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fke PtllketM Souvmtt
A LITTLE WHILE.
Oh, soul, a little while
And thou shalt be released,
And Fortune shall have ceased
To frown for thee or smile.
A little, little space,
A few brief mouths or years,
Too brief. O soul, for tears,
Thou to thy rest tug-place.
o, wherefore art thou stirred
With weak aud idle rage
To beat against thy cage
Like to a captured bird V
Be sttil, poor soul be still
He sees the sparrow "a fall;
Thy woes lie kuowelh all;
Hush, hush, and wait His w 111.
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LOVE ON THE HIGH SEAS.
"Now." saul the captain, "wo slum t
soo juiy more laud for a wook, aud you
young ladies 'll have nothing to do but
lot some of tlioso young follows full in
love with you,"
"Fall in love," cried Hetty, the tip
tilted nose curling with incredulity and
disgust. "Who could fall iu love at sea,
I'd like to know ?"
"Who could?" asked the captain, in
innocent surprise. "Way everylwdv !
does. Why not ?"
Hetty smiled in evident unbelief, but
glanced furtively across the deck toward
the handsome young officer where he
leaned on the rail, blowing rings of
smoke into the deep blue sky.
Mischievous Deb and the quick-sight
ed captain detect both, and laugh un- |
mercifully. Hetty blushes, and the lirst ;
officer uncompromisingly turns his back i
and a deaf ear to the captain's guffaws.
It is eveuiug on shipboard, dinner is :
over, the day's work is done, and all are
assembled on deck,
The sun, which has hung all day like
a copper gong upon a brass ceiling, is
now mercifully disappearing The
mountains of the Lower California shine
iu the fast-fading rays "like the gol-lcn
hills of heaven," while one little hum
mock of an island, long aud high and
narrow, rises out of the sea like the
grave-mound of some ocean gd.
For once the water is smooth; nothing
breaks its stillness but the steamer's
trail, and the sea gulls now and then
brushing its surface. Far, far awav—
far as the eye can reach—is nothing but
the same expanse of deep blue waters,
broken only by those yellow hills, now
fast vanishing into distance and night.
Overhead only another and wider ex
panse, still "deeply, darkly, beautifully
blue," and behind a cloud the new moon
just begiuniug to look forth upon the
boisterous world below.
Prigsby, from London, explains to a
gaping audience how the scenery now
before them suffers front comparison
with that of the Rhine. Sain. Roland,
of San Francisco, carelessly replies to
an inquirer that he is going prospecting
for gold in Guatemala, acknowledges it
to be a "pretty risky business," admits
the country to* be full of road-agents and
ousk whackers, hut "reckons he'll pull
through." Meantime Hetty and Deb,
seeing the captain had a story in re
serve, settle themselves to hear it.
"Didn't I tell you how my first officer
got married? No? Well, nobody could
a been sieker'n his wife was when lie
courted her. I'll just tell you all about
it, if you like.
"Well, you see, I haven't always been
captain of a first class steamer—no siree!
I ran away to sea when I was twelve
years old, and I've worked my way from
the bottom of the ladder. Well,when I
was thirty,l was captain of a large sailing
vessel that was in the South American
trade.
"I sailed from the port of Callao, San
Francisco being my destination. My
second officer was an Englishman, but
my first was an American, only two or
three years younger than I—as good
looking a young fellow as ever I saw;tall,
straight and handsome, with eyes like
blue china. He was a right good fellow,
too; brave and honest, but frisky as a
kitten, and up to all sorts of larks.
"Well, we crept up the coast, stop
ping at every ninth door, as our orders
obliged us to do, taking 111 all sorts of
things, all booked for San Francisco.
Finally we came to San Jose de Guate
mala—that lies ninety miles inland—and
there we hove to, and waited for a chance
to go shore.
"Did you ever hear of the surf 011 that
coast, ladies? No? Well, it often rolls
fifteen to twenty feet high, and a good
part of the time no boat could live in it.
