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St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28
Pa.l Mall Gazette.

Among the thousand and one UNDER
ground drinking establishments OF which
the German caEital can boast By far the
most impOrtart is it's RathskelIer on
Guildhal cpiear, running bsneath the
vas. brick building dominated b. lofty
square tower in: which the Berlin L1un1>
clpality has Installed itself. Imae me
the low-vaulIec cellars Of an ediice
about half the s5za of our house Of parlia-
ment filed ron. morning ui4til midnight
with a crowd of more than one thousand
persons OF various ranks Of society, the
msio1ity Of them eating, smoking, and
shouting, and all OF them steadily drink
ing; to promote which latter indulgence
a thousand and one thoughts in praise OF
good ltquor, emana:ing from Bacchana'
lians of alI nations and Of al epochs, are
bIazoned above the arches and up0n the
walls. Imagine thia, and you have some
faint idea Of the famous Rathsketier, CEs
of the lions OF Berlin, which the king
himself deigned to visit soon after it had
been publicly opened, when he drank to
the well~heing of the Berlinese from 6
silver mounted hagon OF toaming ale
All degrees of the middle and working
classes frequent the place-from the pro-
fessioDsI man aEd w5llto do tradesmah,
who bring their wives and daughters
with them, down to the dissipated young
mechanic, who shares his single plat and
mug Of beer with the factory girl by
whom he is cejmtanied. The smaller
beer.cellars of t1le capital are legion, and
are often the re.ort Of The lowest classes
Of the community, several among them
being organized places OF rendezvous for
thievea and shazpera.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28
AnecdOte of Heine.

OF the nanY touching tributes paid
to flowers, t'!e=e il 'ne associated with
the clo~j"g ho1=rs OF Heary Heire, the
pos, which appears to US as very beau
t;.ul. He was dying in Paris. The
doctor was paying his usual visit, when
Heine, pressing his hand, said: "Doc-
tor-you are foy ftiend-I ask a last
favor. Tell ME the truth--the end
is spproaching5sis it not ?" The doctor
was silent. ,shank you," said Heine,
calmly. "Hare you any request to
make ?' asked: the doctor, moved to
tears.
eyes" replied the poet; "my wife
sleeps-do not disturb her. Take from
the liable the frsgrant flowers she brought
me this norrzng, I love f1wers 30
dearly. ThanE=5-place them upon my
breast" He faused as he inhaled their
perfume. His =eyes closed, and he mur>
INJURED: "FlozgeTs, f1wers, how beauti
iul is nature.=' These we're his last
words as his s..,irit tooE It's fighs into
eternity.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28
A Western Outlaw.

The man with the gold tooth" is st
present the terror O. the frontier. Iii
name is Middleton, and ne is thirtysfve 9
years old. He began his career IS an
outlaw in 1877, at Sidney, Nebraska,
where he killed man and was cons
victed OF murder. He escaped from Sid
ney, organized band OF robbers, plum.
dered, burnt and murdered until the
fall of 1877, when he was lodged in iail,
only to tunnel himself out with coal
scuttle. Recognizing with fifty men lie
stole three thousand head of cattle from
the Ponca Indians. The robbery Of a
German settlement Of The Elkhern led
to hot pursuits by a squad of horsemen.
The trail was followed for three days.
On the fourth day tha Germans awoke
to find their piekets murdered and every
horse stolen Middleton gets his son5ri
quet from front upper tooth made en-
tireIy of gold. He il six feet tall, and
wears a fierce black noustache, un1er
which the tooth shines ike grain Of
corn. Two needle guns. four revolye1s
and two dirks made up his armament.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28

