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Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03
THE MOUSE QUESTION.
San Francisco WASH.

Mr.. Peasly and Mrs. Peasly and the
Peasly boy were all sitting around the
droplight up at their home on Suttel
street the other evening, reading. The
boys attention was attracted by a noise
in the tireless CRATE, and he said:
"O-o-o-h, ma there's a mouse.
Mrs. Peasly jumped up on her char,
clutched two fistfnls of pull-back and
screamed Ikea circus cockatoo. When
she jumped she knocked Il flower stand
over in Mr. P.'s face and spoiled his ev-
ening paper. This made him mad and
sarcastic. He said
"If anything in this world does make
me sick it's to see a great big woman
make natural-born fool of herself
whenever mouse comes into a room.
Always jumpin' up on chair and
screamin' before she knows what kind of
mouse it is, or what his intentions are.
What's the matter! What are We 'fraid
of! Mice amt got teeth like bulldog,
and if they had they couldn't get a
square hold of anything but millinery.
Think mouse is going to make a meal
on cotton lace and starch (? Think likely
he's goin' to gnaw off yer suspender
buckle9 What are ye 'traid OFF,
81 don't know what he might do"
said Mrs. P. timidly.
"Well, now, what coHld he do? A
mouse is a mouse, | guess. S'posin' he
crawls up over your French boot, climbs
up that Balbriggan seam, rests mo-
ment on yer carriers, keeps on climbin',
gifts twisted up in tatting work, N slip,
round n falls back in doubt, n don't
know where he is, or anything about
the geography of his location, or where
he's bound for. What harms a little
mouse goin' to do great big woman
with foot like hat-boat? What can
he do!"
"What would you do if he ran up your
trousers. leg, I'd like to know ~ retorted
Mrs. P. sharply.
'Do? Do nothin'. A mouse couldn't
hurt NE, | guess. A mouse amt a bull
dog, nor a gopher snake, nor a nitro
glycerine bomb-siell. I'd jest as lief
have whole family of mice on me, and
l amt dressed like woman, either
"Iice are poison" said Mrs. ?.
"Poison! Nonsense said Peasly,
getting madden. ~ know mice, and ]
know you, and I'd like to know if any
mouse that hasn't got gatfs on could bite
through three thicknesses of flannel to
blunt his teeth on a bone when he reach
ed your limb. Why dor't yer say you're
fraid he'll make a nest, or tear your
clothes. instead of standin' on chair
and screechin' like scairt baby ~
"But it's an a,ctni feeling
Glow do you know } Did you ever
have mouse invade yer? Awful non
sense! Might tickle little, but what
hats to woman forty years old
With your experience I! | say it's all fool
shness, and don't want any more oft.
just then the Peasly boy, who always
stuck up for his mother reached under
he table and stuck moss rosebud with
/ long stalk up his dear fathers panta-
oon's leg, just above the right sock.
"O-o-o-h. All! Holy Moses. Ouch, Z
Kill it! yelled the dear father, as he tip
bee. over his chair backward, clutching
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03
COMING BACK,

Up in city garnet, on hot June day,
weary woman leaned back in her chair
and pressed her fingers agasnst the eyes
that refused longer to see the stitches in
the shopwork over which she had toiled
from daybreak till now, four O'Clock in
the afternoon.
From the street far below her, a voice
had only that moment scared upward,
calling Strawberries Ripe, red
strawberries ~
And, as if by magic, her thoughts
turning backward had carried her to
Deepdene, the home of her youth, and to
certain lovely June day in her sixteenth
year, when she had stood. in the straw
berry pasture on the Blessing farm, with
the red berries pertaining all the air, and
said the words which severed her fate
from that Of Maurice Blessing, and made
her life what it was on this day, almost
hopeless, and q ceaseless struggle for
bread, won at the needles point.
How it all rose up before her . The
green pasture sloping to the darker green
woods, whose tops seemed to touch the
deep blue sky, slOping downward to the
gray stone wall, with the cold spring
leaping out through a wooden trough
among its lower stones.
And below the wall ''the thirty-acre
moving" spread out like an immense
emerald velvet carpet, with the two
story cream-colored house lifting its
piazzaed front at the extreme end, lust
where the shaded lane began that led
from the Blessing farm out into the
village road.
She, the poor orphan girl, had been
offered this comfortable home; and she
had refused it-for what ? For dream
of jane, which has left her tOiling in
this hot garet, while in the black trunk
y0nder the book which was to have
made her fortune, refused by one pub
Usher after another, was lying till she
could find courage to thrust it into life.
Scarcely two years" she sighed,
rocking herself to and fro. "And Maui
rice has sold the old farm and gone 10
Colorado; and am here, lonely aud dis
appointed, old before my time. Oh if | |
could only live that day over again and |
be as wise as | am now! For | know |
hat l love him--now, when it is forever
100 latc'
Sickening with sort Of calenture !
among those hot city streets, for one |
glimpse of ner early home, Hester May
'ose, and went to the desk where her
worldly wealth was stored.
BY the closest economy, she had man
lged to lay aside a few dollars, for the
gloomy purpose ofpaying the expenses
If her own sickness and death, when the
line should come for her to die among.
strangers.
From this sacred horde she counted
nut sufficient sum to take her to Deep
lene.
Il will stay only one day, she thought,
'and work all the harder after return,
o make up this sum again. But see
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

