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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, MAECH 3, 1881.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Important Intelligence fircm AllParta
Congress.
Ix the Senate on the 23d the Conference re
port on the Pension Appropriation hill was
adopted.   The    Fortifications
Appropriation
ears the time
.d equipments
df the  United
hill was passed, with amendmer ts. Bills were
also passed to extend for twoj
lor filing- claims for horses ai
lost by officers and soldiers
States, and providing for a new building for
the Congressional Library, fixing: the site for
the same upon six squares on the east front of
the Capitol grounds, and limiting the cost of
lands and damages therefor to $1,000,300. A
Conference Committee was appointed upon the
Post-office, Appropriation •.bill,..,Some of the
Senate amendments to the Post-office Appro-
prqpriation hill were, and others were not,
concurred In by the House. Mr. Cox called up
the Apportionment hill, and Mr. Conner
moved the consideration of the Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill. The Republicans,: with
one or two exceptions, refrained from voting
on this question, and the point of no quorum
was raised. Mr. Frye stated that the Republicans were not ready to act on the Apportionment "bill, and requested Mr. Cox to allow other business to intervene. Mr. Cox consented,
but grave notice that he "would call up the bill
otrth'24th. The Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill was then further considered, and several
amendments were disposed of.
The death of Senator Carpenter was announced in the Senate on the 24f h, and appropriate resolutions were adopted. After the
appointment of a committee to attend the
funeral and accompany the remains to Milwaukee, the Senate adjourned as a mark of
respectto.the memory of the deceased ...In
the House some of the Senate amendments to the Fortifications Appropriation
bill were, and others were not, concurred in. Mr. Cox demanded the regular order, beina: the consideration of
the Apportionment bill. At first the Republicans refused to vote, but upon' the second
roll-call they,, at Mr. Conger's suggestion, cast
their votes in the negative. The result was:
Teas, 144r nays, 68. So the House determined
to-consider the bill. A vote was subsequently
taken on ordering the main question,
which resulted 136 yeas to 10 nays—one
less than a quorum. The Speaker then
cast his vote in the affirmative, thus making- a quorum. The Republicans who voted
were Dick in the affirmative, and Robinson
Kitb'nger, "Washburn and Taylor (Ohio) in the
negative. The Republican members then
sought by dilatory motions to prevent action
on the measure, and finally on one vote the
House was found to be Without a quorum,
and the Sergeant-at-Arms was sent in quest
of absentees. The session continued throughout the night, the time being; occupied
in submitting and defeating- various propositions.
: Secketabv Sherman's credentials as._Sena-
tor-eleet from Ohio were read and filed in the
Senate on the 25th. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was passed, with amendments.
The House bills constituting Atlanta, Chattanooga and Indianapolis ports of delivery were
also passed. Mr. "Wallace, from the Select
Committee on alleged frauds In the late election, submitted a majority report, which was
received and ordered printed. A Conference
Committee was appointed on the Legislative
Appropriation bill. Mr. Beck introduced a bill
authorizing: the issue of circulating- notes of
denominations not less than §20, in exchange for gold coin in sums of $10,000 or
more, the gold to be held in the Treasury for
the redemption of the notes,, and for no other
purpose, the notes so issued to be legal tPnder
for all Indebtedness—The House remained
in session all night on the 24th without coming-
to an understandinsr on the Apportionment
bill. Several propositions were made by one
side orthe other, but ail were rejected. Finally,
about daylight, a compromise committee
was appointed, and a recess; taken until 10:30
o'clock. After recess, resolutions of respect
to the memory of Senator Carpenter were
adopted. After the session of the 25th began
the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was taken
up and further considered in Committee of
the Whole, the most of the debate being-
on a motion, by Mr. Goode, to insert an item
of §200,000 to establish coaling stations on the
Isthmus of Panama. j
A KESOLTJTiox, offered by Mr. Butler, was
adopted by the Senate oh the 26th ult. instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire
and report by what authority and under whose
appointment R. M. "Wallace was exercising
the duties of United States Marshal for South
Carolina. Messrs, Cameron (Wis.), Conkling,
Logan, Pendleton and Gockrell were constituted a committee in relation to the obsequies
of the late Senator Carpenter. The River and
Harbor Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the "Whole, reported to
the Senate and passed, with amendments—32
to 12 ...The House went into Committee of
the Whole on the Sundry. Civil Appropriation
bill, and the amendment appropriating S200.000
forthe establishment of naval coaling stations
on the Isthmus of Panama was debated and
finally agreed to—82 to 65. Other proposed
amendments were disposed of," after- which
the committee rose and reported the bill to
the House. The previous t.uestion was then
seeonded and the main question ordered, but
no f urthe r action was had. It was ordered that
the ceremonies fixed for the afternoon of the
2Tth in commemoration of the late Fernando
Wood be postponed until the evening of the
28th. The Speaker announced the appolnt-
fnentoC Messrs. Lapham, Tucker, Robeson,
Carlisle and Page as a committee on the part
of the House to attend the funeral of the late
Senator Carpenter. •    .-
Domestic.
At an early hour on the: morning of the
23d flames broke out in a four-story frame
building- at East Liverpool,; O. Egress was
soon cut o!f, and the wife and six children of
William Sloan perished in the structure.
Lewis T. Sheppard, while under treatment at Cam-len, N. J., for small-pox:, recently left his room in a delirious condition,
and has since visited ne.irly all the towns in
that section of the State.
