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AMANDA TODD.
BY MARY K. WILKlNa.
Amanda Todd's orbit of existence is
restricted, of a necessity, siuce she was
bom, broug-ht up and w ill die in this vil
lage, hut there Ls no dotibt that it is
eccentric. She move apart on her own
little course quite separate from the
rest of us.
Had Aiuamla'.s lines of life loen cast
elsewhere, where circumstances hal
liwhel her, instead of hemming her in,
sh? liiirht. have become the feminine
axstle of a new creed, have founded
a sect or instituted a new system of fe
male dres. As it is, she doet; not go tit
meeting-, she never wears a bonnet and
she keeps ca.tn.
Amanda Ten Id is GO, and (the never was
married. Had she been, the close fric
tion with another nut u re mig-ht have
worn away some of t.he peculiarities of
hers. She iuig-ht have gone to meeting-,
she might have worn a bonnet, she
might even have eschewed cats, but it
is not probable. When peculiarities
ure in the grain of a person's nature, r.s
they probably are in hers, such friction
only brings them out more plainly,
and it is the other person who suffers.
The vlllag-e men are not. a a rule.very
subtle, but. they have seemed to feel
this instinctively. Amanda wa, they
say, a very pretty g;irl in her youth, but
iro young man ever dared make love to
her and marry her. She had always the
reputation of Wing "an odd stick,"
even in the district school. She al
ways kept by herself a t recess, she never
seemed to have anything in common
with the other girls and she always
went home alone from sinking school.
Probably never in her whole life has
Amanda Todd known what it is to
le protected by Borne devoted person of
the other sex through t'he mig-hty perils
of our villape streeL
There is a tradition in the village that
once in her life, when she was about 23
years old, Amanda Todd had a beau
tiful lonnet and w ent to meeting-.
Old Mrs. Nathan Morse vouches for
the reliability of it, and, moreover, she
hints at a reason. '"When Mandy, she
was 'bout 25 years old," she sa,
"George Henry French, he come to
"town, and taught the district school,
and he see Mandy, an told Almii a Ben
ton, that he thought she was about the
prettiest girl he ever laid ej-es on, and
A 1 miry, she told Mandy. That was all
tlu-re ever was to it, he never waited on
her, never spoke to her, fur's I know,
but right after that. Mandy, she had a
buunit, and she went reg'lar to meetin.
'Fore that her mother could scarcely
get her to keep a thing on her head
out of doors allers carried her sunbun-
nit a-dani'lin by the string, wonder
she wasn't suustrtiek a million times
and as for goin to meetin", her mother,
she talked and talked, but it didn't do
a mite of good. I s'pose her fat her kind
of upheld her in it. He was most as
odd as Mandy. He wouldn't gx to meet
in' unless he was driv, ami he. wa'n't a
memlier. 'Xoug-h sight ruther gx out
prowlin round in the woods like a wild
animal. Sabbath days, than go to meet
in'. Once lie ketched a wildcat, an
tried to ti me it, but he couldn't. It bit
.ind chewed so ho had to let it go. I
guess Mandy g-ts her liking for cata)
from him fast enough. Well, Mandy,
she had that handsome bunnit, and she
went to meetin' reg-'rar 'most a year,
and she looked as pretty as a picture
sittin in the pew. The bunnit was
trimmed with green gauze ribbon and
had a wreath of hue pink flowers inside.
Her mother was real tickled, thought
Mandy had met with a change. Hut
laud, it didn't last no time. George
Henry French, he quit town the next
year and went to Somerset to teach,
and pretty soon we heard her hed mar
ried a girl over there. Then Mandy,
she didn't come to meetin any moie.
I dun no what she did with thebu-nn.it
stamped on it, most likely, she al
ways had conMier'ble temper anyway,
I never see her wear it artexw arde."
Thus old Mrs. Nathan Morse tells the
story, and somehow to a reflective mind
the picture of Amanda Todd in her
youth decked in her pink-wreathed
bonnet, selfishly but innocently attending-
in the sanctuary of divine love in
order to lay hands on her own little
share of earthly affection, is insepara
ble from her, as she goes now, old and
bare-beaded, defiantly past the meet
ing house, when tiie Sabbath bells are
ringing.
However, if Amanda Todd had elected
to go bareheaded through the village
street from feminine vanity, rather
than eccentricity, it would have beea
no wonder. Not a young girl in the vil
lage has such a head of hair as Amanda.
It is of a beautiful chestnut color, and
there, is not a gray thread in it. It is
full of wonderful natural ripples, too
not one of the village girls can equal
them with her papers and crimping
pius and Amanda arranges it in two
siqwrb braids wound twice around her
tltecid. Seen from behind, Amanda's
head is that of a young beaut j-; when
it turns a little, and her harsh old pro
file becomes visible, there is a shock to
the stranger.
