“ 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,
. $
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A AA
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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