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AFTER THE HANGING.
The Ghastly Aftermath of a Public Execution.
At eleven o'clock on n certiiin June
-day a great crowd of gaping Mississip
pi country folk thronged the sloping
sides of a hollow that, with the except
ion of a natural outlet on one side, con
versed to a small circular plat in the
center. Upon tiiis spot had been erect
ed a frame-work of beams, posts
braces, a platform, and a trap-door. It
was the gallows that grim monument
to the majesty of the law. The hollow
was a vast earthen bowl ; the gallows,
a lumrj of sucar in the bottom : the
crowd, a swarm of crawling ants that
crawled around like a pestilence.
For be it known that this was the
first execution that had ever occurred
in Kemper county.
If there is one thing more entertain
ing than a hanging -per se, it is the va
riety of effect produced by the ghastly
.spectacle upon the faces and manner of
the assembled witnesses. The majori
ty" were present because they had nev
er seen a hanging; others went to
gratify the natural vengeance of out
raged humanity; a moiety went in the
interest of "science," hoping to hear
the snapping caused by the sundering
of the spinaf ligament.
They assisted the trembling, falter
ing footsteps of the victim up a ladder
constructed with the finest ingenuity
of awkwardness; stood him on the
trap like a wooden soldier that was to
be shot down with tin cannon and
cork ball; and with exquisite polite
condescension, invited him to feed the
assembled multitude on the philosoph
ic loaves and fishes of the hangman's
prestidigitation. And yet no tickets
had been sold to that rare banquet.
A pretty, dimpled, rosy lass from the
country barefoot, and arrayed in a
yellow calico dress and a white sun
bonnet, and pervaded by an odor of
fresh butter and milk, and wild violets
and innocence stared horror-stricken
at the awful preparations. The bright
roses soon lied, and refused longer to
play hide-and-seek with the dimples;
and the large blue eyes overflowed
with tears.
The cap was drawn; the loop was
adjusted. The girl buried her face in
her gaunt old mother's bosom, and
gasped:
"Are they nearly ready?"
"Verv nearly."
"Who is that talking?"
"The priest."
"Praving?"
"Yes."
There was a pause. t
"What are they doing now, mother?"
"They are tying the man's feet and
hands."
"Do thev tie his hands before or be
hind?" "Neither: to his sides."
"O, mother, mother!"
"What, my chili?" and ilio.oldor
voice began to quaver.
"Poor fellow! poor fellow!"
The girl sobbed pitifully. She buried
her face deeper, and clung closer to her
mother's neck.
"What are they doing now, mother?
"The sheriff is"getting down."
"Oh, me! Can I hear it, mother?"
"What, my dear?"
"When it drops."
"I think you can" and the older
heart throbbed wildly.
"What are they doing now. mother?"
"The sheriff lias a long, brightknif e ?"
"What for?"
"To cut the string;" so faintly that
it is a whisper.
'And now. mother?"
"My God! 1 don't know I can't
look any longer !"
They sav that in the course of events
the girl married and became a mother.
Quite natural. They further assert
that her first-born came into the world
dead, with its neck unnaturally stretch
ed, and its head bent far to one side.
rr'i. ..... c- onil,ar i-if orocti rirr frrAlllV
Ii licit; naaiiuuuiu uinin.o....f,i5.i-,
composed tjt Doys Detweeu the ages Tf
fmir-.niil-;i-li:ilf snirl sp.Vfin vpars. One
was a negro named Tony, six years old,
black as tar, homely as an ape. The
others were all white. One of these,
"Buck," was a chubby boy of five, with
freckled face, red cheeks, and white
hair. These two and the five or six
others were standing or sitting in ev
ery imaginable posture indicative of
awe, interest, and fear. Tony was
dressed simply in a pair of his father's
pantaloons cut off at the knees. Con
sequently the waist-band came quitg
under his arms, dispensing with the
necessity of a shirt ; and the buttons
in front were connected with those be
hind by short strings, that served as
suspenders. He was quite small and
weazened. Buck, on the contrary, was
large and strong; his general manner
was nearly like that belonging to the
advanced years of a patriarch.
