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YOL. X. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1880. NO 25.
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The Bedouin's Itebnke.
A Bedouin of true lionor good Nebar
Possessel a horse whoso lame was spread afar j
No other horse was hall so proud and strong,
His feet were like the north wind swept along
In his curved neck and in his flashing eye
Yon saw the harbingers ol victory.
So, many came to Nebar day by day,
And longed to take his noble horse away;
Large sums they offered, and with grace be
sought, But all in vain the horse oor.ld not be bought.
With these came Daher, of another tribe,
To Bee il ho uiiiht not the owner bribe;
Yet purposeless no money, skill, nor breath,
Could part theowner from his hone till death.
Then Daher, who was subt'lo, mean and ely,
Concluded, next, some stratagem to try;
So, clothed in rags, and masked in iorm and
lace,
He as a beggar walked with limping pace,
And, mooting Ntbar with the horse one day,
Ho loll, and prostrate on the desert lay. '
The ruse succeed edj for, when Nebar lound
A helplos9 man in sorrow on the ground,
He took bim up, ncd on the noble steed ,
Gave him a place but what a thankless deed,
For Diiher shouted, luughed, and giving rein
Said, " Vou will never see your horse again.'
"Take him," said Nebar, "but, lor mercy's
sake,
Tell no man in what way you chose to take!
Lest others, seeing what has happened to me,
Omit to do some needed charity."
Pierced by these words, the robber's keen re
morse Thwarted his plan, and he relumed the horse,
Shamo-lncod and sorrowful; then slunk away
As il he feared tho very light of day!
Wide Awake.
A STORMY WOOING.
Charlie Van Anden stood on the
qunrter deck of one of the steamers that
ply between New York and Havana,
and gazed with feelings of horror and
indignation at the scenes which were
being enacted at the vessel's sides.
He was second mate of the Duchesse,
and this was his first voyage on her.
The steamer, as he had seen when a day
out of pen, wm unseaworthy, and the
owner had put her in charge of an in
competent cattain, and an insubordinate
crew had been shaped.
A storm had come up, off the Jersey
coast, and the captain hid from the tirsi
shown either ignorance or willful disre
gard ot danger, in heading directly for
land, when, witli plenty of sea-room, he
might have run before the gale to the
southward.
Van Anden did not know what he
afterward learned, thnt the Duchesse
was insured lor more than her value;
but he did Know that the captain was
acting unwisely.
He vmturtd to remonstrate, but
Capiain Butler replied with a bruta!
ottb, Jind an admonition to"rmndhi
own business," that silenced Van An
den. He devoted himself to keeping the
crew at work properly, and feeiing lice
from resporsibiiiiy, watched the ap
proaching danger with a clear con
seierce but a heavy heart.
There were eleven passengers on board,
three of whom were ladies, and he trem
bled for their safety.
For himself he did not care much,
lie had little to tie him to life, and al
though he was not romantic, and had no
foolish desire for death, yet he had
schooled himself to exprct it at any
t:me in the discharge of his duties as a
sai lor.
And now it looked as though death
was staring him in the tace. The
steamer had sprung a leak, the men had
abandoned the pumps, and there were
breakers ahead.
At this juncture Captain Butler
showed the whi'e feather. Careless ol
hs passengers, he had called the crew
to the Ions-boat, and had given orders
to lauDch it.
It seemed madness to get into a small
boat in such a sea, but it was equally
dangerous to stay on the steamer, and
the crew gathered around him, wild
with selfish terror. In a moment the
boat was loosened from its fastenings
and the cowardly captain was the first
to jump into her. Enough of the crew
to tiit the boat followed him, and in
stantly pushed away, leaving the
steamer to her late, and going to meet
an almost equally certain death.
Van Anden stood with a sneer on his
lip, watching the proceeding. He could
not interfere with the captain's doings,
although there had been little discipline
on deck for the few minutes that had
just passed. But now the captain had
deserted the ship, ana the com
mand devolved upon the firsi-otlicer,
whom he knew to be a brave man, al
though not askilllul seaman.
" Where i3 Mr. Dyer?" he shouted to
a sailor who was left behind in the
rush that was made for the long-boat.
"Washed overboard, sir," said the
man.
The command then devolved upon
him. He looked around with a fresh
sense, ot responsibility. There was
yet one chance of saving the passengers,
and one of these passengers was a
woman he would have died to save,
even under other circumstances.
This was Mary Danforth. She was
a magniiicent beauty, and, as Van An
den had long known by report, was an
independent woman, living her life in
proud defiance of Mrs. Grundy, and re
lying successfully on her unsullied name
and immense fortune to keep scandal at
a distance.
She was fond of traveling, and trav
eled a great deal alone.
She stood now a little apart from the
other passengers, her proud head lilted
as if in defiance of fate, looking death
in the tace without a tremor.
