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A Presentiment.
It was in the Spring of 1850 that 1
prepared to leave my Western home to
attend the bridal of a brother in ITunts-
ville, Ala. I have been such a Jonah of
a traveler that I cannot avoid shudder-
occasion my mind was so filled with
pleasant anticipations of reunion with
relatives and friends, that I was not an-
noyed during my with
usual forebodings and vague fears.
[ bade adieu to my friends at Shreve-
port with a light and happy heart,
although my husband being judge of the
Eighteenth Judieal District, of course
could not leave his duties and accom-
pany me. He was holding
time I repaired to the boat, and one of
his personal friends escorted me thither:
but as the steamer wouldn't leave be-
fore dark, he would come down as soon
as he could adjourn court to bid me
adieu. I had on my arm a handsome
traveling companion or satchel, which I
had just purchased, perfectly new and
lightly filled. To my dismay and hor-
ror, I had no sooner put my foot upon
the steamer than the chain of the
satchel snapped in two, and it rolled
down at my feet,
If I had the intellect of an Alexander
or a Cesar, 1 have battled
with the gloom and terrible apprehien-
preparalions
court at the
could not
sion of approaching evil which from that
moment took possession of me.
“There!” I exclaimed; ‘‘it is
evil omen. If it were possible, I would
not go on this boat.”
an
My feompanion, of
langl
Course,
and endeavored to quiet my apprehen-
sions ; and conscious of the silly weak-
further
ness [ betrayed 1 concealed my
evidence of it from hi
i“ Do
“He 18 afraid
and I know he v
My husband
and introduced me to the only acquaint-
mn.
not tell the judge,’ I requested.
of 1 *presentiments,’
came down after awhile
ance of his on board, an elderly gent!
man, Mr. E.,
take charge of his family.
I restrained all expression
whom he requested
of uneasi-
)
left,
gentleman
ness until
I freely confessed to the old
the singular
taken possession of me,
The old
soothed my apprehensions and
after my husband when
hallucination
man, in a genial
went down the river.
It was Saturda)
one to me-
iV nig
and all the next
every knot the beautiful ris
made
heart felt shortened of
down the winding
malefactor who sees the
distance which he veers,
Late in evenin
the
wooding,
the guards
out into the
gloom of solemn-looking twilight.
boat was moored
and we all
some talking, but I peered
sombre and melancholy
My presentiment had taken by
time such possession of
had been able to speak of nothing else
my mind
but oh! horror! while I was standing a
new revelation of terror smote upon my
soul,
me from the land of shadows ? Whence,
whence did it come ?
“You, you only, are menaced-—only
your life trembles in the balance.”
I held at that time my little danghter
by the hand. I had just folded away
two other little darlings in their berth.
Happiness and wealth are mine. I had
all which could render life desirable,
I cannot describe the feelings which
now took possession of my soul.
less, helpless, I was conscious that my
fate agitated adverse powers and that
the dread moment sped onward on the
wings of the lightning.
We adjourned to the cabin, where Mr.
Was it some voice’whispering to
Power-
deliers now
eontrast
without,
lashing with
to the solemn
phe will soon arrive—and 1 shall only
rejoice ; for any
than the horrid state of suspense [ have
endured.”
Mr. E. looked hard at me ; he was im-
certainty is
by a pertinaciousbelief in some impend-
ing calamity.
“Indeed,’” he remarked, ‘‘you
at last. Yet I do not see
is not a very safe boat ?
efficered.”’
