"A BABY MARTYR. | ——— The siage was descending a sloping illside on the road between Santa Bar para and the Ojal, the horses walking with painful exactness in the middle of the deep ruts, and glancing with occa sional nervous distrust at the border of rank looking grass on either side of the way. The constant rains, alternating ith fierce suns, had rendered the whole soil a continuous, puffy, spongy mass, and more than once they had passed by the decaying, half-sunken carcasses of stock mired within easy reach of the driver's whip. As the stage took an extra heavy rut, | a faint whimper, from a bundle carried by a woman on the back seat, reminded | | through a loop-hole and the passengers of a baby, “That puts wo in mind,” said an erect, gray-whiskered man in the front | seat, “of a queer experience a lot of us | fellows had with a baby away back in in— ‘In '64, Major," handsom young lady of about sit beside LS speaker, and who had received the ndivided attention of a coupleof drum mers on the back seat, t idenly taking her for the oll y daughter “won't vou tell us about it, one of the pair, ingratiatin Lt passen married dorsing the request “Well,” said the ma or, with spective smile, you see I was at Fort Laramie att sent with a detachment of nty-five men to escort Gens Whipgle, who was visiting the fort, and his stall to another post about 400 miles further north. Th try was full of Inlians, on the war th, but we didn't mind ths as the weather, which was ful breast high, norther blowing that out of you Vo str how for a couple of snow began to fall az trail. The whole pa ¢ \ ’ put mn a 20. who Jey ¢ Ors, and a retro stationed he i ind was Twi Snow ut found, a mil log house and stockad aiming for. Of co up once more, and house and started up a1 As the '4 few mi further on, a certain that we had been that braced us SO00n r d the Aring , You men were bring of wood. they may suppose \ ing In their last armfuls ! beard a faint call for help on the wind, “A forlorn hope volunteered out and see what was the matter, and pretty soon they brought in an emigrant family whose teams had in, and who had about lain down to die yme half mile from the house. There as the father, three boys, a little girl arrying a kitten, and the mother witha smail baby wrapped in a dozen shawls,’ “Dear, dear me,” exclaimed the lady passengers in chorus. “The log house had a small to gO god snowed it just room in one corner and we gave that to the poor | family and made them comfortable. That night it blew a gale, and the wind | swept the trail so clear that the emi grants decided to push on south. Our party concluded to wait anot her day for the weather to settle, and well enough it was, as the snow began again. Some time during the next evening, one of the | officers happened to go into the room | that had been occupied by the emigrant family, when he heard a sort of low ery, and going towards a bunk, something move inside a bundle lying there wrapped up in an old red shawl!" “A blue shawl, major,” interrupted the young lady, merrily. “so it was,” said the old officer, glanc ing fondly at his companian. “‘He was a brave fellow, that lieutenant; but he an out to us as pale as death. ‘Gentle wy said he, ‘in the excitement of got ting away, those people baby.’ “You never saw men in your life. snowed in, 300 miles from civilization h a baby !—a grizzly bear would have en more welcome,” “Oh! you horrid thing,” mother on the back seat. “You don’t seem to grapple with the proposition, ma'am,” explained the ma or. “On canvassing the matter, we discovered that there wasn't but married man in the whole « vd, and he would have it, had never been blessed with a baby. We didn't have any more idea how to take care of a baby than the man in the moon. Oh! have such a There we were. i one omn & TT, #5 IUCN pd | it was dreadful!” and the major wiped | the perspiration from his face at the mere recollection. “Had the poor darling been all that day without anything to eat!’ indig nantly inquired a young bride who sat up with the driver “To drink, you mean,’ said the ma- jor. “That was just it. There wasn't even a can of condensed milk in the out fit, so we went intoacouncil of war as to | One the proper thing to give it to eat. officer said flour and water was the cor rect thing Capt. Brown insisted on milk. Boggs thought that meat chopped up fine would answer. Somebody else argued that the proper ration for a baby was sugar tied up in a rag somehow. A young ensign believed they sucked the iice of a piece of rubber, so to speak, f= e¢ old Whipple stuck it out that babies were fed exclusively on paregoric. You never heard such a wrangle.” ‘And the poor little creature su fering all that time,” murmured the mother, wiping a tear off her nose. “The result was that we agreed to make an impartial mixture of all these things, on the theory that if one missed fire the others would sort of counteract it, as it