A JAPANESE WEDDING.
SINGULAR SYMBOLIC RITES AT THE
TIME OF MARRIAGE.
Roto Two Voting IVoplu Ara Made One in
tlie Liind of the DTlkitdo, Where "VI irrl
afje In Not a failure—Some iVi'rtdliigi
are Occaaloila of Jollity.
In th') dusk of evening the bride, in a
carriage, surrounded and followed by u
train of uplifted lanterns, proceeds to t'ue
bridegroom's house. Hurrah for ll,\ men!
Every chamber and every room, from
no to corn, r, the whole hou;. is nier
ril lit and ablaze with a foiv.il of
cu> Oja-in the alt .r of fa war
•hi* 1 ' e,jn gods seem ton, . , do
so . tin I. ams of flii-kcii tg lights
an cioifly accepting the joyful
oil ••* of game of the ttbtibt&ina,
fis'. / lit 'Rf•'l 'd 1. 'L<f;.io lis
of i.. tart It. Huni.h i r the l.oly
un : *t!
Yo; ' r ir t'v h -.:t hall of the house,
the . i'js. larger than a inks arm,
11' ' !v vrer I ' ::r ray s ever the new
cu". the ewe dings, tl jn w doors,
an new u Us; and i'l fi do. p cut
Tit. ' ''vißh" s a silken panel whereon
sti. a vt in ruble coup's of snow
cr ~-d ay under an evergreen
bo of stal.r..rt pine, pruiaing the rise
of ■ < >(i.ler sun, etuhlomali al of happy
un" pure life, old age, and increasing
hcr 'r'i t'o its left another bungs with a
pic • ore of a snow white crnno leisurely
conn • dating the serene bK.jSonis of
tin : .• tree —suggestive of clutsle lofti
ness of philosophic salvation.
(' the light hand side the 11 did panel
re] -cuts a tortoise, covered with sea
wc. trailing like long t isseln of golden
wool in c ihn rest, under a few graceful
ban 100 trees, famous f< r their pliable
bur unbreakable strength the whole
syi liz'iig t'.n meek hut eiicrushahle
vim • and slow hut suie triumph of
righteousness. Then in the .■enter of the
hall, on n small lacquered table. are dis
played heaps of Koiuhu, a seaweed of
grout tenacity and duration, and of other
vegetables, equally emblematical of vari
ous human virtues, skillfully piled and
carved into shapes of a prospering pine
tree, a pair of cranes, their nest and
nestlings,and so on—indicatingthehappy
future of the union which is now going
to be made.
But hush! here comes Mrs. Nakuudo,
the earthly representative of the god
Hymen, leading by the arm tlie brido,
so fair and so modest, blushing under a
silken veil; they pass in solemnly through
the guests* door and seat themselves be
fore the symbolic table. Three minutes
later, Mr. Nakaiido leads io the bride
groom, who takes his scat opposite the
brido; and Mr. N. opposite Mrs. N. These
are truly a man and wife of estimable
character and are the mutual friends of
the brfde and bridegroom's parents or
guardians, honored by the latter with
the trust of officiating at the holy cere
mony.
Well, then, the N'H introduce the young
people each to tlie other. Inaudible ac
knowledgment'! and solemn bowing on
both sides follow. Then Mr. N. proceeds
to declare the duties of a man and a
wife, and of their wedded life—a solemn
declaration, uttered in slow, soft, but
penetrating tone. A funny sight, how
ever, looked from its funny side—two
men and two women sitting cross legged
on the carpet, mmibling gravely over a
heap of tasteless weeds and roots! But
to sen the matter so funnily one must be
a funny creature too. Looked at from
the serious side, how much more pro
found in its truth than in a more show
of ceremony!
"Henceforward you are husband and
wife!" So says our Nakaudo: and they
become husband and wife. They do not
exchange promises, nor do they grasp
each other by the hands.
"Henceforward you are husband and
■wife!" So commands the Nakaudo, and
they vow each oth"r in onuttered words
strict obedience to this commandment,
and Ki.i.ifv i.• ty drinking rpuit of
Sake oLt of Liu -nine eitp. iliree and
three ami three —lime U:,a s
So ends the sacred e, rtunony Then
the nearest relatives ol the husband are
hurried in turn to the presence of the
bride to be introduced to her Ah! but
now follows the bamjuvt. only not a
good, jolly one. It is a family banquet;
none hut the blood relatives of the hus
band and the very nearest of the bride
are present. It is a solemn, formal one
in spite of all the magnificent dishes and
sparkling wines
So ends a Japanese wedding in solem
nitj from beginning to the end, and I
rather think it should. Of course lam
not writing of our jinrikishamen's and
coolies" wedding, which some smart for
eigners saw, and to which they added a
little color and introduced silly modifica
tions. and finally fitted up for a model
festival of Christian churches to raise
charity 1 Vet Ido not mean to say our
lower classes marry without any cere
mony; only they are generally jolly peo
ple, and everything goes in a jolly way
with them.
