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VOL. XXXVI. XO. 25.
the
Century Magazine.
With the Xnvfinlier, 1MT. iwix- TliK Crs
tnrj' ntniRM-noFK 3-th volume ith m Tttf
u!r tirrulstit.n ilm,t 2..kki. The War
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8ii"vcy tlie Miiiticul ctxiditiun ol tlie (nan
try, Teat hes a new iit-riotl with whirli hi
HKcretarieit ere muxl mtiniately acquaintetl.
I tiefc r tlie otjitiou
LINCOLN IN THE WAR,
the writers in w enter tin llie more import
ant wrt of thfir narrative, viz : the early
yearn of ti.e War. and freaitknt LincolD
part therein.
SUPPLEMENTARY WAR PAPERS.
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tnittvy ol tin.1 War."
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SOMERSET, PA.,
THE WILD FLOWER.
Up and down the land I go.
Through the valley, over hill :
Fan and flail I never wield.
Leave no hayrick in the field.
Fanner goes with leather scrip,
Fills the harrowed earth with seed ;
In tlie self same score I slip
tsjrrat of many a lusty weed ;
Though I scatter in his track,
I possess no bin or sack.
He sows wheat and I sow tare.
Rain and sunshine second toil.
Tame and wild those acre share.
Wrestling for the" right of soiL
I stand by and clap my hands.
Cheering on my urchin band.
Mine the cockle in the rye,
Thorned thistle, large and fine.
And tlie daisy's white-fringed eye.
And the dodder's endless twine ;
Mine those fingers five that bind
' Every blade and stock they find.
Mine the lilies hot and bright,
Setting summer meads on fire ;
Mme the silk weed's spindles white.
Spinning Autumn's soft attire,
roldeii rod anil aster then
I bring up by baud and glen.
Whoso t!e-t h to the wuods.
Whoso buihleth on the plains,
I, too, seek tlwwe solitudes,
leading on my hardy strains ;
' Thorn ami briar, still man's lot,
Crowd around the frontier cot.
Many serve unaware
Shaggy herds that ceaseless mam,
And the rovers of the air
Passing to their winter home;
More than these upon me wait .
Wind and water bear my freight.
Thus, a sower I will go.
Trafficking with every clime,
.Still the fruitful germs I sow
That shall vex your harvest time ;
Otherwise, you toiled-stopped men,
Eden's ease were come again !
Jow aal of Eiliiralimt, liotton.
HOW THE MONEY WAS LOST
AND FOUND.
BY Jt'LIA A. RAHINE.
"Io let me go, tio," pleaded little
Reuben Ihtvis. " Please, Brother Na
than." " No ; I can't he bothered with you,"
returned Nathan. " I don't want any
babies 'round where I aui."
" Babies, indeed !" said Reuben, indig
nantly. " As if I were a baby ! You
ought to be ashamed to say such a thing,
Brother Nathan. You know I chopped
wood all last w inter.'
"Wood? Ho, ho!" answered Nathan,
with an irritaling laugh. "More boot
and toes than wood, I should imag
ine." At this taunt, which alluded to a mis
hap of Reuben's of which he was not a
little ashamed, the littlo fellow turned
quickly away, and walked along the foot
path which led to his home.
It was a raw, cheerless day in early
spring, nearly ninety years ago. rour
boys were sitting on a huge log, which
lay upon the ground just at the point
where the foot-path to the Davis Carui
met the main road.
They had a daring scheme in view,
promising great fun, in which little Reu
ben lunge I to join ; but stern fate, in tlie
person of his brother Nathan, forbade.
"But then," as Moses Llavis often said,
Nate might as well give up first as last,
for, when Reub had made up his mind
to do anything, he alius did it, some way
or 'nother."
" Why don't you let him go, Nate 7"
asked Hiram Cole, a short, fat boy, with
beady black eyes.
'Cause I ain't a ruin' ter," answered
Nathan.
" He won't do a mite of harm," said
Josiah Yanium. " For uiv part, I'd kinder
like to have him along. He's alius so
good natured."
" Well, if he goes I won't, that's all,"
said Nathan, and the boys said no more ;
but Moses thought that, when the time to
go came, neither .Nauian nor lieuoen
would stay behind.
There was an old cabin standing by
itself on a hill, perhaps a mile from where
the boys were sitting, which had long
had the reputation ot being haunted.