Amanda's father had a great shock
of chestnut hair, which w&ssetldom cut,
and she inherits this adornment from
him. He live.! to be an old man, but
lhat ruddy crown of his never turned
gray.
Amanda's mother died " long- ago;
then her father. Ever since she has
lived alone in her 6hingled cottage w ith
her cats. There were not so many catr
at first; they say she started with one
fine tabby, who became the mother,
.grandmother and great-grandmother
to armies of kittens.
Amanda must destroy seme when she
can find no homes for them, otherwise
she herself would be driven afield, but
still the impression is of a legion.
A cat is so covert, it slinks so secretly
from one abiding- place to another and
feems to duplicate itself with its sud
den appea ranees, that it may account in
a measure fr t.hi. impression. Still
t here are a great many. Nobody knows
jnst the number the estimate runs
anywhere from 15 to 50. Counting, or
tring to count, Amanda Todd's cats
is a favorite amusement of the village
children. "Here's another," they shout,
when a pair of green eyes gleams at
them from a post. But is it another, or
only the same cat who has moved ? Cats
sit in Amanda's windows; they stare
out wisely at the passers-by, from be
hind the panes, or they fold their paws
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EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1896.
on the ledge outside in uie sunshine.
Cats walk Amanda's ritlgvjtole and her
fence, they perch on her posts and fly
to her cherry trees with bristling fur
at the sight of a dog. Amanda has as
deadly a hatred of dogs as have her
cats. Eteryon which comes within
stone throw of her sfce sends off yelp
ing, for she is a good shot. Kittens
tumble about Amanda's yard and crawl
out between her fence pickets under
people's feet. Amanda will never give
away a kitten except to a responsible
ierson, and is as particular as if the
kitten were a human orphan, and she
the manager of an asylum.
She will never, for any consideration,
bestow one of her kittens upon a family
that keeps a dog-, or where there are
n. any small children. Once she made a
condition that the dog should be killed,
and she may be at times inwardly dis
posed to banish the children.
-Amanda Todd is extremely persistent
when she has selected a home which is
perfectly satisfactory to her for a kit
ten. Once one was found tied into a
little basket like a baby on the doorstep
of a childless and humane couple who
kept no dog, and there is a story that
reacon Nehemiah Stockwell found one
in his overcoat pocket and never knew
how it came there. It is probable that
Amanda resorts to these extreme meas
ures to save herself from eithefdestroy
ing her kittens or being driven out of
house and home by them.
However, once, when the case was re
versed, Amanda herself was found
wanting. When she began to grow old,
and the care of her pets told upon her.
it occurred to her that she might adopt
a little girl. Amanda has a comfortable
little income, and would have been able
to provide a good living for a child, as
far as that goes.
But the managers of the institution
to whom Amanda applied made in
quiries, and the result did noi satisfy
them. Amanda stated frankly her
reason for wishing to take the child,
and her intentions with regard to
her. She w ished the little girl to tend
her cats and assist her in caring for
them. She was willing that she should
attend school four hours per day, going
after the cats had their breakfast, and
returning an hour earlier to give the in
their supper. She was willing that she
should go to meetiog- in th afternoon
only, and she could have no other chil
dren come to visit her for fear they
would maltreat, the kittens. She fur
thermore announced her intention to
make her will, giving to the girl, whom
she should adopt, her entire property
in trust for her cats, to include her own
maintenance on condition that she de
vote her life to them as she had done.
The trustees declared that they could
not conscientiously commit a child to
her keeping for such purposes, and the
poor little girl orphan, who had the
chance of devoting her life to the care
cf pussy cats and kittens, to the exclu
sion of all childish folowers, remained
in her asylum.
So Amanda to this day lives alone, and
manages as best she can. Nobody in
the village can be induced to live with
l'.er; one forlorn old soul preferred the
almshouse.
"I'd 'nough sight ruther go on the
town than live with all them cats," she
said.
It is rather unfortunate that Aman
da's shingled cottage is next the meet
ing house, for that, somehow-, seems to
tender her non-church-going more glar
ingly conspicuous, and then, too, there
is a liability of indecorous proceedings
on the part of the cats.
They evidently do not share their mis
tress dislike of the sanctuary, and find
its soft pew cushions very inviting.
They watch their chances to slink in
when the sexton opens the meeting
louse; he is an old man and dim-eyed,
and thej- areof ten sureeasf ul. It is wise,
for anybody before taking a seat, in a
pew to make sure that one of Amanda's
cats has not forestalled him; and often
a cat flees down one flight of the pulpit
stairs as the minister ascends the other.
