She U nol Fair to Outward Tlow.
8h U> not fair to out want view.
A* many msalftn* tw ;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until ahe smiled on me :
O, then I eaw her eye waa bright
A well of love, a prtag of light.
But now her look* are coy ai..i cold
To mine they ne'er r*|>lv ;
And yet 1 cease not to behold
The lovelighl in her eye ;
Her very frowns are better far
Than smiles of other maiden* are !
—Haktuv t\U.KKtUUK.
The Two Angels.
(i >1 callM the infarct augela who dwell with
him above;
The teadeiwst one was pit*. the deaivwt one
ve love.
•'Arise." he said. "my angels 1 a wail of woe
and ain
Steals through the gates df heaven, and sad
do us all wittiiu.
'My harjw take tip the mournful strain that
from a Kiel woikl swells.
The smoke of torment olou.U the light and
blights the asphodels.
'• Fly downward to that under workl. and or
its souls of {torn
Let love drop soule* like sunshine, auJ pitv
tears like rain 1'
Two faoee bowed lefore the (hroue veiled m
their gokleu hair ;
Pour white wing* lessened swiftly dowu lite
dark abyss of air.
The way wa* strange, ihe flight i,wig , at
last the angel, oauie
Where swung the !,*■: and nether workk red
wrapped hi ray less Satue.
There p.ty. shuddenug, wept ; but love, with
faith too strung for feer.
Took heart from Hods almigtiUueaetad siu.'cd
a smile of cheer.
An I lo 1 thai ten of p!> >) aerwhed the dim*
w hes\ oil it fell.
And. w.th the euu&luue of that rixlo hope en
teral into hell
Two tin veiled faces fall of joy looked upward
to the throne.
Pour white wings folded at the l'eet of ll.ru who
sot thsreou!
Aud deeper than the svuud of sea-, more soft
than fall u .' flake.
Amidst the hash of wing and song tlie Voice
Eternal stake :
•-Welcome, my angel* 1 ye have brought a
bolter joy to heaven ;
Heueefanb its sweetest song shall be the song
of am forgiven 1"
—Juki*, (f. ItAih r.
AT THE COOKHOUSE.
Exeertrrrrx •! at kirac* Itrrarirr Wku
*rni Tkrre Ilaj* a* a Vaaraat la liar
l'orbMr.
Grouped ia doornjs and aW>ut the
yard of the county-house, as we came up,
wire various human figure*, whose
slender forms denoted the preying* of
misfortune and want, and whose gar
ment fluttered about in ribbons of tat
ters. They had crept out of their t"ue
aiei.ts t> wituess the daily arrival of the
•' bus," the solo link connecting tliem
with the world. It was very cold. The
air was laden with forebodings of snow.
Attempting to rise, ia ordi r to get out of
the wagon, I found my limits stiffened
with cold, so that I could scarcely stand
unsuppoiUsl. I assisted the driver,
however, in letting the very old woman
down from the wagon, after which, I,
too, dismounted. My three male com
rades were shivcringly standing near, in
readiness for further instructions. The
driver said U 'tiling to us, but continued
unloading the wagon of its stoek of
groceries. Under the pressure of cir
cumstances I thought myself justified in
addressing the driver. Accordingly, I
stepped forward and said very humbly:
" If you please, sir, where are we to
go!"
If he had allowed his la tter feelings to
predominate for only that one time, uud
find been humane enough to give me the
uesired information, I could have for
given all his previous brutalities. Hut
he did not. He never vouchsafed to re
ply or even to lift liis head. And I
thiuk that was liard, considering that we
thinly-clad wretches were needlessly
shivering there in the cold. Finally a
bystander said to me in a low tone tlmt
"the ole man " would be around direct
ly, and would show us where to go. In
fact, after a moment, " the ole man " ap
peared. His actions denoted that he was
in authority, and yet his appearance was
mean. I was considerably puzzled to
understand wliat his position at the
poorhouse wan, and I afterward learned
that he was one of a detestable class
known as boss paupers. He approached
leisurely, ami, after staring at us con
aecutively from head to foot, removed a
pipe from his mouth, and said:
" You come with me."
Now when I first saw this man I was
favorably impressed with his appearance.
His outward look was tliat of a re.<qtest
able, quiet, elderly gentleman in reduced
circumstances. Besides, 1 was naturally
pleased with him, for he csme to me in
the [role of a savior, to guide my weak
and benumbed limits into a haven of
warmth. But that stare with which he
greeted us was so stony, and yet so
contemptuous, that I tx-gau to change
my mind. We started ah >ng nt his bid
ding, single file, in the direction of one
of the large tenement buildings, but we
had scarcely taken a dozi-n steps when
the old man who led us stopped. He
deliberately turned around, and, without
any explanation, stood gazing at the
driver of the wagon, who w:n still en
gag'*,! in unloading. Now this old man
knew that we four shivering wretches
were suffering from cold and exposure.
And yet he deliberately kept us waiting
there in the snow for nearly ten minutes,
while he did nothing but look unconcern
edly at the wagon, apparently entirely
oblivious of our existence. 1 am con
vinced that lie did this iroiu pure anil
unadulterated malice, merely to exhibit
his authority. To thow readers who are
sitting by their comfortable firesides,
and who have never been exposed in
their garments to a three-hours' jolting
over a rough road on a bitter cold day,
this may appear a trifling matter.
Doubtless it was not an indictable crime.
But to ns, for the time being, it was a
serious thing. It was a cruel and wan
ton aggravation of our suffering; and
yet it was only one of a series of petty
tyraunies"to which I, with the hundreds
of other paupers, were constantly sub
jected.
Finally, after having given ns ample
Eroof of our subjection, the old man
nocked the oslies oat of his pipe and leis
urely proceeded. We tailed after him,
and, entering a large two-story frame
building, found ourselves in the mi. Ist
of pauperdom. It was a large, long,
low room where we were, each side be
ing lined thickly with cots, leaving a
passage down the middle alxmt ten feet
ia width. At the foot of certain beds
were little wooden benches, upon which,
in various attitudes, were seated the in
mates. Some were also lounging npon
the beds, while still others were stroll
ing up and down the room or clustering
about the stove.
Without exception, they were tattered,
wretched, and listless. There was very
little conversation, although our arrival
was doubtless the only new topic afford
ed by the day. Some of them looked
curiously at us, but very many did not
lift their eyes from the floor. Our guide
conducted us to the far extremity of the
room, where he was joined by a shaggy
headed old chap with an unnatural
fierceness in his expression. The latter
fetcLed from some remote corner a lan
tern, a%dusk had already settled upon
the i dace, and a slate wus likewise pro
duor d, upon which he scrawled the an
swers to certain questions, similar to the
formula which had been fired at us in
the county agent's office. The fierce
old man wasterse ratherthan argumenta
tive. Thus:
" What is the matter with you ?" with
KKIOD. KVirPZ, Ktlitor nml 1 Vopriotor.
VOL. MIL
I a vi.vleiit jerk in hi* tune, an if spring
ins mi Muliumklen]Kiu the unsuspecting
intorrognt.xl.
*' It's the fnvnr I've lurd fer the list
thru months, to l>e share, an' the
doother"—
"Shut im!" aiul the |xxr wreteli
writs liu-th-d i>aok with the word* ruttlmg
in his throat.
The ceremony having lieen jxrfornied as
to all of us we were hailed by our guide,
aud pushed out of tho fetid air of the
nxuu into the uippiug atmosphere with
out. Crossing to a frame building op
poaite, we found ourselves in a room
which I concluded to bo the "kitchen,"
as there was a large cook stove in the
middle, ami a sink in one corner. "Sup
per for four," exhorted the old man, mid
relapsed into his native •euitaerues*.
A squint eyed fellow iu the capacitv of
head waiter rose sleepily out of a dark
corner iu the kitchen, and disappeared
iu an adjoining apartment. He returned
immediately, bringing iu his hands a
burden uudistingnislutble until brought
w itliin the meagre nwlutnee of the t<andlt-,
which st.sxl on a long pine table extend
e.l tu-ross one side of the kitchen. 1
then discovered that it was bread. There
were f>ur pieces, or nither chunks,
which lie threw down at regular inter
vals ujhui the not over clean table.
