure to get the better of for- tune if wo do but grapple witlr her. Cleverness is a sort of genius for in- strumentality. It is tho brain of the hand. \ * The vulnerable point of one's character is much more speedily discovered by our inferiors than by our equals. Ileal friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit. Misfortune is never mournful to tho soul that accepts it, for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every single action of our life carries in its train cither a reward or a punish- ment, however little disposed wo are to admit that such is the case. T*he mrin who is suspicious lives in a constant state of unhappincss. It would bd better for his peace of mind to be too trustful than too guarded. An animal when it is tick craves for tolitude; whereat tho human being, on the contrary, is only happy wlicn he can make his sidTerings public. The tru/ \grand dany*\ displays tho tamo manners in her toilot room as in her saloons, and the same courtesy toward hor servants as toward her guests. • Work, says ono who it accustomed to It. it tho truo philosopher's stone, whether you handle a pick or A pen, a wheelbarrow or A set of books, digging, ditching, or editing ft newspaper. Horn-Books. One of the rarest, and certainly ono of the most interesting, books in tho library of tho British Museum is what our ances- tors callod a ''horn-book.\ It wat, in fact, their primer, tho ordinary meant by which they began their education; and down to tho reign of George II. must havo been very common, for wo see by (an entry in tho account book of tho Archer family that one wat sold in 1780 for two ponce. At present thero is no book moro difficult to obtain. Tho' one in tho British Musonm wot found a quar- ter of a contury ago in a deep closet, built in tho thick walls of an old farm houao in Derbyshire. It is said a laborer ongagod in pulling down tho walls of tho ancient houso recognized it at that from which hit father had been taught to read. Upon tho back is a picture of Charles I. on horseback, giving some/approximation to its date. It is a smgle leaf, containing Upon the front side tho alphabet, largo find small, ^n Old English and Roman letters, ton short columns of monosylla- bles founded on tho vowels, and tho Lord's Pray or; all sot in a frame of oak, now black with age, and protected oy a slico of transparent M>rn, hence the namo horn-bookl • •. There is a luindlo by which to hold It, ftnd in tho luindlo a hole for a string, so i'i could hang from the girdle. A picture of 1720 represents a child running in leading strings, with a horn-book tied to hor side. A cheaper kind of horn-book had tho leaf of printed paper pasted upon the horn, and perhaps tho greater number wero made in this way. If so, it is not singular they should bo fcarce* for they would bo very easily destroyed. Bhcu- stone writes in 1742 of Books of stature small, i| While with pellucid horn secured all TosftA e from Angers wet the lotters fair. The alphabet upon the horn-books Was always headed by a CDSS, ajjd so Was frequently called the Christ Cross Kbw, or, in eommofl speech, the Criss ('rose How, this beitt^rtho tit lo under which a very worn specimon is catalogued at Ox- ford.— Christian at Work. How to Tell the Age of a Horse. The ago of a horse is indicated by tho teeth in tho following manner. When the ct>lt is thrco years old it sheds four of tho front teeth, and permanent teeth take thcir-placc, two above and two be- low; tho fourth year one more tooth on each side of the permanent teeth is shed and npw teeth arc substituted; the fifth year four moro teeth are shed and re- placed, and tho horse has now twelve permanent Jront teeth. The next year the tushes or canine teeth appear in the horse, but rarely in the mare. From six to eight years tho f roil t fcetharo grow- ing,^and at cipht years wxv. fullgrown; after which period tho wearing down of tho teeth alone indicates tho age. But this wearing depends upon tho feeding; pasturing causes moro wear than soft feeding. It is said that after nine years a wrinkle appears in tho eyelid at tho upper corner of tho lower lid, and ono other wrinkle forms every year. This wo give for what it is worth, having no personal knowlcdgo of it. Tho ago of an old horse—if this is true—it known by observing the number of these wrinkles and adding nlno to it.