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WIS
HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher
NIL. DESPEEANDrM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. X.
HIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1880.
NO 40.
Thanksgiving.
Sweet whs (be song ol the robin,
Blithe was the hum ol the bee,
In the day when the drilt ol the blossom
Was light as the fonm ol the sea.
Then deeply was cloven the furrow,
And gayly they scattered the seed,
Who trusted that rainlall and sunshine
Would surely be given at need.
The robin hath flown to the tropic,
The honey-bee flitteth no more,
The reaper hath garnered the harvest,
And the fruit an J ths nuts are in store.
Tho flame hath did out on the tnnples,
We tread on tho loose-lying leaves,
And the cora that was stu rdy and stalwart
Is gathered and bound into sheaves.
And sweeter than masio of springtime,
And toller ol Jubilant mirth,
Are I he strong-tided chorals o'er flowing
Fiom hearts where thanksgiving has birth.
The song ot tho home and the altar,
Tho gladness ol ohildron at play,
And the dear love ol households united
Are blending In praises to-day.
For pasture lands folded with beauty,
For plenty th t birdened the vale,
For ti.e wenlth of the teeming abundance,
And the promie too royal to lail,
Wo lilt to the Maker our anthems,
But none the less cheerily come
To thank Him lor bloom and lrnition,
And tho happiness crowning the home.
Oh, the peace on the brow ol the lather,
The 1 it'll t in tho mother's dear eyes,
The lilt in the voices ol maidens
Who walk under dream-curtained skies,
The dunce in the feet ol the woe ones,
Aud the sparkle and shine in the air!
Tho year has no time like Thanksgiving
A trace to our fretting and care.
Sweot was the song ol the robin,
Blithe was the hum ol the bee,
In the day when the drift of the blossom
Was light as the foam of the sea;
But sweeter the cilence of autumn.
That maketh a space lor the strain
01 tVe joyanoe ot home, when the harvest
Is gathered lrctn hillside and plain.
THE MINISTER'S PIE.
A THANKSGIVING 8TOKT.
"Look here, Sally!"
Mrs. Deacon Farrell brushed the flour
from her ham's, casting meanwhile a
complacent eye over the well-filled
kitchen tahl:, with its generous array ol
unbaked oies and cakes, the plump tur
key stuflVd and trussed ready for the
morrow's baking, and the big chicken
pip to which her skillful fingers had just
pit the finishing (ouches, as she re
prated ra'.lii r more decidedly:
"Look lure. Sallyl There's enough
clio'cen let1, with the giblets that 1
never put in my own pie, because the
deacon don't relish 'em ter make a
Thanksgiving pie for the minister's
folks. 'T won't need ter be very large,"
she added, in reply to Sally's doubtful
look. " Only the minister and his wife,
an' you can bake it in that smallest
yaller dish.
"Now, I'm goin' upstairs ter look
over them rug-rags, an' you make it an'
bake it right off, so't I can send it over
by the deacon. He's got ter go out to
the Corner this afternoon, an' can take
it along as well as not."
She bustled out f the door, but the
next moment, seized perhaps with a
sudden pang of compunction, she put
her head in aeain. to say, warningiy :
" Be sure you put in a good parcel of
gravy: that'll keep it from bein' dry, if
'tis half giblets."
" Yes'm." answered JSally, briskly;
and catching up the rolling-pin she
bmusht it down with an emphasis upon
a lump of dough on the mold -board.
A3 the stairway-door closed behind
her mistress, Sally dropped th rolling
pin, and a look ot perplexity crept over
un- dull face, making it ten times more
stci'id than usual, while she repeated, in
luuicrous bewilderment:
"Giblets! What, in all creation, if
anybody can tell. me, does she mean by
tu in?"
Involuntarily she took a step forward,
but checked herself as quickly, while a
cunning smile replaced the look of per
plexity, and she muttered triumph
antly :
"I guess T ain't a-agoin1 ter confess my
ignorance ter the deacon's wife, an' hear
her say, as she alwavsdoes, 'Two terms
to the 'cademy. Silly, an' not know
that!' No. ma'am! not while there's a
dictionary in the house!''
Si), scltiy creeping into the adjoining
sitting-room, Sully hastily opened the
big dictionary on the deacon's writing
desk, and began her search lor the mys
terious word.
" G-i-b here 'tis!" and she read aloud
to herself, with an air of triumph, the
following definition:
"Those parts of a fowl that are re
moved before cooking the heart, giz
zard, liver, etc."
"That's it! 'heart, gizzard, liver,
and so forth,'" she repeated, joyfully,
and she retraced her steps to the kitchen,
and began, with great alacrity, to fill,
according to directions, the minister's
pie; keeping up, meanwhile, a running
tire of comment lor her own special
benplit.
" Six gizzards! Well, that is rather
steep,' as Dan Watson would say. But
I guesj the deacon's wife knows ; if she
don't, 'taint none 'o my business. Six
hearts! Them's small, and tuck into
the corners handy. Six livers! Seems
ter me they don't fill up much," and she
glanced, with a perplexed air, at a pile
of denuded cbioken-bones that formed
Ler only resource.
