HARVESTING CRANBERRIES. 1
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riMirfHM SrwN la Us Ureal Sank tl
Wtsesaals.
Berlin, Wia., says a correspondent of
the New York Tribune, is sneeringly
dubbed the Cranberry City by the news
papers of rival towns, and at picking
time the visitor is impressed with the
thought that it is no misnomer. All
other business interests then seem sub
servient to this, for the harvest is of no
mean importance to a river town of 8,000
inhabitants; the annnal shipments some
times reaching the astounding figures of
85,000 bushels from the large marsh of
Beckett Brothers and that of Carey
Brothers, whose united annual expendi
tures are not far from §IOO,OOO.
When the pioking begins, in October,
the whole country round turns out en
matter, for berry time is a succession of
gala days—men, women and ohildren
pouring toward the marshes in what
seems an endlees stream of humanity,
all eager to earn the exoellent wages
that are always paid. The noisy throng
is largely made up of Scandinavians and
Germans, by whom portions of the
country are thickly settled, the men in
quaint garments of sober home spun,
high lioots and awkward blue oaps, and
smoking the übiquitous huge-bowled
porcelain pipe from the fatherland, the
women with gay oolored shawls tied
over the head and falling on the shonl
ders, short stiff dresses and wooden
shoes. Children of all ages accompany
them, looking curious enough, dressed
in precisely the same somber attire as
their parents, which gives them the
appearance of veritable Lilliputians.
Most of the pilgrims toward the cran
berry Mecca go on foot, but some ride
in heavy farm wagons, canvas oovered,
and drawn by sleepy oxen, with whose
snail pace the phlegmatic farmer seems
quite content. It is this willingness to
mate haste slowly but surely in the race |
for wealth that has made substantial
farmers of these industrious foreigners.
Here and there among the prospective
pickers are a bevy of Americau girls,
who leave homes of comfort and plenty
to " rough it" on the marshes for a
week or two. Bands of Winnebago In
dians occasionally file past, gayly attired
in bright oolored government blankets;
the lasy warriors or bucks mounted on
ponies, the sqaiws trudging along the
sandy roads carry the "impedimenta,"
with the papooses strapped into a
frame-work and borne upon the back
with the other burdens. These Indians
are the children and grandchildren of
the chiefs who fonght under the famous
Blackbawk, in what is now the Btate of
Wisconsin, nearlv half a century ago.
It is only a mile or two from Berlin to !
the cranberry marsh of Backett Brothers,
the presiding genius of whose fortunes
is the Hon. Hobs Saokett. 'I he berries 1
grow on a marsh which is so wet and
yielding as to preclude the driving of
teams across except on a corduroy road
half a mile long leading to the buildings
in the center. Springing across one of
the ditches on either side one can pick
the acrid berries from the delicate
boshes which grow not mare than a foot
in height The principal building ia the
warehouse where the berries are stored
and afterward barreled for market It j
ia a substantial frame structure, recently
built i" Id® by feet and four atorit s
bigb. From the npper windows can be
had a comprehensive view of the marsh
and its busy force of pickers. The eye
rests upon 750 acres of marsh, not more
than a quarter of which is under cultiva
tion, over whose area in the busy time
are scattered no less than three thousand
pickers. A movable wooden railroad
track runs from the warehouse to the
center of operations, and a car is loaded
with the boxes of berries, each person
picking into span which is then emptied
into a box of a bushel capacity. The 1
pickers reoeive a ticket for every bushel
loaded on the car, and on reporting to
the superintendent at the close of the
day, receive credit for the whole. The
price paid is seventy-five cents a bushel,
and the average day's work is not more
than two or three bnshels, although it ia
not uncommon to piok Ave bushels, and
a few experts have been known to pick
seven bushels in a single day. The
picking being often burned on account
of threatened approach of frost, a second
picking ia sometimes necessary, for
which about a dollar a bushel w paid.
The car on being loaded with the filled
boxea is drawn by a team of horses to
the warehouse, where the berries are
hoisted on an elevator to the npper
stories, and disposed of in snch manner
as to secure the best ventilation. The
floors are oovered with tier upon tier of
boxes of berries, there being sometimes 1
20,000 bushel* nnder the roof at one r
time. On the ground floor, Urge fsn- 1
ning mills ere in motion, into which the
berries ere running from hoppers in the
upper stories, end ell leaves end other
impurities ere blown out, efter which I
they ere pat in barrels end healed to
Berlin, end from there shipped to the 1
Milwaukee end Chicago markets. A j
coopering establishment on the property
manufactures the many thousand Itarreb
which are annually required.