— New York Times. How Type is Made. It takes a great deal of work to mako type, *>ays the Atlanta Constitution. Every letter has to be handled by five S croons after it is cast. ¥ The first thing one is cutting the letter on j the end of a fine piece of steel forming a jpunch. Tho punch is driv|en into a piece of polished copper, which makes tho matrix. Tho matrix for the: face of the letter and the mold for the body of the type aro put into the type-casting machine, fed wijth melted metal, and the letters are turned ouf one at a time, dropping from the machine like.the ticking of a watdli. A great deal of iwork is required'in finjishing type, and when at last they are apparently all right each letter is examined under a microscope, and t lie defective ones are rejected, PAST PENALTIES.. rUNIBHMENT OF CRIMINALS JN BYGONE DAYS. How Hoitry VIII. Treated^ Vagrants —U»C.A : of !ho Wblppinfl-l'ost —Tho Pillory and Stock* Three Centuries Ago. j OME criminalt of the present day and generation have a very easy row to hoe in comparison to that which trans- gressors of two or three centuries ago had to wrestle with. The comfortable, well ventilated pris- ons and penitentia- ries, with wholesome food and kindly ^at- tention, arc a para- dise when consid- ered alongside of (such instruments of \ punishment as the whipping-post, the pillory and the stocks. But then our ancestors were a sturdy lot, and if their punishments were moro severe,'they were certainly moro efficacious than those of the present time. Speaking of whippingposts brings to mind a story told by one of the oldest Deputy Sheriffs of West Virginia. He was in the city not lorlg ago, and ho told the tale to a party of (friends in the cor- ridor of the Seventh Avenue Hotel. \They used to Ihivc whipping-posit in West Virginia before the war, you know,\ he said. \But -they weren't very often- used. In all my long experience as Dep- uty Sheriff I only saw one whipping. That was all I ever want to see. The prisoner was a young man who had been convicted of wife desertion. He. was to get sixty stripe* Across the bare back. The Deputy Slierint drew lots to see who would do the whipping, and the fellow who drew the long stick took the whip and stqrted to work. -« \The rest of us stood looking on. The man who was doing tho whipping wat big and strong, with a nerve liko iron, but the inflicting of the punishment wat more than ho could stand up under. At wnirriNo-roflT AND BTOOT,., be delivered hit'fortieth ttroko~ho began to waver,and wh -n fifty had boon counted ho fainted outright and hud to be carried away. I was ordered .to give tho other ten lashes, but I could'not do \l. I havo thot men when arresting them, I' have pulled a string and let a man go down to nit death at tho end of a rope, I have been a tlavo-driver, and cut negroes till thoy bled with A blucksnuko whip, but when it camo to standing up and whip- ping a whito man, whoso back already looked lfkc a piece of hammered beef- steak, I couldn't do it. I resigned my position right then and there, and tho Sheriff himself hud to give tho prisoner the rest of hiup inishment. -\It was a terrible penalty, but I tell you the man who suffered it didn't de- sert hit wife any more. He went riglft back to his family, took thorn over Into Ohio, where ho wasn't known, and Started in business. To-day he it living In a littlo town near Columbus and is wealthy. I saw him.a year ago, and ho told mo then that that whipping was the best thing that ever happened to him. I don't know but there are a good many other citizens in this country who would be benefited by just such a punishment.\ It Is about three centuries since the whipping-post was at the height of its glory at a means of punishment. About this time tho mo ouster ics in England were dissolved, and va*t numbers of poor and infirm who had been dependent upon them for aid wero thrown out onto the world without and ligitiipato meant of tupport. In a short timo ilhcre wero almost as many vagrants as there were legitimate working people in the coun- if* FAn!f8n BTOQKB. J try, ftnd Henry VIII., who was at that time King, decided that something, must be dono to suppress the evil. To this end he had an act passed which provided that all vagrants should be \carried to tome market town, or oth*r place, and there tied to tho cod of a cart naked, beaten with whips through such market town, or other place, till the body should be bloody by reason of such whipping.