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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESPERANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. IV.
ItlDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1875.
NO. 47.
Sloop On Till Day.
Oh, sleep on till day, my love, Bleep on till liny ;
No trouble assail thee, 110 danger afTray !
Oh, Bleep on till day, my love, sleep on till day.
Airs round tliee trembling,
Love-sighs resembling,
Linger a moment, and vanish away.
Oh, sleep on till day, my love, sleep on till day.
The pale sfnrs aro petting, the dawn rises gray,
Tlio kind hours thoy laugh m they hasten away
They know 'twill be day soon, the beautiful day:
Crowned to-morrow,
End of my sorrow !
Meeting, with never a farewell to say ;
Oh, sleep on till day. my love, Bleep on till day.
Yet life's but a vision too lovely to Btay :
Morn passes, noon Cometh, nnd pleasures decay ;
Soon evening apjiroaehes and closes the day.
Then laid with praises
Under the daisies,
Hmilina; we'll creep to one pillow of clay,
And sloop on till day, my love, sleep on till day.
-Miss Mulock.
TWO SKETCHES.
I. IN THE HTHF.ET.
I'm a Mack pin girl. You know the
kind thnt tells lies about their mother
being nick, or dead, or something, and
most on 'em never had no mother.
M" nnd another girl lives with old
Duffy; nt least, I don't call it much liv
ing. I'd a heap rather die with her.
Jinny (that's the other girl) sassed her,
and didn't get nothing to eat, and she
went to a house and begged, and the
cook piv j her cold cabbage. If a cook
give me cold cabbage, I'd fire it at her
head.
Duffy says mother give mo to her. I
wish mother hadn't a-beon so generous.
I Btay with her 'couse I ain't got no other
place. Sometimes I think I'll take the
pins, samples and all, for wages, and
slf?ep nights to the station-house ; but
Duffy's old man is hail up a good deal
for variance, I guess thoy call it, and
that's where hr. mostly stops.
Sometimes Jinny's better than other
times, and it's when she's coming out of
her fits of goodness th:;t Duffy beats her.
I ain't never good. I just 'keep along
about the same, and Duffy's give over
beating me. Jinny's awful queer. Sho
calls me Sarah, and my mime's Anno,
'cause she knowed a woman that took euro
of her when she was sick, and her name
was Sarah. Nobody never took care of
me, so I call Jinny Jinny.
I suppose if I got sick I could go to n
hospital. I did know a girl who went
there and died oust. Old man Duffy
went when ho fell off the dock, and she
thought she got rid of him sure enough ; ;
but he come back all right ; I guess she
called it all wrong. Any way, ho warn't
none the worse for it, if she was.
I just have to laugh when I see the
folks in the streets scared to death of n
little mud. - I declare I'm glad I ain't
iasmouaiue, so s 1 aim 1 nave to wear a ;
tram. One time Jinny and me put on I
the iHBVlun out. All tne mothers is bo
scared of their young ones getting hurt
cd a-crossing of the streets.
,J ;V V , " 1 "id the only tluug lie could think of he
down Broadway like any cluldreu. If i Henj jier to Europe '
you get walking behind people, so's to Shf) wus poue th'reo montils with her !
hear what they re a-saymg of, it s about . ,1 tM
1 ,.-.4-1. mit wiiu liint...l I
" Now, my dayling, do be careful, rny
darling, or you'll be run over.
Seems to me there must bo more dan
ger of everything if anybody's some
body's darling. ' Good laudy ! I ain't
been run over, nnd I never took hold of
nobody's hand, only oust when Duffy's
old man riz an ax and run after her like
lie was a-going to chop her; then I held
on fast enough, and hollored.
There's a young lady I know that's the
most beautiful thing I ever seen. I
wouldn't ask her to buy a pin not to suve
Duffy's neck. I don't know her to
speak to, but she's often down my way
going into the big houses. The first
time I see her sho give 1110 fluch a turn ;
sho stepped out of her carriage; now it
was just like a star coming out of the
sky. Her face was shining, nnd there
was a kind of a look to her that made me
begin to cry, though she was Bmiling.
She didn't see me then; I don't guess
she ever see me, but I follow her round
now, and I know the houso she lives in.
I was to a big reception one day at
dark, and I see her carnage down' the
line, so I just waited till he drove up,
and then I come pretty close, and in a
minute out she come. Her face was
shining just the same, nnd a gentleman :
a-helpiug her down the steps. I heard
him speak to her while ho was n-cover-
ing of her up warm with tho things iu
the carriage. I heard him say, " Helen,
my darling, my good angel," says he. ;
oiiu uiiui 1 nay iiouuiig, mit put out nor j
hand, aud he gave it a kiss. Then he
.slammed the carriage door, aud she drove
off, and he went back in the house, aud
in a minute ho comes out with a cigar
lighted; I see him then, and I know that
man I know him. Down to a place
I've went to fetch Duffy's old man homo
I've seen him as drunk as a fool. They
.11 I t.l 1 1
cuii mm nnauy uown mere, and lio can
talk up 11s lively as any feller I ever see, I
aud swear with tho other men. Is my
star lady that feller's darling ? That's
what
he called her, and he's a bad
man.
