The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 21, 1891, Page 6

ET A FAMOUS SUICIDE. Zhe Horrible End of Cato, “Philosophe the Romas Ie these sa murderer or a suieid does not 1 by his crime. the good old times” men often acquired everlasting renown by killing others and sometimes n immortality of fame” by killing himself. One of the most famous of the old- time suicides was Cato, miscalled the Philosopher. He is sometimes styled Cato of L because it was at Utica that he killed himself. He was born ninety-five years before Christ, and srovegin his youth the austerity of character which had distinquished his lustrious ancestor, Cato the Censor, who was born two hundred and thirty- two years B. C. Like all Romans of rank, he served in the army and won considerable renown in suppressing the insurrection of the slaves, which was excited and led by the gladiator Spar- tacus. Like the ancient Cato, he disdained the luxuries usually enjoyed by officers of rank. He refused the rewards for his valor offered him by his commander, and appeared upon the march in a dress which differed little from that of a pri- vate. When the liberties of Rome were threatened by Cwsar, he took service under Pompey; and after his general was slain and Cwsar was master of Rome, he thought it unbecoming a Ro- man citizen to continue to live. He carried out his suicidal intention with singular calmness and resolution. After supping cheerfully with several of his friends, he went into his room, where he ,embraced his son with such unusnal tendeness as to awaken the suspicion that he intended to terminate his life. He lay down upon his bed i read for awhile Plato's ‘Dialogue upon the Immortal- ity of the Soul When he had finished reading, he looked around and observed that his sword had been taken away. He called for it, and when his son and friends rushed into the room in tears, Cato cried out: ‘How long is it since I have lost my senses and my son is become my keep- er? Brave and generous son, why do you not bind your father’s hands, that when Cwsar comes he may find me _ un- able to defend myself? Doyou imagine that without a sword I can not end my life? Can not I destroy myself by hold- ing my breath for some moments, or by striking my head against the wall?” His son made no reply, but retired weeping, and the sword was at length sent in to Cato by a slave. ‘‘Now,” said he, as he drew it; “I am my own master.” When he found himself alone he again took up his book, and when he had once more read the dialogue, he lay down and slept. ‘Toward the dawn of day he took his sword and pressed the point into his body a little below the chest, inflicting an extensive, but, as it appeared, not fatal wound. As he fell he overturned a table, the noise of which gave the alarm. He was found insensible, weltering in his blood. While the surgeon was dressing the wound, Cato recovered hiS conscious- ness, thrust the surgeon from him, tore out his bowels with his hands, and im- mediately expired. Thus perished Cato, miscalled the philosopher, in the forty-eighth year of his age. A glamour is thrown over his suicide by the muse of Addison, who, in his tragedy of ‘‘Cato,” has glorified the self-murderer with the unfading splen- dor of his poetical genius. —N. Y. Ledger. His Offering. A Boston newspaper reports an amus- ing scene in an open horse-car. The conductor had collected his fares and returned to his station upon the rear platform, when one of the passengers left his seat and took another nearer the front. The conductor, meantime, was pre- sumably on the lookout for passengers, and when his gaze reverted to the car he saw, as he thought, a new man in one of the forward seats. He proceeded at once to collect the fare and tapped the gentleman courteously on the shoulder. The gentleman at once put his hand into his pocket and offered the conduc- tor a coin. “This is a one-cent piece,” said the official. “Yes,” answered the passenger, “I know it. 1 paid my fare when I was in the other seat. This time I supposed you were taking up a collection.”— Youth’s Companion. He Waa Sqaure. A Kansas City politician sent a card to the daily papers as follows: “Allow me to say that the account you gave of my meeting with Ald. B—— is incorrect. lam not a street brawler. He struck me first, so that I did not assault him. What I did do, was to close both his peepers and put them in mourning, and make his nose cover his face, but the report that I bit off his ear is incorrect. He kept both hands on his ears. As it is, he will not be out for some time. In justice to me, make this correction in your paper to- morrow. ”’—Detroit Free Press. Watting for the Denouement. Small Brother—Pa savs he wishes you'd make haste and propose to Sis. Young Man—Then he is willing te let her marry me? Small Krother—'Taint that. you won't come so often after you have been kicked.