We all wonder what will become of
Amanda's cats when she dies. There is
a report that she has made her w ill and
left her property in trust for the cats to
somebody, but. to whom? Nobody in
this village is anxious for such a be
quest, and whoever it may be will prob-
amy strive to repudiate it. Some day
the
cats will undoubtedly c-o bv the
board; j'oung Henry WiLson, who has a
gun, will shoot some, the rest will be
come aliens and wanderers, but we all
hope Amanda Todd will never know it.
In the meantime she is undoubtedly
carrying on among us an eccentric, but
none the less genuine mission. A home
missionary is Amanda Todd, and we
should recognize her as such in spite of
her non-church-going proclivities.
Weak in faith though she may be, she
is, perchance, as strong in love as the
best of us. At least I do not doubt that
her poor little four-footed dependents
would so give evidence if they could
speak. Ladies' Home Journal.
Th. Modern Tint Building.
"You know, it's old enough and fa
miliar enough," said a flat dweller,
"but it's striking all the same, to hear
the whistle blow in the kitchen, from
someiKxly in the cellar at the elevator,
and may be at the same time to hear
the tiell ring from somebody at the
front door. The servant throws up the
door to the elevator sliaft. to he ready
to receive the things that the man is
sending up from telow, and sl'e swings
around and presses the button and
opens a door far away and in still an
other part of the house. All simple
enough, but it interests me all th
same. It seems sort of like running
the steamer from the bridge; or like
throwing the levers in the switch house
and con troll i tag switches far away; it
seem, like business; it's modern and up
to date."
Florida Indiana.
"Our Indians," says Dr. Brecht, In
dian commissioner in the state of
Florida, "i re not multiplying rapidly.
This is due to physiological and social
reasons. Still, there has beei. an in
crease. In 1859 there were but 112. Now
there are ome thing over 500. The chief
social reason for their slow propoga
tion is the custom of countenancing no
marriages of persons who have a drop
of the same blood in their veins. This
is sometimes hard on the girls. Ore
leader I know has two beautiful daugh
ters, who cannot get married because
the' eligible young men are almost a'.l
kin to them." Chicago Chronicle.
riU A.BD ALL ABB IUTU BUIDS.'
tiOT EVEN WUM
TUHMtNIUKb.
Mow . Practical Joker T armed tne
T.blwe
on a Bevy of Pretty Cilrle.
A San Francisco gentleman came to
this city a short time since, and with
his wife quartered at a fashionable
boa rding bouse. They were a very jolly
couple, and soon made friends with all
the inmates, among whom were a num
ber of young ladies. The gentleman
was, as one of the young ladies said, "an
awful tease," and took great delight in
playing all sorts of harmless jokes on
the young ladies, telling the young men
that marriage was a failure and in oilier
ways endeavoring to keep them out of
the toils of matrimony, and, in short,
keeping up an everlasting "joshing."
The young ladies determined to get
even on him when he went away on the
steamer, so ail went down to see hint
and his w ife oft. Now, although he hail
tieen married to his second wife soane
two years, they were a fine-looking
couple, and ruight easily be taken fort
uewly-wedded pair. To give all th
people on the steamer the idea that they
were just married and starting out on
their bridal tour was the way the young
ladies planned to get even. They pro
cured a lot of rice and poured it in
every crevice about the baggage of the
couple, and in their iockets and among
their wraps, so that rice dropped front
them at every step.
One of the young ladies, who was ac
quainted with the oflicers of the stt ain
ei, explained the situation to them and
secured their aid in carrying out the
plot, and also a promise that the delu
sion should be kept up all the way to
San Francisco. They then scattered
l ice about the stateroom of the "bride
and groom" and all over the deck in
front, and when the go-ashore gontr
sounded they just emptied their vial-t
of rice on the' unfortunates ami started
ashore.
The mait was aralyzed for a moment,
but, "catching on," he said: "Well, if
this Ls a bridal party it is my duty to
kiss all the ladies." and he went for
t lie in then and there, and he Aissed
them right and left, not haphazard,
but squarely on the mout-h every time,
with resounding smacks which could
lie heard clear up on the wharf. Such an
uproar had not been heard at the steam
er dock since the prerailroad days.
The last to be saluted had escaped
half way down the- gangway, but the
"bridegroom" rushed down after her.
nearly knocking- overboard "the last
man," who was just coming up, and he
kissed her the hardest of all. "They
sailed away with the fair young bride"
and the young ladies returned to their
boarding house, and have ever since
been trying to decide who the joke was
on. Portland Oregonian.