There was one day there'd been a !
storm of ice and snow, aud I luuln't
much shoes 011 me; one was a rubber
I found, nnd tho other was a kind of a
low shoe that was tied on with a string.
My feet kinder hurt, that's true, but I
suppose it warn't so bad as if I'd a-been
somebody's darling. Any way, I didn't
think much about it, only they was both
crous to keep on, 'cause they was big;
and along there come a young man with
a good.warm coat 011 him, and when he
see me we was just in front of 'a cheap
shoe store the kind where poor folks
gets cheated, unless they're Jews. And
what's ho Jo but up and took me into
that store and got me a whole pair of
shoes; and I know he warn't poor, for
they was good shoes, and wore me first
rate ; and I gues3 he wurn't a Jew
neither. When we come out of the store
he stopped a minute, and says, " Feel
better, little girl?" and he puts his
hand in his pocket, and out comes a ten
cent silver; and I never thanked him nor
nothing, but begun to cry. He was going
to put it in my hand, and there come
along a carriage, and in it I see my star
lady, and he seen her too, and she know
ed him, and smiled to h''n and bowing
her head. The silver dropped on the
oe in the street, so's I had to stoop
- sow, my uaym g uo oe enrenu, rny Wll8 neiu.iy distracted " trying to smile, i
darling; catch a-liold of my hand, myall's 0f n Wo, papa. 'The words of j
down to get it. He got very white-looking,
nnd Btood with his hat off, bo's I'd
thought he'd catched his death. Ho
didn't say no more to me, but started off
to walk very fast. I never seen him
nguin, but I think of them two, nights
when Jinny's asleep, nnd I think if they
was to come together, nnd I was to Bee
'cm a-going iutu a church, her nil in
wlute, with her fnco a-flhining, and him
a-looking so proud of her, with the look
on 'em some people do wear to their
weddings, I think I'd give 'em I'd give
Oh, granny, I ain't got nothing to
give but the ten-cent silver lie give mo,
j nnd Duffy's old pins.
11. is THE JlOSriTAIi.
i She stood in the middle of her room,
) quite still, with her hauds clasped tight
i together.
I "Helen, my darling," ho had said,
j " a great trouble hns come to you. Try
I to V)o brave. Oh, if your mother were
I living now, she would help you bettor
I than I can. My little girl, my Hcleu,
; the man you love, tho man whom I
would have let you marry, is is an in
fernal rascal, Helen !"
She slipped from his protecting arm
1 and stood alone. Then she saw that
i there were tears in his eyes.
' "I don't think I know what you
' mean. I have never heard you Bpeak so. I
Is it about Henrv ? Is it my dear
i Henry (" '
" He can never be anything to you i
, again, my daughter. He is a villain. J
, Oh, my precious child, my little girl, '
try to bo brave. Don't break down." ,
He was walking wildly up and down ;
tlio room. Sho was standing perfectly
; still. j
"I am trying so hard to understand j
, what you are saying to me, father. Who
says this ? Why do you believe it ?" 1
"I know it. Money with which II
trusted him has gone to the four winds.
He is a gambler. He is worse than I
that."
" What has he done ?" She sat down :
on a chair that was near.
" He has forged my name."
" Where is he ?"
" He has left the country; he has run
away. I must have been terribly blind
1 nnd foolish not to understand that man.
Your mother would have known. Noth
. ing will be done, nothing will be known i
1 of all this but that I have broken the j
; engagement. If my life could have
; saved you from sorrow, I would have
1 given it."
She cauie and leaned over her father
1 where he sat with his head bowed down
upon his hands. She raised his face nnd i
! kissed him. i
"Father," she said, "I shall bear :
th-H. it wi uot kin mp
Then she had left him, and necking
her own room, had locked herself in.
She was bravo. She tried to let no
ono Bee that she suffered; but it was a
tragedy in which she was cast for the
heroine's part. And her father, who
watched her closely, saw that she was
-P,in,1i,,li,-n. n,l .n.fin, i,
When she was again in her own home, !
she said, " I suppose you wanted to find i
what they call distraction for me, and I j
that dreadful old song ore always singing
1 themselves 111 my ears to this stupid old
' tune:
" ' From sport to sport they hurry me
To banish my regret.
And when tliov win a smile from me
They think that I forgot.' "
And she began to sing it, but she
broke down, nnd cried instead. Then '
; her father knew that his experiment had !
not succeeded.
( " You want something to do, my 1
I dear 4 Well, suppose you take riding
lessons; that will be good exercise, I'm
' sure."
Miss Hetty Malcolm was 0110 of the
1 best women iu the . world. Sho went j
I about the city in her quiet brown dress, !
j doing good everywhere. She had known j
! Helen's mother, and she loved Helen,
j and knew all about the trouble that had j
I come to her, and she partly guessed, ,
i too, at tho unrest and longing that the i
I girl felt. 1
s " Helen," said she, " I wish that you
i loved little children that you liked to j
'. be with them mid to Rinnsp them."