The question naturally arises. How
do these several thousand pickers sub
sist during the seeson, for no boarding
establishment of sufficient capacity
would be possible f The answer is that
the proprietor has erected barracks or
frame buildings for which there U no
rental, the picker* boarding themselves,
each bouse being furnished with s
kitchen stove, and the rooms fitted np
with bonks. The greatest hilsrity pre
vaila daring picking time, the nights
being given np to innooent revelry and
mirth on the pert of the young men sad
maidens, while in the neighboring woods
the Wionebsgoes dsooe round their
camp fires sad make night hideous with
the drunken orgies with which cran
berry time is invariably associated.
Beckett'* marsh U fitted by nstnre for
Hs present use, end its advantages of
location could not have been improved
upon by the experienced cranberry on I
turisi, It is necessary to Hood the
entire surface during the winter, sod
this is rendered easy by the feet that
the marsh is a basin lying in s wooded
tableland, with en outlet at the lower
end, across which has been constructed
a dam 235 yards long sod four and
half feet high, with double floodgates
for regulating the height of the overdow.
As soon as the crop is gathered the
gates are dropped sod the marsh gradu
ally becomes submerged by the autumn
rams, the melting snows sad the drain
age from the higher ground until it be
come* • lake. This often freeeea to a
considerable thickness, fnrniahing a
skating rink that puts to blnsh the con
tracted affairs of that name found in
cities. In this manner the soil receives
its only cultivation, and the tender
plants are protected from the rigors of s
Wisconsin winter. It is not onoommon
for the marsh to be flooded eight or nine
months in the year, the water not being
drawn off until June.
Captain He j ton's Fight with Thieves.
" Captain, is it true that yon were as
sailed by robbers in the streets of Paris
last summer I" inquired a reporter for a
New York paper of Captain Hoy ton, who
has made innumerable long and danger
ous voyages in European waters, clad in
his rubber suit.
"Yes," he answered, "and I must
confess that it was s lively affair, and
it oame near reaulting disastrously to me
and others who accompanied me. There
were eight of us together, and we had
been outside the walls and were en
deavoring to reach a poiut where we
could get conveyance to our quarters in
the central part of the oity. Unluckily
for us, we entered by the Belleville quar
ter, the home, as you know, of the vilest
and most desperate characters of the
French capital. As wo walked alone
the ill-paved, narrow atroets I spoke to
one of my friends by my aide, who, by
the way, carried that valine (pointing to
a small green bag) with 4,000 franca in
it, and told him what a bad aection we
were in. I bad scarcely oeased speaking
WIICD a tierce-looking fellow canght me
by the arm and demanded in Freuch
that I should treat, saying that no per
sons of my cut were allowed to pass
without doing this. I told him to move
off, bat instead he turned suddenly and
dealt me a stunning blow on the left
side of my head, knocking me down. As
I fell I noticed that my eight compan
ions were surrounded and that they were
fighting. I quickly aprang to my feet,
seised an iron ohair that atood in front
of a low cafe, and as another of my
aasailaDts rnahed for me let him have it
fnll on the head. He went to graaa in
stanter. Another one came for me on a
fearfnl rush. These fellows get under
good headway when fighting,and as they
assail their victim striae with their flats
or with a heavy piece of wood. Stopping
quickly to ope aide to avoid a collision,
I raised the chair, and aa he swept by
me hit him a ' stunner ' on the back n'
his head, knocking bim face downward
on the gravel, which he acooped up for
two or three feet, horribly disfiguring
his countenance. I was then hit again,
and partially turned around and aaw that
there was at least a hundred in the at
tacking party, and that they were mak
ing things extremely lively for my oom
paniotia. Tearing myself away from my
assailants I pla ed my back against the
cafe, and reaohing for my piatol-pocket
yelled to the crowd to clear a pathway
or I would shoot. Fearing that I had s
revolver and that I would open fire, the
cowards ran from us almost as quickly
as they bad gathered. The money was
saved, and none of us were badly hurt.
No gennd'srmes were in sight at the
time. I presume they are like the con
ventional policemen, and when wanted
are hard to find."
