THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA.. DECEMBER 3, 1878. ; that she drank ravenously, that her eyes were unusually bright, and her step un usually lagging; and bo It chanced that when the eyes of Mrs. Warren were at length opened, and after tedious delay the poor-house doctor at length took the trouble to call on his patient, little IWe lay senseless, and almost past hope. The nurkhardls' were a very grand family In fact, uncommonly grand the father being of Dutch and the moth of English descent. They had one son who was yet but a boy of fifteen, but he had already ac quired im admirable proficiency In pom posity, conceit, self-indulgence, and skepticism, thus honoring both his nationalities. He was a handsome boy, tall, well-grown, fair, aud not without talent. If he had been plain John Smith, a carpenter's son, he would have been considered a boy of fair ability, who might reasonably hope to succeed to his father's trade, and to succeed at It ; be ing Master Frledrlch Clarence Lenox Burkhardt, with a genealogy that would reach half way round the world, and a purse that would reach the other half way, It was customary to speak of him as a young niau of transcendent ability. The Burkhardt estate was by far the most imposing in Sax ton. It stood on the summit of a low hill about half a mile from the Wilsons' cottage, and Its grounds extended down to the dale on all sides. This place had been christened Rose Hall by a gentleman whom, Mrs. Burk hardt, loffy as she was, did not venture to contradict. At the time of which we speak, the family were traveling, having taken a fancy to go to England for a few months and the Hall was in charge of domestics and a superannuated second cousin of the proprietor, one Miss Margaret Fair field, who had apartments in a secluded -corner of the building, and lived there quite invisible to the gay company that came and went. She was nearly sixty years of nge and in feeble health. Mrs. Burkhardt used to say, when any person had the bad taste to ask for her relative, that poor Cousin Margaret was not able to see company. In truth, Miss Margaret was the scion of a mesalliance, as the family consider ed it, and would have utterly ignored had it been possible; but since she was well known to be a relative, the only al ternative was to hide her. She lived in the great house a somewhat uncomfort able life, not associating much with the family, never seeing their company, yet not allowed to make companions of the seamstress or housekeeper. It was she whom Rose Paulier's moth er had been sent for to nurse, and little Rose could just recollect the pretty rooms where she had spent a few days with her mother and a gentle invalid, the wide windows looking out on gar dens, the silence, the sweetness, the plenty. The mother's death had been tragical, though the child knew it not. As she felt unwell, the doctor, on calling to see bis patient, had prescribed also for the nurse. Mrs. Burkhardt had taken the prescriptions to theapothecary when she went out for her daily ride. Such an act of condescention looked welLand as though she were Christianly anxious for every one under her roof. The apothecary was old and dull, so it was said, and lie made a mistake in put ting up the nurse's medicine. Mrs. Paulier took her powder on lying down at night, and in five minutes was seized with convulsions. Before morning, she was dead. Of course there was a great stir in the house, but Mrs. Burkhardt kept the matter close. Since the mischief was done, it was just as well to have as little talk about it as possible. The doctor was discreet, and so were the house keeper and Miss Fairfield ; and it was given out, and believed, that the stran ger had died of cramps. Had any rela tlve appeared, or any near friend who might have authority to inquire, the truth would have been communicated to him ; but no such person was forthcom ing. Mrs. Faulier was burled at the ex pense of her employers, and, as we have before said, the child was sent to the poor-bouse. Miss Fairfield had in vain protested against this latter step, and begged that Rose might be given to her. " I could keep her here with me, and she would be company for me," thepoor lady fald. "She never need be any trouble to the family. I'm sure there's room enough. Besides" " I object to it," Interrupted Mrs. Burkhardt, with unusual asperity. "Her position would be embarrassing to all. Brought up by you as your companion, she could not be called a servant. And I do not choose to bring up such a child In the house with Clarence. She bids fair to be a coquette. I saw her smiling askance when he spoke to her yester day.'! " Bes'dea," pursued the cousin with unwonted courage, resuming her broken sentence, " It seems to be that you are under obligation to take care of her." Mrs. Burkhardt grew pale as she turned fiercely to the speaker. To be Continued. He Knew How to Keep School. St lIISTERt no doubt you have all 1YI the learning that's required In a school teacher, but it wants more than learnin' to make a man able to teach school In Cranberry Gulch. " You'll soon flnd that out if you try it on. We have had three who tried it on. One lays there In the graveyard ; another lost his eye and left ; the last one open ed school and left before noontime for the benefit of his health. He hasn't been back since. Now you're a slender build, and all your learnin' will only make it worse, for all our young folks are roughs and don't stand no non sense." This was what one of the trustees of district said to my friend Harry Flotee, when he made application for the va cant position of the teacher. " Let me try. I know I am slender, but I am tough and I have a strong will," said Harry. " Just as you like. There's the school house, and I'll have notice given, if you want it done." "I do," said Harry, " and I will open next Monday at 9 A. M." The notice was given, and there was a great deal of excitement In the Gulch and along the Yuba Flats. More than fifty people of both sexes made an ex cuse to drop in the tavern to get a sight