\ But the severity of the penalty didn't stop tho vagrants, and it wat not until Queen Elizabeth's reign when officers were sent out to gather in the wanderers, and whipping-posts jwere erected all over the country, that the nuisance was some- what abated. Men and women and even children wire whipped alike, and the records, which were always kept in the church books of the parish, many of which still exist, do not indicate that either a^e or sex was taken into consid- eration in connection with the severity of tho punishment. A slightly redeeming feature is that some of the parish'officers were wont to recommend the sufferers whom they had whipp:&4o tho tender mercies of the officers in other parishes through which the victims had to pass. Up to the close of the last century men ftnd women were whipped promiscuously iu some parts of England, and even in one or two places in the United Slates. ' Jo England the pan who d|d the whip- ping usually received four pence for his work. It was not until 171)1 that the whipping of female vagrants was ex- pressly forbidden by statute. Along in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when tho Stocks were in common use as a means of punishment, the whipping-post was very often made In connection with them. Tho posts supporting the stocks were made sullicicutly high, and were furnished with iron clasps to hold the wrists' of tho offender during the inflic- tion of the punishment, ^sometimes a tingle post was made to serve both pur- poses, clasps being provided at the top for the wrists when used as a whipping- post and at the bottom for the ankles when used as stocks. In the latter in- stance the culprit sat on a bench behind tho posts ana his legs, when fastened, PILLORY FOU 8EVE1CAL PER80X*. were in^a, horizontal position. Stock and whipping-post of this description are atill in existence in many places, and persons arc still living who have ^suffered b r oth kinds of punishment for which they were designed. * Ono of the earliest and most scvero forms of punishment in England and also teveral other countries of Europo was the pillory. It consisted of a wooden frame erected on a stool with holes and folding boards for the admission of the heads and thauds of the victims, who were forced f o stand upright on the stool. As early as 1287 tho musty records stowed away Home where in tho British Museum say that Robert Bassett, then Mayor of London, stretclicd tho necks of half a dozen bakers in tho pillory for making their bread of light weight, aud that at ftlxmt the same time a dame named Agnes Daintio was nunished similarly for soil- ing \minglea butter.\ Fraudulent coal, corn and cattlo dealers; sellers of sham gold, keepers of disorderly houses, for- gers, counterfeiters and thieves of all classes were treated to tho samo punish- ment. Another form of tho pillory was constructed in ft circular form, Ana was made to accommodate teveral criminals. It wat invented for tho especial benefit of mountebanka and quacks und cheats of all kinds. ' , lories are still standing in various parts of England, but it is threo-quarters of a century since they were in any thing like general use.— PitUburg Dispatch, «*Tue Obltnary Worker. A tall, lean young man with scraggy Whiskers callod at a newspaper office re- cently for a job. \What Can yen dot\ said the city editor, with A professional tcow). \The drama, politics, police, fires or runaways? Speak up aud be o,uick about it.\ \I have no talent for any of those things you havo mentioned,\ re- joined the visitor sadly. \These are not in my line; but I am the best 'foul play' reporter on the continent. Yes, sir—you. may .smile, but it it a fact. I can look over your obituary column any morning ftnd work up a foul play article that will sell your whole edition. Try me, won't you? Give me the next S rominent citizen to work up that drops ead in the street, aye, or diet calmly in his bed] and I will fling such a glamour of foul play about his case that every member of his family will be under arrett before noon. This community is full of foul air, and that branch of journalism is being wofully neglected. Let me tell you-h\ Here the city editor lauded him a foul blow in the region of the dia- phragm, and the unlucky applicant wat oroomed out of the building by the arro- gant janitor.