Sorry we're not going to stop this trip or
you might see it. You see, there's really
no harbor—nothing but an open road
stead—and except in the Bay of Fundy,
tins place shows the highest and lowest
tide in the world. The. people have tried
to bpild a breakwater out beyond the
surf, but it breaks over it half the time,
and when it doesn't it knocks it to
pieces. Sometimes vessels have to ride j
at anchor for a week before they can put*
a boat ashore.
"We'd only just hove to when I no
ticed that a ship at anchor, not far oft",
was' making signals of distress, aud that
a boat was putting off in our direction.
Of course, we were anchored far out be
yond the surf, and it was comparatively
easy for the boat to reach 11s ; so it was
soon alongside, and one of the men came
up the ship's side and and me what was
wanted.
"It appears that the ship was a coffee
ship from San Francisco, and had come
to St Jose for a cargo. It was only half
loaded when one of their boats capsized
in the surf, drowning the captain and
first officer. The second officer was very
low with a fever, and they had nobody
to navigate the vessel; so they'd had to
wait in port until some other ship came
along aud could lend 'ent an officer 01*
somebody who understood navigation.
"Well, I called up my first officer, and
pnt him on board the coffee ship, and in
a day or two we both sailed. We were
going over the same ground—or sea
rather—and as the two vessels were
equally fast, we kept each other in sight
most of the time. We'd been out ten
<lavs and were in American waters
again, when all of a sudden the ship
hove to, and signaled us to stop. We
run as close to them at: we could, and
we hove to, and presently through the
glass I saw a boat lowered and there was
a woman in it. .
"I was surprised, as you can imagip©,
MILLIIEIM. PA.. THLTRSMFF, NOVEMBER 3,1881.
for 1 did not know there wore any passen
g rs on the coffee ship, though there
were half a dozen on my own. 111 a few
minutes up the side came wy first officer,
more than half carrying the prettiest
little Spanish girl 1 ever saw. Oh,
ladies ! she was a heau'y ! Eyes like the
stars in the Hag, and the sweetest little
face —kisses just sticking out all over it!
But wasn't she the sickest little mortal
that ever set foot on deck? 1 tell you
she was all green and yellow, and looked
half starved. 1 do not believe she'd kept
down a quarter of a dinner for a month
1 past.
"Hullo, Jack?" said 1 ; "what's the
matter?" And 1 gave the lady a sent on
the lounge in my cabin. The jHor little
thing couldn't sit upright, o I just hoist
ed her foot up and made her comfortable
among the pillows.
"'Captain" said lie, 'I want you to
marry me to this lady.'
"Marry you?" said 1. "What do you
mean? She is too siek to be married,uiuii!
She can't stand up. If you and she want
to be married, why don't you wait till
you get ashore ?"
"You see ladies,we talked out free he
fore her. for she couldn't understand a
word of English."
" 'lf we wait till then,' said lie, 'you
and I'll be going to her funeral instead
of her wedding. We've got to be mar
ried, and right away, and you have got
to marry us.
"You see again, ladies, we were very
great friends outside of the ship, and
when we were alone together we dropped
all eereiuonev,"
".'What in the thunder are in such a
hurry for?' said I. 'Why can't you wait
till you're ashore?' 'Where are the
friends ?'
" 'Her step-father is alnmrd my ship, !
he said.
" 'I thought so,' said I; 'I won't have
anything to do with it.'
"He just-turned and winked to me out
of the ball of his eye,'and then I remem
bered in a moment of misplaced confi
dence, I had told some little circum
stances in regard to my own marriage.
"Hem !" said lie, grinning like a
monkey. 'I think they're some times
justifiable. Now just look here, Cap;
listen and I'll tell you all about it. That
little girl has no relations, nothing hut a
step-father, and she's depending on him
for support. Well the old coot's a doctor,
and crazy at that. He has taken into
his addled old head to discover a sure
cure for sea-sickness, and just because
the name of a ship sets poor little
Dolores to casting up accounts, he's been
taking her 011 all sorts of long voyages,
and trying his various decoctions on her.
