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Uu.Hlea on the Farm.
Sb painted them oa gadtsvs
Witbarapr, mnl-tnir;
She wort tLeiu lu hrr bodloe
Anil in Ler raren balr.
She tbouKht farm Ut'e idyllic.
Ami Mul its ereatit chArtp
Wa lent it liy the dali.
The ilaiales oa the fjvrm.
"Do yoo not love the dalsiea?
To the farmer's Mia .he eatth
Bat all the prxire he uttered
Wan underuvatlt bit breath.
It Mounded envrtic.
Rut It-It a Ta.ui- alariu
That he did nut 1ot the dauie
The dainiee oa the farm.
She read to him a poem,
A pajitural cumplete;
lie serrnad uuMVUipalbetir,
Though hrr voite wan rery sweet.
With srue ripreHd emrtioa
Hm lace grew ilark and warm,
For Its burUro wan the daisiea,
Ihe iluisi.a. n the farm.
S n the charminR Hummer boarder
To her city lmme returned;
Fi'r a miui i.f hl-her lonumn
lier ;ri lit-ti.- nature Teamed.
And the lai luer'w 1011, uud'Auntixl,
Vlth hitKcyitte iion hin arm.
Went to t.attle wirl, the ilaisirs.
The dairies ou the. farm.
A SOLDI EKS SWEETHEART.
"Gooil-by!" It was a mutlneas of
farewella. The two stood lookinir Into
one another!) eyes with blanched faces.
Would he ever come bock? Her wide
eye.t trrevv desol.tte olio looked at
him. Then the lashes drooped over
them aiid she l.iy uiotIonles auinst
Lis brea.sc for a 5ecud, ad though the
spirit had died within her.
"Jeannette is this the girl fitted to
be a soldier's wife? Have you no re
gard for my honor?" His lips quiv
ered, but his eyes looked down uihh.
her proudly.
"Yes." She roused herself bravely.
"Your duty is at the front. 1 would
not hold von back."
Mi placed her hand on the bunch or
pansies at her throat; royal beauties
they were, with great velvety hearts of
jiurple Htivl it il.l.
They are uiy colors." she whispered.
"Vear them, uiy knight, and be true
to your lady always."
Her trembling tinkers pinned them
inside his c wit.
-God be with you." She kept the
tears back, smiling m;his face, though
the drum-beat sounding in the street
below seemed like a death-knell. It
was the signal to start. The signal
for the volunteers, the brave men who
were off for the Indian war the dread
ful war that had come like a blight
.upon her beautiful Western borne.
"Good-by, and God bless you! The
Iaonies w ill bo my talisman.
A last look In the dreamy, lifted
eyes, and he was away, riding down the
street with a da.-h and a clatter into
the midst or the excited men who were
armed to the teeth, well mounted and
equipped, leady to meet on his own
battle-ground the Indian Chieftain and
bis war-like band.
The most intense excitemeut raped
in the mining camp. Ever since the
news bad come that the old chief was
on the warpath, and the call had been
made for volunteers to defend the
settlers on the frontier, the town had
been alive with men anxious to obta n
the scalp of the bloodttirsty redskin.
Two days before the militia had been
ordered out, and just as ttie sun was
illuinlnatiut: the red buttes in the val
ley, ti e ntra:iiS of the martial music
sound'-.s sadly in tl.e ears of those who
lutil loved ones in the ranks. And now
these plucky volunteers were to follow.
A determined set they were; most of
them hardy mountaineers, as well
trained to the saddle as cowboys, and
as reckless of life and limb.
Among them none was more fearless
or more brave than Ned Aahby. He
was one of the young pioneers who had
struck a bonanza in the mines. More
than that (to use the phia-ieology of
the mining camp), he hail located a
claim ou the prettiest girl tn town and
located it a stroke of good luck that
bad n.ade him more envied among the
txivs than even his mlmuj shares lu the
"May Queen."
He shared the un.versal feeling of all
Vple upon the frontier that the red
mau must become civilized or "go."
Too long these untamed citizens bad
committed their lawless depredations
and their tieudish outrages. The white
settlers felt that their wrongs must be
avenged. If the Government had
bandied these savages with gloved
hand?, all felt assured that the State
-would not. Hence this call for volun
teers to defend the isolated ranchmen
and their families.
Jeauuette, standing at the window,
SazeJ with a dumb despair at the horse
men riding dowu the valley. Among
them none looked so haudsome or so
dashing as her own lover, he whose
warm kisaes still lingered on her lips.
The tears roee slowly in her eyes as
she looked after him. The world was
to beautirul. why should it be marred
by such a thing as war? Her eyes
wandered away from the horsemen now
lost in a cloud of dust to the fair
mountain that hetumed her in.
It was September In Colorado, and
the beautiful queen, Summer, was
looking backward over the mountain,
leaving her smiles on the blossoms and
the green slopes that turned to gold
and crimson as she passed.
The next three days weie days of
suspense and airuost agony to the
patient ones left at home. What if the
brave little band should be ambushed,
as were lliurnburgh's companies?
The Meeker massacre was too fresh in
the winds of aU concerned for them
not to thiuk of the terrible fate that
might befall these courageous men,
and wheu news came of their safe
arrival on the Indian battle-ground
there was a rejoicing which was uni
versal. Ami with theg.xxl news came a letter
for Jeannette irom Ned so full of
tniii.riiess for her. so full or courage
and hope for himself. He expected to
so on a scouting expedillon the next
ria with Maior Ii . a dannerous
.fTir- iut his words were full of
hi-inn and enthusiasm.
She trembled a little as she read, for
she knew his reckless, self-willed na
ture, so ready to risk life and limb in
the service of others.