After the body had been placed in a
cofiin, Tony wriggled to his feet and
swaggered pompously up to Buck, and
burying his skinny "arms deep in his
vest pockets, demanded:
"What yer suckin' yer thumb fer?"
Buck snatched the thumb from his
mouth, and looked ashamed. Tony
pursued his advantage by remarking,
tauntingly:
"You was skyerd, too!"
"I wasn't," protested Buck.
"Yas you wus, wh-when he chopped
de string!"
"I wasn't; but you was, though."
"Ho-how?"
"Seen vou."
"Seed me?"
The white boy nodded. He never
wasted words.
"Seed me, did yer?"
Buck did not deign a second nod.
"What yer see?" persisted Tony.
The white boy took the thumb from
his mouth it had again found its wav
there and answered:
"You got pale."
The absurdity of the idea -was so ap
parent that even the slow penetration
of the little black imp w:is not long in
detecting it
"Me got pale?"
A nod. The thumb preventedtitter
ance. "H-how you knows?"
Seen you."'
"Seedme?"
A nod.
"H-h-how kin yer see me git pale wh-wh-wheii
I's Wack? Xow, kin yer
answer dat?"
Another nod.
"Y'ever seed ex nigger git pale?"
Xod.
"H-how?
"You know them little read streaks
in the white o' your eyes?'
BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA,
"Yas.'
"That's how you tell when a nigger's
pale."
"H-hew?'
" 'Cause the streaks turn white, an'
j-ou can't see 'em.'
Having delivered himself of this
startling physiological truth, the young
man rose to his feet, and he and the
negro trotted off to regain their com
panions, who were already several rods
i away, deep in a discussion of the scene
they had just witnessed.
"I wonder if it hurt him."
"Course it did!'
"How do you know?'
"Didn't you see liim doin' his shoul
dpn this way, and sorter reacliin' out
his feet before him?'
"Why, I've seen 'em do like that in
tliB circus.'
"What do you think about it, Buck?"
"XotliinV
"Would you .like to be hung?'
Buck shook his head.
"Why?'
"Hurts.'
"now do you know ?'
"Dunno.'
"I wouldn't mind it!' exclaimed the
boastful Tony.
A peculiar and mischievous look
came into Buck's face. He asked Tony :
"You wouldn't?'
"Xo! Shaw! why doan my daddy
heff me up by my hade clar o' de
groun' mos' ev'rv dav, to see London ?'
"Don't it hurt ?'
-xor
"What does they hang people for,
Tony?' queried a cross-eyed little
wretch.
"Wh-whv, ter see London, course!'
"What, with a rope?'
"Oh, er rope?'
"Yes.'
"Waal, doan yer know?'
"Xo.,
"Den I ain't er-gwine to tell yer!'
Buck had developed an idea.
"Le's hang Tony,' he said.
The proposition was hailed with de
light. But numerous obstacles presented
themselves there was no material for
building a scaffold, no carpenters' tools.
Buck solved the problem by suggesting
a tree. There was no rope. Buck stole
an old, partially decayed clothes-line.
Thev soon found an appropriate spot
for the execution. It was at the head
of a deep and shadravine, walled in
on three sides by precipitous bluffs.
Ascent or descent was extremely per
ilous, as it could be accomplished only
bv clinging to the stems and roots of
bushes that lined the walls in many
places. The boys clambered down, and
discovered a tree on which could be
successfully tested the efficacy of capi
tal punishment. It was a stunted,
crooked magnolia, leaning far to one
side, and having a branch that ran out
horizontally, about eight feet from the
ground. They danced around the tree
in the highest enjoyment of the de
lightful preparations, which were con
ducted bv Buck, Tonv, and two or
tnree others none more nappy man
Tony himself. They tied one end of
the rope to the limb, and secured the
other around Tony's neck.
A tremendous obstacle now obtruded
itself. They had no trap. The impro
vised gallows was a failure.
"Now, look-a-hyar,' said Tony, "I
don't want ter be h-hung in dis hyar
style. Ef 1 ain't er-gwine ter drap.dey
ain't no fun.'
"You Kin jump off'n the limb,' sug
gested Buck.
