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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher
NIL DESPERANDDM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. XI.
HIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 3; 1881.
NO. 2.
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(ii-nnilfntlicr Snow. j
Orandliitlicr Snowcnmc down, oni' tiny. j
And w lint do you think ? 1
And what do you think '!
He's ai old ih the hills, but his heart is ay.
And over the country he sped awav.
Hit hair wan as white as a cotton hall ;
And what do yon think ?
And what do yon think ?
Hu gayly pi-iim-ccl over thp highest wall.
For his dear old log weren't still at all.
Wherever he went hr raised a hreeze :
And what do you think ?
And what do you think 1
He c limhcd to the tnw of the tidiest trees.
An cool and niniMe as ever you please !
A train went tlituulc ring over the ground,
And what do yon think '
And what do you think ?
Old (iinnther after it went witli a humid -Sly
old fellow ! he made no sound.
He caught the rarsi, and he held on tight :
And what do you think '!
And what do you think '!
The train had to stop in the road all night.
And couldn't go on till hmad daylight 1
Old as he was, he stayed out late :
And w hat do you think '!
And what do you think '!
He sat on the posts of the door-nrd gale,
And daiu-eil on the I'eiiec at u high old rati-!
Hut the children chci-rcil for (iiandliither still ;
Ami hut do you think 't
And what do you think '!
He s)Hi ad hiiiisi If mil on the top nt' a hill,
And they nil masted down ouhis hack with a
win :
Tie v.i- iiiiue too old for a grand go-hang !
And what do yuii think '!
And what do you think '!
To the tops of the highei-t roofs he sprang,
And down on the people he slid with a whang !
He had no manm -rs, 'tis sad to say !
And what do you think V
And what do you think 'I
For a chap like him to get in the win.
And trip up people hy night and day
Hut his heart was white and pure within :
Now what do you think y
Now what do yon think '!
To he gla l and jolly is never a sin.
For a 1'iiig-faee 1 (iranther I care not a pin.
We none ol ns know what we should do :
Nov what do you think ?
Now what do von think .'
If we only rump down for n month or two.
And couldn't stay here the whole year through,
l.'olhi-ritu- S. Ilnllmy.
OUR TROUBLES.
i.
Jack an 1 I had been married a year
before we wt lit to housekeeping. People
say tha the lirst year of nmn-ird liie is
the most trying. All I can sny is that
we did no; linil it so. V'e never had a
word of serious diflereiice so h nir as we
boarded, but almost as soon ns we were
settled in mir tiny, pretty house, our
troubles began.
Jack and 1 have never been quite able
lo d.-cide when our unpleasantness com
m need. He puts the date of it in June,
wli 'ii Tii'tHcc liven went to Europe,
and left me her canaries as a parting gift
two of the loveliest little yellow" and
green darlings that ever were' seen. That
isquito absurd, though. The real trouble
began a month later, when lie himself
brought home the groat, clumsy, blun
dering Newfoundland pup, which was
the pest of the house for many a long
day.
It wasn't so bad nt lirst. Jack only
laughed when he saw the canaries, anil
suid: " Why, Madge,1 little woman, you'll
have your hands full now, if von never
did before."
' Nonsense !" f said ; it's nothing to
take care of a pair of birds." But Jack
only laughed.
Such darlings as those birds were ! I
can't say that they ever learned to know
me not really, you know. They flut
tered just as much and were just ns hard
to catch the last day that I let them out
of their cage as they were the lirst.
That was one of the tilings that Jack ob
jected to my letting them out of their
cage, I mean. Jack wrote, you see for
the press, I mean and the'back junior,
which was also his study, was the only
place where I could keep the birds.
'Iically. Madge," said Jack one day,
"I wish yon could tind some other
place to keep those birds, or else I wish
you would not let them out of their cage.
Their favorite promenade iH i".v desk,
and I never can lind a paper that' I want
after they have been rooting about
there."
"But, Jack," 1 said, "they must have
their morning fly, poor little dears, and
I have always let them have it while you
are taking your constitutional, so that
they need not disturb you. If von
would rather have me let them out while
you're at home, though "
"Thanks, not any," said Jack. "It's
bad enough to see the results, without
having them flopping down bodilvupon
my head. Never mind. I ll bo careful
to leave my inkstand uncovered, and
they'll be drinking the ink some dav,
and Unit will be the end of them."
,,.,,,, -, .manm, i ham;
out .1 in Ii onlv liino-liinl 01..I ii-n.it ..ii
:. ; " u"1 i
the room. I was always careful to see1
mui uie inivsiaiui was covered alter tlitit,
though.
It was soon iifto.- llo.t tl.t ho 1.,.,,,l.t
i , , . ' ,, , Vi? :
home his ilnu- r imvfo- ulnill fovn-i.t ,it
I li l i it i ,
mi. ni- aiiom uiiu i never couiu near
.In,.. T I il 1 -i .
tug. um niruiii oi uiem, iiorniuv i
afraid, and I never thought he would be
so cruel as to bring one of the great
blundering things home to scare me out
of my poor little wits.
