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The River of Life.
i I dreamt dat I saw de l ibber of life,
j T> it flow- to the Jaspah Sea,
J De augeL. were wad in t«« an l"ro,
But none oh 'eta .-poke to me.
I Some dipped dcre wine in the ilv'iy tul<
Some were alone, and some side l,v side
Naiy a one dat 1 knew could 1 see
I u dat ribber oh lile.
He ribber of life
Dat flows to do Jaspah Sea.
De ribber was wide, dat ribber ob life,
l»e bott.iui I plainly could see:
De stones lyin' dar wa- whiter den snow,
lie sands looked like gold to me
Hut angels kept wadin to aud fro;
Whar did dey come fom? Wbar diJ they
go?
None ob 'era sinners like me, I know,
In dat ribber ob life,
De ribber ob life
Dat flows to de Jaspah Sea.
De watah was clear as de "well by de
gate,'
Whar .1 e-us de light lir-t see.
De sof est ob music Tom angel hands
Come ober dat ribber ob golden sand %
Come ober dat ribber to me.
An' den I saw de clouds lireak 'way,
Revealin' de pearly gates ob da}",
De beautiful da} - , dat litvah shall cease,
"Whar all is joy aud lub, an' peace:
An" ovah dem gates was written so clear,
'•Peace to all who entah here."
Dp angels wa = gedderin' round d' frone,
De gates done closed, 1 was left alone,
Alone on de banks of a darken' stream;
Rut when I woke 1 foun' 'twas a dream.
I'se gwine to ford dat ribber ob life
An' see eternal day;
I'se gwine tu see dem heabeuly bands.
An' feel de tech ob ole-time hands,
Dat long hah passed away.
Dar's crowns ob glory io' all, I'm told,
An' lubly harps wid strings ob gold;
An' I know ef dar's peace beyond dat sea,
res' fo' de weary, dar's res' fo' me,
Reyond dat ribber,
Wat ribber of life,
Dat flows to de Jaspah Sea.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
LITTLE JCANTEEN.
In the winter of 1861, I lay sick in an
army hospital, and was worn nearly to
skin and bone by one of those dread dis
eases of the camp that has slain more sol
diers than either bullets or steel.
In this state of being, I felt like a bur
den, and scarcely gave more than a feeble
smile of gratitude when informed by the
surgeon in charge that it had been decided
to send me home as a chance of recovery.
But after I got on board the cars at Rich
mond, and the train rolled out from the
depot, I began to look about me, anil as I
did so my spirits railied somewhat, aud I
rejoiced in the feeling that home with all
of its endearing associations would soon be
reached, and there I would get that rest
and loving attention which one finds no
where else, so perfectly, anil that if my
disease could not be conquered, I would at
least have the consolation of dying amongst
my loved ones.
The train was a long one, aud crowded
to its utmost capacity. Soldiers oir on a
spree, impudent and uproarious; sick and
wounded soldiers, pale, feverish and pain
racked; here a smart commissary, there a
vermin infested rough from the front; yon
der an anxious, sad eyed woman taking her
boy home to die,further on a young beauty
afraid of the soldiers and their rough joks,
anil yet half courting their notice —all
sorts and conditions mixed together, but
all, from the 01.l gray heads to the young
est prattlers, agreed iu one thing, viz: un
dying devotion to the Southern Confeder
acy.
We were soon past Petersburg, and a
little later was rushing through North Car
olina, leading Mime passengers and taking
up others as we sped from station to sta
tion; but the same general description of
my fellow travelers that I have just given
would hold good from bogiuuing to end of
the journey.
We were past Weldon—how far I can't
say—and it was late in the night when 1
was awakened from an uncomfortable nap
by the jerking of the train as it started off
after one of its numerous stoppages. I
looked Tint to see where we were. It was
a wood and water station, and standing on
one end of the wood rack there was a little
boy. lie was peering forward into the car
windows as the traiu slowly moved by. I
would have no more of the circum
stance, but almost uext moment the rear
door of the car was opened, and the same
boy that I had seen on the wood rack came
timidly forward.
"Why, sonny," I said, "where did you
come from?"
"Out yonder," pointing into the dark
ness.
"I know that much already, for if I'm
not mistaken you are the same boy I saw
out on the wood rack just now. ain't you?"
He nodded assent.
"Well, where did you come from before
that? Don't be afraid; come here and tell
me about it."
The boy looked at me, and seemed to be
reassured by my manner aud expression,
for he came forward without any further
hesitation to the place at my side, which I
had beckoned him to take.
Eyerybody else in the car appeared to
be asleep. So no one besides myself had
observed his entrance. lie was a hand
some little fellow, but his clothes were
torn and dirty, and he limped like one
who had been on a long tramp.
