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Continental Insurance Company
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IiONKCK imld In Chicnco. ... 1,500,000
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C. J. Barbek. General Agent, Omaha.,
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WELLS in 3EMAHA
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make cholcp of PINE, GALTEXIZED
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THE WIXD OVER THE CHIMXEY.
TIT H. "VT. I.OKGFEI.I.O'VV'.
See, the fire is sinking low.
Dusky red the embers glow.
While above them still I cower,
While a moment more I linger.
Though the clock, with lifted finger.
Points beyond the midnight hour.
Sings the blackened log a tune.
Learned In some forgotten June
From a school boy at his play,
When they both were young together.
Heart of youth and summer weather
Making all their holiday.
:And. ,tho night wi rid rising, hark 1
How above there in the dark,
..Intho midnight and the show,
Ever wilder, fiercer, grander.
Like the tempests of Iskander,
All the noisy chimneys blow!
Every quivering tongue of flame.
Seems to murmur some great name,
Seoms to say to me "Aspire !"
But the night-wind answer-'Hollow
Are the visions that you foUow.
Into darkness sinks your tire!"
Then the flicker of the blaze
Gleawu on volumes of old daySj
Written by masters of the art,
Loud through whose mnJcatlC'pagea :
Rolls the" melody of ages,
Throb" the heart-strings of the heart.
And ngalri the tongues of fiamo
Start exulting, and exclaim:
"These are prophets, bards and doers;
In the horoscope of nations,
Like ascendant constellations,-
They control the coming years."
Bat the night wind cries "Despair!"
These who walk with feet of air
Leave no long-enduring marks;
At God's forges incandescent,
illghty hammers beat Incessant,
These are but the flying sparks;
"Dtist are nil the hands that wrought,
Books are sepulchers of thought
. The dead laurels of the dead
"Rustle for a moment only.
Like the withered leaves in lonely
Church-yards at sonle passing tread."
Suddenly the flame sinks down ;
Sink the minors of renown ;
And alone the night wind drear .
Clamors louder, wi!i!eTj vaguer ;
",'Tis the brand of Meleager
Dying on the hearth-stone here!"
And I answer: "Though It be.
Why should that discomfort me?
No endeavor Is In vain;
Its reward Is In lis doing.
And therapture of pursuing
Is the price the vanquished gain."
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
A PEEAK OF GENIUS.
An Incident in the Remarkahle Career
of Joaquin Miller.
The Great Poet Indicted for Stealing
allorie Tlie Thefi, the Pursuit,
the Capture, UieEcupc.
I would some things werodoad and bid
Well dead and burled deep as hell.
With recollf-tluii dead as well
And Resurrection, God forbid.
Songs of the Sierras.
The strange, erratic being, whose
poetic genius first burst forth from
the shadow of Shasta's mighty dome,
probably never uttered a sentiment
which- came more directly from the
heart than did this- cry of anguish
aud retridi'Se. Those who knew Joa
quin (or Heiner) Miller -fifteen years
ago in his wild home on the Sacra
mento find it djificult to suppress a
feeling of sorrow for the man who
when, he has attained such literary
fame, is compelled daily and hourly
to look down from his summit of
greatness into the mirror of memory
and see reflected there the hideous
panorama of his earlier life. There is
much in Joaquin Miller's career that
he may well wish
"Were dead and hid, .
Well-dead and buried."
His life in Shasta County and his
later career, when contrasted, pre
sents one of the strangest anomalies
ever known among literary men.
Erom a prison cell in a little country
town, where he was incarcerated for
one of thelowestand most.uurqmantic
of crimes, Joaquin Miller went forth
"to electrify two hemispheres by his
genius, and to win raptures of ap
plause from the most cultured of men
and women throughout the world.
the Poetry of house-stealing.
AdmireB of the wild and weird in
literature have read Miller' poetry
with feelings aklii to rapture. The
man has shown such depth of feeling,
such beauty of diction, such grandeur
of though, in fact such brilliancy of
genius in all his works, that it is hard
for those unacquainted with the im
purity of his earlier life to realize that
Joaquin Miller was ever anything
but that which would entitle him to
the lovo and respect of his fellows.
Particularly is it hard to realize that
a man of such attainments could ever
have been indicted by a grand jury
for house-theving, or hunted down
bv bailiffs and sheriffs and lodged in
jail to answer for the crime. Miller
hints at some suen dark record as tins
when he tells usxr
Go read the nnnals of the North,.