Truly, thought I, here is abundance.
Here is liberality. l!achchunk of bread
w is at least two inches thick, and from
six to eight inches square. The noise
of the bread descending iqvon the table
was like tluit which would lx> produced
by so many stone*.
1 waited.
" Eat," saiil the "boss join per."
My companions fell to with a zest. 1
attacked my chunk of bread fiercely, but
with no {verceptible diminution of its
proixirfcona.
The aqnint-eyed man again advanceil
upon us, Is-aring four tin cups, which he
set Ikfon- us. 1 hsiktxl at liiv tm cup.
It was laitterevl and rusty, and it was till
txl with a dark tluid from which .-team
arose. It was tea. I lifL-d the cup ami
tasted. I sat the Clip down ujxui the
table. I did not drink anv mor- tea.
Can I describe the ptx-ulior taste of
that luxury w liich the generous hearted
people set before its paupers t I fear
not, and vet I will try. Take a sip of it.
On entering your ruouth it tastes very
much like warm water. Swallow it. As
it g.n-s dowu your tliroat you experience
a seiisatiou such as might follow if yon
were kicked by a mule or hud swallowed
a small dose of chain lightning. 1 cun
uot describe it more particularly, except
to say that tho savor remains aud
abides with you a long time. For my
part, I can taste the tea to this mo
ment.
Such was our supper. As ttium as the
first man was tlireugh—it happened to
be me—the " boss pauper" .signified
that we were to follow him. The poor
fellows who tia.l eagerly devoured their
bread and tea looked sally around, but
had not even the courage of Oliver Twist
to ask for "more." We arose and fol
lowed the magnate, who led us across
the yard to still another building. Here,
mounting a flight of rickety stairs, w<•
entered a room <>u the second floor,
swarming with human Wings Pass
ing through, we nunc into another
room, also crowded, and thence entered
a third apartment, larger than either of
Uie other*, and proportionately jmpula
t d. These rooms were all amuigol
similar to the one we liad been in lwfore
supper. A line of beds extended along
W>Ui side*, leaving a narrow pus ; .ge in
the middle. It was now <ollll' dark, and
navigation was only rendered possible by
means of a lantern, hung against the
wall, and emitting a light which w.i
certainly dim, though not religion*. At
the extreme oinl of the room, pil< 1 up
in one corner, were a uumW-r of bed
tick*.
" Take those down;" said the mar. da
toriid pauper.
We I railed down the ticks, one alter
the other, until only one was left.
"Two of you men sleep here," said
the "IHISR," pointing to the remaining
tick; "and you other two sleep here,
marking out a precinct upon the fl.nir
with his f<K>t.
From tli* pil' we disengaged a tick, n
ragged quilt, atul a sheet, yellow and
rank. With these we made our tx-.1,
after which the old man left us to our
i solves. Shortly afterward Hie rinsing of
1 a Wll announced the hour of retiring—
i eight o'clock. One by one the dusky
| forms that had been moving about the
room sank out of sight, the lantern Was
extinguished, and pauperdom was
| asleep. I took off my shoes and coat,
| folded the latter into a jiillow, and got
| into bed, first taking care to thrust the
sheet as far from me as possible. Sonus
| how I preferred to lie npon the tick, nud
I even hail an instinctive predilection f >r
the edge. Tin' large room was veiled in
; blackness, not even the rafters overhead
being visible. I eotild not sh*ep on ac
I count of the horribly fetid smell ; so.
after a wliile, I softly arose and ojtened
a window u>ar by, letting in a rush of
pure air. Tln n 1 returned to my dismal
couch. By and-hve I heard strange
' noises all over the room—faint grinni
ings and remote wranglings. I listened,
but could not conjecture whence they
proceede<l. Ilapid foot fidls were beard
on the floor. Occasionally a distinct
i noise, like some light body tumbling
I from the ceiling. Then something black
ran across my l*-d, and I felt reassured
( —for it was only the rats.
At six o'clock on the following room
ing something kicked me. It was the
old "boss pauper," who ejaculated,
i roughly:
" Git up, ye lazy popper !"
I hidf rose, and looked around. For
the first time I had a clear view of the
j room which was to be (in theory) my
future home. Looming over me with
I a terrible scowl upon his wrinkled fea
tures, was the " Insis pauper."
j that I was awake, he shook his fist at
! me, and turned upon his heel. The long,
low room presented a curious spectacle.
Human shajx-n were scattered aliout in
| all stages of the toilet—nakedness, do*
| habille, and full dress. Home were dis
entangling themselves from the tattered
drapery of their couches; others were
sitting up in bed, and gazing around in
HtnjH'faction, as if surprised at finding
, themselves ulive another day; still others
were arranging their rags about their
meager forms as carefully as if they were
belles preparing for the bull room. I
noticed oue poor old man at a cot in my
vicinity attempting to shave. He hall
brought out from n wooden IMIX under
his bed a razor, minus a handle, a bit of
soap, and a leather strap. The poor
fellow hail no looking-glass, and was
obliged to proceed slowly and with very
great pains. The other paupers eyed
him enviously, and one of them told me
that the old man was a " riggeler blonbsl
'risticrat." These were his very words,
and he WHS in earnest, too. I found out
afterwards that pauperdom has its social
distinctions, its petty rules of etiquette,
as well as the outside world. Each ward
lias its cliques, who associate only with
each other as far as possible. Each
clique has its leading spirits, and all of
these mighty leaders of fashion bow
, down before the "boss pauper." Hi; in
j turn licks the dust in the presence of the
under warden, who is ruled over by the
I warden. The warden himself to the
mass of the paupers is as inaccessible as
the Czar is to his Cossacks. Tlius is sus
tained the mighty fabric of society.
My toilet was simple, as I had only to
put on my coot, hat and shoes. This
done, I bethought me of ablutions, but
could see no signs of tbe necessary uteu-
PHE (CENTRE REPORTER
1 sils. t)u inquiry I learned that there
ww* it trough hi the barnyard for water
ins 110, whoro inmate* were allowed
to wash, if they chose. 1 accordingly
j made a ilewvul, trial di**'i> red. after
lv ing luy face ami hand*, that u coat
sleeve i*. after all, u tity convenient
towrel.
breakfast consisted <f bread uml iuo
loase*. and MOtUi tiling termed coffre. 1
Aiulit not lint mlmim the relish with
wliioli uiy companions made their matu
tinal onslaught.
Tho children poor, little, ignorant
waifs wore rv-n worse oft" tltau
we. There were alx.ut thirty of them,
tilling two tables, and. it was pitiful
to *-e their manifestation* of hunger.
How they rushed into their sents, elunb
ing uig.l tumbling over each other like
little woti.s, clamoring and crying,
grabbing at the scanty morsel* 1 H'fore
Uietii, and choking Uiriuwlviw within
j ordinate mouthful*. Tliere was this
dlff.relav between the children's food
and that of the men: the form. r had all
the crusts ami stale ends of bread. A
trrtluig difference, perhaps, but, when il
is considered the until consisted of uoth
nig but brvxid with u little molasses, the
fact become* more Uiqxilt.ilit.
Among the hundred or more occupant*
of Ward I*, where 1 was l.x-nt.-d, there
were many very qiuer jstiple. It would
certainly i>e very queer if there were not.
The dregs of humanity were they, with
i few exception*, gathered from the gutter,
not from the shop. Possibly not vicious
or criminal, they were yet of the low. d
tyjsi of creation. Ignorance, drink, and
superannuation were what brought tliem
there. The majority were old. Some
luul Ixtn shifted upon the county by
! their children, and these were generally
supplied with tolxicco anil clothing from
home. Some were sick, some idiotic,
some downright insane. There was not
one man in ten who luid his wits plainly
alaiut him. Nearly all were umrc orles*
" cranky." having l>een made so by re
cent association and Imbitsof living, even
if they luul never been so before coming
to the puorhonsc.
There was one young man who went
by the apjvellation of "Gutter Snipe."
