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PERSEVERANCE.
Oue step and then another.
And the longest walk la ended;
Oue stitch and then another,
Aud the largeet rent is mended ;
Oue brick upon another,
And the highest wall is made ;
One tlako upou another,
Aud the deepest snow is laid.
So the little coral workers,
lly their slow aud const tut motion,
Have built those pretty islands
In the oistaut dark-blue ocean.
And the noblest undertak ugs
Man's wisdom hath conceived,
Ly oft-repeated effort
Have been patiently achieved.
Then do not look disheartened
On the work you have to do.
And say that such a mighty task
iou never can get through ;
but just endeavor day by day
Another point to gaiu,
Aud soou the mountain which you feared
Wi 1 i rove to be • plain !
•• Koine was not bunded in a day,"
The ancient pi overt teaches.
And Nature, by her treee and flowers,
'lhe same sweet sermon preaches.
Think not of far-off duties,
but of duties which are near.
Aud having once begun to work,
llesolve to persevere.
Cousin Edith.
Lillian Aniea stood leanlug agaiust the
easement of an open window leading on to a
sloping lawn, at whose base flowed a sunny,
rippling stream of water.
It was oueof England's fairest daughters.
Even at this moment, spite of the fact that
her brow is gathered in a frown, and the
red, full lips are unmistakably pouting, her
beauty is undeniable
A few bold spirits had declared that there
was little soul in the face; but the large
hazel eyes could melt or flash at will; the
dark lashes shaded a cheek as white as Pa
rian marble, with rarely even a touch of
color upon its velvety surface; and the
lithe, graceful flgure even unconsciously
assumed a new grace in each unsteady
poise, until one forgot the question of soul
iu its perfect outward flesh and blood ta
bernacle.
Near her, reclining on a low easy chair,
sat a young girl of at>out her own age.
At first glance the exquisite soul-loveliness
of her face paled in Miss Ames's brilliant
beauty, but there were more to love its pos
sessor, and fewer to envy her. Something
like imagination was in her voice, as she
addressed her friend.
i4 I cannot believe that you mean it, Lil
lian, " she said. "You have been engaged
to Oscar Dering for a year, and how can
you say so carelessly that your engagement
shall be broken —"
"Beg pardon!" interrupted the other, in
low, ironical tones, 44 i have not yet been
engaged to Oscar Dering twenty-four
hours. It was to Lord Oscar Dering I gave
my pledge. '
"Oh, Amt Lillian, because he has lost
title and estate must he also lose the woman
of his love? Think a minute. You surely
will not give him up so easily?
"Nonsense, Edithl I am 21—no longer a
girl of an age to live upon sentimeutalism,
but to look upon every-day realities of life.
When I engaged myself to Lord D.rng; 1
was the subject of congratulation among all
my friends. Now that the cousin who was
supposed to be dead croi>s into life in some
reunite portion of the globe, and that Oscar
insists upon renouncing the property in his
behalf without even a struggle, I am not
content to let these same congratulations
lapse into pity."
44 0h, Lillian, do you think anyone could
pity you for possessing so royal a gift as
the love of such a man? Think better of it,
dear; I know you care for him. Do not so
lightly renounce young life's happiness."
4 4 You plead his case eloquently, my dear.
Really I did not know I possessed a rival in
my fair cousin. Perhaps a heart caught in
the rebound —you know the rest, of course,
and can point the moral."
"Lillian,you are cruel—cruel!—l—" But
the late speaker had passed through the
window out of hearing, and advanced to
meet a man quickly approaching on the
green sward, while the young girl left be
hind fell back in her chair, the great tears
coursing down her cheeks, on which the
crimson color signal flamed.
It was as though some ruthless hand had
snatched the veil from her own heart, leav
ng exposed its most cherished secret —a
secret she had not known herself until now
betrayed by her shame.
44 1 must leave this place. I cannot meet
him again; X must go home. But, Oh how
cau she give him up!"
Edith Loring and Lillian Ames were
cousins, bnt the one was the daughter of a
clergyman whose rectory was some ten
miles distant from Ames court, and one of
the noblest estates of England, and of
which Lillian was sole heiress.
