“ When," If 1 were told that 1 must die to-morrow, That the next sun #OTTOW, For any eno, Ali the fight fought, all the short journey through What should 1 do? I do not think that I should shrink or falter, But just go on, Doing my work, nor change, nor seek to alter Aught that is gone; But rise and move, and love and smile, and pray For one more day, Bay in that ear Which harkens ever, * Lond, within Thy keeping How should 1 fom? Do thou Thy will.” A — The World as I Find It, They say the world’s a weary place, Where tears are nover dried, Where pleasures pass like breath on grass, And only woes abide, It may so--1 cannot know Yet this I dare to say: My lot has had more glad than sad, And so it has to-day, Thay sav that love's a cruel jest; They tell of woinen's wiles That poison dips in pouting lips And death in dimpled smiles It may be 80-1 cannot know Yol sure of this I mu: One heart is found above the Whase love is not a sham. RTO They SRY that life's a hitter « That hearts are nade to a That jest and song are grave And deuth's a vast mistake It may be so—1 cannot know But let them talk their ill; I like my life, and love And mean to Jo so Iv wrong, A TERRIBLE MOMENT. I had just rejoined my pegiment in India, the Fortvsecond Higlanders, better known as the ck Watch, after a year of sick leave in Europe, and was seated in my friend XN jor MeGregor's cool and comfortable bungalow, gossip- ing over all that had occurred in the «corps during my absence, when voung Alick Farquharson, one of the Inver cauld Farguharsons, strolled in with the, to me, pleasing intelligence of i“ Tiger. 2 “By Jove, that old shikarree, what- you-may-call-'em-—I never can recollect is name-—has smelt the beast, and the colonel is for getting up a grand hunt, for the purpose of bagging the brute andthe skin; the latter for Mrs —— mentioning a lady's name, the owner whereof-—well, I will not repeat the story. hoy Deil take the ealong i" grumbled Sandy McPherson, who spoke with as strong a Scotch accent as any “braw chiel” north of the Tweed; “he’s a the time speenin’ about tigers and var mint, and if ane o' the laddies kills a beastie, down he pops on him for the skin.” “1t would be awfully jolly to out out this hunting expedition.” I suggested. “ And how ¥” demanded Farquharson. “Just to beat up a few beaters, get out to the jungle, and pot the beast while the colonel is ordering elephants in impossible Hindoostanee.” “ By Jupiter Olympus ! I'm with you!” cried Farquharson; “but we must start right away, for I heard Old Bagpipes" —the irreverent title by which our commanding officer was known, ac- quired from the fact of his ordering the pipers of the corps to play at chotohassuy, alias breakfast: tiftin, alias luncheon, and dinner, till the mess was fairly “skirted” to death—telling Gordon to look up the guns.” “We shall start vow!” I ered. have brought out a capital pair o double-barreled breech-loaders, smooth bore—the Prince of Wales brought down 8 stag of ten ty with one of them at Mar Forest this season and a Snyder.” “Then I'll look up the beaters and old what-do-von-call-'em, the shikarree,” said Farquharson. Farquharson and I left the compound by different exits, having agreed upon a rendezvous. When we arrived at the trysting place I found the shikarree and | half a dozen beaters, armed not only with rifles, but with rockets, the latter for the purpose of driving the tiger ont of the jungzie. I had taken the precaution of thrust. ing a conteun de chasse, or deer-knife- given to me, by the way, by his royal highness, the Duke of Connaught, while at Lord Vife's—in my belt, and armed with my double-barrel 1 felt a match for any tawny denizen of the vellow jungle. The shikarree assured us with con- siderable cirenmlocution—and after ex- acting a solemn promise fo save him from the wrath of sahib, the colonel— that a tiger had been hovering about this particular jungle for some time past ; that a cow had mysterionsly dis- appeared, and, having been tracked, its bones were found close by where we were then holding council of war. The jungle in which his Tigerian majesty was supposed to be ensconced was but a short quarter of a mile from camp, and of a very close and dense nature, save in bald patches, which | vielded a goodly erop of boulders, or where a small stream ent it in two. A few stunted trees endeavored to beard | the fierce rays of the Indian sun, but | King Sol had shriveled np their foliage | until it was of the tawny vellow of the jungle grass, that color so admirably | arranged to conceal the hide of the tiger. “Ah!” suddenly exclaimed the shi- karree, in a low tone, “it's all right, | sahib. The tiger is in the jungle. Ah, here's his pug” (track). ‘See how it leads right into it.” “That's a large Farquharson. “Yes, sahib, it is one great pug. Great tiger—great shiker” (beast) * for | sahibs.” The beaters, who, as a rule, are the | most cowardly wretches in the world, | now huddled together and held eonneil in low whispers, their heads close, their eyes directed to the jungle, their burn- ished bodies in attitudes suggestive of instant flight. i The shikarree ordered ns to beat | that section of the jungle on our | immediate right as being the most dense, and where, in all probability, the tiger was now enjoying a post-prandial nap, good digestion having waited upon appetite. 