I repeated my question, and he replied
that he hail come from Charleston.
"Prom Charleston!" I exclaimed in as
tonishment. "Why, how in the world did
you get this far from Charleston by your
self?"
"I walked."
"Now, look here, my little man," 1 said
rebukingly, "do you know where the story
tellers go?"
"I declare," said he, his blue eyes swim
ming in tears, "I'm telling you the truth—
I am not telling you a story."
"Well, well, don't cry, bub—l'll take
your word for it; and where were you go
ing?"
"To Virginia, to find my papa."
I puckered up my inouth lor a long
whistle; but as that would be expressive of
disbelief, and as 1 did want to risk hurting
Ihe little fellow again, I restrained myself,
and proceeded to draw his story from him.
"If you arc going to Virginia," said I iu
a kind tone, "you are on tho wrong train—
ibis is taking us back to Charleston."
"I know that, sir; but I don't want to go
to Virgiuia now—l want to go back home."
"Ah, has your heart failed you, my lit
tle maul'
"No sir," 'taiu't that; but I met a mau
today who said he knew my papa, aud he
told lue that he gone home ou a furlough."
1 was amused by the child's simple faith
iu the assurance of a stranger, but as I
thought home would lie the best place for
him, 1 said nothing to stuggcr that faith,
but contented myself with questioning him
as to his history.
His name was Harry Sinton, and he had
reached the mature age of 10, his mother
had been dead two years, his father had
enlisted at the outbreak of tho war, anil
had left him to the care of relatives, who
BUTLER, PA.. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1889-
had not been verv kind to him, anil lie had
run away from tUrfi, with the intention ot
making his way to bis father in Virginia.
1 veal greatly impressed l«y the Imy's intel
licence and courage, for it had certainly
required extraordinary determination to
-n-fain a mere child amid all the perils of
stub a trip as he t.kd undertaken. 1
thought of the horror-- that would natural
lv rise up before the inexperienced mind ol
a ehild whilst wandering alone through
woods and fields that were new and strange
I thought of the inevitable weariuc.-s of
the long journey on foot, ot the pang; ot
hunger, and of all the dangers of the way,
and impulsively exclaimed:
"Why, Harry, you are u little hero '
When the conductor made his uext round
through the train, 1 paid the little fellow's
fare, aud as he was evidently very tired. I re
pressed my own wearines.- aud weakness,
and gave up the best part of the seat iu
order to made him as comfortable as cir
cumstances would permit.
After a while day dawned and we got
some breakfast Harry eating as if famish
ed. I told bi> story to several of our trav
eluig companions, and they all seemed in
terested in him, and quite a group gather
ed around us tu hear the little fellow reeile
the history of his wanderings. He told u.-
that he had kept to the itne of railway ji'
much us possible, aud had traveled at the
rate of from eight to ten miles a day. He
had avoided the dwelling houses of the
planters, aud hail obtained food and . hel
ler mainly from the negroes, for the child
was shrewd enough to know that they
would not lie as apt to hinder his progress
as the whites, for the latter would undoubt
edly have stopped him and sent him back
to Charleston.
I promised him that I would look up his
father on uiy arrival in Charleston, and
with that assurance he seemed perfectly
content, and amused himself in the usual
fashion of boys for the rest of the journey.
By the time we reached Charleston the
journey had so exhausted my strength that
I left the train more dead than alive, anil
when my mother clasped uie to her bosom,
her joy over my return was chilled by the
gloomy limitations which my appearance
aroused, and her very first movement was
to get me comfortably in bed, and then set
off at once for family physician. He came
at once, and calmed her fears by the as
surance that rest and good nursing would
be sure to pull me through.
"We'll have him strong enough to eat
two more rations before long," he laugh
ingly remarked as he left the house.
But notwithstanding that the home nur
sing did greatly benefit uie, I was still for
some days too weak and ill to give much
attention to my promise to little Harry.
My brother ascertained for me that no
such name as Sinton was registered at any
of the hospitals. He also inquired for the
family with whom Harry had been staying
before he ran away, but they could not be
found.
My mother and sisters were too much
concerned about me to think much about
anything else, and it was tacitly under
stood that Harry would just remain quiet
ly with us until I had gained sufficient
strength to hunt up those to whom he be
longed.
1 had been home perhaps ten days, per
haps longer, wheu the quiet of my sick
chamber was iuterrup f ed by the direful
calamity that befell the city—l mean the
great tire that swept from river to river,
and in a few awful and never to be forgot
ten hours rendered hundreds of people
houseless, homeless and penniless.