"Pull now, if you love me, Reggie I"
The boy did not need to be urged. He
loved Paul.
Paul Le Blond, braced against the
cliff, the water above his knees, saw the
little boat come dancing over the high,
sparkling water. The dory soon reached
his side. A white, ringed hand was ex-
tended.
" You would have died if we had been
five minutes later" said Miss St. John
in shaking voice.
"That would not have matteged. 1t
would have been in your SERVICE he
replied.
But be laid down in the boat much
exhausted.
"It was not in my service" Beatrix
had replied. She looked with hard
glance at the schooI-books which he had
laid at her feet as she took up the oar
again. And then she fixed her dark eyes
firmly on Fairfelds; but her heart
bled.
The PROSTATE man in the boat turned
over and kissed the little velvet shoe SO
near his face.
Pardon" he said, for Reggie saw !;
but the lowliest may kiss the foot of a
queen"
But he held his hand up to Trix's
sight, and she saw that blood had drip
ped upon it from her foot.
"The rocks-I needed to hurry" she
stammered, blushing and confused but
in all her life she never forgot his gsze Of
alteration. at is nothing.'
They came to Fairfelds.
Forrest St. John," she said to her
cousin, have extended the hospitality
OF my home to you for years by cour-
tesy. 1t shelters you no longer. i will
not abide q murderer under my roof
Cowed, he went forth, and, in spite OF
his fierce vows 10, heaven, Trix married
Paul lie Blond.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28
A Hunt After Bats.

One OF the funniest stories I have
heard for q very long time, says a
writer in the London Sporting and
Dramatic News, is my friend Mr..
Eceles' description of how he caught
innumerable bats one night. It was
many years ago when he was young
in his profession, and while On q tour
with Provincial company. He had
taken lodgings in clean but rather d.
lapidated little house. Son after go-
ing to bed he fell asleep, and soon after
falling asleep he vas awakened BY a
strange, huttering noise as of a fright
ened bird, in the curtains of his bed.
He sprang up, struck light, and saw a
dark.colored little creature with wings
blundering about the room. Not being
well acquainted with natural history,
Mr.. Eccles did not recognize it as bat,
but determined to catch it if possible,
and examin it carefully in the morn
ing. Taking Il d soft felt hat, he began
the hunt, and tried to capture the in
truder for long time in vain: but st
last he pounced upon it, carefully took
it from under the hat, shut it in draw.
er, listened to its Intellectual attempts to
escape-wanting to be suse he had real
ly caught it-and went to bed to dream
of flying dragons. But he was not des-
tanned to sleep for long.
Hardly had he dozed off when another
auttering awakened him, and, lighting
another match, he found another bat.
After this one he had another hunt,
caught it, put it in the drawer with its
brother and again went to bed. Again,
however, he was awakened in similar
manner; bats came not in single spies
but il the expression be pardonable--in
battalions.
Mr.. Eccles hunted diligently snd en-
Enthusiastically, making quite collection
of specimens, and putting them all with
great care in the drawer. Heated with
the chase, he then opened the window,
and, tired 7out, at last enjoyed few
minutes sleep.
Waking with the morning light, he
jumped out of bed and opened the
drawer very cautiously, fraction OF an
inch at 9 time, to look for his bats but, |
10 and behold, there were no bats there. |
He opened the drawer wide, and then
discovered it had no back to it. He had, |
in fact, been passing all the night in
catching the came bat, which had aown
out of the back of the drawer as soon
IS ne had put it in at the front, and
when the window was opened had finally
escaped.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28
Singular.

John Nichols, q farmer Of Thorn 2son,
Susquehanna county, Pa, while waking
in thu woods On his farm thilty yeaEa
ago, Tan q twig into biz right ear. A
piece Of it broke off in bis head. He
became deaf, and at times suffered in.
tense pain in his head. I've weeks ago
this pain became unusually acute and
continued without cess ation until Sat-
urdaE last. On that day Mr.. Nichols
felt pvickling sensation in his lef. ear,
and with pair OF tweezers pulled Gus e
round piece OF vood three quarters OF an
inch .onc and al eighth OF al inch in
diameter Mr. Nichols was at once
relieved Of pain and his hearing was
restored, He has TO doubt that the
piece OF wood is the BIT OF t#lg that was
thrust Into his ear thirty years sgo. II
90, it passed through lis bead from one
ear to the other. The wood is perfectly
sound,
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28
4l)aifa :And ]1)hin".
The position of a judge is a ,<rylng