Captain Boyton ilwrilxn hi* trip
aero** tb atraita of Gibraltar M otic
among tbe moot dangerona aa well aa
important of hta oonntleaa feata. He
took the water at Tarifa, tbe aonthern
moat tx)rt of Hpein, and in fact of Eu
rope, on the aoth of March of 1878,
at ten roinntee to eight in the morning,
ateering aouthweat, the weather being
calm and the aea amooth at the time.
He battled with tbe fierce current*,
watched for the aharka, drifted here and
there throagbont the day, and finally
made njiore in the bay of Tangier on the
Barbary coaat, at five minntea to one
o'clock on the following morning. Hia
longeat trip waa made on the river Tagn*
from Toledo to Liahon, thia occnpying
twenty-*even day a. The captain de
acribea the aoenea along the bank* of
thia river aa nnnanally intereating. Tbe
American flag which he diaplayed waa
*een for the firat time by the native*.
On arriving at Liabon he waa reoeived
by thonaauda of people, and waa very
warmly welcomed.
The Story of a Murder.
The esse of Abe Rothschild, convicted '
in Texas of murder in the Bret degree, '
is interesting. The story, as told in the
evidence, begins with the arrival of!
Bessie Moore in Cincinnati two years
sgo. She was about twenty years old
and had considerable money, bnt her '
most noteworthy property eras s large '
number of diamonds, for which she had 1
s remarkable liking. She came to be
known aa Diamond Beat. Abe Rotha
• hild was a noted Western gambler. He
(ell in love with Diamond Bees, or her
diamonds, or both, and proposed to
marry her. She several times pawned
some of her diamonds to get money for
him, bnt always managed to redeem
them. The pair were married shout a
year ago, in Chicago, They went to
Texas on a honeymoon trip, she carry
ing the diamonds oarefully in her pock
et They arrived at the Brooks house,
Marshall, on Jan. 17, and stayed two
days. Quarreling in their room was
overheard, and Bess appeared to be de
fending her diamonds against seisms
by her husband. They next went to
Jefferson, where Abe registered at the
hotel nnder an assumed name. They
quarreled in load and angry tonea
nearly all night. On tha following day
they hired a horse and wagon, fllUxl s
basket with luncheon, sod started off as
though for a pleasure trip Ibto the
country. Beaa acted as though afraid
of her companion. Bhe bad the dta
moods still in her pocket, Abe return
ed to the hotel at night alone, saying
that the woman had gone to visit
friends. He peeked his baggage, burn
ed some papers, and returned to Cincin
nati, where be spent most of his time
for two weeks in gambling, according to
his habit. His demeanor was erratic,
however, MM] he told bis friends that
*,>m<body was following him. At
length berito* himself in the heed, bnt
not fatally. About the same time the
body of Bees was found in the Texas
woods, with a ballet hole ia her head.
The fragments of tha luncheon were
scattered about, but tbs diamonds have
never been found, and it is supposed
that, being turned into money, they
were need in Hie long and stubborn da*
fees# of the prisoner.
LORD ULLAJTCf DAUGHTER.
Tk Pacta la the Cue Net Perth la HMM*
PI car.
A chieftain to the highlands bound
cries, " Boatman, do not tarry, and 111
give to thee a dollar and a half to row na
across the lake."
" Now, who lie ye would oroea Loch-
Gyle this dark and stormy night?"
asked the ferryman, with much curi
osity.
" What ia that to yon, you bald-head
ed snipe of the valley ?" replied the
chieftain, growing pale about the gilla.
" If I pay yon a good round aum for
your aervioea, it appears to me your in
terest in the matter should end there.
Do yon require the pedigree of every
man, woman and child you take acroaa
in your infernal aoow ? If it waan't that
I'm in a hurry I'd smack your jaws for
your impmlenoe, but aa it ia," display
ing a handful of ooiu, "as it ia, I'm the
chief of Ulva'a isle, and this—Lord U1
lan's daughter. Hia horsemen hard be
hind na ride, nud should they overtake
ua here in the glen it would go hard
with ua."
Out spoke the bardy highland wight,
while he unlocked hia akiff and told
them to get in. "I'll go, my chief. I'm
ready; hut considering the terrible
storm, I hope you will make it two dol
lars, although aa a matter of fact, I do
not venture forth for a mere money con
sideration, but for yonr winsome lady.