Donaldsonvile Chief, Unless some
unforeseen delay occurs, the new rail-
road drawbridge spanning Bayou La
fourehe at this town, will be completed
and ready for use by Friday or Saturday
next. Construction trains will be start
ed to work at once thereafter and the
railroad pnshed rapidly on from White
castle. its present terminus. 4 steam
boat similar to the Morgan compmly's
Enterprise" is being constructed for
the N. 0. Pacific Company, and will be
used for transferring passengers and
freight across the riYerat Weytwego.
Landlord, did yon ever have gen
tleman stop with you before p Are
yon gentleman ~ asked the landlord,
'Ies, am "Then Tileyer did,
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

MRS. j. VI. PARKER, dealer in Millinery and
WI Dry Goods and fancy articles of ali DIES.
CriptiOnS, Main street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

y FEIBELMAN, dealer il, Dry Goods and
- the most tashiona9l styles OF ready made
clothing hats boots and shOe$, Main street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

II A. DAY proprietor Red Stick Drug Store,
~ KEGS constantly on banda full assortment
of drugs and medicines corner Africa and
SOmerulOs streets.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

DIN JOHNSON, matchmaker and .jeweler
- dealer III iewelry, silver ware, pictures and
picture frames, Third street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic cures Dyspepsia
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

! u. BRUOKS Druggist, dealer in drugs and
a medicines OF every kind cigars smoking TO-.
baCc0, cutlery, etc. Main street
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

M L. CLUVERIUS, Draggist, B0gels old
w stand dealer in drugs, medicines, cutlery
soap, garden seed and fancy articles.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

\ LEXANDRE GR0UCHY, proprietor OF the
II Capital House. Board bI the day. week or
month, with the best the market affords.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

USEPH LARG UIER dealer in foreign and
- domestic hardware. house furnishing goods
corner Third and Florida streets.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

| PHILIP BOTT, proprietor of Bismarck Sa-
- loon and Lager Beer House, corner st. Louis
and North Boulevard streets
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03

\ ]. WILLIAMS, manufacturer of steam
vi trains, strike pans boilers and tanks and
all kinds of sugar house work corner of Main
and front streets, near the ferry landing.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-24

In Adalr County, Kentucky, about ten
miles northeast of Columbia, there is
grand and lofty projection on The banks of
Green River, known by the classic name of
''Grand Daddy's Cliff. which as pictur-
esque phenomenon, is rarely ever surpassed.
the apex rock, Of the series of shelving
limestone that climbs one above another TO
an enormous height, extends out over the
azure and placid waters of this beautiful
stream about seventy-fve feet. On the top
of tnis shelf rock canopy, divers little wild
flowers, in the proper season, spring up, and
commingling with may fringe OF shrub
berry, blossom upon the very verge or the
precipice, where natures curly HAIR, the
tenacious climbing vine, falls in gorgeous
and graceful folds to the waters crystal bo-
som, thus forming a closing curtain 10
cave-like chamber of spacious dimensions
and exquisite beauty.
The somber wall. all studded with num-
Der OF fanciful formations that slightly pro-
trude from the rough sides, the cerulean
tint of the rock ceiling, gemmed with STAR
like crystals, and the waving, why curtain
that floats eternally on the sIghs of the pass
ing breezes, with the velvety floor of snow
white SANDAL conspire to form and force
upon the dusty memory the pictures of the
little fairy palaces, with their million spirit
Inhabitants peeping from the almost invis-
ible chinks in the walls that fond old grand
mothers usually paint to satiate the un-
bounded credulity of the innocent little
prattlers who hover, with undivided atten-
ton to the story, around the blazing hearth
on long winter nights, in "life's morning
march, when their little spirits are young.
This grotto is not only a beautiful and sub
lime wonder of nature, but is also useful.
In the white, dusty sand that forms the.
floor many of the neIghborlng farmers are
wont to bury their vegetables for winter
keeping and here, one foot beneath the sur
face, they remain safe from cold and the
furtive little animals that make nightly
depredations upon the cellar and grain-room,
for the sand is so fine that it rolls back to
Its place faster than the little thieves can
claw 1t out.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-24