This solution of the difficulty was re
ceived with the most demonstrative
joy. Tony sat upon the limb, the rope
around his neck.
"All right, Tony,' said one of the
leaders; "but wait till you say every
thing. Now, make a speech, you
know.'
Tony grinned and cleared his throat.
"Ladies 'n gemblem!'
"There ain't no ladies, Tony.'
"Waal, doan I has ter say h-hit any
wav? Ladies 'n cemblem! I wants ter
'dress yer wid er few las' words. I's
er mighty big sinner. A-hem ! Wh
what did he say T
"Talked about his mother.'
"Oh, yas! An' wh-when I was er
little bit o' chile, dest about so high, an'
use ter go an' git de ole 'oman switch
es '
"No; when she used to pray with
you.
"Yas. An' she would tol' me ter be
er mighty good chile, an' min' her wh
when she holler at me; an' ef 1 didn't
git down awndemmaiTOw-bones 'nsay
dem pray el's quick, she'd make er llo'
cloth out'n me, an' tie me ter de well
bucket fer er sinker; an' an' '
"Advisin' 'em, you know.'
An' ef yer ever does anything
wrong, an' dey cotches yer 'n hung yer,
wh-why, den, look out! Now, wh-
wIkVq nr-orwirm tor tirftv''
""" (,.... .w !'".'
But the prayer was dispensed with,
as was olso the blind-foldinir, and the
tying. One boy armed himself with a
stick, which he made believe was a
knife, and gave Tony particular in
structions to drop at the moment the
knife struck the imaginary cord that
held the imaginary trigger! The boy
then looked around solemnly, made a
grand sweep with his arm, and, with a
strong blow upon the trunk of the tree,
sprung the trap.
True to the working perfection of
the machinery, Tony was launched in
to space.
A strange and unaccountable thing
happened. Tony found himself
sprawling upon the ground. He
scrambled to his feet with a look of
triumph that ill-accorded with the as
tonishment visible in the faces of the
spectators. They had committed the
error of allowing too much rope for the
distance.
"H-hit doan hurt!' exclaimed Tony.
"'Cause you ain't hung,' Buck quiet
ly remarked.
This abashed Tony, when he had re
alized the situation, ne crawled up
on the limb again, and thev contracted
the length of the rope.
All ready again. The knife fell.
Tony slipped from the tree; the rope
tightened, stopped the upper part of
his body with a jerk, and then snapped
and threw him violently upon the
ground. He slowly and with difficulty
raised his head and looked around, as
though his neck was stiffened painful
ly with a cold, his eyes staring as if he
had seen a hideous spectre, his mouth
drawn With pain, and the tears trick
ling down his cheeks.
"Confound that rope!' exclaimed a
boy.
Buck regarded Tony silently.
"What's the matter, Tony?' asked
another boy, as he noticed the remark-
able expression in the negro s face.
Tony waa sitting on the ground,
THURSDAY, MAY
carefully feeling his neck all around,
and was unable to speak for the sup
pressed sobs that choked him. He rose
to his feet, looking ruefully about, the
boys enjoying his discomfiture immod
erately. "Let's try it again,' said Buck.
"No, you don't!' screamed the color
ed boy, with a determination the firm
ness of which could not be doubted.
He was as fierce as he was frightened,
and occupied himself with rearranging
his suspenders, which were on the
point of slipping from his shoulders.
"Why, Tony?
"Yer plays too rough. Dat's why,
now!'
"Did it hurt?'
"Course it did!' he said, with a look
of contempt.
They insisted; Tony refused. One
little fellow caught forcibly hold, but
Tony threw him off and bounded into
the brush. They pursued him, and
hrought him back, crying and strug
gling fiercely. Finally they succeeded,
after the greatest difficulty, in lifting
him from the ground, while 33uck could
climb the tree and tie the rope. There
was no ceremony about the thing then.