It is not my purpose to describe the
origin, extent anil incidents of the fire. 1
could not if I would, for I saw too little of
it to do so; but I well remember the scar
ed, white faces of my mother anil sisters as
the fire gained in extent anil rapidity. I
had been in great pain all day, and had
been put under the influence of an opiate;
anil although my room was lighted by the
glare until it was bright as noonday, and 1
heard from time to time the frightened ex
clamations of those who stood at the win
dows, still I did not fully realize the ex
tent of the danger.
My brother came in late iu the night, his
eyebrows and uiustachc singed off', his
clothing burned in many places.
"This is awful," said he. "It looks like
the whole town is going."
"Let her go," said I, with drowsy in
difference.
lie looked at me, shrugged his shoulders,
and went out again.
How long he was gone I do not know,
but ere his return our situation became a
critical one, for the fire was making its
way rapidly in our direction. Before this
we had heard the crackling of the flames
and the falling of the houses, but now the
dense volume of the smoke poured down
upon us. The fiery showers of sparks and
cinders seemed all around about us, anil
the hoarse shouts of the multitude grew
nearer to our doors.
At last, when the women folks were al
most beside themselves with terror, my
brother burst in, and said:
"Mother, girls, I must get you away
from here. It's rough ou you, old fellow,"
"to take you out ou such a night, but it's
either that or a roast."
A few thing were hastily gathered to
gether, a litter was improvised for me, and
somehow or other we all got in the streets,
have a vivid recollection of a sea of faces, a
pandemonium of noise and confusion, a
jolting and pushing forward through the
crowd, and at last we came out into a
safer aud quieter portion of the town.
But the boy was gone.
How it happened none of us could tell,
but it must have been that my youngest
sister, who had been specially in charge of
him when we left the house, had released
his hand at some time or other whilst we
were making our way through the crowd
aud the surging mass had swept him away
from us.
The shock of it all nearly killed uie, and
many weeks elapsed before I could muster
streugth euough to get out of doors. Iu all
this time not oue word of Harry was heard,
and we gave up the hope of ever seeing
him again. Finally I grew strong enough
to return to duty, aud in the excitement of
war scenes and incidents little Harry Sin
ton was forgotten.
We were on the lines at Petersburg to
wards the close of the war, aud ou one oc
casion I had charge of a skirmish line.
We held our position iu a young pine
thicket, but as we were about lo be flank
ed and subjected to au enfilading fire, I
asked my men to fall back on the main
liue of works.
As we were iu the act of executing
this movement, a Mime ball pierced uiy
leg auil I fell helpless ou the field. I suf
fered a great deal of pain as f la\ there,
but ob ! the pain of the wound was as
nothing in comparison with my suffering
for water. How I longed for it, even were
it but a single drop !
At last 1 managed to crawl towards a
deep ravine, some hundreds of yards dis
tant from the spot where I had fallen,
hoping to find there what I wanted. I
reached it only to be disappointed, for not
a drop was there.
Another wounded man had crawled to
the same spot, led there by the same hope,
and we exchanged regrets over our fail
ure.
"Oh, if my boy only knew I was here 1
we would not have to suffer another ntiii
ute lor water," said my comrade in di>
trc--.
j - The words were eareely spoken when ::
j vonng boy stood before us. canteen in
j hand.
"father, are you hurt much?" -aid he,
i anxiously.
• I'iu afraid so, my sou. llow did you
find me out
■ The men told me you were wounded
and down thi.- way somewhere, and so I
came hunting you as quick as I could."
"God bless you, l id. But give the cap
| tain there some water, quick; he is nearly
dead for it. a- well as myself.'
"Isn't that Uarry Sinton f' slid I. in
j astonishment, as the hoy turned to me to
a- -uage my thirst. Although my appear
ante bad changed greatly for the better,
and 1 was no longer the pale, emaciated
j cteature that had taken charge of him on
the traiu, the boy recoguized me at once,
: aud inanitie.-ted his delight in a way that
I graiified me exceedingly.
It seemed, from the explanations that
followed, that his father was in the crowd
on the streets during the uighf of the fire
in Charlestowu. aud lhat almost immedi
ately after he became separated from us,
Harry was borne by the crowd light into
Mr. Siutou's arm
'l had to be away fhe very next da}*,
and so I wrote to you, sir, informing you
that I had found Harry, and thanking
you for your kindness to him, but 1 never
received any reply," said Mr. Sinton as he
concluded his narrative of the boy's recov
ery.
' I need hardly tell you that I would
have answered it hail I received it. But
we need not wonder much at its non-re
ceipt, for we soldier's know to our sorrow
that mails go badly astray these days."
A few moments later we were found by
the ambulance corps aud born to the rear
for surgical treatment. Harry went with
us aud at his earnest request we were
placed uear each other, so that he might
be able to wait upon both of us without
difficulty.
