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Ely ' DISCS' *him
When treason raised its hateful hand
And aimed its blows at freedom's breast,
When horrid war, with sword and brand
Our homes, our peace, our land distressed ;
When true men's hearts sank low with fear,
When freedom's arms were weak and spent;
When through our country far and near
The air with treason's shouts was rent,
We welcomed Grant.
With guns that thundered night and morn,
Where Vickburg's frowning ramparts rose;
With clarion calls of bugle horn ;
When Jackson fell beneath our blows;
With dropping shots that far and near
Fell from the swaying skirmish line ;
With bursting shell, with ringing cheer,
With roll of drum and crash of mine,
We welcomed Crant.
Oft as our arms enfeebled fell,
Oft as our ranks were beaten back ;
Oft as the hated rebel yell
Swept like a whirlwind on our track ;
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A soldier's arm, a leader's brain,
On weary march, in night alarm,
We called our leader by his name—
We welcomed Grant.
Now, by the peace his good sword won.
Now by the Union that he saved ; r
By all his deeds of valor done,
By all the pains and perils braved ;
In smiling plenty, glad content,
In country blessed, in Union strong;
Just as of old in field and tent,
With grateful hearts, with shout and song
We welcomed Grant.
—Burlington Ilaer keyc.
*torg-Etiler.
THE LOST CHILD.
Ile. had looked for him all day—all
night. It was dawn again, and he must
go home without him—without his little
child—his treasure—his most precious
thing on earth. He must go home and
tell its mother that the boy was not found.
He would never be found now, the man
felt sure of this.
All his life he had dreaded thbi—all the
little life of that baby boy. He had been
like a man who wandered amongst thieves
with a diamond in his possession in full
sight of all eyes. It seemed to him that
souse one must rob him of it. All the old
stories of gypsies who stole children had
troubled him sorely ; and his heart had
ached over the pitiful tale of the little
chimney sweeper who, more than a hun
dred years ago, while plying his trade,
came down the chimney of the nursery
prom which he had been stolen when a
tinier fellow still, and recognizing it and
his mother, was restored to love and home
at last.
Often in the night had the thought so
overcome him thafl he had stolen from his
bed in the darkness to feel the little bead
of his sleeping boy on the pillow of Lis
crib. Even his wife, the child's mother,
who had. loved him so, would Lava-la heel
at his fancies. So he kept them J,Sliim
selt. Only once—once be was forced to
tell her. That was when he tatooed the
child's foot.
Right on the instep he had marked it
with a little blue W. 1t was painful—
every prick hurt him worse than it did the
boy. And the mother, coming home, had
been angry and grieved, and then he told
her.
'•lf the child were stolen we should
know him, though his face were altered
—though he forgot his name and us.—
That is why I did it."
And she had said: "People Live chil
drew enough of their own. Cuildren are
only valuable to their parents. You are
so romantic—so foolish."
Now it had come. The foolish fear was
realized. Lost or stolen, the boy was
gone, and that tatoo mark was the only
thing that comforted him. Alive or dead,
they should know him, now or after long
years, for those marks were indelible, and
no one else would mark his fort with a
tiny W and a tinier cross that followed.
Alive or dead ! Could the boy be dead ?
He cast up his hands in his a g ony and ut
tered a cry that rang through the sleeping
street. People turned in their beds, and
said to themselves that there must be a
fight or that some drunken man was ma
king night hideous. Some early risers
ended their sleep then and there, for no
one knew why the man cried out, or who
he was, or where he went, save the solitary
policeman, who gave him a grave salute as
he passed.
Neither asked the other, "Have you
found the child ?" They knew the ques
tion was useless.
But at home, when the lights had
burned all night, the mother, who paced
to and fro, asked it, though she knew the
answer would be "No."
"You have not searched everywhere,"
she said. "You have forgotten some place
—some one's house where he may have
gone. Go out again—go. I will go also.
