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VOLUME XXVI IT.
EKENSKUUG, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1S94.
NUMBER 25.
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"Now. lin"s that at the it.Mirtliis
liuie iiiirluv" sai.l Aunt Kci.iii, witn
.oit -t piii licr iice.ll.-is.
K:ii w s f n..t ;i wit.'; utilv Ibdiy,
wiu sat :) the stn.l l.ci.l.- me.
-iaic I licr li.m.l - ii !ut bl u..-clicck .vl
apr.ci :m l ln-r rtis l.i.ike.l l.irj,'e and
briifbt in tin- lii i-iiu'iit.
' W -ir" Aunt K.vi ih tieeroil over licr
lH-ct .icies- ' w li y d.itVl you yet lip'n
'I'll. mi I hilly turned lier isu.i- on me.
atul I nit ilouii tlio wimmI ! was wlut
tlino into u boat and went to tile dmr.
As 1 unlatched it another Knock
sounded, and then a irn-st of wind
set mi,; it open and pushed mo behind
it, and at the same time blew in a
ijueer. witchlihe tenure, who. with her
loiiir cloak l!aipin.r almut lier. sei-nn .1
swept straiwfht to the tire oti the jfale.
She sloo.l tiiere. tier black eyes snap
piny liei-.t at Aunt Keziuii. then at I lol
ly, whilo I fortrot to close the door.
"Why. Mother Sh.-tlo. how ,lid you
jt'et across tin- meadow this iii..'ht'.' I a-
id. shut the ilnor," said Aunt Kezi.ih.
With the wind: With the wind!"
the little old woman sjxiKe in a craoLc.l
voice; and as she reached to stand h.-r
stick in the chimney corner, Ioll3'
shrank back almost olT the stool.
"Well, it's a wonder you don't iot
Von r .li at li. that's all," sai.l Aunt Ke
.::ih. fcliU knitting. "David, fetch a
hair."
Mother Sliello perched herself on the
( it-oil', r.-d chair. Her feet did not reach
the ll...r. Her .iii!tcd hood showed
loo stratnls of sparse pr.iv hair, and
1..T i-yis l.iiiike.l sll;irj.lv- sli. se! '.cd
my j :.-k ! si -eve uith one hand, which
1 lil...;;l.l l..ol...l l;l;c a bird s claw.
"Nice boy, o-, .l boy!" she said peer
iTir into my face. "He don't throw
rt.nies -no. no!"
1 llushe I hotly with o-nilt. and re
fused to meet her tiierei ny i-yes, for tin..
day In-fore I had U ton 11 a stone at
I'.ipiiini Mother Shedo's cut, as 1
passed her cottage; and all the village
knew that Mother .Shct!-s cat was
nun Irons w ir,;.
"No! no!" she repeated.
"No! ' said I folly, an.l then put her
fiiivcr in her 1.1..11U1.
Motiicr Sh. -tlo s eyes blinked rapidly.
"Had boys stone Captain, and he Knows
'cm! Ay. he knows "em ail, every on.-!
lie follow, "cm about! He knows a bit,
does I tiptain! Nice Iw.y, iialI 1..v:"'
The lust words were Jiddc-ss.-d t. ue-.
and si... smiled si.lewise as she released
my arm. I drew back, relieved. int.
1 h.r shadow jf Hie i-himney. Holly was
twistino- h,.r apron into a knot, but her
o-reat eyes were oil Mother Shcllo.
'f.ct my death, von say. Keiah Allan?
lift my death'.'" croaked the'oid Wom
an. "Not this nifht! Tlu-re's death
out yonder on the sea; there's life on
land li Ir. life!". Sh' Uvau t-o er.M.11
to herself. Her skinny hands were
locked together and her eyes were on
the tire.
"Von must ha' rautrht it, then." sai.l
Aunt U'ciiili. "o.r you'd never ha' yot
way over here in a wind like this."
"I ride! I ride!" muttered the old
woman.
""Tisii't a liroom," said Dolly, puttinp;
a plump tino-cr on the cane in the chim
ney corner and drawine- it back sud
denly. "lb.! ho! Hear the l.al.y! Would
you like to ride some nitrht, my pretty
one, up. up. up where the doves whis
per in the belfry?"
Doliy shook her head with a fright
ened iook and drew Pack ne-irer me.
"Ah! you're a: raid the naughty
lmt w ill stone you for a w hite dove?
Nan hiv boys, not (T.hnI ones, like
him!" Siie h iiute.1 a skin nv tinker at
me, and ill the shadow I felt her black
v.-s rea.linjr my thoughts, for that
very day 1 hud sti iie.l a Ih-I f ry dove,
::iid the doves beloncfedto Letty, the
I .ars. .n's In m.sekeeer.