"Now, i wonder," with sudden in
spiration' " what that and so forth '
meant? Here's 'hearts, gizzards and
iivers,' plenty of 'em, but no ' and so
forth,' and the pie ain't more'n two
thirds full yet. It must mean," and
she cost a bewildered look at the half
hl'ed pie, " the chickens' legs. I never
knew nobody ter put 'em in a Die. but
that must be what it means, an' they'll
just mi up.
No sooner thought than done. In
went the three pairs of stout yellow legs
upon which their unfortunate owners
had strutted so proudly only a day be
fore: on went the well-rolled doueh.
covering them from sight, and into the
oven went the minister's pie, just as the
mistress of the house re-entered her
kitchen, and with en up trrving glance
at the snowy pastry,, eumrfcea en
conrasinslv :
shouldn't wonder if, in time, you came
mi db quite a cook."
It was Thanksgiving morning, and
Miss Patience Prinirle stood at the min
ister's back door. To be sure it was
rather early lor caller, but Miss Pa
tience was, as she often boasted, "one of
the kind that never stood on ceremony."
Indeed, she didn't consider it necessary
even to knock before she opened the
door, although she waa thoughtul
enough, in opening it, to do so softly. The
minister's wife was just taking from the
oven a newly warmed chickenpie, which
she nearly dropped Irotn her hands, so
startled was she by the sharp, shrill
voice that spoke so close to her ear :
" Good morn in', Mis' Graham. Haint
been to breakfast yet, I see we had ours
half an hour ago. I know my mother used
to say that if anybody lost an hour in
the morn in', they might chase after it all
day, an' not ketch up with it then. That's
a good-lookin' pie pretty rich pastry,
though, for a chickenpie ! I don't never
put much sbortenin' in anything of that
kind ; it's rich enough inside to make up.
But you're young, an' have got a good
many things to learn yet. I run in ter
see if you could spare me a cup o' yeast;
mine soured, an' the last batch o' bread
I made I had ter throw to the hogs."
" Certainly," and a roguish laugh flit
ted over the fair lace of the minister's
wife, nt this specimen of her meddle
some neighbor's own economy. But she
bad learned the rare lesson of a judi
cious Bilence, and taking the cup that
Miss Patience produced from beneath her
shawl, she bade her visitor be seated
while she left the room to get the desired
article.
As her steps died away, Miss Patience
noiselessly arose from her seat, and ap
proaching the dresser upon which the
pie stood, peered curiously into the
apertures in the crust, her sharp face
expressing eager curiosity.
" I'll bet a ninepence she didn't know
enough ter put crackers in. I wish't I
could pet one look, jest ter satisfy my
own mind,'' she added. And determined
to accomplish her object at all hazards.
sue ran a knife deftly around a small
p jrtion of the edge, and inserting four
inquisitive fingers, lifted the brown
crust, and took a glimpse of the con
tents. A look of unmitigated disgust passed
over her face. Dropping into a con
venient chair, she actually groaned
aiouci :
" Well, I never! an' we payin' tuat
man $500 a year besides a donation party
at uiiristruau. uugnr'
Unsuspicious Mrs. Graham as she re
turned with the yeast, was somewhat
puzzled by the sudden frostiness of her
guest, who hurried out of the house as
it some dreadful contagion had haunted
it; but wnen the minister, in carving
cue pie tne ceacon s wiie nad sent,
made two curious discoveries almost
simultaneously, the reason for Patience's
altered demeanor was made plain, and
che young pair indulged in a heartv
laugh that made the old parsonage ring
11 Ke a peai ot Ananssgiving Dens.
The Tuesday following was the regu
lar dav for the weekly sewine-circle.
and seldom had that interesting gather
ing proved so lively and animated as on
tins occasion.
Miss Patience was in the field bright
and early, and it was evident at a glance
to those who knew her best that she was
well nigh bursting with some important
sec. et that she was only waiting a fit
ting opportunity to divulge. That op
portunity was not long in coming, lor
Mrs. Dea. Farrell, who was a constitu
tional croaker, took occasion to say in
reference to the hard times :
"The deacon has been tryin' ter coL
lect te church tax, and he says he
never found money so tight in all the
years he's lived here. It's as hard ter
get five dollars now as it used ter be
ten."
"And no wonder," spoke up Miss
Patience, with the stony severity of a
sphinx. " You can't expect folks ter
feel like paym' out their money when
tiiey see it fairly thrown away au
wasted."
Everybody looked curious, and some
ot tao younger girls began to bridle de
nintiy. ltie minister s sweet young
wife was evidently a favorite with
them, at least.
" W hat do you mean by thatP" asked
Mrs. Deacon, pointedly. " Mis' Graham
is young and inexperienced, to be sure
but,as the deacon was say in only yester-
aay, mo aoes very well indeed, consid
erin'."
Miss Patience tossed her head know
ingly. " I don't want ter say nothin'
to nurt uer, out, imn' next doar as I
do, I can't always help seein' and
hearin' things that other folks can't be
expected to know about, and when I see
an' know things like"
There was an ominous pause, and the
deacon s wile asked, excitedly:
" Like whatP"
"Chicken pies, with the legs and feet
ot tne chickens based in i '
nad a tuunaerooit iaiien among
them, it could not have caused greater
surprise to those tidy, thrifty JNew Knsr
land housekeepers than this dreadful
revelation of the incapacity of their pas
tor's young wife.