Poor SuijH- luul hccu the worst of liard
usage, and only a very small port of his
senses luid hell left in lulu, lie vvas
forever on the wing always walking
j restlessly up tuul down, up and down.
| His dree* luul Iss-u sliockiuglv neglected
by the authorities. His rugged woolen
shirt was o|x-u in front. His insufficient
trousers were greatly alienated from liis
shoes, exposing a long stretch of Iwre
leg. He luid no stockings, and his shoe*
were siqx'rubmnlaittly ventilated. In
his peregrination* Snqx- never uoticod
or spoke to aiiyUvdy, but could frequent
ly be heard murmuring to himself words
of uniiistingnisliable import. Once in a
while he would suddenly stmt and run,
or rather leap, down the room, but
would immediately resume his former
pare. It wiut his habit of running which
iiad giving him his sobriquet. Sni|>e wa*
| no doubt insane, but lie waa peaceable.
He and I got to be regular old cronies,
sworn friends, during nsy jHinja r xjm-ii
Another oddity in Ottr war.! wiu a
young man culled " IJWIUV." lie WM
nut rcallt insane, l>ut ouly foolish.
Never, since he has Ix-eii M the JMH ir
bwsc, has he ever Ins n known to utter
a word. He sat (or hours, in fact all
ih*y, in one p notion near the stave suek
mg his thumb, and trying to hs>k wis.-.
Loony w:is also harm Usee, ami ;i l*o was
he shamefully trmtel bv th.<- authorities.
He had a qneer habit < f picking up hits
of II|HT and chips from the ths>r, ami
itiTi fullv hoarding them up in his pock
ets, |s roup* thinking in his weak bruin
that they *en< treasures of iu> atiraablc
value, (hi the morning after tuy arrival,
Loony ttjs Fitting in his curtumil}
place with tiis chin upou his hands,
gazi:ig out of a window noon the uu
broken white sea of prairie, when the
jianpcr " liAppfiinl to ol*er\e
hi:n. The "bosn" " name, I hud by this
time ascertained, w()'lUti-ii. o'ltri> n
rlunral to look toward* Loony, and M*
the latter'a distended exit |>oeket. Now,
he km w j>erf-ct!y well the jxwr l>oy'*
weakness and lie knew wbnt wn in the
|x>cket. Hut with the malevolence which
seemed a part oi this old man's nature,
he stej'jx-d arrows to l/*my, and without
a word knocked him down. Then he
titled his jxcket* roughly, at the mma
time calling the attention of nil the jam
Iters to the trembling wretch.
44 Look here, will ye? Here's n nice
rats' nest!" cried he, ns he emptied out
the bits of pajx r and clnjis. And all
the pau|M'rs groveled around and echoed:
44 Oh, what a nice rats' nest it is !"
The dinner hour was two o'clock.
Paupers don't eat supper in winter
time. The dinner this day was looked
forward to with phasing anticipation.
There was an unwonted stir and com
ment in our ward previous to the ringing
of the bell. All were eager, and more or
less excited. Why ! It wan liean-sotip
day. Once in two weeks the grand event
cornea off, and there is a consequent
n-laf. Sick men douued their rags and
crawled down to taste of this rare luxury.
A very intelligent-looking Swede, who
was confined with inflammatory rheu
matism, and who could acarcefy move
without shrieking with jiain, borrowed n
crutch and hobbled down stairs and
across the yard to the dining-room.
Agnill I waited until the third table,
as I preferred to avoid the crowd.
Tli ticiui soup was made in the base
ment of the main building, and wax
tlieiico carried in a washtub across the
yard to the kitchen. It wns then ladled
out into huge pans and placed on the
dining tables, where again it is sule
ladled into the various tin platters. I
entered the kitchen while the second
table men were at work, and, while I
was w,.telling the transfer of the lxvin
soup from the tub to the pans, I heard a
sen file in the dining-nxim. Looking in,
I saw two junipers fighting. Tliey were
desiierately engaged, beating oneh other
with fists, platters, etc., and were with
difficulty separated by the cook. I
learned afterward that the casus belli
was a disjmte as to which should lie
servisl first with the liean soiiji. Like
dogs struggling for a Ixme these men
fought over a dish of thinned soup, and
one of them gashed the other's head
with a dipper. Is any moral necessary f
I trow not.
The Cost of a Seat In Parliament.
Member* of the liritisli Parliament
pet no pay—but many of them pay very
heavily for their wilts. A parliamentary
return just issued shows tiio charges in
curred by the successful and defeated
candidates at the late general election.
Among the dearest seats are those for
North Durham; the x|wnnes of the two
successful culldi(lutes for this county
were £17,601; those of the two successful
candidates were £10,602. Thirty-two
successful candidates in seventeen dis
tricts paid £116,650, nn average of £.'!,- 1
645 for a neat; while their unsuccessful
rivals paid £55,800, ail average of £l,-
083 each. In another group of districts
the losing candidates paid more than
their successful rivals—ton candidates
for eight districts paying £47,547, an
average of £4,755 each, while the seats
were won by fifteen other gentlemen at
ail aggregate cost of £42,353, or £2,823
each. The most costly tests Hoem to be
those of West York; two losing candi
dates there paid £10,894, while the two
successful ones got the seats for £0,062.
How many memb rs of Congress would
pay $15,000 for their election I
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, APRIL 2t>, 1873.
Files Are I'scful An Interesting Lv
pciliii.nl Hade.
It has generally l-eu Imlieved that the
common house ily was a nuisance uml of
i.o earthlv us.-. Prof. Emerson, u
noted English chemikt, found that fiies
were not so iiSi li'S* as tln-y are suppoMe.l
* > IK-, hut that as scavengers of the air
they are indi*|>euNable. Did you ever
watch u llv who ha* just alighted after
soaring about the room for some little
time f lie gs* through a series of ojhtu
lions which remind you of a mt lick
itig herself after a meal, or of a bird
nlumiug its feather*. First, the hind
feet are rilblksl together, then each hind
leg is jmsved over a wing, then the fore
legs undergo a like treatment, ami lost
ly, if you look sharp, you will see the
iusvt carry his jirolsw-is over his legs
and Issly as far as he can reach. The
minute trunk i* p. rf.vtlv retractile, uml
it terminates in two large lots-*, whieh
vuu iwu a* 1 Biinwl aut when the iii -ect
ix'gms a meal Oil u lump of sligir. Now
the rubbing together of legs ami w ings
may be a smimthing oiwraLou; l.ut for
wliat purpose is this carefully going over
the Issly with the trunk, esjsviully when
tliat organ is uot fitted for licking, but
simply for grasping ami suck tug of food.
Prof. Emerson found on examination
that the action of the tliiw was to gntli.-r
animalcule*, which had atLu-he.l to them
iu flying alsuit the room. lie t.sk a
slan tof white pajs-r uit> the kiU-heii
and waved it around. Liking cure that uu
files touch isi it, went I wick to the micro
msitx- and there found animalcule*, tla
same a* ou tlie*. He had now arrived at
something definite; they were not the
progeny of the fiy, but animalcule* float
ing in the air; ami the quick motion* of
tlie fli.-s giillu-r.sl them ou their lsxlies.
Olid the fines then went into some qui. t
corner to have their daiutv meal.
The investigator g. * on to h-scrilH<
how lie amtinnnl the experiment in a
variety of localities, and how, iu ilirty
and brnl smelling quarbira, he found the
myriads of flies which existed there
literally covered with aniinalcul.-*, wlule
other flies, captured iu Ixd rooms or
w.-ll ventilated, clean ajKUluieiits, were
miserably lean and . ntircly fr.s* from
their prey. Wherever filth existed,
cvolriug g -ruis which uught geiarat.
diseo*.', tli. Ie were the i!i><*, coreriug
tliem selves with the minute organisms
aud gnsxlllv devouring the same.
Mr, Emers.m, while thus proving the
utility of the rty, lias added another ami
lower Link to that curious and iaxx-**ary
chain of destruction which exists in ani
mated nature. Theae iuiimt* .-uniai
animalcules form Rhhl for the lias, the
flics for the spalers, the spiders for the
bir.l*, the bini- for the quadru]H-da. and
so on up to the lost of the acre *, serving
the name purix.s.- to man. He rtaiuly
deserve* cr.*lit for on iub-reating and
novel investigation, ami for on inUdli
gent di*cemnient which might even at-
Lick the difficult task of teaching us the
us>w— for nature make* nothing without
some beneficial end—of the uuuiutlculoa
tlieiunelvci.
.Making Soft Soap.
