.She mti XtplXlax. u runj.isijKi) F.yruY wkdnesray, i a-, xj. wnwit OFFICE IK tOBINSOS & BTODUB ELM STREET, TTOHrSTA. PA. Rates of Advertising. Ono Pfjuare (1 im-ii., (mo Imrtion - Jl Square ' mm month - - 3 Oil OneSipmre " three months - 6 00 OnoSqnnro " nne ywr - - 10 00 Two Squares, one year - 15 Co Quarter Col. ' - - - - "0 00 llalI- t . r,o oo One ......... 100 00 I.epa.1 notices at established rates. Mirringd and death notices, gratis. All bills for yearly advertisement col lected quarterly. Temporary advertise ment must l paid for in advance. Job work. Cafh on Delivery. TEHMf 1.B0 TEAR. No Subscriptions received for a shorter riod tlmn threa months. 'oi rpspondfincn solicited trom all part l (lu country. No notice will betaken imonytuous communications. VOL. XIV. INX). 28. TIOKESTA, PA., OCT. 4, 1881. $1.50 Per Annum. The Boys And (ilrls. God wants the boys, the merry, merry boys, The noisy boys, the funny boys, The thoughtloss boys God wants the boys, with all their Joys, That he as gold may make thorn pure, . And teach them trials to endnre; Ills heroes brave He'll have them be Fighting for truth And purity. God wants Tnn boys. God wants the happy-hearted girls, .The loving girls, the beet of girls, The worst of girls God wants to make tho girls his pearls, And so reflect his holy face, And bring to mind his wondrous grace, That beautiful Tho world may be, And filled with love And purity. GoD WANTS THK CIIRL8. Su.nday-tch.ool Time. HELEN HYDE'S GOOD DEED. ""Yen," said tho doctor, solemnly, "she shows every indication of going into a deoline. Rest, relaxation, change of air and scone that's what she ought to have I" Mrs. Dardanel looked perturbed. "Dear, dear," she said, "what a pity. And sho's Quite a pet of mine, too. dear little thing. She is very quick with her needle, and really ingenious and the way she puts trimmings on a dress posi tivclr reminds one of Madam Antoine herself." " The Seaside cottapre would be tho 1 luce for her," suggested Dr. Midland. " Y.m are one of the lady patronesses, I believe, and " " Yos. but the Seaside cottage is full," paid Mrs. Dardanel. " Not au inch of room uuoccunied. I had a note from the matron veeWday !" " Ah, indeed?" said the doctor, fnm blinsr with his watch-seals. "Unfor tunate very." " But." cried Mrs. Dardanel, an idea suddenly occurring to her much bo puffed and bofrizzed head, "there is Mrs. DaKKett's farm, a few miles further down the shoie. She takes boarders for five dollars a week, and I believe it is a very nice place. If you think it ad visable I will take a month's board for the girl there. I really feel as if th dear little thins: belonged to me." " An excellent plan, madam, an excel lent plan." said the doctor, oracularly " I have no doubt but that a month of sea air would make quite a different terson of her." Helen Hyde could scarcely believe her own .ears when Mrs. Dardanel beam in civ announced her intentions. " The seashore I" she cried, her pale face flushing all over, " the real sea Oh. Mrs. Dardanel. I have dreamed of it all mv life. And for a whole bright, long summer month I Oh, how shall I ever thank you 1 "Bv eettinp: well and strong as fas as you can," said Mrs. Dardanel, leally touched by the girl's innocent enthusi asm. " And here is a ten-dollar bill for vou." she added, with a smile. " You may need some little trifle of dress, or there may be a drive or a picnic or an excursion going on, in which you will want to participate. No, you shall not give it back it is a present from me. and I choose that you shall keep it." Helen Hyde's heart beat high with delightvhen first she saw the Daggett farmhouse, a long, low, red building, with an immense stack of chimneys, a cluster of umbrageous maple trees gar landing it about with shade, and a door yard full of sweet, old-fashioned flowers, while in full sight of the windows the Atlantio flung its curling crests of foam along the shingly shore. Mrs. Daggett welcomed her warmly; she bad been Mrs. Dardanel's housekeeper once, and knew the value of that lady's patronage. " I've just one room left, my dear," said she. "Under the eaves of the house. It's rather small, but it's fur nished comfortably, and there's a fine view of the ocean. I could have given you better accommodations if I had re ceived Mrs. Dardanel's letter a day earlier. But four young ladies, teachers in the Ixwood institute, came yesterday, and I'm sleeping on a sofa myself in the parlor. But we'll make you as snug as possible, and the very first good-sized room that is vacated you shall have." And Helen was very happy in her lit tle nook, from whose casement she could see the sparkling plain of the sea, all dotted with white sails. Mrs. Daggett was a driving, ener getia business woman. Farmer Daggett vas a vacant, honest-faced man, who 'nvariably fell asleep of an evening, with his chair tipped back against , the tall and every available inch of the house was filled with summer boarders, mostly ladies. There were only three masculine appendages to the house be sides its master a superannuated clergyman, whose parishioners clubbed