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The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05
A JOURNALISTS VICISSITUDES.
The Curious History of H. {. Clark.
Secretary to Gov. Kellogg.
New York Correspondence Of the Gin
cinnati COmercial.1

| New YORK correspondence OF INC ClH-
cinnati Comercial.]
| observe as among the witnesses
before the Potter investigating COM
mittee one II. Conquest Clarke, who
appears to have been a private secre.
tary to Governor Kellogg at the time
of the Louisiana election. l had lost
sight of Clarke for some time, bnt he
has a curious history of vicissitudes
worth recalling. He was the son of
tho editar of the Manchester (England)
Guardian, and left home and paren-
tail guardianship in 1864 on account
of bis marriage against his fathers
wish. He came to New York with.
ont a dollar, got employment on the
Herald at once, but had no opportup-
ity to display his talents until few
month later, when young Bennett,
who was then freshly in Hudson's
place as managing editor of the Her.
aid, ordered him to Mexico. By the
influence of James B. Steedman, of
Ohio, Clarke was engaged as private
secretary by Lewis Campbell, who
was then on his way to Mexico as
minister. Campbell was to pay moth
ing; it was only scheme to help the
Herald. Clarke thus go: aboard of
the mansof war which was to take
Campbell and General w. T. Sher-
man to Vera Cluz, to look after the
jottering throne of the Emperor Max
imilian. On the voyage Campbell
conided to Sherman that he had a
Herald correspondent on board as
his private secretary, Sherman, with
his great aversion to correspondents,
pat Clarke ashore at Havana.
Clarke at once took steamer to
Vera Cruz, and reached there several
days ahead of Sherman aud Campbell.
While waiting their arrival Clarke
| took strolls about the country round
Vera Cruz, and in one of these fell 10
! with a gentleman who was, as was
| Clarke also, a fine French scholar.
| they strolled for miles one day in
con versatiep, and Clarke was finally
invited by the gentleman to enter his
residence, about five miles from the
city. Here Clarke was astonished ia
ipd his agreeable companion address.
ed as "Your Majesty" and to learn
hat it was the Emperor Max himself
Clarke became incidentally connected
with the emperor's household and &C.
companied him to the City of Mexico
and subsequently, to Queratero, where
tho emperor was captured and shot
Clarke obtained his release on the
,'lea thai he was an English subject
and riding hastily across the country,
carried the news Of Maximilian'c
death to General Sheridan, at New
Orleans. Sheridan paid him $1,000
for bis information. Clarke was sub.
>equently :stenographer, and also
Herald correspondent with Genera
>teedman and General Fullerton, II
1866, When they were sent by Pres.
ident johnson to investigate til,
working Of the Freedmen's Bureau il
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"Turned ROund."

Lieut.. Col. Dodge mentions in his book,
"Tho Plains of the Great West," several
illustrations of the curious sensation oc-
casionally experienced by travellers. It
is the feeling of being turned round"
A man going up the Hudson River on a
steamboat finds himself apparently going
down the river. A passenger looks out
of car window and thinks the train is
moving backwards. The sensation is
often so intense that no power of mind
can change it. It generally goes of it.
self after little WHILE
When the feeling comes upon man
on the plains, and the best-knowu 10.
calites look different from what they
ought to appear, then he knows what, in
the plains sense, is the sensation of "get-
ting lost" Sometimes an old plainsman
arrives at a stream which he knows
ought to run in a particular direction
But it runs the other way. He knows
what this means. If he has no compass
he goes into camp at once, and quietly
waits until he gets all right, and the
stream runs in the proper direction.
Two gentlemen, we'll acquainted with
the plains, were once separated from a
bunting party. After wandering abou:
some time, they suspected they might be
lost. They compared conpasses. Both
pointed in the same direction. But the
men were turned round," and therefore
made up their minds that both compasscs
through some local attraction, were
wrong. A discussion and then quarrel
eusued as to the proper route. They
separated, each going his own way. Both
were wrong, and the compasses wore
right. One got into camp by accident
tho other had to be hunted up and
brought back.
Wien man is "turned round" on the
plains, he generally wants to keep NOV
ing. His nerves become unstrung, erdi
nary events possess unusual significance
aud he soon loses all control Of himself
If approached by parties searching fol
him, he sometimes runs off, striving 10
escape them. '=r"
A soldier failing to report at the i
a party was sent to hunt for him,
third day they found birg NAH
thicket. He bounded offlik}
after long chase, took
He was captured h1
striking, and bitng nko Wlld gllll[ x
1t was month before no recovered hi
senses. After he was "turned round
and realized that he was lost, he remem
bered nothing until he came to himself
in the fort. i"
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Time for Action.
Huntington Hawkeye.

