WHEN THE FISHING BOATS COME IN.
The sea dusk shrouds In violet gloom the
ocean's silver blue,
And purples headlands whence, at dawn,the
milk-whlto sea-gulls llew;
The dances of the wild night-winds o'er
glimmering sweeps begin,
And the sun sinks down on a oouch of fire
when the lishing boats come in.
The glorious arch of Bky above is faintly
filmed o'er
With silk-white scarfs of vapor, and along
the sunset shore
Vast cloud-lleets ride at anchor in seas of
gold and rose.
While with a trembling splendor the wide
horizon glows.
The murmurous roar of far-ofT deep blends
with the plaintive sigh
Of wavelets that upon tho sands of gleam
ing silver die:
The darkling clifTs loom out behind, liko
giants vast and grim,
Stern guardians of enchanted coasts en
wrapped in shadows dim.
Liko some groat jewel burns the sea and on
its gleaming breast ,
I'he laden, home-bound boats glide o'er each
shimmering, foam-belled crest.
31ad watchers scan each glowing sail, fond
eyes are straining still,
4nd with the stir of fearless life the dusk is
all athrill.
k hearty shout goes up to greet the latest
furling sail, e
The long shore rings with mirth and joy.tli
ocean glimmers pale;
K sea-bird Hies athwart the sky and from the
fading west
Ono lingering rose-rea ray outflames to
crimson wing and breast.
The wiuds are revelling o'er the reefs, the
rocky sea-deeps moan, '
The silken slopes are dim and far, the fish
ing grounds are lone:
The sparkles of the mirrored stars among
tho ripples spin.
\nd tho shore is gemmed with a hundred
lights when the fishing boats come in.
| MR. SPATTER-DOCK'S |
I MISTAKE. I
BY HELEN WHITNEY CLARK. 112
"It'll never do—never!"
Mr. Spatterdock shook his head at
some imaginary auditor, as he stood
warming himself, with his back to the
fire.
The blazing hickory logs suapped
and crackled, sending a cheerful
warmth through the snug room, with
its heavy mahogauy furniture, fresh
inginiu carpet, and gaily flowered cur
tains.
"Hob's a likely young fellow, and if ;
he must get married, there's no reason j
why he should throw himself away on
a poor girl, with nothing to bless her- j
self with but a pair of cherry cheeks ;
and coal-black eyes, or whatever color j
they are—l ain't never sot eyes on the 1
girl. But Rob Greenrxway's my owti
nephew,and it's my dooty to look after
him. Marrying, indeed! What the
dickens does lie take sech a silly no
tion iu his head for, anyway? I ain't
never man ied, and look at me!"
And, truly, Mr. Spatterdock seemed
an enviable man, if he was an old
bachelor, nearly forty.
His housekeeper was a model of
thrift and neatness. Not a nook or a
cranny of the big old farmhouse but 1
what was swept, and scoured and gar
nished. Not a pane of glass, but was
sheer and speckless as a French mir
ror. And you might dance a jig on 1
any of the carpets and not raise a mote
of dust to show iu the brightest sun- ;
beam.
Wash-day comes every Monday, and
ironing every Tuesday, raiu or shine, !
week iu and week out, from one year's j
end to year's eud.
Look at me ["continued Mr. Spatter- :
dock, still addressing his imaginary
auditor. "I've never married, and, j
what's more, I've never wanted to.
And Rob will get over this notion, too,
if only Let me see. It's no use argu
fying with a young fellow that's sot as
a inula when he takes a notion; and
the (ireonaways alius was obstinate.
"I'll seud him away awhile—three
months or so, anyhow. There's sister
Roseanna, living over to Sweetgum
Holler. I'll send him there for two or
three monin3,he'll forget all about her 1
in that time. Or luebbe I kin see the
gii l herself, and sort of buy her off,
like. Yes, that's what I'll do. Hillo,
Rob! that you?"
Mr. Spatterdock's greeting was sus
piciously warm, but Rob seemed not
to notice it.
"Good-morning,uncle!" he returned,
rather soberly. "You wanted to
see me, I believe?"
"Yes, Rob."
A rather stormy interview ensued,
in which the uncle, however, came
6Tit successful.
"Well, welt, and so that's settled,
anyhow."
Mr. Spatterdock had come home a
few hours later, having accompanied
his hephew to the railroad station and
watche 1 the train speed off.
"Bob's off safe and sound, "he mut
tered, punching the fire till it blazed
l-.ke a young Vesuvius. "He didn't
aka the notion of going,at first. Reck
on he thought I was a-goin' to send
him clear to lujy! But, soon as ho
found 'twas only forty miles away, to
Sweetgum Holler, he got as chirk as a
bull-tarrier. He's promised not to let
a soul know where he's gone, an' I've
promised, if they're both in the same
notion three mouths from now, I won't
say nothin' more again' it.
