THE WATUHLERS,
We keep the watch together,
Doubt and I.
In stress of midnight weather,
Doubt and 1
stand peering into darkness,
Foreboding rock and shoal;
Or, shrinking in our weakness
From waves that o'er us roll.
We pace the deck together,
Faith and I,
And catch in darkest weather
The far-off eastern sky,
Where, robed in dazzling splendor,
Shine planet, star and sun,
Where, lost in truths etermal,
Doubt, Faith and 1 are one.
RRR,
RE BDROKE UP THE SCHOOL.
‘*T'hat is the new school house, isit?"
inquired Miss Alice Ray, the new
team passed by a little white house
in a rather dilapidated fence.
“Yes, that's where you will
forth,” remarked Uncle Zeke Wood-
burn, but “I'm afeered you won't hold
out long, fur we've got the toughest
Zeke gave a kind of cackling little
little damsel at his side, controlling the
boys of the Bear Creek school.
“But don’t the Directors expel them
when they are beyond the control of the
ning to sink at the prospect before her,
**Expel em | no ; we never expel no-
body ; if a teacher can’t boss the school
w= just let it boss him; it amn’t
fight, an’ the school
bosses the teacher, and thar’s been
some pretty good men licked in that
school-house, by the boys.
ruly,” said poor Alice, wishing heartily
that she had hired out as a washer-
woman, instead of trying to teach the
savages of Bear Creek,
“Oh, well, mebbe it won't
this winter ; thar’s Jim Turner,
ome of the toughest of 'em ; he'll be 21
in a month, and you'll get rid of him ;
but thar’s the Brindley boys, they're
mighty nigh as bad,”
Poor Alice listened with a sinking
heart.
be 80 bad
he's
go alone and unknown into a strange
neighborhood to teach her first school,
and to be met at the outset by
dark prophecies, made her feel homeless
indeed, She was naturally a timid,
shrinking little thing, and if she had
possessed anywhere on the whole broad
earah a roof to shelter her, she would
have turned back from Bear Creek
school even then. But she had no home,
Her mother had died when she was
but 14, and she kept house for her fath-
er two years when he died, leaving her
all alone. Before he dled, he advised
her to expend the little sum he would
be able to leave ber, in fitting herself
for a teacher, and Alice had fulfilled
his directions so literally, that when
she had completed her courze of study
at the normal school, had
hardly $10 left, and when
she paid Uncle Zeke for hauling her
and her little trunk from the nearest
railroad town to the district where she
was to teach, she had but $5 left.
On Monday morning, as she started
for the school house, she felt as if she
was going to the scaffold. Her course
of pedagogics in the pormal institute
bad included no such problem as this
school promised to be, and if it were
not for very shame, she would have
given her single $5 bill to any one to
take her back to the railroad, and pay
her fare to L., the town where she had
attended school.
When she arrived at the school-house
she
grouped around talking, but a spell of
silence fell upon them, as she walke{ up
frightened bird than anything else
As she unlorked the door and entered
what she had already begun to regard
slowly followed her in to the room, and
depositing their books upon the whit.
tied desks, took seats, and fixed thei:
eyes upon her with a vacant stare that
did not help to strengthen her nerves
All the rules and regulations of her
“Theory and Practice of Opening
Bradley a huge, heavy-set fellow; with
small malicious eyes, and
air of ruffianism, When he was called
upon to read, he did not rise from
hig seat, but began to read in a thick, |
indistinet voice trom a book hidden in
his lap.
“Mr, Bradly, will you please stand
up while you read ¥" asked Alice.
“I can read just as well settin’
down,” replied the fellow with a dog-
ged air.
“But it is one of the rules of a reading
class t« tand up to read,’ said Alice, |
her heart quaking with fear, as she |
foresaw the incipient rebellion.
*I reckon yon will have te make a
new rule for me, then,” impudently |
answered Mose, glancing sideways at
his companions with a grin of triumph.
“If you do not obey me, I shall be |
punish you,” said Alice, |
though she could scarcely
bravely,
“I guess all the punishment you |
could do, wouldn't break any of my |
bones,” replied the ruffian leering at |
her impudently,
“But I can break your bones for you
in half a minute, and I'll do it if you
don’t stand up and read as the teacher
asked you to,” said a voice at the |
other end of the class, and Alice look-
ed in that directicn, and saw Jim Tur-
ner step from the class and face the
astonished Mose,
Mose's insolent manner abated in an
instant, his face turned pale, and he
muttered something about not being
“bossed by other boys,” but he stood
up as he was commanded.