So I want to marry her to get her out of
his way. Of course I'm in love with her
and all that, said he looking kind of
foolish, 'but if that was all, I'd wait till
wo got ashore. Of course I can't nmko
him let her alone unless she is- my wife,
and if he has control of her much longer
she'll never see port again.'
"Do you mean to say," said I, staring
at him in surprise, "that 110 tries experi
ments on her—gives her things that ain't
medicine ?"
"I do," said lie ; "and 1 mean to say
that the last thing he gave her was a
1 Kittle of bedbug poison, and it most
killed her."
"By the Flying Dutchman !" said I,
'I should think it would ! Where's the
old coot now ?"
"In irons, I told him I wouldn't have
any such doings aboard mv ship ami lie
slapped my face. So I put him iu irons,
and came off to you.
Well, ladies, i just went over to the
sofa where the little girl was rolling her
big black eyes at us and wondering what
in thunder we were saying,
"How old are you, mv dear," I asked
in Spanish. •
"You see, I'd been married mor'n two
years, and I thought I'd a sorter right to
be patom L
"Eighteen, Senor Captain," said she
in the softest voice in the world.
"Said I : 'Do you love this young man
and want to marry him ? You needn't if
you don't,because I'll see to it your step
father doesn't bother you any more.
"I didn't dare look around at Jaek,
for I knew he'd he looking blacker'u
thunder at me just then. And indeed he
took a step towards us ; but I made him
keep off till she should have answered for
herself.
"Well she blushed very prettily, and
hesitated for a second, then answered
very sweetly that if the senor captain
didn't mind trouble,she would marry the
senor first officer. That the senor first
officer had been her only friend ; and
although she had taken many voyages
and seen many people, she had never
found any one who cared to interfere in
her behalf; that she felt very grateful to
the senor first officer, and had now be
come attached to him, and with the
senor captain's permission would become
his wife."
"As she said this, Jack got out of sight
behind the door, put his thumb to his
nose and twirled his fingers at mo in the
most disrespectful manner. I had a great
mind to put him in irons for mutiny—
hut no matter,
"Of course there was nothing to be
done except marry them ; she was over
18, and at sea the captain's as good as u
parson, you know.
"So I called up the passengers aiul
officers ; and the ladies dressed up in
their best finery, and we had a wedding
in very short order. After that the ship's
surgeon prescribed an antidote for the
bed-bug poison.
"The second officer went over and took
command of the coffee ship in Jack s
place, and sent back Deleter's trunk and
clothing. At first I thought we could
get along without him, for Jack was so
deeply iu love with his little sea-sick girl
I thought he'd be of no manner of use.
But we had good weather most of the
time, and Jack did his duty like a man.
But it was real touching to see him go
to liis wife's cabin every day and bring
her on deck and fix her comfortably on
a bed the steward made for her under an
awning And then lie'd nurse her and
care for her just as if he'd been a sister
of charity. You might have seen then,
Miss Hetty, how a sailor can love a wo
man
Well, she soon got better aud strong
er. Jack and the doctor fixed her up
between them, and a healthier and live
-1 lier, happier little woman never set foot
in San Francisco, Jack took her ri^ht
to his married sister, and there she stay
ed between voyages till she hail a lot of
children, and her husband bought her
a house of her own.
What about the coffee ship? Oh,that
made |xrt a day before jas, and the old
doctor had us all arrested the moment
we touched land. Ho we were all hauled
up in court, and Jack had it out with
his step-father-in-law. ;
"1 think the court was rather
lis first ; but the bedbug poison and the
slap on the face did the business and
turned everything iu our favor. He was
afterward declared to l>o a lunatic and
turned over to his brother's keeping.