I .learned that he had been with his fath
er continuously since the uighl of the
great tire in Charleston, aud that in many
a battle, the little fellow had gone, can
teen in hand, among the wounded and
dying, to administer relief to them in
their anguish, lie was well known along
the lines, aud the men called him "the
little canteen boy," which was finally ab
breviated to Little Canteen.
My wound proved to be more painful
than serious and in a day or two I could
hobble about very well on crutches. But
poor Sinton gradually sank and one glow
ing evening I stood by him as he passed
through the death agony.
When he knew that the end was coming,
he called me to his side and begged me to
take the boy, and so Harry once again be
came my charge. I treated him as a son.
and he never disobeyed me except in one
thing, and that was iu regard to exposing
himself to danger. He would not remain
in the rear for any consideration when
lighting was going on. Even the terrible
day of the "Crater" did not dismay him.
And after that glorious charge of Mali >ne's
who should I see but Harry with his can
teens slung around him taking water to
the wounded.
In those last days at Petersburg disci
pline became greatly relaxed. The pick
ets of the two armies grew exceedingly
friendly with each other, and exchanges of
tobacco for Northern newspapers were of
daily occurrence. Barry obtained a good
stock of llie weed, and went heartily into
fhe business of peddling papers. He used
to walk ou top of the breastworks whilst
everything was quiet and sing out. "Here's
your Xew York Herald," "Here's your
Tribune." etc I did not object to him do
ing so, merely cautioning him to get down
inside the intrenchmeuts whenever any fir
ing commenced.
Well, one day wbi'st he was thus en
gaged, ard was on the part of the lines
where I was stationed, the pickets sudden
ly commenced firing. I called hastily tu
the boy to jump down. He was about to
do so, wheu a rifle ball pierced his fair
white forehead, and the gallant child fell
gasping into the trenches. 1 give a yell
more like that ot a wild beast than a man's,
and rushed to his side. He gave me one
loving look from his glazing eyes, put out
his arms as if to embrace me, and the next
moment was dead.
Many of the war scenes in which I par
ticipated have long since faded front my
recollection, but never until my (lying day
will I forget my brave little boy and his
untimely death, and deep down in my
heart there is a place sacred to the mem
ory of "poor Little Canteen."—C. M. Doug
lass in Atlanta American.
How to Make a Good Floor.
Nothing attracts the attention of a per
son wishing to rent or purchase a dwelling,
store room, or office, so quickly as a hand
some, well-laid floor, aud a few suggestions
ou the subject, though not new, may not
be out of place.
The best floor for the least money can
be made out of yellow pine, if the mate
rial is carefull}- selected and properly laid.
First, select edge grain yellow pine, aud
not too "fat," clear of pitch, knots, sap,
and split. See that it is thoroughly sea
soned, and that the tongues and groves ex
actly match, so that when laid the upper
surfaces of each board are exactly on a
level. This is an important feature often
overlooked, aud plaining mill operatives
frequently get careless in adjusting the
tongue and grooving bits. If the edge of
a flooring board, especially the grooved
edge, is higher than the next board, no
auiouut of mechanical ingcuity can make a
neat floor of them. The upper part oi tin
groove will continue to curl upwards as
long as the floor lasts.
Supposiug, of course, the sleepers or
or joists arc properly placed the right ilis
tancc apart, and their upper edges precise
ly on a level and securely braced, the
most important part of the job is to "lay"
the flooring correctly. This part of the
work is never, or very rarely ever, done
nowadays. The system in vogue with the
carpenters of this day of laying one board
at a time, aud "blind nailing" it, is the
most glaring fraud practiced by any trade.
They drive the tongue of the board into
the groove of the preceding one by pound
ing ou the grooved edge with a naked
hammer, making indentations that let in
cold air or obnoxious gases, if it is a bot
tom floor, and then uail it in place by
driving a six-penny nail at an angle of
about fifty degrees in the groove. An
awkward blow or two chips off the upper
groove, and the last blow, desigued to
sink the nail head out of the way of the
nest tongue, splits the lower part of the
groove to splinters, leaving an unsightly
opening. Such nailing does not fastcu the
flooring to the sleepers, and the slanting
nails very often wedge the board so that it
does not bear on the sleeper.
1 kuow a gardener bright and spry,
Rut for a certain reason
His crops, tho' blessed with culture high
Are far beyond the season.
More faith is what the laddie needs.
For he is always doubting,
Aud evcrv day digs up the seeds
To see if they are sprouting.
Their Trip lo The Country.
(fiKTUoIT KKtk BBESft.)
"Well, what ilo you think!' exclaimed
Mr. 80-u er a he came burr, iim home
from the oftk-e the other afternoon.