GOLD IN DEER'S TEETH.
Man Wtaa round It Now Try Lug; to Dta
cover a Mine.
Gold has been found in a variety of
queer places, among others in the dust
shaken from chickens' feathers, in the
crops of wild turkeys, and between the
toes of a wolf hound. The latest odd .
place for gold is as a filling for a deer's
teeth, and it is told of in the Xidologist
by John A. Bryant, of Kansas City, Mo.
A Kansas City taxidermist was found
in a great state of excitement by Mr.
Biyant. He had recently got two deer
heads for mounting from Colorado.
The jaws of both deer were being
.scraped, and then the taxidermist ole
served a peculiar substance crusted on
the teeth. This sediment was brownish
yellow in color, and just for fool's luck
the man scraped it off and sent it to
an "assayer. The assayer got a lump of
gold, pure, yellow gold, from the stuff,
and the taxidermist made haste to find
out the precise locality where the deer
were killed. Then he asked about the
deer licks where the animals got their
salt. He doesn't know yet whether the
gold came from a salt lick or from the
dust blown onto the grass or browse
on which the deer fed.
The taxidermist said that the deer
were killed not more than 100 miles
from the Cripple Creek gold mines,
and further, that he knows the spot
exactly. He thinks that if deer can
fret gold filling for their teeth in the
ordinary course of nature, a man
can get bushels of it. He has so much
faith in this that he is going to sell out
his business, buy a burro, a grub stake,
and a prospector's pick, and then go
to prospecting on the deers trails.
BRIEF BUT INTERESTING.
Ibt Htory of nn Interview with th. Grand
Old Man.
The correspondent of a London paper
was seated on the stairs leading from
the peers' gallery one day, when Mr.
Gladstone happened to come down
stairs unobserved by him. As the cor
respondent blocked the way the Grand
Old Man srtid to him, politely: "Will
you kindly let me pass?" The question
at once suggested a brilliant idea to
the newspaper man. He rushed to the
tclegTaph office and sent this dispatch
to his paper: "I had a somewhat brief
but profoundly interesting conversa
tion with Mr. Gladstone last evening,
meeting the right honorable gentleman
in the lobby," etc. Mr. Gladstone never
denied the authenticity of the half
column of conversation that followed.
A MYSTERY OF THE RIFLE.
Unneconntsbl. Reenlt of Shooting from n
View.
Something that no man understands
is why a rifle, damped in an immovable
vise, will not put a bullet in the same
hole every time, even if the wind does
not interfere. A correspondent of
Shooting and Fishing tells how he put
a rifle of 32 caliber into a vise and fired
it ten times, the sights being always
aimed directly at a mark. The bullets
went all over a- four-inch circle at 50
yards. Theoretically all ought to have
gone into the same ho:e.
A man who holds his rifle gripped
hard at one time and easily at another
will not shoot as well as one who takes
the same hold of his rifle every time.
The best results are , obtained from
bench rests when the man puts his
shoulder against the rifle butt.
Her Hat na O Detraction.
It is a literal fact, says a London pa
per, that the conductor of an omnibus
had to press down a girl's bat at each
side the other day before she could get
in at the door. The wearer of the cart
wheel could not make out what was
hindering her from getting in, when the
conductor, with a polite "Allow me,"
gently depressed the brim cm either
side. . . . -
ii i ii r ii ill
b
OI.0O nnc.
THE SHIP BUCEPHALUS.
"No snipe shooting to-morrow-, sir."
The oilicer of the life paUol paused
with lighted lantern on his arm, his
sou'wester buttoned close up to his
throat and the peak, of his oilskin cap
pulled far down over his w eat her bea tern
face and passed out into the night.
As he opened the door a gust of wind
swept the knob from his grap, dashed
the framework against the wall of the
chamber and extinguished the flicker
ing oil lamp that made shift to render
visible the darkness of the room.
Clarence Baxter hastily fastened the
door after the retreating figure, re
lighted the lamp and sat down on the
sea chest which served as a chair and a
bed, A strange place it w as, t his beach
comber's cabin. . Timbers from every
ship that had come ashore on Colli u
beach these 50 years Were woven into
its heterogeneous framework. Here a
part of a steamship's deckhouse, there
i stanchion from the sturdy hull of some
long-forgot U-u merchantman, yonder
the patched wainscoting of a clipper
ship's once gorgeous cabin cheek-by -ji
w l these relics of departed prid-?
stood like monuments of the dead past
in some strange nautical cemetery.