And records there of many a Wail,
Of rcnr.shnlling.nnd going forth
For missing Sheriffs, and for men
Who' fell, nndnoneknew where nor when.
. - Go traverse Trinity and Scott, .
-''Thnt-c'nrVe their dark backs to the sun;
Go courfc.tliem all- Lo! have they not
The chronicles of ray wild Hfe ?
The history of this remarkable in
cident in the poet's career ""is one of
the tno3t 'romantic tales ever' related
of-any man. Miller himself in many
of his writings seems to have regard
ed it as the one thrilling, event of his
life, for he devotes pace after page to
vivid description of the scenes he
passed through while flying from the
Nemesis .of the law, and afterward.
wl)ile. Held in lijs clutci.es. Occa
sionally, too, he gives vent to the hit
ter remorse whieh at times. absorbs
his whole nature, as in the few lines
of vanguis.h quoted at'lhe beginning of
this'article,
. THE POET'S TJNROMANTIC CRIME.
"Vague rumors have from time to
time grille diittd' the world that, at
some time,,fiThis younger days, Joa
quin or Heiner Miller was addicted
to horse-stealing. These reports were
received with an iucreduioussmile by
sbtne, laughed at by others, but' act- j
ually believed by none. And yet, to
our poet's shame be it spoken, the
story is literally true.
Some weeks ago "a reporter of the
Chronicle being then on a trip into
the northen portion of the State,
fouud himself oue dark, gloomy night
on top of an Qregon stage-coach The
driver was a genial, talkative fellow;
but the road was rough the- night
cold and dismal, and t'hV're'pArter le
ing nearly worn out with faturue and.
loss of sleep, felt that he must .'be any
thing but an agreeable companion.
He was on the point of apologizing
for his' rieglect, when a remark drop
ped by the driver at once arrested his
attention. '
"It seems to me." said 2 he, J,if
you're one of these here newspaper
men you mnt know a feller they calL
Walkeen Miller."
"Oh, yes," responded the reporter,
,"1-6 heard of him. H's the poet."'
-'JftYeV he's writ" a 4?o"od deal, and
he's a. big m-in'T now. Well rhrht
around here is Miller's pld campin'
groud. About twelve m'il'es above ,
here's where' lie need to live with the ;
Injhns on McCInUd River, and right
in here (pointing ahead with his J
-j. k i :. - . - ' i . HI..M i- .! i i -. . - -i i
whip) 'is wlier$ tie sjble old Ba3s'a
horde"
"What!" crled'the' reporter in as
tonishment; "Stole old Bass's horse I"
THE- S TAGE-D'RIVER'S STORY.-:
"Whyyi.yesi did. you never hear
that 'Walkeeu' Miller used to steal
horses? I gay 'Walkeen,' becaue
maw o uia imuiB now; uui, ilia uaiue
then was Heiher Miller. He -was a"
lobg, white-haired fellowthat used' tdf
he around the counry
He va3
then
uuowji un nere as ft souaw-man :
.j
that' is a fellow that made his. home
with aft Injun squaw. Well, he was
always, looked on quite suspiciously,
besauae, you know, un here a squdw'
man' ain't of much account. 'Twos-
about twelve or fourteen years agor I
giieSsr that be-stole this horse. Old
Bass was; over,.to a political meetinr
over uere at (hurntftwn, 'bout ten
miles dyer here He tied his horse
up iti the kable3'drd,"an'd went "to
hear' tlte speakin'. Well;- while he
,Wa?Jn there-this Heiner Aliller waS-'a-loatin'
about, and along about mitl
night Heiner went out under the shed,
and got the horse and rode off. He
was a d d fine bay saddle-horsp, and
old Bass-wouldn't take any moue-y for
him before that, in about an hour
did Bass missed his horse, and some
body told him that Heuier Miller,
the 'souaw-man.' had heen around
there; and right away his mind sot
on the idee that Miller had took llitn.
"Well, the old feller didn't do any
thing that day he got iSelse Babcock,
the Constable' and went out after
Miller. The horse hae a big hoof, an
awful big hoof, and twaa the easi
est thing in the world to track him.
They follow him up that day, and
along about dusk they tracked him to
the bank Of the McCIoud River;
They laid there that night, and nest
day they got him. Well, they took
him down to Shasta, and he was in
dicted. There, d'ye see that little
point f rocks there in the road ahead?