Ven Anden had fallen in love with
her the first time he had seen her, which
was on this voyage,
She had looked at him once or twice
with admiration for his manly beauty,
but be had not even spoken to her. and
did not suppose that she knew of his
existence.
Yet beloved her, although it was the
kind of love that a poet gives to a star
that he knows is out of his reach.
All this passed through his mind as he
Stood looking at the cau tain's desertion.
and he saw his own scorn reflected in her
eyes.
Tuen he began calculating the
chances. The steamer, he knew, would
sink in a few moments more.
There were eight men of the cre.
left on deck, and among them he saw
three of the best sailors that bad ship.
ped. The passengers were all on deck,
gathered in a group.
Van Anden looked around to see i f
thre were any boats fit for service.
Only one remained.
"Stand by to lower the yawl!" he
shouted, in a voice that rose above the
storm.
The three good men answered in one
breath, "aye, aye, sir!" and jumped to
the side of the vessel. They recognized
a voice of authority.
The other five, incited by their ex
ample, followed. Van Anden was there
as soon as the rest, and turning to one
of the sailors, he shouted : " Fetch life
preservers for the passengers!"
The man demurred.
"To with the passengers!" he
answered j " let's save ourselves."
Without an instant's hesitation Van
Anden knocked him flat on the deck.
Seizing a belaying pin, he stood on
the defensive for an instant, not know
ing how the others would act.
' I'm in command now," said he,
" and you've got to obey orders."
Then turning to a man ne knew he
could rely on, he said : " Go fetch the
life-preservers "
They were soon brought, and first see
ing that each passenger was provided
with one, Van Anden had the yawl low
ered. He knew that the boat ought not to
have over fifteen passengers, and there
were twenty souls in all on the
steamer.
Turning to the passengers he said:
" One at a time, now. Ladies first."
And himself superintending, he saw
them lowered to the yawl which the
two sailors below were barely able to
keep in position.
He put Miss Danforth in the yawl
first, and as he handed her down, he
felt the pressure of his hand slightly
returned, but no words passed between
them.
When the passengers were all in, he
turned to the best men of tho six that
remained, and ordered them to follow.
They obeyed, and then as the other
four were preparing to follow them, he
shouted :
" Shove off! She's full enough, Davis j
I put you in command "
It was an unexpected order, and
seemed like a death warrant to four men
besides himseif.
Two of the men still on deck, with
angry oaths, rushed past him and made
a leap for the yawl, while half a dozen
voices arose in remonstrance from be
low. But Van Anden sternly repeated his
order:
"Shove oft!" and raised his belaying
pin threateningly at the two men left
with him, who stood undecidedly for a
moment.
"Aye aye, sir," came from the yawl,
and she was pushed off.
"You'll find an inlet two or three
miles south," he shouted to Davis.
'Try and make that, and you can get
ashore."
"Aye aye, sir!" came up once more
from Dick Davis, and the men bent to
their oars and pulled away.
Van Anden turned to his two remain
ing men.
" Your chances are better with me
than they would have been in the yawl,"
said he. "There are two more in her
now than she can safely ca;ry, and we
can get ashore on a rafc."
He spoke thus to keep their courage
up, akhough he knew that a raft would
be unmanageable. It seemed, however,
to be 'he only chance remaining, and he
was going to try.
The men were sullen, but knowing as
well as he that there was no ottier
chance helped him as he began to lash
together some of the debris that strewed
the deck.
But belore they had accomplished
their purpose the ship gave a sudden
lurch, and they knew she was going
down.
"Lash yourselves to a spar," cried
Van Anden, suiting the uction to the
word, and then all were struggling in
the water.
Van Anden was submerged for a few
moments, which seemed like hours to
him, and when he came to the surface
he realized that he held in a tenacious
grip one end of a piece of rope that he
had thrown twice around his waist.
The other end was fast to a spar, and he
was thus kept afloat.
Ho looked around, but could Gee
nothing of the two sailors who had been
with him.
"Poor fellows!" he thought. "I have
sacrificed their lives, but it was to save
the others that I did It."
He had little time for moralizing,
however, for his thoughts were speedily
directed to his own probable fate.
During the little time that had elated
since Captain Butler put off in his boat
tue steamer nan neen driven in shore
until when she had at length sunk, she
was within half a mile of the long row
ot breakers.
V an Anden had recognized the coast.
and knew of the inlet to which he had
directed Davis.
He also knew that he was driftincr di-
rectlv toward a rocky point where he
would probably be dashed to death by
uie waves.
It was only a matter of a few minutes.
and with a proud senee of having done
his duty as far .is he could, he breathed
a snort prayer lor Miss Danforth's
safety and for his own. and waited as
calmly as he could for the shock.
On ana on went tue soar, until at
length it was hurled far up on the rocks
by a mighty wave that broke further in
than the others.
A dull crash was all that Van Anden
felt, and then he wus unconscious.
