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EBENSBURG, TA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1S77. -
NUMBER 34.
''tiik 0," oFTII,:
. ,t is t1i sJonil of a wide-awake boy,
-: U" vvliocps " bailees
Ati.l wli !:int-ej a jig
Vt'lii!'" '"''s coti.hliiK his wig
,! ii. lii f:K' with a vefy l,oor Srace,
:e 'y'li." whip on Lis jacket
Ami makes a" the racket
ie pus-.ilil v can '
, vll'mc, I pray, what's the good of this
-'"j Mo-awake boy makes a wide-
" ia.ila' man."
tv.f sr"0"1 cf '"'"ST boy,
" t,., ftutiors for fvl
,i n juvenilis should,
, ,. :is sine as I liv,
j.-., ilia: you give "
f vi ili'-I' '", empties 'be dish,
W'lii'i-f"C soft giucer-bread he
(ill, :ll nays r' '
will' will hi: make?
-,4. rr'V.f 'a ";i" will grow out of this
t v jv.-ry safe man, dear, to pwt dozen a
'i:-!.'."
,'..f 1 flii' pi Mid of a rollicking boy,
V. i; i l" -is in'" "snaps"
SA all sorts of Laps ;
V.'lin nothing so loathes
Asa new sni' of cloth'",
jw i!,.- thst .lay they so hinder his play ;
1 ir llie srriiiiil no matter,
II- '11 hive tlnm a-tatter
Ii fort- s-T f sun ;
m ":ii'iliiiij to say for the good of
';! I
r. ., r,..!i,'i ., isi-hold he will surely count
ib:i' is I'" P""d of a careless lioy,
Win' won't wipe his feet
Aul liiu't Lain to I"' neat,
V. Imp tread " 'he c:it
.A :.I sits i w ii on his hat ;
-;-;i.,ky ai. d plu.-ky, this happy-go-
U.
A'.il i tires ret a raT'le,
ivu -'! s in e:n Ii battle
Wi ll li:in iliat im .low ?
l k ir- die o.mwI f thirt bold, reckless
!" '
: i t-j.;!ar vet", dear, he'll carry th
r- ii."
.j Hi is tin- good of a horri'1 lwy,
WliM won't s:iy his players,
.i il linn ks ;it your can-s ;
Wii-1 I. "il - aK I lie Lews,
V i r ill vii o duos refuse,
ii. .u.il he tei.-es and dors as lie
I-'-..- - :
I v ..! r if .HioTit l.e
!'i-iI'opii ! no! innojMy ?
".- tl.ili he irnn't lie,
'. ' i' i M n. -d o t;i terrible 1ny ?
r. 'ni-i i.ih tin- truih, near a fc:-'& vir-'i:-,
m.v I."
! :!. !!; I'. 's some gmul in all sorts of a
!-v
T!-.jo'lv nml jtad,
i !. m i rv and had,
'I .if l st ami the worst,
liie i:i-t ai,.l llie first.,
, U- m.iii.-u l.ut : say in bis favor al
ii .u .'
' 'Wl v. yes, si !- you leave it,
I - .1-' y I . lioVe it'
1- !irrt .. j-l,! yit,
'i' i'.ixo.i i,:ay iUi-s:ion the ond of a
f,,'; f;tri. without bim I'd just
to know
; A '.'. IV in th, hi (.'hi lxthtn Union.
TLX HIM IKS LATJ:.
'Mint? wasn't a likelier fellow on
:t il. .in i.t-nte Kiike.
- rns !!k -sun uf a iiii tn.Tii, and bis
i-ii-ml. !Iis father was a cn-
J H: v tl il -f the rheumatic older, and
I'l iu-il ,o ilutifiil son to him in a
ini!d astonu-.b the youtm luen of
,r
' '"w, iiohodv knew exactly bow.
" jf l. u! tn ni;i,rt.(l t., i.ii-k mi a ciiml ed-
'id I e had polished it otf. ko to
' s. i v a two yeais' course at a cummer
' C i'i-i;.
s tlC n u the Ptony Hill Railroad
,: e ;is about twenty-one or twenty
eld. First, be was biakeman.
laiiHiiv business is a regular Micces
''-, fci iK i.iliy sK'ak:nr, a man has to
' 'way up. It, ain't often be woiks
n f up '.ii ike r!ij.;:iity of conductor at
''"P. iih a ehauee t pocket ten cent
i'-aiKl with the piivih-treof he! oitic all
".no rtim veil uiesscu youiiK
s "i't f ti e cars, and letting the
1 ' "in s, with babies iind Imndb'ixps in
S ''iinl.ie out the bes,t wny they
'"Z( i. id his duty o tliat be xvas
1 "tr,..t, i o Ibeman, and after lie bad
' 1 e wmkinjj ,,f the machine, be
'e ciiiiiin ei nnd piven ati etipine.
;':s:ne w,s one of the newest nnd
l!i lino .. ..li.. il,. V.
'K .in, i : . . . - .
" in o was nngtity ju oun ol n I
,..;',.v wi 11 heln-vo.
v,'1""' s"'r' '"r trt? engineer one
I'lfl 'nit f,,i- t. ImsinesB, and feels
''j . ''""'il.'y takes as mncli pride in
the j ickey dos in bis favor-
. wi'-'M', and u u!d sit up ui;liti or
' j !i''-'-duait, to keep the brasses
., '(s "f Ids machine no's you could
Y ' ii'ce in 'mi.
i .... .