Well that's old Has-s's pace. He's Post
master here uow, and, if he aint-goile
to bed, he'll come out and tell you all
about it:" " '
The stage drew up. in front of a lit
tle, plaihlooking, unpaiuted house,
which nestled in a clump nt tirs.
This was the station for changing
horses, and, while'six splendid steeds
were being brougt out to replace those
already tired out and jaded, the
Chronicle reporter looked of Mr.Buss.
The driver pointv'd him" out. The old
man had gray hair aud seemed to be
very intelligent. Jo reply to the re
porter's questions he said he owned
the place ; that he was Postmaster of
Bass' Station, and had lived therefor
a number of years. He knew Heiner
Miller well, and laughed a good deal
about Miller's position now when con
trasted with what it had been While
the six fresh horses were being put in
the stage, the reporter froln his seat
on the box, talked with old Mr. Bas-.
anil. ,g.tt,hei;ed the material for the fol
lowing story of Miller's operations
while in that vicinity : '
"THE TALL ALCALDE" ILLl'sT.KATED.
. It is pretty .generally understood by
thoe acquainted. with Joaquin Miller's
wrJtitig,' that the tale of the "Tall
Alcalde,, is nothing more than a his
tory of Miller's own career while
dwelling with the Indians in Shasta
County. Particularly doe- it irive an
account of the horsestealinjr operation,
and subsequent flight, pursuit, cap
tur, indietnient, etc., of the poet.
According to Mr Bas?' storv, on the
(ith of July, 1S-3!), h. went to Churn
town, a little mining camp a few
miles distant, to attend a political
meeting. He staid there till that
day, and all the next, on .the-
mo an
part of
latter part of which dav his no
imal wax stolen from the t-sble
wherehehud tied him Heiner
va rd
Mii-
lor was .around
the cauii) on 'both
those .day?.
:iys. but as he. being.a '-squaw
man," was rather looked down nnon'
n
inthe vicinity, out little attention
paid to him. About dusk in
the evening Miller came tn
the bar-r.nm. where . Ba. and
the rest of the boys were havinsr
a Kood time, peered in for a moment
and then vanished. Two hours after
that Bass's horse saddle and bridle
were all missing The horses were till
tethered in a yard, the only entrance
to which was a huge gate. Tn his late
years, in writing his famous "Ina."
Miller seems to have remembered this
night's work, for he tells us just how
he took the horse and started with
it on his journey. Of the gae he
says :
"It.opened very wide that night.
For two went through but one returned;
And when its rn.s'ty hinue! turned.
They creak'u as if In pain or right."
The horse was missed about mid
night. Next morning before daylight,
Bass, Nelson. Babcock (the constable)
and a man named William Kappel,
started in hot pursuit They felt sure
thai Miller had takpn,-the- horse, and
as they knew where his cabin was on
the McCIoud. had no difficulty in get
ting oii hfs mil;
,; . HIS F'LtfJTiT". ' '
Of the scenes which transpired be
tween the stealing. of the hor-eand
Miller's .capture by" Ba'bcock the con
Stable, we have no other;- information
than that givpn in'' the "Tale of the
Tall Alcalde." Miller here jiives us
the whole story of the finht in a.olan-.
ner that neither Mr. Bass "nor th"
Chroniclr could ever dare hope to do..
After takimr the horse from the corral
and through the gate where ' '-
''Two passed out but one returned."
Miller describes his flight: : .
By gulch and gorge arirrbrake.-and'all,
Swot as the.shinlng-metebr fall. ". -We
fly, and nevcr.iound nor word
But ringing mustang hoofs fa heard.
Ami limbs of steel and 1ung of.stwim.
Could not be-stronger than fchelr'-s.-eem.
. Grandly as some Joyous dream,
. .League On league, and honron hour,
Far from keen pursuit, or'ntfwer
. Or sheritr, or bailiff, high n Jow, . '
Into the bristling hills we go: ,
''Into the inow-hriIre! Mrflorifi;-.'
Whitens the folding of n-shroo 1; . . -
We ua-jh into the diislnng strun.
We breast the tide, w 'Imp the ren,
Outin.its foam,- Us rush. lt roar;
areastingaway to the ftirihr-r shores . .
Steadily, bravely, gained at-last,.
Gain'd wlien? nr-ver a dastard foe
Has dared to mmKor trlnl"Ui ro,
jt Pursuit is lnUufL anil danger pasVd.
