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HILL
They were star..iinK in the sunlight
f the siiitinit r time of life:
She w:u still without a husband.
He was ivanini; for a wife.
A nil In r i he.-ks w ere rich and rosy,
Anl her lips were luscious red.
So he press. . I her tlimpK.l finders
As he l.jok. ,1 at her and said.
As they stood there in the heather
Wht re the road had crossed the rill:
"May we not lare together
l"p this Ion?;, hard hill?"
Now her hand l.eiran to tremble
And h. r cy.-s were full of tt ars
As she tr:.intl them on the road that
Wotinv away anion-; the years; ;
I?ut she had no voice to inswer
Ilin ; she could not understand.
For the future lay before her
Like a far-t it fairy mini.
Tht re was sunliuht on the heather.
There was music in the rlil.
As they Went away together
lTp the lon. hard hill.
Oftentimes th way was sunny.
other turns 'twas full of lures.
lut the love that had eome to tht m
Was the true love that endures.
Th'uif b the I... tiny I. row is wrinkled.
Though the raven lock 1..- gray,
Yt t the road rniht have l.e n rougher
Had she :one the other wav.
Now the frost is on the le ather
And the snow is on the rill,
And they're coastim; .!- w n the short side
Of the lonn. har.J hill.
- y Warniur, i:- N. Y. Sun.
I JUST IN TIME. I;
BY a N. BAR HAM.
5
AS SICJuX from the sea, tlie tow n of
-New IKuxeii. Mass., appeals ui
....... lot. 1 lietweeu ti liills.. Thci-e
hills aic not more than five huntlrctl
Icet in li.if.-ht; hut what they laik in
altitude 1 1..'' mukf up lor in pit tin -e;aiieiiess.
Thc.v present a bold front
of trap loik.ulii.li. coiiil.iiietl w il h t he
hailtoi- in the loieround. ami a lon-
line of low hills f-l rcNhine- a wav to
ward the sky line, const it lit.-a scene of
loveliness w i.ich is not easily forgotten.
'I he wImi!c iicihlxirhootl is of his
torical interest. 1 1 was i n one tif I licse
two hills that which is called the West
liock that the celeliratcd rcf-;icidc.x,
'iolVc at.-l Whalllcy. once found reluoe.
A clett in its i tiffed siilts is known, lac
and with-. In the name of the "J utiles'
ae."
This cave is a mere den. lyinjr be
tween two inauicuvc l.oiil.i rs of aliout
Iwt-iily feet jicrpendiciilar. One of
i lies.' is somewhat conical in shape,
c. lii'c the other is almost a pcrfi-ct par
allelogram. Ililwtfii these, at some
leiiio.i' pel ioil, .-mother larfre stone
...u!.l s.-i t.i toliaxc fallen, ami become
:i:'h!l wedi'iil. This is all that justi
lics the inline of a caw. The. place
liiu-l hair Incn a lit ter .1 elliiiff for t he
lie::is ai.tl i t.u'.iis which at that period
i n fe; t et I tin- eastern slates, than for
I .-. i. fun. oils r.i.fflivliiiieti.
I )n oiii- of t hi stones, w hit-h is eoviTcd
with i iisi i i pt ioiis. some i-itor has.
taken pains tt renew the inst-i ipt ion
which, tradition say, the occupants
plaei-il over their retreat. Ilis euthii
si.i? ni must h.-ne l.een l.rifrliter than his
ort hor.'ia phy. for he has only succeeded
i-i i ii foruii i:tr posterity that "oposition
to t rants is t l.t (lit-nce totiod."
Hit her one huiidrcil ami t wenty years
:i!'o came Ueriiiald I'laiulers, an Iwiir
lish stil.iier. who had seretl in the
I n in ii and Ib.lian war. Il was a soli
tary sit u.it i. in for sucli a man In have
chosen as a setl lenient ; but l:e knew no
fear, .anil craxet! f. ir no com si n ior.shi p.
Me cnllivatcd a patch of the w il.h mess
which si retched far away inlaiiil. am),
as the I I'd ia lis w ere t uict. the w i Id hill
side scrim. ! to him. Ii is w i f c a ml Itasil,
his ci-ht-year-old son, an earthly par
adise. It was a September niorniii'r. The
leaxes. bcirinniiij,' to cliant'i', shone like
.rtld in the sun. Ket'i na hi Flanders
hail thrown a said; of corn across the
back of his plow-horse ami was taking
a farewell of his wife and child, pre
paratory to starting for New Haven,
where he proposed to exchano-e his
marketable commodity for household
riecessat ics. Throw in his frun over
his shoulder for mi prudent man
w i m Id then jro on a journey w it hunt his
tried weapon of il.-fcnse he strode
away, and was almost immediately lost
to view.
Shortly
breakfast,
w a in!vrcd
w ooiis. A
ifter the dispatch of a frugal
llasil left the lot? house and
towards the verre of Hie
small stream came t ricklini'
down
lit t li
toward the sea, ant!: beside it the
feliow halted. A final iiifj acorn.
the first of the season. -a uyh t li is ve.
and. with t he t hoiiLrht less-ness of chihl
hcod. he drew it to 1 hi' bank. Some
how, that early fruit of t he w ilderness
appealed to his roamiiip instinct. lie
ciaxeir for more, and, reasonint that
there must be plenty up s-trenm. per
ceivinfr 1hat his mother's eye was not
upon him. lie startetl on his piest.