at the fellow who thought he could keep school in that district and many a con temptuous glance fell on the slender form and youthful face of the would-be teacher. Eight o'clock on Monday morning came and Harry Flotee went down to the school house with a key in one hand and a valise in the other. " Ready to slope, if he finds were're too much for him," said a cross-eyed, broad-shouldered fellow of eighteen or twenty. The Bchool house was unlocked and the new teacher went to the desk. Some of the young folks went In to see what he was going to do, though school was not called. Harry opened his valise, and took out a large belt. Then after buckling it around his waist, he put three Colt's revolvers there, each of six barrellB, and a bowie knife eighteen inches in the blade. The new teacher now took out a square card, about four Inches each way, walked to the other end of the school house, and tacked it up against the wall. Returning to his desk he drew a revolver and sent ball after ball Into the card, till there was six balls in a spot not much larger than a silver dollar. By this time the school house was half full of large boys and girls. The little ones were atraid to come In. Then the teacher walked half way down the room with the bowie knife in his hand, and threw it with so true a hand that it stuck quivering in the very centre of the card. He left it there and put two more knives of the same kind in his belt and quickly reloaded his yet smoking pis tol. " Ring the bell : I am about to open school." He spoke to the cross-eyed boy ; the bully of the crowd, and the boy rang the bell without a word. " The scholars will take their seats ; I open school with prayer," he said stern ly, five minutes later. The scholars sat down silent, almost breathless. After the prayer the teacher cocked a revolver and walked down on the floor. "We will arrange the classes," said he; "all who can read, write and spell will rise. Of them we will form the first class." Only six got up. He escorted them to upper seats, and then he began to ex amine ihe rest. A whisper was heard behind him. In a second be wheeled, a revolver in hand. "No whispering allowed herel" he thundered, and for an instant his revol ver lay on a level with the cross-eyed boy's head. " I'll not do so any more," gasped the bully. " See you do not. I never give a sec ond warning," said the teacher, and the revolver fell. It took two hours to organize the classes, but when done, they were well organized. Then came recess. The teacher went out too, for the room was crowded and hot. A hawk was circling overhead high lu the air. The teacher drew a revolver and the next second the hawk came tumbling down before the wondering scholars. From thut day on Harry kept school tor two years in Cranberry Gulch, his salary doubled after the first quarter, and his pupils learned to love as well as to respect him, and the revolver went out of sight within a month. They had found a man at last who could keep school. A Family Re-united In a Very Singular Manner. DURINO the last fourteen years, In the little city of Dayton, Ky., has lived a lody named Martin, a widow, having with her three children, all girls. The family was from Murfreesboro, Tenn., and came there In 1803, when that place was occupied by the Federal troops. Mrs. Martin's husband and boii had a year previous entered the South ern army. Some time after coming North she heard of the death of her husband, but the last tidings of her son were that lie was still well and unharm ed. This was some time in the early part of 1804. After that she heard not a word for him. After the war had closed she wrote to every place where she though it possible for him to lie, but no tidings of him could she get. She refused to believe him dead, and through the long years that have passed continued her search for him. Advertisements were Inserted lu newspapers North and South, and letters were written to dozens of places where a name similar to his happened to appear lu some connection in print. As time wore on her three children grew up and married, the last one, who was almost a baby when they left Tennes see, becoming the wife of a son of Mr. Jas. Peters, of Dayton, a little over a year ago. Mrs. Martin's friends have tried to persuade her to give up the search for her lost boy, as they were sure he was dead, but nothing could Induce her to do so. She firmly believed that he was alive, and that she would yet find him. A couple of weeks ago Mrs. Martin and a lady friend, while in that city, were walking out George street, while a fortune-teller's sign attracted their atten tion. Immediately the former said : " Let's go in and see if she can tell anything about my boy." Her friend endeavored to dissuade her, but It was no use, and in they went. After the usual interview Mrs. Martin came awuy with the information that her son was in St. Louis, aud a letter addressed to him In that city would lead to a reunion of the family. She was delighted with the result of her visit and wrote at once. Her friends, feeling sure that she was again to be disappointed, endeavored to persuade her to place no faith in the statement, but she Iinpllclty believed that she was about to find her son, and, sure enough, promptly came the reply a long, loving letter, full of filial afl'eo tion, and saying that he had been look ing for the family ever since the South ern army disbanded. Mrs. Martin and her Bon-in-luw, Mr. Peters, left for St. Louis at once, and now for almost a week this mother and son, separated by the stern incidents of war and by misfortune left In ignorance of each other's whereabouts for over fifteen years, have been enjoying each other's society. Of course it was mere chance that made the fortune-teller's story prove of such advantage, for an enlightened community knows that no human being possesses the power to know the affairs of the world In such a way as any other construction would indicate. Animals at Sea. IT is a fact perhaps not widely known says a Southampton letter to the Washington Star that