Tho Whirlpool.
i.
In tlia ihaJo ot the headland, a j>un Iroin the
shore,
The whirlpool lies coiled in sleep—
Who oould guess that the slumbering brow
ever bore
A Irown that is crally end deep?
Yet 'tis here iu tho blast ol tho hurricane's
breath
That the soul-laden ship finds a doom;
To the musical moan ot this circle of death
Do they pass to their fathomless tomb.
Youth in its bloom.
Age in its gloom,
Mother and father, the maid and her
mate,
Master and slave
Finding a gravn
In this mad magio circle, tho whirlpool
of late!
11.
In the heart of tho city, in turmoil and din,
The whirlpool doth fearlessly rido;
In its merciless torrents are virtue and sin
The parson and thiei side by side;
Here tho hand of the peasant is giipped by tho
glove
Of the gnllant who lives but to lie;
And the maiden to-dny who n learning to love,
On the morrow has learnt how to dio!
Vice with its | Hint,
Crime willi its taint,
Cradle and coffin, the lowly and groat;
Ilillows ol blood
Cresting the flood
Of this mad magic circles, the whirpool
or fate!
—-flrlAur W. I'intro.
THE ADOPTED SON.
The burgomaster frowned and knit
his heavy brows; he was perplexed as
to what should be done with the littlo
figure before him. There he stood in
his wooden sabot and rough peasant's
clothes, hat in hand, and tinder one
arm the precious possession of his life
—a little old black fiddle.
The child's face was what puzzled
the burgomaster more than the simple
question of what he should do. When
the hoy looked up with his eager,
earnest eyes, it somehow seemed to
him strangely familiar.
Where had he seen it all before
There was no fear in his manner;
only a restless movement of the ham!
holding the cap, showed him to he ill
at ease. The week before he hail cntne
into town with his little old fiddle
and strange accent, and until to-day
had been unmolested.
Now, for what reason he could not
guess, he had been seized upon sud
denly by tho town authorities and
brought before tho burgomaster. A
part only could he make out of what
was said, for his own language sound
cd queer on those strange tongues;
and as to the explanations offered,
they had seemed a perfect jargon to
the towns people; therefore the burgo
master being a learned man and versed
in the patois spoken in various sec
tions of the country, the lad was
brought to him. Their duty, at all
events, had been accomplished. They
had explained how day after day the
child pursued no calling—attempted
no trade—but sat on a bench or by the
ro.nl, with the children clustering
about, playing his fiddle, content, if in
return they sometimes shared with
him their huge slices of bread.
It was a vagrant life, and would
teach their own littlo ones bad habits,
therefore must be stopped. Either he
must leave the place, or go among the
town people and learn an honest trade.
The burgomaster, a stout, red-fared
man, had long ago done with senti
ment therefore small was to
lie looked for from him.
So Carl was brought, and now all ;
alone, stood liefore the magistrate. |
What had he done, or what was to bo
done with him, he did not know.
After a silence, seeing the burgo
master looking at him, Carl came a
step forward, and, with his impetuous
manner, exclaimed:
"What is it I have done? Naught
but plav upon my fiddle to the cliil- i
dren. It did no harm, and they liked |
it. Is it an offense to make music ? In '
other places, 1 and my fiddle have
made friends with the towns folks."
The shaggy brows knit closer, and
away down in the burgomaster's heart
stirred a chord that for long years had
lain so quiet its existence had well
nigh lieen forgotten.
Understand what the boy said? At
sound of that patois, so strange to the
ignorant townspeople, there came to
him visions of his youth, and a long
holiday in the far-off sunny hamlet
where this dialect to him had grown
the sweetest music in the world as It
fell in liquid, guttural notes from the
lips of a young peasant maid.
So well the memory came—so fresh,
it seemed but yesterday—when, over
worked with studies, he hail gone from
home to gain health and strength, and
leave learning for awhile to its own
devices. Well had his father's injunc
tions been carried out in all save the
last, and that truly had been through
no spirit of disobedience. It was no
lore gained from books; it sprang up
in his heart, and not until the lesson
had been learned too thoroughly ever
to ho forgotten, did ho even guess of
its existence.
"Come, lad," he says kindly, and at
the sound the boy's heart rejoices, for
he hears his own tongue, a little
strange from disuse, yet perfectly in
telligible. "They say that thou must
give up thy fiddle if ever thou wouldst
thrive."