The man w ho built it had been taken
prisoner bv the Indians. His end was
never known. His wife, through grief
aud anxiety, lost her reason. She lived
for many years, a harmless lunatic, wan
dering about the country, living upon
what people chose to give her. until, one
cold winter morning, she was found dead
frozen to death upon a snow-drift be
fore her door.
After that, no one ever lived in the
cabin. The door had fallen from its hin
ges. The w indows had not a whole pane
remaining iu the sashes. The loneliness
for the cabin stood on tlie edge of a
thick forest and its ruined condition
were enough to give it a bad name ; and
there was not a bov in the vicinity who
would willingly pass by it alone, especial
ly after nightfall.
There had been more said about the
cabin tlutn usual lately. Some boys,
pawing by on their way from a "sugaring
off" late at night saw, or said they saw, a
strange blue light issuing from the win
dows, and heart! moans and clanking of
chains.
Nathan iHivis was fired with sudden
desire to solve the mystery ; and he ea
sily persuaded his brother, Moses, Hiram
Cole, and "Stab Yarnum to spend a night
with him in the haunted cabin. The
boys had carried firewood and kindling
and pineknots to the door, in order that
they might have fire and light ; and they
had a supply of butternuts to crack, corn
to pop, and even a few cakes of maple
sugar for a treat, while waiting for the
ghost to appear. "
They felt a little doubtful of obtaining
the approval of their parents, and had
concluded to dispense with it.
We will slip out after the folks are
asleep," said Nathan ; " and then, if we
don't find anything, nobody need be
any the wiser, and, if we do find oat
sutbin, they'll be so glad they wont
care."
"Where shall we meetr asked HH
ram?"
Here's as good as any place," answer
ed Nathan.
" Time to go home now and do the
chorea," yawned Josiah. " After all, I'd
'most as anon stay at homo and go to
bed-"
You always were a sleepy-head," re
. arDed Nathan. " Hadn't yon better ask
your inarm to get yna a cradle?"
And then the boy separated and
set
ESTABLISHED 1827.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1887.
went to their homes. When Reuben left
the others, he harried along the narrow
path through the dense forest, his bosom
swelling with indignation.
" III go anyway," he said to himself.
" I alius get ahead of Nate, but I don't see
what makes him so cross. If he'd only
be pleasant to me, I'd do anything he
wanted me to."
He looked up through the leafless
branches of the tall trees at the dull gray
sky.
" I blieve it's goin' to rain," be solilo
quized. . It was not yet a year since CapL Davis
had brought his family to Hanover.
Hitherto they had lived on a small farm,
stony and unproductive, in one of the
Massachusetts coast towns. But the pre
ceding snmmer he hail secured a 1 irge
tract of land, mostly woodland, not far
from Dartmouth College, of which he
hoped in time to make a productive
farm.
" Twill be hart! work and short ra
tions at first, mother," he siid to his
wife. " Children and all mast take hold
and work like beavers ; and by and by.
God willing, we shall have a good
time.
And they had worked hard. Even
Reuben, though not yet twelve, bad
chopped wood in the forest until an un
lucky blow with the axe had nearly cost
him two toes, and put a summary end to
his labors.
.Mrs. Davis and her daughters spun
and wove homespun cloth, and made the
clothing ami knit stockings for the fami
ly. Their food was the simplest Every
penny w as saved ; for a payment of one
hundred and fifty dollars was due in the
spring, and it was not easy to find the
money to meet it
CapL Davis had sold wood in the vil
lage, and stabled some of the horses be
longing to the students of the college ;
for in those days when there were no
mil ways and but few stage routes, the
students used to .ride on horseback to col
lege at the beginning of the term, and
this was one of the many ways by which
CapL Davis hail added to his scanty sup
ply of money.
When Reuben reached home he paus
ed for a moment on the threshold, sur
prised at the unusual sight which met
his eyes. The kitchen, s usual, was
sjiotlessly clean. The fire burned bright-
ly in the great open fireplace, a pot of
steaming hot bean-porridge swung fro in
the crane, aud in a bake-kettle before
the blazing lire a johnny-cake was
baking.
But Mother Davis sat crying Reuben
hail never seen his mother cry before,
Capt. Davis looked pale and stern. Polly
and Sally looked on with consternation
in their faces, and the great chest, in
which all the family treasures were kept,
stood open, and its contents were strewed
about the floor. . ,
" I don't see how it could ha' happen
ed," Bobbed Mather Davis; "I hain't
never left the house alone as I know
ot"
" Don't you remember, mother, you
walked up the road a piece the other
evening, when the cow got out?" said
Polly. '
" Well, I wa'nt gone but a few min
utes." " It was long enough for the mischief
to be done," said Capt. Davis.
