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I i, ,s3r-r,S5iF'' THE ADVERTISER ADVERTISER O.W.rAIRBBOTUKB. T.C.HACKM. FAIRBROTUER &. UAOKER, PablUhen &. Proprietors. .-,caJiHiii- - - --- r TT4rtrTT ,BBBOTKEB & HACKER, f'4 pabUera and Proprietor. r uished Every Thursday Morning 'H. ADVERTISING RATES. Onelnch.one year.. Two Inches, one year .(10 04 . 15 00 Each succeeding lech, per year 6 Lecal advertisements at legal rates One square (10 lines or Xonparejl, or less) first nsertloa, 1.00r each subsequent lnserllon. 50c. 43- All transient advertisements must be paid for In advance. vcans, is advance: t&e'-' t. months .S'J 00 . 1 00 50 THE &&''' ,r-ent from the office until pr.Id for. IT -'"" " - ; MATTER OX EVERY PAGE -finlM P"llg"" '"" ''"'IFI - KEKY. ESTABLISHED 1856. i Oldest Paper in tio State. J BROWNVTLLE. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1875. VOL. 20.-NO. 20. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THECOUSTY. CITY B A CONFECTIONS, Canned Fruits. FRESH BREAD, CAKES & PIES. fREH OYSTEllSBylhiesci?.nor B. STROBLB, Proprietor. ttlCERIES, Dealer la NITBRE FUB Undertaking a Specialty. Keeps a full line of MET ALIO AND WOOD BURIAL CASES. SGMaln Street, BROWXYILLE, EB. John ISoPlierson, MANUFACTURER OF CI AN'D JOBBER OF TOBA.OOOS, PIPES, A1NI SMOKER'S ARTICLES, BKOWSVIIiIiB, NEB. n-ers from tl.c country solicited and promptly filled. I. S. NACE, Traveling Agent. W2 & Jk S3 FRANZ HELMER, AfiOHAHLACKSMITHVHOP CXE DOOlt WEST OF COURT HOUSE. 1FAG0N MAKING, Repairing, V r ws, and all -work done In the best airstrip oichort notice. Satisfaction Ruaran ttei G "h.iiacall. f34-ly. i Mu J THE UNDERSIGNED, having purchased Huddart's Rtock of flour and craln, an nounces to the citizens nl town and county, that ho keeps conbtantly on hand the BEST BRANDS OF from the various mills of the coantrv. and fcellc at the XiO'WEO? PRICES. Cash Paid for Grain and all kinds of counry produce, take your Farmers, to BUTTER, EGGS, &c, A GRAND EXCURSION! One In which every Musically Interested person that wishes to learn tho science of muslcbhould Join. E.M. I.IFFITT is now prepared to give Instructions In auy department, viz: PIMNICEilMBien I W. HICK PW M ja i DRUGGIST Special attention Ik called to the latter. Harmony. It has nioredtrectapplicatlon to correctness in reading music at slight, and a full appreciation of the same, than any oth er department that can be pursued. A deduction from the regular rnte will bo made to those wishing Instructions In more than one brunch. The following Is a letter of recommenda tion recently received from Mr. F. V. Root, under whose instruction he bus been for tho past two iuramers: CniCAGo, August 24th, 1875. I take pleasure in uiving an opinion of Mr. E. M. Lippittas a musician, and hope that what Is said may assist him to a posltio where, his ability may be made ol the great est use. The statement is briefly this: I have knovin Mr. LIppittfor three or four years, and have come to regard him jxk possessing excellent talent and stf rlin perseverance. He has. under our direction, been made ac qualntea with those methods or voice, piano and harmony, which we believe to bo tho best, and has none far toward mastering the Brinclples ot them in his own performance, ellevlne that Mr. L. will never be superfi cial in imparting what he knows. I do not hesitate to recommend him as teacher of music In any community. FREDERIC W. ROOT. AUTHORIZED BY THE U. S. G0VERS2IEXT. AND BOOK SELLER fcas every thing In his line at tho LOWEST PRECES. Nortk Side Main St. G-. s. DTJisrisr, DEALER IN & WATCHES. JEWELRY J "niuiiLuj SCHOOIi BOOKS. Ulictllaneous nud Blank Books, Tens, PIr.Pens, Inks. Slates. Wall Paper ".Vln drw Shades, Dailv and Weekly Papers. Masr u.nes. fcc, &.c Repairing of Clocks, Watch a, Jewelry, tc. All work warranted. A. BOBISOU. JLs JfftO THE FIRST NATIONAL BEtOW:NVIIJL.:E. Paid-up Capital, $100,000 Authorized " o00,000 IS FKEPAIlED TO TRANSACT A General Banking Business BUY AXD SLLL COIN & CUBEEHOY DBAFTS on all the principal cities of tho United States and Europe. Published by special permission of Harper Brothers. A GOOD INVESTMENT. A STORY OP THE GREAT REBELLION. evMS jr ? 