'Here. Ma.W" 1, miJ.I ,1,0
111. leadim.' the thine- "iu win iivn ti
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lomi ot pets, I have brought you one
uiiii uaving.
Then tho thins; rushed at inc. with its
great red mouth wide open, and itswhite
teeth shining, and its eyes glaring, and
before I knew it, the two big lmirvpaws
were on my shoulders, and the frightful
face close against mine.
"Jack!" I screamed " oh, Jack!
take him off, or I shall die."
Jack laughed, and caught the creature
by his collar and pulled hiin away.
" Why, bless your heart, Madge !" he
Miid, "tho dog won't hurt you.. He is
only a pup nine months ol.l to a day ,
and as full of affection as ho can stick. ,
lie only wanted to make friends with
von.
i " Hut T don't want to be made friends
i with in that fashion," I said, as well as
! I could spetik for crying.
Jack laughed, and caressed me, and
apologized ; but it was then that our
troubles began, for all that.
; What a nuisance that dog was no one
who has not brought up a Newfoundland
pup can imagine. Now it was one of
the best tablecloths, not only pulled
' oil', but torn into rags; or my lace set
Aunt Clarice's wedding present which
. had been laid out to bleach, had disap
peared bodily, all but a fluttering end
which hung out of Hero's mouth as ho
i careered about the yard; or it was one
' of Jack's dress boots chewed to a pulp,
' and grave enough Master Jack looked
i that time. I only wished his belongings
had suffered of toner; but unluckily he
took precious good care to keep them
. out of the way.
Tuck and I were pour enough, but we
mui ncii relations. Jack Iiu.il an uncle,
AT,. 11,;1:. in i it , i,i !
? . ' l " V 1,t'1r',,a,ulP 1 ?n m,1,,t- t !
ice A aufdmn, both of whom had do-
dared their intention of leavinu us their
respective heirs. Aunt Clarice was a !
childless widow, and Uncle l'hilip a .
bachelor. Both of them were peculiar ;
in their"! way, and; lull of whims and
! " fuds." 'Wo lnul never been able to en-
tertain them hitherto, but as soon as we
wore settled m our own house eaeli of
. them had promised us a visit. It was
! time for Uncle Philip's arrival soon after
' Jack brought home that wretched dog. ,
Uncle Philip had always seemed very
fond of me, and I resolved to appeal to !
him privately to induce Jack to banish 1
the horrid thing from the house. '
Uncle Philip was stout and rubicund, ;
with a buhl pink head fringed with w hite
hair, and a laughing blue eye two of!
tlietn, in fact. Unluckily formy private i
plans, he took most kindly to Hero from !
the lirst ; nn.l ns I watched the softening j
of his eve over the imp's cluinsv giun-
boK 1 realized that any attempt to in- j
' ilueiice linn as 1 desired would be ut
1 teily in vain. We were all collected in
the buck parlor on the night of his ar-
' rival, he sitting in a large easy-chair in
the window, lie was just giving us a
, graphic description of a recent visit to
New Mexico, w hen he started, and clap
ped his hand to his head, with a sudden
ejaculation.
' I thought you told me yon had no
! mosquitoes here," lie said, with a puz-
zlcd air.
Neither lunl w e, as Jack and I both
ism-.ivI linn, and att era moment he tool:
i "1
i the thread of his narrative. Crack !.
another slap nt his bald
' other break in his talc.
head, and an
Cinck ! crack !
Clack :
" What do you mean by denying
mosquitoes?" he cried, indignant y. "1
know that mosquitoes and malaria are
two things that the inhabitants of n j
HWi.mp will never confess to; but I j
thought that you two were above such
weaknesses."
Oiu- earnest, "But, indeed, dear,
uiie'ie," was sinldeiily interrupted by a !
sudden flutter of wings, and a douche
of cold water exactly on the center of
Uncle Philip's head. Jack sprang to j
hi, feet. I
" It's those beastly birds, Madge," ,
he said. i: They've been chucking their ;
seeds at Uncle Philip, and now they've
finished up with a shower-bath. Tak- :
ins their bath in their drinking-cup. :
too, the little brutes! It's too bad. I
vow !"
Uncle Philip was silent, but his face,
as he glared at the cage o erlieml, was a
study. I apologized, eagerly, abjectly, :
and. I hoped, to some purpose. Then we .
adjourned to the front parlor, and
finished the evening quietly.
Uncle Philip was up bright and early
the next morning. I was 'surprised to
tind him in the dining-room when I went '
down, before the bell rang, to see that
tlie table was properly set. Hero was
beside him, blinking up with his great '
stupid eyes, one big paw laid upon Uncle
Philip's knee, and his red tongue lolling :
out idiotically. Uncle Philip greeted me ,
affectionately, though, I fancied, with
rather an air of constraint.
"lid ymi sleep w ell, Uncle Philip '
1 asked. Uncle Philip hesitated.
"It was quiet enough most of the i
night." he said, "but I was somewhat
disturbed toward morning."
" Not used to the city noises ?" I i
asked ; but Jack, who had come in be
hind me. laughed.
" Nonsense, Madge !" he said. " Yon
forget that Uncle l'hilip lives in Chi
cago, which is not exactly country. It
was an mose lurds ol yours
again.