* The girls, however, had been closely
united, more by the tie of friendship than
cousinship, since the latter was a dictant
bond, and Ames court was almost as much
Edith s home as her own. Now, however
the homelier charms of the rectory were
very grateful to her. Here no one could
prove the discovery so new to herself—to
trace the scarlet blush which seemed so
often to burn her cheek, until she wondered
that it did not leave its brand.
She had been home six weeks, and twice
Oscar Dering had driven over to see her,
but she had always denied herself to him
on some household pretext, until one morn
he overtook her in the road.
She had been busy with thoughts of him,
wondering how he had borne his ruptured
troth, and reproaching herself tor the cow
MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1880.
arili-e which heretofore hail forbidden her
meeting him, when she heard behind her
the quick step of the home's hoofs. llis
rider drew rein at her 9ide.
"So I am to find you at last," he said.
His voice sounded the same as of old; the
bright, cheery tone was unchanged.
"Have yoi seen Li'lie, lately?" she at
last found courage to ask.
"No," he answered, ami then she saw
the frown gather on his brow, and au ex
pression of pain conies about his lips. "1
see as little of your cousin as |x>asible now.
You know, Miss Loring, 1 am no longer a
subject of congratulation."
"Yes, 1 know," she said. "1—"
"Don't pity me," he interrupted; "lcan't
bear that quite vet."
"1 did not mean to pity you," she re
plied.
"Oh, if Lillian had not spoken of the
heurt caught in the rebound," she thought,
when week after week Oscar Dering would
tlud his way to the rectory gardeu or the
rectory parlor, to spend long hours with its
fair young mistress.
She understood so well why became, be
cause now and then Lillian's name drifted
into the idle talk, and because, as he grew
strouger, he dared speak of her and of the
We he had borne her. It was a mingled
pain aud pleasure to listen. If only she
had not learned her own heart the pain
would have been less. But she was de*
stiued to learn it more fatally, yet, as one
morning strolling through the woods to
gether, the sharp report of a hunter's gun
cioso beside them startled them both. The
next iustant her companion sank white and
senseless on the sward beside her, while
the affrighted hunter, whose misaimed
charge had entered his arm, hastenen for
ward.
"Bring assistance quickly," exclaimed
Edith, while she raised the heavy head to
her lap: "Oscar, speak to me,"shemoaned.
"Oscar! Oscar!"
Over and over again she repeated hip
name in the same accents of despariug love,
until they had forced their way into the
lite-pulses of his being aud aroused them
to ac'ivity.
He opened his eyes in a half-wandering
look, as though delirium had overtaken
him,
At this instant the hunter returned with
assistance, and a half hour later the wound
ed man had been librae to the rectory, the
wound dressed, and the knowledge given
that it was merely a flesh wounu, painful,
but not dangerous. Yet bis recovery was
a tedious affair.
lie grew moody and abstracted. It gave
him more time to think of Lillian and his
loss, Edith thought, even while ahe won
dered why his eyes followed her with such
a strange questioning look. Once she en
tered his room with some freshly cut flowers
in her hand.
"Where shall I put them, Mr. Deriug?"
she inquired.
"Mr. Dering?" he answered. "Did 1
not once hear you call me Oscar, or was it
a sweet fancy wafted from dreamland?"
Agein the crimson tide dyed her face.
"Don't I" she said, as though he hail
hurt her, and hastened from the room bear
ing with her the flowers, and it seemed to
him the light and sunshine.
llad he been blind all this time, and was
he just beginning to see?
A graud ball was to be given at Ames
court. Lillian insisted that Edith should
be present, and the invalid also was suur
moned to the feast.
On the evening of Miss Ames's ball she
picked up the paper sent down by the after
noon mail from Ixmdon. She was sudden
ly startled at seeing the name of the man to
whom she so lately had been betrothed.
It was a published decision of the court
that owning to some disability, the title
could not descend to Oscar Dering's cousin.