Thomas Blackweld, employed as blaster
in a mine at Ishpeming., Mich., was recently
blown into fragments by the explosion of
one hundred pounds of nitro-glycerine and a
quantity of giant powder.
By an explosion in a fire works factory near
Jersey City on the 230, three boys were dangerously injured and four men badly burned.
The parade of the Knights of Momus at
Xew Orleans on the 24th, on the occasion of
the opening of the carnival season, is reported to have been exceptionally brilliant.
Four lottery-dealers in New York have
been lined and. sent to the Penitentiary.
The Court-House and County records at
Greenwood, Ark., were destroyed by fire on
the 2ith.        *
On the 24th President French, of the'New
Tork Police Board, marshaled all the Captains of the force at the Central office aud informed them that the evidence necessary to
convict gamblers must be;obtained, under
pain of summary dismissal, i
On the 24th a mail train dn the New Jersey Midland Road was wrecked by a broken
rail, two 'cars bein<r thrown down an embankment of twelve feet and sdfc On fire by the
overturning of the stoves. ! Several persona
were injured, but none fatally.
The money market in New York remained
in a panic-stricken condition on, the '25th.
The withdrawal of bank circijlation, aggregating, up to the close of business on that day,
S13.71«,815, was the answer! of tbe banks to
tbe clauses of the Funding! bill which were
Offensive to them. They refused to loan
money to the best business, men, and
in one instance a premium of one
and one-half per cent, put day was paid
for accommodation. Temporary loans
were called in right and left, and stocks
fell from three to seven per cent. Foreign
exchange was utterly demoralized. In addition to the call for $i5,OOO,OU!0 of bonds made
on the 24th the Secretary of the Treasury authorized the Sub-Treasurer at New York to
disburse $10,000,000 for five ind sis per cents,
at par and accrued interest, and ou this
order §3,694,300 was paid out.
LiErjTBSrANT George B, Borstett, of the
Fourth Cavalry, who was a cadet at the West
Point-A;cademy at the tiaie of the Whttta-
ker raatflsliOE, was examined on the 24th
before the Whittaker Court-Martial. Being
asked to describe how Whittaker was tied,
he proposed to give a practical illustration.
The Court assenting, he first tied his feet together, and afterward bound his wrists. He
then tied his feet to a bedstead, which had
been brought in for the purpose, and lay
down on his right side in the position in
which he said Whittaker was found. The
performance occupied about seven minutes.
By request, he showed his ability to' reach,
his ears with his hands, and to reach an In-
dian'club placed at some distance on the
floor, and finally untied himself without any
assistance. The performance was watched
with the closest attention by" the Court and
audience.
The Governor of Massachusetts has appointed April 7 for a day of fasting and
prayer.
John C. Moore, a real-estate broker of
Indianapolis, committed suicide a few days
ago by shooting himself with a revolver. He
was brother of the man who, four years ago,
destroyed himself at Lafayette by means of a
guillotine so constructed that a burning
candle severed a string and let fall the ax.
It was stated on the 25th that- the lottery
and policy dealers in New York had actually
been forced to suspend business. Another
dealer had been fined §1,000 and sentenced to
the Penitentiary for six months for selling
lottery tickets.
A widower in Massachusetts has forced
the Supreme Court of that State to affirm his
right to the remains of his wife.
Preparations were made at Fremont, O.,
on the 25th for the execution of John Welsh,
who murdered Antony Gottsacker. Just ten
minutes before the time set for making the
hangman's noose an attorney reached the
jail with a reprieve for one week.
New York telegrams of the 27th ult. state
that the threatened panic in that city had
been averted. The purchase of bonds, by-
order of Secretary Sherman, threw $3,000,000
to §4,000,000 on the streets and loosened the
money market, and the arrival of several
millions more from outside cities had almost
completely restored confidence. At the close
of business on the 26th there had been a
sharp recovery in stocks, and money was comparatively easy.
The Catholic Orphanage at Scranton, Pa.,
was burned on the evening of the 27th ult.
The bodies of seventeen' children were recovered from the ruins.
The number of deaths in New York City
from January 1 last to February 26 was 6,348
—a very large increase over any previous season^ * .
In the recent trial at Darlington, S. C, of
Colonel Cash, for killing ColoneL Shannon in
a duel last summer, the jury failed to agree.
The excess of exports of merchandise from
over Imports into this country for the twelve
months ended January 31, 1SS0, was §237,-
452,160.
Faustine Guittero, another of the murderers of Colonel Charles Porter, the Government agent sent out to collect mining statistics for the Interior Department, was
cauiht and hanged by a Vigilance Committee at Albuquerque, N. M., on the night of
the25th ult, making the fourth of the gang
who have been put to death without trial for
the crime.
. A company has been organized with a capi-
tall of §3,000,000 to build an elevated railway
in Chicago.
At a farm-house about three nviles from
Bloomins;ton, 111.*, on the 27th ult. Will Low-
rey, while cleaning a revolver which he believed to be empty, pointed it at his sister
Mary and fired it. She fell, mortally
wounded, and he wasonly by the utmost vigilance prevented from taking his own life.
The Superintendent of Schools at Little
Rock, Ark., reports that many pupils carry
loaded pistols and dangerous knives.
A pew days ago Charles Merrill, of China,
Me., killed his mother in a barn,- concealed
her body in the hay until frozen, then cut it
into pieces, part of which he burned, burying
the remainder in the snow.
