A ARB A PAB BAN or
Popular Cossack Song,
A hopvine in the garden crept
Along the earth so low;
Near by a lonely maiden wept,
Her heart was full of woe.
Why twinest thou, green blooming vine,
Not apward toward the sky?
Why droopest thou, a maiden fine,
In sorrow head and eye?
How oan the hopvine upward twine,
Supportiess and alone?
How can the maid's eyes gladly shine
Her Cossack friend is gone?
Ce AI WH N55
In the Mining Town.
“Na the last time, darling,” he gently said,
As he kissed her lips, like cherries red,
While a fond look shone in his eyes of brown.
« MY own is the prettiest girl in town;
To-morrow the bell from the tower will ring
A joyful peal. Wasthere ever a king
So traly blest on his royal throne,
Az I shall be, when I claim my own?
"T'was a fond farewell;
bye;
But she watohed him go, with a
sigh;
So into the basket, that swayed and swung
Q'er the yawning abyss, he lightly sprang,
And the joy of heart seemed turned to woe
As they lowered him into the depths below,
"
twas a sweat good
troubled
Was the fairest face in the mining town.
10! the moming came: but the marriage
bell,
High up in the tower, rang a mourning knell
For the true heart buried "neath earth and
stone,
Far down in the heart of the mine
Asorrow-paal on her wedding day,
For the breaking heart, and the heart of
olay;
And the face that looked from
brown
Was the saddest face in the mining town.
~alone,
her tresses
Thus time rolled on in its weary way,
Until fifty years with theirshadows gray
Had darkenad the ligh
ROW,
And had turned the brown of her hair to
SNOW. .
Oh! never a kiss from a husband's lips
Or the clasp of a child s sweet finger-tips,
Had lifted one moment the shadows brown
From the saddest heart in the mining town.
of her sweet eyes’
Far down in the depths of the mine one day,
In the loosened earth they were digging away
They discovered a face, »0 young, so fair—
From the smiling lips to the bright-brown
hair—
Untouched by she finger of time's docay.
When they dr
The wondering
To gaze at the man so strangely
w him up to the light of day,
people gathered round
found.
Then a woman sprang from the
erowd,
With her long white hair, and her slight form
bowed;
She silently knelt by
And kissed the lips that were cold and gray.
Then the sad old face, with its snowy hair,
On his yonthfol bosom lay pillowed there.
He had found her at last~his waiting bride;
And the people buried them side by side.
among
the form of clay,
A Curious Disposition.
Three ladies were seated in Agatha
Foster's parlor; Miss Fortescue, large
SE
opolized the most comfortable arm-
chair ; Mrs. Becker, shrunken an
sandy, who was constantly slidin
off the sofa and reinstating
with a jerk, and Miss Agatha herself,
who sat apart from the others, glanc-
ing uneasily out of the window, as if
distressed by their garrulity. Miss
Agatha was a fair young woman, with
a noble head and a countenance ex-
pressive of all grace and goodness, Yet
at this moment she ]
Qa
or
hersel
fiersell
entertained feel
ings decidedly hostile to her callers,
who had run in, with the familiar free
dom of fellow boarders in a family hotel,
to chat away the afternoon. At heart
they were immensely sorry that Miss
Nannie Foster had not yet returned from
a suburb, where she had gone the day
before. Miss Nannie, Agatha's cousin,
companion and chaperone in one, was
far more to their taste; she was more
attentive, more easily impressed, more
sympathetic, they thought. She never
sat looking out the window when they
were retailing their cl bits of
scandal for her especial benefit. But
then she was a woman of years. How-
ever, they still lingered; it was a
pleasant place. The Fosters had the
handsomest suite in the building—and
furnished with such taste! Such ear-
pets! Such decorative art! And the
Fosters Were tip-top people. There
were four of them, Miss Agatha, her
two bachelor brothers, ten and a dozen
years her senior, and Miss Nannie, who,
since their parents’ death, had kept the
children together. The winter day
drew to a close, the room grew dusky,
and still the ladies lingered.
Agatha could endure it no longer;
this, of all days, she was without pa-
tience. She rose quickly.