Have you gouc and got some more lien
or bought another hoi.-of"
"Mrs. Bowser, the event of our lite i»
about lo happen. '
"What is if"
"You know firej'g' Well, tire,'.' own
a little farm out here about twelve mile ■
There' a good house on it. and he says we
can occupy it for the summer. We will
have a cow and a liorse, pigs, poultry and
other stock, and we'll go out there aud tan
up and get fat, aud have the best time in
the world."
••I don't think much of the idea, Mr.
Bowser."
••You doii't! You don't want cool breezes
—fresh eggs—lrc.-b berries —rich milk —
songs of bird;—low ing of kine and rest
from care!"
'•Yon will be disappointed if you expect
any such thing."
"I will, eh.' Perhaps I don't know what
the country R You are always ready to
throw cold water on my plans. I >hall
go, anyhow."
That was the beginning, aud at the end
of three days 1 yielded, woman like. 1
knew we should be back in four or five
days, however, and I arranged with the
Cook accordingly. One Monday morning
we took the train aid started, having en
gaged a farmer's daughter lo fake charge
of the kitchen, aud at the nearest station
we were met by a farmer ami his lumber
wagon. The stiti poured down its hottest,
and as we jogged and jolted along the far
mer queried of Mr. Bowser:
"Come out for your health, I suppose?"
"We did. Ah! this country air has al
ready refreshed me."
"Has, eh? Well, there's heaps of it, and
I'm thinking you'll get all you want iu
about a week. I think a city chap is a
blamed fool to come out here."
"Do you? Why, the doctors recommend
ed it. That boy ought to gain a pound a
day, and I am sure my wife will brace
right up with these pastoral scenes before
lier eyes."
"The doctors and pastoral scenes be
dttrued!" growled the farmer as lie turned
to his horses, and those were the last words
he uttered until he landed us at the gate.
It was a comfortable frame house, aud
1 did not observe the surroundings until a"-
ter dinner. It struck me that Mr Bowser
had suddenly lost his enthusiasm, but I
didn't know why until I got out of doors.
The barn had fallen in, giving it a weird
and lonely look: most of the fencing was
down, a gust of wind had laid the smoke
house ou its back, and nearly every tree
and bush about the house was dead or dy
ing.
"Is this one of the pastoral scenes you
referred to?" I asked of Mr. Bowser.
"There you go!" he snapped. "You
can't expect things to look as nice out here
as in Central Park. We came for the bal
my breezes and the rest."
"Didn't you say we should hear the note
of quails and whippoorwills?"
"Yes, but don't rush business. They
will come around in due time."
"You spoke of hunting hens' eggs in the
meadow grass."
"So we will—come on."
He made a dash for a big patch of bur
docks near the back door, got tangled up
iu the mitis of a barrel, anil when lie got
up he had a cut on bis shin and his nose
was bleeding, lie tried to make light of
the affair, but it was hard work. When I
asked after the horse and vehicle in which
we were to take our morning jaunts he
walked down to the barn yard anil pointed
out a raw-boned old yellow horse, so weak
that lie could not brush the flies away, aud
a one-horse wagon, quaint enough lo have
taken its place in a museum.
"You'll have our photographs taken af
ter we all get seated in that rig. won't
you?" I asked.
"That's it—just as I expected! Mrs. Bow
ser, what did 3'ou come out here forf"
"Because you obliged 1110 to."
•*1 did eh! Not by along shot! Yon came
to restore yonr health and to give our child
a chance for his life It will lie the mak
ing of him. No more doctor bills for us."
For dinner we had some salt pork, pota
toes, bread and butter and coffee. When
Mr. Bowser hinted about fresh eggs tint
girl replied that the only hens which ever
contributed eggs were now engaged iu the
incubator business. When he asked for
cream for his coffee she replied tnat the
cow hadn't come up that morning. As for
fresh vegetables.tbe season had been so dry
that none had matured.
In the afternoon Mr. Bowser swung his
hammock in the orchard. This was some
thing he had doted on for a week. He had
scarcely dropped into it when three or four
caterpillars dropped onto him. and he put
in the rest of the afternoon on the hard
boards of the veranda. The cow came
sauntering up abouto'clock, covered with
flies and mosquitoes, and the girl hinted to
Mr. Bowser that he was expected to milk.
"Oh, certainly," he replied. "I wouldn't
give a cent for farm life unless I could,
milk a cow or two. I used to sing a ballad
while I was milking."
The girl and I watched him as he took
the pail and stool and approached the cow.
The cow also watched him. Folks gener
ally sit down on the right-hand side of a
cow to milk. Mr. Bowser took the other side
We saw the cow regard Aim with amaze
ment and contempt, and this was increas
ed as he worked away for four or five min
utes without bringing a drop of milk.
"What are you trying to do?" I called lo
him from the gate.
