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Tbo Deacon Concludes That the
Beautiful Is AUo TJacfuL
rxa''in TiUi'-n h;il the ni.r'st. t.car--.t
xhite hoi;.-f that i-vrt hKoxm-J in
ki t-n anirlos f'nui tf.p diisk y rlumjw f
old Hlao tiiti's. In front, of It st.nxl,
on .aih ili uf the doorway, txvx) ihrifty
x l.x-i ry trc-rs. whi. h lrx a hushi'l h
cvfry si-axxui. Kxijitir(j the afor''
u. ntioufxl ltlao trt't s. th-r xxas not s
"inxpr or o.iriil) jrniMi'l tin j)l;x,-. Koo
b.il.ix3 ttn divnii th-urht rotttxi tti-hoti--,
and the honfysiu-kle whi.-h his
wifi tri.-xl to train ovt-r tho ptrch xxas
torn iloxxn xxh.-n tho puintors eame, and
on tbo whole tin- dt a'-x.n said what xxa
tho iihx of putting it up as lonir a it did
iijt l.-ar any thircr
ly the biJe tl.e house xxa-i a thrifty,
vxf-ll-k j.t srardx ti. xitl. pl'-nty of cur
rant l:i-xtn'-. iooel.-rry lu-.!ies and
quince trees and the W.-ts and carrots
and onions wire the prkln of the
x1. acou"s heart: )n:t, as he oft.-n proudly
baid, "i very thin xx as for u.-' there
xx as nxtl.ln fancy awxut it. His wife
put in tinioroi.-xly me season for a
Itoxx c r lmrili-r M -s. .Trr.k ins had ffiven
hr a petunia and Mr-. Simpkins
had broi.tfht her a packaiTtx of
f.o'.xer fatcls fram New York
T I . a '.ifd .v:xs l?.id xut. liut
t he thrifty deax-on "xinx!: fx-i.nd tiiat the
.xeedin of it t ok time that Mrs.
TiUen mii;ht rive t j hi r tlairy. or to
iTtakit'jf s'lirtsan-J Vi:ittin st.x-kins.
and so it reniiy troi'i.lml hi.-, conscience.
"J 1, in- : t, t.;.i i nr ho i ir'i. 1 it, into liis
(I :it i,l. aa I w hen h!s vxit'e miidiy
drs irr..ii.t:ii-nt
sail.
j I . v: -A er a' !. "t v:is ar.hli!' of no
e-.-, :x:..t ' '; tiinf" and Mrs. TilJen.
y .HuT t mei k vxoiii 'T:, a;. I one f the
kind i ! sai.its xx i.. a'.-.xays i.. wv
thnnselves ii.ixirahie sinners, spt-ially
confessed her sin of hein,f inwardly
xeed alKiui the incident in her prayers
that :iL''i!. and praved tfKlt, her eyes
nrii.l.t le in uid o:f fr .in heholdinjf
xruiitv. and that she nii.'ht l-'t ijiiick
ciii j in the xx ay ef minding her work.
Ti.e f:int purler of the deacon's house
xv;ts t ieinosi f . ir'i I asylum ef neatness
ha;. e er xt; ,. i.irax d the inc ut a viii
iter. Tin' four Vl.tnk xvalls were fruilt
less ot any .'.ra-. i 'r p:ir 'tn'. or
of any adornment r-'it nn ordinary xvall
aper aiut a f. :i;,ed Copy .f the dcclara
t.x.ti ef irul'-p, ndene jn vh of the
i. iie- slit s a; jKl four i hairs i;ndf-r tUf
i-fc.kin'-c'.uss as a s!.in'iii mahogany
t .i' ie, xx 1 1 ! i a I.i r- -e I ..t:d an a i ai.i nac
. nit and 1 ; :u-of iM . i-!i ii'.ng l.rass
ai.. ii:. his i . i sii i -i .1 :!. pi n o. The
Ma i:.. ! shelf u:'.i.c h:t I a pair of l.rirt.t
!i.-..-s i -.xii'l'. '. :-h a p-.ir of suu.J-
e: , in xx . . n. a:id tji..r a ..s ail. Tiie d-a-
iiU. xl i" ir. xx as plain atid simple n-
1 1 . 1 1 e u xi u'i.'i.-. it ex x-ry thir.i? for use
1 i.x'thiti.' fo.-shov. ii suit. si iiim. His
XX-;fe Soii.i'ti.i s si '.e I and l.iksi round
i t XX si. -.x ., x , irt? &s f she vx A'lted
somet Mil.-, iii-l th-'ti i.n- iii ;!.o i.-il
old es i'.-n:
Krom vnr.eT tun elT Di:ue Cyea:
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XX'i...i:i tn.s ic-irt t i ti.:.-.
The coii v.i l xie-irn to .x ha a this es
t i niahl.x ii ..t: .n h.il n t. m p:i-l hl
l n t :ie p. r l.-- i f V i-i in iVi-.x er va - "s,
x lixisc '.H-a'iiv li id struck t l.er h"art
t hell sh' XX en t x. i lu hef I. litter U'ld ''S
tx tuv ne.::.'H;-,nf city hut ri-ci'llti't.
In: her., if in time s:e had r--. .K: :ly
shut her cyi's t. tho alturement and
sjt-nt the money u-efaily in l-uyinir loaf
.s'ljrar.