The work was done silently and in dead
earnest. The unfortunate victim yell
ed, but the bovs were not to be cheated
out of the fruits of the first grand les
son they had learned in the ceremony
of government, the protection of socie
ty. They had seen a thing about which
a great popular commotion had been
raised a simple thing: a beam, a rope,
and a man. What prevents a frequent
repetition of this phantasmagoria from
the magic-lantern of the law ? Surely
not the popular taste. It is true that
the magic-lantern is, as it were, a spe
cies of reserved and exalted privilege;
but the side on which the ghastly pic
ture is painted can be removed, and
utilized in an improvised magic-lantern
sometimes vulgarly called a mob.
But this, also, has a flame, a reflector,
and a magnifying lens. It answers for
all practical purposes. It is an off
spring of necessity.
The rope was at length securely tied.
The cries of the unwilling victim were
suddenly checked, as his weight was
gradually allowed to fall upon the rope,
strangling him. They were determin
ed that a sudden jerk should not again
frustrate their plans. Throwing his
liberated hands wildly about, he clutch
ed a boy by the hair, and made him
yell with pain. It required strong ef
forts to release him. Then they all
withdrew to a short distance.
Not a sound of any kind escaped the
hanging child. Theboys looked on si
lently, and with grim satisfaction. He
vainly endeavored to reach up and
catch the rope that was choking out
his life; but there seemed to be a
weieht unon his arms, and lie could
raise them no higher than his shoul
ders. He kicked to the right and to
the left, and squirmed and twisted.
The knot was behind his neck, and the
rope fell directly across the windpipe
and creat arteries. The boys watched
the COntolihn: fif liis fnfft Avith 'Ay-
sorbing interest, and a few became
somewhat pale with an excitement
tinctured with anxiety; but they pos
sessed too much stoicism to betray
their feelings bv anv overt act, while
the young boys and especially Buck
looked on with such calm courage.
"I wonder if it hurts him much?
queried a boy. There was no reply.
Buck on being asked the question,
nodded; and, with his thumb in his
mouth, never removed his gaze from
the suspended Tony.
"Well, we'll take him down after
awhile. I wonder why he don't say
something. Buck?'
"Can't.'
"Why?'
But Buck merely shook his head, and
said nothing.
The poor little hanging wretch grew
more and more quiet as the moments
flew by. His teeth were shut close, but
his lips were slightly parted, and his
eyes stared with a dumb, beseeching,
horrifying agony. After the lapse of a
few minutes his struggling ce;ised, and
the boy turned slowly from side to
side. Then there was a slight shiver
ing; the eyes rolled upward, and be
came fixed.
Said a boy : "I'll bet you he won't go
around any more, blowing about it's
not hurting him.'
Buck looked at the speaker, and then
at the swinging body. He told them to
hold Tony while he climbed the tree to
untie the knot. They did so; but
through a little carelessness and igno
rance they allowed the body to lunge
to one side, and it fell to the ground
like a log. They stired at it, and a
boy asked :
"Why don't you get up, Tony ?'
"What are you doing your eyes that
wav for?' asked another.
"'Ain't he still? remarked a tnird.
"Do vou think he is putting on?'
"I don't know. Here, you take hold
of that .other arm, and help me pull
him up.1 Tony!'
He was lying on his back. They
raised him by the arms to a sitting pos
ture; but as soon as they released him
he toppled to que side and forward,
and one of the eyes was buried in the
dirt. The boys were thoroughly alarm
ed. They felt that something awful
had happ'ened, but they were ignorant
of its nature.
"What's the matter with him?'
No answer.
"Does anybody know?'
Still no answer.
"Do you, Buck?'
A quiet nod.
"What is it?'
"Dead.' W. C. Harrow, in Argo
naut. m
From a Distinguished Physi
cian.
Prof. Green, a distinguished allo
pathic physician, wrote to the Medical
lievord to the effect that after all other
means had failed, he sent for the Kid
ney Cure (Safe Kidney and Liver Cure),
and to his astonishment cured a serious
case of Bright's Disease by adminis
tering it, and afterward found it equal
ly beneficial in other cases. 47m3
Minerva won the prize on the horse
question, but a little girl discounted
the old lady in the very first sentence
of her composition on the all absorb
ing topic of "The Cow." She opened;
A Madrid paper estimates that
CriTi stnti14 4 1tmVa tir TTVitor" Gf4-w?
