. The Ship of Dreams. When silent lies the sleeping town In its profoundest rest, There is a ship comes salling dows Upon the River's breast. Wide-winged asthat enchanted swan, She salleth through the night, And purple grows the gloom upon The magic of her flight. The barque she bears no mortal name, No crew of mortal mould, Ulysses’ ship of song and flame, Of cedar wood and gold, she 1s the ship that Turner knew, On the enchanted seas, She floats fair isles of music through, And isles of memories. And she is mystically fraught With dreams remembered long, That drift on all the tides of thought And all the seas of song, Ehe hath Ulysses by her helm, Ax in the olden time; This ship of a diviner realm, Aud of a fairer clime, rT I'v a gentleman who spent some of the best years of his life in Brazil, we are indebted for the following account of an adventure with a jaguar in one of the dark and vast forests of that coun- i lug down to a pale proaching to white legs and feet. yellow, about the belly, They steal upon their prey like the tiger, which, in flerceness d strength, they much resemble, are powerful enough to kill a horse, an ox, or a mule, and carry off or drag away the dead body afterward. “*Oue night,’’ says our “as I Jay encamped in a dense forest, on the bank of one of whe tributaries ot the Amazon, with my guide and four wgro servants around me, 1 was start- from my slumbers by such a screeching and yelling as I pray Heaven I mmy never hear again! up, with my ideas all dered and confused, well “vy il Thay ithey eu bewil- retly but was still me the down, show gone to ¥ i 3 i i ght enough ing and howling around like uy fiends. As soon as I could shake my senses together a little, 1 let out my voice to its very highest pitch, and, in stento- rian tones, demanded the cause of this nocturnal tumult, **A jaguar, master! a jaguar among the mules!’ yelled every voice In reply. **Well, it there were forty jaguars, justead of one, they might have been scared 1ato fits by this time!’ returned I; ‘and so cease your infernal yellings, me m+ all you know about tI” ‘My cool and apparently unexcited manner soon had the effect of calming down the frightened wretches to a and then I learned there had teen a great commo- * on among the mules—which were tied sas fo feed without escaping, within i short distance this to proceed from Lhe presence of the dreaded jaguar common sense degree, fire—and d sturbance was supposed the of in their midst—though no one had seen him, and none are to venture thither and ascertain. I lost seeing that my rifle, pistols and hunting knife were mn proper order; and then getting my Indian guide, the least timid of the five, armed with his long lance, bow no tine in blazing brand, I moved cautiously for- tied, the four negroes keeping close at my heels, crouching and trembling with terror. “On reaching the frightened animals I was anything but pleased to find that the suspicions of my servauls were cor- rec , and that a valuable pack-mule was among the missing. There were broad traces of blood, and a wide trail ito some bushes, showing where he had been dragged away by his fierce and powerful assailant, 1 was so angry at the daring of the beast any my loss, that I should bave followed on, per- haps to my own destruction, had not the Indian guide taken hold of me, and emphatically declared I was mad to think of such a thing. “Don’t you hear the beast growling over the carcass, master?’ he said; ‘and by you think that now, when he can see go uch better than you, that he wifl let you approach him and return alive?” “And am I to let the audacious scoundrel escape, and he within reach of as good a rifle ball as ever let out the heart’s blood of hs race?’ was my angry reply, as I halted and listened to his ravenous snarls and growls, “Jet us bunt him to-morrow, mas- ter, when we can do it with so much less risk,” returned the Indian, ‘My friend, Cotantin, a great hunter, lives within a few leagues of here, and with his dogs and experienced attendants he will make sure of him,’ “A minute’s reflection convinced me there was nothing better to be done, for to attack the animal now, in the dark, was to give him all the advant- age; and so I smothered down my anger as well as 1 could, and passed a weary night in keeping watch around the fire, not one of ;ny party venturing to again close his eyes in sleep, “At the first blush of day 1 dis. patched my guide in quest of his friend, charging him to bring him without fail, with all his attendants and dogs, and assuring him that if the animal was finally caught 1 would pay a hand- some reward, “After it became light I went out into the thicket, ima there found a small portion of my mule’s carcass, the remainder having been eaten off, or, perhaps, something of both; but I made no further attempt to trace the jagular further, contenting myself to wait for the hunters and dogs. There was a small place, callec Cozva, distant some ten or twelve miles, to which one of the blacks knew the way, and I sent the four of them thither, with all the mules, save one, which I reserved for my own riding. ‘After my servants had gone I was Jeft alone for several hours, and I amused myself by secreting myself in a thicket and trying my markmanship upon the vultures that came in quest of the remnant left by the destroying beast. 