Personal and Political.
At a conference of the Republican members of the Pennsylvania Legislature, held on
the evening of the 22d, John I. Mitchell,
member of the Forty-sixth Congress from
the Sixteenth Pennsylvania District, was selected as the compromise candidate for
United States Senator, and the thirty-fifth
ballot, taken on the 23d, resulted in his election. The vote was: Mitchell (Rep.), 150;
'Wallace (Dem.), 92; scattering,  2.
The Michigan Republican State Convention was held at Lansing on the„_23d. Isaac
L. Marston was renominatedfo;r*Judge-of the
State Supreme Court, and James' F.;jJpy and
ex-Governor Austin Blair for Regents' of the
State University. The resolutions adopted
close with a declaration that "when the people by petition manifest a desire to alter or
amend the Constitution they should receive
that consideration to which they are entitled,
as coming from the source of all political
power."
The Republican members of the National
House of Representatives held a caucus on
the evening of the 23d, and almost unanimously adopted a resolution by which they
agreed to vote for no Apportionment bill
which fixes the number of Representatives at,
less than 319.
The divorce case between KatherineChase-
Sprague and her husband, ex-Governor
Sprague, was called in the Supreme Court at
Kingston, R. I.,.on the 23d. The respondent
filed his answer, denying the allegations of
the petitioner, and counsel were authorized
to select a day for trial. When the counter-
petition of Governor Sprague was called, a
"continuance until June Was asked, which the
Court took under advisement.
The dead-lock in the New York Board of
Aldermen was broken on the 23d by the election of Alderman Patrick Keenan, an antl-
Tammanyite, as President.
The New York Assembly on the 23d adopt-
eda resolution directing the Attorney-Gen-
era! to institute quo warranto proceedings to
prevent the watering of stock by the telegraph companies.
Senator Matthew H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, died in Washington on the 24th, after
several weeks of suffering f rbm Bright's disease ot the kidneys. His wife, son and
daughter were with him at the time of his
death. He sank quietly away without a
struggle, 6imply dying /rom exhaustion incident to the disease that had spentitself upon
his system. He was fifty-six .years- of age,
and was born in Vermont, moving to Wisconsin in 184S-
Both branches of the New York Legislature have adopted the resolution to abolish
canal tolls on west-bound freight.
Henry «D. Cooke, one of the old firm of
Jay Cooke & Co., died in Washington on the
24th, of Bright's disease ot the kidneys. He
was formerly Governor of the District of Columbia.
The Illinois Senate on the 25th passed a
Compulsory Education bill. It provides that
every child between the ages of eight and
fourteen years shall be sent to school at least
twelve weeks in each school year.
The funeral of the late Senator Carpenter
occurred in Washington on the 27th ult. and
was attended by officials representing all the
departments of the Government and the
leading foreign legations. The Episcopal
service Was read by Rev. Dr. Paret. Senators Conkling and Logan headed the pallbearers, and the funeral procession comprised
two hundred carriages. The remains were
deposited in-Oak Hill vault, to rest until the
Senate could arrange for the official funeral
in Wisconsin.
The Legislature of Nebraska, which closed
its session on the morning of the 27th ult,
fixed the price of liquor licenses at §500 to
§1,000 per year, and provided that saloon*
keepers must give bond in §5,000 and be responsible for civil damages. A bill was also
passed making it a misdemeanor to treat a
man to alcoholic drinks.
■Foreign.
On the 23d the Italian Chamber of Deputies voted to abolish forced paper currency.
Nineteen natives of India have been convicted of conspiracy to murder the European
residents of Kolapore.
A srASSACRE is reported at Lona, in the
Samoan Islands, where the opponents of King
Malietoa killed five men, a woman and four
children. The King dispatched a body of
troops to the scene, who slayed several of the
murderers.
One of the Azores Islands has -recently
suffered thirty-six successive earthquake
shocks. Several persons were killed and two
hundred houses wrecked.
On the 24th General Ney, of the French
army, a grandson of the famous Marshal,
was found dead at Chatellon. having killed
himself with a revolver.
While alighting from his carriage in London on the evening of the 24th, Mr. Glad,
stone, the British Premier, fell and was severely injured, his head striking the 6tep of
the vehicle.
The suspension is announced of James Lyall
& Co., East India merchants, of London,
with liabilities of £250,000.
A Greek man-of-war has reached Piraeus
with a cargo of muskets and torpedoes, and
Turkey has ordered thirty million cartridges
from the United States.
By a vote of 281 to 36 the British House of
Commons on the 25th passed the Government
Coercion bill.
The Montreal banks have notified brokers
of their intention to immediately call in all
temporary loans.
Private telegrams received in London on
the 25th announce that peace had been
concluded between Chili and Peru.
A Lonj>on dispatch of the 25th announces
the departure of Parnell for Paris. He was
suffering severely from nervous prostration.
In a desperate battle which occurred in
South Africa on the 27th ult. Gen. Colley, the
Commander of the British forces, was killed
and his command* nearly decimated. It appears that on the preceding night, with
twenty-two officers and over six hundred men,
he marched up Majola Mountain. The fight
commenced on the morning of the 27th,
and after four bloody charges by the Boers
the British were forced to retreat for lack of
ammunition. Wounded soldiers who reached
Newcastle reported that not over one hundred of the British escaped, and that General
Colley was slain.
