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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
Was Farragut Lashed to the Rigging !

A writer in Scribner for February, who
was an eyewitness of the battle in Mo-
bile Bay, takes the negative of the above
question. We quote a part of the ac-
count:
When the feet had crossed the bar and
was inside of Sand Island, and had ap-
preached to within about one mile and
quarter of Fort Morgan, Admiral
farragut coolly and deliberately ascen.
ded the starboard main rigging and
halted lust beneath the top. Passing his
arm up through the lubber's hole" he
seized the foot of the pilot, Martin Free
man by name, who was standing in the
maintop, giving orders to the helmsman.
The signal auartermasttr, in obedience
to the orders of Captain Drayton, took
up a Misunderstanding to secure the
admiral to the shrouds, 80 that In case
he should be killed, his body would not
fall overheard or on the deck; but, by
Freeman's advice, the admiral would not
allow it to be passed around him. The
auartermaster returned with his lashing
to the deck; and Farragut, the brave,
passed the long line of torpedoes and the
Confederate forts and fleet unscathed-
while still clingiDg to the foot OF his
trusty old pilot, Martin Freeman.
This is the truth which the historian
should receive and record, il he chooses
to make note of what was but an incl
dent in that terrible action. Many
survivors of that day will vouch for the
above account. As for Martin Freeman,
he still lives in the immediate vicinity
of the bay where the battle was fought
being the principal keeper of Horn
Island lighthouse, in Mississippi Sound
Should any enc chance to question thii
writer's assertion in regard to the above
matter, he is respectfully referred to Mr.
Freeman, who was probably better &C
quainted, at the time, with the move
ments of Admiral Farragut than any
other individual in the Aeet--Captair
Percival Drayton, perhaps, excepted
and he is known as the heroic and loya
son of South Carolina, and fleet-captaii
of the West Gulf Squadron.
! The philosophy of Admiral FarIagut
+ chosen position is easily explained.
During the noise OF the battle, n
|, naturally desired to be so stationed tina
Z when no human voice could be hear
aloft, should it be necessary for him :
i communicate with the pilot, by Tight
grasping the foot of that person th
signal would be noticed; and, as fac
Il Mr.. Freeman did respond, and, by benz
/, ing down, lent his ear to the lubber
q hole" for such orders as the admir-
q wished to give him.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
How She Loved Him.
detroit Free Press

The other evening as patient police
man was pacing his beat on Howard
Street young man passed him and ran
up fight of stone steps and rang the
bell. The officer heard the door open, a
young lady's voice sing out, and he said
to himself:
"Tis loves young dream"
He was Just moving on when another
young man approached, looked up at the
house, and in sheepish way asked the
officer if he had seen any one 60 in. He
was informed OF what had occurred a mo-
ment before, and he gasped:
"It was that sneaking chap from Cass
Avenue"
He walked on, and the officer walked !;
but ten minutes later the young man
climbed the steps with pail of water in
his hand and emptied its contents over
every stone. He was sitting on the horse
block opposite as the officer came back,
meaning to stay there until his plan un-
folded or until he frOze to death. lie didn't
| freeze. In about ten minutes the door
opposite opened, two voices were heard
for q moment, and the young man from
Cass Avenue came down the steps on his
ear, his elbow, his shouldor-blade, his
heel, or on most any part of the human
makeup. He struck the sidewalk, sho
across it to the gutter, and came to
standstill with his head in the snow
There was peal of laughter from th'
house rs the door shut, and the watche
on the horse-bloCk chuckled and re
marked:
"That heartlessla laugh was not uttere'
by woman who loves-Tm hunkyW
Five minutes later he crawled up tn
icy steps, and the good policeman hear'
him cordially greeted, and mused
"Well, ii there amt morn seventeen
different ways of finding out if a.girlilove
Won ~
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
NUMBER Al
Two Great Disasters.