The rivulet ran throuirh a ravine.
The banks. coniiser of rocks, fretted
by storm and irWav. rose almost per
pendicularly on either side. A few
scattered trees and shrubs sought nour
ishment from the eiirth. which had
fnllen from above. I'.eyonil these, up
tin- t'orL'i". Pasil pusheil on whither he
did not know.
The mother soon missed her son. but
at first, thii-kinir lio w as in the vicinity,
checked her fears. The hours na.-scd.
and. as he iid not
return, her anxietv
rliniifi'is to absolute terror. !-"orsakip--a!l
id-e. Mrs. llanders hurried to the
lields. and. with rapidi footsteps, trav
ersed the t'looniv jrl.'iih's. Search as she
would, siie could discover un trace of the
mi-siiiL'" one. She shouted, called his
name, but there was no response.
At Icnrth she came to the stream.
There, w ith a cry. half of -.'ladness. half
of dismay, she hailed the child's foot
prints in the soft, yieldinj soil. She
srtw that Ihcv poi nlcd- up-w art's- to the
."ori'e. into which she had never before
rrtii'-nil. Iut a mother's- love fears no
consc-iii'tiri'S. Slie enteri'd.
For s.'.me time she rush-l onward.
i "i'rii'-i.inr nl! the bitterness of hone
T,o t-rv: r..-t To.:""
ranr out oi i ne siiumss ot the woixi,
but no answ i r came.
Siu.iii lily she slopped, and razed into
the luiiiii with stiainii.r : then
-lie pi c.-scd her hand to her heart, reeled
and aliiio.-l l.iinlcii. There, not io arils
a w a v
slo.-d- ll.isil!
is but fi.r a niom-ei.t that she so
It wa
V i.'ltieli
to her conllicliii'' -milioiis.
o!itileI i i i if her f.-eliiiffs. she rushed
foi waid and t-iaspr-i the thild to her
BK IS A fRIKMlK WHOM Till TROTH
EBENSJ3UKG, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST
ireast. As the now oxer loveir mother
did so, to her horror, luokii:y up into
the- tanolcil foliafre, she peri. " veer a
liu--e panther, stretched, rrnuc-hinif.
upon an extended bou-Ljh. a-paicntlv
ready to s-priiifj. Probably the Iirute
hail only then observed liasil. for now,
upon his mother's approach.it hesitat
ed to attack, lashinr its tawny siiU-s
w ith its tail, as if to work itself into a
stale of greater fury.
What was to lie done? A weak wom
an, was powerless against the slron-rest
and ticrci-st deui.en of the New Fiifj
la nd w (ioiis.
Si-ari-ely knowinir what the did. the
poor mot her seized her i-hild and I uriied
to fly. As she did to, the panther made
its sprint.'.
Ow ii. to the heitj-ht and the distance,
it spranir slmrl. barely touchiucf the
nx-k upon which the two were stantl
inir. audi fell backward.
'1 he respite was but brief. Ueeover
itifj: itself, the savage beast returned to
the attack.
Mrs. Flanders clasped liasil closer to
iier side, beini-- resolv'd. in her despera
tion, that the d-ewt rover should' only
reach his lib' through lierself.
She coultl not escape bv fliirht. and
had no means of defense. She could
only wait and pray.
Once more the assailant made its at
tack, this time with a frreat-er measure
of success. It struck the etne of t In
rock , a nd ma hatred lo clinir to it. St rinr--.-liitr
desperately to recoer itself, it
stretched forward un t il i I s jaw s seemed
but a slmrt yard, from its intended vic
tim. At this moment overwrought nature
rave way uiuU-r the strain, and she
swoo'.ied. As for l'.asil, lie had hiihlen
his face in his mother's pow n.
Mean w liile, Kefrinald Flanders sold
his corn, and cpeinltl the piixeei'v in
Hour, suirar, a smaH, prized packet of
tea for his wife, powder ami lead, am
other simple necessaries.
Ilaxinir transacted his business, he
set out on I he jonri.ey homeward. The
sun rose hiyh in the heaxetis, ami, an
ticipating no eil, hesutTetrd I he slow -iaced
piow-liotse to subsiike into a
w alk.
There was joy in the calm peaccf ill
ness of the siirroiintliiir; wilderness.
I"he birds were merry, I he sea gleamed
behind him like jrlass. the hills lose on
cither side. He w as sun ou luleit by the
pure In-auties of naluie. and the sweet
ness of contentment tilled his soul. He
seemed lo ill cam. and- left the horse to
wander as it liked.
How it i- lined Uejriuald Flamleis
could ncxer tell. To his surprise, arousing-
hiloself from pleasintr lexeiie, he
I, Hind thai llobbin must 'have taken the
wronir course, for they Were on the tip
per inst.-ail of the lower siiln- of the
"West l;.,ck."
