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HARNESS
SADDLES
MHilEnli
Til E DROOD.
RY MRS. MARY B. FINCH.
This, though a story of real life, 19
80 full of mysterious events, that to
one unacquainted with (he facts, it
may appear as a romance of the first
magnitude. To all such I will only
say but now that I think better of
it I shall do nothing of the kind, for
the more people try to vindicate
themselves, the more other people
don't believe a word they utter.
The Droods, (I call them Droods
because that isn't the name,) had so
many strange experiences,"and acci
dents, not to mention calamities, it
will be no wonder if you dcclaro it
"an over true tale." Almost every
writer tells of the beauty, wealth
aud general magnificence of their
characters, and as this family had
more than the usual share of these
threo commodities, I shall be no
excoption to the rule. I couldn't
overlook these thingB and keep with
in the domain of truth, and to do
this I shall give the plain matter-of-fact
details, and if that don't prove
dry enough, they can bo sprinkled
with saw-dust.
The Drood family had once been
wealthy and ititlucutiat aud were
yet well-to-do, but you could see
"belter days" written on every thing,
and it was painfully evident that
those days referred to the past. The
house, a comfortable brick building,
stood back from the road on a little
eminence, with a "thus-far-and-no-farther"
sort of style, and when you
came in contact with its inmates, you
instinctively felt they were to be
approacned in the same manner.
You were impressed to the very
marrow of your bones, that neither
house nor occupants had ever been,
nor ever meant to be on a level with
the common herd. The buildings
were almost surrounded by dense
woods, yet there was au open space
which was the farming land. This
space might have been natural, and
it may have been the work of the
woodman, who couldn't be induced
to spare that tree. When I affirm
that the woods were compact I speak
on behalf of the wooded portion of
Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, if you
will, while the states farther west
than these, can pile up their timber
so solid as they like, for you know
those eastern folks have a way of
thinking that our sylvan retreats arc
open to criticism, and we know they
would rejoice over prairies in the
samo condition.
The family composing the Drood
household were the father and
mother, and I don't know how many
boys, besides the threo girls. The
story of the boys will form a chap
ter of death and disaster, while the
history of one of the daughters, if
placed in the hands of a writer of
fiction would furnish details thrill
ing enough in their rehearsal, on
which to build the foundation of a
firct-class novel. But as I only pro
pose to state the facts in the case, I
shall divide a chapter between the
girls and a caso of mummies, which
the family had in their possession.
The girls, an older sister and the two
younger, who were twins, will be
mentioned because of their extreme
lovelinesp, and the mummies, on
account of their premeditated ugli
ness ; but ugly as they were they had
a history, and a somewhat singular
one too, which I shall come to by
and by. Tho chapter of accidents
that draw so many times the sable
curtains of death around that fire
side, shall be related in the words of
the old gentleman ; and as I have
introduced the aged patriarch I had
better describe him, otherwise I
shall have tho whole family on hand
at once and not be able to do them
justice. If so many others hadn't
taken the words out of my mouth,
so to speak, I would remark that he
was a "gentleman of the old school,"
but laying rtio "old Bchool" on the
shelf, he was that happy union which
real goodness of heart combined
with a polite and dignified exterior
makes ; and when I allude to dignity
I have no reference to that whose
parent is ignorance, and pomposity
born of prosperity the natural off
spring. His drese no, I will not
deEcant at this distant day upon the
garments worn by that sad-hearted
man. I feel that it would bo sacri
lege when I reflect how many years
he has been wearing the robes of the
saints. Though I may say his dick
eys (they were dickeys in those days)
were immaculate; and I know the
Meniale portion of the household
jvere apt pupils in the lessons taught
by our grandmothers who through
thick and thin, always managed to
"put the best foot foremost." Sad,
gray-haired old man ! Peace to his
I ashes? not a bit of it; peace to hiB
memory,rather, and his weary spirit.
CHAPTER II.
IX WHICH THE OLD GEXTLEMAX TELLS
HIS STORY.
"I am not given to superstition,
i but I must aver my family seems to
have been pursued, by a marvelous
fatality. If fate and the furies had
unlocked their gates and let the
flood-tide of their vengeance upon
us, we couldn't have suffered more.