8&3HH9SIBaff tn mF DEALER IS iOGTS AND SHOE CUSTOil WORK 3iad:e to oki:e::r,. asceatiydons. o. 58 Moinstrcet, Brown vlllo.Xeb. MONEY LOANED On approved security onlv. Time Drafts discount ed, and special RPcninmeKl-ttlonsKrantwl to deposit ors. Dealers In GOVERNMENT BONDS, STATE, COUNTY & CITY SECURITIES DEPOSITS Received pnyable on demand, and INTEREST al lowed on time certificates of deposit. DIRECTORS. Wm T. Den. B. M. Batln.v. if. A. Ilandley. Frank E. Johnson, II. 31. Atkinson Win. t iazler. JOHN L. CARSON, A. R. DAVISON. Cashier. President. J. C. ilcNAUG HTON. Asst. Cashier. PliOTTS' STAR ORGANS Are celebrated for their purl ty ot tone, ele gant design nnd through const ruction. SpiiiI for catalogue-. aATMress, EDWABD PIiOTTS, Washington, W. J. k- THE SHERBSAK HOUSE BILLIARD HALL AND- OOOLEY, PROPRIETOR THE COSIEST and most comfortable gentlemen's resort In the city. PROPRIETOR Main Street, Brownxille, Web. PLOTTS'st. CHAPTER II. "Come see rural felicity. Which love and Innocence ever enjoy." The condition of things as they ex isted at the farm of Flaming Rock on the day following Bob's achieve ments has already been described in th preceding chapter, where it waa mentioned that Bill Hagan Bat upon a stump by the door ami chewed to bacco. It was noon ; the weather was hot, and stillness possessed the valley and all its inhabitants, from Hagan on his stump to the cricket in the woods. It was a good moment for listening, and, in fact, the dog of the family was listening, as he lay in the 8UiiHhine with half-closed eyes. May be Mis. Hagan was listening, too, for she had held her peace during a long hour. Suddenly the brute began to rap on the ground with his tail; then, start ing lo his feet, stood looking up the creek as if awaiting further informa tion. 'That's Bob he hears," said the wo man. "Nary Boh," said the man, after one or two minutes of olo'-e attention : "a boy's feet don't rauke them sounds, them's the hoofs of a horse." The dog still remained in the same position, whining, but low and doubt fully, and wagging his tail, but slow ly and with indecision; while the mother almost whimpered. "Oh dear ! I do wish the or'uary fellow would come home." "I wish he'd getshot," growled the father; "that's what he deserves for Mealing my gun. Sure a you live, if the villain dos comeback, I'll tench him how to run off in the night, to go a-cavorting round coercing sovereign States of this Union, with a hoop pole." "Your gun !" broke out his wife. "1 hope he'll fling the dog oned old thinir into the creek. It 'ain't shot so much as a ground squirrel for the fumily to eat this ten year. If it was worth shucks you'd ha' gone and traded it for whisky long ago. It would ha' gone where them hogs went that I wbs fattening- for my winter's meat latyear, and where them ten gallons of berries went that I and Bob work ed two days in the sun to pick, so't I could get a Utile tobacco and a few no tions (and almost irot nuke-bit at that), and you run off with after dark ; and you know very well where they went; I hey went down tiiat durned red irullet of vourn. Yes, there's where the hogs went, und there' where the huckleberries went, and there's where I wish the durned old rifle was rammed dowu this minute. Oh. vou couldn't 1:0 at.d run off a horse, I suppose? No, no! that 'tid be too scary a business for such a cow ard as you ; besidea, it's too much like work. A woman can love and respect a man if he does steai a horse now and then for the support of hi family, but who cares for a durned sneaking huckleberry thief? But what good would it do if you stole a dozen horse? you'd drink 'em all up; you'd swallow a mare with foal." She might have gone on at indefi nite length for she was perfect mistress of the subject hud not th- loud barking of the dog as he bound ed away brought her to a full stop, and left to the rock, that had faith fully echoed all she said, the privilege of being at last distinctly heard as it uttered the words. "A viarc with foal" while the animal thus announct d ap peared, coming at full gallop roun . n turn in the road, and swiftly approach ed tho astonished couple astonished to see her bear triumphant on her hack her own conqueror and their own boy Bob, who sat widely astride, with ex tended heels and elbows, every rag of him and eveiy hnir fluttering and streaming in testimony of his identi ty. With difficulty tho young rider pulled up when he came opposite the ox-pen. Dismounting there he ex- I peiled the cattle and installed hi fled to him her delicate shape, her slender limbs, her silken coat cover ing ivory bones, her moving nostrils. and flashing eyes proofs of a descent from a hundred generations who hud eaten barley from kind and affection ate hands in the far laud of Arabia, which we call barbarian ; he ivnJ&jcipnK1.11 satisfied, she turned away and "There, take your picter," said the elder, after holding