You told me you would bring him back,
or I would not have been left at home.
Go!"
B. JACOB
The man turned on his very threshold
"I thought he might be here," he said,
"and I wanted to tell vou—the tatoa
mark—we shall be sure—"
Then he fell on his face. For twenty
four hours he had not tasted food, but
only his faintness told him that lie was
hungry. _ _
Then the mother remembered that she
was also a wife. The wretched people ate
and drank—stones and sea water, for aught
they knew; but they looked for their child
in every direction. The river was dragged,
and the hospital, and even the prisons,
searched.
They spent their small weans in adver
tising. They posted notices of their loss
on the walls. All in vain.
After others knew that they had fol
lowed a forlorn hope, they still pursued it
as earnestly as ever. And so weeks rolled
by, the months faded, the years followed.
Theirs was a hard case. It . death had
taken the boy it would have been easier to
bear ; hut they did not believe him dead ;
where was be ? In whose hands? Had
he mourned for them and for home ?
Had he been ill-used—beaten ? They
knew nothing, and the suspense wore their
lives away. It was an old story to others
very soon ; it was always terribly new to
them. At any moment it seemed to them
that the door might open and their child
enter, and the patter of little feet upon the
stones set their sad hearts beating wildly.
This when ten years had passed, and the
child of four would have been a child no
longer, but a youth taller, doubtless than
his mother.
No other children came to these people
and they were very miserable—he had
neither ambition nor energy. The woman
went about her daily toil in a dull, listless
Welcome to Grant.
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manner. Their hair grew gray, and their
brows wrinkled, very early. Friends were
pitiful ; but grief does not invite—it
repels.
At last they seemed to stand alone in
the world ; old acquaintances and relatives
were gone, or had forgotten him. They
made no new ones. Poor, lonely, sad, they
clung to each other, and shared each oth
er's sorrows and trials. There was no joy
to share. This child would have been 18
years old—was, if he lived—when what is
called a piece of good luck happened to
them. A far away relative died and left
them a little fortune. lie had not taken
much notice of them during life, but he
had given them a thought on his dying
bed. They were comparatively rich. When
they knew it the same thought came to
each other at once. The woman uttered
it first.
"Martin," said she, "perhaps we can
find our boy, after all. When once we
have the money we will advertise him all
over the length and breadth of the land
He may not remember,
but the blessed
mark you put upon his foot, that he will
know of. He will come to ns—l feel sure
of it—at last, Martin, at last."
"Yes, it may be so, Agnes," the man
said. "It may be so; the time has been
long, the days woeful, but we may be
happy, after all that has gone. Agnes, I
believe it will be so."
They kissed each other, and made ready
for the journey which they must take to
enter upon their inheritance And they
traveled together over the rough road with
eyes that grew brighter for this small speck
of hope in their hearts. Through all the
proceedings that followed, this grew and
grew; and when, at last, they found them
selves undisputed owners of a pretty house
and money enough to live on in comfort,
they began to feel sure that their boy
would yet share it with them.
The first evening in their new home
was almost happy.
"Agnes, we must put this cash away in
a bank to morrow," said the husband,
counting over the roll of notes. "It is not
safe to keep it here, and we must be care
ful ; we have that to do which makes us
economical."
"Yes, Martin," said his wife, as she held
the light for him and he locked the small,
old-fashioned safe. "You see, when the
boy comes to us we will want to do all we
can do for him, and home must be a pretty
place. We can live on almost 'lathing
until he does come."
, Afterward, in the dark, their beads close
together on the pillow, the elderly- couple
talked on, dreaming like children.
"Martin," said Agnes, "when ho does
come, our poor boy, perhaps he will be
rough and not well mannered, he Las not
had us to teach him; we must be very
lenient."
"Yes, yes," said Martin ; "but the boy
will improve. Old as he is, he can go
to college set."
"Away. from us '." said the mother.