I have been there to some extent myself,
and can appreciate the situation; ao, by
my word, the bonny bird in danger
shall not tarry. Bit a little more in the
middle to trim the boat, pleaae. ami
here we go I"
By thiatbo storm grew loud apace
the water-wraith was shrieking, ami
tilings looked most almighty dark. But
still as wilder gTOW the storm, and aa
the night grew drearii r, adowu the glen
rode at least a dox< n men with old Ul
lan at the head on a cream-colored
mule. " Oh, haste thee, haste 1" the
ladv cries : " though tempests round ua
father, I'll meet the raging of the storm,
u not my angry pa." Bo on they
lowed amid the roar of waters faat Dre
vailing, and when Lord Ullan leached
the abore hia wrath waa dreadful to be
hold. And no wonder. For, sore dis
mayed, through storm and shade, be
discovered hia daughter out in the 1 cat
with a smile on her lip and aalt spray in
her eye, and laitb arms around her
lover. For a while it seemed that he
would take it out of hia hired men and
the cream-colored mule, as he declared
he would have the former beheaded as
soon as he got home, and the latter be
was hammering over the ears with a
club. Presently he took another tack :
"Come back ! come back !" he cried
in grief, across tbe stormy water, "and
I'll forgive yonr highland boy, my
daughter t oh, my daughter! and also
settle the bill with the ferryman."
But the yonng lady could not lie
caught so easily. Neither could the
young man, who told the ferryman to
preaa on, and then turning aronnd in
the boat, stilt keeping one arm about hia
sweetheart to prevent her falling out,
called to the old gentleman :
" Much obliged for your kind invi
tation, my dear sir, but we will not
oome back at present. You run expect
aa, however, in the course of s week or
ten days. Till then, adieu I" Laird
Ullan called again. 'Twas vain; the
lond wave* lashed the shore; return,
they wooldn't think of it. In fifteen
minutes they were on tbe other aide,
the ferryman waa wondering what Le
would do with a twenty-dollar gold
piece, and the young people were in
quiring the way to the nearest justice
of the peace. —Off City Derrick.
Tbe Mysteries* Sixth Seme.
It U often claimed that Ixwidrw the
fltf well-known wnw* of night, taetc,
Kmell, hearing and feeling, then ia an
other, unnamed ami undefined, which
reveals to nn the preeenoe of peraonn or
thinga whoae proximity ia not made
known by any of the senses named.
How often we nay " aomething telle na "
thia or thai, when we cannot define what
that "aomething" ia.
Daring the war, a nailing vessel, load
ed with miscellaneous t-npplie*, went
an bo re near Hilton Head. It waa deair
able to get ber cargo oat an anon aa poe
aible, and a party of bine-jack eta were
detailed to go on board and " break ber
out." The officer in charge waa particu
lar to inquire whether there waa any
liqoor on board, bnt was reassured on
learning that what little there waa waa
in a caak in the lower bold, underneath
the real of the cargo, and that hia men
would not come to it for two days at
least. Work began, and in two bourn
the bloe-jacketa, every man of them,
were in a state of hopeless intoxication,
had to ba hoisted over ti aide, and
taken back to the ship whence they
(MUM,
Investigation showed that Jack's un
erring instinct had lad him straight to
the grog. He had literally sunk a well
through the cargo until he struck a cask
of whisky, knocked in its head, and im
bibed its contents by the dipperfnl.
That it knocked him off hia pins is not
surprising, but bow did be know it waa
on the ship f or, knowing that, how did
be know whore to begin bis mining
operations ? Home-thing told him. What
was Hl— Motion TrcmtcripL
Opera an Wheels.
A contract waa signed by 001. Maple
eon and Samuel Carpenter, of the Penn
sylvania railroad, in New York, by the
terms of which Her Majesty's Opera
company is to travel during their tour
of the country in a regal manner. A
train is furnished for tbe transportation
of tbe entire company of 346 persons for
the trip of 4,090 miles at s oost of |15,-
000. Of this train OoL Mapleaon'a priv
ate oar is new, and fitted up and fur
nished in the most luxurious manner. It
con tains a drawing room, sleeping rooms,
smoking room, bath room, ate. Exter
nally it is aa handsome aa painters and
gilders can make it, and its central
Eels on either side bear the inaerlp
: " Her Majesty's Opera Oompsoy."
To it are attached a kitchen and dining
oar. Three of the sleeping ears which
have been refitted for the trip are named
Oerstor, Bote and Hank. The entire
company will live on the train during
their stay in various cities as well aa
when m route. A special oar will be
■ raewted for member* at the press,
several of whom from New York will
'Vndertake the entire trip.