"Mrs. Bowser, when I want to learn any
thing about a cow I'll ask you for the in
formation. I think I know my business."
So did the cow. She hail been fooled
with enough, and she siulilcnly planted a
hoof against Mr. Bowser with such vigor
that he tumbled over iu a confused heap.
Between us we got liiui into the house aud
the girl finished the milkiug. Mr. Bowser
recovered from the shock after a while,and
I felt it my duty to inquire:
"Mr. Bowser, don't you think a week of
thesu pastoral scenes will be euough for
us?"
"No,nor six weeks!" he growled. "Noth
ing would do but you must get into the
country, and now I'll give you enough of,
t!"
"Why, Mr. Bowser!"
"You needn't why Mr Bowser uie! You
gave my no peace until I agreed to come,
ami now I'll remain here five straight
years!"
When the summer suu went down and
the stars came out we w ere not as happy
as we might hive been Mr Bowser still
held his hand on his stomach. I he baby eri
ed because the milk ta teil of wild onion ,
and the girl lost the oaken bucket in the 110
foot well while trying to get a pail of fresh
water. la. ked Mr. Bow scr when the kine
would begin to low and the whippoorwills
to sing, and be was so mail he wouldn't
speak. However, if the kine didn't low
the pinch bugs and the mnsquitoes did.
There wasn't a screen at door or window,
aud soon after sundown we were besieged.
That night seemed never ending. Not
oue of us three slept a wink. The room
was invaded with every insect known to
country life, from a hat to a gnat The
lamp went out on us at an early hour for
want ol kerosene, and after thai -uch pas
toral i-eiies occurred as made my bl<«>d
run odd. Rats snared around as. piuch
bngs fell upon the bed v ith dtlll tuuks."
ai d where one moM|Uito let go n do/en
took hold Alou-T about midnight I a-k> .1
Mi Bowser how many pound-he thought
lie h.td gained, but he called me an idiot
and would ay no more.
When we got up in the morning the girl
didn't know us We were blotched and
bitten until one would have ispoeted U:-
Of suffering with small pn Mr Bowser
kuew himself. however, and lielort uoan
we were back in the city. He scarcely
spoke to uie all the way home, but once in
the house he hurst out with:
'.Vow, old lady, prepare for a settlement!
You've'nosed me around all you ever will
This has broken the cauiel - buck. Which
of its applies for a divorcer*
Jogging His Memory.
A clergyman in lowa relates the follow
ing anecdote, wfiit h, as he says, ought to
be a hint to all couples who are goin? to
be married. A lady called upon him and
announced her name as Mrs M — a wid
<iw. living in a distant part of the State,
lier husbaud had liecr. killed in the civil
war, and .-he bad applied for a pension.
But it was necessary for her to prove her
marriage. This she bail not been able to
do. a her marriage certificate was lost.and
all the witnesses except the minister him
self. were dead.
She bad come a long distance to get the
minister's evidence, insisting upon it that
he was the person who had performed the
ceremony.
'•But I do not remember anything about
it. madam." said the minister, alt-jr listen
ing carefully to the woman's story. "I
have married hundreds of people in thela-t
twenty years, and 1 cannot remember your
case at all."
"Why, yon must remember that even
ing. I wore a traveling suit, and my hrs
husband was a tall man with black whisk
ers.''
••I have married a great many tall men
with black whiskers."
••But don't you remember, we came in
wh'le you were at supper, and you asked
lis to wait in the parlor a few minutes'"
"I don't remember it."
"Doy't you recall how my husband was
very much embarrassed, and during the
•crcmony knocked a vase off the table near
which we were standing? And then he
apologized right in the middle of the ser
vice, and we all laughed about it after
ward. '
'■l don't remember even that. Other
things like it have happened since. Can't
you name something else?"
Other little things wc-re mentioned, and
the clergyman hunted up a!i his old letters
and journals in hopes of discovering some
thing that would recall the ceremony, and
enable him truthfully to identify the wid
ow. But all in vain.
Finally, the lady, with some hesitation
and confusion, said: "There is one thing
that I am sure you cannot have forgotten.
My husbaud hail driven over from the next
town. In his absent-mindedness he had
left every cent of money at home.
• Now. don't you remember that after
the ceremony he came np to you as if to
hand you the regular fee, and then, instead
of doing that., he .stammered ami blushed,
and finally asked you to lend him five did
lars with which to pay his hotel bill, prom
ising to return the money the next day.
Shnrcly you must remember that!"
"Ah, yes. indeed, I remember that very
well!" exclaimed the minister. And he
could not help adding. ••! haven't seen
the money yet."
The widow received her pension shortly
afterward and not long after that the min
ister received a tcn-dollor lull, with the
words: • I'aymeut for a good memory."
lie Was Convinced.