"No, no, he shall come home every
day," said the father. ••Will he be tall,
I wonder ? We are usually tall, but your
'people are shorter:" - . _
"Something may have happened to hurt
his looks," said the mother, -but we would
only love him the better for it it' it is so.
However he comes, we will be so good, so
good to him. He will come, will he not,
Martin ? lie could not be dead, after all."
"No, no, I feel sure that he will come.
I've known all the while that be was not
dead," said Martin. "I'll advertise all
over'the United States —all over Europe.
It' that fails, even in India, in some way.
You see, be may have been carried to some
foreign country. Men who know all lan
guages that are spoken shall see that my
advertisement is put into each one. Yes,
we shall have him back."
"[lark," said Agnes; "what is that ?"
They listened. A low, grating sound at
the door below, regular, and carefully sub
dued—a click—a crack.
"Some one is trying to break in," said
Martin.
Agnes hid her face in the pillows.—
They were alone in a lonely house on a
lonely road. They had several thousand
dollars in their possession. Martin was
not a powerful man, and though he had a
pistol, there might be two or three against
one, and then there was little hope for him.
lie arose and took his weapon in his
hand, and felt about in the dark for
matches. And Agnes heard a creaking
of the flooring and the sound of muffled
footsteps, and also sprang to the floor.
"They are at the safe below !" cried
Martin, "Agnes, the money—the money
for our boy ! Oh ! if my life is lost for
its sake, I cannot lose that. I cannot—l
cannot"'
"Martin ! Martin ! Stay—do not go.—
What can you do, one matt alone It
screamed Agues.
But he was gone: she was alone in the
darkness. It was all over in a moment.
There were shots, oaths—a fall—silence.
She crept down stairs, trembling so that
she could scarcely stand. Leaning against
the safe was her husband, blood upon his
sleeve ; on the floor lay a man in a crape
mask, stiffened in death.
"Martin !" sobbed the woman. "Mar
tin !"
"I have killed him !" cried the man.—
"Fasten the door—put up the great bar.
Ilad I not forgotten that they could not
have entered. Oh, it is terrible. but I
could not lose every chance of my boy.—
They fired at me, lat them. I wounded
both. This one is dying. lam a little
hurt—not much—and the money is safe
—untouched. Oh, to think I should have
killed a man !—I
"Martin, he may not be dead," said the
woman. "He is young. I hope he is not
dead. Perhaps he ha s ; a mother some
where. Let we bind up your hand.—
Then we will try to restore him. Dear
Martin, even ii it is so, who can blame
you Poor, poor boy !"
She bound up the graze on her hus
band's hand. Then they lifted the young
man's body to a soft, rug, and undid the
mask. A face was revealed, young and
handsome and pallid as warble.
"Oh, it is terrible !" said the wife.—
"No older than our poor boy. Oh, Mar
tin, he is dead, I fear. I will loosen his
necktie. You take off his shoes and rub
his feet. Oh, morning is so far away !
This is such a lonely place. Martin, what
is it ?"
She stared at her husband in horror.—
His face was as the face of death. He sat
ghastly and terrible to look upon, holding
in his hand one of the feet that he 11:d
undressed
"Dead !" he said, wildly, "Dead ! and I
shot him—i !"
"Martin !" shrieked the wile. She laid
the dead man's head down on the rug and
crept up to her husband. "God will for-
.
give you," she said; and then her eyes,
dilating themselves upon the point at
which her husband stared.
It was the foot of the young burglar,—
The left shoe was off—the stocking also.
The high white instep was uncovered, and
on it she saw the little tatooed W with a
tiny cross beside it. It was her son who
lay there.
"Martin !" she Ecreamed :Tait], "Mar
tin, remember what I told you. lle had
not ug to teach him what was right—re.
member."
But Martin only moaned.
"lie is dead, and I killed him!"
He felt blindly for his pistol. "Forgive
me, Agnes, for I cannot live," he said;
but at that moment the woman, with her
hand upon the breast of the prostrate man,
screamed out :
"His heart beats—Martin—he lives !"