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t iicie i imip n room is directly over mv
study, und the things tuned up at day
light, as usual. Nobody could sleep in
such a confounded racket. Now con
fess, Unde Philip, was not that the
trouble V"
"Why, Jack!" 1 said, half-crying.
" It is too bad of you. The little' dar
lings couldn't disturb anybody with
their singing, and you know there is
not another window in the house where
they
onlv
ve ti e I Mm ' UU'1
e the inoining su u
Oh, pray don't disturb your arrange -
hav
ments on my account,
in ... " 1
ments on
said Uncle
i iiiiii), rattier gnmlv.
shall get used to it' i
"No doubt I
the course of I
. time."
! i'f
Just hero Hero made a diversion bv
! . l" '"' a im
- 'expecred ami successful spring at
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" i-uop on j UCit 8
plate, with vliiVh lm
vauisLud through the back door, while
Lucio I hilip and Jack laughed nml flit,
Uncle Philip MtAved with uh Ipkh tlmn
1 i . .
" ' ,1 i IZ ,Z T V "V .." ' ' "l
fiiuLii - i in.-. uiit-jiLLuji ui leaving ns. i
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was.
"It is all very well for yon," he said.
" Uncle Philip is no relation of yours,
and you have no old claims of allection
and kinship pulling at you. It is not
his money, as you very well know, but
ho is the labt one of my mother's family
left, and to have him driven out of his
nephew's house by those ridiculous pets
of yours well, it's hard, and no mis
take." "Nonsense, Jack.'lliThe birds have
nothing to do with it," I said; but Jack
shrugged his shoulders.
" All right," lie said; ' but a man of
Undo rhilip's ago and habits can't stand
heiner wakened at ilnvlio-ht. every morn.
ing, ami (iisuirueil ni ail noivrs oi uie
day and night besides."
"I don't disturb him," 1 said.
"You do," said Jack. "Yon spend
your whole time prancing up and down
stairs, opening and shutting the window
just below his room, because you fancy
that those blessed birds are dying of too
much or too little air."
"But Jack," I said "the poor little
things are sitting, and they need con
stant care. You wouldn't liave me let
them die, would you ? "
" I'd have you consider the comfort of
human beings before that of animals,"
said Jack. " However, the thing is done
now. Nothing would induce Uncle
Philip to spend another night here. He
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1,n l.nsino tr, ntt.,.i tii ..iiv
hough, and has taken board in Niutht
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street for a few weeks."
I was sorry that Jack was vexed, of
course, but I really could not feel very
unhappy tit losing a guest so utterly
aiiici'iiug nun incunsiucnue. ijesntes,
Aunt Clarice had written to ask when
u i i. n,,m-nn;nt f,. n
unfeeling and inconsiderate. Besides,
wouiil ue convenient lor ns to re
eeive her, and she could now come as
soon as she felt inclined.
It was the very day after Uncle
rinlip left that I found Jou-jou, the
female bird, lying dead upon the floor.
My lirst idea was that it was a mean
piece of veiiKeanee unon Jack's rmrt.
! and I taxed him with it, but he denied
it imlignantlv.
"I'm not such a brute as von seem
to think. Madge," he said. '"I don't
like the 'birds, but I wouldn't hurt a
feather of their tails. Look here,
though," as he poked out with the
point of his penknife something that
iiii i . . ..
nan lougea in tlie ncalt. " Here is
what did the mischief. Stolen from !
my desk, too, by Jove! A dear case
of poetic justice."
It was a tiny bit of red wafer which
he held out fur me to examine, and of
course I hud to acknowledge that it had
alone caused tlie catastrophe. I buried
my little pet mournfully, and thought
of bringing another to replace her, but
Jack put his veto upon any such pro
ceeding. "But, Jack." I said," " Bijou will die
of loneliness."
" Let him," sniil Jack, savagely, and
t hat was all.
Vell, Bijou didn't die of loneliness.
On the contrary, after reflecting on tin
sit nation for a few days, he plucked up
heart, and launched himself into such a
' torrent oi rollicking song Uiat Jack was
more frantic than ever. Not, even tl
the
melancholy sight of the nestful of cold
little blueish speckled eggs seemed to
dash his gayety in the least. To tell
the truth, I was slightly disgusted
('though I would have died before I
would have told Jack so), for, try as I
might, I could not persuade myself that
that triumphant, rollickimr, irurxrliti":
song bore the slightest resemblance to a
wail of despair.
We saw Uncle Philip tolerably often,
though he no longer staid with us. I
noticed, however, that he could with
dillicnlty be persuaded to enter the back
parlor. Even the sound of Bijou's
singing, which penetrated the dosed
doors, made him start and wince in a
manner which was simply absurd, though
he never s.iid anything.
n.
We were in daily expectation of Aunt
Clarice's arrival, the (late of which was
not quite certain, as she was staying w ith
friends who continually urged her to
prolong her visit. After the day for her
coming to us had been three times fixed
and as often postponed, I made up my
mind not to expect her until 1 saw her.
Consequently I had dismissed all
thoughts of her from my mind.