" But w ho could have taken it?" asked
Sally.
"I don't knaw as it makes much dif
ference who took it ; the money's gone.
And day after to-morrow it was to have
been paid. Unless we can find it I am
afraid we shall lose the place."
"Can't yon borrow it somewhere?"
asked the wife.
" I don't think much of borrowing ;
and, besides, I don't know where I could
get iL"
" Don't you think maybe some of the
boys took it for fun T asked Polly.
"Oh, no," said Reuben, coming for
ward now for the first time. " I am sure
they didn't."
" Oh, you're there, are you?" said the
father, sharply. " Well, you see what's
happened. The money's gone. I didn't
mean any of you boys should know it
just yet ; and, since you've found it out
for yourself, you may keep it to your
selt" .
"I won't say a word about it, sir, nntil
you give me leave," said Reuben. " Did
they take the mitten?"
"Yes; small loss that is beside the
money. What did you want of the mit
ten r
"I only thought," said Reuben "thaL
if they took the mitten ami we should
find it again, it might help us find the
money."
" Mebbe it would," replied the father.
"You look sharp for a mitten, will
you?"
Pretty soon the other boys came in,
and the simple supper was quickly serv
ed and eaten. Then CapL Itavis brought
out the great Bible ami read a chapter,
and offered a fervent prayer ; and then
the family began to prepare for bed.
There were but two rooms in the Da
vis farm house ; the big kitchen or living
room, in w hich the cooking was done,
and where a bed for Mr. and Mrs. Davis
stood ; anil a smaller room opening from
it, where the loom upon which Mother
Davis wove was "set up," and which
also held a bed for Polly and Sally.
There was a trundle-bed for the little
ones, Ira and David, in the kitchen,
which was rolled under the big bed out
of the way during the day, and pulled
out into the middle of the room at night
Over all was the loft, reached by a ladder
and a trap-door from the kitchen, where
the older boys slept.
Nathan and Moses sat down by their
window after bidding the family good
night, and waited nntil everything was
still. Then they crept softly through
the window, out upon the roof of a little
shed which adjoined the kitchen, and
from that swung themselves . to the
ground. Reuben, who hail been feigning
sleep, quickly followed, and, keeping
well out of sight, ran along a little dis
tance behind, until they were joined by
the other boys, and had reached the
cabin. Even then, he waited outside un
til they had struck a light and started a
fire ; and then be walked boldly in. Mo
ses laughed loudly.
" If you ain't here, Reub!" he said. " I
knew you'd do it"
"What business have you here?" said
Nathan. "You just go back where you
Catnefrom." .
" Shan't," said Reuben, composedly. "I
guess this is a free country ; and I have j
as good a right to the road as yon have,
or to this cabin, either. Go back your
self, if yon like it"
" Reub is ahead again," said the latter.
" Here, Reub, take hold and shell some
corn," said Hiram.
Nathan, muttering that he " wished the
ghost would catch and eat Reuben," be
gan cracking butternuts vigorously ; and
for a time the boys were too intent upon
eating to find time to talk. Reuben grew
sleepy very soon, and curled himself up
in a corner, where a huge chimney made
an an angle with the wall and shaded
him from the bright firelight, and quick
ly fell asleep.
As the older boys found their appe
tites for butternuts and popped corn di
minishing, they began to tell stories to
pass away the time. It was quite natur
al, but not very wise, that they should
choisse ghost stories ; and one boy after
another told some blood-curdling tale
nntil their hair almost stood up straight
with fright
" Keziah Wood," said Hiram, " that
lives to our house, says she used to work
for a family that lived in a haunte 1
bouse. She says it was awfuL Every
night about midnight, they used to hear
chains clanking overhead and a blue
light would shine out Hark ! Boys,
what's that?"
. The boys listened. Yery distinctly
they heard, in the loft above them, the
clanking of heavy chains. They looked
at each other with pale faces. Their hearts
almost stood still. Somehow, it seemed
very different to hear those voices at
midnight in a lonely cabin, from hearing
them in full daylight at home.
Nathan was the first to rally, feeling,
perhaps, that his reputation for courage
was at stake.