The Hon. A. FL. III. Stuart, Of Virginia,
has written an interesting letter giving an
account OF the celebration in Staunton, Va,
of the fiftieth anniversary OF the Declara-
tion of independence. He says: ''Among
the guests assembled at the Eagle Tavern
on the Fourth of July, 1926, were most of
the prominent men of the town and coun-
ty. well remember that Daniel Shelly,
Chapman johnson, Briscoe G.. Baldwin,
Thomas j. Niche, William Kinney, N. g.
Kinney and other citizens of the town were
of the number, and think General Robert
Porterfeld, James Bell, Charles A. Stuart,
and others of the same class from the coun-
try were present. The occasion was mark
ed by hiliarity. The speeches were brief,
spirited and appropriate. Anecdotes were
told. There were brilliant flashes of wit,
and fancy, and all were in good humor and
seemed to enjoy themselves. In this way
the day was passed until nearly sundoWn.
and the company were preparing to sepa-
rate, with mutual telicitations on the plea
sure which they enjoyed and the express
sion of hope that they might meet 10 COM
memorate many returns of the ausplcious
day. At this stage of the proceedings some
one came into the porch, and In low tone
communicated to Mr.. Chapman johnson
something which seemed to make a deep
impression on hlm. i, who was then a
youth, preparing myself TO enter the uni
versity, sat with few other young COM
panions, near the foot of the table, and,
being on the opposite side from Mr.. John
son, had a full view of his face, and
although did not know the nature OF the
communication, could not fail TO observe
the grave expression of his countenance.
The mystery was soon solved. Mr.
nounced to the company that news had
just reached HIM of the death, near noon
on that day of Thomas Jefferson. After
few remarks on the life, character and pub
lie service OF MIR. Jefferson, MIR. johnson
requested all present to dill their glasses, as
he desired TO offer a sentiment. Thus was
done. He then desired that the company
would rise and remain standing. While
we thus stood, deeply impressed with the
solemnity of the event which had been thus
Unexpectedly announced, MIR. johnson Of
fered the following sentiment: "ihe
memory of Thomas jefferson, author OF
the declaration Of independence Though
the mortal man may never witness another
celebration of the day which his pen has so
much illustrated, his immortal spirit will
be present and inspire the last anthem
which hallows its memory" The senti-
ment was purely impromptu. He did not
take time TO commit it to paper He gave
1t TO us as il came gushing up, like living
waters from the fountain OF Lis great heart,
and it found a response in the heart OF
every one who was present. AS for myself
every word that he uttered became, as it
were, engrossed on the tablets Of my
memory, and, after the lapse of more than
dfty-four years, ieel that am able to re-
port Mr.. Johnson toast not only with sub
stantial, but with literal accuracy.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-24
I
Boys.

Some people imagine that the world was
made for men. All mistake; it was sim
ply intended for boys to amuse themselves
in. Who enjoy life except the boy, and an
occasional girl or two? Nobody. Grown
up folks try to think they do, and some
really imagine they do, but they are mis-
taken. Men work themselves up into a
fever of excitement over an election. They
hold mass meetings and get up torchlight
professions of great length and noisy roar;
but do they get any fun out of itS Not a
bit. 1t is the boys on the outside who do
that. They build the bonfres on street
corners, and do a large share of the hur-
rahing. Men in procession move along
as solemnly as though they were going to
their own funeral, if such thing were pos
sible, but the boy who observes them from
the curbstone, or who trots along close TO
the drum-major is all animation and joy.
He takes il all in, and is the freshest one OF
the party when the tramp is completed, no
matter how long he is passing any number
of given points. No one gets such keen
enjoyment out of play as the boy in the
gallery. And all circuses in the land are
gotten up with an eye single to his espec-
ial amusement. If we could be young
again, we would be boy.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-24
Cruelty and Civilization.