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The Bay with the Baadbax.
Yesterday forenoon aa the people who
bad brought in produce to sell on the
market were about ready to atari for
home, a boy appeared at the lower end
of the Central market with a bine band
box nnder hia arm. Among the ve
hicle# waa a one-horae wagon belonging
to an old woman who had juat sold four
baga of oniona, and waa ready to drive
home. The boy approached her in an
boneat, straightforward manner and re
marked :
" Well, auntie, here ia that bonnet, at
laat."
" A bonnet?" abe inquired.
" Why, yea ; the one you ordered at
tne atore a week ago. You'll look ao
pnrty in it that the old man won't know
you. It'a all paid for all right, and
now I'll aet it down right here by your
feet. Tra-la, auntie 1"
That old woman knew the boy wan
making a mintake in leaving a bonnet
with her, but after the lirat words of
■nrpriae she made no aigu. Mhc rea
soned that it waan't her buaineaa to cor
rect miatakea, and aa HOOD aa the boy
hail retired, she picked up the linea and
drove up Itaudolph atreet, every moment
expecting to hear the mistaken boy
calling after her, and every moment
harrying the old nag aa faat aa he could
go. After reaching the corner of Gra
tiot avenue and Brush atreet, abe felt
that the boy could not overtake her, and
it waa only natural that ahe should have
a lively curiosity to aee what aort of a
bonnet it waa. If plain black, it would
auit her to a dot. If gorgeous, it would
do for her daughter. The horse waa
reined up to the curb, and the driver
carefully untied the string fastening the
box and lifted the cover. A "yajier"
cat of monstrons siee, feeling that he
bad been abused and insulted, and hia
eyes glaring with hate and contempt,
came out of the box like a bullet.
People who happened to be in that
neighborhood were treated to a curious
spectacle. With one wild, nnearthlv
veil an old woman waa seen to pitch
backward over the neat and then aail
for the ground by the ahorteat route.
While she waa clawing aronnd with her
head in a anow bank, tbe cat, aeeing her
out of the way, made a spring from tbe
aeat to the horse's back aud began a
aeriea of performance* never known or
dreamed of by that old eqnine, and the
way that horae gathered hia leg* under
him and acattercd the old for half
a block waa wicked to aee. The woman,
dug out of the anow by a conaiderato
hyatander, atcod on the walk and en
deavored to explain. A roan in the
crowd picked up a wagon wheel and en
deavored to remark that the whole out
fit vraan't worth acraping together, and
• ome one in tbe crowd aolemnly ohaerv
ed:
" If honesty ain't the lieat policy, then
1 don't saLt a cent"— ltr.trit Ft*'
Frrjut.
Olden lime Fire-Fighter*.
A little over half a century since, on
tbe 11th of November, 1828, Neptune
Engine Co. No. 2, of Brooklyn, was
organised. It was composed of her
moat influential citixena. Each mem
ber and every householder waa required
to procure a leather bucket, about the
sixc ot an ordinary nail keg, made of
heavy sole leather, and thoroughly
soaked with hot pitch, to render the
material im|*rvious to the action of
water. All buckets bad on them, in
painted letters, their owner's name.
They were required to be ao placed that
they would be within easy acoeea in case
of fire. An ordinance of the common
council of the then village imposed a
fine equal to half tbe coat of the bucket
upon tbe owner for using or permitting
its one for any other purpose than at a
fire, or during training days. These
latter occurred once a month, when
about Doon of the first Wednesday, at
tbe sharp and rapid tolling of the city
ball bell, every male citicen was requir
ed to hasten to the engine-house of the
company to whioh be was assigned, an
swer to his name when the roll-call
occurred, and then take the position to
which he was called and assist in train
ing. Tbe engines were all handworked,
and the more able-bodied men were sent
to the brakes. On such occasions, and
at fires, two lines were formed, the oocn
panta facing each other, from the engine
to the nearest well of water. Along one
line to the engine were passed tbe bnck
etsfnl of water, and along the other line
to the well were sent the empty pails.
At large fins, distant from the water
supply, women and children filled up
the empty-pail line. About 1880 Nep
tune waa removed from Hands street,
near Fulton, to the Apprentices' library
building, then need as the city ball also.