"How they chatter and whisper, the
doves that lly through the villaire, and
.jirv away the words and doia- of
men! I know "em! They've told me
many a thiiio- o" wild niylits when I've
"one to see if the lamp was set. Niurnt.s
like this -the kind that washes 'en: in,
washes "em in! tio iooii" she nodded
;.t nit' -'V see if the lamp is set in the
liolfry."
1 w cut to the window and drew the
curtain. A trrca,t wind shook the
house. I heard the breakers bat tlino
far oil, as 1 loved to iuiairiue them in
t!ie nioht, makiucf througjli the dark
iu'Ss the sounds of drum and cannon.
Outside was solid blackness, save for
tie streak of lirht which shone
straight outward the lioht in the bel-
lry tower.
"It's there." said I, returning to the
chimney corner.
"So that's w hat broiitfht you," spoke
Aunt Ke.iah to tin- old woman. "I
thought us much! 'A by don't yon keep
in your bed a nijht like this? The
parsoii'll have the litfht set. never
fear!"
"1 couldn't lie quiet this nisfht. not
this nijrht of Hallowmas, for thinking
of 'em beino- washed in. The other
was such us this, and the lijfht went
out the liyht went out!"
She chanted the words, pazinfj into
the lire
"What put it out?" I asked, sitting;
down lcsi.!e Dolly.
"Spirit.s! l!ad spirits!"
"Humph'. Ow Is and bats, more like
ly. " said Aunt Ke.iah.
"They don't trouble it, you know
that, Ke.iah Allen! It don't stay set
unless 1 keep my eye on it, for the
iiiirht they all washed in, it went out!
The lio-ht went out!"
"It has o-one out more than once
w hen you were the first to notice it,
that's the truth," sai.l Aunt Kcziah,
her needles tl.vinjr. "I don't believe
you ever sleep V nights!"
"Not nights like this. 1 can't lay
ijuiet in my bed." said the old woman.
"Why not?" I asked, pnovincf bolder.
"Spirits." she cried, with a sudden
Hume in her eye. "'1 hey're alxuit such
nights, boy, and they move the lijrht.
and in the uiornintj they'ie all washed
in washed in on the sand!"
"Law. Mother Sheilo, there ain't been
any wrecks washed in for a lotij,' time,
and no spirits have Ui-u aliout in my
day." sx.ke Aunt Ke.iah. soothingly
"I've heard tell of em often enough,
but. they must have left these parts a
many a year atro. It's nothin' but the
wind anil the bats that puts the belfry
lioiit out."
Hut the old woman did not seem to
hear her. She looked straight at the
lire. Her finders worked nervously
an. I tier lips moved.
"Tell about 'em." I said, and Dolly
nodded shyly. Then Mother Shello in
terred in rapid monotone the words she
seemed to have lieen sayinir to her
self. Her eves were still on the liaines.
The w ind shrieked in the chimney as
she spoke.
"'Tw as Heeky and Mary Anna Steele
and Marthy Allan your mother, Ke
ziah" Aunt Ke.iah nodded.
"All a-bakin' in the kitchen, a-pettin
ready for the wed I'm". Hiti cakes and
little cakes, an' hams, an' pies, an'
chickens rovvsau" row.s of "cni. Marthy
Allan a-reihliu' up "11" putt in spruce and
pine over the pictures, an" w ipiti" chiny.
an' me in the winder. All day iu tlio
winder, looUin" 'cross the bay. I'roak
ers like them a-roarin now. Hear 'em!
Listen to 'e:u! That's t he kind! They'll
wash em 111! It was John Allan come
rutiniii up the path. 1 saw the win. I
brinef him aloiief. 11c burst in with th.
wind and spray, an' Marthy Allan
dropped the licst blue bowl.
" ' There's a loat yonder, ke says
7ix b.,a !'
"'Hush!' says Mary Anua. noddin' at
the w holer, an' John Allan throws up
his arms an.) runs out, 'n' 1 after him.
an' Marthy an" Mary A una cumin' be
hind. Ay, but 'twas erettiu' dark, an a
monster sea was roarin". We ail stayed
out a-wailin' lor the IniaL It (.'.it
miohly dark, dark as niht, an' we
couldn't see a thine-. J ,,1 a lantern
onto' the kitchen an' climbed the bel
fry stairs unlK'known to 'em all. I'lfh.
but the bats hit hard an' scrceche I
like ail of 'cm was doin' out yonder on
shore! They nit my lace an.l blinded
my eyes, but I didn't mind. 1 set the
lamp iu the winder ui.' went down
a;:.iin down, down. It shone Car oiu
to the boat. I'efh, how the breakers
fought that niolit! He always could
niauao-e a boat, couldn't he, Kc.iuh?'1
Aunt Ke.iiih iio,l. led.
"Then all of a sudden the li;rht went
out --clean out, Ke.iah!" '1 he old wom
an's black eyes llaslied.