the multilations of prisoners exhibited
on Assyrian sculptures are not surpassed
in cruelty 10y any we find among the most
bloodthlrsty of wild races ; and Rameses
H., who delighted In having himself
sculptured on temple walls throughout
Egypt as holding dozen captives by the
hair and striking off their heads at blow,
slaughtered during his conquests more
human beings than thousand chiefs OF
savage tribes put together. The tortures
inflicted on captured enemies by Red In
dians are not greater than were those in
tlicted Of old on ielons by crucltxion, or
on suspected rebels by sewing them up in
the hides of slaughtered animals, or on
hereties by smearing them over with COM
bustiSles and setting fire TO them. The
Damaras described as so utterly heartless
that they laugh on seeing one of their num-
Der killed by wild beast, are not worse
Khan were the Romans, who make such
elaborate provisions for gratifying them
selves by watching wholesale slaughters in
their arenas. If the numbers destroyed by
the hordes of Attila were not equaled by
the numbers which the Roman army de-
stroyed at the conquest OF Selucia, and by
the numbers of the Jews massacred under
Hadnan, it was simply because the oc-
caslon did not permit. The cruelties of
Nero Gallienus, and the rest may compare
with those of Zingis and Timour: and
when we read of Caracalla, that after he
had murdered 90, 900 friends of his muir
dered brother, his soldiers forced the SEN
ate TO place hun among the gods, we are
shown that In the Roman people there was
a ferocity not less than that which deifes
the most sanguinary chiefs among the
worst of savages. Nor did Christianity
greatly change matters. Throughout
medieval Europe political offenses and
religious dissent brought on men carefully
devised agonies, equaling, if not exceed
ing, any inflicted by the most brutal of
barbarians.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-24
Boss of the BathIng Ground.

Our faithful friend Jet, powerful dog.
lived with us on the Navesink Highlands.
One summer we had a bright little fellow,
who although not in the least vicious, yet
had boys propensity to destroy, and TO
injure and to infict pain. Master Willie
loved Jet dearly, and yet he would persist
in torturing the patient dog most outrage
ouSly, striking hard .hlaws, purciing with
sharp sticks, and pulling han cru-A4s- ouo
summers afternoon, Jet was lying on the
front piazza, taking nap, and Willie came
out and assaulted him with new carriage
whip, which had Eeen left in the hall. Jet
knew The child ought not to have the whip,
30 he went AMI called the nurses attention,
as he often did when the children were into
mischief or danger But the girl did not
give heed, as she should have done, and
Willie kept on following Jet from place to
place, plying the lash vigorously. Finding
he was left to deal with the case himself,
Jet quietly laid the young one on the floor,
carefully took good grip in the gathers of
his little frock, lifted him clear, and gave
him hearty, sound shaking. Then he
took up the whip and trotted of to the barn
with il, came back, stretched himself out
in the shade and finished his nap. The
young gentleman did not interfere with
him again, and ever afterward treated him
with great consideration.
Nothing delighted the dog more than to
go into the water with the young folk, and
to see the bathing suits brought out, always
put HIM in the highest spirits. The chill
dren calle4 him ''the boss of the bathing
ground" and so he was, as he made all
hands do just as he pleased. He would
take them in and bring them out again, as
he thought fit, and there was no use in re-
sisting him, as he could master half doz-
en- at once, IN the water. No one could go
beyond certain bounds, either, under pen
atty of being brought back, with more
haste than ceremony. But within the
proper limits, he never tired of helping the
bathers to have good time, frolicking
with them, carrying them on his back,
towing them through the water, letting
them dive off his shoulders, and playing
leap frog.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-24
A Drop Of Whiskey,