& fifty-five daya, eleven hours and
' forty-eight minutes. Godh!
13, 1880.
Briefer Spelling.
Some days since we referred to the
rapid progress which is being made by
the cause of spelling reform. Aware,
as we were, of the strong indorsement
given to the movement by many dis
tinguished scholars, we are still sur
prised at the evidence which has just
come to hand of the extent of the sup
port given by the educated sentiment of
the country.
The Home Journal, of New York, N.
P. Willis' old paper, one of the most
worthy and influential of metropolitan
journals, and with as cultivated and
critical a constituency as any paper in
the country, adopted," last September,
abbreviated spellings according to the
following rules:
1. Drop ne at the end of words like
dialogue, catalogue, where the preced
ing vowel is short. Thus spell dema
gog, pedagog, epilog, synagog, etc.
Change tongue for tung. When the
preceding vowel is long, as in proro
gue, vogue, disembogue, rogue, retain
final letters as at present.
2. Drop final e in such words as def
inite, infinite, favorite, where the pre
ceding vowel is short. Thus spell op
posite, preterit, hypocrit, requisit, etc.
TVhen the preceding vowel is long, as
in nolite, finite, invite, unite, etc., re
tain present form unchanged.
3. Drop final te in words like quar
tette, coquette, cigarette. Thus spell
cigaret, roset, epaulet, vedet, gazet, etc.
4. Drop final me in words like pro
gramme. Thus spell program, oriflam,
gram, etc.
4. Change ph for in words like
phantom, telegraph, phase. Thus spell
alfabet, paragraf, filosofy, fonetic, fo
tograf, etc.
P. S. No change in proper names.
Being a pioneer movement, it natur
ally desired to know how its course
was looked upon by prominent leaders
of public opinion. In its last issue it
devotes its large folio sheet to about
one huudred letters it has received (a
small part of its stock) from represen
tative men educators, authors, and
scholars. These letters are interesting
reading, as they come from men like
Oliver" Wendell Holmes, Wliittier,
.ftulge Waite, Dr. Bellows, Professor
Packard, and others as promiuent.
The Journal declares that not a sin
gle reader has said, "Stop my paper or
stop that new spelling." This plainly
shows how willing the people are to ac
cept reasonable and gradual changes
toward simplifying our spelling.
Such an array of distinguished names
and hearty approval must have an im
mediate and decided effect in favor of
the change. We can imagine the back
bone of "reform" stiffening already,
and its pulse increasing. No doubt
more than one of tho hundred men on
that broad sheet feels delight in finding
himself and his sentiments in such nu
merous and comfortable company. Sol
diers know the effect of mutual trust
and confidence, and of the certainty
and presence of strong support in the
time of conflict. Such a muster roll as
this must convert much of what lias
heretofore been silent longing into con
fidence and aggression. Inter Ocean.
Spanish Brigands.
Pall Mall Gazette.
Another outrage by brigands is re
ported from Spain, the scene of the at
tack being the village of Bodes, in the
province of Lerida. While the priest
of the village was delivering a sermon
a band of armed men, who had black
ened their faces to prevent recognition,
entered the church, and striking the
pavement with the butt end of their
muskets, ordered the congregation to
keep their seats. Three of them march
ed straight to the pulpit, and having
administered to the priest several
blows with their fists, which stunned
him, dragged him down into the vestry.
In the meanwhile the members of the
congregation, threatened with death by
the rest of the band if they attempted
to move, were paralyzed with terror,
and the priest was called upon to give
up a large sum in gold, which the rob
ber had ascertained he possessed. He
stoutly denied having any money in his
possession; whereupon they began to
prod him in the legs ami arms, with
their knives. This mode of torture
having no effect, they began to flog
him, and he at last admitted having
30 in his house, and offered to give it
to the robbers. Tliis failing to satisfy
them, they lighted some straw and
held the priest's head over it until all
his hair and eye-lids had caught fire;
and when his maid-servant; attracted
by his shrieks, came to see what was
the matter, they stabbed her. The
priest himself was then made to go on
his knees and they were about to shoot
him, when one of their number, who
had been ransacking his house, came
into the vestry with the money he had
found. The reason why the priest had
refused to make it over to the robbers
was that it did not belong to him, but
had just been entrusted to his care.