Outside the gale raged with increas
ing fury. Low though it sat between
the sand dunes, the solid walls of the
hovel trembled and rocked under the
impact of the blast like a ship in a
heavy sea. Such u spring storm had not
been seen on the coast for years not
siuce the night (as a vetciau told after
ward 1 w hen the clipper ship Bucephalus
came ashore 'way back in the 5Us. In
the angle over tlieie the plow of this
vessel feinted a sort of cot uerstoue for
the suauge structure, and the horse iu
the figurehead stared at Baxtou with
the sightless eye of an emblem of death.
lie would have been puzzled toexplain
why he lelt so strangely, left alone in
this cozy cabin. Baxtou was not a
superstitious mail, nor one given to
sentimental vagaries or emotional weak
nesses, and yet, as the door sw ung to
after the olhcer, he felt for a moment a
.strange, and unaccountable thrill a
chilling of the blood a consciousness
of something outside of his sphere of
influence, superior to his power of con
trol, that was gradually but surely
working its will around and about him.
the feeling was not one of fear. What,
indeed, was he to be afraid of? Surely
not of the storm, for he was cozily
housed. Not the thieves or marauders,
for he and the coast guardsmen were
the only human beings on that strip of
beach. - Of what, then, was he fearful?
It was all nonsense, he said he was not
afraid at all.
Baxton shivered as he threw another
piece of driftwood on the fire and drew
close- to the green-blue blaze of the
copper-stained timber that cast fan
tastic, many-hued shadows on the
rough walls. "No going back to the
mainland to-night," he thought, as the
picture of the storm-lashed lay ros?
before his mind, and he silently ob
jurgated the secretary of the treasury
who had promulgated the order for
bidding the life-saving men toentertain
guests in their cozy stations
The tea chest was filled with old
newspapers, the officer had said, with
w hich he might, perhaps, while away an
hour. He lifted the lid. Yes so it
was prints running back for manr
years, tied up and labeled in a cramped
handwriting that of Calamity Dick's,
probably, the fisherman who. until his
death last year, had occupied this cabin
since no man remembered when. Turn
ing them over, Baxton saw that the
packet contained clippings descrip
tive of the wrecks on this same stretch
of sand, called Coffin beach "Cemetery
jeachwould be better," Baxton thought,
as he surveyed the yellow bundles.
"Bark Excelsior, June, 1942," read one;
"30 drowned, two saved;" "Ship Andro
mache, January, 1843, 28 drowned, none
saved," read another "Ship Harold,"
16 drowned, four saved; "Clipper Van
guard, 86 drow ned, 15 saved," and so or
through a pile of packages that reached
knee high as he laid them on the floor.
Near the bottom was a larger bundle
labeled "Clipper Bucephalus, Marcr..
1856, 122 drowned, four saved." Where
had he heard of that ship? "Buceph
alus Bucephalus," he repeated, reflect
ively, to himself. "Oh, yes, the ship the
old figurehead came frorr," and he
began "to untie the dusty package.
But slowly it came back to him that
he ha 1 heard the name before he cam
to Coffin beach. "Where?" As he asked
the question a newspaper, bearing the
date 1856, lay spread before him, ant'
his eyes rested on the headlines: "Clip
' per Ship Bucephalus. Liverpool to New
York, Ashore on Coffin Beach, April
26. The ill-fated vessel, which was
owned by H. B. Baxton & Co., Front
street, this city, missed its reckoning
and ran ashore on Coffin beach at
three o'clock on the morning of Tues
day last and became a total wreck.
The life-saving crew at this place, on;
of the most dangerous points on the
coast, is not on duty at this season of
the year. At ten o'clock on the follow
ing morning, before anything could b
dope to rescue the crew and passen
gers, .the thip went to pieces in tne
terrific surf that was running. Of the
ship's company, 82 steerage passenger?:,
six cabin passengers and 3.4 of the crew
were drowned. The second mate, Mr.
Lalor, and three sailors came ashore
alive on pieces of wreckage the sol"
survivors of the disaster. The captain.
W. B. Wilkins, perished with his ship
Mr. Lalor, who was seen by a corre
spondent of this paper yesterday, states
that the vessel's loss was due to the
fact that her owner had neglected to
provide a proper chronometer, although
repeatedly warned of the peril run by
the lack of this essential instrument.
Mr. Baxton is noted among metropol
itan merchants for his great wealth and
extreme parsimony. It is said that th?
matter will be laid before the authori
ties, in order that the cause of the
wreck may be thoroughly sifted, and
the blame for this terrible sacrifice of
innocent lives placed where it belongs."
In pencil across the margin of the
clipping was scrawled in Colamity
Dick's cramped script: "And 30 of 'em
wintin, and Lalor says the captain died
a cussin' the owner as the seas swept
them pore folk, offen the deck into the
urf."