Cliauncy Depe* spoke one evening dur
ing the last campaign at a town in the in
terior of New York State which it is not
necessary to name. The next morning
the chairman of the local committee took
him iu his carriage for a ride about the
suburbs and were admiring a bit of scenery
when a man wearing a blue shirt and tar
rying a long whip on his shoulder approach
ed from where he had been piloting an ox
team along the middle of the street and
said:
"You're the man that made the rattlin'
speech up at the hail last night. 1 guess/"
Mr. Depew modestly admitted that he
had indulged in some talk at the time and
place specified.
"Didn't you haye what you said writ
outf' went on the man.
••No," replied the orator.
"You don't mean to say you made that
all rifrht up as you went along."
'' Y I'M. "
'•Jens hopped right up there, took a drink
of water out of the pitcher, hit the table
a whack and waded in without no thinking
nor nothing*"
"Well, 1 supple you might pat it that
way t"
"Well, that beats me. You'll excune me
for stopping you, hut what 1 wanted to
say was that your speech convinced me,
though I knowed all the tiuie it was the
peskiest lie that was ever told. I made up
my mind to vote your ticket, hut I'd 'a
been willing to bet a peck of red apples
that no man could stand up and tell me
such convincing lies without having them
writ out. You must 'a had an awful lot of
practice."
A Famous Grizzly Bear.
"Old Clubfoot," the famous grizzly bear
of the Sierras, was killed by Trapper
Hendricks near Kattle Creek last Satur
day. This ferocious beast has wandered
as a dreaded monarch through that M-C
--tiou for the last twenty Years and seemed
to bear a charmed life. Hundreds of cat
tle, sheep, hogs and human beings have
lallen victim- to his appetite during that
period, and many parties organized for hiv
destruction have returned thinned in rank*
and "with hair turned white in a single
night, by a pacing sight of the dreadful
fright" they vainly tried to destroy. The
beast weighed, whendres>ed, 2,300 pounds,
which we believe is the largest animal ot
this species ever seen 011 the American
continent. Mr. Hendricks feels ju.-tly
proud of his achievement, and a pur e of
SOOO has been made op for hi• benefit by
the residents of eastern Tehauia county.
The hear was in a rather poor condition
when slain, as old age had clogged bis
blood somewhat, and time had begun to
paralyze his former suple limbs so that he
was not utile to capture his prey a< in
former days. The pleased hunter H tan
ning the hide which lie propose, to use as
a cover for his winter hut in the foothill-'.
]{<<t Uliifl (Col.) AIWJ.
—Geologists tell us of a time in the
earth's history when vegetation had a mo
nopoly of the life upon it. That time must
have been the foliage
Mrs. John W. M ackay, wife of the
American millionaire, has brought action
claiming £.">000 damages each from the
Manchester h'rnmiiicr and the l«omloii
ltcho for libel in stating that her mother
was a washerwoman.
NO. 36
What will the End Be?
J K Thu kston a-dentist aud *«troti
onier, living at Metueben. V J.. wrhile
allii'liii!' f<> the .lohnst«,wu horror. -aid f» a
c irrespondent that the dreadful rata;
trophe wait a* nothinc compared t>. what
might have aectiral
"The news fr.im Central Pennßj h ama it
awful." he Mid, "hut this majr be a very
little thirty compared with what mar yet
occur. Near and west of the AlWhaun- a
pre* t opening within the earth's ern-I
l.e made somewhere by the escape of uat
ttril tra< "Will the earth settle and fill the
eiuptv place or will air pass in and there
by n.ake it possible for the immen.-e ItMr
voir- of pas. stored away, no one knew*
how tar. to explode and make an upheaval'
M any people believe there i« ga< enough
under Western Pennsylvania and East era
Ohio to blow the country from Lake Erie
to tli. Monongahela into promiscuous frag
wents. Wheu oil was struck at Oil Creek
in 1 -.>!». timid lolk* feared a collapse and
sinking ol the oil held, hut that danger wis
obviated by water running into the well- as
the oil ran out. The dreaded vacuum
never « jj:t, at water look the place of the
removed oil. It to not so in this case.
\\ ater i not tilling up the zas wells, ex
cept to a limited extent What the out
come may he is not really a very enjoyable
thin;; to revolve in our minds the«e pleas
ant June morning*. A submerged valley,
lined with the liones of fifteen thousand
men. women and children is a fearful thing
in the history of the hnman race, hnt what
of that compared with a wrecked conti
nent? What of that compared with a
world Jilown open or blown to fragments*
1 am nol an alarmist or a sensational Wig
gins. I do not believe that old Mother Earth
is about to be shot into smithereens, but
there may he danger ahead in this direc
tion. and although wc grieve over the Con
emangh catastrophe, let us he thankful
that there has not neen a natural gas ex
plosion out West, and that there are not
two rings instead of tine set of asteroids in
the material heavens."