" I don't. Miss Hetkv.
They bother
me, nnd make me cross.'"
" Have I ever told you nbout tho hos-1
pital that my nephew lias under his j
eare ? There are sometimes fifty little
children. There is a great deal of suffer-1
ing and pain among them, but they aro !
so patient and sweet, it does mo good to
be near them. And then they are so
well and tenderly cared for ! Will you
go there with me, Helen ?"
" Oh, Miss Hettv, I cannot ; I don't
want to do that. But," she added, " I
would like to givo some money, if you
will let mo, for the hospital."
When she was gone, Helen sighed.
" Ah, how happy aud busy Miss Hetty
is with all her good works ! I wish I
knew what there is for me to do. I do
hate my life, it is so useless and tire-
some; and tney nil tlunK 1 am grieving
1 11 11 Al "lT
lor the past, anil it is not that, lor 1 am
grieving more for the present. I wish I
had been born to a scrubbing brush in
stead of a silver spoon; then I should
have been obliged to work for my liv
ing. That woidd be an advantage.
Well, at least I will not sit here com
plaining to myself. I must go,out in the
air aud take a walk; that may give me
something to think about."
She had taken her way through some
quiet streets that she might avoid meet
ing many people, and ns she hurried
along her eye was attracted by the sign
on a house door " Hospital for Chil
dren." W Just then from the other side of the
street a little ragged girl came running
toward her, holding in her outstretched
hand a bit of lace that Helen had worn
nbout her neck. She was breathless with
her haste, and bmiling with unmistakable
delight; but as she gained the middlo of
the crossing a carriage dashed around the
corner, and before the driver had seen
her or reined in his horses she had fallen
beneath their feet. With a horror she
could never forget, Helen saw the wheels
go over her. In an instant Helen had
caught her from under the carriage and
carried her tenderly to the sidewalk.
She thought the child was dead, and
bold her with a sort of awe, while slowly
from a cut over the pale temple fell drops
of blood on Helen's dress.
Then Helen remembered tho hospital,
nnd, followed by the curious crowd, she
carried the child toward the house. Her
breath came hnrd, and ns she pnnsed a
moment at tho foot of tho steps th 1
door above opened wide, nnd a toll
young man enme quickly out to meet her.
" Oh, Dr. Lamed 1 she said, with
something of the flame relief in her
heart that Juliet felt when she saw Friar
Lawrence standing near her in the tomb.
"I have never," said Dr. Andrew
Larned, when he described the scene to
a friend " I have never seen anything
so beautiful as Helen Le Roy, Btanding
pale and stately, with divine pity making
tender her perfect face, and in her nrms,
held so gently, wrapped so carefully,
thnt beggar eluld. "
She followed him into the house,
where, in a little room, a low white" bed
was waiting for some such burden.
"The horses trampled her down.
Sho was running to bring me a bit of
laco I had lost, and she fell before my
eyes, and I could not help her. Oh, it
is so horrible !" said Helen, with a little
sob.
" She is not dead. Will you help me,
Miss Le Roy V He looked at her
steadily. He knew that if ho trusted her
with some responsibility, she would con
quer her emotion.
" I will do what you tell me."
" You have only to kneel down here
nnd bathe these stains from her face, and
here where the cut over tho temple is
hidden in her hair."
She obeyed him silently.
" I must leave you alone for a few mo
ments, while I call the nurse and get
some things that I shall need. Do not
bo troubled; there is nothing you can do
for her but this." Ho watched her a
minute, and then left the room.
As Helen watched she saw that the ex
pression of tho cliild's faeo had changed,
nud then tho closed eyelids quivered and
slowly opened, and two gray eyes re
garded her with amazement. She spoke
softly, thinking that the child might be
frightened at finding herself iu this
strange place.
" You are with friends, dear; we will
be very kind to you."
She seemed not hear or not to under
stand, but kept her eyes fixed on Helen's
with the same look of wonder, until sud
denly a beaming smile shone over her
face a smile of recognition aud pleasure
and with a faint, glad voice she said:
" Oh, my beautiful lady ! my star
lady 1" and then tho light died away,
and she lost consciousness again.
Dr. Larned, coming back to tho room,
found Miss Le Roy still at her post.
" She has spoken. She was conscious
for a moment, and she looked at me as
though she knew me, and was glad to
seo me. Oh, Dr. Larned, let mrBtay
here oud take of this poor little gill. If
you only knew how I have longed to bo
useful in some way!" she said, with 11
sudden frankness that surprised herself.
" And perhaps you can tell me perhaps
I can find some work here."
Sho had risen, and stood before him
with the uudried tears still upon her
chveks. All good impulses seemed
aroused within her, and her face glowed
with a living light of charity and hope.
" There is work, plenty- of work,
among thoso poor little children; but
aro you sure forgive me; but is this
what vou want to do ("
So Helen had found something to do.