Mary (\ West lias the following cluit
with a neighbor, and as slu givi-s a few
good hints as to making soft mp, we
quob- entire ;
" How did you run your lye t" 1
asked.
" I put ashes in a large barrel till it
was full, and then allowed water to
soak through from the top in the IIMIU]
way."
" Was your lye strong enough to la-.-tr
an egg so soon on it came from the
Imnel ?"
" Yes."
" And did it seem to cut up the
grease f"
" Yes."
" Well, that was all right—what was
the trotthle with It, then t"
" Why, the lye and the givsw would
not unite; when it had cooled tin- grrosr
was all on the top ami the lye at the
bottom— it's always just my luck."
" What kind of wood did Jon burn
to make your aslu s. "
"Oak. Isiy and magnolia."
" And what did you put in the
bottom of your barrel, under your
ashes f"
" Nothing but a little flue brush and
broom *> dge, to keep the a!ie* from
running out"
" All has Ix-en js rfeetiy right except
the List—in that lies tli<- secret of your
Imd look. You should have put at the
ltottom of your vessel a few- )K>uuds of
quicklime—that you are likely always to
liiul ueoessury when you burn swamp
wood. Ashes from swamp wood have n
great power to absorb carlionio acid from
the atmosphere, and rarlmnic acid pro
dnoes the effect which you name; but
lime neutralizes the acid and makes it
all right."
A Woman's Cure for Lockjaw
Several weeks ago this community,
says the Heading I'.injlr, was somewhat
alarmed a!suit what was considered as A
lockjaw epidemic. A gnat many fatal
iiuu-s wen- n-jKirted, and the physicians
again found thcniselveaat a loss to prop
erly meet this much dreaded ailment.
The following cure, urged by an elderly
woman residing along the illuo motiu
tains, is said to Is- effectual. Some w ill
not enqiloy the remedy lieeanse they
think it too simple ; others have no faitli
in it, while others often think such a
wound as is made bv running a rustv
nail in the fnt t<*i trivial to make mticn
fuss about. The remedy is simple and
always on hand when needed, and if put
into practice many a life might lie
saved.
It IH simply to smoke swell n wowml or
bruise tluit is intlnmcd with burning
wool or woolen cloth. It is said that in
twenty minutes the smoke of wool will
take the pain out of the worst wowml,
and repeated once or twice, it will allay
the worst cose of inflammation arising
from a wound. People may sneer nt the
old woman's remedy as much its they
J dense, hut when they are afflicted, just
et them try it. It has saved many lives
and much pain, ami is worthy of Iwing
printed in letters of gold and put in
every home.
Separating Them.
Vniidalin, Indiana, is strongly eonser
vative, at least in church matters. The
old custom of separating the men from
the women of the congregation still pre
vails in one house of worship. A viola
tion of the rule was observed by the
clergyman during a recent Kiimlny ser
vice, and he drew the attention of the
offenders to the fact in a loud tone of
voice and rather emphatic terms. They
did not seem inclined to move, so the
reverend gentleman persisted in his
vociferations, laying the sermon aside
till ho had disposed of the breach of
church etiquette. At the third demand
both transgressors arose and left the
' honse.
KAI.H and Boats.
"What are you after around here I"
inquired a Detroit grocer as he saw a
small boy edging up to a sugar lmrrel.
"I'm looking for rats," replied the
boy, as lie got out.
In a few minutes lie was discovered at
the back door, and the grocer called
out:
" Ha! Are you looking for rats yet i"
" No, sir," replied the boy, moving
away, " I was looking after my lost
i goat!"
Henry Hard Iteecher's Oalh.
When the defendant ill the great suit
of Tiltou <6. It..s'her was called a* a
witness, tlie sii'iie which ensued is d
acrilxxl as follows:
Mr. Evartasuid: "Mr. Beeclicr will
lx* sworn." The defendant r.me amid a
bustle in tin- room, and, carrying his
soft hat folded together in his hand,
mode his way Ix-htlnl tlie jury Ihix, cwme
to the front with a gray ami rigid face,
and step|X'd Up U|m.|i the stand. The
; oltl(S-r offered him II Bible, but he put
it a*i.tc, and, looking straight ahead of
lulu ul the clerk, la Id up his right hand.
I" You do solemnly afirrm oral declare"
lx gun Mr. Malhsou.
" Wait a moment," put in Mr.
I touch, springing up, and Mr. Evorls
, got up Lsi.
" Yon do nol. muly affirm and declare"
; rein-wed the elerk.
" Wait a moment, sir !" sliouUsl Mr.
Heaeli. Then he said, solemnly, to the
judge: " 1 object to this form of oath,
sir, unless Mr. licechef shall dtwlare
tliat he liusix.UM-a-lltloils st-ruplesagwllist
swearing ujxu the Scriptures."
The witii.-sj. did not move a muscle,
but stood upright and giay, looking
straight at the clerk, or over hi* head
Olid out of the window.
Judge N.-iisoij Any form that Mr.
lleech. r considers will bind his con
acience.
Mr. 1 teach—The statute, sir—the
statute is that a witness shall be sworn
UJMili the Scriptures unless he deelar.-s
he lias consk-ieutioUM scruples agaiunt
tliat naxle of swearing.
Whereupon, uim.ii thc*a liarah voice*
broke Mr. llecchttr's mellow one, and he
said, in grave fashion, unmoved by tlie
, ungracious incident:
" 1 have conscientious scruple* ugamst
' swearing ou the llrble."
Mr. Malllson ts-gali again; "You do
solemnly uftirm ami d.vlare " uud Mr.
ILxx-h.-r ha.l put up hi* hand again, w hen
Mr. Kvarta said, "Btop!" Hie clerk
stopped, ami Mr, Evart* told him:
-• lie swears with uplifted luui.l by
the ever-living (hsl, a* is the custom in
New England, the distinction between an
J oath and an affirmation tx-iiig the same
i there as la-re."
The clerk suited all parties at last, ad
ministering tin* oath:
" Yon do solemnly swear, in the pr
ence of the ev.-r living tiod, tliat tlie
evidence you shsll give in this i**e
joined between Theodore Tiltoo, plain
tiff, and llennr Ward IWcln r, defend
ant, shall lie tla- truth, tla- whole truth,
and nothing but the truth."
" I do," *aid Mr. lleeclmr, and i**tU.*!
in la* x. at at oiux- in a lounging, cotu
fortable attitude.
Natiie Cruelty in India.
A IVurisla correspondent of Uie Horn
liav (iaztttr furnishes the following re
markable, and, if true, atrocious jr
tn-ulars of a case of cruelty, which, he
says, has created a profound sensation,
as well it might. It appear*. a_v* tins
authority, that one of Mulhar Hao's
courtier*, who was in great favor with
lus highness. Was looked UjmU Willi
jealousy by some of his fellow courtier*.
Si, to get him into trouble with the
Maharajah, they n js>rttl to his highuc**
Uuit the favorite had lss-ll casting amor-
OILS glances at the Queen. The jssir man
was then *eizsl und. r—aa 1 hear it will
Is- satisfactorily proved- the order* of
the Malutntjah, and cast into prison.
S|>eei:il fetter* and Ittftliacl.-s were forged
for him. 1 have w-cu th<*m. A great
iron I sir tn .irly as thick as your wrist
and nUnil eighteen iuchiw long, with
thick heavy rings fitting on it for the
liamls to go in to secure his arms. These
tiling* alone weighs! twenty two j-omuls.
An iron ring of gn-at weight was put
around hia neck, and a chain was, Its
lievc, nttaehed to it. Hltgv iron bof*
with riugs utUw -bed, tig. tlu-r weighing
thirty-Ave pounds, wen- fastened to his
leg*, so that it must liave Iww-n unpoa-i
ble for the poor fellow to walk t-vt n a
vard. He could neither stand, sit, nor
lie down. 1 am t Id the weight of the
iron nttaehed to lus hands must have
Iss-n almost always on his chest, ami Uie
iron around his neck must have ls-nt
his body down so lliat his sufferings
must have lieeli terrible. But they dis
colored away of adding to them. For
about sixteen day* they fed him on
chutney made of chilli*si, and gave him
salt water to drink. At the end of this
time he died. Every one who has seen
those fetters feel* sick at tin- very thought
of wiuit this jvsir wretch must have
suffered. All this time there whs no
cllarge nunle against liim.aml there is nn
reason to suppose that any notice would
ever have been taken of the circumstance
if it had not Ihh-u for the inquiry which
luis been ordered to Is- held.