The next day a strange story flew about
the neighborhood. The child those two
strange people had lost years ago had re
turned to them. That very night burglars
bad entered the house and wounded him.
His life was in danger. The doctor had
been there all the morning, but the
mother had no fears.
God had sent him back, and he lives
It was never too late for repentance, and
the love of those poor parents was very
strong. Slrange as the betinning was,
the end was peace, and the household, so
'strangely reunited, was a happy one at
last.
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young people the coming year. There are
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where they are not circulated ; and warm
commendations come from residents in
such far off countries as India, China, etc.
It may be interesting to New England
teachers, who are introducing these two
magazines into their schools, to know that
they are also used as text books in foreign
lands. A recent order from Bulgaria,
where one of our brightest New England
ladies uses them in her school, includes
sets from the beginning, as she finds them
better adapted than any other magazines
for translation into the language of the
country.
Although the brightest and freshest
writers and artists are employed on the
magazines, they will, as heretofbre, be kept
at their old prices, that they may be with
in the reach of all—emphatically the mug
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RITTEI ERSKINE'S CROSSES. By Pansy,
Boston : D. Inthrop & Co. $1.50.
"Among the few prominent publishing
houses which maim a specialty of Sunday
school literature, none deserves more high
ly at the hands of the Christian public
than D. Lothrop & Co. Their presses seem
consecrated.to the making of books and
papers—pure, wholesome, and safe—for
the young. In this day, when money
making seems to be along the line of the
issuance of vicious and trashy stuff, it is a
matter for congratulation that purely sec
ular houses eln sternly resist the tide and
devote themselves to the publication of
only what is elevating 4ifid good.
These remarks are called forth by read
ing the above book, and after a lung ac
quaintance with the publications of this
house.
Two years ago the writer suggested in
these columns to Mrs. Alden, who writes
under the pseudonym of "Pansy," that
she fellow up the "Four Girls at Chau
tauqua." and the "Chautauqua Girls at
Howe" with au account of their life after
marriage, their real life, as marriage is
often made an excuse fur the withdrawal
of our young people from active service
in the Church. In "Ruth Erskine's Cross
es" we find an answer, in part, to our sug
gestion. We say in part, for the book does
not wholly meet our thought, and yet we
are nct quite sure but that our disappoint
ment is to be found in the fact that Pansy
has given us real and not ideal life.
The book is worthy contribution to the
series, and the series ought to be in every
Sunday school and young people's library
in the land."—New York Christian Ad
vocate.
"At No. 32 Franklin Street, Boston, we
enter 1). Lothrop & Co.'s publishing house,
on the corner of Hawley street. Their
salesroom is a large one measuring 40x120
feet, high studded, and lighted as it is
upon three sides peculiarly pleasant and
admirably adapted to the comfort and con
venience or book-lovers. Besides this room,
Lathrop & Co , occupy two floors above,
respectively for binding and composition.
The extent of their transactions is some
thing wonderful, and we echo the excla
mation of the good man of Uz, "Of the
making of many books there is no end,"
when we are told that this one house alone
has a list of publications numbering nine
hundred volumes, makes every year more
than half a million books, and will issue
this fidl a hundred entirely new works.
The firm has many specialties, among
which may be mentioned albums, of which
they are the largest importers in New
England; miscellaneous books for home
reading, all of which have undergone the
scrutiny of an eminent corps of readers,
whose duty it is to see that nothing hurt
ful or vapid shall emerge from the house;
religious woi ks, Bibles, Prayer Books,
Hymnals, etc , together with Christmas,
Sunday-school and day award cards, sta
tionery, etc. Every one, of cmirse, knows
that this is the nesting-place of WIDE
AWAKE and BAnvDAND,though every one
may not know that it is also the birthplace
of more juvenile, holiday and gift books
than are published by any other single
cmicern in Boston."—Boston Transcript.