it out at arms length and examining the brass-work to see if it might not be irold, while holding the boy by the hair at arms length in the opposite direction : "Z knew what it was all along-. I only wanted to devil you jest a little. Its a picter; some folks call 'em likeness es." Whatever knowledge the man pos sessed of pictures ami likenesses, the woman and boy did not share in it; and they both continued for some time to look at the one in question. She regarded it and its casing with mere cutiosily, which having at uSSSSSSffiSi.rsSL K , steed in their place, supplied the feed pondence solicited. HOTEL Levee Street, Brovrnvilie, Seftraslta. lr? jV2nR paired and renovated the house, Miae und out. its appointments are flrst s. 'iouarerespectlully solicited togivo J. & E. HUDD ART'S Peace and Quiet Saloon ! atrial. Him ST&R OBGAHS l, ln cahes warranted not to crack or warp, Proppriy usert Send for catalogue. A.d- "s,EDWAUD PLOTTS, WasMng n, Ji. ,, V r& W H-3 U 1 im ' V Tt "-! iK tfetuu-tw.-t AND BILLIARD HALL. CITY HOTEL, tathStreet, between Farnam and Harney, 031AI1A, NEBRASKA. do:?..1 Popular Hotel is the best kept two ear t, day nouse in the city. Situated Plotts' star Organs. Any poreon, male or female, who has a lit tle leisure time, can procure a first class In strument at a greatly reduced nrloe SpjvI atamn for particulars. Address. KDW AUD PJbOTTS, Washington, K. J. $275.00 Parlor Organ easily earned by a lady In Two Weeks 0earth h "O""6 in uie cny. rsuunieu $ toht Buunnlnrto'and 8S CanvasKer, Wanted-male or female Send "nte.inaklngconnectlon wlthalltralns 10 cents for sample Magazine and full partlc- WenV. u -or" ana South. We solicit a uiars. aathL he Pronage from Southern Neb., I Addres ipedaietRvelinK Public generally. Weglve.ZINE, "t ,l,iSS;nihVXB?ruei potts' Star Or gans. ZTCIJ GRUMMET'S MAGA- "Washington, New Jersey. PLOTTS' STIR OIISUS. Any person irlshlntr to purcha.se ftPari'VJ ... .!... ilmni Ic rn'ircn! for tnB OUir. AXTEn iuUfuJL dpR,cns. AGEXTS would do well to write for special rates, to hW. Adress EDWARD PLOTTS, , Intro.lnce this instrument. Address. ED nglon, :n. j. WARD PIjOTTB, Washington, ? ing trough with ears of corn and the rack with corn foder, took eff bridle, saddle, and saddle-bags, and then with tho bags over his shoulder, and carrying the uun in his hand, walk ed into the house. "Give me something to eat, old.wo man, and be quick: for I'm just the hungriest and tiredest fellow you ever did see," was his only greeting, as he hung up the rifle, with its horn and pouch, and Hunt: the saddle-bags on the floor, and himself beside them. The mother made no otherreply than to go about the preparation of a cake of corn bread, while the father went and examined the condition of the nun ; and on finding Itcorrect, resum ed hiB seat, growling, "It's well for you you fetched it back, you whelp?" In that simple dwelling, thouirh time. was cheap as among the Bedouins ofj the desert, none of it was ever wasted on ceremony. X,ong before the enke could be mix ed and put in the spider to bake, the tired and hungry fellow was asleep. reposing on his bags, which was a pity, for each of his parents would have liked to look into them. As it was, Hacan walked out to inspect the horse. She was a beautiful bay, evi dently of high blood ; but little signi- nmining her qualifications for the plow, and these he judged to be suffi cient, considering the lightaud friable soil of the creek farm. A thought had struck him, and at the conclusion of his examination he muttered, "She'll do ; I'll sell 'em to-morrow." Sell what? The oxen, to be sure, now rendered supernumerary by the acquisition of the horse. As to the use to be made of the money they would fetch, Mrs. Hagan has already sufficiently Informed us in her state ment of the case. But let us now hear the other side of that cae. The truth is. the farmer of the creek had of late found himself, for the first time in his life, in straitened circum stances. Until the war came, with its heavy tax on whisky and tobacco, he had always lived in ease and comfort for all he knew to the contrary. Such portions of his leisure as he could ppare to the labors of his farm or to lumbering in the hills had sufficed to procure him all the necessaries of life. If he had needs that went unsatisfied, he did not know of them. Necessity, they'say is the spur lo action ; out of activity comes progress, ami with pro gress eivilization. and all that kind of thing, about which Hagan knew or cared not one straw. Now he had never known