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f YQL-X. KIDGWAY, ELK COUKTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1880. NO. 19.
The Scarecrow.
The farmer looked at hia cherry tree,
With thick bads clamored on every boneh
"I wish I ooald cheat the robbing," said he;
" ii iomeuody only would show me how,
" I'll make a terrible scarecrow Brim.
With threatening arms aud with bristling
head,
And up in the tree 1 11 fasten him
To frighten them hall to death," he said
He fastened a scarecrow tattered and torn
Oh, 'twas a horrible thing to see!
And very early one summer morn,
He set it up in his cherry tree.
The blossoms were white as the light sea loam,
The beaut ilul tree was a lovely sight;
Bat the scarecrow stood there so much at
home
That the birds flew screaming away in
fright.
But the robbins, watching him day alter day,
With heads on one Bide and eyes so bright,
Surveying tho monster, began to say,
" Why should this fellow our prospects
blight.
" He nevor moves round for the roughest
weather,
He's a harmless, comical, tough old fellow;
Lei all go into the tree together,
For he won't budge till the fruit is mellow!"
So up they flew; and the sauciest pair
'Mid the shady branches peered and perked,
Selected a spot with tho utmost cnie,
And all day merrily snng und worked.
And where do yon think they built their nost T
In the scareciow's pocket, it you please,
That, lin'f concealed on his ragged breast,
Made a charming covert of sntety and ease!
By the lime the cherries were ruby red
A thriving family, hungry and brisk,
The whole day long jn the ripe fruit led;
'Twas so convenient! They saw no risk!
Until the children were ready to fly,
All undisturbed they lived in the tree;
For nobody thought to look at the guy
For a robbinV flourishing family!
Cetit Thaztcr, in Wide Jwake.
THE BEST REVENGE.
We were all so happy and cheerful in
our little cottage when Aunt BueluinV
letter caine ami to d us Jiat Fied Bras
tome hail "jilt'd" niy sister Agnes.
We were thunderstruck! Agnes her
seli refused to -uviiit the report. They
had only nei-n engaged a few montiic,
and the amtng mcnt whs a seen t. My
aunt was igtmra'il ol the actual engage
ment, hut wni n she wrote andioid u
thit Brasionii' was engaged to Sir Some
body Sumt-tli uk's duiwliter, and had
just .'inherit' d In uncle's property, quite
unexrectKlly, t whs a terrible blow to
us at lini Ytt there were his letters
fall uf affection.
Agnes bine up wondei fully, but at
length ev' n she succumbed. We had
heard no hn from Fred very lately,
and my ii;quiiie- in y elicited the state
ment that lie hud gone abroad suddenly.
Even our neiiilihois, thePeiidiewitts, at
whose house Anes had first met him,
weieawny yachting, and we cou.d not
get at the null). 1 wrote to Lis bankers
and got his Redress, and then wrote to
him (a stiflish letter) ior explanation,
and then wailed.
Agnes got worse. We could not res t
I vowid vengeance against the man, und
unable to btund ihe suspense and loneli
ness w In u dariing Agnes' lift; was almost
trembling in the ba.auce, I rushed out to
do something, ready to encounter any
danger in search ot forgettuluess of our
injury. Only a few weeks since he had
gone, and ihis was the result 1 I could
scarcely credit it.
I went out. it was a lovelv night. I
stood upon the steps and looked across
the moonlit bay, at the soutuern side of
which the lighthouse rose disdainfully.
A Hash came full upon my iace, and
with it came the thought 1 will go out
to the lighthouse.
I descended rapidly at first, and then
more slowly, and began to think; but
still I went down and met Bob Murray,
my boatman, as 1 entered a shop to
make a purchase.
" Good-night, Bob. Going UotueP-'
"Aye, aye, Master Harry. Home it
is, and time."
" Well, Bob, I'm going out."
" Out to-night ! And where, ii I may
make so bold us to ask?"
" To the lighthouse, Bob, and you
must take me there, and call, to-morrow's
flood, to take me back."
"But, sir, my lady r Will she? "
Bob alwavs called my mother " my
lady," not that she, except as every
woman is, was entitled to the courtesy ;
but she deserved it, and the compliment
passed unnoticed now, as ever.
I silenced him, and he agreed. " I'm
your man, Master Harry, but I think
you'd better bide a day or two; there's
a look about the sea that i dislike."
" Wind, BooP I should like a breeze
out there to-morro w."
"Aye, aye! Wind is nothing to the
lighihouse
it s a sea. suppose an ac-
cident shou.d
ship-"
happen suppose a
" Suppose you give up croaking, Bob
Murray, aud near a hand with the boat."
I wrapped up my purchase and went
out.
iie responded with alacrity, and said
no more. Somehow his tacit obedience
impressed me more iorcibiy than his
weL-meant warning.
"All ready now, your honor," said
he at last.
