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"Tee rditor down the street",
writes a Kai sas editor, with withering
Korn, "should go to scbool durlnj tho
winter moi.tiis, so that the teacher can
Iraia lilm Eomethlnz about grammar.
We have seen bad wr.ters berore, but
we ctvT seen one who could crowd so
mRDy grammatical erratum Into a sin
j'.e seutence."
A lakue lox of supposed silfer dol
ing was brought to light by a steam
tiovel at Tacoma, VT. T. The work
men rrmle a rush for the treasure, and
ill the coins were soon safely stored
in pockeU. Afterwards the men
fou.M. tc their great disgust, that the
an i.ey was counterfeit.
Ir was hardly necessair to cct an
uplti cu from M. Taateur to the effect
that ibe bite of a healthy doj la (or
may be) harmless. There are probably
Leu thousand cases of bites from dogs
which heal up without after conse
jtieuces to one that develops hydro
phobia a fact well known to doj
ranciers everywhere.
Mus Tfel, wife of the Speaker ot
the Iloufe of Commons, set a conven
ient example of simplicity when, at
Irt la-t reception, she allowed her
ji.e-iM uf the male sex ta dispense
w. ih the cold lace, kuee breeches,
co Le.! li.tt and sword, which go to
u..ike up 11. e iccouvenleut p:irapher
u.iL.t of Court costume, for the ordin
aiy i veniag dress.
A si'dtekraneax disturbance cc
:urrrJ at the Rodera Hot Springs,
H.J i District, Japan, early In Decem
ber. I : wjj attended with noises which
.iicM.on! lu iiitensity until attalnlns
the lomineM of thunder. Then fright
ful v.bralious took place, doois fell,
toml'a'.oues toppled over, articles In the
tbtetior of residences were completely
Jeatroved, the outlet of the hot spriogs
closcil aud the streim burst out afresh
lu utter places. "With recollections
of liandai-san, tite horriSed people lied
to a distance of between seven and
risht miles.''
Electricity cut up some queer
capers with a tree down in New Or
leuns. A guy cable was attached to
the tree from an electric light. In
some unaccountable way the cable
crossed with a live wire, and on wet
days electricity ran down the former.
Several times it set the tree aOre and
veutually started a blaze which
destroyed thut part of the tree above
the wire. The trunk was examined
and Its heart was found to have been
'eaten out by t'ue electricity, leaving a
mere shell.
The use of the telegraph Instru
ment, remarks the Isew York Tribune,
has become so much of an everyday
thing and such a convenience that men
seem to forget what a wonderful thing
it Is. A newspaper man telephoned to
the cable office Ilia other day and asked
if a London special despatch had come
in there jet. The operator replied that
it bad not, and said: "Walt a minute
anl I'll ask London if the copy has
come in there.' In a few minutes,
not more than 10 or 15, he called over
the telephone wire: "London hasn't
received the copy set."
"Wmsco J3. Line. an aged hermit,
died in Massachusetts the other day.
Ills right name was Jonathan Rey
nolds, and his i lace of abode was a
hole in the ground, over which was
constructed a roujh board covering.
Here, w.tli his horse and dog, he has
lived, doiug anything for a living.
Access to his bed-room was by steps
down In one corner of the cellar, and
his bed was on roles. No one visited
him, and he troubled no one, except on
bu?uie;.". lie thought much of his
dumb companions, ami often told of
sleeping Ixstde his horse it too cold In
bin led.
RruARMxu the ice question, the
Worcester Sjty has this: "A veteran Ice
cutter betwen hero and Boston is re
ported assaying that the cold cycles
chance every Dve or seven years. The
prediction or opinion has been more
than verified within the past SO years.
That is to say. In 1858 ice was not fit
for cutting till the latter part of Feb
ruary, and the season lasted Into
March; then came the year 1563, five
years intervening; then 1870, seven
years intervening; then 1374, four years
Intervening; then 1881, seven years
luterveniug, and now we have the
seven years from 1881 to 1SSS."
At the celebration In New York
next April of the centennial of Wash
ington's Inauguration, three places will
be the chier features of Interest so far
u historWal associations are con
cerned. 1 Lese are the steps ot the
Sub-Treasury building, upon which
atands a statue ot Washington on
the spot where he took the oath
of effi-e as rresident; the St. Paul's
Church, on Broadway, near Fulton
Hreet, where he attended Divine ser
'ce, and the Fraunces Tavern, on
Broad street, corner of Tearl. If the
Centennial Committee does not take
steps to utilize the Fraunces Tavern
building in the celebration It will make
mistake, though, of course, it is
Identified with another period of
Washington's lire. But New York
possesses so few historical buildings
that this ought to be pressed into ser
vice during the forthcoming centen
nial. It is the oldest building stand
ing in the city, and In a large room on
the second floor General Washington
on the 4th of December, 1733, deliv
ered his memorial and tender farewell
sdaress to the officers who served un
der him in the revolutionary struggle.
Abs building is now. as it was then. 9
Tern.
A MONO PEJf WORKERS.
Some Pleasant and Unpleasant Inci
dents in tho Lives of Editors.
'1 have an article I would like to sell
you, said a man who went into tbe
managing editor's room.
'Look beret exclaimed the manig
intr editor, wheeling about, do you
know that you are in extreme danger?'
Why so?'
'Because yon have come here to give
us an article statins the causes of
Cleveland's defeat.'
Oii, so, I haven't. I have a paper
giving a multiplicity of facts relative
to bad drainage.
The astonished managing editor
sprang to his feet, and after placing
a gold chain about the visitor's neck
conducted him to a seat or honor,
bowed before him and said: 'Most
high and mighty genius of originality,
I am thy slave.'