there
need not be alarmed;
*
now,
I had no sooner spoken than a deaf n-
ing, crashing noise, like the tearirg of
timbers, smote upon the
terrific and continuous, The floor of the
like a sail bellying with the wind, and
its convexity came traveling up to the
locality, The ladies shrieked and rushed
down toward the bow, flying past the
mysterious enemy beneath their feet
I knew that that was the safest direc
tion to seek in case of accident, but in
$he opposite one, in my stateroom, lay
my two rosy cherubs, and instinct turned
my steps toward them,
arms and flew ahead of the strange mon-
ster, which was rending so fearfully
our craft. I sought my stateroom,
that I might perish with my children,
reached it,1 was felled,
stunned by a succession of blows, from
heavy substances, The last thing I re-
was tightening my grasp
around my daughter, and
ting her with my own limbs,
But, although badly bruised, I emerg-
ed from a pile of wrecks, to the astonish-
ment of all beholders, who had thought
such a catastrophe certain death,
An immense sawyer had penetrated
above the lower guards,
protec-
our boat just
and the pilot, imagining it was a log,
had steamed on prizing it higher up
from the water with every puff, It
had raked all along under the floor un-
til it the in the ladies’
cabin, where it had overtaken me, and
where it litted up the stove, snapping
the pipe into several pieces, and preci-
reached stove
pitating every disjointed member, stove
and all, upon my devoted head,
Nothing had saved my life but the
little ranged
around it which
woven into a kind of bower for my head,
splintered
cane-bottomed chairs
some kind angel had
and which though it
into fragments vet broke the force of
the descent of the My
little daughter was unharmed,
Wis
iron missiles,
I shudder now when I recall the nar-
row escape, and I am told that Mr, E.
verging to the forgetfulness of old age,
yet never hears! the word ‘‘presenti-
ment,” without insisting upon relating
the narration you have just read
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Laugh And Grow Fat.
" Liev :
nat puts a different face on
said the swindler when he raised a ¢
from $20 to $200,
Massachusetts
prohibited I ublishing
NeWSpapers are
Twain, lecturing
islands offered to show
would
ate their food, if ‘any lad
him a baby. The lecture had to go un
illustrated.
“Money does everythin
said an
“Yes”
money 1
some men will
A poor
We heard of a
EXCHsSe |
man
meanness towards
heroie virtue
“Does
Does’ sh
aves
study,
old man said,
that
somehow so that the laywers can get
some of the property.”
the table? That is
What are those things looking at
it? Those are children. Do children
like cake? No, children do not like
cake. Does cake like children? Yes,
cake likes Where have the
children gone? The children
gone up-stairs. Where has the
gone? The cake has gone with the
What is that on
cake,
children.
have
cake
children,
At mechanical school:
John, did you ever see a saw?"
WN ow 2
“Nes
“What saw was
the
sir, I've saw a saw.’
.
“YA see saucer? Why, John,
mean?’ “I mean a
**And when did you see the
“Oh ! sir, I didn't sea,
1 saw the saw, sir.” jut if you only
saw the saw, how saw you the saucer 2"?
“Why, sir I the
I saw the see-saw, sir. See ?"' “Well,
WE
saw, sir.’
sea? see the
never saw seer,
my boy, if that’s the way vou see saws
the less saws you see the better. Yon
The time wasted by men in feel-
ing in the wrong pocket would make
next generation rich if they
It looked very gloomy the other
The sky was heavy overcast
and a mist was falling, the air was chill,
But before noon an organ grimder ap-
tie we trust.
Bill Nye's platform 18: “One country
one flag and one wife.” He says, he
record of his family Bible look like a
hotel register. It is suspected at Salt
Lake that William is opposed to Mor-
monism,
“Well, what do you waht here ¥"' re-
marked Mr, Smith, as he sat up in bed
and addressed a professional burglar
sl
want money and bonds,'’ hissed the
burglar through his clenched teeth
retorted Smith, ‘I've been looking for
those things for the last twenty years
without success; but go on with your
mrglary, I'm sleepy.”
For the Young.
A Cat's Strategy.
In a certain doctor's family there is a
cat—thought to be the smartest of its
kind, Like other cats he is fond of pet-
ting, but, unlike them, he wants to do
it all himself,
But put out a hand to stroke him, or
that delight of cats, to serateh his head,
and an ugly slap with his paw exhibits
his displeasure. Yet he himself keeps
on petting in his own way, jumping into
your lap and standing up to rub his head
against veur chin.