"So I've heard tell." said Aunt Ke
zi.ih "All were screech in' for lie;ht They
mi- ht ha' reached 'cm. .lohu Allan said
so. They wouldn't let me lr-.i out 'n the
water with one. I'd ha' done it, but
'twas all John Allan a-hoid.n' me on
shore. Kut they were all wushe.l in
with t'le moriiiu. Aha, they couldn't
hold me tlu-n! 'Don't 1,-t her fro!" cries
Marthy. a-haii'.'iu' to me. Hut didn't 1
llin- her down, an' away I went to
meet "em all a-layiu' on the sand
('lie early to the We.l.liu'! --They
wouliiu't let me carry him, John Allan
woul lu't. but I went alono-, an' my hair
blow in" on his face. I put oil iny w hite
frock, an' my wreath on luy hair
pretty hair. Kc.iah "
And a.raiu Aunt Kcziah nodded.
"An' 1 lau.j-hed at Marthy Allan an"
Mary Ami 1 a-rryiu' an" w riiiin' their
hand "Twas a nice inorniii." ttolook"
the ol I woman suddenly tt.riicd her
eyes fr.m the tire, with a lelurn of rea
son in tin 'iu "(jo .mil ii it's sot;" and
:ie-aiu I went to the window-, and ap-aui
saw tk.'liue of lij'ht streamiujf from
the In-ifry tower.
Ves," i said, "it's there."
'"Av. then I'll jrel home," she mut
tered, . a. ul. reae'.iini!' her stick, the
w rapped her cloak arouud her and hob
bled to the door.
"Are you oino- to ride iu the air?"
asked Dolly, whose eyes were heavy
w .t h sleep.
"Aye! aye! Hear the pretty baby!
Yes, honey. I'll r. on a puff wiu.l!"
"Mavbc you'd best stop here," said
Aunt Kc.iah. Hut Mother Shell.) was
at the d.M.r.
"Captain's awaitin"," she said, and as
1 lifted the latch she trace me a tap
with her stick. "Nice boy, he don't
throw stones no, no!"
The w iu.l rushed in and swept her
out curd into the darkness 1 heard
the breakers lash the beucli. aud the
door siammcd.
"DM she really first set the belfry
lijrht?" I asked, once more by the fire.
Aunt Kcziah no.l.le.l.
"Hoiilt b.'fore my time. They say it's
saved many a vessel, too."
"What put it out that iii-ht?" aain
I asked.
"Your prandinother used to say no
body ever Uaiew. Owls or wind, most
likely. '1 hey say the ship iiiirht ha'
kept oil the cape rock if there' Wen a
liht, but before another could be set
it went down."
"Oli!" I exclaimed,- and thought
awhile. Dolly's curly head had drooped
forward, and ill the lircliirht her cheek
was the color of the bio- roses Auut
Kcziah kept lor her jar of leaves.
"What did she mean by a weddino-?"
I asked, presently. "Whose weddiuir
was it?"
"Her own." said Aunt Kcziah, wind
ing her yarn: "it was hi boat. That's
w lie'i her mind went, that nirhL She
set a 'ight in the lielfry every nitlit for
many a year, till she jrot so old the
parson cfot her onto' it and had it done.
She's pot some sense left, but she lii.es
to tell the story over and over. Now,
po to bed, Ix.th o' you!"
Hut Dolly could not pet awake, and I
took tier in my arms. Her head dropped
011 my shoulder, and, as I started up
stairs slow ly, she murmured:
"lioin' to ride up "11' up with the
doves." Uestinpa minute on the steps.
I kissed her rosy cheek, and looked
back at Aunt Keziah.
"I wish 1 had known about it be
fore." I said.
"Why?" she asked.
"Hefore I threw stones at Captain.
'th. yes; the cat's all she's pot now."
Aunt Ke.iah looked up, with the
hearth-broom ill her hand.
"David," she said, "you'd lest re
member always that when folks are
cranky in this world, there's most time;,
been a heap to make Vtu so, only other
folks don't think o' that parL" Out
look. In Mt t ii.' t- ii.Wti.
Crossiiiir a held on.' day President
Lincoln, it is said, was pursued by an
at. ;.rv bull. He made for the fence.
:as Life's Calendar, but ! mm discov
ered that the bull was overtaking- him.
He th. 11 bepan to run around a hay-,
stuck in the held and the bull pur
: uc. I him. but in uiakitip the short cir
cles around the stack Lincoln was the
faster, and, instead of the bull catcll
inr him. he canpht the bull and
p rubbed him by the tail. It was a tirm
prip and a cotitrollinp one. He bepan
to kick the buil, ami the bull ln-llowed
with apony and dashed across the
field. Lincoln hanpin.' to his tail and
kiokii.p him at every jump, and as they
lieu-along- Lincoln yelled at the bull:
"Daru you, who befan this fight?"
MtHHISl OHH fc.LES IN CANADA.
Odd .s-..p-rt Ittoii of (lie I'rasantry About
111. l aiiiiera mil u.tt.ui..