Publisher (to managing editor)
'Here is a letter from a newspaper man
in Milwaukee highly commending oar
eauje.
Managing Editor 'When did you
get lfr'
To-day.
'To morrow he will write another
one.
Xot on the same subject, of course.'
Oh, uo; in the next one he will ask
for a situation on your paper.
A young lady went Into the Gf&ce of
a literary magazine.
I have a pretty story, she said to
the editor. 'It Is striking and strictly
original.
Jeave it. the editor groaned.
'Let me read It to you.'
'Not if you value your life!' the edi
tor exclaimed.
Sir I'
I said that I must go home to my
wife.'
'Well, let me tell yon a part of the
story. A young girl is working in a
bat factory. One day she stitches her
name in the hat '
'And afterwards meets the fellow
who buys the hat and marries him,
the editor exclaimed.
Oa. no. That night the factory
catches Ore and is burned up.'
What! Does uo one rescue the bat
and marry the girlr'
No.'
'Miss, your fortune is made. We
want everything you write. You have
done a great work for American litera
ture.' The Origin of the Sneexinjz Formula.
The custom or say in z "God bless
you," or some equivalent expression,
when a person sneezes, is ancient and
very widely extended. In fact. It Is
doubtful it there Is a country in the
world where traces of it cannot be
found. Consequently the very general
belief that the custom took its rise in
one of the symptoms of the plague in
Italy In the days of Gregory the
Great cannot be credited. Its origin
dates much farther back; even, it may
tie said, beyond the limits of history.
For in the religious Ideas and social
customs of primitive men is found the
clew to this strangely universal super
stition. Among these primitive ieo
ple the sneeze was sometimes considered
as an auspicious sign, sometimes as a
most unlucky omen; but that it was
due to the presence of spirits, either
good or evil, was the belief of all. For
early men supposed the soul to go in
and out or the body, aud so with other
spirits, especially such as are thought
to enter into the patient, and affect,
htm with disaa3e. Therefore, in casa
or illness, a person by the act or sneez
ing is believed to cast out the evil
spirit that ba been the unrortunate
cause or his suffering.
For instance, the North American
Indians, as well as the natives of the
Indian Archipelago and also the Poly
nesians, believe not only in the exist
ence of a Supreme Fowtr, but also in
the existence of inferior spiritual
beings, resembling the fairies of
Northern Europe. And these people
believe the sick to be affected by these
spirits rather than by any natural
cause; consequently the medicine-man
proceeds to expel the evil spirit instead
of otherwisa attempting to cure the
diseased body. Thus, we see, arcce
the superstition that a sneez is a sign
that a sick person will ba restored to
health, and to all who go to see him
ask if he has sneezid. and if he has
not, they can say, "The disease Is
great." The Norwegian peasants still
believe that if a sick person sneezes he
will not die; and their custom when a
child sneezes is to say, "Grow; it is a
slgu of health." They also believe
that anything that a person is thinking
of when he sueezsj will be sure to
come true. Then among the savages
of Borneo and Central Africa there is
the belief that man has a double form,
the one corporal and the other spiritual;
ani that even in life the soul or spirit
may leave the body, and that sickness
or evil spirits deprive lite body of its
spiritual companion. The natives of
Nicaragua, tJaliiorma. java, anu neat.
a uatraiLi describe the soul as the air
or breezs which passes la and out
through the uiju h and nostrils; tne
lircenlanoers are said to reckon two
separate souls the breath and the
shadow; while the Tyrol ese peasants
still fancy that a ood man's soul
issues from his mouth at death in the
form of a little white cloud all going
to show how universal has been the be
lief in the existence of spirits that had
the power to go in and out of the body,
and were naturally believed to l most
liable to enter or be expelled at such
times as one sneezed or yawned.
Among the Algonquin Indians a sick
person Is supposed to have his shadow,
nr other self, temporarily detached
from his body, and the convalescent is
at times reproached for "exposing him
seir before his shadow was safely set
tled down on him." Then,inthe Arctic
regions and in Australia sickness and
death are supposed to be caused by the
inAMAnM or sDlrlts who have been
employed by enemies to injure them;
.n.i tha same idea Is seen in Scotland
and Northern Africa, where they be
lieve that there are gnosis oi u uuik
who are exceedingly troublesome and
.tniiirtlTer while in Polynesia not only
animate, but inanimate, things are sup
posed to lose their spirits the little
gods stealing the shadows ot those
things to which they take a fancy.
it imi that to primitive
rrmrtaiitv of the body was an
incredible fact; and It was therefore
believed that a person wuu -
sfmply carried away by the "good
m.nin the fairies. The
. .m-nrd'nslv was not dead,
and often visited his friends,
" nd they thought that
"nee his departure from this life hi,
Powers and privileges were mysteri
SuUv enlarged and extended. Because
of this belief th. Hindu, for example.
slays himself before his enemy's door,
in order to acquire greater power of
injuring him. Tylor. In his Primitive
Vulture, says that "there were toward
the close ot the last century two Bran
mans out of whose house a man had
rongfully. as they thouzht. taken
forty thousand rupees, whereupon one
of U e Brahmins proceeded to cut off
his mother's head, with the professed
view, entertained by both mother and
son, that her spirit, excited by the beat
ing of a large drum for forty days,
might haunt, torment and pursue to
death the taker of their money and
those concerned with him. In fact,
so widespread Is found to be this
superstitious belief regarding the influ
ence of sp rits. ghosts and fairies, that
we nere get a clue to the practice of
invoking the name of the Deity as pro
tection against their agency: for in the
name or the naity is thought to rest
the mysterious power of driving away
all evil spirits, as well as rendering
them powerless to do harm. So the
Highlanders believe that when a per
son sneezes he is liable to be stolen by
fairies, unless protected by some one
invoking Ute name of the Deity. And
the New Zsalander, with a similar
Idea, makes use of a charm to prevent
harm when a child sneezes. But the
Scandinavian and Celtic races credited
their spirits with even more serious
influence. Tor they thought a sneeze or
yawn enough to convert a person into
a real fairy, unless the name of the
Deity was invoked In time to prevent
the disaster.