. L ''' ,l"r rnnn wnnfed Gerp;e
I heir's pt;ii-lN" mrueA Ilia it fine
;;.!v''M'ji:iS i..b. "
'- t.iai iy hail been waiting some
',' niiJincc. c.r the Flyaway, and
'.e '"p " '!L MaH "'d- ei.oiigli to pull
"I;,', '"! w:is a btakeman likewise,
j' '" I'ti i. H ti:P two years longer
il would seem that the
,";'' belonged to him, yet. be was
.,,'','v"!,,,' disasreeable fellow, witli
i,. "' ! " ;t:ooj, t,, have set nn ompe-
iV,, r rp;l,!zpil Ibaf fleorgo bad got
, j'',;'ek of bin), his anger was at a
Hii ;t' ,' Cl,red Kiike nnd lie
... ' c"'Uianv. mid i.i WlmUlv. the
m "'' 'bings genei jlly, until
' ' pity there k not something
T ,, ' M' I"' was in line cursing order.
VI? J , i. ., , man one tiling which
'M li,
.".':-. tin
own on George Kit ko.
" "-ii I-, w . ,i ;..
i-',' "'n';l''y whtiw the I riier creation
- ' IJf-T I....I
i t . , ,l'"rgo was a gii-at Mvor
t;ii!s, f,i- ,, was bandsome
,ll.l.M.' ""'I -'ood natoied. and Jack
4,i"iiil'' H'Wi,Vh "" ,,,e contrai'
av"'b-d bim aslliey al
Vki ,ul a m.m.
,. iavu ... ... . .
(J, ' ""FCHil that ill wor.Id come
:iri J"'m Jacl' Vad blood againsi
-tk.,1 r "Allied bim nioie I hait once.
''t i '-Ts '"''kI 'hI and reminded us of
ii. ' 'hat 'l,,,n., .I.-...- .Lt.,in
M ic,,,1 '" ii thamaiu.
'Sirj.;,,; ' """''luliad passed since Kirke's
. - -"u uoiiiing bud occuned, we
forgot all nbout o'ir appiebeusion of evil,
and if we thought of the matter at all we
thought we had wronged Halliday by our
suspicions.
It was a dark night in November, with
considerable fog in the air, and strong ap
pearances of rain.
I was at Uolosba, the northern terminus
of the road, looking after some repairs on a
defective boiler, and I was going dowu to
New Yoik on the 7:50 train.
About 7 there came a telegram from ol i
Whatoly, whose summer residence was
neaily midway between Golosha and Xew
Yoik ; and the old heathen had not yet for
saken it for the city. The telegraph oper
ator came into the house where Kiike was
at work for be was always at woik and
lead it to him. Kiike made a uote of it in
hi ocket-book.
"Pay train on the line. Will meet von
just west of Lei-ils at 10:15. Shunt on lo'the
siding at Oeering's Cut, and wait
W HAT ELY. "
Kiike's watch hung on a nail beside the
clock. Ii was a fancy of bis always to
hang it up there when he was oft' the train,
so that he could make no mistake in the
time.
lie glanced at the clock and from it to
his watch. Both indicated the same hour
7:1..
"Sevtn fifteen," said Kiike medial ively,
"and we leave at 7:0, and the pay train
meets ns at Heeling's Cut at 10:1.1. Scant
time to nmke the run in this thick weather,
but it must be managed."
And he turned aay to give some biief
ouleis to the fireman.
Jack Halliday was there he had been
strolling in and out of ! he room for the past
half hour, smoking a cigar and sweai ing at
the bad weather. II is ri a in d id not leave
till near midnight, so he had plenty of lime
to swear.
We all went to the door and took a look
at I he weather and unanimously voted it
was deuced bad, and then we walked up
and down the platform and smoked our
after supper cigars, and by the time we
weie through it was time for the tiain
bauds to lis get ting into t heir places. Uoi h
the clock in the engine room and Kirke's
wa'ch indicated 7:13.
Kiike was putting his watch in his pock
et as be said :
"liarih. you are going with mo on the
Flyaway ?"
No, thank ye." said I, ''I get enough
of that sort of thing in my every day life.
I am going to do a little swell business to
nigbt, nnd take passage in the palace cai.
Want to l es: my back. Good night to you,
and bold her in well round lbiilom curve.
The load's a little shaky."
"Ay, aye, sir," responded Kiike, and
bo swung himself to his position on the
Flyaway.
The bell rang T scrambled to my com
partments in the l'lillmaii, and fell horri
bly out of piece among the silks and bioad
clo:bs and smell of musk. Hut I was in
for 'first-class," and made the best of its-o
effectually that five miou es after (jibson,
w ho fancies lie ow ns nil creation because
he has got a silver coffin plate on hisbieast
with V.oiiduc'.or" on it, had shouted '"All
aboaid !"' I was sound asleep.
What occurred in other qnai ters toafTVct
the 'ate of Kirke's tiain I learned afler
waid. Old Wbately. the Superintendent of the
road, as I guess I have already said, bad a
country residence at Leeds, on a mountain
spur, which commands a view of the sur
rounding count iy for more I ban a score of
miles. The lioe of the raiUay could be
distinctly seen in each direction 1.1 miles,
and Wlm ely was wont to say his lookout
was worth inme to the safety of trains
than all the telgiaph wiiesou the line.
Wbately was a lich old buffer, kind
enough his way, but shaip as a ferret in
1 M.king after the load hands and f!e er
mined I hat every n.an should do his duiy.
He bad bat one child, a daughter: and
Floss Wbately wnstne ocueoi iiiecimniij. ,
She was brave, beautiful ana spuiteo, ami
more than once, when her father had been
away, she had assumed llie responsibility
of directing the trains, nnd she had always
acquit led herself with credit.