The position of judge is ,'rylng
one.
"A young lady in the east end ate
half a wedding CAKE, and then tried to
dream OF der future husband. Now she
says that she would rather die than
marry the man she saw in that dream.
.."How shall we trsin our girls ?" asks
an exchange. Train 'em with about
twenty-five yards of black silk, i; you
want to please your girls. A siiE vel
vet train would also make 'em happy.
Instructor, measuring our city mar'
-" It is half mile from the academy
for boys to the seminary for girls" In.
nocent student, thoughtfu!!y - " II
DOESN'T seem so lar"
.."Is is impossible to govern the
world without God. He IL ust be worse
than an infoet that lacks faith, and
more than wicked that has not : latitude
enough to acknowledge his cbliga lion"
- General Washington.
"A Newark, \. j., paper says: "Sash
weights are now manufactured so cheap}y
from scraps of tin--Cb.xiaed from various
manufactulers-~i this city, that 10
country csn compete with them in cheap
ness"
Lightning strikes the new wired
barbed ience in Texas, and runs on it fof
miles. It is tbs beat thing yet invented
for stirring up statezalen who are in tbs
habit Of sitting On top rails while talking
politics-[N. G. Picayune.
AN impromptu mock atction sale Of
women was amusing and pro 7table, at
first, in d Racine, Wis, chur,h talr.
The young man bid literally for the
attractive girls, and it was all very fun
ny indeed, untj4 al ugly and influential
sister was put up. The auctioneer waa
compelled to knock her down at twenty
five cents, and she was SO angry that she
put on her things and went home.
Brother Haskell, "ths reformed
clown,' is conducting Methodist re7i'
Val in Amboy, Illinois. An excited
sister tainted in one OF his meetings,
AID he said: 'Stand away, breth-
rer and sisters, and let the
ange}y come in and fan her. I
feel a II 3 quareer section of heaven had
caved in and al. the stars were tunbling
down en- me. You Christians are like
young pigs. 1 have to pull your ears
of to get you:up to the gospel trough,
and after you get taste of the glorles
nearly pull yeur tails off to got you
away"
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28
Selected postrv.
TIME AND LOVE,

TIME AND LOVE.
Yea, sit we down in the old folks chair
And watch we the little ones crow and Chamber
we nave woven yew gsrlands for sunny hair,
And put out the lights in the bridal chamber:
And hand in hand, and with dimming eyes
Wait we, and watch in the dusk together,
o love, my love of the summer weather,
Heart of my heart, who vert once so farl
No more of toiling, no more of spinning,
No more heart-beatings no more sur
prise;
e For the end Is foreseen from the first
beginning,
The castle is tall' n ere Its turrets rise
An love- nv love- it 10 sad TO be wisel
But Time master, stands winged and hoary,
And seeming to smile as he whets his blade;
Whilst i.vvs is whisp ring the same old story,
And hope seems shrinking and half afraid;
For Of the,e the measure of youth is made,
And the measure of pleasure the MEASURE of glory
Which is meted out to a human lot;
And 30 on to the end (and the end draws nearer)
When our souls may be freer, our senses clearer,
cTis an Old World creed which Is ntgh forgst),
When the eyes Of the slee rers may waken in won
der,
AMI the hearts may be Joined that were riven
asunder,
And Time and Love shall be merged-in what !
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28

A se;sool-ship for the training OF
pirates could be filed Immediately with
cadets from the class Of boys who are
reading dime novels. Many youth
standing by while his n1otler splits wood
for cooking dinner. is within bis soul
burning to be hero q ths high seas,
TN, o. Picayune.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28
In the hszsrs o. Turkey annles 81

In the bzzsrs OF Turkey apples ard
pears are frequently exposed frr s1le
marked with tha impr, sion Of leaf.
While ths apple is green leaf is glued
or fastened uypor ii, which prevents the
sans rays fro..n acting Upon that part
and the imTses.ion IS distinctly pro"
ducsI.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-06-28
REpnHACfE ANDETS ARaWF:tS

The sun cried tc he laughing :cA,
"Leave thy sxeet ViIins!
Hast thou no detsths Of I've III IN :
Too deep for sailing 2"
But ever, till thS day was done,
4hc sea turned laughing to the sun.
But, in the darn leg3 and the storrn,
Could he discover
what ter:ors to,s, what fears de'ofm
HIS llushin! :D7.r?
Oh vainly love pays love be sad,
When his mere presence maEes her glad.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-10