This mattered little, except in-r that
it made t he joiirne v si-incw ha t h.noer;
for which he was-sorry, as he knew hi-:
wife would I- looking out for Lis om-
1 1 r i only now he must cross t he 1 1 ca m
lit' 1 1 up in t'he wim.iIs. So, plessinir I he
faithful old horse into an apology for a
trot, he piirsii.il his way.
At leii-t-th he came to the precipitous
bank i,f the- brook, down which with
onie dlloeulty he fiii.!.-.! his horse
M rs 1 1 i 1 1 ; a 'cv. nv aid course in thei'i
i it-lion of 'his home, lie w as suddenly
startled by a shrill, weird cry.
It soiindtcd as if it were the voice of
his wife, and yet it was stran-rclv un
like. What was it? What could it por
tend? There it ranir arain. Some one must
be in di re peril.
There was no time for delay. The
mystery must lie solved at once. For
ivard! The oh horse lumbered heaxily on.
-ncr rocks and pro ject intr I ree-st umps.
but its best efforts failed to keep pace
with its master's ever-increasing anx
iety. The cries had ceased. All was once
more as silent as nature, on an earlv
autumnal day. can be. With the re
urriiirr silem-e the man's fears became
intensified.
As he came within siirhf of the rink,
he was surprised to perceive an enor
mous panther, makimr strenuous en
deavors to climb its slipperv sides.
With the instinct of the hunter and
the cool nt-s s of the practiced soldier.
Ueo-inald Flanders grasped his rifle,
shook the priininf; in his hand, placed
fresh Hint in the lock, and took a lonir
antl deliberate aim. Had he know n Un
real state of affairs, it mtriht haxe un
nerved Ids ann. but. the knowledge was
hajipily spared- him.
And now- the savaire animal made its
foothold' frooiL With a snarlintr erv it
crouched, leaped and rolled back. life
less, into the stream, with the settler's
bullet t hroiifrh it s brain !
Curious tot. find out what had been the
panther's nliVct, yet not for a sinrle
moment -'iiessinir the truth, tin- marks
man set himself to climb t he rock.
Who shall describe the tiiiiii''cd. hor
ror ami- thankfulness with which lie
perceived the unconscious forms of his
lovedi ones, and realized that he had
.ecu pro nientiaiiy enanieii to save
them from an awful fate?
With difliculty the loving- husband
won his wife and hoy hack to life, and
bore them, pale niwl weak, but safe, to
his cabin.
That evening- the sun went down into
the wes t w ith his last red- rays rest inp
upon a family p-ivinp thanks for an al
most miraculous escape from a dreadful
death. (iolden Da vs.
UNADULTERATED SPICE.
There is nothiiijr in the ISible which
rci-uires Christ kins to be sad.
A proud look is a Itomi nation to the
Lord. :us web as a lying- tong-ue.
1 1 race anil nature work harmoniously
together, if we eau but ward olT
prurient Anfers-.
It is almost im possible to feel eros
w Ml-.- you ore look'ng- jileasant, or dis
consolate w hile von are look iujr cheer
ful. We shrill all be comvderably sur
prised. . lu-n we g-et to Heaven, at find
iiiir thing's there l"fferent front what
we cxe-ctel. (jail Il.imilton.
AlarUet for llallrosd Tlea.
Tt fakes each year CiHi.oco neres of
forest to supply erossties for th rail
roads of the I'nited States. It takes
li.f'U'.OKi tics to supply the demand, for
which the contracttrs fet on an ver
af'e f.'t cents apiece, making in the &fr-picrjte$5,250,r-l.i0.
MAKKf FKKK AM' ALL ABB BLAVK8 BESIDE.'
HISTORIC BATTLE GROUNDS.
Stratt-vl Ilnt. l ard by Ihe Anrlrali
nil Mudrraa.
It is in u theater of ohl wars nml
amid scene-s maile fainiliaj- to all Uit
world through chussie story that tht
Turk and the I i reck are contending.
l'harsalo-s, to which frown 1'rinct
Coiistantine retreated from Iirissa, i
the ancient l'harsalia in name, but not
in site, lying iwuie eight miles to thi
southwest of the battle ground where
Julius Caesar overcame I'ompey in 4
11. f . lonieys troops on that occasion
retreated to 1-arissa, revei-sing the
liioxcnicut made bv the i reek trooiison
I Friday.
Kdheui l'atsha invaded Creet-e by tin
very pass through which Xerxes led
his immense IVrsiun urmy in -4s,i H. f
Milouna pass is that piiss "by l'etrik.
1'ythium and OIimimuii." referred to by
lirote and mentioned by I.ivy. The
tir--i-k.s had expected Xerxes lo cnlct
the Thc-s-saliun plain by the way of tht
vale of Te.npe, In-tween Olympus and
Cssa. and they occupied that pass. l!ut
when the Macedonian king privately
sent them word that Xerxes was t:
come by the other pass, west of Oly lu
pus, they gave up the plan of meeting
him on their northern frontier. If they
had made a stand against him in Mi
louna pass they might have kept him
out -f their ui.ltry (unl liaxe saved
Athens, just an Coiistantine would have
averted all danger to tircece if he hail
1 been able to keep Edheiu 1'a.sha north
of the mountains.