The brigands having attained their
purpose then took their departure, and
the terror which they had inspired was
such that no effort was made to follow
them by any of the200 or 300 people in
the church.
Plant Strawberries.
Every family should enjoy the luxu
ry of a strawberry bed. and the literal
hopes that many readers will take its
advice and "plant strawberries." In
order to know how to plant them, we
give the following from the April
American AgriculturM :
"Select a bit of soil, all the better if
it was in potatoes last year, and if
practicable within sight of the house,
and prepare it just as you would for a
good crop of cabbages : this means an
abundance of the best manure, well
worked in. Mark out the rows two
feet apart, three if a cultivator is to be
used, and set the plants one foot apart
in the row, using a trowel to open the
ground, and when the plant is put in,
crowd tiie soil down firmly over the
roots with both htuuls. Thereafter
run the cultivator, hoe, or rake, often
enough to make the soil mellow and
keep down the weeds. The plants
will by and by throw out runners;
turn them into the row and let them
take root. If it is preferred to buy
a few plants to start witll and raise Ii
stock to put out next year, set these
two feet apart each way, and let run
ners form. Ashes are verv useful to
-nt-nmnfa 1 liTrrr rr"rI r -- v-.-
j Finally, plant strawberries-and do it
Uhis spring."
VOL. 24.-NO. 47.
A Strange Dream Story.
There is an inexplicable story which,
I believe has never been published
among the traditions of the fat, fertile
hill-country- of Western Pennsylvania,
the most unlikely quarter of the world
to serve as a hreeding-place of mystery.
It was settled almost wholly by well-to-do
farmers from the North of Ireland,
economical, hard-working folk God
fearing, too, after the exact maimer des
cribed by John Knox, and having lit
tle patience with any other manner.
Not a likely people, surely, to give
credence to any fanciful superstitions,
and still less to originate them. The
storv, indeed, has a bold, matter-of-fact
character in every detail which quite
sets it apart from relations of the su
pernatural. I have never heard it ex
plained, andit is the best authenticated
mvsterv in mv knowledge.
Here it is in brief: Among the
Scotch-Irish settlers in Washington
county in 1812 was a family by the
name of Plvmire, who occupied a com
fortabel farm and house. Eachel, the
danghter was engaged to a young farm
er of the neighborhood. On a Saturday
evening in Jnlv, having finished her
week's work, she dressed herself tidily
and started to visit her married sister,
who lived on a farm about five miles
distant, intending to return on Monday
morning. She tied up her Sunday
gown and hat in a checkered handker
chief, and carried her shoes and stock
ings in the other hand, meaning to
walk in her bare feet and to put them
on when she came in sight of her desti
nation, after the canny Scotch fashion.
She left home about T o'clock, in order
to have the cool evening for her walk.
The road to the farm was lonely and
unfrequented.
Thegirl didnot return home on Mon
dav. but no alarm was felt, as the fam
ily thought her sister would probably
wish to detain her for a few days; and
it was not until the latter part of the
week that it was found she had never
been at her sister's. The country was
scoured, but in vain; the alarm spread.
and excited a degree of terror in the
peaceable, domestic community which
would seem inexplicable to city people,
to whom the newspaper has brought a
budget of crime every morning since
their childhood. To children raised in
those lonely hamlets and hill-farms
murder was a far-off. unreal horror;
usuallv all thev knew of it was from
the doings of Cain and Jael, set off
with hideous wood-cuts in the faniily
Bible. c. t ,
The girl had left home on Saturday
at 7 o'clock. That night, long before
10 o'clock (farmers go to bed with the
chickens, a woman living m wwai
countv, about forty-miles from the
Plymire farm, awoke her husband in a
great terror, declaring tuai sue lumjuai
seen a murder done, and went on to des
cribe a place she had never seen before
a hill-country with a wagon road
running through it, and a girl with a
finmilft tied in a checkered handker-
M-chiefy-her-shoes-and wldta Stockings in.
the other hand, walking nnsKiy uown
the grassy side of the road. She was
met by "a young man the woman
judged from their manner the meet
ing was by appointment they sat
down on a log and talked lor some
time.