1'or it is to he remarke.t that the dea
con xx as fond of jtoxhI atin and pri Jed
himself on th Injcntii-s of his wife's
ta'.'e. F'-.x" w.rxiei knew Vet'er ho v to
set uu.x- and the suoxvy l.read. iroiden
1.. . tier, v.. .ir pi-.-.-rv-s and j- llie.s w. re
their.rs xiT a '.mirati.m at all the tea
tahl'" in the land. The d'-acon didn't
mind a few cents in a pound more for a
nicer harn, and xx.n.td now arid then
brim iu a t;i-at ef oyster- from the city
when they xxere d-aiTt. Tliiso were
xoniforts, Le said, and one rr. est stretch
a point for the cxitnfyrts of life.
The deacon must not lx mistaVen for
a tyrannii-al man or a bad husband.
When lie quietly put his wife's llower
patcb Into his corn-Celd he thought he
Laxl done her a service by curiai Lcr
of an ahsurd notixn for things that t'Hk
lime and made troubla and were of no
use. And she, dear .soul, never Lad
breathed a dissent to any course of Lis
loud rrot:h to let hfm know she bad
one. lie luuxrhoxl in his slee.xt-s often
xx lien he saw in r tranquilly knittini or
shirt-makim; at those times she had
ix en wont to jfivt to her poor little con
traband pleasures. As fxr the Cower
xases, they vxeie repynted of and Mrs.
Tildeti put a hand '.il vJf spriiif anemones
into a crackx'd pitcher and set it on
her kitchen table, till the aeacon txssed
iticiu iiutt'l" the xvindoxx' lie eoi.ldo't
tnar Idmv vveeils rx' xx .iii ror.nd.''
The jk.hu-littie woman bad a kind of
.'brouic heart si ue-, 1 ike ti e pininir
of a te ti.itij cVild: b it she never knew
e:a.-tly xx hat it xxas ho wa'nli-xl. If she
ever wa sicJc, l:i man could be kinder
than the dx ax-on. 1 Io had lieen knoxxn
to harness In all baste anxl rush to. j,he
neihliorinj toxxn at four oVlock in tke
morning that be iight bring her fcme
delicacy ihe had a fancy for that he
cxiuld we the use of. He could Tiot
syniia:.hie in her craving desire to see
l'oxier'.s Cre.-k Slave, vxhich wa ex
hibiting in a neighboring toxxn. "What
did Christian jeopie xxant ef Mu.
imam's-.'" he xvunted to know. He
tboubt t'.e Sxtij teres pur that thinjf
doxvn "Ky. s have they, but they see
rot cars I.jx. they, but they hear
no-. n r.l.cr speak they through their
I real. l'h- y t!:j' in ike t bein ar- likx-
1.1. -.i ti.i-iii: i 3 every one th i trusteth
in ' : :, " TI ( h tin' deacon's or ! n-
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sitrhed. and wished she could see it. that
was al !.
liUx it aiue 1 1 pass th.lt the ib-rc-on's
ebb-st S..11 xxer.t tx live in N'exv York,
and fiom that t'n.e ira::tre cii.in,'es be
trat, to .ippioar in the fr.niily that the
deacon didn't lik-; but as .Ii thro xvas a
smart, driviticr lad. and makinir money
lit a irieat pr.ct-, h al f.rst said noiiiinr
l!;.t on his mother's birthday doxxu he
e:xn.e and Tiroiiht a box fr lii.s mother,
which, beins unpacked, contained a
l'arian statu-t-o of l'aul and Virginia
a lovely. simple litl le group as ever bel l
its story iu clay.
I'.vervbodx xxa- soon standini round
it in o(-n-iii.c;tvi d admiration, ai'xl poxir
Mis. Tilib-n wiped I.e.- yes ii:nre than
nl'.ri' s!.i' l'.oki'l VII it. 1 .,. ii.e.l a
xisi.m ef b-.iu:y in the xi.--. late neatne-
of txie lrf.,- ro. .in.
Very pretty. I s'pose." said the
deacon, douhi fully for Hke n.ost fa-
tliers of Spirited t xxenty-three-xjlders. hi'
bejran to feel a little uv.c of his son
' but. dear mi, w ha", a siirbt of money to
five ?r a thinir that after all is of no
use."
I think." said Jeibro. looking at bis
mother's sutfiisx d eyi-s. -it 5s one of the
most usef ul things that has een brought
into the house this many a day."
"I don't see hoxx- you're poiii;r to make
it out," said th' dem-an, lookinff appre
hensively at the younff Wisdom that had
risen in his household.
"What xx ill you xxafer me, father,
that I will prove out of your own mouth
that this statuette is as useful as your
cart ami oxen?"
"I know you've got a great way of
coming round folks, and txx itching them
up before they fairly know xxhere they
ar"; but I'll stan' you on this question,
anyway.
"Well now. ratner, what is the use of
your cart and oxen?"
"Why. I could not work the farm
without them, ami you'd all have noth
ing to eat. drink or xvear."
' Well, and v hat is the use of our eat
ing, di"r.king and wearing?"
'I'se? why, we could not kec-Xpaiixe
without it."'
"And what is the tisc- of our keeping
alixe'.'" - -
"The i;se of our keeping alive?'
"Yes, to be sure; why do we try and
strixe and twist !d turn to kr"p alive,
and xx hat's the use of living?"'