The negro races of Africa also regard
the act of sneezing with great dread,
for they believe it to indicate the influ
ences of "ancestral spirits," which
they must make haste to propitiate.
The Zulu must have the same idea. Tor
be exclaims when he sneezes, ''The
ancestral spirit is with me. for it is
that which causes me to sneeze; let me
hasten to praise It!" Then, the Mos
lem, when he sneezes. Is saluted by his
friends with the formula, "Praise to
Allah!" a custom, it is said, that Is
conveyed from race to race wherever
Islam extends. And In Guinea, even
during the last century, when a prin
cipal person sneezed, all present fell on
their Knees, kissed the earth, clapped
their hands and wished blm happiness
and prosperity. A custom involving
the same idea Is still kept up In the
Tyrol; it is that of crossing oue's self
when one yawns, lest something evil
should come into one's mouth. In
France an indication of the survival of
this superstition is seen by the follow
ing quotation from a "Book on Rules
and Civilities," of the year 10S5: "If
his Lordship chance to sneeze you are
not to bawl out 'God bleas you,' but
pulling oil your hat, bow to blm hand
somely, and make the obsecration to
yourself.;' The custom among the
Jews, when a person indulges iu a
sneeze, is to ejaculate "A long life to
you." In Italy they say "Happiness,"
and In Germany the people say "(je
sundhelt," (health). We also tind this
singular superstition was very univer
sal among the Greeks and the Koreans
and is often referred to by claical
authors. Aristotle, for instance, has
devoted one or his Problems to the
question why the custom or invoking
Jupiter Stator was indulged in as a
safeguard against the dangers or a
sneeze, and tells us that his country
men regarded the sneeze as sacred. It
seems that in Greece it has always been
considered an unlucky omen for any
one to sneeze at the commencement of
an undertaking; and that a sneeze to
the left was regarded as unlucky,
while to sneez s to the right was
thought a must lucky sign. Homer
carries back these superstitions to
Olympus and to the gods who make
the vault of heaven ring by invoking
Jupiter when one of their number
indulges In the ominous act ot
sneezing.
Thus we see that from primitive
times on through successive aes or
culture to the present age can be traced
this sneezing superstition, w.th its at
tendant joys and terrors. And,
though this superstitious custom bad
Its root down in primeval philosophy.
aud its real significance bad long since
raded from men's minds, yet the old
formula remained aud was handed on.
showing how very slowly and pain
fully humanity gives up old customs,
even though they have dwindled to
mere survivals or primitive culture.
Umbrellas.
They were telling marvellous um
brella stones one rainy day lately, says
the Albany Journal, In which each
figured as having once owned a very
handsome gold-headed silk umbrella
which had been stolen aftr having
been used only a very short time. One
man of the company, noted for truth
fulness, proceeded to state that once on
a time he was the owner of a silk um
brella which he carried for many years,
but in time there was nothing valuable
left to It but the handle. "One night,"
said he, "I thought I had conceived a
plan by which I could obtain a new
umbrella in exchange for my old one.
and yet retain a perfectly clear con
science. Accordingly I sallied fcrth In
the rain to attend a banquet wber suit
umbrellas predominated. Drst polishing
uo mv own in order that It would com
pare favorably with the best In appear
ance. Arriving at tne meeting l inr isi
my umbrella into a bolder with a dozen
others U better ones and left it tc
Its fate. I lingered until the last guest
had departed after the feast, fully ex
oectlnir that some one would certainly
take my umbrella and recklessly run
almost certain chances or getting a
better one. I confidently stepped up
and drew out what do you think? It
was mv own umbrella. That experi
ence made me honest, ana x nave never
tried to trade off my umbrella since."
Method of Drylnft Baildings.
A new Invention is reported for dry-
ini, hnildintr, a Riisftian engineer.
t rvt WroTinikT. has invented an ap
paratus for drying buildings, which is
said to have proven very euecue. u
is based on the principle of carbonic
gas rapidly absorbing the moisture of
the air, and to this end the inventor
has constructed a closed stove Durnmg
cnarcoai oy me rairouucuuu ui n m-
, it- fii-A4r. frrtm th niwn throufFa two
tubes. A steady current of dry, warm
carbonic gas is allowed to escape into
Ik. rnnm tn rw ArA Which raDldlV
absorbs the moisture in the air, and es
capes in me ordinary manner luruugu
tne cnimney.
Bryant wrote Thanatopsis'' in the
shade of a grand old rorest a fitting
not for such a theme.
r
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, who
tri lariv of thn White FTnnsn" in
Buchanan's Administration, will be
In Vf asnmgion uiia winter.
A MAN TV A Tit U.N K.
From Chicago to St. Lonis as Bacjrag-e
He was Traveling With Stolen Pro
perty and a Guilty Conscience
rrobably the strangest experience
that aver befell a man was that of
Thomas W. Vines, an employ of
Adams & Westlake company, who dis
appeared from Chicago with $1 500 of
the company's fund, and was finally
captured in St, Louis. He emptied
the stolen money into a sack in the
celler of his employers' store and later
carried it to a room he bad rented m
the vicinity. There he remained two
days, and Anally took a friend into bis
confidence on promise of a share of tbs
stealings and they planned his escape
in a large trnnk in w hich was placed
Uie money also.