The legal side of marriage in Japan is
only tin's, that no marriage is legal until
it is registered at the registry office, and
the law recognizes only one man and one
woman as a wife and a husband. Japan
is not a polygamous nation.
If it is the question of iaw, Japan is
not a polygamous nation. If, as a matter
of popular sentiment, the younger gener
ation lias it entirely against anything
short of total denouncement of the old
idea —and what nation has not had its
old idea in practice at one time or an
other? At all events, if the Japanese
marriage system seems all unnatural to
force;. we have still the satisfaction
of being able to disprove thai silly state
ment which has of late greatly tickled
the incurable sore of bald-headed, false
teethed bachelors and maidens, "Mar
page is a failure," because it is emi
nently successful in Japan, although di
vofte is perhaps as easy in Japan as in
Chicago. But with us this is in conse
quenco of the original conception ot
what marriage is, open and honorably
td unlike the shameless maneuvering!
lawmongers! Nor have we that legju
tion called a graduated divorce syataß.
*-K. T. Takahasht in Montreal Star.
CHRYSANTHEMUMS.
Ob, thn Korp;pouMinMs of autumn blooms,
Tin- clusters lirlirht and rare,
Oli. tbe concentrated suullubt beams
That blossom ov irirbere'
Sprnimune flowers long have faded,
Summer blossoms droop and die,
But the gorgeous auluimi flowers
Uoid aud crimson colors vie.
All the lone and sultry summer.
Just a luuik of living green,
Just ii restful row of verdure.
It was all that could be seen.
i
But there hovered ardent fairies
lu the gloomy summer weather,
Stowing sunshine, dew- and luughter.
Isive and beauty altogether
And they burst lortn with the gladness
Ol the dviyiiyrlil end the dawn.
Anil 'tis at this lovely seosou
That the fairest bower is isirn.
Oh, the poiytisuiHtiess of autumn blooms, 1
The clusters bright and rare,
Oh, tlie cuiieoniiut. vl " hesms.
Thin lilossoru ev'r"wlict '
I I
Spritl 'l uettoweri . . limlM),
I 11 it i' ■ iri-eous r. ne.
tie. I mid crimson eol .r- vlo
—llaiv.if I. Hell ui Atlanta Const it iHlon.
The Ilorsus Itiol 1 ruins.
Down on V\i -.t strut t the other day
j there u;.-, a hi ; trued lonth iJ wtih boxes
j stalled ucio. • the street cai track The
; driver of tin ti'iifk was shouting and
lashing his horta s. anrl. afti i tv. oor threo
attempts to move the load, iney gave up
; in despair. The oiiver of tl; • ear was an
old man, and, afn r uan l.e , tilings lor
a tew minutes, in- r ;-|s i down and up
| prouchetl the truckman and quciied. ,
"Did you ever sue a horse's head dis
sected?"
•Nawt What are ye givin' me?" was
the angry reply.
"Well, you'd better lind opportunity
some day You'll Lu perfectly avion- ,
i ished. You inntgiue ti.il Ins head is
I hollow, or blutie i with bran or sawdust,
| but you aro way oil. Mature gave him
: brains. Let mu prove it."
He stepped lo their heads. rubbed tin ir
noses, spoke a few kn,J words, and in
called upon tin lU to put forth 111 u
strength They buckled down to a.
j pulled together, and the truck went over
j the rails and far beyond. The crowd (
j cheered, the car driver looked pleased, J
j and the truckman gol away an soon as
possible to hido his chagrin.— New York
Sun
An Ingpuloti* fcoliool Roy*
An ingenious Eur,lish schtKil boy, who
| wanted an answer to an arithmetical '
1 problem, dropped ii :'o a grocer's store
1 on his way to school nnrf sn i I hn wanted
! certain commodities at certain prices. '
' After exluiin-ling his list, he said: "Now, I
if I give you a half sovereigu, what
' change shall 1 get back?" The grout r
' told him. whereupon lie thanked tlie 1
shopman and turned to go. "Wait for
the things." called the grocer; and his
disgust can be imagined wben the urchin
told i.:m lie was late for school, and, as
he hadn't leurueit In, arithmetic It- ion, 1
he iian adopted that method of getting
1 the problem worked for him. Ex
change.