"Living. why do we xxant to live; we
enjxy living all creatures do dogs and
cats and every kiul of beast. Life is
sweet."
"The use . ,f living, tficn, isthai wo en
joy it?"
Yes."'
"Well, wr all enjoy this i-t?tcet,e, so
that there is the same vil.io to that
there i. in living; and if ronroxf-n and
carts and food and clothes, and all that
you call necessary thmg. nave no value
except the enjoyment, then this Statu
ette is a short cut to the great thincr for
which your farm and every thing eiso is
designed. You do not enjoy your cart
for xxhat, it is. but because ot its use to
get fxod and clothes and fxod and
clotbt-.s xx e raluct for the enjoyment they
give, liut a statuette or picture or any
beautiful thing five-, enjoyment at once.
We cnjy it the moment we e" it fx.i
I '.-i If and rot. f. r any it" v.-e !r'."i: t
make of it. So that strikes the creat
end of this life quicker than anything
else, didn't it? Hey, father haven't 1
got my case?"
"1 belitxe the pigs are geuir.g into
the garden," sail the deacon, rushing
out of the front door.
Hut to his wife he said before going
to bod: "Isn't it atuazing the xvay
Jothio can talk. I culd riot do itti-v-self.
but I had it in me tho if I'd had
his advantage s. Jethro is a chip of the
old block." Mrs. II. II. Stone, in Farm.
Field and Stockman.
WHERE TOYS ARE MADE.
Th rrtvtuetlori f (erniane, S wit erinoi
unit llolian-1.
Wooden carvel tos Fro ohict'.y ntaxle
ia fJennany swl Sxi itzerlHnxl, the cheap
er kinds in tiie n. ihborhox-l x.. Nurt m
berg and the h -t.".f r qualities at Si.ne
burg, in "i'huriu ia, from xvhi-'h latter
plais alnjut twenty-four in, linn articles,
valued at i'snO.ooj. are annuaiix ex port
ed. Large quar.tit'u.-i of wov'.on i:xs
are also made in Sax xT-.y, where an in
genious prtyx-ess is in ti-e fr dnninishirig
the labor invoivea in tne proxlt,;-Ti.,n or
animals. A circular block of soft wo-d
is turned Into a ring of su -h a patt rn
that by slicirg it Tertically a rough rep
resentation of an animal (say an ele
phant) is sex-ured. Kach rudimentary
figure is then trimmed by hand, the ears,
trunk, tusks and tail, ail of which are
separately turned and sliced by the
same method, aro inserted; and whi n
the animal has bee.n painted and var
nished it is rt aly for use.
Clay marbles also come exclusively
from Saxony, l-ing made of a clay nox
found elsewhere. The Irf-tter qvalities
come from Holland, where they are
made from fragments of alabaster and
other stone. Taw and alley, the coin
noon names for the two qualities princi
pally used in this country, are abbrevia
tions of tawny and alabaster.
A great ten days toy fair is annually
held at Leipsic, when more than six
thousand merchant exhibit their goods
inext-y available inch of space, even
in the garrets of the six-storied house.
Marburg, in Hesse n, is chiotly evet.ied
with the manufacture of musical toy,
while Hiberach, in Wurtemburg, is
noted for substantial metal articles,
such as carriages, locomotix-es, fnrniture,
etc The specialty of Switzerland is
wooden c Jttages, models, etc Some
of the large dealers do very well
out of the industry, but the actual
toy-makers in both countries are mis
erably jxaid, and find it very bard,
even by the most unremitting toil, to
gain a subsistence from their employ
ment, many of them being obliged to
supplement their earnings by engaging
in out-doxir labor during the summer.
The pri.duc.tion of IUIland aro very
similar to those of Germany. Cham
bers' Journal.
jk. The Imee of t lie CameL
' "A a matter of fact, and in spit ofit3
having earied Mohaiuuied in four leaps
Trem Jerusalem to Mecca, seven miles
an iiur is tho camel's limit; nor can it
maintain this rate over two hours. Its
usual speed is five miles an hour a
blow pa-o Leycnd which it is danger
ous to nree it,- lest, as Asiatics say, it
might break its n art and die liierally
on the spot. When a-earuel is p.u-.i T
beyond this sp-enl, and isspent, it kneels"
doxn, and not all the wolves in Asia
will make it budjre again. Thocanit l
remains where it kneels, and where it
kneel; i . -i--s A tii.- ind- r i'.s nos
WOVEN AT TWENTY-ODD.
The t AThlcli Ihey Are (ld TXe
Mwt Kntertlnlnr.