—-Sin;* JTranrisco News Letter. OATES IN TIIE rrLLORY. But tho heroes of the pillory were not only rogues and vagrants. Noble hearts have, been tried and tempered in. it, and men high up in society were elevated in mental independence and athletic endur- ance by it. It was fn 1087 when the Star Chamber issued a decree prohibiting tho printing of any book or pamphlet with- out ft license from the Archbishop of Can- terbury, tho Bishop of London or the authorities of the two universities. One of the very first victims of this decree was Lcighton, father of the Archbishop of that name, who, for printing trad cir- culating \Zion's Plea Against Prelacy,\ was fined £10,000, degraded from the ministry, pilloried, branded and whipped. To make tho punishment still more in- teresting one of his ears was chopped off and his nostril was split after he had bden fastened in the pillory. Lillmon, Prynne, Burton and Dr. Bastwick are among the other illustrious names that appear en the list of pillory victims pun- ished for printing. , > Half a century latT, in 1685, Titus Oatea expiated his betrayal of innocent lives in the pillory. He wns N found guilty of periury on two different iu- dictments and was sentenced to public exposure for five days each year of his life. The first of these days which he put in almost cost him his life. He wat conilnefl in tho pillory at Palace Yard, and tbjo crowd which surrounded tho place became tired of throwing ancient eggs aiid garbage and resorted to stones^ On the second day his friends rallied to his support, and almost succeeded in rcscuring him. Oates paid the penalty of five days^cach year for a long time, and then the Revolution deprived hit enemies of their power and turned the criminal into a pensioner for life. Very often, people condemned to the pillory did not cscspe as lightly as the law intended. In 1750 a thief-takea named Egan, who was sentenced to ono day's exposure, received injuries from the crowd from which he died. In 1863a man was killed in a simular way at Bow; and in 1780 a coachman died during the* time of his exposure. During Queen Elizabeth's time, a citizen who was placed in the pillory fell through the top of the ttqol, the foot-board being rotten. He was left henging by his neck, in danger of his life, for quite a while, and after he was liberated he brought action against the town for the insdrricien^y of its pil- lory. It is s lid that he recovered heavy damages. As late as 1814 Lord Cochrane was sentenced to the pillory on a very unjust charge of fraud iu 4he Stock Ex- change, but the influence and determina- tion of his friends prevented the sentence ffOD} being carded out, One or two pil- Largest Theatre in the World. Here is a picture of the Chicago Audi- tori urr; at it will appear when completed. Work on this building is now going rap- idly fcrward on the block lying between Michigan and,Wabash avenues. ' When completed it will be the largest i theatre in he world, having a seating capacity of !i,000 persons. The frontage is 301 feci on Congress street, 187 feet on Mich- igan avenue, and 101 feet on Wabash avenue, or nearly a seventh of a mile in all. The cornico will bo 144 feet from the ground, and the top of the tower 225 feet. The structure will contain ft hotel of 400 rooms, and in*its construction 250 car-louds of iron will be used.— Chicago Herald. \ The gcoruor Scorned. \No Mary Ann GilHgan, you, can't como under my umbrcllcr; if I'm not good enough for to walk with when I ain't got no umbrellcr, then I'm not good enough to reckernize when I'm wai [kin' with one 1\—Ztf*.. An Unsuccessful Day's Sport . Young Sportsman (to farmer, from whom Ipe , hired a gun and a dog for ft dayjs shooting)—\I've lost thp dog.'' Fanner—\The dog camo home four hours ago. What's the matter?