Old Wbately was vety proud of her, as
he bad a right to be, and be kept ad the
young fellows at a distance, until it was
said That be jn ended to keep bis daughter
single till the Czar of Russia came on to
mai ry her. '
This night in November, old Wbately
and Floss were out on the piazza of their
country home, peeling through the gloom
for the Golosha train, which was nearly due.
"It's very straiure it doesn't come in
sight !" said Wl a ely, layintf bwu his
ni.'ht glass in disgust. "l. hard on to
(fnnw ! They ought to show their liyht
around Spruce P""d by this 'inm !"
"Vo t3g:a e them a'ler."
their know the p.tj train uatou ihe roau ?
abked Floss. ,
To be sure. And, good Heavens I
there is the light of Ihe pay train now I
See ! not 10 miles away and i mining lute
i he deuce, as it always does 1"
He pointed with trembling fingers down
to the valley gorge, where, far away, a
mere speck in the gloom, could be seen a
li.rht scarcely moving it seemed, but those
anxious watchers knew it was appioacnng
at lightning speed.
Father and daughter looked at each oth-
' ''The truth was evident. For some reason
the train from Golosh.i was ten mmuies
behind time,-and it would not reach the
siding at Demii.g's Cut un il the pay tram
had passed 1-cyond on to Hie snmle track I
Ami then? W by, to read under the head
of "Appalling llailroad Dicier ! and a
few mo.e homes would be rendered de
late, and a few more hearts would be made
'Fa'th'er'aod daughter looked at each oth-
""'S'time?'' asked the old man,
l' "SeiSn di.it," said Floss, quick.y.
If I can reach Ids five minutes b foi e
the tiain yes, two minutes-h wdl bo
well Dooot stop me, father!" us ho laid
a band on her arm. . T. . A,u. lwi
"Hut you must not go I It is daik and
dismally lonely ! N, F'loss!" .
Ts.mil gof father I e..m knows only
me and you could not ride him. I have
Md darker U!ul.t. And he Is te only
horse i ii Hie stable 1 ' Pou't you remember,
the others were sent to town LfJf !,,a
Before old Wbately could sto, he,, she
had ordered the hosth-r to saddle bel . ,
and she was already buttoning on her nd
ing habit with rapid, nervous -
The bo.se came pawing to the door.
Flos: sprang in. -the saddle, leaned dowu
and kied ber father' forehead.
' "Pray Heaven to speed me !" she cried
hoarsely, and, touching the borne with her
vhip, he bounded down the sharp declivi
ty. It was raining steadily now, and the
gloom was intense, but Se!im was used to
the road, and be was sure-footed and his
rider courageous. She urged him on at
the top of his speed, up hill and down,
through Pine Valley and over Pulpit Hill,
and then she struck upon the smooth road
which slietcbed away to Leeds, two miles,
straight as an arrow.
She cm Id see the headlight of the pay
train, far down the valley, dislinctly now,
and to her excited fancy it seemed but a
stone's throw away. She even thought
for a moment that she heard the grind of
the wheels on the iron track, but, no! it
was only the sighing of the wind in the
pines.
On still she went. Selim seemed lo fly.
One might have fancied that lie knew bis
mistress was on an eirand of life or death.
The lights of the station were in view
nay, she even saw the station mastei's
white lantern as he strolled up and down
the platform the white lantern which
was to vignal the approaching train to
tell them to go on, for all was well, on to
their doom.
She dashed across the railway track,
flung the re'ns to an amazed bystander, and
striking the whiie lautein from Ihe band of
the astonished ollicial. sl.e seized the omin
ous red lantern fiom its hook, and, spiing
iug upon the track, wavtd it in (he very
teeth of the coming train.
Two short, shaip whistles told her that
her signal was seen, and a moment later
the (rain came to a stop, and the ofliceis
rushed out to learn a hat it all meant.
F'loss told them in a few brief words, and
one of (hem at the station went forward to
confer with the train from Golosha, which
bad not yet been telegraphed from the
next station beyond.
The man waited fifieen minutes before
Kirke's train slid on to the siding, and it
was then known that but for the decision
of one young girl, the two trains must have
collided four miles beyond Deerinv's Cut.
When told the story Kiike looked at his
watch.
The man from the station looked at his
also.
Kiike's was ten minutes behind time !
Yon want to know how it happened.
Certainly you must have guessed. Halli
day did it. A man was lound next day
who confessed to having seen Jack tamper
ing with the time pieces in the engine
houte that nigh , but hud thought nothing
of it.
Jack ? Oh, he left town and was last
heard of in Austialia. His little game was
not a success.
A few months later Kiike was married
to Floss Whiilely, for being ten minutes be
hind time.
A Romance of Fort Georye Island.
The young owner of the island, cultiva
ting bundled of acres and raising enor
mous crops of cotton and sugar, used to
build schooners in a ship yard of bis own,
and imported slaves directly from the Afii
can coast, selling to his neighbors such as
he did not want. He was unmanied.
Pet haps not one of the daughters of the
neighboring planters could bepeisuaded to
shaie ihe lonely life which could hardly
have appeared attractive in any woman's
eyes ; perhaps he preferied a life of fiecdoni
r.ud independence. However that may
have been, he was mi Ihe habit of going oc
casionally to Africa himself, and of buying
bis slaves from Ihe native chiefs, who dis
posed in this way of their prisoneisof war.
