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Ti>e -lipb*e»t di-sbili'v eutit'e* to poneiotis PKNHIOVH INfHF ASFI> Bounty And new di-chnrges p»ocnred Tboee in donl t a- to wl,ether entitled to anything, slu nld *< n I two * cent stamps for rmr *'i ircntartif informa tion" ' A'ddre » with *t> mrc. HTUDPAHI A Co.. of Clal'i * an 1 Pufenth lloom 8. St Olond Pnidiitg. Waabltigton. f) 0 (lTdecMm €.T? K WRB't. §l2 1-l.iyit li.rn e islly ma le. JkUto *" VOL. XVIIL From l.ippincott's Magazine for this Month. iIY CHISA BOYS. Mv first China boy was sent orer to me front a CLinege intelligence office in San Francisco by a 'Wells Fargo' agent. I had written a note to the of fice acking for a cook. 'Here's a pa.cel for you,' laughed the Wells F lrgo agent as be lifted a small mummy swathed in blue cotton from the wagon and stood him up against the wall. Before I had recov ered from my astonishment and dismay the agent was gone and I was left alone with the blue-cotton mummy. 'What am I to do with you? I solil oquized, rather than a>ked. Then for the fi st time I saw in the middle of the queer little face a pair of brilliant, i hlique blink eyes, very small, in ac cordance with the r-ize of the creature, but sparkling with the vitality of a dozi n lives. Tlenty cook,' said an eager voice. 'Hut you are so little.' 'Plenty cook ' •You cannot reach to the top of a kitchen-table.' 'Plenty cook.' It was too late to send back the in finiiessimal cook until the n< xt day, so I gave him permission to show me what he could do in the mean time. At once he became pressed of a furv of work, sweeping, ilu-tiiig. wash ing \n4lnlnws, aml |H'rforining the vari ous in usehold duties like a si ent whirl wind. Every few moments there WHS a pause, the twinkling eyes appeared, and the question 'l>o?' (Whit shall 1 do next?') was put to me \\ ill) unabated eagerness. Never before or since have I seen any one work with the same honest enjoyment of physical la bor. When everything bad lieen scoured and cleaned ami put into the most perfect order and the question 'DoV was thrown at me again as from a catapult, I wa»at my wits'end. 'Do?' be repeated, as I paused to reflect. Fortunately I happened, in my per plexity, to look ont of the window and saw the garden nose. I was saved Always, after that, when the ' DoV be canie too alarmingly ini|w*rative, I sent Ah Choon out to-water the garden. It was a never-ending source of delight to him. and an employment that might lie prolonged indefinitely, Ah Choon not considering the work properly done until the water stood iu pools on the surface of the ground. I did not send Ah Choon back the next morning as I had intended. He amused and inteiested n.e too much, and then 1 very soon began to be re ally attached to the li tie fellow. Some of nty neighbors tell different stories of their experience with the 'pe culiar institution,'but uiy Chinese ser vants have been invariably so gentle, willing, affectionate and clever that, whether 1 sent away my boy or le left of bis own accord, i have always felt sad when he said good-by, and pleased when he came to see me afterward. Ah ('boon's beginning was no flash in the pan. He kept his unabated en ergy to the end, which, alas ! came all too soon. I gave hiin a dollar and a a half a week, afterwards increased to two dollars. He surely could have been no more than ten when he came to me, but iu a few weeks he not only did most of the cooking and all the cbamber work, but took entire charge of a pony and phaeton and attended to the light work of a large garden. An old ladv came Irom the east to visit me, and, my health not being good, volunteered to take all home-cares off' my hands. Tin n came the tug of war. First, 'grandma,' as we called her, came to ec tnplain that the China hoy would not obey her. When I sent for Ah Choon and asked what he meant by sui h conduct, he said, 'You buy this house?'- —'Yes,' I >nid —'Old lady no buy hm?'—No.' 'Then old lady no l>o.-M-e. Yi u bosrce-weninn. Old lady too muchee sass.' 1 explained the sit uation as well as I could in Pigeon- English, and remembering the respect paid to their parents and elders by the Chinese, I reminded him of that, and asked how be would like to have a 'Melican' boy treat his mother as he treated grandma. He lisieded to all I had to say, seeming impressed by it, repeating many times, 'Elka klukla nit* Me no sass old lady.' Shortly afi«T he ran over to his cousin to borrow a phrase-book, 'elka klukht me,' means 'excuse me.' In a little while grandma came back ag-in, crying, 'I do believe that China boy is swearing at me in Chinese now ' Again Ah Choon stood before me, bis shining eyes dimmed with tears. 'Ah Choon,'said I reproachfully, 'you said you would be good to the old lady, and now she says you talk badly in Chinese to her.' Ab Choon's dark face flushed, and the tears poured down his cheeks. 'No can do! no can do!' he cried. 