"Are you sure of UP" gasped one
matron, breaking the ominous silence.
"1 know it tor a fact." was solemnly
returned.
Chickens' legs in a pie!"
She's a born fool!" ejaculated the
deacon's wife, indignantly, "and I'm
thankful, for her poor husband's
sake, that I sent her over one
of my pies yesterday. It's lucky
that l.e didn't have ter go without
his Thanksgivin' breakfast on account
of her ignorance au' shiftlessness."
How did you know about the pier
asked one of the girls.
Miss Patience bristled defiantlv
luais nooouys business but m
own!" she retorted, tartly. "I don
go round ter find out things that don'
concern me. I d have you know: but
when they're thrown right into mv lace,
as you might say, I d. n't suet my eyes
no more n otner ioiks."
Just here, the door opened, and in
walked the subiect of their conversation,
her pretty face glowinp with the haste
that she had made, and a mischievous
twinkle in her brown eyes, that nobody
noticed, so occupied were they in hiding
the contusion that uer sudden entrance
had created.
Walking up tJ the table where most
of the ladies were sitting, she saluted
them cordially; and then, holding out
upon tlie tip ot one sieaer nngera 'veil
worn silver thimble, she said, archly:
" Where do you think I found your
thimble. Miss Patience P"
So pleased was Miss Patience to re
gain her lost treasure that she had for
gotten for the moment all her assumed
dleniiv. and exclaimed.! ovfullv:
thimble once more! I told Mary Jane
that I felt sure I had it on my finger
when I run into ycur house on Thanks
givin' mornin' arter that yeast. But
when I got home, it wa'n't nowhere to
be found. Now, where did you find it'"
Her shrill, high voice had attracted
the attention of all in the room, and
everybody looked up curiously as the
minister's wife replied, with an innocent
smile :
In the chioken-pie that our good
friend here" and she nodded brightly
to Mrs. Farrell " sent me. I left the
pie on the dresser when I went t own
cellar after your yeast, and as soon as I
came back, I put it on the table, and
when my husband cut it, there was your
thimble ia it. How could it have got
there P It is certainly very mysterious
anyway."
Silence, dead, profoun l. vet. how
terribly significant to the deacon's wift
and her spinster neighbor, fell upon the
group.
This was apparently unnoticed by Mrs.
Graham, who, with a playful admoni
tion to Miss Patience take better care of
her thimble in the future, began an
animated conversation with the ladies
nearest her, and soon restored the com
pany to their wonted ease and good
humor.
lsut poor Miss Patience I She never
heard the last of that lost thimble.
While the deacon's wife, to the dav of
her death, never trusted any hands but
nerown to matce Thanksgiving pies for
her minister. Youth a Companion.
Primitive Agricultural Methods.
Writing from Albuaueraue. New
Mexico, a correspondent says: The
Mexican and Indian methods of har
vesting their grain are verv rjnmitive.
similar, indeed, to those of Eastern
countries in Bible times. The wheat is
cut by hand with a sickle, and taken,
unbound, in carts to the threshin it-floor.
.tins consists ol a round plat of level
grouna in an elevated place, ntty, one
hundred, or two hundred feet in diame
ter, as the farm is a large or small one.
the surface of which is pounded or
trodden as nara as a cement noor.
Around the edges of this, tall poles are
set in tne ground nve or six feet apart,
forming a circle. The unthreshed cram
is piled up loosely in the center, and.
when everything is ready, a thin layer
is raked down between the central pile
of grain and the circle of poles, and then
a flock of goats or sheep, or sometimes
ol burros, or ponies, is driven around
over the grain until it has all been
beaten out of the heads bv their feet.
The straw is then thrown outside of the
circle of poles, and the wheat pushed
up toward the center. Another lot ol
the unthreshed grain is then raked
down, and the operation repeated until
the whole is threshed. I was forcibly
reminded of the Scriptural injunction
which forbade the Hebrews to muzzle
the ox that trod out the grain. The
winnowing is also done in the Biblical
way. After the wheat has been sepa
rate! from the straw, it is gathered up
into a heap, and when a brisk breeze
arises it is thrown into the air in the
teeth of the wind, which blows away
the chaff while the wheat falls by itself
on tne cienn noor. At a distance the
flying chaff looks like steam escaping bv
successive pufli from the exhaust pipe
oi an engine.
The Mexicans and some of the In
dians are beginning to adopt modern
farming implements, and in a few years
iron plows will probably have replaced
the wooden ones that have been in use
here for centuries, and which are
like thoca with which the Egyptians
cultivated the valley of the Nile in the
time ot Moses. I saw one of these
plows, but as this is not the season
when the ground is broken up, I have
had no opportunity to observe its use.
