By the Sea.
The waves come crowding up on the shore
Like nymphs in silv’ry green;
Forward in line, they trip to the time
Of orchestras unseen,
They sport, and leap, by the rocky point,
Sparkling in gems and gold;
Murmuring ever a liquid strain,
Like siren-songs of old.
Vith snowy plumes which wreathe and cur,
And toss in wanton glee,
Their riotous dance brings to the heart
The gladness of the sea!
Oh, the sea seems in a happy mood,
Happy! and so am I;
With heart as light as the foamy crest
Of waves that jostle by!
Portland Transeript
The Undertone,
X lay upon the water's edge,
The lapping waves erept to and fro
With murmuring soft "guinst rocky ledge,
With moaning where the rushes grow;
And e'er beneath the tide and moan
Sounded an undertone
"Neath the tangled branches of a wood
1 stood, and heard the giant limbs,
With thousand tongues of leaves, enflood
The place with solemn, dirge-like hymns,
And there through sound familiar grown
Sounded an undertone,
X watched a bird upon the wing:
His song of gladness, like a thread,
Wove in and out the air of spring
A web of sweet song "hroidered;
And blent with carol high and lone
Sounded the undertone.
A wandering band of minstrels strolled,
With thrilling harp and wild, sad song;
I listened as the notes out-rolled
And beat against a careless throng;
And there heard I—was’t I alone ?
The sounding undertone.
And e'er, beneath the child's sharp ery,
The maidens 'anghter pure and sweet,
Man's cath, mah's prayer, comes drifting by,
Life's undertone the soul doth greet.
Is't echo lost to common ears
That idling poe} vaguely hears ?
/ — Marie Le Baron.
The Romance of a Hammer.
Yes, I am, I believe, quite a disin-
terested person, and fairly well-known
for both my courage and modesty. ]
was boarding in a retired neighborhood
in New York, and next door to me
lived, in a private house, an old lady,
with her groaddaw Need 1 say
that that young person was unusually
attractive? I regret to state, however,
that any advances on my part in that
direction were met at first with much
indifference. Of course, an acquaint-
ance with the old lady had to be made,
and 2 very queer old lady was she
With a great many eccentricities, she
had one in particalar which over-
shadowed the rest. Once her house had
been robbed, forty years before, and she
had never forgotten it. Though she
was deaf as a post, she assured me that
the least noise disturbed her of nights,
as the dread of robbers was always on
her mind. Whether the young lady
shared her grandmother’s fears or not,
I did not know. 1 rather hoped she
did.
If, as I thought to myself, I could
only takeadvantage of thisold woman's
fancies, that might give me an intro-
duction to the house. The old lady
was garrulous, and I very soon scraped
up an acquaintance with her. 1
had not been talking with her more
than five minutes, shouting my words
into her before I broached the
subject of robberies. From my pocket
»% 3 x
Garner.
CAIs,
from in loud tones a long account of a
housebreaking adventure. 1 must
confess that in order to add some point
to the story I introduced some quite
new facts into the description. For
instance the street in which the rob-
bery took place was in an entirely dif-
ferent part of the town from ours, and
for it 1 substituted our own immediate
neighborhood. In the original version,
however, it was an old woman who
had actually been at the mercy of the
bandits. 1 howled it all out, and had
the satisfaction of seeing that it had an
instantaneous effect on the old lady.
“ Deary me!” said the old lady. “Ter-
rible! and we are so entirely unpro-
tected—two lone women!”
« Awful!” I replied; “and when rob-
bers get in a neighborhood they never
let up until they elean out everything.
I don’t like to tell you, but I have seen
some very strange and mysterious-
looking fellows—tramps apparently —
lounging around here lately.”
“ Bless us! and I am so deaf, and so
nervous. I am sure I shan’ be able
to sleep for weeks. What can I do?”
“1 have an idea,” said I. “In what
story of your house do you sleep?”
* Second story.” Then the old lady
described the position of her bed-
chamber—second story back. Her
granddaughter slept in the same room.
1 had known that before from a care-
ful reconnoissance I had made. My
own modest chamber in the boarding-
house was on the same floor, and our
rooms were contiguous, only separated
by the thin party wall.
“ Now, my dear madame,” said I, “1
am going to propose a plan of action
for you, quite simple of its kind, which
ought to relieve you of all anxieties, 1
might recommend a burglar-proof ap-
paratus with telegraph attachments,
but those are very expensive things to
set up. I can manage it all with a
hammer."
“A hammer I” exclaimed the old
lady, opening wide her mouth and
eyes,
“ Yes; a simple hammer.”
“ But I should be so terrified that if
a robber were to break in 1 never
could use it. 1 couldn't knock him
down with it.” The old lady was ter-
ribly flustered.
“I didn't mean a hammer to be used
as a weapon. Oh, dear, no; quite dif-
ferent from that. Your room in your
house and mine in: my house are ad-
jacent, and the head of your bed is just
near mine. Now, I will bay you a
small hammer, and all you have to do
is to take it to bed with you. At the
least noise take your hammer and give
it three raps on the wall. 1 will at once
understand that by that is meant a
precautionary signal. It's quite as good
as any telegraphic apparatus. 1 hear
the three raps good. I wake up at
once, and, springing out of bed put on
my clothes. 1 am prepared for action,
as it were. Then, should your fears
continue, you keep on rapping. I
understand at once that the danger is
imminent. Then ] seize my revolver,
cock it, runs downstairs, bound over
the fence, and my presence at once
disconcerts the robbers. They en-
deavor to escape; I shoot two or three
of them, and you and your charming
granddaughter ‘are saved.”