"But it's my business to see they
ain't both in the same notion. I must
go and caH on Miss Penny—Petti*—
■whatever the name is—and try to fix
it up somehow or another."
It was more the meddling of the
Vomen-folks than anything else which
tad sot Mr. Spatterdock against his
jephew's choice.
"Real common sort of folks ,<iey
are," declared Mrs. Ruhama Chick
pea, "aud nobody knows where they
c-ouie from, nor wnat they've b'en. I
shouldn't 'low it, Mr. Spatterdock."
But as Mrs. Chickpea's eldest
daughter, Rebecca, was known to be
"setting her cap" for RobGreenawar,
perhaps the pother's testimony should
be taken with some allowance.
"Poor as church mice, too,"'put in
the Widow Smilax, who was supposed
to have an eye on Mr. Spatterdock
himself. "Of course it's Rob's money
they're after."
And Mr. Spatterdock had gone home
thoroughly convinced that it was his
duty to save his nephew from the
6 Dare that had been spread.
"And this is Miss Pettigill? Mis'
Penny Pettigill?"
"Yes."
Mr. Spatterdock glanced sharply
around at the home-like appearance oi
the tiny room in which he was stand
ing, and looked curiously into the
elfish-brown eyes fixed 011 his own.
If this was Penny Pettigill he was
in a deuce of a pickle! Why, the little
witch was a beauty, out-and-out—and
a lady, too!
Buy her off? Mr. Spatterdock would
as soon have thought of—of anything
else in the world!
And somehow or other, he could
never tell exactly how it happened,but
there he was, sitting in a little,chintz
covered rocking-chair, chattering of
Rob, and everything else under the
sun, while Penny Pettigill's wonder
ful, elt-brown eyes flashed and
sparkled, or dropped their dusky
lashes over cheeks that glowed like
crimson coral.
"H'm! Rob's a lucky fellow, after
all," muttered the uncle, as he walked
home with his head in the clouds,
metaphorically, his heart beating,
meanwhile, in a way he had never
known it to beat before.
"Throwing himself away, indeed!
It's her that's a-throwing herself away,
if anything. Poor girl! She'll be
lonesome while Rob's gone. I must
drop in often."
The villagers held quite aloof from
the Pettigills, but Mr. Spatterdock
made ample amends for their neglect.
Mrs. Pettigill, Peuuy's mother, was
a sweet-faced old lady, and Penny
herself was as piquant and chaugeabl'
as an April day.
"And so you sent Rob off to git him
away from that girl, Mr. Spatter
dock?"
The Widow Smilax, after lingering
011 the way home from church until
Mr. Spatterdock overtook her, was
making the most of the opportunity
thus afforded.
"That kind of girls is so artful, to
be-sure! But it seems most a pity
that you took so much trouble, now
that the girl has gone away herself."
"(lone away—herself?" Mr. Spat
terdock staved.
"Why, yes, to-be-sure! Didn't yon
know it? She went the week before
Rob did. Went to visit her married
sister, 1 hear, a-liviu' out at Sweetgum
Holier!"
Mr. Spatterdock wondered whether
he really had gone crazy or not. But,
of course, there was some mistake!
He declined the widow's invitation
to dinner,much to her disappointment
and went at once to learn the truth of
the matter.
"I thought you knew it was my
cousin that Mr. Greeuawav came to
see," e claimed Penny, dropping her
eyes, bashfully. "Her name is Penny,
too, though we generally call her Pen,
to distinguish us. Her sister was
taken sick, and she went to stay with
her, and so
"And so, Penny—my Penny—you
are really free,and you do care enough
for me to be my little wife?"
Whatever tho answer was, there
was a double wedding at the tiny cot
tage when Rob came home, and the
village criterions, who had refused to
receive the plebeian Prttigills, now
had occasion to wonder whether Mrs.
Simeon Spatterdock and Mrs. Rob
Greenaway would receive them.—Sat
urday Night.
An American Xhvhl Offlrei's Spanish Wif*
One of the passengers aboard the
United States transport Morgan
City was a lovely matron of the per
fect, highest Castilian typo. She had
the deftly chiselled features, the be
wildering wealth of hair, the deep
black soul windows beneath arched
brows, delicate as thistle down, the
lips of an aristocrat, the teeth of an
Oriental queen and all the elegance
and grace of bearing that could well
be imagined. She was all that one
could picture the darling of a select
household of Old Madrid. Hers was
such a personality as fete visions con
jure. Senora was of Spaiu. She is
the wife of an officer iu the American
navy and journeys to join her husband
in the service of his country iu the
Philippines. What her thoughts are,
what experiences are iu store for her,
might be mateiialized into a romance
with much shading of sadness. Prom
the expression of her features, uncon
sciously betraying a pride of family
and race, nothing could be guessed.