A Youdon (Vlehratloii.
Mary 11. Williams contribute* to .t/
nit Inn n Journal an account, given to
her by nn aged relative, of a Youdon
celebration in Louisiana fifty years ago.
It was St. John's eve, and the narrator,
then a young Is >y. prevailed upon a negro
woman to take him along. The place of
the ceremonies was an alsuuioned brick
yard iu a suburb of New Orleans. In
an old building two altars of brick bad
been piled up, and about sixty negro
uieu and women, dri-aaed in white, were
gatheri-d. Ou a tabic stood two stuffed
eats, one black and the other wliito, and
Is-twreeii them was an uncouth image of
a woman. At a signal from an old man
who i-ondueh-d the rib-s a din was com
menced by drumtnera, ami then lie drew
out from a box a huge snnke. Several
candidate* for initiation had been ranged
in a kneei ng posture, ami the snake
was drawn slwly around the neck of
onrh, the conductor rr]H-nting the name
of the order, " Votidon Magman." Eat
ing and drinking followed, the ls-verage
living sugnr-cune mm, until all wen
drunk. Then flres ware kindled on the
altars, mid tliey joined in a dance of tin
most grotesque description. The women
tore off their garments, the conductor
brought out tin- writhing snake again,
nnd the dancers sang:
Hewn' dunce ('altmla.
Vcmdoii! Magnian,
AMI ! Ale'
I >ance ('alinda'
" Hie orgies," concludes the descrip
tion, *' were becoming frightful. Sud
denly the candles tlared up and went
out, leaving nothing but a faint glow
from the dying pyres. I had grown sick
from heat, and IUI indescribable horror
took possession of me. With one hound
I was out of the abed, and with all speed
traversed the yard, fo.-.nd the gnte open,
and I was in the street and near home
sooner than I can telL If I ever have
realized a sense of the real visible pres
ence of his majesty the devil, it was that
night umnug his Vondou worahijiers."
A Hint in Hutch.
A plucked goose is the appropriate de
vice (for both parties) in most lnwsuits.
Victims re rarely lucky enongh to
realize this as seasonably as in the case
here given: A Lancaster (Pa.) lawyer is
suid to lie the originator of the following
joke: Being culled U|NIII by both parties
to u suit, lie informed the last one of liis
inability to serve him, but gave him a
nob' to another advocate, who would, no
doubt, take hisease. Honiewluit dubious,
lie hunted up a friend who could read
the note, the purport of which was
" Zwa fette gens; du rost und ieh rop"
—"Two fut geose; you pluck and I
pluck." On shoring the oontents with
nis opponent, they settled the case be
tween them. I
A fiOLIH.N HLDIHNb.
I Mrsslllsl si*r> •! a ll*Ml Ulr—-Thr
OUr* Time.
Iu an old (mrlor in Tarry town (a quiet
Peniisvlvama village) there still I angs u
isirtrait by lumau of Itachel Carey, of
whom the artist auid hers wan tho most
rare and flue face he had ever well, Iu
the village, however, the New York Trl
bum says, she was not regarded as no
liamlsouie u woman as the squire's
.laughter, whose eves were black as
aloe*, and whose check* wore like spree
pinks. I'h.- Careys, too, Isiug near
kinsfolk of Thomas Jefferson, were held
to be of ls-tn-r blood tlnui their Itelgli
ls>rs, and were paid homage as only in
ferior classes m u village know how to
yn-ld def. rt-uce to the lirulimtus among
them. Her moth.-r took Itachel to tlie
Hewing ls-es and " t.-a osselubliea" of the
country Hide, but only the young m.-a of
certain famih.-s piesumesl to ask her
hand in a datum. The Careys were not
rich, it required a good deal of aav ing
to buy ami lay by the two dozen silver
Hjmous of each kuid which were to be
part of h.-r w .siding outfit ; for, as waa
customary, us soon us the girl was ls.ru
this outfit h>ok its plane in the family
plans. Ma.turn Carey put aside her lac.
cuffs, mid emeralds set in guinea gold,
aud a* mi am as Itachel was lift.-.*n, Is'llig
th. u a uiost expert n.s-dl.'Wouian, w.-l<*
of fine holm spun linen w.-re given her
which she embroidered and math- up
into underclothing for the time wln-u
she should In* a bride. There were no
(•alls, uo l.s-tures, no morning |ia)M-rtlieu
with it* nvord of news and crime to fur
uiith her with thought ; and when we re
menilM-r how much of her youth was
spent iu quiet sewing and in pure sweet
maidenly fancies of her life to ouuie, we
do uot woud. r that when marriage come
at last she was a most true wife and ten
der mother.
It was, Lumvtr, usual for wumrii to
Is- m. then. fcibc w jut eighteen when
Israel Nowbold asked her in mar
riage; a young oounaelor-at-law, of g<*l
family, olid to wlium' rmlit )t was known
that he had Iss-n approached bv Ilfirr
(while li<- was to Western Pennsylvania),
luiii hud indignantly refused bim hi* aid
or tbiit of bis family. The young ]ieopl
wow each other only in the presence of
other*; their letters were studied wild
formal; the engagement was ke|>l secret,
as was the custom, ltut love was as
stroii# arid flerv thru as BOW, and framed
all the clearer taswuae hidden under
ui sl.-a mwrva One can but envy them
tlie delicious thrill of their sacred secret
when their hands touched it) the stately
quadrille or their eve* told the swtt
unspoken story. Wlien Jack and 1 telle,
having flirted with and kiaaed half a
dozen other girls and m'n, engage them
selves nowadays between the j anises in
the waltz ami lue away together next
morning to announce the fact to all their
acquaintances, the story d<w not seem
to lie sweet at all. Israel and lbuhel
were married on Kathv, IK2H, and Israel
took his bride to Philadelphia (*j-ending
a month in crossing the mountains),
when- many aaai-inbhes were given in
h< r honor. Mr. Jefferson met her there
and wrote to her father: "My young
kinswoman is shy as a dove, but ahe has
a ready and delicate wit when alone with
a (Hand." She never Conquered tliis
shyness: when we knew Iter the )>iuk
blush would rise to her wrinkled cheeks
if ahe was forced to >[nli before
strwrgera. Her Is-autv was tlieu *■ mar
wlon* Unit crowds followed h-r coach in
the streets, to the great wrath of her
voting huslwuid, who had no mind to make
lus raw common property; much indig
nati m too was expressed i>v her friemla
111 the city when it was found tlmt cer
tain engtmv* rs lutd stolen a copy of In-r
|s>rtruit for insertion in a book of the
v ar.
Israel Xewbold la-come a judge, tud
WW left Ilu quiet country neighbor
hood. He a stem man, who lived
long <'Dough t<> grow cynical with a tiui
winch rrwrardi-d clcatmg ami impudence
rather than integrity and honor. His
wife ntncvniol in r*< If vorv little with
the time*. She hiul a family of eleven
children. ami controlled a li m* hold of
many servant*. In it was earned on the
buaincM* of a farm, weaving, dairy work,
the making of clothes for the whole
fatnilv. She jer*on*l!y au| wriiiteiHled
not only all these work", ami the storing
away of provision*. fruits, meat*, lierlw,
but the teaching of her bova unt girls,
for whom ahe employed tutor* ami gov
erumses. Modern inahnietion, alio cmu
pl tiimd. wwa too wide and shallow; there
wa no thorough knowledge given of
1> t >ry, and tuvurato Kngliati waa seldom
li ord. Nothing cnnUl be aimpler or
purer than her own n*<' of language, in
her letter* or conversation. It strength
ened the effect which her delicate face
and always rich dainty drew had even
upon at range ra who did not know her.