to al-
tend church services, as dogs sometimes
do, but this cat never takes
interest in the family prayers,
Cats have never been known
an active
Having
been well brought up, he never expects
to be fed until breakfast
If, however, hethinks
is finished and
Prayers are over,
the family has sat long enough at table,
he taps his mistress on the arm and runs
swiftly back his hind legs, and
sits up like a kangaroo, begging. If he
discovers that this has effect,
1
jumps up on the little
upon
no he
stand where the
Jibles are kept, and pushes them off,
one after another,
The attention of the family is there-
by drawn, and he his
}ibles are handed
is punished, but
For the
members of the
end is gained,
to the different family
and prayers begin,
Then he jumps upon the stand, sits
ight with wide open eves, a grave
solemn aspect, and utters not
sound during the reading and the savi
of the prayers, until the doctor says
Amen.”
an
word is finished,
Before i.e
imperative Meowe tells that he well
3
knows that his turn has come at
last,
Alfonso's Kindness,
Meso. the 1 Of
3
Young Ki
* with his subjects
PH MEOSHINE nore
One of his
kindness of he he resembles
his mother, I8a-
bella,
faults, is g
her amiable
{ne day
horse car,
Whereupon a fri
associated with
to
the woods, wher
breakfast, a
eaten at noon.
It began to rain, but the royal cav-
balked of their
wetting,
woods, ate
alcade were not to be
pleasure for fear of a slight
They kept on, entered the
their breakfast,
even though the raindrops did beat a
and had a jolly time,
tattoo on the leaves,
On their return,
Marquis-
fell with his rider under him.
quis’
the
slipped on the wet road, and
horse of the
The mar
leg was broken: there was no
doctor in the party, and they were three
miles from the city.
branches and
wounded man
Madrid. The
king dismounting from his horse, insist.
Constrocting a litter of
the
thereon, and bore him to
leaves, they placed
i
ed upon walking the whole distance by
the that he might
cheer with
words,
When the party
Alfonso ordered the Marquis to be taken
to the royal palace, and the king's phy-
sician to be summoned.
In a few hours the incident was known
all over Madrid, and even the
pronounced Spanish republican could
not help saing ;
“Long live Alfonso!"
He who established his throne in the
affections of the people acts on the re-
publican principle, and usually enjoys a
long reign. The incident may indicate
the stability of Alfonso’s throne.
Truthful and Thorough.
William Cullen Bryant was a plain
man, and disliked pretentious people,
“How is it that you san make Mr. Bryant
talk?’ asked a lady of another, with
whom she had seen the poet conversing,
“Simply by not trying to be smart and
making no effort to talk well,” was
Many sought the poet whose works
they admired. Some used to eall him
cold and unsympathetie. They were
mistaken, The man they sought was
modest in his estimation of himself, and
therefore shy. He disliked to be lion-
ized, and would not be patronizel. But
his apparent coldness of manner arose
from his trothfulness—he was willing
to express a greater degree of interest
than he felt.
side of the litter,
the sufferer encouraging
reached the city,
most
No man
he knew and esteemed, As the editor
of the Evening Post, he was distinguished
for his frank and easy manner with his
subordinates. His commands were put
in the form of requests, If he wished
sent for, but went to him. He was never
ostentatious of’ himself on his po-
sition,
Consideration for others, and a desire
to avoid the infliction of
minent traits of Mr. Bryant's character.
A literary editor of the
pall were pro-
Evening Post
once had a bad case of poetic idiocy to
deal with,
Mr. Bryant had said to him, *‘1 wish
to deal
you very gently with poets, es-
weaker ones,”’ The editor
was embarassed-—on side
the
i
without a line to
one was the
injunction, on other was the
book of poems,
praise,
Just then Mr. Bryant came in, and
the editor, stating his embarrassment.
the
praise
read
“No
answered
some of stanzas to him-
it of
Bryant; *‘it
but’
his hand
can't
Mr,
to lie about it
you course,’
won't
turning ti
and
ume in inspecting
you say that the
that
the edges P
might binding
securely put on and ~well,
binder has planed
smooth.”
demands
Journalism rapid
Topics mus be shot on the wing.
haste is fatal t the stvile of
But
through
journ
journal
Bryant was marked
work by
degenera
ORNAMENT
Lome tab
ades of bro
two sl
one of brown and lemon colo
effective. The spread
:
it is not necessary that tl
unbleached factory cloth will answer
provided that the facing is deep.
to have it this should be of velveteen.
and the facing of a contrasting color.