Baxton stared- at the paper before
him. My God! he had heard of the
Bucephalus before.
ill
postage per ear In advance.
NUMBER 27.
True, he was not lawn until years
after this terrible event, yet the memory
of it had poisoned all of his mother's
remaining days. "Baxter, the r.nce
phalus Murderei," he had heard some
body say in his father's lifetime, but
until to-night he ncvt-r knew th.. mean
ing of the words. And here. on the very
scene of t lie horror, the sou of its nut 1:-V
was domiciled under the cabin walls
of that long-lost ship. Yonder its fig
urehead mocked him w ith starintreves!
"The hull is breaking up!" It is no
longer the fisherman's house, but the
cabin of a sinking ship. See how t':o
timbers strain ami wrench as Ihi Ln-I
ltounds on the remorseless sand; henr
how the waves thunder on the !cck
above, as though to crush tlietrenih!ii..
fabric; listen to the creaking of t!,e'
overstrained timbers! The water i
slowly rising yonder, where the c:il:n
floor Is lowest. Who are these th;it
crowd dow n t he conianionw.ny v.j i
en scantily clad terror in their eji s,
their hands bleeding, their naked f . . t.
raw from cont-ict witu the cruel ropes?
One is an aged gentlewoman who lean .
feebly on the shoulders of a young- man
her gray hair streams over her brow,
her dim eyes look with a mother's ten
der love on her son's resolute young
face. All these oor creatures are
chilled with exposure, weak with suf
fering. Two of- the women lead, an
other carries a child. "ISetter todrow n
here." says one, bitterly, "than to
freeze to death on deck. llaxton dte-s
not hear these words, but he sees the
lips move and knows what they are s:iy
iug.) Then the little group huMfs
close together iu the gloom, the iiKittx-rs
gat lie r their children to their breasts,
and one, an ancient gentlewoman, prays
silently, as she locks hands with the
stripling. "I pray Thee, O Father, if
it be Thy will, take me and spare him."
Now- the. pale lis of the wom
an are st ill, her head sinks on her hrvut
and the son rises with a terrible cry -(Baxton
cannot hear that cry. In.t lw
sees the man's awful eyes and knows
what he says). "My mother is dead!"
Then the waves pound harder on the
deck, the timbers shrink ami creak and
groan, the fabric lifts and falls with
dull, terrible thuds it Ls hitrh tide
the ship is breaking up. Although it
is day, the cabin j-rows darker and
darker. The water rises higher.' Bax
ton must save himself. He stagtr-rs
across the heavintr floor where mother
and son lie doail in each otjier't arms,
reaches the companion way, gains the
deck and then, before, him. over the
shattered bulwarks, to which elinjrs
half a hundred miserable, drowning
creatures, looms a great towering wall
of green water. La!ied to the miv.en
sjiroinls, the captain, trumjiet in ban. I.
sees not the coming aht nclic his
glance rests only on the face that is
emerging trom the comianio4iway
Baxton "s face. CastinolT the rojie tint
holds him to this place of safety, with
livid stare and blading eye. lie joints
straight at Baxton.
"See, see," he cries, "the murderer
Baxtou! Curses on you curses on you
curses!" In a second it was over.
The monstrous hill of water, the double
wave that marks the flood-t ide, strikes
the shattered ship a full, fair blow,
mounts as high as the yardarm, clear
over the decks, shatters the weakened
hull to fragments and bears down mast
and bowsprit in one common ruin, amid
an awful grinding and crushing and a
splintering of timliers. Theu rises a
great shriek that pierces to heaven over
the tumult of the sea (Baxton cannot,
hear that shriek, but he feels it), fol
lowed by the boiling seethe of waters
and the wave passes on, leaving naught
to tell the fate of the Bucephalus save a
few scattered spars, a few battered
corpses (ghastly playthings of the title)
and that is all.
The following is from the Daily Kec
ord of April 23, IS :
'"A strange accident happened at Cof
ln Beach on Friday last. Clarence Bax
ton. a well-known New- Yorker, went
down on Thursday for a Lit of snipe
shooting, exjtecting to return that
night. Prevented from doing so by the
storm, he sought refuge in a fisher
man's cabin on the lieach. where the
life patrol left h-m at 10 o'clock in the
evening, comfortably housed mid pro
vided with light and fuel. The title rose
to an extraordinary height during t he
right, so much so that the flood wave
(as the last wave of the high title ii
culled) swept clear over the sand dune?
that line the beach, overwhelmed th?
cabin and swept it out to st a. carrying
with it the unfortuuate gentleman,
whose body was cast up on 'he shore bv
the returning tide next morning. Not
a vestige of the cabin remained, savet he
figurehead of a ship, w hich formed part
of the structure. It is ciiiioin to note
that the succeeding ebb t id w hich was
an extremely low one, exposed iij-on tin
beach the hull of a large ship, supttosed
t- be the remains of the cliper Buceph
alus, which was wrecked on the sands
some forty years ago. The deceased
was the son of the late H. B. Baxton. a
prominent merchant of this city."