V curious jiart of that effect was that
this woman itid not lielong to society Cor
to the world, but to her linslwunl and
friends and rhihlren. Her life was no
tilled with them, lier great household eon
trolled with such wisdom ami order, her
influence of strength and sweet humanity
diffused subtly through so nuuiv hearts
and lives, tluit we did not complain tluit
there was no chance for her to become a
public character. Her sous have grown
up honorable men, lier daughters un
faithful, liappv wives. Her btisband
died a few weeks ngo, just as their cliil
dn-n were rnadv to celebrate their golden
wedding, which would liave lwvn on
Easter day. After his death she made
no loud outcry; the love of huslsuid and
wife had la-en aacn-d and wordless
always. Hut the pink blush left the
aged elieek and she sat quiet and silent.
We kflew that she felt her work was
altogether done. When lier sons, who
loved her very dearlv, found that the
end was near, they liiirrii-d to the old
liomcniend fntn the furthest ends of the
country, and like children, with their
lieada iqsin her knooa. cxiod out that she
must not leave tliein. " Your father
wnnta me, laiys," she aaid gently.
" Nobody can take my place to him."
Ami so it was that on Easter day she
left ns nnd went l*ack to the husluuul of
lier youth, and their golden wedding was
held in another land than ours.
Story A bent Boys.
A doting father has two hopeful sons,
one five and the other two years old. A
few evenings since, after some pleading,
they got |Mips twiled wp ntul listened ill
silent delight—the little one on his knee
ami the elder by his side—while he song
the Wantiful song of " Ben Bolt" He
feelingly traced the story of the bold
mariner and with intense pnthos portray
ed the death of his sweat Alice, who
sloops beneath the gray, cold granite in
the old churchyard
" In a corner obscur* and alone."
When the song was ended there was
profound silence. They were too full for
utternuce. The younger boy leaned
agninst his father s bosom. The elder
gazed dreamily into the fire. After some
moments he turned his eyes, glowing
witli the fervor of intense excitement, to
his father and asked:
" Papa, what is a skewrand ?"
" A what, my son f"
" A skewrand."
'• A skeWraml! Why, my sou, I have
not the slightest idea. Where did you
ever hear such a word as that i"
" Why, papa, when yon were singing
you said: 'lu a corner of a skewrand
alone !'"
As it was late and the boy was sound
asleep, mother was called and the inspired
youtns were put hi bed.
Torm: #2.00 a Year, in Advance.
TlfK IIMH. OF llKit HEART.
" A light lit lost!" eickuned, fcrrent-
Ijr, the voting American who M-COWIM ,
m-d * ItuMWiui eaibaaaadur in tin* luii
third ktage from l'ral*k, iii th route of
it loug journey southward. " Ibavr-u
!■* |>num-J, we are Hearing a human
habitation!
Through the driving sleet his lu**n
yo hail iliaevrrtHl the twinkling of k
lamp-light. Tin * hail n< msed thirty j
utile* of wintry desert without encoun
tering a alga of life. The g"*l news j
foiled, however, tu unuw hia aettii
doriuiuit coiii|HUiioti. The younger iuau
turned toward hint a glauee of compos
■km. Thrown from the sledge some
luiliw back on that day's journey, the
jaKir emhaaaailor lui.l unstained an injury
no painful that only for the lost hour,
and under the lliduelio- of opiate*, he
luoi ceased from moaning.
The isolated dwelling which the
traveler* approached, and where the
fledges conveying their luggage Itad
arrived, proved to tic the iiouae of a
Kuasiau ]*eaaauL No sooner hid they
juoowd it. wind guard.d pannages, cam
fully lined with felt, ana entered from
the intense cold of the out door air into
the no tea* intense heat of the stove
warmed interior, tliau the euiljamador
fainted.
'flic < iiergie* of the American were
devoted in mediately to the cure of hut
friend. He liad already ordered hi*
servant to hruig the medicine cheat
from the sledge, and be Hjieedlly select
ed and applied, with <-x|iros#ious of ten
der M dintude, the proper stimulants, k>
lions, and bandages. He had the sat to
faction to see the einlauaaador slowly re
vive, and to ixjiivmoe himself ihat the
injury was nothing more serious than a
sprouted ankle, which delay in afford
ing remedy, and untoward exposure
had rendered painful. j,
Not only a luuidaouic youth, tall, ; {
straight, broad-shouldered, and sunnily
blonde, was the young American, Hart
ley Berne, but a dashing, spirited,
merry-voiced individual, who, a* quick
ly as he found his patient recovering,
broke forth into phswant sallies, which
had the effect to make the emtsuMsdcir's
fan- relax from its dreary aakew, and
to draw his big features into an approach
to a laugh.
It was nearly midnight when the
doctoring was finished. Tea had been
steeped in the gnat ltuKKiau tea-urn,
and had lax-n (wallowed in prudigkma
quantities, The .mI SUMS. Ior, muttering
many but not various adjectives of de
t rec Ist I*ll, liad tieen h< axled upon the
M*i of otate—the aole family bad, be it
whispered—namely, the fur spread naf
of the huge stove, when- gradually his
groans, in the soothing sjwll of a akiU
fully concocted draught, subsided into
satisfied grunts. Tlien Hartley Berne had
leisure to study critically his surround
tugs-
He was not long in comprehending the
content* of the cnunpcl chamber, nearly
one-fourth of whose KJMOH was occupied
by the mud-furnace, whose flattened
dome was now peace hall r graced by hia
c. mriide. A tatde of rode deal, occupy
ing Un' cent. r, KupjKsi<-d hia own dn
templativc elbows. A bench, rough like
the table, surrounded the room. On the
dingy wall, Itetwc-n two doublc-glamxl
windows, hung a gilded picture of Saint
Nicholas. In one dtrner a pitcher of
water, sacred to scautv ablution, was
suspended from the ceding, and a shelf
op]HMite upheld a cruih- black stone, re
sembling s miscsrved Otalicitsn idol.
t)u th. \tench under the gihted aaiut
were seated the w omen who had watched
the stranger's medicinal jx'rformaane
with such adtniriug faacination. They
spoke lttißKiiUi. and as our traveler was
no novice in tluU language, and had pa
tiently adjuainted himself with such
phrase , of gwllai.try as usually give
pleasure, he hist no time iu rendering
himself agreeable.
He did this the more readily since,
although one of the women waa middle
aged and ugly, the other was young and
pretty. Yea, in spite of her coarse garb,
the critic pronounced her decidedly, ami
even —after be hud paid a few compli
ments, and liad seen her dark eyes glis
ten, her checks flush like the ripened
jKa.li, and across lu>r glancing white
teeth her ml boa redden—"eotifound
edlv " pretty.
They talked of many things, and it was
not uutil the host liad returned from his
care of the Iteast* tliat conversation turn
ed upon the one ofyW <i> virtu, and the
guest inquired Uie aignilicouce of the
block stoue.
" It is 1 leva's god," said the elder
woiu&u, with an nuunciU leer and a vi
cious empluiM*.
"It is a curiosity," Raid the host,
glancing augri Ir at his wife, "and my
daugliP'r here iias a right to it, since shc
j.icked it up herself lust winter, in the
snow."
"It came to me," void the girl, sul
len! v.
The guest arose and examined Uie
spine. " A meteorite," he pronounce.l
it, "and on interesting sjiecimen."
When the li.ist hinted, or growled,
rather, that it was Iw .l-time, all retired to
the state bed excepting Revo. Modesty,
jierliaps. but mom probably the fort
that the emlxiasador took much room,
caused her to determine to keep watch
that night. In the dim Are light the
voting American, through his half
closi-d eyeli.la, saw law without surprise,
for his vanity liad perceived the attrwe
tioti he poMNessed, draw near ami nearer
him, until at tort she was quietly seated
by hi* aide.
Ho the night waned. When in.Lto
jmiable slumber wa* ntteetcl by a trio of
snaring, Beva whispered P. the stranger,
who rested but did not sleep:
" Wise youth, for yon converse, I
think, w-itii the *tara, and unravel se
cret*. lisve you tlie willingness P> help a
j*>.<r girl mticli troubled / '
Tlie flashing <ys of the wild liearity,
her confiding air, and the evident
confessional nature of her appeal ardoaed
the you tit's cautiousness a* aenatbly as
his cordiality.
"If I can he!j) you," he said, not al
together sympathetically, " with advice,
perliaps, 1 shall not be ntiwilling."
'' Counsel mo, then, kind stranger,
how I shall find my way to the land
native P> my fancy. I am not a lius
sum. Ho is iny father, so likewise is my
step-mother, but not I. lam a Kirghis.