"Thank you. Bob. Will you take
the tiller, pleaseP" I knew the coast
almost as well as he, and yet I would
not touch the tiller. It was a tri
bute to his superior skill and to my
mother's fears.
W e ran out quickly, and in about an
hour were close to the lighthouse. A
simultaneous roar of "Ahoy, there!'1
brought my old iriend Dobaon to the
gailery.
" Boat ahoy !" he cried. What cheer P"
"Dobsjn, ahoy! 'Tis I Mister
'Knery" (he always insisted upon call
ing me " 'iinery ' ).
"Never! Well, and what brings ye
here at this time o' night, sir?"
There was a pause, and at last he said,
as we tossed upon the rising sea.
"I'll come down, air I II dis-cend,
sir, if you please."
He disappeared, and must have de
scended very rapidly, for in a moment
or two he appeared at a small door
opening just above the rock on which
the lighthouse was erected; there he
parieyea :
" Ye see, sir. that is quite out of regu
lar orders ; I daren't let you in, not now
keep her off. Bob Murrav. vew- vn'll
have her stove in three threes' so ye
see, sir."
" Dobson," I replied, firmly, " it's no
use. itegutations or no regulations, I
want to spena tne ntgnt in the light
house. Here lam. You can. of emirap
keen me here if you like, but I am not
going back now.''
Dobson paused irresolutely, and Mur
ray said :
"It's all right, Jack; I'D come for
uim to-morrow ana take him off."
"Ah!" responded Dobson. "To
morrow r Where be thine eyes, Bob
iviurray, laar"
Murray made no verbal reply. He
impelled tb.p boat toward the slippery
iwk. me uoe was out; a wen judged
spring as the boat rose to the wave, and
I landed safely on the cranirn. When T
turned round again Murray was already
fix feet from my perch.
"Good-night. Bob. Come back to.
morrow. Tell them I'm coming soon if
niey asa ior me. i m all right."
" Aye. avo. sir. Good-niiir.. Mn.
ray ran for home with the sheet hauled
well aft, and lying as close to the wind
as the flattened sail would draw.
I turned and found Dnhson at mv
elbow. He had heard my parting
words, and commented upon them as
follows, in a tone that chilled me
through ;
"If he gets ashore much inside of a
week I m a Dutchman, and saving your
presence, Master 'Enerv. vou's another.
Come in now the flood's making if
you piease."
We entered the lighthouse together.
and as we ascended the winding stait-
way, Dobson said :
Did you bring aught with ye, BirP"
" Any spirits? I declare. Dobson. T
quite forgot. But I'll make it all right."
Dobson's reply had a disdainful ring
in it as lie replied : "I ain't thinking of
spirits. Have you brought any cloth
ing or anything?"
"Just enough for anight," I replied
' a toothbrush. WhvP" I uroduced mv
late purchase as I spoke.
" Because look ye here," he said, sud
denly changing his tone. He led me to
the windward side of the gallery, which
we just men reached. " V ye see yonder
hup upon the sear '
" Yes wh it of it? It's a breeze com
ing up all the better."
" AlHhe worser! Last time I see that
with this moon and after these warn
ings was when the Oa'liliy Castle went
down on yonder reef and on 'y fifty was
laved out o' nigh three hundred on
board."
I confess I felt a dull sensation of
dread. That some calamity was pend
ing I filt sure. I shivered, not with
jold, though, and looked steadily at
lob?on. Then affecting a cheerful man
ner, I replied :
'But there's no prospect of a storm
yet, and there's plenty ot time for any
ship to get an oiling if the skipper can
road the sky as well as you. At any
rate I'm quite safe here."
"Aye, aye, for that matter, safe
enough. But you see, Mister 'Enery
well it's ail right come inside."
We went in again and descended the
spiral stairway in the solid basement to
the storeroom and thence to the kitchen.
Everything appeared clean and tidy. A
s'ovepipe passed through the ceilirg,
doing duty for a chimney, as a small
stove did for the kitchen range, and 1
knew that we would not starve. But
Dobson's remark respecting the ap
proaching tempest had affected me in
spite of my determination to see the
adventure through. I was anxious to
have something to wean me from the
somber retrospection I had been lately
indulging, and so I tlmo It oS the feeling
of strangeness and tried to feel as if
everything was just as I had in my
im-ig nation pictured it which every
thing was not.
We ascended through the bedroom.
There were three beds between the win
dows, a cuckoo clock, an almanac, the
stovepipe tending upward, some cloth
ing and two telescopes and some other
nautical necessaries were visible at a
glance. The bedroom was plainly and
rather scantily furnished. Some books
were on the single table, and in a cup
board were some blue lights. A pair of
pistols, three cutlasses and bayonets
were also noticed by me, and I won
dered why the firearms were keot
there.
As I gazed around the room the
cuckoo burst open a little wooden door
with tremendous energy and "cuckoo'd"
ten times, retreating again, only just in
time to escape a blow from the door.