When he came to h mse f he was lv-
mg in a large, coin lor table bed, and a
kind, motherly-looking woman was
watching beside him.
w Here am J r" he asked, in a voice
that surprised him bv its weakness.
"You are among iriends," was the
repiy.
lie was too weak to question the
woman any further, and he shut his
eyes again, contented with the one
word " friends," while the joyful nurse
stole out of the room to carry the news
of her patient's recovery from delirium
to the kind-hearted family who had
harbored the stranger.
In a day cr two more he was strong
enough to listen while he was told that
lie Had been louna on the shore insensi
ble, and bleeding from a wound on the
head, and had been cared lor by Captain
v liners, a icurcu sailor, ana 1113 lam
ilv.
When he asked if any one else had
been picked up he was told no, and he
supposed that lie was the only sur
vivor.
II is recovery was rapid, and in a f ;w
days he started for New York to report
ins lots oi tne v ucnesse to Messrs. ship
ley & Wright, her owners,
When be arrived in the city, however,
he was too weak to attend to business
immediately, and entering a carnage,
he told the driver to take him to a
hotel.
" Which one, sirP" asked cabby,
"Any one, I don't care," was the re
ply of the sailor, who was only con
scious of a longing to lie down and
rest.
The driver looked in astonishment,
and then seeing that his passenger was
ill, he started uptown.
"I'll take him to a first-class place,
ai'yway.where he'll be taken care of," he
thought, and drove to one of the best
uptown hotels.
Van Anden staggered into the office
and asked for a room.
"Yes, sir," said the clerk, politely
enough, but indifferently. " Please reg
ister your name," and he pushed the big
bonk toward him.
Van Anden wrote his name, and
leaned against the counter, waiting
for the clerk to assign him his quar
ters. But the clerk stared at bim in aston
ishment when he read the name.
"Are you Charles Van Anden, of the
steamer Duchesse?" he asked.
" Yes," said our hero, not a little sur
prised in his turn.
The clerk summoned the proprietor of
the hotel and told him who the latest
guest was, and Van Anden was speedily
installed in the handsomest room in the
house, and Berved with the best of every
thing that he could wish.
And halt a dozen cards were sent to
his room within half an hour, the names
on which he did not at once recognize.
But he was told by the obsequious ser
vant that the passengers of the ill-fated
Duchesse had gotten safely ashore, and
were stopping at the same hotel to which
he had come.
And when ho was rested sufficiently
to converse, he found that he was a bero
with whose praises the whole town was
ringing.
His first inquiry was for Miss D.in
forth, and while the servant was telling
him that she was one of the guests who
had inqu'red especially after him, an
other servant came with a magnificent
bouquet, to which was attached a tiny
card bearing the name of Mary Dan
forth. As soon as possible, he sent a note
asking that he might see her, and in a
few minutes more he was in her private
parlor.
Her magnificent beauty was not im
paired by the exposure to which she had
been subjected, but her flashing eyes
looked on him with an interest that
thrilled him as nothing had ever thrilled
him before.
He never remembered but one thing
that happened at the interview, how
ever, for he was as modest as he was
brave. That one thing was that she
made him promise to call again.
And he did call again the nex1; day,
after lie had seen Messrs. Shipley "&
W right, who received him coidiv
enough, being afraid of the testimony
tnnt ne could give in tue lawsuit tliat
they expected to be involved in regard
ing the insurance money,
They had told bim that they could
give him a subordinate position on one
of their ships that was going to China
within a week, and he, knowing that he
must work for a living, had accented
the offer.
So he told Mary Danforth that he was
going as a boatswain on the ship Mary
Ann. and she blazed with indigna
tion. ' As boatswain!' said she: "indeed
you shall not. I'il build you a ship my
self sooner than have you do that. You
sha! 1 not go to sea again except as cap
tain." The bashful sailor was overwhelmed.
" Oh, Miss Danforth." said he. " vou
are too kind. But it is too much for
you to do. 1 can tight my way up alone,
and if you will only remember me
kindly I shall bo nerved to the strugg.e
by the greatest happiness I can ever
know."
She looked at him a moment without
speaking. She knew that he was too
modest and too manly to appear in the
light of a fortune-hunter, and she could
not bear the thought of his leaving her.
So although her cheeks flamed with
blushes, sue spoke again :
"ies, 1 will build you a ship and
make you the captain, but onlv on one
condition.
" What is that9" said noor Van An.
den, bewildered, and 7et half guessin?
at what was coming.
' Only on condition that you make
me your hist mate," replied the
blushing beauty, hiding her face in her
hands.
He seized her hand and drew it eentlv
from her face. It lay auietlv in his own.
Then he kissed it, and still it was not
withdrawn. And then
But it is not for me, nor for the reader
to know what he did next. All that
concerns us to know is that the ship was
built, and on the very first voyage Cap
tain Van Anden made his wedding
tour.
The Sumac Business.