The story ot his rids to Bt. Louis is
best told In his own words.
"When we got to the depot in Chica
go, my friend, with the assistance of
the express driver lifted the trunk with
Us human contents to the baggage
room, where it was checked and thrown
in the Wabash car in the roughest kind
of a manner. The smashers did not
seeme to care who or what was inside.
judging by the way I was tossed in the
car. This was not the worst of It by
any means, as there was more tortures
in store for me. The outside smasher
bad no sooner dumped me in than the
smasher inside of the car stood Ute
trunk up on the end in such a way that
my bead was down. If it had remained
in this position any length ot time I
surely would have died, as the blood
rushed to my head and made me sick
and dizzy. I was determined to grin
and bear as much as I could, but yon
can bet I was glad when the smasher
gave the trunk a shove throwing the
right side up.
"1 was tossed around considerably
and badly bruised, as the condition ot
my face, head, and body will show.
The baggage-handler Onally made
another attack on the trunk and this
time I thought I was a goner sure. He
rolled it back and forth and gave it an
occasional push with his foot, almost
shaking the teeth out of my head. I
could hardly keep from crying out to
him to break open the cover, lie finally
got the trunk in one end ot the car and
put another heavy trunk on top of It,
which interfered to a great extent with
my breathing. I kept growing sicker
from the time the train left the depot,
and before It was fifty miles out I felt
that I could not live much longer
packed in the trunk.
i put my mouth and nostrils to tne
boles but the supply of air was neither
pure nor plentiful. When the train
started my only fear was that I would
be discovered, but as we kept getting
further away from Chicago 1 began to
fear that I would not be discovered.
About seventy-five miles out I became
deathly sick, and felt myself getting
weaker. 1 hal told my friend that I
would go to St. Louis, alive or dead,
in the trunk, and would not allow my
self to be caught, but with suffocation
staring me In the' face - my resolution
weakened, and using all my strengtn l
began to yell and kick for dear life
"I heard the baggageman say, 'What
in the devil is that?" and then he
walked to the other end of the car
evidently to locate the meaning ot the
racket. I was getting close to a state
of unconsciousness and I Improved my
time by crying to be liberated. I could
tell from the movements and the talk
of the baggageman that he was frigh
tened at tne noise. It seemed an age
before be did finally throw oft the trunk
that was on mine and took me out.
The train crew came in and looked at
me as though I was a curiosity, asking
bow I ever got in such a box. l told
them I was too poor to pay my fare and
was stealing a ride in a novel way and
they agreed that it was a very novel
way, but instead of throwing me off
they assisted me back to a passenger
coach, as 1 was very weak, and told me
could ride the balance ot the way as
a human beinz.
"As soon as I got out of the trunk it
was tied with ropes, the back having
been broken to let me out, and thrown
in the car. They did not examine the
socks or old clothes In it, consequently
did not find the money. When the
train reached SU Louis, my friend
went away and the trunk was found in
the baggage room. As be had the check
I could not secure the baggage, the
agent giving me to understand that he
would not let it get out of his bands
without the check.
"I remained about the depot and wis
near the baggage-room about 5 o'clock,
when a detective came up and called
me Vines and then made me a prisoner.
When I saw him take the trunk out I
concluded that the jig was up and that
I was in for it." Vines Is now Jailed
in Chicago awaiting trial for murder.
Lauh on a Iawjrer.
As funny a thing as ever occurred In
a court happened at Napoleon, O., in
18C9. before Judge Potter and a Jury.
A case was on trial and an outsider
seated himself on one of the puncheons
at the far end of the panel of jurors.
there being no other available seat.
When the defendant's counsel arose to
address the jury be scanned the face
of each very closely, and naturally his
gaze was directed to the furthest man
from him, who didn't happen to be a
juror at all. Glaring at him he began:
"Gentlemen of the jury: I want to
know what this man (referring to the
plaintiff in the case) has come Into
court for? What is his business?
What right has he here? What is be
seeking for? Again I repeat, gentle
men of the jury, why is he here."
The countryman imagined that the
question had direct reference to him
sel , and when the lawyer paused to
give due weight and emphasis to the
question, he Jumped to his feet and
howled:
"What am 1 here for, yon cross-eyed
cock of the walkr What am I seek
ing for in this here court? I'll tell you
in short order, yon weazen faced old
son of a gun. I've been here three
days awaitin' fer my fees, aad nary
a red kin I git. Pay me witness fees,
sir, and I'll git out of here Immedi
ately.' This unexpected oration brought
down the bouse, and the lawyer never
finished his able argument.
Once a Millionaire, Now a, Panper.
Spurgeon Perry, once a popular
Congressional minister ot New Jersey,
and who made a fortune ot nearly
$1,000,000 out of patent medicines,
only to loose it in speculation, was re
cently sent to the almshouse of Flat-
bush as a pauper. He has been living
for some time in Brooklyn. He Is S9
years old. -
The oftener flour is sifted forsponge
caKe tne uguter tne cake will be.
Her Smile Bis Sunlight.
Sweetheart, when rhymes I maks
for your dear sake.
You brine
Into your faoe a smile.
To cheer me w bile
I ting.
Like totfcat bird am I,
W bieh, when tbs sky
At night
A deeper aznre grows.