“Ladies,” she s with an indig-
nant quiver in her sweet contralto
voice, * you must excuse me, 1 cannot
listen to such conversation I”
There was silence a moment; then
Miss Fortescue lifted her cumbrous
frame. “Oh, certainly. I quite un-
derstand. We will withdraw, We
do not wish to offend.”
“Oh, certainly,” faintly echoed Mrs.
Becker, sliding from the sofa for the
last time and preparing to follow.
Agatha’s impatience only increased.
« And allow me to say,” she ex-
claimed, with no compunction, “that I
think ladies might be better employed
than with their neighbors’ affairs.”
(yood-afternoon,” said Miss Fortes-
cue, savagely.
“ (rood-afternoon,”
Becker.
“(Good riddance!” cried Agatha,
sharply, ere the door had closed.
“To-day of all days,” she said, as
she walked to and fro in the dusk.
Presently the door opened. .
« All in the dark, Agatha?” asked a
cheery voice,
wicest
¥
114d
«Hi,
sneered Mrs.
”
”
Nannie,” was the swift, unnerved re-
ply. :
“ Why, what is the
dear?”
«1 have just put Mrs, Fortescue and
Mrs. Becker out of the room, and it
has annoyed me.”
“Dear me, what had they done?”
“The same old sickening gossip.
Miss Bruce flirts on the street; Mrs.
Gray holds her step-child to the fire to
burn it, and so on-and so on.”
“They get their ideas from
morning papers,”
unclasping her fur-lined circular.
* The stepmother holding the child to
matter,
news is scarce. Sometimes she heats
the flat-iron.
never go to that trouble.”
staid humor. She helped putaway the
wraps, and inquired after thesuburban
friends.
“You look pale; aren't you well 7”
asked Miss Nannie when they were
seated.
The girl dropped her eyes. “Nannie,
I have some news for you,” she said
with an effort. “I—last night—I
promised Mr. Peters—to—to marry
him.” Then she sighed as if relieved
of a great burden.
The room was still, utterly still. If
Miss Nannie were surprised or shocked
he gave no token. She only sat quietly
RB oking at the girl and taking time to
tlect. Agatha never lifted her eyes
il, after some moments, her cousin
ed her throat and tranquilly in-
hd: * Well, dear, are you satisfied
lyou will be happy?”
VOLUME XV,
Hditor and
CE
Then the girl rose and throw
upon the sofa, “Oh, Nannie,
know: I can't teil”
More silonce.
asked if she had told A
0 these women George
would be “the boys’
lived.
“1 told Georg
Agatha, In &
“Lewis was
would tell hu
» And wi
Lie
as lon
and meditated, bringing
To be sure he had m
t vilt %
SURNUINS
even felt 3
Hives J
mel
was atl
and th
Lit uly ag
sy reviewed his by
his * wild ey
wut the room while
w
en
be
3
DOSE il
and ¢ or \ langul
to say nothin adorers
Agatha, whe
because he lac
the senator
and the
was a wid-
congressman becau
ower,
Nannie remembered that the girl
had suffered and shed tears over re
fusing these and others. She had a
curious disposition, as the boys had
y roused and spoke.
and now, dear,
it 18 near dinner
“ 1
you ha
time.”
“ Hark!" eried
now
Nannie recogn
Lewis
Dlekil
ne in
gone int
faa
before
(ev
rising.
“Yes, di
3 hor
wien ner ¢ y
the corridor, and her tap
careless * Come
q )
after and lists
rother’s door.
Nannie,
den sob
Has pr
i
“Oh
08 Yery
us disposition
+ all
ily some way to dis-
med Lewis, grimly;
| out with the
xt Arctic expedition—"
Nannie rose. “You will be very
careful what vou say, Lewis?”
“Oh, of course.” :
She lingered “ Agatha
not a forceless nature by any
means,” she said ; “sl get angry
if she cares to. She tell ne she put
and Mrs. Becker out of
our parlor to-day, because of their vile
I have no doubt she did.”
“ Humph I”
* * * # *
Agatha came down to dinner witl
manner
r inward defiance
was not outwardly manifest. Of her
family, George was a shade more
dignified than usual, and Lewis ap-
peared annoyed, while Nannie put on
a regretful look and sighed occasionally,
When they left the dining-room,
Agatha swept haughtily by the table,
at which sat the Fortescue and Becker
She was done with twain and
intended they should see it.
