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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08
Beheading Pirates.

A public execution in Shanghai is
thus described Invent to see six Chinese
pirates beheaded yesterday. The open
square where all the executions take
place was filed with Chinese of all ages
and conditions, and a few Europeans
among them. The prisoners were the
most forlorn starvlings I ever saw, and
betrayed no more fear at their approach
ing fate than if they were to be specta-
tors at an execution. A huge Tartar
of1iciated as executioner. He was armed
with a native sword, and stood on a
small platform in the center of the
square. After the criminals, with their
hands tied behind, had been taken upon
the stage the executioner took one of
the pirates by the arm, brought him to
the edge of the platform, hit him
sharp rap with his hand on the head,
which caused the poor fellow to bow
his head, and then the executioner's
sword went up, was poised in the air a
full half-minute, and, with sweep, the
glittering blade descended, and the
poor criminals head went flying off in
one direction and the body in another.
One by one the others met their fate in
the same way, the Tartar making very
short, business-like JOB of it, merely
turning to receive the plaudits of the
crowd after each head rolled off, and re-
sponded by grin which showed every
one of his teeth. But the stoidity of
the poor wretches was beyond descrip-
ton. Not a muscle quivered, and, even
when waiting for the blade of the exc
cutioner to fall, could not detect
sign of emotion. The crowd seemed to
enjoy the sight immensely, and set up
yell of delight at each cut of the Tar
tar's sword. am told that executions
are common here
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08
Fruit Trees BIZ the Roadside.

The early settlers of many towns in
the New England States planted rows
of apple or pear trees along the line Of
the road in front of their premises.
Sometimes the trees were placed inside
and at other times outside of the fence.
This fashion of planting fruit trees was
quite common, for in some parts of
Massachusetts and Maine there are IN
broken lines of apple trees by the side
of certain old roads ten miles in length.
Some of these trees were planted in
colonial days, and others during or
shortly after the Revolution. It is GER
tain that they bear age well and many
of them, now over century old, con-
tinue to bear fruit in abundance. One
famous old tree, well remembered by
the writer of this article, produced
thirty-seven bushels Of apples In re-
cent season. It was planted, according
to tradition, the spring after the battle
of Bunker Hill.
1t is obvious there's something about
the peculiar location of these trees that
accounts for their remarkable vigor and
hardness. They had no advantage in
the way of protection. 1t is fair to
presume that they had little, if any,
cultivation. Perhaps their hardness
is due to the circumstances of their
exposure and the want of cultivation.
Their growth was slow, and the wood
formed was very firm. They had ditch
very near them, which insured excellent
drainage. This ditch had much to do
in keeping the trees healthy and vigor-
GUS. Fine dust and animal droppings
were carried by the wind from the road
and deposited on the foliage of the
trees and on the earth above their roots.
These were excellent fertilizers, and
they were applied in small quantities
almost every day. Portions of the roots
of many of the trees were covered by a
stone wall, which served the purpose of
a perpetual mulch.
FaSmers in the new West may bene-
fit from the history of these old trees
that were set out by men who planted
better than they knew" A roadside
possesses many advantages for success
full tree-raising, some of which have
been mentioned. The laws of most of
the Western States encourage tree
planting on the line Of roads, and make
it an offense to injure trees so planted.
It is more profitable to plant fruit than
forest trees. The latter are useful as
well as ornamental. If stock is not al
lowed to run at large, trees on the line
of public roads are less liable to injury
than in an inclosed field that is plowed.
In well-regulated neighborhood there
is little danger that trees will be robbed.
By planting trees that produce late
fruit the temptations to steal will be
removed. The fashion of "the faith
ers" of setting fruit trees on the side
of roads deserves to be revived.-Chi-
caGo Times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08
TennysOn and Victoria,