“It s very dreadful, but quite kind
and thoughtful of you, and so in-
genious. Ido believe that if I knew
that some one was watching for my
safety half my fears would be dis-
sipated.” The old woman really looked
quite grateful. “So you think yon
could hear me?” she asked
«Of course I could. I sleep on one
ear,” I replied. “It is true the idea is
fectly my own, but as introduced
by me it is quite practicable, for it has
been put on trial; in fact, by means of
the hammer system we might dispense
with the police entirely. Once, when 1
lived in quite a deserted neighborhood
—a long row of houses in a suburban
portion of the city—I organized a ham-
mer alarm. I had to doit for self-
protection. There had been robbery
after robbery in the row, and the
police were afraid to interfere. Every-
VOLUME XY,
Hditor
*
ERT IS FMT
NUMBER 37.
| tho thieves, for, as bad luck would
have it for these rascals, they tried to
{ break into ene d
of the row. In six seconds every inmate
in the row had been informed that a
burglarious attempt was Iie
You might have heard the
working al
the sti
house just at the en
ing made
TY Wy
mg from
Hness of
Nr i mi nde
turned out under 1
y
a cordon, swept ti
SIX OF seven of
remember the n
nly that they
ye sti
were
irsty rascals Known i
me."
The old lady, whose hair fairly
y by this time—or would have
p if she had had any--was profu
her thanks, Just what 1 wanted took
place, 1 was invited next evening
take tea, and the old lady In person
showed me her garden, so that I might
inderstand the lay of the land.
Now, 1 had reconnoitered the
ses before, not that 1 thought
thing ever would happen, In
out of consideration the )
woman. The fence was not a very
high one, though adorned with
my ¢
3
il
rl
i
for 1&
108 ug
SIME eS,
g barrel near it
that and then witha s
scale the fence,
suecor and the
them. 1 bought a
sented it to her,
}
En
I showed my plans of
lady approved of
mer, pres
old
tack-h
and expl
2 :
in detail, the method of
The tea was
her
forgot all about the
week
curred to break
peaceful neighborhood,
or SO
I am sound sleeper
a certain
there was
wind and rain,
dows, that my usual re
At last I went off
when i
my ear I was awakened
I heard the three ominous taps on the
wall! I never list \
dreadful in my
I waited a wh
tionary signal,
alarm. Rat-tat-tat-—went
tatoo on the wall, then knew
danger was imminent. looked
the window, and it
and dogs i
ursed rappin
such
with
Coie,
ly
dreamy dose,
with a start
ened to anything so
life. Was 1
it wis the
but not
awake !
the itive
the devil's
that
out of
was ng cats
shuddered! Still the
{ g of the hammer
berated through the room. 1
on my clothes. had a revo
in my life, and, had I owned one, wo
not have known how to shoot it off.
wished I had not lied so, but
was romantic, The rap)
mad. Suppose
true for true robbers next door !
could a i
armed youn;
whole
rever-
iad 1
huddled
iil
IKe
breakers ?
murder
their
thonght the
window and yell :
but my window looked on the yard, and
the wind was howling so that had there
been a whole squad of police below not
one of them would have heard me. It
was dreadful to be waked up that way,
to walk to sudden death,
pared as I knew I was.
officiousness !
once open
i .
theives I”
and so unpre-
I cursed
I was dressed somehow
at last and went slowly, shiv
the stairs, making all t
but it was just one
boarding-houses where
never take of
opened the back door which
garden,
I was wet to the skin before 1 found
the barrel and what was mysterous
about it was that the barrel had been
moved away from the
ring dow n
he noise 1 could,
of those selfish
the inmates
anything. 1
led to the
notice
fence,
minute it flashed across my min
did I once venture in the adjacer
garden my retreat would be cut off, and
that as the victim
trap, next morning I would be found
dead—dead—my skull beaten in with a
jimmy.
At last, however, at the expense of
several severe excoriations, 1 was over
the fence. 1 gazed at the back of the
house. All was still ll as death
there was a lull in the storm. I waited
to hear the agonized scream of the vie-
tims, but there was nothing
appalling stillness. Then something
rustled, and I covered my face with
my hands, I was awaiting some crash-
ing blow on my head, when a stray cat
bounded past me. No lights were visi-
ble. 1 waited ten minutes, exposed to
the drenching of the pitiless storm, for
it rained now harder than ever; then,
feeling that if the worst had come it
was all over now, and I could do noth-
of some villainous
+
-n1 1
save an
reclimbed the fence, and at last
gained my bed. 1 was miserable,
chilled to the marrow, and so nervous
and excited that 1 never went to sleep
any more during the whole of that
wretched night.
Next morning, having recovered
somewhat from the effects of that
night of terror, 1 awaited with
much anxiety the appearance of that
old lady at her door, for she always
in the milk herself. Should she
not respond to the milkman’s call then
the mystery would be solved. But she
did turn up. 1 at once went to the
door, and 1 expected that she would
took
ter to impart to me, and I was ready to
tell her how I had saved her and her
granddaughter from death, when, much
to my disgust, after having exchanged
milk.
last
her
escape
was about re-entering with
“You had a most narrow
night,” 1 said.
“Oh, yes,” she replied, smilingly:
“it's half water, and mighty blue and
thin. Evidently she referred
milk.”
“If it had not been for me,”
your beds. I was up and out.
three seconds after the first stroke of
the hammer 1 was in your garden. |
hope your charming granddaughter
has suffered no inconvenience. 1 am
quite positive that they—the robbers
were around last night, and my timely
presence scattered them.”
“God bless my soul,” said the old
fady, as she dropped the milk, “and I
did not know it.”
“But you hammered away like a
first-class blacksmith.”