'I no sass old lady Melican talkee. Old lady talkee, talkee, too much sass, —allee time too muchee sass. Lilly Cbinj boy no can talkee ; lillv China boy no can sass. Bim-by lilly China boy die!, I am bound to say that my sympa thies leaned toward the 'lilly China boy.' To grandma I counselled mode ration, advising her to allow Ah Choon a lii tie latitude, and take no notice so long as he confined himself to his mother-tongue, which from that time he did religiously. Very soon Ah Choon became an ex pert operator {in the sewing-machine. In the evening, after studying his les sons with an asinuity that might put a 'M elican' boy to shame, he amused himself by making full suits of Chinese clothing for my little daughters' dolls. Success firing bis ambition, he went further, and produced coats, trousers and feminine apparel of all sorts, that were as complete in detail and fit as th f ashioned by the most able of dolls' dressmakers. With a set of old modeling tools and a lump of clay he moulded grotesque and realistic ima ges with a genuine artistic feeling that, similarly ;-hown in a white boy, would lie pronounced a budding genius. One Sunday we found that tbe entire dinner bud been stolen by tramps the night I efore, all the shops were closed, and. us we lived some little distance in ihe o«untry, there seeu.ed hut a a gloomy outlook for us. 'lt I hud Wily luA/wu rt ikfaiu U/u Ci/frkctiu wVro turned loose!' I remarked; 'but I doubt if they are large enough to eat, even if they could be caught.* I had hardly turned away before I heard Ah Choou's voice calling from the chicken yard. He had a pair of the largest fowls tied together by the legs with his queue, and was weighing them with the cock-scales. He cer tainly was a boy of resources. Was anything broken, Ah Choon mended it. He invented novel uses for pots and pans that were past their pr me; made new articles out of old ones.—in fact, was a sort of Ch nese Robert Pen fold. Nor, though easily moved to tears, as are all Chinese, was Ah Choon without personal courage. Some in cipient hoodlums attacked him one Su' day as he was returning from Sab bath-school, which be attended regu larly Just in time to save the little heathen a couple of passers-by inter fered. stopped the persecution, and sent Ah Choon home with an ugly kuife cut that harl almost severed an ear from his bead and a slash across one hand, lie very reluctantly allowed me to bind up bis wounds,saying, 'All light; bym by get well; nev' mind ' When I asked him how it happened, he drew himself up wiih all the pride of a lighting general, saying. 'One, two, sixteen Ilish, bad Ilish boy, fight one lulv Cl.ina b«»v. Lilly China boy p'eu ty fight; liliy China boy no 'fl iid; lil.y China boy no luu; too muchee like tigln !' Many times after that I had to rush to the lilly China boy's rescue. When ihe schools closed, some of the boys who had taken up the feud rode their p.inies at Ah Choon, who ran out when he saw ibem coining and stood in the street. No expostulations or threats could keep him in the Liouse after be heard the ponies' hoofs. 'Lilly China boy no fluid die,' he would say. 'Melican boy lide over Cbit a boy, killee him; go jail one, two, sixteen years! Maybe p'leeceman bang Melican boy. He no likee that. Lilly China boy likee that welly much.' An old man near by. retiring from the photographic business, preseuted me with his camera and chemicals. I had a skylight let into the stable-roof and made a dark closet i r one corner. Nothing could exceed AL Choon's de light and wonder at these mystic prep arations. Between the *uriiiug of the muffins he would dash out to take a look at the blood-red landscape through the 6taihed window. When everything was complete, as the family were all away, 1 took Ab Choon for a model. Fear ng lest he should meddle with the chemicals when I had my eye off him, I showed him a bottle of cyanide of potassium with a skull and cross-bones under the word 'poison' upon the label. 'Savvy! savvy!' said he. Rapidly opening an imaginary bottle, and swal lowing an imaginary piece of cyanide, he dropped suUdenly at full leDgth on the floor and went through all the writhings and contortions of a fearful death by poison. After one last, long, struggling gasp he crossed bis hands upon his breast, turned up bis eyes, and dropped his jaw. The simulation was a little too hor ribly exact for my nerves, so I com pelled a speedy resuscitation of the corpse and placed him in front of the camera. When be saw it turned tow ard bim be gave one start of dismay, then stood penectly still as I bade him, grinning, in spite of his evident fear of this unknown instrument that had to do with deadly poisons and skulls and cross-bones, at the comical appeanance I presented with my head under the black velvet camera-curtain. Nothing could exceed bis delight at the result, unless, perhaps, his disgust at the po sition he had taken; he was so unhappy about it that I made another trial, al lowing him to pose himself. He placed himself stifly upon a chair, elbows out, both hands upon his parted knees, (the Chinese position of dignity), regretting '.'