Senora was unruffled on the ship. • It
is fancied that it would be difficult to
disturb her equilibrium. She traveled
before her marriage to the American
continent and has lived in the United
States about five years, being promi
nent in the society circles of one of the
large cities. —Pacific Commercial Ad
vertiser.
Liglit From the Wind.
An electric light installation which
has recently been laid down at Boyle
hall, West Ardsley, is interesting
from the fact that wind is the only
motive power employed for generat
ing the current. There are fifty sails
set radially in a circular frame about
thirty feet diameter. A large pulley
fixed on a horizontal shaft in an ad
jacent building drives the dynamo.
The duty of this machine is to charge
the storage cells, which are sufficiently
large to run 109 lights for abouteight
days in winter, should there be no
wind for that length of time, and for
more than a fortnight in summer,—
Yorkshire (England) Post.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A caterpillar can eat six hundred
times its weight of food in a month.
A well-known professor asserts that
the smallest intervals of sound can be
better distinguished with one ear than
with both.
A fossil dinosaur that must have
been 130 feet in length has beeu found
near Laramie, Col. The remains were
found by Professor W. H. Reed in the
Jurassic strata near Laramie.
A scientist of note has discovered
that the smell of llowers is injurious
to the voice. He declares that several
operatic singers of his acquaintance
owe the loss of their voices to their
passion for certain (eweet smelling
flowers.
Liquefied gases, at atmospheric pres
sure, are found to have these boiling
points, in Centigrade degrees belon
zero. Sulphur dioxide, 10; chlorine,
33; ammonia, 38; dioxide, 78; nitrous
oxide, 88; nitric oxide, 153; oxygen,
183; carbon monoxide, 190; air, 192;
hydrogen, 238.
The influence of colored light iu the
treatment of nervous diseases has been
studied by Dr. Rafl'egan. From ex
periments on twenty patients, he liaa
found that a few hours' stay in violet
light has a marked quieting effect, red
light, on the other hand, producing
decided excitation.
An Italian melical journal states,
according to the New York Medical
Journal, that while water will not
quench the flame of burning petro
leum in a limited space, milk accom
plishes the object by forming an emul
sion with the oil, disturbing its cohe
sion, aud thus attenuating the com
bustible element.
LYNN'S FLOATINC BRIDGE.
In ITsofor Nearly a Century and Growing
Belter All tlie Time.
The city of Lynn will have to ex
pend about SBOO next summer in re
planking the floating bridge on Glen
niere pond, announces the Boston
Transcript. A new set of three-inch
planks is required every third year oil
the structure. Few people of the
hundreds who cross the bridge daily
have any idea of its great thickness,
which has been proved by recent
soundings to bo as much as seventeen
feet in some places. Although so
much thicker aud heavier than when
first built, it seems to have lost none
of its flexibility, and always adapts
itself instantly to any changes in the
level of the water.
Floating Bridge is one of tlie curi
osities of Lynn, and it is claimed to
be the only structure of its kind in
the world. In 1808 a bridge of some
what similar desigii was built across
Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester,
but it was constructed simply of two
tiers of logs, covered with planks,and
was never satisfactory. The Lynn
bridge, on the other hand, lias been
iu constant use for nearly a century,
and is stronger now than ever, as the
wood does not lot under water, and
the pine logs which form the founda
tion are as firm as cm the day when
they were hewed and put together.
Captain Moses Brown was the
originator of the idea of thus bridging
Collins pond, as it was then called.
In March, 1802, a charter was granted
to the Salem Turnpike and Chelsea
Bridge corporation, and the bridge
was completed in 1804, at a cost of
$50,409. A diver has investigated the
foundations of the structure, and has
found that the original bridge was
made of five layers of pine, laid at
right angles to each other, the first
two layers of pine logs were o:i one
side, and the tipper three of hewn
timber one foot square, the whole se
cured together by three-inch dowels,
and covered with planking 5 1-2 feet
thick.
The bridge is 511 feet long, 28 feet
wide, aud the pond which it crosses is
about seventeen acres in area and
about sixty-four feet above the sea
level. The bed of the pond appears
to be a bed of quicksand, and it would
be very difficult to build a road around
the pond without making a very long
detour, owing to the boggy nature of
the soil. The bridge is kept from
tipping over by being moored at the
ends, imbedded in long trenches dug
in the shores of the pond at the ap
proaches.
The Value of African Ivory.
Africa remains the happy hunting
ground for the ivorv collector. African
ivory fetches a higher price than any
other, being denser in texture, sus
ceptible of a higher polish and not so
liable to turn yellow when exposed to
the light as the Indian kind. In Africa
itself the quality is found to vary
greatly, the rule being that the warmer
the region the finer is the ivory found
there. The finest tusks, however, are
geuerally uaet with at some distance
from the equator. The fine-it pair of
tusks ever brought to Europe cams
from Uganda, and are valued at &940.