\ Young Sportsman—\Why I tired-eight times at A duck, which proved to be a- decoy duck, without hitting it, and then tho dog howled and started 'cross coun- try. He's po good, Mr. Hayseed; and that gun kicks like thunder.\ Farmer—\I should think it would kick, like thunder.\ Then farmer Hayseed went around to the back yard, where tjhe' dog was gnaw- ing an indigestible bono, and gave him ft pat on the head and a couple of French chops.- —New York Sun. A Mistake That She Remembered. Boston Young Lady—\I want to look at a pair of eyeglasses, sir, of extra mag- nifying power.\ Dealer—\Yes ma'am; something very strong?\ 4 ( Boston Young Lady—\Yes sir. While visiting in ths country last summer I made a very painful blunder, which I never want to repeat.\ Dealer—\May I ask what that—er— blunder was?\ Boston Young Lady*- \Oh I mis- took a bumblebee for a blackberry.\ A Delusion. ^.^ou would imagine tho young ladj leaning over tho fence was all alone. But—- * When you get on the other side of the fence you find you have made a slight WSU>)LQ.*T-Adaptedfrw B{ftinq$. TEMPERANCE. ' Life in the Glad Saloon. Talk not of woe in the shining cup, Prate not of haploss men, Here's brandy red—fill your glasses up, . Then drink and All again. Quaff the nectar sweet, Where choice spirits meet, Beneath the biasing dome, Where polished mirrors gleam Like tho sun's meridian beam, We'll drink to the hearts at home. Drink till the dawn and sleep till the noon, Hail! the sleepless night and the gay saloon. Hark! to the merry click and clink Of the glasses' crystal rim, Where full tothe glossy brink They flash to the goblet's brim— With vintage dfvtne, , With golden wine, i Ana every drop is red, / Red with the blood of manly hearts, , Victims from offices, shops, and marts Who rest with the countless doe/1, Ohl the palace of wine is a sacred boon And the glory of life is a glad saloon. Come! drink of the vintage sweet Of the grape—the corn and rye, In the bar-room gay; we meet— And the son of mirth beams high, y - *^ Whe>a flashes bright 7 The electee light, v Though the giddy brain may reel, 4 Reel! with the flow of heated gin The fumes of rum and the dregs of sin, ' Where crime sets its loathsome seed- Dimming the sunlight and clouding the moon; Yet there's nothing so bright as a glided sa- \ loon. Who cares for the preacher's ire? Or the famished widow's wail? For the drunken, tottering sire, Or the shivering orphan pale? Who cares for tho tear On the drunkard's bier? Or the wife or mother's sighs? Or grave in the potter's field, afan<% Unmarked with a cross, or raou: d, or stone, Where the poor iaebriate lies? March on to the same eternal tune, A pauper's grave and a bright saloon. —Charles J. Beatlih, in Intei'-Ocean. A Temperance Talklto Young Hoe. I should have been in nhy grave twenty or thirty years osro if I had 1 not quit drinking .intoxicating liquors, as I did, in 1$47. I had contracted the habit; had built up a blind, unnatural appetite for strong drinks, and liked the taate of every kind of liquor—though I suspact I liked the effects still better. I be- gan to grow careless and \slothful in busi- ness,\ and put o.T till next week what I ought to have done t >-dajy. Fortunately I discov- ered that the habit was destroying my health and my worldly prospects, ana by a most de- tsrmined will-power I conquered the powerful app3tit^ which 1 had acquired for intoxicants and broke itYorever. I knew that habit was second nature, and that the unnatural appetite for strong drinks was stronger than nature iteolf, for every glass of liquor drauk increased the desire for another gliss, and so on ad libitum, and there- fore to have conquered suoh a fearful habit was the saving 01 my life, and all that was worth living for. When I found myself secure from falling back into the whirlpool of intoxicants, I felt aaa shipwrecked person must fool whon his life is barely saved by the- lifeboat, when many of his fellow passengers were still atruogling in the waves. Being saved himself, he is excitedly anxious to save others, 1 felt so overjoye I at being snatched from a habit which vwa* surely dragging me down to misery and death, that I found my greatest pleasure consisted in circulating the temperance pledge, giving temperance lectures free of charge all over the country, and usinjr every effort