Sorrow was a stranger to us 'till our
little Willie was killed. This, dread
ful as it was, proved to bo only the
beginning of a series of calamities
that have brooded over our hearth
stone and crushed U9 to tho very
earth. I now believe he was not
destined to linger here long. I
think some children are gifted with
a peculiar spiritual significance, and
you feel that they are surrounded
with a divine presence that envelops
them like a halo. Willie was like
this, and his mind developed faster
than his body and altho'ho was only
four, he was so precocious he might
havo lived an age. No ono knows
'till they have passed through the
terrible experience, what it is to
have a loved one brought in to them
dead, who had gone ou?perhtps an
hour before full of life and beaming
with happiness. Willie started one
morning with one of the older boys
who was going to the field to plow.
Yon know a greater part of the
plowing in the eastern states is done
with oxen, and as ours were thought
to be gentle, the boys often rode
them. Nothing pleased the little
fellow better than a riile of thin kind
for tho reason that it was out of the
usual order of things, but it was the
means of his death. The oxen so
quiet before, now became refracfory,
and as nothing could restrain them,
Willie was thrown against a stone
wall and killed. A casualty so
strange in itself was still more so
when repeated in my family ten
years afterward. It is almost in
credible, but it is too true. Jason's
death was caused by the oxen he was
driving. He had a heavy load of
oak rails on his wagon, and the cat
tle becoming frightened at some
object, ran down a steep hill. The
wagon was overturned, the load
thrown on him and he was found
dead by the roadside. 3Ey heart
seemed torn from my bosom, and as
for his poor mother, she has never
been the same woman since. While
wondering daily how we could en
dure it, we were once more to be
scathed as with lightning. When
the excitement over the newly dis
covered lead fields of Galena was at
its hight, Lyman being young and
ambitious, caught the infection and
couldn't settle down again to farm
life, and as he was so auxious to
make his way in tho world, we let
him go, but his mother said she
would never seo him again and she
never did. They were at work in a
now vein, and the props not being
sufficient to support tho roof of the
subterranean chamber, a ton or more
of the quartz came down on him.
Those who escaped heard him say
"Oh I dear." That was all ; then we
were stunned into submission, tho'
in our hearts we have ever since
heard the echo of that sad farewell.
The old man once so proud-spirited
sat with eyes cast down, and I can
easily imagine he was thinking of
living sorrows, so much harder to
boar than the dead ones. A friend
who wa.a once well acquainted with
the Droods, thinks there was yet an
other son, who went to the Mexican
war nnd was never heard from, but
as I am not quite certain of this I
will not try to substantiate it.
A DEVIATION WHICH TREATS- OF IN
CIDENTALS. At this juncture of the happenings
I most digress, and I hate digression
worse than cyclones.
The Droods had shown an utter
disregard, as it were, for the courte
sies and amenities of life by falling
into the hallucination of differing
with their neighbors in their relig
ious belief, which to most people is
equivalent to an irreligious disbelief.
They had embraced the faith of the
Latter Day Saints, thereby forfeiting
according to the views of some, the
right to this world and the world to
come. When I described the Drood
mansion, thero was one building,
and a very important one, that I left
out entirely. There was a carriage
way leading from the house to the
gate, and this building, of peculiar
import, stood oc ono side, and the
house on the other. That this fami
ly should have a mysterrous edifice
standing apart from the mansion
proper and that it should be con
structed with no windows to apeak
of below, and a flight of stairs on
the "outside, was without precedent
in that part of the country. And to
make the crime of a more heinous
nature, no one, not even the preach
er of those parts bad ever had an
opportunity to look inside the gloo
my walls. Taken all iu all it wai a
grievance that could hardly be tol
erated. The young bloods of the
neighborhood often expatiated in
the presence of their lady-lovers on
the soldierly feats they would be
only too happy to perform to uphold
their own and their country's honor
to "find out what that thing was for
anyway." At the reveille of the
battle morn they would gather
from near and far, and go forth at
the tap of the drum and come home
covered with glory and mayhap
brickbats. Had they but had the
Harvard professor there to suggest
to them the "striking of the koy
note of tho structure," they might
have raised the building and also
raised themselves in the estimation
of an admiring world. When they
dwell upon the hnmiliating thought
that perhaps there were meetings of
the Latter Day Saiuts held in that
building (they had forgotten what
their forefathers came to America
for) their valor and blood rose to 7G
degrees Revolutionary heat, and
nothing but tho report that was cur
rently believed that several pieces of
cannon in the chamber could be
trundled into position at a moments
notice, kept those valiant defenders
in submission and obscurity. But
years afterward when the place had
passed into the hands of strangers,
they no longer discussed the ques
tion to go or not to go but went iu
crowds, and by twos, and threes,
and single, aud what do you sup
pose they found? Turn Ihe koy in
the lock and come nearer, and I will
tell you. Is thut some one behind
you? Oh! no, its only a shadow.