It consisted simply of a crooked stick.
upon the point of which an iron point
was fastened ry means of rawhide
tnongs. xne rueoio Indian carts are
also curiosities. Not a scran of iron is
used in tuc-ir manufacture The wheels
are discs made of boards, with a clumsy
wooden bub on the outside. The tire is
of rawhide, and the body of the cart is
constructed of poles rudely framed to
gether.
Teas find How They Are .Adulterated.
It is pretty generally known that the
orthodox teas prepared in China for
American and European consumption
are adulterated, but comparatively lew
people are aware ot the extent to which
the ad ulteration is carried on, or what
substances are used. M. Hussen, a
French chemist of note, has made a
thorough investigation of the subject,
and the result of his researches has been
laid before the Academy of Sciences.
He finds that Prussian indigo and cvo-
sum, in small quantities, are the princi
pal ingredients employed to impart the
"face," of "bloom," to teas, and that
in the proportions used they are very
innocuous. This adulteration takes
place where the plants are raised ; but
more extensive adulteration is subse
quently indulged in by the Europeans,
wuo, with their superior knowledge,
have surpassed the Asiatics in their
fraud by the use of still more danserous
drugs, such as chromate of lead and
arsenicate of copper, besides making
use of comparatively innocuous sub
stances such as sulphate of iron, stearite,
carbonate of lead and magnesia. The
Chinese have become most expert
in manipulating green teas, which thay
color with a few simple substances some
of them poisonous for example plum
bago, Prussian blue, carcuma and kaolin.
With or without the true leaf of the
shrub, they can produce a tea of any
desired tint. In order to give the in
ferior or false leaf the aroma of the tea,
the Celestials mix a quantity of it with
certain flowers, especially a species of
olive. In short according to M. Mus
sen, no injurioua proceeding is omitted
in the Celestial empire to palm on the
outer barbarian inferior to false teas.
In the leading tea-growing districts the
government nas a corps or inspectors
who are required to see that the goods
are dispatched in pure state. The pre
caution, however, avails little.'for at the
shipping ports there is no attempt to
prevent the merchants or brokers from
committing tlieir fraudulent practices,
which they carry on to their heart's
content. In spite of their knowledge of
the extent to which this adulteration is
carried on, we presume our people will
continue to drink of the cup which is
said to cheer without stealing away a
person's brains. , -
If some men could be sold for what
they think themselves worth, and could
be bought at their actual value, dia
monds would be plenty in the alms
bouses of this free republic.- ifrr(cr4
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion fancies;
Fashion decrees this winter that richer
and more striking fabrics, brighter colors
and more bizarre combinations, shall be
used in the composition of toilets and in
millinery than we nave nad tor many
years. To describe in words the bro
cades, satins, silks, plaided stuffs in silk
and wool, handkerchief goods, chevio's,
serges, flannels and novelty materials
for dresses brought out this winter is
impossible. In fact, not even pictured
representations can do justice to the
present facts in dress fabrics. The
special rage of the season is for plaid
effects. Toward these the index of
fashion has pointed steadilv for some
time, and manufacturers, guided by the
signs of the times, have not hesitated in
tne production ot new and exaggerated
styles. Bold handkerchief patterns, in
wool materials, are produced in everv
variety of combination and effect. Some
times the outer border of the handker
chief square is marked by large plaids,
wnne tne inner portion is nued with
Bmall checks. In other patterns the
plaids cross the centers ot the squares
ano tne small plaids are placed without.
in colors everv age and fancy can be
suited. From the brightest to the grav
est, scarce a shade is unrepresented.
Indeed, to look at the variety of color
combinations and brilliant elects in
fabrics of every kind, one might think
the looms had run riot, were it not that
through all there runs a spirit of order
in disorder, and by tne union of colors
apparently the most incongruous, the
most unique and tasteful effects are pro
duced. Shades of dark plum, garnet,
marine, gendarme, and turquoise blues.
bronzes, old gold, red and green, are all
used in combination witn each other,
producing .bright or sober effects, ac
cording to the predominance of particu
lar shades, and the method of their
combination
The changes which fashion has made
in the make-up of materials this season
are shown more in the minor details
than in the general eflect. In trimmings
a fairly prodigal use is made of black jet,
wmcu is useu in iringes oi unpreceaenieu
- . i t r . r , . . i
width, as well as on those of ordinary
size, and on passementeries, cords,
tassels, spikes, frogs and buttons. fas-
sementeries, especially, are made in the
rlctiest designs with nowers, foliage,
corals and so forth, closely imitated in
the all-pervading jet. Frogs for cloak
fastenings also are made in very elabor
ate designs, representing leaves, nowers.
butterflies, cornucopias, etc. Buttons
this season will be more elaborate than
ever; and those used on outdoor gar
ments are of unprecedented size, many
ot them rivaling the diameter of a trade
dollar. The old patterns are still popu
lar, but genre and odd-shaped buttons
are advancing in favor, and owls, lions'
heads and similar designs are seen with
manv dressv toilets.