Since he has let I.arissa go so!ieapIv
it is not likely that in his weaker posi
tion at Phaisalos he will offer an effect
ive resistance to Kdheui. Hut this time
there will be no Thermopylae. In the
first place. Ihe road t he victorious Tu rks
will take towards Athens, if the for
tunes of war allow thein to take any,
docs not run through the famous p-uss
where I.eonidas ami his :ou Spartans
held out so valiantly against Xerxes.
From Zeitun to the west of Ihe Mali.
gulf a government road runs dircclly
to Athens. Hut what is more to the
point, there is no longer a passat Ther
niopylae. As Herodotus describes it,
there was barely room for a wagon road
between Mount Octa and the shore of
the gulf, so that but three or four of
I.eonidas Spartans could fig-ht abreast.
In 2.1100 years the alluvial deposit
brought down by the Sperchcios has
filled in the gulf far from the ancient
shore, so that a broad marsh is now
se-en where I.eonidas kept the pass.
The hot springs which g-ave the place
Ihe name of the "hot g-ates" still How,
however. Tlie changed shire line and
the construction of new roads west of
Ihe mountain have di-sti-oy.il this most
famous of classic battle grounds. Here
it was that the Aeotolians met Philip,
that AntiiK hus contended with the Un
mans, and the Wrecks with Preiimis and
the Cauls. The treachery .f Kphialte-s,
who showed Xerxes a mountain p.uss
that enabled him to get in the rear of
the Spartans, wiuj imitated in some of
the later conflicts, ami with the same
results.
Saloniea, at the head of the g-ulf.
which the Creeks threatened to de
stroy, is the Thessalonica w here St. Paul
w:is so inhospitably treated that he
went away to Kara Feria, and wits
thence privately conveye.1 to Dion ou
the g-ulf, where betook ship for Athens.
N. V. Times.
litNlUb Mi-.tJ ULU
AUL
The
Kvrri-lar of Intellect
lte-
Not
shorten Lire.
The Cent It-mail's Magazine, in an
aili.-le on the "Ae of l.eidtis." lends
to disprove the assertion that brain
power is incompatible with health.
Once we were told that if we wished to
become octogenarians we mu.-t lav
aside ambition, we must be careful in
our diet and temperate in our wishes.
We must wtiit upon our I mm I ics and as
much as possible keep the mind out
of sight. In orih-r to disprove hal
counsel, we have only to turn from
em.pty words to solid fact.
First, to take tin- great men cele
brated in war and compicst. since
theirs, also, is a sccics of genius, is
to find the list headed with Xciiophon.
Duiiioui icz ami Wellington at n, M
and s:;. '1 hence it continues to Charle
magne at TI. From him tin- hiiiuhcr.f.
decline, though not hastily, to Napo
leon at il and, lowest of all, Alexander
the Crcat. at Nearly .o per cent, of
ihe warriors chosen at random reached
the P.iblical standard of three score
and ten.
Then, lieginning- with the great
names of statecraft, there are Frank
lin anil Tallyraud, Ixith at si. Piiliiu r
ston at HI and Washington at t'i7. witli
the list keeping well up in the fifties,
and at the end slowly falling- to 41i.
This is imposing-, especially if we add
Cladstone ami Pisinarck, loth well
over their eightieth year.
Science and philosophy beg-in with
Jl umboldt.at Ml.amLf u rn isli a n imposing
list of men whose brains were worked
to the fullest extent, and of whom no
h-ss than t'.l per t-ent. completed their
seventieth year.
In short, almost one-half the greatest
g-eniuses the world has yet seen have
attained tin- ag-e of 70 years. Lot no
one 1e deterred from In-coming- a ge
nius by the fear of early death!
GIVES OFF LIGHT.
Abb Kver Aetlve . I v In or a front a
Keren t lilt of t runlum.
In a recent led lire before the Royal
socit ty Lord Kclv in intlica tul the cor
rectness of Yolta's oa-ily theories in
relation to contact ehi tricity. He
how 1-d that when a zinc plate and a
. oppor plate are brought into contact
with one another and then separated
one was charged with Msitieelrctrici
ty and the other with negative. lie
further demonstrated that this was not
due to oxidation by air or the moisture
of the atmosphere, as is stated in the
text-books of the day. Lord Kelvin
exhibited other experiments illustrating-
electrification produced by incaius
of dissimilar metals, and showed some
curious projH-rties ito.sessed by urani
um. If a plate of this metal was con
necter! with an electrometer and
touclied by a plate of aluminum ix.si
live electrification was produced, grad
ually changing; past zero to negative.
He also demonst rated that the rays
given off by uranium in a dark room
are a constant proerty of the sul
stance and not a slow radiation of
previously absorlxil light, as has Im-n
claimed, but he could offer no solution
of the mysterious action of this metal.
13, 1807.
LOOK AWAY.
.Vhen the storm with its mantle of dark
lit .s i onies down.
And the bra. ki st el. aids cover the sky.