1e beaters were accordingly assem- | bled, and Farquharson took the near side, while T took the other. With a sharp glance at our gunlocks, and a general hitch to garments, we prepared to go into action. «1 say, old fellow,” pleaded my com- panion-in-arms, “won't you give me the first shot ? It's my first tiger-pott- ing, you know.” “Certainly, Farquharson; I'll give you the whole thing. I shall only fire in case of accident.” Little did I amagine that my words were 80 soon to be proved prophetic. In afew seconds the beaters began to yell in chorus, and to fire bamboo- rockets, and I can imagine how dis- gusted the tiger must have been to have his siesta so strangely and so rudely broken in upon. “How those chaps yell,” langhed Farquharson. “Keep your eye on the jungle, Alick,” I growled, “and let them roar as much as they like.” I had been in a “tight box” before now, by having my attention diverted from business at which strategists are pleased to term the psychological mo- ment. Not a sign had the tiger y t given of his presence. Not a blade f the long jungle grass stirred, save when a rocket jizzed into it, setting it on five. The beaters were silent, a si for > shikarree, who held up his hand, 3 Ad 13 fist." ” observed | VOLUME X1V. i like that Listening “Hush ! Then came the unmistakable cough (generally ealled a roar) of a tiger I glanced at Alick, to ascertain how the music agreed with him. He had paled a little, but his eves were flashing and his lips compressed “We have him I" he excitedly ered. “ Not yet, old boy There's many a slip betwe the cup and the lip," 1 retorted. * He cannot escape “Not it we can help it, but if he's lodia bagh—a game-killing tiger—we may lose him yet." here im om variety of tiger, all of a bind, in the attitude of + wn 18, y opinion, only one although the animal, like that 1 am acquainted with, ix subject to a slight vanation of appearance that may be more or less accounted for by his peculiar habits, which vary according to the locality and of the i others country he ranges over. parts of India over which 1 he natives recognize three which they distingnish according to their habits and range, by the following First, the lodia bagh, or gam second by, i es chiefly airdly, the man-eater, few and far VER the oonta upon domestic admee wallah, \ ) which latter, happily, between. | Kine {of ale A smgle tiger will kill a bullock or lo every five day N, i chance, eating the hindquarter he first night, and hiding the rem der in a bush to consume at his leisure Should he have been fired at, or dis turbed on his return to his quarry, he becomes ennning, and a great deal more destructive, killin ¥ Aa fresh bmllock whenever w and I lu known tigers that have become so su pivious that they would not return to an animal they had killed, although they had only lapped the blood, and he bullock was almost untouched, On the other hand, I have known a tiger returning day after day to the ear cass of the ox he had killed, and pick- ing the bones clean, notwithstanding he had been twice fired at by a native shi- karree, But to return to my adventure. The shikarree suddenly gave a low twice, which told me that he had gotten on a warm scent. Suddenly I heard a slight noise like the erackling of a dry leaf. I distinctly saw a move- ment or waving in the high grass, as if something was making its way toward ns. Then I heard a loud purring soand, and saw something twitching backward and forward just behind a clump of low brush and long grass, about forty vards off, “ He's there I" I cried, in a low tone, to Alick, but without moving my eves, ‘1 know it.” iy Keep cool I” “ Hang it all. tuce-leaf I” Another second and we saw the ani- nal, its white chest shining like silver, its ears laid back, and #s open mouth full of gleaming ivory teeth, “I'd like to stufl him in that posi- tion,” observed Farquharson. “ Hush!" “Shall I let him have it > “Not vet.” The tiger advanced about ten or so in that low crouch which prelude to the spring. “Now, Aliek!” 1 cried. Farquharson fired at the second 1 spoke, letting the brute have one barrel. On receiving the shot the tiger doubled its head and paws into its chest, and, turning completely over head and heels, disappeared over a boulder into the jungle. “I've hit him!” trinmphantly claimed my companion, “You have.” ‘I fetched him between the eyes.” “Not a bit of it; you struck him in the chest, and I don’t think he's badly hit.” Lin fha if hay oots the ONREER If Iie gel tiie often fie food : Wwe O00 I'm as cool as a let. yards 15 the “ Clear that jungle a little I” shouted Farquharson, who, with all the rashness of the neophyte, was for dashing after the brute 1a hot haste, While the men were tremblingly en gaged in obeving the orders, my prac- ticed eve perceived a disturbance in the grass a little to the left of the at which the tiger disappeared. A * chuck” of the tongue against the teeth from the shikarree, confirmed me. “Look ont, Alick, he's there!” 1 yelled; for Farquharson was already treasting—I have no other word for it —the grassy billows of the jungle ina Spot Farquharson had reached an open space, when the tiger leaped forth, and, with a tremendons bound, buried its bead in Alick’s throat, both their heads going down together, “ Great God ! he's done for!” was my throb in my veins; then it became cold poor fellow, if 1 could. It was an, awful moment, and as 1 write I see the enormous head of that tiger, its gleaming eves, its quivering whiskers, its distorted upper-lip, its face of poor Alick Farquharson, white as death, the terrible beast’s nose touch- ing his cheek, while beneath him lay his gun, the great paw of the tiger earth. I repeat it was an awful moment; but, of a counting house in the city. I was but ten vards off, and at that distance there was a considerable risk of shooting both man and beast; for, unless I let the tiger have it in the head, it was all up with my friend. I leaped forward until I came within two yards. My heart gave one beat backward as I raised the weapon to my shoulder. 1 aimed at the side of the head, and the bullet went from ear to ear. The shot was mortal; the dark blood rushed from the tiger's nostrils a slight | tremor passed over all his limbs, and he | rolled off. i Alick Farquharson, who scrambled up | to his feet, very white, with his left | arm besmeared with blood. | His first words were: “ By Jove! that was a shot. done old Bagpipes out of the skin!” I don't know how it was, but I flung We've | tears like a woman. It was rather lucky I didn’t feel that way half a minute be- fore, wasn’t it ?” Alick’s wounds were not dangerous, and he was all right in a few days. Colonel “ Old Bagpipes’ oa boavored to nibble the skin, but Farquharson didn’t see it, and it now, I believe, dec- orates the grand old hall at Invercauld which, as everybody knows, is the next residence to Queen Victoria's Highland home, Balmoral. The huge brute was eight feet eight inches long, including the tail, which was three fet in length. 