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The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-12-18

side. They came into the Province of
South Carolina, in 1911, being attract
ed thither by the restoration of Charles
the Second. Thomas remained in the
Province and became a ruling man.
In 1851 he received a patent from the
British Government for forty-eight
thousand acres Of land, situated in
North and South Carolina. From his
immense estate in lands, he acquired
the title of Landgrave Smith, and by
that name he became most generally
known. In 1902 he was appointed
Governor of South Carolina. Barnwell
Rhett is a descendant in a direct line
from this man. He belongs to the sixth
generation of his descendants.
James Smith, the brother, was a dis
senting clergyman. He soon removed
to the Province of Massachusetts. His
granddaughter, Cor it may be his great
granddaughter, married "old John
Adams" in l764. John Quincy Adams
is therefore lineal descendant of James,
the brother of "Landgrave" Smith.
Abigail Smith, the mother Of John
Quincy Adams, was one of the most
remarkable women this or any other
country has produced. A mind free
from prejudice can scarcely read her
history without coming to the conclu-
sion that she was the most intellectual
of women who have been mistress of
the White House.
The descendants of Thomas Smith are
very numerous in South Carolina, and
there are many in Georgia. General
Screven, who was killed near Midway,
Liberty county, during the revolution,
and after whom Screvcn county in this
State, is named, was on the maternal
side descendant Of Landgrave Smith.
The intellect of these ancestors has,
through many generations, been trans.
mitted. Many of the ablest men of
South Carolina, of the present and
past generations, trace their origin to
Landgrave Smith. A considerable per
cent of the oldest and most famous
families of the State are of his blood.
The Adams family, for intellect of the
highest order, associated too, with the
highest moral worth, is perhaps an ex-
ception to the whole world, in the trans
mission of intellect from father to son,
and from generation to generation.
AS we began this article by reference
20 dueling, and to dueling in the Rhet
'amily, we could not better conclude
han by remarking that whatever o.
praise or censure there may be in thd
practice, the sons of Barnwell Rhct(
never acquired that, either from his
orecept or. example. When invited id
" Washington City to mortal combat by
Jere Clemens, the Senator from Ala !
'ama, he declared, and in explanation
laid that he was amcmber of the church,
md principled against ducling. Oh ,
ervation teaches us that certain fatal.
ties follow certain families. and it NAV .
re that dueling is the misfortune of the
'ounger Rhetts.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-12-18

JOSH BILLINGS was asked, "How fast
does sound travel?" His idea is that
it depends a good deal upon the noise
you are talking about. The sound of
q dinner-bell, for instance, travels half
a mile in second, while an invitashun
tew git up in the morning | have known
to be three-quarters NV an hour goin'
up two pair Of stairs and then not hev
strength enuff left to be heard.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-12-18
IDAHO WORLD.
TOO LATE.

Whist sirl Would you PLACE to spake aisy.
And sit ye down there by the dure?
She sleeps sir, so light and SO restless,
She hears every step on the hure.
What ails her? God knows! She's been weakly
For months. and the heat dhrives her wild;
The Summer has wasted and worn her
Till she's only the ghost Of child.
All have2 Yes, she is. and God help me!
I'd three little darlings beside,
As purity as liver We see, sir.
But won by won dhrOoped like, and died.
What was it that took them, yere asking?
Why, poverty, sure, and no Doubt
Tehy persisted for food and fresh air, sir,
Like flowers dhried up in drought.
It was dreadful to lose them! All, was it?
It seemed like my heart-strings would break.
But there's days when wild want and wild sorrow
I'm thankful they're gone-for their sake!
Their father? Well sir, saints forgive me!
It's q foul tongue that lowers its own!
But what. wild the sthrikes and the liquor,
I'd better be strugglin' alone.
Do want to kape wan? The darlint,
The last and dearest Of all!
Shure you're niyer father yourself sir,
Or you wouldn't be askin' at all!
What is that? Milk and food for the baby!
docther and medicine free!
You're huntin' out all the sick children.
An poor toilin' mothers like me?
God bless you! an thin that have sent you!
new life you've given me, SO,
Shure sir, won't you look in the cradle
At the colleen you've saved. fore you 60?
o mother O. mercies! have pity!
o, darlint, why couldn't you watt
Dead dead! an help in the dureway!
Too late! o. my baby! Too late!
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-12-18

A very handsome young lady entered
a drygoods house and inquired for a
show" The polite clerk gracefully
threw himself back and remarked that
he was at her service. Eyes, but |
want a buff, not green one was the
quick reply. The young man went to
measuring goods Immediately.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-12-18