"'What liecame of Jack ?' Why, he
with me for several years as firs
officer ; now lie's captain to coinati
ion steamer to this. That good looking
young fellow that's lieeu making eyes at
you Miss Hetty, is his sou ; aud I ajr
say that he agrees with his father that
sea sickness makes precious little differ
ence when a man's iu love,"
The 1110011 is quite up now, flooding
the sea with silver. Between us and the
shilling mirror interposes the head of
young Jack, showing in fine, clear-cut
silhouette. What wonder that Hetty has
to put a severe restraint upon Iter eyes
that they shall not wander in that direc
tion?
The captain saunters Hwny to do the
agreeable to other passengers, while
Deb strays down the deck to listen, at a
little closer quarters, to the tinkle of a
guitar and to a soft voice humming a
Spanish love song. .
As she strolls back she finds a mascu
line form usurping her place, and peep
ing under Hetty's downcast lids are a
pair of earnest sailor eves, whose dawn
ing love aiul hope 110 sea eau fright or
quell.
t'irek In Miahiqaii.
Stories of several remarkHule iueidenls of
the forest tires in Michigan abound iu our
exchanges. The heat, it is said, withered
the leaves of trees two miles away, and
seven miles off the beach at Forrester,
sailors found the heat uncomfortable. A
man suddenly found himself in company
with u large bear, aud the pair passed the
night together, the bear beiug as tractable
as a dog. Deer sought the companionship
of cattle ami horses, aud paid no attention
to persons rushing past them. There were
many instances of sudden insanity, induc
ed, iu some cases, by the heat and smoke;
iu others, t<v despair at the loss of family
or propelty. One man, whose wits w*ro
thus deranged, when last seen was rushing
into the flames, near Richmondvilie.
Twenty-eight people speut a day and night
in a cornfield, to the windward of which
was a field of peas. When the flame*
reached the latter, the improvised camp
party were pelted for hours with hot peas,
which were shelled by the fire. iVet blan
kets, constaut vigilance and the standing
corn saved these people* at persons who
sought similar refuge elsewhere were
smothered aud burned. A farmer of For
rester leathered fitteen persons in ins wag
on and started for the beach. The flames
were so close that the dresses of s line ol
the women aud children caught fire fram
the sparks. Jt was seven miles of up hill
and down on a rough road, and the horses
needed no whip to urge them into a mad
run. As the wagon started, the tire of a
hind wheel rolled off. They could not
slop for it, and yet, even on a good road
the wheel might have crushed down in
going twenty rods without it. The horses
pushed over that seven miles of rough road
at a wild run, and the wheel stood firm.
A delay of five minutes at any point ol
the road would have given fifb en more
victims to the flames which followed close
>ehind.
The C'NUMOof Earthquake*.
Dr. K. von Fritsch, of Halle, uascusscs
the subject of earthquakes. He maintains
that the cause of earthquakes must be
sought for at a rather small depth, the
greatest depth ascertained not exceeding
ten to fourteen miles, and usually far less,
whilst rather feeble forees produce earth
quakes which are felt at great distances,
it is knowu that Krupp's hammer, which
weighs 1,000 centners, and falls troin a
height of three metres, produces sensible
concussions on a suiface of eight k lomeires
diameter; whilst the recent explosions of
the Leunbach dynamite manufactory was
felt at Halle and Mefseburg, forty-one and
forty-flve kilometresdistant. Whilst show
ing how easily concussions are produced
by causes comparatively feeble. Dr. Fritsch
points out how earthquakes might be and
must lie produced by the increase and de
crease of volume of racks under the influ
ence of physical and chemical forces, aud
by concussions, by the opening of crevices
in rocks, and by the subsidence of masses
of rocks due to these ageuciea. Many
schists are subjected, as is known, to ex
tension, and when crevices arise the schists
must enter into oscillations which must
produce very varied phenomena, according
1 o the direction and the force of the os
cillations, much like to what is seen iu the
oscillations of tuning plates.
LaH'.e in Mexican Society.