Up in their parlor, George sat down
by his sister. “Agatha,” he said,
slowly and with an evident distaste
for the subject, “do you think you
did well to vourself to Mr.
Peters before consulting your family 7”
“1 was of age three years ago,
she said, regarding him with serene
dignity.
“ Yes, yes, of course,
such a thing as advice.
our good fri d, but is
husband for vou?”
“ What is there against him?” she
asked, uanflinchingly. She was not
blind to her lover's bodily impe
fections. She had lain awake
night mentally endeavoring tostraight-
and control his
But with daylight they
upon her as uncompro-
has
Miss Fortescue
QS TY
gossip.
Sine 1 :
her 1 Composed
i
1e
gracious as ever,
the
engage
But there is
Mr. Peters is
he a suitable
en his crooked litnha
recreant orb,
had dawned
But George would not stoop to per-
sonalities, “Nothing,” he answered,
“Only we have looked very
high for you. We want you to be
happy.”
“Then do not speak against Mr.
Peters,” she said, ing way that seemed
George betook himself to his own
Agatha. “I suppose I am to congrat-
ulate,” he said, with a careless disre-
gard of Nannies injunctions,
“ You donot seem very enthusiastic,”
his secretly-heard exclamation upon
first learning the news.
“I can’t help it if I don’t,” he an-
swered, half impatiently. “You know
how proud we are of you, Gath, and
we can’t be expected to think any man
good enough.”
She smiled.
He went on recklessly: “I don’t be-
lieve you knew what you were doing.
You don’t love Peters, you only pity
him, just as you used to pity the sena-
tor and alltherest. This crooked little
curmudgeon! Why, heis older than
George, and cross-eyed—"
HALL,
1882,
NUMBER 45.
Never
. tasitin a
Peters made no
rothers’ opinions of
Miss Nannie had con
s though all was satis
wloration quite
when he had
am to pity
1tivh }
much she
d, and, hav-
Agatha's
juite re
Nor-
wWor-
Wis
jet, intense devotion of
te
: to him she
rs was toucl
ht Nannie, with a soft-
he were oily not quite
he were only a halt +}
height with J
tha! :
Meanwhile Agatha was fretting her-
self to de A thousand little heart-
less SArcasie ind glances ol
!
iis greal
ndeavored to rise
, telling her
eir cruel
wis de-
But she
ore a hunted
Becker
Riis
circulate petty
ingeniously
whispers ol
or
y to
y
i
and "
n from lig
breath of friéendshij
the ears of the
only grew
vex
catha
10 rR, and I
the tall hal a r I sh 11 al
HE LAK SHALL Oise, OF shalitake
AY not aamire,
d Mrs. Fortescue
atience
r
don’t
For God's sake, why didn't you
ity some one suitable 7" ; :
She trembled with exeitement and
passion,
“ Lewis, if you have the least particle
of love or respect for me, you will
never speak SO Again. I do love Nor-
man, and will kill me if anything
1"
{ r engagement
should bre:
Lewis quit her presence crestfallen.
The days slipped by. There had
been no date fixed for the wedding,
nor was the subject discussed by the
family. :
None but Nannie knaw the terrible
tremor in which the girl existed,
was moving about,
1
stantly occupied.
Nhe
her hands
or shine, the two women were out of
They had always an errand,
usually one of mercy.
ever disinclined, would
doors,
have felt it a
the moodiness, the chill, or the storm
of the springtime, until one last morn-
ing.
It had been raining for three days,
and so steadily that the sidewalk flags
were cleaned and whitened.
Agatha
pered with a carriage, and they took a
for a mile or so, alighting to walk
a few squares to another line. The
storm had abated, and the rain was
but a lstless drizzle,
Agatha slipped and slid once, and
Vi ie gave a frightened exclamation,
said the
: “I must have another
I have a good deal of shopping
LO to soon.”
“Your ontfit
and stopped.
Agatha sighed, but the sigh was
lost in the noise of the street,
A poor little yellow dog limped out
from under a passing vehicle, holding
up one paw and yelping pitifully.