A Brunswick county (Va.) letter
sajs: bumac abounds here in large
quantities, and it is gathered by colored
people from June to October, who sell it
to the proprietors of sumac mills .t.
Petersburg, where it is Dulverizfid nnH
prepared lor northern markets, to be
used in tanning and dying. The gather
ing of this article has of late becoina so
extensive that it may be reearded nan
new inausiry. lears ago the virtue of
Virginian sumac was verv little
known, and consequently ve.y little
was gathered, but as soon as it was
found to be among the best in the
world, the demand for it has stead
lly increased so much so that it la
likely that before long it will be culti
vated. Last year one of the merchants
in Biunswick county shipped fifty tons
to reiersourg. a. colored hand can
easily gather one hundred to one hun
dred and fifty pounds a day. Saturday
is the busiest day for merchants in the
rural districts, and then colored people
can be seen coming to the stores from
morning until evening to dispose of their
sumac gathered during the week. Those
that are too poor to own oxen or horses,
carry it. It is nothing unusual for a
colored woman to carry forty or fifty
pounds at a time on ber bead a consid
erable distance. Since the article grows
wild, there are no restrictions in the
privilege of gathering it. but the cnWnH
people, in general, ask permission to
uo no.
Xhere are in the State of Texas 522
counties. Of these, at this time, 163
are organized and sixty-two unor
ganized. At the last election, in 1878
154 counties voted for governor,
He Wanted to Engage Board for Twenty
Years.
Yesterday afternoon shortly after the
arrival of the train a man entered a
hotel in this city and asked Hip cierk,
who stood busying himself with a pat
ent blotter, the terms upon which be
could engage board. -
" Owing to the location of your room,
sir. Big demand for our rooms. Feed
well."
" I don't care so much about the eatin'
part," replied the man. " I'm forty odd
year old, and have been eatin' about all
my life. It's gettin' to be nn old thing
to me. Well. say. give me a respectable
rooni how much'll you charge P"
" Just yourself, sirP''
" Well, in a m inner."
"Twenty-five dollars a month, in case
you are alone."
"You see, it's this way: My wife
will be with me, but as times nre pretty
tight, I concluded to arrange it this
way, I'll take breakfast, my wife will
take dinner, and we'll tfcrow up wet or
dry for supper. By that means we can
both get board for one price. I reckon
I'm a little the best manager you ever
SG6c!
" Fifty dollars for the two."
" I don't understand that sort of 'rith
metic. Both together we'd only eat the
meals allowed for one person. It don't
hurt a bed any more for tvo people to
sleep on it than for one. I'vegotabd
out in the country that was presented to
my wife when we got married an' I'll be
dinged if it ain't just about as good as
new. It's one of those old-fashioned
beds, with high, yaller posts with knobs
on the tops as big as young pumpkins.
I'll furnish the room with this beci nnd
one chair. My wife can set on the floor.
I've lived in the country all my life and,
bavin' made a little money last year, I
concluded to come to town and splurge
a little. Thar's a woman down the
country that has all the time been
buckin' agin my wife, and to git away
with her we have concluded to board at
a hotel."
" Fifty dollars per month is our lowest
rate."
" How much by the year ? I am goin'
into this business right."
"Six hundred dollars."
" This is a wholesale business with
me. How much for tea years?"
" Six thousand dollars."
" That's a gettin' down to it. How
much for twenty years."
" Twelve thousand dollars."
"All right. Mark me down for a
square meal right now and check it off
for twenty years."
" dee that card?" said the clerk point
ing to the hotel maxim of persons with
out baggage are required to pay in ad
vance. "Oh, I've got the baggage," and the
man lifted up a carpet bag.
" That won't go.fi
" Won't you take this as security?"
" No ; get out of here."
" But I want to board here for twenty
years."
"Go on away."
" I'll leave your one-horse hotel, sir;
but first let me show you." He lilted
up the carpet bag, opened it and dis
played $50,000 in government bonds.
" You can stay, sir."
"No; I beiieve not. It takes too
much money to put up in this hotel.
Guess I'll go aiound and put up ft a
wagon yard."
Ever since Cain gave Abel a clip with
a club people have lost money by not ob
serving the laws of politeness Lillle
Hock (Ark.) Gazette-
Bibles With Queer Karnes.
An interesting collection of Bibles
was recently exhibited in London, which
comprised copies of all the editions
that, became of peculiar errors of the
primers, or irom some other reason,
have been known by strange names.
tYoiong the Bibles on exhibition were
the following:
Die Glttexhf.ug Bible. The Ear
liest Book Known. Printed from
Movable Metal Types. is the Latin
Bible Issued by Guttenberg, at
Mentz, A. D. 1450.
The Bug Bible. Was so Called from
its Uendering of Psalms xci. : 5:
" Afraid ot Bugs by Night." Oar
Present Version reads, " Terror by
Night." A. D. 1551.