The London Telegraph, January 2,
contains in adjoining columns two able
editorial articles, each Of which is more
interesting when read in the light of the
other than when II is considered by itself.
The relationship between the two articles
is not structural but accidental. One is
about the Ashtabula bridge disaster, and
the other is of the loss of the Great
Queensland. The bridge disaster has
filed the world with horror. The "mag-
nificent vessel" the Great Queensland,
on the 9th of August, left the Thames
for Melbourne, and has not been heard
of since she left the channel six days
later, "but about fortnight ago life
buoy with her name painted on it was
picked up off the harbOr of FOwey, in
Cornwall, and few days after part OF
another was found off the Lizard, to-
gether with some fragments of wreck"
1t seems to be pretty certain that the
ship is utterly lost, and that all on board
perished. The Telegraph says that "the
Great Queensland had on board between
fifty and one hundred tons of gunpowder.
In addition to this she also had among
her cargo at least two hundred tons of
iron in the form of pig-iron, bars, nails,
wires, galvanized sheet-iron, anchors,
hoops, and manufactured hardware. A
certain amount of precaution was no
doubt taken to keep the iron and the
gunpowder apart. 1t is matter of notO-
riety that where few ounces or even
grains of gunpowder have been split
amongst mass of cargo composed prin-
cipally of iron, nothing is more common
or probable than for the metal, as it
tosses and pitches about during the
voyage to ignite by percussion such
stray particles as may have come in its
way. The gunpowder on board the Great
Queensland was contained in wooden
casks, four of which went to the hun
dred, and, it might be assumed, was
carefully secured. 1t is, however, only
too we'll known that gunp0wder casks
are apt to leak, and that few grains
split on the ground are sufficient to ex-
plode an entire magazine. Nor does the
matter end here, for, in addition to her
gunpowder, the Great Queensland car
ried fifty tons of birthstone or purified
sulphur, a considerable amount of recti-
fed spirits in casks, and about two tons
of a new explosive known as patent
gunpowder.' She had also on board
several small packages of cartridges and
few hogsheads of saltpeter."
One sees distinctly that there was a
beautifully fitted ship for the emigrant
trade.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
Uses OF Buckwheat.

Buckwheat is used for food for man
and domestic animals in various coun-
tries in Europe. In some parts OF the
United States it is extensively grown for
fattening sheep and swine, but it is gem
orally used in this country for buckwheat
cakes during the rigors of winter. Its
fattening qualities are superior to those
of most other grains. 1t is used in vari-
GUS ways in different parts of Europe.
The -four is commonly mixed with that
of rye or wheat in most parts of the
continent of Europe by both public and
private bakers. In Saxony, Branden-
burg, and Silesia buckwheat forms part
or whole of all the three daily meals OF
the lower class, and at least two OF the
daily meals of the wealthiest classes
The dish OF boiled buckwheat flour il
the staple food of the peasantry in vari'
Gus parts of Germany and other coun
tries of Europe, and various preparations
of it figure prominently on the tables o.
the rich. Millions of German and Aus
trian peasants net only thrive upon it
but are as healthy, handsome, and vigor
Gus a race as any in Europe.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
The Benevolent Stranger.
detroit Free Press.l

One of those toil.hardened, true
hearted chaps, often read of in romance,
made his appearance on the Campus
Martius the other day, and his sympa-
thies were at once aroused by the sight
of three or four old men standing around
with their buck saws and waiting for
work.
"Pll be hanged if it isn't tough" he
replied when they told him that they
hadn't had any work for month. "How
would you like some Oysters~
They smacked their lips by way of re-
ply, and he gathered up crowd OF
eight, marched them to restaurant and
ordered oyster stew for each one.
"It Just does my soul good to see them
eat p' he said to the owner Of the place as
the eight got to work.
eyes; It's beautiful sight," was the
cit makes me feel good in here" con-
tinued the stranger, laying his hand on
his heart.
GA good deed brings its own reward"
was the soft answer of the restauranter
as he calculated his profits.
81 can't rest here-I must do further
good" said the big.hearted stranger, and
he rushed out and brought in three
negroes, chimneysweep, two boys and
an old woman, and ordered more
oysters.
The fifteen people went for oyster
soup in manner to amaze, and their
guardian nudged the restauranter in the
ribs and said: :,
"See the gentle lambs! Oh, that could
feed the poor of all AmericaP
"You are good man, and Heaven
will reward you," replied che proprietor,
as he filled the dishes up again.
The stranger said he wanted TO bring
in Just five more, so as to say that he had
fed an even score, and he rushed out af.
ter them, while the restauranter sent af'
ter more oysters and crackers. The
stranger didn't return. He was last seer
climbing into farmers sleigh on State
Street and guiding his team to the west
The fifteen in the restaurant licked theil
plates clean and departed in joyful pro
cession, and the last one had passed ou
before the man who furnished the soul
had got through waiting for the return
of the big-hearted stranger. There wer'
oaths and slang phrases and watchword
and expressions, delivered in the pures
of English, but what mattered it to tn
J fifteen soup devourers who drew lin lin
Fl f" Resolved, That them oysters jus
touched the spot"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
Dogs and Wolves.