A Great Encyclopedia.
A recent l'ekin Gar cite contains a mo- j
morial from the chancelor of the Han-I
ian or Imperial college on the necessity I
: for re-editing the great encyclopedia j
| compiled ICO years ago iu the reign of j
; Kieulung. and of which only four copies i
in manuscript are now supposed to exist.
This work, the index alone to which con- ;
sists of fourteen large'volumes, contains
a complete compendiiim of the classics, !
and includes also a collection of every
thing written and revised by the empe
rors themselves or published under im-I
penal authority it embraces, says the
cha'irclor. ail knowledge under heaven, I
ami reflects, as in a mirror, the past and
present
Keeps IXim Out of Mischief.
One of the busiest men in Boston is a '
gentleman whose office is situated not :
far from Tremont house. Ho is the busi- j
ness representative of a New York pub- '
Inkling house, and al:> of a Philadelphia I
cuigaaine. ta-fi h it.is be fur::!dies tp ;> I
ter regularly to |uiu other jourutiUstla
cntorpnst's. is trying to patent nil im
proved kiiclieu un nsil. in thmkne.; of
bringing out a volume of poems, tins ,u t
begun work on some encyeiop ~a
articles, and is about to be married.
With all these things lie manages to at
tend to many other business enterprises !
whenever they come in his way. Boston ;
Advertiser
Viint<*i*l)ilf** <'handelier.
William I! Vanderbilt once sent to'
Paris for a chandelier, for which he paid '
§5,000 it was very heavy and awkward j
looking. The parts were screwed to- 1
getlier in such a manner that the screw |
heads showed plainly, and, though very I
expensive, and in one sense elegant, it j
did not please the New York millionaire, j
He sent it to a store in New York, offered I
it for $2,500, for which price it went '
begging, and it. was finally sold in this i
city for §IOO, and now hangs in tlie par
lor of a prominent gentleman hero.—
Washington Post. .
Uses of Safes.
Foreman Dakota Slasher—l see the >
big safe you spoke of lias arrived.
"Yes; bad it hoisted in this morning.
Beauty, ain't it? Ten feet square on the
inside, walls a foot thick, solid iron. I j
just tell you. nothing can go through i
that."
"But you say you can't raise money to
pay tho printers; what do you want of a
big safe like that?"
"Oh, that isn't to put money in. It's
for tne to get into when my great reform
crusade starts."—New York Weekly.
I
The Hebrews' Good Example.
The Hebrews set the world.an exam
ple by ihe way they care for their
own people. In Philadelphia on a single
day collections taken up in two syna
gogues netted $12,000. Their helpfulness
is by no means confined to measures of
this kind, for there is a system among
the "chosen people" by which every
brother's welfare is made the concern of
the whole body. It is an example which'
might profitably be followed more thor
oughly than it is by other religionists.—
Pittsburg Times.
UEIi.IIIT OF THE PLAINS.
TRAVELERS IN TEXAS ENTERTAINED
DY A MYSTERIOUS HOST.
Ho Ii tVa-ognlxecl by On. of HI. Guests,
Wilt, fh Forbidden to Speak the Hermit's
Nu nc on Peril of His Life—Subsequent
( IMv-ilijiouruucu of tile Strange Man.
A certain gentleman, whom I shall call
Hen- Ir- . was sent to Texas from Ber
lin by a syndicate of German noblemen
who vit ■ d< irons of investing in land
for the pnrp eof establishing an exten
sive ranch Herr L stoppeu In Fort
V " Ira few days, and, hearing
favor id - accounts of the country lying
north v aof this city, became impressed
with iho id :i that lie would find there a
suit: ' ' ■ locution for the proposed ranch
He wi- !><>.| to visit the sections bethought
of porelm ;ing, and your cor re opomlent,
as agent for the Houston and Texas Ocn
tr: I v' • ued the lands, was ap-
I" in' Ito accompany him. We left the
railroad at Vernon, and went by private
conveyance to the tract in question,
which' y some eighteen miles out from
that town.
As we left the hotel at Vernon we
askel the landlord if there was any
house oo ih" road where we could pu
up f<cP • night should it happen that
we would not be able to make the return
trip that day
"No home at all, sir," said mine host,
"oxe it that of the hermit."