I was sittingat my sewing one morning
when Jane came up to tell me that a lady
was in the parlor, who declined to send
up her name.
' An agent, no doubt," I said. ' 1
wish you had asked her business, Jane.
But no matter; I must go down soon,
to shut up Bijou, in any case."
So I sewed on tranquilly until 1 had
finished the piece of work on which I
was engaged, and then ran down-stairs,
humming a blithe little tune as I went.
I never finished that tune, though; for
the first thing my eyes fell upon in the
hall was Aunt Clarice. Yes, Aunt Clar
ice, sitting demurely in the hull chair,
out with no vcrv demure
ture expression
contrary, it was
upon her face. On the
a much agitated and disheveled Aunt
Clarice upon whom I looked an Aunt
; Clarice who appeared equally divided
ocineeu tears ami indignation, and w ho
met my astonished gaze with one full of
wrathful meaning.
" Dear Aunt Clarice !" I cried. " Who
ever dreamed of seeing you to-dav?
Why in the world didn't -ou go into
the parlor, even if Jano hadn't sense
enough to take you there ? That girl's
blunders are really beyond anything."
"Don't scold tlie'girl,'" said Aunt Cla
rice, grimly: "it's not her fault. She
? wUI UT "iT
- they can hardly expect their friends to
: stay in them."
"Menageries! Dear Aunt Clarice," 1
cried, " I never thought you would mind
1'oor Bijou too. You're 'as bad us Uncle
Philip."
Aunt Clarice turned slightly red. " If
i.min.ioui iiu-a o, u .you, Miesnid," 1
have no more to say; and she began to
j gather up her belongim
t tutoil inttnuf t-tii-rl-.!-
s as if she medi- i
' lm.'f u v;i. 1 1 r . CV '
' Knf li.ii. An.i 1 : ... i i - i
I nv. iiiL;uiriu;t ; x WU.S lllSI IO-
j 4'" Voi.g.t King,, I 1 should think so'
sum -Mint i - ni,.,
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" But 1 never lcnine
that you minded birds" so much."
" Birds !" suid Aunt Clarice, with an in
describable intonation. " But I .in
! mind birds very much such birds
this; birds that walk on four legs und
wag their tails and make grabs ut vour
ankles."
" Aunt Clarice," I cried, "it's Hero
that you mean Jack's great, horrid dog.
Do you mean to sav that ho is in the
parlor? Oh dear-! what shall I do?
Jack says that there is no harm in him,
but he always dances and grins ut us so.
How shall we ever get him out, for
neither Jane nor I dare toueli hiinV"
Aunt Clarice had relaxed slightly
when she found that I had nothing to db
with Hero's presence in the parlor, and
now she began to laugh.
" Don't trouble yourself about getting
him out," she said. "He is safe enough
there, for I shut the door upon him. He
kept quiet until Jane had goue, but as
soon as I was left quite alone and un
protected, he floundered out from under
the very sofa that I was sitting upon,
and ' danced and grinned' at me, until I
fairly took to my heels. Now I'll go up
stairs and take my things off."
Jack only laughed when I complained
to him of Hero's escapade, said that -as
my pet had the run of his studv it was
only fair that his should have tlie ran of '
the' rest of the house. He nositivnlv m. '
! fused to chain him, i r even to keep him '
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in the vard or eel nr. ns I inniloveil him
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in mi. ii mi v nil n i II I in l-i i 'I' d nfriiiiT
I - w
" No, no," he said, " mv relations have
had their turn ; it is time that yours
took their share now."
Of course when Hero had once found
his way upstairs, there was an end of
everything. Nothing would induce him
to stay down after that. It is my belief
that he had found out some way of
worming himself through keyholes, for
no amount of locking and barring would
keep him out. The worst of it was he
took a violent liking to Aunt Clarice.
Or rather I am inclined to think that
he found her irresistibly teasable,
and wus deep and artful enough to pre
tend a linn confidence in her fondness
and admiration for him. At all events,
wherever Aunt Clarice was, Hero was
sure to be somewhere near. If she sat
down upon a sofa Hero wriggled out
from under it; if she entered a room
Hero bounced at her from behind the
door; nay, he even secreted himself
under her bed at night, for the ex-
l'1'' rnli,os0 .'" fomiiij? out in the
small hours and wakening her bv the
contact of his cold nose and his warm
wet tongue. After she had twice aroused
the whole household by her wild shrieks
at these uncanny visits. Aunt Clarice
mildly but firmly announced her deter-
lnination.
" My dear Madge," she said, " I um
very fond of you; I am fond of Jack.
too: but really a man who keeps such a
; wild beast about his house is lit only
! for liedlam. I can't expect you to turii
him out for me, so I have decided to
i turn myself out for him. 1 am not
quite ready to go home yet, so I have
: taken board for a few weeks where I
shall be quite comfortable."
; Jack only laughed, and said, ' Tit for
tat," when ho heard of Aunt Clarice's
t departure. He laughed still more when,
on comparing notes, we found that she
and Uncle Philip were inhabitants of the
same boarding-house in Ninth street a
curious coincidence, certainly, but not
worth going into hysterics 'about. It
reallv seemed as if Jack would never tret
i over it. Every now and then, during
i the whole evening, he would suddenly
I throw himself back, kick up his heels in
uie most umiigniiied manner, and roar.