If the blocks are neatly put together no
needlework adorn the
spread ; but, of course, this point may
be determined
IS necessary to
according to the taste
and means of the maker,
least
whose
WOMEN, at
some of
THERE ARE MANY
two In village,
moments are made burdensome on ac-
every
count of having in their sitting-room,
shelf of
This is usually painted white,
behind the coal stove, a long
wound.
to match other wood-work in the room;
and on this white-painted surface the
soft, gray dust all the time,
There is no vigilance short of the eter-
nal which serves to keep it free. A
young wife tried this plan, and it is so
nearly satisfactory that she tells it for
the benefit of others: Make a lambre-
quin for the shelf; it may be of aida
canvas or of Macrame, It need not
be a deep lambrequin, from ten inches
to fifteen will answer. Then cover the
shelf with erash and attach the lambre-
quin to it. The dust may settle there,
but if given one careful brushing in the
moming you will not be disheartened
by seeing it for the rest of the day.
The lambrequin in the case mentioned
was made of Macrame, and was cro-
cheted ; three spaces were left through
which scarlet ribbons were run; the
edge was finished with a deep, large
scallop. The ribbons were put in
lengthwise. If one choose to do so, the
ribbons could be put in the other way
and the endscould be left a little longer
than. the lambrequin, and, after being
turned back in points, little tassels of
erewel could be put on. This is a pretty
design for a corner bracket,
settles
on MA Si
Suicide by Starvation is so popular
now that a Philadelphia man is going
to try it. He will board at a New
York hotel and refuse to fee the waiters,
A New Cereal.
An exchange says: A new cereal has
been introduced by a gentleman of
South Carolina, a description of which
may interest Millomalize
is a native of the Southern Hemisphere,
being
Columbia,
our readers,
found in large gnantities in
as the
people
where it is used
common food of the working
In food qualities it is said to be superior
to wheat, and experiments show that
seed can be raised to the
R. H. Pratt, formerly a
in youth America, the
the grain
acre, Rev,
MISEIONATrY
introduced who
and
raised it
allied to the sorghum and Guinea corn
families, and should not be planted
where there is
The
any danger of
them, grain is small, and
are larger and more compact,
and the color
red. It
that
verted
is milk white instead of
differs from sorghi i
the sugar it contains i
imtoo corn when
that
K8 becomes as dry and tasteless ;
of Indian the
In
we have
tures—so the
corn wien
3a ric
Mrranagu
SEASON
8 dry
Have
Seal Hunters.
Slaughter.
iY
rom
§
r garments, di
ng
ing #trata, and when they finally enter
strut the streets in unwashed
glory they are
filth and
the
seal crews means bedlam for the city.
Honest
incarnate
A night in
arrival of two or three
odor.
fly the and
shutters o’
burghers streets
look well to the doors and
night. On the ice the endurance, sure-
footedness and daring of the seal hunt-
ers are incredible, They
leap from cake to cake where it ssems a
child could not be sustained, drag their
heavy boats long distances through the
hammocks, and think nothing of pass.
ing a night in far from the
steamer, provided only seal are near.
Their cold hands they warm by thrust-
ing them
palpitating carcass of the seal, and one
3
i
well-nigh
the ice
in the gashes cut in the still
instance i8 recorded where a freezing
sealer saved his life by heaping up the
body. When hunting, the sealers go
by twos, so that one can aid his com-
panion should he fall in the
between the floes,
Though the finding of the seal herds
is largely a matter of luck, considera-
ble depends on the sagacity of the cap-
tain, who, if up to his business, watches
carefully the winds of late February
and early March, so as to know where
and when the ice can best be met,
Curious and isolated facts gathered
from sealing experiences are related here
without number. Some years ago, dur-
ng an otherwise bad reason, the seals
“struck in’’ onthe ice near Newfound
land coast, while the steamers were
away. Women and children, leaving
the shore, engaged in the slaughter
and during a few days 64,000 head were
killed within a few miles of St. John's.