.leanwhile that he had neither a fan nor a vase of flowers at h : s s'de, both of which, from a Mongolian point of view, are necessary accessories to a portrait. This picture, thongb a perfect suc cess from his own aesthetic stand-point, lie had no desire to possess, but only to look at occasionally. I offered to give it to him to send to his mother, but he said she would not be pleased, hut, on the contrary, very angry, ex plaining, as well as I could understand, that the whole affair savored too much of witchcraft, and she would probably fear that in consenting to it he had in some way placed himself in the power of the 'white barbarian;' adding, how ever, with bis favorite remark, 'Lilly China boy no '(laid; muddah he 'flaid, lillv China by he no 'flaid.' Ah Cboou'sie gn in the kitchen might have continued until this day but for an unfortunate accident; he set tbe house on lire. All the family but my self and the little children were out at tbe time (midnight), and Ah Choon, who had been reading a Chinese novel in bed, fell asleep and knocked his can kle over on the chair. The light and crackling noise woke me. I instinct ively knew what bad happened, and flew up to bis room, where 1 found the poor boy almost dead from suffocation. I threw a pail of water over him and dragged him from the fire. He recov ered his senses in a few moments, and I sent him for a hatchet to chop open the floor, as the fire was running be tween it and the ceiling. It seemed as though he wns back in the twink ling of au eye, hut he had found time, as I afterward discovered to carry the two little children, without awakening them, into the front garden, where he left tbem wrapt in a blanket quietly sleeping on the grass. With a less in telligent ally than Ah Choon the fire would have beaten me, but with his deft fingers and quick brain to help me, I soon got it u ider, and we sat down, drenched with water, smoke-begrimed and panting, to rest. Curiout ly enough the fire bad burned nothing belonging to me hut the chair and a spot through the floor; but, like a Nemesis, had fol lowed ail Ah Choon's belongings and reduced them to ashes. Even his shoes and stockings, wh.lch he had left some distance from tbe bed, were now char red embers. He had nothing left in the but the exya irdinary night tfurok&ttj in which hO bat tft ttoit too BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9. 1881 ment. I pointed out his loss to him. He said that he had observed it, but it made no difference. He could get more easily from his couisn. 'What will you wear when you go to your cousin ?'asked I. 'Garments of mine or—this ?' At that he laughed, but his laugh turned into a cry, and little Ah Choon went into as genuine a fit of hysterics as any fine lady could have managed. No pleadings of mine availed : Ah Choon was dismissed. There was a tear in his eye when I shook his little claw and said good-by, and there was a tear in mine. Sometime afterward I beard bad ac counts from my wasbman of Ah Choon's subsequent career. He got a place with a rich lady who was in the habit of keeping several hundred dol lars at a time in ber desk. Ah Choon took a wax impression from the lock, made a key to it. and after abstracting four hundred dollars set out for China, where he ia now in full enjoyment of his vast and ill-gotten riches. '1 am indeed surprised,' I remarked to the wasbman ; 'be was such an hon est boy with me.' 'Oh, be likee you,' replied the wash man ; 'he no takee you money. Too muchee sa s s, sass, he takee money, lun away. Welly bad,' be adeed as an after-thought. Our next boy, Ah Iloon, stayed but a short time; he called me mamma, and after some pressing upon the sub ject told us that the Chinese tag ho placed upon the clothes when they when to the wash might be translated, 'Ah Hoou's mamma.' When not as leep he spent all his spare moments bathing iu a big washtub. Owing to general illness in the fam ily, 1 being an invalid myself at the time, and the management of affairs out of my hands, it was deemed advis able by the powers in authority to bring in an Irishwoman to help with the housework. Ah Hoon's indigna tion was intense; he went about the house sullen and silent for several days Taking advantage of a moment when I was alone, he burst into my room with his valise and bedclothes. 'Too many bossee-women in this house!' he cried. 'I go away. You look see Ino steal. You bossee-wo man; you look see. Bym-by I go way. Ilish woman mebbe stealee spoon, stealee money; go say China boy stealee. Look see !' and be shook out each article violently, turned the valise upside down, packed everything back again, refused to receive his wages, and walked off, leaving his sheets anl blankets beside my bed. Then for a wearisome time there was a clanging of pans and clashing of pottery and trampling of heavy feet that betokened the presence of the or dinary servant-girl, two of whom were found requisite to fill tbe place of my one little light-footed, nimble-fingered heathen. How gladly would I have given bim wax impressions of all my locks in return for his dexterous ma nipulation of tbe household machinery! As soon as I was well enough to re ceive into my own hands again the reins of government, I made a clean sweep in my kitchen, end installed a new China boy, Ah Gim by name, instead of the women I sent away. Ah Gim was fourteen years old.