" Hadn't we better go np and see what
it is?" he asked.
But at that moment the cabin was
flooded with a strange, blue light ; and
the boys, looking toward the opening
which gave admission to the loft over
head, saw plainly i human skull, look
ing very terrible in the ghostln, blue
light, seeming to float in the air, midway
between the ceiling anil the floor.
This was too much. The boys tum
bled out of the ra.tin and ran lor home,
never stopping to take breath nntil they
reached the foot-path which led to the
I "avis farm. When they halted there,
both were too badly frightened to go
home alone. So they went on with Mo
ses and Nathan, and climbing np the
shed and in at the window of the loft,
lay awake for hours, their teeth chatter
ing w ith fear.
As soon as they were fairly away from
the cabin, two rough looking men let
themselves cautiously down from above,
and peered cautioosiy around.
'All gone, Bill, asked one.
" Yes, Tom," returned the other.
" Twon't do for rts to stay here any
longer, said Tom. Soon as they tell what
they saw the old folks will suspect mis
chief, and the game will be up.
" We're safe enough for to-night," said
Bill, "And well get off early in the mor
ning. Money's all right, ain't it V
" Guess so," said Tom. " May as well
look and see."
And. going to the fireplace, he stooped
down and lifted one of the bik-ks from
its place in the hearth.
Little Reuben, wakened by the sound
of strange voices, had crunched back in
his corner, fearing to be seen, and listen
ed eagerly to every word. Now he drew
carefully forward and peeped around the
corner, a great hope springing up in his
heart
The backs of the two men were toward
him, so that he could not see their faces;
but by the light of the fire, he saw Tom
put his hand in the open place left by the
displaced brick and lift up the mitten
he would have known it anywhere, he
thought) in which his Cither kept his
money.
"Yes, it's all here," said Tom. "May
as well put it back now, and well Is off
early in the morning."
They replaced the mitten, and then sat
for awhile by the fire, eatiug butternuts
ami corn which the boys had left. Ren
ben drew back in his corner, but not un
til be had caught a glimpse of their faces,
and recognized them as two men who
had been seen in their neighborhood sev
eral times of late, ostensibly looking for
work, but of whom Capt Djvis had said,
"They were after no good."
Reuben listened to their conversation,
and learned from it that they had escap
ed from prison in a neighboring state and
that their plan was to push on through
the woods to Portsmouth, where they
hoped to get passage on some vessel
bound to England, trusting to the money
they bail stolen from his father to supply
them w ith the necessaries for the jour
ney. "They shan't have iL" thought little
Reuben. "I'll get it some way." But
although he made dozens of plans, none
of them seemed feasible.
He found that they had been living in
the cabin for nearly two weeks. They
had trusted to its reputation for secrecy,
and by burning the blue light hail hoped
to keep alive the story of trie ghost. The
skull they had stolen from the medical
college. But, as we have seen, they had
overdone this part, and hail opened the
way to discovery.
At last Bill said, with an oath, it was
"time to turn in." Tom swung" himself
into the loft, and tossed down pair of
old blankets ; and, wrapping themselves
in thef, the two men threw themselves
down on the floor, and were soon asleep.
Reuben waited until be was sure both
were sleeping soundly. Then he crept
out from his billing place. He stole softly
to the hearth, with tre nbling hands
pried np the loosened brick, caught up
the mitten with its preciouscontents, and
slipped quietly out at the door.
The night was dark ; and the rain
which Reuben had predicted in the after
noon, was falling. He heard no sounds
but the dropping rain anfl the beating of
his own heart He was no coward but
he had long, lonely walk before him ;
and he knew, if the men discovered him
they would kill him. And he groped his
way along, listening every now and then
to hear if he was pursued, in an agony of
terror.
Meanwhile, the other boys were tossing
uneasily about, finding sleep impossible,
and still full of fright at what they had
seen.
" Boys," said Mosses, suddenly," we've
forgot Reub." .
" That's a fact," said Josiah.
"What can we do?"
eraic
I
" Oh, darn him ! " cried Nathan. "Why
couldn't he stay at home as he ought
er?" "Well, we've got to do something,"
said Moses. " Twon't do to leave him
there alone all night."
"There's nothin' f r"t but to go and tell
father the whole story ."answered Nathan
" I'd rother be licked, but there ain't no
other way."
After a little deliberation, the boys
crept down the ladder am' roused Capt.