The marriage of Prince William and the
Princess Augusta occurred in Berlin on the
evening of the 27th ult, and was followed
by a grand court reception and state banquet.
Colonel Bridgeland, American Consul at
Havre, cabled to an Indianapolis firm on the
26th ult. that the French order against the
importation of pork from the United States
would soon be rescinded.
At a Land-League meeting in Tipperary
on the 27th ult. Dillon urged tenant farmers,
in spite of the Coercion act, to Boycott those
who violated the laws of the League.
In the ceremonies connected with the celebration of the birthday of Victor Hugo at
Paris on the 27th ult a procession, estimated
to number three hundred thousand, marched
past the residence of the author and were
saluted from the window.
IiATER NEWS.
The seventeen victims of^the Scranton
(Pa.) Orphanage fire on the night of the 27th*
ult. ranged .in age from three to ten years,
fourteen of them being boys and three girls.
They were suffocated by the smoke, having
been locked in their dormitories a few minutes before the fire broke out on the floor
below their rooms. There were forty children in the institution, one of the Sisters succeeding in rescuing twenty-three of them.
A Dublin telegram of the 28th ult says a
party of fifty men had visited several houses
in Kerry, Ireland, stolen forty guns, and compelled the farmers to swear that they 'would
pay only Griffith's valuation.
It is announced that General Roberts, the
hero .of Candahar, will succeed the late
General Colley in the command of the forces
operating against the Boers in South Africa.
The deposits on the 23th ult of legal-tenders from.National Banks for the purpose of
retiring circulation were §2,267,050, making
a total of §18,069,970 since the 19th of February.
President-elect Garfield and family
left Mentor about noon on the 28th ult, and
went by special train over the Lake Shore
Road to Ashtabula, and thence over the
Pennsylvania Road toward Washington. The
entire population of Mentor and the neighboring villages assembled at the depot to
witness the departure, and the General received a grand ovation as his carriage drove
up.
The start in the six days' walking match in
New Yortof or the O'Leary belt was made on
the morning of the 28th ult, in the presence
of several thousand people. There were sixteen contestants.
The outstanding United States currency on
the 28th ult. aggregated ?363,585,25S.
The credentials of William Mahone, Senator-elect from Virginia, were presented and
filed in the United States Senate on the 28th
ult. The Conference reports on the Legisla-'
tiVc, Post-office and Indian Appropriation
bills were adopted. A Conference Committee was appointed on the River and Harbor
Appropriation bill. In the House the Conference reports on the Post-office, Legislative
and Indian Appropriation bills were asroed
to, and a Conference Committee was ordered
and appointed on the Senate amendments to
the River and Harbor Appropriation bill.
The agreement on the Indian Appropriation
bill restores the Indian Commission, but strikes
out an appropriation of §10,000 for the
expenses of such Commission. At 4:15 Mr.
Tucker moved that the House proceed to the
consideration of business on the Speaker's
table.for the purpose of taking up the Funik
ing MIL* Mr. Price raised the point of order
that the Apportionment bill (as unfinished
business) must be first disposed of. The
Speaker ruled that the question of consideration could be raised, and an appeal from this
decision was laid on the table—121 to 93. At
the evening session eulogies were pronounced
upon the late Fernando Wood, and-tbe customary resolutions were adopted.
BY THE NORTH SUA:
Miles, and miles, and miles of desolation I
Leagues "on leagues on leagues without a
change!
Sign or token of some eldest nation,
Here would make the strange land not so
strange.
Time-forgotten, yea since time's creation,
Seem these borders where   the sea-birds
range.
Slowly, gladly, full of peace and wonder
Grows his heart who journeys here alone.
Earth and all its thoughts of earth sink under
Deep as deep in water sinks a stone.
Hardly knows it if the rollers thunder,
Hardly whence the loudly wind is blown.
Tall the plumage of the rush-flower tosses,
Sharp and soft in many a curve and line
Gleam and glow the sea-colored marsh-mosses,
Salt and splendid from the circling brine.  -
Streak on  streak of   glimmering   seashine
crosses
All the laud sea-saturate as with wine.
Far and far between, in divers orders,
Clear sray. steeples cleave the low gray sky;
Fast and firm as time unshaken warders,
Hearts made sure by faith, by hope made
high,
Those alone in all the wild sea-borders
Fear no blast of days and nights that die.
All the land is like as one man's face is,
Pale and troubled stilt with change of cares.
Doubt and death pervade ber clouded spaces;
Strength and length of life and peace are
theirs;
Theirs alone amid these weary places,
Seeing not how the wild world frets and
fares.
Firm and fast where all is cloud that changes,
Cloud-clogged sunlight, cloud by sunlight
thinned. *
Stern and sweet, above the sandhill ranges
Watch the towers and tombs of men that
sinned *
Once, now calm as earth whose only change is
Wind and light, and wind and cloud and
wind.
—From Swiiibume's Studies in Song.
HOW JUBE WAKED THE ELEPHANT.
A Story of a Dreadfully Naughty Little
Black Boy.
, June's life, ever since he could remember, had been, spent in " Ole
Isrul's" cabin, underneath a spur of
the Alleghanies—and a very happy-go-
lucky life it was.
"Ki, yi, Juba!" saluted Aunt Hannah, as the boy rushed into her cabin
one morning, his white eyeballs rolling
and his red lips parted in grins of delight;. "Isrul, what you s'pose is up
•\vid this nigger, now?"