No longer knows
Jjeiigbt;
Or like of flowers that ons
Which loves tha sua
And gives
Ths beauty of iu bloom
To bim for whom
It lives.
ricasure uor joys to bless
Ilave I unless
Your face
Over my pajM-r shines
Aud lights lbs lines
With grace.
For ms ynur stnlla is day
I hr golden ray
1 hat climbs
Imagination's wall
And sweetens all
My rhyi
Fer yon the Bird's song, this
The flower's fresh kiss
And breath;
Kor may their nightfall corns
a 111 both are dumb
In death!
THE RED LIGHT.
'There, stranger, do you see that
cripple comin' over there with a
crutch?' said old Jim Perkins, the
section foreman, whose section ended
at the little town of P , on the
South Shore Kailroad, to the ac
companying passenger with whom he
had struck up a conversation while
they were both waiting on the station
platform for the east-bound passenger
train.
He nodded his head as he spoke,
toward a girl sixteen or seventeen years
of ago, who was hobbling up the road
to the platform.
The passenger said he saw her, and
Jim continued:
Well, sir, that little girl is a hee-ro-wlne,
she's got more bravery in her
than any two people t'l known on.
Sand! W by, she's got more sand than
Uie biggest mogul engine on the South
Shore Iioad. Ye don't see what chance
she has to show it, eh?'
Well, I'll tell ye a story that'll open
yer eyes, I'm thinkln'; bold on till she
gets by.
How d'do, Mary?' be said, as the
girl approached, and after acknowl
edging bis salutation, she passed on
and stopped at the waiting room door
at the further end of the platform.
Jim waited until she bad gotten out or
earshot, aud then, turning again to his
listener, proceeded with the story.
c "Twas two years ago, shortly after I
tuk this 'ere section,' be said, 'that the
thing happened. Mary her name's
Mary Wheeler lived over there In that
-little house ye see, jest this side o' the
big red barn, with her mother, a wid-
der, and little sister.
'Her brother Jack was express mes
senger on the late train, 27 o. 67, that
passed here at 1L3J at night. He
boarded tbe train at Swanton. tbe end
o' this division o' the road, and was
only at home when he got a day off.
'The road was new at that time, and
the gravel pits along tbe track hadn't
been closed up yet. They still had
gravel trains a-running, and the gang
that loaded the cars was a lot of dirty,
nasty Italians that boarded together in
old box-cars, switched off on to a shady
sidetrack sum'aies. or in shanties built
for 'em by the company in tbe pits.
'Dugan's pit Is jest across the trestle
over east there, and around that curve.
It's about half a mile from here, and
ye can see it from the car window as
ye pass.
"At that time about 150 Italians was
working in Dugan's and about a bun
dred on 'em lived in the shanty they
bad between the mam track and the
gravel-pit side track.
'They was a bard set, and used to
bavs lots o' rows up there nights, and
specially pay-day nights, when they
gen'aliy bad a keg er two o' beer at the
shanty and plenty or dago cussedness
for it to work on. I
'Some one of 'em was killed or stab
bed about every pay-day night; but
Lord I ther' wasnt any notice tuk of
'em, dead or alive, and tbe town au
thorities wouldn't o cared if they'd ail
been murdered s'long's they fought
amongst 'emselves and didn't offer no
violence to white folks.
'Well, one pay day night Mary'd been
over to Jenny Thompson's, a friend o'
her'n that lives down the.slreet a piece,
and she was havin' secb a good time I
thet before she knowed it 'twas half
past ten o'clock.
Of course sue got ready to go hum.
Jenny offered to go half way with her,
but she said she wasnt afraid, and
takin' her crutch she started out,
"Twasn't very dark and she got
along all right till she cum t the corner
of Granger's barn, when she saw two
men comin' up tbe road toward her.
'She didn't think they'd seen her, so
she stepped in under tbe shadder o' the
carriage shed roof to let 'em pass.
'They kim along till they got in trout
o the shed, but 'stead o' goin by they
turned in too, and for a minute she
was frald they'd seen her go in, and
was follerin her.
'But they hadn't; and so soon as they
got inside they began talkiu' together
kind o' low like; not so low, though,
tut Mary could hear what they said.
She wai only about four feet away,
and ther' was a wagon between tbe
men and her.
Tbe men were tramps, and along
with another of the same ilk they'd
been stealin' a ride on tbe front end o'
tbe baggage-car of No. 57 the night
before, when old Tom Baker, the con
ductor, spotted 'em and when the train
got here be stopped and fired them off.
'They were awfully mad and they'd
made up their mind to get square with
him. So they planned as bow one or
'em was to sneak down the road In the
afternoon 'till be got past Dugan's pit,
and hide In tbe woods there till a ter
dark; then cum over to the track and
pile some ties on it, so 's to wreck No.
57 when she cum 'long. O' course
they'd light out when they had their
revenge and everybody'd think t'was
tbe drunken dagoes t' did it.
'After they'd talked it all over and
arranged as how they was to go by dif
ferent routes to Swanton and meet
there again, they separated and walked
off.
'Mary bad made up her mind. She
knew that everybody in town bad gone
to bed by that time, and she was the
only one that had any chance o' savin
Jack ana the other passengers on 57.
There was an old red lantern o'
Jack's In tbe woodshed of her house.
and she hurried around and cot it. She
fouud a match in the shed and lit the
lantern with it. Then she cum out to
the read again and started for the
depot.
'Just as she s ruck tbe railroad track
the moon went behind a pack o' dark
clouds and, as she had only tbe light
of tbe red lamp, she had to almost feel
her way along.
She didn't know what time it was,
and was mortally feared she'd be too
late, 'cus she had over half a mile to
go, and that there big trestle to cross.
and a pack o' drunken Italians to run
the gauntlet of.