He was, then, Lord Dering still. Fool
that she had been. But to-night, while he
still thought her in ignorance, she must win
him back.
It was late when he entered the spacious
drawing-rooms.
"1 have been waiting for you," she said,
in her sweetest, lowest tones.
"You honor me toogreatly, Miss Ames,"
he replied.
"Let us go into the conservatory." she
added, " it is cooler there."
He offered her his arm.
From a distant corner of the room Edith
saw them.
"I will not begrudge him auy happiness,"
she said to herself.
"Have you forgotten the last time we
were here together, Mr. Dering?'' Libian
was asking at this moment.
"No," he answered gravely, looking into
the beautiful face beside mm.
"Can one ever retrieve a mistake," she
asked, "when one finds it out?"
"I don't know," he replied. "Can ono
cause the rose, blighted in mid-summer, to
bloom again in the depths of winter?"
She knew then what he meant.
"We are dealing in similes;" she exclaim
ed, "let us return to our guests."
An hour later Oscar Dtrmg led Miss
Coring to the same spot.
"I love you, Edith," he said, "I thought
my hearr was dead when 1 met you. My
darling, will you be my wife?"
"Oh, Oscar, you are sure, sure of your
self?"
"I have been made more sure to-night,"
he answered.
She was too happy to question his words—
too happy even to let Miss Ames's con
! gratulations sting her when she said:—
"A heart caught in the rebound. Did
I not tell you so."
Too happy to be made happier when she
learned that on her wedding day she was
to be made Lady Edith Dering.
(,'urltfua luliabltauU.
There is a coutiuual warfare going ou
in the deep, a coustaut struggle for the
means of sustaining hie. The carmverous
devour the vegetarians, and the mud-eaters
swallow both animal and vegetable forms;
aud this runs all the way down the scale,
from the shark and the equally ravenous
bluelish to the least of the aimeJds.
These last, the sea-worms, are wary, but
they cannot escape their enemies. If they
were to eon Hue themselves to the bottom,
where they feed aud whore many of them
glow to the length of a foot or two, they
might in a measure escape, though they
would still be a prey to the scup and
other fish that know how to dig for them;
but they love to swim, particularly at night
and in the breeding season, aud then they
ure snapped up in countless numbers. They
have almost every variety of fonus and
tlioir structure is marvelous—monsters
with hooked jaws at the end of a pro bos is,
and withal, sides of bluest green that throw
off an infinite variety of irrideseeut hues.
Some of the sea-worms have scales, others
have soft bodies; some are sluggish and
curl themselve up into balls when dis
turbed, others are restless, particularly at
night; some are round, others flat; some
build tula's of saud and cement, woven
together till they make a colony of many
hundred members; the lubes of others are
soft aud flexible,and some, when disturbed,
withdraw within their crooked calcareous
tubes aud close the ontice with a plug.
One variety of the scrpulte has three dark
redeyes; another has clusters of eyes on
each tentacle. The amphiflods were accoun
ted of no great value till it was shown by
the Fish Commission that these small Crus
tacea furnish a vast amount of f<xxi for
both salt aud fresh-wator fishes. Indeed,
there is not a creature that swims or crawls
that does not became the food f some other
animal. A.beach tiea is caught up by a scup
or flounder; squids make terrible havoc
among young mackerel, and sharks and
sting cay s find something appetizing in
the gasterojxxl.
But we have not room here to dwell on
the attractions offered hy the invertebrate
animals on this coast. The rocky shores
abound in varieties differing from the pro
ducts of saudy aud muddy Ixrttouis, and
the different zones have their peculiar
forms of animal and vegetable life, and
one has only to sweep the water with a
fine net, and drawing it through the sea
weed, to gather an infinite variety of ani
mal life, so minute and delicate in form as
only to be seen with the aid of a glass. At
the laboratory of the Fish Commission,
crabs not bigger than the head of a pin
may be seen seen swimming in a shallow
dish, tiny forms, almost transparent, but
active and pugnacious when they meet
each other. These minute animals at this
stage are not fully formed, out have a tail,
which, when not in use, is drawn up
under the body. This appendge, like the
caudal one of the tadpole, disappears when
the creature has no further need of it. So
of the young of the lobster; it has five feet,
while the alxiominal segments are flat
tened out into a tail fin. But perhaps there
is no greater change in the growth of any
of the crustacea, than that which charac
terizes the star-fish. Its larva seems com
plete in itself,and its movements are active
before rt presents any of the asjiccts of the
parent fish. Even its temporary mouth
does not remain the permanent mouth of
the starfish. It is the starfish that is the
great destroyer of oysters, and there is
nothing more tenacious of life. Tear off
one of its lobes or arms another will grow
in its place; tear off two, three—all of its
five arms, and it is able to reproduce them
ail.