other wants than what a moderateamount of labor uouldsup ply ; and Hagan was not the man to go and look up unreal and imaginary wants to pur and torment himself with. Could he have been persuaded of the real necessity of shoes and hats for children, ribbons and laces for wo men, cabinet-maker's furniture for houses, and broadcloth for his own cluthing, he might have been stimu lated to toil and moil from Monday morning till Saturday evening. As it was, however, he remained too much the ideal f the ancient philos opher, and practiced too faithfully the much-commended virtues of simplici ty ami contentment, to long alter the frivolous things that bestir the pro gressive world. In only one respect did he resemble the progressive man, and that was in the limitation he had impo&ed on hi own hours of labor. In every week ho worked two days to procure food and raiment, drink and tobacco, ami devoted the other five to consuming these and to meditation ; and by force of habit tho-e days of leisure had become as really needful to his existence as house or clothes, lood, diink, or quid. But suddenly in the wane of that existence comes Congress, witli its rude taxation, and makes whisky to rise in price from fifteen cents up to fifty cents per quart, aird tobacco to advance in the same proportion, putting tho.-e two articles of prime necessity quite beyond the capaeily of his ordinary income, and compelling resort to extraordinary ways and means ; such us convening into spirits the stock In gs of the fam ily, and seqtiesteting for the same pur pose his wife's huckleberries. Such is the cae of Mr. William Hagan, given without reservation or gloss ; and notwithstanding the one sided statement of Mrs. H., the read er must confess it is a bard and a strong one, ami will be slow to blame him for the disposition he contem plates making of the supeilluous cat tle. On returning to the house Hagan found Bob occupied with bis repast, and Betsey engaged in rilling the saddle-bags, whose contents she had emp tied on the floor. There was little of value: only a few shirts, drawers, and socks, a tooth-brush, a comb and brush for the hair, some pocket-handkerchiefs, ami two towels. "Oh. let the boy's plunder alone." said Hugan, in a tone of unusual good-humor, the result of his resolu tion to appropriate to his own use the principal fruit of Bob's expedition. "Let him have the things if he.found 'em. Them aiu't woman's plunder, nohow." "Hold yer jaw!" replied the other. "What does he want of all these here store clothes? I'm going to have some on 'em, sure's 3'ou live," filling her lap at the same time witlt the ei.ief portion of the "plunder." As she did this something fell nut of the fold of one of the towels, and rolied on the floor till it came within reach of her htir-hand, who seized it quick ly and eagerly, but without saying a word. "What's that?" cried Bob, drop ping his corn bread and springing up. Then, flinging himself upon his father like a young wolf, he cried, "Now you jest give that to me. That is my pocket-book ; I shot the feller that had it and it's mine," at the same time seizing upon and struggl ing to wrest from his father's grip the article whose morocco cas'e' and gilt clasp had deceived them both. His efforts, though unavailing to win the prize from the resolute hold that re tained it. tore apart theclasp, and dis closed to the view and disappoint ment ot all only the photograph of a went to bide her "plunder" as well as she could in the old tumble-down corner cupboard. But Bob saw more than his mother did, and, with the photograph lying on the table before him, he held his head firmly by the hair with each hand, and, resting on his elbows, continued to look. There was something in the features and especially in the eyes of the beautiful. child of ten whom the picture repre sented that fascinated him. but not with any pleasant effect. There was beauty there, to be sure, but no sense of Bob's appropriated that. The sense of the beautiful had never been awak ened within hm, so far as he was in formed or believed, but lay aq dor mant as a possible taste for the Greek classics; and this, although he had been born a.nd reared among delight ful landscapes daily repainted and re illuminated by sun-rises and sunsets as glorious as any skies of the round globe can show. Or if perchance a spell was working on the undevelop ed faculty by the charming image that lay beneath his gaze, it was with a most vague effect. Then what was it that so fixed the attention of that untaught boy? The