While ID these quarters, in 1835, the
oom pan T attended the great fire in New
York. They were at the fire three days
and aa many nights. By superhuman
efforts they aaved the Tontine coffee
house, in Ooffse-bouse slip, now the
corner of Wall and Water streets. The
proprietor of the building gave the com
pany S6OO for their labor* in saving his
property. Four hundred dollar* of this
generous gift the company placed to tbe
aredit of their widows* end orphans'
fund. Tbe other cms hundred they
took for s grand blowout.
Tbe Hcrap-Beok.
Every one who take* a newspaper
which he in the least degree appreciates
will often regret to see aay one number
whioh contains some interesting and im
portant articles thrown aside for waste
paper. A good way to preserve them is
by the use of a scrap-book. One who
has never beau accustomed thus to pro
serve short article* can hardly realise
the pleasure it affords to sit down and
turn over the pleasant, familiar pages.
Here a piece of poetry merit the eye,
whioh you would long ninoe have tort,
bad it not been for your scrap-book ;
there is a* witty anecdote—it (foes you
good to laugh over it yet although it
may be for tbe twentieth time; next is
a valuable recipe you had almost forgot
ten, and whioh you found just in time
to save much perplexity; there is a
sweet little story, the memory of whioh
has oheered and encouraged you wbee
almost ready to despair under the pres
sure of life's ears*. Indeed, you oan
hardly take up a single paper without
reperaaing. Then hoard with cars the
precious gems, and sea at tbe end of the
year what a rich treasure you will have
accumulated. ..
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(OAMTIRtt.
MaawrlPl Kmlli KtnllMllMt thai >n
Ukmlf la Mick la Ilia Waaiari far Maaca
Ttaia la Caaca.
The boys were coasting down Bvoa
more street bill last evening, when John
Hanson pt and biawifeeame along. They
had been up on Baltimore atreet visit
ing, and were on tbeir way home.
" J oat see them boys, now," aaid John,
aa be braced up at the interaection of
Mnlbotry street. "It really reminda
me of the daya when I waa a lad. Do
yon know, Jane, that I uiied to noaat
d'.wn hill on a aled that way?"
" Did yon, John ?"
" Why, yea ; but that * fiftv year*
ago 1"
Hausoript ccratrhed Inn head contem
platively, and then muttered, no do twice,
" Blame me, if I don't try it I"
"Try what, dear?" anxionaly a*kd
Mro. H.
" I'm going to const, juat once, to re
vive recollections of fifty yeara ago."
" Now, John, if I were you "
" But you are not me, ao don't inter
fere. Here, aonuy (to a lad juat puffed
np the hill with hia aled); here, sonny,
I II give you a quarter to let me alkie
down cm your aled once."
The Itargain was eagerly nailed and
clinched.
" Me keerful, old man," nrged the
boy, aa Banscript squatted rather awk
wardly on the sled; " be keerful, I say,
and don't let her flunk one way or
t'other till she brings up, or van'll git
mashed."
" Never mind, younker," assured
John; " I've been hers afore—some
years afore, but"—
But what will never be known, lor
jnet then the aled, of iU own accord,
started down bill, and even John him
aclf baa not since been able to recall
what be waa abont to observe. Tbe sur
prise at tbe aled'a unexpected move
ment waa general.
" Look out," veiled the lojr.
"Ob, John,' arreamed Mr*. Han
soripL
" Whoa, there I" veiled John.
But the aled wouldn't whoa. It accru
ed to have act off down that hill to beat
its beat time. John had chance only to
clutch bold of both aidea and hold hia
breath for fear the wind would blow ofl
the top of hia head. Tbe only thought
he had time to foater waa that the boy
must have greased tbe aled'a runner* aa
a practical joke. And if thia waa enact
ing, he had never coasted, if hia recol
lection aerved him right.
Two-thirda the way down the hill
tbe aled atruck an ice hammock, and
immediately hia oonrwe waa changed to
a parmliolic curve.
Whack ! t*ang ! craali ! clink 1
The bringing up waa awfully audden
and uncertain. Hanacript and the aled
dif appeared aa abruptly aa a abooting
atar. The latter lay shivered to atom*
r nat a lamppost, and Hanacript lay
•enngin the grocery cellar just op
posite. When the off-runner of the aled
collided with tbe lamp-poat and atopped
tbe vehicle, Hanacript roae like a arena
leaper and went right on turning twenty
aomernaulte to the aeonnd. He went
through the grocery window aa the
arena leaper goea through a paper
hoop. All the gingerbread horaea and
candy apple* and other luxurtea were
disarranged, of oorrae. The mbbery
part of Hanacript'a brdy atruck a Wee
torn Reserve cheese on the counter,
acattering the akippera in consternation.