But pursuit was not 'Imfiled
nor
danger-passed, for on the morning of
the second dily t.he pursuers surround
ed the cabin where Miller then lived
with his "beautiful Indian maiden."
and took him into custody. The im
pression Miller seems to want to give
in his poem is that he escaped, but
this is not true, as least not then.
Later in'hispoem he tells how he wa
nuprisonen in the jail in Shasta, and
of his-subsequent'escape bv thaid'df
his Indiad-gfrl;ihut that he wasractti -
anj arresierpthereand their. Mr. Bass
ti --,. -w,-' - .. . :
Phil, mntiiicrwi. .i..u,i. ;
outside of Miller's1 cabin, covered j
.-.. ,.W4.-.C wjjs iiiuuti' -pieKcieif just
With foam and ttlmnar. rennV tn HrnnM
from exhaustioh'.a Tbesouaw was in-!
O;iin.,oiti.i .::-.,.. c
"w-i- s , : l,,,ev?0,ul ""w.caw, -
while the latter was lying down
snatching a few moment's rest pre-J
i,t -.a
paratory to a renefwal-of ftls wild
flight through the, mountains.
THE POET'S ARREST, -r . ;
t Mr. Bass anil, the Constable fir3tse
cured the honje, and tfien knocked at
the door df the cabhi. At once there
was a terrlbledorrimdlibn -inside. The
Indian woman' cried and wrung her
hands, while. Miller seized his eurf
aud prepared to defend "hjs castle, j
But seeing who his visitors were, "and
knowing full-well their errand, he
wisely lorboret.Raduinallv confessed
all" and surrendered- .-The . nartvi -ad
- ..-- .'.V '.' -- ' . ' t""' , I
vm.u jiut me premier in iron?,, anu,
iaftPrivhrour,ff rest, set out tbgellier
with the: "indian -sqliaw for .Shasta.
What .immedtatelv followed -is best
deserved. 6y the.geat poetL,him3elf.i
ne says :
They bore me bound for many a day
This last is a poetic license, for the
trip did not extend over tVeuty-uVur
hours. :"'- '-' -'
- Throdghfcnana'wiia, by fofttny floods .
.' From, my deamouptalns far away;. '
Where an adobe prison stood J
Besld&n-sultry, sullen town;-
With Iron oycs,and stony frown;
And In a darkand narrow cell.
So hot it almost ,t,ook my breatb
And seem'd but an outpost of hell;
They thrust ine as' If 1 had been
A monster In a monster's den.
As he says.Millerlaid in the,jall.df
onasiu uuuu y tor several weens.. ..je
had a preliniinrtriena'minatjdii before
a Justice ot me Peace, and was hilly
committed to await the. action o the
grand jury. Bail was fixed at, $2,000,
but he could find no one" to become
his surety, and so was locked up. The
Indian irirl remained by him through
it all. She was his constantattendant,
having secured admittance in a wa
described by Miller with more poptic
freedom than the facts warranted!
For instance, he puts these words in
to the mouth of the Indian girl :
The keeper, with his clinking keys,
. I souzht. Implored upon my knees.
That I might see you, feel your breath.
Your brow, or breathe you low replies
Of comfort In your lonely death.'
Ills face red shone, his redder eyes
Were like the flre& of the skies,
And all his face w'os a tire
As he said, "Yield to my desire "
Again I heard your feeble moan;
I cried, "And "must he die alone?"
I cried unto a heart of stone.
Ah ! Why the haterul horrors tell!
Enough ! I crept into your cell
Polluted, loathed, a wretched thing.
An ashen fruit, a poisoned spring.
This picture Miller has unquestion
ably overdrawn. Mr. Bass said that
the It dinn girl was given free access
to the jail at all times; that the jailer
w as a man of family, and entirely un
de.s rvinsr of the unjust aspersion cast
upon him by the poet in his romantic
recital of this incident.
INDICTMENT AGAINST THE TOET.
Miller hud in jail several weeks,
and finally the grand jitr'y of county
of Shasta brought in the'-follow'ing in
dictment, which is now on. file in the
County Clerk's office : ,,;, i .
The people of the tate of Califor
nia' against Heiner Miller, in the
Court of Sossiohs. in "'the' e'hun ty of
Shas'a, July :erm, a. d. LS59.