A sailor was descending from the
upper floor He was rather astonished
to see me, I think, but in a moment he
touched his cap. and professed himself
glad to see "a friend ot his mate's, who
was a friend of his and welcome "so he
said.
" Mister 'Enery's going to take a berth
here to night, Judkins," said Dobson.
You and me will arrange about a shake
down. It's my watch at midnight, so
he can turn in as soon as he likes."
" I should prefer being up with you.
Dobson,' I said. " I want to see the
sea and how things look in the dead of
night. It must be very weird and very
grand herein a storm."
" Aye, aye, sir. You'll have storm
enough Belter sleep while you can,
and let the sea take care of itself."
" But I came here to sit up, and un
less youohject '
" Me, Mister 'Enery ! Not a bit of it.
Come alolt ii ye like; I'll keep you com
panv." We went up to the gallery again, and
I stood leaning over, gazing steadily,
halt dreamily, at the rising water. The
sea was evidently rising, and yet the
long, heavy, booming swell rolled in
without breaking till close upon the
rocks. Then the roar arose, the spray
dashed uo in vain attempts to reach the
gleaming beacon, and lell back ex
hausted on the whitened sea.
As I continued to look across the
moonlit waves a strong sensation of un
reality of it all came upon me. I could
fancy it was all unreal. I knew and
felt that I was in the lighthouse, and all
was right, that I was in good health
and f pirits, and yet all Ihe surroundings
appeared as if I were in a dream. 1
could see a shape in the water beneath,
a dark form, and lo! suddenly it was
clad in white, a female shape, ascending
to the gallery. I knew the lace in the
lamem light. It was Agnes. Strange
illusion!
I called out ; the form vanished ; the
BDrav splashed heavily down to the
water, and Dobson approached me
quickly and anxl usiy
" Did you call, Mister 'Enry ?"
" Yes. I did," J replied. " The
spray
very nearly came up into the gallery. It
frightened me."
"That's nothing," replied Dobson.
" You'll have it over the lantern afore
to-morrow. Hold up your hand d'ye
feel the salt on it?"
I put my palm to the wind, and then
touched my tongue with it. It was quite
salt to the tii st e.
" You'll excuse me, sir, but you's
looking pale and wom out. Turn in,
and come up at daybreak. Thai's the
time to see the sea, and sunrise, too."
J knew the well-intentioned siilor
was quite right. I waa overwrought;
my nerves were highly strung I wanted
ret-t.
Will you call me early, or if any
thing turns up?" J
"I will, sir: you shallknow. Oneof
my mates is goin' ashore at dawn; I'll
hail you then lor certain shure."
So we bade eac'i other good-night,
and I descended to the sleeping-room
in semi-darkness. In ten minutes I
must have been sound asleep; the noise
of the waves dashing outside, and the
rushing of the wind, far from keeping
me awake, were soothing to my troubled
spirits. I slept, nor did the restless
cuckoo in the clock, that whirred and
chirped the hours through the stormy
night, wake me from my dreaming.
I was half aroused bj a touch on the
shoulder and opened my eyes, but the
semi-darkness was still before them.
Then a voice I knew said, "Tom's just
off, but the morning's wet and stormy,
sir. Be advised and stav blow : vou "
I had lain down again and Wis asleep
once more before he had completed the
sentence.
I must have slept some time wbpn a
dull sound aroused me. I looked about
and it was not till the clock donr burst
open anil the bird came out that I re
collected where I was.
"Cuckoo!" I counted six Kt.rnkps.
Then the dull and distant sound came
clown upon the wind aud I began to
wonder what it was.
A third time, louder, and now " flat
ter," so to speak, as if the wind had
caught the noise and borne it against the
stone pillar wherein I lay. I could hear
Dobson and his companion hurrying
to and fro and in a few moments, as the
former passed the door, I called aloud
and he came in hastily.
What's the matter, Dobson P"
"Vessel drifting in. disabled. She'll
strike I iear. They're signaling for help
don't ye hear the gunsP"
lie was gone, liuns! A vessel in dis
tress! Here was an adventure, indeed.
I leaped out of bed nnd hurried through
my toilet, from time to time looking out
upon the angry, tumbling sea, driven in
before a southwest gale, in broken hills
of wa.er.
I Mtended to the eallerv. and the
grandeur of the scene beneath took my
attention for a moment from the reeling
yacht that was drifting helplessly, it
seemed, fairly down upon the cruel line
of j urged rocks that were now and then
visible to windward.
" Now, mate," said Dobson. " vou and
me must take this iob in hand. We'll
cross the rock belore she strikes yonder.
inn save tne poor ihiiows."
To their astonishment I volunteered
to hpp.
"Excuse me. sir, but vou ain't anv
good in this. You can bear a hand on
the life-line, howsomdever: and if we
should not both turn un to muster.
whv "
Without another word tlmv shrink
hands solemnly with me and with each
othpr, and then descended to the rock.