The old onaeter bounded five feet at an
obtuae angle, toncliing again for a aee
ond at the top atep of tbe cellar ataira in
the rear of the atore, and then, continu
ing like a direr into the Plutonic deptha
Iteiow, he went feet foremoat through
tbe head of a bogabead filled with Corne
ll) rog aoft. At first he waa nnoertain
whether tbe oonie.nl* were Orleans mo
laaaea or melted glucna. Before he had
timejtn invnatigate the grocer and two
policemen came down. The nnhappy
old boy waa lifted out of hia aweet
pickle and hauled off to tbe station
house on a charge of malicious destruc
tion of property. The grocer appeared
aoon after, and compromised, npon John
paying tbe following bill:
Window aaah 110.00
(rushed dim) It 00
Hogshead molasses it.tO
Ihunagod good* 1.16
ToU! *7l M
Then tbe boy came in with a bill of
five dollar* <or hia aled, to say nothing
of tbe loe* of a suit of clothes, a sur
geon's bill for plastering sundry skinned
surfaces, and tbe bill of a hacktaan who
conveyed the fainting wife bone. In
tbe cooler momenta of afterthought
Hanacript reckoned it up and diaoovered
that it had onst him 9100.78 to recall
recollections of fifty yean ago, and re
quired but one minute and five seconds
of old father time in which to do the
recollecting,—CVuebwwxfi Rnyuirrr.
>orrl*tows Herald El chief*.
"A growing nuiaanoe"—The New
foundland pup next door.
We predict a mild winter before thia
time next August. Stick a pin hare.
A doll that swims has come out— Ex.
It waa about time it had "come out"
The weather baa become too cold for
such diversions.
Advice to tbe youth who is trying to
coax a dilatory mustache to sweep grace
fully over hw mouth—Let it alone, and
B will oome " down" itself.
A young man who oom plained that hia
girl waa too shy and retiring, found a
year after marriage that aba could
" oome up to the scratch" beautifully.
The husband of a year baa DO business
to stay away from home until midnight,
anyway.
Humorists are not encouraged is
China. When a paragrapher gets off a
joke on aa emperor, the alleged humor
ist has his pigtail out oCTbe lorn of
this hirsute appendage la bed enough,
but whan they amputate it without re
moving it from hia head, it becomes
painful, and the paragrapher's propen
sity for joking is cured forever.
A woman who beard Camilla Cteo
play on the violin, writes that "It whis
pered and wept and sobbed and shiver
ed." The majority of tbe fiddles cause
the liateoer to "weep and aob and
And they don't "whisper,"
cither. The juat soveeoh ami shrink
and yell and bowl like a juvenile fog
whistle with the dsßrtum liammm.
The Mania hi unknown around the
North potik Up there they rids on lea
cycle*.
' J V
A PaUea oarer's Plaek j Bee*.
Officer Vail stood in Booth street, near
Dover, Hew York, one morning recently,
and wae slmoat knocked over by a wo
man who ran against him. Hhe bad no
bfmnet on, and bar hair was flying in
the wind. The officer heard her say,
' let ma do it. I will I" Then he
followed her, bnt she was fleeter of foot
than he for the short distance that she
ran. He shouted to her to stop, and
cast bis eyes np sod down the street to
os 11 to some one to head her off, for ahe
was making rapidly for Pier *7. Hbe
reached the head of the pier with the
officer about ten feet behind her. Than
she stopped, turned to him and said :
"I am going to heaven. Good-bye all."
The officer had his hands about her as
she jumped into the water. He aimply
took off bis gloves and pat them in the
pocket of his great coat, and stood upon
the pier waiting for her to come up. He
had on his great coat, bis belt and ciab,
snd heavy boots.
" 1 thought," be said afterward, " as
I was waiting to aee where she would
come up, that I had learned to swim
when a boy at home, at Biverhead."
The instant that the woman's head ap
peared above the water, Officer Vail
jumped ID, not having removed his hat
even. The water waa so cold that be
was chilled in sn instant, but be wae
able to seise the woman by the arms and
hold her up. Then he trod water, and
although ayery time he lifted bis feet it
seemed as if he was pulling up a load
that must the next instant pull him
down, be was able to support the wo
man, then unconscious, and progress far
enough to get to s row boat. Then with
one band and arm on the icy side of the
boat,and the other supporting the woman,
he shouted for help. An officer of the
eastern steamboat squad and a stranger
threw him s rope, and with the greatest
effort he was able to get the rope around
her body. Then she was succored, and
taken still unconscious to the Oak street
station. Then Officer Vail got into the
bat, climbed np the pier, and ran to
the station with his clou.es freezing stiff.