When all nature la Kloomy with shadow
ai.d frown,
Aral l lie swilt-n.binK temjM?st Is nlph:
Iook away. Ir. mblii.K soul, ihe thick dark
iii.. j.ien-e through,
K"or beyond are Ihe sunlight and lieautiful
blue.
When ihe deepest affliction and sorrow are
thine.
With a burdened heart ready to break.
When thy footsteps are painful and life
tl.'lh decline.
And the holies that had stayed thee for
sake l-ook aw ay, fainting one. take His promises
true;
They will Kve you the sunshine and
Heaven" own blue.
Frederick J. Stevens, In I'nited Presby
terian. r.
y
V
.n
.'.
in Florida.
BY R. G. ROBIVSON.
IN the pioi
there ca
linneer days of South Florida
line from I'.oston a man
.amed Dave, with his wife and two
children.
He came, he said, primarily for his
health, and incidentally to better his
frt line, which, never having; been
great, had been wrecked in the financial
cyclone of "711.
I n 1 hose day s honii-st catls donated bv
a paternal government to actual se
llers were plenty, and Tave soon found
one to his liking-, ou which he built
a cabin and cleared land for a small
orange grove.
With a line disregard for convent ton
alities and P.ostou prejudici s, and with
a dc terminal ion to be "of tlie Kouiaus
a Komaii." he discarded sin s. sb.ck
ings. and all supei 11 uit ics of dress, and
commenced wink with inagninceiit
pluck and Yankee energy.
l-rfMikiiig- to a bre:ul supply for tire
iiiiiiictliat e future, he ronU-d a few
acres of arable land from an "old resi
denter" lo plant in corn and potatoes,
his new land being- sour and unlit;
ami he invested the remnant of his
flunks in a horse, plow and harness.
'I he horse was an iiiiMiriat ion from
the broad plains of Texas, small, an
gular, slender of limb and wild of eye.
An animal with ln-ttcr training or an
cestors or habits of thought ought to
have been selected, for Dave had never
owned a horse in his life, nor had he
ever mounted one or "put his hands to
a plow."
lie knew it was all ipiite easy, though.
Did ever a n.an come from "Posting"
who couldn't do any thing that any
other man had ever done?
The day alter ihe purchase, in the
early, dev. y morn, he took the horse,
plow and harness to the rented Held
to begin operations, ami his wife and
children Went along- to see the iiu op
tion of that happy occupation called
"farming."
Never having harnessed a horse, Dave
omitted that useful article, a collar,
and buck leal on the hall ics upside dow u ;
but otherwise he got the gvaring fixed
in pretty fair shape.
Then, taking- the lines and graspkig
the plow liamlles with a grip of deter
mination, he uttered, with line effect
ami d.i-p bass voice, a formula he'd
rend- in the encyclopedia, perhaps
"Ceo! Whoa! Haw! Citnpthar!"
The formula was all right, and his
rendering K-i feot; but he hadn't taken
i nto account the moods and tenses, past
and present, of a Texas muiv. That sa
gacious animal, havii.g- taken a slight
tug- against the bare, upside-down
liames. stood gazing; in silent wonder
and i-xM-ctancy.
"Come up, there, I tell you!" said
Ihe farmer. "Can't you g-eliaw?"
The only answer was a slight bob
bing of I he head.
"Come up, 1 tell you!" ng-ain said
Dave, ami at the same time raising; his
right hand, he brought the hwavy rope
line dow n along the jiony's back with
a resounding- thwack.
His answer was a quart or soof earth
full in the face, thrown by the jiony's
hind feet as they went skyward. That
little crformance ended, the pony re
sumcd his original position and look
of inquiry, while Dave took a seat ou
Ihe ground to review the sit nation.
"I don't exactly know what's the
matter, Sadie," he said. "The man I
got this beast from said he was an
elegant plow animal and would go
straight along."
"Well. Dave." said Sadie. "I don't
know, but seems to me horses may have
their regular habits just like people,
and maybe this horse ain't used to
starting- so early in the morning-; you
know Ihe people round here don't start
to work near so early as this. Let's
wait a bit, and maybe he'll go."
"Sadie." said Dave, "if we're going; to
make a crop this year we'll have to
start early in the morning's. All g-ood
farmers do, and this horse had just as
well begin now as another time. I tell
you what I expect is the matter: He's
iisiil to having a boy lead him when
drawing; a plow; that's Ihe way lots
of plowing- is done. Yon try leading
him, Sadie, and I'll hold the plow."
"Oh. Diivi'." she said. "I really
couldn't. I'm afraid he'd bite me, he
looks so mad."
"Shucks!" said Dave. "lie couldn't
bite you if he wanted to, for the tracer,
ami plow will hold him back. You
really must, Sadie. J nst try it till we
get him started, then maybe he'll go
all right."
Thus urged. Sadie took the bridle
reins as far in front as she could, and
Dave resumed Ihe ha utiles of t he plow .
"Now- pull. Sadie." said Dave, "and
we'll start. C.et up there, you beast!"
Ill response the beast gave a snort
and tug that made Sadie jump ten feet
or more and drag-ired Ihe plow perhaps
six inches: then lie stopped resolute-.
"I'll tell yon what's the matter.