Yesterday morning tall man, with
fiery eyes and unsteady ways, stalked
into the office with the air of an in
jured man. lie had a newspaper in
his hand, and he started to walk
across the room but changed his mind
and unlimbered and Went into posi-
ton in chair on the nearest side of
the table.
"Goo' gracious"
And the young man at the table
said, Good morning." aud wanted to
know what was needed.
rs awful," said tile stranger, evil
IDENTITY )ahoring under great excite
ment, {" s JUS lawful. Why donnoby
do something Why dom May Ra.
dams call lout the militia /? Why
don't Governor Gear call for troops p
The young man said he didn't know
why, but he presumed they would if
anybody wanted them to. And why
did he want so many troops and
militia anyway?
The tall man leaned back in his
chair and glared at the young man
in speeches. amaztment.
"Wha' for 2" lie yelled, "wha' for
Goo lon dalive! wha' for? Tkeep
peace and orrer; t. p'eserve property
and pr'tect lives of citizens. Why
s'awt'ul. Towns JUS laid vast, JUS
Frustrated 18th yellow fever, lays
right at tn feet of tn plague, an not
- northumberland lifted to do any.
thin. Why, tole May Radams, an
tole Govener Gear to-
Here the young man gently inter
rupted the visitor to tell him lie was
la6oring under a delusion; that there
wasn't and had never been a case Of
yellow fever in the city, and that
there wasn't case of it north of the
Ohio river.
The tall stranger stood up on his
feet and held on to the table.
"Then," he roareG, and his ferocity
grew more uncomfortable while he
spoke, "then wha'-whatcher 90 an
print such blasted lies in y'role pa
per forq Full of 'em! Five of 'em
Five col'ems bout the yellow fever
Hunnered an fifty sevel deaths N one
day! Wha' right chu got printin
lies and ruinin' bizuess an scarin
people t. death ? Here l been up all
night and ever since yest'y mornln
nursin' yell' fever patients. Watcher
60 an print lies an"
The young man gently took the
crumpled paper from his hands, and
pointing to the first page, said softly
but firmly: .
"But We didn't. This is not GU,
paper you have been reading. This il
the New Orleans Times, published il
New Orleans, Louisiana. We have
nothing to do with it, and it telIl
only the truth about its own yellow
fever"
The tall visitor weakened little
and seemed undecided whether to sil
down or pull for the door. He finally
pulled for the door.
"You must 'scuse me-" he said
apologetically, "but I'm mos wore
out. I'm stranger in Burl'n't'n
on'y been here couple O. days, and
yeesyday a man gimme tbish paper
an said, Here's mornin's Hawkeye
all bout yell' fever You mus 'scus'
me, stranger, but I'm blest it,
| And with a slightly foolish laugh
which ended in a threat, he wen
down stairs to ind the man that liet
to him about the Hawkeye.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05

A chap in Arkansas, in the act of
ramming a heavy charge into an old
musket, was killed by a premature
discharge of the piece. The local
papers speak of it as a tragical affair,
but to Us it seems to partako more Of
tho nature of a mellowed-rammcr.--
(YOnkers Gazette, ,.,
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05
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The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05

Jake, why don't you 90 home:
you've been drunk a week, and, You
ought to 60 home and sober up
Oats so, boss, but de ole 'owan haz
dun quauteen-agin' me comm dar.
So Pse layin' round waitiu till Ito
blockade's lifted."- [St. Louis Times.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05
Strike a Light, Matilda.