They found an out door cellar. I
have seen them since, and they area
decided improvement on those
abominations under tho dwelling
house, where the noxious, and ob
noxious vapors steal up always,
through door-ways and cellar-ways,
and throttle you unawares; that lay
on the carmine, and furnish the fuel
for scarlet fever; and the free of
charge supply the poison for typhus
and diphtheria.
Near the time of the great Ilegira
from Nanvoo, the Droeds brought
home with them several pieces of
property belonging to the Prophet
Joseph Smith, aud held them for sale.
I dou't remember now but three
things. First, the mummies above
referred to, second, a buggy, and last
a baby'a cradle. Now, if you will
allow me to reverse things some
what, I will begin with the cradle.
This modest little piece of furniture
was of cherry wood, aud only a
trifle over three feet long, with
breadth and hight in proportion.
Tne corners were dovetailed togeth
er, the head-board rounded, and
something higher than tho foot, and
in each side near the top was an
open space to lift it by, large enough
to admit the fingers, and carved in a
fanciful manner. This was the cra
dle the infant Joseph was rocked in,
and over which his mother sang
lullaby's, and in all probability ask
ed that heaven's blessings might rest
upon her child. Once as I was sit
ting in it rocking and singing with
a pretty babe by my side, an older
sister who enjoyed making startling
announcements said, "Do you know
that cradle you are in was Joe.
Smith's?" aud I having a mercurial
disposition, arose like a jack-in-a-box,
gave that infantile pacifier one
square look, then propounded a
string of questions as long as the
moral law, without waiting for one
of them to be answered. When the
lady, (mother of the baby) seeing
my breath was nearly exhausted,
came to the rescue and said, "Yes,
this was really Joe. Smith's cradle.
I bought it myself of Joe. Smith's
mother." Then as if in answer to
my looks of perplexity and skepti
cism (I had been wondering if Mrs.
Smith's feet were all right, and
whether there were not a pair of
horns developing under her broad
frilled cap, we had heard such hor
rid stories of the Mormons) "and
she was one of the finest old ladies
I ever saw." At that time in the
west if any one was particularly
good they were "fine." As some of
my readers may desire to know
what eventually became of the cra
dle I can only tell them it was dis
posed of by the family just mention
ed, and years after when a sanguine
Englishman instituted a search for
it, to make his fortune, as he said, no
trace of it could be found.
The buggy, I believe, was sold at
public auction, but I saw it last only
sixteen or seventeen years ago. It
was then owned by a neighbor who
for over forty years was deacon of
the Presbyterian church, and who
by a marriage came near being a
relative of mine. Fifty-two Sundays
in the year did that kind, honest
man drive by on his way to church
in that veritable buggy as I then
thought, but when I inquired of the
deacon about it, he said, "Well, I
dou't know, the rickety old thing
has been mended so often, I doubt
if there is any of tho original in
it now."
CHAPTER III.
THE MUMMIES AXD THE GIRLS.