! "The hermit!" we both exclaimed.
"Yes. the hermit of tho plains. He's a
singular foreign character, who lives
some fifteen miles from here, all alone,
inn Title shanty about half a mile off
the r ! lie's so mighty unsociable he's
got himself the name of the hermit of
the plains. He might take you in, Mr.
ho can't I 11' a German" [with a glance
at no' <" "'.uiionj, "and ha wouldn't
accommodate me to save his life."
i "A re bid Frenchman, in all probabil
ity," said lierr L , as wo drovo off.
We had u capital pair of brisk little
Texas >• mi i. all fire and nerve/and, the
! roads being good, reached our object
1 point in good time, but several hours
were eon-aimed in drivingovcr tho coun
try, and, unconscious of the flight of the
i short day, we were surprised to find our
selves v, c.r its close. Another roaron
for lw. ' ' was also apparent in the
1 purplish nun "sof cloud lying near the
horizon that threatened a storm. In an
incredibly short time darkness was on
I us and tic entire heavens black with the
i coming tempest. Tho ponies became
1 unmanageable at tho first pea! of thunder
and for: 'ink tho road, which I vainly en
-1 deavored to find again: but the vivid
flashes of lightning, instead of serving
me, only added to my confusion. An
hour's plunging hero and there in the
bald pr irie threw me completely out of
| my r; ! ■ •ling, and when at last the
storm I: I it itself and the ruin began
1 to pour d o i in torrents, I couldn't have
1 told my right bind from my left, lierr
I L called my attention to a dim but
I steady spark of light burning close to
1 the liorinon at no great distance from us.
Taking it to lie at soino house wo drove
' the now subdued ponies straight to it,
and found ourselves before a low shanty,
1 through whose unshuttered window that
! welcome light was shining. We knock-
I ed, and a voice in English, though with
a sli 'it foreign accent, called out to
know who' we were. We replied that
• we were two belated, lost travelers, who
sought the shelter of a roof for the
night. After some delay the door was
opened. n"d we stepped in. A man of
! average height. 11::t of a commanding,
elegant bearing, stood holding in Ins
! hand a candle, whose light falling on his
I face reveal, d it t . it distinctly. Herr
! L looked at l.im and at once ox-
I claimed in amazement:
j "God in heaven, it is the Count von
I But the name was unuttered, for the
I man dropped the candle instantly, and
sprang 1N..-a wild lieii. iat I, 'a throat,
",i;• . that tun :ou:;tl I kill yuu like
a dog!"
L——;,,:.-p d out that It- would not,
and his hunt took his hands from
his throat and relighted the caudle, 'inn
room was furnished rudely, but wan
scrupulously clean, and t.ie plank tabic
; covered with books that proved oil ex
: animation to be the untranslated Latin
' poets, with a few well cho :i volumes
|of English essays. The hermit provided
its with a supper of boiled liatti and
crackers, and then, turning to L ,
said that if he would pledge himself not
to reveal to any one his natne and
whereabouts we would be welcome to
such shelter as ho could offer. L
promised, and we remained all night.
There was only one room, and we all
slept in blankets on the door. Our mys
terious host had little or nothing to say,
and when L volunteered some infor
mation in regard to recent German poli
tics, replied that lie wished never to
even hear the namo of that country
mentioned again.
"I don't ak you who that man is, af
ter your having given your word to him,
Herr L ," I said, "but what is he, or
rather what lias he been?"
"I will tell you only this," answered
my companion. "That lone hermit is
the head of 0110 of the most powerful
families in Germany. He is supposed to
have died, however, some years ago. At
any rate, a coffin was buried with every
possible honor, and, up to last night, I
am sure, it never occurred to any one to
doubt his body lay in it. He occupied
one of the most important positions at
court, and I am at a loss to understand
his exile to these Texas plains, for he left
a charming young wife, an exalted rank
and a princely income for that hovel."
"You will never tell of your discov
ery?" I queried.
Herr L quietly answered the ques
tion, of which I became a little ashamed:
"Sir, I am a gentleman."
I again had occasion to visit the vicin
ity of Vernon, and, on inquiring for the
hermit of the plains, was informed that
ho had disappeared from that neighbor
hood, leaving no trace behind.—Fort
"Worth Cor. St. Lcui Globe-Democrat.
KAWEAH COLONY.
Result of Thres Tears' Work by Social
ist Colony In Sierra Nevada.