The announcement, from Washington,
that William Sharon had arrived there to
take his seat as a member Of the Senate
from Nevada suggests the question, of what
possible use TO the cuuotry in general or 20
Nevada in particular, is Sharon in the Sen
ate ? his is his dist appearance in that
body at the present session, aud during the
whole OF the last session he was not there
ut all, although his party on several occa-
sions stood in sore need Of his vote. aud
telegraphed him to that effect He is one
OF the silver kings Of Nevada. aud buugh.
his seat in the Senate, just as tie govern
ment mint woIld buy from him given
quantity of his silver ore. lie proposes,
we understand, to repeathis purchase when
his present term expires, two years from
the 4,h of next March. He don't even live
IN Nevada, aud never did, but makes his
home in San Francesca, where he c,p at
tend personaliyto ms speculatious in mining
stocks and bullion. lie is Of no more ao
count IN the Senate than would be a Soutb
cea Islander, and it is a burning disgIace
that this Pacific coast Crusus is permitted
10 dtaN fiom the public treasury, thous
ands Of dollars to pay him Tor services he
never rendered. 4 mSu rolling in wealth
Ike Sharon, who would rob the Treasury
]" that way. mast be gifted with an un
Emitted amount Of cheek Is IL much won
der that the OdiOls doctrines OF the com
mupe have their adhereuIs in some secti,ns
OF Tie Country?
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-10
Grant ana his Surroundings.

Was t any wonder that tho people shonld
murmur at the burdens saddled upon their
backs and oun plain of the extravagance ot
the public expenditures, when Gen. Grant.
with - large party, aud a newspaper croni-
cIer to write np his travels and To keep hin
before the public as a third term candidate,
had ship of war at his disposal for months
in and ont of the Mediterranean, he whole
expense Of which was charged to the navy
fund Now another ship of var has been
ordered abroad, to transport him and his
party through the East at the public
charge and the Fraudulent President and
his rstainers make haste To show submis-
sve zeal in consulting his caprice or wish
es, as if he were a master whom they were
bound aud glad to obey.
Cramer, the bTOtheI>in la@ of Grant,
Badeau. his biographer, and Others Of that
stamp, are holding honorable offices abroad,
solely on account of their personal relation
To- him. Babcuck, whose name disgraces
the army register, has a picked position in
the Engineer Corps, and still flourish
about Washington, by virtue Of his connec-
tiou with Grant, when he ought to be crack
ing stone in penitentiaTy. The ring
chiefs who stole the poor freedmen's saw
ings, aud Who plundeIed the penple of the
District Of Columbia, are protected by
Hayes as they were by Grant. nnder the
ban gain by which the Great Fraud was con-
summated.
What does all this mean but servilc and
significant imitation of the monarchical
system in the'Old World, with its pomp
and pride of power and partially for the
favored few over the taXpayiug many ?
When ex President Fillmore aud ex- Presi-
dent Pierce visited Europe they went as
private gentlemen who sought no disriuc-
lion on accOun; of the high office they bad
once beld. They made no ostentatiOus
display they did not insult hospitality by
insisting on precedence a. the tables of
their hosts they did not claim privileges
counteEanced by neither law nor prOpriety
TO use ships Of war for their pleasure and
convenience. They did not invite criticism
by gross exhibitions in polite society, or
make vulgar pretension to rank above
their fellow citizens. They went abroad
decorouSly, aud returned home hunored
aud respected, without the least attempt at
show or at political speculation.
Two years in Europe have turned the
head OF Grant, and made him a confirmed
believer III strong government and an imi-
tttOr oi the uSages Of kings and emperois.
He hardly concealed this partiality for i'm
perial grandeur in his interview with
Prince Bismarck, when he substantially
expressed the opinion that obedience was
the first duty Of the subject, and resistance
to hereditary tyranny could not be punished
with too much severity. He had estab-
lished sort Of shoddy cours before he
went abroad, and he will come back filed
more like the genuine article. He " 70 ex-
pect the Republican party 10 accept him
aud to approve his cOaIse ambition. ".
+ Sun
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-10