Curloaltlea ot a nutourl Cave.
About a year ago Mr. Strein bought a
tract oflaud one mile east of West port, upon
which was a wonderful spring of cx>l,pnre
water, which came bubbling from an im
mense cave which has been explored 3,000
feet from its mouth. Soon after Mr. Strein
secured tbe property he bethought him of
raisiug brook trout, and Mr.Annin, a well
known tifch-cullurist ot Rochester, came to
Kansas City to see if the plan was a feasi
ble one. Mr. Aunin explored the cave;
and after making his way underground
about si x hundred feet came to a small
cataract about three feet high, over which
the water fell. In about four hundred yards
another waterfall was reached, but at this
point a person has to crawl aloDg, as the
walls of the cave are very low, the ceiling
being ragged and rough. About a year
ago. when an investigation of the cave was
first made, a lot of old Indian arrow heads
of flint were discovered near the first
waterfall, and It is said m olden times the
Indians used this cave as a sepulchre for
their dead before they were sent to tbe
"happy hunting ground." In support of
this theory it is known that within thirty
yarils of the mouth of the cave are the
remains of an Indian stone house, where
not many years since dwelt a half breed
aud his aged squaw. THey were very
reticent as to the use of the cave, but
claimed that the water which came from it
bad certain cuiative powers which their
"meuicine men" had discovered ages ago.
The people in the neighborhood have all
heard the stories,and the place has atx>ut it
much of interest. Mr. Annin told Mr.
Strein that in his opinion the water in the
cave was well adapti d to raising fish, and
on lus return from Rochester he sent out
three thousand eggs taken from Caledonia
creek, near his own home, which have been
hatched out successfully.
A I'arrot In the Witiicm Box.
About six months ago a parrot belonging
to the Sisters of St. Boniface Convent dis
appeared, and was recently found in the
possession of Pierre Mallet, who lives on
Lapeyrouse street, New Orleans. A de
maud being made upon him he refused to
surrender the bird, claiming that he pur
chased it, and will not give it up unless
paid an extravagant price. The Sisters
have therefore inatuted a suit in the Second
Justice's Court to recover I heir bird, which
they value at one hundred dollars. The
parrot speaks German fluently, and its
owners claim that they will have no diffi
culty in proving their propriety. Upon the
trial the bird is to be brought into court to
tell what he knows about kidnapping. The
Lird is well known to the pupils who at
tend school at the Convent, and it is said
that a test of indentiflcation will consist in
the bird's obedience to a certain sign know n
only to its rightful owner. The trial of
this oase promises to be both interesting
and amusing.
Two Traitliia of SlaKHia.
More than twenty years ago .Niagara
witnessed a tragedy which, while of a
heart rending character, was marked by an
act of true heroism, seldom equalled in
grandeur. Mr. Charles Addington. a
young man about twenty-three or twenty
four years of age, was altlauced to Miss J)e
Forrest, both being residents of Buffalo.
One day a happy party, comprising
Mrs. l>e Forrest, Mlhs De Forrest,
a younger daughter, Eva, a beauti
ful child five or six years old, and
"Charley" Addington, us his friends were
accustomed to call him, visited the Falls.