The Sioux Indians are Disguised with
their summers work in the vicinity of
the Yellowstone Park. They say "spec-
tacled man from Spoon Buffers country
heap fraud; white woman all cotton,
dried up and full Of horse hair; heap
fraud
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Most 'sland.labbers" while credulous to a
fault about other strange things. are obdu-
rately skeptical with regard to the sea ser
pent. Every time some sea captain comes
home and quietly shows an entry on his log,
thai heAsaw 3 sea.serpent so or 60 feet long,
Of dark brow n color, on such day, in lat.
and long. so and so, the average landsman
raises .. ,guffaw Of ridicule. ''Another
fo'cacle, yarn, ptell that to the marines"
ETC., ETC., are the responses which sturdy
Captain White, of the good ship Sea Serpent
evokas from the unthin king, when he brings
back and gives to print his observations on
the big water snake. There are two reasons
why it seems impossible to convert mankind
to faith in the sea-serpent. One Is the pre-.
posterous notion that serpents-the real
ophi3iaas cannot live in water, that they
ares et C lusively land reptiles. 24 e
Bat it should be we'll known tlIattrue, pois-
onens serp epts exist in any quantity in the
IndiAh and Pacific oceans 1t is dangerous
to blthe in waters that they frequent. There
is not much of logical leap in reasoning
from little serpent, four or five feet long,
to one fifty, sixty, or a hundred feet long. AS
there are monster fishes, why not monster
snakes7 The whale, being a warm FLOODED
mammal, is obliged to rise to the surface for
air. :. 1t is seen when it blows. But for this
necessity OF the WudieS OTBaulLdtlOD, tlle
whale would probably be seen SO rarely that
it, too, would be declared myth by those
who disbeiiever in the sea-serpent. The
latter, by Ito constitution, may be free from
the need of rising to the surface, and when
seen may be there BY accident; its home
being in deep water or else at the bottom of
the ocean. Theoretically, there is no good
argument against sea- serpent Of any length.
The second cause of the wide spread skep-
ticism upon this topic is the well-known habit
at watering- places of hoaxing the public
with EepOEts Of sea-serpents described Oft
shores Even some Of the interior lakes are
said by local newspaper ways, to have their
bulky snakeships. This isthe funny side OF
thesqnestion; but it does not dispose of the
great MACS of concurrent testimony given by
sober ship.captains for hundred years, as to
the actuality of the sea-serpent; and this tes-
timony is not sailors yarns, but prosaic log
entxiAs .of matters of tact. Last year one. Of
the English magazines had long paper from
an able, IctttiiAc writer, In which the sea- ser
pent was handled as in court. All the his
torical evidence in his favor was produced
sifted. and judicially weighed, the oppositio
theory day sheard ind estimated, and tn
verdict Of the sea-serpent's existence unhes
itatingly given at the close. If human test
mouy 10 to be believed, the sea-serpent is
verify. In the old hanging days, men wer
justly sent to the gallows on weaker evidence
SsB1 stsA .ae--Joarnal Of @ mmeqce
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The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-01

to express in the feeblest manner the state
OF his mind. The more music there was in
bis stomach, the wilder and more complete
ly chaotic became the discord in his soul.
Just as likely as not it would occur that
while he lay asleep in bed in the middle of
the night the melody works within would
begin to revolve, and would play Home,
Sweet Home" for two or three hours, unless
the peg happened to slip, when the cylinder
would switch back again to " A Life on the
Ocean Wave and Home on the Rolling
Deep" and would rattle out that tune with
variations and fragments of the scales, until
William Bangs's brother would kick him
out of bed in wild despair, and sit on him in
vain effort to subdue the serenade. which,
however, invariably proceeded with fresh
vigor when subjected to unusual pressure.
And when William Bangs went to church,
it frequently occurred that, in the very
midst of the most solemn portion of the
sermon, he would feel gentle disturbance
under the lowest button Of his jacket; and
presently, when everything was hushed, the
undigested engine would give preliminary
buzz, and then reel off Listen to the Mock
ing g-Bird" and "Thou'lt never Cease to Love"
and scales and exercises, until the clergy
man would stop and glare at William over
his spectacles, and whisper to one of the
deacons. Then the sexton would suddenly
tack up the aisle and clutch the unhappy
Mr.. Bangs by the collar, and scud down the
aisle again to the accompaniment of "a Life
on the Ocean Wave and Home on the
Rolling Deep," and then incarcerate William
in the upper portion of the steeple until after
church.
But the end came at last, and the misera-
BILE offspring oft senior Bangs found peace.
One day, while be was sitting in school en-
deavoring to learn his objectionable
to the tune of Home, Sweet Home" his
gastric juice triumphed. Something or 9th
er in the music box gave way all at once,
the springs were unrolled with alarming
force, and William Bangs, as he felt the
fragments of the instrument hurled right
and left among his vitals, tumbled over on
the floor and expired.
At the postmortem examination they
found several pieces of "Home, Sweet
Home" in his liver, while one of his lungs
was severely torn by fragment of " A Life
on the Ocean Wave" Small particles of
= Listen to the Mocking- Bird" were removed
from his heart and breast-bone, and three
brass pegs of Thou'lt never Cease to Love"
we're found firmly driven into his fifth rib.
They had no music at the funeral. They
sifted the machinery out of him, and buried
him quietly in the cemetery. Whenever
the Bangses buy musical-boxes now, they
get them as large as piano and chain them
to the wall
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-01
into an unremunerative groove of life. We