eyes. Mild as their expression was, it recalled, dimly at first, plainer af terward, an expression he had seen before that was not mild but terrible. Mild and sweet as they were, they made him see again the angry ami al most demoniacal look of the man whom ho had but lately seen put a fellow-being to sudden death, and whom his own hand, an instantlater. had sent into eternity. And the more he looked, the more the eyes of the girl seemed to change into those 01 the red-handed guerrilla, until all thesyeet radiance that first, beamed from them vanished, and there shone out instead, as from burning coals, the uutempered ylare of hatred and revenge. The boy's sensations became insupportable. With an effort as if for life he closed and clasped the case, and holding it firmly in both his con vulsed hands, ran out into the air and made his way into tho woods beyond the creek. What did ho mean to do with the thing? There was fire enough re maining on the hearth to consume it to ashes. The pool at foot of Flaming Ruck held water enough to receive and hide it. Or he might bury it in the ground as they do dead people. But he had no thought of destroying it He clung to it why he knew not by force perhaps of that strange in slinct that has caused other man-slayers, wlmm we call murderers, to care fully preserve for years the proofs of their crimes and the very means r their ultimate detection and condem nation. After moving aimlessly about for an indefinite time he stopped at the foot of a cliff formed by alternate lay ers of saudsb ne and clay shale, piled one upon another to the height of hundreds of feet, and there rested for a while. Presently he seemed sud denly to receive an idea, and began to climb the difficult face of the cliff until, when nearly at the top. he readied and crawled into a hole, or low roofed cave, formed between two ledges of stone, partially by natural disintegration of the shale, und part ly by She fingers of the Hagan chil dren, who had made it their play bouse. Into one of the many niches in the sides Bob thrust his direful treasure, closed the mouth of the niche with clay so as to effectually hide it from any of the few persons who knew of the place and of the perilous way up to it, and who might chance to vi-it there ; having done which he returned home. CHAPTER III. "And when his hour or Joy is done. No t roubles need he steal or borrow ; A nluht or sle.-p Is swiftly gone. And he'll get drunk again to-morrow.' The mare on being tried, worked very well in the plow, and according ly the oxen were driven away and sold. The money thus obtained, after paying for a sow with a litter of half growu pigs to replace those so improv- ideutly disposed uf, proved sufficient to purchase a barrel and a half of whi-ky. besides a store of tobacco. TheuhisV-y was not brought home, but was hid away among the hills, in a, place so secret that no discovery need be feared unless some one should have the boldness and cunning to fol low Hagan when he secretly visited it with empty bottle in oue hand and loaded rifle in the other. The supply lasted him considerably more than a year, for he was a prudent drinker, and husbanded bis resources; that is say, save a few bottlefuls bestowed on her in the first flush of his generosi Two months after her capture the mare gave birth to a foal, whicli Ha gan presented to Bob in a manner that implied its mother belonged ex clusivelj to the gpnerom giver. But as the son rode upon her wherever he wished, it mattered little who paid laxes for her. Every day it lived the ooltgrew more and more interesting, ami Bob grew more and more fond of it; and so the season wore on without its occurring to hffn that his father's supply of whisky could ever be ex hausted. But when midsummer of the following year went by, and the dog-days came, and beueath the pow er of the ardent sun the creek began to run dry in places, the whisky bar rel went dry also; and so did Hagan for several days, which made him nervous, and disposed to sit silent on his stump and indulge in sombre meditation. And well might the un fortunate farmer feel gloomy and dis gusted for present and future. The war tax had been increased more than sevenfold within the year, and in a few months it was to be increased ten fold ! At length he remembered he possessed a horse ; the next day that horse and its possessor disappeared. Two days afterward he reappeared a good deal the better for liquor, and met and bore the combined reproach es of wife and son with the calmness of a real stoic. . At