Davis, whose surprise turned to indigna
tion afThe heard their story.
" You cowardly boys ! " he said. Hav
ing led your little brother into danger,
you were to selfish too help hiiu at once.
The Lord onlv knows into what hands
he may have fallen."
"Do ym think the ghost would hurt
him, sir? " asked Josiah.
"Ghost!" said Capt. Davis angrily
"No ghost made the noise you heard
to-night. The dead do not come back
from the grave to frighten silly boys. It
was the work of bad men for their own
evil purposes."
He had struck a light and was dress
ing hurriedly as he spoke. Mrs. Davis,
pale ami anxious, sat up in bed; and
Polly and Sally, wakened by unusual
sounds, peensl futively through their
half-opened door.
" (Set the lantern ready, Nathan," com
manded his father. " We must lose no
time. And, M.wes, ran to neighbor
Chase's, and ask him to accompany us.
I fear my son Reuben is in peril of his
life."
But, as be spoke, a loud, knocking
was heard athe outer door, and Reu
lien's voice calling :
" Let me in ! O, father, let me in ! "
And in another moment, the little boy,
all drenched with rain panting for
breath, was in his father's arms.
" See, father," said he, breathlessly,
" I've got it, I've got the money. It's all
safe here." And half crying and half
laughing, thrust the mitten into his fath
er's hand.
As soon as he was a little calmer and
had somewhat recovered his breath, he
told his story. And from that inoineut
be became a hero in the eyes of his
brothers. Even Nathan forbore to tease,
and was never known to -ea.1! Reuben a
baby again.
CapL Davis went immediately for a
constable, hoping to arrest the men be
fore they got away. But he was too late.
They had probably missed the money,
knowing they were or would lie discov
ered, and already escaped, and were not
seen in Hanover again.
So the money was paid when due and
('apt. Davis kept his farm. He did not
punish the boys for the deception they
had used, because he said good came out
of evil ; but they were all quite cured of
any desire for further nocturnal expedi
tions. The man who owned the land on
which the cabin stood had it torn down
when he heard of Reuben's adventure,
saying " he did not wish to shelter
thieves." And this was the end of the
' Haunted House of Hanover." Chris
tum l!fijtrr.
The Coroner's Welcome.
A man who had just moved to Nebras
ka with his family was called on before
breakfast the other morning by a tall
stranger.
" Mornin' stranger," said the Nebraska
man. " Jest movin' tn, I see."
"Yes, sir."
"I understand:that one of your sons
was mysteriously killed a few months
ago?"
"y.o, sir, you are mistaken."
" Am ? Well, that's curious. But
your wife tried to drown herself last
spring? "
" No, sir, she didn't."
" But one of the gals took pizen an'
died 'bout that time ? "
' No."
"Ah, wrong again? I understood
she did. Your whole family is sub
ject in Cillin' sickness an' such I'm
told?"
"You've been wrongly informed my
family is perfectly healthy."
" Gosh, that's funny! But say ain't
there been a good many violent and un
expected .deaths in the family some
where?"
" Never, one."
W ell. vou shot a man bout a vear
ago I got that straight ? "
" No, sir, I never did."
" Well, well. I must have struck the
wrong hoitse somehow there's such a
family jest moved in 'round here some
where. You see I'm county coroner, arT
I'm very anxious to make their acquaint
ance anil tell 'em that they're welcome
an' if they care to indulge in their speci
alty I'll see that they have jest as slick
an inquest as was ever held in Nebr.isky !
trood-by stranjer! " (.Ttiotgo Trilnru.
"Heaven is My Home.'
An editor died and wentKtl his way
down to where he supposed a warm re
ception awaited him. The devil met him
and said : For many vears thou hast
borne the blame of bad spelling that tlie
printer has gotten off in the paper ; the
paper has gone out at one dollar and a
half a year; alas! the one dollar and a
half has failed to come in. The printer
has betleviled thee for wages every Sat
urday night for wages when thou hadst
not a darn farthing to thy name. Men
have taken thy paper without paying for
it, and cursed thee for not jretting up a
lietter paper. Thou hast been called
deadhead by freight conductors when
thou hast showed thy annual pass to his
envious gaze. All these thou hast bonre
in silence. Thou cans't not come in
here. And he fired him. And as be did
so, tne devil murmured to nimseit:
Heaven is thy home, and besides, if I
had lift him in here, be would have
been dunning bis delinquent subscribers
and thereby raising discord in my king
dom.