I followed to the door and made fast the
ines they had secured about their
waists. The sea was now sweeping over
the rocks, and the hissing of the foam
wasnue escaping steam, or the horrid
whizzing of an avalanche, which few
can hear and live alter they have heard
it.
The men disappeared round the rnol
and left me standing at the door irreso
lute, a life-line in my hand, a buoy at
tached to it hanging ready for use.
A loud crv attracted mv attention s
crackling, grinding noise the vessel
had struck, and as I looked over the
rushing, swirling? waves I could spp.
though indistinctly, three white faces
and three pairs of arms siruggling in
the water. I was fascinated I could
only stare. Help was yet out of the
question, but even as I gazed one swim
mer, witn great presen ;eot mind, turned
with the waves toward the leu nf t.hn
lighthouse to a spot where in a momen
tary eddy he might be saved.
I saw this now. and "pulling myself
together," step- ed cautiously just with
out the reach of the hissing waves
which swooped in masses down upon
the rocks and slid in smooth layers of
water, like thick gWss. into the boillni?
surf beneath. When I had reached a
coign of vantage the poor swimmer was
still bravely battling with the undertow,
and in a few moments I hoped to be able
to heave the life buoy to his assistance.
It seems so unreal to look back uoon.
and were I not sure of all this sad
mornings's work I could almost believe
it tancy. Hut there was no time to
thiuk what to do. In another moment
I had grasped the line and was about to
swing the buoy to the struggling,
drowning man, when I recognized his
fetiures, notwithstanding the wild
spray and the disheveled hair that was
matted by the salt water around his
forehead .
The swimmer was Frederick Rros-
tome the man who had all but killed
my darling sister the traitor!
my arm leu listlessly by my side.
Agnes was dying, poor darling, almost
within sight of the heaving sea which
bore her faithless lover on its nnprv
bosom; and should I save his life when
he has wrecked hers? No! My revenge
was complete. I had him in my power
The demon tempted me to let him bide
and die, and yet a strange sad compas
sion ior the heartless destroyer of my
sister's life in his dire extremity filled
my heart.
He recognized me and called frasp
inglyfor help; help for Agnes' sake!
or her sane i um lie dare to trade his
safety on her blighted life? And yet at
the sound of her name the thought that
she had forgiven him his trespasses
against her now prevailed. I called out
and hove toe life-buoy close to him.
He was almost spent, but clutched it
with the grasp of drowning men. As
sisted by the waves, I hauled him al
most senseless to the rock alive! (The
yacht drove on the reef just then, and
the crew were rescued after.)
Thank heaven. I had saved him ! Now
that be was free from danger I felt more
at ease. The black cloud of revenge
bad passed awav. and Aenea' num in.
fluence had worked a wondrous change
in tne. He lay insensible, but in a
short time Dobson and his mate. huHn.
hauled the others out of danger, came
vu uij nsBiDbAuvw, nuu tuey c&rneci Eras-
tome m auo iaia mm ou the bed.
I could not see him, though I saved
his life, but afterward I heard the facts
from the other young men, who over
whelmed us with thanks, and their ac
count was this (we were sitting in the
gallery when they told the tale, and how
they met their companion him my
enemy, as I judged).
They bad borrowed Mr. Pendrewitt's
yacht, and hadsaiied to Cherbourg. At
that port they had encountered Bras
tome, who was very anxious to return
at once to England, but had missed the
steamer. Knowing who he was, for
they had met at Mr. Pendrewitt's house,
they volunteered to bring him to our
little port, as he said he had received a
most urgent letter from a friend. My
friend, his own sailing master, had
managed to get good anchorage about
ten miles away at six o'clock the pre
vious evening, hut the storm increasing
the yacht dragged her anchor about
three o'clock the next morning. Thus
they had drifted, and although they had
managed to keep off shore, the set of the
tide carried them to leeward and the
yacht bore down on the reef, struck and
sunk in eight fathoms.
I listened to this narrative with very
mingled feelings. The letter he referred
to must be the one I had sent. Why
did he not telegraph his reply P I was
debating on the course I should adopt
when Dobson came up and said that the
other gentleman wished to see me. I
followed the siilor, and in another mo
ment was in Brastome's room.
He held out his haad. I hesitated to
accept it.
" Why, Harry," he Bald, " how have
I offended you P Your letter puzzled me
considerably."
"Can you ask how P You have jilted
my sister and blighted her life, and, I
fear, caused her death by your dastardly
conduct. I saved your life, but I al
most regret it. I have a long reckoning
to settle with you "
" But listen to mo. You are quite in
error. I never injured your sister; I am
as true to her as even you could desire.
I am. indeed."
" Are you not engaged to be married
to Sir William A 's duughterP"
" Certainly not. My cousin, who has
come into the title, is going to marry
her. I hope to marry Agnes, your
sister; and I can't really understand ''
I did not permit him to finish. I
wrung his hand nearly off, begged his
pardon, and almost cried in doing it.