The Bkeeches Bible. The Geneva
Version is that Popularly Known
as the Breeches Bible, from its Ren
dering of Genesis iii.: 7: (Making
Themselves Breeches out of Fly
leaves.) This translation of the
Scriptures the Result of the La
bors of the hngltsu Exiles at
Geneva was the English Family
Bible During tho Reign of Queen
Elizabeth and till SuDnlanted bv
the Present Authorized Version of
King James 1.
IHE 1 LAUE-MAKKUS I3IBI.E. B TOIU a
remarkable Typographical Error
which occurs in Matthew v : 9:
"Blessed are the Place-makers," in
stead ol Peace-makers. A. D. 15G.J.
The Tkeacle Bible. From its R-rder
ing ot Jeremiah viu. : 22: "Is There
no Treacle instead of Balm in
Glleadr" A. D. 1508.
the xvosin bible. i rom the same
Text, but Translated " R-Mn " in
the JJouai version. A. D. 1G09.
The He and Ishe Bibles. From the
riespective Renderings of Ruth iii
15 one Heading that "She went
into the uity." The other has it
that "tie went." A. u. 1011.
The Wicked Bible. From the Fanr.
that the Negative has been Left Out
ot the seventh Commandment
(Exodus, xx. : 14.) For Which the
Printer was tided $300. A. D. 1031
The Thumb Bible Being One Inch
square ana nan an inch Thick, as
ruonsnea at Aoeraeen. A. D. JB70
The Vineoar Bible. So Named from
the Headline ol the 80th Chapter of
1-.UKB, wuicu reaas as "ine tr arable
ot the Vinegar," instead of the Vine.
yard. A. D. 1717.
The Pkintehs' Binjj:.-We are told by
Cotton Mather that in a Bible
printed prior to 170-3, a blundering
n i,. , j i r . v . n
J-ypograp"cr luaue iviutr uaVId CX
claim that "Printers instead of
runce&J Persecuted him without
cause." bee rsalms cxix.: 161.
The Murderers' Bible.-So called from
an Error in the Sixteenth verse of
the Epistle of Judo, th word
" Murderers" being used instead ol
"Murmurers." A. D. 1801.
The Caxton Memorial Bible.
Wholly Printed and Bound in 13
hours, but only 100 copies struck
off. A. D. 1877
Samuel Johnson defined' nonsense as
" bolting a door with a. boiled, carrot. '1
TIMELY TOriCS.
A person with a turn for curious
statistics has calculated that the 10,000,
000 barrels of beer reported by the brew
ers' congress as sold last year would
bave filled a canal twenty-one feet wide
and five feet deep, extending from New
York to Philadelphia, and that it would
take a pump throwing thirty gallons a
minute, running night and day, over
twenty-one years to pump it out. It was
all swallowed, however.
Dora Young, a favorite daughter of
the late Brighnm Young, is in Chicago.
She i? deicribed s a particularly
attractive and bandsome woman, with
a beautiful complexion and golden hair.
She dresses fashionably and in good
taste. She ha9 considerable property,
secured from her father's estate by a
successful suit at law, and intends to
enjoy it. Two years ago she was a
zealous Mormon, but now she abomin
ates the system and has forsaken her old
home and friends.
It is a popular sanitary error to think
that the mor j a man eats the fatter and
stror ger he will become; to believe that
the more hours children study the faster
they learn; to conclude that if exercise
is good, the more violent it is the greater
is the benefit; to imagine that whatever
remedy causes one to feel immediately
better is good for the system, regardless
of the ulterior effects. Despite the ad
vance of hygienic science, these mis
taken ideas remain a monument to the
public apathy concerning health mat
ters. Mrs. Parker, of Glastonbury, Conn.,
whose famous cows used to be sold
every year for taxes, wtites to the
Womin's Journal, signing herself Julia
. Smith, and says that her husband
not only paid the tax this year without
protest, but went to the collector to pay
it, and then told her that "it was his
tax and not hers, and that as he could
vote he had no reason to go contrary to
aw." Airs. Parker says: "1 want to
take my own stand and tight it out, as
long as men make laws so uruust that
women cannot say how their own prop
erty shall be disposed of, but men can
use it as they please, without any ifa or
ands about it."
It was recently remarked by Trof.
Maudsley that one striding feature
observed by medical men in case3 of
hallucination is that the patients cannot
be convinced that the objects they see,
the sounds they hear, and the smells they
perceive, have no real existence, and that
the sensations received are the result of
an excited state of their nerves. Hallu
cination often extends to but one sense,
the person affecte being othewise in a
perfectly normal condition. It may
irise either from an idea on which the
mind has dwelt closely, or from excite
ment of the sensory nerves. It is said
that Newton, Hunter, nnd some others
of equal eminence, could, at wid, picture
forms to t hemselves until they appeared
to be realities.
Dan Watson, who is known to the
police throughout the country, is now
in the penitentiary at Philadelphia.