in my power to enlighten public sentiment in re- f ard to the fearful delusion of strong drink, particularly urgxl young men and young women, as I now do, to start right in life to | avoid the greatest evil in the land, because it is the parent of nearly ev^ry other evil known, and is sure te» utterly destroy nine- tenths of those who form the drinkinp habit. I begged thorn not to touch a single drop, tiecause like opium, morphine and other narcotic* the drinking of liquor calls for more, more, and more to produce the same effect that a little produced at Unit, and thus an artificial and unnatural appetite was created that proved irresistible in a great majority of cases. I showed the youth of this country that their health, happi- ness, and succees in life, as well as of their posterity, depended upon whether they started life's journey on whitiky, beer, and othev brain-muddlers, or on cold water, nature's beverage, which gives the clear brain, the firm hand, the strong resolution, and the noble ambition to succeed in life financially and morally. I am glad to know that I havestartsd thousands of young per- sons on the right track, and that their exam- ple will save hundreds of thousands of their posterity and fellow beings. It is one of the greatest pleasures of the evonlng of my life that I can look back and see the multitude of young married men, who were ruining themselves and families by this social, delu- sive, and absolutely fatal habit of dram- drinking, whom I have been able to convince that th<jy wero on tho wrong track, and to induce them to switch off and take the tem- perance track for life. Many a wife and son and daughter have clasped me by the haad, and, with streaming eyes, have thanked me for having saved them from misery and degradation, and saving their father and husband. Young married men to Bridgeport w^io were my tenants, I have induced to abandon the use of liquor and tobacco on condition that I would build and sell them a house on credit, to bo paid for by instalments. Numbers of such men with growing families have in a few years owned the houses they lived in, clear from debt, they having saved the money by cutting off their rum and tobacco expenses, and earned more money by their renewed energy, strength and ambition. There is not one redeeming quality in the liquor drinking habit It does no possible good, and it inflicts all manner of evil on its victim* his family and friends. It is,the moetde- S ra<ling, poverty breeding, and utterly eitractive infatuation that ever paralyzed the hopes, comforts and characters of the people of this otherwise blessed America. • P. T. BAJUTUM. intoxication Among French Chil- dren. In the' Gentlemen's Magazine, a contribu- tor, Syl vaius Urban, writes: \I Khnll, I doubt not, sttrtle not a few of my<-«»den« when 1 state that during a recent visit to France I have frem -utly so»n French chil'iivn into cicatod. Wt-'ango as such an as- sertion nuy s.*enu I deUberatily mike it and stand by it. Again an 1 ajain at labl JS d' hote f>ha vo «;m ehu livn scarcely moro that babies suffir.:ig dlstin-tly from aloohoL It is, as travelers in France know, tho custom in all districts 8-nith of the Loire to supply wine gratis at two.meals, breakfast and dinner, at which th^.ivsid^nts iu a hotel oat in com- pany. Repeatedly, then, in the hotels in French watertn^place* I have watched chil- dren of five* years old and upward supplied by tHeir mothers with wine enou ;h to visibly flush and excite them. At Sables d'Olonne on3 littlo follow, whole age could not be moro thin six, drank at each of two can- secutivo meals throo tuoiblerfuls of wine slightly diluted with water. ThJ result was on each occasion that he commence i to kiss his mother, proceelel to kiss the peraon on the other side of him, continued by sprawling over the table, and ended by putting his head in his mothers lap and falling asleep. It never seems to outer into the mind of a Frenchwoman that water may be drunk at a meal. When long journeys by rail are taken, there is always in the nxit basket in which the French mother carries pix) vis ions a bottle of wine or wine and water.out of which those of her children who have passed the stage of absolute infancy are allowed to drink. I can indeed say with truth that in the course of a pretty long series of observations of the French, chiefly made, I admit, in public ve- hicles and hotels, I have rarely, if ever, seen a glass of cold water, unqualified with any admixture, quaffed I by a native. It is now the fashion to mistrust water even when blended with wine, for which purpose th? va- rious springs of the E iu ot. Ualinier are largely employed.