Then I rushed out and wanted Dobson
to signal for a boat, which he very prop
perly declined to do; so I sat with Fred
and talked about Agnes till I began to
think I had carried my affections quite
far pnouzh.
All was explained, and I was happy
again, and then the next day! Oh,
what a happy day it was! The sea for
tunately aba'.ed. MuTay came out
with the welcome news that darling
Agnes was better, and that eveninz wp
ail went ashore in the highest spirits
The glad intelligence of her faithful
swain's return w.u gently conveyed to
her, and she at once got so bright and
happy that we declared she had been
"shamming "all tho time, and whep.
three days nfterward, she and Frederic
were allowed to see each other well.
the meeting is beyond the power of my
pen to cesceioe.
Nothing now presented any obstacle
to their engagement being announced.
About three months afterward, on a
coldJanuaiv morning, my dear sister
was united to the husband of her choice,
'"tor richer, for poorer, till d ath do
them part;" and judging bv external
evidence, I am thankful to say that there
is no prospect of a separation tor n au
years.
1 am very glad now that I heaved the
buoy at h rpderic's hPad from the old
Channel rock that stormy morning just
niteen years ago. And that was mj re
venge. The Little Shuvers.
"Oh, pa!" cried a little fe'low upon
seeing a trout lor the first time, "it s
got the measles, hasn't it?"
A youngster joyfully assured his
mother the other day that he had found
out where they made horses; he had
seen a man finishing one" he was just
nailing on li s last loot."
A bright little five-year-old miss was
taken to the barn to see some sheep, and
after looking at them for a moment she
exclaimed : " Oh, auutie. see, the sheep
all wear their hair banged."
The ownei ot a pair of bright eves
says that Ihe prettiest compliment she
ever received came from a child ol four
years. The little fellow, after looking
intently at uer eyes a moment, inquired,
na veiy : " Are your eyes new onesf"
Young Boston quickly learns to feel
tho weight of years. Said five-year-old
Bert to his mother, the other night,
after saying his prayers, and getting
ready for bed: "Well, mamma, I'd
like to die now. I've seen all there is
here."
Little Annette, who has been sick and
is not yet allowed to eat all she wants,
turned from her thin toast and weak tea
the other day, with an air of disgust,
and said to her brother: "I'm gomg to
take a nap; perhaps I shall dream that
I am eating my dinner."
A little fellow, turning over the leaves
of a scrap-book, came across the well-
known picture oi some chickens just
out of their shell. He examined the
picture carefully, and then, with a
grave, sagacious look, slowly remarked :
"They came out 'cos they was afraid of
being oouea.
A little boy in a Sunday-school put a
poser to his teacher. The lady was tell
ing her class how God punished the
Egyptiars by eausing the bret born ot
each household to be slain. The mil
boy listened attentively. At the proper
interval he mildly inquired: "What
would God have done it there had been
twinsP"
A little four-year-old was at one of
our photograph studios having her pic
ture taken. The artist said: "You
must keep your mouth shut, my dear.
and your eyes open," as the little mito
showed a decided inclination to open
uer mouui ana suuc her eyes, cut oi
being instructed she bract d up, and
after a few minutes wonderinelv said t
" Now, what shaul I do with my noseP'
An Englishman who traveled up the
Nile btates that his beaid. which at
home was straight, soft and silkv. began
immediately Ou arriving at Alexandria
to curl, and to grow crisp, strong and
coarse. Before reachina Es Socan It re
sembled horsehair to the touch and was
disposed in rirglets. He accounted for
this by the exceeding dryness of the air,
and considers that in the course of many
generations it permanently curled and
crisned the hair of negroes. The hair
ou the traveler s Lead was not affected
TIMELY TOPIC'S.
The king of dentists, as he calls him
self, is a Philadelphia curiosity. He
wears a jeweled crown and gorgeous
robes, rides in a resplendent chariot,
and extracts teeth without charge.
While a glib-toniued attendant sounds
his praises, the king takes out teeth for
all who apply, sometimes pushing them
out with the point of his sword. Then
he sells an ache-destroyer at fifty cents
a bottle. .
The preliminary workings for the
tunnel under the English channel,
uniting Enghnd and France, have had
the most satisfactory results. The pro
moters have sunk their shaft to the
stratum in which they propjseto bore
the tunnel, and are now going to sink
another shaft, and lower all the ma
chinery for the bore. In eighteen
months they expect to have reached two
kilometers (about two and a quarter
mil'!s) under the channel, and in three
or four years to have completed the
task.
Idaho Territory holds court at Boise,
where is located all . the government
offices, and is the home of t.'ie United
States marshal. He goes to Lewiston,
400 mile3 di-tant, twice a year to attend
district court, and also twice a year to
Malad for the same purpose, traveling a
distance of 525 miles to reach there. To
simply attend the courts in the three
districts requires him to travel 3 7(10
miles. But to do all his official work
last year caused Mr. Chase to travel by
stages 9,000 miles.