"Humph!" grunted the cabin's patriarch, puffing, in the breaks of his
sentences, volumes of smoke from his
short corn-cob pipe. "I 'specs dat
boy, Hannah"—puff— "have jes' done"
—puff, puff, puff—"gone crazy ober"
—puff—" the surcuss."
"What dat you say? The surcuss?
Juba, whar dat money you fetch me
fur de garden-sass an' dem eggs? Ef
you jes' done bruk one ob dem dozen
eggs wid yer capers, I'll surcuss you,
see ef I don't."
Jube dodged a blow from the hand
that had "fotch him up," and proceeded without delay to give up every
farthing of his evening's sales.
Aunt Hannah deigned to give a
grunt of satisfaction as the last penny
was counted into her hand. Then Jube
sidled into the corner of the hearth
where "Ole Isrul" sat enjoying his
pipe. He stood for a moment digging
his toes into the cracks of the hearth.
"Daddy!" he drawled, by and by.
" Daddy!"
No answer. "Ole Isrul" never so
much as winked an eyelash, but sat
smoking his pipe as unresponsive as a
Camanche Indian.
" Daddy, say! Mayn't I go to tbe
'nagerie? My! it's a show what is a
show. There's beasts an' beasts—but
it's the elerphunt what beats all holler!
Whew! Daddy, dat elerphunt's a
whale, I tell yer!"
"Juba," said Aunt Hannah, severely, "what you sayin1—eh? De elerphunt am not a whale. How kin it be ?
It's agin natur'."
Jirbe subsided.
" Daddy," he whispered, after a few
more desperate digs into th|^ seams of
the hearth, and under coyer of the clatter of Hannah's supper dishes—'''Daddy, mayn't I go?"
" Whar to-—whar to, Jube?"        »■
" To de 'nagerie. You is gwine fur
ter le' me go?   Aint yer, Daddy?"
" Sartain, boy; sartain—ef yer kin
find a silver mine 'twixt now an' show-
day."
Jube looked disheartened for a moment. Then his face brightened. He
was not lacking in expedients and it
was a great matter to have " Daddy's"
consent. He began to do a double shuffle,
but brought up in short order as he
caught Aunt Hannah's eyes turned upon
him.
" You, Jube! You jis' shuffle out 'er
dis, an' hang dat last load ob tobaccy-
cuttin's on de scaffold, down by de tree."
. Jube obeyed with alacrity, as he felt
it would not do to provoke " Mammy's"
ire at that critical stage of his plottings.
His brain, active as it was, bad enough
to do to work out the problem "Daddy"
had set for it to solve. How was he to
find that silver mine?
But suddenly Jube narrowed his
range of fancy to a more promising
field.
If he. could find a silver dollar,
wouldn't "Daddy" think that the next
thing to a silver mine? He had heard
tell it took acres to make a silver mine
—but a silver dollar a smart boy like
him might find in "a sheep's track, or
thei'eabouts. A cunning look twinkled
in the corners of the boy's eyes. He
gave the tobacco a final shove with his
toes, then leaped down and went whistling back to report to Aunt Hannah,
and have his share of the mush and
rxnilk, for wliich his afternoon's work
had given him a hearty relish.
Next morning two of Aunt Hannah's
biggest melons were missing from Ihe
patch, and a brace of her fattest capons
from the roost; but suspicion was diverted from the real culprit by the
tracks of huge shoes freely displayed
throughout the patch.
" 'Pears to me. Isrul," said the woebegone Hannah, "dat thief mus'have
wore shoes made upon his own las1—I
nebber saw sich a foot ou any ob my
acquaintance."
" Dat's so, Hanner; dat's gospel truf.
Der aint no sich build of foot sca'cely
sence de days ob Goli-er."
Yet, as Hannah turned oft in perplexed thought, the, old sinner slyly
thrust forward his own huge shoes, giving a significant poke with the bowl of
his pipe at the sand and clay filling the
coarse seems.
"Ki," he inwardly chuckled, " dat
boy Jube better not let de ole 'oomau
know how close under b^P nose lie done
'skiver his silver mine. She'll have her
shere of intrus' off o' him, shore as yer
born." * ,
But Jube was as sly as he y?as naughty.   Aunt Hannah was unsuspecting.
"Juba," said she, tenderly, "ef I
tad the money you should go ter de
'nagerie to-morrow."
Jube was prompt to seize his golden
opportunity.
"Ef I arned, the money, Mammy,
mought I go?"
" Ye-es/'drawled " Mammy," cooling a little; " ef Isrul s'poses he kin
spar' yer from the 'baccy gathering,
yer mought.^'
"Ef yer fines the silver mine, Jube,
ef yer fines the silver mine, yer kin go,"
said Israel, pressing in the feathery
ashes of his pipe with the horny tip of
his finger. *
This time, Jube executed a double
shuffle in good earnest, and returned to
the tobacco-field much relieved. That
afternoon, when he went to the pasture
tor the cow, he turned old Brindle's
nose homeward, and hurried off to the
village to do a little trading on his own
account. Por this, fiannan had a well-
seasoned hickory laid up for him when
he came back, but Jube knew her weak
point, and when he had hauled forth a
whole quarter of a pound of good tea,
" which," he said, "afellarat a store
had gin him for runnin' of a arrant,"
she was so touched by his thought of
her, that the rod was quietly slipped
out of sight, and Jube felt quite enough
in favor to exhibit the tiny square of
cardboard which he had brought back
as the result of his stolen expedition.