Dm ing one of these visits, w hile engaged
in bargaining, be wasstruck w ith thegiace
and beauty of the chief's young daughter,
a child of ten years old. He proposed to
buy her, but she was a favorite child and
her lather could not part with her. Per
suasions were for a lime unavailing, but
i-t-..-
at Icngtu llie savage lamer, iniauie iu in
sist the glitter of the white man's gold,
agiced to part with his child upon condi
tion that she should be treated with con
sideration and brought up as becomes a
king's daughter. The planter promised,
and, strange to say, he kept his word. She
was kindly cared for and well educated,
and in course of lime became the planter's
lawful wife. She had, according to tradi
tion, with the exception of a dark skin,
none of the usual negro characteristics.
Her handsome features weie regular, her
hair smooth, her piesence dignified and
commanding. Her husband aee.ns never
to have regietted his unusual C-niise, and
her influence over her captive countrymen
was unbounded. In addition to her posi
tion and supeiior intelligence was the con
sideratioii of her native lank, which lo
tP.eni at least was a source of unquestioned
light.
The establishment was kept up in almost
princely style. The sons were sent lo
England to be educated for I he daughtei s
Fiench and Fngiish governesses were pro
cured, and established in separate houses
near the mansi ,n; while aiiisansof various
kinds were constantly employed, making
quite a large community aside fiom the
hundreds of slaves upon the island. And
over all this, in her husband's long and
frequent absence, reigned our dusky prin
cess, as absolute i" her insular domain as
her savasie father in his native wilds. She
bad a strong and powerful mind, and wo
manly kindness and synina by as well.
One old negro, who di.d so ne tun -. sine,
ro old that no one could lemember bim as
other than old, used to tell bow be was
brou.'hl over when young to this island,
where be b.'d lived ever since, and how he
and others, sick and exhausted, were min
istered to by the "missis" own hands and
how they all loved bei and always piayed,
Lord bless Ma'am Hannah I Lvety
morning as she stood upon this very spot
the field hands passed in -review before
her. each gang with its driver, going to
their daily work. She inspected them all,
nicking out such as were ufdil for labor
and sending them to the hospital , to
lighter tasks ; and every nigl I in the same
spot she beaid a icport of the day, exam
ined into all complaints, and wih strict
i.'iHlice adjudged each offenders punish
ment; and without her order not a lash
could'be given. Scribner.
A PHY goods cleik reiafes that a very
nietty and stylish young lady called in Ihe
ire t'other day and requested to see some
lavender kid gloves, whereupon ble was
showu seveiai umnr, o
Heine a little overcome with so great a
variety, she asked : "Which of iboso pahs ;
arc the laveudeicst ?" I
tiii: iikad pitonitx
A SET BRIDGE OF SIGnS.
"Dead Dead Dead." Hamlet,
One more polygamons,
Short, in ihe breath,
"Wretchedly bigamous.
Gone to his death.
Turn not away from bim,
Scorning to touch,
Go hearer ami pray for bim,
Marrid so much.
Thirk of his fathers-? n-Taw,
Two hundred hrnt hers-in-la w, '
Three hundred sisTS-in-law,
Fifty odd mothers-in-law,
Ijeft in one family,
All iolygatiiily ;
Think of their daily life
Full of domestic strife.
Cut rights and squealing;
Think ot the tears and sighs,
Then try to Ann KHze
Some of their feelings ;
Think of lh weekly dues
And of the baby shoes
And stuckinns unnumbered;
Think of the payments large,
Think of a daily charge,
Of an infant, six hundred.
Oh 1 turn not away from bim,
Scorning to touch.
Go nearer and pray for him,
Married so much.
Oh ! this is pitiful !
A city wiih witlows full,
liexom and fair ;
Old bachelors think of if ;
Go m-ar to the brink of it,
Now, if you dare.
Still for his bigamy
And muddy polygamy
Leave him at rest ;
Cross his hands humbly,
As if praying dumbly,
Over his breast ;
Owniiig his weakness,
The poor erring creature,
Ami leaving with meekness
His mantle to Hc-cher.
Jam rcnxiMe in 0wrr;o (Juzrttc.
A Long Jlatile With the Sea.
For more (ban a hundred years one of
the most interesting ami conspicuous ob
jecls to the voyager bound up the Knglish
channel, has been the famous ligh house
built by John Smeaton, on the Kudystoue
rocks. Lifting its gray mass above Ihe
t'libtileut sea near the entrance to Ply
mouth sound, it has stood for a century in
the pathway of the woi Id's commerce, a
monument of human genius and patience,
a boast of man's superiority over the foices
of nature. Hut nature has conquered at
last-. The liddysloiie lighthouse, so long
regarded as one of the grandest tiiomphs
of engineering, must come down. At the
recent meeting of the British association
for the advancement of science. Sir. J. N.
Douglass, engineer of Trinity house, lead
a paper explaining the necessity for the
demolition of this ex; laoi dinary vik.
The waves have beaten in vain against
Smeaton's masonry, toil they have actually
uodei mined the rock upon w hich it stands.
"Based on the solid rock" is no lunger an
expression of stability.