together every summer to treat him to . six weeks' vacation a literary man of large aspirations and small income, who had come thither for rest and op portunity to study up the " skeleton " for Lis next novel, and old Mr. mi mini It was some time before nelen Hyde fairly comprehended who old Mr. Mif flin was. A bowed, bent over little man, with silver hair curling over the collar of his coat, a milled shirt like the pic tures of our Revolutionary forefathers, and dim blue eyes which glistened from behind silver spectacles, he shuffled in and oat to his meals aftep an apologetic fashion, and sat all tho long brit ;ht af ternoons under the maples, staring at the sea. Who is that old gentleman ? she at last ventured to ask Mrs. Dsiggett. That lady frowned, impatiently. " It's old Daddy Milllin " said sue. " And I wish it was anybody elua 1" " Is he a boarder ? asked Hele n. " Well, he is and he isn't 1" rather obscurely answered Mrs. Daggett, who was picking over currants for a pud ding while Helon sat by and watched her. . " But he won't be here lonf i You see, my dear, he hasn't any fi lends. When me and Daggett came down from Vermont and bought this place we got cheap because of old Mr, JMimin. We was to give him the northeast cham ber, and they were to allow us so much a month for his keep. It aint every body, you see, as would be willing to have an old man like that around tne place. But he's harmless and i'anccent enough, and I won't deny that t he two dollars a week helped along. But now E rices have pone up, and Breezj Point as got to be a fashionable locality in summer time, and things are altered. And. what's worse, his folkshave loft off sending the money." " I wonder why r' said Helen, with her large dreamy eyes fixod pityingly upon the old man, who sat in his Ufiual place under the maples, wistfully wateh- ng the sea. , " They're dead, p'r'aps," said "Mrs.' Daggett. " Or, p'r'aps thoy ve got tired of him. Anyhow, it's three months fince we ve heard a word, and me and Dag gett have made up our minds we can't stand it any longer. So we're goio g to put him on tho town. Lawyer Boxall says it's legal and right, and the? can't expect nothing else of us. cquiro Sodus is to bend Ins covered corryall next Saturday, aDd old Daddy Mifflin '11 suppose he s gni::g for a ride. And so things 11 go oil all smooth and pleas ant." " Smooth and pleasant I Helen Hyde looked across the grassy lawn to the little old man with bis mud, ab stracted face, his ruffled shirt front, the silver hair that glistened in the sun shine, and tho white, claw-like fingers that slowly turned themselves backward and forward as he sat there. He owned the vlace once, said Mrs. Daggett, " but his sons turned out bad. and he indorsed for Squire Sodus' cousin, and lost everything And here he is. in his old apre, without a penny 1 WThat is it, Becky? The oven ready for the pies? Yes, Ira coming." And she bustled away, leaving Helen alone. A sort of inspiration had en tered inl o the girl's heart as she oat there with the briny smell of the ocean filling her senses, the rustle of the maple leaves murmuring softly over head. She took Mrs. Dardanel's ton dollar bill from her pocket and looked long and earnestly at it. She thought of the little one-horse carryall, which she and the eirls from the Ixwood m stitute were to have hired together to drive over the hills and glens, all those sweet, misty summer afternoons; of the excursion to Twin Rock by steamer, upon whioh sbo had counted; of the new black bunting dress, which she had decided to buy. She must abandon all these little darling extravagances, if she lndulered this other fancy 1 " As if there could be any choice," she said to herself. And then she got up and went softly across the grass and clover blossoms to where " Daddy Mif flin" sat. " Do you like this place ?" she asked, softly. "It's home, my dear," he answered, seeming to rouse himself out of a rev erie: "it's home I I've lived here for eighty odd years. I couldn't live any where else. " But there are other places pleas- anter!" " Tfc niav bo. mv dear, it mav be. ho said, looking at her with troubled eyes throucrh the convex lenses of his glasses, But they wouldn t seem the same to me!"- Helen went back to Mrs. Daggett, who was baking pies and rolls and strawberry shortcakes all at once ! Mrs. "Daggett," said she, " here are $10 which Mrs. Dardanel gave to me to do as I pleased with. And I please to give it to you to keep old Mr. Minlin here five weeks longer." " Mercy sakes alive ! said Mrs. Dag gett, " he ain't no kin to you. is he ?" No," said nelen, " but ho is so old and feeble and friendless, and and- pleaso Mrs. Daggett take the money. And perhaps by the time that is gone I shall be able to send a little more. My employers are going to pay me gener ously in the city, and I feel myself grow ing better able to work every day." So Helen Hyde adopted the cause of one even poorer and more friendless than herself, and for a year she paid the two dollars a week steadily, and Mr. Mifflin never knew what a danger had menaced him I At the end of that time the old gentle man's grandson came from some wide, wild region across the sea, a tall, dark eyed young man, with the mien of a prince in disguise. ' My father has been dead for a year," he said. "And his papers have only just been thoroughly investigated, so that I have recently learned, for the first time, that there is an arrearage due on my grandfather's allowance. 