Sadie." said Dave: "he ain't used to vou
Skirts. Here, y on nunc liom tlie plovv
and I'll lead him a bit."
So Sadie li.ok the plow handles, ami
lave. taking hold of the bridle, said:
"Now come riirht alone- ..n i,i,- i
you:
kick.
at
r-..- r.-. ...-..
the same tune g-iving him a
'1 htrV was another start and sudden
tug: the plow catching- on a root, the
handles Hew up and knocked the luck
less Sadie into a sit ling posit ion several
aM.flo and pontage per year In advance.
number :n.
yarns away; inr Kuy
rested.
ped ami
"Well. I'll U. jigg, ,
"l:.it i . .ti . .... , . .
ave.
.". ."-.ion-. 1 know
it can
lie done, and. what's more
hae anything- to eat next
i: We'n- to
w inter, it's
... i... .i
... ..- none. wonder what ails
lie m-ast. And he sat d.m to think
it out.
iresentiy lie said: "I'M s,
what's the matter. Sadie: ftinnv
think of il In-fore, lb s us. . t,
i i. .- i-
t'H you
I d dn't
ha v i ntr
......e.-.-.n ,,, ,,,, XVJ,,. l1(. s u-, J
and he don't know how to g.. w it hunt
You always sec these I raik. rs riding
their horses when they're drawing h
cart, and I guess it's t he same w a with
plowing. Now. you just take hoi, I of
the handles again and I'li t, w ridin-
him. and I guess we'll make it a j livht."
"Oh. Dave." said Sadie, "I've ji.s. had
all the breath knocked out of "me. and
I don't want to again."
"'I here's no danger. Sadie." said I Hive
"Pcing ou his back. I can ui : i.;.-,-, i ,,,
lM-tter. and we'll go carefully ; It sidrs.
you in-eiin i lean over I lie plow like
did; just walk far hack and stick vour
arm out, ami you'll be sate enough!"
Thus iersuai!c.l. Sadie ;,g;,i (l .a , d
t. .... i t,.
inr last., ami I ac, jumping st rid
- Ihe
lieast and jabbing- his In-, b
Hanks, said: "Now grt up. sir.
into
tri t no! "
Ho got up a little- in the it ar.piaiters.
.piite as much as a pony of his si,
nn. Id with L'iu pounds aveii ilu j.ois ,.n
his back; he gnn.titl and -muted, but
loiwani no oi.l not go an inch. ia
lave
said: ".u speak to him, S.n.'i
y ou're
dnv ing now ."
And Sadie said: "Cot up. ponv! ct
up, you dear little fellow!"" As before,
he got i.p with his hind feet just a.
far as he could, but his fore feet t .
luaii id r .i...l statioiiaiy .
Agaio i king: T be jigg.-e,.,! ; "
Dave dis ii led and. taking a seat on
the i on I, ,.i his thinking can.
'1 he . i -si., t ,.i his meditation was this:
".' ad i. . I ... ii.ii heavy for him. li.ai's
what's I l.c m liter; lie's Im-cu i s.-d to
liaving .. b..y or Cracker man rid,- him.
and you i.urr s;ivv a Cracker that
weighed au thing to speak of. I'll tell
you what. Sadie; you must ride him
and I'll hold the plow. Strang.- 1 r-idu't
think of that before. It'll bo n::i f,,r
yoii. ami I in sure w o'll gel righ t a I. .tig."
"Oh. Dave, Pave." said .--.ads-. " do
want to help you all I can. but icallv
am" truly 1 can't do that. . i...w ;
there's no saddle, and I'd be .-rami .
death."'
"Sadie." said Dave, "you've g-.t to grt
used to Iw-ing a farmer's w if.-, a:..: i n .1
just a.s well iM-g-iu right now. ' h.-re
isn't a parlicle of danger: v illi yonr
light weight he'll move light oil.
siiiooiu ami easy : anil, real!, n -
iir
only chanc . ni I -iow. f.,r
to eat nex . it .
-lh
Sadie, w . ' a ' 1 1
promise to oive, honor
rar.l
and
f.-r
1.. r
said
a silent jirayi-r. a
lifted on the lion
low il herself to be
and with t r. mi.li nir
hands grasped the reins as she was in-
st I III ti ll.
Then Dave, holding the plow, urgcil
tin- pony to go; but go he w ou idu't .
"Kick hini. Sadie! Kiik h'l.il" i-iie.l
Dave, and Sadie kirkiil and kicked
again, but the Ireast only li.n l.nl ami
snort ed.
Dave's stock of patience w as 't 1 1 imr
exhausted, and lo' said: "You just
wait a minute. Sadie. I'M vcj a switch
and persuade him a little."
So In- cut dow n a small oak .aplin-.
about ten feet high, trimmed off tin
haves and twigs, ami. takintr a stand
back of the pony, at right n'glcs to
the plow, said: "Now look out. Sadie!
I think he'll start." Ami he brought
his "switch" down with ail his force
across the Minys back.
He started; there could le no ipu'S
tiou about that. The plow was jerked
high in the air. and tin- next in-tant
the pony was living across the ti.-ld
with km i r Sadie clinging frantically to
the hames.
