rman wars Some — —
Ode to Spring.
X wakened to the singing of a bird;
I heard the bird of spring.
And lo!
At his sweet note
The flowers began to grow,
Qrass, leaves and everything,
Asif the green world heard
* The trumpet of his tiny throat
From end to end, and winter and despalr
Fled at his melody, and passed in air.
I heard at dawn the music of a voice,
O my beloved, then I said, the spring
Can visit only once the waiting year;
The bird can bring
Only the season's song, nor his the choice
To waken smiles or the remembering tear!
But thou dost bring
Bpringtime to every day, and at thy call
The flowers of life unfold, though leayes of
autumn fall.
~{ Mrs. James T. Fields, in the Century.
A BOX OF DIAMONDS.
In the year 1867 I found myself at
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, just out of hos-
pital, not a dollar in my pocket, and
ready to ask the American Consul to
send me to the United States in the
name of charity. I had been outwith
an American whaler, and had been
left there so broken in health that no
one supposed that I could live two
weeks. As the ship had taken no oil
there was nothing coming fo me. In-
deed, I was in debt to her, and but for
the few dollars raised among the men
I should have been a pauper on land-
ing.
One afternoon, while I was on my
way to the Consulate to see what help
I could obtain, I encountered an Eng-
{lishman, whom [ at once identified as
a sailor—captain or mate. He stopped
and inquired my name, nativity
and occupation and when I had given
him the information he slapped me on
the back and exclaimed:
«It's a bit of luck that I met you!
I've got a place for you, and we'll
drop in somewhere and have a talk.”
He was a biunt-spoken man, but a
cautious one. He did not unfold his
planus until he had pumped me pretty
dry and apparently satisfied himself
that I was a man he wanted.
then I only got a part of the story,
and am still in the dark as to many
particulars. The stranger's name was
Captain Roberts, and he had given
up the command of an English brig
on purpose to enter upon a hunt for
treasure. Two years before,
informed me,
which was carrying half a million
dollars’ worth of diamonds,
large sum in rough gold, between Rio
and Montevideo, had been wrecked
about seventy miles below Porto Ale-
gre.
trusted to a sailing vessel
Even
as he
a coasting schooner,
besides a
Why this treasure had been in-
and wheth-
er it belonged to church or state or
some individual I never learned. The
captain had nothing to say about that,
and I bound myself to secrecy regard-
ing the whole affair.
How Captain Rol
the wreck malter I did not ask
about, but I did hear it said that all
the crew were lost. I was a sailor and
a diver and he offered to stand all the
expense of the search and give me
$10,000 in gold if we recovered the
diamonds only. If we got the gold as
well I was to have a larger share. He
had chartered a coasting schooner for
three months, and was then getting
aboard whatever he thought would be
needed. I signed with him thatafter-
noon as mate, and three days after
we had picked ap all our crew. For
tunately for us a ship came in with
twelve seaman rescued from a burn
ing bark at sea, and we took eight of
them and a cook. This gave us eleven
hands all told on the little craft, but
wrecking is a thing demanding plenty
of muscle at the cranks, windjasses
and til ropes. The crew proper were
not let into the secret, but signed for
8 voyage to Buenos Ayres and return,
There was a Rio banker behind the
expedition, as I accidentily discovered,
but he did not come near the schooner,
and Captain Roberts visited him only
by night. We were so well provis-
foned and provided that it must have
taken a snug sum of money to fit us
out. This the banker no doubt ad-
wanced and took his chances, At the
Custom House wo cleared for the La
Plata in ballast, but some of that bal-
last had been taken aboard under
cover of darkucss, We had a diver's
outfit, timbers, planks, spare casks,
extra ropes and chains, and about the
last package received contained a
dozen muskets and a lot of fixed am-
‘munition. We slipped out quietly one
night with the tide, and before day-
light came we were far away.