first Bob thought seriously of beating hiB father, but gave up the idea for fear he might get the worst of the battle. Then he grew sulky, and refuseil to work or speak ; but the el der thrashed him with a hoop-pole, and forced him to come to order. Summer went, and autumn came; and winter would surely follow au tumn. Meunwhile the colt, being well cared for, was growing apace, and the whisky was being daily con sumed. How much of it the price of the horse had procured the boy was unable to learn ; nor could he reckon how Mug it would last. In fact, though the horse sold for more than the oxen brought, the result, in liquid measure, was considerably less. A truly patriotic man which Hagar was not would have been consoled by the thought that while consuming the highly taxed arMcle he was replenish ing the national treasury, and saving the national life as effectively as if lie risked his own (in another way) on the fields of war unless he happened to know that in those days precious little of the tax found its way into that treasury, and that the millions of earnest drinkers who fondly imag ined they were drinking up the war debt were really doing little better than candinaviun T.hordid when he tried to drain the cup whch an ocean was constantly replenishing. And if matr-ad of sacrificing only the two oxen and one horse on the altar of his country, Hagan had offered up a hecatomb, twelve of the cattle would have gone into the war chest, twelve mure to compensate the distillers, and the reuiHining seveuty-six to fatten and encourage peculation and fraud. The horse had procured only a barrel of liquor. Unhappy America! once it would have purchased eight! The whisky was going; and after the whisky, what? The mure was gone; and afler the mare, what? What but the foal, to be sure! follow ing the prophecy of Irs. Hagan .In her random railing. It was Bob'u turn now to sit upon a stump, ami re flect on all this. The resolution he adopted, after weeks of delih- ration, was to get before band with his des poiler, and himself run off' with his properly. But there came the ques tion where to run to, and how to feed and cloth himself and feed and rear the young animal. And this resolved itself into the problem he had never yet faced or considered, namely, what should he do for a living? Work ! Like all other creek boys, he could plow and hue, gather and husk corn, fell trees, chop logs, cut hoop-poles, peel bark, nnd, though not yet able to use the whip-saw, btoad-axe, and frow as his elders could, knew how lo maul rails and split cord-wood as well as anybody. But. these lie had only been used to do in a desultory way it will not do to say an idle way. By birth and from habit he was aver.-e to all steady, per sistent, long-continued exertion of body or mind, such as alone can sub due the original wildness of "the hu man animal, and civilize and develop him. In the United Slates more than a million like him are to be found. They gather themselves upon hilly, mountainous, and other barren soils, where the cheapness of the laud ren ders its ownership or possession eay to acquire, and where they can, there fore, be their own masters. More than the gypsies of Europe they spurn cot trol and love freedom ; for they have no ancient customs to trammel thesn, and every family loves to be both independent of and remote from every other. Their religion is usually Methodist, and their politics Demo cratic. They are tho-e of them, at least who are fouud in the hill coun try of the Ohio of full size, strong, and handsome in face ami form. They move with erect and graceful carriage, and fight bravely, as every field of the late war can tell. Now Bob was aware that to escape with his pet beyond the reach of dan- venience. Ho finally compromieea with himself by resolving to follow a life of labor only while it should be absolutely necessary, and that, as soon as he should have grown to a man's estate and tho colt to a horse's, they would return and dwell together in the happy valley. Having thus resolved lie only delayed to catch and put a halter on the destined compan ion of his journey, and make of the trappings its mother had worn a bun dle convenient to sling overhisshoul ders, and then lie departed on his way without a word of good-by to father or mother. He had not, how ever, gone far before he stopped, as if suddenly remembering something he had left behind, flung dowu the bun dle, tied the colt to a tree, and hastily entered the woods. When he came out again he held in his hand the photograph. He