1 hope he has not been allowed to suffer" " Oh, he's all right," said Mrs. Dag gett. " We've took excellent good care of him." "You are a noble-hearted woman," said the young man, fervently clasping1 her hand, " and I will see that you are no loser by your generosit y. "It ain't me," said Mrs. Daggett, turning red and white, for Helen Hyde, now spending her second summer at the farmhouse, sat by quietly sewing in the window recesB. "I'm free to allow that me and Daggett got out of patience and was goin' to put him on the town, but Miss Hyde here, one of our boarders, she's paid for him ever since." " I beg your pardon if I have inter fered," said nelen, blushing scarlet as the large dark eyes fell scrutinizmgly on her face, " but he seemed so old and so helpless, that " Clod bless von for vonr noble deed I said Ambrose Mifflin, earnestly. But there was something in Helen s manner which prevented him from of fering any pecuniary recompense to her, " My grandfather will need your cares no further," said he. " We have been fortunate in our Australian investments, and I am prepared to buy the old farm back again and settle here permanent- IJv ........ And when Mrs. Dardanel began to think about getting her winter ball dresses made up, she received a note from Miss Hyde, which ran as follows: "Dhab Mrs. Dardanel : I am sorry to disappoint you, but I cannot under take any more orders. For I am to bo married next month to Mr. Ambrose Mifflin, and we are to live at the Dag gett farm. And, oh ! how proud I should be if you would come here and visit me next summer, when the roses are in bloom and the strawberries ripen. Ambrose is all that is nice, and I shall have the dearest old grandfather-in-law in the world. Affectionately, "Helen Hyde." And'ail this life romance had grown out of Helen's month at the seaside. In Iho Xew lork Cat Market. A number of Maltese cats and kittens occupy cages at the entrance to a curiums basement in Liberty street. When they are not asleep they mew dismally and plainly long for the liberty of a house top or a back ience. " Can it be possible that any part of this community buys cats ?" the keeper of the basement was asked. He was unable to answer at once, for a man brought in just then a barrel full of stale bread. The dogs of all varieties in the basement clanked their chains and yowled, the poultry crowed and cackled, and the cats, too, mewea ana looked anxious. "Do people ever buy cats?" the dealer was asked again. "Well, somewhat," he said. "Ive sold 400 Maltese kittens in the last three months." What are the ruling rates for cats now ?' " Maltese kittens bring from three to five dollars. The old cats don't sell so well, because they are not so likely to stay at home and keep early hours, arid the disreputable habits of the Toms hurt their sale a Rood deal. The kit tens, though, are in demand." " Where do they come from ?" " These are Ohio cats. They come in crates from Alliance. " Are they bred there ?" " Thoy run wild as common cats do here, and are causrht for nothing. Toey cost us here about a dollar or a dollar and a half." " Who buy them?" " People passing here on their way to the ferry often stop in and get a cat or something. No, 1 never had an old maid here, or even a lady of any great age except once. Some of our best custo mers are in Virginia. We have orders for fine cats at from $8 to $10 from Richmond, and for dogs too. The Mai tese are plenty, and the demand is good; but if we could only get Angora cats, we could sell them at a rush at about 850 apiece. There are few of them in the city." " Is there any sale for what are called common cats ' by some people, and harder names still by others ?" " Not to speak of. People would be glad to get rid of them. But they are just as good mousers as well-bred Mal tese kittens. JSew xorn bun. Population of Africa. Poople who have forgotten their school statistics may be surprised to learn that the population of Africa is much greater than that of North and South America. We are apt to think of Africa as mostly desert and wilderne33, with here and there a few tribes of Arabs or villages of negroes. Beyond the borderland with which civilization is familiar, it is natural to think of the inhabitants of Africa as few and far be tween, like our Indians. As a matter of fact, Africa is much rilore thickly in habited than America. Authorities which set the population of the latter at 84,542,000, give the former 203, 300,000. In the Soudan the population is rated at 80,000,000, one town on tho Niger containing 90,000 inhabitants. East Africa is rated at 30.000,000, and equatorial Africa is rated 40,000,000 souls, it is estimated that tne mem bers of the negro race number 130,000,- 