Captain Poberts had a pretty
fair chart of the neighborhood
of the wreck, and after a
speedy run down the const we
reached it one afternoon about 4
o'clock. When we came to work ine
we got sight of the mountain
laid down on the chart, and in
couple of hours were satisflod that
‘the wreck was within a milo of us
erts had located
was a
~ —————. ———; —— ————— -
north or south. Just there was a reef
about four miles off shore and extend-
ing up and down the coast for thirty
miles. Behind this reef in many
places was deep water up to the shore
line. It being summer weather, with
the winds light but holding steady,
we anchored off the reef, and then the
men were told that we had come to
search for a wreck. It was all right
with them, and after dinner two boats
were lowered to begin the search.
Taking the schooner the centre,
we pulled both ways, running close to
the reef. The treasure craft had been
dismasted in a squall and driven
shoreward, and we confidently ex-
pected to find her hull, if it had not
gone to pieces, or or near the reef.
Before sundown we had made care-
ful search for three miles away, but
without finding the slightest trace of
as
her.
but nothing was brought to light.
some places the reef showed above
Next morning we tried it again,
In
the surface at low tide, in others there
was plenty of walter to carry us over
any time. The craft
might have hit the reef ata favorable
spot and been driven almost to the
beach; but before accepting this
theory we got out the drag and ex
plored the deeper waters seaward
from the reef. We spent three days
at this work, grappling only the rocks
hidden away from 30 to 60 feet be-
low, and using up the men with the
hard work. The schooner was then
sailed over the reef and anchored in a
snug berth in 30 feet of water, and
we began the search of the shore
waters. The shore was a rocky bluff
crowned with a dense forest, with a
few yards of shingly beach at long
intervals.
We had searched this bay for four
days without luck when I had the
good fortune to discover the wreck
with my own eyes. She
half a mile of the beach in 22 feet of
at treasure
lay within
water, and was bottom side up against
a big rock. She had probably passed
the reef in safety, but had struck this
rock, thrust its
three feet of the surface, and in going
which head within
It seemed
now that not a soul of her crew
escaped, and how anybody had after-
down had turned turtle.
had
the-wreck and made a
locality was a greater
ever. Oar first
was to bring the schooner as near as
ward located
of the
mystery than
chart
move
possible, and then we began prepara
tions to lift the wreck. She must
tarned over, so as to float on her keel,
if nothing more.
there was no possible way to gel into
Lying boitom up,
her cabin.
Next
went down
day after the
in my diving dress and
attached c'iains to her starboard side.
These were spliced out with stout
ropes leading aboard our schooner,
and after half a
ready to haul
bit, but more than a
after working one day
that method for another.
sent down to me and attached wher.
ever possible, and but for the presence
of sharks we would have had her over
in a day. As if one monster had
communicated with another for miles
up and down the coast, they gathered
about the schooner and the wreck,
and I had the closest kind of a call
from being seized by a man-eater that
was fully 15 feet long. Standing on
our decks I counted 86 dorsal fins
moving about us at one time, and I
don’t believe that was half the num-
ber of sharks within a circle of a
quarter of a mile. There could be no
more diving while they were hanging
about, and we set to work to get clear
of their company. Captain Roberts
had foreseen such an emergency and
had come provided.
Idoubt if a ship's erew ever had
deeper revenge on Sailor Jack's impla-
cable enemy. The muskets were
brought up and four of the men told
off to uso them. A fifth man was
given charge of a whale lance, and
the rest of us were Kept busy admin
istering a punishment which might be
called barbarous by humanitarians.
We heated bricks red hot on the galley
stove, swiftly wrapped them up in
cloths, and they no sooner touched the
water than they were gulped down.
As soon ns a shark was wounded by
ball or lance so as to leave a trail of
blood he was at once eagerly attacked
by others, and our hot bricks soon
turned a dozen or more big fellows on
their backs.