You find in Mexico people of all
classes and colors, each having their own
characteristics. There are Castilians
and Creoles, or children of Indian
mothers and Spanish fathers and full
blooded Indians. The Creoles are not
ed for their intelligence, their symmetry
of form and feature, and their personal
courage. Their complexion may be
said to resemble that of the far famed
Caballeros of Andalusia. The males
arc tall and shapely, while the ladies are
generally very beautiful, are well form
ed, possess delicately molded hands and
feet, aud the most beautiful eyes of the
human family. The belles of the south
of France, of the mountains and plains
of Spain, of the sierras and coasts of
Portugal and the famous cities of Italy,
must yield to their charming sisters of
the Latin republics in the beauty, shape,
size and expressions of the eyes. They
are so exceedingly expressive that a
glance from between their long fringes
seems to melt into the very soul.
Year after year passes —the last must
come.
Poverty is the only burden which
grows heavier by being shared wiLk those
we Jwve,
No liop for the Bold Hradx.
"I observe you suffer from scirrhea
and consequent alopecia," said a physi
cian to the writer.
" No, sir ; 1 am only growing bald.'
" Well," he said, " it's the sume thing.
I will gladly tell you the result of my
studies upon the subject, for 1 fancy
that 1 mn even with science ou this top
ic. By the time I was 30 I was threat
ened with a shiny pate. For some
years I had taken arsenic internally, had
used stimulating washes and oily uppli
eations, containing iu one ease corrosive
sublimate and in the other quiniue or
tannin, but I discovered 110 appreciable
effect cither upon the formation of
scales or the falling out of liuir. Then
I became excited over the discovery
made by a French physician, which was
to the effect that u five per cent, solution
of cldoral hydrate was a sovereign reui
edy, I used the chloral wash assidu
ously for about three months, but the
difficulty increased more than ever, aud
then I became disgusted with the var
ious therapeutic measures which had
been so highly lauded.
"Next, in Hebra's classical treatise on
diseases of the skin, 1 came across an
article by KajHisi on alopecia. He
recommended the use of an agent which,
mildly stimulating, removed the scales
and thoroughly cleansed tlie scalp.
This agent is the German Schmierseife.
or soft soap, or the French navon vert,
iu an alcoholic solution. The soap is
best known as the German greeu soap,
und it is now imported iu large quanti
ties. It is made of sixteen parts of
olive oil, six parts of caustic potash and
water, and it is made green by adding
indigo. The soap, which contains an
excess of alkali, saponifies the fatty
matter of the sebaceous excretion, so
that it is easily removed. The alcohol
greatly assists this action and seems al
so to have an alterative action—if such
an indefinite term is excusable —upon
the glands. Although the formula is
worth a fortune to a patent medicine
man. I will give it to gratuitously and
bald-headed readers may get comfort out
of it. Any druggist can com pound it,
and he ought not to charge over twenty
five cents for it. This is the formula:
"R. Saponts vtritllH (Germ.) aleoholla, of each
two ounces; solve, Ultra, et adde of lavamlulae jftt,
xx-xxv.
"The soap has a disagreeable fishy
odor, and the oil Of lavender is added to
cover it up. The preparation thus com
pounded has a rich orange or wine color,
and a pleasant odor to which the most
fastidious will hardly object. Now, I
don't mean to say that tliis is going to
grow hair on a billiard ball. W here
alopecia has lasted so long that the hair
bulbs have become atrophied nothing
will restore the hair on these spots, but
wo can save what remains. The prepa
ration should be used as a shampoo
every morning or evening, one or two
tablespoonfuls at a time. Upon the ad
dition of water, and smart friction with
the fingers, a copious lather is produced,
After the shampooing process, which
should last about five minutes, the soap
must be washed out of the hair by the
free use of warm or cold water, and the
hair thoroughly dried by means of a
gentle friction with a soft towel. The
immediate effect experienced is a dis
agreeable tension of the scalp, as though
it were streched too tightly over the
skull. To obviate this effect and keep
the skin from getting too dry, vaseline
should be used to anoint the scalp.