1 have potted two man-eaters since that memorable day, but I hope never to vealize so terrible an experience as that which Alick Farquharson’s rash- hie lis Lead was perched on one side ness so happily of vinhappily afforded me luditor and CEN GUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE, How Same af the Presidents Have Hetived ao Features of * luanguration Day’ seldom Seen or Heard, A thie the building of he treasury department, which Before mithern front of rendered a chs White Ho antimnee fw i} { i thie ge ol the melosure necessary, there was an Pennsylvaing avenue —a witl Inrge Weeping h side of it + very bright her hus band’s inauguration § cotpat the White that there much eans gratn lation-—the President ited Nlates generally Wi 5 1a at He ron gate and goes on lows.” stone willow growing on Mrs, Madison, who waman, Archway, when On iON Of House, said n ton't know in was tli Wi was erushed with shame and John Adams, who i y s s 43 dent that wupied the it 1 indignation ol Fhomas 1 3 + presidential election Wien 18 defeated of INK Jefferson, i 11 He finuing ur took 3 y feance ne coulda py om what ve to make appoint a late hg Of l the next morn White t the } had alle nded at i VOAIS previ bear to witness tl Retiring «d the RUOCOSsOr. y Hevots I spondence Madison and 1 attended the 1 decorously cal con Monro nauguration of th ) vacated the or ther ocoupation But ele id hi PT MAN BR di fen Pres John Quine y disap pointed because he had not been re. elected, Ww hile his terson, SHCOESSOS Adi White House : 3 the best of Teel witli whe 1 sens ral 4 Jackson wa OR 13% 3 ted » Aion ent a battery snocessful competitor was incensed by some abusive artieles which had appeared in the offic When General Jackson came t» Washington, saddened ! i den death of her whom he votedly, he refused point blank to bh Adams, her tradneed ‘ organ.” . : fovedd sO on an was equally unwilling to participe the triumphant maunguration of cessor, and he removed from th House on the thind of March. fourth, as he was taking his horseback ride in the vicinity ington, the be ¢ of cannm ed to him tha the oath of The t he i own honse « the Ebbitt house o and he received from } ing a salute from a volunteer company anded 1 ; 3 editors of the his successor had +} vy BY HOTTA ¢ RI CARIES A iy COMI ton, one of the Initedii faley It may not be amiss to say two about the inaug Jackson, when, for the Pre sident-« lect was escorted bodies he rode 1) from the hotel : to the capitol. oath and gone from White House he was waited motley crowd, which soon barrels of punch which 1 pared, broke the glasses like a drunken never before White House, When Martin Van Baren as General Jackson's SUCCESSOr IT Was a political family arrangement, The two went together from the White House to the capitol in a phaecton made from the wood of the frigate Constitution, drawn by four gray horses. A Mr. Van Buren had been inaugurat front of the capitol! the two returned or i sale vehi 8 to the White House, where the new President received his fellow citizens, At four o'clock in the noon Mr. Van Buren {i the foreign ministers, w suites, wore the their respective countries, astonished their dean, the 8S ister, by addressing thew as ocratic Corps” instead matic Corps.” Four Y& 6 General Jackson bade farewel White House and returmed loved ** Hermitage” to end his days As the expiration of President Van Buren's official term approached the al dermen and common council of Wash. ington City {followed the custom and passed a vote of thanks to the outgoing chief magistrate for the interest which he had taken in the prosperity of the national metropolis during his four vears administration, These thanks were not acceptable to Mayor Seaton, who, with other whigs, had been excluded from the hospitalities of the executive mansion by President Van Buren. So the editor-mayor formaliy refused to approve the complimentary resolutions, and transmitted a message fo the city government giving his reasons for this marked slight. Mr. Van Buren was greatly annoyed, and took good care to have the White House ready for the ocenpation of his succes sor, General Harrison, whose stay there was brief. Mr. Tyler's family Were soon sum moned from Virgima to the White House, and while he was President he married the estimable lady who now re sides here, who turned over the White House to Mrs. James K. Polk, now a resident of Nashville, Tenn. She was succeeded by Mrs. Zachary Taylor, a matronly old lady, who loved to remain in her room upstairs and smoke a corn- pipe, while her accomplished danghter, then the wife of Colonel Bliss, the President's private secretary, pre- sided over the hospitalities of the man i¥ Fry FUMIO; wn alter 1 108 b Sen ad In £#uy Hit “ the Dem. “ Diplo- fterward to tl La tO as be of the Rye i vito cob The Taylors left shortly after the Fillmore eame, aided by her They extended the hospital. ities of the White House to Geneml when he came (heart-broken Mrs. Fillmore left the White House on the fourth of March for a hotel, expect- ing to go South on a tour with her few weeks afterward. son and clonded by a dread that her These fears, fortunately, were never realized, and General Pierce was probably more popular at Washing- ton than any other occupant of the White House has been. Hospitable and generous in his disposition and cordial in his manners, he was beloved by all who knew him. Correspondents of whig newspapers were among the guests cordially welcomed at the White House, and the departure of the Pierces from Washington was fourth of March to the residence of General Cass, since the Arlington hotel, where many thou- sands called to pay their parting re- spects, While General Pierce was the most popular of Presidents, Miss Lane, the niece of his snécessor, Mr. Buchanan, “eclipsed all other ladies who have pre- sided over tlié White Houde in courtesy, in hospitality, and 10tor. HALL, all, whether they were her uncle's po litical supporter or opponents The exodus of Mrs, Lincoln, of the daughter of President Johnson, and of Mrs. Grant, as each one sucoe ssively left the White House, is well known to every Washington reader Hen Parley MP t Wieshis ' Republic, A ———— he Migration of Birds, Familiar as this migration of birds is to us, there is, perhaps, no question in they take, with and