Every day she was at the hospital, caring
for the children, sootluiig those who suf
fered with her gentle touch and words,
amusing the tired ones with little stories
and songs, ministering wherever she
passed with cheerful looks and kindly
influence. The children all learned 'to
love her and to watch eagerly for her
coining.
As for Andrew -Larned, he always half
expected her, and yet it was a never
ending sweet surprise to see at the end
of the long sunny room a tall fair girl
singing quaint old songs for the listen
ing children; and he would stand a mo
ment silent in the doorway, waiting till
tho verse was ended and she lifted her
eyes to his with a smile.
Down stairs in the darkened room lay
the little girl that Helen had carried in
her arms. She had never been quit')
conscious since that first night when sho
spoke. Sometimes she had been wild with
fever and delirium, and then Helen alone
had been able to quiet her. No one
else seemed to have any power.
It was in the afternoon. Without, tire
sun was sparkling . on the new-fallen
snow, and the street was gay with sleigh
bells and cheprful voices and bright
colors; but iu the sick child's room all
was silent and dim, and Helen, who was
watching, could only discern that pale
face worn with fever. She was lying so
still that a strange anxiety came to the
watcher, and when Dr. Larned just stop
ped a moment on his way up stairs sho
was glad .to see him. He bent over the
child, and then gazed more closely.
" She has not moved for an hour. I
was growing anxious when you came in.
How is sho '"
Dr. Larned came beside her where she
was standing.
" Miss Helen," he said, very softly,
" sho is dying."
The quick tears came to Helen's eyes.
She loved this poor child as we love any
leing 011 whom we expend care and sym
pathy ; and there was another feeling,
almost of gratitude, that made Helen
stoop down and kiss her forehead.
" But for her I should never have
come here among the childr.en,"she said,
simply.
Then there was heard a faint voice,
like the voice of a spirit, saying :
" Is my star ludy here ?"
Helen, wondering, but remembering
the strange words that she had spoken
before, answered, " Yes, I am here."
" Open the window. I want once to
see you, near. Oh, I wish, I wish "
Then, as the mellow sunlight came into
the room, she saw Dr. Larned, and sud
denly she seemed to gather all her ener
gies, and cried aloud, with a clear, ring
ing tone, It's him ! it's him ! oh,
glory f" Her voice grew weak, but she
went on. "I know you, too. You are
that good man. I ain't never spent the
silver you give me ; it's here round my
neck ; it's for you again." Her voice
was failing. " I can't see ; gi' me your
hands. I guess I'm a-dying ; and when
I get up there, there ain't only one thing
I'll ask bless him and my star lady,
that's come together at lost 1 Amen." .
And bo their strange unknown littlo
friend died, holding their hands in hers ;
but her prayer lived nfter her, nnd was
answered, for these two have been blessed
with perfect love and faith, in sweet
companionship.
Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago.
Wre are so in the habit of modestly con
sidering ourselves the youngest of peo
ples, pays an exchange, that we continu
ally forget it is a fault which we are every
day outgrowing. We have some towns
which could claim anywhere tho honors
due to respectable maturity, nnd ono of
these, Weymouth, in Massachusetts, re
cently celebrated tho two hundred nnd
fiftieth nnnivorsnry of its settlement.
Col. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., made
an admirable address on tho occasion,
giving au interesting history of the place.
In his introduction he referred to the
town's cotemporaries, plucing it iu wor
shipful company. " When the first Euro
pean," he said," mndo his homo iu old
Spain wheu the earliest rude hut was
framed on yonder north shore of Phil
lips' Creek the modern world in which
we live was just assuming shape. Few
now realize how little of that which
makes up tho vast accumulated store of
human possessions which we have in
herited from our fathers which to us is
as the nir wo breathe had then exist
ence. The Reformation was then young
Luther and Calvin and Erasmus were
men of yesterday; the life-and-death
struggle with Catholicism still tortured
Eastern Europe. The thirty years' war
iu Germany was just eorflnieuoed, and
tho youthful Gustavus Adolphus had yet
to win his spurs. The blood of Saint
Bartholomew was but half a century old,
and the murder of Henry IV. was as near
to the men of 1022 as is that of Abraham
Lincoln to us. The great Cardiual-Duko
was then organizing modem France;
Charles I. had not yet ascended the
English throne; Hamden was a young
country gentleman and Cromwell uu un
pretending English squire. While men
still believed that the sun moved round
tho earth, Galileo and Kepler were
gradually ascertaining thoso laws which
guide the planets iu their paths; Bacon
was meditating his philosophy ; Don
Quixote was a newly-published work
with a local reputation; and Miltou, not
yet a Cambridge pensioner, was making
his firtit essays at verse. Shakspeare
had died but six years before, and indeed
the first edition of his plays did not ap
pear until tho very year iu which Wey
mouth was settled."
Trapping Grasshoppers la Algeria.
Gen. Chauzy, this past season, issued
a circular to the generals of divisions and
prefects in Algeria, directing them, in
dealing with these public pests, to adopt
the method which has been successfully
employed in Cyprus. This comprises
systematic seeking and rt-troying of the
grasshoppers' eggs, and also attacking
the prickets on the march. It seems that
before becoming full-blowu grasshop
pers, the crickets, about a month after
they are hatched, begin to march, and
this they do in largo, compact masses
for a period averaging some twenty
seven days, during which they never
swerve from the line of route once
adopted.