When I asked him his reason for such
behavior, he would say only. "Uncle
j Philip and Aunt Clarice! ho! ho! ho!"
And for days the mention of cithernnine
j would bring a most absurd and diaboli
' cal grin to his face, which was a hand
: some enough one in general.
nr.
It was rather curious, I thought, that
since Aunt Clarice had left us so
abruptly we had seen nothing either of
her or of Uncle l'hilip, although more
than a week had passed. Aunt Clarice
was always out or so the servants said
when I called; and ns for her, she had
never once crossed our threshold since
that unlucky day.
1 was just expressing my feelings
upon the subject to Jack, with Bijou
hopping about the carpet at my feet,
when the door-bell rang, and Jane
brought in the morning's mail. There
was onlv one letter, and that I saw in a
moment to be from Aunt Clarice
"High tim
tore it open.
I think !" 1 said, as 1
Then, in another mo-
ment, and with a shriek, "Jack
here!"
This is what Jack looked at:
look
" Mv PKAit M.uxiK 1 have not seen
you for the last week because I was try
ing to make up my minds whether il
licit to be an old fool, and in such cases
the fewer witnesses one has, the better.
I've decided at last, whether for better
or for worse, remains to be seen. Per-
, haps VOu know that Jack's Uncle Philip
phdps and I are old friends, and meet
ingnow and all ell, the long and
short of it is that we have made up our
minds to be married.
" That is all at present from
Your attached aunt,
"CiiAim i: Valhii.vx."
' P.S. If Master Jack and you hadn't
seen lit to turn your house into a me-
lingerie, it wonld't have happened.
mutual nauci oi pcis was our nrst bond
ot Ullion.
I was crying by the time Jack had
finished the
letter, and even he looked
grave, though there was a most exaspe
Goiid-bvo Z ,
woman " he said
-VVlV hit - hie
his eve.
on r fortunes,
little 1
Oh. Jack! Jack!" I cried. "And
to think it was all the doing of that hate
ful dog !"
"Not at all," said Jack; "my dog
hadn't half us much to do with it as vour
birds. Il they hadn't driven Uncle
i Philip out of the house, there would
have been no room in it fov Aim f'l .,-;....
and m that case
they might never have
met agaiu.
.Nonsense ; j. crieu. imlignantlv.
"If it hadn't been for the dog, Aunt
Clarice would have been here safe und
sonnd at this minute. I've a great mind
to poison him."
Jack suddenly grew very stern. "If
you do, I'll wring the neck of your
miserable bird," he said.
1 had never seen Jack look so augrv,
nor anything like so angry, before, aiid
for one minute I stopped short in abso
luteterror; then But before I could
speakj there was a hasty seutlle on tho
stuirs, and Hero in ixrion rushed into
the room. Bijou lifted his heud and
fluttered his wings, but he was too lute.
In another instant Hero had pounced
upon tho teinptiug plaything. There
was a strangled squeak, an agonized
gasp, ami poor Bijou had disupjieared
bodily down the gaping red throat, and I
Hero' was on his back, kicking convul- '
sively, while I rushed screaming from
the room. 1
Ot course Jack uud I " embraced with
tears," after the double tragedy. Neither
of, us could accuse the other, you see,
for if his pet had killed mine, mine had
proved equally fatal to his. Then and
there we forswore all future division of
interests, whether in the phopo of pets
or anything else.
Uncle Philip and Aunt Clarice Phelps
proved to be the most cheerful and con-
tented of elderly couples. It seems that
lltl M lv" affair. Jack knew of it
all along, which was the reason of his
profane laughter when he found that
hev had established themselves in the !
"ley uuu csiuuiisncu ineiuseives in mo
, ., .,.
same house, lliev were engaged when
and stranger things have happened than
that we should lie their heirs alter all.
I i7'r's Jliuar.
Iliuhlliii anil Buddhism.
The Buddhist religion also originated
in India, from which it was expelled. It
is now tho creed of most of the Mongol ;
nations ; its followers are said to be
about o( 10,000,000. It is the popular re
ligion of Cliina, of Thibet, and tho Bur
man empire ; also of Japan. It.has an
immense number of sacred books in the
Sanscrit language.
A little north of Central India, in the
seventh century before Christ, there
reigned a wise and good king, whose
son, influenced by the ascetic doctrines
of Brahminism, determined to turn her-
mit and devote his life to meditation and ;
prayer
o,l ..v..ni.., l.tmlf I., .,L-.,
men better and correct the prevailing
evils of the world. So one night he :
left his young wife, father and friends, :
and became a mendicant. After spend- ;
nig years among tlie Urahnuns lie tound ;
no true peace there. He left, them and !
wondered on until finally, when
seated under a tree, tlie true
knowledge seemed to come to him
in a beatific vision. He determined to
teach others how lliev might likewise
become happy. He began to preach in '
the holy citv of Benares on the Ganges,
He was the original Buddha. His dis
courses compose the sacred books of the
Buddhist. He converted great numbers,
his father among the rest, and died at
the age of M). Buddhism is an eminent
ly moral religion, teaching: First, right
belief or perfect faith. Second, right
judgment or the wise application of that
faith to life. Third, right utterance or
perfect truth in all we savor do. Fourth,
right motives or proposing always a
proper end and aim. Fifth, right occu
pation or an ont ward life not involving
sin. Six, right obedience or faithful ol
f-ervance ol duty,
(ii v or a proper roi
Seventh, right mem-
dilectioii of tinsl con-
duct. Eighth, right meditation or keen
ing the mind lived on permanent truth.