— thirteen, according to our count. Tbe Chinese reckon the year they enter as the year of their age, instead of, as we do, the year that is accomplished He was a slender, pretty, very graceful boy, with a face of more refinement than one usually sees in the lower classes of his race. Unlike Ah Choon, be was an ex tremely timid boy, and never ventured very far from the house unless I went with bim; consequently, when Ah Gim needed a new pair of stockings or a handkerchief I had to go with biin to the town, where he made his pur chasas. Ah oiin was much more of a fine gentleman than his predecessors, anfl was greatly flattered thai I should per ceive it and ask him what caused the difference. He, he informed me, was a schoolmaster's son, and had been educated with great care and never al lavved to associate with vulgar people. He looked upon 'Christian Charlev,' a boy who had been converted and was made a great pet of, with all possible contempt. Charley was so ignorant said Ah (Jim, that he didn't even un dertand his own religion, or he would lave seen that it was almost the saun as that to which he pretended to be converted. He explained his own re ligious belief to me at great length, saying that it was very like Catho licism. 'We are all called idolaters,' said he, 'because a few of us really are. But why should ve be despised for idolatry and called heathen, any more than the ignorant among Catholics, who pray to images of the Virgin and to the cross in as idolatrous a spirit as any poor Chinaman prays before his joss? To us educated Chinameo our gods are merely symbols, which we use just as the Catholics do theirs,'etc. This is not given in Ah Gim's own language, which, however, was greatly superior in construction and pronun ciation to that of any other Chinaman 1 have known, except, of course, Chi nese gentlemen. Ah Gim did his work in the deft, quick way that is characteristic of the Chinese servant, at the same time add ing manylittle refinements of his own. He always kept a newly-plucked rose in a glass on the shelf of his kitchen sink, taking whiffs of its fragrance as be washed bis dishes. The bowls of the kerosene-lamps had rose-leaves strewn in them, and all the vases in the house were kept filled with fresh flowers and water. He objected to the pony, fearing the smell ol the stable might cling to his clothes, and refused to associate with the Chinese servants in the neighborhood, because their manners were vulgar. Like most fine gentlemen, Ah Gim bad superfine feelings which were easily wounded. Being too dignified to mention the fact when we bad un wittingly injured his feeli lgs, and yet desirous that we should not languish in ignorance, he had a curious custom, coming sometimes ut awkward seasons of flattening bis fact* against, the wall ftdd for n Or, shorter period according to the turpi tude of the offence. When this hap pened during the preparation of dinner or while waiting upon the table, it was productive of unpleasant feeling. I said nothing at first, but waited un til Ah Gim wanted to go to the city to do some shopping. As usual, he came to ask me to accompany him, at which I flattened myself against the wall and said nothing. The subject was dropped at once, and Ah Uim stole sheepishly away. After several days be took courage to speak again about going to the city, and again I promptly and silently took his position against the wall. This went oil until he voluntarily promised to abstain from all flattening and sulks in the future, and I had no more trouble with bim on that score. Being too proud to associate with his fellow-servants, the poor boy had very dull evenings. Like most of the boys I have had, he pent a great part of his time in study, both in Chinese and English. But when he was tired or bad finished his self-imposed ta*ks, time hung heavily upon bis hands. It was a great pleasure to him then, when I was alone, to be allowed to come in and talk to me He a-ked tnanv questions about the government and polities of America, some of which puzzled and many embarrassed me to answer, so that 1 was glad to shift the talk into other channels. But what I liked even more—shall I con fess it ?—than the conversation of my wittiest friends, was to listen to Ah Gim when he stood before me (he re fused to'sit in my presence.) his little brown hands crossed upon his breast, his head thrown back, his eves shining a narrow oblique line between his partly-closed lids, and recited what I might call the folk lore of his country. His countenance remained iinpas.ive throughout, and his positioi. never changed, but his voice thrilled and vibrated with the passion and the ter ror or the pathos of his story. I shall never, never find another China boy like Ah Gim. And I lost bim b; what foolishness, do you sup pose ? Bv the deadly insult of requir ing him to use a fine-tooth comb. He had given bis word not to flatten, so there was nothing for it but to shake hands and say good-by. After my experience with Ah Gim, my first pre position to a new boy was the use of the comb or its equivalent If he refused, well and good ; the bar gain was off. If he consented, my heart was glad, for then there was less likelihood of coming to a rupture with a good boy after I had grown to like him and he had become familiar with the ways of the house. (Let me whis per to stranirers about to engage Chi nese servants that it is the safe thinir to compel a new boy, no matter how neat and clean he may appear, to wash his head in a solution of fish-berries and alcohol or 'arkspnr-seeds boiled in water, remembering that both are a deadly poison when swallowed ) My next venture was called Ah Sin, a bright, dapper lad of fourteen, of a facetious turn of mind and n merry most musical laugh. I took him down to Monterey with me for the summer, where we lived in a little rose-embow ered adobe cottage with two Spanish ladies, Senora Bonifacio and the lovely little senorita her daughter. Between the Senora and Ah Sin war was at once decbued. An indignant outburst of Spanish would startle me as 1 sat. drawing .it the window, and I would hasten out to find the senora, one hand clutching the shawl over her head, gesticulating with the other as she volubly explained that she would not and could not allow the 'Chinito' to climb upon her garden-wall and fasten his clothesline to her favorite pear tree, thereby shaking off the unripe fruit The more emphatic the old lady grew, the more Ah Sin's expression become that of one serenely meditating upon fa.