Unlike the fox, the wolf, when over
powered by numbers, becomes cowed and
dies meekly. A wolf surrounded in this
way suffers himself to be killed by ex-
hausting his strength in the struggle.
But woe to the luckless cur that meets
him alone in the forest, unless of a size
to inspire respect, or of strength to exact
it. The wolf takes kindly to dogs flesh,
Notwithstanding the dogs horror of wolf
flesh and, when rendered bold by hun
ger, the wolf approaches the village. His
lure is not so much the farm live stock,
which he knows is too well guarded, as
the stray cur which he expectsto find at
large and unprotected. In some parts OF
Europe scarcely winter passes without
visit from the wolves, and the smaller
dogs are nearly always the first victims
Sweeping through the village at dusk OF
daybreak, they snap up and bear off,
without stopping, some bowling mongrel
unable to get out of their way in time.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

WEsroN has met with nothing but de-
feat in England, and must not attempt
to return to this country without pair
of wooden legs.
SMALLPOX has slightly increased in
London. The Queen had herself vacci-
mated and has given instructions for
the vaccination of the Imperial house
hold.
EITHER SHEPLEY, United States SEN
ator from 1882 to 1886, died January 10,
aged eighty-seven years. He was the
father Of General Shepley, military Gov
ernor of Louisiana during the war.
A SUCCESSOR to Rarey in the art OF
horse tanning has arisen in the person OF
M. Carries, whose method of tanning
ferocious horses consists in simply dOdg-
ing them till they get tired out, when
they are seized with "nervous tremb-
ling" and allow him to do what he is a
mind to with them.
THREE children at Marpigen, in
Prussian Rhineland, have confessed set
ting on foot, astAummer, a story OF hav-
ing seen the Holy Virgin in a wood near
the village, and thus attracted many
"pilgrims" to the sacred spot. The
three juveniles have been placed in re-
formatOry.
MRS. AMELIA BERRIAN, phOnO-
graphic writer of New York, wrote the
other day the extraordinary number of
one thousand and fifty-four words in four
minutes, an average of two hundred and
sixty.three and one-half words minute.
She wrote three hundred and seven
words in one minute of the four.
A WOMAN named Marie Celvet has
just been sentenced to twenty years at
hard labor for the murder of her sister
Julia in Paris. While the trial was going
on she constantly wore long Grape vei!.
"Why do you wear this veilF" asked one
of the officials. To which the sweet girl
gently replied, 81 am in mourning for
my poor sister,"
The Russian Rear-Admiral Moller
died in Revel on the 18th of December
last. He took part in the campaign Of
the Baltic and the North Sea, in the
Mediterranean and the White Sea from
1928 to 1926, was in the naval battle of
Navarino on the 9Th of October, 1927, as
sisted at the blockade of Dardanelles in
1S29-1S3O, and accompanied Admiral
Kotzebue on his second voyage round
the world.
SIR CHARLES DICK, of Brighton, Eng
land, has just yielded up the ghost to
the great delight of the British Parlia-
ment. Sir Charless ancestor, Sir Will
liam, loaned Charles l some f50, 900 just
before that gentleman was led to the
block. Charles ii didn't see his royal
road clear to the reimbursement of the
pretty sum, but granted the heirs of Dick
! pension of f132. which was paid regu-
larly until 1912. Sir Charles has spent
his life vainly petitioning Parliament to
come down with the dust.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08

A FABLE.