The people of Cyprus take a band of
silk from sixty -five to seventy centi
metres high and 100 metres long, and
this they tie vertically to poles firmly
fixed in the ground, tho upper port be
ing waxed or bordered with oil silk to a
width of about ten centimetres, and the
earth so heaped up uuder it a3 to leave
no crevice between the silk aud the
ground. A second baud is then set up,
so as to form a sort of gallery of grad
ually diminishing width, being at the
mouth somewhat wider than the column
of crickets, but only five metres wide ut
the other end, where is a trench five
metres long, 0110 and a half wide, and
one deep. I his forms tne trap or " sys- j
tern," several of which, 100 metres long,
can bo placed end to eud aud transport
ed to any point threatened by the in
vaders. All that has to be done is to
wait till the column of crickets has reach
ed the trench. Then it is covered in
with earth, and nothiug more is seen of
tho crickets.
About the Baby.
A baby is a very tender thing, people
say ; but most of them aro very far from
knowing how tender. Imagine how ner
vous you are iu certain states when re
covering from illness, say ; when the fall
of a book or the slam of a door makes you
quiver aud feel faint, as if some one gave
you a blow. That is tho way a young
baby feels at its best. A puff of wind
will set it gasping, its littlo breath blown
quite awuy. A noise makes it shiver, a
chauge of summer air makes it turn
death-cold. A baby is the most nervous
of beings, and the tortures it suffers iu
going to sleep and being awakened by
careless sounds wheu just " dropping
off " are only comparable to the same ex
perience of an older person during an
acute nervous headache. Young babies
ought to pass tho first months of their
lives in the country, for its stillness no
less thou it3 fresh nir. But where silence
is not to be commanded, baby may be
6oothed by folding a soft napkin, wet in
warm water, lightly over the top of its
head, its eyes and ears. It is the best
way to put nervous babies to sleep. A
fine towel would be wet and laid over its
head, the ends twisted a littlo till it made
a sort of skull-cap, and though baby
sometimes fought against being blind
folded in this way, five minutes usually
sent him off iiito deep and blissful
slumber.
A Hard Place to Ride.
A man was found on a wheel trtick of
a passenger cur at Reading, Pa., the
other day, who said he had come all the
way from California, and had traveled in
that inanner altogether. Such business
as that is terrible to contemplute. To
be doubled up under a passenger car
and exposed to the cold air and the dust,
while being whirled along at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, to say nothing of
the noise and danger, is something ro
mantically fearful.
A well authenticated cose of death
from the sting of a hornet recently oc
curred in England. A woman who was
stung by one in the neck fainted imme
diately and expired in a few minutes.
Knlnkana's Kingdom.
The Sandwich Islands, otherwise called
the Kingdom of Hawaii from the princi
pal member of tho group, ought to re
ceive ft littlo popular attention at this
time when its ruler is the guest of the
United States, the Boston Journal says,
especially if it is true, as suspected, that
our government will be called upon to
ratify a closer connection with thoso far
off isles as the upshot of the present royal
visit. The islands are twelve in number,
comprising in all a little over 6,000
square miles about the size of Con
necticut and Rhode Island. Two-thirds
of this area belongs to the island of
Hawaii, although Oahu is better known
generally from its containing Honolulu,
the capital city, which has about 10,000
inhabitants. The population of tho
whole group in 1872 was 50,897 about
the samo as thnt of our county of
Plymouth. It will be seen, therefore,
that tho islands are very sparsely inhabi
ted, which is necessarily the case, owing
to their broken, volcanic sm'face. Moun
tains rise to the height of 14,000 feet
above the sea level, and the soil is mainly
composed of disintegrated lava nnd
basalt. To return to tho population, it
appears by tho last census of the inhabi
tants that there were 40,044 persons of
the pure native race, 2,485 of mixed
origin, 1,938 Chinese, 880 Americans,
019 English, and the remainder hailed
from other European countries.
The twentieth degree of north latitude
runs through the group, so that they aro
in the samo latitude as Cuba, while the
climate is said to be even more favorable
for the growth of sugar cane, cotton, and
other products of a tropical character.
There are good harbors, which would of
ford convenient coaling stations for our
steam commerce with China and Jujiuu.
Last year the islands took from us goods
to the value of jfl, 000,000, and the year
before they Bout us 2,128,000 worth.
Their export of sugar is about 12,000
tons, and, it is said, might be easily
doubled. Their other exports are coffee,
rice, tallow, hides, beef, mutton and ship
supplies. Tho government is that of u
constitutional monarchy, the people
huving a voice iu the choice of their
sovereign. The present king was chosen
last February. He has a regular cabi
net, all of whose members are American
or English, and a council of sixtoeu
members, one-half of whom are natives.
The revenues in 1872 were $904,95(1.