-away scenes, while the knots of his rope were drown tighter as his abstrac tion become deeper. When I insisted that the rope .-hould be removed, he smiled and undid it, but as soon as my back was turned found some other means of attaining his object. He seemed entirely unaware of the Se nora's evistence, and skipped about ber whistling 'Baby Mine'ami dodg ing under her arms as though he sup posed her some ordinary vegetable pro duction sprouting from her own garden The senora kept all gates securely locked, especially the door in the gar den wall, which was strictly tabooed to Ah Sin ; but no locks or bars inter fered with his incomings and outgo ings. Whether he said. Open, sesani!' in Chinese or had made himself a pri vate key I do not know, but he smil ingly came and went at his own sweet will. During work hours, while the ma chinery of the house was in motion, Ah Sin went about with the air of a man of serious responsibilities; but, the dinner well under way, everything polished and in order, he rolled up his white apron—and his cares with it— and ran out into the garden for a romp with little Sam. The air rang with their gleeful shouts as they wrestled and pelted each other with fallen pears and and played ball and other games dear to the heart of boys. One of their amusements consist d in practis ing with a rifle, with which Ab Sin be came so expert that he. could shoot a bird on the wing. Sam bad a pony. It had long been a dream of Ah Sin's toJiave a ride he hind Sam on bis 'little homey.' I gave them permission one morning to go riding double to gather wild s'raw beraies iu fields, Ah Sin providing him self with a grain sack to carry the fruit in. Lutein the afternoon 1 found him biding the empty sack. He was greatly mortified at having made such a public display which ended in so poor a fiasco, for they had tw>t found a single berry, and, as Ah Sin cotife sed to me a few days after, bors«-ba' k-nd ing was not all his fancy had painted it. 'Littl* horsey,' said lie, 'jimp, jimp, jimp; I jimp, jimp, jimp; one week time stand up : no can sit down.' At this time there were two young ladies in the family. Naturally, tl< men from the city were f« unci ot b tllo ulkkrt M^TtUW/. We found afterward that all strangers were met by confidential disclosures from the China boy as to the young ladies' affections. 'Missee Belle, he would say, 'she welly muchee likee Melicnn painter man; pletty soon she malty him; she no mallv you. Missee Nelly she mallv Spanishee man ; bym by she get plenty key, lockee, lockee door; tie up bread til lee same senora.' His delicacy in ihe presence of the supposed lovers was extreme. If the exigencies of the situation forced him to :urn his body toward them, it moved under his head as though w< i k ing upon a pivot, so that the queue in variably fa.-td i hem. In the evening, when all tic re t were drawn away by the fi:~ of cascarone-i>arties, moonlight rides cr strolls upon the beaeh. Ah Sin came in to make my lire, at which I liked to sit for an hour or two in the gloaming. He squatted upon his haunches like some sorl of a curious frog about to jump, laying one splinter after another upon the fife as he watch ed my face furtively to see if 1 was in the mood to allow a little talk. If mv expression happened to be reassuring, I was entertained by full accounts of his f.imih itflhiics—ot how a wife hud been for him while he w.is still an infant in arms; he was sure his fu ture spmi-e wou d In* all he could tie sire. as his mot tier, who had bargain ed for her, was a wise woman and not likely to make a bad choice He spoke witli scorn of having seen 'Melican, boys talking at d e'en walking iu the street with girls. 'I tlun nty head awav,' he said, 'and no look at gul; walk- e light on ; no i iekee, no iookee.' In the part of Chin i from whence be came, he said, all the boys of fourteen and over wete sent 'on large building, where they lived together. Sometimes he confessed, there were fights and disturbances and rough and noisy play but that was better than being exposed to the baleful influence of woman. 'lf you went home now,' I asked, 'would your mother be very g!ad to see you and you to see her ?' 'Oh, yes," said he. 'No kiss, no hug I stand here, she stand way off, and then talkee, talkee—plenty talkte. Bviu-by no let my miiddah work. I gettee one wifee, I make her woi k for muddah. Melican boy he gettee one wifee, no likee muddah then. Likee wifee wellv much, no likee muddah now. Welly bad, that!' Ah Sin's religious belief 'differed from that of Ab Gim. When I told him wt at Ah Gim had said on the subject, he cried. 