Then paated many weary days and
nights In w aicb no word came nights
which she sient in prayer iu the pretty
chamber overlooking the vine-shadowed
porch; nights when Bbe looked bat
upon the silent, moonlit world, its
shadowy, up-reaching mountains al
moat piercing the dim stars, with a
dark foreboding of evil In her heart,
trying ii vain to still the tumult that
' .vereiJ "--. orttiifie-. it seemed
Then came the news of a fierce battle'
between the Uies and the Major's
men, in which many were wounded on
either side. Her father came home at
noon with ca open telegram In bis
hand.
She took it from him silently, read
ing. Edward Ashby was wounded in the
battle of the th inst."
he did not faint, though he had
expected she would, but her face
blanched blanched until it was like
marble and ber eyes grew large and
black, glowing like stars.
"I must go," bhe said, "and nurse
him."
'Dear child," he replied, bis hand
upon iiers, "this Is folly, the talk of
insanity. You cannot go, Jeannette."
But I wtfL" The color leaped to
her cheeks again and her eyes flashed.
He could not say ber nay then. He
knew ber nature too well. Thwarted
in this desire, siie would die.
'I cannot go with you, Jeannette.
Can you go alone?"
"Yes." She drew herself up grandly.
It was the proud right of the Western
American girl. She knew no fear.
At 6 the next morning her favorite
horse, riato, stood at the door. He was
a noble fellow, her faithful companion
In every mountain adventure. Mounted
on this splendid creature, her slender
figure had long been a familiar one to
the mountaineers. Her fearlessness,
her womanliness and ber gracious acts
of kindliness and good-will had en
deared her to every inhabitant of the
camp.
' My dear philosopher he will carry
me sarely through," she said, patting
his arched neck affectionately and 1 ty
ing ber small head for a momeut
against his own.
The sun was just lighting the far
peaks. He had not peeped over the
high mountains yet into the little valley
wiiere the quiet town lay asleep. All
was in shadow all save the goldeu
asiens, wboee quivering leaves gleamed
fitfully in the glowing light.
At nightfall she was at the Springs,
fifty miles away. It was a popular
summer resort, and many guests had
been there, but at the first news of
war most of them had fled to Eastern
towns.
At the hotel many people knew her,
but they had only words of sympathy
and encouragement for the brave girl.
In that exciting time deeds of bravery
like this, even from women, were not
rare.
The general, who had headquarters
at the Springs, and who ha 1 beard of
her arrival and her purpose, sent for
her in the evening.
She came to him with eaier eyes,
awaiting the news wuicb he had Just
received by courier from the scene of
the battle. Beyond the Springs there
were no telegraph wires, and the cou
riers rode day and night over the dan
gerous Indian trails to bring the tid
ings. 'Is there any any news of him?"
she faltered.
"Yea." The general's voice almost
choked as he looked at her. How could
he break the heart of this brave young
creature, whose great love made her to
beautiful, its unselfish purpose shining
from every feature? How could he
tell her the cruel truth, with those
love-lit starry eyes fixed so unflinch
ingly on his?
'Child," he said, his hand upon her,
even as her father's had been, bis eyes
full of kindness, his stern voice sudden
ly tender, "your iover is dead. The
courier just in states thjt he died yes
terday afternoon."
Not one word catue from her llp3.
The great eyes gave him one stricken
look, and then she fell fell just where
she stood at his feet, 1 ke a helpless,
broken reed.
He lifted her up gently and called for
assistance. But in a little while she
revived, rising to her feet with the old
brave determination upon her pale face
and lu those dee;i, mournful eyes.
"I must go to him," she said. "They
will bury him there, and I thall never
look upon bis face again. I must gol"
The general did not attempt to d s-
suade her. He felt almost reverent in
the presence of such devotion. The
gruff old soldier was moved, by this
girl's heart-break as no scene or battle
had ever moved him.
"An escort of my best and bravest
men shall accompany you," he said.
They will protect you and bring the
body here."
Thank you." It was all she could
say. but tears of gratitude rose In ber
eyes as she bent low over bis extended
hand.
And then for the first time she learned
the full particulars of her lover's ex
ploit; how he had led the scouting
party, rushing boldly Into the very face
of the foe, and by this action saving
the military from the ambush the sav
ages bad prepared for them. In a
moment the battle bad begun, bat ere
his comrades were hand to hand with
the redskins, who seemed to lurk be
hind every bush and tree, this bold
young soldier bad met his fate, falling
with his face to the foe.
At least be died like a hero," her
heart whispered whenever the bitter
uess of her woe threateaed to over
whelm ber.
Two days later, after a long and
weary Journey, her little party reached
the soldier's camp. The boys bad in
trenched themselves behind a small
Knoll overlooking the surrounding
country, fortifying themselves with
earthworks against any attack from the
Indlaus. The tUg of trace was up,
however, and all things seemed for the
present peaceful.
The soldiers looked with astonish
ment as the small cavalcade came upon
them, that girlish figure in their midst,
ber fair face tinged by the sun and
wind into a warmer beauty, her dark
eyes resplendent with dauntless cour
age. For many, maay miles back ber
straight form bad drooped, not as
though with physical weariness, but as
though the spirit within her were
slowlv dvinir. Next to ber heart she
wore his letter the last words bis dear
band had Denned. She did not need to
r:ul them, for everv word was graven
nnon her memorv. but the burden of
their warm love, now dead to her for-
over- was nressinir more ana more
honvilv iinnn hnr tender heart.