A rose tree In my garden grows,
And on 10 blooms the red, red rose.
With perfume sweet II fills the air,
And bright its hue, its form 30 fair.
And by Its side pansy lies
A flower like wings Of butterflies,
OF indigo, and white, and green;
Its colors interspersed are seen.
The sun was shining hot o'erhead,
When TO the rose the pansy said
"Your struggling. widespread branches chea
Me Of the sums bright rays and heat;
So through the night In cold lie,
And through the day Tor warmth sign,
All through your selfish, spiteful ways;
But pride, like other things, decays,
And 80 win yours. for die you must,
And, withering, crumble into dust"
Then quickly answered, stung with pride,
How dare you, little puny thing,
With such impertinence, thus bring
Against me charges quite untrue,
And wicked, base and monstrous, too
But so II II Is the world all Ger,
Impertinence Is sure TO bore.
Its friends, and charge its foes with all
And thus went on from day to day
This grumbling. till at length away
The summer passed.
All winter through
The snow was deep upon che ground
But, covered Ger, the pansy found
A shelter from the biting blast,
Which nipped the rose tree, and at last
Killed 1t outright and left 1t dead.
The pansy lifted up its head
When spring returned, erect with pride;
The midday sun his glances piled
Upon IL In q streaming tide
Of glowing heat-it drooped and died.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
The Commodore's Secret.
New York SUM-

The great success of the late Commo-
dore Vanderbilt in steamboating and
railroading, whereby he amassed larger
fortune than any other private person
during a lifetime, has naturally awak-
ened a strong desire to learn the secret OF
his uniform and most surprising achieve
ments. The Commodore himself when
questioned upon the subject during the
latter years of his life, gave various ex-
plantations of it. To one young man, who
was about entering upon the career OF
Wall Street broker, and who had sought
his counsel, he said: Sonny. don't
never sell what you haven't got" which
was an excellent piece Of advice for
stock broking adventurer, notwithstand-
ing its defective grammar. To another
he said: "Sam, don't never put it into
any mans power to ruin you." And
this might be put into letters OF gold
over the desk Of every one who takes
financial risks, whether in Wall Street
or elsewhere, and it would be an excel
lent me kim also for politician. 10 an,
other aspirant for fortune, who had asked
his advice. he said: "Don't never buy
what you can't pay for"
These were three admirable maxims fol
business, and he probably acted through
his long and successful career in stric'
conformity with them. He never specu
lated, nor made any rash ventures. Bu'
his favorite maxim, the one upon which
he set the highest value and most seri-
ously inculcated upon those who were OF
the most intimate terms with him, wa
condensation of one among the wises
of the proverbs of Solomon In al
, labor there is profit, but the talk OF tn
lips tendeth only to penury." The Com
: modore had probably never read thi
!. golden proveIb, and he can hardly o
said to have paraphrased 1t in putting
: into his homely advice: Keep you
> mouth shut" This was what he said =
= his young grandson, upon whom he base
9 his hopes Of founding dynasty, only
u few days before his own mouth wa
closed forever. He had been giving tn
younp man some serious advice, and b
h ended by saying. "But, above all, kee
Ie vour mouth shut" He used 10 say th,
$: he owed most of what was called his goo
a fortune to the practice of keeping TO hin
q. self what he meant TO do until he bs
le done 1t. And this has been the habit
all great men who have done anythiI
a during their lives to excite the wond
" oftheir fellow beings,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
A Fortunate Author.

