New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-19
A co...ck Father.

Siberian Cossack, fifty years Of age, who had /
already killed thirty mine bears went out to kill the
fortieth, accompanied by his son, young man Of |
twenty, and armed with his rifle instead Of knife
He had taken these precautions because the ortieth
bear ia generally supposed to be fatal to the sports
man, and avenges his nine-and-thirty brethren. |
The reason for this ia very simple, the huntsman
believing the myth misses his bear, but the bear
does not miss him. Well, then the Cossack set out
with his son, but instead Of finding bear they
came across magnificent leopard. The young
man, who had never before seen formidable an
animal, was terrified, and when the leopard 1t
tackled his father, instead Of assisting him, he
away. The Cossack, with the GOODNESS of an old
hunter, waited till the animal was twenty PAGES
from him and fred. The animal made gigantic
leap and fell dead.
The Cossack turned to his SON to see il, on the
sound of firing, he would not come back; but the
young man did not even turn his head he continued
to fly.
Then the Cossack reloaded his gun, put his knife
between his teeth, and went up to the animal. He
took off the skin, acd went home very thoughtful.
His meditatons were grave he was asking himself
what punishment the coward deserved who quit
ted his friend in the moment Of danger. And he
added:
The son who abandons father is more than a
| coward he is traitor
| When he reached home he had quite decided.
He went to his son, who had shut himself up in his
room, and ordered him to open the door.
The young man obeyed, and fell at his fathers
| feet.
But the father, without giving any reason, or.
dered him to take q pick and follow him he also
| took one himself.
| He led his son about a quarter of verst from
| the house, and then traced on the ground space
six feet long by three wide; then he began break
ing up the ground, making sign to his son to do
| the same.
| The young man, who had no idea what he was
| doing, set to work. At the end of two hours they
had dug hole in which man could lie down.
| That is well, said the father, rising; :" now
say thy prayer"
| The young man began to understand. Yet there
was such decision in the accent with which the
| resistance.
He fell on his knees and prayed.
The father granted him time to say his prayer,
| then he measured the distance from which he had
fired on the leopard, aimed at his son, and lodged
ball in his head just at the spot where he had
| struck the ANIMAL
The young man fell stonedead The father laid
1 him in the grave, covered him with EARTH then,
| dressing himself in his Sunday clothes, went and
told the judge all that had occurred. He was sent
to prison and ordered to await the Judgment of the
Governor General. He obeyed with perfect calm
/ ness The Governor ordered the following SEN
/ tence:
"For three days and nights the father will hold
on his knees his sons head, separated from the
ment Of Heaven. If he survives it he will have
judged, not according to the wrath of man. but the
conscience of father"
The judgment was made known to the old Cos
4 sack, VINO performed tASk Will perfect tTau-
| guilty, and was Immediately set at liberty He
reached the age Of eighty, killed his fortieth bear
| without any misadventure, and after TINT great
many others. He died in 1851, without evincing
the slightest remorse.
i DUST FLOATING IN THE ARM Ponchet, finds
that dust floating in the air contains the detritus
the mineral constituents of the globe, atoms of
imals and plants, and the finest debris of all thu
materials We make use of. But one item he espe
cially points ont, viz: Wheat starch, which is in
varably fonnd in dust, whether old or recent Sur
prised at the quantity Of it present among the mra
corpuscles, M Pouchet investigated the dust Of al
ages and every locality; and everywhere he foun
this wheat starch present q l have found tn
starch he says, in the most inaccessible corner
of old Gothic churches, mixed with dust blackene
by six or eight centuries of existence l have foun
it in the palaces and cans of the Thebiad where j
may have dated from the time of the Pharaohs;
have found it in the tympanic cavity of the ear o
! a mumiied dog, which had found in subterra
, neon temple of Upper Egypt. In all countries i
word where wheat forms the staple of food
starch always penetrates into the dust and is me
with in greater or lessquantities. Medical Times