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But now, at sigutjr mesa soiums.
all her orida nDrose.. &he sat erect in
the saddle, the coloto coming and going
in her lace, her cfs glowing. She
raised ber head nohy, as became the
wnman who had beM lovea DV a nero
At sight of her boys raised a
cheer. Many of thjBlltia knew her.
and they were proff ot ber. Tbey
knew her for what ihe was a brave.
hemic Blrl. nnrelv. i ?eetl womanly.
yet ready aa any ok" 'r brothers to take
the weapons Jron bejt and $ fend
imbued with all the glory and tbi
strength of ber native mountains.
She acknowledged their cheers with
a sweet, grave dignity; then the leading
officer In ber escort whispered some
thing to the major ere he helped ber U
dismount.
She caught the reply. It made hei
tremble; but with the suspicion of a
great joy, not a sorrow.
"Hot dead I" were the words whlct
came from ber white lips with a gasp.
"No" the major came to her side
quickly "the courier made a mistake.
It was Ned Sampson who died. Ashby
till lives, though be lie almost at
death's door."
All a mistake all a horrible dream!
obi such happiness was almost im
possible to realize I Giving her hand tc
the major, she almost leaped from the
saddle. Her feet seemed like the wing
ed Mercury's, to speed to him.
The major led the way Into the tent
where the wounded man lay, motlonin?
the guards aside. Then be left ber.
followed by the young officer who bad
been in attendance.
Alone, the girl threw herself on hei
knees beside her lover. But there was
no recognition for her in the deep blue
eyes those proud, brave eyes that
never met her own save in love and
tenderness. He was unconscious, with
the delirium of the fever upon hi in.
The words he muttered were of the
battle-Oeld, not of the brave girl who
had ridden so many, many weary miles
just to look upon his dead face.
Taking up the baud that lay so help
less against the rough blankets, she
pressed it to her lips; and then for th
first time-the tears fell from her eyes
fell in hot. Llinding mist. What pain
and anzulsh had not done joy now ac
complished joy that he still lived and
that she had reached him in time to
give all ber youug life to bis care and
service.
II. s coat the one be lad worn when
parting from her lay on the bed. Her
eyes darkened as she saw the stains ol
Mood and the bullet-hole. She took it
111 ber hands, examining It keenly.
There were the pausles. faded and
worn, still pinned inside. The bullet
had passed tbrcugh just above them.
"Had the bullet struck him an Inch
lower," oue or the men afterward told
her, "it would have proved fatal."
l'eihaps the pausles by some subtle
influence had saved him; perhaps her
own spirit in that moment of agony
had passed into them, makiug them.
indeed, a real talisman to protect him.
She loved to think of this that God
bad answered her earnest prayers by
Investing these, her chosen flowers.
with the power to save his life.
It was only a girlish fancy, but it
made her happy. She took the dead.
sweet blossoms and laid ttieiu tenderly
away. Until they became as dust,
these faded flowers would scarcely be
client lied.
The next few days brought with
them endless care and anxiety. His
life hung by a thread. A woman the
men had rescued from an adjoining
r.tuch came to assist Jeauuette, and not
one or the soldiers but wnu.il have
risked his life to have done her serv.ee.
Her patient manners won tl.eiu all.
and her patient love, so pure and brave
In Its devotion, made them feel as
naver before the high grace and worth
of womanhood.
The officers were untiring In their
attention to the wounded man, an J
gave the girl relief at every opportunity.
Mill it was a weary task, aud when at
last he was pronounced out of dauber,
she, .orn out with Incessant watching,
fell into a stupor from which tl.ey
could not arouse her for hours.
All this time the camp had not been
without menace, but the redskin had
been kept at bay until the arrival of
fresh troops. Through all this dancer
Jeannette had been unwavering. Not
one expression of fear had passed her
lips, though she, like all the rest, drew
a sigh of relief when the troops arrived.
Then followed a hot pursuit of the
Indians; they were pushed bick to the
reservation.
Jeannette came to Neil's bedside one
day with a look of joy upon her lovely
face. It was like tiausnguiatlon.
"Ned," she cried, with a return of
ber old lite and spirits, "the war is
over. Peace is declared, and we are
going to take you home to-morrow."
For answer be silently pressed the
small, warm band that crept into his
own. Whenever was there a
sweetheart so tender and true, so beau
tiful and brave.
When they reached the Springs, loud
and wild were the cheers given for the
brave boys returning from the war and
not ouly for the boys, but also for the
brave girl who had dared to go to the
front for love's sake. Under the glo
rious sweep of the spangled banner she
rode, ber cheeks afUme like the crim
son slopes and ber eyes splendid with
the sunlight of love.
"I Know it was the pansies that
saved you," she whispered to Ned,
when they stood once more together
under the shadow of their own, beauti
ful, royal-tinted mountains. "The
pansies have human faces, and I be
lieve God has in vested eve:y bloesn
with graces and power which we do not
comprehend."
Her tall lover looked down npen the
sweet face uplifted to his, smiliu at
the girlish foily, yet touched by the
pure faith in it.
An ', after all, who shall say that she
was not right? that God had not left
iiis divine impress upen the beautiful,
wind-tossed blossom, as upon our hu
man, up-reaching souls? The luys.e
ries of the spiritual world so cljse to
our own are so unfathomable.
In.u-uctlnz the Ileporter.
Unhappy Is the lot or a daily news
naner chief who has never been a repor
ter. The service calls for oflloers that
havA cume uu from the ranks. Other
wise they will fail to gauge accurately
the relations ot men aud eveuts to each
other, and will become a prey to cir
cumstances. 1 have known the pub
lisher of on influential Journal to ln-
struct a reporter to take out his note
book and pencil as a preliminary step
whenever he should be sent to interview .
a person. As well tell a detective to :
wear a badge on his breast, or a '
patroleman to walk tha street with a '
cocked revolver in his right hand. '
Many people wouiu oe more airaiu ui
reporter who should suddenly "draw"
a mite book on tuem tuan tney woum
f itopr uolicemun or detective. Of
course, the note book must be used for
public speecnes anu aeiioeranuus, uu,
also, like the revolver in dire emergen
ciesj but the reporter who can riot, re
member a eolum aud a half of ordinary
conversation )un!ess it concerns techni
cal matters of which he had ni previ
.... unfviAiiri until be has lime to
turn It into intelligible "copy, ynouia throWn together. A cleanly, thrifty
seek bread nd faow in aornev V -"I!j;i,in y berUd yyt to a. Ilthy one,
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TWO MKAUS PEIt DAY.