The elan phrase " queer fish " has
been realized in piscatorial form in
California. At Monterey some fisher
men cought it in a seine. It was about
nine inches long. The first half of the
fish was a mountain brook trout, hav
ing the eye, head, scales, spots and shape
of the lir-li. It had a pair of tins at the
usual place behind the gills; an inch or
two back of this it suddenly changed
into a silver eel, t ie shape, color and
absence of scales being periect. It will
probably tinu a resting place on the
shel ves of the San Francisco Academy of
Sciences.
A German paper relates that at Bi
berich, recently, quite a crowd gathered
to witness the novel spectacle of a
dmnken driver being taken home by his
horse. The man was so intoxicated
that he could s-.arcely stand, but the
laithful animal pushed him onward
with its head. Now and then the driver
attempted to turn into side streets,
but the horse seized bim by the coat
with its teeth, and thus piloted him to
the stable. The horse had a great deal
of trouble with its master, but finally
got him home safe It is said that this
valuable animal has acted the good Sa
maritan for his master repeatedly be
fore. An excellent instance of tho way in
which the children in tho average pub
lic school learn without learning is re
lated by Barnes' Educational Monthly
A teacher in one of our public school
has b.en accustomed to require her
pupils to say: "The equatjr is nn
uiaginary line passing around the
earth," etc. It never occurred to her
.lat the boys and girls of her school had
no idea what an imaginary line meant,
until one day a visitor asked thpm how
wide tncy thought the equator is. So ne
'bought it was 5,000 miles wide, others
2,000 and others thought they could
jump over it. The visitor then asked
hew they thought ships got over it. One
pupil said he thought they got out and
drew them over, and another said he
had read that a canal had been dug
through it! " What is the name of this
anal? ' was asked. The buez canal!"
was the answer.
On the road from Albuuueraue to
Silver City (New Mexico) i3 Cook's
canon, in which the Apache Indians of
ictoria s band have been m the habit
of waylaying and Slaughtering white
people attempting the passage. A pri
vate letter of recent date from Silver
City says V at S40 white settlers, miners
and man carriers hav been butchered
and scalped in the caron by the
Apaches. A fortnight before the letter
was written the Indians killed a party
of eighteen persons and burned their
wagons, lacy also slew the driver and
three passengers on the mall coach and
destioed the vehicle. A detachment
of soldiers surprised five Apaches in the
canon a couple of days after that occur-
1 1 ! J 1 It ' 1 I I
rence, Kiueu ami, ii is saiu, sea i pen
them. Among the Inditns killed on
that occasion was the fifti en-year-old
son of the renowned chief Victoria.
The lad fought desperately as long as he
could lift a hand to strike. The pe ple
ot Silver City are greatly exercised
about the Apaches, who have made
mining in that vicinity extremely haz
ardous.
Dolus Right.
A man who loudly calls attention to
the tact that he has resolved to " turn
over a new leal in his lite is not
always to b s trusted. He who perpetu
ally makes good resolutions is pretty
sure to break them. People should re
form, if necessary to do so, at once, and
without parading their intentions be
fore the eyes of the world. They should
go to work silently, anu with a him
determination to carry out, no mattter
how trving or hard it mi? be at hrst.
those virtuous designs which they deem
necessary tor their welfare. I hey bliould
not look tor applause from the world:
their hkhest reward will in due time
come ior the good they have done for
themselves or other : meanwhile thev
will enjoy that wmch assuredly is a
sweet and precious possession the con
sciousness that they are wortlulv lul
ninng the object lor which tiny were
brought into this world. A more odious
form ot conceit than this bragging about
lf-reform does not exist, and no effort
should be spared in order to stamp it
out. Lt those then who wish to im
prove, labor to that end in silence and
in sincerity; success is sure to crown
their efforts. But they suould not flaunt
their excellence in the eyesot the world.
" I saw you hangiug out the clothes
to-day, Meiinda," said Adolphus to the
idol of his heart, as they sat billing and
cooing on the parlor sola. "Ou. no.
Doiphy. you are mistaken; it couldn't
have been me, for I have t'l washed for
a week!" And the alacrity with which
" Doiphy" dropped that " beautiful
white hand" that he had been so fondly
caressing can be better imagined than
described. BuUttman.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Mexican Women,
A correspondent in New Mexico
writes that the Mexican women are, as
a rule, tidy housekeepers. Their do
main is not an extensive one, but ns far
as it goes they act fliciently. Their
earthen floors are well swept, 'air white
wash coats the walls, the man of the
house has a clean shirt with decent
frequency, and the crawling baby,
probably as naked as at its birth, lias its
skin scrubbed to the shining point. It
must,nevertheles, be admitted that the
skin-scrubbing practice is not applied
by tho adult Mexicans to themselves'
and that their personal habits are in
many respects very uncleanly. When
away from home the men are very dirty.