1 was fortunate enough to kill six before the guide and hunters ap- peared upon the scene--a feat of which 1 was quite proud. poon, bringing his Indian friend Co ’ ging hunters, and six dogs muzzled and in leash. Cotantin was a small, man, straight as a needle, with jet black eyes, and a rather bright, intelh- He seemed to be in gent countenance, i | sinewy limbs were free from all re- | of green cloth about the loins, and a | band of feathers around his head. A | bow and sheaf of arrows, a long spear {and a Knife, were his hunt ge “Ie made no use ing imple- fi reas IIT Ure-arms, of con- sidering them too noisy. | ions were armed and dressed like him- { self, but two carried each a lariat and a large sheepskin with {| wool What latter was for, I {could not imagine then, but had chance to see it used before night. ¥ $ i of them the on. this . t a unters and dogs were all eagr i sport to begin, the sagacious brutes were led to the spot had made his midnight feast then set free. Of course t and with many a | wild, joyful bark, yelp and bowl, away they went peli-mell, and the hunters after t me alone with Ichura, my faithful guide. | to mount my mule, could, but my guide assured me there would be no need of my departure for some as the | dogs, getting bothered with the differ. ent scents, would play around in a cir- cle before leading off, and even then it was more than likely they would not have to go far to find the gorged beast of which they were in quest, was right, For half an hour I beard the yelping of the dogs, | first in one direction and then another, were ii scent was strong, hem, leaving in order to follow them as best I time, “*Ichura but nove of them appearingto be at any | considerable distance, though gradually enlarging the area of their explora- ! tions, “At length there came those peculiar cries assuredd the expenenced | hunter that his canine assistants had | struck a sure scent. and clapping his with delight, my which guide ex- go! and now it we shall early news mule-killing Come on now, master! follow me as fast ! as you can.’ may get of the rascal, “Can the dogs do anything toward ferocious beast?’ in- quired 1, as I spurred my mule on afier | the quickfooted guide: | “*No, master; they can track him up to his tree or hole; and then it remains for the hunters to make an end of him.’ “For a time the dogs gained on us so much that I feared they would get away {rom us entirely; but after push- ing on for an hour, making the best speed I could through the thick wood, I heard them louder than ever away to our right. “*] think they have him at last.’ said Ichura, **Another quarter of an hour, during which we all the time seemed to Le $ { mastering such a only { denly, on rising a small hill, we saw way down on the opposite side, with parently awaiting our arrival, “On our joining them, Cotantin in- formed my guide, who also acted as in- terpreter between nyself and the Ind. ians, that the jaguar had entered a hole | among the rocks, and that now the white senhor would have an opportu | nity of witnessing a display of Indian | bravery In assailing the ferocious beast { in his den, **And how will he attack him thre?’ inquired I. ‘‘He intends to enter and spear him to death!’ replied Ichura, proudly, “I had heard something of this bes fore; but when 1 saw it about to be put in practice, and considered the strength and agility and ferceness of the animal, 1 could not avoid a shud- der at the awful fate that seemed im- pending over the daring adventurer, Even while the guide was speaking, Cotantin himself began to prepare for the terrible contest, Putting aside his crown of feathers, his bow and quiver, wrapping one of the sheeggkins about his left arm, and firmly grasping his spear in his right hand, he walked boldly up to the mouth of the dark pit or hole, spoke a few words to his com- panions, who formed themselves in de- fensive attitudes around the entrance, and then dropping down on his hands and knees, gradually disappeared, “For some two or three minutes there was a dead and ominous silence, every one seeming to listen with sus- pended breath, and then we heard the low, sullen growls of the beast, grad- ually growing flercer and louder, till at length they burst out Into a wild, angry roar. This was instantly fol- lowed by piercing human yells or shrieks, commingled with the short, sharp, snorling growls of a savage beast in actual combat, and by a thrashing, scuffing sound; as of two bodies fiercely contending. This lasted for perhaps a minute, during which my very hair seemed to stand on end, and then came a gurgling, grasping groan, a human yell, and all grew still as death, which I believed