To Interrupt Work at Midday Is
Urea Mistake.
Sow, say that breakfast time is 7
o'clock. It takes a full hour afterward
before it is safe to luterfere the nervous
energy essential to digestion. By Id
o'clock a healthy person ought to be in
good condition for work. At about II
o'clock the air out of doors reaches the
highest point of purity, or in other
words, the oxygen in the atmosphere
is approaching the maximum. It con
tinues in this state until 1 o'clock p.
m. The electricity following the sun
is then at its height.
So we have at midday the inner and
outer conditions for the greatest brain
and bodily power. To interrupt work
at such a time is a mistake which the
Anglo-Saxon race des not realize,
because it has inherited the custom or
stopping to take provisions between 12
and 2 o'clock in the day.
All kinds of mental and physical
work proceeded by better sustained at
tention. The difference between an
Isaac Newton and an ordinary mortal
is shown in the ease with which the
occupation of the day is thrown aside
in order to do what is described as
'fortifying the inner man." Newton
could concentrate bis mind upon a
subject so as to be oblivious of all else.
Including eating and sleeping, for
twenty-four hours. I think there is an
appropriateness in comparing the too
frequently loaded stomach to an en
gine which is all tired and working
splendidly when the fire Is buried
under new coals and the steam cooled
down by a deluge of water. I am con
vinced that there ought to be an in
terval of at least seven hours between
the two meals of the day. If there
must be a briet rest from labor at noon
it will be found healthier to do any
thing else than eat and drink.
Nature is quicker to forgive the mis
take of sleeping, bathing or walking
too much than the fault of oppressing
the whole man with an unnecessary
load of food. The theory that the
stomach demands something to sustain
it after a few hours from the last time
it took food is as wild as that a horse
should be put to work in a very little
while after it has bad hard service.
BENEFITS OF FASTING.
The stomach is not dependent upon
work for its health, except as. ol
course, it and the whole body must
have the blood made from its digested
food; but this blood does not need re
plenishing so often as is supposed, con
sidering that it remains in the system
and continues an endless circuit.
Disease is occasioned by the over
fatigue of the digestive system, such as
overwork kills the horse. Many per
sons of mature judgment obtain re
lief from bodily troubles by fasts of
three days. 1 have often tried this ex
periment, and have always found that
the stomach gains in tone. I nave
even done the seven day fast, studying
and working the whole time, aud be
lieve it did me good.
Fasting for long periods has to be
done intelligently or it may do more
harm than good. I can fully appreciate
the danger of advising any particular
course of action outside the line beyond
which everyday people should go; but
there is good ground for advising them
to become accustomed to two meals.
When Christ sat at the well in Sama
ria waiting for his cold victuals it was
ti o'clock p. m., Korran reckoning. He
is never mentioned as having eaten at
noon. The eating habits of his disci
ples were the same. The only excep
tion to the general record was St.
Peter, who is said to have eaten a noon
meal on the roof at Joppa; but, judging
from what appears elsewhere concern
ing him, J believe he was then only
breaking bis fast for tje day.
The Chinese habit of eating only
twice a day is confined to those who do
not work in the fields. The latter men
tioned eat three times.
To break off the habit of eating the
noon meal, it only requires about four
days' persistent fasting. After that
the craving for food will become more
and more moderate, and ultimately
disappear.
IX THE STKEHAGK.
JIardeliipa of the Seekers for Uoines
iu a New Land.
A gentleman from the northern part
of Missouri, who was In Omaha, is a
living exemplification of the advanta
ges which the land of the free and the
home of the brave possesses for men of
ill nationalities. A few years ago this
gentlemen landed in this country, one
of a number of tired and wretched im
migrants. Today he is an associate
justice of the county court of a pros
perous Missouri countv. in which he
has made considerable money as well as
many friends.
'The scene on the pier previous to
the departure of a vessel is an exciting
one." said he. 'It is crowded with
emigrants all in a confused and exci
ted state, reminding one of a frightened
flock of sheep. The majority are per
haps English, Irish and German,
though nearly all nations are represen
ted. Each emigrant has a contract
ticket, which, in consideration of the
current rate of fair, stipulates for bis
transportation to New York, together
with a full supply of wholesome pro
visions, cooked and served by its stew
ards. The passenger is required to pro
vide himself with bedding and cooking
utensils. In my time the weekly al
lowance of food for adults was pre
scribed by the government and printed
on the contract ticket. As I remem
ber it. it was 21 quarts of water, 6 1-2
1 pom, of bread,
I pound or wueaten
flour. 112 pounds of oat meal, rice and
peas, 2 pounds of potatoes, 1 1-4 pounds
of beef, 1 pound of pork, 2 ounces of
tea, I pound of sugar, and salt, pepper,
mustard, vinegar, etc. The steerage
stewards berth the emigrants, and they
tnen marshalled on deck under the
scrutiny of a government Inspector who
examines them for Infectious diseases.
"What is the general treatment
these people receive while at sea?
asked the reporter.
"Well," replied the Missourlan,
"neither officers nor men seem to con-
; sider iem worthy of respect. Occa-
Bionally you will find some ships' officers
who will treat them in a humane, toi
: erating manner, but as a rule they are
treated more like a drove of cattle. No
difference Is made between the better or
worse class, bat all are treated alike.