It was a regular circus for abou!
three hours, during which at least
fifty of the monsters were slaughtered,
and then those that were left alive
suddenly drew off to the last one, and
we did not sight another shark during
our stay. Idid not go down again
for twenty-four hours, however, not
feeling cortain that som big fellow
was not lying In wait behind the
wrock. When 1 id descend 1 fond
the sehooner ifting to the casks, and
day’s work we were
lift her a
foot, and
gave up
Casks were
We could
not
we
after attaching three or four more she
stowly rose to tho surface. We then
got the boats out and towed her into a
depth of fourteen feet and then swayed
her over until she righted. She went
to the bottom again, of course, as the
casks no longer buoyed her, but we
expected that,
When I came to go down in my suit
{ found almost a clear deck. She had
becu schooner-rigged and both musts
had been carried away at the deck.
Beginning at the heel of the bowsprit
and running along the port side about
twenty-five feet of her bulwarks were
left standing. Capstan, windlass,
hatch covers and the skylight of the
had This
latter fact was greatly in my favor, as
[ could drop directly into the cabin.
cabin been swept away.
I was told to look for the treasure in
the captain's stateroom, but my feet
had no sooner touched the cabin floor
than my outstretched hands encoun
tered something which I knew by the
feel to be a dead man. My finding him
did still further
mystery of the whole
He tied fast and I
had to cut him loose with knife.
As soon as released the body floated
apward, and the men told me that it
floated out to sea with the tide, riding
on the surface like a cork.
Evening was now drawing near,and
further search was abandoned until
another day. After breakfast next
morning I descended again, and with.
in two hours had the tre
the wreck. I found it,
in the situation 1
deepened the
expedition. was
my
out
in
asure
not
of the main eabin—the diamonds were
in a cast-iron box about as large as a
child's savings bank, and the gold in
stout wooden boxes, and I left nothing
behind.
found
had
From the
where it was I argued that there
treasure being
been a mutiny before the storm,
that the ¢
cabin and the crew was making ready
aptain had been tied in the
to divide up the spoils. Perhaps after
driving over the reef and striking the
to tell
the story, and it was on his informa-
If the
fact was not admitted. 1
told
the
rock one had been cast ashore
tion we acted. 80, however,
Not
of
asked bat
more than I have you. one
of the crew knew value our
find, and, sallorlike, few
questions,
was safe aboard
For four
When the treasure
we returned to Rio.
not a man was permitted to leave the
Then 1 the
greed upon, a considerable
the
& snug sum
vessel, received sum
with
crease, were made
of money counted
lown to each, and we were all
men happy
bundled
bound for Cuba,
ach giving his promise tos
of the wrecking expedition to anyon
sleamer
ay nothing
that Goverament
for
later on
vessels searched for weeks
wreck,
flee to England for safety, but that
adventure instead of clearing
M.
up the
many mysteries, —/ Quad, in
Louis Republic.
Devil's Lake.
people of the
Few
wilderness in
outside Ozark
have ever heard of Devil's Lake, one
of the strangest of natural phenomena.
A travéllier thus describes it: “Fancy a
tain, its surface from fifty to one hun-
dred feet below the level of the earth
surrounding it, fed by no surface
streams, untouched by the wind, dead
as the Sea of Sodom. There is no
point of equal altitude from which
water conld dow within hundreds of
miles, and yet it bas a periodical rise
of thirty feet or over, which is in no
way affected by the atmospheric con-
ditions in the country adjacent. It
may rain for weeks in Webster coun-
ty, and the return of fair weather will
find Devil's Lake st its lowest point,
while it may reach its highest point
during a protracted drought.”
John Lee, who lives within a mile
or two of the lake, says that a sound.
ing of 100 feet has failed to reach
bottom. Owing to the steepness of
the sides of the bowl in which the
water lies, it is very difficult to meas
ure the depth, He believes that the
luke 1s fed by a subterranean stream,
and that the water so supplied flows
ont by a passage many hundreds of
feot below the lake's surface. A Mr.