000. Manv of the tribes, says our au thority, are above the condition of sav ages. They have fixed habitations, though merely mud huts, defended by stockades, and they have some laws or customs favorable to commerce. Among several tribes the native merchant is greatly esteemed, and property is safe even during the war. The land is cul tivated ; the inhabitants wear dyed cotton clothes; gold and iron are in geniously manufactured, and a certain kind of intelligence seems to be very slowly upreading. now does Father Ti"ie travel ? Bi cycles, of course. FACTS ASD COMMENTS. The White Houso cellar has been converted into a curiosity shop, with a miscellaneous collection of traps sent on from all parts of the country for the benefit of President Garfield. There are at least twenty-five beds, including one which is five and one-half feet long, and was sent all the way from Minne sota for the accommodation of a man over six feet high. A Michigan man sent a cage with two white mice to amuse the President's children, and a lady in the remote west contributed a stuffed humming bird "to relievo the monotony of the sick room." The Chinese government, for some reason not stated, recently issued a de cree commanding its subjects to abstain from shaving the head for a period of 100 days. Detected in the act of dis obeying this arbitrary regulation, be tween fifty and Bixtv persons in the city of Foochow alone were on the eleventh of June sentenced to receive castigation with bamboo rods and to pay each a fine of 3,000 cash ($6). It is stated by the local journals that before liberation the heads of the offenders were, as a wholesome warning to others, carefully painted and varnished. The flow of Italian emigration to this country is comparatively small, and one reason is that South America has proved a more attractive region for them. The Argentine republic already contains 500,000 Italians, and they constitute more than one-half of the population of Buenos Ayres. . They lately opened ami carried on successfully an industrial ex hibition. in which the raw and manu factured products of the country and the machinery and mechanical mvcu' tions chiefly used by the Italian rear dents were brought together. The re suits were astonishing to the native Spaniards. The Italians seem likely at no distant day to become the dominant people of the South American republic as the English-speaking races are of tho United States. Some people have such odd ideas of a loke I A man on board an Australian steamer iust leaving Plymouth Harbor shouted: " Man overboard I ihe lne- boat was lowered, but became entangled, and two men were drowned. As nobody, except the two, were missing, it was be lieved that somebody shouted " man overboard " for " the fun of it." Again, a peaceable man was walking the streets of New York, when he heard a man say to another in an excited manner : "Let me o I'll have his heart's blood Breakintr away from his companion, he approached the peaceable citizen, raised his clenched hst, and then whipped out his knife. The citizen cut his hand in struggling with the ruffiian, but finally knocked him down. Upon being taken before a magistrate, the rowdy explained that he was " only fooling a little. The American express company has introduced into New York the system of harnessing three horses abreast, after the fashion of the London omnibuses, The change has been made on two of the wagons for an experiment, with very satisfactory results. The wagons are supplied with two poles instead of one, and each of the three horses is attached to a separate whifiietree. This is found to be a decided improvement over the system sometimes used of putting one horse in shafts and another at each side, The harnessing is practically the same as with two horses, with two poles in stead of one. The experiment is tried upon the wagons that deliver goods in the upper part of the city, not only be cause the loads are frequently too heavy for two horses, but to enable the dnv ers to make up for lost time with an m creased rate of speed, when from any cause they are delayed from the start Garfield's wonderful power of endur ance under the operations perfoimed upon him recalls other instances of the kind even more marvelous, as having oc curred in days when surgery was far less skillful and humane than now. Lord Peterborough, the conqueror of Spain under Queen Anne, underwent the moBt frightful operation known to science when past sixty, and a week later started on a journey across Europe with post-horses, feeling no ill effects whatever. Nelson, naturally sickly, and having already lost an eye and arm, was struck at the battle of tho Nile by on iron splinter, which literally ripped from the bone the entire flesh of his upper face, leaving it hanging like a veil over his eyes and mouth, yet ho not only preserved his consciousness during the dressing of this horrible wound, but actually continued to direct the course of the battle. Luigi Oornaro, the famous Venetian senator, nephew ol the celebrated Doge of that name, having broken the bone of his thigh at