He simply asked Capt. Petty to let bim
get hi* frost-bitten fingers into a basin
of cold water. Then he went down
stairs into the drying-room, hung up his
wet clothe* and made himself oo mforta
ble.
The woman wa* Mat to Chambers
street hospital, and recovered shortly
enough to be profoundly thankful for
her rtecue. Hue said that she muat
, hare been beside herself to think of
doing such a thing, but for a long time
she refused to sar why abe had done it.
At last she said that abe waa made wild
Ix-cauae her husband bad turned her out
of doors. Her name is Mary Murray,
and she waa born in New York. Hhs
lives at 164 Booth street, and ia a worthy
woman. Bat her husband lately told
her he oould not support her and drove
her out into the cold.
Captain Petty made Officer Vail'a set
the subject of a special report to In
spector Murray, and suggested that the
police board take some official notice of
of his brave act.
■•rten MrSlekaeL
Morton McMicbael, publiaber of the
Philadelphia North A msrioan,ex mayor
of Philadelphia and president of the
Fairmount park commission, waa
born in Burlington oonnty, N J_ on
October 30. 1807. He waa educated
at the University of Pennsylvania, and
having devoted himself to the study of
the law was admitted to the Philadelphia
bar in 1827. He became interested in
politics at an early age. and soon after
becoming lawyer was elected an alder
man. This position he oocupied for
many roars, during whiob time be made
a good reputation aa a lawyer. In 1848
be was elected sheriff of Philadelphia
and served as such until 1846. In 1866
be waa elected mayor of Philadelphia,
and held that office three years. Be
tween the periods of these pnblic trusts
Mr. McMichae! became the editor of
the North American, whose remotest
ancestor was the ftwiuy/iusia Packet
and General Advertiser, which wee first
issued by John Dunlnp in 1771. It was
a folio, ita printed page measuring nine
by fifteen inches and having three
columns. The Packet was first issued
ae a daily in September, 1784, when the
name waa changed to the Ameriodn
Daily Advertiser, under which title it
continued until December, 1880, when
t waa consolidated with the North
American, a journal which was then in
the ninth month of ita existence. On
July 1, 1847, the North American waa
consolidated with the United Stain
Gatrtft, an old-established newspaper,
owned and edited by J. R. Chandler,
fly virtue of these various oonaolidatiaM
the North American claims to be the
oldest daily newspaper in Ameriea.
Previous to 1847, when Mr. McMieheel
find became interested in the North
American, it had joined with the New
York TVihun* in efforts to obtain early
news, mad at their aipmes the pilot
boat Romeo, ia 1846, waa run as an ex
press across the Atlantic, heating the
regular packet several days—a fast
which has not been surpassed even ia
the later enterprises of journalism. In
January, 1864, Mr. Melfiehael beeame
sole proprietor of the North American
and conducted the pubtioatiou op te the
time of his death.
The Heretaai tf the Stark.
The atork. whioh upwdi the winter
in Egypt ud UM tuiMr in northern
and western Europe, like* to beiid ki*
neat on toe top of MUM gable roof.
Sooh * neat ia real inuaaM. It ia
from three to Are yertU ia diameter ; it
a wanna with aaakee, liearda, front,
toftda, and other dtaagreaabla crcaUuet;
it hftoomre, ia oooree of bate, ao heavy
that it woold break the roof if not art)
fleetly propped! ttp tram below. Never
thekae far variona mmmtiUom rea
i the atork ia not only welcome, bet
eveoooarted by the Buepeeo preaaate,
and it eeaaot be denied that the rever
aoee with which the bird ia looked apoe
ia, to aoaae ex teat, deserved. If the
haaee tekea Are, and tbeyowng atotka
happen to be at n aph wkiob they
oar not be aaved by being wrvghi
away front the tMk the etork aiothat
doea net leave thane Blending areatia
the neat, flapping with the wiaga to
waft awey the oka and tha flr-m.
and •ryfag ant now and than MM
•treaw Egyptian dirge, <*e remaiae
with W yonag ooea, a&4 with