BY BEN ZhEN.
Strike a light, Matilda;
Strike it mighty quick!
That cheese WE had for supper,
Has made me mighty sick,
Oh my wrctchrd liver
Oh, my crampiny bowels
Bring Il mustard plaster,
Hot water and some towels.
Forty drops Of laud'num
In some castor oil
Hurry up there, can't you!
Won't that kettle boil :
Did you count Just forty?
Sure YOU haven't blundcrcd
You will be a widow,
If You dropped a hundred.
All. that feels so soothing
Oh. this mustard plaster
Burus me like all blazcs.
Take it oil! move faster
Don't believe you'd care
lift burnt clear through me!
Skins not even red ~
S'poSr y"u like to stew me
What is that You say!
Couldn't he the cheese >
What do You S pose, then:
Tell me, if You please
Did | stop at Snitrr's
just about a minute;
Drank a lemon-a de;
Yes ; "with something in it,"
Not another drop
Till got to Grogger's;
There | only took
A iuIrp and two layers.
Twas the cheese, | tell You;
ON, You don't believe it:
Bring on any more
To the dogs I'll heavt it.
Or upset the table:
Mind, l give you warning!
Cues you'd better sit there
BY tho fire till morning.
Yes I'm feeling better;
But he sure to wake me
If | sleep too sound.
You may have to shake me.
And the watcher whispered
While the patient >lumhrrcd.
"Might have Just as easy
More than forty numbcrcd.'
-[Cin. Saturday Nigh
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05

Religion is becoming DP',ic1
aftor all. In some of tho prominent
Eastern churches it. has already ccas-
ed to be considered absolutely. ueces-
sary for people to appear in fill dress
at the Wednesday evening prayer
meetings. Hawkeye. "~ns -.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05

The latest lie in behalf of the ca
pine race is story from Italy. 1t
tells that a fisherman went ont to
drown his dog, fell in, and was saved
by the faithful beast, all this time
there was a heavy stone about lts
neck, The author of the story would
have rendered his tale mole attrac-
tive had he made the animal present
its owner with a purse and some dry
clothing. = Exchange.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05

Gambling has been largely on tho
increase in London this season. Tho
sales Of one of the leading manufac-
turles Of playing cards show an in
crease of HOO dozen packs over last
year.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05

"Girls," said a worthy old lady to her
grandaughters, whenever follow pops |
the question don't blush and stare at |
your foot. just throw your arms around
his neck, look him full in tho face apd
commence talking about tho furniture.
Young men are mighty nervous Some
times. l lost several good chances be.
fore caught your fond, dear grandfat
or, by putting on airs, but I learned :
to do it after awhile" 49,
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05

Mary had a little corn
Upon her little toe,
And every where that Mary went
The corn was sure to 60.
She called a Chiropodist in
Who cut her little toe off;
And now she limps about ayin,
But can not easily 90 off.
Camden Post
Mary had u lamp,
Twas filled with kcrosinc,
She blew right down the chimney
And vanished from the scene.
Exchange
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05

Several hundred negro walters
were discharged at the Cape May
hotels the other day, and they made y
the train that carried them baa,l =
Philadelphia as lively as a fl Y
hot stove. a
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05

One opera singer will draw out larg-
or church congregation then the best
sermon over delivered. Let US, think
these things over.-[Detroit Free Press.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-10-05

The man who sues a newspaper for
damages is a brother to the chap who
thinks he has discovered perpetual
motion. -.
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One good resht Of the yellow fever At
scare, anyho<. George Francis Train'a \Yea
visit has been postponed.-(N. =
Times l4>' -.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10
THE SILK WORM.