into an unremunerative groove OF life. We
have seen here, over and over again, how
impossible it is, notwithstanding the number
OF our cities, and the intense appreciation
of humor characteristic of our people, to
maintain comic journal and it is no Sc
cret that Punch has never been paving
publication-indeed, glance at the small
number of its advertisements is sufficient to
give notion of its failure in this respect.
Mark Lemon, its editor, suffered accordingly,
and his means did not suffice for saving
When Sir Walter Scott was ruined, his
friend, the able and eccentric Lord Dudley
said; "Let every man who has derived
pleasure from the Waverley novels subscribe
sixpence. and Sir Walter will rise, to-mor-
row, richer than Rothschild" 1t was a
happy thought" and it is thousand pities
that it was not acted on.
We wish the same could be done for poor
Mark Lemons family, for, if every Anglo
Saxon who has laughed over Punch would
send twenty-five cents to his widow and
daughters, they would be placed in adequate
comfort for the rest of their days The
Queen has now given the widow and child
rem pension of five hundred dollars year
but this is but scanty provision for gentle
women. Young people intent on pursuing
the path trodden by Mark Lemon will do
well to "read, mark, learn and inwardly
digest" the lives of literary men.-Apple-
TONS Journal
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-01

she shall be loved But you must 20 away
Annie, and quickly"
Il shall go away tomorrow, Percy"
answered quietly. 1.-The way is plain before
US. The day will come that you will won
der at the feelings it is your duty to destroy.
And then"
At that moment, when We stood hand in
hand, alone, the inner door of Margarets
room opened, and she was before US. Her
dress was drenched and disordered; her
black hair hung loose and long; she was
white as the dead She regarded US a mo-
ment in slence-a silence that we dared not
break. When finally she spoke. l think !
should not have recognized the voice, had
not gazed full into the face of the miserable
speaker. al have heard all" said my sister
II have heard the generous sacrifice that
you propose to make for my sake. l have
heard Annie's half avowals, her pretended
rejection of a love she has stolen. What
have you left for me? False lover, and trai.
torous sister, what is the portion that your
goodness assigns to your victim? Am l to
be blind, deceived wife, holding patiently
wretched husband from the happiness he
covets, aud that my sister longs to bestow?'
Then she paused. After minute she fell
upon her knees, regarding US no longer. "Oh
my God!" she whispered, "how wretched
is the creature that thou has made"
The heart rending tone still pierced my
very soul. When she rose, she looked al
US calmly.
your sacrifice shall never be needed,
she said. Il also can be generous!"
And before thought could forestall her
action, she had opened the door, and van
ished into the wild black night.
We flew after'her, calling her name. The
wind tore our voice, and beat our words
back upon us. The rain drenched US, and
trembling and xhausted-overcome with
horror and foreboding-I sank to the earth
Percy lifted me back into the house, and
left me there alone. What help he could
gather, by money, persuasions and promises
he took with him in the search that we
knew was vain from the first Yet all that
awful night was spent-spent fruitlessly in
seeking for her; and when the tempest
scouraged morning broke drearily, my sister
was still--lost.
Not so, when night came again. Dresh-
er's Pool had ceased to conceal its secret.
In the midst of the convulsions of the ele-
ments, canopied by storm-clouds, shut in by
the deaf hills, overshadowed by the voice
less trees, overwhelmed by grief and misap-
prehension, my darling had sadly solved the
great mystery, flying from the troubles that
encompassed her.
For long years Percy and | met no more.
Will any think with US, and forgive US our
happiness, when time, lifting the mists that
obscured our vision, allowed US to see the
truth-that Heaven desires not the misery
Of any of its creatures; and taught us to be
leve that if my sisters spirit was aware OF
ought in this dim world, she knew not the
whole truth, and would no longer have ue
walk alonef We at least, have not had
cause to regret that we thought so. am
Percy's wife.--M Y. Sunday Times.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-01
PENsEZ A MOI.
BY SOPHIE SPARKLE.

Dost thou remember. love, the violet
Ihou gavst to me, bidding me ne 'er forget
To think of thees
Dear heart how many a lonely hour
I've gazed upon thy faded flower.
And sighed that mem'ry had not mower
To bring thee back to me.
Forget thee' Not day nor hour
Glides DER my soul
But brings sweet, tender dreams of thee.
And thoughts that sweep beyond control.
Great waves Of passion Ger me roll.
Like LIN the resistless tide of some deep sea-
lis thus, my love, that remember thee.
Forget thee' Could give my life for thine.
Iwere naught to die
Like thy dear howeret on nv heart.
On thy dear heart forever would lie
Forget thees Wilt thou e'er divine
This strong, deep, madd'ning love of mine.
That links my inmost Soul with thine,
How oft with bitter tears are wet
The petals of thy violet
Tears of a vain regret.
That fate hath sundered thee from me.
II may be that loves star for me has set:
But while my heart still throbs I'll ne'er forge,
Nor cease with all my soulto worship thee.
Forget, l pray thee, oh, forget not me!
Pense- moi
". 7. Ereninq Mail.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-01

Two girls employed in large dry-goods
establishment in Boston, and living in Rox-
bury, on discovering the danger from the
fire, gained access to the store secured Iaces
to the value Of $4,000, and took them
safely to their home in Roxbury. The store
was wholly burnt.