\ To the list of Martyrs toThe cause of Tem- perance is added the name of a prominent citizen of Indiana. Brutally beaten by the brother of a hotel keeper for his jdenouncia- tion of the cursed traffic, another victim is laid low by these servants of hell. The mighty truths go on, however, and although the shedding of blood in to be the sacrifice, there are plenty of volunteers to do service iA this, the noblest cause—that of protectinf their wca'c brothers from the grip of Satan. r-We*t Urvvt itfenn.) Indtnemsni. , KILLED HIS GRANDSONS. The Aged The Double Crime of nn Pennsylvania Widower, town of Lebanon, Penu., lias been in a . ferment of excitement over • double murder perpetrated at Annville, a lit- tle village five miles away. William Showers, aged fifty-nine, a widower, and a cigarmaker, lived on tho out- skirts of Annville, in a mo Jest little home. Nothing was known against him. Living with him were two boys named Sam- uel and Wjile HofTnagle, aged three and five years. They were his grandsons, being the children of his deceased daughter. Their care devolved upon Showers, and he chafed under the additional expense they caused. Showers became engaged to be married to a widow named Mrs. Bargeant, but the woman finally told him that she would not manqu him unless the children were put out to board. Showers suddenly began to entertain a strange enmity toward his Nltttle grandsons. He* told Mrs. Sargeant mat they should be-sent away to livejand about two weeks ago the boys disappeared from the house, and Showers told the neighbors be liad seht thorn to live with a man near Tower City, in Schuylkill county. Then a suspicion arose that all was not right, and whisperings reached the officials in Lebanon that a double murder had prob- ably been committed. Showers told conflicting stories, and Constable Pa- gan went to his house and arrested him. It was 2 o'clock Monddy morning when the doors*cloeed behind him in the l>ebanon jail. Still he was only arrested on suspicion until an investigation could be made. First he said he had given the boyi in charge of a man who would provide tl e n with a good home in Texas. Then he reported that he had driven the boys to Tower City and given them into the charge of a farmer. Later he said that whde on the way to Tower City he sent the boys back for somctliing he had lost on the road, and they had been kidnapped by tramps in the vicinity of Indiantown Gap, * dangerous place. Showers declared upon his solemn oath that he did not know the whereabouts of the chil- dren, and tears streamed down his clieeks as he called upon God as his witness. Many of the officiate who hela conversation with him were inclined to believe him. Still ^he Dis- trict-Attorney was not satisfied, and orJwed a strict search of Showcrs's premises. Late Tuesday afternoon the bodies of the boys wereTound buried iii the lot occupied by Shower's house. The bodies were found covered by only two feet of earth. They were six feet apart, and about twenty yards from the house. They had been strangled with a small cord, and there were deep in- dentations in their necks where the string had been tightly twisted four or five time*. They were in their nightgowns. After they had been strangled the murdereT, to make his work sure, battered in their heads, and then carried the boys out in tho night and buried them in tho holes that had evidently been prepared in advance. The body of one of the boys looked as if he had been beaten with a club after he had been choked, and they had apparently been in the ground two weeks. It was well for him that Bhowfcni was safe in Lebanon jail. Had he been outside the jail when the bodies were found he would have been lyncher! on the spot. The greirU ft excitement prevailed. When confronted with the evidences of his crime, the wretched mur- derer confessed all, sayiug that his desire to marry Mm. Sargeant had caused him to put the little boys out of the way, and that he murdered them in their, sleep. Won Boston 21 Lort. 10 14 24 Washington...10 16 New York..., Indianapolis. 