could not have gone without that. He placed it in one of the hags, and re sumed his burden and his journey. The first poiut ho aimed to reach was the Ohio river, and though he had never 3et seen it, he had learned the nearest way to it was to go by Churn Creek to the head of Lower Twin, and thence down the latter to the lit tle village of Buena Vista, at Its mouth. It was noon when he started off, and though the distance was over twenty miles, he would have traveled it before sunset but for the colt, on whose account he must move slowly. to bb continukd. This story Is published by Messrs. Harper i. Uros., '. Y.,compIete.and will bo sent by them tonnv nartot the United States, post age prepaid, on receipt of fllty cents. Luxurious Gypsies. The Reading (Pa.) Bogle, describing a gypsy camp, says: Standing near the group of gypsy women and chil dren was a very large wagon. It look ed much like one of those beautiful affairs generally seen with compan ies. It was open for an airing. The body was a large and extended out over the the wheels. It was support ed by heavy springs. The wagon was fitted up as a bedroom. It was as beautiful as a bridul-chural erand Mrs. Guy smiled approvingly when the re porter mentioned the comparison. "Yes, sir," she said, "you guessed it pretty well. That Is our chamber. My husband's and mine." A peep inside showed everything ns neat and clean as could be. The bedstead was of walnut, and bedding of the fincBt linen. The walls were ornamented and best kind of carpet was on the floor. Looking-glasses, wardrobe, clo-ets, dressing-caes and everything generally seen in a first class bedroom was there. The wagon was specially built for the party in Frederick, Md., nnd cost $700 dollars in cosh. The bedroom was divided oft from the frontartflf the wagon, which is 00 cunied by the d fiver's position. The leathe curtains around the wagon were all thrown up yesterday ami it seemed a if a hotel bridal-chamber bad been suddenly brought out there. The wagon-body outside Is painted and varnished in the most costly man ner and tho gilding and ornamental work are very neat. The vehicle is large and roomy ami seems much out of place in the woods. The owner came along shortly and expressed himself as follows: "I live in the woods and move around from one place to another. I want to live with allthecomforts the world can provide and in that wagon my wifeand I sleep as good as the rest of the world " Ev erything about the wagon is fitted up in the best or style, ami the blankets, sheets, counterpanes and pillow-cases were jut as clean as could be. Many of the blankets were dark with gray stripes. There were three other wag ons of the same pattern, but none of them were fitted up it, so costly a manner. One large wagon 1 ad a row of beds in it made for the children. A Natural mathematician. Remarkable Case of Ennine Xeaory. Many years ago, Mr- Abrara Dodge, of the town of Ipswich, Mass., owned a beautiful' horse which was the pet of the family He was admired by all who knew his playfulness and good qualifications. In the summer it was Mr. Dod'ge'a habit occasionally to have a frolic with his horse in his barn-yard, then let him out alone and he would go to the river, which was about one third of a mile distant, where he would bathe, then go to a common and roll on the grass, then with the freedom of air start for home j the stable was renovated for him while he was gone, and his breakfast put in his crib. If he met his master he would show some coltish pranks, bound for the stable, pull out the wooden pin that fastened the door with his teeth, and rush to his man ger where he expected to find his food. One night the horse was sto len from the stable. After the ex piration of sixteen years, Mr.-Dodge was at the tavern when a man drove a horse up to the door. Mr. Dodge at once recognized his horse, and he told the driver his reason for believ ing it to be hist.; the man told his story of whom "rte bought the horsey and that he had owned him tor sev eral years. Mr. Dodge claimed his horse, and it was finally agreed that il the horse would, on being taken to his old stable, go through the habit of bathing, rolling on the grass, and pulling the pin from the stable duor as above described, that Mr. Dodge should have him When the horse was let out into his old yard he reviewed the premises for a moment, then started for his old bath-tub, then for his green towel on the common, then to his old sta ble, pulled the wooden pin, won for himself a good meal and his old master his