“Oh, see,” cried Agatha, with her
eves “Poor, poor doggie | I am
Car
My aver shoes are useless”
irl, carelessly.
ventured Nannie,
wet,
0 sorry !”
The yelps died away in the distance,
ladies went on.
ind man erving “Cough lozen-
ges?” upon the corner detained them
for a moment,
In the next block an old building
had been torn away to give place to a
Careless workmen had loft
the sidewalk unguarded in one place, a
step from which would have landed
ber of loose foundation stones,
Just as they had reached this spot
they were brought to a sudden halt by
loud eries and confusion.
arunaway team dragging a splendid
carriage,
Agatha took an irresolute step for-
ward, and then sprang back as the
horsedashed up against the sidewalk,
The women
forward, cold with horror.
and there lay upon the stones limp and
unconscious.
* * * * *
She would live, sadly crippled and
So sald the
would hence
and one hip dislocated,
best of surgeons Sit
and tondernesss
poor !
I Care
‘Thank God she is not
Nannie, As for the hoy %, LIEOTEe Wa
( omple tal) i and Lewis paced
the tho erving for hi
* Poor,
A ratd
forth require al
"oried
sister!
sted
dd, when it
the
noOwHn,
ins upon hearing
Wis mide K
lent and-byve Nannie cm
1
great tears tremiding un
dark evelashes
.
d the hovs were i
they withdrew to the winds
s OWN,
without
for life,
face was as pale as Agatha’
“ Norman, ,
& preface,
q i
iid,
LEERY)
he eried, with
ine off :
le
font cast
dearer
“ Peters,” he sald, * we haven't done
right by you. 1, mysell
2 2s % ii
But if you
tes deably
wget, it will be very different in
. have Le
will faraiy
Willi TOrgi
i
and fi
lay watching she
0 stay the tears
8
bid 3 as
sobbed aloud,
could be so
found
ns ran nn
mitted
‘3
nals of all classes, ages and «
Experiments upon over four hundred
show how great is the diver-
jon as to the size of objects
ough the microscope. The ob-
used in the experiments was a
common louse magnified to a theoreti.
cal size of 4.66 inches, The majority
of observers underestimated "this
value : two estimates wore
only one inch ; seven were over a foot,
and one was at least five feet, New
students of the mieroscope usually re-
ceive an impression
than the real value, and
for a considerable time,
Dr. Mittendorf states
can students are
near-sightedness
La
somewhat large
r
adhere to it
that Ameri
less afflicted with
than German stu-
The affection is developed by
ercise, women being therefore more
liable to contract it than men. It
the twenty-first year. Weak
often follows
treatment. In his paperon this sub
lin which became intractable and was
found to be suffering from near
sightedness, but was as docile as ever
after a pair of glasses had been fitted
to its eyes,
II
Norwegian Graveyards,
A national characteristic is the re-
markable care that Norwegiads bestow
on their graveyards. 1 stumbled on
one at Christiansandt on a Saturday
evening and found it alive with people
the plots and ornamenting the graves,
The graveyard was not an untidy field
like many of our old chiurchyards, nor
yet was it a stiff and trim garden like
most of our modern cemeteries, It was
a quiet and secluded rustic retreat in
limes, The graves were not mounds
covered with green sod; they stood
high almost like boxes, and were
overgrown with periwinkle and
covered on the top with flowers
either growing in the soil or in
flower-pots, or set in vases and crystals
of various shapes, that of the cross
being the most common, The
and neatness with which the graves
and grave-plts were kept were quite
remarkable, Each family plot formed
a little garden, with walks and flower-
beds, and generally with a little iron
seat at one side of it, where the sor-
rowing friends might sit and meditate,
On nearly every plot one or two ladies
were busily engaged in trimming and
dressing the garden, They had little
rakes in their hands and also little
watering-cans, with which they
dressed and watered their flowers and
Fuschias, roses, geraniums,
care
luxuriantly on many graves, This
surely is an improvement on the dismal
basket china to which we are too much
accustomed. There can hardly be any
fitter or more pleasing emblem of the
life beyond than pretty flowers and
graceful trees, with their constant life
and with their bloom ever being re-
newed from season to season.— London
Times.
ms ASIII bcs Sets
FACTS AND COMMENTS.