Being asked why his band had not made
an attempt on the Northumberland bank
while operating in that neighborhood
several years ago, he said: Three times
we went to do it. and each time we
were fiustrated, and by what do you
think? a terrible bulMog? the watch
man's revolver? or the strength of the
saftP N either, but a little child, lou
see, the watchman went down to the
bank from his supper leading his little
child hy the hand, we had it an ar
ranged to pounce upon him and gag and
bind him and then rob the place: but,
jniehow. when I saw that littl : one. I
hadu't tho heart to give the signal and
hurt it, so ho escaped. I'm a bad man,
aiid I ain't afraid of the best man living
but 1 couldn't bear to see the little thing
hurt.
Tho Perils of nn Ambassador.
The position of ambassador was not
always quite 8'vh a safe one as it is
no wa lays. Oar Henry VI II. wanted
to send Bonner, the bishop, as ambassa
dor to Franco with threatening mes
sage to Francis I. Bonner ohjiicted that
it might cost him his head to utter a de
fiance couched in such terms. " Il they
harm you," said Henry, "I'll make
ma.iy French heads fall for yours."
' May it please vour grace, answered
Bonner. " but I doubt whether any
head would lit my shoulders quite as
well as my own."
More than a century later Cromwell
banged a Portuguese envoy for murder
committed in London. Apparently,
however, he was not a regular ambassa
dor. Possibly if ho had been it would
not have made much difference. Am
bassadors and their servants were de
clared exempt frooi civil procedure ia
the reign of Queen Anne, an net of par
liament having been pa-sed to that ef
fect in consequence of a slight offered to
the minister of tho czar. Peter the
Great was naively nstonished because
every one concerned in the business was
not hanged. French became the recog
nized language oi diplomacy about the
middle ot the sevei.teenth century
though it had begun to assume that posi
tion much earlier. Cromwell, with his
usual pugnac.ty.pro'.ested against the u ;e
of Frencu international correspondence.
" I will have nothing but Latin or f-ng-lisn."
said the protector. Euglish was
out of the question, there being proba
bly less than loo persons out oi the
British isles who understood our
tongue, but Latin, the mediioval lan
guage of diplomacy, was conceded, it
was during the commonwealth that an
Italian ecclesiastic, sent to Lon on on a
temporary mission, bitterly excla;med
that there was only one man in this bar
barous country who could speak Latin,
and be was blind. Milton was Latin
secretary at a salary of 288 a vear,
afterward cut down to i00 when be
required the services of an assistant
France retained its formal aso ndancy
till the congress of Berlin in 1878, when
it was decided that either English or
French might be spoken. The English
Plenipotentiaries spoke in their own
language. Indeed. Lord Beaconsfield
cannot speak French fluently. The
Berlin congress was held in the capital
of the German empire and presided over
by a German statesman, perhaps the
most arrogant as well as the ablest bis
couhtry has ever produced, yet no one
ventured to claim for Germany equal
honors with English and French fall
Mall Qaaette.
When a man has once forfeited the
reputation of his integrity, he in set
fast, and nothing will then seryia
turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
NIAGARA FALLS.
Some of the People Who neve Gone Over
tlie Cataract.
John Paul writes as follows from Ning-
araFalhto aNew Yorkpaper: Within
twenty-five years more than sixty per
sons have gone over the falls. Last
summer seven went over, four on the
American side and three on the Cana
dian. Of those who co over the Ameri
can falls the bodies are very seldom
recovered, thev tell me. while the bodies
of tose who go over on the Canadian
s:de aie usually found. Tins is because
of the jagged rocks which lie hidden in
the whirl and foam at the foot of Uih
American falls these, grim teetli that
they are, seize upon the victim delivered
to them, and hold bim in a grip from
which neither bell nor diver can deliver
him. a grip which shall not be relaxed
until the sound ef that trumpet at
whose blast the most inaccessible graves
shall give up their dead. It is generally
boatmen, I am told, familiar with the
river, who fall a prey to the falls.
Crossing nnd recrossing the river in
safety thousands of times, knowing, as
they suppose, every phaseof the current,
they finally come to look upon it with
indifference if not with contempt, and,
going once too often to the well, come to
have their pitchers terribly broken at
last. The usual fate of all who toy with
the manes of lions or attempt tho role of
tiger-tamers is theirs. Some day there
is a craunch, and all is over. Last sum
mer, for instance, two boatmen started
to cross the river in a sailboat, taking
no oars along. It had been their home
since childhood, and boating was their
business. Who should presume to warn
themP But in mid river the wind died
awny, and they found themselves in the
grip of the current a grip relentless and
unrelaxiug as that of fate. Faster and
taster, as though drawn by demons be
neath the keel, their boat neared the
rapids. And once in the rapids ah, the
story is soon told. From tho bead of
the rapids to their foot the falls a dis
tance of perhaps eighty rods, the decline
is nigh upon ninety feet. And down
this inclined plane, as vou can very well
see, the water slides with something of
the speed ot nn express train. It is a
terrible meteor that shoots by the few
(for the exhibition has not been adver
tised in advance) who stand on the
banks and bridges. Two pale-faced men
in a frail boat, seething waters around
them, and the falls thundering in antici
putive triumph below, arms wildly out
stretched for an aid which none can
give, no cry for succor audible, though
you know that the shrieks ot the doomed
are sent up to the skies one glimpse of
this and no more. The baleful vision
has vanished, and again the glad waters
are dancing and glancing onward in the
sun. You know that lives have been
quenched like tapers in the fateful foam
of the falls, but the only testimony to
the tragedy is the great clouds ot spray
which roll up to heaven like sinoKe from
the altar ol immolation.