When he reached Ihe rail fence on
the far .side of I he lie hi In- went rig lit on
over, like a trained hunter: bi.t the
plow catching; on the near side, he
was j.-. ked back by the I races a ud c.: me
dow n on his haunches on 1 he ot hrr -idi'.
while Sadie went on and ou in a srrii-s
of remarkable somersaults.
When lfcivc reached the spot, the
jony was silting-, and so was Sa.lic. but
at some distance apart.
"Sadie, dear!" he exclaimed, "are vou
hurt?"
"I don't know. Dave," she said, "but it
appears as if I'm considerably shook
up."
"Well, you just wait a minute till I fix
this beast," said Dave; and. takintr a
broken fence rail, he brought it down
with all his might across the top of the
pony's head, knocking it limpaud sense
less. "Oh. Dave." said Sadie. h;e,!-.ir.g around
just then, "you've killed him!"
"I don't rare if I have." said Dave.
"If he won't plow he'd better be dead,
and save his feed. Any how . Sadie. I'm
done with farming. Anybody that
wants to can plow. I don't."
Sunrie approved the resolution, her
ambition to be a farmer's wife having
cooled considerably. Dave shouldered
the plow and gear, anil' tht y wended
their way homew ard, leav ing I he poll v
for dead.
Texas ponies, however, are tonHi.
and this one "came to" some time Pair
ing the day. and wandered Innrw in time
for supper. He proved a capital saddle
animal, and. ha ii:g eschew cd plow imr.
Dave became a hunter and sold, verison
to buy flour. I.ippincott's Magazine.
Wet Il.iun the Old I'oIUk.
In K'ussia a necessary formality for
the happiness of a newly-married couple
is that their parents should 1m-wet from
head to foot. In summer they ate
ducked in the nearest river o" pond, and
in winter they are usually rolled in the
tnow. At the village of :"ystotrky in
I'phn recently the wedd'r. gin st.s 1 ic
ing; drunk, as is enstou ary. poured
buckets of water over th:- bride's fa
ther with the t!icrT-ionie4er ct t"n dog-roes
l-elow zero, w hereof he died.
Krmarkalile timer ill".
An Irish g-iitlcm:m was n-centSy at
tended by nn -m;irci:t ini'oii physi
cian, who. pausing ai.d l. ol.'i gat him
with an iniju'.ring glance, said:
"I should Lke to know. s"r, if your
family have been long-lived?"
"Long liveil. "s it?" res otnlnl the -tient.
thoufht fully. "Well, doctor, I'll
just tell you how it is. Our family is:
a west of Ireland fm'ly. r.nd tlieageof
my am-ostors depended entirely iij on
the jiadgc and jury w lm tr'n-d them."
l'earsou'ti W eekjy.
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rll attSrT?.!;.. 'H'-tiB deia.4 ta
on t,o, ;"et u 1 V- Am
f
A DIFFFRFNT riicrn.i
- vwoi vm.
What I. -r..,.er In , , , -lte- si.te.
' "'l In MMra.
The man who had I -eon h.wn in Mex-x-o
trying u, l,nv up a carb-a.1 of silver
i
i.-iiarv made for the Am
nericaii market.
and gcar:.i,te.-d worth
their weight in
sterling si I vol
was in town the other
da I n.kii g fe
lor customers. 1 ncideiital-
i. l.c ran ai-riiss a Star rejK.rter and
oueieo lo sell him
....
a Ion or two of dol-
.ars. I l,. n the man asked for a light
and the rrpirt.-r. flipping the ju-hes
In in his cigar, handr.1 it over to the
ret cr'icd tiaxeVr.
""Iheri's ..,,., a difference in cus
toms." -aid the man. taking his light
from tl.,. bortowe.l cigar. "Now you
not -re how p. btelv .-.. tl,....i.,f .'.ii..
I
'
J
j
i
j
I T 1ll..l!i-it f obi. I-; .1..
t . . t . r ,
1 1 I : i : 1 1 I iiliu ss is th,- tin.. ,M.I,t-
ne s y.t kT1ked the ashes off vour
cii-ar vv hcii xou handed it to me to light
ii: f- V"
f . . . ...
I"'"'"" are always polite, "
ge-'ed tie rr.rter.
"A I was saying." rout in mil
ug
1he man. unheeding, -there is sui h a dif
fer. i customs. Now. when 1 went
t Mexico the first time. I didn't know
the Mexican ci-d.- ,,f manners. and
..J-.tit the first thing .lid when I landed
w as to ask a man for a light. He hand
ed me a cigar with the ah.son. 1
thought it was bad manners, but I
t!ipitl t !,.-,., ,,T ami kindle! my weed.
1 !.! that four or live times .'and 1
a!v
! I
xs g..t it ii, the same way. Then
.-an lo hol e some ,.f ik.-m u.ml.l
a-k nn- f. r a light s,, 1 ,-,,, sliow M.-x-I'owhr.t
real ih.nili.r- were. 1 got t he
' '"" "e "'ax . ami w hen a man asket!
b.r a light I flipped off the ashes and.
xx ith a sal.-ia m at hast txvo yards across
I'l lis widest sweep. I extended him
1 ir I. lazing st i'li-p. lie t..k il.of
inurst.
iMing too jwilite to treat
r otherwise, but he did it
a st ran
in a wav
1 siun-cu me sonii-T iii ng w as w rong
and I began asking a question or two.