Alice could have Kissed her young
mand, and said :
“Mr. Turner, I cannot allow you to
interfere in the management of my |
The youth obeyed withuut a word, but |
kept his eye on Mose, as if watching
for any delinquency. After this
little episode the exercises proceed with-
out interruption till noon.
Alice had no appetite for dinner. She
leaned her throbbing head
. $1}
upon he
she could endure this,
She was aroused by one of the little
girls running up to her, exclaiming :
**Teacher, teacher, the ng boys are
fighting I"
r
he followed the child
She exclaiming
i
€
oh, why did I ever come
int neh
HNO Such
At the rear of the school house, stood
Jim Turner, engaged in a hand-to-hand
combat with Mose Bradley and his
two brothers, both of whom were
As Alice stepped around the
earth, and then turned like a 1
his two assailants, They
rushed at him from all sides, but Jim
was as active as a panther, and Bill |
dradley fell as if shot, from a left-hand-
Tom followed
By this time Mose
had secured a ball bat and rushed upon
Jims, but the latter evaded the blow,
and wrenching the bat from his hand.
100 upon
remaining
ed blow, and his brother
him in an instant,
his fist,
As the discomfited trio arose, Jim |
laughed lightly, and asked them ‘how
they liked it as far as they had got,
Mose, and called out, *Come on, boys, |
The combat ended so quickly, that
|
to vanish and leave her whirling i
dizzy helplessness, See tried to think
refused to form the thought, and her
tongue clove to the roof of her mouth
She could see in the faces of her pupils,
most of whom were in the school room,
that they were aware of her fright and
enjoyed it thoroughly. By a stron.
effort she partially recovered herssif,
and bravely resisted the temptation to
lean her head on the desk and haye u
good cry. She féit that she must d
something or faint, so she rang the bel!,
though it lacked fifteen minutes to 9
She began taking down the names ano
ages of ber pupils, and by the time thi
was completed felt more at ease, She
then began examiniug the pupils in the
different branches, in order to assig
them to their propsr classes, She ha
finished the examination in all the
branches, except the advanced reading
class, which was principally composer
of grown girls and young men, amon
whom was the terrible Jim Turner o
whom she hal been warned,
Beveral "mewbers of the olass ha
she felt that it would not do te let this
open violations of school rules pass un.
punished, she rangthe bell. When the |
pupils were assembled, she called the |
began it,
and silent, but Jim answered:
tell what
The Bradleys stood sullen
“i
it was |
i
Alice knew the fight was the result of |
Jim's espousal of her cause in the read-
ald :.
“Then I shall have to punish you;
Jim obeyed her instantly. She took
Jim's face
never changed a rauscle, The look
ipon it was one of quiet obedience, in
there was no trace of either:
As Alice infligy-
«1 the blows upon the hand so quietly
held out to ler, the thought rushed
upon ber mind that she was smiting the
ly hand that had been raised to be
friend her In this lawless region.
Her face grew pale, the blows fell
falteringly, the tears began to run
iown her cheeks, the ruler from he:
und, she sank into her seat, buried
her face in her hands, and burst into
dorm of subs,
Then Jim's countenance changed.
His lips quivered, he dashed his hand
across bis eyes to clear them of an un.
natural dimnesa, ard the great Jump §
his throat seemed to choke him, A
chuckle from Mose Biadley recalled
iis self-posseesion, however, and
w took a step or two toward tin
‘atter, with eyes that, fairly Blazed wit)
hot indignation,
Mose rapidly retreated a step or two
md bis chuckle died an untimel
loath, and for a full minute silenc.