They crossed the bridge to Goat Island,
and while resting under the trees. Little
Eva strayed away from the group, and ap
proaching the bank of the narrow, but deep
aud swift stream that rushes between Goat
Island and the small island lying between
it aud the American rapids, was amusing
herself by casting sticks into the water
and watching them as they were whirled
swiftly away. Mrs. De Forrest alarmed
for her child's safety, requested Charles
Addington to go after her and bring her
back. Charley at once proceeded to the
bank, and thinking to give the little one a
fright, approached her stealthily from be
hind, and catching her under the arms,
held her over the stream. The startled child
threw up her little arms over her head,
and instantly she slipped through young
Addiugton's Hands and fell into the rapids.
The realization of the horrible calamity
must have come home to Addington's
brain with the rapidity of the lightning's
flash, lie saw his rash act had cost the
child's life —that only one desperate chance
of saving her remained —that the world
was at an end for him for him forever. Tear
ing off his coat he rushed along the bank
until he hail passed little Eva, who was
keeping afloat by her clothing; then
pluuging in ahead of her, he seized the
child ami desperately attempted to throw her
up the bank. As ne made the effort be
fell back in the rapids and was whirled over
the small fall that intervenes between the
American horseshoe falls. Little Eva
struck the top of the bank, but all power
had apparently gone Irom her, and she
rolled back into the stream and was hurried
to her dreadful fate. The mother aud sis
ter stood paralyzed with horror, while the
tragedy, almost instantaneous in its action,
passed before their eyes, leaving its dark
cloud hanging over all their future lives.
Charles Addington had made a hero's
atonement for his thoughtless and reckless
act. His father—he was an only son
was in the habit of visiting the falls once
a week for years after the tragedy, and he
would sit for hours gazing at the spot
where his son aud little Eva had met their
deaths. He became well known at the falls,
and there were many who lielicved that he
would one day voluntarily seek the same
fate that his son had courted. But his sad
pilgrimage had no such ending.
An accident with dramatic accompani
ments occurred some years after the sad
eveni that cost Charlie Addington aud Eva
De Forrest their lives. Gne morning soon
after daybreak, the early risers at the falls
discovered something moving on a huge
old log or trunk of a tree which for years
had shown itself above the boiling rapids
on the American side, having become
caught bv and become firmly wedged into
the rocks on its way toward the falls.
Ixx>king downward from the bridge this
log was and still is in full sight iu the
fiercest part of the rapids, considerably
nearer to the small island on the American
side of (Joat island than to the American
shore. The moving object was soon found
to be a man, and it was evident that his
boat bad been carried over the falls duriug
the night, while he himpelf had mi
raculously been cast against the log, by
which he had managed to stop his fearful
rush toward death. Despatches were im
mediately sent to the coast life-saving
station, and Captain Dorr hastened to
Niagara by a special train, carryiug with
him two metallic life-boats, and plans to
save the man were concerted. But before
the arrangements were completed the news
had spread abroati, ana many thousands of
persons had reached the falls by special
trains. Goat island, the bridge, the Ameri
can shore, the roots and windows of all
the adjacent buildings and the branches of
trees, were covered with anxious aud horri
fied spectators.
The first attempt at rescue was by means
of a Francis metallic life-boat attached to
a cable which was slacked off from the
bridge opposite the log and guided by side
ropes. The boat bail not got far front the
bridge when the fierce rapids seized it,
turned it round and rouuu, and appeared
to be endeavoring to crush its sides. '1 he
strong cable snapped like a whip cord, aud
the poor fellow whe had been watching
Ihe ffort made for his rescue saw the boat
whirled past him aud carried over the falls,
as if in mockery of his would-be rescuers.
Considerable time was then consumed in
deliberating ou a new plan, and it was pro
posed to fasten a cable to some building on
the American side, to carry it over to the
island until 11 would sag near the log, and
then to rescue the man by means of a bas
ket hung on the cable by rings, and to be
let down and pulled in by means of smaller
ropes. The material for this experiment
could not be procured, so at last it was de
cided to send down a strongly constructed
raft in the same manner as tke life-boat
had been launched, and if that reached the
man in safety, to ease it over toward the
small island, from whence his rescue
would be comparatively easy. The raft
was built, but it was four o'clock in the af
ternoon before all was ready. The day
had passed without the flight of time being
heeded. The excitement was intense.