Crabbe, who has lived in the neigh-
borhood for years, says that he always
knows when the rise is coming by re-
ports in the papers from the Upper
Missouri River in Montana. His
theory is that the Devil's Lake isa
part of an underground river, whose
entrance Is larger than ite exit, and
whose source is somewhere in the ex.
treme Northwest. Devil's Lake is 1500
feot above the sea. It is situated
a few miles north of Zordiand on the
Kansas City, Fort Scot and Memphis
Rethord,
song ANTS AS tt
PEARLS OF THOUGHT,
Youth sings, Age listens,
The mind makes the morals,
Matrimony is what you make it.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Sin without sorrow is unpardonable.
hard-
When a woman reasons she
ens.
Energy should be the slave of di-
rection.
Diligence is the
fortune.
mother of good
Curiosity is one of the forms of
feminine bravery.
Flattery labors under the odious
charge of servility.
Nothing resembles pride so much
as discouragement.
Censure is a tax a man pays to the
publie for being eminent,
Early to bed and
eariy to rise gives
| a than sunshine in his eyes.
The of
laws of statics or dynamics.
power beauty kuows no
A short horse is soon curried only
when one has a curry-comb,
Falsehood is often rocked by truth;
| but she soon outgrows her cradle and
i
discards ber nurse,
Talking and eloquence are not the
same; tospeak and to speak well are
A fool talk, but a
| wise man speaks.
5
{| two things. may
| save his | his
life
worth a groat at last.
as he gets, nose al
k eep
to tie grindstone and die not
!
There
{ that
| ments of our first great sorrow, when
is no despair so absolute as
which comes with the first mo-
| we have not yet known what it is to
suffered and to
de paired and have recovered hope.
! have be healed, have
— - oI se -
A Counterfeiter at Thirteen.
A novel counts
| dispose 1 of
lias been
Ind., #
proceedings
of
United
missioner charged with
nickels. The
Ind. He purchased
! 8 small quantity of lead,
srfeiting case
at Lafayette,
as the preliminary
Wallace
Was
ore
go.
Samael , & lad about thir-
teen,
i Com
before the States
making
counterfeit
boy's home
is at Marshfield,
and boring a
long hole the size of a nickel,
! the led in
into the
he poured
lead
size of the genuine nickels,
to it and thus shaped the
Then he placed a nickel on each side of
and hammered them until he
succeeded
the lead
in makiog a fair img
of the
«hat he spent
ression
ths nickel on euch sid«
The
work must
like Le stuck
At Marshfield,
of lead.
hours upon this
have been many, but boy-
to it with persistence.
near lis home, was a
pt by an old man whose cye-
best, and this
all of
et
sass
sight was not of the
man soon secured Samuel's
trade. He
there,
made purchases
and always payiag for them in
nickels. At last the man discovered
ing the boy punished. The arrest of
the boy followed. He did not
nickels, and afier a
United
deny
the lead
the Siates Commis
which
little
He
mother furnished, and the
shaver was allowed to go home.
feiter ever found, but
[Chicago Tribune.
The Tall Gra of Yucatan.
The sisal grass of Yacatan is one of
the most remarkable vegetable prod-
ucts known. [It grows in long blades,
sometimes to the length of four or five
feet, and when dry the biade curls up
from side to side, making a cord
which is stronger than any cotton
string of equal size that has ever been
manufeciured. It is in grea! domand
among flor sts and among manufac-
turers of various kinds of grass goods,
but as soon as its valuable properties
become known it will have a thousand
uses which are now undreamed of.
Ropes, cords, lines of any description
and any size may be manufactured of
it, and a ship's cable of sisal grass is
one of the possibilities of the future.
It is alinost impervious to the action
of salt water, and is not readily de-
cayéd or disintegrated by moisture
and heat, and will, in time, prove one
of the most valuable productions of
Central America,
The Boiler Burst.
Gallant Cowboy (after asoul-weary-
performance by pretty hostoss)—Er—
what was that you just played?
Miss Pianothumpp == “Impromptu
No. 976," by Poundowhiski. Did you
like It?
Gallant Cowboy (with an effort)
Oh, yes, yes, every note of it, as you
play it—yes, indeed. [ was ontranced
by your—or-lovely touch, you know.
But if I evor catch that composer, I'll
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
A sheep has five stomachs,
Handkerchiefs were first manufac-
tured at Paisley, Scotland, in 1743.