“Indeed, I did not,” said she; “and
my milk, that's all gone. I slept un-
common well: better than usual. 1
always sleep soundly when it rains.”
Would it be believed that the old
woman denied the hammer incident in
toto? Had I been dreaming? Was it
force of imagination, the teaming of a
delirious brain? A shocking bad cold
in my head assured me that it had
been a reality.
I was quite out of heart all that
next day, and went to bed at night in
hy had hardly fallen off into a feverish
wv when 1 heard the accursed
r again, 1 covered my head
Rat-tat-tat it
a hammering of
imagination, for 1 put my ear to
wall and felt the vibrations
through the flimsy partition. Oh; the
unutterable of that old
And what if she were robhed
a dozen tea
desperate HOw, i
Fortunately it
[ found my barrel
! at was reassuring. 1
ated myself again, 1 st aled the
and landed with a crash on the
side on a p of tlower-pots
had carclessly placed there,
a moment for the noise to
knew that it robbers
he row 1 had made must
rtle them. I rubbed a very badly
ined ankle and waited and nothing
slums
hamime
tl
with badelothes,
\
i
1
went It could not be
ny
seltishness
of a silver teapot or so or
ns! 1 was
downstairs
Hr
raining.
ile
one
I waited
stthside. i
ie
LY
A353
went on that ac
Was I to be
1 rible task of discov
ering thieves in that old lady's garden;
and, what was worse, my chivalous eon
death, receive
Evidently there was
I was the victim whose
plotted
sleep after that with-
: and al-
ways in a most wretched frame of mind
duet, my dali with
iy ing
no reco
some mystery
nd was |
I never went to
sad e
wine
ing
out stuffing cotton in my ears
I was a martyr of my disinterestedness,
I was being x
Lif
1
lady was
ny sweet sleep
The old
under some
¥ i 1
whbed of
3
i
\
}
¢ became a burden 10 me.
either laboring
crazy. There
made me
that was
he belief that 1 was a hero in the eyes
the granddaughter, 1 cannot say
that she ever directly expressed herself
in that way, but looking at her at times
when I met her in the street, as 1 ad-
dressed a few words to her, 1 thought
I recognized an expression on her face
h told me of her sympathy.
ese nocturnal visits at last preyed
on my I went to bed now with
my ck I had bought a second-
i revolver. 1 had become reckless,
I am quite sure that had I met a small
of Oliver Twist
old lady's garden 1
have shotat him. °
The rapping would cease for a night
or two and then commence again. 1
felt that this
or I was
hin whi
rments, ar
hallucination
was only one
suffer all these t«
or
on
thes on.
shat +3 ,
thout the size
business
l My employers, leading grocers,
had noticed my sleepiness during busi-
ness hours, and had complained about it,
wearily 1
tol in hand
nical pro-
and I dropped into a wash-
tub of water, placed with devilish in-
hree-legged stool. As 1
off, The
used at last, but 1
that
One night this spring
for it had become §
CESS Tid
PN
genuity on a three
tell over my pistol went
dg]
wrhood was ar
i
i
ward in the bath-room
} lady's garden peals of
or, and a young woman appeared
» window who was apparently
old
en
+ brutal conduct on the part of
not suflicient, think of
impertinence of a young man who
called next day on me at
zirl were
our place of
As I have said, 1 am a clerk
olesale grocery line, and drug-
"clerks are always stuck-up crea-
That young sprig tw 1 a stick
one hand and in the other he had a
[ am to suppose his name was
on it, here,” said he,
ng his stick whiz through the air
within a few inches of my nose. * See
here, codfish, prunes,
, you have been fool-
wand grandmother's place long
ugh, and you are a precious ass, and
that's my cousin, a lady 1
IMArry had quite
vour nonsense. What a
proprietary idiot, with a
it, you must
yw that the old lady has got
rol the brain bad when she's
awake, but when she’s asleep of nights,
bless her, she snores away | hum-
ming top. A Chinee cracker under her
ear wouldn't as much as faze her, Now,
the old woman never had any use for
vour hammer, but I guess from what
Mary Jane has told me she has been
pounding around with it quite promis-
cuously. Now, see here, here is your
hammer, and do you take it before I
make you swallow it, handle, claw and
all, just as if it were a glass of crean
soda, and the very next time I hear
vou have ventured to cross that fence,
or to put that big foot of yours in my
grandmother's house, I will just thrash
vou dizzy, and listen to some good ad-
viee—change your boarding-house, figs,
even if you have to go back on your
| landlady.”
HESLIIUNS,
in the wl
$y
rl
irieX
written “Nee
Naki
oleomargarine,
pickles and glacos
has
¢ stamp on
Kn¢
on
ike a
i
The Oldest Reigning Monarch,
A telegram (happily contradicted)
that the emperor of Brazil had abdicated
in favor of his daughter Donna Isabella,
the Countess d'Eai, brings to mind the
{ fact mentioned in the Register some
months ago, that he has been on the
throne longer than any other living
{ monarch. Fifty-one years ago last
April Dom Pedro 1., the father of the
present emperor, rather than yield what
he conscientiously believed to be his
constitutional rights, abdicated in the
following letter: “Availing myself of
the right which the constitution con-
cedes to me, 1 declare that 1 have vol-
untarily abdicated in favor of my be-
loved and esteemed son, Dom Pedro de
i Aleantara. (Dated) Boa Vista ( Riode
| Janeiro), April 7, 1831, tenth year of
the independence of the empire,” The
present emperor was governed by re-
gents for nine years, until his majority
was declared in 1840, He had thus
| been governing monarch for forty-one
vears ; but as his reign dates from the
7th of April, 1831, he has in reality been
monarch six years longer than the queen
of England.— Panama Herald.