Consanguineous Marriages.
The author of a recent work on this sub
ject calls attention to the enrinos ideas
which have been generally received in ref
erence to the infecundity of and physical
degradation consequent on consanguineous
marriages. So far as the data given may
be trusted—nnd it is hardly to be supposed
that the author holds a brief on the oppo
site side—there is absolutely nothing to
show that marriages lietween near kins
men are lacking in fertility, or that tbey
are peculiarly liable to give issue to de
formed or diseased offspring. There is no
lack of instances ofenforced consanguinity,
in the matter of marriage, in isolated com
munities, according to Jul. Hath, to dis
prove the assumption that physical degen
eration is likely to result from the practice.
An investigation into a number of anions
between uncles and nieces, nephews and
aunts, and cousins in the first and second
degree, give an average of children rather
above than below the general average, th»
this is attributi-d to some extent to the
comparatively early age at which such an
ions are generally contracted.
Breeders inform us that the result* are
markedly in favor of consanguineous un
ions between healthy well bred animal-*.
Cnions between men or animal* of widely
different varieties, on the other hand, have
j a decidedly injurious effect on the offspring.
; and beyond a certain limit are almost ab
solutely sterile Mulatto?.* and the half
breeds of India and America are striking
| examples of the deterioration to which .such
, racial di-parity gives ri«e. The great point
to bear in mind is that the union of indi
\ idtialn with the same morbid tendencies
intensities the taint, and that. too. quite
irrespective of any consanguinity. Th«
moral, according to the author, is that the
reason* which hare led to the prohibition
of marriages within certain deuces of re
lation-hip are .social, and not physiological.
Meilical J're us ami Circular.
A Samoan Island Monarch.
The adj >imug island has a lovely land
locked harbor. It is governed by a king,
and soon alter we arrived that monarch
paid us an official visit in all <ne glory of a
white shirt and a silk hat, and was receiv
ed with full naval honor? as hu irpprri
board, lie was met at the gangway by
the Commodore and CBe officers, with
whom Watiged salutes. The marines
arms and after is>m« hesitation
iu selecting au appropriate march, the
baud struck up. "The King of the C'anni
bal Islands." The king walked gravely
round the ship. looking quite dignified, in
spite of his somewhat eccentric costume,
and after inspecting the gun deck, the
marines were fallen in for a drill, but the
volley tiring rather startled hi* follower*,
vho were Hitting around on the top of a
hammock netting, bobbing up and down
iu the most comical manner. The thing
that seemed to please them moat was the
sword-bayonet exercise, which they pro
nounced u very good "war dance." Hi*
Majesty then took his leavo amid another
llourish of trumpet*, and seating himself
iu the stern of his canoe moved off.
When he got a few yards from the ship
we gave him a royal salute, but at the first
discharge of our sixty four-pounders over
board went the entire crew, leaving the
canoe in solitary grandeur until after the
tiring ceased. With the exception of the
king they were not troubled with any
superfluity of clothing; like some other
aboriginies mentioned by Mark Twain,
'•they wear a smile, and sometimes a pair
of .spectacles." This was the only occa
sion on which we had to tire a salute dur
ing our cruise, for at the next group the
king was very hanirhty. and when invited
on board to visit the commodore he re
plied by an aid de-camp. a colored gentle
man in red military tunic, but no continu
ations, that he considered it woold be de
rogatory to a king to pay the first visit.
Ice Water.
In the course of an article in the Xortk
Inn man fieri#*, I>r. Wm. A. Hammond.
a high authority on nervous and other di*
ease*, empha. izes the barm to humanity
whieh follows a too free use of ice water.
He says regarding the effect of ice water
on the action of the heart: "Direct exper
imeiit nitli instruments especially devised
for the purjMise of measuring the force of
tin' heart's puliation*, establishes the fact
that there is no agent of the materia med
ica more powerful with some persons as a
depressant of this organ as a large draught
of ice water I nder certain circumstance*
it act- with all the force and rapiditv of
l'iu-sic acid."' Dr. Hainmond say* much
harm comes from the drinking ot so-called
mineral water* Ou this subject he says:
"Many death* of |»er*ous have occurred
while in the very act of drinking these
more than ice-cold liquids, and I, myself,
am conversant with numc-on* case* in
which great mental or physical pr.wtration
was the result." In one or two at these
instances stubborn facial neuralgia wa* in
duced.
—Simon Cameron once remarked to a
friend: "Yes," he said. "My son Don bad
many advantage*, but I had one that over
balanced them all--poverty."