Most residents of this county have
known that a colony of Socialists had
been established in the Sierra Nevada
mountains, on the Upper Kaweah, and
had secured a foothold in the Giant
Forest, but the progress they have uiade,
what they propose to do. and their meth
ods are understood by few
The colony at present consists of about
seventy-five persons, but is growing.
Some of them have been on the site
three years or more, all living in tents
made by stretching canvas over frames,
with double root's and walls, which, nd
dod to carj tola, log stoves und the usual
comforts of more pretentious houses,
inalat the cloth structures quite comfort
nble. even in the snows of a mountain
winter These tents are laid off in
streets, water is piped in. and other con
veniences nre provided.
They have some li ■< nf meadow land
on which vegetables t i.ough 'o nn . t the
needs of the community are raised, and
tlit! general idea is to spread out in fruit
and other products, as well as various
lines of manufacture, until the colony
produces about ull it will require. The
scheme also involves the operation of
valley farms. Thus far they have con
fined tln ir efforts to the building of a
road, said by outsiders to be the be t
thoroughfare yet constructed into the
mountains. Difficulties have not been
evaded, but the grade has been followed
wherever it led. Blasting has been done
in places win to a man could not get a
foothold to <trlll, being let down with
ropes. This will be n toll road.
The society has written bylaws for its
government, but countenances nelflit r
churches nor saloons. The immediate
administration of affairs is vested in a
hoard of trustees, with a superintendent
for each department of labor. When
ever a new member is admitted ho is put
at the work ho is used to, and all are
paid alike, viz., HO cents an hour. A
day's work is limited to eight hours, al
though n member may work any time
less than this or none at all if he so elect.
All work is paid for in scrip issued by
the trustees, good for supplies or any
thing among members—in fact, a legal
tender.
It is thought that tills scrip can be
made to circulate among outsiders in
time by placing a premium on it in ex
change for anything the colony may
produce. At present it is kept at home.
These people believe in neither interest
nor profit, all articles being banulcd at
cost.
Now, while the colony is getting upon
its feet, it derives support from member
ship fees. A paid up membership costs
£3OO, made up In monthly in ealnienta of
?3 each. When £IOO is paid in, the mem
ber is entitled to move into the colony
and go to work There are many per
sons in this state, end even far east, who
nre paying up memberships with tho ex
pectation of some day joining the col
ony. This is true of professional men,
who are not up to road building, but are
waiting until the colony grows to need
their services, w'i n they will be ready
to servo at 30 cents an hour. Any mem
ber may withdraw at any time if lie be
comes dissatisfied, and receive his full
dividend besides what ho has paid in
In joining, one must be recommended by
two members as of good repute. The
colony is now nio. tly American, with a
scattering of Germans and Swedes.
A reserve fund is maintained to pay
any who may wish to sever their con
nection with the organization. Then,
whenever there w a surplus, a dividend
is declared, this being based upon the
time cheeks or scrip each holds. This is
where the joker c.mies in on those who
have lolled in tlio shade rather than
work.
Thcuo dividends become private prop
erty. *is wo understand it, and may be so
handled or turned into any of the enter
prises under way. The private property
in the colony, however, must be confined
to u house lit mid personal effects. The
tht'jcr lands, if i'. ' • h : viced nu
• I v.bi'.t I ! . • . .'■> , . i .
• -vcralt;.. i ! (••• t I ti . .1 K-.!
I.i 'fiaioti.—Tut... i ..ur.
l.tiiU-nln-j to the 'tin-t ;#• : tl.i-.ts.
A writer, v.lto litis tv.-n.iv w.-.iieii to-
Bridal Veil i-ati . ill the Vor: he Vit!
thus speaks of t ie mo. hi. •; i.trd:- i'.i .1 I
in that vicinity: "Viiljous of bro\. 11
conti-d hirds tin-re were every v. !i re. co
til the whole of our very natures : v:c !
permeated with their music. Sometimes
low and sweet, again sad and plaintive,
and then full, rich and triumphant, like
a pa-an of joy and gladness, wliile we
looked at each other in wondering si
lence. Just as it scented that the melody
was unsupportably sweet, and that our
hearts could not contain more without
the relief of tears or shouts, the wind
died away and the water again struck
with an awesome roar into its rocky hol
low with a forco that made the earth
tremble, and was again lashed to furious
foam, and the song of the mocking bird
hushed. Thus it goes on ever and ever
alternately, and has for ages, the song
of the hirds and the thunderous rever
beration of the cataract."