To Keep Grapes,
A New York paper publishes two
recipes for keeping grapes which will
perhaps be a practical help to house-
wives in this vicinity, where grape
culture is extensively carried on:
I. Select nine fresh clusters, and ent
the end of the stem smooth and dip it
lin melted sealing-wax; then put in cot-
ton batting; pack them away in wooden
boxes; keep them in a dry, cool place,
In this way they will keep fresh all
| winter.
| II. Take full bunches, ripe and per-
| fect; seal the end that is cut from the
| vine so that no air can get in or the
| juice of the stem run out, and let them
| stand one day after sealing, so as to be
| sure they are perfectly sealed (if not,
| they will shrivel up), then pack in
hoxes of dry sawdust and keep in cool
places. They will keep nicely all win-
| ter without losing their flavor. In pack-
ing, do not crowd the bunches; sprinkle
the sawdust over the bottom of the
box, then lay the grapes carefully, a
bunch at a time, all over the box, then
with a hammer.
BULL RUN,
How Henry J. Havmond and De, Russell
of the Londen Times’ Rode Like Mad
for Washingion-=<liumors of the Quen
sian,
td
Probal iy the be
wild stampede which followed the i
tle of Bull Run ever
in the Pittsburg [HMspatch recently
I'he historian is
tN ription of thi
nit
printed appeared
i" »
Marshall, of
Butler, Pa., a prominent lawyer A
Marshall at t! the battle was
yiber of the Pennsylvania legisla
with ‘ of persons
{0 sen the rebels
McDowell, Mr. Marshall
ompanied by Henry J. Ray
editor of the New York Times,
the famous War corre
hennt Iy
1 date of
i Lit
ture, a
followed t
crushed by
vd hundreds
hie army
Was ac
mond,
and Dr
Jondon imes
and 1.”
ind
1
ell began
on Lh
a4 'olo kK in
W hile we were talking
heard
i the Manasses rail
locomotives
in a cut, out
marched i
a stand of
a double
It Kirby
installment ol
Winchester,
hue
when
Wilds
troops
themselves
tottering
mall, every ma
fantry ci
grasp of 1118 :
with sweat and dus
Jog and fell flat on his
flat on rot
stomach, A zouave, who was hard at
his heels, came down with emphasis on
top. Mr, MeGuilin rtain that
the Philistines were upon him,
endeavor to roll
as he could fall
.
Wis Ot
and
with a weak
around that he might see his foeman’s
face, exclaimed: * Great heaven, gen-
tlemen, can't ng be COnipro-
mised 7
his eves
fh
Lids
“ Before Raymond and 1 had driven
far an ordnance wagon crust
barouche and
edd intoour
it. I
horses,
demolished
mounted of CArrn
Raymond was in despair.
“ «Get on the other horse, 1 eried.
“+ Bat I can't stick on.’
“ {Then good-evening;
Washington.’
“sHold on; I can ride behind the
nigger,’ exclaimed the distinguished
editor, and he was about to climb up
behind the colored driver when a car-
riage drove past with some Congress-
men whom he knew and he got in with
them.
| “1 galloped away, but before I had
| gone far I saw a regiment drawn up
| in line across the road, with fixed bay-
| onets, stopping the fugitives, 1 took
| to the fields, executed a flank moves
| ment and got past with a few others,
| When I came to the little field tele
| graph office, near Fairfax Court House,
| I was riding ahead of my party. A
| wire had been laid out thus far and
| dispatches from the field were carried
| here and wired to Washington, The
last messages sent had told how our
troops were driving the enemy.
“¢ What news from the field?’ cried
the little operator, with his finger on
the key.
“¢Our men are routed, They are
running this way,’ 1 shouted back to
him as I galloped past. He cut
one the pre
I'm going to
loose
and took to his heels, When the next
orderly came with a dispatch he found
the battery dismounted, and that
how 1 came to be the first to carmy the
news to Washington, :
“J overtook Bull Run Russell, and
we rode together for a while; but his
horse was fagged and mine was fresh,
80 I soon left him. After that I rode
foremost and alone, At Ball's Cross
Roads I was challenged by a Dutch
sentinel. Ben Morgan had my pass
through the lines, but I had an annual
over the Pennsylvania railroad, signed
by Tom Scott. I showed the sentinel
the name of Scott, told him it was
General Winfield Scott, the com-
mander-in-chie’, and he passed me
through, I got over the
Long bridge at Washington at 9
o'clock, just as the countersign was he-
ing given out for the night. 1 rode
up to Willard’s hotel through streets
thronged
citemer”. over the favorable dispatches
that had come in from the front. The
brass bands were out in force, and
sombody was making a rousing ‘On
to Richmond’ speech from the balcony
of the hotel. I walked into the office
knowing how soon those cheers would
be hushed to whispers of affright.
Chadwick was keeping the hotel then,
and as I pushed up to the desk he
stared at me, bareheaded and stream-
ing with dirt and sweat as I was, and
finally recognizing me, asked me where
I had been and what was the matter.
“¢I come from the front. MeDow-
sll is licked out of his hoots, and the
me,
“ Chadwick dived back into his pri
with a seared {dee and In 4
came back and took me
vite office
ow
in with him.
“ There sat General Mansfield,
in command of the troops around
Washington, with a bottle of cham
him
moments
who
Wis
pagne befor
* Mi
that you rep
Are you a military mat, sir?
“! No, sir.’