In the lependary lore of Canada the
levil plays a prominent part. He does
not apHar as the stronp anpel, who
fell throuph pride, the enemy of (Sod,
but as the medieval devil of monk
ish lepend, tin' petty in-rsA-ciitor of
man. says a writer in Popular Science
Monthly. Iu the rural districts of
Canada Satan is supHjsed to le verv
at'tive. His company may be looked
for 011 all occasions. The accidental
upH-arance of a little child iu the room
often betrays the presence of the evil
spirit, as the mr innocent is sure to
liewail itself viporotisly. The Prince
of Darkness may be met at a ball "11
the puise of a handsome younp man
who excels all the rustic pallants iu
apicaraiice. lie wears ploves to con
ceal his claws, and disrepards the
traminclsof conventionality by keeping
his hat on his head to hide his horns.
He selects the prettiest pirl in the
room as his partner, but his choice is
usually the village coijuette, whose
vanity or levity has exposed lier to the
evil influence. In the midst of the
paycty a piercing cry is heard. A
st roup odor of brimstone lx-comcs per
ceptible, and the attractive cavalier
is wafted out of the w indow, carryinp
with him some useful domestic utensil,
as. for instance, a stove or the frvinp
pan. '1 he pirl may escape with a sharp
scratch of a claw, particularly if she
should happen to have a cross or a
crucifix.
Canadian rustics never answer "En
trez" when a knock is heard at the
door; they invariably resion.l:
"Ouxez." This is founded upon tiie
old lepend of a younp woman w ho re
plied "I'utrez" to such a summons,
when the devil came in and carried her
OIL,
ATE ITS OWN TAIL.
The A lnurd Trl. k of Oiu of the C.ntra.1
American ( li-oiitlii.
A traveler from Ceiitial America
recently told rather an amusinp story.
"Down iu my country." he said, "one
of the tirst things 3011 pet acquainted
w ith is a small, bripht preen lizard.
They are quite tame, harmless and
very livtly. When caught by the tail
they hare a jH'culiar fashion of .slip
ping away, learing that appendage
behind them.
"One afternoon I was sitting- 011 niv
door-tcp watching- one of these little
creatures darting a I .out for Hies. It
lH-came ipiite bold, and in one of its
quick movements junijied on my foot.
I made a sudden grab and caught it. by
the tail. With a wriggle it was off,
leaving that portion of its body still iu
my hau. I.
"Ar. I hud no particular use for it, I
threw it on the ground. In a few min
utes I noticed that a lot of ants had
discovered the piece of tail, and were
druL-tri.ig it oiT as fast as they could to
their hole close by. When they had
arrived almost to their destination I
noticed the lizard, a few inches away,
intently watching- the ants aud his
missing projHTty.
"Just as the ants were making a
filial pull to their nest the lizard dart
ed out among them, and, seizing his
bit of a tail, swallowed it with evident
relish."
THE SHORTEST TWILIGHT.
(Jul to, the 'apital of Kruadnr, Lead the
Wrlil Iu 1 lit. ft'erulittrlty.
The period of twilight shorten?
toward the equator and lengthen'
toward the poles. In other words, the
less the thickness of air throuph which
the rays of the setting sun have to pass
the sooner darkness comes. From this
it naturally follows that the region of
the shortest twilight is the one which
is situuteil nearest to the equator and
at the preatest elevation.
These two conditions are combined
in the region in which stands Quito,
the capital of Ecuador. This plateau
is nine thousand four hundred and
forty-two feet above the level of the
sea: it is also surrounded by moun
tains, twenty Jieaks, eleren of which
rise Ik-voioI the snow line, lieiiip vis
ible from the streets of the city.
Added to this .it is only fifteen miles
south of the equator; hence it has a
shorter tw ilight than any other '-jhm.
on the equator, partly because of the
elevation, and partly liecause the
western mountains intercept the rays
of the f-ett ing sun and so cause dark
ness to follow daylight with greater
rapidity than at any other spot 011
earth.
PROGRESS IN AFRICA.
A Country 11ml Is Mow to Adopt IIm
iiKioiia 01 4 ivili'ulioo.
As a continent it is the home of a
'. .roiii. race of mankind, which,
w lule re:-i-,ti.ig assimilation with Eu
ropean civili.ati.m. delies permanent
oii.iie:.t. According to the N inctociith
Century, it views with equanimity, or
at lcatjt i i powerless to resent, the oc
cupation of its coasts and the more
healthy contiguous regions; but the
heart of the continent remains, and
must ever remain, the home of the
Africar.. ' Allied races, and people who
have for centuries undergone the
scarcely perceptible process of accli
matization, may. it is trije, ettoct a
bkipment iu the heart of Africa: but if
tiiey remain there, they themselves
eventually undergo absorption into the
primitive elements of the population
or Milicr total extinction.