The rapldiy-di ing
United Kingdom leads the
Englis ss to a discussion of its
son and the ded In
1874 there y, DOO O00 head
COR
refnpsdios nm
Were neariy
i
fallen to 32,000 000, and sing
cores His
ment
number is
IHN)
as HH)
past
iv
amounted to
i
Yours
over a ul
1
lows: dtantord
(el , 000: Huntin
on, $100,000: Hopki § 10K tot;
I hey rather stint
stanford,
* HOW
follows:
$40,000 000
1, $50,000,000; Hopk ns'
total, $200,000 (NN),
red # syndicate to build
rocker,
©5
SO 000 000;
56 men
a ratlroad tot
mense personal
and
from the ve
Hunga
ows that
v8 US Wi
an erin
all
alter
a Spanish
inst died
il
cal
: vit
ile ryan
ous use of warm
to aid
solution of ferri }
in to cheek hemor
he disease,
ended for inhalatic
vere stage of t
worthy the attention
who are supposed to be in
s 4 his
age in Lhe se
s fdea is well
ff the many
the initial stages of consumption,
would be an inestimable boon if
the saving them, to say
nothing of the many others whose cases
are otherwise hopeless,
ne
means of
better known as
“ Buffalo Bill” that General
Custer killed himself, when he
that death was inevitable, in preference
to being killed by the Indians. He
gives the following reason for this be-
lief: “The Indians will not mutilate
a body which d dead, and Gen
eral Custer's only that
was not sealped and otherwise eat
pieces or burned. My impression is
that he, after seeing all his command
shot down, and that he himsell must
also go, turned and took his own life
rather than be killed by the savages,
I was in General Crook's command that
goon after arrived upon the scene, and
although Custer went into the fight
with seven companies, and had 300
men killed, I am satisfied he would
never have given the Indians battle
had he not thought reinforcements
were near at hand, Some time after
the engagement an Indian warrior told
me that Custer was the last man to
fall, and killed himself. Had
been given entire command of
troops he would have whipped the In-
dians instead of being erushed by
them. They did not recognize Custer
after he was shot, 08 he had a few
William PF, Cody,
H Li Yes
SAW
one
to
Se ——————————————————
Anecdote of Frank James,
Among the anecdotes which the ad-
to the glory of their hero is one be-
longing to the period of the Colurgbia
(Ky.) bank robbery.
bers of the band had decided upon
ploring the surrounding country inthe
guise of cattle-buyers, Frank James
being hospitably entertained for sev-
eral days at the house of a well-to-do
farmer.
gently cultured the social amenities,
frolicked with the cildren and made
himself particularly agreeable to their
grandmother. The old lady's chief de-
light in life was to peruse the Pilgrim's
Progress. James professed to be
deeply interested in that work, pored
over it by the hour, and when, finally,
he took his departure, begged her not
to disturb the mark which he had
placed at the point where he was
A few days later,
when the country was ringing with
the old lady scorned to believe that her
pious young friend was a desperate
villain,
CONQUERED BY A BARBY,
Once upon a time, and not very long
that, a voung wan of Atlanta
Atlanta girl This
e, itil, as also hap
gr gird fell In with
Somehow or other
oung girl frowned
hearts
continued to
lov i
upon the i i
that one, and they
frown until thu young people, thrown
upon thei |
i
young | Od
Hi
1 LWO
beat as
WWII resat eloped, as
the parental
to, instead of becom-
tion 11
inevitable, widened
into bitter dis
I'he father and mother
» iy their daughter and
he) re overwhelmned with grief
when they discovered that for the first
in her fife had digobeyed
frown alluded
nid a benedid in the
time she
them.
the
HIVENnoss,
In the course of time a little baby
was born to the young eouple—a mar-
velously pretty child, we have
told—and it
it was beautiful,
purpose of bestowing their for-
been
One day recently a
lady acquainted with the facts, and
with both families, called
upon the young mother, bie found
nobody at home but baby and nurse,
An idea struck her and lost no
time in out. selzed
the bab id bore it off in triumph to
its grandmo When rang
the door-bell at grandmother's house
the a tremor, but
baby as cool and unconcerned
ber, Perhaps we
unconcerned, for
grandmother opened the
aby laughed and crow ed in
and v Saucy as you
intimate
she
carrying it she
she
WHS In
Nis As
please,
in and rest Well, the lady
didn't know; she was just passing, and
i mght she would ring and see
getting along; but in she
went, and presently grandmother was
iring baby as it sat perched, brigh
buoyant, he lap of the lady.
herself ?