There is no classification; the single
women and men are separated, but
Foles. Germans, English, French, Ital
lans and, people or all countries are
hardworking men, who are compelled
to mingle with the dirtiest of vaga
bonds. I
'The steerage is usually cold, dark
and foul smelling. Jt extends nearly I
the entire length of the vessel under the I
saloon aVeck and is cut up Into gloomy
apartments. In each of these are four
iers of berths or bunks, two on each
side. The lower tier is two feet from
the deck and the uper tier is three
feet from the roof. The steerage is
about ten feet in height, in each tier
are probably six berths of eighteen
inches wide and six feet long and made
ot boards. These berths generally
emit an unpleasant smell of chlorate of
lime or carbolic acid.
"Officious stewards are moving about
indulging in a coarse joke here and a
growl at some unfortunate there.
After the supper, and but few partake
of the first one at sea, the tables are
raised to the roof and the steerage cen
ter space is clear. Some lamps are then
lighted, but promptly extinguished at
0 o'clock. Three meals are served
every day, aud in quality and quantity
they are substantial. For breakfast at
8 o'clock emigrants sit down to do
ustice to oatmeal porridge and
molasses, hot bread, coffee and salt
fish. For dinner at 12 perhaps soup or
broth, boiled meats, potatoes and
bread. For supper at 6, tea and bread
and butter, with molasses. However,
substantial the food may be, the man
ner In which it is served is unclean.
Beef and soup are placed on the table
in rusty looking tins and then a scram
ble takes place, dirty fingers often
being used instead of forks. On a
pleasant summer day the emigrants
have quite a merry time on deck. Some
of the Italians bring out their harps
and violins, and a concert takes place.
Aside from this these people amuse
themselves at cards, checkers and other
games, and after a time tbey become
partially accustomed to their filthy
prison; the majority make the best of
it and enjoy themselves to a degree."
"Jiow Is the emigrant cared for dur
ing a storm?" queried the reporter.
That's Just where be reaches the
height of his misery," answered the
ex-emigrant. "I shall never forget the
sufferings we all endured during a se
vere storm on my passige. Wuen the
storm came up the batches were bat
tered down, the ports screwed in their
laces and the companionways closed.
pjringall the time the sea is on deck
perhaps 1.000 people were coufined to
the steerage, on this occasion, for
nearly three days. The atmosphere
became close and in twenty-four hours
was loaded with impurities; meals were
irregularly served aud the food barely
cooked. I shall never forget the exhi
bition of terror on the part of some of
the emigrants, and their terror became
contagious as their shrieks grew louder
and their prayers more frequent. After
the storm bad subsided, and the steer
age was open, the sailors would not go
11 to clean up tor six hours, and then
they had to be supplied with an extra
allowance of grog. 1 remember on this
trip an incident which a sailor told me
was not an unusual one. Oue of the
Italians in the steerage had not washed
himself since be had been on board,
and after the storm he refused to leave
nis bunk, but clung to it in all its tilth.
On the captain's order he was brought
on board aud thoroughly cleansed with
aose, after which be returned, appar
ently feeling no better for bis clean up,
but 1 am certain the balance of us res
ted easier.
"When the steamer arrived at quar
antine a tow boat conveys the doctor
on board and he Inspects the immi
grants. If there are no cases of infec
tions disease the steamer proceeds to
the city, and shortly another steamboat
appears with the boarding officer of the
emigration commisioners. This official
ascertains tlie number of passengers on
board and listens to complaints.
'Soon the trees of the Battery park
come in sight, the steamer's pulse cea:
ses, several barges are towed alongside,
and the immigrants with their baggage
are transferred to these. The same
excitement is here manifest as at the
outset of the voyage. The poor imimi
grants are b;ow beaten and driven
about like the same old sheep, aud as
soon as the barges are loaded a small
steamer takes ibera in tow and they
are landed with their load of humar
freight at Caslle Garden."
Qualities of Cork.
The density of cork varies with its
quality and age. Thin corks are usu
ally heavier than those of the sauit
volume that have grown more lapidiy.
and iu corks of the same class the den
sity Increases with age. M. Brisson
gives 0.240 as an average maximum,
and the ordinary density of a ten year
old cork may be taken at 0.2- With
extreme lightness are associated other
valuable qualities, that of being a poor
conductor of beat and sound; imper
meability to liquid imperfect combusti
bility, and nou liability to decay, by
reason of which it is susceptible of
very numerous applications in Industry.
The most important use of the sub
stance is for bottle corks. The bark
which is intended to be used in this
form is kept in a damp cellar. When
taken to the shop it is cut by the first
workman into strips, the width of
which correspond with the length of
the future cork. A second workman
cuts these strips into squares suited in
size to its diameter. The squares
strung are plunged into boiling water
to make them swell out. Thev are
then stored in a cool place, and kept in
a cool place, and kept constantly moist
by sprinkling, till they pass into the
hands of the cork maker. He applies
them in succession, giving them a rot
ary motion to the edge of a wide-bla-
ded knife, drawing them at the same
time slowly along its length, and by
skilful manipulation transforms the
square into a round cork. This is the
method usually practiced In France.
Workmen in other countries handle the
knife in different manners. It is essen
tial, to obtain a good and solid cork.
to take care that iu axis, as it is cut
from the barb, be parallel with the axis
of the tree on which the bark grew;
but the broad flat cork have to be cut
perpendicular to the axis of the tree.
Ouly the finest corks are now made by
hand. A good workman can turn out
in the method described, about one
thousand corks a day.