Men and women who had stood for hours
without food were painfully agitated. The
raft moved. It withstood bravely the wild
assaults of the angry rapids. It neared the
log. The man stood up and waved his
arms. The raft came within his reach,
and he got on to it, ate the food, drank a
small quantity of weak brandy and water
that had been put aboard, and fastened
himself by the lashings that had been pre
pared and the intent of which he under
stood. Then the raft was cautiously and
steadily moved toward the Island with the
precious freight. The people shouted, and
many, wept from overwrought feeling.
Suddenly the raft came to a stand. The
rope was taut! It had caught in a rock.
To attempt to force it was to risk its part
ing, and the fatal consequences could not
be misunderstood. The poor victim
seemed to take in the situation and to grow
desperate. He unfastened the lashings;
stood up, and made a spring from the raft
in the direction of the island, and was in
i the foaming waters. Instantly he struck
out for the island. He seemed to be
a powerful swimmer, and thousands of
men and women held their breath in horri
fied suspense. He appeared to near the
island in his desperate efforts. Then arose
the cry, "He's savedl he's saved!"
Hut suddenly those on the bridge, who
could see more distinctly from their loca
tion, became aware that the space between
the island and the swimmer's head was
widening There was another dreadful
moment of suspense, and then the unpitv
iug rapids seized their prey, and apparently
making sport of the efforts that had been
resorted to to snatch him from their grasp,
twisted him round and whirled hitn along
until they hurried him over the precipice.
As the poor fellow went over a singular ef
fect was observable. The vast body of
falling water curves over the edge of the
of the falls like a huge wheel, and as
the body was shot forward by the force of
the current, it seemed to leap completely
out of the water, the leet being visible,
before it took the terrible plunge. The
death-like silence tnat had fallen upon the
crowd was broken by a fearful cry—a
sound mingling a wail, a howl and a shriek
in one. Mauy strong men as well as
women fainted. They had witnessed a
tragedy more intense in its painfuiness Hum
any drama could present, and one not like
ly to be soon forgotten.
Powerful Ocean steamships.
Twenty years ago the largest steamers
knowD (in this, as in all such comparisons,
neglecting the Great Eastern, which was a
prodigy of engineering skill) did not reach
350 feet in length, 45 feet in breadth, 3,-
500 tons in tonnage, or 4,000 horse power
indicated. We have before us at this
moment a list of 50 merchant steamers
sailing in the year 1860, from Southamton
and other southerHports, which the largest
vessels then frequented,and the list includes
but 10 ships of more than 300 feet in length,
none of whicn reached the limits of size
and power just giving, and the whole of
which belonged to two companies—viz.,
the Royal Mail and the Peninsular and
Oriental. At the present moment we have
afloat and at work the White Star Liners,
some of thein 445 feet in length, 45 feet
in breadth, and nearly 5,000 indicated
horse-power; the Inm&n Liners, compris
ing such ships as the City of Berlin, 488
foet by 44 J feet broad, and of about the
same steam power; the Orient,of 445 feet by
46J feet, with engines developing 5,600
horse-power; tke Arizona, of about the
same size, with still greater steam power
and speed; and niany other splendid ves
sels but little inferior to any of the fore
going. And these grand steamers —many
of which reacu the quays of New York
with greater punctuality than railway
trains reach the London suburbs from Vic
toria and Charing-cross, and would reach
our quays with equal punctuality if they
could avoid the abominable sands that bar
the Mersey—are the forerunners of still
larger and more powerful vessels now
taking shape upon tue banks of the Clyde
and elsewhere. The Cunard steel ship,
the Servia, now building by Messrs.
