The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-10

that every one was startled and she ex
claimed, loud enough to be heard all
over the car, my child, my child, she is
crushed to death!' The passengers all
started to their feet, imagining that she
had seen the lifeless body Of her daugh.
ter. Just then the child crawled out
from behind a vacant seat where she had
hidden, and ran laughing to her mother.
The passengers drew a long breath and
sat down, and the mother = no one who
had seen her face could doubt her mater
nal love, but she showed it by Shaping
the innocent little mischief, till the poor
child sobbed bitterly.
On the other side of the car sat an
other woman with two little children. A
chance phrase dropped by the older
child showed that they had been riding
since morning. The children's clothes
were a good deal soiled, but this mother
concealed part of the dirt by putting on
their sacques, and then taking down a
satchel she took from it long, braided
hair switch, and wound it twice around
the little pug on the back of her head,
and putting on her hat, awaited calmly
the meeting with paterfamilias. What
would have happened had the little pug,
minus the false hair, stared him in the
face when his wife happened to turn her
back to him, will alas! never transpire.
A HORRIBLE STORY.
The mention of Stockton reminds me
of story told me- by friend who once
visited an insane asylum at Cork. Am
ong the inmates was captain Of vessel.
When within 6 few days. sail of Cork he
lost his senses, and calling his mates and
crew together, he accused them of the in
tention to mutiny. In vain they pro-
tested their innocence. He would not be
convinced of it, and he insisted on bind
ing them hand and foot. They sub
mitted to this, and when he had them all
securely pinioned, he took razor and
cut the Threats of every one of them.
The vessel drifted for three days, and
then she attracted the notice of passing
sail, which boarded her and found the
captain raving maniac, and cold and
stiff on the deck the bodies of his vic.
tins. One person only escaped the
massacre "a boy who had hidden away
in barrel and was taken out nearly
dead from hunger and fright. The cap
tain had recovered so far, at the time of
my friends visit, to be allowed the lib.
erty of the grounds, but the law of the
land made him prisoner for life.
THE FREAKS OF INSANITY.
While some insane persons betray their
unsoundness of mind continually, others
are so clear headed on most topics that a
stranger would be apt to imagine them
entirely sane. A young man once be.
came interested in ancthe, man, whom
he deemed wrongly confined in a mad
house. The patient was we'll bred and
highly educated, and his friend was unre-
hitting in his efforts till he obtained his
release. They left the asylum together
in the morning, and his friend said :
''Now, my dear fellow, you must come
right home with me. l am impatient to
introduce you to my mother and sisters,
and have so many things to show you"
Il can't 60 this morning." replied the
there this evening" ian engagement !?
Nonsense! You can't have an engage
ment, for you know no person in this
town. Come, don't be bashful.'' The
man pleaded earnestly to be allowed to
60 away till the evening, till seeing that
his friend was becoming seriously offend
ed at his hesitancy, he said: You knew
l would o5lige you if could, but but
am the moon, and can only shine in
the night HANNAH.
Charles Francis Adams IT, IN h;e r.oo,