Tho Eddystone rocks, lying in one of the
most I'requeiiied parts of Ihe channel, and
entirely coveted at high water, were long
ago rematked among the principal daiigeis
of the English coast. The difficulty of
electing a light upon them was only over
come after various tiials and disasters. It
is impossible to approach the spot except
in the most favorable weathei, anil at cer
tain limes of Ihe tide, and owing to the
cxjioscd situation, neai the. entiance of the
channel, in tiie full sweep of the Atlantic
gales, Ihe sea ofieu rises here to extreme
liny, and the waves dash over the laulein
at the height of eighty five feet. On
several occasions they have bioken the
glass. The fiist light house on the Eddy
stone was begun by H ury Winstanley in
lG'Ju, and finished m lC'J'J. It was a sort
of wooden pagoda, on a stone base. It
stood " only four yeais, being swept away
by a storm in 17o:, and the builder and
several woikme.i who had gone off to it
for ihe purpose of making some repairs,
peiished at the same time. No trace of
the men was 'ever found, and not a frag
ment of the building remained, except a
few scraps of iron. But W install Iy had
demonstrated that a lighthouse could be
built on this fearful ledge, and Kudyeid
accordingly, who was uot a professional
engineer, but a si.k mercer, completed an
other, an ingenious hi i ncline of wood and
iion, in 17UU. The wood seems not to have
answered veiy well, but I he building lasted
ii 1 1 1 1 1 175.1, when it took fire one December
night in the lautein, and the keeers were
driven from room to loom till they-reached
the rock, whence (Ihe weather being for
tunately calm) they were taken off the next
day.
Smeaton's great work, which has since
served as a ty pe and model for Ihe finest
lighthouses in the woild, was li'guu in
1750 and finished in 1759. He secured a
magnificent foundation by levelling off the
gneiss rock in horizontal steps, so that
every course of masomy mioht rest upon
a line horizontal bed, and lo protect, the
groui:d joints siill more completely from
ihe action of the sea, he caused Ihe l.-.we.-conises
to be sunk at least three inch.s n,
the solid lock, as in a socket. All this
cutting of the foundation was done wiin
chisel and hammer, lest blasting should
loosen Ihe rock. The materials Used in
ihe building were Poll land stone and
grani e, laid in hydraulic cement. Tho
blocks weie a ton and two tons in weight,
and caieluiiv dovetailed together, eveiy
course being adjusted on a wooden plat
form before the stones were carried to Ihe
rock. 1 he courses weie furlheimoie con
nected by sione dowels, and ihe whole
firmly clamped. To find the best and
strongest, shape for the edifice which had
lobe biii'tt upon this foundation, Smeaton
applied to nature. He imitated the trunk
of a tice. The lighthouse tapers graceful
ly to the top, wi'h a slightly Concave out
line, ai.d its base spieads ontwaid as if it
were rooted in he lock. The upp.r part
was originally of wood, but being burned
in 17iO it was rebuilt of stone.
The enormous difficult it-s encountered
in the execution of this work, the ingenui
ty and perseverance displayed in overcom
ing them, and Ihe full pai ticutai-a of the -plan
one of 'he most skillul combinations
of elements of stability ever devised are
well described to Smeaton's "Narrative ;"
and, in spite of the progress that lias since
been made in nu-cbaoics, Ihe Ed lys'.oite
lighthouse has never ceased lobe Ihe pin.e
of every Englishman, ami one of the mar-,
vels of engineering. If it now must be
destroyed, the nation will have tho couso-
lation of knowing that a better building
can be erected in its place. Although the
sea beats in vain against its walls, it cannot
be regarded any longer as a lighthouse of
the first rank. There are some modern
improvemeota which cannot be applied to
it. Science has discovered how to throw
a light so far that a building of cousidera
blv greater height than this is now requir
ed lo give the proper range. A fog signal
of the largest kind seems also to be needed
in this position, and Smeaton'sstructure is
too confined to hold it. But it is proposed,
when the tower is destioyed, to put the
stones together again and leave them as a
monument on the coast. It would be an
excellent thing to do. The model light
house should stand there, as a memorial of
a great engineer and an impiessive remind
er of Ihe weakness and littleness of man
when be battles with the elements. jY.
V. Tribune. . .
, iinriiziBAH.
A STORY OF AX OLD-FASHIONED LOVER.
She w as an old maid aud her name w as
Hepbzibab.
Hephzibab ! The parent who can be fe
rocious enough to inflict such a name on
their offspring, ought to be spiked on the
ragged edge of remorse, ground to p iwder
in a m'11 of sell-condemnation and blown
to the four.w inds of beaveu by au outraged
piogeny.
If, in the earlier pciiod of a blasted life,
our Hepbzibab had ever been the delight
of any male crea lire's heart, there were no
traces left on her face to record the eQcct
of having been the object of such an emo
tion. But appearances are deceptive you
know; for there w as a time in Hphzibad's
life, when tho lilies bowed sweetly at her
approach and the roses hurriedly hid their
thorns beneath their trembling foliage, for
ve.y shame at having such cruel ornaments
about them, in her presence. Her spright
ly step and flashing eyes gave evidence that
nature was not singing a lullaby to the
pulses that gave the blush to her cheek and
lent the rapture of love to her heart ; the
tendrils of her being were budding w ith
vigor and beauty, warmed by the glow of
youth and nursed by the dew of dawning
womanhood. A measureless depth of love
was in her heart, but fate had yielded her
only the stingiest half measure in which to
garner her abundance, so the rest pait of
it ran to waste, aud the rest well, the test
part of it disappeared somehow, and left us
a cross old maid, whose name was Heph
zibab, whose dimples had turned to w i in
kles, and whose 'beauty spots" had be
come ugly warts, bristling with coarse
hairs.
Of course their was a man at the bottom
of it.
He was not a bad man, either ; he was
one of those phlegmatic souls who plod
along, content witn little to give, aud if
more fell lo him than he asked for, why
surely be couldn't help it. He was at
tracted to the blight Hephzibab peibaps
bei name find something to do with it
and "she, (xKtr dear, thought be was the
pri ice of men. In iter shy way she gazed
up at him, aud colored his dull stoicism
wi h the marvelous charm of imagination.