A StiNDAV SCHOOL teacher was ex
plaining the omnipresence of the Deity to
his scholars, and ended by telling them
that lie was everywhere. Whereupon a
redheaded boy asked : "Is Ile in my
pocket ?" The teacher replied that the
question was rather profanu but ho would
answer "Yes, lie was everywhere," "I've
got you there," said the boy; "I ain't got
no pocket."
Two young ladies of La Crosse were
standing by the side of a ditch thirteen
feet wide, which they didn't know how to
cross, when their escort said "snakes," and
they cleared it at a bound,
ALL the Nevada editors are going mad.
There hasn't been a Shooting affray for a
month.
Execution of Three Innocent Men.
An old army officer communicates to the
Army and Navy Journal, the following ac
count of how three Indians voluntarily
went to be banged for a crime which they
probably did not commit :
"The first settlements in Oregon, some
thirty years ago, were made by a colony
of Methodists. One of the principal men
among them was the late Mr. or Governor
Abernethy, as he was called, as he was for
a short time the prominent Governor of
Oregon. He was the father-in-law of our
genial Deputy Quartermaster General,
Henry C. Hodges, an excellent man, and
he must not be remembered as one of those
who was responsible for the shocking pro
ceedings which we are about to relate. A
minister by the name of Whitman, we be.
lieve, had gone up to the Walla Walla re•
gion, where he was kindly received by the
Caynse and other friendly Indians, who,
while they did not particularly desire to
be converted to the Christian faith as ex
pounded by one of Wesley's followers, saw
no special objection to the presence of the
missionary. So they lived quietly alone
for a year or two ; then the measles broke
out among the Indi Ins, and a large num
ber of them were carried off. They were
told by their medicine men that the die
ease was owing to the presence of the
whites, and Mr. Whitman was notified that
he must leave their country. Filled with
zeal for the cause, and not having sense
enough to grasp the situation, be refused
to go.
At the time the people of the Hudson's
Bay Company had great influence with all
the Indians in that region, and the good
old Governor, Peter Skeen Ogden, was the
chief factor of the company at Fort Van
couver. He was apprised of the state of
feeling among the Indians near the mis
sion by the Indians themselves, and be
was entreated by them to urge Whitman
to go away, for if he did not he would
surely be killed. The Governor wrote up
to the mission advising them to leave, for
a wh;le at least, until the Indians should
become quiet, which they would do as soon
as the measles had run its course among
them. His efforts were useless, and sure
enough one day in 1847, we believe, the
mission was cleaned out, the missionary
and nearly all of those connected with it
being killed.
An Indian war follows. This was carried
on for some months, and with little damage,
but sufficient for a claim by the territory
upon the general government for untold
amounts of money. Two or three years
later, when the country had commenced
to fill up with emigration, and after the
regiment of mounted riflemen and two
companies of the First Artillery had taken
post in Oregon, the people began to think
that it would be well to stir up the matter
of the murder of the Whitman family.
General Jo. Lane bad been sent out as
Governor in 1849, and he doubtles thought
it would be a good thing for him politi
cally to hum9r the people of the territory.
Lane was a vigorous, resolute, western
man, who had been a general o ffi cer during
thelffeireati war, and he then birrrisi
dential aspirations. So the Governor came
to Fort Vancouver, where the headquar
ters of the department were established.
under Colonel Loring, of the Mounted
Rifles, and procured a small escort, with
which he proceeded to hunt up the Indians
concerned in the mas-acre, and demand
their surrender. By this time the Indians
had begun to comprehend the power of
the government, and when the Governor
found them and explained the nature of
his mission they went into council to de
cide what was to be done. After due de
liberation they were convinced that if they
were to refuse to come to any terms they
would be attacked by the soldiers, of whom
they then had deadly fear, and obliged to
abandon their country forever. So they
met the Governor, and the bead chief said
that they had heard what he had to say.