were. So we made a sortof stew in the coffeepot, which included a 4 whole bottle of paregorie from the medicine chest, for the most of us rather leaned toward Whipple's ideas after all. Then we hunted up a small tin funnel used for filling the whisky keg." “What was that for?’ fo the lady ngers, who by this time had worked ymselves into a state of sappressed } § | in to look at it | others badly wounded, {| soldier, 8 of tly gentleman ¢ | left their scared lot of sniffed the | | over | pleasure, | tranged friends make up their | over the steaming tumblers major, ‘Just as we started for the bunk there was a terrible crash of firing, followed by a yell that would have curled your blood. We were attacked by the 'Paches. They had surrounded us on snow shoes. Of course we had to Jump to our guns, and it was just nip and tuck all that night to keep them off, At daylight our repeating ritles were too much for them, and they finally cleared out with a heavy loss.” “Aud the baby?’ cried the whole stage, while even the driver put on the brake and turned around to listen. “Then we thought of the baby," said the ma or, solemnly, “and we all went The bundle still lay on the bunk, and it was motionless. The shawl was stained with blood, and we saw that a chaneo arrow had come literally trans fixed it,” “Oh, you heartless things,’ the bride, while the mother on the back seat hugged her treasures convalsively, and burst into tears. “We had lost a sobbed private, and two went on the old “but | can tell you we all felt like murderers as we stood with our that little room, anla t stole down over more than one powder grimed the old general leaned over hats of in al che LOLS and gently | it cnite de ) Was pre 1 asked a er man whe ‘Quite dead quite dead, it wasn't a baby at all, bat the Kitter tt little emigrant hal forgott daughter, I'll get hill." hem —1 thing, and walk to the top of this And then m indistinet and i out ar got out, remar referring to his of the driver, thal concurred in by the Artist's ns. Admprtatl 1 t sal picted were Moorish East { I had the figure of the lazy indolence characte eastern life Une day 3 } fashionable visitor to his studio imagined that the Japanese face in a picture bore to her own oval, brunetts that account bought the K a resemblance phiz, and on CANVAS “If that's all render them marketable,” artist, “the trouble can be I'll alter the faces into likenesses mand.’ This fancy proved captivating. ] lack te said the remedied on de my painting Every Oriental damsel in his stock was speedily | * | other birds transformed into a of New York belle, on then he began to wield his brush on new subjects. He is an adept at making a likeness while at the same time preserv- ing the distinctive type a nationality de manded A little water-color picture hangs before am a Mongol sure enough and yet recog nizable, neatly are the ideal and real blended girl has had her olive complexion, pout ing features of a mulatto order more portrait SOM but generally we turned into something romantic. The Turk holds th lead, and | know a dozen girls who have had themselves put by paint into harems ourselves The Bussians as Tea Drinkers. Momcow Latter It would be a very in ompiete sketel of Moscow that not treat of the “traktirs,”’ or tea-houses. They abound di | in every street, lane, and alley, rivaling in their numbers the public houses of western lands. The drinking of “tchai is, indeed, a prominent feature of Rus sian life Enter a traktir at what hour of the day you pleas it al WAYS fOMS crowded, corpu lent little t ntenar ea-drir KINZ, 18 The over their heads patron of “the cup but not inebriates.”” Profusely perspiring, and, indeed, completely saturated with tea, the habitues talk settle matters of busine strike bargains, or balance ac Merchants, brokers and bank ers confer and transact business; pleas ure-sockers arrange their pl specially to pros hed In One enter Russians d an } that un this cheers, and 48 Of cotnts As; 08 quarrels Using a Fish as a Candle, New ¥ “Turn out the gas.'’ said a naturalist “and I will show the latest light; that he added, “the thing in that line in British Columbia.’ As the gas went out the speaker un rolled several objects that had an “an cient and fish-like smell,” and, striking a match, touched one a clear, yellow light appeared, issuing from what looked like the mouth of a fish, the caudal end of which was thrust into a large bronze candlestick. “Yes,” said the naturalist, “it is a fish, and nothing else, no tube nor oil within, only the fish just as it came from the water. Take this paper and read a line, and become one of the very few who can boast that they have read by the light of a dead herring.” The light was found equal to that of a candle, and reading by fish light was an easy matter, wk Tribune is,’ The Boy War Right. [Chicago Tribune.) opened the littie bundle, ding not to | But you | | edge of cash orders, and | | ing me as 1 write, in which 1 | : { seemed to be In one case a facetious | | to thing in | Intest | | that | shines with a ghastly green light | timent A moment later | FISHING IN CHINA, The Rod and Line Made Superfluous by the Cormorant, [New York Sun.