—Jury. Not # Dispensary. Seedy Individual (to Merchant who has the reputation of being a generous giver)—Pardon this intrusion, sir, but | is it not your wont to dispense: Merchant (interrupting) biggie you have made a mistake in the plac my ffiend. The pensary is neat around the corner of the third street to the right. mht hie AO New s —For turning ” two-hundred- feet double-track draw span over the Mil- waukee river a gas engine containing a half-day's supply will be erected on the | jbridge, to be used in case of accidents | thing she likes. y immortality He says | | A DOG HERO. | ee | How the Noble Brute Saved a Chitd’s Life at Sea. In the year 1S7- the s low left the cave of G for England—*-for -amship 5 wal- i Hope, bouna the passen hom | gers, all English, called it. Among them was a lady with a child of two | years anda nurse. The 'y had also j brought with her a huge, handsome Newfoundland dog The voyage had lasted about six days. No land was visible, St. Helena would be The day was a bez soft breeze blowing, ing down brightly waters. A large the passengers were assembled on deck; merry groups of young men and girls had clustered together; now and then a laugh rang out, or some one sang a gay little snatch of sony, the mirth of all was silenced by the loud and piercing ser A nurse who had been holding a child inher arms at the side of the vessel had lost her hold of the leaping, rest- less little one, and it had fallen over- board into the sea, into the great, wide Atlantic oceun. The poor woman, in her despair, would have flung herself after her charge had not strong arms held her back. But sooner than it can be written down something rushed swiftly past her; there was a leap over the vessel’s side, a splash into the wa- ters, and then Nero's black head ap- peared above the waves, holding the child in his mouth. The engines were stopped as soon as possible, but by that time the dog was far behind in the wake of the vessel. A boat was quickly lowered, and the ship's surgeon, taking his place in it, ordered the sailors to pull for their lives. One could just make out on the leaping, dancing waves the dog's black head, holding something scarlet in his mouth. She child bad on a little jacket of scarlet cloth, and it gleamed like a spark of fire on the dark blue waves. The mother of the child stands on the deck, her eyes straining anxiously after the boat, and the black spot upon the waves still holding firmly to the tiny searlet point. How long the time seems! The boat seems fairly to creep, though it speeds over the waves as it never sped before. Sometimes a billow higher than its fellows hides for a moment dog and child from the anxious, straining’ eyes. one can almost hear the watchers’ hearts throb with fear lest the waters may have swallowed them up. But the boat comes nearer and nearer, near enough at last to allow of the surgeon's reaching over and lifting the child out of the dog’s mouth, then a sailor's strong arm pulls Nero into the boat, and the men row swiftly back to the ship. “Alive?” is shouted from every lip as the boat comes within hail of the steamer; and as the answer comes back, ‘‘Alive!’ a “thank God!” breaks from every heart. Then the boat comes up to the ship's side. A hundred hands are stretched out to help the brave dog on board, and “Good Nero,” “Brave dog,” ‘‘Good fellow,” resound on‘every side. But Nero ignores the praise showered so profusely on him; he trots sedately up to the child’s mother, and witha wag of his dripping tail, looks up into her face with his big, faithful brown eyes. Itwasasif he said: ‘It is all right; I have brought her back quite safe.’» The mother drops on her knees on the deck, and taking his shaggy head in both hands, kisses his wet face again and again, the tears pouring down her face in streams. There is indeed not a dry eye on board. One old sailor stands near with the tears running down his weather-beaten brown face, all the while unconscious that he is weeping. Well, as one can imagine, Nero was for the rest of the voyage the pet and heroof the whole ship. He bore his honors with quiet, modest dignity. It was curious, however, to see how from that time on he made himself the senti- nel and body-guard of the child he had saved. He always placed ‘himself at the side of the chair of any person in whose arms the child was, his eyes watching every movement she made. Sometimes she would be laid on the deck, with Nero only to watch her, and if inclined to creep out of bounds Nero's teeth, fastened firmly in the skirt of her frock, promptly drew her back. It was as though he thought: “I have been lucky enough, Miss Baby, to save you once from a watery grave, but as I may not be so lucky, again, I shall take care you don’t run any unnecessary risks.” When the steamer reached her desti- nation Nero received a regular ovation as he was leaving the vessel. Some one eried: “Three cheers for Nero!” they were given with a will. “Good-by, Nero,” “Good-by, good dog,” resounded from every side. Every one crowded around to give him a pat on the head as he trotted down the gang plank. To all these demonstrations he could, of course, only reply with a wag of his plumy tailand a twinkle of his faithful brown eyes. He kept close to the nurse's side, and watched anxiously his little charge's arrival on dry land. He was taken to the home of his little and the island of the arest point tiful one, with a and the sun shin- on the sparkling nof a woman. and And on the knee of the }mow) that he had sa isin an English chur erated ground. He | plot of the family to which he be- | longed. His grave is marked by a fair prime stone, on which is engraved: “Sacred to the memory of Nero. faith- fulest of dogs.” His portrait hangs over the chimney- piece of an English drawin , ve- neath wh s, in a lew i i 1, who often looks up at Nero's portrait asshe tells the tale of how he spranginto the waters of the Auantic ocean after her. and held her Emma W. Phelps. ople. child (a woman ved. His grave h-yard, in conse- in Harper's Young —The girl with m ean have any- She can alsohave any- to the main which runs under the river. | thing she loves.