most of the wild animals procured for the menageries and zoological gardens of Europe and America are brought from Africa by a German New Yorker named Reichle, who has an aquarium lu that city. It is another curious fuct that these animals should come from Africa mainly through North Germany. It seems they are collected in Africa (mainly cubs) and brought to Trieste, and thence to North Germany, and from there are distributed to the country where they are needed. It thus happens that the North German steamers frequently carry these animals to the United States, and it is interest ing to hear about their habits on ship board. The lions, tigers and hyenas are great cowards in a storm. They also suffer a good deal from sea-sickness, and whine about it. The elephant has little to say when he is sea sick, but he sways his great head from side to side, and looks "unutterable things." It has been de scribed by a writer (Charles Reade) how the sagacious elephunt in storms at sea saves himself from being washed off the deck by throwing himself flat upon his belly with all his four legs and bis trunk spread out with suction power upon the plauks. Cuptaln Neynaber being interrogated upon this polnt,re niarks, with a sly wink in the direction of the undersigned, that it will not do to believe all we see in print. He says that no ship master would undertake to carry a loose elephant on deck. A loose elephant tumbling about In a gale would be a more dungerous object than the loose gun told of by Victor Hugo. The elephant and all the other wild animals transported by steamer aro confined in the strongest kind of boxes, and the boxes themselves are secured In the firmest manner. The horse, It appears Is the most nervous and sensitive animal that goes to sea, and a hen shows the most utter disgust with life when sea-sick, by vomiting and eccentric movements. A Singular Method of Courtship. Among the Turkomans of Central Asia, who limy be styled the Comanches of the East, the ancient and much dis cussed usage of "marriage by capture" takes the form of a very singular game, which is universally popular with the tribes of the Lower Oxus. It is known by the curious appellation of "kok-burl" (green wolf), a name which has never been satisfactorily accounted for. The mode of playing is as follows : When a Turkoman belle finds herself embarrass ed by a crowd of rival suitors, her father settles the niatier by assembling them all in a convenient place on the open steppe. He then brings out his daughter arrayed In the pomp of Turkoman "full dress," and setting her upon a swift horse places in her hand the carcass of a lamb or kid, well greased from head to tall, with which she instantly gallops away. The young gentlemen follow her at full speed, and endeavor to snatch the prize from her hands, any one .who can succeed in doing so being thereby entitled to consider himself, " the happy man." It sometimes huppens.of course, that when the cavalier, who is the ob ject of the young lady's secret preference comes within arm's length, she will hold the kid in such a way that he can easily wrest it from her: but should a less favored suitor overtake her, she grasps it with all her strength, and the ill-starred lover gets nothing but a good roll in the sand for his pains. When all Is over the futher regales the whole com pany with a sumptuous feast of rice and mutton suet, for which he afterwards "sends in the bill" to his future son-in-law, who is often Anything but flattered by this expensive compliment. For the Feet. Among the first tilings that strike the traveler in Japan are the wooden san dals worn by these thirty-five millions of peo pie. They have a separate com partment for the great toe, and make a clacking noise on the street. Straw are slippers also worn, and a traveler setting out on a journey will strap a supply of them on his back that he may put on a new pair when the old ones are worn out. They cost but a cent and a half a pair. They are not rights and lefts, and leaving the foot free to the air we never see those deformities of the foot in Japan which are so frequent in this country. They are never worn in the house, being left outside the door; passing down a street you see long rows of them at the doors old and new, large and small. It is surprising to see how readily the Japs step out of them, and pick them up again with their feet, with out stopping, when leaving the house. Constant habit makes them dexteroiiB. The Discovery of Quicksilver. A cooper in Carniola having one eve ing placed a new tub under a dropping spring, in order to try if it would hold water, when he came in the morning found it so heavy that he could hardly move It. At first, the superstitious no tions that are apt to possess the minds of the ignorant made him suspect that his tub was bewitched ; but at last per ceived a shining fluid at the bottom, he went to Laubach, and showed It to an apothecary, who immediately dismissed him with a small gratuity, and bid him bring some more of the same stuff when ever he could meet with it. This he frequently did, being highly pleased with his good fortune; till at length the a flair being made public, several persons formed themselves into a society la or der to search further into the quicksil ver deposits, thus so unexpectedly dis covered, and which were destined to be come the richest of their kind in Europe. 0"Presldent Day used to tell of a neighbor into whose mind it was impos sible to cast a glimmer of logic or mental philosophy. On one occasion he thought he would get the obtuse to see the truth of the metaphysical proposition, "Man cannot do anything against his will," but all at once the man burst out with: "Oh, yes, he can"! A neighbor of mine went to prison against his will only the day before yesterday." Great Merit. All the fairs give the first premiums and special awards of great merit to Hop Bitters, as the purest and best family medicine, and we most heartily approve of the awards for we know they deserve it. 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