1t is generally believed that silk was spun
in China so long ago as $500 years B. G..
For long time the Chinese kept the secret
to themselves, but about two thousand years
after the discovery, the process of manufac-
ture began to be known elsewhere.
The eggs of the silk.worm are just about
the size Of mustard seeds. Before the silk time
comes the insect passes through five stages.
The final stage lasts about nine days, and du-
ring this time the little fellows eat like mad.
If you were in a large slk.work establish
ment you would think there was thunder
shower without the thunder, the worms make
so much noise as their little jaws crunch the
mulberry leaves.
The owners have to be very careful with
the eggs, for they must be kept on sheets Of
paper in warm room, but where no sunlight
can fall upon them. When the worms are
ready to come out, nets are placed over the
eggs, and on these nets mulberry boughs are
laid. Then the worms crawl up on the green
branches and are fed with leaves cut up into
little bits of pieces-because they are babies,
you know. How these little things will eat |!
Why, they have to feed them from the very
first, seven or eight times day. After each
moulting time, fresh leaves are given to the
worms, and they are given sprigs of heather,
into which they climb and spin the cocoons
This happens abont thirty.sx days after the
eggs are hatched.
The worm spins its cocoon from threads of
silk which come from large glands in the un-
derlip. The length of this thread is about
one thousand yards, and it is spun, without
break, in four days. Inside of this cocoon the
worm becomes pefectly white. By and by
this white skin is pushed off, and in sixteen
days the moth appears. But he finds him
self prisoner inside of the cocoon. He is how
ever, furnished with a liquid, and he uses this
to effect his escape. He vets the silken prison
at one end, 80 that the threads separate with
out breaking, and out flies the moth into free
air.
But only sufficient number for breeding
purposes are allowed to escape, because it
Injuries the cocoons to have the threads moist
ened so, as soon as the covering is spun, the
chrysalis inside is destroyed by steam which
passes through wicker baskets. The cocoons
are then sold to the silk-spinners who put
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10

TRUE AS GosPEL.-Idleness is the mother
of vice, and boy who is allowed to grow up
in idleness is pretty sure to be vicious man.
The parents of such boys have q fearful re-
sponsibility resting upon them, when they let
their sons run about at late hours of the night
instead of keeping them at home reading
good newspapers and books, and training
them into moral habits so as to become re-
spectacle men instead of idlers, rum drinkers,
gamblers and loafers, which is sure to be the
case with the night runners and day idlers,
then the responsibility is increased. Give the
boys plenty to do, and you will preserve their
morals. Better tired boy than vitiated
mind,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10

EDUcAr1oN.- .-Accustom a child, as soon
as he can speak, to narrate his little expert
ences, bis chapter of accidents, bis griefs, his
fears, his hopes to communicate what he has
noticed in the world without, and what he feels
struggling in the world within. Anxious to
have something to narrate, he will be induced
to give attention to objects around him, and
what is passing in the sphere of his observa.
tion, and to observe and note events will be-
come one of his first pleasures and this is
the groundwork of the thoughtful character.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10

A TREMENDOUS CAvE.-Some time ago,
Mr.. Nef, residing near Alexandria, Hunting
don county, Pennsylvania, went to his we'll to
get drink and found it dry. He then went
down into the we'll to make repairs, and was
much surprised to find not pint of water
and the bottom fallen out A cool breeze
blew up strong enough to rustic the leaves of
q tree standing near. He tied lantern to
rope one hundred feet long and let it down,
and as the lantern still burned, he rightly con-
cluded that the air was pure. He then pro-
cured spliced rope, three hundred feet in
length, and to the end attached basket con.
tanning lantern, a dog and a cat. He let
them down, striking bottom at two hundred
and ninety.one feet. At the end of six hours
the basket was brought up. The lantern WAS
still burning, and the only visible effect on
the dog and cat was chilliness. The next day
the owner of the we'll, accompanied by trus-
ty neighbor, Mr.. Leford, descended to the
bottom. What was their surprise to find an
immense cave, stretching miles in every d.
rection. Stalagmites and stalactites Of mag
nifcent gorgeousness lent beauty and variety
to the otherwise tomblike scene Here and
there flowing stream Of water rippled over
stony beds, while thousands and thousands of
bats futtered their clammy wings, surprised
at the intrusion of man. Petrifed sea shells,
of hundred varieties, strewed the floors and
protruded from the strata. After spending
ten or twelve hours of continuous wandering,
during which time they penetrated beneath
and beyond Alexandria, and discovered
vein of nickel ore and nugget of metal re-
sembling antimony, they returned to the sur.
face, where their fear.stricken wives clasped
them to their bosoms, thinking they had been
lost. 1t is supposed that this cave is connect
ed with those at Warrior Ridge and Sinking
Valley, only few miles away. Specimens of
the nickel ore have been sent to Philadelphia
and aDalyzed, and pronounced superior to the
nickel of either Lancaster or Germany, the
only two places on the globe whereit is mined.
Harrisburg Patriot.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10