Skirts still cling moderately to the
figure, and are trimmed with flounces,
scarfs, hio draperies and loop-back dra-
neries. as well as in straight unlooped
lines. Basques are still worn, but polo
naises are also in vogue, though not so
popular as basques and bodices. Cowls
or hoods, just like a monk's cowl or
hood, appear on many of the new suits
on walking jackets, cloaks, and some'
times even on dolman visites. The dol
man visite, by the way, is the leading
wrap. This winter it comes lined with
colored plush instead of with fur. But
fur-lined and all-fur garments are not
by any means discarded. In fact, they
are the onlv Drooer wraps for the
coldest weather in this latitude. Circle
cloaks lined with fur are alBO to remain
in vogue. This season they are made a
little more shapely by having the back
seam curved to the line ot the ngure,
giving a graceful spring to the garment,
While black wraps continue to be worn
and calied for more than any other,
is observable that seal brown has be
come verv fashionable for jackets, dol
mans and cloaks. Seal-brown plush
jackets and dolmans imitate sealskin to
perfection, and seal-brown cloth, beaver
and chinchilla-cloth wraps trimmed
with seal-brown nlush have all the rich
ness of effect of a real sea-fur trimmed
earment. Jet and other glittering bead
trimmings are used on the richest Sicil-
lienne and damassee cloaking wraps
In fact, tet grows more and more in
favor from season to season. It crops
out o evervthing dresses, bonnets,
hats and cloaks; and for colored dresses
there are bead trimmings of the rarest
artistic merit, showing the colors of
costume or toilet on wmoh they are
ued. ...
In millinery, gold, silver, tinsel, gold
brocaded ribbons, gold cords and braids
gold stauins and golden ornaments
lighten and brighten the plush, velvet
and satin which compose the dressiest
b. nnets. and it is used unsparingly, too,
on furry beaver and plush felt hats.
thricVa Fashion Quarterly.
A. Story from Paris,
During the last year I was in Paris I
heard a very pretty story. A party of
merry, bright-eyed American girls were
at a window looking on to a court-yard.
Soon a seemingly old man crossed the
yard. "That's the Marquis of X,"
said one of the girls. "He lives in a
garret of the house una lives by giving
French lessons." "I'll begin lessons
with him to-morrow," then said one of
the youngest girls. And she 'did so.
She soon perceived that her master was
one of the most polished men she ever
met. He was not over tnirty. want
and grief alone had bent him into pre
mature old age, lor he had an aged and
sick mother to keep, which his earnings
could not always do. What did our
little American girl dor bhe quietly
proposed to marry the marquis. 1 need
not tell you how readily he accepted.
This is the happiest marriage between
a poor French nobleman ana a rich
American girl that I know of. I can
give the number of the house and the
street where the first act of the comedy
took place. The marquis walks now as
straight as any one, and the dowager
marchioness may frequently be seen at
the Bois sitting by the side of her
daughter jn-law, whom she worships.
as well sue may.
Supremacy of the Dressmaker.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, in her lecture
on " Modern Society," strongly portrays
the supremaoy of tne dressmaker oi to
day. The fashionable women say to
her: "Do how you will with me
Make me modest or immodest. Tie un
my feet or straighten my arms until the
use ot them becomes impossible. JJe
Drive mv figure ot all the drapery, or
upholster it like a window frame. Nay,
set me in the middle ot a movable tent.
but array me to people shall look at m
coolies ixi) cocoAsurs.
Ullmpsel at Native Life In the FIJI
IslaiMls-Flctnresqne JUIfe Inthe South
Pnclfle.
Our aninurn on the island for the next
ten days, however, far more than com
pensated for the trouble. The house is
uneiy situated on a spur ovenooKiuis
the bold hills of Vanua L.evu. me
long Undu point closes in tne view to
ward the north, making tne part oi tue
sea visible appear one great ,ake, and
all around us and up the slopes of the
hills and at our feet in the plain, tne
young cocoanuts are waving. Let us go
down to the beach to visit the ma
chinery houses, and thus get an idea of
the work upon an estate oi this descrip
tion.
These vast beans of cocoanuts are
ga hered from all parts ot the island.
which nas a circumierence oi aooui
thirty miles, and after the kernel has
been extracted and dried on the long
catas or tables, or in the steam drying
house, which is the more approved
me. hod, it is packed in bags for trans
port by the inter-island steamers to
Levuka, or by some o' the small craft
which the merchants employ to coueut
tueir cargoes. The pn?e m tlie tsuno
is about $70 per ton. . But after the ker
nel has oeen disposed ot tu miss- is at
tacks d, and by mems of various ma
chines popularly called "devils," it is
torn into the hber oi wntcn it is com
nmpH end n paned of its dust fwhich is
a valuable compost), and turned into
hrintle9 for brusues. or treated as noers
to be pao ted into bales for export
All thn lnhnrers who attend to these
machines are Polynelsans, many ot
them on R mbi being the wild-looking
Tokalaus from the Gilbert and jnarsnau
group. Let us wf tch for a moment the
two wh are from the New Hebrides
tnrnincr the. acrew-nress dv whicu t.e
fiber ia compressed into bales. One of
thpm in f.. survivor of the Carl massacre.
who refused to go home wnen one oi
hor mnipHt.v' a ahips came to repatriate
the remnant who escaped. Three of
them felt that they had had enough of
the sea and incidents, and preferred to
remain where they were. They are
naked black giants, and as they throw
their for.e to turn tne nanuie oi tue
screw, capstan-iasnion, ineir iuusuicb
stand out and the whole frame is a
model ol herculean power.