“igned over the school room, At ‘ax
Alice raised her head, and in a broken
ground,
As the children passed out, she heard
got enough to pass some of it around,
if anybody is anxious about it.”
a feeling of utter despalf; but no
Quiet,
obedience, study, good and
respectful attention were
But Alice had determined to quit the
school ; she felt as if she would rather
be the poorest washer woman, than to
be badgered, bullied and tortured for
lessons,
ruffians, whose parents employed her
So when Alice locked the school-
nation to tae directors, Asshe left the
school-house, she saw Jim Turner a
few yards ahead of her, walking rapid-
ly toward home.
until she had overtaken him,
“Mr. Turner,” she said, *‘I am going
away in the morning, and 1 wish
me at the school to-day, and to ask
your forgivemess tor the punishment
held
and Jim
in her earnestness Alice
her little trembling nand,
instantly grasped it,
13
: 'eé nothing to forgive,’ said he ;
“I have nothing to forgive, ihe
er could I; but you are surely not intend
ing to quit the school 2"
“Yes answered Alice,
die than pass through
of such scenes
“I would
three
have
rather
months as |
to-day.”
“But you will have no more trouble ;
there is no one in the schoo! that would
be at all li Li
rept the Bradley boys, and
am there,
Kely to give you trouble, ex.
as long as 1
iil answer for their good
bebavior,
At :
and Alice th
week longer,
time she decided
did a school
i oa SULO0E
le i 1 teach
the end
to stay, for
move more smoothly,
consen
© a
and at f that
never
At
her request, Jim was allowed to remain
during the term,
ed, he went to college.
Al taught
successfully for three
end Uncle Zeke’
fied, for Jim Tumer
broke up the school.
He married the teacher.
and as soon as it clos
\ % . :
the Bear Creek school
vears, but in the
LE
back
came
The Carboulterons Jungle,
If we could suddenly tran plant our-
of
midst
delta
selves from the gardens and groves
the nineteenth century into the
of a carboniferous jungle on the
111
pi
of some forgotien
wal N ie,
surrounded
mAazon of
we she find ourselves
somewhat
diffe
itiful
live,
The huge foliage of gigantic tree-ferns
and titanic would wave
over our heads, while green carpets of
petty tralling creepers dwould spread
by strange and
onous scenery, very ent
$
it
from that of the varied and bea
world in which we ourselves now
ciub-mosaes
stretch around us on every side, and
instead of the rocky or undulating hills
of our familinr Europe, we should
probably see the interior country coms
and Pyrennessof the modern continent,
scene would doubtless be the wearisome
of its prevailihg colors.
Earth beneath and primitive trees over.
head would all alike present a single
field of unbroken and unvarying green,
butterfly would give a gleam of bright
er an | warmer coloring to thé continu
ous verdure of that more than tropical
forest. Green, and green, and green
again ; wherever the eye fell it would
rest alike upon one monotonous and
unrelieved mass of harsh and angular
nin AA is
A Cocanmber Fish,
There was quite a sensation created
on Sullivan’ Island, 8, C,, recently by
ihe captuare of a fish of a genus hitherto
nnkuown in our waters, 1t was beached
by the waves and taken by a party of
adies, who were unable to Sutisiy them
selves as to what mannsr Of fish tL was,
until one of the party, a lady from
Michigan, now visiting the island. and
whose knowledge of ichthiyology 18 by
ao means liaited, threw hight oir the
subject. The fish belongs Lo the species
KNOWN as sea cucumber and to. the
genus holotiuna, They are: mol ran
by any means, the ouly réomrkall
feature of its capture being the locality
m whieh it was found. The fish fs 1.
digenous to tropical waters, and it i.
Mie frst ever caught in our harbor, 1),
size iL Is about six inchies long and is
shaped very much like a cocutnber,
from which it takes its name. It has
neither flus or feet, but swims by ti
notion of its body as an eel does, it
wdy being very supple, considering ii:
alk. TU has & large wouth, which i
urrounded by a soft fiizzy Jringe, |
vill eat nimost anything, and can
asily kept in an aquarium for yeu:
with proper attention. ‘
| Musk.