" After a daily use of the preparation
for two or three weeks the production
of scales and the falling off of the hair
will appear to have been very markedly
d<K?roased. At first the liair comes out
in greater quantities than ever before,
and this may alarm the patient; but
this is due to the fact that a large num
ber of hail's are dead and are only re
tained in their follicles by the plugging
of the sheath with the accumulated se
baceous matter. It is not necessary,
although it is more convenient, to cut
the liair short during the treatment."
"Will anything restore the hair?"
" I never found anything that will,
and I have devoted years to the study
of bald heads."
A Noted Gambler.
A correspondent from Leadville says:
all that was mortal of J. B. McClellan
arrived ill town at ten o'clock 011 a re
cent evcing. The moon shone full and
bright. The Gem saloo*, the one he
had owned, was as light as day. The
musicians sat in their elevated seats and
played the old tunes, and fallen women,
and rough good-hearted miuers, whirled
in the giddy dance. The whoop, the
yell, the oath, the slang, the clink of
the empty glasses, and the monotonous
music of the players went on. All
seemed to forget the one who had been
among them only a few moments before;
one who had laughed and chatted and
gambled and swore, was lying cold, still
and stiff. Some were quarreling over
petty trifles; some risking hard earned
wages at faro. The determined thump of
the poker player as he threw down a card
arose above the hum and din and noise
of the dancers. The city marshal was
there. Miners, merchants, citizens and
strangers were there; and among the
crowd of rough-bearded, hard-fisted
men " soiled doves" or the fallen ones
of the weaker sex—an object of pity and
commiseration. A horseman, with
steed covered with dust and heat of
travel, with dilating nostrils and flashing
eyes, apjieared on the scene. He is a
gambler, a herald sent to prepare for
the reception of the dead man's remains.
AH if by magic the music ceases, the anee
stops, the musicians depart, the crowd
make, for the door, the lights are put
out, the door locked and the tell-tale
crape hangs from the knob. Scarcely
a word is spoken, but, as if by instinct,
the crowd walked slowly to meet the
remains of their ill-fated friend.
Near the edge of town they meet the
wagon containing the body of the gener
ous-hearted gambler. It* is a light
spring wagon, and drawn by a mule
and a horse. Preceding aud following
is 11 mounted guard of sorrowing friends.
The two crowds meet. The driver ad
dresses in a low tone a few words to a
citizen. There in this beautiful valley,
with high mountains ail around, with
the misty beams of the moon shining
dimly upon the horses and horsemen,
the wagon, the crowd and the coffin,
was a scene impressible on the most
hardened mind. Slowly tliey proceed,
followed by a motley crowd of mourners.
The strong arms (if many tenderly lift
theoofliu out of the wagon, carrying it
into the dance ball and placing it to rest
on two chairs. Yes, 'tis true, they
pli teed it in the dance hall until the mor
row, when over the body of the ill-fated
gambler, the stones and clods and dirt
would fall. There lie lay, peacefully in
death, in the large spacious room, that
only a few moments before was crowd
ed with gamblers and miners, but now
transformed into a place of mourning,
weeping and sighing, a room the for
mer scene of many tights, brawls,
quarrels and much wickedness. One
by one the crowd dispersed, the lights
were turned low aud two gamblers kept
wake over the dead body of their friend.
Ou the morrow the funeral cortege
wound the steep, rough mountain road,
followed by the friends of the unfortun
ate man to his last resting place. As
tears were shed for the deceased, so
were prayers said for his soul, and
among the large concourse of jieople
there was not one but had a word of
kindness, sympathy or praise for the
deceased and each knew of some kind
act or some worthy deed that " Tex"
hat! done in his life-time. In some re
spects the dead man was a remarkable
person. Few were so kind to a fried,
so ready and generous in assisting a
fellow mortal out of a difficulty.
Iu one week's time at Robinson's
camp, he made $3,300 at poker playing.