the unerring certainty which they wing their way between distant places, arriving and t the same period year after are points i the history of birds of passage as mysterious as why they select a moonlight night to eross the Mediterm But that their meteorological in LICL 1s Bot nnRerring a proved by the fact thousands every year drowned in thear flight over the Atlantic and other oceans. Northern Africa and Western Asia seloot d wintey juarters by most of them, and they may be often noticed, on their way thither, to hang towns at night, puzzled, in spite of their experience, hy the shifting Lights of the streets and honse N, The low or the nightingale may be some times delayed by unex pect d ereumstan of Yet it is rarely that they Arrive or depart many days sooner or later, one another Professor Newton that, were sea fowls ites revolving round the earth, their ar uld hardly he more surely { alou- { Wall astronomer Foul weather i ir, heat ol cold, the puflins repair 0 f their stations punctually on a day, if their movements were gmided by clockwork The swiftness of hit which characterizes most birds en- ables them to cover a vast Space In a brief he comunon black swift can fly 270 miles an hour, a speed which, if it could be maintained for less than half a day, would carry the bind from its winter mmer quarters, The large'purple America capable of even feats on the wing The chimney ninety miles an hour being about the limit of its powers; but the passenger pigeon of the United States of a thousand miles sunrise and sunset. It is also true, as the ingenious Herr Palmen has attempted to show, that migrants during their long flights may be directed by an experience partly inherited and partly ac quired by the individual bind. They ' ast | sof continents n ther passage over the most departing a Yad Henn ot that are wre an Wel swal year with considered satel. rival co SOE | given ws time tO 1s sn Swit of is rroataor 4 UAE 1 2 ¥ swallow is slower 4 fan ao a velween Ourney ¥ Hl y of their routes, v will not explain how they broad oceans, the fact, familiar to that the old 1d mg birds do not journey in company, i broods travel to come, after an mterval, the the rear is brought infirm, This return jon reverse order IVES ROTOss Thi Badatad In L INVAaLdated by Wl Y, Young , then and finally wenkly ged and le mn the noltiyg sf JOCOI {lie dis- to have of the traveler throat performs its 1008 Among the Laps, and ts winter holiday among the the tiny ruby- SOON, InOreaver, nO relation 10 the The W124 Swedish Soudan, while the an foundland wonld a little fairy Mexico to Ne w thoneh « sally, 3 ’ 80 Of leat [8 vt wid gyi re at home among the cacti Fier Aves of tin ul L Seventy-Five Dollar Goat. One of Western Texas and the other named 1 hey Wale ing. The from said, impressively : “1 il von what, in goats than in any er that cats Texas grass. People keep on fine and cattle, and lose n oney by it, while there 1S more money in one gost than you can shake a sticl and he went on them was a stockman from named Bob Gazely, was an old Galvestonian William Griswold. about stock-rais Western Texas . 1 1 Colonel talking Han there is other colonel, more money ert will raising horses SLICK at,” to tell of the rapid inerease, the price of goat-skin, elo, “You are right,” replied Griswold, “1 mm a ge man myself. I've got a goat in my yard right now I wouldn't part with for seventy-five dollars.” ‘‘ He must be a fine animal. Angora, 1 reckon. 1 must nt He HH half See him." “ Come along, then.” After they had tradged about an hour they reached the residence of the Gal vestonian. The goat was tied up in an onthouse., The Western Texas man looked at the goat with a bewildered Bir. “There ain't no Angora in that goat.” “There is money in him for all that,” responded the owner, The stockman felt the animal all over, looked at the texture of hig hair, and then said: “1 can’t got over any other goat. see any points that goat has Did vou say scrub 7 “ That goat cost me seventy-five dol- larg, and 1 expect fo get my money back.” “ Well, you conldn’t get ot of me, “1 am not trying to get it out of you, but I hope to get it out of the goat. But, I'll tell vou eandidly, if you had chawed up my vest pocket with seventy- five dollars in it, like that goat did, I'd have it out of you some way or other.” ”" began to gather. Galveston News, OT Oo: The Sexton Got More Than the Minister, A young gentleman was preparing for the ceremony, he placed the money he intended to hand to the minister-—a ten-dollar gold —in one vest pocket, and a five church, " large as the front door of the | “That was a fine couple, | smiling sexton. minister, “ And quite a liberal one, too. Bee what they gave me?” said the sexton, as he opened his hand and showed the glittering eagle, The minister eyed it curiously and replied: “ Ahem! that's very kind in { them; but see what they gave me!” and he fished up the five-dollar piece from | his pocket. The sexton wondered, and the parson | walked away, but both had a suspicion | there had been a mistake made—and { there was. Baltimore Feery Saturday, IOs John Dunean, a poor Scotch weaver! | has presented the University of Aber. deen with his herbarium of nearly 1,200 | British plants, collected by him while | moving about as a harvest laborer over | the Southern districts of Scotland and | the north of England, In his extreme {old age this self-educated devotee eof | science is dependent on parish support. Se —————— Michigan supplies half the pine tim- b nited States, CO., PA. THI Indian Eplcures, In the summer of INTS 1 stood one evening near the quartermastor's office at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, when two Kiowa Indians applied for permis sion to water their famished horses at the government oistern, offering copt that in part payment of load of brushwood which thie N proposed to haul from the neighboring chapparal The fellows looked thirsty and hungry themselves, and while the quartermaster ratified the wood bargain, the officers sent to his company quarters fox luneh of tibles the might a hand that time of the day, A traviul of ** govern ment grub” was deposited oun the ad Jac nt cord wood paatiorm, and Indians pitched in with the