“ { Then, how do you know, sir
they were not merely making i
of fr mit g
tary maneuver, sir?
ny Well
as 1
imntort
Hs sir,
retreating
Chadwick nme,
IL Our army
or executing some other
pt i i 3
general,” 1 replied, as calmly
wild, while the gray haired old
maurtinet eved me sternly, * 1 saw whole
regiments throw down the
to the woods SW
Ht their
guns and caissons and gallop
men, CU
ir guns and
artillery.
from the
AWay |
and
Nex Kk
Like
fel sf horses loose
saw officers, ongressmen
Fexas steers running and
the road toward Washington,
and steers that
Dean
neck
down
only things
ive
but
a single word of
who had lise
Mtience,
Lund thelr tals up It may h
a change of front, as you
*1 don’t believe
, broke in the
tenad to » with evident
‘Good-evening,! 1 replied, and
of I'he crowd
{ got the gdews hy this time from
‘hadwick, and 1 was ost pulled to
Somebody noticed that 1 was
wearing a gray suit, a
‘He's a rebel.’ ! were several
s tha lynched for try
the rebel
RLY,
bir general,
in
Ww alked
got tl 1
Pieces,
id shouted
suggestion
ing to stimulate a rising ol
i in the General Mans
the depart.
oon a sergeant and a
me and took
President
net
Wil
rs came for
department
his entire cai
oott,
waiting for news {rom the front
mon ( had
member of the legislature and vi
for my lovalty, There was very
id while 1 told my
“The President
’
}
bent down i}
Were
. with old General AN X10Us.
. Loy % : ‘
ameron Known ne
sa stor
il
{ with Seott ¢
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it alter
were
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————
A Sea Captain's Revenge,
said that there
under :
A Crais
vaer when
owner t :
But with
mt of port
and
be
of Crew
The fe
but not least, are the ives
{ passengers
a responsible d
rust
armed
Any
for th
interests,
hee lodged fil
where but with the captain. His judg-
ment may be at fault, but if at the end
Lirecting
with the legal power to
order | Link
rotecti thes
fit
his authority
NDCeSSEry
i f¥ aren
different
bo
could
of a vovage he can make oath that hs
considered what he did to be
for the protection of the interests in.
triisted to his Keeping, it is almost im-
possible to punish him for his mistakes,
An example of this arbitrary power
by the cap-
tain of a merchant vessel sailing from
one of our Atlantic ports, The ship
was bound on a voyage to the west coast
of South America, and her owner
vited one or two of friends to
go down the bay in her and re
turn on the pilot boat, When outside
the weather became somewhat threats
ening, and the pilot boat was not imme-
diately on hand. The captain had long
cherished a grudge against the owner
and saw in the situation an opportunity
of revenging himself. In spite of com-
mands and then of appeals made for the
owner, his friends and the pilot, he put
his vessel upon her course and sailed
out to sea. His involuntary passengers
were, of course, in a wretched state of
mind, coming, as they did, wholly un-
prepared for a vovage around “Cape
Horn, and well aware that their rela-
tives and friends would have doubts as
to their existence. This led the owner
to resort to methods which led the cap-
tain to construe to be mutinous, and
hence he had the former placed in con-
NOCeSSHY
ago
WHS given some years
in-
his
the exception of the pilot, were treated
very much as if they had been com-
mon sailors, so far as their food supply
was concerned. When the ship arrived
at her port of destination the captain
was instantly dismissed ; but that was
all the punishment that could be visited
upon him,
sich ——————
Sunday in Paris,
The church duties of the Parisians
on Sunday are regarded as over at noon,
and the balance of the day is devoted
o recreation and pleasure by even the
piously inclined, writes a correspondent,
Every Parisian who can afford five
francs for a couple of hours’
drive on Champs Elysees and
the Bpis de Bologne is sure
to be there with his family, though it
often happens that Paris, with its tens
of thousands of vehicles, cannot sup-
ply the demand, particularly on race
Sundays, It is the special day for im-
portant races. The theatres all pro-
vide extraordinary attractions for Sun-
day; the Punch and Judy shows and
and everything that is bright on other
days and nights has an extra polish
given to it on Sunday, The Tuilerie
gardens, the gardens of
Royal, and the numerous open squares
in the city are extra crowded with
| day attire. All appear to be joyful and
happy, and if a committee from the
city council of some other sphere were
to take a comprehensive glance over
this world of ours on a Sunday after-
noon, it would be compelled to report
that the people of Paris were the
happiest people on the face of the
earth. They look happy, seem happy,
cand undoubtedly are, especially on
Sundays, intent on the pursuit of hap-
| piness, according to their various tastes
{ and inclinations,
HARVEST HOMES,
4 Sudden Revival of an Old English!’ ustom
thi
old-time
Pittsburg ( Pa.) Dispateh ;
I'he home plenie
whieh, like so many other excellent old
harvest
customs, has dropped out of gene ral ob»
servance, is just now receiving a grt at
revival A couple of years ago it sua-
denly nlo usage again among
ome of the Rmous farmers of Middle
New York, and has rapidly spread be.
of that State
yond the Hmits of the §
alone, Inth
Eastern Pennsylvania, and in Ohio and
111i the west of there have
been notably large gatherings,
The o folk have not been able,
if they so des these pie
nies exe affairs, It
has become quite the fashion among
Cily und townspeople well, The
fos i g under the management
of representative men from the couns
try,-have insured a respectability and
not always attend
go from the city
spriane
and ies
hi arminfi class
rich far Hinge ountry ol
nos to ts
farmin
fake
lusively farmers’
an
1c 1
IVILIS Dei
decorum which
picnic parties w hich
to the country. It never degenerates
into a « but retains its charac
ter as t, orderly gathering for a
day's enjoyment in the woods. Parents
with large families of children, of the
inconvenient si that tumble out
of DOALS, gather stray toads to
their bos : t beetles down their
neck and squ have seized upon this
new 4s an opportunity for
1 them for a day of merry-
where there 1s no
Besides, there
sal n of red apples
and broad butter
a real farmers’ picnic that
does
aro
ine
a decen
F 2 os
is, Bt
i
ail
enterprise
al a pienic
g and no fig
{fragrant suggestio
slices of bread and
is
very taking to city-living people. Of
farmers and their families
the largest pari of the at-
endance, for the obvious reason that
of their neighbors
any other place.