"Ah, ncin, nein - it is my heart!"
clasping it the closer.
"Thy heart? Then, lad, it shall not
go;yet first let's hear what thou canst
bring front it."
For a moment Carl looked thought
fully into tho burgomaster's face; then
says:
"Thou shall hear what the corn sings
when it is growing, ami tho trees
whisper when the breeze touches them
at night, lu the times when I have
lain upiin the hillsides, watching sheep,
my fiddle and 1 heard it over and
over."
The lad's quaint imaginings touch
the burgomaster's heart, and smiling,
he noils his head to tho boy. Slowly
the old fiddle is taken out, the strings
tightened; then resting his chin upon
it lightly he draws the bow iicross.
The burgomaster starts; bo bad j
thought to hear some childish strains,
I Vet tlie>c notes the boy brings forth
from the old fiddle have in them all
the power of a loader hand.
The picture comes before hint of the
quiet night, the restful sheep huddled
i together on the hillside, the breeze as
I it goes sweeping by moaning the trees,
the gentle rustle of the distant grain
growing in the darkness, and the lone
ly little figure of the watchful lad
gathering these sounds and heaping
them up in his heart till they tremble
forth at his touch upon the vibrat
ing strings.
Hark! The darkness moves away.
In the ea-t the sun comes Hushing up, ;
| and all the air issuddenly pulsing with j
the singing of the daw n-birds.
! Ah, Carl, Carl lad,with thy heaven
i born gift, thou hast won the st-rn old
heart liefore tliee. Thou hast saved
thyself a world of wondering, and
gained a life of ease.
The one green spot in the magnate's
heart holds a memory which Carl's
, playing has brought to life. Again he
jis young a student and in the twi
light stands waiting for the song of
the young peasant coming home from j
her work. The song cones nearer,
and when into her pathway he steps ,
with outstretched arms, he laughs out i
joyously to see the happiness spring |
up in her oyea.
Yet fate had come between. It was i
not fit that tho only son of rich old
burgomaster Van Gruisen should wi-1
with a peasant; so he had c mto away
at his father's bidding, leaving behind
his heart among the green country lanes
where dwelt the impetuous little soul j
through whose veins ran the tip- of
the South. Ah, Clod, how he had Mif
fered! Suffered as his father, with I
his plegmatic temperament, could n<t
even dream.
Ho had pined so that his studies and j
whole life gri-w distasteful; then, at
length the father had relented, consent
ed grudgingly to his son's wearing the
j little field flower where he had hoped
to place a rare exotic.
Not waiting for aught lieyond a
bare consent, the son started forth
eager to gain that so long denied.
Alas, he came t->o late. Klspeth had
been but a foolish maid, the neighbors
1 said, to love the burgomaster's son—
: a foolish maid to have naught to say
ito the village lads; and when the
young stranger left, just seemed to
lose all heart, and one day came home
ill with a fever.
So while the stern old man debated,
Death stepped In and gathered the
wild daisy of his son's heart; and when
i ho came, the grass was already green
! on her grave, and ho could but tako
away with him the memory of what
hud l>een, and the knowledge that of
tho two hearts thus sundered, one hail
broken.
Long years went by, and the old
| burgomaster died. When his son suc
ceeds him, he had married a buxom,
unimpressionable daine, who brought
with her a dower of gold and linen.
She ruled his house, attended to his
wants, and of the two daughters born
of tho marriage, had seen that they
were both well versed in those things
a good housewife should know.
They were too much liko their
motheiSfver to Interest him much, and
his heart some times yearned for a son
to liear his name, hut none hail come.
Carl, little gaessed, ns ho ended his
playing, of all tho thoughts he had
conjured up In the burgomaster's
brain.
"Well, lad, thou hast a gift, thee and
thy fiddle, of bringing old-time music
into my heart. Thou has a name,
what is It?"
"Carl Mueller; and I have neither
1 friends nor home, save those we win
together, my fiddle and I."
"Thou hast not? Soinucli this bet
tor, for now thou canst have both.
Wilt thou ho a son to me? Thou shalt
b<> taught, and if thou art clever, us I
take thee to he, one day from out thy
little black liihlle thou shalt draw
music that shall make ull hearts
thine."