She imagined that beneath this calm there
raged a grand, passiouate soul in chains
l he chains of manliness and honor con
trolling way w ardness.
She had no smile of encouragement for
otheis; he was all she wanted, and' he
liked her. Oh, yes, he liked her so well
that he sought no other gill's company.
And so a couple of years passed and people
began to wonder, as eoule w ill, why that
"pair" did uot marry. But Hephzibab
was so happy. She lived aud thiived U(kii
the mtmoiy of one little kis-s and the ex
pectation of many more somo time.
The little episode of that kiss was the
only digression in their otherwise humdrum
intercourse ; and it was really au accident.
They bad been to chinch, and were
walking home by the light of the moon, he
stupid as usual, and he, wealing glory
Irom his sdence, consented to know herself
clinging to his arm. Arriving at tier door,
in the net of leaving her, his mailer ol-faet
eye espied thai Ihe fastening had become
undone. As he called her attention to it,
the piu fell, and both stooped to recover
it ; their heads and hands met, and the
next moment they were staitled by the re
alization that their hps had met somehow.
"How very sweet you aie, Hephzibab !"'
and that was all.
l ne next time be came she quivered aud
trembled and felt very nervous. There
was no occasion for it. When the old
couple began to yawn and stretch, previous
to toddling off to bed, be took ilis hat and
toddled oil" home, merely slopping long
enough, af'.er they were gone, to hold her
hand and say "good night 1" The follow
ing evening he came, as usual, aud this
was repeated for another season, until one
night he said :
"Hephzibab, good bye."
"Why 1 Are going to leave town ?"'
"Yes. I've invested in some land in the
territories. It is no. probable that I shall
ever come back."
He put on his hat and was gone. Heph
:!. ib's heart gave one awful throb and
.o n shiivcled uj with its lovely luxury of
kindness.
Aud the years passed away, taking away
father, mother, and fnends, but left "Bab,
that hateful, diied up old maid." anl ill
her ii.eiiiorii sen. b. lured by fie humili. tin
consciousness that she hail given n- lul:
measure of a woman's love lo one who had
not asked for it.
She was standing in the d'Hir of her cot
tage one evening, Ihe hush of twilight soft
ly falling upon the land.-cajte. when she
suddenly found herself facing her lover of
long ago.
"Hephzibab."
"You !"' she exclaimed with a gasp and
a snap.
"Yes, it's mo, Hephzibab."
"What do you want?"
"Yon, Hephzibab. The kiss you once
gave mo has hnunted mn through all these
years, and liugeied near me like a sweet
strain of music. But oh, woman, I want
auot her."
Involuntarily his arms went out to her as
be sjM.ke. And, not wit lis nnding her name,
Hephzibab was only a woman. Amen.
A GENTLEMAN once warmly eulogized
t he ' consisiaucy of an absent husband in
the presence ol" his loving wife. '"Yes, yet !"'
she assented, "he writes mo letters full of
Ihe agony if affection, but he never lemits
me any money." "I can conceive of llial,"
repliud ihe other, "for I know hi love to
be umtiu.ittin."
ThvUliny Shark Story.
' A SEA CATTAIN'S WONDERFUL ESCATE.
In 18S6 Captain Blank was the first mate
of aw: a j ship cruising on o NewBedfoid.
The "villiaru King" was one of those old
fashioned tubs peculiar to the last centuiy,
Saili ig q-ially well either way. bow or
smo ii. Oit Telegraph Hil', near Sail Fran
cisc a school of whales was raised, led by
an immense bull, and steering in a north
erly direction. Two boats were at once
lo wered, but they had scarcely touched ihe
wate." when Ihe school paned, one part
running noith and the other south, dpt.
Blank's boat followed one band, while Jim
Wats in, the mate followed ihe other. The
Captain's boat had a crew of magnificent
oarsmen ; they laid to their woik with a
will, and after an hour's pull came within
range of the bull. Captain Blank got an
Iron into him in short order, tiie fish sound
ed and went down at a seed which almost
equalled that of the ''lightning express '
train. The line ran out with a deafening
hum ; the loggerhead smoked, and tl e
boat laid her bows deep into the water.
Suddenly the strain ceased, the whale w.ts
coming up, and every eye conned ihe seas
for a glimpse of the monster. lie came up
like a rocket, struck the boat on the keel
amidsbip with his nose, and hurled it thir
ty feet into the air. As It desceudtd it
capsized, and fell bottom uppei most. The
men immediately swam for it, and, with
the exception of the Captain, reached it,
where ibey clung to the keel.
The Captain soon swam up, but
fiuding the keel crowded, resolved not to
risk an upsetting by venturing ujioii if.
So be put an oar under each arm, and,
treading water, kept near Ihe boat, cheer
ing the crew who, as was natural lo men in
their situation, were neivous aud down
hearted. They floated this way several
minutes, and weie gradually getting over
the first shock, when the stroke oarsman,
a gigantic negro, called out, '"Look dar a
shaik!" Nothing so horrifies A sailor as
the appearance of that ravenous fish in
hours of peril. The ciew looked and saw
a huge bottle uostd shaik floating appa
i en l ly uot more than a fathom below the
surface. The Captain saw the monster
also, and felt bis chance of escape dwindle
to a cipher; neveitheless, he did not lose
courage, aud instead of hastening the event
which seemed beyond prevention, resolved
to escape it. if possible. II; knew that a
shark would never bite at an unsteady bait.