Hannah's curiosity was at once aroused
by the mysterious signs thereon.
"What's dis, Juba?"
"Why, lor'. Mammy! Dat's a ticket
of'mission to de surcuss."
"Dat is? Sho, now! An' what's dis
writin', Jube? You is ascholard. What
do de writin' say?"
"It says to le' me into de 'nagerie
an' big show," said Jube, who, having
enjoyed three months of educational
advantages at a free school, felt competent to render a free translation of the
hieroglyphics which so puzzled his
illiterate'relative.
"Well, land o' Canaan!" ejaculated
Aunt Hannah. "Butwhar did yer git
it, Juba?"
Jube was ready for the question and
he assured her that " one of de surcuss-
men had gin it to him fur carryin' of
his nags to water."
Hannah did not look convinced, but
she had learned discretion in "argufy-
in' " with Jube, so contented herself
with a word of " warnin'," by saying:
" Remember, you Jube, erf you's a
foolin' me, de truf will out some day!"
Jube, however, was content to risk
any calamity, if it should only come after
he had enjoyed one day with the circus.
And he had his day, for next morning,
as we have said, he was up and dressed
betimes, and indeed, was well on .his
way to the village before the sun had
lifted his head above the eastern hills.
Such a day of rare fun and jollity as
that was for Jube! His dusky skin fairly glowed and glistened with the fullness of his delight. In all the twelve
years of his life he had never, been to a
circus, so even before he had. reached
the climax of wonders under the canvas of this one, he had decided like
the Queen of Sheba, that he • had not
been told the half of the glories he was
to see.
The grande entree was of itself a
stupendous revelation to him. Was
there on earth such another glittering
line of men, women, horses and bandwagons? There, too, were cages of
wild beasts, poking out here a great
foot and there a ferocious head, or the
whole terrible animal pacing restlessly. But the elephant was as Jube had
told " Ole Isrul," the wonder of all.
" My! Aint he a whale!" he said, under his breath, as if- fearful his words
might reach Aunt Hannah. '
And just here we may chronicle that
Jube had an adventure with this gigantic brute before the day was done. JSTot
content with following in the wake of
his Indian majesty through the whole
morning the boy, in the afternoon,
formed part of an admiring retinue accompanying him to and from his bath
in the mill-pond, which was the only
bath-tub large enough for his high
mightiness. As this procession returned
through the village Jube, anxious to secure a more elevated point of observation, rushed ahead of the throng to
perch himself upon a projecting ledge
of a corner store-house, from which he
might view the breadth and length of
the elephant's mighty back; but, in his
haste, Jube had not "taken note of the
fact that he was just at the point where
two streets converged—that, but a moment later-, the elephant must*round«
the sharp angle, with barely room to
crowd himself between the ledge and
the iron lamp-post beyond. He was
only made conscious of his predicament
when the beast was close upon him. On
came the mountain of flesh to crush
him to I'twde1"' Jube sickened with
horror, and turned ashy with fright. He
could feel the heated steam arisingfrom
the creature's moist sides—those monstrous flanks which would sweep him
from where he clung, like a fly from a wall.
The great ears flapped at and fanned
him—the small, twinkling eyes were
turned upon him. A shout or cry of
warning and horror w»ent up from the
crowd. It was answered by a careless
grunt from the elephant, and in an instant his proboscis was thrown into the
air. Jube gave himself up for lost. He
found himself enfolded as by the coils
of a serpent, and immediately there
followed a sensation as of flying. Another shout ascended from the crowd, but
this time it was a shout of derisive
laughter at poor Jube* s expense, for the
beast had lifted Vim quickly down from
his perch, and dropped him, not too
gently,* into the middle of the dusty
street. His majesty and retinue swept
on, leaving poor Jube to whimper and
rub his shins, as he crept into an alleyway close by. He was not much hurt,
he found, after an examination of his
joints and bones, but he did have a regular ague-chill from the fright, and so
felt revengeful enough as he crouched
in the shelter of a garden wall to recover his strength and spirits.
"The ole tough-hided, ole stump-
footed ole critter! I'll be even wi' 'im
yit; ef I don't I wish er may die," he
muttered, nursing his wrath.
Nevertheless, be 'w'as °tuu:e ready tQ
enjoy the night-exhibition under the
canvas, and when the performance was
over he took his last look at the actors,
horses, wild beasts and elephant, regretting heartily that such days could not
last forever.
\' Only," he thought, sidling past the
modern mammoth Teposing in state
upon his bed of straw, "I should like
to git a twist at one o' them tails of
Ms'n—like I twists ole Brindle's, sometimes, when he wont git outen the paster quick. I wonder, now, ef I'd jist
stick a pin into dat f oremos' One, an'
runferit, ef he'd think 't would pay
'im to chase me."
Fortunately, however, discretion or
cowardice decided Jube not to encounter the risk, so he started home in
safety from the village with a party of
men and boys going in his direction.
Reaching the cabin about midnight,, he
crept up the outside ladder to his bed
in the loft, and was soon rivaling Hannah and Israel, in their duet of snores
below.
From the overeating or over-excitement of the day, his sleep was not of
long duration. He was aroused,, an
hour or two before dawn, by the sound
of wheels passing along the turnpike.