WOE Welk
upaot
mt eX ! 1t held
dimpled 0 its grand-
and was soon nestling against
her motherly bosom, It laughed and
crowed and cud and when somes
body made a pretense of taking it it
What wonderful
vsure! What a
1, half hidden behind
ears! What tempting
What dainty little hands!
wether, the
the me
mother,
ihdied the
nderful baby alt
mother tho
his critical moment the grand.
and thi
elit and said.
Cas i
father made ius Appearagoee;
8
remarkable baby seemed to understand
d
1a
its business thoroug ‘ % i
crowed at the grandfather, io
aris, and hi
i I'he grand
tossed and
itin a
‘hen the
ft was
embarrass She
ing
result, but
she
v two old people
ki ighter's child,
grandmother fell to
wonderful
and the grandfather
round wiping his
why he was so
thing would do
their daughter
nd such another ro-
held over
x » was seen in At
we'll say and stick to,
passed in front of the
lee vesterday, and in it
Hers of the
yv had a front
ing and crowing
a pink, and
wild look,
4
clasped this
i
was
it
this true story,
ask the grand-
nla (Ga.y Cone
II
The Discovery of Porcelain,
Kaolin, a hydrated silicate of alum-
nin, is abs refractory
{ ie, the
n. Feldspars are sili-
ately and
natitutes
high temperature into a
parent
antity of feldspar with
he mixture with a layer
heat the whole at a
glass,
HN qu
cover t
y
r, ant
and communicate to the
clay a clearness greater or less
to the quantity
\
it that
liar,
is chemical, and
least
authors
tainly made it regularly for at
a thousand years; many
fix the discovery at fifteen
hundred or eighteen hundred
years ago, but no evidence exists to
justify our going back further than a
thousand years. The first pieces that
came to Europe were probably brought
the
fifteenth century from the sultan
Jabylon; but it was not till the sixteenth
century that the importation of these
Dutch merchants assumed a real ime
portance,
saving a Prince,
There was a time when the loca
manners at Brighton had a rough pleas
the primitive simplicity of the place.
When Miles (or Smoaker, as the Prince
too far, as Miles thought, out at sea.
Miles hailed “ Mr. Prince” to come
back. The prince struck further out.
Thereupon Smoaker
back by the ear, exclaiming as he thus
towed the princely freight, “I aren't
a-goen to let the king hang me for let-
ten the Prince of Wales drown hisself:
not I, to please nobbudy, I can tell 'e.”
The prince forgave the act in considera-
tion of its motive. In remembrance
of it he founded the Smoaker stakes;
and when they were first run for in 1806
the prince, of course, won the race
his own horse Albion,—Bel-
gravia,
One of the sweetest-looking girls in
the State of Missouri dislocated her
shoulder the other day by kicking a
cat. Beauty is a mighty deceiving
thing, young man,
The True Homanee of Pocahontas,
From her first meeting with Smith
English, and rendered the settlers
many services, She often secured
supplies for them, and indeed seems to
have haunted the fort, utterly naked
was, after the manner of little
girls among her people, who wore no
clothes and showed no modesty until
they were twelve or thirteen years of
age, at which time they put on a deer-
skin apron, and were very careful not
to be seen without it, The agile littie
barbarian would persuade the English
lads to make wheels of themselves by
turning upon their hands and feet,
wherenpon she would follow them,
wheeling as they did, all through the
fort,
Her real name was Matoax ; but, by
order of Powhatan, this was carefully
concealed from the whites, lest by their
supernatural enchantments they should
vork her some harm. W hetgfi icp]
Wyflin was sent from Jamestown to
apprise the endangered Captain Smith,
environed by [Os among Powhatan's
people, of the death of his deputy, Mr,
serivener, and his ten companions, by
drowning, Pocahontas hid him, mis
directed those who sought him, and,
by extraordinary bribes and maneuvers,
brought him safely to Smith after three
days’ travel in the midst of extreme
peril. Bo, also, when Hatcliffe was
cut off with thirty men, she saved the
Ind Spilman, who was then living
with Powhatan, and sent him to
the Potomacs, But the most
touching story of all precedes in
order of time the other two. In the
same difficult adventure among Pow-
hatan's people, in which Captain Smith
was engaged when BSerivener was
drowned, the treacherous chief had
arranged to surprise Smith at supper,
and cut off the whole party, when Po-
cahontas, the “dearest jew el and
of the aged chief, * in that
}
as Bie
woods” to warn the captain of Pow-
hatan's design. Captain Smith offered
as the heart of an Indian maiden de
lights in; “but, with the tears running
down her cheeks, she sald she durst
not be seen to have any, for, if Pow.