The first five commandment of the
Buddhists are: First, do not kill. Sec
ond, do not steal. Third, do not com
mit adultery. Fourth, do not lie. Fifth,
do not become intoxicated.
Mr. Maleom, a Baptist missionary,
says: "1 saw no intemperance in l!ur
mah. A man may travel from one end
of the kingdom to the other without
money, feeding and lodging as well as
the people. 1 have seen thousands to
gether for hours on public occasions, re
joicing in nil order, and no act of vio
lence or case of intoxication. During
'my whole residence in the country I
' never saw an indecent act or immodest
: gesture in man or woman. 'To love our
enemies, to abstain even from defensive
warfare, to govern ourselves, to avoid
j vices, reverence age, to despise no re
j ligion, show no intolerance, not to por
j sectite,' are the virtues of these people.
Polygamy is tolerated, but not unproved.
! Monogamy is general in Ceylon, Siam
I al'd Buriiiah. Women are treated better
ly liuddliism than by any otherOriental
religion." Buddhism was, before Chris
tianity, the first great attmpt to estab
lish a great world-wide religion. It
came from the south, but has passed
northward, stimulating vast masses of
otherwise inert people to thought and
reflection on the greatest problems
which can concern mankind. It is now
the popular creed in China and Japan.
A Rich I'M ir.
A manufacturer and vender of quack
medicines wrote to a friend for a strong
recommendation of his (the manufac
turer's) "Balsam." In a few days he
received the following, which we call
pretty strong:
Di:.ui Sut : The land composing this
farm has hitherto been so poor that a
A i Scotchman could not get a living off it,
; and so stony that we had to slice our
imtntoes nnil nhmt lliein ml i i-nwn v-s lint
hearim.' of vour balsam. I nut some on
, the corner of a ten-acre field surrounded
-..v . ... vi.8. ..... .. j j , j wealth in his own i spi'i'tsman, nut extremely near-signtea.
both were young, Wt quarreled. Ann : J?. "j "Vn tl.o V of our skiff had but just gi-ated
' t S'liS-TmM a 1 K ,hat change if ar wou'H cure a ngninst the sand, when Mr. 8. drew from
I d Unminodft defect of hearing with which he was under the gunwale of the boat a huge
; bail eloi toi hei sweet sake. m.f.t,i it.. c.l t vit, il, , cow's skin, surmounted with a pair of
i m r itic ljivi lyiiiiiiii n:n;in iivm mv h .
by a rail fence, and in tlie morning I j rock, such as the ancients used in mak
found that the rock had entirely disap-: iig all their hammers and axes.
poured, a neat stone wall encircled the
field and the rails were split into fire-:
wood and piled up symmetrically in my
i back vard. 1 put half un ounce in the
middle of a huckleberry swamp; in two !
' days it was cleared off, planted with
j corn and pumpkins and a row of jieach- '
trees in full blossom through the mid- ;
i die. As an evidence of its tremendous ;
i sll-elnrih. T tvollhl hHV Hint, it ilrnie n
striking likeness of mv eldest son out of :
a mill-pond; drew a blister all over his ,
stomach; drew a load of potatoes four j
miles to market and eventually drew a !
prize of .97 iu a lottery.
A Bockland man read that one should
endeavor to draw something useful from
even filing he saw, and nobly resolved to
profit by the teaching. That night,
when the moon was hidden, he essayed
to draw a number of useful eonlwood
sticks from his neighbor's woodpile, and
got filled so full of rock salt out of
a gun that he won't bo able to tuste any
thing fresh for the balance of his life.
KwklHwl Courier.
Navy chaplains receive 2,500 a year,
if:i00 additional for each live years of ser
vice, and at sixtv-two Jhev are retired
with ?f2,500 for life.
BOl'M) TO HAVE HER.
I low
it IVt-ftlntctit
Independent
F.iiullshinnn Wan
American tilil.
A Boston letter tells this romantic '
at.il-v Tim vi-nii-irf llilv .mini li-i Tlnvtilll '
from n emmtrv Inu-n in Xnw lTfinm- i
shire. She was a good specimen of the j
country girl, in robust health, and :
formed after the English model in
frame or after what has been sup- ;
posed to bo the English model, for I
observe that Mr. Bit-hard White de- -
I uies that the English girl is of buxom j
build. This girl made no pretentions
1 to " style." She was well educated, i
i .i c.'..t .. .. ,i
111111 11131 IV-" r-diuv: l'ililll WUI1V 111 III',
..icv 6ui hi.ui. e, i,uiB nuiaiv.i", .
s"w.,K'r' . younger sou oi ,
dist nmuished nn.l nol.le family, ami
libvarv. mid tnlk mostlv in a business i
Wav about books with this voting lady. '
Uy-an(l-lye,he asked permission to call on 1
her at her boarding-house one of the re
spcctablo but far from pretentious places
in tho city at which boarders arc taken.