He Did Not Get Away.
""You never smoke or drink, do yoo.
George, dear?" she said. " You know I
could never marry a man who drinks and
smokes."
George in broken hearted tone of
Toire admitted that he drinks and smokes
a little.
But pair of white 27-year old arms
were around his neck in a moment
" Never mind, Georare," id the girl ;
"perhaps my wifely indue are will induce
you to give it up."
Li. O
WHOLE XO. 1808.
A Dot in the China Sea.
The little Wand of Footoo, one of the
Chusan group, about 1-10 miles. from
Shanghai and flirty from Ningpo, is) a
beautiful little dot in the China sea, some
four miles square and sacred to the priest
hood and worship of Buddha.
Perh t the main object of the Chinese
pilgrim in visiting Pootoo is to hear what
the oracle has to sey to the temple ; for a
fortune told here is supposed to be delin
eated by the grvut Bn Idha himself. Chi
nese pay handsomely for these manifes
tations and every white man doing the
island is supposed to have his fortune
told. The business cissta about two or
three dollars, aud is marked with consid
erable ceremony ami ingeniousneto.
The great golden idol of the temple
holds in his right hand a sort of cornuco
pia tilled with numbered bamboo sticks.
On payment of the fee the otlicia ing
priest makes obeisance to the deity and
waves incense before him, which is fid
lowed by some hidden machinery mak
ing the hand rattle np the sticks ami
drop two or three. These are reverently
picket! up and thecotnbination decipher
ed, written out on fancy paper and han
ded to the customer.
The writer has lie for; him one of these
manifestations translated verbatim by a
Chinese office Isiy. Though rather ob
scure, it is not altogether devoid of an
element of the encouraging and poetic.
it runs thus : i
" The joss say you come the time au
tumn. I tell you I compare you as a
stork ; then you gel fair wind you fly up
to heaven ; no, any bin! can pass you."
A Remarkable Flock of Sheep.
Mr. S. J. Jenkins, Dresden, Germany,
in treating n(n the merits of the Saxon
Merino sheep, writes in the Aiivrurmt Aj
rirnlturiM for December :
" Perhai the most remarkable flock of
Merino shee;i in the world is to Is? found
at Lcutew itz, near Miessen, in Germany.
Here have b -en bred for four generations
of men the desrendents of the fatuous
importations of Spanish Merinos to Sax-
onv in 17jo and !,.,. Like ail other true
Merinos, these were in the beginning
small ami hardly animals, yielding a
small titiantitv of verv fine wool, but
having no great value as mutton. Now
tiiey average in weight : rams, two hun
dred and twenty to two hundred and
sixty-five ponnds. and ewes, one hundred
am! fortv-tive to one hundred and seven
ty-five pounds; and the unwashed wool :
from rams, seventeen t twenty-three
pounds, ami from ewes, thirteen to fif
teen pounds. In the mutton the fat is
well mingled with the muscle, ant! not
accumulated in edible masses, and its
quality is now regarded as approaching
the Southdown. The unsurpassed fine
ness of the Saxon fleeces is recognized
everywhere.
" These results have been accornplbdi
ed thro'Jvh a firm purpose, persistently
carried forward during a period of eighty
years. Although soil and climate have
favored the development of these sheep,
the chief success is due to the intelli
gence and persistence with which the
original plan ha been followed. Neither
the present proprietor, nor the genera
tions before them, have ever allowed any
other interests to interfere with the pur
pose with which from the beginning
they hail set before themselves, viz. to
breed the perfect sheep and to obtain in
every animal the largest possible quanti
ty of wool ujon a frame easily fattened."
Etiqutte by the Hired Girl.
" Madame," he began as the door open
ed, " I am selling a new book on etiquette
and deportment."
" Oh, yon are !" she responded. "Go
"down there on the grass and clean the
mud off your feet."
- Yes 'em. As I was saying, ma'am, I
am sell "
" Take off your hat ! Never address a
straniie lady at tlie door without remov
ing your hat."
" Yes'em. Now, then, as I was say
ing" " Take your hands out of your pockets!
No gentleman ever carries his hands
there."
" Yes'em. Now, ma'am, this work on
eti "
" Throw out your cud. If a gentleman
uses tobacco he Is careful not to disgust
others by the habit."