Vanity.
Th. rbambvrniald't Ttpe.
A pleasing story is told by the crown
prince of Germany, who. with his
brother, was recently with their tutor
at the hotel of the Chutes du Khin.
When the tutor paid the bill be offered
a money present to the ch&inoermaid.
who, however, refused the gift, gioint
ing to a notice that tips were forbidden.
The tutor explained the situation to the
eldest pupil. rio thereupon went out
with his brother and bought a very
pretty brooch. This be gave to th.
maid, saying that, "as it was not money,
she could not refuse it." As the young
princes were staying at the hotel in
cognito the. maid did not know that,
the douor of the brooch will proliably
be emperor of Germany some day.
Bigotry has no head and cannot
think; no henrt. and cannot foe I. When
she moves, it is in wrath; when she
muses, it is amid ruin; her prayers are
curses her god Ls a demon 1m r com
munion is death her vengeance isctvr
nity her decalogue written in the.
blood of her victims; and if she stops a
moment in her infernal flight, it is
upon a kindred rock, to whet ber vul
ture fang for a more sanguinary defla
tion. Daniel O'Conntll.
The Brooklyn bridge is 273 feet
above the river.
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tlon or aortety and oummanlrauone desiKnV. t
V "entn,n to any matter ol limited or ladt
Tidual intereet mun t paid 1. a. adertmet.
"d Joh l"t of all kind! neatly and
eieaUMw.y eieruted at the loweet prioea. An.
don tyon tora;et It.
UP-TO-DATE TEA GOWNS.
The Two i:entiaW Are f'retty Coiortnre
and Material M hlrh lrav Knftlv.
In no gown i.-s a woman apM-aI so
-t.rongly to a man as in a wrapper.
There is aji air of Iumiic uess, of fw--us-alone.
which a-eols to hint whenever
he sees a w raer-rtw iK-d wointui.
Kuowintr this, wi.mcn resrret that
etiiiuette tltM not allow the donninirof
wrapwrs ont.-i.Ie ..f one's nanni. Nor
woiiltl an arraiigv-iucitt of this sort be
feasible, since it is tin- very eclu.-ive-lievs;
,,f.tl. vvrai.pt-r which makes it so
attractive.
A compromise Irtnn-n wraprand
sltcet gown is niatle. howevtr. iu the
tea limn. That garment has tlx- Lnir,
el. in iiir I" lies of t he r.i tier. t he Nnft
d rapt'. I sleeve.-; :n, tl the l!:.v i nir t ru in. At
the siime time it is t i-Mit-tii ini- about,
the waist, as tlt-maiitl.-al by i'jine Fash--n
f.r all rot:s in w hich t in- w akcr
rolx-s iLst If for a ura nee It. f.rw
nit ii.
These fliers! lines, set i alitve,
ale follow.. I in pani.t-iiln of this
tharaci.r. I'.ut 1 o varied a re the details
of t jcli that t a govvTis : rr a diverge,
as iiu- t'owers of the field and quite as
la-a tit if id.
A front of chiffon, soft silk or net.
drafted softly, is iuilisM'ti.silile to all Up
totiale tea gowns. A hand of .shirring
or ril.1.011 (-aUers this front at the
waist.
The crne for I-onis jackets having
aflVcU-d all female apiarej. t-a L-.twiii
are mailt v ith . lotit-atttl jat-I.etis. w hich
oj- ii in broad ri vers each side the front
and spread iu tle lia k to a matriiiricciit
t rain.
Sle-,-i.s :,re of several designs, ail
uiiitii- and cw-ffdiiiL' ly long. 1 lie nurs-qilt-taire
sleeve Ls much favored, while
cutis com ca I the hand, i hie dial ming
sltH-ve was gored a;.d lloimcvts ,,f narrow
!a.-e wen- in.st-rt.-tl in the seams. The
ItiMotii of the slot-vcTs spread out intj
a Iw-II. toin'itil. ami tiered witn lace.
This finish, by the way, is much used
on all ncgi !; s!ve.
Persian, or printed warp silk, is the.
ttopiilar in:-ferial, if no e p. ii-iw a st uiT
could ever Uvwiiie -ovular. In lieu
of it a v .ft clialiie n.jy usa-al. This
material i- now I -st-cur.-d in Persian
colors ami is alt.iectlw-r attractive for
t he ina!.- iip of a tea gow n.