She declined to accord the permission.
He then one nisrht left the library with
l'or, and waited upon her to her board
ing-house door. There her tu'othor, who
boarded with her, saw him and objected
to this being continued, until she knew
more about him. The gentleman then
went to some friends in the cit y and I
procured letters setting forth
forth who he
was. On this tho ladv consented that
ho should call. He came regularly af
terward, and soon formally offered him
self to her in marriage. She refused
him outright. She reminded him of the '
ditl'erenee in their conditions, and de-!
e ared she would never nurroo to u nmr-
ring" which must be so distasteful to his
family. Without telling her what he
was to do he took the next steamer for
England and in a few weeks reappeared
u collection oi uie
cordial letters from all his
most i
near i
relations, promising the lady a
warm welcome into the family, and ac- '
coinpnuied by a really dazzling array of (
presents. She refused to touch them,
and again declared that she would not ,
niarry him -this time because her
parents would object. The lover in the
same quiet way started for the New
Hampshire farm. He came upon the
put-cuts unheralded, and introduced
himself. They too refused him! But
they were struck with his manliness and
j simplicity, and' agreed finally to leave
the decision with their daughter. His
devotion had its effect on her at last.
She yielded, but, with genuine American
independence, she Would be under no
obligation to him till they were
married. She would not even
' accept an engagement
I ade her own trousseau,
ring. She
and it was
! Vl l;v simple. lliev were
i and at once went abroad. Sin
married,
savs the
severest ordeal of her lif.
was when she
fir.it met her husband's relations. To
show how simple her life hud been, it is
a fact that at the reception there made
for her she put on an evening party
dress for the lirst time in her life. Her
husband had the tact to take her very
early to the continent. They spent, a
year of travel there, and when she came
home she understood all about what was
required in In-r new life. One of
her
sisters was with her during this year,
but after it w as ov-r came back to Amer
ica and went to work to earn her living
again. The couple vie.it America occa
sionally. They have spent one year in
California. The marriage has proved a
very happy one. In these days of Daisy
Millers wasn't the story worth telling so
as fully to bring out it's better points?
Ancient Miners' Tools.
The miners in the Silver Belt mine in
Arizona recently made a remarkable dis
covery, showing that the mine was
worked ages ago. The tenfnot bonanza rt
cently uncovered, continuing to widen
ut every stroke of the pick, h it an over
hanging wull on one side that appeared
more like loam than tho ordinary wall or
vein matter of a quartz ledge, and so soft
that it caved in such away as to obstruct
the work. 'They then went up aboe
the cave nod decided to run down on the
ledge in a newvplaee, so as to get under
the cave, in order to have solid ground
to work on, and in cleaning away a
place to start in they found lying on
the ore, on top of the ledge, in the soft
loam three feet from the surface, live
stone hammers such as are found in the
ancient ruins and abandoned mines of
the Aztecs all over the country, show
ing clearly that the Silver Belt has
been worked in prehistoric times. This
is the first and only indication that has
neen loumi unit uie " jiell was ever
disturbed before the present owners un
covered it. One ot tlie hammers, which
a miner liml broken in oi-ilei- in ki.u tli.4
! duality of the stone of which it. was
1 made, is of a dark, touuh. slatv-lookinir
It Woiihlu't Work.
Topnoody made up his mind to-day
that lie was not going to bo bossed any
longer by his wife, so when he went
home at noon ho stalked in and called
out, imperiously: " Mrs. Topnoody,
Mrs. Topnoody." Mrs. T. came out of
the steaming kitchen with a drop of
sweat on the end of her nose, a dishrag
tied around her head, and a rolling-pin
in her hand. "Well, sir," she suid,
"What'll you have?" Topnoodv stag
gered, hut braced up. "Airs.
up. " Airs. Top
noody, I want you to understand,
madam "and ho tapped his breast
; dramatically " I am the engineer of this
'establishment." "Oh, you are, are
you? Well, Topnoody, I want you to
understand L und she looked danger
ous "am the boiler that will blowup
and sling the engineer dear over into
the next county. Do you hear the
steam escaping, Topnoody ?" Topnoody
heard it, and he meekly inquired if there
was any assistance he could render in
the housework. StcuLenville Herald.
An Indian chief, after the lomantie
manner of his nation, culls his musket
"Book Agent," because it is un old
smooth bore. Linmlt (Mm.) Courier.
later receiving employment in the pub- ! rolling upland pasuiresoi uie mum
lie librarv. There, her English lover t hind. . ,
i it. . . n ... i 1 li.i IT.ii Ale K wnM nf thn nnrt.v. n
j Stalking (Jrny Plover.
j The gray or grass plover is the wild
; est of all game birds, being enticed by
i neither the suortsman, stool or call. In
'. "j" "7 H kavil to imitate that
scarcely a nunier can do iouihi who una
correctly
counterfeit it. A writer in
Forest urn! Strewn tells a good story of
a sportsman who tried to stalk groy
plover.