— Elmira Gazette. nd gay company of | when suddenly | mistress, where he lived. loved and | honored, until he died of old age, with his shaggy, gray head resting ee ae lover the drawing to be copied and cotton satur- The tracing owing to the and the ben- ne, on evaporating. leaves the paper THE JOINT SNAKE. ‘A Uniqee and Puzzting Bit of Natural History. He is not a myth: on the contrary. is color "1 tripe so deep it i almost each side of the backbone | flat and an obtuse triangle in shape, with eyes very obliquely nd rather a wide mouth: there are le rows of small, sharp tee it. but no fangs. Bias: is dull | i ek running his whole length His head is | FOREIGN GUSSIP. agent in Duis : assessed a collection of buttertlies for the reason that they ‘ e custoy g collection passed | free as an object of science and art. —A sergeant, a lance-corpora! and @ of the balloon detachment of a | Berlin ment had a very dangerous journey lately 7 . ‘i a intending to go to Hamburg, but at the |The creature 1s not venomous, 40d | right of 7.000 feet they got into a ter- | lives largely upon vegetable food, e& | ig. yp, . at a temperature of 11 | pecially berries A field cf wild straw- berries is his fay and twines through rasplx and holds high August ¢ woodland thickets where y vines, fearth. Failing berries, crickets, earthworms. eatures supply h glides rather than ¢ apt to exa y six feet is about the the extreme, rather, as it is very r three grasshoppers, with food. wls, limit— rare to find one ov him single-handed is alm: Not that he shows fight. runs aw needed to keep up with him. To tind him go in February or March st impossible. y. and seven-league behind a plow that is bres land. away ina qole run, a foot or so under ground. When the plow turns him out he will be so nearly torpid as to let you examine him carefully and note his pe- culiar construction. You will be struck mainly with the exceeding shortness of the body proper. All the vital organs are crowded in a hand’s-length below the neck. Beyond that comes the long glistening tail, as large as the body itself at the joining, and taper- ing gracefully to the size of your little finger. here is no break. no sign of joining, in all its sincoth length. Al- most persuaded that you have been humbugged, you drop the creature ina sunny furrow, and wonder why peopie will tell of marvels that have no root in fact. When you hint your doubts to the plowman when again he comes abreast, he flings the reptile out on the unturned sod and say “Just you watch him till he comes to life. After half an hour of sunshine the creature moves .iuggishly, straightens himself, and tries to bury his head in tue earth. Evidently the light blinds him. The plowman has made another round of the big “land.” He checks his team, drops the line, and breaking a light switch, strikes the snake a smart blow just back of the head. The creature writhes away from it, but does not try to escape. Instead, it lies way- ing its body into regular undulations that run down and pass off in quick vibrations of the tail. ‘He’s loosenin’ his j‘ints; now watch!” says the plow- man, giving a stroke much lighter than the first. Then you see something truly wonderful. The long, glistening tail flies apart in regular segments about three inches long, while the head and short body, hardly larger than one section, scuttle away us though electrified. You gather up the frag- ments left behind, and see a most cu- rious sample of Dame Nature's carpen- try. Each has, at its smaller end, a ring of overlapping scale that make the joint water and earth proof. Inside of it you find three small gristly projec- tions, perhaps a quarter-inch in length, that fit accurately into their correspond- ing holes in the face of the segment which they serve to attach. When you have examined them the plowman says: “Put’em back where you found ‘em and be still and watch.” If you can obey him for two hours, your patience will be rewarded. For you will see the snake's head come cau- tiously in sight; more cautiously still he backs his stump of body up against it proper companion piece, gives a quick, quivering wriggle, and, lo! it is firmly in place. Then he lies quiet for a little space before attacking the next Ife creeps in the luscious big blackberries bend their parent stems to grubs, and such Ife ud so swift- Zgerate his fo capture Instead, he boots are king grass It is his habit to sleep the winter deg. below zero (Centigrade), and were | driven to T . Where they landed about 4 oc! -Tt IS avery remark- able to prevent persons from borrowing imprudently. An Egyptian Was not permitted to borrow without giving t creditor in pledge the body of his f -. It was deemed both an impiety and an infamy not to redeem so sacred a pledge. A