Mr. C. C. J2. suggests In a content
Dorary the use ot wind-mills to drive
dynamo-electrio machines to decompose
water, lie would store tne resulting
gates in suitable holders, and used when
deiired for lighting purposes, or tor
any employment for which such gases
may be available.
- v Indianapolis inventor has devised
Coo Ijjtte, or a Terrible Mistake.
"I cant understand what you see in
the fellow," Tom Carter said, testily. ;
"What do I see in poor lsolanl." j
replied Florence Asgard. "Why, I see a ,
genius of the first water. He may, as
you have hinted, eat peas with his knife
but that is Ignorance. In many things
be Is a thorough gentleman." j
"1 see," said Tom. in an offensive
manner, as he took off his hat, "that 1
you will not sea your protege abused."
"You are right," she said, a little
coldly, for I am very fond or him."
The whole trouble was this. The
Asgards bad somewhere found this
thin, half-starved Italian, Isolani. and
bad brought him to their house aud
cared for him until he could find some
thing to do. Tom Carter, wbohad always
intended to marry Florence, did not
like the new addition to their household
and promptlyresented it. In fact, he
was absurdly jealous of the Italian s
influence.
As for Florence, she was too proud
to be dictated to, and so they parted
not to meet again for many months.
Tom was 03 on a cruise in a yacht try.
lng to hide his sorrow.
On one occasion the owner of the !
yacht ran over to the pier, and while
there invited a small party aboard.
lsolina, without bis violin was with
them.
The Italian recognized Carter at the
same moment and came gravely toward
him.
He did not seem to take notice of the
curtness ot the latter'a "How d'ye
do?"
Carter saw him watching him with a
curious expression in which there
seemed to lurk a question every now
and then.
Toward the close of the afternoon he
chose an opportunity, when Carter was
standing a little apart from the rest, to
address him directly.
"Y ou have pardon me," lie said in
his slow, broken Eugllsh, "you have
not seen Meess Asgard since you have
been backl"
Carter was silent for a moment before
he replied:
"No."
"Meess Asgard is a beautiful lady,"
Isolani went on slowly. "She is one of
the most noble creatures God has made.
And her uncle, too. They have been
the noblest friends to me." He
paused. "You will not go again soon
to see Meess Asgard?" he said, simply.
"It hurt her that you stayed away. S!:e
loves you very much."
"Good God, man are yon crazy?"
Carter turned a savage face of unutter
able dismay upon the Italian.
Isolani made a little motion with
his head.
"No if is true," he reiterated pla
cidly. "Y'ou knew it, did you not?
Oh, yes. She loved you very much.
She never told any one, I thiuk. No.
A woman like that never does. But I
saw it; I knew it. I loved her myself
as one may love a Madonna, a saint. I
knew she loved you yes. And you
loved her Is it not so?"
"Loved her! Carter set his teeth
bard. A stiff breeze was rippling in.
The sun was going down aud a long
track of shimmering gold lay across
the uneasy, leaping surface of the
water.
"Meets Asgard was ill, for a little
while," Isolani began again.
"111?"
"Yes. Not very seriously, I think.
I would have liked to have gone to see
her good uncle aud learn how she is
now, but my engagements here pre
vented."
That night's boat bore Carter toward
the borne of the Asgards. It was 'J
o'clock in the morning when he ar
rived. He began to count the time
which must elapse before he cou d,
with any regard for the conventionali
ties present himself.
When he finally reached the Asgards'
bouse he found the windows all barred,
and he bad some trouble in calling up
the housekeeper.
-They have not gone to the coun
try?" he asked eagerly.
"Yes, sir. The young lady was not
feeling well and she had a relapse."
"What do you mean?" he cried in
agony.
"That she is dead!"
Poisons of Java.
Java and the Archipelago generally .
are the centre ot poisons, animal and
vegetable. The poison of the sumpitan,
or blow-tube dart. Is very real. The
Bataks, that singular race inhabiting
central Sumatra, and the only known
people who combine cannibalism with
civilization enough for a written alpha
betical language, are very skillful in
its use. They obtain it from two
sources on the upas tree and the other
an allied species called the "rlugus "
The juice of this latter Is more virulent,
and burns the skin like boiling oil. I
have many a time seen coolies brought
in howling dismally, with heads aud
faces swollen to pantomimic s.ze from
having incautiously struck an axe into
the "ringus." The only way to attack
it is for the woodmen tc give them
selves a thorough coating of grease,
and even then the risk to the eyes is so
great that it is geneially allowed to
stand. The upas poison, however,
requires to be used quite fresh, as a
few hours exposure to the air converts
it to a crumbly black rosin, quita
harmless. Another poison is obtained
from a species of vine, bearing clusters
of bright fruit, the size or a cricket
ball, containing a number of seeds in
an intensely bitter pulp. The effects
of this are very rapid. 1 have seen the
Balak creep up, sumpitan in hand, to
where a troop of gibbons were yelling
their noisy chorus from a lofty tree top,
and scarcely half a minute elapsed be
tween the dispatch of the missile and
the crashing fall of the struck ape.
Even the gigantic and formidable spe
ciesof the ourang-outang, which haunts
the forests of the east coast, falls para
lyzed by two or three ot these tiny
darts. One ot the most famous poisons
of Java is obtained from the bamboo.
The young shoots of the cane, when
tbey first appear, are covered with fine,
brownish hair; this, under a powerful
microscope, appears as bayonet-like
spikes of sllex, infinitely sharp, and I
think hollow, though I could not be
quite sure. This bair, administered
daily In small quantities in the food,
brings on ulceration of the bowels,
simulating malignant dysentery. The
action must be of a mechanical, rather
than chemical, nature, just as with the
terrible effect on the eyes or the spores
ot the common pnffbalL It is greatly
dreaded by the Dutch and Europeans
living in Java. A Dutch official told
me that scores ot deaths among Euro
pean planters, etc. put down to dysen
tery and diarrhoea, were really due to
the bamboo hair and tfie jealousy ol
MLitCAXIILE MAXIMS.