Nature has. in short marked off
tropical Africa as the abiding home of
the black races. European travelers,
tra.h r .. uii -sionaries, conquerors may
at tin ir w ill aud at their peril penc-truU-
i:Uo this dark sanc'tiary. but
their ojo.ini is for a day, and on the
lii. rrow the faint traces of their pas
fag are obliterated by the cxulwrunt
prow th . of barbarism, i'ru.1 'ingly as
it is t ometiii.es conceded, it is never
ilu Ie: s a fact that the bulk .if the con
tinent of Airiea is still untouched by
. .- tern civilization. I. for one, can
not believe that Africa will ever lie
LuroiH-aiiizcd or brought within the
pale of w c: tern progress. For. in or
der that Africa may progress, it is ab
toliilcly ess ntial that it be developed
:.loiig natural lines; but, as yet, the
inherent powers of native genius have
neither been discovered, nor, in the
absence of u'jy cohesion among native
ti ilics, ui-d in view-of European rapaci
ty, are they, even if discovered, ever
likelv to be encouraged or fostered.
No; Africa is a continent fated to be
' conquered and exploited by the heirs
I of civilization, to whom it may pay
i tribute, but Loir.age never.
THE CHINESE LAXUUAUE.
It la Not So Monosyllabic aa Is
Commonly Supposed.
Nor I It it. IMItlcult to Lutra m e, lla.r
luK of It Would Lead Uu to
Uelieve The Mathud
of Study.
There are altout sixty thousand char
acters in the Chinese language proper,
but the average Chinaman no more
learns all of these characters than the
everyday American learns the one
hundred thousand words in the Eng
lish language. The Chinaman, howev
er, learns on the average more than
does an American in a similar position
iu life. A Chinaman who can neither
read nor w rite is a rarity, according to
the New York Eveiiiug Post. Chinese
is not a mon. syllabic language, as
many suppose, aud it is impossible to
utter iu Chinese any but the shortest
sentences in monosyllables. In writing
the Chinaman makes one complicated
but integral character for each word,
but that word may be proiierly spoken
iu two. three or four syllables. His
syllables are divided by no longer in
tervals thau are his words, and that is
w hat makes the language sound to a
foreigner like a sing-song jargon. We
10 not know whether he is telling a
story or attempting a song. The Chi
nese per hups thinks the same thing of
an American w ho bites off his words
and swallows them or telescopes one
into the other. Itusiness men thrown
in contact with Chinese merchants
w ho speak pure Chinese say that it is
not illicult to learn. Instead of
twenty-six letters, not including the
useless A, the Chinese have five hun
dred or six hundred syllables, and
these are combined into various forms
to make the sixty thousand words iu
their "dictionary." These syllables
vary in meaning according to the tone
in which they are spoken or the strokes
used in writing them.
A Chinaman can unite any two of
the six hundred syllables and make an
intelligent wor.l. This is not the case
with the English lauguage. This
flexibility is perhaps owing to the
shortness of their words (seldom more
than three syllables! aud the tone or
strokes belonging to the syllables
when spoken or written. A syllable
may mean one of a hundred things,
and its particular meaning is limited
by placing another syllable of similar
f igniticauce before or after it. using
its particular tone, or stroke when
writing. Sometimes the syllables are
uttered iu such rapid succession that
they seemingly form one word, but the
trained Chinese ear notes the tones,
and he is easily understood the
marvelous subtleties of accent convey
ing the expression to a nicety. He
diH's not have to state a proposition,
and then, iu order to make himself
clear, restate it by the Usual "or, in
other words." There are no "other
words" with the Chinese. The tone
gives the meaning. The Chinese have
a system of two hundred and fourteen
radicals, having various strokes from
one to seventeen, w hich are combined
with the characters. Each radical has
a separate meaning, generally denot
ing the simplest object, as man. sky,
earth, water, king. The student first
learns these, w hich answer to the A It
C; he next studies the syllables, or
combinations, and thus he has learned
to read an.l spell. Croupiup the
syllables into words depends uiMn his
powers of sieeeh or of composition in
w riting. W hat is popularly know n as
"idang" is not known to the Chinese.
Their language is sufficiently copious
w ithout resorting to the brutal forms
of speech. The most w itherinp con
tempt or the keelie -t of satire may be
expressed iu the politest terms.
CLOSED ON THE DUCK'S BILL.
How an Oyster Ke-eottr.l luipertiueut
ttrl.MOt y In 'hftui,H.kr li)".