trade is
harvest
sind
4 it
AOU
$1
onstitute
COHTTSe,
Livre than
Many
summated
and
On
home
new of wheat
ged, The wives and daughters
tly for the fun, and largely be
t is the latest fashion. The rail
wll slow 10
a hor
nt the
arieties
OI Panes have not
» an enterprise which « ultivates
and ce conduces 10 Vis
] i t
ntly traveling lie
il oe
and the harvest
ually lower than on any
ORR
rates of fare to
from
ts
HOme are
hier occa
brating the gath-
t ya feast or
a is older in England than
ction of Christianity, and as
had many features
1 In Eng
vid Jrassg s under
arvest Home." " In
ation.
t was called the
scotland it was
designation of the
ipper.” And ther
FOU NaHIes
days of England,
ch
} x
the harvi
as He
LO Sim
Was si i soelie
ght have expects
farm, or as
race's fri
ol
Mheocritus described in his 1dyls In
these 's the working people of afew
' united in the
i, Out it ntly whole
% Came together Fhe grain fast
home in wagon,
art, surmounted by a
with gay
bly representing the
metimes the figure
being a mere
ile of grain, was a pretty
ng band, erowned with
4% “the ma jen,” or
Of
this we have a description in a ballad of
OLN
t S13 isd it
is
a sheat
instead ol
iH OLinG EB
he har'st queen,”
“i © cane the jovial Bot
Last of the whole Year's
1 Larne am
i he fire.’
home
SOV.
Herr ( wis the harvest
of his dav, the earlier half of the
enteenth century, and chronicles the
cheering virtue of the * all-tempting
framentie,” the “smirking wine” and
the “stout beere” which flowed freely
upon the occasion,
A custom obtained at the close of
harvest of * Crying the Mare,” ‘as it
was called in Hertfordshire, the *Nack,"
it was termed in Devonshire,
“ Goobbir Bhi agh” or “the Crippled
as it ‘was named in the Isle of
Skye, The last handful of grain cut
by a farmer who got through his har
vest first was tied up in a bundle,
tricked out with ribbons and sent with
some rude preliminary cere monies to a
tardier neigl who still had some
grain still standing. He in turn,
when he completed his harvest work,
to the nearest tardy one,
on until all the
being cut in a neigh-
borhood it was time for har
vest home, The last man holding the
handful of grain, which constituted the
Mare Nack or Goat, was esteemed a
sluggard all the year through. In Scot-
land this last handful received more
honorable treatment, It was cut by
| the bonniest lass in the district, tied
up with ribbons and usually pre served
in the farmer's parlor for the remainder
of the vear,
The modern celebration of
gathering of the harvest
means the rude festival of former
days. The progress of the farmer
socimlly is very well illustrated by a
comparison of the festivities mentioned
the amusement resources
provided for at a picnic next
Tuesday. Thereis to be a band of
music on the grounds, and fat men's
races, sack races and a boat race on
the Ohio river opposite the ground.
Swings, flying horses, croquet, base-
ball and the like amusements will
make glad and tired the young genera-
tion. Altogether, the farmer of to-day
Lproy ides his family with a decidedly
greater variety of enjoyments than his
remote ancestor in the days when “the
Mare” was cried from one end of ¢
county to the other,
I
k descr
ie
as
Goat.”
ighbor
passed it on
and
grain
NO
the in-
is by no
above with
Children and Work,
In an English industrial school con-
| taining about six hundred children,
{ half girls and half boys, it became con-
| venient to give the girls about eighteen
| hours of book instruction per week and
| eighteen hours of work, while the boys
remained at full school time of thirty-
six hours per week, On examination
day it was found that the girls were
more alert mentally and practically in
advance of the boys. When work was
found for the boys and their school
hours reduced from thirty-six to eigh-
teen, they did as well as the girls,
While too much work and too little play
makes Jack a dull boy, it seems pretty
evident that a portion of children’s time
can be employed in industrial work to
their advantage. Perhaps it would he
well to divide their waking hours, one-
third to work, one-third to study and
one-third to play —Dp,
Monthly.
ing into rivalship with the telegraph-
at least for Hmited distanced, It has
been used to advantage between Brus
sels and Dover—a whole distance of 240
miles, sixty of which were under water,
1f submarine difficulties have been suf-
ficiently overcome, the time may not be
far distant when New York and Lon-
don will be talking to one another,
An elderly gentleman of Benton,
Montana, the father of Katie MeGrorty,
learned that his daughter intended to
elope with John Cleary, Early that
evening he took his blankets and spread
a comfortable bed under the buggy
which he expected the young people to
take, H eslept soundly the whole night
through, and in the morning found the
buggy over him safe, But the young
people had taken another buggy, and
were quietly married in Bodie the next
day.
The value of babies has been fixed, A
child less than 1 year is worth $14; be
tween 1 and 2 vears, $19; 2 to 3 years,
$25; 4 vears, $31; 5 years, $35; 6 years,
10: 7 VEArs, $i); B VEars, $60: 9 Years,
$70; 10 vears, $90; 11 years, $123. These
are the valuations made by a baby insur-
ance company of Cincinnati, The
varents pay five cents a week for the in-
surance of their child. The rates for
colored children are twice as much,
owing to theirtwo-fold ability for con-
tracting contagious diseases,
A Cleveland man named Jones has a
cow addicted to the uncomfortable habit
of switching her tail in his face while
milking her, The other day Jones took
the tail and tied it firmly to his leg.