Speaking of Tennyson's hospitality,
the following anecdote is related: Her
Majesty, the Queen, announced it to be
her good pleasure TO honor her poet
Laureate with a visit. Unfortunately,
she did not say precisely what day she
would arrive. In duty bound, the
whole family was put into its best "bib
and tucker" The children agonized in
their best rig, and were vigorously
"pent" indoors. Mrs. Tennyson was
bedecked with her state raiment, and
the great author himself was gotten up
to perfection, and in the latest inven-
ton of his tailor. Four or five days
went by in the same atmosphere of ex-
pectation and grandeur, but no royal
guests came driving up. AT last it be-
came unbearable. Ordinary manners
were proclaimed; everybody sighed
with relief and flung aside too violent
etiquette with too belaced and berib-
boned attire. The children resumed their
intimacies with mud-pies and rocking
horses. Mrs. Tennyson began to enjoy
novel and wrapper, and, casting
aside romance, Mr.. Tennyson took up
a hoe and began wedding his garden,
and, with glowing cheeks and animated
eyes, tried TO maze two blades of grass
grow where before there was only one"
Of course, when everything was Jogging
along in this coy and homelike way,
the Queen and her escort arrived. At
first there was general futter of fright
and excitement. Everybody was en-
barrassed and i'll at ease. But the grand
old fellow, coming up to the house with
soiled hands and sweatdrops on his
lofty brow, made it all right in few
words. "My sovereign. we expected
you for several days, and were prepared
to receive you as should become those
who are honored by their Queen; but
to-day we did not know OF your inten-
ton, and are therefore only SO far pre-
pared as loyalty and love can make u.s."
It is needless to say that the visit was
very friendly and pleasant affair, and,
we doubt not, far better enjoyed by SO
sensible woman as Queen Victoria
than it would have been had it been at
tended with courtly formality and state.
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Surname OF the English Royal Family.

At dinner, the other night, the con-
versation lapsed, as it sometimes will
lapse with the best of hosts, into ques-
tons hardly distinguishable from con-
undrums. a celebrated historian was
present, and I pu. question to him
which know has puzzled great many
people at different times, "What is the
surname of the royal family?" Guelph,
of course" That is the usual answer,
and it was the historians. I ventured
to suggest that, although the royal
family are Guelphs by descent, her
Maiesty's marriage with Prince Albert
of Saxe-Coburg must have the effect
which the marriage of lady has in ali
other cases, and that the surname Of the
present house must be the Prince Con
sorts. Gut what IS the surname of the
Prince Consort's family?" Simple,
but staggering. No one knew. All
guessed, and all were wrong. [ hap
rened to have looked up the subject a
few months ago, SO [ knew that the
name was "Wettin." OF course no one
had heard it before. Every one smiled
at the horrible idea of the Guelphs be-
ing reduced to Victims! The point
was referred to Theodore Martin.
"You are quite right. Victim is the
family name of the house of Saxony, to
whom the dominion of 5axony came in
1920. The King of Saxony and the
minor Princes of the house are there
fore all Victims, OF, in German, Victim
er."-WbitehQU ReUielC.
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The Doctors Man.

The late DR.. r. was one who could
seldom resist telling good story, even
when it turned the laugh against him
self. On one occasion a man-servant,
whom he had recently engaged, aston
ished him by appearing to wait at break
fast with swollen face and a pair of
Enthusiastically black eyes. "Why,
john" said he, you seem to have been
fighting?" eyes, master, have" was
the reply. "And who may your oppo-
nent have been?" "Why, sir, DR.. NJ
man," naming rival Esculapius. "And
what did you fall out about?" "Why,
sir, he said as you wasn't fit to clean
his masters shoes" "And what did
you say?" "Well, sir, l said you was!"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08

you may have toward genuine free thouht
and careful, honest investigation, my
son. l only want you to avoid the great
fault of atheism in this day and genera
ton; don't want to see you try to build
a six-story house on one-story founda-
ton. Before you critic,se, condemn, and
finally revise the work of creation, my
son, be pretty confident that you know
something about it as it Is, and don't, as
man who IS older in wears and expert
ence than yourself, don't, let me implore
you. don't turn the world upside down
and sit down on 1t, and tiatten 1t entirely
out, until you have made or secured an
other one for the rest of US to live in
while you demollsh the old one. If you
should ever develop into an advanced
atheist, my son, just do that much for
the rest of u.s.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08