Could Carl believe his own senses?
Me hardly knew what to say .What
was this life promised him? No
more wandering, sleeping where ho
might, tired and often suppcrlcss. The
tears stood in his eyes, then quickly
seizing the burgomaster's hand, he
kissed it.
I es, the llddle, the little old i. nek
thing so contemptuously spoken of by
the townsfolks, had guim-d for Carl
what money could never have done—
a place in the burgomaster's heart.
At tirst the little peasant lad, with
his strange tongue and odd ways, had ,
been a sore trial to the burgomaster's !
wife; yet the lad being gentle and
lovable, had won a place lor himself j
in the household; and when, after his
day's studies wt;rc over, he sat back in |
a corner softly playing the melodies as
they sprang up in his heart, the active
hands would drop their knitting, and
the glittering needles lay quiet in the
lap of the busy housewife.
So time went by, and the little lad
was sent up to one of the great city
conservatories to follow his calling.
lie had not been idle; even the dul
lest parts of bis studies were a pleas
ore, and day after day he worked aw ay
through very love of his art, and that
the dear old burgomaster might see
his kindness had not been misplaced-
Thus Carl grew, until when, at
length, having wrought out all the
themes of the great master, he bade
the phi'-o adieu, carrying with him
only the black llddle.
Of how In-went from city to city and
land to land, swaying with his magic
I touch of the IHIW the throngs whocaino
\ to hear, I cann >t td| you.
1 et today there is not a crowned
; head in Kurope who has not listened
| to tho little peasant's playing, and
i showered upon him gifts and medals.
Through it all.Carl's heart is true to the
memory of the white-haired old man
in far-off Germany who calls him son,
, and who, almost as much as the lad
himself, prizes th<- old black fiddle
which has won for him all this honor.
As tle r- i omes to him in lox mg lan
guage news of each fresh triumph,tears
i dim his eyes, and his mind recalls the
j time when the towns-folk hail -aid the
i stranger lad must part with his fiddle,
and he, clasping it the closer, cried
| out:
"Nein, n'-in; it is niv heart!"
Accidental Discoveries.
Ac< i b-ntal discoveries ha\e supplied
some of the most valuable prc< sses of
tin- industrial arts. It is -aid that the
rolling of cold iron was first suggested
by the fact that a workman who was
1 placing a piece of led iron in the rolls
: carelessly permitted his tongs to IK
drawn in. lie noticed that they were
rolled, and not broken. Me called ttie
attention of the superintendent to the
occurrence, and this hsl to investiga
tion and experiment and the discovery
that cold rolled iron is equal to steel
for shafting purposes. The process of
rolling iron cold was soon patented,
and millions of dollars have Iteen made
out of the patent.
There are many similar instances
j where observing workmen have a!hs|
attention to valuable processes A
| signal one was in tbc early |K*riod of
! the cotton manufacture, when a good
•leal of trouble was • auscd by the cot
ton sticking to the lKibbins. All the
workmen in the mill were delayed by
the necessity of stopping worktoch-an
the bobbins. At last one workman
found away to obviate the trouble,
lie, and he alone in all the mill, hail
clean bobbins. For a long time he
kept his secret to himself. He finally
revealed it on the promise of a pint of
U-er a day for life. Ills secret was to
"chalk the iMibhins." This little scrap
ing of salt on the Uibbins saved mil
liotjs of dollars a year, and the olwerv
ing workman got not only his l>eer, ■
but a e rmpetence.
Each extension of modern enterprise
and skill brings with it a train of in
ventions. The railway, the telegraph,
the steamlKint, the development of
iron, electricity and petroleum, have
each produced a long line of inventors
more or leas successful, so that each of t
these Industries might have a credita
ble exhibition by itself.— New York
Hun. _
France's Population.
From the complete returns of the
last French census It appears that
the female sex exceeds the male by
122,254—thu5, males 18,656,518,
females 18,778,772. Of the males
10,110,601 are unmarried and 1,025,-
781 widowers; while of the females
9,280,862 are unmarried and 1.964.-
557 widows. The total number of
inhabitants Is 37,405,290.
< VNMI! ti.isu iff ABKBICA.
ruiloma off fhr New nrilrati lnllats -
feomr I liferent lug lm l.