Heiner" Miller is. accused by the
grand jury of the comity o'f Shasta,
by this indictment, of the crime of
grand larceny, a felony, committed as
follows:
That the said lieiner Miller, at the
county of Shasta, on, the 10th dav .of
July, a i). 1S"9, one gejhhg horse, of
tne value ot oso, and one s-tddle. of
the value of $1.3,. and. one bridle, of
the value of So, -of the property, goods
and chattels "of one Thomas Bass,
then and there being found, then and
there feloniously and willfully did
-teal, (hive and take away, contrary
to the statute in such cases made and
provided, and against the peace and
dignity of the people of the State;
J amks D'M ixV Tii'st7A t t'y.
- Names of witnesses Thomas Bass,
Wnliam Kapple.
Indorsed: "A true bill" D. D.
Marrill. . oreman Grand Jury.
Filed July 19. 1S-59. M. J. Van
Horn. Clerk Distiict Court. By A.
C. Taylor-. Deputy.
State of California, CountyAof'&has
ta, ss. I, William H. B.i.ckford, Coun
ty Clerk and ex-officjo. Cerk of the
County Court, in and for Shasta Coun
ty. Sttite of California, do hereby cer
tify the foregoing to be a true, fdll
and correct copy of an Indictment
and the indorsement thereon, as the
same now appears on file in my office.
Seal. In witness whereof, I
have hereunto set my hand and affix
ed the seal of said court, this 9th day
of January. A D. 1S73.
Vm. II. Bickfoud, Co. Cl'lt.
THE POET BREAKS JAIL.
' When Miller was arraigned in court
he pleaded :-No I guilty," and an ear
ly day was set for the trial. But he
knew that conviction and a long term
iti the penitentiary was sure to be the
result, and so he resolved to escape.
With the aid of the faithful Indian
girl, he-perfected his plans. One af
ternoon, at the end of her usdal visit,
she slipped into the prisoner's hand a
duplicate key" which she had procured
in "dine 'way.- That nhflft.' -while the
jailer slept (country jails Were never
well -guarded,., in thos.e dayn) Miller
stepped noislessly out into the- corri
dor and made for the miter door, the
lock df which his key fitted. The joy
of his regained liberty was .too great
to be enjoyed, .quietly, and his Soul
mished out the some at a later day
everrftt the'recolleetfort.
At last one midnight I'was free;
Again I felt the liquid air
?..
Around my hot brow liken sea,.
Sweet as my dear Madonna's prayer,
Or benedi;tjkas on the Soul ;
Pure air. wiilch God.gives free to all,
A"in I breathed without control .
. Pure air, lltat inan wo'd fain enthrall ;
'Gorstilr;MThte!i man ha-seized and'soh
I
Unto hi fellow man for gold.
Having made his escape, Millerand
the Indian girl struck out for the
woods. They avoided their cabin on
the McCIoud river, but made direct
for.Siskivou county. He could no
f longer live among the Shasta Indians,
because every flaunt of hi.i was
l'no'vvfii to the authorities, and his per
sonal Unpopularity among the Indi
ans made him liable to be iriven up by
them at hij moment. Ho w.twer, the
pursuit wa-' not .very vigorous. Mr.
Bass' had recovered the horse, and
there wan no one else to feel and spec-
ml interesLin the fugitive's capture.
rugitive a
Miller had not go? -juore than fort'
miles heiore he-found the Indian girl
ail incumbrance, and dropped her.
She:- poor thing, wandered off into
the wood and,-finally, was picked upj
by an -old mnuutnineer named Brock, I
with whom sue is living to this day
in a little hut on the Oregon stage
road at the-font of Mt: Shasta.
After: .ahnn.doping theuiirl, Miller
jf a
: iaa
niade his vay into biskivou. where-!
Wr irtime he made his home with the
ji.oi4i ah...,. x. HIIJ L1JML lit
hired out as a cook iin. the herdin"-
camp o1 jonn (J. garroll &. Co
TIE P0ET STEALS ANOTHER HORSE.