hatan should know it, she were but
dead; and so she ran away by herself
as she came”
In 1613 Pocahontas was among the
Potomac Indians, Captain Argall, a
man of much shrewdness and execu-
tive force, but infamous for his dis
honest practices, happened to be trad
ing in the river at that time. He
would gain in negotiations with Pow-
hatan for the return of the white
prisoners held by him, if he could secure
s0 valuable a hostage as the chief's
daughter, With a copper kettle he
bribed Japazaws, the chief with whom
she was starving, to entice her on board
the vessel, where he detained her, much
to the sorrow of the daughter of
the wilderness, whose life hitherto
had been as free as that of the wild
creatures of the woods, To James
town, whereshe had frolicked as achild,
and whither she had so often come as
4 friend with food, she was now carried
and a prisoner, She had
refused to enter the town since the de-
parture of Captain Smith.
This transaction, not very creditable
to the gratitude of the English, ao-
complished purpose in causing
the white men
held in slavery by him, with the least
useful of the stolen aris. But he still
contrived to evade some of the demands
of the English, who therefor retained
his daughter until the affair took a
new tara.
have been a widower, became enamored
of Pocahontas, now growing to woman-
hood, and wrote a formal letter to Sir
as an enemy
its
to Christianity and marry her, which
pleased the governor, as tending to
promote peace with the Indians, and
was likewise acceptable to Powhatan.
The chief sent an old uncle of Poca-
hontas and two of her brothers to
witness the marriage,
during the life of Powhatan, who, on
ene occasion at least, sent a present of
buckskins to his daughter and her hus-
A free intermingling of the two
races took place, and Englishmen were
accustomed to hire Indians to live in
their houses and hunt for them. This
amity lasted eight years,
In 1616, more than two years after
went to England with Sir Thomas
Powhatan sent some Indians
with his daughter, one of whom was
commissioned to count the number of
the English, The arrival of the Lady
as Pocahontas was called
after her baptism, prosivced a great
sensation. She was received by the
well. But it became necessary to de-
gist from calling her the wife of John
Rolfe, for the King was very jealous,
daughter of a foreign potentate with-
committed treason.
The climate of London, and perhaps
also the uncongenial habits of eivili-
vorably, and she was taken to Brent.
ford, where Smith, then busy with his
preparations to sail for New England,
visited her. In the successful efforts
of Rolfe and others to win her to the
Christian faith and to marriage, they
dead, probably because they knew she
When,
“brave”
therefore she
who had
object of her roaidenly ad-
sho turned her face
away and refused to speak for the
When
she did, it was to claim the privilege
of calling him father, which Smith
granted only after importunity, afraid,
perhaps, of incurring the King's dis-
pleasure. Pocahontas went to Graves-
end to take ship for her return to
America, much against her will, for
she had become weaned from her savage
life and greatly attached to the English,
At Gravesend she died of smallpox
three years after her marriage, leaving
one son, from whom some of the most
prominent Virginia families trace their
descent.—Kdward Eggleston, in the
Century.
saw
been
A curiosity in the shape of a vast
army of small toads was lately to be
seen at Linkville, Oregon. They were
migrating up Klamath river, and were
go numerous that on large areas it was
impossible for people to walk without
stepping on them.
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The first cloud that obscures the
peaceful sky of an infant's existence
is about the size of a man’s hand.