Linen
in 1253,
urious.
In 1528 the Scolch Parliament passed
a law permitting women to propose
to men.
One of the scholars in a country
school at Grayson, Ky., is a Justice of
the Peace, aged 44 years.
was first made in England
and only worn by the lux-
St. Petersburg, boasts of a
talking clock, the marvel being due to
a phonogradhic arrangement.
tassia,
Australian eggs are now shipped to
London, England, thanks to an extra-
ordinary new process of preservation.
The first striking clock
ported into Europe by the Persians
about the year A.D. 800. It
brought as a present to Charlemagne
was imn-
Was
from Abdella, King of Persia, by two
monks of Jerusalem.
Farmers near Leeds, North Dakota,
are complaining of the depredations
of a herd of antelope that is destroy.
ing great quantities of the unthreshed
grain, flax seeming to be the favorite
food.
The first record we have of coal is
the
Coal was used as fuel
about three hundred years before
Christian era
in England as early as 852, and in
1234 the first charter to dig for it was
granted by Henry IIL the
tunts of Neweastie.on-Tyne.
By the will of Ricl
who lately died in I
to inhabi-
ward
and, £1,000
educational pur-
Jerridge,
G gl L000
was bequeathed for
POsCa,
DEG TK
$250,0
one-fourth of which amount or
)0, is to be employed exclusive-
in vol-
land and Wales
de
who is soon to relinquish his
of oid
of
France and in that u
ly in the teaching of
untary schools of Eng
3 8
cookery
Louis Diebler, ¢“Mousienr
Paris,”
has been for
of
}
has decap
office because age,
gorty vears the chi exccutioner
he
Hy
pal ih)
me
itated not fewer than
His trade has
nur lerers
made bim detested by
the
of
and for the
his acquaintances, but he has had
practical consolation of a fortune
$19,000
reat of his life a pension will
amassed by it
be paid
him. Diebler is now seveuty years of
age.
A wonderful mystery has always
heen connected with the propagation
To
uish the sex of an eel is only pos-
of eels, dise
ting
gible
that
or born in
and inlets swarm with
nor is it yet solved.
by means of a microscope.
salt water. The shores,
bavs
wri
abundance in places like Niagara
liver, being unable to wriggle
falls,
while
up the
Unlike the shad
streams to
spawn, they go down to the sait waler
h go up fresh waler
to produce their young.
Playing the Piano With Her Toes.
The geniuses are sirange creatures,
not to be regulated by ihe laws gov-
of hume
is an accepted fact the
erning the vast
drum mortals,
world over.
majority
Generally speaking a
musical genins is envied, petted and
admired by all, that is where the talent
To
hear about the knowledge that one is
an absolule genius in such a wholly
that they dare
not shine before society must be gall
ing indeed, yet such is the case with
a pretty young lady well known
among the younger set of society who
the remarkabie ability
play on the piano with her feet. Di-
vested of shoes and stockings it is
actually possible for her to play con.
secutive tunes with her flexible toes
which she uses with apparently as
great ease as the ordinary pianist does
the fingers. =-[ Washingion Post.
- sisi
Neatly Done.
“Do you think any girl ever pro-
poses in leap year, as they say, Jen.
nie?” he asked.
«Not unless she is obliged to,”
swered the maiden.
«H'm! I bhadu't thought ot that,”
he said, after a pause.
“But, George,” she said, laying her
hand affectionately upon his arm and
looking into his eyes, “you, I am
sure, will never force me to that bhu-
miliation.”
“No-—or-—that is to say--of course
not. I-—"
The ice was broken, and three min
utes later George was Jennie's se
cepted. — [New York Pros,
a ——————
The Inevitable Consequence,
Biones—1 want you to subscribe
something toward sending an expedi.
tion to discover the North Pole.
Bjonks Not much! Bat I suppose
develops in orthodox channels.
unorthodox manner
possesses to
an-
The Amperial Diamond.