"Ihe result was that 1 discoveied
what ti e true form was and what an
ass I had litt-n making of mvself trv-
i... . i .. i . -
IP" to te i.-li t,i -seel.) r.vstih SoaparcOI4
wliat the rt-.li. i-iirarro was. Mv in
structor t'-id me that the thing to ilu
was to l.-:i- the ashes on at their full
.1 to .'aii.-I'v tone's the imlight.il ci
I'.ir or cigarette just about the tire line
I e'x- o. -t the .- sh ai d tin- After
lh.-..-. I.,-Mig no l.cig.-r in igtionince, to
acid l..-,,!s,ii ,.r international ii.tn-pli.-atiii
s. never again was Hip with
the ashes of mv cigar." Washington
Star.
JOBS OF CHEMISTS.
t if
lineer la ,.r I 'n Iron. T.mt 1 b
llne I.. (..
( heinists M.Iiiclimes have queer ex-H-rici,ei
s. I l.c '.illiivv ing facts, sav s
the i hit-ago .ioiiinal. were to!. I bv
a proles..,, r in ,,. M. western
nnixersities: "lor al.ut t.-u y,ais
I l.axe n.a.le a speciah of examining
i.d i . p. .i t ii.g upon eases of i .-al or ; us
.ii tcil uiisouing. As a nuiulH-r of my
iases have I -ecu connected v.ith Iiiuider
tii.ds. I have had considerable iio.i.e
in the daily pajwrs. Ilnsr.putala.il
for making analyses for jaii.sius has
brought me a queer class of patrons.
"ilxcry year I have one or more old
men come to ine with samples of too.1
to bo examined for poison. h.-se men.
x it 1.. uit except ion. ha e man it-, I y oun
wiv.-s. and when the husband is ta,cii
sick ami does not rn-ox-r as qui, klv as
ho thinks he sho::ld. he Itcgins to sus-jn-ct
that his young wife wants to get
rid of him. and is poisoning him grad
ually through the medium of his f.l.
Of course ho docs not want his wile t-
know of his suspicious, and he quiet ly
gets a sample of the food he siisjmi ts,
ami at some unusual hour for work,
generally either early in the morning
or wry late in the eening. he c-..m.-s to
mo and tolls me very secretly that he
wishes to haxe an examination for oi
son made.
"Now. the odd part is that, tluoigh I
haxe made a number of such anal ses.
I have no or found Miison present in
mix case. Then the husband is erv
much afraid that his wife will find out
lhat he suspects her. and he gels out
ot my laboratory in the quickest na.l
quietest manner w.ssible. So every
year I cx,ect to see some elderly man
enming apprehensively up my of!i.-e
-fairs with a vx cll- onccaled sample of
fi-od aiK.ut him tol.seexiimin.il for poi
son. Ilx.-ry year he comes. e-rv y -ar
I make my analysis ami find no jmusoii.
and every year the old gent loma n gets
informal ion that lie considers cheap at
the price."
SENSORY HALLUCINATIONS.
The S-el nit nf I.Iiii-Ii. Doe to IJefeettve
l-:elKht.
A ri-nt uumber of the Australian
Medical Caotte contains a brief but
instructive report of the cure of a case
of hallucinatory disorder. The patient,
a man agul (.0 years, hail suite red l.-r
txxo years from subjective visual sensj
tions not a ,l.iy passed that ho did noi
see a largo number of spectral human
figures, and Itcliexing himself to be
ha u uied by ghosts lie had l-,-ome ory
dcspoinict.t and melancholy. Ou sc k
il.g metlieal advice it was found that
ho had senile cataract. When this w.s
n-luuip.l by opt-ratiou the ghosts 1.,-d
and liic man recovered his usual heal! n.
J il liii.s connection we may cite the ca.:-e
of a tradesman in Ileri-u whose shop
was haunted by apparitions resembling;
i'l apjK-aram-e some of his deceased t us-tomci-s.
He was an intelligent man,
awaie lhat he oiiiTorod from setis.i-y
hu.'lu. ination. and made notes of Ins
Mibjii-t.xo imprtssions. In lue time he
so:. milted his eyes to examination a..d
H-rat.on. with the result of a n-stora-tioii
of normal vision and the immedi
ate and dial disappearance of his in
tangible visitors, 'i lie obvious teach
ing of tin- foregoing and similar cases is
that in those Uitlcrn day s theerson to
lie resorted to for the exorcism of spir
its and demons is the opthalmie sur
geon. t. re en Snow.
Three places at least are known
where green snow is found. One of
the- places is near Mount He-la. Ice
land; another 1-1 miles east of the
i-i..u:h of the Old. and the third near
Quito. South America.
Ho ton ( oaimaa.
The somewhat curious statement is
made by a Host mi new sputter that no
isdic.-non are ever stationed1 on I'.oston
common except on Sandays and Loli
i (lays.
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