peouliar ap petite of A vard of commissary sausage was accepted as a tough variety ol jerks id beef ; vi asted bread disappeared would have tO Ac boon i one of such Coles an ist i i COURS have i the CArMIVOronus nomads branless that and in quantities Dr. Graham's ural deprav ny ; they sipped the cold coffee and eved it with a gleam of suspicion, but reconciled by the sediment, confirmed belief in na discove rs of the saccharine id thi eonk was just going to replenish their ups when the senior Kiowa hi ped himself to a vinegar pickle, which he probably mistook for some sort of off-eolor sugar-plum. He tasted it, to his feet and dashed the plate down with a muttered execration, and then clutched the prop of the platform to master his rising fury. Explanations followed, and a pound of brown sngar was accepted as a plece-offering, but the children of na ture left the posteffice under the impres sion that they had been the victims of a heartless practical joke. Popular Sed gle \ mithly, were él an ime I: Fhe Stocking Loom, A pretty story tells us of the inven tion of the stocking loom W. Lee was student at Oxford, who saw among Greek letters of his “ Tliad only the bright eves of the innke eper's danghite r, and heard in the professor's tones buat click of her swift knitting needles In despair he threw away his books, hurried to his mistress and with her to tl When the Oxford don proceeding at the rectory, a guy x Oung the th % Lie i parson » of the decided of eX thie 8 heard they in grave counsel that this orn marrage must be { ample and young Was spells dd. Dis graced and dishonored, he and Peggy were cast out into the world with only four knitting needles to look to for bread. But Peggy rrily to work, her eves growing brighter, hex hile he made an of, accordingly man went me { fingers rf enamored hn 1 \ had Her im helpless plying faster, while band Desf efficiency, watching the gleaming 1 as if entranced arekal” he exclaimed day “Who? Peggy looked up anxiously. She had never been even toa r t, Peggy, answered with & manly sense of his superiority, He got some wires and went to work, while Pe 2R2Y watched, and soon her shin needles gave wav to the stax king loom, which revolutionized the whole indus try, In very little time I gE became a bright-eved Indy, Wil guished inventor, while the hard-heart ed Oxford dons nobody Knows anything about; but they doubtless shmnk un into Greek particle 8 OF alge brate sig At any mate, it was a clear « justice, at which Hymen should light an extra torch Wy nal en (Lid » one *1 can do 1 grammar school better than vou, he Yor HE a, A distin ase of poetic cb — Our Mode of Dress, Whenee came our mode of dress? In early days clothings was considered orna- mental rather than useful. The ex- ceptions were such articles as bells, from which instruments of various kinds econld be suspended, go as to be ready for nse while the hands were left free A savage does not enjoy the luxury of a pocket. Even st the present day a Japanese has to sling his tobacco pouch from his belt, and the only pocketa he has are in his sleeves. The simple cine. ture was the germ, so to speak, of the clothing we wear. When the arts be came so far advanced that men could make paper cloth or some woven mate rinl, these latter were substituted for the primitive fringe, and the kilt was thus developed. Curiously enough, the dress of the Scottish Highlanders em- bodies these two stages of progress in the kilt and the sporran As man ad- vanced there were inconveniences at. tending the use of the kilt, which were abated by the introduction of trousers. When the back snd shoulders needed protection, the savage nsed the skin of some animal, and it is from this sort of covering for the upper part of the body that we have derived our coats, vests, shirts, ete. But the ancient cloak form is even yet retained, not only by such people as Zulu chiefs, but in all robes of ceremony by dignitaries of conrt and college of the most highly civilized na tions on the face of the earth, elaborate and varied head coverings of the present day all sprang from a very simple, original type. {ie Preaching to Children, Preaching to children, says a religious paper, is an art in itself, Many a man 18 competent to preach to adults who cannot preach to children. He has been taught by jpredept and practice ono 1s proper profession, but his education has been neglected in He is not quali- most hopeful class of the community. The time is coming when a theological seminary will be organized as a sorry affair if it sends out preachers who can stutterer. But there is no short cut to success in this work. It will cost study and effort to learn how to preach to the ——— It is said that the bride in removing her bridal robe and chaplet at the com- pletion of the marriage ceremony must take especial care to throw away every Evil fortune, it is affirmed, will sooner or keeps even one pin used in the marriage toilet. The above was written to dis. courage the excessive use of pins by the ladies; but the young men think that some such caution addressed to unmar- ried ladies would be more to the point, poor fellows. — Boston Transcript. Mrs. Bombagzine, who engineers a Galveston hashery, can be very sarcas- tic. One of her boarders always comes late and eats like he has a Joveratal torney to eat for several of his friends. Yesterday she eaid to him : “Young man, you come at one and eat for twelve, come at twelve and eat for one?" veston News, IE 157. ” Tt cost Colonel Wilder, the noted po- mologist, $260 to obtain the original eamellin from which those to be found in America were grown. It was imported about forty years ago. tal Going. the whole hog Attributing Shakespeare's plays to Beston,—Roston Courier, . Ld RSDAY, MARCH A TOWER OF SKULLS, ’ The Ghastly Sight to be Seen on ay Island olf the Coast of Africa, A correspondent of a New York paper, {who dates his letter “Off the African Coast," tells this terrible story of East. Heading southward along the Tunisian sea-board in one of | the little coasters with which these wa- arn vengeance | line and that of Tripoli a large, low, appears fully as barren and desolate as the gray unending sands of the African shore along the southern