She had grit, though, as I'm a telliu'
ye of. and she made that old crutch o'
hers work pretty rast 'till she got down
to the trestle.
Then cme a tug o' war, gettin'
over that. She started out on her feet,
but Bhe couldn't see whether her
crutch was strikln' the ties or goln'
between 'em, and before long she made
a misstep, and plump! went one leg
down between the ties.
She got up pretty badly bruised, and
tried it again, but before she'd gone
far, down she went, and raised a big
welt on her forehead from strlkin' it
against a stringer.
'Then she gave it np, and got down
on her hands and knees and crawled
along In the dark a feelin' of her way
wun ner nanas.
Finally she got over, but she was
that bruised up from Tallin', and she'd
lost so much time a kneel n' of her way
accross the trestle, that she knew she'd
got to strain every muscle in her body
to get beyond Dugan's in time to stop
No. 57; and I tell ye she just laid her
self out to get there.
'Twas plain sallin now 'til she got
down to the telegraph shanty, w'ich is
jist this side o' the pit, and though
'twas almighty dark, Mary made good
time, and when she got to the shanty,
where the long stretch of straight track
begins, ole 67 wasn't in sight yit.
She could hear the 'tally-mens' a
login' and raisin' tbe Ol' Ned over in
their shanty, but that didn't stop her.
She only gripped her crutch the harder
and hurried to get by. Tbey's a path
along the pit side o' the main track,
between tie teleeraph shanty and the
east side of the sidlr.' where the swamp
begins, and she thought she could get
along better by follerin' that as far as
t'went.
'She was a stumping it along as fast
as God'd let her, when or a sudden her
root hit suthin' layin' in the path, and
she fell head first accross it outer the
ground.
The thing grunted and rolled over
and she knew t'was a man layin' there,
but he was so drunk be didn't wake up.
'Mary was so startled, though, by
tbe suddensss o' the thing, that before
she knew it she let out a yell.
'Three or four Italians that was
stand in' outside o' the shanty door
beard tbe screech, and they picked up
some torches, such as they use for
diggln' gravel by at night, and started
over to see what was the matter.
'Mary'd picked heiself up, and she
crawled aloug down tne path, a Did in
o tbe red lantern under her overskit
till she got out o' range o' the torch
light, and when tbe Italians was all
gathered 'round their partner, a layin'
there dead drunk, she lit out for dear
life.
'When she got to the end of the path
she got up on the road-bed again, and
hadn't gone more n iorty yard when
she run onto tbe ties that the tramps
had plied on tbe track.
'Instead of beln' one or two, though.
there was a dozen ot 'em, for the feller
meant bizness, an' he'd made sure that
there was no way ot the train gettin'
by tbe ties without runnln' off.
They wasn't all plied up together,
but was laid along one by one.
'Mary stooped down and tried to lift
the first one off, but somebow'r other
she couldn't make it budge!
She tried again, but 'twas no go, and
then she saw that the ties were all
wedged down to the track by havin'
two stakes drove Elantin' accross each
end of 'em.
Just as she was beginnln' to realize
that she couldn't move 'em, she beard
No. 57 whhttle for .Swartsvilie curve,
bout a mile 'n a ban away.
'She grabbed the lantern and started
down the track, a-swlngin' ot It from
side to side as she saw Jm's headlight
a'loemln' round the curve.
"Here! w'atyer doln' with that yer
red light!' somebody hollered at her,
and when she looked 'ronnd she saw a
man get up from the shadder o' the
fence and come a-runnin' arter her.
'It didn't take her no time to guess
that feller was the one who was a doin'
the wreckin',but she thought she could
keep a-head o' him till she got the
train stopped.
'He wasn't goin' ter have it that way
though, and he was a-gaimn' on her at
every step.
'She was desprit then. and. sir, I
believe tiod was a-guldin of ber and
givin of her strength, for secb weak
creatures as her couldn't stand no such
strain as that lessen they was given
strength from so me 'ires.
'So, just as the tramp got within ten
feet of 'er and she see she couldn't keep
away from him any longer, she stopped
ot a sudden and set the lantern down on
tbe track.
Then she grabbed her crutch by the
small end, and, swlngin' it around, she
brough it down ca-thump on the critters
head, and be dropped in his tracks
without a kick.
"Twas all done In a second, sir, bnt
at such times as that, every second
that's wasted Is worth a year of ordinary
time, and when Mary picked up tbe
lantern again 57 bad closed up the gap
between 'em until she thought she never
would be able to stop 'em quick enough.
'Dick Richards, the engineer, was
lookln' out, though, and when he blew
a short blast on tbe whistle Mary knew
he'd seen tbe light, and after she'd set
tbe lantern In tbe middle of the track
she stepped off on the side of the road
bed. Dick put on the air-brakes and
threw the lever over, and 57 gave a
Jerk like a horse a-balkln' on the race
track, and then easid up slow-like, and
stopped ju't before she got to tbe red
light.
-Dick and Tom Baker and Jack
Wheeler run up ahead to the lantern
and founi Mary layin' there on the
side o' the track, where she'd fell in a
faintln' fit when she beard the last
exhaust ot 57's engine as it pulled up
and stopped.
'While Jack and Tom was a-takin
Mary back to the train, Dick walked
down the track and found the tramp
a-layln' right where he'd fell.
Tbey picked bim ap and put him in
the baggage car, and the next time he
got his wits about him he found himself
bein' properly tended to.
He's servln' a good long term in
State's prison now, but one thing I'm
sure of, sir, there's 'honor among
thieves' even when they're as bad as
these 'ere tramps, for that feller'd
never give e'en a one o' his partners
away.