In a short time all was gone, not lost at
gambling, for he seldom lost, but dis
tributed out to friends and those in
need. When he had money he gave to
all who asked of him. He took no
mortgages on the goods of his debtors;
he carried no promissory notes around in
his pockets; he owed few debts; he
made hosts of friends and a few ene
mies, and in spite of being known as a
gambler, the noble-hearted, generous
acts of charity, the brave and manly
bearing, the possession of a noble phy
sique, impelled the unstinted admira
tion of man. When tears trace down
the cheeks of a man used to the hard
knocks of life and a gambler by pro
fession, it shows feelings as tender as a
child.
A Quiet Life.
Queen Victoria's life at Balmoral is
very simple and uniform. The piper
plays under her window every morning
at 8; she has breakfast and is out of
doors by 10, from which hour she
spends till noon in walking and occasion
ally visiting at the cottages in the
vicinity of the castle; from noon until 5,
with half an hour's interval for lunch
eon, she devotes herself to work which
may be termed official—reading dis
patches, state papers, etc., and writing
memoranda and letters in connection
there with; at 5 she sets out for her daily
drive, which lasts till 7 aud occasionally
later.
Apples a* Food.
A raw, mellow apple is digested in an
hour and a-half, while boiled cabbage re
quires five hours. The most healthy
dessert that cau be placed on a table is a
baked apple. If eaten frequently at
l>reakfast with coarse bread and butter,
without meat aiul flesh of any kind, it
has an admirable effect upon tjie general
svstem. often removing constipation.cor
recting acidities, aud cooling ofl febrile
conditions more effectually than the
most approved medicines. If families
could be induced to substitute them for
pies, cakes and sweetmeats, with which
their children are frequently stuffed,
there would be a diminution in the total
sum of doctors' bills in a single year
sufficient to lay in a stock of this deli
cious fruit for the the whole season's
use.
A Suspended Aqueduct.
A cheap suspension aqueduct was in
vented and used by some mineis in Cali
fornia in 1852 A river ran between two
bluffs, one of which was considerably
higher than the other. Water was availa
ble on the one, hut it did not "pan out "
as well as that upon the lower. Some sai
lors, including the mate of a whaler, took
up a claim, and succeeded in makine a
hose of strong duck, about eight inches in
diameter, and stretching it from the higher
to the lower hill, by means of a strong
rope running through it. Water was then
carried through this weak hose, which
could not have resisted the prsssure if low
i cred into the,.valley, aad the ingenious sai
-1 lore realized handsome fortunes out of the
1* iW that had hitherto been worthless.
Hli First Tooth.
His first tooth was an event. We raised
the curtains in order to see better, nd his
grandparents brought their spectacles to
lear upon this little white spot, while I,
my neck r.'.te+retached, demonetiated, ex
plained and proved—after which I ran,
with all haste, into the cellar to see, ia a
corner known to myself, a liottle of the
choisest wine!
My boy's tooth! We spoke of his ca
reer during dinner, and at dessert grandma
sang a song.
After this tooth came other teeth, and
with them pains and tears, but then, when
his little mouth was armed with a full set,
how proudly he bit his bread, how vigor
ously he attacked his cutlet, in order to do
like papa.
Like papal You well know how these
two words warm the heart, and how many
misdeeds they cause you to pardon!
My greatest happiness- was it also yours?
—was to wake my little one in the morn
ing. 1 knew his hour, 1 softly pushed
aside the curtains ot his cradle, and bend
ing aver him, awaited the opening of his
pretty blue eyes. Most frequently I
found him lying diagonally across the bed,
lost in the chaos of pillows and covers,
ids legs in the air and his arms erossed
above his head; very often his dimpled fin
gers still clasped the toy with which he
had played himself to sleep the evening
before* and from between his half open
lips escaped the soft and regular murmur
of his respiration. The warmth of his
downy nest had given to his cheeks the
hues of a ripe peach. His skin was warm,
and the perspiration or the night stood
upon nis forehead in scarcely perceptible
little jiearls.