Time was when to be sixteen was the
best thing that could happen to a young
girl. It xx as the ago of dewey fresh
ness, of innocent impressibility, atui of
aU the other dtlihtful but rather
x er.Iant virtues which have won the
rie-.rt of t,l:e piet to "-ong and wio.l the
.iindof th sago to Botriething lstter
than his philosophy. Hut sweet six
teen is in shor' drcses to-day, and still
mi ler the rub-? of her governess. Her
a'T.. tions haxe not yet departed from
her d.lls. and she trx-ars the few young
rt of b r acquaintance xsith the sim-
.iicity of a chill. Tt was a good thing
.!( rob.' sixteen: it is a good thing
Ti.-w to 1 f.xcnty; to be t 'vt-nty-fi vo is
better -t'.ll, b.;'w lO bo t'.xcuty-eijht ia to
1m- b'.estt
"Tht re is no time in a woman's life
v.i. n .she is so delightful inarrii-d or
unmarried, but particularly the latter),"
said an observing man yesterday, "as
she is from twenty-five to thirty. She
till has the enthusiasm of youth, and
mu:h of the tolerant sense of mid 11"
life. Her judgment is mature, and her
opiuions carry weight- The shyness
and timidity of her girlhood have jiasscd
into a poiso of manner and a gracious
dignity that j.laces her friends at once
at their easy best. She has had experi
i nee, and that experience has gi ven
her a clear understanding of the w orld
as it really is and of herself without
illusions. Therefore her estimates and
criticisms of life are sharp and sure and
usually to be trusted, because she has no
theories to bolster up and illusions to
perpetuate. '
"Hut there is something to be said on
the other Bide, said a woman of twenty
six who heard him. "It may look very
smooth sailing from the outside, but one
tan have little idea how much tact, it
takes to 6teer straight in tho narrow
path of the five years that lie between
twenty-fire and thirty. In tho first
jdace, a woman at that age hardly
knows where to place herself. She is
neither young nor old. She is what
Julian Hawthorne calls 'still young,'
and the little adjective adds ten years at
a stroke. If a womanjwbo is only 'still
young takes the coy and kittenish rele,
she makes herself immortally ridicu
lous, and deservedly so. She has some
thing even to fear letting hfrsclf be
spontaneous and natural, lost some one
shall dub her the 'girlish old girl.' To
bo older than her years makes a prig of
her at once, and men and gods will
shun her.
"To th very young man she must V"
grandraothr tly without hurting his dear
little vanity by superior wisdom and
ratronago. To the midlle-age.J man she
must respond with a maturity of judg
ment that matches his own, and yet she
must continually suggest the innocence
of sixteen. To the man between the
two she may perhaps be nearest her nat
ural self, and yet even with him she has
continually to remember that she must
n"ver assume the equality cf knowledge
or experience or judgment which she is
sure she really possesses. She is often
truer in her judgment and wiser in her
conclusions than he is; he must never
mi"peot it. Sne may be cleverer than
he-, but the trust be clc-rer enough to
conceal it. She must follow him always,
but, like little Julus, it must be with
une..ual footsteps or his vanity is
uejnded. From twenty-Cx-e to thirty a
xxuman has tho most ditiicuit part of her
life to iix-e. She has to dissemble in the
resent. rero ir.ber frxiui the past and
Isjrrow from the future. Si.e may 1-e
delightful, but she is far from "r dr.g de
lighted. Ij you bot-iu to realiie it.'"
N. Y. Sun.
HOTEL EXPERIENCES.
tueer Cae of Mihtmsnx Ileveloped la
m AYnetiinirtou Hostelry.
Among the many queer experiences
"lined in a hotel," said the clerk of an
uptown ho-telry. "are those connected
xx-.tn g-uests who are subject to nicht
i are, which is more common than many
op'.e suppose. It is not uncommon
f.r a night in a large hotel to dex-elop
several cases e-f this kind. In the still
n ,s of the early morning hours heavy
groans or a shriej-e may le heard sovtnd
', vi aloi r the corridor. Trie hail-biy
e. -ikes up. rubs his eyes an i awaits to
see what is coming, and if bo is a new
one at the business half expects that a
i:iurd?r is bing committed.
"We had a case not Ling ago of a gen
tleman here who, during the middle of
the night, began pounding on his door,
yelling at the same tine: 'Let ine out!
Let nv) out! Help! Help' The hall
boy rushed down to the desk, and, with
the night clerk and the porter, hurried
back to the room, whence came tho
sounds of distress. All was quiet. They
waited awhile, then knocked. The sub
ject of the nightmare came to the door
feeling' very much crestfallen. lie ex
plained that he had eaten a too liberal
supply of deviled crabs during the
previous evening and that he had
dreamed that he was locked in one of
the immense money vaults of the Treas
ury, which he had seen during his vdsit
to the city. His own cries for help had
caused him to wake. Such ca?-es, more
or less exciting, are of almost nightly
occurrence in a large hotL and are
usually greater when the social season
is at its height. The guests who get in
toxicated are not included in this class
of noise-makers. They form a separate
study alone, and make tbo night lively
very often. Washington Post.
Whore Sardine Come From,
We are prone at times to boast of our
sardine-packing Industry in this coun
try, but it should le borne in mind, for
the sake of accurate knowledge, that, as
a matter of fact, we hare no sardine
packing industry in this country. We
pack a great many boxes of a little fish
vxhich is a species of shrimp, and pour
cot ton-iced oil over it, and people buy
anl eat tbr-!;t under the delusir-n that
they are eating sardines dressed in
olive oiL Tho only genuine sardines
arc taken on a few sections cf tbo coast
of Europe, and the French canr.ers have
nearly monopolized the market by es
tablishing a reputation for the absolute
genuineness of their fish and oil, and by
their careful, thorough method of pack
ing, which preserves the exquisite
tlavcr. Good Housekeeping.
Tho citizens of Windham, Me., are
laughing at a newly-married man of that
town who xvent to Portland shopping,
taking Lis bride with him, but who fr
!'' when be started for home, and
"L'jrJeariy reached Windham liofore the
uneasy eonfs.io,fiiraS that ho had for
gotten sonpi.-cf.naJ'y resolved itself
nto the realization of the fact that it
xas hi wife xx ho was left l"-Liai
BEACONS FIELD'S DEATH.