was there in its most bloody and repulsive aspect. “One of Cotantin’s companions now ing, and presently returned, carefully hunter, whom at first I believed to be one mass of mangled flesh, But such was not the case. Though frighttully lacerated in two or three places, the was neither dead fifteen minutes was able to sit up and converse with his friends, him and the beast, but he had qguered, and t latter was dragged out, all bloody, stretched before ne. 1 inspected limbs and teeth—and God that I had the night before, 1 the and earth upon closely secretly ti not Lis assall made Cotantin and his companion some oeen Lis wndsome presents, and then, preceded rode on to Cozva, and re- that same mv ide ny guiae ined my servants even- tyyer 0} Lug. A Boy of Twelve Who is the Mascot of the Persian Monarch. the Corps of Royal Pages, Azizus-Sultan, he Monarch.” nor Royal Pri allowed titles I, nee to sit at law of the Persians, ’ ntly by § nore servants his to walt upon him wan any two of the royal Ministers, Ti ion of this extraordinary 4 14 * his OG 0 Se Persian He Hiagni Was seatid ficent i tate entry into dL. Peters. >. al Operation on a Nose. orld is gos- kable surgical op ra has changed the of an aristocratic young decidedly ond ¢ Ts 3 into an organ of pure Grecian The surgeon's {to 81,300, The design. bill amounted operation was long and todionsg, involving much suffering ut I the present. Those who knew her be- fore the change maintain that the new nose does not suit the general confor mation of her face. Others meeting her now for the first time notice a lack of harmony somewhere, but ean not tell what causes it. Another sensitive creat- tre, who had her teeth straightened at great expense, is tortured by the hor- rible fear that people will say they are false. —— pi — Derivation of the Word News. It is commonly supposed that the word “news’’ is derived from the ad- jective *‘new,”’ but this supposition is wrong, In former times it was a prevalent custom to put over the pen. odical publications of the day the initial letters of the csmpass, as shown above, this importing that these papers con tained intelligence from all quarters of the globe. From this practice is de- rived the word ‘newspapers, Sloth makes all things difficult; but industry all easy; and that riseth late must trot all day and scarce over- take his business at night; while Lazi- ness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him, WHEN FORTUNES COME. A Statement That Wealth In America Is Acquired by Men of Forty. One of the brightest young men in public life said to a New Y ork Sun man the other day that he was going to make his everlasting fortune some day when he grew tired of politics, “But there is plenty of time for that,’ said he, **Do know that it almost a this country that men do not make their fortunes until they are forty years old or older? The grand exception to the rule is Jay Gould, but the temporary fortunes were nearly all made when their founders were at or beyond middle age. Commodore Van- derbilt, John Jacob Astor, A. T. Stew- art, and all the others prove what I say.” The reporter to whom this was said turned over the pages of the biographies and other works of reference at his hand, and found enough them to warrant the assertion that least a great many rich Americans have been beyond forty years of age when they accrued riches, Certainly the richest body of men in the land, the United States Senate, is composed of elderly you is rule in COn- in at men, but in the lower house of Congress we see millionaires who look old enough for the rule, Alexander T, Stewart gearcely came here in , where he He opened ali on Broadway, and gathered wealth very auto ob ; 8:0Wly at first, as (Lie linen store He was prude 1, and graduall but he became two » afterward trans Oi Clews is i yr ’ 5 S EAINY INAnnooy § We out an 1 War bir Ke was made his Lond SON afterward went into th Ynaicats He g the £ United States debt, then, Chax for fundii rty-three Edward F. Jones, maker and f this Sate, to be a millionaire, Lieutenar f. wis rich seale born in 1828, He began his | the close of the war, and was jong past forty when he became rich. Henryol3, USINGSS career at thirty-three years old. He was beyond middle life when he got his ple. John B. Slawson, the car-fare box inventor, was twenty-five years old when he went to New Orleans in 1840 from this State. There he slowly made his way upward. But for the war he would have pushed his invention at forty-six years of age, but be had to wait, and he was past fifty when ns big money began to pour in. His friend Stephenson, the horse car build- er, also a millionaire, had to wait for middle age to get great riches. So did the elder Bennett, of the Herald, so did Hon, Oswald Ottendorfer, and so did the late Marshall O. Roberts, Jay Gould’s early life was a failure, but this phase of it was very short. He was born in 1831, and went into specu- lating in railroad stock in 1850, when he was only twenty-eight years old, He