The meek and low ly oyster can some
times become a revengeful as well as a
dangerous antagonist, as an unwary
duck found to his cost a day or so
ago over on the eastern shore, says the
Ikiltimore American. This careless
duck, belonging to the trilie known as
"fishermen." was sw imming atut iu
search of food otf the shore near Clai
iMirue. when he espied an oyster a
nice, fat. juicy oyster he was with
shell w idely parted, feeding, doubtless,
oil the simple and rather intangible
diet upon which an oyster is supposed
to feed. The duck, true to his greedv
iustinct -i. dived for that supposed juicy
morsel and was about to swallow him
whole, without salt or pepper even,
when the angry pas.. ions of the oys
ter arose, and, snapping his shells to
gether, caught the unsuspectiugduck's
bill in a vise-like embrace. The .luck
rose to thi' surface, shook his head,
mumbled apologies through his tight
shut mouth, but the bivalve's heart
was hardened, and he held on. Soon
the coustant load pulling down his
head, and growing weightier and
weightier, began to tire the duck and
his ueck arched lower aud lower until
finally it sank into the water and he
was drowned. A deckhand 011 the
steamlKiat Tangier saw the duck float
ing with his head submerged and
picked him up. The oyster was still
clinging to his victim with a relentless,
deadly grasp, aud the tragedy that
must have been enacted as described
was revealed.
. How Navajo. I'rudurc Djrea.
The. Navajos produce the brilliant
red of their blankets from bay eta. a
bright scarlet cloth made in eastern
cities aud raveled by the Indians for
the yarn. Their gray is the natural
color of some of their sheep; so are
their white and black. They pnxluce
a deep yellow from the alder tioiled iu
water and afterward mixed with im
pure native alum. A dull red is pro
duced fioin alder bark. Hlack is also
obtained from the aromatic sumac,
yellow- ochre and the gum of a sjK-cies
of pine. The last dye is essentially an
ink. Most of these dyes are produced
by elaborate and lalorious processes,
but the Navajos also use dyed wools
made in eastern mills.
During the most of the sixteenth
century the English people called the
ltible the liibliotheca, or the Library,
this word being limited in its applica
tion to the Scriptural w ritings.
The "Vinegar ltible" is so called
from an error in Luke so. "Parable of
the Vineyard" appeared as ''Parable of
the Vinegar. It was printed by the
Clarendon Press in 1717.
THE STING OF THE NETTLE.
otue of the l'ols.Miou. recti Lie Man
.ter. ot .filler l.aMili.
The leaf and stem or a nettle are
literally clothed with erect hollow
hairs. If one of these hairs is viewed
under a micros. .jh it will ! seen that
its free end. after taering to a very
tine degree of slimness. finishes as a
little knob, w hile in the other direc
tion, after gradually In-coming more
robust, it suddenly expands intoa large
bulb corresthindiiig with the prison
gland of the adder.
The jioint of the hair, says 1'o.xl
Words, is very brittle, and contact
with our skiu causes the end to snap
oif, leaving a hollow- lic.-.llo Hiint
w hich readily pierces our cuticle, and.
pressing u-tou the bulb at the other
end. the poison Js forced though the
central channel and iiinamcs our
blood. The teu.lerhan. led w ho stroke
the nettle are stung for their pains,
liecans.- their gentleness has only
served to break the brittle points and
render them tit for piercing, hut the
roiigh-haiided break the hairs at their
thickest parts, where they are t.
stout to prick.
Our common nettles, though they are
capable of inflicting considerable an
iioyauee iqxiu many jhtsoiis. are too
insignificant, lievert lu-less. to Ik- in
cluded among vegetable monsters, and
we have only referred to them for the
sake of making clear the enormities of
some big cousins giants of the nettle
family. These are. tirst. the I'rtiea
stimulaus and I'rtiea erenulata of t he
East I ndies. species wliose attack ii'-on
one's hand is sufficient to cause the arm
to swell with a most frightful pain,
which lasts for weeks. Hut even these
are milk-and-water nettles by compar
ison with the I'rtiea urenlissima. which
prows in Timor, where it Wars the sig
nificant title of 1 laotin set an. or devil's
leaf. The effects of its sting last for a
year and have often produced death.
THE INDIAN MONEY LENDER.
Tie I. a. Hnt-llrrti.l and Mirrrnar; a.
a ShyLM-k.
The Indian money lender almost
everywhere is a thorough shylock.
Rajah Pro. ike tells me that in Sara
wak, wheri" land may lie sold for debt.
unless as a ix-nally for sw indling, and
where a limit is put 011 the int. -rest
that his courts w ill enforce, the Indian
money lender has lccii found as hard
and merciless as the Chinaman and
Malay are fair and reasonable. Willi
men like these, says the National He
view, and an iiMiorant peasant ry. one
would have thought that li.ij.lih
judges would have done their l-cst so
to administer the law between the
two as to give the debtor a fair chain c.
w hile allowing the creditor what was
justly due. Hut they are so hide
bound, such slaves to the letter of the
law and to English precedents, that
not a helping hand can the debtor pet.
and the courts arc mere inachi.ies
w hich the money lender sets in lie ji..n
or directs at hi.s pleasure.