A correspondent of the Boston Herald
classes DR.. Holland an-oug the fortunate
authors, and adds this graphic sketch:
as a physician in Western
Massachusetts, (he was born at Belcher-
town., he surrendered the practice of
medicine to edit a literary journal went
to Mississippi; was superintendent OF
the public schools at Vicksburg for
year returned North; connected him.
self with the Springfield Republican sold
out travelled in Europe; conceived the
plan of Scribner's Monthly at Geneva (the
plan was consummated on the bridge OF
Mont Blanc); returned here, and in 1870
the magazine was issued. He is its
editor, and owns one-third, the other
two-thirds being held by Roswell smith
& Scribner, Armstrong " Go. Holland
is as much liked as lecturer rs q litter
ateur. In the dullest seasons he has more
invitations than he can accept, and these
come from every section Of the country.
From all literary sources he must nave nn"
an income of from $2O,OOO to $zo,VVV.
Now in his fifty-eighth year, ne Is much
Younger In appearance. lie mas scarcely
any gray hair; he is straight as an ar
row not more than thirty in feeling,
and possessed of limitless health. He has
a stronp. handsome, very noticeable face
\ His ewes are gray or hazel; his hail
black his complexion dark; his moss
I aouiline; his mouth firm, and he look'
as If he might have aboriginal blood. II,
is very pleasant and affable; loves com
pany, and has every season very agreea
bic literary receptions at his comfortable
aud elegant home in Park Avenue
While he holds his own opinion
tenaciously, he is altogether tolerant O
the opinions of others, and reckon
among some of his best friends men an,
women of the art tribe who are radical
and rationalists in matters of belief. II
has an Interesting family, consisting
two mature daughters and son, som
, years younger, and is in his taste an
J feelings strictly domestic.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08

Mr.. PARNELL, a member of the Inter-
national Gun and Polo Club, has per-
formed, at Brighton, the extraordinary
feat of shooting one hundred penny
pieces successfully in fifty minutes,
thereby winning a heavy wager--it is
said three hundred pounds sterling TO
fifteen pounds sterling. The thrower-
upn of the coin Is an old soldier. The
arrangements were that he should stand
eight yards from the shooter, and that
he should not throw a piece more than
three feet above his head.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08

The Western boy who didn't get any
thing in his Christmas stocking .ex-
planned the matter thus to his comrades :
ard been all right only l couldn't stand
sass. ] think dad had pair of skates for
me; but when went home that night he
began to blow around and give me sas
about not splitting any wood. stood
1t as long rs I could, and then / had TO
20 for him. / told him just what !
Thought of his conduct, and then one OF
us left the house and hasn't been home
since. Pm waiting for him to put per-
sonal in the papers, saying. Come home
darling; all is forgiven and then Ill
rush -
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08

The adventures who hastened to the
Black Hills upon the announcement OF
the discovery of gold have generally
failed in their expectations, and many
of them are now facing starvation IN the
midst of cold and rigorous Winter.
Provisions are enormously high, nou,
selling at fifteen TO twenty cents pounu
and bacon at thIrty-five cents, while EN-
ployment can hardly be had at any
terms. Meantime. gold has been reported
in paving quantities, at the head OF the
Yellowstone tributaries, and hundreds ol
the qold hunters who can command the
means have gone in quest OF 1t.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08

The Centennial chime Of bells, which
attracted no much attention during the
Exhibition, has been purchased by Mrs:
A. T. Stewart, for the Stewart Memorial
Church, at Garden City, Long Island.
This will be the finest church on the
Continent.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08

AT meeting held less than two years
ago in the Edinburgh Corn Exchange,
six thousand men stood for three hours
to hear Mr.. Moody preach. The scene
is thus vividly described by the late DIR.
Arnot: Nothing was seen but mems
faces-as il the multitude were sub
merged in water, and only their heads
protruding. So close was the mass that
II II moved at one place you could see
the movement running along in astraight
line, like ground-swell on the sea-"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08

ON n panel in n church wall in
vs,nara;so. Chill, is a painting repre-
senting the Emperor OF Germany and
Prince Bismarck squirming In the fiames
Of hell, while the devil is poking the Inn,
perial Chancellor in the back with red
hot fork.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
THE old court-bouse at Racine, Wis

consin, was sold at auction, on Decem-
ber 10, for thirty dollars. The Milwau-
kee Sentinel gives this extract from the
auctioneer's speech: "To an antiquarian,
fond of reveling in the musty past, this
venerable pile is worth half a fortune.
These ceilings have reverberated to the
eloouence of great and noble men, VI
those who have stood conspicuous within
its portals many are dead, some have ad-
vauced to great wealth and fame; some,
sia. are in Congress, and goodly num-
ber are in State Prison. How I'm mucn al,
/ offered for this buildingT Ihefe was
only one bid. Nick Miller onered sn,r'y
dollars for it. Nobody else wanted it'