They got wind o' how their same
didn't pan out and vamoosed, and
nobody ever got track of 'em again.'
Here ccmes yer tram, mister.' said
the old man. Good. day, sir; ye can
see the pit and shanties down the road,
just beyond the curve.'
Then, as tbe train drew up and
stopped at the station, be answered an
inquiring look of the passenger, by:
xes, that's Jack a-talkin' to Mary
over there now. Good day, sir, good
day.'
The Joy or Pursuit.
It Is natural tot man to be always
looking forward to something beyond
the present, hoping for something he
does not possess, expecting something
that has not yet appeared, pursuing
something that is not yet attained.
JSaturally, too, happiness seems to bim
to be centred in this future attainment
or possession. He is always going to
be happy bye-and-bye, when this or
that hope is realized. Meantime be Is
content to labor and strive for it. and
endure as patiently as may be the pres
ent hard work or self-denial in the an
ticipation of what is to come. Pope
says truly:
"Hope !prins:a eternal in the human breast
Man never us but always Co be blest."
Ytt. whatever pleasure may reason
ably be attached to success, there is a
still greater and far more lasting one
connected with pursuit. Every one
with normal abilities is striving for
something, and it is in this very striv
ing that he gains the most real happi
ness. This is seldom realized. The
sportsman will probably admit it.
Whatever be the pleasure with which
he bags bis game, he knows It Is not
for its own value chiefly, but for the
excitement ot the chase, that he has
followed and taken it.' The same may
be said of all amusements, without fear
of dissent. The success lies not merely
in any point to ba attained at the last,
but in the Interest and enjoyment of
the whole, as it goes on. The means
and the end are the same. But when
it comes to the serious business of life,
most persons would tcorn the idea that
it is in the pursuit more than in the
objects pursued that his welfare Is to
be found. It is the wealth, the hon
orable name, the cflicial station, the
public tribute ot applause, the "well
done," either from the lips of others or
In secret consciousness, which seems to
people to contain the essence of happi
ness. It Is when the physician has
cured his patient, when the lawyer has
won his case, when the architect has
finished bis structure, and the artist
has put the last touches to his beloved
picture, that each conceives his plea
sure must begin. And those who toil
chiefly or only for the livelihood it af
fords them, or for the comfort of their
families, or for the pleasures of ac
cumulation, would, perhaps, most cf
all resent the idea that their happiness
lay more in the pursuit than in the at
tainment of these things. Only when
they receive their daily or weekly
pages, their monthly or quarterly
salary, when they spend what they
have earned, or put it into some sale
investment or promising sjieculation,
do they imagine themselves really
happy; and were these motives with
drawn many would lay down their in
struments of toil forever.
Now all these things do bring much
concentrated pleasure, more or less in
tense according to the strength of the
desire thus gratified. Yet the activity,
the energy, the striving, the very toll
Itself which has led to these results,
are more essential to the true and per
manent happiness of the toiler than the
prizes which he so eagerly grasps. No
other proof of this would be needed
than the experiment (were it possible)
of gathering these prizes without the
preceding effort. Speedily would they
lose all their preclousuesa. partly be
cause the unused faculties had infused
their dullness into the whole nature,
if diamonds were always under our
feet we should soon cease picking them
up, and it the prizes of life were to be
had for the asking. the time would soon
come when they would be no longer
asked for. It. is a great mistake to
imagine that success without effort
will ever make a man or woman nappy.
What we cease to strive for ceases to
be success, and gradually becomes
more and mose worthless. Suppose
the same wages to be paid for nothing
that are now rendered for skill ana
energy and persevering work; or the
same applause to be showered on the
mere trifler that is now given to the
public benefactor, could they possibly
kindle the same joy in the heart of the
receiver that they now do? They
would mean nothing, stand for nothing
and in a short time would be nothing.
No! it Is the pursuit which gives all
the zest to life, tbe toll, the energy, the
perseverance, the endeavor that bring
the joy both in it and after it. These
strengthen the faculties, whet the de
sires, invigorate tbe whole nature and
make harpmess possible. Without
them we should sink iuto the hoixless
misery of inertia. No failure, no ad
versity can be half so disastrous as the
ennui, the discontent and the vacuity
of the idler.
We all need to honor our dally pur
suits more than we do to realize that
if we follow them honestly and earn
estly their best results can never be
taken from us. This would take the
sting out of much that we call failure.
No one who has done his best can ever
wholly faih He has that stored up
within him which is of more value
than many transient successes. If, ks
as Byron tells us, "Tbey never fail w'-
die In a great cause," certain it Is ti:..;
they too never fail who live in the
energetic and persevering pursuit of
whatever is good, or true, or useful to
mankind.
Tho Mighty f . 1 r
Authorized 10 be coined, act of A;i.i
2, 1792. Weight, 416 grains standard
silver; fineness, 792,4; equivalent to
371 1 grains or Hue silver, with 44 J
grains alloy of pure copper.
Weight changed, act of January IS,
1837, to 412 grains and fineness changed
to 900, preserving the same amount of
pure silver, 371 j grains, with one-tenth
alloy.
Coinage discontinued, act of Febru
ary 12. 1S73.
Total amount coined from 1732 to
1S73. $3,645,83.
Coinage revived, J2 000,000 per
month required to be coined, and lssus
made legal tender for all debts, public
and private, act of February 23, 1878.
Total amount coinel February 23,
1878. to November 1. 1583. $313,207.-594,
NEWS IX BRIEF.