It was true that his people had killed the
whites at the mission, but that they did so
for the reason that they really thought
that a terrible disease had been brought
among them by the whites; that they had
begged them to go away from them, for
they did not wish to kill them, and that
they only killed them to save their own
lives, as they thought. He said that for
this the whites from down the Columbia
had made war upon them and killed many
more of their people than had been killed
at the mission, and they thought they
ought to be satisfied. As they were not,
three of their principal men had volun
teered to go back with the Governor to
Oregon City to be tried for the murder
This satisfied the Governor, and the men
bid farewell to their wives and little ones
and to all their tribe, tbr they very well
knew that they would never see them
again. They knew that they were going
among those who thirsted for their blood,
and that they were going to their death,
and that death the most ifoominous that
can be accorded to the red man, as they
were to be hung like dogs.
The Governor and his party left. The
victims gave one last long look at the shore
as they took the little boat on the Colum
bia, but no word of complaint ever came j
from their lips. When they arrived at
Fort Vancouer we had charge of these
Indians They were not restrained in
any way, no guard was ever kept over
them, for there ' was In power on earth
that could have made them falter in their
determination to go down to Oregon City
and die like men for the salvation of their
tribe.
At Oregon City these men walked with
heir heads erect and with the bearing of
Senators from their little boat, amid — the
jibes and jeers ofa brutal crowd, to the jail
which was to be the last covering they
would ever have over their heads
The trial cline on, the jury was empan
elled and Captain Claiborne, of the Mount-
ed Rifles, volunteered to defend the In
dians, who were told that they were to
have a fair trial, and that they would not
. _
be punished unless they were found guilty.
To all this they paid no heed. They said
it was all right, but they did not under
stand a word of what they were compelled
to listen to for several days, and they cared
nothing for the forms of law. They had
come Co die, and when some witnesses
swore that they recognised them as the
very Indiana who killed Whitman—all of
which was explained to them—not a mus.
de of their faces changed, although it
was more than suspected that the witnesses
were never near the mission at the time of
the massacre. The trial was over, and, of
course, the Indians were condemned to be
hanged. Without a murmur or sigh of
regret, and with a dignity that would have
impressed a Zulu with profound pity,
these men walked to the gallows and were
hung, while a crowd of civilized Ameri-
cane—men, women and children of the
nineteenth century—looked on and laugh
ed at their last convulsive twitches.
We have read of heroes of all times, but
never did we read of or believe that such
heroism as these Indians eihibited could
exist. They knew that to be accused was
to be condemned, and they would be exe
cuted in the civilized town of Oregon
City, just as surely as would a poor wo•
man accused of being a witch have been
executed in the civilized Christian town
of Salem, in the good State of Massachu
setts, two hundred years ago.
A generation has passed away sines the
execution or murder of the Indians at
Oregon City. Gov. Lane still lives, not
as ex-president, bat as a poor but vigorous
old man down in the Rogue River Val
ley. The little nasty town of Oregon
city was the scene of a self immolation as
great as any of which we read in history,
and there were not three persons there
who appreciated it. The accursed town
is, we hear, still nastier than ever, and
the intelligent jury—no man of whom
dared to have a word of pity or admira
tion for those poor Indians—with the
spectators of that horrid scene, are either
dead and damned or they are sunk in the
oblivion that is the fate of those who ar e
born without souls."
John Ruskin's Advice.
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS TO YOUNG
LADIES,
See that no day passes in which you do
not make yourself a somewhat better crea
ture; and in order to do that, find out, first,
what you are now. Do not think vaguely
about it; take pen and write down as min
ute description of yourself as you can, with
the date to it. If you dare not do so, find
out why you dare not, and try to get
strength of heart enough to look yourself
fairly in the face, in mind as well as body.
Ido not doubt but that the mind is a less
pleasant thing to look at than the face,
and for that very reason it needs more
looking at; so always have two mirrors on
your toilet-table, and see that with proper
care you drew your body and mind before
them daily.