The cow, irritated by the flies she could
not drive away, started off and feeling
came frightened and ran. Jones is now
walking about on crutches and remark-
ing: “ About the tenth time I had been
hauled around that lot 1 began to see
where 1 missed it,
tail to her leg and not to mine.”
The possibilities incident to the
general use of electricity and its pres
ence in all parts of a large city, are sug-
gested by an incident which happened
in New York a short time since when
at a certain point in Nassau street,
horses, no matter how old and worn
out, or lively and spirited, jumped and
curvetted and pranced to the great de-
light of the crowds who witnessed the
performance, Much to their disap-
Electric Light company and the current
was turned off from that vicinity, A
wire pressed upon the steam pipes that
communicated with the surface, and
every time the horses’ iron shoes closed
the cireuit the animals received a shock
to running.
A New York reporter has been in-
vestiguting the footsteps of the wany
York. “Investigate” is a good word
for it, too, because in the original Latin
prints of anybody or anything, Nearly
all the steps of public buildings are worn
railroad stations is so great that a com-
bination of iron and india rubber, to
prevent wear and slipperiness, has been
devised. The curbstones where people
wait for vehicles are hollowed out.
deep furrow is worn upon the steps of
buildings, like those in front of A. T.
Stewart's, running the whole length of
the sidewalk and walked along on the
step. The renewal of stone steps, curbs
and stairways in a large city is not in-
frequent,
Aremarkable Italian peasant custom
nas just been brought to notice at Naples,
A year ago the daughter of Carolina Gar-
Giuseppe Esposito. It is the usage
among the lower classes for the bride-
groom to visit his mother-in-law on the
morning following the marriage. Es-
posito was reminded of this custom but
neglected to make the visit. The moth-
er-in-law then became angry and urged
her son, Vincenzo Garguillo, to kill Es.
posito. The son at once went to his
sister's house and waited for the hus-
and begged him to stay and dine. Vin-
cenzo thereupon drawing a knife, threw
himself on his brother-in-law, stabbed
him and laid him dead at his feet. Vin-
cenzo has been sentenced to imprison
ment for life and his mother to “seclu
sion” for three years,
Under the constitution of Switzer-
land any federal law, before it can take
effect, must, if demanded by 30,000 cit-
izens, be submitted to a vote of the
people and be approved by them. At
the recent session of the federal cham-
bers two laws were passed, which upon
Jemand were submitted to a vote of the
people and were both rejected. One of
these was a national law for the regu-
lation of epidemics,
lic and it gave the federal authorities
power to take persons affected with
epidemic diseases away from their
families and isolate them un-
der government care, This law was re-
jected by the overwhelming vote of
590.000 to 60,000. Its rejection, how-
ever, leaves to each canton its present
power to enforce vaccination when it
thinks it necessary.
one authorizing the federal government
to establish a system of patent and copy-
right laws, none of which laws, it seems,
exist in Switzerland.
can obtain no patent in his own country.
This law was also rejected by a vote of
126,500 for to 138,500 against it.
The Cradle of the Bootblack.
New York lays claim to be the place
where the street bootblack first ap-
peared, but Boston says the professional
boothlack is essentially an institution of
the “ Hub.” The Z'raveller of the lat-
ter city says at first the business was
associated with window-washing,
chimney-sweeping, clothes cleaning and
waiting and tending. In time, how-
ever, it became a distinet branch, and
many of the bootblacks of that day ac-
quired a handsome independence and
became real estate holders. The cus-
tom then was to call at the homes of
the gentry, take the boots and shoes,
string them on long poles and carry
them to their respective places of busi-
ness, polish and return them at an early
hour the next day, These poles would
hold a dozen or more pairs, and it was
a novel sight to see the bootblacks
passing to and fro.
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul,
which every new idea contributes in its
assage to scour away. It is the putre-
faction of stagnant life, and it is
| remedied by exercise and motion,
EA ST.
Woulde'tChun ge Her Name,
Miss Risley Seward, a daughter of |
ex-Solicitor of the Treasury Risley, be
came a great favorite with Wm. H.
Seward while he was secretary of state,
and subsequently sccompanied him
during his tour round the world, Mr,
Seward, in his will, bequeathed her $30,
| 000 on condition that she should adopt
his name. She accepted the money,
adopted his name, and now refuses to
marry because she will not consent to
change her name, At present she is in
Italy, studying the old monasteries of
that country,
A Hoya! Wedding in Nevada,
His majesty, Winnemucca MDLV,,
king of all the Plutes, was recently mar
ried to a princess of his tribe. Buenna
Vista John, a trusted member of Win-
nemucca’s cabinet, says the royal eon-
sort is past the middle age and weighs
ail the same as four sacks of flour. Win-
nemueea, who traces his lineage, ac-
| gording to Piute tradition, from the.
time when the Humboldt valley was a
lake, is said to be the fifteen hundredth
and fifty-fifth monarch of his line, He
has children past the prime of life, and
the old fellow takes a new wife to pro-
vide for his necessities in his old age
! The Piute marriage ceremony is a very
simple affair. The chosen bride retires
to her wickiup at an appointed time and
huddles in a corner, If she does not
like the bridegroom she gets up and
runs away when he enters the wickiup,
but if he is the man of her choice re
| mains and becomes his slave for life.
The old king will now have an easier
time than has been his lot for years
past, as the queen will have to “rustls
for grub” for the aged monarch.— Win-
| nemucoa Silver State,
Fashion Netes.