He Could KjHtre No Time for Rest or
Open-Air Kicrri.
Tho greatest diiliculty was to pot the
j,atient to take exercise. "My grand
father," ho said to mo, "lived to ninety
years: ho took much open-air exorcise.
My father lived to eighty, yet he never
look any." Lord lleax-onstlold tried to
steer a middle course, but the utmost he
could be persuaded to take was a short
walk two or three times a we-ek if Lord
Roxx ton or some other jdeasant friend
called to accomj)-ny him; otherwise he
easily found an excuse for not going
out. His slow pace in walk'.ng prevented
him from getting much lneht frotn it.
Uidiog he had given up, although in
his e-arly days passionately devoted to
it. For many years bis life had been a
sedentary erne; presuming on his hardy
constitution and the fact of his father's
great age without open-air exercise,
he considered it a matter optional in his
case. He had the excuse of urgent oc
cupation in his political and literary
life to hinder it. Y'et nature has a "Nem
esis"' poxver of revenging herself on the
man of sedentary life. In the end tho
liver suffers. In one cf his letters to
his sister he says: 'I have recovered
from the horrors of a torpid liver, which
has overwhelmed me the last few days."
In tho spring of 1SS1 he felt the cold
most keenly and seldom went out for a
walk, his only exercise. Yet he could
not deny himself the pleasure of going
into society in the evening. He thought
that with fur coats and shut carriage ho
might risk it. But on one of the worst
nights in March he xvent out to dinner,
and returning home was caught for a
minute by the deadly blast of the north
east wind laden with sleet. Bronchitis
developed tho next morning xvith dis
tressing asthma, loss of appetite, fever
and congestion of the kidneys.
Daring his last illness thero was no
pain nor acute suffering, but at times
much distress and weariness, all of
v hieh he bore with the most exemplary
patience and endurance. To all those
around him he showed the greatest
kindness and consideration. At mid
night there was a visible change for the
worse, and tho heaviness gradually
passed into the calm sleep of death.---
Nineteenth Ceatury.
A TALE OF WINTER.
The Opening- and Clnelng- Scenes of ax
Domestic Ilrama.
Did you ever observe with what en
thusiasm the boy of tho household goes
out on the morning of the Crst snow-fall
to shovel oit the xvalk?
He enters into the work with all tho
zest of a boy at play. How he make-" t.
the snow fly, to bo sure! How buthe and
merry is our little man, and with what
infinite joy he buckles to his tas'. Al
though bleak w inter lies all around him
ho forgets the sulfering it brings to oth
ers in the warm sunshine with which it
floods his own soul.
Hear him carol and sing at his work!
Ho dances a nimble jitr, slaps his
hands about him and utters a merry
jest, inspired by the frost that nips his
toe6 and fingers.
This is the first act of a winter's tale.
Tbere are other acta, but they are not
like this one.
They aro different.
In the scenes which follow rapidly the
same actor comes on the stage, set as a
sidewalk covered a foot deep with real
snow; hut he is a changed boy.
Where is the mrry lauzh, ho gibe,
the. jest, the sonc tho dancp? Where is
th-'. flood of sunshino in his heart?
Gone!
Gone! Nex-er to return until the first
fall of next winter's snow!
In piacr? cf thetn we have a boy aged
as xvitli an awful grief, bowed as with a
heax-y woe. The buoyancy of youth has
fled, lie fcolslike on who treads alono
some banquet hall deserted. He drags
bis shovel aff-r him like a thing loathed
and despised.
Sorrow hath marked him for 1 r own!
The frost that lies in the ground is
nothing to tho frost that has settled
upon his yf-int? life. There is a pain in
his heart bigjjer than a load of bay.
"Hear me, ye unpitylng gods," quoth
our hero, "(if tho shoveling W snow I
have got my stomach full! N. Y.
World.
EGYPT'S SACRED CATS.
Ramarkililr Modeling; cf trie
Brom
elliiee of ItnlMMtl.
The bronze cats and kittens of Bu
bastis have never been excelled for truth
and supplenes of modeling. As for the
cat-headed Basts, po admirably is the
head of the intelligent Egyptian tabby
adapted to the graceful proportions of
tho goddess, that we lose our percep
tion of the incongruity, and find the
combination perfectly natural. The
name of the eat in the ancient Egyptian
language is viau a nam evidently ono
matopoetic, and so affording no cew to
th? original nationality of tho animal
which was certainly unknown to the
Egyptians of the Pyramid period.
Lonormant remarks with truth that
Hast iu the time of the Ancient Empire
was invariably represented with tho
head of a lioness, and that it is only
with tho advent of the twelfth dynasty
that she begins to appear upon the
monuments in the likeness of a cat.
This was the time of the great raids of
the Pharaohs into the land of Kush
(Ethiopia); and it is a notable fact that
the cat and the Dongolese dog are first
represented in the wall-paintings of
Heni-Hassan during the reigns of the
Usertesens and Amenemhats. Ruppell
has shown that the cat of tho wall
painting and bronzes is identical with
tho Frlia maniculata a til I found in a
wild state in Upper Nubia and the
Soudan; so that it may fairly be taken
fnr ganted that the sacred animal of
Bast was an importation of the twelfth
dynasty lbaraohs from "the Land of
Kush." This view is strikingly cor
rotiorated by the tenor of a demotic
papyrus recently translated by lrof.
itc villout, which professes to record the
philosej.hici.1 conversations of "The
Jackal Khun and an Ethiopian Cat.