He staid
but! a '.short time in this
nloee and rhn u-nnf tn ,;..:
and
' : -. ;. , - "- -fs 1
camp aj. a puice caueu jueadwood
CreeTr, where he engaged as a cook,
He-staid in this place about a month,
Hi'
vol. rr.-NOi 48
then having sbihe trouble about, his
nayj'rotle off-onS. night with a horse
f belonging to one-df the minera?- This
animaLwas never recovered
Pbrsuit
Was hwdgrbv!the,rniners,.and 9n.of
them? Bradley, a constable, came im
with Miller in the mountains ebsVof
iVrAki. "W rullbll IlKrvn i'a'. f.VL.'Jf lu
t .-w.... - ...... tfifvii mu ..ih.i..w
to surrender, butibe latter openethflr&'Uirn for the reeelnt eiVenl f-Bttt"the:
and,made.a running fight. Brtidley
was severely wounded in tle leg,, an
accident which resulted' in We' final
escape of the poet, into Orego'ri
Prom this,tina,aHey.eror ;Toaquin
iUiner, as ne now .called .
abandoned his wild life. TTr
:Gfant county. Oregon, where he stud
ied law; took rank as a respectable
citizen u and. vas. elected Couuty Judge.
which office he held one vear . The
indictment in Shasta and tile charge
in bisklyou were allowed, to sink into
forgetfulndss;. andwh'erivMiller came
hjauk .from JEurqpe and came to' this
country for his halfsbreed daughter,
ue was uot iuoteieu
Soon after his election to the Oregon
Judgeship he: -began his -literary -la--
bors, with the histpry of which the
entire world i9 now familiar.
THE CHILD OF THE POET'S ROMANTIC
LOYE.
Miller did not again gb into Califdr
tlia until he went for the child that
was born to him years before in the
forest. This child was taken captive
by the Kalamath Lake Indians, in
one of their raids upon the lower Dig
gers, and carried into the mountains
east of Yreka. It was repotted in
that place that "a white child had
been seen among the, Ivalamaths;"
upon which Judge E. W. Patten, of
that city, went out and ransomed the
child, but learning who she Was sent
her back to the Indians, and she-was
attached to Kallokello's band of Dig-
,.oJ. Vti.V :il , '...t
;ta. uL-u itinier eauio uere 2iuu
auer nis return trom Ji,urope lie em
ployed the Brock previously mention
ed to steal her and bring her to this
city. She was soon missed by Kallo
kello, who applied to JudgeRosbor
ough, of Yreka, and a writ of habeas
corpus was issued to Brock, who lied
into the mountains, where he could
not be caught. But the child was on
her waj' to San Francisco, where she
was taken in charge by a good family
and given the name of Carrie Miller,
She Is attending school and making
ranld pt ogress in her studies;
Such is an imperfect history of Mil-
.jet's-career in SharUa county, as given
by Mr. Uass, who knows the poet
well. Truly it is a remarkable one :
"I would somo things were dead and hid
Well dead and buried deep as hell.
With recollection dead as well.
And resurrection, God forbid."
A HARD DIAMOND.
A Hotel Receipt for Ten Dollars
UougUt Hack by tlie Landlord, for
Two Hundred Dollars.
Memphis Avalanche, Jan. 23.
At a certain hotel, not more than a
thousand miles from Memphis, a lady
arrived by one of the trains, and was
assigned a room No. 40, we will say
any number serving the purpose of
th? history as well as the real one.
By some of those subtle processes by
which secrets leak out, without any
particular person being convicted of a
breaoiKoT confidence, it became 'gen
erally known to all about the hostel
ry that the lady who wasyouugaud
pleasing in appearance and address
was married, but that some marital
uncongeiiiality had led her to leave
her husband, and that the object of
her journey was to gain legal assist?
ance in severing those bonds, qnco
silken and tender, but now, alas!
grown heavy and irksome. This
knowledge, threw an air of interest
about the lady, and stimulated curi
osity to Kcrutiuize hejputgoings and
incomings closer than would, under
other 'circumstances, -perhaps, have
been the case;
Soon after her arrival at the hotel
in question, a commercial traveler al
so entered upon the scene. He was
traveling in the interest .of a. large
Northern hpuse, and though there
was nothing, in his manner to attract
special attention, he developed, .in
the course of'1ii stay, a buslrfess ca
paoity and a tact in makiug the most
of apparently unpromising, circum
stances, which, to say the lea3t, indi
cated that the firm whoso representa
tive he was, had chosen wisely in
ejecting a business agent. .
He had been at the hotel but ft few
hours when it became known to the
gosslpers that lie had struck up an ac
quaintance with' the lady aforesttd,
and, further, that it appeared to be a
case of mutual admiration nnd at
traction. It would have been well
for the interests of the hotel, if at
this point its managers could have re
strained the prying eyes and gossip
ing tongues that helped develop fur
ther facts, but it was not so to be.