favorite horse. These facts are vouched for by reliable old residents of the beautiful, pictur esque old town, and show conclus ively the long memory of our noblest animal. Our Dumb Animals. She was a romantic young lady, and he, her father, took a practical view of everything. She looked- up from her book in botany, and inqui red : "Father, did you ever study bot any ?" He was interested in his paper, and did not reply, and presently she continued : uPapa, what flowers do you pre fer ?" "Flour, eh ?" he replied, as he looked up, "why, I always get that made from winter wheat, if I can I think it makes better bread !" She sighed and wished there was a young man on the other end of the sofa. Mr. Edward II Coursey, of Einey Neck, was born in 1794. and is now, consequently, eighty-one years of age. Mr. Coursey is a remarkable man. Figures are mere playthings for him. He can solve the most difficult prob lem, and has yet to find a sum he cannot get the correct answer to. His talent for figures is entirely nat ural, never having attended school a year in his life. He does his sums not by arithametical rules, but by rules of his own, and always gets the answer correct. He has made, too, somewhat of a reputation, and receives sums through every mail from almost ever state in the Union, w lieli he works aul answers by mail. He is quite notorious, also, for the difficult sums ho puts to oth ers, particularly the schoolmasters, whom he especially delights to puzzle. His latest is as follows : "A farmer having twelveditches to cut.of differ ent lengths, employ fu. men to do the work. To the first he agrees to pay $1 per rod ; to the second. SI. 25 Derrod; to the the third. $1.75 per rod, and the fourth. $2 18 per rod. When they finish the ditches and come to be paid off. e ich m in receives the same amount of money for each ditch. How manjr rodsdid each man cut in each ditch ; how much money did each man receive for each ditch; how long was each ditch, and how much did it cost per roil to have the ditches cut V'Centcrvillc Md.) 0b True friendship keeps no profit and. loss account, posts no ledgers, strikes no daily balances but takes gratitude for granted, and regards aflection as always solvent. It has no clearing-house, gives no notes of hand, carries on no brokerage of at tachment, makes no bargains in rhis commerce of the aflections. With1 it "yours truly" goes a great way, and certainly, worn threadbare as they arc by incessant use, no words have a stouter body of significance left in them. The kind of whisky they have in 'Frisco : "After that the cloth was took off, and the liquors war brou't in. And wot liquors they wuz, too ! The whisky wuz none of this yer kind that makes a man feel like say in', lI kin lick any son of a gun in the house,' and makes him smash things ginerally. No, sir. It was the kind that jist makes a man lift his glass up gently, and say, lJoe, old pard, I'm lookin' at yer.' " -s i He was a sacreligious wretch frorrf Chicago, who remarked that when pigeons roosted on the church eves it wasn't a pleasant thirg to be un der the droppings of the sanctuary. It is the opinion of the Boston. Globe that the ill health of school girls is to be attributed not so much to overwork imposed by teachers as to improper food and dress. ("Zeb Crummet") says it is no easy matter to know the character of a man, pufled up with good for tune, wealth and prosperity, in It is some satisfaction to recogJ nize in the features of a tramp, the boy who used to beat us jumping and running foot races at school. little girl. ger he and it must leave the erejk . ..! ... ufharo if lie nKt inarl ty, he gave none of it to hi- wife, country ..u " " " " server. Truth to teir. she did not deserve any employment it must be on con- even thus much, for with each bottle- dition that he should work from To bej Qr jot lfj bee aj the raan ful sh S '"fLWJTZXr C to either the degradation ortheincon-vknob. .. V-,TUI: l j Nothing will take the poetry out of a man quicker than the kick of a woman who wears zebra stockings. The two most uneffeetual things in the world are undouhtedlya blue-eyed woman and a liquor law. en thus much for with each bottle- dition una e suu.., ..flw .r.u , To bej Qr jot lfj bee aj the raan 1 she-got drunk, and berated him morning to night, and stx d J " 8aid when he got home anil found a "I have bought my first last," wsa the remark of a ei.Ver when" h'etet np business for himself. Ought a baker be considered a needy loafer because he is frequently &ivn kneading a loaf. 0 jv i