| One of the most common perfumes is
that of musk, which occurs in both the
| animal and vegetable kingdoms. Every
| which grows in our gardens, and which
| the ladies are so fond of having mn their
| rooms. Beet has a musky odor; butthere
| are two species of plants which grow
| on the slopes of the Himalayas, one at
the great altitude of 17,000 feet which
| smell strongly of it, Among animals
there are a musk beetle, cuttlefish,
| duck, shrew, mole, rat, ox, and deer,
all of which owe their distinctive title
{ to the fact of their having that odor in
a greater or less degree, The muskrat or
musquash, however, and the musk
| deer are the only animals which secrete
| the musky substance in a special recep-
tacle, from which it can be readiy taken
| 48 & commercial commodity. The best
musk is obtained from this déer which
is. found in Central Asia from
the Himalayas to Pekin, at elevations
| above 8.000 feet. Unlike other deer, they
| are without horns, and a peculiarity of
the male is that It has two long, slender
teeth which project from the upper jaw,
with an inward curve, in the form of
| tusks. The female is of little account to
its human foes ; but the male is much
sought afler on account of its musk
pouch. This is a bag about the size of
a small orange, situated on the lower
part of its body, and containing from
half an ounce to two ounces of the
precious perfume. In 1881 China alone
| exported 2,503 1bs., valued at £41,501,
| or nearly one guinea per ounce. 7,000
ounces are said to be exported annually
from British India, while quantities of
an inferior kind are obtained from
other countries. As a perfume musk
15 remarkable for the diffusiveness and
persistence of its scent; everything in
i 8 vicinity catches and retains its odor,
| For this reason it is not a desirable ar-
ticle of cargo on ships that carry any-
thing intended to be used as In
the East held in great for
s medicinal properties, being one of
=
powerful
food.
it is
il i8 t
repute
most antisspasmodics
knewn. It owes its value to its exten-
in perfumery. Mixed with
sie Ter » 1. i! «x » : i i
ighly volatile vegetable scents, it gives
Hive use
hem greater permanence. Large quan-
ies of it are used in the manufacture
of toilet soaps, to 1
expensiveness of musk, and to its being
Of late owing he
80 much adulterated by dealers, what
is called American musk has come into
considerable use as a substitute for the
kind,
the musquash of
BUperion Thuis 18 obtained from
North America, a
rodent, millions of
Od
which are killed annually for their skins,
which are made up into cheap furs,
The musky secretion obtained from
this creature has proved an
small, beaver-ilke
excellent
substitute for true musk in the scenting
of toilet soaps. If a cake so perfumed
i# retained for month would re-
quire a very skilled perfumer indeed t
distingui that of
best Tonquin musk. It also used in
the cheaper essences, although bere the
the result is not so satisfactory.
a it
sh the odor from the
a
Swoels an | Frajts,
The free use of sugar with the spring
and early summer fruits, to say the
least, is unwise. These sub-acid fruits,
| appearing during the early hot weather,
while the blood is thick and impure
from the use of the carbonaceous food
of the cold weather, are manifestly in-
tended by the Creator as “spring medi-
| cines,’’ whose acids act with great ef-
i fect on the liver, enabling it to secrets
| the vile impurities of the blood, purify-
ing the blood, while this refuse matter
—waste-—i# the natural stimulant of the
| digestive process and of the bowels, It
will be observed that later in the sea.
son, when the blood has been so far
changed as to fit it for the season, and
as the cool weather approaches, these
| perishable fruits—all intended for the
| season In which they appsar-—lose this
| purifying acid element and become con-
| siderably sweeter, The free use of
| these artificial sweets with cream --a
| heater also—must tend to counteract
| the benevolent intention of the Creator
| in this wise arrangement, that of ad.
apting all these delicious fruits to the
season and the immediate needs of the
system in such weather, In suc: mat-
ters it is always sale to wateh the indi.
cation and instructions of nature, or
the Gal of nature, who in His wise
providence is ever merciful to man,
Ts i
English Racing,
de iin
Archer continues to head the list of
winning jockeys in England. By the
way, ib is pot generally known that but
for his [father’s objections, Archer
would have come to this country in-
dead of Feakes, the present chief joe.
sey for Mr. Kelso, Archer and Foskes
were both Jads in Lord Falmouth'’s
(acing establishment, and both ‘showed
qual talent in the saddle, and were
“leady, well-behaved and faithful boys.
When the late Mr, Sanford wrote to
Dawson, Lord Fa mouth's trainer, to
«nd him a good jockey, D vwson select -
~1 Archer, but Fred's father haa de
sided objections to the boy's emigrating,
hus it came that Feakes was sent n+
stead, and Archer was enabled to con
fune on in a career of success which has
b wen simply unparalleled in the history
f racing. This year he bad 201
nounts-won R7.loe 114,
AAAI API
Justice is uot wias is, but what onght
0 be,
Blame not before you examine the
rush,
An Exciting Buffalo Hunt.