The following is the authentic history
of the Imperial diamond, which has ac-
quired considerable celebrity from the
recent litigation in India between the
Nizam of Hyderabad and Mr. Jacob, and
the ownership of which has still to be
decided by the civil courts at Calcutta,
The Imperial diamond, which was the
property of a powerful and wealthy syn-
dicate, intrusted for sale to the
well-known firm of dimnond merchants,
Messrs. Pittar, Leverson & Co., of Lon-
don and Paris. In the official descrip-
tion of this stone it is déscribed as ‘‘the
most beautiful among cele-
d historical diamonds,” and the
ported by comparison
1-i-Noor among English
and the Hegent among
those of France, which are certainly the
celebrated and best known cut
The Koh-i-
, weighs 106 ca-
is the French
was
largest and
brated a
statement
with hie
crown jewels
two most
diamonds in the world Noor,
esent cut stats
which
iiamond broug
ning of
grandfather of the great
hatham, 1 while the Im-
much as 150
weg ght of the
18 roug oh state
ecent
negent
s Pitt «
1}
5 81 the Der
S30 carats:
jimmond weighs as
The
amond it
Fron
y-five «
im-
was 457
portion of
detached,
twenty ca
The 1
was sent
years ago, where,
swetion of three of
arigin ul
erial di
i
this block a
irals was at
ut into nt of
&@ iF
azn.
once
ts brid
carats
it Was
180
leer s{
Queen Oi
town,
it Bize
stated fhat the
. now Queen Regent,
wien the
of
was present
was cut, and that the
stone occupied
circumstances
eived the name
lowing: It was
the Queen, and
ales, who happened to
eing it exclaimed, ‘It is
' The owners of
bestowed that title
doutl
Bret {neet
resi ACER
wining
the
The
stone rec
the fol
10
¥
i
nls,
feat
i 3 i
h, no
ia
the
INCASUTeE were
custody, ss,
on which
into the gre
an iron
The Fertility of Broom Corn.
land in
1000 pounds at
s per annum, be-
at an acre of
three
. quiring
. The first « utting
1 about July 10 and the
it November 1. The see 4 is
ling purposes for any kind i of
supe rior to prairie
are parties willing to guar-
hase of 500 tons of broom
y & bond if nece
agreeing to
the hay
SSAry
pay
, which insures as ready
| acres will produce that
and the ex
nm for market is much
od if curea well and
lasses No. 1. The seed
I #1 per bushel, and
a six acres, In view
of
acre,
cotton is
cultivation,
products for
ivation of broom corn
in for a share the atten
ur fare mers, especially as the
import-
he price
y pay for
other
’
its
about for
in the cuit
Ome of
the State are
Louis, ~-Col-
see "
Wn Isc
TCR in
ng their maternal from di.
orado Citizen.
Rev. James P, Stone
of Lower Cabot, Vi formerly of
Dalton, XN. 1,
A Faithful Pastor
Is bold in high esteem by his people, and his
opinion upon temporal aswell as spiritual
matters is valued greatly. The following is
from a clergyman Jong influential in A
England, now spen
the beautiful town apna
“C. 5 Mood & Co, Lewell, Mam.
“We have used Hood s Sarvaparilia in our family for
many years past, with great benefice. Wo have,
with soufidence, recommended i to others for thelr
varfous ailments, strooet all of whom have certified
to the great benefit by its use. We oan
Honestly and Cheerfully
recommend 1 on the best blood purifier we have
ever tried. We bave used others, but none with the
benefoial sflocts of Hood's. Alen, we deem Hood's
Pills and Olive Ointment invaluable, Mrs Stone
cannot do without them.” Rev, J, P. Svosn,
Better than Cold
Mr. Geo. T. Clapp, of Eastondale, Mass, says: “1
a kD years of age and for 30 years have safored
th running sores on one of my lags. A few years
wo 1 bad two toes amputated, physicians saying I
was suffering from gangrene and bad bu
A Short Time to Live
Inbetter health than | have been for many rears.
1 have taken no other medicine and consider thas
owe all my Improvement to
Hood's Sarsaparilla
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