The aborigines of Mexico and Cen
tral America were far less barbarous
than the natives of other parts of
North America. While, therefore,
cannibalism existed among them, it
took the form of a religious ceremony.
I'reseott asserts, on the authority of
the Spaniards, that the Mexicans were
not cannibals in the coarsest accepta
tion of tho term. They did not feed
on human flesh merely to gratify a
brutish appetite, but in obedience to
their religim. Their repasts were
made of victims whose blood bail been
poured out on the altar of sacrifice.
A similar statement is made regarding
•he it/as of Central America.
Among the Now Mexican Indians
the ease was different. While tribes
I differed among themselves in regard
l to this practice, with many human
j tlesli was sought as food. Incredible
• as it may seem, at least one tribe of
Indians inhabiting Texas has prac
| tised cannibalism within twenty-fixe
I years. Mr. J. <i. Walker, formerly
a member of the I nited States Army,
and now a resident of Mexico, in
a private letter to the author, gives the
j following interesting facts:
"The early American settlers on
Matagorda Hay were greatly harassed
| t-% a tribe df Indians called f'arron
kowas, inhabiting the bay shore, and
subsisting chiefly on fish and oys
ters. I tut they wire known to have a
i keen relish for human flesh, which
they soioetimes added to their ordi
nary menu. In 1831 5, the custom
was, however, Is-coming obsolete, and
alsait that time was wholly abolished
by the rciguing chief. Hut there was
a cognate tribe, a remnant of which
still exists, which practiced cannibalism
as late certainly as 1854. At that
time I xxas an oflicer in tho United
State* army, and stationed at Fort
Inge, in Texas. The Tonkowas, the
tribe to Willi h I alllllle, being on g— "1
terms with tho whites, were allowed t->
roam about Western Texas, and in the
summer of I*sl were cam|*d on the
Nui-( i-n river, a fexx mill - from the fort
1 xvas frequently at tie ;r village, and
on one occasion, when <-ri<-ampe<l with
a jartv of soldiers not far off. a re
turning war-party of the tribe brought
in the remains of a Comanche whom
they had slain; and the night was
made hideous, in a double sense, by
the orgies that followisl. Muring the
night the entire remains were eaten,
principally bv the warriors. Ido not
think that the eating of human flesh
was often pra 'iced by them at this
time; and even on this occasion it may
have been done more as an • xpressjon
of exultation over a fallen enemy than
for the mere satisfying of hunger.
Hut these Indians afterward confossisl
to me that formerly their tribe habit
ually fed en human flesh when they
could obtain the Indies of their ene
rnies,
"It seems inconsistent with the facts
I have just stated, hut it is never
theless true, that these semi-cannibals
wen- less fierce and bloodthirsty than
most of the other wild Indians. They
were always on good terms with tin
settlers, arid made common cause with
them against the Comanche*, Kiowas.
and other predatory tril*-s on the
northern border of the state.
"1 have often heard from partici
pants in some of these engagements
that it was the invariable custom of
their Tonkowa allies to have a feast of
roasted Comanche after their battles."
Son of An African King.
Among the citizens of this republic
there is at least one undoubted son of
royalty, says the New York Tribune;
in the person of the Hex*. William J.
Harnet. pastor of the Shiloh (colored)
baptist church, Williamsport, IVnn.
He is tho son of a once powerful Afri
can king, lhitnba by name. He early
came to the conclusion that a trusty
trade is a valuable adjunct even to roy
alty, so he became a river and coast
pilot at Sierra I.eone, and while thus
engaged was converted to Christianity
and xvas baptized in the Atlantic
ocean. Then he was kidnapped, and
was being brought to New Orleans as
a slave w hen he contrived to escape at
Liverpool From there he went to
California and then hack to Liverpool.
On his second visit to England Lord
Carney liecame interested in him and
! had him well educated. In 1862 he
visited New York and Philadelphia
and was sent to Sierra Leone as a Hap
tist missionary. Itcturning to this
country after a year he became pastor
successively of churches In Hrooklyn,
Newport and New Haven. After the
war he went to Richmond, and found
ed a strong church on Navy Hill, the
site of the old slave market. After
that he preached at Greenbrier, White
Sulphur Springa Lexington, Staunton,
Charlottesville, Gordonsville, North
Danville and Louisa Court House. In
all three Virginian towns he built up
strong and prosperous churches. He
has been in \Villiams|Kirt three years,
and has enjoyed remarkable success.