Our story takes us back to many years
ago, when the pasture lands of Orange
county, N. J., were a favorite rambling
place for young plover. It was upon a
crisp,' frosty morning that four of us
crossed tho'bay from the beach to have
. . 1 . il 1 ! A .1
a eracK at the plover Ttiai ircquemeu
, ,,. , . - .. - .
:: " " ' T(; " :"l""-L "i
, J. i"". 1..un,BT
huge horns, 'lo put this on and securely
t'"U-ii by knotting a short piece of
fish-line around his neck was but the
work of a moment. He then looked up.
and, with a smile, said:
" Boys, I've got them now."
! Away to the westward rolled the hills,
j dotted' here and there with large herds
i of cattle, while from the wettish slashes
between the knolls the fluke-like note
of plover was borne down the air.
j " Now, boys," said the gay deceiver,
' " von station yourself behind the fences
B start up tno turds.
On went Air. uent ovi
over in imita
tion of a cow, his gun in hand, and his
spectacles with demoniac, luster gleam
ing on his nose. We, in silent admira
tion at his " happy thought," placed our-
"dves behind the fence and peeped
through the rails, wailingtoseewhether
uie ruse wouni prove eueeiive. ai law-
Mr. S. saw a plover light at the liaso of
one of the hills, and bobbing after him
he went. He hud lessened the distance
almost half and was within a hundred
yards of his victim, when from the near
est herd out strode a bull. Ho was n
grand animal, and the airy background
made him look larger to us than any
bovine we had ever seen before. Ho
was evidently angry at this impertinent
intrusion on his domains by a strange
animal, and gave his tail a snap that was
both ominous and suggestive. Ho took
one step forward, and, like Hamlet's
ghost, sitiffed the morning air. There
was a wicked twinkle in his eye, and an
exulting chuckle in his respiration, us
he sent from each nostril a cloud of
smoke.
"Yam," said the bull, and began trot-
I ting toward the unconscious S.
We screamed "Lookout !" waved our
! hands, and were frantic with apprehen
j si on for our friend. S. did not hear us,
I but went bobbing on toward the plover,
i It has been said that fifteen seconds
I sometimes appear like two weeks and a
half ; it was so with us. At the end of
.sixteen seconds Mr. S. was standing on
! his head and the bull standing over him,
looking very much surprised. I he gnu
wt nt oil' in the encounter, and the bull,
still more astonished, reared up, lost his
balance, and rolled over backw ard. Thn
Honorable Mr. S. jumped up in a fran
tic, confused way and started for the
fence. The bull rolled over and fol
lowed in pursuit. It was a race of life
and death. The suspense was soon
! ''
however, for the Honorable S.
i
went for the fence the same way Fran
cois Pavel used to go through the clock
head first and safely landed on the
oilier side, after scraping, by the top
rail, all the buttons off his vest.
What Shall We Be With Our Daughters .'
Don't teach them self-reliance. It is
so much easier for them to rely on some
one else.
Don't teach them how to make bread.
Their beaux might think they were not
well bred.
Don't allow them to learn how to make
shirts. It is better they should not
know. Then, when they are married,
their husbands can work twenty hours
u day to get money with which to buy
ready-made ones, while they knit red
dogs.
Above all things, do not fail to learn
them how to wear false hair, and if vour
; daughter objects to bang her hair, tang
her over the head.
Do not allow them to learn how to
make their own dresses. It Js fashion
able to have a dressmaker.
Tench them that a dollar is only 1(10
; cents and does not amount to much.
Do not let them learn how to cook.
' Should they understand the cuisine art
1 and know what is needed in a family,
the servant could not supply all her re
I hitives with edibles.
Teach them to darn their neighbor,
' but not stockings.
Don't allow them to learn how to sew
on buttons. They might get needles in
their fingers.
Teach them to regard the money tnd
; not the morals of their suitors.
Teach them none of the mysteries of
the kitchen, the dining-room and tho
parlor.
Teach them that the more one lives
. beyond his income the more ho will
save.
Urge them to go with intemperate
; young men. It is convenient to have a
drunken husband, as the w ife is enabled
to take pin money from his pocket while
he is taking a drunken snooze.
Finally, teach them that God made
them in his image, which necessitates
tight lacing. Xeir York Graphic.
Women as Bank Clerks.
Women have been employed as clerks
; in the Stockholm F.uskilda bank. Stock-
holm, Sweden, for sixteen veal's, and A.
O. Wallenberg, a director, writen: Since
1 the fourth of July, 1 8(54, sixteen young
- ludies have been engaged in the bank.
Of these there uro still in tho service of
the bank, eight; married und left, five;
advanced to more remunerative positions
in other institutions, two; dismissed for
inaptitude, one. Of those remaining,
three are cashiers on their own respon
sibility, ono is assistant to the keeper of
the head ledger, and four hold inferior
ositions.
A tirl with "$50,000 has a very good
figure, if she isn't handsome.