Pieces of Advice Wisely Given t
TbofeC In lousiness.
A thoroughly honest clerk cau al
ways command a better salary than
one of equivocal habits.
He who has traded out his neighbor's
good opinion is pretty sure to die a
poor man, however high the price for
which he sold it.
When business is attended with min
uteness of detail, strict punctuality, it
runs evenly, without jar or frictlou,
and ensures success.
It is statistical truth that no single
cause leads to more disasters than the
use of liquors, not necessarily through
drunkenness, but the enfeebling of the
judgment.
In dres3 be neat and unobtrusive.
The perfection of dress is to be so ier
fectly in keeping with your occupation
that the attention of an observer is not
directed to it at all.
Vainly shall a man hope to live and
thrive by buying aud selling after his
neighbor; his customers have learned
by sad experience that his word is not
reliable, that his representations of the
cost or quality of his wares are not to
be trusted.
Fuming and fretting in and around
a store, finding fault with clerks and
employes, denotes a lack of order and
business tact and exposes the merchant
to ridicule and unpleasant comments
from those from whom he should have
res(iect and confidence.
Never do business for the sake of do
ing It.
Do not be in a hurry to get rich.
Gradual gains aie the only natural
gains.
It is not the business that elevates
the man, but the man who elevates the
business.
Never take great hazards, for they
are seldom well balanced by the pros
pects of profit.
The man who has not one-ha'f of his
stock paid for is an unsafe customer,
provided he has no other available
means.
Slick to your business. Let specula
tors make their thousands in a day.
Y'our increase may be slow, but it is
sure and safe.
The honorable merchant who in
fuses energy, ability, honesty and good
sense in his business, with moderate
capital, invariably succeeds.
Wheu trade is dull use every legiti
mate means to imirove it- Some mer
chants stop advertising when trade Is
slow. This is just the time it is most
needed.
SU--l Idicc.
"Very handsome, is it not?"
A dealer in laces was exhibiting to
au inquisitive reporter a remarkably
tasteful specimen of lace of an ex
tremely delieata pattern, and so l':rht
that it could almost be blown away l.y
a breath of air. Had it been woven of
spider webs it could not havo been
much lighter.
"Very handsome, indeed. Wliat is
it made of?"
"What do you suppose?"
'Silk, probably; but how was it made
so tight?"
"Because It is not made of silk."
"What then?"
"Steel."
"Steel?"
"Yes, made of steel rolled as Due as
the oint of a cambric needle."
"How was it woven?"
"It wasn't woven. It was stamped
out of a sheet cf low-grade steel, so
that it would not be too brittle."
"What can it be used for?"
"This is only an experiment. It was
turned out of a small Pittsburg mill
and sent to me to show what can be
done in that line. In the course of
time other patterns will be made,
heavier, perhaps, but ceitalnly more
tenacious than this piece. They cau
be used for children's underwear and
hats very nicely. There is no question
as to its durability, and its cheapness
makes it the most salable of all laces in
the market. 1 am looking for its per
fection with great interest. It will
create a small revolution lu the mar
ket." What Would Have Hapix-ncd.
A party of gentlemen were seated in
a cosy parlor ou Nicollet avenue. Min
neapolis, recently when the conversa
tion turned upon the personal dangers
they had incurred. Several stories were
told with varying degrees of modesty
and bravado, when the demure and
pretty wife of the host claimed atten
tion. "My experience," she said,
"was only a dream, yet I think you
will agree with me that, from a
woman's standpoint, the situation was
more thrilling than any you have ex
perienced. "I dreamed that I was taking a
sleigh ride, unaccompanied. I was
driving at a rapid rate when my horse,
taking fright at some object by the
roadside, bolted and ran. At the same
instant 1 discovered a mouse in the
bottom of the sleigh. I have a mortal
terror ot all manuer of rodents, as have
most women. The horse was running
so fast that 1 dared not leap out, and
it was all I could do to keep bun 111 the
road. The mouse came nearer. 1 wa s
too much frightened to scream. I
thought I should die. The mouse came
nearer still. I could stand it no longer,
so I awoke. Now it is all over per
haps it is woman's curiosity I have
often wished I had remained asleep a
little while longer just to see how the
adventure would have turned out. It
was one of the few dtsapiointments of
my life that I didn't."
And the men never said a word.
We're all Reins licil.
A bright-faced, cleanly dressed bjy
kept himself busy for nearly two hours
recently, handing out little squares of
paper to the pedestrians who passed up
the street. They were curious bits of
paper, a great .deal smalier than the
average advertising dodger, ai.d the
closest scrutiny failed to reveal anv
thing on them. Young ladie3 would
accept them, and after looking at them
with puzzled expressions put them iu
their pocketbooks. Old men took out
their spectacles and stopieJ to examine
them closely. Small boys and youug mc-u
stood in groups holding them to I'm
light and lookiug through them, an 1
finally put them in their pockets for a
future examination. A subsequent in
vestigation elicited the information
that two young men, for their own
amusement, had paid the boy t dis
tribute blank' pieces of paper to acser
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Two brave girls, living near
Campbellford, Out., met a bear in the
woods, and, instead of retreating In
terror, picked up a club each and gave
him battle. Bruin stood it for a while,
but was at last forced to turn tail and
run.
Little Maggie Ream was playing
by the roadside near Johnstown, Pa.,
when a Nimrod from the city came
along. A ribbon around her neck
fluttered In the breeze, and he thought
she was a turkey . Taking deliberate
aim he shot her in the neck.