The man at last iwc, stepped behind
her, and, drawing out a hatchet, struck
her twice on the head. She fell back
ward on the wet, rotten leaves, dead.
Presently the man was joined by an
other, also young, who asked, "Is it
done?" He nodded, aud together they
lifted the body and carried it away out
of her sight. After awhile they came
back, found the bundle of Sunday fine
ry and the shoes and stockings, all of
which were stained with blood. There
Wi
is a ruined oiu nun near me roau;
they went into it, lifted a loose board
in the flooring, put the bundle, shoes,
etc., with the hatchet, underneath and
replaced the board. Then they separ
ated and went through the woods in
different directions.
The farmer's wife told her dream to
her husband that night. The next day
(Sunday), going to a little country
church, she remained duriug the inter-
mission between themorning and after-
noon services, rneneignoors, who naa
come from a circuit of twenty miles to
church, gathered, according to their
homely habit, in the churchyard to eat
their lunch and exchange the news.
Our dreamer told her story again and
again, for she was impressed by it as if
it had been reality.
After the afternoon service the con
gregation separated, going to their
widely-scattered homes. There were
thus many witnesses ready to certify
to the fact that the woman had told the
dream the morning after the murder
was committed at a distance of forty
miles, when it was absolutely impossi
ble that the news should have reach
ed her. There were no telegraphs,
we must remember and no railways,
in those days not even mail-carriers
in those secluded districts.
When the story of the girl's disap
pearance was told over the country at
the end of the next week, the people to
whom the dream had been repeated re
called it.
Nowadays the matter would only
serve as good material for reporters,
but the men of those days still believ
ed that God took an oversight even of
their dreams. Might not this be a hint
from Him? The Rev. Charles Wheel
er, a Baptist clergyman of Washington,
well known in Western Pennsylvania,
and Virginia a generation ago, and
Ephraim Blaine, Esq., a magistrate,
father of the present senator from
Maine, and as popular a man in hi?
narrow circle, drove over to see the
woman who had told the dream. With
out stating their purpose, they took
her and her husband, on pretense of
business, to the Plymire farm. It was
the fiivt time in her life that She had
left her own county, and she was great
ly amused and interested! They drove
over the whole of the road down which
Rachel Plymire had gone.
"Have you ever seen this neighbor
hood?" one of them asked.
"Never,"' was the reply.
That ended the matter, and they
turned baekt taking a little-used cross
road to save time. Presently the wo
man started up in great agitation, cry
ing: "This is the place I dreamed of !"
They assured her that Rachel Fty
mire had not been upon that road at
all.
"I know nothing about her," she said,
"but the girl I saw in mv dream came
along here; there is the path through
which the man came, and beyond that
turning vou will find tbe log on which
he killed" her."
They did find the log, and on the
ground the stains of blood. The wo
man, walking swiftly, led them to tho
old mill and to the board under which
lav the stained clothes and the hatch
et: The girl's body was found afterward!
buried "bv a creek near at hand. Rach
el's lovef had already been arrested on
suspicion. It was hinted he had grown
tired of the girl, and for many reasons
found her hard to shake off. The wo
man recognized him in a crowd of oth
er men, and startled her companions
still more by pointing out another
young fellow from the west as his com
panion in her dream. The young: man
was tried, in the town of Washington,
for murder. The dreamer was brought
into court, and an effort was actually
madeto put her on the witness-stand;
but even then men could not be hung
on the evidence of a dream. Without
it. there was not enough proof for con
viction, and the jury, unwilling enouglu
we may be sure, allowed the prisoner
to escape. It was held as positive proof
of his guilt that he immediately mar
ried the sister of the other accused man,
and removed to Ohio, then the wilder
ness of the West.
Troopa of Deer on the Track.
Correspondence Reading Eagle.