eighty-three, bore the setting of it without flinching, and subsequently re covered the full use of the limb. Equally resolute, though loss fortunate, was Duke Albrecbt, of Austria, who, when the court surgeon shraDk from operating upon his diseased limb, placed the edge of a battle ax on the joint, and with one blow of his mace drove it right throug h He survived this primitive surgery only three days. A German statistician reckons that the world contains 1,455,926,000 inhabi tants, or 16,778,000 more than it did a quarter of a century ago. He allots 834,7U7,000 to Asia, 315,929,000 to Europe, 205,679,000 to Africa, 95,405, 000 to America, 4, 121,000 to Australia Polynesia, and 82,000 to the Polar regions. FOR THE LADIES. Aluerlne Oddities. In going about Algiers, what strikes one most is the endless variety in the ostumts of the inhabitants Jews, Arabs, Kabyles, Mozabites, Negresses, etc., all dressing differently, .and in bright, beautiful colors. The Arab women with the haik and white veil covering all but their dark eyes, look like ghosts gliding in and out or the crowd; but when at home they, too, dress in a gorgeous way. The jewels they wear are quaint and of a very rongh beauty; for, if the stones are real, they do not mind of their being full of flaws, and irregular in shape and color ; their pearls are rough, and the Arab women grease them that their color may be yellow ; the diamonds are set in lead, which give them a dull, heavy look. We went once to an Arab wedding, and as both the families were rich, the dresses and jewels worn by the ladies were most splendid. The bride herself a roor little thine of fourteen looked anvtuiriff but happy, seated on a cuBn ion on the floor, while her mother and professional dresser, painted, poW' dered, and gilded her face, plaited her hair, and then dressed her up in costly clothes, with all the family jewels heaped upon her. All the time her toilet was eoiDtr on, three frightful ne grosses played and sang wild Aran music close to the bride s ear, ana others, down stairs, uttered the curious cry of joy which is a sort of trill on one high note. Little garlands of white jessamine blossoms were given to every one, and when all was ready she was led to her husband, who was waiting her in an other room. He was a very ugly man, more than twice her ago, and when the poor little bride saw him she burst into tears in a most pitiful way. We wished very much that an artist could havo been with us, for there were so many beautiful Arab ladies sitting round on divans and cushions; but as no man ex cept a near relation may see a woman unveiled, our wish was a vain one. On our way downstairs after the wedding, we saw the servants of the household seated in a ring on the floor, eating from one large dish of conscoussou, which is the principal food of the Arabs; it is made of the emonle of Algerian hard wheat, and if only mixed with good butter it is very nice to eat. But what the Arabs eenerally give us is made with bad butter, and it is almost impossible to swallow it, however much we wish to please the kind giver, who stands close by, urging us to eat more, and almost forcing it into one's mouth in his hospitality. Matters were not mended by a friend of mine, who dex terionsly conveyed the rancid morsels into a handkerchief on her lap; for as in a hasty search for coppers the con tents of the handkerchief were scattered over the upturned faces of an expectant crowd, it must somewhat havo dimin ished the satisfaction which her ap parent eood appetite had afforded her host. Leisure Hour. Fashion Moles. The Jersey glove is a late novelty. India cashmeres will be much worn. Campagnared is a new name for brick dust. ' Floral cake decorations are coming in vogue. The dressiest evening toilets are sleeveless. Fine cut black jet never goes entirely out of fashion. Plain hosiery in dark solid colors are the highest style. Moire antique is the leading silk nov elty trimming this fall. Shaded plushes come in a brilliant style; the colors are very effective. One of the novel styles of plush goods has furrows running across the material. The splendors of the loom were never more dazzling than they are for the Au tumn season. Pointed girdles of watery silk or vel vet are to be worn with woolen gowns next winter. Dotted plush belongs to the delicate style of goods ; it is extremely ngni, and is admirably finished on. Tiger plush comes from the past ; it is a lovely texture and combines very handsomely with satin merveuieux. Black gros grain silks begin to appear once again, combined with black watered silk or moire and satin striped fabrics. They have, however, never gone out of style with a certain class of tho most fashionable ladies, who prefer quiet colors and plain, elegant toilets. Large Gypsy hats are worn, trimmed with wreaths of scarlet berries and deli cate clematis blossoms, and tied down with long scarfs of black Spanish lace, which are wound gracefully about the throat, and then carried down to the belt, where they are fastened by a spray of berries. California, which once so distanced all other