The storehouse is full of bales ready
for the steamer bv which we expect to
leave, and these find a market in Syd
ile the bristles go to Eng and
We pass along by the laborers' houses,
and thprp wi! find the familiar collies.
and hear again th "Salaam, Svhib,"
r.furi beard when I sojourned in Mary
Una Mr. Hi l is tne onlv proprietor as
yet who has had the good sense to take
up about 108 of the first ship.oad of
Inrt-nn emigrants. iuey wo uuwj
friendly side by side with tbe Joiy
whom thev ter n "Iunglis.'
A curious traino nas aruen Detweeu
Hiom the PoWnesians going out to the
to hunt the wild pigs, which
th y sell to the Indians, who get much
better wages man memueives, iui a uui
lar a pig ; and on the brea"-frait, which
grows in profusion, and other extras,
the coolies ure becoming fat and sleek
' Passing on. we get into a coooanut
rt nrhinh atrptahpa a lonir distance
vtuvc, mivm n n -
. inner t.tm noast. the lap of the fall tide
coming up to the very roots of the first
line of trees, vrn some oi tue irews me
nnt9rfiso thick as to defy comiuta
tion, being indeed too crowded tor
growth. As many as 300 have been
..nimtpri nn one tree, but this is only
when thev are as small as apples, for
Hipo full nhundantlv in the Btruggle ol
tiio fittest to survive. Still further
along the coast we come to othr flats
and valleys which are also being cleared
out for planting with cocoanuts or cot
ton. and it is ea9v to perceive that the
ovnirta from this one inland alone will
in not many y ears.equal the ex ports from
the whole colony when 1 arrived.
On one occasion, when the ladies went
ho hoiit on a picnic to a locality called
(ifi. riria. where the proprietor has
nnniimr house. I walked with Mr. Hud
ter. the chief magistrate of Levuka,
ulnnir the coast a distance which was
stated to be six miles, but which in the
iipar. of the dav. without a breath of wind
in the woods. I took to be double the
riiotnnnn. The immense vatu trees were
shedding their long tassels of pink and
white flowers, which tilled the whole
air with a delicate perfume. The path
passed through timber which, from its
. I. xnmnA Ya vinlinnaa if
the soil, and on our return in the even
ing by sea we had a good opportunity ol
vip.win? the finelv wooded hills, which,
even in the days when Commodore
Wilkes made his survey of the group,
caused Rambitobe distinguished among
Hip wlnnria.
Thfi Tinonee. the successor of the
I'rettv jane, and a steamer more worthy
of the colony, arrived all too soon to cut
short our expeditions lu searcn oi woou
pigeons and wild pigs, and our struggle
at inwn rpnn i wuen iuo uu wm im
Eing behind the mountains of Vanua
evu. She was tilled up with cotton
and copra from the windward, with
hales of fiber from Undu roinc, anu
lies ox nucr iruiu uuuu iviub. muu
hen she had taken in the Rambi bales,
w
with some hundreds of bags of copra
from Vuna Point. J avunt, sue sanea ior
Levuka via Savusavu bay, bearing us
homeward to Ovalau, which, alter all,
can holds ita own in loveliness wim any
island of the group. uontitnporary ue
view.
Ancient fine Linen.
Annordins to the Building JVews a
nippp ot linen has been found on the site
of ancient Memphis in Egypt containing
fi40 nicks to in inch, and it is recorueu
that one of the Pharaohs sent to the
T.vrli&n kinp:. Crce3us, a corselet made oi
linen and wrought with gold, each fine
thread of which was composed of 380
smaller threads twisted together! The
Vonntinna vnni a tohrirv nailed
the "linen of justice," or "justitica -
tion." Bo beautiful ana valuable was it
that. it. was esteemed the most accept
able offering to the " Restorer of Life."
A few hand looms can still be seen at
work in the Eastern bazars of Cairo, the
cloth woven in which rivals in texture,
color and designs the finest glass screens
of Munich.
In the iron ore brought to this coun
try from foreign ports there is mixed
large Quantities of licorice root, and as
cars which haul the ore from Philadel
phia to Johnstown pass Altoona the
bovs of the latter place board them and
gather the rot in large quantities. The
licorice root is better nnd fresher than
that found in the drug stores, and aa it
is a foreign substance-, Abe boys gather
THE SCOUT'S LAST SHOT.
A Frontier 1 raged In Which One White
Man and Thirty Indians Flsnred.
It is ten o'clock in the morning. The
honey-bees are darting over the prairie
in search of the sweet flowers, butter
flies float on lazy wings, and birds are
singing their sweetest songs, it is a
scene of deepest peace. Away to the
right is the Little Hear ttange of moun
tainsto the lelt the prairie ocean ex
tends as far as the eye cr.n reach. Ten
miles ahead is a grove ot cottonwoods
and a spring behind are thirty ball
naked savages on horseback.