A "Settler" for Mrs. X.
The other day we overheard a table
conversation substantially like this:
"What, dear, you haven't heard about
it?"
"No, dearie, not a word."
"Why, you see, Mrs. X (a very promi
nent lady) tried to get Mrs. Z's (another
prominent lady) cook away from her,
and actually -.vent to Mrs. Z's house when
Mrs. Z was away and offered the cook
more money."
"My, my! What did Mrs. Zdo about
it?" >
"Well, tlio next time they met at a
statu dinner Mrs. Z didn't notice her.
Some one who sat between them said:
" 'Mrs. Z, you know Mrs. X, do you
not?
" 'N-n-no,' said Mrs. Z, 'I believe not.
She sometimes calls on my cook, I
understand, but I believe wo do not ex
change those courtesies. Waiter, an
other of tho breadsticks, please.'"—
Washington Post.
AN OPERATOR'S STORIES.
REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD RAIL
ROAD TELEGRAPHER.
Locomotive Engineer* ami Their Way**
The Scared lirakemun Getting "Time"
from the Operator—An Who
Tlioujrht a Signal Wan Shown A* a Joke.
The telegraph operator stopped after
taking a press dispatch describing a rail
road accident and chatted with the re
porter. The news that h:ul been coming
in overjtho wire brought up reminiscences
of the ihiyß when lie had bft. u in chaige
of a li:!le stulion on a railroad.
"A railway telegrapher." he m id,
livoi -lit into close relationship v. idi other
e, ! of the roni, but tatween liie
cn rs and himself there exi is a
f:' hip that dates b '. f'oln tie- (list
time the engineer la . lan m rut
llisol" eor by t' • j u f Uis band,
as he flew by tie- o . rv, a.-I.ed for time
wh. n 1 h ! on-vudud U.j maximum
speed.
"feveral y< . ' connection with a rn.il
road lin (' companionship of th ,e
men l.asconv ince.l uie that a more fir. o,
n rvy, ree kit- .daredevil and kind in ;t
--ed t men d i not exist. Block g
n ' and trawling train masters havo
elii ted the reckless part of th .h na
ture to a great extent, hut tho nerve,
bravery and kind heartednoa# still re
main and will until Uio or 1 of tim s as
only men of this caliber make railroad
engineers and stick to the business.
"Some ten years ago, when a hoy of
IP, I was located as night operator at
New Freedom, on the Northern Central
railway, about fifty miles north of lh.hi
re . The signal tower was situated at
a point called f'uinmlt, where the road
was down grade about ui a miles south,
tiln Ito Parkton, the next telegraph
st : n, and about eight i li'es north to
C' Stock, iho next tolegri:ph st.d : •i in
that direction. At that titutempiy en
gines, known as 'pushers,' were sent out
from York, twenty miles north, to push
heavy freight trains ovor the summit,
follow on to Pnrktou and push a train
north. It was the great est delight of tho
engineers of these 'pushers' and the
through freights, too, to lay to at luy
office, get mo to give them flvo or seven
minutes—that is, say they had loft that
length of time before, and then 'fall'
down tho hill to Glen Rock or Park 1 i,
as tho case may be. Times innumer
able did they make the 'fall' at the rate
of a mile a minute, but the given time
saved them from censure.
"One night Barney Riley—a better man
never pulled a throttle—(l think 1. ■ i., a
passenger engiii' r now) came KUL.II on
a thr igh freigat. lie had for a front
brakcinan n man from the cotiu'.r. iiis
triets surrounding Marysville, the north
ern end of the division, who was making
his first trip and know little about the
trials of railroading. As the engine
swept by Barney held up his open hand
asking for five minutes, which I duly
credited him with. How fast ho v. it
| down the hill that night will never be
! known to a cert, inly, but it must have
been liko the wil d, as I learned after
ward that he induced the operator at
Pnrkton to give him additional tim : 1
thatti • poor brt:': man left his tr; u -t
that station and returned home out!
next passenger train, vowing that I. ■ 1 !