horizon. Your map will tell you that this uninviting sandbank is called the Isle of Jerbeh, a name which, unless von happen to be unusually well read in the chivalric chronicles of the sixteenth century, will probably leave you just as wise as you were before, Apparently, however, your Arab fellow-passengers are better in. formed, for the first glimpse of the island seems to produce an xtraordinary com- motion among them. Hands are eagerly pointed at the long gravish-vellow band which lies almost level with the smooth brigh water, and the slumberous black ves flash fire under the shadow of the huge white turban, while the name of “ Burj-er-Boos” flies from mouth to month, Even should you happen to have learned Ambic enough to know that this mysterious word means *' tower of sknlls,” ven are hardly likely to be much enlightened thereby. The captain of the vessel, should he be an Englishman, will give vou but little help in your embarrassment, answering your appeal for information only by a knowing grin and an admonition to “ keep your eves open and you'll see a pretty queer sight before long.” Little by little a huge, gravish-white mass be- gins to define itself upon the flat, sandy shore of the island, standing up gaunt and grim agninst the warm, dreamy blue of the lustrous sky. As we ap proach, this formless heap gradually shapes itself into frown. ing mmparts and turreted battle. ments and massive towers and all the barbaric grandeur of a genuine Eastern fortress. At its feet the bright biue sea breaks in glittering wavelets, while be. hind it—an oasis of rich foliage amid the hot, hrassy vellow of the sandy shore—the vast banner-like leaves of the date palms droop voluptuously npon the breczeless air. No painter could wish a finer study, but the most striking feature of the panorama is still to come. A sudden tum of the coast reveals a projecling headland, surmounted by i tall white tower, at sight of which the of * Burj-er-Boos! Barj-er Roos!" burst forth again with re doubled energy. The strange building 8 cone shape, and altogether not un- like the giant ants’ nests of Afriea or Bonth America, but many yards in height and resting upon a base as broad as that of a cathedral tower. Moment y moment, as the ship Nears the land, this mysterious stracture stands out more and more plainly. It is not long before you begin to notice that the seaward face of the tower has ernmbl the action of wind avi yery sions ded beneath and weather, revealing through a wide gap the dark hollow of the interior. As you gaze, there breaks suddenly out of its gloomy shadow, just where the light enters it, a vellowish, ghostly like dim lantern-light seen in Yon have recourse to your glass, and perceive with a momentary t at this strange glim. mering proceeds from the teeth of thous. of human skulls, which fill up whole interior of the building. iis is the famous *‘ Burj-er-Roos,” or Tower of Skulls, which, for three centuries past, has given to this remote nook a strange and tamrible renown. The vengeance of Timour has left upon the banks of the Oxus more than one Golotha of this kind, which 1 had an unexpected chance of examining during Khiva expedition of 1878. In urope, however, there is but one sim- , which, as might be ex- wlongs {0 Turkey, the only European country in which such a relie of utter barbarism would not be ont of place in the nineteenth century; The traveler who rides along the great southern highroad from Belgrade to the Sofia Pass over the Balkan, sees by the wayside a pyramidal building in which are imbedded 30,000 human skulls Nor does this ghoul-like memento date back remote age of half human ferocity. It is no older than the vear 1806, when Servin's declamtion of independence was answered by Turkey with the massacre which have left those 30,000 Christian heads a lasting memo- rial of what the ¢ unspeakable Turk” has always been and always will be, But among all these trophies of death there is not one which can claim to be either as well-preserved or as hideously artistic as the fatal tower of Jerbeh. 1t seems ns if those who planted it here an eternal monument of their ven. geance had taken a grim pleasure in making it imperishable as the hatred by which that vengeance was devised, The skulls are ranged in symmetrical lavers, hike shells in the cases of a museum, each layer being supported upon a kind trestle-work formed from the larger of the skeletons which has served as the materials of this ghastly architecture. The care with which every bone has been placed, and the gradual tapering off of the higher tiers toward the point of the cone so far as to lesson the strain imposed upon the basement, render the oe struc. ture as solid as a pyramid of stone. So strong, indeed, is its stability through- out, and so carefully has the outer coat- ing of sun-baked clay, which binds the whole together, been laid on that the storms of more than three centuries have been powerless to work it any £ 3 gin 6% vant nner thrill of horror, th Anas the ected, 10 any for of bones face. Accounts vary as to the total number of skulls which it contains, but by com- paring the the statements of the old Christian chroniclers with those of local tradition, one may safely assume that this gloomy old mausoleum has absorbed into itself the lives of at least twenty-five thousand men, From the natives themselves there is but little to be gleaned respecting this famous catastrophe, save the vague and confused tradition of a great vietory achieved by their forefathers upon this spot, and the extermination of a vast number of “unbelieving dogs.” But when vou turn to the Christian Listor- jians of the period, you find the story | graphic minuteness and childlike sim- | plicity worthy of Herodotus or of Frois- sit. And a grim study it is—one of the most collossal tragedies of that strange era when overything, whether for good or for evil, was done upon a gigantic scale, The drama opens, as if to heighten the tragic effect, with the | joyous departure from Malta, in 1561, the city in | armament, to conquer { and principality of Tripoli the name of Phillip IIL | lantly do the doomed men sail forth in | the glory of the summer morning, upon never to retum, | and the rising