GOLD Constituted States Treasurer
Giltillan, in an interview, said to day Jan.
81 thar of actual gold coin in the Treasury
there is about $3.50, 900, 900. "Nearly all
of this, he says, lis in New York. The
reason the Government has not resumed
specie payments everywhere is because the
law says we must resume in New York,
but as it does not prohibit us from resum-
ing everywhere, we will soon do il, now
that we see we need not run all the reserves
around the country on wheels"
'llow much of il have you in the Treas
ury buildings ?'',
Only 5000, 600 but people passing by
think this building is full of money They
were never more mistaken. We have paid
over $500, 600 600 Of gold coupon interest
over that cash counter. and never had ever
81, coo, 900 gold in our vaults at time"
"HUw did you accomplish shat -
Easily enough. The reason people
wanted golG in days gone bp was that they
might take it over 20 the local banks aud
sell i; at premium. The bankers would
bring It right back, and get gold check
on New York for it, to save expressage
The gold was not wanted here; 80 we got
the coin back as fast as we paid il out. 1t
will be the same now nobody wants to pay
to send gold 70 New York, and the ouly
gold we will get rid OF III Washington will
be the little amount that will 60 into circu-
lation, aud the people will get tired of that
after while, and we will get it nearly all
back again.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-10

IL popular sentiment in this State ever
approached unanimiiy ON any public ques
tinn. i, may he said to have reached that
stage, or condi ion, in reference 20 the
Board of Pardons. creation Of the nes
Constitutions, but which has utterly failed
to meet lie laudable purposes for which it
WAS established. Ii has practically as
sumed the functions Of a high criminal
tribunal before which men who have been
Convicted uf crime are reificd, as an appear
from the judgment of au Alderman or JUS
tice of the Peace woulo lee by civil court.
The consequence is that there is an almost
universal demand for tits speedy abolition.
The framcrs uf the constitution were fully
aware tf The rank abuses Of the parduning
power when 1t was exercised solely by the
Governor, but IN their endeavor 20 Correct
the evil they not only sigually failed, but
added 10 its aggravaiion. The very first
tnihg which is now Thought of ly a de-
fendanr in an indictm'AIt, after he has been
fairly tried and convicted, is To get bis at
toruey to prepare pntition for him, to
procure i iu be nUmCrouSly signed, whicl,
is me easiest thing ia the world to do, and
then To present it to ibe BoaIG for the
exercise IF its clcmency. This is par;icu
llrly 80 if the ease was sharply ano vigor-
ously contested ia the Court before which
i- was uied. The number of application.
for pardon, which at FIRST were few, ,embrac
iug cDuyiciinn for the higher grades oI
crime, has frai fully Increased, aud az j ,
session III December, it was. confronted by
over eighty appeals toits mercy. to abou,
ous third of which it lent a willing ear
That the prerueative Of mercy ought to b,
sested somewhere, viii generally be &C
cep,ed rs the correct doctrine, and the i'm
partaut and difficult question 10 determine
ie. Sho ought to exercise il /, is a sub
iect worthy of the most serious aud patient
corsideration. IN view of is effect upon
pabiic morals. aud the man who may bt
8hlP Ia point the way OF escSl,e ftom the
y5le>sut unsatisfactory conditioI Of affair
u LIS behalf, viii D. regarded as a pubic
Leg-1ActoT.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-01-10

LAST Wednesday, the S.h instant, was
the sixty fourth anniversary of General
Jlcksnns signal aud decisive victory over
the British army under Packeuham at New
Orleans. The event used 10 be elebratrd
throughout he cuunty with great spirit
and uub0unded enthusiasm, bar The day
comes aud passss away now without At
tracing any p cial notice. The memory,
however, of its hero, "Old Hickory" Is
treasured up in the hearts OF the American
people, aud vi couli ne to be hOnored and
respected as long as the Republic eLdurGs.
lu referring 40 the victory, some newspa-
pers speak Df jackson an having defeated
the cOuguerurs of Napoleon at Waterloo.
but this is against the truth Of history, as
the battle uf Waterloo was not fought until
more than five mouths after the defeat of
the British ut New Orleans on the Sth of
January. 1915. It is trur, however, that
the soldiers who composed PaCkenham's 5
army had fought in Iryvious years against
the French in Spain, commanded by some
Of Napuleou's most distinguished Marshars =
and had on several occasions defeated them.
Il any of The men ~ no fought uudcr Pack
enhatn at the battle Of New Orleans were
at Waterloo. thcy were sent to join the
army in Belgium, after they had returned
to England from this country, which was
very probably the case.