person who died without discha t duty was de- prived of the dead. —All duels among officers Italian army are hereafter to be mat- ters of special investigation by the corps commanders. The circular of the Ital- minister to this effect states t of the innovation to be the ing of dueling to affairs of honor. ny duels of Italian officers are now tri Ilereafter officers reasons will be of the causes. fight for such -verely disciplined. In Paris a society has been or ganized to encourage artillery practice in the territorial army. Special in- structors of the society will also impart in leetu ifie information as to the ma und handling of big guns. Offi. of the regular army may have the benefit of the society's training on the payment of twenty-five dollars an- nually. Artillery pr will be held by the society at Vincennes every Sun- day “tice lemba, king of Segon, Africa, who was elevated to his present posi- tion by Col Archinard, was formerly in the French telegraph service in Af- rica. Mademba is a native of the coun- try over which he at present rules, but was formerly controler of telegraphs at Senegal. Before accepting his regal state he made it a condition that his name should continue to be inscribed on the list of telegraph servitors, and that his situation as king should be considered as subservient to that of his original employment. —An interesting proof of the distant travels of a stork was discovered last spring in the neighborhood of Berlin. For a number of years a pair of storks built their nests annually in the park of the Castle Ruheleben. A few years ago one of the servants placed a ring with the name of the place and date on the leg of the male bird, in order to. be certain that the same bird returned each year. This spring the stork came back to its customary place, the bearer of two rings. The second one bore the inscription: “India sends greetings to Germany.” —The conscription for the army, ac- cording to the law recently issued, will be this year much larger than in pre- vious years. European Russia will have to provide twenty-six thousand men, and the Caucasians, who stand under military regulations distinct from the rest, will send twenty-four hundred men “to complete the army.” The number of soldiers required from the central Asiatic provinces has not yet been fixed upon. The principal reason for increasing the standing army is the renewal of the Dreibund in cen- tral Europe between Germany, Austria- Hungary and Italy. —The London sewer commissioners have directed their sanitary committee to report upon the advisability of erect ing a crematory. Mr. Matthouse, one of the board, pointed out that ninty-one thousand two hundred and forty-three joint. In an hour. though, if undis- } bodies were buried last year in the turbed, he will be made whole, but | Cemeteries of the capital; that the situ- tremenduously tired with the effort. |#ton was growing worse every year, He lies flat, inert, motionless. If mer- | #74 that a reform of some kind was im- cifully left to himself, he will stay | PeTative. High medical authority had there unsheltered till morning, declared already that the state of the though the chill of night wiil | Cemeteries demanded the intervention again bring on his winter torpor. of the government. Cremation is the Threatened with capture, he will crawl weakly away and take shelter in the nearest stump or furrow. How many times he can fling off the burden of him- self and successfully take it up again there is no means of knowing. He isa shy fellow, a haunter of swamps and woods, and far-outlying fields. His coat is glassy in its smoothness, not scaly, Hke those of his relations the adder and black snake. skin, the fact is not known tohis human neighbors. Take him for all and all, he is a unique and puzzling bit of natural history worth investigation.— M. C. Williams, in Harper's Young Peo- ple. ~ Royal K When the royal family of England re- ceived their royal relatives, the em- peror and empress of Germany, they kissed as affectionately ordinary people. K ing isa notice- the Good. And the custom is marked by asad fact—the death « | afew days.— Detroit Free Press. —To make ing drawings place the sheets of paper lightly rub with a ball of ated with vure benzine. can then be readily made, sulting traasp: reney, opeque as before, and without trace of odor. Absolute purity of benzine is necessary t uny ood eurions reat One fami height is six feet six inches. } pounds, while the third bers, with a weight of Tf he sheds his able feature of the reign of Victoria of the Prin- cess Alice, daughter of the queen, who could not deny the request of her child ing of diphtheria and kissed him. in- | | haling the poison and dying herself in paper transpare: rent forcopy- | mposed of four persons whose aver- The second family consists of father. mother and daughter, who together weigh 900 had 10 mem- only 513 re only practical remedy, and prejudice against it is disappearing fast, he says. TRAVELING IN FRANCE. in W A Country Baggage Is a Nul- sance. The railways of France are not only triumphs of engineering skill, but they are also very well managed, so well in fact that some of the regulations are to us irritating. 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