" Yes'eiu. Now, ma" im, in calling
your attention to this valuable "
" Put your dirty handkerchief out of
sight anil use less grease on your hair.
Now you ltsik half way decent. You
have a book on etiquette and deportment
Very well, I don't want it. I am only
the hired girL Yon can come in, how
ever.and talk with the lady of the house
She cailed me a liar this morning, ami I
think she needs something of the kind."
Thought He Was Too Personel.
A housemaid, after being a short time
in her place, gave warning. Her mistress ,
ssked her wh.t sh 1,,.,1 to fin,l f,.lt
with; w:is work too hard, or what? No she
hail nothing to complain of on that score
but she could not stan 1 being prayed at
by the master at morning prayers.
M!tnM i tomtit lire) What fin Surth
,, , ,
do you mean, Mary ? Your master does
not pray at any one.
" Oh. yes, he di-s, mann ; he prays at
me every day, ami I won't stand it any
longer."
" What does be say, then ?"
" Why, he says, "O Lord' who hatest
nothing but the housemaid." " -
Mistress, after a little reflection and
further inquiry, ascertain that Mary has
thus interpreted "Oh Lord, who hatest
nothing that Thou hast made."
A Too Practical Age.
Ie Poultice h how often I
sighed for th hnve day nf old.
have i
Alas
that I should have l-een born into a
purely practical age when my whole soul
longs for the stirring life of a media?val
knight
Miss Kulalia (admiringly) How sad it
is. Yon wmild !ok splendidly in a suit
of brillitnt armor.
Young De Poultice Do you know, I
think I must have inherited my love
for exciting struggles, martial si-enes and
hand-to-hand conflicts. It seems born
in roe arm l cannot get rul ot it t n,
how I would like to
At this point the interesting eonversav
tion was suddenly cut short by the heavy
tread of Miss Eululia's father on the stair
and Young De Poultice disappeared
through s side door into the back alley.
Bill Nye Fox-Hunting.
We are too apt to regard P.ix-hnntin
merely as a relaxation, a source of p!eas-
i ire, ami tlie renlt of a desire u do the
i way peupvt(, in novel which we steai
i from the English authors, hut this is not
all. To sisTeful!y hunt a fox, to jump
j "ensss country like an uimi'v steer is no
child's play. To ride all day on very
hot and restless saddle, trying to lope
while the horss is tmrtin, giving yocr
friends a gnmi vjw of the. ejonrnr h-
! tween yourself and vntrr hore. then
leaping stone walls, breaking yoorcollar
bone in four places, pulling oat one eye
and leaving it hanging on a plum tree, or
going home at night with your transverse
colon wrapped around the pommel of
your saddle ami your liver in an old
newspaper, requires the greatest cour-
Men who can do this must be cool and
self-possesw.1. They are generally men
who are prompt to act in case of danger,
and often discover and allude ic a shrill
voice to a tire in a rrowded theatre years
before anybody else knows anything
alioirt it.
Too much stremcan not be placed upon
I tb(J twtlllm. worn while fox-hunting, and
in fact that is, after all, ue life ami soul
of the chase. For the ladies nothing
I)oks better than a chwe-fltring jacket,
sewed together with thread of the same
shade, and a skirt. Neat fitting cavalry
boots and a plug hat complete the cos
tume. Then, a hith a hue in one hand
and a cry in the other, she Is prepared to
mount Lead the horse up to a stone
wall or a freight car anil spring lightly
into the saddle with a glad cry. A freight
ear is the best thing from which to mount
a horse, hut it is t nnwieldly and fre
quently delays the chase. For this rea
son, too, much luggage should ntt be
carried on a fox-hunt. Some gentlemen
carry a change of canes, neatly conceal
ed in a shawl strap, but even this may
be dispenses! with.
Fot gentlemen a dark, four-button, cut
away coat, witb neat loose fitting white
panties, will generally scare m fox into
convulsions, so that he may easily be
killed with a club. A short-waisted plug
hat may he worn also in order to distin
guish the hunter from the whipper-in,
who wears a base ball cap.
The fox-hound is a crmwof the blood
hound, the greyhound, the bulldog and
the chump. When you step on his tail
he is said to lie in full cry. The foxhound
obtains from his ancestors on the blood
hound side of the house his keen scent
which enables him while in full cry "cross
country to pause and hunt for chipmunks.