The nose of the creature is in i s way ; it
must turn on its side to snap, aud then only
when the object is slat tmiaiy. It may be
for a second only, but that is enough ; Ihe
siiai k darts like lightning, and in a moment
seizes its prey. The Captain knew this,
and knew his only salvation depended on
his keeping constantly in motion. The
least pause would bo fatal, so with the two
oars under bis arm be kept afloat, moving
about incessantly bis eyes fixed on the dark
monster beneath him, which followed
wherever he moved. His mind was unu
ually active ; every circumstance of bis
life came before bim with the clearness of
noonday. The scenes of bis youth, in par
ticular, came before bim in vivid coloring.
He saw the old farmhouse in which ho was
born the hills, woods and meadows sui
rornding it ; the distant village, the church
spire, the flocks on the plains, the winding
river, the cows browsing in the fields; he
heard the clatter f Ihe mill, the s ings of
the mowers, the birds singing in Ihe groves
aud the gun echoing among the bills. He
beard, tini, the voice of one dearer to bim
than all on earth ; the voice c f lie but all
this took place while a rapat ious inon t -r
was floating within a few fret of him, wait
ing only for a moment's pause iu his move
ments to rend him in pieces!
The second boat having now rescued the
wrecked men. appioacl.ed .he Captain, who
ordered its ciew to shoot, by bim at fill'
speed, and as it passed bo would grasp it
and t-pring in, Ihe critical moment being
when he would lose motion and the shaik
would be likely to seize him. However
that risk must be taken. The mate faith
fully carried out bis dheet ions. The men
strained every sinew. They were wii tie -men,
and, as such, topgallant oarsmen.
The boa itself was scarcely seen, buried
in a doublo wall of foaming spray, he oars
bending like reeds, and llie gunwales quiv
eiing al each stroke. It look a steady
nerve, an eagle glance, and a ligh'iiitig
grasp to secuie the flying ctafi ; but the
Captain had these, and as it passed seized
the stai board gunwale, and was throw n
like a shot into the boat. At the same in
stant Ihe sh.lrk's head rose aliove water,
and iis jaws snapped with a Round audible
for a considerable distance. The Captain,
as he himself remarked, escaied ''only by
a scratch."
JoxAn. "Why Is a
paused, meditated, and
' and "Martha
d topped three
stitches in the nocdlewoik she was trying
lo ciochet "why is or why was Jonah-
in what did Jonah surpass all other men
of his time?" "Caws" exclaimed little
Tommy, who was trying to tie a cat under
a chair, "caws he didn't mind." "O you
keep stiil, you little biat," remarket! his
inlci rogallug sister. "In finance," sug
gested another, "because lie was one cent
to Tarsbish, you know." "In sufb.'i ing,"
said another, "because he had a wale all
over him." "Yes." said a firth, "and in
foititude, foi l e forgot bisSpain his pain,
vou see." "He was a ed deal lik:; ihist
Russian. ren aikeu a s xth, "a p:o,Jiet
lo Europe." "Profit, I see," said Maitba.
"You needn't bear on that word so bard ;
'bat isn'tit, though." "He surpassed in
literary miseiy," suggested seventh, "for
he was in a wrile wad f r three days and
three nights." "I iMiess be wanted to keep
bouse," obseived the eighth, "afier he Lad
so much trouble overboard."
"Ah!" said Martha, chopping another
stiicb, "that isn't any answer at all; go
ahead, all of you, and I'll teli you when you
bit light." "He surpassed in sadness,"
guessed a ninth; he was quite down in
the mouth." "No." "He mm -passed as a
wicked Roman Governor," suggested the
lif h attain, "because, yon see, he was a
pauncheous l.ilol." "O-h!" screamed Mal
tha, dropping seven stitches, "no phy siolo
jy allowed!" "We'd, then," said a tenth,
"is ft anything about a lishal in the Intel i
or Department?" "No, you bnbarian."
-He sni passed," said Ihe eleventh, "hi
lightness, Ikciusc 'ho whale tbre.v him
np." "Very good," said Martha, blandl ,
'but thai!" not 't. You burn, though."
! it niivthin? about rode rowed?" siul
her sister. "No, it Isn't; you can't any of J
you goes.-.; He surpassed m stieniMh De
cause a whale couldn't keep bim iow u.V
X.Y.draphic. ,. .
WHO inns?
A CHANCE TO SFXXKK A HOME AND MARRY
Til E LADY WHO OWNS IT.
We have had in our possession for several
days, says the Haiti more American, a letter
from a lady, evideu ly of culture and refine
ment, asking us to do her a seivice, which
we Kcnrcely know how to gr atotit. She
wants a business man, a gentleman of
character, refinement and md hard sens-
if not of culture, to assist her in managing
her proerty, a task which she finds, after
much trouble, disappointment and loss, sho
cannot, as a woman, successfully accom
plish. The gist of the letter is as" follows :
"I have now a nice little home, with dairy
ami garden attached, iu Ihe suburbs of ,
with exitof'f ntioiia iu money within two
yearc What 1 want is a tmMii..K man with
some money, if but a few hundred doliars,
to help me conduct and establish a profita
ble Income. I have iteen trying to battle it,
and have fought bravely with adversity anil
kept np a cheerful spirit all these years, but
am becoming dim -on raged by failures in the
management of business unsuitable for a
lady. I ha e made, a g.H-d livin, Put need
help, counsel, some one lo protei i ami sus
tain me in my efforts. I have had excellent
oilers of man ias;., several iinisiu past years
but was nowise enough to decline-.