Raymond Lewis, of this city, now in
Colorado, writes as follows in a letter
dated Arkansas River, Colorado, Feb
ruary 17: "In a former letter I had in
tended to give vou a description of
Trout Creek. The falls of the creek
in the mouth of the canyon are about
75 feet high, and look grand. But what
I wonder at most is how the big trout
get out of the river and up over the
falls into Trout Creek, as the largest of
them are in the creek Tibove the falls.
Can it be that they swim the falls?
The river contains some that would
surprise some of the trout fishers in.
Reading. They could not take them
with minnow rods, as they do the com
mon trout of Berks County. There
are some few soft fish in the Tile Riv
er, but the fishermen here take only
trout from one pound up nothing
smaller. So fishing in the river would
suit you, and I wish you were here to
see some of the game. Why, only yes
terday I saw about twenty black-tailed
deer run across the tract ahead of the
engine, and the like happens every day
with some of the boys. Deer, elk or
sheep, and if not them, then timber
wolves. They are very plenty. The
man that watches Dave's engine had a
mighty narrow escape last Thursday.
As he "was coming down the pass on
Mosquito range he heard a noise, and
on looking around saw what would
make nianv a man drop. It was a
half-starved bear of the grizzly sort, as
he savs. and he knew he must fight
him. " He pulled his Colts, as he carries
the large size, and fired three shots.
Then the bear was close upon him, and
he drew a saber, as he carries a knife
as long as an arm, and cut and slashed.
The bear must have done thesamc, for
John was used pretty rough. He had
his clothes nearly torn off, and was
bloody all over when he came in. Ho
got tlie best of the bear as he brought
the hide and saddle with him. We
examined the skin and found three
bullet holes and several cuts which
were made with the knife, ne is one
of the 40era which I spoke of in my
last, and seems to enjoy the sport.
John Finger is his name. He says:
'Well, boys, pretty close, but Var is
mine every time.' You should see
Dave's engine. He has her trimmed
with a pair of elk horns which are al
most as large as- the engine herself.
They are not much of a curiosity here,
as all the nun mills have them over
their doors. I can't make out what it
is for, unless it means 'stag whisky or
invitations to take a horn."
She Enew All About It.
Just about midnight, four men in a
Detroit saloon, sat looking at the fifth.
The fifth one was drunker than the other
four. While all men were created enual.
some men get drunk twice as fast as
others.
'It will never do to send him home
in this condition,' said one of the four
after a long silence.
'No, it would break his wife's heart.'
added a second.
But we can't leave him here, and if
we turn him out the police v.ill run him
in,' observed the third.
'I have been thinking,' mused tho
fourth. 'He has a telephone in his
house. There is one here. I will make
it my painful duty to inform his wait
ing and anxious wife that he won't be
home to-night'
He went to the telephone, got her call,
and began:
'Mrs. Blank, I desire to communi
cate with you regarding your hus
band,' Well, go ahead.'
'He is down town here.'
'I know that much.'
'In descending the stairs leading
from the lodge-room he fell and
sprained his ankle
'Are you sure it wasn't his neck?'
she asked.
'It is not a serious sprain, but we
think it better to let him lie on the sofa
in the ante-room until morning. Rest
assured that he will have the best of
care. We are doing ev
Sayf broke in a sharp voice. 'You
bundle him into a wagon and drive him
up here, v. here I can keep him hidden
until that drunk goes off! He won't be
sober before tomorrow night T
'My dear mad .
'Get out! If he's sleepy drunk put
water on his head! That's the way I
always do.
'Will vou let me inform vou
that-- -?'
'No, sir, I won't! Throw water on
his head, get him into some vehicle and
rattle him tip here, for it's most mid
night now, and it will take me almost
half an hour to get his hoots off and
push him tip stairs! Remember ponr
water on his head and yell 'fire in his
ear!' Detroit FreePress.
Economical soap: The addition of
three-quarters of on ounce of borax to
a pound of soap, melted in withont
boiling, makes a saving of one-half in
the cost of soap, and three-fourths tho
labor of washing, and improves the
whiteness of the fabrics; besides, the
usual caustic effect is removed, and
the hands are left with a peculiar uoft
and silky feeliDg.'lcaving nothing more
to be desired by the most ambitions
aud conouiiol washerwoman.