This cat is half a goddess, and that sho
should be designated as "Ethiopian"
points with special significance to the
original habitat of the animal sacred to
Bast. Strangely enough, M. Nax-ille re
ports of the remains of the sacred cats
in tho cat cemetery at . Buhastis, that
the species there buried was not that of
the common cat of Egypt, either of
ancient or of modern times, but that of
apparently another species of the feline
tribe. Tho skulls found aro much
larger than the fekullsof anycas known
to naturalists. They may possibly be
the skulls of some kind of small lynx.
Amelia B. r.d"-nrds. in Century. , .
REWARD OF MERIT.
Soye xc what. -dyer tc-acuor. Bill?
Needx-d it the was: st U'.:,.J,
That ar" whitc-faei-i. slue:, up dood,
Thiiikin' ex'iy l. .!;. s tO:i:d
O fit his s--If at:" Li 1. . .x s 't all,
Ar'it-iini-lit ulort my eyes
That this yearUi o' our u 8-u't liat
Suu d in t niox e t.-r sti nor rise i
Said tbe Rum I d,,nc xxa n t rijjhi.
"N", H:ll. I'll ti l! y- urn c crx'ln,
Yer ole daddy aiut n. siniicti,
W'cii i- xeii;.-!.-1". : it i.:-.n'.
Could n't :it ;. sj.i o s
TLnnifb his r.iil;.-li. thi-k . kullel Lead,
T last I said l it vxoi!u; Mia,
Glfl J't-'ve 'i:.l the j' U ilUid.
Hope ye i'o!.e !t up in shape.
Ttian d.-r a ttoii : Wh- r's yer eye?
C;o:ix.? An' tectli knocked out An-say,
Iliii, now xl-jrn yx.-, iiuin tier lie,
How'd yc yit them dojvnacil thumps
On yer Lack? AV'hat! Went j.n" run r
Koo, you letch my rax-' hide e re
'F thr.t'i th.? tr'.ck the ccxvar.Vs done.
Licked ! an' ren from that ar' d Md
Half Ms size' V.'ixi, dummy skin,
"F 1 don't trounce lh l ibhor Leols
Hope Ur never breathe erpln.
Tell yer teacher wot I've did.
Koh, ar:' vx him here ler tea.
Feller xx I'll his sort o' rrlt
'S jet the kind I litte t.-r ee.
Tell liim row thx yerth it round,
N' 'bout th-.- suu, 1 'I .w h'-'s ri.ht,
sf '.uy f'x 1 vv hut x'.oi' l ercts-e
'S got both hii't fir.- tin; n th-ht ;
N" mind ye, Vt.,h, 'Leut t but ar- sum
T say I've -sk;v. red n. r-lake.
'T be'll aitu.s fmd my lmch-st r.uij out.
M' fist wiJe op:u ler Lim shake.
Time.
FIDDLER JOE.
Path&tlc Story of His LoTo In the
Mlch.ig"ari Pinorie9.
I stood by tiie one little square
window of which good Parson Griggs'
log-cabin loasted, gazing dreamily out
across the clearing, xx hieh seemed like
a diminutive island in an ocean of pine.
A hea-y snoxv-siorm had mantled cvory
A'isjble object with white, and the crys
tal Ilakcs were still sloxvly sifting down,
although the sun was driving xxedg.-s of
gold through the myriad rifts that
divided the somber clouds overhead.
"It's clarin' up." remarked the paron,
as he knocked the ashes out of his pipe
and placed it upon the rude mantel
above the fire-place. -I reckon." he
cor tinned, "'.hot ef we're goin" to try
an" hev any fun xvith tbe leer to-day,
we'd better turn loose the purps an' git
to trackinV -
He was a curious ehaiacter. was the
parson, and a man of many callings.
Hunter, trapper, river driver, farmer
mi l preacher, he was as genuine a prod
uct of Northern Michigan as f h.r sturdy
pines that hedged his forc-t home.
True, his illiteracy may h ive sx.mewhat
oircuui.s-rned his usefulness as a minis
ter of the gospel, but his hearers, for the
most part, were not disposed to be hyper
critical, and his xvoekly meetings at tho
big log school-house over on section
eight were well attended. He possessed
a homely wit, a ready command of
language, and a fund (if shrewd, practi-x-al
comiuon sense, xvhich in a great
measure atoned for his deficiencies in
the matter of education, and he xvas
very popular with his backwoods con
gregation. "lie hain't no college-bred pulpit
mauler," said one of his admirers to me
on one occasion, "an' he don't use such
purty language as some I've beerd, but
xvben he gits warmed up with the spirit
an' goes to showin' up the blamed dirt
an meanness that most of us ken ies in
our hearts be makes me feel meaner "n
a yaller dog durn me ef lon't."