In an instant he was wide awake and
on the alert. • -
"Goodness!" he exclaimed, in a
quiver of excitement. "Ef 'taint de
surcuss . and 'nagerie on its travels!
Wish-er-may-die, if I don't get one
more blink at the elerphunt." -
In a trice he had slipped from his
bed, and was at the hole in the gable-
end which did service for him as door
and window. The moonlight was
flooding the pike, and, as far as he
could see along it, there was passing a
ghostly processionof men, horses, vehicles, etc. It was the circus on its move
to the neighboring town. Without
more ado, Jube, in his airy costume,
slipped down the rickety ladder to the
{ground. He found, near the tumbledown gate, an excellent covert and
outlook. Crouching in the clump of
Aunt Hannah's privet and lilac bushes,
he watched with the utmost zest nntil
every wagon ot the lumbering train had
rolled past and disappeared, in shadowy
outline, far up the road. -'
Then his heart sank, heavy as lead.
He had not seen the elephant. It must
have gon*e by, ahead of the train. He
waited five minutes longer to see if
there Avere anything more to come. Excepting that a-whip-poor-will, dreaming
in the big oak-tree upholding Israel's
dryin
g  tobacco
crop,
now   and then
sounded its plaintive cry, not a sound
disturbed the moon-flooded stillness of
his watch. Heaving a profund sigh of
disappointment, he took one more" look
up and* down the turnpike, and was in
the act of turning about to go back into
the cabin, when an object some distance down the road caught his "attention. He crouched again and waited.
Whatever the object was, it drew slowly nearer, momentarily increasing in
proportions, until it loomed up a ponderous mass, clearly defined within the
range of his enchanted vision.
lt was the elephant, moving drowsily
along. His keeper, riding alongside,
seemed half asleep, too, as also did the
pony he rode. It was evidently a somnambulistic trip, jogging leisurely along
in the wake of the show. But Jube
was wide awake and there was a spirit
of mischief awake within him, besides.
" I.sed I'd be even wi' the tough-
hided, stump-footed ole thing," he
chuckled, squaring himself for action.
"He skeered me to-day, but I'll gin
him sich a skeer, now, as never was."
On came the" somnolent three. Directly, they were abreast of the gate
behind, which crouched the waiting
Jube. Suddenly this gate flung wide
on its hinges and the boy leaped into
the road with a screech and a yell, flinging his arms about and flapping his very
scanty drapery, almost in the face of
the beast- lou may believe his Indian
"majesty napped no longer! In an instant his proboscis was waved frantically in the air, sounding his trump of
alarm the prolonged screaming whistle
fairly deafening its hearers.
Poor Jube had by no means. calculated upon this dire result of his attempt
at revenge. His eye-balls rolled wild
and big with terror, as he watched for
a second the cloud of dust veiling the
wrestling of the fettered beast and his
angry guardian. But the struggle was
a brief one, as might have been expected from the odds in favor of the elephant. Freed from his keeperlie rushed
in pursuit of Jube, pressinghim so hotly
that he had no time to mount his ladder
to the cabin loft. At almost every step,
too, the infuriated beast sounded his
trump. A roaring blast he gave,- as, in
his mad haste, he struck against a
corner of the cabin, jostling Hannah and
Israel from their deep sleep. Terrified
out of their wits the old couple tumbled
out upon the floor and fell upon their
knees, thinking it was the horn of Gabriel summoning them from death to
judgment. What but destruction and
judgment could mean those yells and
shouts and beilowings, turning the
calm, moon-lit night into pandemonium?
Clinging together and quaking, they
managed to reach the door and to open
a crack wide enough to peep through.
" Laws, Isrul!" cried Hannah, falling
upon her knees again, all in a tremble.
" Isrul, it am the judgment«day, as. I is
a sinner! An' there goes de debbil
now arter Jube! Didn't I alius say
he'd, git dat boy, shore? He wouldn't
say his pra'rs, ner so much ez min' me,
what fotch him up by. han'. Come in,
Isrul an' latch the do', for he'll be arter
you nex\ O, laws, ef he'll only be
satisfied wi' you and Juba, Isrul! You
is wickeder 'att me—wickeder sinners,
you know yer is, ole man-—you know
yer is." .
Her "ole man" attempted no self-defense. With a dexterity quite unusual
with him, he had managed to latch and
chain the door, but now he was leaning
up against the lintel, speechless and
knock~-kneed with terror.
All at once there was a quick, heavy
rap upon the door.
• Hannah howled and sunk lower on
her knees. " It's de debbil!" she whispered, in a sepulchral tone. "He's
done come fer yer, Isrul! Speak up,
ole man—speak perlite, sorter, an'
maybe he'll be easy on yer. Answer
him, Isrul."
" Who-o—who dar'?'' chattered Israel,
with a dismal whine.
" OpSn the <iQQr <" shouted m &ngry
voice without. "I.thought everybody
was dead inside there. It's nobody but
me—the keeper of the elephant, that's
broke loose and will tramp down all
your things here, to say nothing of your
rascally boy, who ought to be well
whipped. The beast will kill him if I
can't get a pitchfork, or something.
Haven't you a pitchfork somewhere?
Hurry—your boy's in a lot of danger!
Sfir about—will you? Let's have a
pitchfork!"
" Ki, yi, Hannah!" exulted Israel, beginning to straighten his bent knees.
"Yer defrbiPs nothin' but an elerphunt,
arter all. Hi—jes' yer run an' fetch
the pitchfork fer de gemman."