was very successful, and made use of the war, when it broke out, to give large returns on small or shrewd specu: Jations, His fortieth year found him, in his present opinion, only starting in life, but the world already knew him as a master money maker, for he had been more than three years president of the Erie Railroad, and his associate, Fisk, bad startled America with his share of the partnership, + Samuel J, Tilden made his first con- siderable money as a lawyer, but ho was more than forty years old before he put other aspirations aside for the time and began that devotion to his profession which was quickly distingui connection with the greates of the day, He was forty-one, when, in 1855, he was defeated as a candicate hsd by his IAW Causes that came his greatest legal trinmphs, operations, The Standard Ol] fortunes nearly all prove the rule, Mi share of that pile while younges forty but Messrs Starbuck and Flagler were beyond that age when they grew rich, In Philadel- phia, George W. Childs is probably an exception. and has been rich more years; but John Wanamaker only be- gan the making of his fortune in 1876, when he was thirty-eight, He Rogers made his than vears old, Rockefeller, than twenty Wiis Wis really rich, He was thirty-four when he brave struggle pany that is did not forty, DEgan with the dramatic com- now world famous, Wealth reach him till he was i The m ous exampies that ar Rev, Dr. Jolin Hall vears old when he the mis inistry contains numer. re LO the thirty-eight ERE RS 4 , y » Came 0 AINeETICS jon that introduced when on 4 " y Ta ! ¥ wil uy : Lo Europe 2385 3 YEAR 83 $1 4 ’ Hatlering In Richi v, about { he plays found the other day, over th feet Hee JONI. iy ¢ little boy 1 cauried it ling her had found a doll, His mother excited that she could do nothing but which scared the child and and go to The snake was killed and what is called a little fellow did not want Was sO his mother. found to be whip. The promised him another and he was satis. fied. Faise Pride llustrated. The different forms in which pride besets its victims afford an amusing study. Girls who wotk in shops carry school books or a music roll to and from their place of business so that they may be mistaken for school girls though their hours are certainly not those of the average pupil. Perhaps they hope to be taken for special students, The librarian of the Mercantile Library tells me that it is a common thing for “ladies” to tear the paper covers off the books they take from the library the moment they are outside the door, These silly creatures think it looks finer to carry an uncovered book than one that is covered, and they would rather seem to own a volume than to have taken it from the library. A is anything that can serve to wound; and sentiments are perhaps the most cruel man can em- ploy to wound his Ww rnan, i FOOD FOL THOUGHT. otmsam——- Subtlety may never will, It is better to suffer an injurs cotnmit one, Every one has a fal great as he pleases An obstinate man does ions, but they hold him, It 18 useless for a dead act like a livieog man, A debt game of trumped up charge, deceive you; integrity not li man u over a cards ig 2 Personal religion does not exempt us from trouble in this life, I'he sinile the same guages, Ditto the grunt, Weeping may endure for a night, but Ihe error of the moment becomes th sorrow of a whole life time, It is a small wWron wrong thing to be a horrible thing to be There 15 no better excess gratitude i Volitene fiead. do not cont not to believe and take not to find talk and 1 weigh and consider, GISCUOUTS nothing We an Fost 5 inn %} OUsLAcCH i i Ve can things of the great learning is ous iEArn which ignorance Of Nothing sharpens the arrow keenly as the co No reproach is we clothe with a smile and present a bow, Thinkers are as scarce as gol 2 Boog Rs #3 he whose thought embraces all his HA Hi who pursues it uninterruptedly mond of enormous size, Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but be- cause it Is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to cons fute him. Wisdom does not show itself! so much in precept as in life—in the firmness of mind and the mastery of appetite, It teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our actions and works all of a color, In the depth of the sea the water is still; the heaviest grief is borne in sil ence; the deepest love flows through the eye and touch: the most impressive preacher at the funeral is the suent one whose lips are cold, There are degrees of contentment: but it will be found that the most con. tented are those who are engaged in useful work of some Kind, down into which thought flows, and that the least contented are those who are idle. Religion in its purity is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather, it isa temper leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, hol ness; its aim, obedience to God in im- provement of self, and benevolence to men,
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