The mummies, as before stated,
were once the property of Joseph
Smith ; but why they were left with
the Drood?, or what became of them, '
are unsolved cquestions. When we
heard of the weird show to be seen
for the asking, I was on tip-toe to
go and see it, as any ten-years old
child would have been ; and obtain
ing our mother's consent after don
ning "spick-and-spanchan" dresses
aud aprons, off we started through
the dim woods. Arriving at the
house, with curious glances at that
other mysterious building on the
opposite sido of the drive, wo were
shown into the largo pleasant sitting
room, where standingin a kind of
recess was a ca3c that might havo
been a cupboard as far a3 the oxte
rior appearauco was concorncd, but
the interior department ! Shades of
the pyramids, tho Ptolcmnfes, the
Sphiuxes and ever so many thing.?
that arc now silently but surely
being covered with tho sand3 of an
unappreciative world, there they
stood, (the mummies I mean), like
so many columns of dried beef,
which they so much resembled, that
for years I perfectly loathed that
useful article of food. It was said,
with how much truth I cannot tell,
that they were king and queen of
Eo'Pf. Rud daughter and son. The
quondam son who was the tallest
one of the four, all the others stand
ing on blocks of wood to bo on a
level with him, was only about four
and a half feet high ; ho was also the
handsomest one, and his Royal
Highness, the king, next. The
queen aud young princess looked as
though they had scratched around
pretty lively to get bread, whilo the
men folks had only to amuse them
selves iu getting the water. There
was a sorrowful expression on the
queen's face, loft there, I imagine,
by her husband asking her when she
wanted money to purchase the spring
supply of clothing, "where that halt
dollar was he had given her only
last week," and the little Ptoleiunies
all out at the toes too, aud their
white linen suits so badly frayed
they couldn't go to the tomple an
other Sunday. I don't know how
it was done, but one of the twins
who so kindly furnished us the
horrible entertainment, opened tho
queen's mouth and took out a por
tion of the jaw-bone. That was the
crowning horror, aud I felt that I
had seen an cud of all perfection.
I shouldn't have been surprised after
that to have seen them do anything.
If the whole troupe had stepped
down aud out in their little white
aprons aud. taken their water pitch
ers aud started for the well, or to
the temples to hold their mumbled
mummeries, I should have accepted
it as a part of the programme. I
was frightened and fascinated to the
extent of being unable to move or
make any sign, and what was that?
Was it a fancy, or did the queen
give me a sly look, as though bdc
would say, "mum's the word."
Whatever it was I went home and
to bed where I stayed all next day,
and couldn't raise my head from tho
pillow without a deadly faintness
coming over me. All the unique
engravings in Fox's Book of Mar
tyrs marshaled themselves in Hue
and came pell-moll down the vistas
of my childish memory like a thou
sand fiery dragons, and cousolidated
nightmares, with a dozen pairs of
logs apiece, and each particular hoof
endowed with a delirium tremens of
its own. What I suffered I shall
never be able to tell. It was nau
seating beyond the limit of human
endurance to be pressed to "eat
something." I abhorred every tho't
of food, for were not the edibles
kept in that necessary adjunct to
the culinary department known to
our utilitarian mothers as a dresser
or cupboard, the very tvvjn of that
one wherein those other wretched
things were kept? Bah I I was
mortified and disgusted that there
had been a world at all where folks
could be brought to light after beiug
dead three thousand years. That
dreadful lapse of time was as over
powering to mo as the mummies
had been, when all the years I had
known anything about had only
reached eighteen hundred.
Tbequeerest part of all this to me
now is that I should keep all thoie
horrid feelings and weird fancies to
myself, and let them think I was
"coming down" with the prevailing
and therefore fashionable disease,
ague. To some it may appear
strange that a child of that age sho'd
be sick and faint on seeing what
others would regard as worth going
miles to see; but it was no more so
than to turn faint tho first time I
saw a pair of wooden shoes. It
wasn't the shoes so much as the
commiseration I felt for the indi
vidual who wore them. There is
one thing I never intend to forgive,
if I live to be a hundred years old,
and that is the total depravity or
that benighted object, the mummy
queen delivering np her jaw in that
off-hand manner. It wasn't enough
that the entire household should be
smuggled into the most prominent
piece of kitchen furniture, and one
of them gaping at us in open-mouthed
stupidity, but that thoy should
all stand there bald, brown and
bronzed was a little too much:
therefore I shall take revenge on tha
whole lot by rememboring till tho
crack of doom that dried bcof busi
ness ; and I'm suro too that I obeyed
long enough tho ghostly injunction
that "mum's the word."