Montana territory claims to be
ready for statehood, with plenty of
property, plenty of imputation, 1.400,
000 cattle, 190,000 horses, 2,000,(X)C
sheep, and gold and silver at the rate
of 520,000.000 a year.
The skin of the catfish is now
tanned into leather in Germany. The
new leather is tough, supple and of
good appearance. It is made into
purses aud shoe laces. Tanned salmon
skins are used as robes by the womeu
of Castrio's Bay.
In Italy turkeys are always fat
tened with walnuts Thirty days be
fore the turkey is to be killed one wal
nut is stuffed down his throat. Each
day he is given an additional walnut,
aud on the twenty-ninth day he has
twenty-nine walnuts. He is then im
mensely fat.
A Calais (Me.) gentleman gave a
birthday dinner the other evening, and
all the game served the snipe ou toast,
the woodcock, the partridge pie, the
roasted duck was shot for the occa
sion by the host. At the plate of each
guest was a souvenir of snipe wings,
arranged with bright ribbons.
There is a watch in the Swiss
museum only three-sixteenths of ap
Inch in diameter, inserted in the top ot
a peucil case. Its little dial not only
Indicates hours, minutes and seconds,
but also days of the month. It is a
relic of the time when watches were
inserted in snuff boxes, shirt studs and
finger rings. Some were fantastic
oval, octangular, cruciform or in the
share of pearls, tulips, etc
According to Llr. liolyokethe out
look of the industrial class fifty years
ago was as dreary as Sitieria. Food
was scarce. The English race was
thin. Even girls had an ill favored
look because underfed. In a few years
after the repeal of the corn laws every
1.000,000 ot adult persons in England
weighed 12,000 tons heavier than they
did before the repeal, and the young
Iople had grown ten times cornel ler . '
thau they were.
The funeral of Napoleon, when
the body was brought Lack from St.
Helena, furnished a theme for oue of
the longest articles in Hugo's "Glioses
Vues," in which are noted a few curi
ous facts, among them chat the statue
of Marshal Ney furnished for the oc
casion was a foot too tall, so the chiefs
of the Beax Arts department "sawed
out of the statue a slice of the stomach
twelve inches wide, and stuck the two
pieces together again as well as they
were able."
Perhaps the statement may be- nt
interest that be little screech ov?. S
getting muen more comnon in the
vicinity of cities in whicin digfcjirlish j
sparrow has become nuxtra Isgu9'
that the imported birds '- uud fu"" '
this owl as bold an enemy as the spar
row hawk is to them in Europe, and
even more dangerous, since his attacks
are made toward dusk, at a time when
the sparrow has retired for the night,
and is not so wide awake for wa3S
and means to esca)e.
There have recently been discov
ered in the high Alps, near the sum
mit of the great St. Bernard, five large
granite altars and a number of other
relics of the stone aj;e, such as axes,
knives, etc., used lu pa?an epochs for
sacrifices. Swiss writers emphasize
the historical imKriaiice of this dis
covery, iu that it is a rrivif that Mr.
SL Bernard was a p'aoe r irrTi"r
pagan times, and that as far back as
the ae of stone ti e Canton Valals
was inhabited Ly human beings.
Conformably to the laws of advance
and retreat of glaclers.it is said those
111 the valley of Chammlx, Switzer
land, are now beginning to advance!
The lower extremity of tn.r;iaciT des I
Bossous is "not more than? (j,.q f t -
above the level of -lie s-i;,'!iiJu 1 -dtTS'Vf
ing still lower. During the last three - I
years this lower extremity has "ad-
vanced at the rale of lifty yards a
year." It is said that "a otto cut
out or the ice in May, isbd, a quarter
of a mile from the extremity, has
moved down more than sixty yards."
Although other Alpine glaciers, which
cannot ba so definitely observed, are
known to be increas;ng iu width and
height, it will nquire many years of
the present spee 1 "berore they occupy
ground which within the memory of
'iving persons they once covered."
The Kings' nead was first used as
one, of the the hall marks on English
s Iver In 1784. The stoiy Is that
George III. having attended a dinner
at Goldnm. Ih's Hall, was greatly im
pressed with the rich display of plate i
used on that occasion. His Majesty
was in need of money, it toeing Just
alter the close or the Ameiii-au war,
and the Idea Whs suggested that silver J j
plate was a good aiticli for taxaiior. J
Soon after the Duty Act was iiaSsed,
which iunK,sad a tax of six-iieiice jer
ounce on all silver made in England,
aud also enacted that the additional
stamp of the King's head or duty
mark should be placed on all articles
as an evidence that the duty had been
paid. The sovereign's head is the
fifth mark, therefore any piece of
English silver with only four marks is
certainly over a hundred years old.
There are many fine specimens of the
eai lier period owned in Boston.
Before the raiu was obtained in
the Pho-ting Prefecture the drought
was severely felt by the peasants, who,
(having teen uiisnccesolul in all their
efforts to obtain relief, engaged a Tao-
; priest, who erected in the open
j street a wooden stage, covered around
wiiu niatsiieus. incense sticks were
kept burning 111 the liont, aud a colli u
was prepared, with four gentry, or
aiders, of the people, standing one at
each corner of the cofiin, while the
priest prostrated himself, murmuring
land burning some paiers. After that
!the priest laid himself in the coffin, en
joining that the iid be held tight by
several men. Should the rain still
fail to appear, these performances were
to be repeated three times, after which
it was believed that the rain would
certa'niy come. Oae difficulty was
that Uie priest might die in the course
of t. J?- yrs from causes known to
the gt08 C- e.. through Ihe vengeance
of th? , ods). and, couM-quently, he
oftr fuanded very ULV remiin'
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