The flippers of the seal, by the way,
when fried are reckoned a rare dainty
by the islanders, and are often brought
back from the ice in long strips to be
kept for food. When, as rarely happens,
more scals are found than a single
steamer can load, the surplus are killed
and pelts heaped with the steamer’s flag,
In that ease an unloaded vessel can
water
bring in the pelts and demand a cer-
tain large percentage of their value, On
their second voyage out the steamers
seek the full grown animals, whieh
weigh some 200 pounds. They are fierce
fellows, who force their way to the
water and have to be shot, making the
process of collection pelts slow and un-
profitable as compired with the capture
of a new born herd,
When the stoamers arrive the pelte
are unloaded and transferred to the ofl
factories which line the border of St,
John’s harbor. The blubber is sepa-
for lubricating. for the
a dozen other purposes,
salted, then sent to Eu-
sed
r
The skins are
handsome leather,
for its graining.
particularly
and worked
As stated, the sealing busi-
North Atlantic is almost
steamers belonging
firm at Dundee, Sootland, come every
but they take their
here also is the
owners, The monopoly
4a time
to a
on here, and
the and ‘still firmer on the long
the trained experience and
almost reckless enterprise of the
island sealers.
mmm ct AA
Keeping Warm in the Far North.
home on the 13th. the
I experienced on the
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2 13th, when, about two
£ thea hermm
meler
at day did 1
+, the highest the thermome-
ar reached being 5° F
that I really enjoyed the
gt tes b %
atinbute it
wholly to
aimost
clothing and
like the
IR never
15¢
and
reindeer
in a snow woo
natives, where the temperature
above freezing and generally 10° to
I I donot belicve
, housed. in 1
clad in
thoutl more
Omce only did
3
aution. 1 took of
in attempling
reindeer,
Hiv in my face,
perfectly
nd exposed much
snided When I
Seen
longer than
wed to
«1, and
the skin was
utter
“aii ikiy
wed paralyis
4
1 he
I that
oticed
ie, Toolooah, who was
noticed it at the same time.
’
i Sur
wd with ir
an Innuit exclamation o
both his
118 warm hands, and
+, hastily mittens
rasped it between
his warmer
then held it against body
¥
i
under 116 Odi teh € F yyy Spey EN
Ger his =i, OT ESquimaunx coat
It soon resumed its functions. and.
although 1 felt for some time as though
I was holding on to a hornet’s nest.
experienced no more serious results than
a couple of ugly looking blisters where
the iron of the gun had come in contact
witd the bare hand. The reindeer
escaped. As the reindeer clotning is the
warmest in the Arctic, makes the
warmest bedding, two large sking made
into a long coffin-like baz or sack. the
hair side in being a sufficient protection
in the coldest weather when in a properly
constructed When the first
severe cold came at North Hudson Bay
I was sleeping under a blanket and two
fine buffalo robes, which I found. as the
thermometer sank below 30° to 40° F._
to be inadequate to secure comfort.
until I procured a reindeer sleeping-
weighing not half as much, after which
cold nights were no longer dreaded.
The robe of the American bison seems
under the least “provocation to become
damp, and then freezes as stiff as a
piece of wole-leather. Once spoiled in
this manner, it is difficut to dry it and
restore it to its former pliability in the
low temperature of an igloe. The furs
of the beaver and muskrat I found to
be equally unsuitable in our mode of
life, and I believe that all the other furs
of the temperate zone would have shared
the same opinion if tested in the same
practical way. Liewt, Sechwatba, in
Forest and Stream.
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To make incombustible writing and
printing paper asbestos of the best qual-
ity is treated with potassium permanga-
nate and then with sulphuric seid.
About 95 per cent. of such asbestos is
mixed with 5 per cent. of wood pulp in
water containing borax and glue. A
fireproof ink is made of patinous chloride
and oil of lavender, mixed for writing
with India ink and gum, and for print-
ing with lampblack and varnish,
i imam
David N. Selleg, a blind man, has star-
ted a manufacturing enterprise at New.
burg, N. Y., in which only blind per
cons will be employed.
so it
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