all th" railroad -.vperieiinohei! i. i
solemnly declared that it L !; . I his
energies to hold on to the cur lie w. ■: on
and tlmt had the train !• ft t:. • t... . it
would have kept going for u mile ml.. ~t
across the count ry
"The engi.. •> i and
the line at thai t, c. s:. 11 lis- i
wi iecontimii.il,. playing jokes . ~
other, and th a i-t a that I u.:. .im;
c :ae very m r cesiing iiu engi , ids
life. It occur: •■! in this way: I'. .'.sig
nals wore not m vogue i.t tin t t',. . i id
our orders only called m the I: g of
freight trains live iuh;~..ma apar <J.:r
signals consisted of red while an 1 l ine
Red to stop, blue to run slow or c.nit
j r i white i!e:r>: d a clear track. The
r. i , i a. sLioU i : . ..e i :.. I.i
I t -ekcuulc. o
!• ' i i . ra I'ri iglil ■ :: ra
If'il ; -ss.-il my stntiim, but tils ~ n
!. d i'• '--I-, bad st. . , .. ,
:. ! •> . t.a siding. 1,1 ■ L.. .
ec 0r..! mi t. t < had been e ■cm I
1 halil,. nftci lliey I.ad |. Ed
tu.vei I low. re.; red signal usual
an . ... ..t it down the required .e min
uter. 1 lunl observed the light on li.e
extra s caboose aw.ty down the track
and divined i.s purpose. To di I. v ilie
while light to the ileal train no h I i til
a perfect rigiit. ;is llie extra's shii'g.-g
was supposed to be on.side of my j......
diction.
••'l'iie extra, having concluded its 5!..,0
iug, pi;lied out and the lights ol the ca
boose disappeared around the b. nd. As
they did so the regular train north came
into sight around the bend sou.li of my
office and some sudden impulse made mo
lower the blue light. Now, as 1 have
before remarked, this blue light was
never used, and when it was flashed in
the eyes of this engineer he took it as a
joke, and as he was a 'lectlT late pro
ceeded to go down the hill at the usual
gait.
"He had a heavy train back of him and
it seems he was not aware that the ex
tra was ahead of him. All went well
until he dashed around a sharp curve
about half a milo south of Glen Hock,
when the danger signal was dashed at
him by the flagman of the extra, who.
not expecting the regular to be so close
on his heels, was only a few yards back
from his caboose.
"The engineer whistled for brakes, re
versed his engine and turned to take the
stop to hi-rp when he found the little
door leading to his post of duty had been
slammed to by the jar of reversing the
engine. Before it couliih ho opened tho
crash came, and the engineer found him
self buried under tha Jebris of about
fifteen empty box cars. He was taken
out but slightly bruised, and thankful
Kv his narrow escape. 110 afterward
told me lie thought I was joking when I
jjut down the blue light on him, but in
The future, he said, he would have mors
respect for a blue signal light.' I —Wasfl*
ington Star.
Management of tho Voice.
Professor fcjieber has touched one of th* "
evils of the day when he declares that
there prevails a keenly felt dearth of
thorough teachers who have devoted
their lives to the special study of the for
mation of the voice, and this remark ap
plies just aai forcibly in public speaking.
Our people have yet to learn that a ready
flow of ideas and the gilt of gait do uot
constitute the sole and only requisite ofl
the impassioned and eloquent orator.
Cicero, when ho began his public ca
reer, soon found his voice and delivery
so inadequate that he gave up his pro
fession for a time, and spent a number
of years in Greece and Asia Minor in th©
study of el i -ution. When he returned
a" I resinned his profession, his voice bo
canie proverbial for its sweetness, eonv
p ;and power, and Ids delivery charmed
and delighted one of the most eloquent
cges in the world's history. The sever, v
i f the reverses pursued by Deniostln
1 "e furnished texts for even the v.
tag hooka of our s' liool- nt" 1 . asnr ir
h" so developed the cl .rnessof Id iur
tr illation and tin-strength of his voice
that it enabled hi n lose sine into i 'h aeo
nnd.awethose tuniuituotis nr-vil 'a of
the Athenian deuu eiuey. where th • " iso
and confusion were often like th l "on
tho lips ot the uir.uv soundin - sea.
i'rofr.- or Mcilvuin, of i'rin • •! a col
lie, strikes squaiely • t tho evil known
as clergymen's sore throat when I • says
it would seem that In* who in aee
himself to h- preaching the gospel, while
he violates almost every law of oral
speech, deceives himself and commits no
little sin—a sin which, like all others,
does not fail to punish itself. For those
wasting throat diseases with which cler
gymen are afflicted mora than anv other
cl.a a of public speakers are often traced,
physiologically speaking, to had manage
ment of the voice; to the vwniion ol'
those laws which nature has ; yihed
for articulate speaking—laws win i, like
all others established by the God of na
ture, can never ho u kited with im
punity. This view is coutinned liv the
fact that no more ciivim.l pres. nive
for these diseases has been discovered
tliau a thorough coui o of sound elocu
tionary training.—Medical Classics.