'He talkee one lie! No allee snnie tnat. I welly bad man, I die, I get one pig ; mob e I get one lat (rat.) I welly good, welly sinlat (smart) man, I get one big snake Bym-by snake die, he go up allee same god. Bad !iit, he die, be get one lilly wum (worm;) Lily wum he die, go down big hole.' 'What do you want to be after you die ?' I asked. 'Me?' I bkee get one big snake; then evervbody muchee fluid. I liiakee big wind blow hard; muchee likee that.' For one thing he preferred white people to Chinese. They never, he said made devils. The process of'mak ing devils' he explained as follows: One man welly pour, lend money to fiend. Poor man he die. he say gi< e money my muddah ; lie fiend no give money muddah. Poor man he die, he makee devil. He fiend plenty flaid He no pay money to muddah ; bym-by he get too muchee fluid, he bap-die. Man-devil makee bim die.' He spoke of ihe present, ill-feeling "f the Irish toward his race with surpris ing intelligence and moderation. The Irish, he said, were slow to learn, ex travagant in their habits, incline*! to drunkenness, and most oft hem unskill ed laborers. They refuse to do the work they are capable cf doing, and always demand the highest wages. Now and then among them, he said, were good and clever men, but the most of l»« m came to this country with exaggerated id- as of lis freedom and wealth, only to meet with disappoint ment. 'Ynti look see !' he said. 'llishinan he hap thhe (three-) coiner eyes, he bail man. Plenty llishmau hap got thlte-corner eyes. Spanishee man sometimes he get thlce-corner eyes allee same; he bad man.' Drunkenness, l.e said could be easily cured, I hough lie had unfortunately for gotten the remedy. 11 is brother had de veloped at anearly agea strong appetite for drink. His mother, when she dis covered it, simply went out into the fields, gathered an herb, made her son drink the tea from it, and the cure was soon complete. Could it be, I wonder ed, the n. w remedy for dipsomania— red Peruvian bark—accounts of which had been going the rounds of the pa pers ? After a time Ah Sin's merry laugh was hushed The singing and whist ling in the kitchen of Chinese songs (so curiously similar to Methodist hymns, American street-song's, and I>i;s of operas caught from t lit; young ladies —for he had a quick ami correct ear— were heard no more. Mr fell hack in his work; the romps in the garden were at an end. One evening he pour ed out his heart to Miss Nelly, lie had fallen in with a had set, who had enticed him into gambling, lie had not only lost u|| the savings that had been meant for his mother, but was in debt besides. The bad influences about him he felt too strong to resist. There was no salvation for him, lie thought, but in leaving Monterey entirely, lie waited until we found his successor, breaking off from his work every few minutes to hold long farewell conver sations with thecals, tellinir ti cm how 'too niuchee solly' he was to leave them. The new boy came, and Ah Sin went, regretted by all. See Yung came from the country; I engajred him from his brother, a very valuable man on a dairy-farm See Yung was not so prepossessing in appearance or man ner as Ah Sin, but I came to feel v> ry kindly toward hint, he was s.) gentle and docile, so invariably irood-nattired and so allicijomite toward animals a <1 children. Most servants, alter dinm r has been «aten and the table cleared uod they are in their own rot ms iVtfuu 0 fiVui ilw ivila uf itrj Uay, fA/k with considerable d'stavor on visitots w ho appear at eijiht o'clock diunerless. This ofu n happened at our house, and Sen Yung prepared the second dinner with as smiling a countenance as though he were one of the guests him -elf. \et tliere seemed to be always it touch of pathos in his smile ; the ex pression of it was that of a dog fond of a master who abuses him. Of all my boys, See Yung, though the most stupid, was the closest stu >lt nt. Alongside his bed stood his ink. his writing-brush and books, as well as his English reader, pen and paper. I never sat down a moment alone in the evening but n stealthy step crept :;i beside me and a soft, meek voice h-<i*atin«rly asked. 'Tcacbee me now?' See Yung had probably brought some malum in his system froin the Carmello Yalley. He was taken with an ague-chill. As soon as the fever went down. I gave him a large quinine pill which 1 desired him to take. 'Uvin-by,' was his reply. A few nvnutes after. I heard n rustle »n the si- irs. I was just in time to prevent See Yung's precipitate retreat: the sight of -Melican uian.s medicine' had frightened him more than the chill, lie still held the pill in his hand. 1 sternly ordered him to sit in a chair and open his mouth, in a tremor of agitation he dropped into the chair, threw back li.s head and opened his it; mil ; down went the pill. Jle open ed his eyes, gave me one reproachful glance, and fled the house. The sec ond day after he walked through the kitchen aud into my room, seated him self upon the same spot, in the same chair, and solemnly said, 'Welly good pill; likee cap more allee same,' threw hack his head, shut his eyes, and open ed his mouth. I had mislaid the box, and hunted for some time before I found it, but See Yung never moved a muscle until I popped the pill down his