From one "Peeping Tom" to another,
from menial to menial ami lackey to
lackey, the scandal pa-sed that" our
commercial traveler had been seen to !
enter, at an unseemly hour, the
(should be) sacred precincts of room
No.404.and the same watchful eyes
testified that he had left it at another
unseemly hour in the morning.
In the course of the day, his busi
ness demanded his departure for an
other city. As the hour of resuming
his journey approached, he made due
preparations therefor, and among oth
er things requested his bill 'made out
by the clerk of the house. That in
dividual, turning to the "register, re
marked", inquiringly :
"You occupied room No. -JO ?"
This suggestive query did not at all
discompose our traveling friend, who,
however, ignored its presumption
and quietly repeated his, demand for
his bill.
The clerk' replied :
"Your bill, sir, is ten dollars."
"Ten dollars? Ah! very
well ;
please make out the bill." and lie
drew forth his pocket-book to liquid
ate it, as if to pay ten dollars a day at
a hotel was' a very ordinary occur
rence. "Please make out the bill,
and specify the items." Now the
clerk, thiuking he was doing a very
smart thing, did as requested, and
the bill, as made out, specified a
charge of. So for one day's sojourn and
$7 for visiting No. 40.'.' ,.-
Our traveling friend paid the X,
and received the receipted bill. Just
then the proprietor of the hotel enter
ed, to whom tiie commercial agent
spake after this fashion :
"I am now going to the officeof the
Diilly Trombone" the exact name is
of no. consequence "with a receipt
from your clerk, which I propose pub
lishing as an advertisement for. your
excellent hotel. If, however, ou
wi-h to purchase that receipt from
me. I will deal liberailv wftlf you
In 1
an hour I leave toWn." 'andr-within i
that time can be found at the office of j
the paper, named."
Alld' he llenn'rted. With fr nnltta Unm.
4 .1 .-t. 1. 'tr... ' ,"" . .
"- ou.r..;rcw uuii.iUi,c. xx uurneu
conversation occurred between the
landlord and his clerk, when the
former seized his hat and made hasty
iia
forliVCB
orricrXETA'ERp iinf cSuxty.
mssf
steps Toward the office of thejourjial,
in the counting room of whicli ho
founiT Bis Iat'ifes'f propounding cer-
-ts(lvmqiilri3:in rerarU .18 the ratea of
.advertWjng aeertaiB nusiber ot lines,
CaUing.him to-one.,side.v. tba lahd-
lord suggested thathe'woufd willfne-
- . '"! raflll4l 1x'-nr. rlniin'U.IVk:! t -
.j ....... v..w m uuiiAin- lliia ill ic
;trayellng Hgeht seemed: ltofaTaluhd
scrap of paper at a much. higher price
and the lines of barter were gradually
advanced until two hundred dollars'
., i .,. 'i . . ...
were .offered for the doeUrriernfct Aft
hihasejf,'Hl3 point the" traveler seernVd" to.
i went tor think he had inculcated, thi leason of
'Mitid Ydur Own I3ushe9B
Itvn HiiVtJrtoa-' bnfR
ciently, and the barafaii'v was consu-
jnated at that figure. Tlie-Jandlcrd
returned Iq interview his crestfallen
cle"rk wlih the evidence bC.fhHtyo,uth'3
over smartness In hISpocket,,;thrWh
which his exchequer wasi two. hun
dred dollars less, wkile- the cool and
im per titrable; commercial gent took
the tram to his destination and with
'the air of a plan who has dbu'3hisdu- t
'ty, and b6en well-paid fdr'lt, liftd thd 1
.bargain. ' -. -. h-iv l
Biblical Curiosities. ,
The Old Testament contains 3
books, 929 chapters, 23,214 verses, 592,
439 words, 2,728,100 letters:
The New Testament contains 27
books. 3G0 chapters, 7,959 verses. 181,
253 words, S38.3S0 letters.
The entire Bible contains CG bookst
1,280 Chapters, 31,173 verses, '773,692
words, 3 5GG.4S0 letters.
The name of Jehovah or liord oc
ccurs G.Soo times in the Old Testa
ment. tj,
The word and occurs in"1 the Bible'
4G.227 times, vis: In the Old Testa
ment 35,543 times, in the New Testa
meut 10,634 times.
The middle book of the Old Testa
ment is Proverbs.
The middle chapter ig the 29th of
Jb. t . .. -. . .
The middle verso i3 the 2d Chroni
cles,. 2()th chapter, between tho 17th
nnd ISth versed. t
The middle book of tho Nefr Testa
ment i3 tho 2d Epistle to thoThe8a-
Iomans.