My mother was a slave, taken in skir
mish; a slave, also a wife. She died in
giving me life. I would gladly, now
that I comprehend all tliinga, cxcliaugc
gifts with her. Every day I feci that I .
would prefer to be far distant, for my
step mother is not beloved by me, and
—snail I tell yon!—l am betrothed to a
ruffian utterly abhorrent. Do not now
now give me answer," she added, as he
Ixvdirred himself resjKinsively, " but
sleep, my stranger, for you are wearied
of your journeys; and while yon deep I
will hold your hand and conduct you 1
through the dream-world. Then the door
will appear to you tlud shall open to
give freedom to a girl moat unhappy,
who would escape.
" I must go on if I die," said the em
liaaaador, in a really irascible tone.
" We must have horses if they are noth
ing more than skeletons. We must
have a driver."
" If 110 is a death's-head," said Berne.
" I agree with you; we shall go on, mv I
friend, this hour."
At night-fall, after a day intolerable to
the embassador, a day made tolerable to
his companion by the novel beauty,
offspring of mixed raoes, and the aim-
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pic but charming coquetry of the dark
eyed .laughter of th" ihsiert, the travel
er* resumed their journey.
All night limy gUdod uiutig over the
aluuuig caajact mw, the eoibaaaador
ptsicefully somnoieut, and hwcunjiamon
moodily wakeful, vexed by a pair of
black eyes, "burning yet tender." 11*
gave himself for a night to the delicious
Uirmeut of um n-gretf ll whim; on the
mot row ho would arouse himself from
such w.-aktii-as.
NV*r daybreak lion*-mm anpr so-liMl.
Swift rider* the* were, seven ni number,
who *•-cined milking SJMWHI with M| rnaa •
iuteot pi waylay tlie wmtwaaador, or to
pounce with pliuuleroua foroc upon the
fotuh d sledge of tempting luggage that
jtrecoded lan.
Tlie aspect of tIiCMC hom-tuati as they
rushed into clear view IM-tokcnad bos
tilfty. The rmlsowoior, frightened from
hi* lethargy, and bis i*>mjKUuon. ner
vously alert, pc-{tared to defend thean
w lve*. As their horwea were seised, and
their driver, a gigantic follow, wrapped
P. his chin in sh.-er.dun*, was uncore
miim.msly <iragged down from Lis wot.
Item, spnuig trow the ah*lge, and with
hia furetinger upon the trigger of hia
revolvei, tuodc parley.
"It is not von that wa want," cried
one of the ruffians, who had immediately
dismounted; M it is your driver."
"tKir driver?" aaid the relieved em
Itaanadoi. You are wehxuaa to hint,
friend, so long as you furnish us with
another, led one of your number take
his place; and make off with htm ta wel
come. I shall lx glad to be rid of tin-,
lacy dog, who has ab* at his post
egr'.-giouidy, or w would have been by
this time bresikiaatuig ia Kara!*."
But Berne said, "Oive una reawm tar
thin capture. I will not consent to the
kidnspjiing of an honest man."
" You caw not keep him, for 1M is out*
already," cried the chu-f of the baud,
scornfully
"We will prove that," an* wend
Berne, in .h-flauce. " The man has been
employed bv us; be is under our proteav i
ti.*n. Touch him if you dare."
At this moment the driver, with a
flourish of bravado, began to cart aai.le
his shecpikins, toootxl ud th* snow on#
uftr-r another his fleecy covering*, and
rt'*d before them a slender girl, her
head raised dauutlasa, her .lark eyre
flashing, her lius curled with scorn.
The young American turned pal.* ia
his out. midimcnt. The exohuuatiuu died i
ujion hi* lijia, " Kcvm !"
"Kite is mine already," shout.J the
ruffian, whom the girt in her confession
j liad uanMsl " utterly abhorrent." He
had snatched from the hand of lternc in
that one moment of surprise and wlf
forget fulness the loaded pistol, and flung
it in the snow. Ben. sprung forward and
seised the weapon.
" 1 shall defea.l ber with uij Uie,"
•ricd Berne, as the stalwart liarbarian
CI.SHKI with him in combat
But Itevaeried, " Hold f Hcbos aaid
the word truly. J baking to him. Take
off thy dutch, M.-reniehc, from tlw
stranger. I tun thine when my father
gives we. lam thine so soon a* I per
form the task given by my father, and
bring these strangers to Kara la. **
After some further jiariey the dodge
moved onward, driven by one of the
horsemen. Heva'a abhorrent ruffian
formed with two faithful followers a
dreary escort, lteva, looady rebel in
her furs, crouched on the stodge floor
leaning her liend on " ht-r stranger's "
knee, and weeping bitterly. In this
style the embassador's curtigc enteral
Ksrals
A night scene in a tent mL hd in Hi.
sjiring-touched Astatic wilderneiw ■ hun
dred miles soutliwant of Kauai*: a young
man in the uniform of an American offi
cer busy with pajMirs id his improvised
desk; a Kirghls Uiy uoiaelcsdy r. moving
the remnants of repast; the young
officer. Hartley Iknic; the Kirghiz
xlave, hia juge, hit servant, his adorer.
Bars.
At Karala Ucruc liad jiarie.l with tli
cmlmoKador to cuitinue las journey to
Khiva under native escort alone. It
waa net until two days' journey had
parted him from the Kuasiau p<areiit
tliat the young Am. ixcaa .liximfml that
the boyish ottctidaut furuiihcl by his
Kirghi* gnhh- wa* no t>Un-r than the
wild beauty of the Jceert, who, with the
art of a Parisian diplomatist, hud r.eom
plidicl her will, an.l who, witli tbe
unpetuoflity of Juliet, pusatcnaieiy wur
shi|K.l him.
It cannot IK> denied that there was
something in Hartley Beme's nature that
respond-d to the isolathsi and idolatry
of this desert romance. He was not in
aetiaibto to the chnruui of tin. Iwauaiul
and adqruig Bwva. Nevvrtheleaa her
j.iVHence tioublnl liiiu. His manner
toward h r be.-ame .lailv more colj; his
tmiw .larkene.l when she approached.
And as she hud seen the nwt. -or cool and
darken, she now saw this idol of bar
heart reaolvc from a star into a atouc.
Tliis owning, a* Berne tieut studious
It over his pajKTS, B'va, her task done,
threw herself ujwm a pallet in the tent's
rIUMIOWT recess, and preU-n.led to sleep.
But froui time to time slie cost at the
American stealthy glancw. He, too,
<Hva*iually glai.o'd covertly at her.
Whenever he did so he sighed. Al last,
sure tliat she slept, he drew from hit
bosom a goid-nnrnaod minmtnre. He
set it up lie/ore him, and as be continue.)
writing he ga*< -.1 upon it at the clow of
each paragraph or page, every time
seeming to draw from it something calm
ing. encouraging, inspiring.
At midnight au unusual sound with
out his tent arrested hia attention. He
sprang up suddenly, and parting the
curtains of hi* tout, went out upon the
moon lit moor. •
"At last! at last!" said, or rather
hissed, between her rinsed teeth, in
Huasian patoi*, the disguised jiage Beva, I
as, with the coiling ailentneas of a ser
pent, slie drew herself from the shadowy
jiallet to the lightcl .leek—" at lost!" *
She held in her hands the miniature.
She turned toward herself the gilded
disk, but she oould not interpret the en
graved inscription, "In amoreGer
trude Atlierton." She interpreted, how-1
ever, with the quickness of j.sdousy, the
signifleanee of the portrait.
That night Hartley Berne dreamed of
Gertrude Athertou. When morning
came lus garment was not duste.l, his
spurs were not brightened, his repast
was not spread. His little valet, his
slave, his inamorata, had fled. He saw
her no more. Onoe, indeed, farther on 1
his journey, .leejier in the south, ha
spent oue night in the picturesque tent
of a Rigliis prince, and fancied, as he ,
lav half sleeping, fanned by salubrious
mlors and soothed by the dulcet tink
ling of a guitar, that in one of the
glancing forms of two young maidens!
.railed sisters he recognized his vanished
Beva.