throat, when he said, 'Thank you,' and went about his work again. He doubtless looked upon the magical pill as a preservative of health as well as a cure for disease, fo* he took position at the same hour every day and waited for his pill until I showed him the empty box, which he viewed with the deepest dejection. Suddenly and unexpectedly it be came necessary to break up our little establishment. No one had the cour age to tell the news to See Yung. At last circumstances became so impera tive that 1 was forced to do it. No words of mine can describe the awful depression that enveloped him like the folds of a pall as the full meaning of my words dawned upon him. He said nothing, and I could say no more; hut 1 felt as Cain must have done after he had killed Abel. FANNY Y. DE G. STEVENSON. TELEPHONES. The telephone is growing dangerous ly threatening to the old jog-trot insti tutions of the past, and while Titusville witnesses may soon be able to lav in bed and give their evidence in Mead ville, or, for that matter, anywhere else, the whole system of going to church to hear semions, seems likely to be revolutionized. For the sick a boon is offered by this innovation that was little dreamed of a few years ago. Here is an illustration of its working, with unlimited sugges tions of its ftuure possibilities. For some time past Mrs. I). <) Wick- i bar: has been confined to the house by j serious indisposition, and a few days ago Mr (ieorge Coburn hurriedly put 1 up a te'ephone in the Presbyterian Church. He hardly thought it would , work as he had so little time to see the J instrument thoroughly adjusted, but on Sunday evening we dropped, for a j moment, into the Central olliee, and there by the courtesy of Mr. Cobum, had the pleasure of hearing, very dis tinctly, the clear delivery of the Itev. | .1. A. Maxw» II in his sermon, while the line duets IIIKI solos of the choir were j very plainly beard. Later in the evening, we were in formed that Mrs. Wickman, the lady | for whom the church telephone had : been placed, had enjoyed the sermon, j catching every word of it very distinct- j ly at her own residence. It is to be hoped, however, that people in perfect health will not avail themselves of this luxury to avoid the collection plate. Friends will please take this hint in any wav they choose.— Titunvitle Hrr a Id. DEALIMi WITH TIIIEVES. A man having bought some wool of him, which he ha>l weighed ami |>ai«l for, Mr. Sheaf went into the hack room to get change for a note. Hap pening to turn his head while there he saw in a glass, which hung so as to re flect the shop, a stout arm reached up and take from a shelf a heavy cheese. Instead of appearing suddenly and re linking the man for the theft, as an other would have done, thereby losing his custom forever, the crafty old gen tleman gave the thief his change, as if nothing had happened, and then under pretense of lifting the bag to lay it on the horse for him, he took hold of it, and — •Why bless me, I have reckoned the weight wrong.' '(), no,' said the other, 'you may bo sure you have not, for I counted with yoo.J i 'Well, we won't dispute about the j matter, it is so easily tried,' said Mr. i S. putting the bag 011 the scales again. I 'There,' said he, 'I told you .so; I j knew I was right; made a mistake of 1 nearly twenty pounds. However, if you don't want the whole, you needn't have it; I'll take part out.' 'No,' said the other staying the hands of .Mr S. on the way to the strings of the bag,'l guess I'll take the whole.' And this he did, paying for dishon esty by receiving the skim milk cheese at the price of wool. On another occasion, Mr. S. missed a barrel of pork. A few months after a i man asked the question: 'Piil you ever find out who toi k that pork, Mr. Sheaf?' •Yes,' v\the <*vp|y, 'you are the , fellow, for cue but uiyetif aud tbo j llrilf kiil-'w u'f IbV Ites.' AOTEBTISIHO BATE*. One square. one u.coi tion. 91: each aabee net.t insertion. 50 cent*. Yeirly advertisement *c.-ediiij: one-fourth of a column, t& per inch •"Ipiire wore doable there rate*; addition* -hargea where weekly or monthly change* ire ua<le. Loral advert i»en>ei.ta 10 centa per line for tj»t insertion, and 6 cents per line for each tdditional insertion. M arrives and deaths pub - t 'i»if:e- Ol'itiiaij rotice* charged w advortisomente, and parable when handed 1B Vu ta-i e Not 2. ee. ; Executors' and Admi&ia rators' Notice*). 13 each; Est ray, Cantioo aut ihrwolation Notices, not exceeding ten linee, »fcch. ——- From the fact that the Cmzra la the nldia* <rtabliahed and inoet extensively circulated B«- utlican newspaper in Butler county, (a Repufc icaii county) it must lie apparent to buauie>a neti that it is the medium they should nee iw advertising their business. NO. 16 SCREW S AND CAN CAPS. A few days since the cook came to us wi:h a glass can of peaches, the cap of which was screwed on so tight that a strong man had been unable to un screw it We directed that a cloth dipped in hot water be applied to the outside of the cap, to cause expansion t>v the heat. This was done and it so effectually loosened the cap that it came off .vith no effort. We have tried this principle on many other occasions. The ground stoppers of bottles some limes are found immovably fast. In this case the heat must be applied to the neck of the bottle, so as to increase its size and leave the stopper loosened within it. Care should always be taken that the grouud stopper when inserted is not colder than the bottle neck, for if it ia you will have trouble. It will expand when it becomes as warm as the bottle and be effectually fa.