Tl e middle chapter is between thd
13th and 14th of Itomans.
: The middle verso is Acts xvil, 17
Tho middle chapteror division, and
the least inthe Blblo, is the 117th
Psalm.
The middle verso in the Blblo I.
Psalm cxviii., verse 8.
The middle lino In the Bible Is 2d
Chronicles, iv., 16. V(
The least verse in the Old Testa
ment is 1st Chronicles, i., 1.
The least verse in the Bible is Johri
ix.. 35.
The Apocraphy (not inspired, but
sometimes bound betweeu the Old
Testament and the New) contains 1S3
chapters, (5,-OSl verses, 152,185 words.
The 19th chapter of 2d Kings' and
37th of Isaiah are the same.
These facts were ascertained by an
English gentleman residing. at Am
sterdam, A. D, 1772, also by another
gentleman who made a stmt tar calcu
lation A. D. 1778, and they are artld to
have taken each gentleman nearly
three years in the investigation.
The first division of the divine ora
cles into c'haptefs and verses Is attrib
uted to Stephen Langton, Archbishop
of Canterbury, in thp reign of King
John, in the latter part of the twelfth
century or beginning of tlie thir
teenth! Cardinal Hugo in tlie'middlo
of the thirteenth century divided the
Old Testament. into chapters. as they
stand in our translation. In 1661.
Athias, a Jew of Amsterdam, divided
the sections of Hugo into verses as we?
now have them.. Robert Stephens, a
French printerliad previously (1551)
divided the-New Testament into ver
ses as thev now are.
'The Scriptures have been' translated
into 140 languages and -'dialectsj of
whlph 121 had, pripLto fife formation
of the "British and Foreign Bible So
ciety," never appeared. And twenty
five of these languages existed with
out ah alphabet in an pral form. Up
ward of forty-three milliqns of theso
copies of God's Word are circulated
among not leas than six hundred mil
lion people. "What hath God
wrought?"
There-Is a Bible In Abe-library of
the University of Gottingcn written
on 5,476 palm'leaves.
A Sight of Carlyje.'
I had imagined that the next bess .
thing to seeing England would bo to
see Scotland; but this latter pleasure
was denied me, certainly the next
best thing was seeing Scotlond's great
est son. Carlyle has been! so con
stantly aud perhaps justly represented
as a stormy and wrathful person,
brewing bitter denunciation from
America rind Americans, that I can
not forbear to mention the sweet aud
geninl mood in which we found
him a gentle and affectionate grand
father, with Ills delicious Scotch
brogue and rich melodious talk, over
flowing with reminiscences of his ear
lier life, of Scott, and Goethe, and Ed
iuburg aud other men and places ho
had known. Learning! was espec
ially interested in birds, lie discoursed
of the lark and nlghtingalerind mavis,
framing his remarks about them in
some episode of his personal experi
ence, and investing' their songs with
double charm of bis description and
bis adventure. s,. ,- .-
"It is only geese whogetpluckad
there," said my- companion after we
had left a man who had known Car
lyle intimately many years; "siiir
nersons who have no venrntkm firir
I the great man, and come, to convert
, him or change hig'eoiivictions'upor:
I subjects to which he has devoted a
lifetime of profound thought and
meditation. With euch persons he has
no patience."
Carlyle had just returned from
Scotland, where he- Bad spent tb
summer. M he bcotch hills and
mountains. lie said, had an ,-aneient,
mournful look, as if the weight of im
measurable time had settled ,dtf
upon them. Their looks wris" ifi Ossian
his spirit reflected theirs, and as I
gazed upon the venerable: man befor
me and.noted I113 homely and ruggec
yet profound and melancholy enpres
sion, I knew that their iook was upor
hi in also, and that a greater than Os
sian had been nursed amid those lone
ly hills. Few men irr literature have
felt the burden of the world, thw
weight of the irrexorable con&sience
as has Carlyle, or drawn such fresh
inspiration from that source. How
ever we may differ from him (audfal
tnnst in seludefense one must differ
from a man o'f such intense and over
weening personality! it. rrrtrstl be ad
mitted that he habitually speaks out
01 that primitive silence and solitude.
1n which onlv the heroic soul dwells
CefbunlVunt in mnfpmnnrarr'Hrifutr
literature is there another writer
whose bow-string has such a twang.
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