Tlio i'alling Leave*.
As 1 sat, one uutuniu day, watching
the yellow leaves as they came Anting
to tho ground, looking so much like
great, golden butterflies, th th : ;lt
came to me: I wonder what answer the
little folks would make ii' 1 should ask—
"What makes the leaves fall?"
I That owning 1 put the question to
Alice, She thought a moment and •>-
i plied: "Why. the wind."
i "But, Alice, there is oftep BO lit: > 'tr
i moving that the leaves do noteven :• '!o
| ou the trees, and still they drop to i <•
i earth the same."
j At this Charlie spoke, his black eyes
I sparkling wiin the thought that he had
solved the pncilmu. "I know! 'lis be
| cause tliev are ready to drop."
I "All right, IIIV AS far as you have
| gone, but there: ..,meriting more: what
| makes them reus. .
At this on- tio.i the three little faces
I became very grn..: at last, I,atli me
| youngest, mid n her timid \va : "t
| think they i ave dor.o all the wor God
i had lor them to do, and so he picks
i them."
i 1 wond'T how many of u . wl.o tire
1 older, co I have ui .vcrtd as v. ... —ri.
i B. 11. in t.omerville Journal.
A UIVM
One of the many | euiiar fx ' mof
steamboat pi] >ting is t io shifting < f the
'•hannel The marks of pilots a eer
i-uti : ; i . iver <>i .Iv
s lb . lie v. :s * . ace 1 'd.
.re a..a. a I. ;■ vr n I they o .;*•
in exii.t But tin .ling ee • ,ea
... the i bane ati •: li •t1 ds
sippi re. seui- ~itin> Di e • ioes a .ob
le'imtieal eon. :.ion t itbe innate pe
i ait pilots, riie changes or shifts •:ho
channel are sometimes very stttid. out
it is. h ; .vev.'l'. a rate ixtev : .'nee dra
change to take plat ■■ i.i It?, than forty
'•-ht hours. For instance, to-night I
go .imvn on toe New South per
• ilv aeouaito.il with tin- channel's
■•.i'.oti On iu.\ next trip up it a few
. .t re ma., have been a change in
• position, it requires co: taut ivatch*
•! ; ss. ||. nee : may he t; ulifuliy said
ihat a phot's :'udy is ne.er ended.—
';i ! i'li, t in ti.. . .uisGlobe-i.'oinoerut.
V >l.i.: C'-irioiiH l.'uia-rnl.
It w..s t.iat ! in. zdo Castro—"the
• i 'i u • in I after death" —who wits
,i unit. hi t .e loui ieenth century by
li n e i aassin The ladv v. as the wife
f a pnrtugut ei io wii i vi. ee, and sho
was tnttri red ; order of t king—her
father-in-law The prince never spoke
> his ir.i.lier : gain, and w hen the old
man ii 1 the r. in..ins of Inez wi re lif ted
from t grave, placed on a magnificent
throne, red e. n-d queen of Portugal.
Tile i;J. r ;y, the nobility, una the people
did homage to her corpse, and kissed the
hones of her hands. There sat the dead
queen, with her yellow hair hanging like
a veil round her ghastly for,a. One ilesh
less hand held the scepter, and the other
the or i of royalty,—l'all Mall Gazette.
Tle Biggest Clold Nugget.
There have been big gold nuggets
found in vuriouscountries, but the largest
ever discovered was found in New South
Wales, Australia, on May 10, 1872. Its
weight was CIO pounds: height, *1 feet 9
inches; width, SI feet 2 inches; average
thickness, 4 inches, and it was worth
§148,800. It was found imbedded In a
thick wall of blue slate, at a depth of 250
feet from the surface. An interesting
feature of its history was that the owners
of the mine were living on charity when
they found it.—Jewelers' Circular.
Consistency.
Pater (10 p. m.) —Wife, this will never
do. You will drive mo to bankruptcy.
Three boxes of candy in Sweet & Cara
melle's last bill. This must stop.
Hie Same (10 a. m,, to office boy)—
Hero, Frank, go to Puff & Litem's and
tell them to send a bettor lot of Petf.
fectos than the last, and that §2O a hua>
(ired entitles mo to a-good cigar.—Pittt
burg Bulletin.