There is a man in Alameda, California,
who takes his cod-liver oil and whisky
each morning. Of course such an oppor.
tunity of impressing temperance principles
upon the youthful mind could not be lost.
SO each dose went down with a shlver,
terrible frown and exclamation, 'sBoo!
could stand the cod-liver oil, but this whis-
ky"-another shlver-''is dreadful"
Their boy listened and stored it all up in
his youthful mind, The other day he was
cleaning out the top shelf of closet for
his mother. MA, what's this 2"
Mother looks and cautiously smells.
'Oh Rancid cod-liver OIL" Soon another
bottle is handed down, another and an
other; contents varying from teaspoon
full to half cup, all "spoilt cod-liver oil. u
AT last the youngster raised his eyebrows
and gravely remarked:
''Ma, It's funny that pa lets all this
good cod-liver oil spoil, but never drop
of the whisky9"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-24

by which he was enabled, one by one, to
produce 207 faultless and perfect limitations
of the border TO the 6 per cent. bends OF
1881. This was the denomination of which
Doyle had hypothecated three to secure a
sum OF money, and at the time of his arrest
was going 10 take them up only to float the
whole $207, 900 before the interest became
due. Here are the supposed genuine bonds
with but one coupon left precise in every
thing but authority to issue. But for the
arrest, in one weeks time that vast amount
would have been placed ON the Chicago
and Illinois bankers generally. AS it was
$9. 900 was lost, and that was by the Peoria
bank. In like manner did Brockway take
the engraved plate and electrotype gen.
ulne counter" which is the circle that en-
closes the 400" also the &C." The bond
plates are of copper, the larger one having
the border of the bond and five coupons,
from which four were cut of when the
loan was made. There is also to be seen
remnant of five more coupons located i'm
mediately under the row joining the body
of the bond. 1t would convey the Impres
sion that this was originally made long
time ago. There is no evidence OF their
ever being previously used. The other large
plate contains a medallion of Secretary of
the Treasury Chase, and the other designs
incident TO that bond. Its printed stipula-
tions, signatures, &C., are precisely the
same as the original, or as near as it is pos
sibe to make two things alike by hand.
There are also two small plates for printing
the coupons and two seals representing
respectively the loan division and the trea-
sury department. Shere are three other
small plates In the iot-one of steel and two
of copper. These were intended for another
81 900 bond, either Of the new issue or the
five ,twenties, The machinery consists of
rotary hand-press and two first-class rulers,
registered and prepared for the most NIL
mute work, such as are found only in first
class bank-note printing establishments.
The officers of the law still have another
duty to perform before finishing up this
job. 1t is this: To find out where the pa
per came from.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-02-24
Then he quietly followed Coulter up

Then he quietly followed Coulter up
stairs.
The next morning Henry PenohYn con-
trived that Frank Coulter should be alone
with him in the parlor, and his sister Au-
gusta came in smiling. Her cham was
around her neck, and her watch was visible
| in her belt.
81 find that did you great injustice,
Mr.. Coulter, when last saw you," she
said.
"You accused me of stealing your watch
and chain, he replied, as his face flushed.
| see that you have them now. Had you
mislaid them9"
al had not mislaid them"
"Who, then, was the culprit9"
''Nobody but yourself.
Indeed! And yet you say that you did
me an injustice in accusing me OF the theft.
don't understand this"
"You took them just as l said you did, "
persisted Augusta, still smiling.
"How then, did you recover them?"
''You brought them back last night, and
put them on the bureau from which yon
had taken them.
''lmpossible!" exclaimed the young man.
This is outrageous.
''Not in the least. Were you not aware,
Mr. Coulter, that you were a sleep-walk-
| err"
"a sleep-walker! If am, never had
any cause TO suspect it. "
Tie entire story was then tod, TO Coul-
ter's great bewilderment, but also to his
great satisfaction, and he concluded that
nis business would oblige him 10 remain
several days at the Penohyn hotel.
That evening he was walking in the
moonlight with Augusta.
"When we parted" she said, 81 was
about to tell you of something else you had
stolen when you took my watch and cham,
but you would not allow me To hnish.
"a remember" he replied, that you
were going to accuse me of another CRIME.
What was IT,
mot a crime at all. You came down
on the porch, took my hand, and told me
that whatever happened, must remember
that YOU loved me. You stole my heart
before you went up stairs TO steal my
trinkets."
Now you must give me your hand,
Augusta, and if / should ever again get
up in my sleep to steal your watch and
chain, we will at least have the consola-
tion of knowing that the act is not GRIM
inal one"
ii shall watch you, sir" she blushingly
replied.
The law and the church gave her the
right 10 watch him.