Very soon, however, he rf ide a move
ment with his head, his foit pushed pushed
hack the covers and his inttle body
writhed; he rubbed his eyes, stretched out
DII arms and, then, his half open eyes fixed
themselves ujwin me.
lie suiiled on me as he murmured very
low, so low thai 1 held my breath to catch
the touefi of his baby-music:
"Dood mor'u papal'*
••Good morning, my tittle man, you
siept well last night, did you?*'
Then we held out our arms to each oth
er, and embraced like two old comrades,
And then the prattling commenced.
He rattled on as the lark sinus at sunrise,
and the chat ering was interminable.
He told me his dreams pausing after
every phrase to ask for his panado "with
lots of butter in it!" And when this good,
steaming panado arrived, what a laughter,
what joy; how he sprang towards it as he
gt asped the curtains for fupport; his eye
was all the brighter for the tear that stood
in the corner, and the chattering recom
menced.
Sometimes, he would come to surprise
me in bed, and, when 1 pretended to be
asleep, would pull my beard and shout in
my ear. Then I feigned to be terribly
frigiitcned, and swore to be revenged.
This was the signal for pillow-fights, bar
ricades of bolsters, etc. In token of vic
tory, 1 would theß tickle him, and he, the
darling would give vent to frank and invol
untary peals of laughter known only to in
nocent, happy childhood. He would
draw in his head between his shoulders, in
imitation of his toy tortoise, and menace
me with his chubby, rosy foot. The skin
of his heel was so fine that it might have
put to the blush the cheeks of a young
girl. How I covered those dear little feet
witL kisses, as 1 warmed his long night
gown before the fire in the evening!
They had forbidden me to undress him,
under the pretext that I invjpiably entang
led the stringß of his gown, instead of un
doing them.
All this was charming; but when I was
forced to arrest the reckless course of his
boyish freedom, his little head sunk upen
his breast, his lips trembled and he strove
manfully to suppress the flood of sparkling
tears that gleamed under h long lashes.
How much courage it requires to resist
the temptation to calm this storm with a
ki> to couaoL* this swelling little heart and
to dry the tear that heralds the torrent.
And now touching is the expression of
a child's face this moment. There is so
much pain in the warm tear that slowly
trickles down the cheat, so much suffer
ing in the contraction of the ltttle muscles
and in the rising and falling of the belov
ed breast!
But all this was long ago. Still the
years have not been able to efface these
sweet souvenirs, aud now, though my ba
by is ihirty and wears a great moustache,
when q.* holds out his hand, saying, in his
bass voice: "Good morning, fatherl" it
seems to me that an echo repeats in the
far di-tance, these cherished words of
yore: "Dood mor'n papa!"
Hooping a Barrel.
Putting a hoop on a family flour bar
rel is an operation that will hardly bear
an encore. The woman generally at
tempts it before the man comes home
to dinner. She sets the hoop up on the
end of the staves, takes deliberate aim
with the rolling pin, and shutting both
eyes brings the pin down with all the
force of one arm, while with the other one
she instinctively shields her face. Then
she makes a dive for the camphor and
unbleached muslin, and when the man
comes home she is sitting back of the
stove, thinking of St. Stephen and the
other martyrs, while a burnt dinner and
the camphor are struggling for the mas
tery. He says that if she had kept her
temper she wouldn't have got hurt.
And he visits the barrel himself and
puts the hoop on very carefully, and
then adjusts it so nicely to the top of
the stave that only a few smart raps ap
parently are needed to bring it down all
right. And then he laughs to himself
to think what a fuss his wife kicked up
for a simple matter that only needed a
little patience to adjust itself : then he
gets the hammer and gives the hoop a
smart rap on one side, and the hoop
flies up and catches him on the nose,
filling his boul with wrath and his eyes
with tears, and the next minute the bar
rel is flying across the room, accompan
ied by the hammer, and another candi
date for camphor and rag is enrolled in
the great army that is unceasingly
toward the grave,
NO. 44.