"Yer go an' git it yerself, Isrul; I is
engaged," was the wife's prompt response.
" Hurry up there!" shoutedthe voice,
outside. "Fetch me the fork or the
beast will kill your boy, for certain."
"I say," answered "Ole Isrul," with
his mouth afc the latch-hole—"I say,
massa, l'se clean crippled, an' bed-rid
Avith the rheumatiz, an' the ole 'ooman
here, she's skeered clar into spasims.
You'll find the fork in the shed, so jes'
help yerself, aswe'sonable ter, massa."
With loud mutterings of anger the
keeper departed in search of. the pitchfork. While he Avas gone the elephant
had regularly treed Jube. Too closely
pressed to secure the shelter of his room
in the cabin loft Jube instinctively had
made for the only other accessible place
of refuge. Into the big oak-tree he had
scrambled, by the aid of the drying-
scaffold suspended from its boughs.
Boy, thoroughly scared as he was, did
he stop in the lower branches. Not
knowing what might be the stretching
capacity of that awful proboscis which
had once enfolded him, he clambered,
hand over hand, until at a considerable
elevation he reached the second forking of the tree. Perched therein he took
time to draw his breath and look down
at his enemy. Evidently this enemy
was determined not to consider himself
baffled. He was charging Jube's stronghold with the intrepidity of Napoleon's
" Old Guard" and. the concentrated
strength of a battering-ram. But the-
oak, although its day of kingly glory
was past, was stronger than the elephant. Its bare limbs trembled under
the shock, yet the mighty roots held
firm. The blow, however, dislodged
the drying-scaffold, so that, broken from
its fatal clinging it fell with a great crash
to the ground. In default of other prey
the elephant at once charged upon this
frame-work of poles, with its burden of
half-dried tobacco-cuttings. He stamped
and tore at and pulled to pieces the
structure, tossing the cuttings untilhis
eyes and mouth and proboscis were Avell
filled with the dust of the dried tobacco.
Frenzied by the fumes and the taste of
the weedhehatedAvitha deadly hatred,
as well as maddened by the agony of its
smarting and burning, the animal's rage
seemed to knowrio bounds. Overjoyed
at his reprieve from destruction, Jube
began a faint, -hysterical laugh as the
infuriated beast plunged' and charged,
snorting and sneezing, about the tree.
At last the elephant sounded his trump
again frantically, setting off at the top
of his speed for the river flowing at the
base of the hill. *■   ■
So, for a time, the coast was left clear
but Jube was too thoroughly scared to
think of deserting his present place of
security; and, in a little while, his
majesty, relieved of the tobacco, again
advanced to the attack. This time he
was better armed, having filled his
trunk at the river Avith a copious supply of water. Taking fair aim at poor
Jube, he let him have the benefit of the
whole stream, blowing it into his face
Avith a directness and force for which
the boy was utterly unprepared. Of
course his balance was destroyed, and
tumbling from hisiperch, he doubtless
would have fallen headlong to the
ground, but that he'had the good fortune to land in the fork below where he
Was just beyond the reach of the dreaded proboscis. Encouraged by this success, the beast charged again, but the
ground was now well strewn with the
tobacco, and, as he rushed forward, he
was again blinded and strangled by the
pungent powder." Once more he made
a frenzied rush for the river. This time
however, his hind legs became entangled among the grape-vines, linking
the poles together, so that after some
vigorous but A^ain kicking and shaking,
he was "compelled to proceed on his
way dragging the scaffold, and much of
the tobacco, with him.
At this juncture, the keeper, armed
Avith Israel's long fork, appeared on the
stage of action. Taking advantage of
the elephant's blind condition, he attacked him vehemently, goading him
right and left. Yet the beast infuriated
Avould not cry f or mercy. But finally,
in one of his blinded plunges, he rushed
upon Hannah's empty-root pit, and, the
slight ■ covering gave Avay under the
enormous Aveight, his majesty was
pitched headlong in shame and terror
to the bottom of the pit. Then his
spirit was conquered by a vigorous/assault, and he trumpeted for mercy.
It AA-as not until he Avas thus subdued
that Jube, notified by Atunt Hannah,
deemed it safe to descend onee more to
the ground; even then he did not think
it necessary to show himself to the
twinkling eye of his late adversary.
Nor, perhaps, did he feel safe at all until, Avith the assistance of returned
shoAvmenand some of the neighbors,
the elephant had been helped from the
pit, and had quietly continued its journey toward the neighboring town.
".NoAvyou, Juba, jes' you mark my
Avords," Avas Israel's closing piece of
advice Avhen the tiAnult had finally subsided and Jube, clothed, and in Ms
right mind, Avas sitting on the stool of
repentance in the cabin, " ef lever does
hear of you a findin' ob a silver mine
anywheres when de surcuss am around,
shorel#I is a liAdn' man, I'll war out on
yer back some ob dat extryshoe-lealiher
what made tracks through the ole
' ooman's watermillium patch. You hear *
dat, Juba? Noav, you jes' clar outer
dis, an' gether up ebery spear ob dat
tobaccy Avhat you an' de elerphunt hab
done scattered from Dan to rJeershebeh.
An' min' what I say,*dat dis ain't Hanner Avhat's foolin' long Avith yer, now."
And since that time Jube has never,
pined for the circus on his holidays.—
Mrs. ilf. Sheffey Peters, in St. Mcliolas.
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