As a hint to I v si.-lf r- whose ptirs-s
aie Kan h l n.c miv thai the ! amy of a
leii gown dcix mis not u;.on the price;
of the ii. at t lal use!. 1 have known
an et cc.lii::-ly -hai miiur alTair to be
lliu.le of lnatcfi..! That co-l but 15 cents
.t yard. All :;e i,.-.l are pretty col
t rintrs ami stuff that tlraj-s -.softly.
t iiicago w s.
SHOULD WOMAN WEEP?
If She Mont. Let Her shed Her Tear
Artistically.
"Should woman weep".' is a topic of
discussion by the reader of Wuuiau, a
lxm.loii publication, tine coiilr.nutor
puts iu a inttst mphatic "No!" The
cry iii! woman, it Is maintained, is out
of date ehe lielongs to the "4o"s and
"iu"s, and not lo this end of the century.
Women was then a submissive slave and
man the righi-ou.- ruler. Now all is
c hantred. The new woman is here and
she rules; therefore, she should not
cry.
In the opinion of another wriu-r. a
woman should cry provided she dues so
"noiselessly." "If ht-r face Itegins to
swell, all wails should cease and she
must not sniff, gulp or ot herw ise make
an object of herself. If she does all the
pathos of her crying is gone." The
itlea is thrown out that "sty le" in weeping-
should lie cultivated: for there are
several"forius"of weeping. Souieweep
alone to their pillow iu the dead oi
ui-ht." This it is held, is a mistake,
lecaus.e it makes the wee-r old and
ii"dv Itcfore her time, ami docs not do
anyltody the slightest good.
Then there is the woman who is cry
ing at every oport une and iiioj jH.rtune
moment. That is bad form in weeping.
The "whimpering style, with a griev
ance, usually fount! in the past iniddle
age lady," is to Ik shunned. The worst
form of all is the "red-faced cry of ttin
ier." which usually asserts itself in an
in judicious stamp of the hcautifully
arched Trilby and ends in a general
stmide of the assembled multitude.
VI ben a t'aite Watt Near Heatli.
The late Ku-ian gvneial. Tcherevin.
was the founder of the (Ikhiana. or
czar's itody g, ua I d. compo.--d of men oT
high rank or .-it-at wealth, who wci.
sworn 1t prott ct the k ishii of Alex
ander III. It is related of Tchcivvtii
that one night, as he l;y evtt n.led in
the dark iu front of the czar's bedroom,
a ligitif ap"oacht-d. Tchercv in. Itclicv-ing-
tin man whom he saw had d. sijri.s
on the life of his sovereign, spiang to
his feet -mil leveletl a pivtol at the in
truder, vv lio sin.ullain t.il !y -oin1t d one
at the In a.l of I t lit i. in each dciiiand-ii!-r
to I ti tvv way the other was theit
Their voit es reveahd tin 111 to cadi
oti.er. The man w:;.s Alexander III.
iimisclf. who. having- a haunt jug dread
of asr-assination. was oil a r.niiu' ot er
sonal inspect ion of I he tlace. Chicago
Chronicle.
I'lH krt I leetrit ily.
A numlx-rof devices have lately- len
invented by which an l ctiie lamp can
Ik' carried al-oi;t ai d u-ttl like a candle
or lantern. Some -f these arc complete
in t ht nisclves, carrying a battery that
operates only when the Limp - w hich
may le of almost any iesirrl shape,
that of a pocket tiask. for instance is
held in a part icular tsi!io!i. When thus
held the acid in the reseivoir reach s
the battery p iles, ant the incandesce t;t
light Lla.i-s nut. On rev ci sing thf !an.j
the light iset ing'uishetl. In ot her cases
a iti-t nger light is prov ith d by invars
of a separate liattery, which may. how
ever, lie carried ill theji.et. ltispio-o.-ed
to substitute this firxa of t-orta-l
le electric lamp for the ordinary-'
lantern in the ambulance service of the;
French army. Youth's Companion.
An t'jre for RwtUncwa.
An oht gentleman w ho had dismount
ed from his hoi se w a iked intoa wayside
inn. ami left the animal in eiiarfeof a
barely clad urchin. Put on rtturnii'g
he found another Itoy holding his- horse.
He scanacd the liltle destitute through
his eyeglasses, end exclaimed: "Well,
but vou re not the bov I left uiv horse
. with!"
"No. sir." said the boy ; "I jist sjiecki
latcd, and boug ht iui of t other boy for
a h ii penny."
The boy received a "threejienny" for
his straightforwardceas. Tit Bits.