Tiger Killing in Java,
The following is a translation of an
Java Bode, the chief paper of Batavia:
ess, the sultan, in order to make
At about 10
commander, - stant resident and
other spectators ap] mm behind the
Kraton and seated thems in a
grand stand constructed for the ;
pose, Thousands of Javanese flocked
Noon
a fight bet ween aroyal tiger and a buf
falo together in a pen commenead, The
tiger was several times tossed into the
air and then gored to death by the buf-
possible by pepperad water, burning
nettles and red-hot iron bars. The
combat lasted fully two hours, Aftér
ward began the rampolsen or tiger
flight. On the plain alongside the
Kraton stood Javanese armed with
the otier, forming altogether an ex-
traordinary large square. The two
foremost rows lay kneeling, the two
hindmost stood erect. In the center
of this open space were thirteen
straw-roofed rooden pens, in each of
which was a tiger. At a given signal
a musical instrument called the gam-
elan begins playing a martial
air to slow measure. Three
tiger keepers then step out of
he ranks and approach the cage. Two
of them bear each a burning torch,
with which they set fire to the straw.
The tiger, frightened by the shower of
sparks, is then forced out into theopen
either by a desperate spring to
away over the buman wall which
keeps it inclosed or tries to ”
through underneath. But it
pierced by the many spears which have
struck it. It uttersasavage ery, which
of the multitnde. In silent agony it
strikes around furiously with
its mighty paws The shafts
of the spears often break like glass,
In such cases a single blow might cost
any unfortunate within
It is afterward
This scene took
Only a
One soldier,
killed outside it, after causing great
commotion among the spectators. An
affecting scene presented was that of
while she was being slain.”
ts
The Virtues of Coffee,
of coffee is directed
It pro-
eos a warming, cordial impression
on the stomach, quickly followed by a
The action
3
~erebral functions, giving rise to in-
any subsequent con-
such as is character-
Coffer contains es-
properties, and is one of the most
articles for sustaining
system in certain prostrating
As compared with the
nutrition to be derived from the best
The medicinal effects of
In intermittent
instances.
physicians with the happiest effects in
cutting short the attack, and, if prop-
In that
the banks of the Mississippi river and
other malarial districts, accompanied
with enlarged spleen and torpid liver,
when judiciously administered it isone
of the surest remedies,
In yellow fever it has been used by
physicians, and with some it is their
main reliance after other necessary
remedies have been administered ; it
retains tissue change, and thus be
comes 8 conservator of force in that
state in which the nervous system tends
to collapse because the blood has be-
come impure ; it sustains the nervous
power until the depuration and reor
ganization of the blood are accom-
plished, and has the advantage over
other stimulants in inducing no in-
jurious secondary effects. In spas
modic asthma its utility is well estab-
lished, as in whooping-cough, stupor,
terical attacks, for which, in many
cases, a physician can form no diagno-
sis, coffee is a great help.
‘offee is opposed to malaria, to all
noxious vapors. As a disinfectant it
has wonderful powers. As an in-
stantaneous deodorizer it has no equal
for the sickroom, as all exhalations are
immediately neutralized by simply
passing a chafing dish with burning
coffee grains through the room. It
may be urged that an article pos-
sessing such powers and capacity
for such energetic action must be in-
jurious as an article of diet of
habitual employment, and net |
without deleterious properties; but no |
corresponding nervous disarrange-
ments have been observed after its
effects have disappeared, as are seen in
narcotics and othef™Stimulants, The
action imparted to the nerves is natu-
ral and healthy. Habitual coffee
drinkers generally enjoy good health.
Some of the oldest people have used
coffee from earliest infancy without
feeling any depressing reaction, such
as is produced by alcoholic stimulants.
— Philadelphia Times.
Treatment of Frozen Persons.
Medical men have always differed
as to whether the best medical treat-
ment of frozen persons was by a
gradual or a rapid application of heat.
“To settle the matter,” says Know-|
ledge, * Laptchinkski has made a series
of very careful experiments vpon dogs, |
with the following results: Of twenty
animals treated by the method of
gradual resuscitation in a cold room,
fourteen perished ; of twenty placed at | |
once in a warm apartment, eight died ; |
while of twenty immediately put into
a hot bath, all recovered.” The experi-
ments will probably influence the
practice of medical men in Ru
Northern Europe, where the
of the best means of
pessons suffering from exces
of frequent occurrence every