-tened. In one we had employed a horse-power to saw wood, the weather being quite cold, one of the workmen had >iccasion to take off a screw, aud after holding it long enough in his hand to warm aud expand it, he placed it again without thinking on the screw and turned it firmly down. It contracted in cooling with powerful grasp,so that no wrench could stir it until a red hot iron was applied to the nut to restore its size. In all these attempts the right space of time nnist be given to heat the nut or stopper, without beating the part which it touches, which requires some judg ment. The metalic can-caps will beat sooner than the bottle neck. If the beat is continued too long all will be come expanded alike, and the attempt will fail. Seme years ago it became necessary to unscrew the two parts of an iron punip for repair, but the rust held them so tightly together that three men with levers could not separate them. We directed the application of strong beat to the outer tube, and be fore the heat could reach the inner * force not exceeding ten pounds sepa rated them easily. All of which shows that one's wi.s are sometimes better than brute force— Country Gentleman. THAT 810 HORSE AGAIN. The Fredonia (X. Y. ) Advertiser of last Friday contains the following in reference to the big horse which K. H. Stivenson, of Kittanning sold to Mr. W. B. Archibald: "It seems hut a few days since W. B. Archibald brought to this village from Pennsyl vania the very worst looking rack of bones in he shape of a great overgrown horse that was ever seen in this part of the country. Even Joel Hoyt, the great horseman of Jamestown, was heard to remark to Archibald. 'For heaven's sake, kill him.' Mr. A. re plied, Joel, I can see something in that horse.' Last Saturday he did see some thing, something few country editors ever see—sl,ooo. A stranger came to town and inquired of one of our livery men, Pwight Dutton, if he knew where he could buy some large horses to work on the dock m Pbiladephia. Mr. D. told him this was no place to look for horses. The stranger then said that be had heard there was a t very large horse in the village. Dutton told him he could not afford to buy it as the ■ owner would not sell it for less than SI,OOO. The man replied tbat he would lit e to see a horse that was worth sl,- 000. Dutton showed him where to go. When he saw the horse he exclaimed: I declare! I will buy bim if you will sell him cheap enough.' Mr. Archibald informed him that SI,OOO was the price and that he would not take a cent less. The stranger first offered S3OO, then SOOO. then ssoo. and finally agreed to i give ?I,o' 0 if Archibald would throw I off enough to pay the expenses of get ting the animal to Philadelphia. To all of these propositions Mr. A. had but : one answer—'a cool $1 000 right here |in this barn ' Seeing that it was use less to dicker the stranger accep ed the offer and handed over the cash. The horse was then taken to Dunkirk and shipped in an open car—covered over at quite an expense— for Philadelphia. One of the It. It. hands remarked that they would, in all probability, have to take off the top of some of the covered bridges before they got him to bis des tination. Mr. Archibald paid $75 fo this horse, ond he suys he has cleared in the transaction, above all expenses, not less than SBSO. He is supposed to tie the largest horse on top of the earth."— Kittanning Free Prent. The native ladies in Alaska wear sealskin suits, drink whisky and eat whale blubbers. A sure road is always the best. Wearing a DAYS KIDNEY PAD, is the sure road to health. When one Legislator asks another to t ke a drink he does it with the formula of. "Lets caucus." then they cauc. An infallible remedy for Fever and Ague is Ayer's Ague Cure. Wholly vegetable and containing no quinine, it is harmless and sure. The Sioux Indians are rapidly be coming civilized. One of them has just committed suicide, having first tried to murder his wife. Everybody should note the fact that the liest remedy known for Coughs, Uolde etc. is Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Price only 25 centg a bottle. The Pennsylvania railroad company vas established over two hundred and *•' fifty agencies in Europe for the sale of emigrant tickets over their line. (ieorge Eliot, we are told, left an estate of $200,000. So much for hav ing soaring after the unattainable and divings after the unfathomable. •'George,"—The quotation you refer to is something like this ; "Dearest, maiden; ere I leave, brush the powder off my s'eevo." Tell hor to get a wisp. The Ilerdic coaches are to be intro duced into Hollidnyshurg and other towns of the central part of the State to take the place of the old livery backs. The A. P. T. Co Black Tip for chil dren's shies should lie called for by parents, not only ujion heavy shoes, in place if the metal— as it wears as well—but upon' all, fine" ehde'#, an it Ki'i\t< uVat aud doubToa tbvir value.
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