A woman must be a pleasant creature.
Be sure that people like the room better
with you in it than out of it; and take all
the pains to get the power of sympathy
and the habit of it.
You fancy that you are sorry for the
pain of others. Now, I tell you just this :
that if the usual course of war, instead of
unroofing peasants' houses, and ravaging
peasants' fields, merely broke the china
upon your own drawing•room tables, no
war in civilized countries would last a
week.
Can you cook plain meats and &abet
economically and savorly ? If not, make
it your business to learn, as you find op
portunity. When you can, advise and
personally help any poor woman within
your reach who will be glad of help in
that matter; always avoiding impertinence
or discourtesy of interference. Acci l n4 o nt
yourself with the poor, not as their
ness, but as their friend. If thy jos}
can modestly recommend a little more wa
ter in the pot, or half an boar's more boil
ing, or a dainty bone they did not know
of, you will have been useful indeed.
Early rising, on all grounds, is t ) yourself
indispensable. You must be at work by
the latest at six in Summer and seven An
Winter. Every clay do a little of house
maid's wor'k in your own house, thorough •
ly, so as to be a pattern of perfection in
that kind. Your actual housemaid will
then follow your lead, if - there's an atom
of woman's spirit in her—(if not, ask
your mother to get another).
It is not the object of education to turn
a woman into a dictionary.
Do you not feel that marriage—when
it is marriage at all—is only the seal
which marks the vowed transition of tem
porary into untiring service, and of fitful
into eternal love ?
Girls should be like daisies ; nice and
white, with an edge of red, if you look
close; making the ground bright wher
ever they are ; knowing simply and quietly
that they do it, and are meant to do it,
and that it would be very wrong if they
didn't do it.
Stammering.
Stammering is the result of a function
al disorder of tbat part of the brain which
presides over the faculty of speech, ao•
cording to an article by Dr. Hammond on
the Voice. This is proved, he says, by
the fact that all stammerers can at times
speak as well as other persons "There is
no defect with the organs of speech, no
paralysis of the tongue or lips ; but there
is a condition present which, at times, es
pecially when the subject is excited or in
terested, or specially tries to do his best,
prevents the normal systematic articu
lation of certain syllables. And this ap
pears to bc.. due to an impossibility of co
ordinating the muscles by which speech
is effected—of bringing them into harmo•
nioui and systematic action." Dr. Ham
mond was a stammerer at nineteen, but
entirely cured himself, mainly by the per
formance of some slight muscular action
synchronously with the articulation of
the difficult syllables. "With each trou
blesome word," he explains, "especially
with one beginning a sentence, I made
some slight motion with the hand or foot,
or even with a single finger, and I found
that this plan enabled me to get the word
out without stammering. In this proce
dure the attention is diverted from the
effort to speak to the performance of the
muscular action mentioned, and hence the
speech becomes more automatic than it is
with stammerers generally. And this is
the whole system of cure. It consists in
efforts to render the speech automatic."
He occupied two years in curing himself.
Colorado Agates.
Agates are found in profusion in the
Middle Park, Colorado. They occur in
large patches, scattered over the surface
in chips and larger fragments, and occur
ing, also in massive ledges. Only a very
small percentage of them, however, contain
the curious and delicate crystalization of
iron known as moss. The great agate field
is south of the Grand and west of Williams
rivers, on a high sage plain. It has been
culled and picked over by hundreds of
people. In all these localities the "moss"
is black or dark brown the usual color.
Near Grand river, on the north side, and
about three miles west of Hot Sulphur
Springs, is a small area where red moss
agates are found—that is, the "moss" is
re, or reddish brown, instead of black.
Red moss agates are rare and curious. No
search has ever been made in any of these
places beneath the natural surfice of the
ground. The agates gathered have been
picked up on the surface, generally in
broken fragments, that showed the moss
naturally.
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