He is now only forty-three years of
Leprosy In Wisconsin.
Prominent medical men, among
them a number resident in this city,
buve investigated what at first was ,
j considered merely a sensational rumor,
and have discovered and noted with
concern that leprosy has gained a foot
! hold in the northwestern portion of
the state, where the Norwegian ele
ment preponderates, and that its erad
ication will require much effort. As
far as it has been ascertained, the
loathsome disease has confined its rav
ages among the Norwegian inhabi
tants, but its rapid spread lias been
viewed with much alarm. A promi
nent physician of Milwaukee said: "As
lias been well known for some time,
tlu-re exists among the Norwegian
population of the state a large number
of cases of leprosy. In searching the
records of the state board of health
I cannot find that any effort has as yet |
been made to stop its spread, or to lim
it its introduction. At the present
time tlu-re are four leprous centers in
the United States, namely, eastern
Minnesota and northwestern Wiscon
sin, among Norwegians; California
among the Chinese, Louisiana, and
among the Indians of the north wist.
That the disease is spreading among
us, and that, too, xxith comparative ra
pidity, cannot for a moment be doubt
ed, and it would seem that the time
had come f--r legislation and national
action to prevent its future introduc
tion and further spread."— Milu*iukee
Si lit iu' I.
HERE AND THERE.
I„alxtte county, Kansas, has j aid a
premium on 45,00 M rabbit s<aljs this
year.
There are still over acres
of public lands in Florida open to set
tleiie nt in tracts of 160 acres.
It has been discovered by a Missis
sippian that from sweet j> >tat-e. an
excellent quality of sugar ran be made.
King Louis of Bavaria, is build
ing a palace which he wants to excel
every other royal palace in the world,
in every way.
It is believed that 50.0M0,000 people
in the United States to-day drink no
more whisky than 35,0 * i,<*) did 30
years ago.
A little Alabama girl saw a fog for
the first time. "Come, mamma, and
see the sky all crammed down to tho
ground," she cried.
Last year Arizona produced over '
IT.imould) pounds of copper. Arizo
na'* output will probably IK- at least
25.000,000 pounds for ls-3.
T xventy years ago most of the clover
seed raise-! for the market was pro
ilured in New York and Pennsylvania.
At present the older of the Western
.Stat4-s supply most of the clover. \
A Pennsylvania firm is erecting at
Johnson city, Tenn., what is said xvill
be tbe largest tannery in the world.
The building xvill cover several acres,
and the xats will lie on an extensive
scale. The supply of oak hark is said
to N- almost inexhaustible in that sec
tion of East Tennessee.
The highest Sunday-school in Amer
ica, if not in tbe world, has l>een or- ,
ganind at Hancock, CoL, 11.000 bet
above the se*. Though the eatnp is
three years old, no Protestant relig
ious service had ever been held there. ]
The school starts off with forty mein-
IKTS and hearty pledge* from the mi
ners to support it
From 250 to 300 cats are destroyed
weekly during the xvarm season in
Philadelphia by the agent of the Wo
man's Branch of the City Hefuge for
Lost and Suffering Animals. They are
not drowned, but suffocated with char
coal gas. Last year no less than 7151
unhappy cats were thus put beyond
reach of the slings and arrows of out
rageous fortune.
Physicians in Rerlin have been giv
ing a deal of attention to the defects of
vision among school children. Thou
sands of children have been examined
Many changes and improvements were
made in the arrangements of school
houses, classrooms, etc. Of late x earn
an aurist has oeen examining the car„
of the children, and has diseoxered
1393 cases of ear disease among 5905
children.
Competent judges, taking depart
ment reports to the government as a
basis, estimate the value of domestic
animals annually destroyed by wolves
in European Russia at 15,000,000 ru
ble*, or about t12,0U0.000. To this
great sum must be added the value of
the wild animals which the wolves
kill tho reindeer in Siberia alone rep
resenting a high figure. The annual
loss of human life is never accurately
known, but in 1875 the police report
ed 161 ]>ersocB killed by wolves.
SCIENTIFIC MTU PH.