The women seem to monopolize what
ever sense of neatness the race is en
dowed with. The lurnisbment of the
Mexican house is not a complicated af
fair. For culinary use there are a
" skillrt and lid," a frying pan, and a
c flee pot. Tables are not freauent in
the ordinary run of houses. Neither
are chairs. When the meal is prepared
those who are to eat squat down on the
floor around a small collection of cups
and piates, and help themselves from
the central vessel without ceremony.
Forks are very seldom to be seen. A
piece of tortilla answers the purpose
when there is food that cannot con
veniently be placed in the mouth by the
fingers only. Bed steads are not in gen
eral use. The Mexican women make
very good pallets of wrtol, and these are
laid at night on the floor, or in warm
weather out of doors, in the courtyard,
garden, or in the street itself Nearly
ev ry house is well supplied with coarse
but comfortable homemade blankets,
and usually there is some provision of
linen. Of a morning the bedding is
rolled up and stowed away in the cor
ners of the room or rooms. There is
one piece of furniture which rarely is
missing, and that is the chest or trunk
containing the women's finery. The
female Mexican has a passion for ac
cumulating dresses, generally calicoes,
which are 'stored away in the chest and
may remain there, hidden ;rom the
sight of man,' forever. 1 suspect that
when only women are present, these
brilliant and costly treasures are ex
hibited and discussed with critical ad
miration. Americans who have Mexi
can wives tell me that the number of
calico dresses that can be packed by
them in an ordinary chest is somewhat
amazing, and renders contemptible the
feats ol the magician who produces a
whole millinary shop trom his hat.
Juanita's actual wear is apt to be con
lined to a very simple matter. The hot
summer climate induces a tree-and-easy
attire ot chemise and shirt, and in win
ter the women are generally seen with
shawls covering them from the waist
up. When J uanita's man earns enough
co pay tor a new dress now and then,
she aks for no more; but when the
household can boast the ownership of
a little flock of goats, her happiness, as
well as that ot the rest ot the lamuy, is
utter and complete. Tho goat is the
familiar pet, the dear little darling of
the Mexican home. It furnishes the
milk and the aboaiinab.v 'ndia rubber
eheese which is dear to the Mexican
palate. Your Mexican will call his
goat by all the abusive names of which
his to'.gue is master, but in his heart of
hearts he cherishes the animal as the
ne plus ultra of brute creation, and an
niury inllicted on the goat is a mortal
affront to the man.
Faihlon Note.
Round pelerines are revived.
Leghorn hats are in high favor.
Lisle thread gloves are more worn
than ever.
Mauve and red are a fashionable com
bination.
Surtout effects are given even to mus
lin toilets.
White is more popular than ever for
little people.
Gold lace and gold cord hold their
place in favor.
Handkerchief costumes are worn in
the country.
A novel combination is of wall flower
yellow, brown and flame color.
One strap over the instep on. slipper.
is more fashionable than two or more
A terrilic torrent of new fashions
threatens to overwhelm tasto and tact
in dress.
Archerv and angling are the fashion
able outdoor amusements for ladies this
summer.
Brown linen suits, made with de
cidedly short skirts, are shown as ang
ling costumes this season.
Dressy parasols are most elaborately
adorned with beads, lace embroidery,
and artificial flowers.
Soft sashed belts with tasseled ends.
and carelessly tied either in front, at
the side, or in the back, are popular.
Dark blue flannel remains the popular
material tor seaside suits tor children,
young girls, and older women.
Oil silk bathing caps are made with
brims of the silk this season, the brims
being stiffened with a wire on the
outer edge.
White underskirts are made very
short, gored and trimmed round the
bottom with three rows of fluting.
edged with embroidery or iace.
Princess sack dresses for little peo
pie rxve made with loose fronts covered
with tucks and insertion, while the
backs are halt fitted to the figure, and
finished with a Spanish flounce also
trimmed on the edge.
Words of Wisdom.
Anger, like rain, breaks upon whatever
it tails.
Draw not thy bow before the arrow be
fixed.
Never expose vour disappointments
to the world.
If you would make a thief honest, trust
mm.
The simple flowers are sociable and
benevolent.
Fortune can only take from us what
she gave.
Words sometimes wound more than
swords.
A good book supplies the place of
companion.
He who stops to pick a flaw in other'i
knitting work, drops many stitches in
tits own.
The climate of North Africa might.
thinks Dr. Theobald Fischer, be more
easily improved by the planting of for
ests man dj wrming an tuianasea.
The Ideal.
I think the song that's sweetest
Is tho one that's never sung;
That Hps at tne heart of tho ginger
Too gran.l lor mortal tongue.
And iometimi-s in the ailenoe
Between the day and night,
He fancies that its measures
Bid farewell to the light.
A picture that is fairer
Than all that have a part
Among the masterpieces
In the marble halls of art,
Is (he one that haunts the painter
In all his golden dreams,
And o the painter only
A real picture seems.