sun lights up their glit- tering arms and fantastic , bravery, | while above them floats the banner of 1881. that cross whose spirit alas! is so widely different from their own. But even during the short southward vovage wo hear of many things which bode no good to the adventure. “Little prayer or chanting of God's praise was to be heard among them, but many foul oaths, much drinking and dicing, unseemly jests, and godless revelry; for they wist not of the evil to come, God having blinded their eves, to the intent that He might make His jndgment upon them the heavier.” Meanwhile Ia Jerda himself drinks deep and boasts loudly, in a fashion that may well make us augur ill for the success of an expedition commanded by sneh a leader, But at the first glimpse of the strong walls and bristling cannon of Tripoli, this braggart's courage cools at once, tering his course, suddenly sweeps down island is swept with fire and sword, the unprepared enemy slaughtered without those heaven From OWs over who profaned with the deeds this point onward of coming darker and hell. of the darker around the his cimeter till the bloox his fingers, no man wist what he spake; howbeit, "i for his vengeance, had doomed them, the Spanish veterans, | their wonted vigilance, and give them- selves up to the wildest excess of de | bauchery, [ike lightning from a clear | sky, destruction falls upon them in the midst of their fancied security. Two smaller detachments, scattered thrpugh | the outlying villages, are cut off to a man, and Yokdah's fierce | swordsmen, with their thirst for vengeance still unslaked, sweep | onward to attack the main body, which lies in the town of Gerba itself. | startled from their drunken sleep by the | vell of * Allah Ackbar!” (God is vie- torions,) and instantly the whole town | is one whirl of struggling figures and | tossing arms and blazing torches and | flashing weapons and hellish aproarand | merciless butchery. But such a combat | is too unequal to last. Outnumbered | and unprepared and basely abandoned | by their pusillanimous leader, the inva- | ders are soon driven pell-mell down to the shore, where the scene culminates in a scene of horror worthy of Dante : “The Christians, being put the worse, flung themselves into the sea, thinking | to fly unto their ships; but even thither did the infidels pursne them, | raging like savage wolves. Thus was | the fight waged in darkness amid the waves of the sea—a thing un- | thonght of heretofore. And with such rage did they gmpple one another that many sank and were | drowned thus locked together, refusing | to quit their hold. Many also were | slain with the sword, and many more, being borne down by the weight of their | armor, perished miserably. Of all that | had been in the town, none escaped; and last of all died Jnan de la Saera himself, whom God's vengeance suffered | not to live. For when be had well. nigh gained the ships,a Saracen grappled | his and would have slain him, but Yokdal, the chief, cried aloud, ‘ Harm him not; I keep him for my own prige And by the force of many he was taken alive, and was dragged back to the shore, Then the infidels, the battle | being ended, gathered the heads of | them that were slain and built them | endured many and grevious torments, | such as none but Saracen wit could de- vise, was beheaded, and his head laid | on the summit of the pile by Yokdah, | their prinoe, as being a fitting crown for | such a monument.” | H ow to Spoil Children, { A timid mother is a terrible plague to voungsters brimming over with animal spirits. She will not allow the girls to aete lest the ice should give way; nor to row, because young men injure them. | selvesin those dreadful boat races. They | may not have a pet dog in case it should go mad, nor any aconite or monkshood in their gardens for fear they shonid | poison themselves. The timid mother forbids her daughter to visit amongst the poor, as she might take the smallpox, and she must not walk alone for fear of tramps. Her boys cannot propose either work or play which she does not Jive to be encompassed with dangers horri- ble and hitherto nunthought of. (In childish days they were not allowed a rocking-horse for fear it should over balance, nor a swing in case the rope might break, nor a pocket-knife Jest they might ent their fingers, The cod- dling mother is very nearly allied to the timid one. She is always tying comforters around her children’s | throats, and applying flannel to mysterious places Ee it will not stay. She contends that every one either hasa | cold or is taking one. She is constantly | discovering obseure signs of some deadly | disease in her children. She takes for | granted that all daughters have weak | spines, so their beds are destitute of | pillows and there is a reclining board in | every room. When the coddling motlier | takes her girls to a picnic, she will not al- | low them to sit on the grass, nor in the | sun, nor nnder a tree, nor on a rock. | They must return with her before the | dew begins to fall and are never allowed | to look at the moon except through a | window. They are taught to be always analyzing their sensations, half the pleasures of every-day life. Gradnally they come to the belief that they are incurable invalids, and ex- istence is thoroughly embittered for them. An Actor’s Practical Jokes, The late Mr. Sothern's comical con trivances wero endless. His pockets, in unwary friends by marking the appearance of being cracked across, were always full of labels marked “ poison,” and so on, and these he afixed, whenever an opportunity ‘afforded, on likely objeets, On the railings of a London square he one day saw a newly-painted board with the inscription: ‘‘None but led dogs admitted;” out came one of the end- ! Jess supply of labels, and passers-by | were astonished for a few days to read, « None but mad dogs admitted.” nn II “ Ten millions of cattle ave annually | slaughtered in. this country to supply the home meat demand, valued at abt | $400,000,000, . $ a SY oo A AA EE asa het tc a a ta aa NUMBER 8. SS SAREE A RR) me The revised New Testament is to be issued within a few weeks, There ave in this sont) 789 Univer- salist churches, with 32,947 members. Bir Francis