. Tlia i.hanMt Phrlclmn nraunt
Sold hv n T. A Inn-olttr in 'av Vrtrtr ritv
j j - - - w.. - .u . " - - - y
cost 8 cents: the most expensive cost
Chanler, who is something of an artist
in mat, way, touches up au tier photo
toe raDhs herself, when the proofs are
sent her.
Harvard has graduated three pres
idents, two vice presidents, eighteen
cabinet officers, three speakers of the
House of Representatives, and four
Supreme Court Judges.
A combination of American actors
with Louis Aldrich at the bead, are
trying to get such an interpretation
or tbe contract Labor law as will bar
out foreign actois from America.
Prominent managers are ot course
against it.
The Emperor of Russia exhibits
at St. Petersburg an Immense dinner
service or Dresden china, which was
manufactured for him a few years ago
at a cost of X 10, 000. There is a differ
ent scene of Russian life on every
piece, and every variety of ltusslaa
uniform and costume is represented.
A schema has been devised for
making church socials pleasant. Each
person Is given a card on which a dozen
names are written, and is requ red to
talk five minutes with each 0110 whoe
name is on the card. At the expiration
ot five minutes a bell is struck and a
new partner is sought. Ily this plan
wall flowers are eliminated, everybody
receives attention, cliques are broken
up, aud all go borne happy. It Isn't
exactly progressive euchre, but It is
built on the same plan.
There Is a quite unimpeachabls
Firth Avenue, New York, girl who
stops horse cars and stages by whist
ling at them, if she wishes to board
one of these vehicles she stops care
lessly at the curb, lifts one hand in a
gracefully lazy signal to the driver,
aud then prettily puckers her red lips,
from which she emits a shrill, musical
whistle. This is all done so demurely
and with such an air of gentle compla
cency that tho astonished Witnesses
are not apt to regard it as In the least
vulgar.
The result oT tbe excavations
made by archaeologists at and near
Mycenae, Greece, the past season, have
been highly satisfactory. Fifteen pre
historic tombs were opened and a large
number of valuable relics of a pre
Homeric aga discovered. Among
them are stones witli Inscriptions, the
so-called "island gems," copper vases
and a variety of other objects in Ivory,
gold and glass. The whole collection
is to be deposited iu the museum at
Athens.
Even animals, esiieclal'y parrots,
have singular habits. Ia Philadelphia,
ror example, a parrot In a family liv
ing near to a church whose chimes
ring out Ute "Angelus," observing a lit
tle girl of the family recite the prayers
one evening, as the bell rang out, the
parrot jumped from his perch to the
bottom ot its cage, and assuming a
reverent position, bowed its head and
mumbled the ilrst few words of the
prayer. Since that time, it is claimed,
the parrot is as regular and attentive
to its dally prayers as any member of
the family.
The Inaugural committee has re
ceived subscriptions of j3,000. About
25,000 men will probably take part lu
the parade, according to the present
outlook. The music committee has re
ceived proposals from about every
important band and orchestra In the
United States. For the dancing
music the night of the ball the com
mitter has selected Beck's Band and
orchestra, or Philadelphia, of 100
pieces, the contract price being Jl, 700.
For tho promenade music previous to
the ball the Marine Band has been
selected, the price agreed upon being
1750.
It takes eighty men and
women to make a postage stamp.
First the white paier is cut
into sheets, each larpe enough
for a hundred stamps. The stamps on
each sheet are couuted tweuty-slx
times, to make sure the number Is
correct. The printer counts aud passes
the sheet to the gummer, the gurnmer
gums the back, and having counted,
gives it to tho 11 f orator, who divides
the stamps by rows of little holes, not
forgetting to count. It is surprising
how quickly and accurately the bands
can work. Seven hundred million
postage stamps are marie every year in
the United States. New York City
uses eight million a mouth.
A marriatre that was attended
with numerous difficulties because ot
the scarcity of money came off in Cin
cinnati recently. After paying for the
ltcenie (7j cents) the groom had but 25
cents left. He collected enough from
spectators to pay the magistrate's fee.
but then another obstacle arose. Tbe
young man said that if he did not have
a certificate to prove his loarriaire the
parents of his bride woul l not believe
tbe ceremony had taken place, and
there would be trouble. Another col
lection was taken and the certificate
was provided. Then the couple went
away happy. They were from Hamil
ton. Ky., and bad eloped to avoid tha
opposition of the bride's parents.
Or "tacky," a word that has been
coming into more or less excessive use
lately, a correiKindent writes to tbe
New York Tribune: This word Is not
exactly slang, but a special appllca
lion of a well-known word. "Tacky"
is tbe phrase used for paint or similar
things when not quite dry. The
writer has often heard It used by
house-painters, who were trying with
the finger to ascertain K a second coat
of paint could probably be applied. It
Is doubtless from the old wor 1 "tack"
(French, tae.'ie). which Wel.er define
as "a ppjt," mid th- Encyclopaedia
Dictionary as 'Vtniii, taint," "Tacky"
would, therefore, mean spotting, or
staining, or tainted.
The American Commissioner-General
to the Paris Exposition of ISS'J
has issued a circular to American
artists in this couutry and abroad.
Only works or art executed since 1878
can be admitted; and copies, even In a
different medium, will Dot be received.
Artists residing in the United States
must have their exhibits in New York
by rebruary 15, 1889. There will be
no extension or time, A Jury or artists
will be chosen to examine and pass
upon the works submitted. This Jury
will Include representatives of the five
classes ot exhibitors, painters in oil
and other mediums, sculptors, archi
tects, and engraven. The selection of
the jury will probably be by tLe artists,
but no formal action has yet been
taken.
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