The noblest, grandest poem
Lies not in blue and gold
Among the treasured volumes
That rosewood bookshelves hold;
But in bright, glowing vinions,
It onmes to the poet's Srain,
And when he tries to grasp it
He finds his effort va'.n.
A lairy hand from dreamland
Beckons up here and there,
And when we strive to clasp it
It vanishes into air.
And thus our, f air ideal
Floats always just bolire
And we with longing spirits
Reach for it evermore.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A motto for
authors: "By their
know them." Every
works ye shall
Satunlay.
A SHORT I.OVE POEM,
i S tii it ton,
Mitten.
The writer of the well-known hymn,
I want to be an angel," Miss Sydney
Paul Gill, died at Newark, N. J., re
cently. The New Haven Re.qLiler intimates
that when a man offers to take back his
unkind words he wants to use them over
again.
In a Minnesota town a horse fright
ened by a hailstorm tried to jump over
barbed wire tence and was cut to
pieces in the effort.
At Ortonvilie. Minn., a hailstone fell
that iust filled a pint bowl bv itself. A
girl thirteen years old died of fright in
thunder-storm tnere.
The Montreal Witness says that most
of the medical students who recently
obtained their degrees at Laval univer
sity. Quebec, will settle down for prac
tice in the United states.
There are now in the United States
000 miles oi bridges. One-thii d of them
are of stone and iron and two thirds of
wood, and these latter will have to be
rebuilt by our engineers with the more
durable material.
A rattlesnake was found recently in
a gaden a few miles north of Fan ers-
villc, Texas, and in the snake's head
was clearly traceable the counterfeit
presentment of a child's face. A pho
tograph was taken of this lusus nature),
and is on exhioition at Dallas.
A woman slipped out of the house
one h -t night at London, Ontario, and
took a comforting bvlh in the cistern:
but, on trying to quit the water, found
that she could notc.imbout. For hours
she was a shivering prisoner, but was
hnaliy rescued.
" Wouldn't you like to have a bow?"
aid the bold voung archer as thev
suuntered down the field, ind she mur
mured " Yes. and the absorbed archPi
said, "What kind of a bow wou.d you
refer?" bhe quivered a little as the
replied, archly. " 1 think I should pre
fer yew," and then tho young man
heaved a bull's Bigh.
There are twelve firms in Wilmington.
Del., engaged in the manufacture of
morocco, which employs in the aggre
gate about 1.000 hands, thev have a
capital invested of some $2.0H0 000, and
turn out a total ot about out) dozen
finished skins per day. This leather is
made exclusively of goat skins, which
are procured trom all parts ol the coun
try.
There was an elephant that had been
trained to play the piano with Us trunk
in a show. One day a new piano was
bought for it, but no sooner hud the
lephant touched the keys man it burst
nto a flood of tears. " What ails you.
KiouniP" asked its keeper. The poor
beast could only poiiiti to the ivory
keys. Alas! they were made of the
tusks oi his mother.
A Permian Experience.
A San Francisco gentleman who was
in South America during the past year,
having occasion to go from Valparaiso
to Tacna, Peru, on legitimate private
business, was arrested upon suspicion
ot bcin a Chilian spy. Being anxious
to penetrate into Bolivia, aud unable to
obtain a passport, he ran the Chilian
blockade from Iquique, carrying in his
pockets some business und lamily cor
respondence and family photographs.
Oneof these home letters contained the
painted head of a paper doll, sent to him
by his two-year-oid boy, and a funny
letter, scrow'ed in unmeaning Hiero
glyphics by the same baby hands.
xuese momentoes were viewea wim
great suspicion by the olliciais and
deemed quite sufficient to justify his
be in ir shot. II j was lncarct raied in a
dungeou, guaied by two seiitmels and
Kept ior lue ni si tiiree o ays wuuoui, wu.
Iu the course oi a lew days every Chilian
in the province was arrested, and as the
families ot the prisoners wire anowtu
to visit them the American managed to
smuggle a letter to a prominent mer
chant of the place, a Mr. uamerery oi
the firm of Camerery & Koch, to whom
ne had brought letters oi introuuctiou.
This gentleman hnuliy sucuteuea, uitue
expiration of three weeks, in obtaining
his release, ins conntcaieu posses
sions were returned to him, with ihe
exception of the momentoes descriued,
which will probabiy occupy important
place9 in Peruvian annals, to the sur
prise oi the little fellow who sent them.
The pi is jner was discharged by the
authorities with considerable reiuct
auce, a taut perhaps due to his manner
ot reception ol their oourteoiea. Even
the thiee cays' starving did not tame
him, to see whether he was ready to
come to terms, and yield the key to the
mysterious cipher, he told them he
would acknowledge he was hungry, and
informed them tuat if they wouid roast
their prelect or General Mnteio, he
would gKdiy eat them, and the act
mixht make him a civilized Bciuuuo.'
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