Lycett, of Engl has left more than §1,350,000 for the erec- tion of Wesleyan chapels, * Japanese authorities allow native, but not foreign, missionaries to presch in the prisons. The Afurisns 3 nalists have appropriated for missionary la- bor in Bpain and Austria, / There are in Beotland 208 priests, 286 churches and chapels, ; schools, and forty refiffiots Soni. ties, with an estimated c populs- tion of 311,384 souls. : : ene coming E missionaries into his inions, has of fered, it is said, to pay the their transportation. bership of 2,206,327 in America, an in- The Chwekman reports that the Mexi can Episcopal church has a ministry elect and two preshyters, In the death of the Rev. Dr. Wash. burn, of New York city, the broad church Epi ians lost one of their ablest and this side of the water are of Rhode Island, the Rew. Brooks, of Boston, and the Rev, Harwood, of New Haven, 3 There are in connection with the Meth- odist Episcopal church 53,824 German in the United States and 11,921 in Ger. many and Switzerland. The nét increase of the past year was 480. The * Salvation Army” is rapidly in- creasing. It now reports 172 or stations, 363 officers, and 220 occupied. Sittings are provided dor 141,900 persons. The total of contri > > butions in 1880 was $58,345. The num- | ber of services held every week is 3,770. | Of the 206 Friends who died in Eng- | land last year, one reached the age of 100 years, cleven were between pei 4 and 100, fifty-five between eighty i ninety, sixty-five betwben seventy and | eighty, sixty betwéen sixty and seventy; i twenty-eight died under five. The av-! and two days. | The Protestant Episcopal liad 127 bishops in all, of whom sixty- six are still living. Three have been | deposed, three have resigned, and three | have been translated. The senior! bishop, Dr. Smith, of Kentucky, was | consecrated in 1832, making his Bpisco- | al Sern as long as that of Bishop | Vhite. Nothing is gained, the Chrigtian Ad- vocate declares, by ing admission into the church too easy. To invite persons to rise, and to Ron them ocon- verted, adds nothing to strength of a church, and raises no ion that souls are being saved. To fill the records with names of childrén, unless deep religious impressions are made; does no good and much harm. I —— Winter Customs in Russia, ] The Russians have a great Knack for making their winters pleasant. You feel nothing of the cold in those tightly- built houses where all the doors and windows are double, and where the! rooms are kept warns by big stoves hid- | den in the walls. There is no’ damp in a Russian house, and the inmates may | dress indoors in the lightest of garbs, | which contrast oddly with the mass of | furs and wraps which they don when going out. A Russian can afford to ran | no risk of exposure when he leaves his house for a walk or drive. He covers his | head and ears with a far bonnet, huis | feet and legs with felt boots lined | with wool or far, which are drawn on | over the ordinary boots and trousers, | and reach up to the knees; he next! $ fur collar, lining and ouffs; and he bu- ries his hands in a pair of fingerless | gloves of seal or bear skin. Thus equipped, and with the collar of his | coat raised all around so that it muffles him up to the eves, the Russian exposes | only his nose to the cold air; and he a little rub to keep the circulation going. A stranger, who is apt to fc precaution, would often get his nose frozen if it were not for the courtesy of the Russians, who willalways warn him if they see his nose * whitening,” and will, unbidden, help him to chafe it vigor- ously with snow. ",. Hudfisn 2 walking is just possible for nen during winter; bat hardly so for ladies. The women of the lower order wear knee- boots; those of the shop-keeping classes seldom: venture ont at all; those of the aristocracy go out in sleighs. These sleighs are by no means pleasant vehicles for nervons people, for the Kalmue eoaschmen drive them at such a terrific pace that they frequently cap- size; but persons not destitute of pluck find their motion most enjovable. It must be added that to be spilled out of a Russian sleigh is tanta. mount only to getting a Tough tumble on a soft mattress, for very thick furs in which the victim is sure to be Suppo will be enough to break the fall. e houses and hovels of the Russian working classes are as well warmed as those of the aristocracy. A stove is always the principal item of furniture in them, and these contri- vances are used to sleep on as well as to cook in. The mujick, having no bed, curls himself up on his stove at his time for going to rest; sometimes he may be found Sreeping Hg ng the stove and enjoving the delights of a good vapor bath. The amount of heat which a Russian will stand is amazing, and lis carelessness in facing the cold after- ward not less so. On a Sunday, which is washing day all over Russia, you i a mu. jick who has been cooki him- : self in his stove till he is of a color like | boiled lobster, rush naked into the snow | and roll himself in it like a dog till he | glows all over to his satisfaction. It | seems monstrous that one of the Rus- 'sian’s principal protections against the | cold—his beard—was laid under penalty | by Peter the Great and subsequently | by Elizabeth and Catharine II., when | | they were trying to civilize their sub- | jects acco | West, tax on beards; and peasants entering 1 i | may see in every cities on market days were | exhibit in proof that they had paid ‘their tax, a brass coin stamped with a bearded face and the words, *boroda | lignaia ti | been settled). ' abolished by | still survive in a manner, for the beard | is still considered “bad form” in aris- | tocratic circles. Military officers wear | only mustache and whiskers; diploma- | tists and other civil servants eschew the | whiskers and i altogether. This absurd was i A Russian pretty sure do be either a ““ pope” or a — member of one of the classes i" was iD if they had suff ay tramp looked in ; guvner. doing that for?”. ve three blocks, a lock of Lis hair. side up, récond than : How to Hard work can easy; but li by you go to : exvitement Rimonit Tntenss RY of : “if not too
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