assisted him to Renter the box, and
forthwith sent word of the discovery tc
the magistrate. The box was at once
removed, the post-mortem examination
concluded, and the discovery made
that the unfortunate man had died Of
heart disease. Again everybody WAS
amazed, and this time the wonder was
mixed with shame. After the examina-
ton was made, the Coroner's inquiry
was hurried over, and once more, in
solemn pomp and with all the rites
of the church, the agent was laid in his
grave.
Amid the solemn concourse which
attended this second funeral ] noticed
the wild, wan face which had haunted
me ever since that day when had seen
it by the frozen window of the inn-the
face of the very man whom in my own
mind I had accused of murder! For q
moment I hung back ashamed; then I
boldly walked forward and pressed a
bank note into the wretched creatures
hand. He looked from it to me in
daZed amazement, then the sight Of
one OF his ragged children seemed to
make him realize what the money would
do. He clutched it closer, and with one
last look down the open grave he crept
across the boys toward his home.
By whose hand the corpse was con-
veyed from the church-yard to the bog
was never discovered. It was generally
believed, however, that news of the III
tended examination had been whispered
abroad, and that the agent was exhumed
and hidden solely with view to pre-
venting his body being "cut up"
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CHAPTER II.

On The 18th day of February the an
nual winter fair was held at Fortaclare.
The anticipation of this Gay always
created a good deal o: excitement in
the minds OF the peasants n and
around 5torport-for il Was always
constituted sort OF gala day-but
the announcement Of the lair Of 1877
brought with It whisperings Of wee to
many home. The crops had been
bad for that year, and the miserable,
half-starved tenants had been unable to
scrape together enough money to pay
the rent, so the Proctor had summoned
them to attend the sessions at Ponta-
clare in order that they might show
cause why they should not deliver up
the whole of their worldly goods.
On the eventful day, which was ush-
cred in with hurricanes OF binding
sleet, l ordered Shawn to bring out
the horses and car tina! we might drive
into Portaclare together. By the time
we started the hail had ceased to fall,
but still the wind blew bitterly, freezing
with its icy breath the little pools on
the wayside, and when We drove into
Portaclare [ felt almost as if my blood
was frozen. It was midday by that
time, and, save for one or two decrepit
old men we had passed on the road, we
were the last to arrive. What Q gath
ering there wasl The streets of the
little town were so crowded that it was
almost impossible to make ones way
along. In the market-place bevies Of
rosy-cheeked servant girls waited to be
hired; pigs grunted and squealed as
the drovers whipped them along; the
shopkeepers shrieking to the passen'
gers to buy-the agent sat in the coy
parlor of the inn comfortably enjoying
his glass of wine; gazing with smile
into the wild, woe-begone faces of the
creatures whom be had summoned
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08
His Part.

A lady contributor to the Wayne
Press tells this story: Il had been out
in Westchester county on a visit, and
while there 7 found a kitten which I
brought home as a plaything for my
two children. To prevent any dispute
about the ownership of puss, I pro-
posed, and it was agreed, that the head
should be mine, the body should be the
baby's, and Eddy, the eldest, but 3
years, should be the sole proprietor OF
the long and beautiful tail. Eddy
rather objected at first to this division,
as putting him off With an extremely
small share of the animal, but soon be-
came reconciled to the division, and
quite proud of his ownership in the
graceful terminus of the kitten. One
day, soon after, I heard poor puss max
ing dreadful mewing, and called out
to Eddy, "There, my son, you are hurt
ing my part of the kitten; heard her
cry" "No, 1 didn't, mother; I trod on
MY part, and your part hollered!'
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08
Recovery from rheumatism.