There are hundreds of schools, in which
knowledge is taught both in the native
and the English tongues; numerous
printing presses at work, and a half
dozen newspapers, some in Hawaiian
aud some in tho English languages. On
tho whole, it is a fair little kingdom for
the Hawaiians and other residents
whether we waut it annexed to the Union
remains to be seen.
The Bear in Winter.
A writer in tho Popular Sefciee
Jfunfhli says : " One of the most curi
ous characteristics of the bear is its habit
of hibernating through tho winter.
During the autumn it becomes very fat,
and about the end of October, completing
its winter house, ceases feeding for the
year. A remarkable phenomenon then j
takes place in the animal's digestive
orgaus. The stomach, no longer supplied
with food, contracts into a very small
space. A mechanical obstruction called
the " tappen," composed of line leaves or
other extraneous substances, blocks the
alimentary canal and prevents the out
ward passage of any matter. The bear
continues iu its den until tho middle of
April, in a dull, lethargic condition. If
discovered and killed at any time iu this
period, it is found to bo as fat as at tho
beginning. It is said, however, that if it
loses tho ' tappen ' before the cud of its
hibernation, it immediately becomes ex
tremely thiii. During the hibernation
the bear gains a new skin upon tho balls
of its feet, and during the same time also
the female bear brings forth her young,
from two to four in number. The latter
act occurs generally from the middle of
January to the middle of Februiu'y. The
pairing season occurs in the summer,
from June to September. The period of
gestation is about seven months, and tho
newly born cubs are scarcely larger than
puppies."
A Kansas Law-Point.
At White Cloud last week they had a
case the decision of which beats the
celebrated judgments of Solomon. A
person owing another money gave lu'm a
bill of sale of his safe. The time expired,
the debt was not paid and the person
holding the lull of sale took possession
of the safe and removed it to quarters
provided for tho purpose. Tho former
owner's books were in the safe, and ho
asked and received permission to unlock
tho safe and tuke them out. Iu relock
ing tho safe he changed the combination
so that no person but himself could open
it, and upon demand refused to divulge
the secret. On complaint of the
owner of the safe this person was
arrested on a criminal charge. Both
parties eugaged lawyers and tho trial
commenced. Tho attorneys for tho de
fendant set up tho plea that tho combi
nation of the lock was in the mind of the
defendant and nowhere else and that the
sole question was whether a man's mind
was subject to a mortgage or bill of sale.
Strange to say, tho attorney for the
prosecution admitted that this was the
decisive point, and the justice of course
dismissed the. suit.
Fanners' Boots aud Shoes.
A farmer who has been accustomed to
wear tliick boots for more than forty
years past says that, liefore wearing the
boots, give the bottoms a good coating
01 tallow or coal-tar, and dry it in; then
oil the uppers with castor oil, about one
tublospoouful to each boot; then oil them
twice a week with castor oil, when one
teaspoonful will be sufficient. If the
weather should be rainy, or you are com
pelled to work in water during the day,
wasn your Inxits clean at night, hold
them by the fire until quite warm, and
oil them while wet, and you will liave no
trouble about your boots getting hard
and shrinking up so that you cannot get
them on. If the leather should become
red give a coat of ordinary shoe blacking
before oiling. The effect of castor oil is
to soften the leather, while it fills the
pores and prevents the water from enter
ing. I have stood in mu.d and water ten
hours a day for a week without feeling
any dampness or having any difficulty in
getting my boots on or off.
Wasted Eloquence.
The Baltimore Bulletin has the follow
ing : " Some years ago a young lawyer
of Baltimore, struggling for recognition
in his profession, and achieving 110 very
rapid or brilliant success in it, had a caso
fall into his hands that promised a pretty
good fee. A gentleman's pocket hail
been picked of a watch, aud the thief
was iu jail enjoying an excellent prospect
of a protracted term in tho penitentiary,
the evidence connecting him with the
crime being very complete. Tho lawyer
we might as well say who it was at
once nnd be done with it Mr. John L.
Thomas, called on his incarcerated client
and hud a talk with him. Did you steal
tho watch ?' ' Well, no, not exactly.
You see I was in the crowd that did it,
aud it was passed to me. But I'll tell
you what, Mr. Thomas, if you'll get me
off I'll give you this watch 111 addition to
tho hundred dollar retainer you have
already.' Mr. Thomas looke'd at the
watch and found it ft splendid piece,
worth 000 easy. It would appear that
Townsontown had gained ft reputation
even iu those days, for Mr. Thomas's
first step was to change th venue to tho
county. Tho case came up iu duo sea
son, aud the prisoner, tho counsel, tho
prosecuting witness, and all were on
hand. Somehow or other tho chief
prosecuting witness, upon whoso evi
dence as the loser of the watch the pris
oner's fate depended (while waiting for
the court to reach the case), got to drink
ing Townsontown whisky. At any rate,
when tho witness got on tho stand and
Mr. Thomas got at him he was so mixed
that it was only out of Christian charity
that Mr. Thomas was induced to refrain
from making him prove that he had
stolen his own watch himself. The cul
prit was discharged from custody, and
lie handed Mr. Thomas the watch and an
$100 besides. The emotions of the late
prisoner and his friends found vent nt
the Smedley House iu the appropriate
apartment, and Mr. Thomas, feeling to a
certain extent responsible for their safe
return to Baltimore, hired an omnibus
and all drove iuto town iu a condition of
great happiness. Mr. Thomas went
home quito pleased with tho day's work.