1 reuietulier a case in which a M.i
hammcdaii lady, one who never ap-iK-arcl
in public, and t he owner of a
valuable village, was sucu lor some
thing like fifty thousand rupees, the
money advanced lieing. so far as I
could ascertain, not more than two
thousand rupees at the outside. 'I lie
court of first instance, a native sulr
ilinate judge. apiKiinted a committee to
examine the creditor's accounts, w hich
reorted them as very suspicious. Still,
a Im.ii.1 for the amount sued for had
liccu given, an.l. in face of nihil by
the high court, the sub-judge had no
alternative but to give a .lecroc for the
full sum. And an appeal to the high
court of lloml ay. which was prose
cuted by the lady's friends, met with
110 success. However much the lady
might have lceii defrauded, tiny de
cided the bond was in order and the
village must go.
The Man .uil Hi. Monitrli,
The charming w ife of a congress
man, noted for his energetic lalx.r in
In-half of his constituents and his gen
eral criicieiicy and unfailing good-nature,
is quite a noted cook. W hell she
is to entertain at dinner, she is fond of
surprising her guests with a dainty
dish of her own preparing. "1 Wlieve."
she said, w hen some otic complimented
her on her accomplishments, "that we
prow like what we eat. My husband
has a sensitive digestion. and bad cook
ing came near making a fiend of him
and a maniac of me. I set myself to
correct this, and 1 Matter myself that
I have succeeded. Improperly pre
pared food depresses one. and will
transform niv husband into a cynical
pessimist in less than an hour. I really
consider that his popularity in his dis
trict and his return to congress deju-ud
upon the food 1 give him and the man
lier iu w hich it is prepared."'
A PLEASANT EXPERIENCE.
An OUl Laxly. Slory of Heine Hrl.l In
Wift.hlniEtoii. A no.
In Dr. Mines volume of rcninis
ceuccs, "A Tour Around New York,"
the author devotes a paragraph to the
attractions of Kattery park, and adds a
pleasiug little story of a time It fore
his own:
1 remember a dear old lady who
loved to talk atx.ut this park and tell
of the people she had met here and the
scenes she had witnessed; and of lhe.se
one man and one morning's adventure
stood out mof-l prominently.
A little thing iu white, her nurse
Lad brought her to the park to wit
ness a civic ceremony, and the crowd
preveut.nl her from obtaining a eTiod
view- of the iagcaut.
As. with a child's impatience, she
tried to press through the throng, a
tall and handsome elderly getit lei.ian.
clad in a suit of black Velvet and with
a dress sword at his side. st.op.-d
down to her. inquired pleasantly
aUut her trouble, and then li. ted her
upon his shoulder and held her there
until the procession had passed.
lfeliphtcd with what she saw. the
child thought little alxiut the gentle
man who had brushed away her
trouble, but thanked him when i..
released her with a kiss and set her
.low 11 Tupoli the ground. As he moved
away, the nur.sc. iu an awestruck voice,
asked the child if she knew who.
arms had held her, iAiid In.-li told her
that it was lrcsi.iei:t Wushingtoii.
The little eyes watched him out of
sight, and never forgot his stately ap
pearance. I think dear old Mrs. Attt rbury was
prouder of having been the heroine of
this incident than of all the social
honors that afterward fell to her lot-
LIKE CRANBERRIES.
How IrruiriDre lri-ut. t'eole from I n
Joylng Life.
"Ignorance of things pinerally pre
vents us from cnj.iyiu" a dreadful lot of
happiness iu this life," said Aaron
Liuscott to a minister one day. He
was given to this form of discourse
with the clergymen, doubtless 011 the
same principle that led him tJ talk
sickness with his doctor and cros ni U
his ncighlxirs.
"You git a ter'ble blind view of life
an' the way things is ruuuia if you
don't edicate yourself up to know in' a
blessin' w hen you see it- When I see
folks throw iu' their blessiu's away, it
allcrs makes me thiuk of a barr'l of
cranb'ries."
A barrel of eranlierries: If the visi
tor felt small interest liefore, he cer
tainly lacked none now. He expressed
his surprise.
"Yis, a barr'l of craiib'ries," said
Aaron. "When I was out i the West
liijies there was a niau tuk keer of me
when 1 was sick, an' he wouldn't take
pay. but said I could seu.l hiiu Nome
thin" off the farm; so when I got h .iue
I shipped him a barr'l of oraub'ries by
a vessel that was goiu out from our
place.
"Well, after a time a letter kem back,
lie w rit very pcrlite an' smuej grate
ful, but he said, most unfort'nate, that
the fruit looked putty, but he lied to
throw- it away, for iu comiu' it hed
turned sour."
And then Aaron added his moral:
'That's what 1 call missin the sweet
ness of things 'cause you didn't know
how to pet at it." Youth's Companion.
ELEPHANTS CAN COUNT.
The Animal Tliorouclilr Lnjoiert Their
llriirUrlur't Little Juke.