Bill Nye tells the following story in
relation to an exciting Buffalo hunt,
Not very far back in the history of the
Laramie plains buffalo were as common
and on a
lope mn a ride from Laramie City to
Last Chance and back. Now, however,
the buffalo have taken their flight from
Northwest, where they can still be slain
The day 1s not
one buffalo apiece for the foreign dudes
We
were rather startled one day in Laramie
by the howl of “buffalo’’ on the streets,
Inquiring into the mat-
game had been
miles from town, Everybody was
wild. In ten minutesthe livery stables
were empty and every man with a team
bad a load of excited men moving to-
ward the herd. It was a grand exodus,
it looked like a
There were two or
Inass meeling.
Some of us were in
some in drays, and
We hurried on ex-
citedly until the advance guard set up
a wild yell, which meant that the game
was in sight and that no one in that
crowd had ever seen a buffalo before,
Every one’s eyes were strained to get
a glimpse of the herd. Every one held
his breath, waiting. for the thunder and
I had just de-
cided that the whole thing was a sell,
when one of the party pointed out, at
a little distance on the foot-hill to our
right a buffalo bull. This was our prey.
One hundred and fifty of us, like
army with teamsters, had come out
: this
vers in the party.
EXpress wagons,
some In carriages,
an
here on the hier
plains to siaug
He
hove in
melancholy brute, WAS
eal when we
doing as well, perhaps, as
¢
without
most of his hair
I
teeth
could th.
ww
when
a WHen
Ov
Was had negle
new, and i
again, His ears had been
coyotes and the ravi 3
had a fringe on them over an inch deep,
His back |} f ti !
5 ,
ocked hike one of those olde
fashioned
gnawes
es of time Li] th
hair trunks, and his, little
five-cent tall had ch hair on
IV AS 4 ram-ron
Saw
3
i.
expression of
I never
It
woe and
i.
such a sad-looking face, had
An deep-sealed
pained surprise, such asa man has when
falls
a five-story brick warehouse
him. He had the sams grieved,
rowfal look of reproach that
might wear if Ie were
rail fence in ]
night and fall
m ten
o leap
the solemn hus
into the embira
The }
old 1 raised his
solemn way and tried to sn
ii
aviv hiatrsre
1 the early history of
He then tried
with
try, but it was a tallure.
10 raise his
it, but the effort was not crowned with
His tail had forgotten itscun-
He then tried t lash his
+ 0
t fash,
’ } 4 “ $s 4 & y
tail and lash his sides
sucess,
eve,
He turned sl
but it wouldn YW
ly around, and, as well as the poor old
foundered brute could, he tried to am-
ble away. Then a brave man from the
of
rode
Wearing a new suit
and filled
muzzle
The
a half
fe would
It
who
veteran of the plains fell with
bellow half groan and died. |
have died in a few days any how,
was an exciting hunt! The man
I don't know why It is considered such
It 18 far
more difficult to kill a good, able-bodied
I saw an Eoglishman, at
the Palmer House last summer who
docile enough to stand still and ba shot,
{erry Eng-
ng skull of
Yes, sir, he was caniying that thi
shawl strap.
Eogiand and Wales,
Out of the 26,000,000 inhabitants of
England and Wales in 1881 a total of
nearly 1,600,000 souls or rather more
ulation of the country. were engaged
in the building-trade. This great army
of workmen is under the control of
6.808 architects, independently of any
in the Census as “‘artists’’) may receive
from 5.394 land, house and ship survey-
ors, or from 7,124 civil engineers. This
allows an architect to superninteand about
230 workmen, independently of carriers
and of workers in the primary stages
of product that are subsequently per
fected as bouse-fittings: and if we link
the surveyors with the architects, we
obtain upwards of 13.000 persons en-
gaged in architectural designs and su-
perinlendence.
Florida Perfumes.
The manufacture of perfumes from
Florida-grown fl swera bids fair to be.
come an extensive industry 1a the state.
Que firm at Jacksonville is already at
work. It i« reported that a gentleman
from south Florida has patented a pro-
cess for the utilization of the bloom of
the mangrove and the sapadilla, and to
extract the sweel fragrance from the
cassava plant as well,
ia ———
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Economy i% a great revenue,
Life hath no blessings like a prudent
friend,
To love is to make a compact with
Money is not God, but it shows
The more you say, the less people
remember,
Don’t be whining about not having a
fair chance,
Man is a reasoning rather than a rea.