Here, as well as elsewhere, whisky
comes to the aid of water and supple
ments it in the work of destruction.
Liquor is cheap on the Canadian side,
and so an abnormal boldness may be
begotten at what seems (and is in the
outset) a very inconsiderable cost. But
after crossing to tho Canadian side the
American side not infrcqueutly knows
tho boatman no more forever. Charon
takes up the oar, and the Styx, not the
Niagara, is ferried. Thus Mr. Whitney,
of the Cataract bouse, tells me that last
summer his son, sitting in the summer
house of his grounds above the rapids,
saw a man getting dangerously near the
sliding water. Running down to the
bank he shouted to hiin to pull in shore
or he'd be caught in tho current, but a
drunken stare was the only answer. A
lew minutes more and the boat, was
among the dimpling eddies the smiks,
as it were, which precede the infernal
laughter of the rapids. Then the poor
wretch, suddenly sobered, realized his
position. Belore he cou.d hiccup a
single pater his sodden soul stood before
ks God.
No human being ever wont over the
falls and lived. Sam Patch but jumped
from a ladder a hundied feet high
erected near the toot of Biddlo stairs.
Of thecats and dogs with which human
itarians have at various times experi
mented it is said that some have been
picked up aiive, but I mainly doubt it.
Why. let the fail but biush yeu with its
outermost skirt, and 'twere death: but
one corner of that ponderoui sheet, strik
ing with only half the impetus gathered
by its descent, would smite the life out
ot behemoth!
Mustard.
The seads of two species of mustard
(Sinapis) are commonly used for culin
ary and medicinal purposes, and are
known as black mustard seeds and
white mustard seeds. The 11 -ur of
mustard, so extensively used as a con
diuient, is prepared from a mixture of
tho two kinds, usually in the proportion
of two parts black and three parts
white. The seeds are pouuded and the
husks then removed from the Hour by
sifting. It is remarkable that tho pun
gent principle lor which mustard is
valued does not exist in the seeds, but
it is produced when the constituents of
the seeds are brought together under the
influence ot water
Internally, flour of mustard is used as
stimulant, diuretic and emetic: ex
ternally as an irritant and rebefacient
White musiard seeds are often taken in
an entire state as st mulants in dyspep
sia. Mustard should be mixed with
water that has been boiled and allowed
to cool. Hot water destroys its essen
tial qualities, and raw cold water might
cause it to ferment.
Put the mustard in
a cun with a small pinch of salt, and
mix with it very gradually sufficient
water to make it drop from the spoon
without becoming watery. The tier-
mans have a way of preparing mustard
in which much ot its pungency is modi
hed by spices. The tollowing is an ap
proved method of preparing it : Take
of the white and black mustard seed,
ground
round fine, each one pound, and half
pound of sugar. Pour upon this mix-
a
ture a sufficient quantity of boiling
vinegar to make it of the consistency of
soft dough. It should then be stirred
constantly with a paddle tor about half
an hour, in which time the mustard will
swell and become much thicker. "Alter
it has cookedsay about an hour add
one ounce of powdered cinnamon and
haltanounceot powdered cloves and mix
thoroughly It may then be set away
in tightly covered bottles and jars, and
if the vinegar is good it will keep any
length of time and improve with age.
It may be thinned with vinegar as it is
wanted for use. Mustard prepared in
this way is tar superior to that mixed,
intbe usual manner, 5(Voy J'tme.
now Can a Woman Telll
Ho told me his lore this morning,
With his dear hand clasping mine,
And he said : "God speed the dawning
When, sweet, 1 may call thee mine.
Bat my tond heart questioned softly,
ThouKh loving him trne an I well,
Will h.s love outlast all changes T
Oh! how can a woman toll T
When the years shall bring their trials,
And the cares and pains o tweigh
The .ya in the littlo honsnhold,
As ctoudH might obscure the day,
Will the hand that has heM mine fondly,
Wiien maidenly ids belel,
As earnestly shield from sorrow T
Oh! how can a woman tell T
When the silvery threads are creeping
Through my treses one by one;
When I lose my youth and beauty,
As many a wile has done,
Will his heart be mine as tru'y
As when in tho flowery dell
He gave me his trusted promise T
Oh! how can n woman tell T
1 glance at my sweetheart waiting,
His eyes t'ioy are clear and true!