aar No trait of character is more valuable
than the possession of good temper. Home
can never be made happy without it. 1t is
like flowers springng up in our pathway revi.
wing and cheering US. Kind words and looks
are the outward demonstrations; patience and
forbearanee arethe sentiments within.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10
Seletted goetry.
THE FUTURE TELEPHONE.

THE FUTURE TELEPHONE.
A startling fact will yet appear,
That motion in our atmosphere,
However slight the moving cause,
Must from fixed acoustic laws
Continue ever to decrease,
But never can entirely cease.
The cannon's roar, the infants sigh,
The thunders of Mount Sinai,
The gentle hum of Eden bees,
The voice of God among the trees,
AbePs groans, the curse Of Cain,
The babbling sounds on Shinar's plain,
The prattling of the infant God,
While yet Judea's hills He trod,
From God or man, beast or bird,
BY lapse Of time have fainter grown,
But by some future telephone
will vet ring out, distinct and clear,
AS words just spoken in the ear.
CosMOPOLITB.
Iainesvilie, August II, 1878.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10

Before left took look at them through
the grated doors of their cell. When paid
my respects to the man with the red eye, he
smiled a little and remarked patronizingly:
"You're a pretty sharp young man: 1t
takes middling keen boy to outwit u.s."
Permit me to sympathize with you in your
sorrow at the loss of your dear brother, just
a little," I replied.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10
CHE Sturp Teller.

Gainesville, August II, 1878.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-20
Things That 1 Wonder At.

Why the BOYS who made the Fourth
of July odorous and hideous with gun
powder from 1910 to 1856, inclusive, ARE
speechless with Indignation at the de-
praved and vicious tastes of the boys
who want to enjoy the same kind of
celebration in 1882
Why people always discuss European
politics as though they understood
them?
Why a man should always get mad if
you frankly and for his own good tell
him he is making an ass of himselfp
Why it is so hard to find man when
you want to borrow money of himp
Why it is so hard to borrow the money
after you have found himP
Why somebody doesn't come out and
explain the Louisiana muddlep
Why man always wishes he had
chosen some other professionP
What Mrs. jerks is talking about and
what she means by itp
Why man is always going to take a
vacation 'snext summerP"
Why people should consider it dis
graceful to be sent To Congressp
Why man thinks every year that he
won't be as big q fool this year as he
was lastP
And why he is, though, all the same ?
Why the tramps don't ask for some
thing to eat, if they are hungryP
Why a man never tries to beat down
the price of railroad ticket?
Why every body affects a profound
knowledge of growing crops and crop
prospectsP
Why men always lie about the size of
the fish they catch and the number of
ducks they shootp
What girl ever sees in a great self
ish, deceitful, hulking animal of a man
to marry him for, any howp
Why so many foreigners should speak
German or French, when it is so much
easier to speak Englishp
Why it takes five grown people to
take one sleeping infant to the circus to
"see the animalsP"
Why man who doctors himself with
patent medicines, three bottles for a
dollar, always, in referring to his health,
speaks of "his physicians" as though
he were constantly attended by retinue
of 80 or 60 doctorsP
Why it is wrong to kill the man who
says he told you so?
Why really generous men are always
so ready to admit that you were in the
wrongp-HaVkeye Burdette.