Two years after Hartley Berne's ad
venturous Asiatic pilgriinmage, wheu his |
bride, Gertrude Atherton, asked—as I
what woman would not—whether, in all-1
his wanderings, in heart and thought he
hod been true to her, he answered, with
love's enthusiasm, "Yes."
And if Hartley Berne could have seen
at that moment his onoe passionate little
idolater, Beva, he would liardly have
known her in the sweet, satisfied wife of
tho Rights chieftain, sharing with hint
the simple happy days, moving from
jKiint to jtoint along the river-kissed
wilderness, in his free nomadic life.
Tho Smithsonian Institnte has eight
Alaska mummies, taken from a cave on |
one of the Aleutian Inlands.. . . .
MfeflMtfltMM of laterwt.
II a man is insane upon the subject
of Ricricy is his disease monomania, or
Seven years ia the time counted for
the eoustmction at the tunnel between
England am! Frame.
In Mianaoots recently, it """'j
eight hundred ksvnrt eggs were found
in a single peck of earth.
< An entire family in Harrisoa, Ohio,
Its* been made insane ty a stroke of
lightning which hit their house.
Arsenc Uonreaye asks: Which is
worth most in tlie world, tlx- approval
of your own eomndeaiae or of public
opiuton ?
An impudent advaaturer having mar
ried an ba'resa, a wit remarke t that the
bri.lmpoow's I mow was outshone ly tho
bride tin.
Mr. Moody, the American revivalist,
i who is now making so many convert- in
lamdoii, was a colonci in UM United
States array.
have lieea obtained in
; Pari* four w*4 tliree inclica long liy three
feci four inches in height.
A mother aalud her little daughter to
do aowething, and the daughter's reply
was: "A general tiredness pervades
me."
careful mclleal authority cstimatos
that a man with a sore throat swallow*
ten times to where a well man swallows
' once.
There ia to tie a tout race at Dayton,
Ohio, shortly, betwwm a gentleman of
eighty and a lady of eighty-one. Frisky
cbjldrt-ti!
The editor of the Manchester Union
nooolaito* Ilia fiwt totter from Florida:
Tours, truly, iu ali|prs and shirt
itagrm
A Chicago iksmty sheriff wa* refnsed
free admissioo u a Chicago theater. By
way of revenge be impaneled the mana
ger ot) a |*-tit jury.
"The Thunder Bay Booming Com
pany" ia the purtentious name of a
Detroit lumber lira. It must do a
lightning 1 matures
An Illinois Granger ia about to lease
8,600 acres <4 land in Monroe county,
liiaa, upon which fifty IllixK-is families
are expected to settle.
In response to an inquiry: "How
->MH I iuwp my husband at home even
ing* 1" the reply is made: " Take a club
and try to drrvt- him oat 1"
Mark Twain aays: To the poor whites
along the Mt*m>appi river chill* are •
meretful pnmatcm of Frwvidenoe, eo
abhng lieu to take aaerrint- without ex
ertion.
Paul Oaasagnae aayaevwry imperialist
icneps the birthday at the Prince Im
jwrml, Imt keep# it privately, because
the emotions excited by the occasion are
too sacred to be indulged in public.
A member of the Illinois Legislator*
lias introduced a bill providing that any
• person asking another to drink any in
toxicating liquor shall IM fined not ton
t tin gjQ and not more than SIOO.
The Saturday Krvirww at the opinion
that there is no better sign of the pros
perity of the world than tne liberal in
comes now allowed by the authors ut
novel* to their hcrore and heroines.
A bea tree, discovered in Schnybr
oounty, Jit, a abort time ainoe. yielded
one hundred and eighty-six pounds of
solid honey and aereuteeu pounds of
comb and honey.
1 In the t< ornaments of old BUUIT a
doufrhtv ehsmpion went down before
sum* opponent wielding a king swords
To-day UM ooutretonta ft o.l tbemselvc.
berten bv those who can moat aucorea
toliy wield a long word.
There waa recently sold in Tipperary.
Ireland, the toare of twenty-one acrea at
land, withoat booses of any aort on it.
The leore has fifty year* to run, the year
* ly rent to SIOO, and the toaae sold for a
premium of flti,Sttk
i The Nomatown Herald is bypercriti
eaL It grumbles beaaua* John Henry
Brown SIR-IIS his name " Junius Henri
Browne. ' He ought to be thankful
tliat the idiot don't pell it Junkms Hen
ivu k Brunei in*.
A tod in Eddrrilto, lowa, lately found
stU,oUfl under hia lather's lorn, and
there waa grret rejoicing in Hie family
until it waa discovered that the cash was
ail counterfeit, and a very bad counter
feit at that.
Home of the statistician* who are in
vestigating negro life have found that
that race above all other* abhor* suicide.
Onlv two pone* bare been recorded on
(he police book of Richmond, Ta, for
several yean.
Gtm. Spinner * waignatioa ia said to
hare been reoaired with general aadnere
among the emplorees of the Uuitetl State*
Treasury. JRtfnbtiean
tart the women ctorkswept like children
when he told itom of it.
A priest in Troy (S. Y.) has a habit of
otkinp a seat in a banroom on Sunday
uftcniooaa and watching the customers.
It ia said to be sarprtoiug to see how
many person* look in sitaj lv to inquire
what time it to, or where certain persons
lire.
Tile popubtiim <4 Denmark and her
rarim-sdona in K*7f waa '2,008.200. an in
sinre 1T0 of net quite 100,000.
Of Uiia number l.KSi.ftW belong to
lieu mark, 71,100 to Iceland, 37,700 to
the Danish Antilles, and 9,900 to Green
land.
" Tlie kind of a woman toot I par
tieukrly abhor." aare an old bachelor,
" is the oue with a spin* of disputation
in lies soul, who pick* me up on the
point of a t-luup smitenoe as though I
were a dropped stitch in her knitting
work."
A man out Wert uamed Jack Begar
lm# been sentenced to twenty years im
prisonment and a fine of oue hun.lred
■Hlsia Ha bos a right to put in UM
pica l.i since time is money the Statu
will owe him soiue change xhen he
cornea out.
A young woman in Maouupi:: county,
TIL, reeentlv rawed a cord of wood in
105 minutes, cutting each stick twice.
Pretty and nut quite eighteen, she per
formed this feat bestuw her mother told
' her thai she was good fur nothing but to
read novels.
A girl screamed in a lecture audience
in Lafayette, Oregon. Then all th
other girl- nercoraed. General ."onsterna
tion ensued, and a rush for the door*.
People were bruiae.l, olothee torn, and
the room at length emptied. The first
screamer had aeeu a rat.
A destitute woman in the suburbs
being asked by a benevolent visitor wha
she needed, said she didn't want to pu
snyho.lv out, or lie thought to IM a com
phiining dis|H>sitioD. hut if it was no
making too much, she would like a lock
box in the post office.
The citizens of a quiet Texas towu
arc somewhat agitated over the discovery
that the SSOO which a few of them re
cently won from a countryman at a
friendly little game of "bunko" had
j been intrusted to the loser for the pur
chase of lumber for a church.
Miss Lucy Obom lost her scalp I>V
accident some mouths ago, in New Mil
ford, Conn. Since then over one hundred
pieces of skin taken from her body have
been grafted on her bead, but very few
of them have retained their vitality, and
Miss Osborne's head to in an uinuitDfao
tory condition.
A law has been enacted in Indiana
providing that all public notices required
by law to be printed in the newspapers
ofr any eonuty shall IM printed in one
Gorman newspaper, if the county where
publkation ia to be aiode contains fifteen
thousand iuhabitonte and possesses a
German newspaper.
The King of Sweden lias transmitted
1 to the Riksdag a proposition, asking for
400,000 Swedish kremrr, or alxmt $130,-
000, for the worthy representation of
that country at the exhibition in Phila
delphia next year, loot year the Riks
dag ordered about $20,000 to be paid out
for the same purpose.
The Bev. Henry Coggswell, a former
Royal Arch Mason and lecturer in the
order, has renounced and denounced
Freemasonry. At an anti-Masonic con
vention in Mansfield, Ohio, he read a
formal recantation of Ml the oaths of
secrecy which he had tkken. He said
that he should feel in beSior bound, how
j evsr, to reveal no ne of -the workings < I
Miaoury. j-j