The convalescent sets forth on
crutches. The sky IS sunny, the air
balmy. He is safe. No more bed-rack-
ing for him. He is happy. His heart
sings and twitters like q bird. He
meets an old friend on the corner, who
grabs his hand and shakes it up and
down until the hot tears gush to his
eyes, and, like an old pump, he at last
gives down water.
"You must take wine and bark for
that rheumatic" says the friend.
I've been whining for the last six
weeks" replies the invalid, "but as
for barking, it jars me- all over; and,
besides, I'm not dog"
At the next corner he meets another
acquaintance. sThere is only one thing
that Will cure rheumatism" heremarhs,
"and that is, empty a paper of tacks
into bowl of water, let it stand over
night, and then drink the water"
Supposlng," replies the victim, II
drop my Textbook into the cistern and
then drink the water, won't that abate
the disease just the same?"
Further along he meets the third
counselor: Put both knees under a
faucet of cold water, and let it run"
recommends this dark and bloody vii
lain, with q vile smile on his vicious
countenance.
81 guess I will read Fawcett's poem
on an iceberg; that will answer every
purpose" retorts the victim. "Eat raw
onions" orders another. "Man,' re-
plies the invalid, raising his crutch, and
pointing with it to the blue and radiant
sky above, has but once to die. Says
the great poet, A coward dies thous-
and deaths; brave man never dies but
once Better meet destiny face to face
inodorous of onions, than live on with
onions, with all the world wishing one
dead thousand years before he was
born" "Tonic," replied the friend.
"I guess I will give up onions, and ia
per off on garlic"
The convalescent now calls at the
store of a bosom companion, and is
shown to oozy seat in the private Of
fee, near the stove. "Stand your
clutches outside, by the door," directs
the friend. "Confound the things; I
cannot bear to see them"
The convalescent complies, and pass
es an agreeable hour. When he hob
bles out to take up his clutches, they
are gone. The proprietors boys have
nailed cleats to them, and are at that
moment stilt-walking with them in a
distant alley-way. By the time the in
valid RECEIVERS them the afternoon has
grown chilly, and the sun is pale and
low on the horizon. He is sure of a re-
lapse. Not less than 100 infallible rem
edies have been recommended to him.
Even the colored porter in the store
suggests a cure: "You must tie couple
of black-snake skins over your knees,
massa. De high golly! make de ole
man slippery as an cell"
As he nears his residence, he encoun-
tiers the doughty old doctor that has at
tended him from child. what have
you in your mouth?" roars the old doc
tor. "Tobacco." ~Spit it out. What
have you in your pocket?" "Cigars.
"Throw 'em away" What is good for
second attack of rheumatism, doc
tor?" Nine weeks" =" Mercy!'
"Nine weeks; and row, then, get into
the house, you reckless rascal; lay away
your crutches in the attic; put your
prayer-book under your pillow, and go
to d."-PrOUide7lce Journal.
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BurGette.s Advice to a Young Man.

My son, don't be in too great a
hurry to accept advanced opinlons.' 1t
is ''the thing" to be advanced in this pro-
gresslve day and generation, but there IS
heap of shallowness in it. Did you
never notice, my son, that the man who
tells you he cannot believe the Bible is
usually able to believe almost any thing
else2 You will find men, my son. who
turn with horror and utter disbelief of
the Bible, and joyfully embrace the
teachings of Buddha. 1t is quite the
thing Just now, my son, for a civilized,
enlightened man, brought up in Chris
tan country and an age of wisdom, to be
Buddhist And if you ask six men
who profess Buddhism who Buddha was
one of them will tell YOU he was an Egyp-
tan soothsayer who lived two hundred
years before Moses. Another will tell
you that he brought letters from Phenicia
and introduced them in Greece. A third
will tell you that she was a beautiful
woman of farther India bound by her
vows to perpetual chastity. A fourth will
with little hesitation, say he was Brah-
ma OF the ninth degree and disciple
of Confuc1us; and of the other two, one
will frankly admit that he doesn't know,
and the other will say, with some indie
cision that he was either dervish of the
Nile (whatever that Isl or felo de Sc,
(whatever that Isl he can't be positive
which.
Before you propose to know more than
any body and every body else, my son,
be very certain that you are at least
abreast of two-thirds of your fellow-men.
I don't want to suppress any inclination
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08
HEARTSEASE.