.'Well, John,' said 0110 of his family,
1 made a big feo to-day, didn't you t'
' Oh, yes,' replied Mr. Thomas, smiling
and putting his baud in his vest-pocket.
A shadow of doubt overspread his coun
tenance; it deepened into positive alarm, ;
and then with a look of blank dismay and
disgust ho sank into a chair. While ;
coming in the 'bus his rascally client had :
relieved him of both watch and fee.
Several years afterwards, when Mr. j
Thomas had made a name in the profes- j
sion and had become Prosecuting Attor- 1
ney, ho saw among the batch of new
cases in the criminal court the very fel-
low that had served him such a trick, j
The man saw him, his countenance fell, 1
and ho plead guilty on the spot, and got '
ten vears across tho Falls. But you j
should hear Mr. Thomas tell this etory
himself."
The Hestroyer of the Vinos.
Tho Phylloxera is a very minute in
flect, measuring, when fully grown, uot
more thau l-3:5d of an inch iu length.
Its most striking feature is its proboscis,
which lies in a sort of groove on the
under side of the insect, and with which
it itierees the roots on wliieli it feeds.
This proboscis is very slender, and
pears to ho lormed ol turee tongues, a
greater one in the middle, and two, more
slender aud shorter, on tho two sides of
it ; it resembles a brown thread bendiug
round and inserting itself iu the tissue.
The base of the proboscis is a sort of Hat
and sharp-pointed blade, composed of
brown parts which prolong themselves !
into tho tongues, lho unimul raises
this blade a little iu applying its pro
boscis to its food. The length of the
sucker is equid to about half that of tho
body of the phylloxera, which does not
bury more than half of it in the bark of
the roots. By this sucker the insect
fixes itself to the spot which it has
chosen, so that it can bo made to turn
upon it as on a pivot. In color tho phyl
loxera, during the summer at least, is 1
yellow, but m tlie late autumn it turns to
u copper-brown tint, wliich lasts through
the winter.
ilio active hie ol thu pliyl
loxera lusts from the beginning of April 1
till the latter hull of October. ilio in- j
sect hibernates through the other i
months, though previous to the com-
mencement of hibernation the females :
who have laid eggs during the past fica- :
sou dio off, leaving only young insects, i
which, as we havo said, turn to a copper- 1
brown color at this period, renewing j
their light yellow tint iu tho spring. The j
phylloxeras do not increase much iu i
numbers during the months of April and
May, but an extensive reproduction of
the' insect is clearly marked in June and
July, while it assumes prodigious pro
portions in August and September, in
the latter mouths often covering the
root-shoots in a continuous mass, so as
to make them oppeur completely yellow
with their bodies.
Convulsions in Children.
The lists of deaths of this d'iseaso are
fearful, with a prospect of becoming
more fearful, as tho causes multiply.
Constipation of the bowels is tho univer
sal, immediate, or exciting cause, while
the fresh fermented bread, fried meats,
or cakes, sweetmeuts, confections, indi
gestible pastry, and abominable com
pounds of butter, lard, eggs, sugar, and
starch, called puddings, are the predis
posing causes. I have known, says tho
Scicnve of Health, many a robust-looking
child of two or "three years, partake
of a hearty supper of criddle-cakes souk-
ed in butter aud molasses, with salted
ham, or miuce-pie, aud sometimes the
accompaniments of pickles, old cheese,
or dried beef, retire to bed an hour later,
nud dio of oonvidsiona before morning.
But this is not the place to write a lec
ture against " murdering the innocents."
Tepid enemas, repeated until the liowela
are freely moved, the warm bath, fomen
tations, and sips of cvld water, are the
remedies.
Children who are predisposed to con
vulsive disease are more liable to have
them developed during the period of
dentition; but it is only necessary to
keep the bowels open to obviate all se
rious consequences.
Convulsive paroxysms often precede
the eruptive stage of exanthema small
pox, scarlatina, measles, and erysipelas.
In these cases they are not alarming, and
need no special treatment
FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
A'.HpiirioiiH Ulna Mnkp I.nls of Tun for tlie
.Honey I'linnRern.
As the members of tho New York
Stock Exchaugo were pleasantly occu
pying the time while awaiting the arrival
of King Knlaknna by knocking off each
other's hats, a commotion was observed
at tho door and n tall, robust colored
man was carried iu, borne rapidly to tho
front of the rostrum hud placed standing
upon the table. Everybody chnered
lustily, aud ft report began to circulate
that tho monarch of tho Sandwich
Islands was present. Ho had a new and
glossy silk hat on his h"nd and a tin
trumpet under his arm. With perfect
composure he put tho instrument to his
mouth and blew n blast such ns has
never before been henrd iu that or prob
ably nuy other stock exchaugo.