"Now, I Wi'iit to asKociare mvself with a
goto Lilian rf good charat ter." His moral
worth it, list be above suspicion, and of gt d
common s.-nse, and a reasonable share of in
t liigenee, thai be may ai.l me in building
up my home and collect ing my means, with
a view to our mutual interest ami comfort.
I w ill give bim charge of w hat I have hero
iu stock, horses, cows, wagons, A:e., while I
go to Ihe city and open ".otne kind of busi
ness, perhaps a book store, V;e.
"Uemeiiitw-r, I am not advertising for a
bus!. an.l, Inn a gentleman as partner, or to
become one iu business, and if in ihe course
of events we find it to our interest ami hap
piness to form aditi'ereut relationship, found
ed ujion esteem, pood judgment, iw ami
reason, why we will think of that hereafter.
I am willing to engage in any honorable
business with an honorable man, and if ho
is in need of the help ami friendship of a
true woman, who will cheerfully render all
the aid ami comfort that her womanly na
ture and ihe knowledge derived from trials
and a varied experience may a (lord her, it
will be well, for ill tlil-coisisiH the sole pleas
ure of my life, winking lor llio good of
others. There is no brant ii of tenia e work
ihat I am entirely ignorant of. 1 tie very tb
partiueiit of housew ifery. from th kitchen
to Ihe parlor, Im.iIi homely ami ornamental,
1 have practiced, and an. independent of
dressmakers and tailors, and even milliners
and halters, Vc.
"Notwithstanding all these little resources
and industries, I am not nble to keep my
business up snugly and comfortably for tin
want of proper ami reliable am! judicious aid
in the shape that my means have been ever
si. ue she war. I have not a male friend to
whom I eati go for counsel, save an Atiomey-Ht-law,
and ibis has cost me heavily, Ix-sidos
what I have 1. st by incotiipcii nt ami un
trustworthy men in my employment."
She describes her borne as "commanding
an uninteri opted view of the ri y" (we do)
uot. say what city), with suttoun liug -cene-ly
tiuly magnificent. "It is a new bouse ;
the lots ummpioved. tut iu cultivation."
Iu concluding our correspond nt says : "I
write hurriedly. It is gioaing late ahd
dark. I am writing with many interrup
tions of talking and music and miiih,' etc.
Now, if any of the Benedicts among our
readers (over forty years of age preferred)
desire to settle comfortably in these haid
times they should piomptly step forward
and enter I be li.-t as conqietitois for thi
chance iu life.
Giants. The I'mitM-We Atfrontfr re
, o. ts the presence iu thai portion ol Ala
bama of "a giant twenty-one feet tbiee
inches high, and six feet eight inches across
the shoulders ; bis foot measure thirty
four inches by seven eer., and be steps over
seven rows of cotton al each stiide. The
people living near July Mountain, in Jack
son county, turned out srvmul days aeo,
some hundreds strong and penned him in
a ravine, lie submitted to be hound and
measured, then broke his futile chains,
ctossed the i net near Bt lb fonte, and made
for Sooth Mountain, the residents w he icon
arc being baptized and Maying at borne of
nights."
This account is. of couio, apocryphal,
ami yet the foot of the incident I. as some
thing of a parallel in the early hisloiy of
Tennesson, though attended with "circum
stances of ra.her a ludicrous character. In
177?, a man named S-eocei came with oth
eis from Kentucky, for the pntoser es
tablishing a settlement in Middle. Tennes
see. He took up his lesid- nce in hollow
tree near Bledsoe's. Lick. ."Sh-hot was a
mm of giant stature,"' say s Ramsey, in his
Annals of Tenii-.'Ssee, and pnssjng one
morning I hp temporary cabin e reeled at a
place called Eaton's Station, nnd occupied
by one of Captain de Mtimbt une's hunters,
his huge tracks weie left plainly impressed
iu the rich alluvial. These were ae"ii by
the hunter on bis return lo 'lie camp, who,
alarmed at their size, immediately swam
across the liver, and waudc led lluougb the
woods unt il be i cached the French settle
ments on Ihe Wabash." The poor hunter
evidently thought this sec. bei of the Slate
w.is inhabited by a lace of giants.
But be is not the :n!v b:g-foote! man
who h:is tiod the soil of Ten iieKsee.. Some
mouths ago the Memphis Apjtevl re(o.1ed
that G. W. App, of thai coy, bad made a
i em::: kble p.;ir of sho.-s for a negro man
who lived in Arkansas. The length of the
shin's is seventeen ami t hrec-quai ter inches
and six inches acioss ihe sole ! The man
i over seven feel in height, weiehs about
four hundred pounds and is not nmi i ban
twenty-six yeais of age. It nvy be said lo
the ciedii of this big-footed ingio that be
is a pieacher.
Wasted. A wife who can handle a,
hro.tm lo Irish uowu cob.vebs aud sweep
up I:t room.
Can make decent broad lhat a fellow can
cat.
Not that hor.ib!o compound you every
where n.eot.
Who knows how to b to fry, and 0
roast.
M!;c a good cup of tea and a platter of
tt as-.
A womau that washes, cooks, irons and
stitches.
And s-vvs up the rqis in a fellow's old
breeches.
And makes her own garments an item
which is so hmiibly t'xrteiisive, as eve y
one knows ; a com .ion eue cieature and
s i'l with a n i:id.
To leach ai d KUt.lft exalted, refined.
A Oit uf u e.ot,l jujd LoUiC-maid combined.