Thompson, of Glasgow, is 500 feet by 50
feet, with over 10,000 indicated horse
power, and will therefore, doubtlesss,
possess a speed considerably in advance of
that of the very fastest ship at present
afloat in the mercantile marine. The In
ln&n steamship City of Rome, ouilding of
iron at Barrow, will be still larger, having
a length of 546 feet, a breadth of 52 feet,
agross registered tonnage of 8,000, and a
steam power nearly equal to that of the
Servia. The Guion Line is to be increased
by ships of almost equal size and power,
and the Allan Line is building otheis equal
to the finest of the White Star boats. Not
withstanding the number aud magnitude
of the passenger steamers now running be
tweeu America and this country,the traffic
is so great that it has only been possible to
secure accommodation by arranging pas
sages many weeks, and even months, in
advance, while the rapidly increasing
population aud wealth of the United
States and of Canada make it certain that
the interchange of agricultural produce
and manufactured goods between them
and ourselves will go on increasing.
A. Dive tor Life.
Just below Kanahwa Falls, in West Vii-
is an overhanging rock of immense
size, jutting out about on 3 hundred feet
over a seething whirlpool and it was once
the scene of a remarkable adventure.
The Indians were in hot pursuit of Van
Bibber, a settler, and a man of distinction
in those early times. He was hard pressed
and all access to the river above and below
being cut off, be was driven to the jump
ing rock, which proved to be the jumping
off place for him. He stood on the rock,
ith full view of the enemy above and be
low. who yelled like demons at the cer
tainty of his capture. He stood up boldly,
and with his rifle kept them at bay. As
he stood there he looked across the river,
saw his friends —his wife aud a babe in her
arms—all helpless to render assistance.
They stood as if petrified with terror and
amazement. She cried at the top of her
voice:
"Leap into the river and meet me!' 1
Laying her habe on the gra&i, she seized
the oars and sprang into the skiff alone.
As she neared the middle of the river, her
husband saw the Indians coming in full
force and yelling 'iae demons.
"Wife, Wife!" he screamed, "I'mcoming;
drop down a litt tower.
With this he sprang from his crag and
descended like an arrow into the water,
feet foremost.
The wife rested on her oars a moment
to see him rise to the surface, the little
skiff floated like cork, bobbing about on the
boiling flood. It was an awful moment;
it seemed an age to her. Would he ever
rise? Her earnest gaze seemed to penetrate
the depth of the water, and she darted
her boat lurthor dow n the stream. He rose
near her; in a moment the boat was along
side of him, and she helped him to scram
ble into it amid a shower of arrows and
shotthat the Indians poured into them. The
daring wife did not speak a word; her
husband was more dead than alive, and all
depended on her strength being maintained
till they could reach the bank. This they
did, just where she had started, right
where the babe was lying, crowing and
laughing. The men pulled the skiff high
on the land, and the wife slowly arose and
helped to lift Van Bibber to his feet. He
could not walk, but she laid him down be
side his babe, and then seating herself, she
wept wildly, just as any other woman
would have done under the circumstances.
That babe is now a grandfather and that
rock is called "Van Bibber's Rock" to this
day."
Oatrn Houti
Osborne adjoins the estate of Norris Cas
tle, where the Queen spent some time in
childhood, and her selection of the place
in mature years was probably due to early
impressions. The Queen and Prince seeiu
soon to have felt a desire for—what her
predecessors on the throne never had—a
home of their very own. as opposed to an
official home, and the private home of Os
borne was soon supplemented by that of
Balmoral. It is scarcely probable that a
radical House of Commons will be content
to vote much longer the great sum annually
demanded for maintaining royal palaces at
which the sovereign never resides.
Besides Buckingham Palace—where her
residence now averages about ten days a
year—the Queen has Kew, Hampton Court,
Kensington, Busby Park, St. James, the
white Ixxige in Richmond Park, Frogmore,
all at her disposal, should she please to oc
cupy them, and ail maintained at public
cost, besides Holyrood in Scotland, where
occasionally she has spent a few days.
Kensington and Hampton Court are now
given up in part to pensioners of position.
The accumulation of these palaces has beeu
in a considerable decree due to the indi
vidual caprice oi various sovereigns.
William 111 hated the splendid palace of
Whitehall, and was not sorry when tire ef
faced the triumphs of Holbein and Inigo
Jones. He lived at Kensington, and occa
sionally at Hampton Court. Anne lived at
Kensington and Windsor, as did the Geor
ges up to and inclusive of George 11.