Ficelle shades and hues are fashion-
able,
Copper red is pronounced an elegant
red shade.
Velvet and velveteen will be much
worn,
The close English turban hat remains
in style during autumn,
New colors show many faded tapes
try shades, and these shades are labeled
ald.
The new osier bonnet is trimmed
| with peaches, bunches of grapes and
other fruit,
Small birds are imported in great
| quantities for trimming bonnets and
round hats,
Printed figures on plain batiste are
the neck.
| The seams of basques will be defined
‘by braid, similar to the old style of
A simple standing clerical collar, in
linen, is the neatest neckwear for the
warm weather.
There are indications that skirts
much worn this autumn.
sarasols for country use are of plain
Fashion authorities say that the close
head instead of low on the forehead.
The newest trimming ribbons are the
ottoman reps of thick, yet soft quality,
in widths varying from two inches to
five or six.
| The osier bonnet is the caprice of the
It re
'sembles a brown wicker fruit basket
placed almost inverted on the head.
The Russian pelisse is a long, close,
plain garment, shaped like a tight
| redingote: It is made of dark cashmere,
Mountain dresses make the most
pleasing effect when they are of cedar,
raspberry or Egyptian red, relieved by
| dark green, maroon, sea-blue or lacquer-
brown.
A frésh mode of using eross-barred
fabrics of blended colors or simple black
and white is to combine or trim them
with a larger cross-bar precisely similar
as to color.
Deep pointed passementerie,’ with
rows of silk balls hanging so closely that
the passementerie is almost hidden from
view, is one of the most unique fringes
| for the season.
| New and low-priced pocket handker
chiefs have a wide hem, on which are
printed detached colored flowers, daisies,
pansies and artemisias, and these match
the neckerchiefs,
Some of thie new autumn walking cos-
| tumes of tweed are decidedly masculine
| in style, showing a white muslin under-
below the chest with one button, a
standing collar with round gold collar
button, or huge cuff-buttons, and,
crowning all, a jaunty English, low-
| crowned derby hat, devoid of trimming
of any sort, Many English girls goa
| step further than the Yankee girl dares
| to, and carry a slender ebony cane.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
Certain physicians say that crying
{ should not be repressed in children,
as the consequences may be Saint
Vitus’ dance or epileptic fits,
| It has been said that masses of pure
asphalt float on the surface of the
Dead sea, or Lake Asphaltites, whence
the name; but, according to modern
observers, the quantity found at pres-
ent is small,
One gallon of distilled water weighs
ten pounds. One gallon of sea-water
weighs 10.32 pounds; 1.8 cubie foot of
water weighs one hundredweight.
{*Thirty-six cubic feet weigh one ton,
and equal 224 gallons. One cubic foot
| contains 6} gallons,
| In order to secure the greater purity
in the atmosphere of the St. Gothard
| tunnel, an attempt is to be mide to
| propel the locomotive by electricity.
| Experiments, for which the sum of
180,000 francs is set apart, are now
being made at Berne with this object.
Professor W. Zenger has for a con-
siderable time been trying to prove the
existence of a tolerably well-defined
period in the occurrence of terrestrial
phenomena, such as earthquakes,
storms, variations in atmospheric
pressure and in temperature, magnetic
disturbances, ete, The length of Pro-
fessor Zenger's period is 12.6 days, cor-
responding to a half rotation of the
sun.
From the frequent mention of linen
in the history of Scotland, it is evident
that the inhabitants were acquainted
with the process of making cloth from
flax six hundred yearsagoatleast. Itis
related, that at the battle of Bannock-
carters, wainmen, lackeys and women
put on shirts, smoeks ‘and other white
linens, aloft upon their usual garments
To find life's apple rotten af the 60
80 but God's arm were round me
in ii
If sleep were death, and life's
tes have stock
they rr li a :
Night.
will be :
Decker, who made the first
tons craft, is still alive and
Cheek,
“how is no go
“Yes,” replied Fred
out of danger. T
larly every day.”
A handsome London butcher s
five times the show to get married th
‘ahandsome clerk does, It is a wise
who, in looking out for her rib, sets
The corn husks are heivy
He lay ina swoon by the
His helmet was broken ; his visor
cracked ; his :
the smoke of e; his astplal
was indented like a milk can ; his hal
berd was as dull asa five-cent barber's
razor ; the lock of his cross-gun
his quiver shook like a canal horse with
the heaves ; his tabard was in shreds
his ears were off ; one eye was gone
his nose was out of plumb, and his
bone was paralyzed. He had been t
ing to umpire a baseball game.
”
are very pleasant things—sweet 1
and warm arms and lo eyes—bu
truth and sincerity and al
purity are
her husband, looking at her
ng tenderness, * you are right,
asked, a look of horror
her face. “There is but one
pie,” said George W, Simpson, “an
shall tackle it myself.” Chicago
bune, (ar
WISE WORDS.
Confidence generally inspires
dence.
Venture not upon the threhold
wrong.
People do not lack strength;
lack will. ria
I hold him to be dead in
shame is dead. :
Injure not another's reputation
business, « .. + _; x
He is the greatest who chooses
right at all times. -
He who prays for his neighbor
be heard for himself,
Where the mind ingiines
lead. Leve climbs mountains.
Nothing is more dangerous
than a sudden change in fortune.
A prison is never narrow whi
imagination can range in it at
Duties and rights are i
one cannot be delegated -
other. 2
A fool may have his coat
ered with gold, but it is a fo
still. ae
The days are made on a loon
of the warp and woof are past
ture time. :
es
Confidence in an u
time of trouble is like a