Incandescent electric lamjm are used
In tlie carriage lamps of JSaron iioths- I
child, of Vienna. Storage batteries
| placed under the coachman's Beat are
! Baid to he cajiable of carrying a charge
lof electricity sufficient to feed the
lainjiH for one hundred bourn. i
j M. Charles Montigny, of Brussels, j
j has noticed that not only does the
aurora borealis increase the s<intil
lation of stars—as other observers ♦
have noted—hut that magnetic dis
turbances produce the same effect even t
when accompanied by rio visible auro
ra. Tlie influence is strongest for stars m
in the north. ■
Keceiitly one man was taken very 1
ill and another died from the effects of
■ handling poisoned hides. There is no 1
reason why hid-s should not convey
serious and fatal diseases, like 'dothing. I
; " Some years ago," says the B<:UuliJl'-
AnwrUvn, "an importer of hides in
New York died from the effects of a
bite or sting of a fly which inhabited
the loft where his hides were stored." (
There are rejKirts from several parts
of Sweden of a hitherto unknown arid
very <b tractive kind of caterpillar
whieh is giving a great deal of trouble
to the farmers and anxiety to the 1
whole jxipulat on. It is gray-brown,
with deep gray -trip' •; it- appearance
is most eoinmon after rain. Its work
on the crops has been so -erious as
to demand the assistance of the gov
ernment. I
The opinion is said to Is- gaining
ground among metallurgists, that
whatever mechanical strength Is de- ]
sirable, an alloy is jireferable to |
metal. One of the greatest obstruc
tions to the meehanie;il value of iron
is its tendency to i ry sta'lize, the r< -ult
being the - uiie whether the article be
a monster gun or a ship's cable. Hut
this tendency of iron b> crv-tdlize
may 1 •* pr • • ntH by the admixture <<t
other metals.
Prof. Proctor asserts that the moon
has grown old six tinns a- fast as the j
earth, a comparison of the masses and
radiating surfaces of the two bodies
making it evident that the earth's
internal heat was originally .sufficient
ng as j
supply, on the very moderate as
sumption, therefore, that only twelve I
m
earth and the iie> n were at the same V
■
m<r s}.. -,v- us that sixty I
years must elapse before the earth
will have reached the stage of life ■
through which the inoon is now pass-
Japanese Object Teaching.
Tbi m!. ioI for the
sens of Japanese nobles in Tokio ap- V
I ■ in H
ntethi-l of te.i< hing phys.eal geogra- fl
pbv. In the court tx-hind the school H
building is a physical map of the fl
country, between "• and 400 feet I
long. It i made of turf and rock and H
is lordered with jiebbles, which look at
Every inlet, river and mountain is re- I
produ< el in this model with a fidelity fl
to detail whi--h is wonderful. Latitude fl
and longitude are indicates! by tele
graph wires, and tablets show the po
sition of the cities. Ingenious devices
are employed in illustrating botanic J
Studies also. For example the pine is 1
illustratisl by a picture showing the
cone, leaf and dissected flower, set in a
frame which shows the bark and l<in- fl
i gitudinal and transverse twtlem
the wood.— Nature.
Half Worm and Half Ssake.
The mountains furnish many strange
forms of life which the dry, hot valleys 1
! never develop. Old rotten pine logs
| seem to lethe favorite nest of a loath
some creature which is half-way be
tween a worm and a snake. It is
usually a foot long and nearly an inch 1
in diameter, with a head like a snake,
and a clumsy, blunt taiL It is of a ■
i dead color, letween a dirty green ami
! a brown, without spots or stripes. If
is slow of movement, cold and clam- 1
my to the touch, and seems to be more
of a jelly than 1-ine and muscle. It is
regard <xl as bar ml ess, and the woods- fl
men pick it up and handle it careless
ly.—Virginia City (iVer.) Enlcrpritr. H
Around Gainesville, Ela.. the
lngand shipping of the turbine squash
has become an industry. It finds
ready sale at Boston, and is used
most exclusively for making pies. Inß
shape it resembles a turbine wheel, I
whence It takes its name. It has the
color of the pumpkin and looks like a I
kershaw, hut is finer and of a more
delicate flavor. The vines bear heavily, I
and continue bearing uatil about the ■
Ist of August The prices vary from I
♦4.50 to |5 per barrel.
Montana is paying great attention U I
boring artesian wells