" I will love him," my heart says gladly,
" I wih trust him the w de world through."
I will be to him joy and comfort,
I will all other wives excel,
I will keep him with love's sweet maic
Tais much may a woman toll .
o ITEMS OF NTEREST.
Coney Island is said to be more popu
lar with foreigners than any other
American watering-place.
The Territory of Montana has already
produced upward of 147,000,000 in
gold, and $6,000,000 in silver.
A temperance lecturer in Georgia
estimates that liquor costs the people of
that State $15,000,000 annually.
The people of Zurich, by a vote, main
tained the idea that involuntary vaccin
ation is good for the general health.
Tho government is pressed for storage
room for silver dollars. It can build a
vault in our pocket free of charge. New
Haven JScgiskr.
The assessed value of land in the chief
oities of Iowa is as follows : Des Moines,
$3,593,000; Dubuque, $3,533,3H4: Daven
port, $2,620,810; Burlington, $2,708,102;
Keokuk, $2,010 582.
Dr. T. S. Cobbold, micro3copist, says
that it is curious to find that the hearts
ot birds as well as of carnivora, are
crowded with nematoid insects.
Atmospherical knowledge is not
thoroughly distributed in our schools.
A boy being asked "What is ruistP"
vaguely replied, " An umbrella."
Soldiers must be fearfully dishon
est," said Mrs. Partington. " It seems
to bo an occurrence every nignt ior a
sentry to be relieved ot his watch."
It is reported from Shefheld, England,
that heavy orders are daily coming in
from both Scotch and east coast ship
builders tor light steel-plates. I he in
troduction of steel into ship-building is
causing an important and growing
trade.
"If vou are a ouiet. honest citizen of
Galveston, how did these skeleton keys
and brass knuckles happen to be in your
coat pockets?" "I recKon, judge, me
and tho poliaeman must have changed
coats in the scuttle. We were very
much excited." univcslo?i News.
A Sail Francisco manufacturer has
received from the interior of the State
an order for a pair of boots which, if
the numbers in use ran so h'gli would
be eighteens in size. I hey will be 171
inches in length and in width. Tho
man who is to wear them is small, ex
cept as to his hands and feet.
Two thousand be ven hundred men
are now being employed in the Baldwin
locomotive works, Philadelphia, len
locomotives are on an average turned
out weekly, 251 having been completed
this year, uruers are Ding nueu ior
railroads lor South Australia, New
South Wales and many places in North
and South' America.
She had a prettv diploma tied with a
pink ribbon, from one of our best young
tadies' colleges. In conversation with a
daring and courageous young man, a ter
he had detailed the dangers and delights
of riding on a locomotive, she com
pletely upset his opinion oi independent
education of the sexes, by inquiring,
How do they steer locomotives, any
how " J,
Two men at Peoria, 111., tied their
horses' tails toget her and started them
in opposite directions to settle a bet as
to the strength ol the Vutes. But a
quarrel arose before the trial took place,
and the angry owners agreed to pull
each other's noses instead. Both lost,
for they were fined $10 each in a police
court.
The following document was drawn
up by a lawyer at Joiiet, 111 , and Bigned
by the husoand : " ueceivea irom
stlO. in consideration of which I hereby
r nounce all right and title to my lawful
wife, aud from this day tiencetortu sue
is the charge of said , and forfeits
all claim on me for support.'
Schoolboys and Headaches.
Professor Treichler has delivered a
lecture before the German association of
naturalists and nlivsicians which con
tains a fact of some int.rest to teachers-
He says that headache in schools decld-
ftrilv increase, until in some schools.
and notably in Nuremberg, one-third of
tne scnoiars suueriioiu il. iiu ucuuvca
that the cause is over intellectual exer
tion, caused partly by the adoption ot
too many tubjects, but principally by
the tendency to Ucinund night work.
The brain is then freshly taxed when its
cello are jxhaused. We betinto hear
tho same complaint in England, espe
cially Irom London schools, and are
tempted to believe that in some of them '
an imperceptible but steady increase in
the amount ol night worn demanded has
been going on, which is passiug a sate
limit. It does not hurt the quick, and
it docs Hot hurt the stupid, but it does
hm t the boys and girls who want to
fulfill all demands, aud have not quite
the quickness to do it. 1 he usual quan
tity of Latin, for example, to be learned
at night has within the last thirty jears
more than doubled, while the pressure
from parents upon the children to learn
it a.l has increased in nearly the same
proportion. The increased crowding of
schools explains much, but it does aiK
explain this headache, whicu u not su
fered by the boys ia proportion to theU
jH-healiU. Lowlgn fyect'Mr.
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