As soon ns Vice-President Mitchell,
who occupied the rostrum, recovered
from his astonishment ho ordered tlio
bogus king out, but the more earnestly
he insisted upon his retirement tho more
vigorously did tho bogus sovereign
sound his trumpet. Ho had taken off
his hat and placed it nt his feet and np
peared to be absorbed in a sort of musi
cal ecstney, from which ho v,ai rudely
awakened by half a dozen brokers throw
ing their arras around him and bearing
him to the door. Other brokers, not yet
tired of tho fun, resisted this attempt
and tried to replace him on tlio rostrum.
The rapping of tho vice-president's mal
let was not henrd amid tho tumult.
When the sable visitor was finally shot
into the street, his new silk hat had been
flattened to the thickness of a pancake.
The total cost of the entertainment was
$13.25 ; namely, $8 for the hat, $0.25
for the trumpet, and $5 to tho colored
representative of royalty, who refused to
take the risk for a single cent less. It
is not known whether Mr. Walter Neil
son paid the whole sum or only a portion
of it.
Hardly had the members regained
their composure when from tho Wall
street entrance a party of brokers wero
seen advancing toward the rostrum. Iu
their company was an Italian family con
sisting of an organ grinder, his wife and
a baby. The itinerant musician carried
his instrument with him, and walked for
ward, occasionally shrugging his should
ers in mih protest against tlio manner in
which he had been torn away from his
avocation at the comer of a neighboring
street. His wife was less composed, and
lamented with tears aud waitings the de
plorable fate whichshe evidently believed
was in store for lief husband. When tho
party arrived in front of tho rostrum, tho
Italian wishing his organ and calmly
ground out an operatic air. Ho was re
warded with something more substantial
than applause, and his amazed wifo
dried her tears, placed the baby upon the
floor, and going down upon her knees,
gathered up the currency that was liber
ally showered upon her by the exliilar
ated brokers.
Tho Sultan and Satan.
There is an Eastern story of a Sultan
who overslept himself so as not to awak
en at the hour of jirayer. So tho devil
came and waked him, and told him to
get up and pray. " Who aro you ?"
said the Sultan. " Oh, no matter," re
plied tho other ; " my act is good, is it
ap-'not ?
No matter who does tho good
! nntinn oi-i lrtnrr na it. in frnrwl " ' "Ww "
! replied the Sultan, " but I think you aro
I Satan. I know your face ; you have
I some bad motive." " But," says tho
1 other, " I am not bo bad as I am painted,
j You see I have left off mv horns and
i tail. I am a pretty good fellow after all.
I was nn angel once, and still keep somo
of my original goodness." "That's all
very well," replied the sagacious and
prudent Caliph ; " but you are the temp
ter ; that's your business ; and I wish to
know why you want me to get up and
pray." "Well," said the devil, with a
flirt of impatience, " if you must know
I will tell you. If you had slept nnd for
gotten your prayers, you would havo
been sorry for it afterward, and peni
tent ; but if you go on, as now, and do
not neglect a single prayer for ton years,
you will be so satisfied with yourself that
it will be worse tor you than 11 you had
missed one sometimes and repented of
jou loves your lauit mixeu wuu
penitence, more than your virtue nea-
1 soned with pride,
Was 'ot Poisoned.
Dr. Corlieu, n French physician, hns
just come to the conclusion that tho
eldest son of Francis I. died of acute
pneumonia, brought on by drinking cold
water when he was hot. . And yi t mi ro
than three hundred years ago tho un
fortunate cup-bearer of tho Dauphin was
first put to tho torture and then drawn
aud quartered for having poisoned tho
prince. The Dauphin had been playing
at tennis at Lvons, aud being very hot,
told Sebastian Montecueeoli to hand him
a bowl of water, which ho drank off. As
he at onca sickened and died the cup
bearer was supposed, at the instigation
of Charles V., to have administered
poison. He was tortured, and of course
confessed anything required of him,
naming two of tho Emperor's generals as
having been bin accomplices. From a
report of a committee ot physicians who
examined tho body, Dr. Corlieu says
that the Dauphin perished through his
own imprudence, and has thus removed
a weight of ignominy from tho memory
of Sebastian Montecueeoli, who is en
tirely vindicated.
Business Pkospects. Tho tide is
turning. We have passed the point of
dead low water and business is reviving.
The Boston Pont snys, for instance, that
within the last month a very noticeable
change in manufacturing business has
taken place that the classes of factories
now are those which are running on full
time, and those which are increasing
from one-half or two-thirds to their full
production ; and tliat no better gauge of
the manufacturing interests of New Eng
land could be found than this.
At a recent meeting of English agri
cultural laborers at which the famous
scholar, Prof. Newman, was to speak,
the farmers and landed proprietors suc
ceeded in shutting every hall, and when
the meeting was called in the market
place were, by the connivance of the
church wardens and town authorities,
allowed to ring the bells throughout the
speaking.