But whatever may have been the par
son's merit or demerits as a preacher,
be was ertaij.Iy a most exc lient
hunter, and every year late in tiie
shooting season I left my business and
sought the pineries for a txx o-wi-ks'
1 tint with my eccentric friend, tin the
day of which I speak xve had been kept
in the house several hours by the driv
ing storm, and xx-e hailx-d tl.e prosps:t
of pleasant weather xvith much satisfac
tion. "This Is a mighty big fall ' snow for
November," sail the parson, as he
slipped a han-Hul of oat ti idires in to his
Winchester, "an' it'll be a gret, day for
trackin'. I wouldn't wonder ef"
At this point he was interrupted by
tbe loud baying of one of his hounds,
and a moment later there came a rap at
the door. Tbe visitor, without waiting
for an invitation, strode into the cabin,
and divesting himself of a big fur cap
xx hich had covered the larger share of
his face, revealed tho familiar features
of Big Tohn, a xx'ixodsman from one of
the ne.ghlioring camps and a well
knoxx n character in those jarts.
"I've come down," said Big John, as
he shoo'c the snow from his "Mack
inaw," "to git ye to go up to Col burn's
camp, an I'm mighty glad I found yer
to home, parsexn. Fiddler Joe got all
smashed up this momin' an' he wants
to sue yer bad."
"ll :v did it hapjien?" I asked.
"I xvarn't thar," said Big John, "bttt
the Is..-s sai l as hoxv tin blame fools
from Saginaw as was hanirin around
the camp got in tho way of a fallin
tree, an' Joe rushed in to push them
back an' got jiinched himself."
"Is he bad hurt?" asked tho parson.
"He's got l.'s summons an thar ain?
no gettin' 'round it. I'm miirhty dubi
ous that he won't bold out till xx-e git
thar," and the big fellow brushed soin
thing from his face that did not re
semble snoxv, and turning abruptly
a way walked to the xx indow and stxxnl
looking out in silenco until we got
ready to start.
Fiddler Joe was a great friend of
ours indeed, ho xvas the fri.-ml i f all
who knew biui. Bough aiul uncouth in
his manner, but honest, generous and
true, bo was a prin:e faxoriu with bis
fellow-craftsmen and very pxipular with
the settlers. He was an excellent jer
former on the violin, and his j resence
xvas in demand at all the country
dances far and xvido. After a bard
day's work in camp bo would fre
quently xvalk sexeral miles to gratify
tho wishes of some cf his young friends
xx hxj considered no social gathering or
entertainment, complete without Joe
and his fiddle. His willingness to
oblige, his kindness of heart and his
generosity xx-ere proverbial. If one cf
the boys in camp was sicic it was Fid
dler Joe that, nursed him back ti
health. If a comrad. xvas in hard lu-:k
ho was al ways sr.-c. of Joe's sympathy
and aid. It was no who breasted the
mad waters of the North Branch in the
d.-iid of winter to saxo the cilpulx-d
chore bov from drowning. It xvas l.t-
too, xx ho, xx hen B.g John came down
xvith the sm.'.ll-pox in Bradford's camp,
in the spring of "79, remained xvith
Liu; uni nr Urn Lr-juh LU.Ua'.-,
xxh n every other mm in the crew fled
in terror at the first mention of the pesti
lential disease. Where he camo from,
or what bis aim-i e. cuts were, no one
knevx, for he never told any thing of
his past life, and did not like to be
questioned concerning it. It xvas bo
he veil by his friends that he had at
some time occupied a much higher sta-ti'-n
in life than his present one, and
thero were those vx im said that once,
when somewhat under the influence of
lixiuor the only time, so far as any one
knxjxx, that lie had ever yielded to any
extent t- 'he si J uot ; x ,x Influence of tl.e
flowing bo ,x l he had cast his rude form
of speech from him as a garment, and
conversed for a time ie language that
would have done credit to the most
cultured gentleman.
An hour's walk bi ugnt ua to Col
biiin's en ip p. which xx as soiiiet h ing ox'er
four miles distant. Tt '. . .' trod man
xvas lying on a ru,i - 'l near the
doorway of tho sie ; camp. It
nce.ii-d liut a ;riance a;, us jiallid feat
ures to assure nix- that i--- ai past all
hiii.uan aid The. lsjnes of hii cLurSi, had
been ct ushed ard shatter' d by the ter
rible blow be hil received, and he
breath -d xvith great difficulty. He rec?-ni.f-d
us as we entered and feebly
stretohol forth his hand to welcome u.:.
"Shell 1 pray xvith you, Joe?"' asked
the parson.
"Yes, parson," answered Fiddler Joe,
"but make it short, "causo t! ur in,-!
much time."
Pu son Griggs kreit beside the ayfng
rntin and sent up a petition for Tim soul
so soon to be launched upon tne bound
less o,-ean of eternity. When he arose
the men in the room and about the door
were standing xvith uncovered heads,
and the tear of sympathy gb-amed on
many a cheek for rears unused to such
a visitor. .
"Hoxv do you feel alioj! th I'utur",
Joe?" asked the parson. "Is all xvell
xvith yer?"
"I (.'ties.; it's all light, friend." replied
Joe. feebly; "it kind r s. -ems to me th.-t
I've Jure move .rood than barn, in thv
world, an' 1 reckon the ba!:ir.,-e 'H be on
the rii'lit side. Bf I aint square now
thar ain't no tim.- for :ne to square my
self He paused for a moment to rest
and then co::; i.uu.-d: ' Thar s two or
three things I want to tuilk about. As I
xvas teliir' the boys, J don't xx ant no fuss
n, axle, no church funeral, no grave
stuns. Jest, plant me out here in the
woods soinoxx h a i- al ti,- foot of some
big pine. I hain't no kin as would keer
for me, dead x.r alive an' I alius slt'ep
bettor ia the wi.ds. anyhow." j
lie paused again, faint and xvc-ak from
his effort to talk. Mtg John held a small
flask of spirits to his lips and he re-vix-ed.