No drunkards shall inherit the king-
dom of heaven.
The first step to virtue 18 to Jove vir-
tue in another,
Be praised not for your ancestors, but
for your virtues,
As the body is purified by water, 50
is the soul by truth.
Go after two wolves, and you will
not catch even one,
After the battle of arms comes the
battle of history,
The deeper you hide anything the
sooner you will find it.
Never take a crooked path while you
can see a straight one,
Disease comes in by hundred weights
and goes out by ounces,
The fool thinks he has argued a case
when he offers to bet.
In prosperity work is a duty, in mis-
fortune it is a refuge.
Ask a pig to dinner and he will put
his feet upon the table,
Fear not the threats of the great, but
rather the tears of the poor.
Verily hypocrites sink into a lower
abyss than any other sinner,
The future destiny of the child
always the work of the mother,
He is rich who is satisfied with what
he hath—whether it be little or much
Good resolutions are like horses. The
tirst cost is an item of less importance
than the keeping.
Budden expectations, which kind]
to a fever, sometimes «
rt toa frost.
Ws
+h vif ey
the mind
the hea
. how slow, and how Insc:
How long
tar} : 1a fate ¢ af oa
sie CAN BEC TOAL'S 1406 AgAalns
¥
Liv,
by halves. If
and
undone,
i
$1
i
Wells
niv temptati
suld always be good;
© ( k wil %
Is Lem vo
We do not have great trials and sharp
agonies and heroic works to do every
- 3
I'V Ball thal
+4 ’
h a tlie ones
* £ ua
AJL Li val.
i I: § x + vor ke ogg
Gay, iv iS ve SLIOKS
make the diamond shine,
to attempt te
anything WaS never
Yers
it is
AN
man o
156 0s8 reason a
rea~
Fierhy 4
LRH
he
3
€ nio. IVEASOn IS a
rider and easily shaken off.
y 4
to see the grief of
working
new
y way of
nring brings no
MINE Drings nd
thered tree.
This is the law of benefits between
men: the one ought to forget at once
what he has given, and the other ought
never to forget what Le has received,
Contentment furnishes constant joy,
much cuvetousness, constant grief. To
the contented, even poverly joy: to
the discontented, even wealth is vex-
ation,
Chiefly the seashore bas been the
point of departure to knowledge, as to
The most advanced nations
those who navigate the
is
are Always
most.
Whosoever commands the sea com-
mands the trade; whosoever commands
the trade of the world commands the
riches of the world, and, consequently,
the world itself,
In religious concerns, reason without
Not in juris-
prudence alone applies the ancien! max-
im (Apices juris non sunt jura)—Sub-
He that hath wife and children bath
given hostages to fortune; for they are
impediments to great enterprises, either
of virtue or mischief, Certainly wife
humanity.
Reason is, so to speak, the police of
the kingdom of art, seeking only to
preserve order, In life itself, a cold
arithmetician who adds up our follies
Sometimes, alas! only the accountant
in bunkruptey of a broken heart,
Like all Nature's processes, old age
is gentle und gradual in its approaches,
strewed with aliusions, and ail its little
griefs soothed by natural sedatives,
But the iron hand is not less irresisti-
bile becanse it wears the velvel giove,
When my reason is afloat, my faith
cannot long remain in suspense, and 1
Lelieve in God as ficmly a in any other
tiuth whatever; in short, a thousand
motives draw me to the consolatory
side, and the weight of hope tu the
equilibrium of reason,
Accurate and just reasoning is the
vuly catholic remedy fitted for all per-
sons and all depositions, and is alone
able to subvert that abstruse philosophy
and metaphysical jargon which, being
mixed up with popular superstition,
renders it in & manner impenetrable to
careless ressoners and gives it the air
of science and wisdom,
Virtue is an angel; but she is a blind
one, and must ask of knowledge to
show her the pathway that leads to her
goal, Mere kuowledge on the other
hand, like a mercenary, is ready to com-
bat either In ranks of sin or under the
banner of rignieousness, — ready to
forge cannon bails or to print Re
Testaments, to pavigate a corsair's
vessel or @ waiesionary ship,