OF all the bonny buds that blow,
In bright or cloudy weather,
OF all the flowers that come and go,
The whole twelve months together,
The little purple pansy brings
Thoughts of the sweetest, saddest things.
had a little lover once;
She used to give me posies;
Her eyes were blue as hyacinths,
And lips as red as roses.
Everybody used to praise
Her handsome looks and winsome ways.
The other boys that went to school
Would make such silly speeches,
Because l took her every day
The biggest plums and peaches,
And always at the door would wait
To carry home her books and slate.
They couldn't see with pout and fling
The mighty fascination
About that little snub-nosed thing
To win such admiration
AS If there weren't dozen girls
With nicer eyes and longer curls.
One thing they knew as well as day.
For never could see clearly
Why more than Marian or May
l should be loved SO dearly.
I asked her why was all of this;
She only answered with a kiss.
Until leased her tell me why
wished to know the reason
When from tiower-bed close by,
Where the pansies were in season,
She picked and gave flower to me
With sweet but simple gravity.
"Tke garden is in bloom" she said,
With lilies pale and slender,
With roses and verbenas red
And fuchsias' purple splendor;
But over and above the rest
This Lite heartsease suits me best"
sam your little Heartsease, them"
l asked, with blushing pleasure.
She answered yes and yes again,
Heartsease and dearest treasure,
That round the world or all the sea
Held nothing half so dear as me.
listened with proud delight
Too rare for words to capture
Not even dreamed such sudden blight
Would come to chill my rapture;
could not foresee the tender bloom
OF pansies round little tomb.
Life holds some stern experience
Which most of US discover,
Blu. I've had other losses since
lost my little lover;
But the little purple pansy brings
Thoughts OF the sweetest, saddest things.
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TWeaking His Own Nose.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once wagered
friend that he could make the pomp-
Gus DR.. Osgood, the publisher, tweak
his own nose. This seemed so absurd
to the friend, who had conceived high
notion of Osgood's dignity, that the
wager was accepted. After the business
of a call on Osgood was concluded,
Holmes artfully led the conversation
up to the subject of noses, q particular
in which Osgood was not deficient.
" Have you not noticed, doctor" said
Holmes, "that all men OF intellect and
great character have large noses?" A
pause ersued, when, to the joker's de-
light. DR.. Osgood responded: cit is, I
believe, an indisputable fact" and, as he
spoke, slowly raising his hand to his
nasal appendage, following its outline
with the thumb and forefnger, and con-
Guiding with gentle satisfied tweak or
rather pull, as if to see that the whole
of the intellectual feature was there.
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THE NEW YEAR 1880.
BY JENNIE JONES.

Ola Time. with his busy fingers
Is turning another page
In the wonderful book OF life,
That readeth from age to age.
Unwritten its wonderful story,
Untold its mystical tale.
And before its possible reading
The maryels Of romance fail.
Let us write with higher purpose
Than any the past has known
Tie fair, bright page before us.
And make that purpose our Own.
Let us love with truer love
The friends that are ours TO hold.
For the dregs that pass for friendship
Let Us give the hearts uue gold.
At the wrongs that would give US battle
Let us strike sIrer blow:
Let us meet the evils would Stay us
With lace turned full to the foe.
ana though the future should fail Us.
Just Us the past h2s done.
The year VII sui ba TIE bs.ter
For being bstte- begun.
.ooMEE, Wis.
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CREAM FOB PUDDNa.-One egg, one
cup sugar, one pint milk, one cup flour;
boil until thick; favor the pudding and
cream with lemon.
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THE true Indian question: Agent,
got any rum?"
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CHAPTER III.

Having sworn Shawn to secrecy,
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sHAw's MOUNTAIN NEWS.
OcEoLA, March 27, 1880.

Ed. WoRLD:-The PayInaster Conn
pany is getting along splendldly.1
There is some Of the finest rock being
taken out Of this mine | ever saw.
You can find gold in every piece Of
rock that you pick up on the dump
The tunnel the quartz comes out Of
is in 81 feet. It has been run in good
rock 40 feet, and it is still being driven
in good ore. The lower tunnel il in
go feet. think that 40 feet more
will tap the ledge. Joe Robbins thinks
they will reach it in two weeks. Dur
ing the last four weeks LA feet Of tun-
mel has been run.
The Rising Sun is doing well.
Eight-heur shifts have been put in the
lower tunnel, SO as to get the mine in
good working order by the time Mr..
Plowman's mill is ready for running.
Mr.. Pilmer, the old war horse, is haul
ing quartz to keep the arastra going,
and you can at any time hear his ia
| miliar voice resounding through the
mountains.
Mr.. Plowman, understand. will
commence work erecting his mill Oh
Monday next.
The roads are breaking up and arc
in a bad condition, but Mr. H. G
Clawson has a strong force at work
and they will soon be in good condi
ton.
Cloudy weather. OLE
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F. w. KRoEBER, | Com
JAS MoRIARTY '
Quartz Claims Recorded.

The following claims have been
recorded sidce the Goth inst:
The Rising Sun, in Shaw's Noun
tain District; claim, 1900 feet; loca-
tor, D. Fl. Brown.
The Moses, in Shaw's Mountain Dis.
trict; claim, l,348 feet; locator, Orrie
Cole.
The Emgrant, in Shaw's Mountain
District; claim, 1900 feet; locator, A
E. Thrash.
Tunnel Right located in Shaw,
Mountain District by d. II. Brown ant
Orrie Cole.
The Golden Star, in Centerville Dis
trict; locator, Joseph Kesler.