} “The first time 1 ever saw a fishing cormorant at work under the direction of its Chinese master, I thought it was one of the most amusing and at the same time interesting sights imaginable,” said Engineer George Dean, who has spent a number of years in China, “I was walking along the Min river one day soon atter arriving in China, and came to a bamboo float or raft moored to the pier of a bridge. 1 noticed a native squatting on the raft, and saw what at first I thought were a number of ducks grouped at one end of it. They were all faced toward the Chinaman, and he was gazing steadily at them with his hands on his knees, “1 stopped to sec what was going on. Suddenly the man extended his right hand, palm upward, toward one of the birds, which 1 then saw were not ducks, the Chinamen reached his waddled as briskly as it could toward | and hopped on the open The man stoked its bhed his cheek for one that hand to m, palm feathers along its then ly in seemed de the China neck, and en Kissed now and 1 Chinese, evid'n (BIT iT i | The Country BRILLIANTS, A sacred burden is this life hin bear; Look on it, lift it, bear it solemly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly, Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, til! the goal ye win, [Frances Kemble. 0 you who linger on the night of toil And long for day, Takes heart; the grandest hero is the man Of whom the world shall say That from the roadside of defeat he plucked The flower of success, Bravely and with a modesty sublime, Not with blind eagerness. ~{W. T. Talbott, There's always a river to cross; Always an effort to make If there's anything good to win, Any rich prize to take; Yonder's the fruit we crave, Yonder the charming scene; But deepan | wide, with a troubled tide, Is the river that hes between, For rougher the way that we take The stouter the heart and the nerve The stones in our path we break, Nor eer from our impulse swerve For the glory we hope to win Our Inbors we count no loss; | "Tis folly to pause an | murmur because | OF the river wo have to cross, | [| | | | THE DEPOPULATED HIGHLANDS, of the “Crofters" and Hardship, Poverty { Nineteenth Century There are few Highland glens that do i | not contain traces of the banished popu followed hy | ( and then reappeared, f the w of iter as it + fish pro | bird swa i the raft, cl | and jumping on the master's knee, held its head up for him to remove The Chinaman pulled the fish bird's mouth with one | i And, wi out « lower half [ "7 » | ed from | tl he mbed upon it traight to the fish from the hil He ne ered words of shook out de! ght I YAFIOUS WAVE other, and wis The cormorant and showed its “Again its master placed it the raft, and . 1. A Mas Y n approval, its feathers More the water Ihe maintained their apparently unmindful of what on ine The that was fis} appeared time, and agai i dive The sam through with, and in the water glided no Aro them i 11s work that showed lips and inky hair adapted to the | lot actions frantically twisting the greatest ich way i fixed ng « pre ng p eyes on appea approach away and took other end of the raft The Decay of Will Power A toothache « ] where the gout gold leaf wo own laughed at beaten the it has lost its ancestors have L! olor, n wl sen has carried us past sense; we have had such a terror of flesh that we have cultivated brain at the expense of motive tissue, and have produced a giant's skull that is too hew:y for the dwarf legs to bear. Emo- tions have been improved; brain has in creased, but strong, vigorous thought has diminished. Humanity has made a rapid journey toward perfection; but the point has been now reached when rest and relaxa tion becomes a necessity. We have con quered worlds; let us now return for a while to the old Greek proverb, and try to conquer ourselves, common the Recommended to “That Young Man." (Rehoboth Bunday Herald. | The littleness of any one person's knowledge is astonishing. “I do not even know an astronomer,” says Mr, Richard A. Proctor, “who is not | of Loch | the depressed stroked its neck and plumage with the | | seashore | small on the | tl and 1 ands tho K home of the clan which wer In along Arkaig, the the remains of ensive towns Hp tation Lochaber, Ores May yel be seen, rated Glencoe formerly teemed | ’ | i Bellefonte ponsit ishing its crime whatever tenantry remainder tt to America; the led on th Loldings, lived wild and and have since The cont tourist the the MAY saw sterimning along western Highlands perched on of every situations aud Atlantic wrelched ha is thal now « nts of the Hig sland how a in the most exposed ject to the fury of gales, ontain the clans. 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