A young friend asked me once to
show hiiu some elephants, and I took
him wif h me, having tirst lx.rrowe.1 au
aprou and tilled it with oranges. This
he was to carry while accompanying
me to the stable, but t he moment we
reached the d.or the herd set uu such a
trumjM-ting they had secuto.lt he frint
that he lropK-d the aprou and its
contents and scuttled olT like a scared
rabbit. There were eight elephants,
and when I picked up the oranges I
found I had tweuty-five. I walked de
liberately along the line, giving one to
each W hen I got to the extremity of the
narrow stable I turned and was about
toliegin distribution again, w hen I sud
denly reflected that if elephant No. 7
in the row saw me give two oranges in
succession to No. s he n.ieht imagine
he was lieing cheated and give me a
smack with his prolmscis, so I went to
the .1. Kir and Ik-l'uii de novo as In-fore.
Thrice 1 went along the liue, and then
1 w as i 11 a fix.
I had one orange left, an.l 1 had to
get back to the ii..or. Every elephant
in that herd had his grcc.lv gaze fo
cused on that orange- It was as much
as my lite was worth to give it to any
one of thoui. V hat w as I to do? I held
it up conspicuously, e..ilc peeled it
and sucked it mvself. It was tn.t
amusing to see the way th.ise elephants
nudged each other and sh.n.k their
poudorous sides. They ttiorougfil v en
tered into the humor of the thing.
English Letter.
YANKEE INTELLIGENCE.
An t uMprrhnc lan.irr I'ut to Kuut by
the ssr.lv vtitn
A lawyer recently objected to a wit
ness on the ground that he was incoin-Ix-ttfiit
to testify. The witness in ques
tion w as a seedy sticciiueu of a Yankee
farmer, without mauy visible indica
tions of intelligence-.
The objecting lawyer asked for a
privilege of showing the wituess'lack
of intelligence by asking hi -u a few
questions, which was given him, and
he liegan:
"Can you tell me who made you?"
The witness thus addressed stood for
some time as if in deep thought aud
then cause.! not a little merriment by
answering in a draw ling toue: "Moses,
I s'pose."
"There, your honor." exclaimed the
lawyer with great satisfaction, "you
see I was righL The witness hasn't
intelligence enough to answ er this sim
ple quest ion.
Just at this point the farmer unex
pectedly s)xke up and said to his tor
mentor: '"Say. Mr. Lawyer, as long as e don't
like the way I answered J er question,
s'posen yew- try. Who made yew?"
The lawyer laugh. si and answered,
i nitatiug t he draw liug toue of the wit
ness: "Aaron, 1 s'jxrse."
"WalL 1 declare!" exclaimed the
farmer. "We dew read in th II.nnI
Hook that Aaron made a calf, but ho'd
er s.osc.I th pesky crittur'd got in
here?" The Voice.
ODD BOX OFFICE RECEIPTS.
I'll.. I'oultry, CuriMMiuti avud r ruit In I'ay
aiml tor a funci-rl In lite I'ai-inc-.
Then is no more interesting subject
of study than ciirrot.cy. People do not
realize how diriicult it would In- to g-t
along without it. Some years ago. -.a k
a writer in the Wa-hingtoii Mar. Mile.
Zelle. of the Theater l. riqiic. at I'ji is,
on a professional tour around the
world, pave a concert at the "society
islands. 111 the Nmlli Pacific. Il wa
arranged that in payment for an air
from "Norma" and three or four ..1 li. r
select ions she w as to pet ..tie third of
the receipts. Her share consisted of
3 pigs. - : turkey s. 4 1 ciiioKcns. .'..nil
coeoaiiuts and considerable quai.t.l.. s
of bananas, l.-moii an.l ..ranges. 'I he
livst.n-k and produce would have rep
resented a value of about -I lra.i. s
in the mar ets of h. riia'.i.e city, but
it was hardly practicable to diis." of
the former oil baud and the lattt-r had
to Ik- fed to the pigs and Jx.ultry - A
ioint stock comoanv. known as the Af
rican Partt-r s .iiipuny . limited now ex-i-ting
in loii.!on. carries :; a jr.-ut
business 0:1 tin- wist nu-t of Airiea
entirely by b:.i tel ing Euro, an manu
factures lor palm 1. j.. 1.1 iiut. .vory.
coffee, gv.1.1 and other raw pr.xlucls.
Eggs have In-cii in circulation iu li. u
c.f money in the Alpine villages ..f
Switzerland. NaT:, have U-cu - iiuil.irl
employed in Se .tUn.d. dried co.i-h i:i
New ioiindlua 1. whales" tcclh iu the 5 i.ii
islands, luatswf lice straw in Aug 'ia.
salt iu Abyss-i-ia. In cswax in Mi:ualr.i.
red feathers in the isles of the Pacific,
tea iu Tartary and iron h.s-s iu Mada
gascar. A century Ui"o t..!.ucc. was
made legal tender iu Virginia. i.eu
woineii were iin irt.-d ii.- that cdony
for w ives for the settler-.. pound ot
tobacco per head w a- charged lor them,
the price lciug sib--iuciitl y -n.i- d to
lad pounds.
on. til-. Clin iiiii.h. t