He also obtains from the blood hoand
branch of his family a wild yearning to
st.tr in an "Uncle Tom" company, and
watch "Little Eva" meander up the flume
at $2 per week. From the greyhound he
gets his most miraculous speed, which en
ables him to attain a rate of velocity so
great that he is unable to pause during
the excitement of the chase, frequently
running so far during the day that it
takes him a week to get bark, when, of
course, all interest has diet! out. From
the chump the foxhound gets his high
intellectuality and that mental power
which enables him to distinguish, almost
at a sight the salient points of difference
between a 2-year-old steer and a $
bill.
The only fox hunting I haveeve'r done
was on board an impetuous, tough-bitted
for-and-aft horse that had emotional in
sanity. I was dressed in a swallow-tailed
coat, waistiistt of Scutch plaid Turkish
toweling ami a pairof clisse fitting breech
es of etiquette tucked into my boot-tops.
As I was away from home at the time
and could not reach my own steed. I was
obliged to monnt s spirited steed, with
high, intellectual hips, one white eye and
a big red nostril that you could set a
Shanghai hen in. This horse, as wsn as
the pack broke into full cry. climbed over
a fence that had w rought iron briers on it
lit in a cornfield, stabbed his bind leg
through a sere and yellow pumpkin,
which he wore the rest of th day, with
seven yards of pumpkin vine streaming
out behind, and away he dashes! 'rrossj
country. I remained mounted, not be
cause I enjoyed it, for I did not, but be
cause I dreaded to dismount I hates! to
get off in pieces. If I can't get offa horse's
bark as a whole I would rather adhere to
the horse. 1 will ail here that I did
so.
We ditl not see the fox, hut we saw al
most everything else. I rememisr among
other things, of riding through a hot
house and how I enjoyed it A moming
scamper through a conservatory when
the syringes and jonquils ami jack ruses
lie cuddled up together in their little beds
is a thing to remember and look bark to
am! pray for. To stand knee-deep in
glass and gladiolas, to smell the mashed
and niusseil up mignonette and the last
fragrant sigh of the scrunched heliotrope
lieneath the hoof of your horse, while
farawav the deep-mouthed baying of the
hoarse hounds, hotly huggingthe reeking
frail, of the anise-seed bag, calls on the
gorgeously camparisoned bills to give
back their merry music or fork it over to
other answering hills, is joy to the
huntsman's heart.
On, on I rode, with my urwonfined
locks streaming behind me in the Au
tiitun wind. m and still on I sped, the
big. bright pumpkin slipping np and
down the gimbrel of my spirited home
at every jum . On and ever on we went
shedding terror and pumpkin seeds along
our glittering track till my proud steed
ran his leg into a gmpher hole and fell
over one of those machines that they put
on a high-headed steer to keep bim
from jumping fences. As the horse Ml
the necklace of his hickory yoke flew np
and adjusted itself around my throat. In
:tn instant my st-ed was on his feet
again, and gayly we went forward while
! ttK' P of tni barbarous appliance
ever and anon plowed into a brand new
j i-nlvert or rooted up a clover field. Every
time it ran into an 'orchard or a ceme
tery it would jar my neck and knock me
silly. But 1 could see with joy that it
' reduced the speed of my hone. At last,
, , -
as tne sun went uown, reluctantly, it
seemed to me, for he knew that he would
never see such riding again, my ill-spent
horse fell ith a hollow moan, curled op.
gave a pasmodic quiver with his little,
nerveless, sawnd-off tail and died.
The other huntsmen sueeeeiled in tree
ing the anise-seed bag at sundown, in
time to catch the 8 o'clock train home.
Bilt A in .V. Y. W.,rtd.
Everywhere the Same.
Wherever Gilmore's Magnetic Elixir is
introduced it lea, is all other remedies for
' the cure of coughs, colds, hutraeness.
bronchitis and all affection of the thrust
ami lungs. It will relieve the worst case
of asthma in one minute. Regular physi
cians endorse it as a first class sprvinc fur
the purposes for which it is prepared.
Bo rnard Salisbury, of Humphrey Centre,
Cattaraagus Co, -V Y" writes: " I have
tried it in my family and find itsplenilid.
We keep it constantly on band and would
not keep house without it" At this sea
son of the year all persona are liable to a
cold, which one or two small doses of
Gilmore's Magnetic Elixir will relieve at
one.
Modesty and the dew love the shade.
Each shine in the open day only to be
exhaled in heaven.