Here is a frontier scout as tue pivot on
which the scenery swings. On his way
from fort to fort with dispatches nis
trail has been struck by a war party ot
Pawnees, and they Have nunc to it
since dark last night, following it across
the levels and over the swells at a slow
but never-ending gnilop. Ihey knew
that he was a full hundred miles from
help, and they knew that his bloody
scalp would add another to their
trophies.
xou're a rubbed out manr said tne
scout as ne looked back at dusk and
saw them coming at a slow gallop over
his trail. They could not nave over
taken him in a dash of two miles, but
in a gallop of fifty they would tire him
out.
At an easy gallop of five miles an hour
the mustang forged ahead through the
long and weary night, changing nts
pace only when the rider got down and
ran beside him.
Two miles behind him, riding thirty
abreast and coveting a front of half a
mile, followed the implacable foe. gain
ing a little, loting a little, but ever con.
udent.
When the sun came up from his
prairie bed not a savage was missing.
The scout turned in his saddle and
counted them, lookel ahead for land
marks, and coolly said :
"You took tne chances and you nave
lost, but you will die game."
The mustang was almost blown. For
the last half hour he had labored heavi
ly, i nd had almost been held up by the
bits.
The grove would have been a better
place, but the end would have been the
same," said the scout as he drew up and
dismounted.
The Indians were two miles away. In
ten minutes they would be within rifle
shot. " Good-bye, old pard I must do it,"
said the scout, as he took hold of the
mustang's head and drew his knite
across the faithful equine's throat.
He wanted a breastwork,. and here he
had it. Two minutes were time enough
to cut bridle and saddle to pieces, and
then he mounted thebedy of his dead
friend and calmly waited the approach
ot the Indians.
No shout of triumph was sent across
the prairie as he was brought to bay.
That nad been a strange chase. They
had suddenly appeared on nts trail with
out a sound, seeming to rise out of some
fisfure in the flower-covered prairie
Nat once through the long night bad the
scout heard from them except as he
dropped from the saddle and placed bis
ear to the ground, cut lor the steady
thud! thud! ot their horses' feet he
might have almost made himself be
lieve that he was being pursued by
shadows.
" Sixteen bullets in this Winchester
and six in the revolver," soliloquized the
srout as the Indians were within a mile
of the spot. Did they mean to ride him
down? Each rider was bent over his
horse's neck, and each kept the paoe he
had had tor hours.
My sculp is worth the sculp of ten
Indiana!" said the scout as he raised his
rifle, " butmebbe I can't get over six or
si ven.
Straight at him rode the line of thirty
redskins until tie raised his rifle tor a
dhot. Then the band divided right and
left nnd inclosed him in a circle. Not a
hout from any tongue. It might have
been called a still hunt.
The line was out of ride-shot at first,
but it gradually worked nearer and
nearer, end at last tr e report of the
scout's rifle broke the stillness of the
morning.
"Twenty-nine leltl" he? said as he
threw out the empty shell.
Not a shot came lrom the Indians in
reply. Every warrior threw himself on
the opposite side ot his horse, and the
tin rdy ponies followed the circle at a
steady gallop.
' l wentv eight left!" said the scout
as he bred again
No shout or shot in reply, but the cir
cle was growing narrower.
" Twenty-seven left J"
J. hree et the horses in the ring were
galloping without riders.
" i wenty-six letti"
The scout bad fired coollv and de
liberately, shooting every victim
turougu tne tieao. ins rme nad a
longer range than thosj of the Indians.
but now they were near enough to open
in reply.
" 1 wen ty-rive left!" he said as another
savage tell into the grass with a wild
scream of rage and pain.
r ive oi tue tnirty were dead . hows
yell runs around the circle, and every
horse turns nts nead toward tue com
mon center and charges the scout.
rum bang I puni bang! bang!
nangr
ihree norses went down ana two
more riders tell backward from their
saddles
fwentv-three left!" counted the
scout, as he dropped the gun and leveled
his revolver,
They were upon him. They shot at
him, struck at him, and tried to ride
over him.
"Puff! bang puff! bang!"
Five shots struck men or horses, and
when the hammer fell for the sixth time
it sent the last bullet into the brain of
the scout.
Nine Indians were lying dead around
I the PIVOt. three more
the pivot, three more were wounded,
1 and five or six horses were disabled. All
"J Be;i owuu u wo t"" j. ;
shooting a brave man's dead body full
of arrows, cutting off head, hands and
leet, ana shrieking like demons as the
blood spurted far over the rich green
grass.
W hen they rode away the body was a
shapeless mass. It would rest there dur
ing the day, and when night came the
woives would come sneaking from hid
den ravines to devour it to the last morsel
and then fight over the bloody grass.
Uarox'. tree tress.
i sss-gBssr
Salmon fisting on the Columbia river.
Oregon, is very dangerous, owing to
certain tidal peculiarities. Two hundred
men at least are reported as lost during
the past season. Over 800 boats aia
employed by the canning companies'.
Lore Is Enough.
Love Is enough. Let as not s ek'for gold.
Wealth breeds false aims, and pride and
s lfishness;
In those serene Arcadian days of old
Men gave DOtiought to prinoely homes and
dress.