States in the production of gold and silver, now stands second in the list. Colorado is the banner State, having produced last year $23,000,000 worth. Nevada, which led during the decade ending 1880, now stands third, having produced last year $15,000,000. California being second with $19,000, 000. Following in order are Utah, Da kota, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and New Mexico. The young belles of New York are becoming vaccinated, and as there are plenty of young doctors there to do the work they are correspondingly happy. Compensation. For every leaf of green, A golden leaf ; For every fading flower, A ripened sheaf. For every parching beam, A drop of ra:n ; For every Bunny day, The stara again. For'overy warring wave, A pretty shell ; For every sound of woe, A joyous bell. For every pawing care, A mother's kies : And what could better be, Dear child, than this ? Georqt Cooprr. HUMOR OF THE DAT . A put up job preserves. The sorrel nag is a horse reddish. What is that which no man wishes to have, and no man wishes to lose? A bald head. Adam is the patron saint of the West o m pork raisers, because ho had the llrst spare rib. What word is there of five letteis, from which, if you tako away two, you leave six ? Sixty. " Water-melon-choly scone," said the small by when the farmer s dog chased him out of the patch. Modern Argo. , It is a grave offence to rob a soldier when on duty. The other night, how ever, a sentry was relieved of his watch. Be careful about trusting a - secret to "old father Time, for there is a proverb, you know, that Time will tell. Somer- )- T 1 When a man outs plenty of provisions in his will they should amount to a val uable legal currency at current prices. lYTiteling Journal. "There's always room at the top," said tho customer when he saw the way the grocer filled the measure with po tatoes. SiAitbenriUe Herald. When the Emperor of Russia yawns, those about him look in awe upon the wonderful czar-chasm whioh he dis plays. Detroit Free Press. An exchange suggests that perhaps the reason why' a Moscow paper was re cently suspended was that it aotually published an item or news. A What is that which, if you divide into two parts, you have only one-quarter remaining. Did we hear you murmur fifty cents? Yonker'a Statesman. Some men when thoy go to church, never think of studying the frescoing on the ceiling until the collection plate is being passed around. Norristown Her- U.K. Dame Fortune is blind, but her daughtor, Miws Portune, has her eyes wide open and can easily lay holdjof ( the wisest ol the eons oi men. uoston Transcrijit. Yon can't always judge a man by the coat he has on hia'baek, but a policeman can make a pretty shrewd guess on a man whom he sees getting out of a clothing-house window with a coat on his arm. Saturday Night. A Snake as a Teothiujr Ring. Mr. Robert James, who arrived in this city yesterday from Chicot county, tells of a horrifying incident whioh he stated has jast taken place in that county. A farmer returuing at noon from the field, whils passing through the yard, discov ered his little boy, about a year old, sitting near the fence with one end of what seemed to be a leather strap in his mouth, while with both hands he held the strap near the middle. Approach ing the father was horrified to find that that the child held a snake, and the snake Bquirmed, but the little fellow pulled and closed his mouth as tightly as though he were trying to bite off the serpent's bead. The father seized the child and tore the snake from his hands. The snake was of the black species, and though not poisonous, might have wound its body around the boy and choked him to death. This would seom to settle the old.dispnte as to whether or not a human being's fear of a snake is innate or tho result of education. It may have been that tho child was teeth ing and wanted something to bito, and in the absence of rubber or a painted stick adopted the snake as a substitute. Those who naturally feel an interest as to the fato of the snake, may rest as sured that it was killed. Mempli Tenn.) Appeal. Superstitions or Whale Tinners. At the present day it is the common est thing in the world for whale fishers to burn an effigy in order to "bring luck." If the ship has fallen in with few whales the crew attribute their bad fortune to their having some unlucky individual on board, and by burning his effigy thoy believe that his niahu in fluence is got rid of. The most unpopular man in the ship is generally picked upon as the offend ing party. Sometimes two or three pictures are burned, one after anothc. if luck is very bad, and on an average one is burned in each whale ship every season. t The practice is a very old one, nd is said to have taV en riwo from u bimilar custom which prevailed among tbo her ring fibbers of Banffshire, by whom it was introduced on loard the Peterhead whalers. A century or two ugo not merely effigies, but living mn and women were burned on nupieion of casting a blight upon the herring fish ery. L,and and Water.
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