18 7 THJE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Lot*. 17 17 20 Lo*t. 16 G IS Wan. St. Louis. .J! Brooklvn 17 Louisville 20 Metropolitan.. <> EASTERN Won. New Haven. ..12 Bridgeport 21 Danbary 10 SOUTHERN UEAOUE. . Won Lort. Won. Nashville..- .^. 1« 7 r Charleston... 34 Memphis. 10 Jl Savannah 4 New Orleans..IS 12 Birmingham. 0 THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Baltimore. ....21 Cincinniti....l9 Athletic f 18 Cleveland.„-».. 8 LEAGUE. Won. Hartford. 16 Watorbury.. .12* Springfield.... 4 Won. Lomt. Newark 18 5 Rochester. ...15 10 Toronto 13 11 Buffalo 19 U Oiwego 8 19 THE COLLEOE LEAOUK. Won. Lout. Won. Harvard a 1 j Princeton 2 Yale..... fi 0 I Columbia. 0 Won. Syracuse 7 'Kmghainton.. 9 Hamilton 12 Jersey City... 9 Utica 4 Lost- 13 1» 17 Lott. 9 15 15 Lost. 14 20 4 ^14 14 14 12 17 Lomt. 4 5 THE Csar has an album with the pictures of all the Nihilists who have been implicated in plots ajrainst his life. When thn last at- tempt was made be remarked that the album would soon be filled, aa there were only a few more pages left. m 1, A RATTSESNAKE was found in the mail pouch taken on the train at Morrow's Station, Ga.. the oth«*r day. nnd he MXWI h$d full |x#.^ session of (he mail car. I THE NATIONAL GAME. < t>ETRnrr has the finest playing grounds in the country. Trt>xp*o*, of Detroit, leads the League in two-base kits. BJHWINOIIAM has taken the place of Mobile in the Southern league. THE battery of a New York amateur club Consists of a father and son. '. MANY New York clergymen are regular visitors at tlie IV.o Grou.uU. • \ SULLIVAN, left-fielder of the Chicago*, dropped five fly bolls in one game. A 8KRIKS of jram-.* is beimc projected by . the printers of Boston oni New York. THIRTY THOUHAKU people witnessed the three Philadelphia-Detroit' games in the for- mer city. THE Cuban Giants are playing great ball this season. They are the best team of col- orod players ever formed. WELCH, centre-fielder of St. Louis, is ac- quiring the reputation of being the most phe- • nomenai ileldor in tho country. EZRA SUTTON, tho veteran iBoston player, wants his release. He won't allow hiuiseu to be sold, but wants a straight rel< asc. NEARLY all the heavy batters in tho Na- tional League strike at tlu> ball left-handed, while the reverse is the case with the Ameri- can Association. CAPTALN ANSON, of the ChScogos. says that the official sc >rer iu Chicago robbed him out of the first place in tnc batting list of the League last year. KNOUFF and left-handed Smith, the pitch- ers for whom there was such a rl^ht last sea- son, have thus far proved failures. Balti- more has both of Ihem. Tni gross receipts Of the National League Clubs last year amounted to not less than $32<>,000. It is estimated that the receipts for 18S7 will amount to NVU.OOO. GARFIELD, a son of the ex President, pitches for the OU«rlin (Ohio) College Club, aud plays a good amateur game. Garfield was a great admirer of the spirt, and was a regular attendant whou a Representative in Congress. Tux Colored National Baseball League seems to have melted down to three clubs. The Gorhams, of New York; Ix>rd Balti- more*, of Baltimore, and tho Pythians, ol Philadelphia, are the only teams able to keep up, and they will arrange a schedule among themselves. STAOO and Dann,the Yale College battery, is a team of which any professional club may be proud. They ore two of the fin««t players on the diamond and hold the profeeu:o:ial batters down to a small percentage of hits. Stagg is a small, wiry young man, with plen- ty of nerve and good judgment. EIRE, when a mc:nber of the Athletics,one* made six home runs in a frame, the being male in five consecutive times at bit Barry Wright once made seven in one game. A r«.h. markable gnnu* was plnyed years u#o by th* Athletics, in which twenty-live home raiu\ were scored, three players on the team mak- ing five runs each. \* THE NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. Detroit... 21 « Pittsburgh. ...12 J5 Philadelphia.. 10 15 Chicagou IS 15