George 111 and Charlotte lived at St. James,
Windsor and Kew until Buckingham
House was bought.
George 111 also lived a great deal at
Frogmore, in Windsor Park. For years
he did not occupy Windsor Castle. George
VI lived, after he came to the throne, at
Buckingham Palace, Windsor, and the Pa
vilion Brighton, and spent on them then,
probably, at a rough calculation, $7,500,000.
William IV, not at all a representative
King lived chiefly at Windsor and Buck
ingham palaces. So far as Windsor,
Hampton Court, Busby and Richmond aie
concerned, their surroundings are entirely
free to the public, who can ride and drive
in nearly every part of their parks. Were,
however, Kensington Palace, a plain brick
building, covering several acres, razed and
tine houses erected, the public would not
suffer by the loss of a recreation ground,
and the public treasury would gain to the
extent of a sum nearly covering all allow
ances paid to the royal family, except that
to the Queen.
You Van Skip.
"Is your name David Shaster?" asked
the court of a man nearly seven feet high
who suddenly walked out on Bijah's arm.
"Hey?" replied the prisoner, as he lean-
ed forward.
"Is your name David Sh&ste.?"
"Hey?"
4 'ls your—name David Shaater?" Shaater?"
repeated the court with ail his voice.
"Ves, 1 suppose it is. **
"You are charged with being drunk.''
"Heyf"
"You are charged with being drunk."
"Hey?"
"Druuk!" yelled Bijah, with his mouth
close lo man's ear.
"Who's drunk? What have 1 got lo do
with anybody being drunk?"
"You were drunk!" shouted the court.
"Hey?"
"You were drunk!" yelled Bijah.
"Bet you $5." replied the prisouer as he
went down for the money.
The officer in the case said be found him
lying under a shed, drunk and asleep and
the court leplied:
"Well, 1 can't yell my head off to make
him understand. I've busied my collar
button and broken a suspender already,
and I shall let lum go. Prisoner you can
go."'
"Hey?"
"You can skip."
"Hey?"
Bijah turned him around and run him
out and shut the door on him, but he put
his nose against the glass and shook the
door and called out:
"Hey? I'll see if I haven't any rights!"
Loyalty l&awarded.
Thq French Government has just con
ferred the military medal upon a young
woman employed in the telegraph office
at Pithiviera during the war of 187 U. Upon
the arrival of the German forces in that
town during the month of November, they
at once, as was their wont, took possession of
the telegraph office and relegated Mdlle.
Dodu, the young woman in charge, to a
room, and Mdlle. Dodu managed to tap
them and convey the information to the
sub-prepect. One day a telegram arrived
from the Prussian staff at Orleans address
ed to Prince Frederick Charles, informing
him of the march of a French corps upon
Gien, and suggesting the movements to be
made in order to surround it. This tele
gram she took to the sub-prefect who made
three copies of it for the commander of the
French corps, sending each by a different
messenger. Two of the messengers were
killed, but the third arrived, and the in
formation enabled the French commander
to make a timely retreat. The Pr\ ssiaus
did not as certain what had taken place un
til just before the armistice, but for which
Mdlle. Dodu might have fared badly.
Things it Would be Funny to See.
A patent medicine that wasn't warranted
a dead shot for anything, from corns to
consumption.
A rose without a thorn and a woman
without a fault.
A tarpaulin stout enough to keep the
rain from soaking through the backs of our
milkman's cows.
A poor plumber and a rich newspaper
man.
A man who can rap eternal smash out
of his favorite bunion while making a tight
croquet and still keep the air brake on his
tongue.
The man who wasn't always able and
willing to give an editor a few pointers in
the newspaper business.
A doctor who hadn't believed all along
that Tanner would come out all right.
A bald headed man who never lost his
temper.
A circus just to relieve the monotony.
A chronio of the man who invented the
dance called "the racket."
It is easier to suppress the first desire
than to satisfy all tnat follow it.
NO. 45.