I uqw arrive at the point where it
becomes an imperative duty to ia
troduce the "Drood girls," as they
were called, and if yon could realize
how handsomo they were, yoa wo'd
wish you had known tbetn bofore.
Helen shall bo disposed of first, by
beiug first in the order of primogen
iture Her beauty was of the daz
zling, bowildoring sort, and her
career in society was somotbing like
tho appearance of a new star in the
planetary world.
To be continued.
For tuo Journal.
Xolincce.
Tho celebrated Dr. John King
says, "tobacco is a powerful narcotic
poison, its direct action upon the
body being to enfeeble tho system,
thereby destroying tho tono of tho
stomach, and retarding or derang
ing the digestive punction, to say
nothing of the immense drain of the
saliva aud which drain is continually
kept up by the use of this filthy 'and
noxious weed. Its uso hastens tho
manifestation of the symptoms of
those diseases to which the person
is disposed, and most decidedly so
when those important organs, the
lungs, are weak, and liable to attacks
of a consumptive nature. It is be
yond my comprehension why so
vast a number ot civilized aud ed
ucated men and women should
resort to the uso of an article so
positively injurious, uncleanly, of
fensive, and which has not one
redeeming quality in its favor.
Young mau, you, whoso system is
yet uninjured by this plague of
civilization, reflect well before you
make tho attempt to use tobacco in
any form beforo you enslave your
self to a master whose exactions aud
oppressions know no bouuds. You
may become a man without the uso
of tobacco. Aye, a much better
man than with it. Above all other
articles In common, U30, tobacco is
one that slowly but surely impairs
the whole nervous system : the tasto
becomes perverted, so that simple
fluids, and simple diet become in
sipid nnd unpalatable. The tobacco
consumer is obliged to resort to
stronger fluids for a beverage, and
to high-seasoned and stimulating
fooS to satisfy tho benumbed taste
which this poison has produced.
Never will temperance become a
general matter, until tobacco ceases
to be an article of daily consump
tion. Yet some of tbo most stren
uous advocates for the suprcssion of
the use of alcoholic liquors as a bev
erage, are perfect inebriates with
regard to tobacco. Parents, guar
diaus, ministers, friends, and all who
feel an interest in the health, happi
ness and morals of the rising genera
tion, I beseech you to take the advice
of one whoso long experience and ex
tensive researches have fully con
vinced him that this scourge of tho
human family is yearly creating
disease, and dragging thousands to
an untimely grave; aud employ all
your influence, accompanied by ex
ample, to prevent those who are to
watch over yon, and who are to be
come your legislators, when your
locks shall have been silvered by
time, from becoming the slaves of
this foul, unnatural, relentless ty
rant tobacco." Although men
know that tobacco is injurious, and
that if they use it, undoubtedly their
boys will also, yet they fail to exer
cise enough "will power" to enable
them to quit it; but say, "I can't."
II. y. z.
Boys, Heed This. Many people
seem to forget that character grows,
that it is not something to put on
ready-made, with womanhood or
manhood but day by day, hero a
little, grows with the growth and
strengthens with the strength, nntil
good or bad, it becomes a coat of
mail. Look at a man of business,
prompt, reliable, conscientious, yet
clear headed and energetic. When
do you suppose he developed all
these qualities? Let us see the way
in which a boy of ten years gets up
in the mornings, work, plays, stud
ies, and we will tell you just wiat
kind of a man he will make. The
boy who is late at meals and late at
school stands a poor chance of being
a prompt man. The boy who neg
lects his duties, be they even so
small, and then excuses himself by
saying "I forgot ! I didn't think,"
will never be a reliable man. And
the boy who finds pleasure in the
suffering of things will nejer bo a
noble, generous, kindly mannered
gentleman-
Wnero there's a will, there's a way
tabreak it.
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