.
"I want ye u -iy a little suthin at
the p.lantin", jiarsidi," he said, presently;
"I don't want no sugar coatin" nor
notuin' o' the-t sort,, but you kin jest . say,
an' say it truthful, too. tin t 1 never
xvent Iack on no friend not once.
Thet's xx hy I'm h"t e. boys -here in thei
pine xx'ood dyin' nxvay from my kin
jest becau.s-;-I stood by a friend
xvhen hii- " and iiis voice sank to an in
ditinguishiTTe xvh is per.
"Whar are -rOtir relations. .Tor?" asked
tin parson, in husky tones, as he bent
over, the su iTcrer -'i.in't thaJ-no one v
want us to xxritt; to?"
"No." gasped J. e; "I've been dead to
them l xven ly years."
A spasm of ptin i -. ss.(.l f, , ,.ee. n.'s
hi'a'i sank bxck a-nd death forever
M-aled the mystery o his life.
We buried him, as he had requested,
deep in the forest, at the foot of an
enormous pine. Over tho open gravo
Parson Griggs paid a homely but totieh
int tribute to th- virtues of b's dead
frierd, and then knolt in prayer beside
the rude collin.
"O, Lonl." Lc said, "we commena to Thy
mercy tl.e spent that went out ynsterday
tnrouk-l Iti.- i':i'i ot C'-:ith into the urikuoxx-n
laud that lavs Lx i'.jnd. 'i Lou k Lowest thai our
frieinl was m t eo'i-ulered as L- :u' a pri.yii.
Ii.au, but we xx ho knew him i,t f.-el sure thai
Lis heart prayed when his lips invie no wound.
He run V no pr.ifes.-:-.,,.-i. I.ut xx b.-llx-vxj Umt
Thou xx ils' f,ub-e hi.n t.v the t.-silmony of his
aets r.ither ui.u! ileit ot bis HKiutU." Like Una
they crucified, he iln-a i. si; .ihers. I.;ke
Him, l.x. iij .',e:it thr-iu-h 1 te id .in- pond. His
x ar :is n v.--de::f to nie Vx.iee ot trouble. He
l-l(theU the HkexL ted ttl UUP-- XU'Ted
the sien. N inii.rnt mos sj d . . .. s'.nr.a n.i
lii'ri'i', tiu rov.l siv,m,-h, ms I" '. . Inm Ir.itii
ttie side of the uifenn' n' ".r- . --dx'. It"
ever:, man's UrlnT. Ot all xvi,v h'-v couie here
to honor him thir Is nt one wh.,. .'s he has
not sometime arjdc a littte lighter. e t - rv
aere the v. or. bless lust, thet Ltd the irxilden--irrain
of ptMtx1n--s, -M,iy we who stay 1-eUiud
lorn the isniisv thet bis l:le an" death -hould
Th. May tht-seeds 0( kindness lUet he seat
tereduil thrx)iii-h this forest wilderness hu
sotn interonted souls an- liear fruit tit for Thy
kiuifil.mi: an' to Th name shell l" all the
Klorj-- Aci.t..
Three days Ititr, returning irom a
bunting exc-nrsion, tlux jiarson and I
passed Fiddler Jx's grave. Aj xve
nx-ar- d i lie sja.t xve axv liig John stand
ing by the tall jiino which xx as Joe's
monum: nt. He had hewn a sort of tab
leton the side, of the tree ana Hood re
garding it as . came up.
"He didn't wont us to git hii.i no
gravestun, an' I thought t.iiar onuvuit to
be suthin' ciore'n a tree to mark the
grave of the whitest lean that ever
struck the parts," said John, as bo
hastily passed his s!seve across his eyes.
"'Taint no very han'sotne job," h con
tinued, ajioiogeticail y, "but 'twas tbo
best I knoxxed hoxv to do."
I'pon tbo tablet rudely carved xxith a
pookot-knifx was the following inscrip
tion: FIDDI.Frt JO CURTISS, :
-e
Deld Nov. MS. A. D. lSs.-,, atpe 45 "
j litt WAS A TIUTE MAM FI.UJ niS BITtS ."
: "Ov seen Is the Kinpdum ntr Hex-la." :
Clarence 11. Pearson, ia Detroit Free
Press.
Of rnnna lie Saw lilm.
Txvo acquaintances meet on tb aUe
xvalk. "Why, holloa, Anderson. aaya
Jackson, apjiearing to Imj much Bur.
prisi'd, "we haven't seen each other tor
& long time."
"Wo have not seen each other,
Anderson answers, "but you have doubt
less soon me."
"Why (again surprised), what do yoor
meanV
"Nothing, only that five I letyou hsxre
some time ago.
They haven't met again. Arkanaaw
Traveler.
A fir log was recently taken Into a
Tacoci-(Wa.sh.) mill tuat was 110 feet
lonir, b3.lnch.es Ju .diameter at the butt
and I3 inches at the small end. It was
cut into ship, nlia: aui n-otnaiaed about
' n.xWO feet," "
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