The gods who dwelt In lair Olympia's height
Lived only lor dear love and love's delight.
Love is enough.
Love is enough. Why should we care to
fame?
Ambition is a most nnpleacant gne j
It lures us with the glory ot a name
Far from the nappy haunts of peace and
rest.
Let us stay here in this seoluded place
Made beautiful by love's endearing grace!
Love is enough. .
Love is enough. Why should we strive for
power T
It brings men only envr and distrust.
The poor world's homage pleases but an hour,
And earthly honors vanish in the dust.
The g.andest lives are ofttimes desolate;
Let me be loved, and let who will be great.
Love is enough.
Love is enough. Why should we ask for
more?
What greater gift have gods vouchsafed to
men?
What better boon ot all their precious store
Than our fond hearts that lovej.and ilove
again T
Old love may die j new love is just as sweet,
And life is fair and all the world complete;
Love is enough!
Ella Wheeler-
HUMOROUS.
General Hancock's pay" as a major
general is 7,(00 per year.
When vour opponent calls vou a liar.
let him have the floor. New York News.
There are 1.000 pupils in the mission
ary Sunday-schools of Lucknow, India.
Help somebody worse off than your
self, and you will find that you.are bet
ter off than you fancied.
Rebecca: Yes; when a young lady
goes crazv" over dancing, we think
she could consistently be called hop
ping mad. Yonkers Statesman.
Railroad accidents have their use in
the world. They give thousands of
young husbands an excuse for not tak
ing their newly-wedded wives upon a
bridal tour.
A ffentleman'saw an old Hiirhlandpr
one day fishing with a bent pin. He
said to tue man: "fish will never be
caught with that." " Aye, they will,"
the man replied. " if they'll onlv take it
into their heads."
"Shall we dan ce.P" asks the Syracuse
Stindard. If you step on a carpet tack,
or run your shin bone against a rock
ing chair, when in search of the sooth
ing syrup, you will dance without ask
ing any questions. Rochester Herald.
The room was poorly lighted;
He couldn't see, he said.
And when he tried to.kiss lior mouth
He bit her noso instead.
Peoria Trantcript.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
and a newly-married Philadelphia man
is experimenting with an electrical
apparatus by which a party on an upper
noor can near tne nre in the kitchen
without coming downstairs or getting
out of bed.
The Lowell Covrier isn't Drinted on
the sea-coast but it knows somethiug
about lighthouses, just the same. It say.-:
Lighthouses are of great bene tit to the
sailor, in preventing him from being
wrecked; but a succession of light
houses is sure to wreck the theatrical
manager."
So you enjoyed your visit to the me
nagerie, did youP" inquired young Silla
bub ot bis adored one s little sister.
"Oh, yes. And do you know, we saw
a camel there that screwed its mouth
and eyes around awlully,nnd sister said
it looked exactly as you do when you
are reciting poetry at the church socia
bles." Fonicr's Gazette.
"Did you hear about that bov being
washed ashore?" asked Gilhooly of one
of the most" prominent citizens of Gal
vfston. "No; when did that happen P"
This morning." "How was HP'
He was washed ashore by his mother.
You don't suppose she w. uld take him
out into the middle of the Gulf of Mex
ico, do youP - OalveUm News.
When you meet a' 'young man! who is
smokingacigar.it ii your duty to 6top
uim, and say: " xoung man, that cigar
contains acetic, formic, cutyric, valeric
and proprionio acids, pruasic acid, creo
sote, carboiio aoid, ammonia, sulphuret
ted hydrogen, pyridine, virodine aDd
rubidene, to say nothing of cabbageine
and burdockio acid." lie may stick to
the cigar,: but you. have done your duly
in the premises.
I assure you. gentlemen." said the
convict, upon enteringithe.prison, " that
the place has sought me, and not I the
place. My own aaairs really demanded
all my time land attention, end I may
truly say that my selection to nil tl.ia
position was an entire surprise. Had I
consulted my own interests I should
have peremptorily declined to serve,
but as; l.Lam in the hands of my friends
I see no other course but to submit."
And he submitted. Buton Transcriit.
He stood, a bronzed and battered lorm,
Within'an old embrasure warm,
And leaned upon a oannon old,
Hall sunken in the fragrant mold;
Then, turning from the rusty gun,
With help ot crutch he tottered on.
A sweet girl-luce looked np at him,
Aud s wee' eyes scanned his aspect grim,
And sweet voice said, in, quaver low,
" Oh, gallant warrior, do not go,
But tell me tell me where you tought
And where these i tearful, wounds were
wrought.
Wert smitten in the furious tide
That drenched in blood the bastion's side?
Or fought upon the slippery deck
And sangJdefliiDce from the wreck?
Or waved the starry banner high,
Bravely resolved to do or die?"
''Hold on, young gul!" the vet ran said ;
'! am a white washer by trade;
ynever fit; this trouble is
Inflammatory rheumatiz!"
Andrmi' Quten.
" That pie lookVreal (neat, Sally. JJ
" Well, I declare, I am glad to lee that
Bunaay tiournai.
and say I look well."
It out ana eat it.
ando ver,ow men at tue canneries.