Tusks of anything like these dimen
sions are, however, very rare, and are
difficult to procure from tho natives,
who value them highly, aud use them
for door posts, especially in their
temples. The tusks of a full-grown
"tusker" seldom measure over six
feet, and weigh from one to two hun
dred pounds. The tusk is usually
solid for about half its length, the
base being quite thin and therefore of
little use for commercial purposes.
Only from the upper portion of the
tusk can oil 1 iard balls and the bulkier
articles be made.
What She Wan Not.
Cripple Creek is great on etiquette.
A man out there met t a little girl with
whose family he is very intimate, and
said:
"Hello, Edith! How are yoti?"
The little miss drew herself up and
raplied:
"I'se very well, but I ain't no tele
i phone."—Boston Qlobe.
*lf Iffl
fib
IS GREATLY ENHANCED by knowledge of the world's (U^VtU
| best products, which contribute most effectually to per
sonal comfort, and health. The contest of high quality y
and original efforts, which Rive universal satisfaction, it
against the cheap and meretricious imitations will ever [
continue, and the greatest protection against mercenary '
dealers is in being well Informed. In the medicinal sphere jJ«pWWF|Bh
the well-known laxati've remedy, Syrup of Pigs, manufae- Ijyxh _
tured by the California I-'ig Syrup Co., is used by many who |
are enjoying good health and by many others who are seek
| ins health, and tiiis is true to so great an extent that it is "8,
I often called the remedy of the healthy. The excellence of
\ Syrup of Figs is due not only to the originality and sini
\ plicity of the combination, hut also the care and skill with I.
which it is manufactured by scientific processes known only \WW
to the California Fig Syrup Co. Therefore we wish to. im- vwi
press on all the importance of accepting the true and f&a MVffl
original remedy only. When Inlying note the full name—
California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every \f&jv, ) n
package, as there are many imitations sold under similar [s4l ( 1/fraJuj
| names and the imitations are really injurious to the sys- jj'lllii
tem. The true and otiginal remedy. Syrup of Figs, is manu
factured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and when you
see the name of any other Fig Syrup Co. printed on any pack
age you may know that it is a fictitious company and has a-gap*
no real existence, and that the dealer who offers it to you is E/ ffnjHßjCj
seeking by cunning and misrepresentation to take advantage
The better class of druggists are men of high integrity. M J, | I
attending strictly to business day and niglit and willing to lm jl' HVjjßaß
make great sacrifices, if necessary, to supply their custom- JtHlfj il
era with the best of everything in their line, knowing the
importance to health of doing so, and valuing the patronage w. LI L
of their friends and patrons and desiring their confidence. "W-M- s
Druggists of that class do not try to sell something else
when yon ask for Syrup of Figs. They give you the genuine
remedy mnnufacture<l by the California Fig Syrup Co. only.
When desiring physicians' prescriptions tilled, or pure drugs J
and chemicals, proprietary medicines and fine toilet articles, 'lfflr'
you may rely upon them; but as in other callings some black
sheep may be found, so among druggists there tire some who 4SkJ
will try to impose upon and deceive their customers when fi3\
they can. and in order ihat all who are well informed may ✓ nM
know them and avoid them we are publishing the facts. J j.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.,
T ■I!I - \ 11. K.l S I I 'iMh- ." < '.(I N■ • t V. ■I I ,\
Tlie Germ Hunter*.
It is a recognized fact that the re
searches of Mousienr Pasteur have
saved many millions of francs to the
French people by showing them how
to guard against the pests of their
herds, fields and vineyards, besides
reducing to a remarkable extent the
mortality in their hospitals; aud both
the medical practice and the hygienic
habits of all civilized nations are
sharing these benefits.
The courses of biology in our col
leges now include some knowledge of
bacteriology, and there are special
provisions for students who wish to
follow up this fruitful branch in the
laboratories. Happily for all the
people, the results of such inquiries
become a part of common knowledge,
even while tho processes aro still
among the mysteries of scieuce.
Thousands of homos and factories
aro safer from disease-producing
germs because of the spread of a kind
of knowledge which is quite super
ficial. The farmer sprinkles paris
green over his potato vines; the house
keeper buys of the druggist a bottle
of carbolic acid, or some better disin
fectant; tho nurse, under the over
sight of the physician, treats the
diphtheritic patient with antitoxin;
and in each case they ouly need to
understand that these substances de
»J.roy parasitic life. Perhaps the few
wise ones, who know at what cost
these fruits of science and art are
brought within common reach, may
have their own quiet chuckle at the
complacent claim of "popular in
telligence."—Youth's Companion.
No Stale Kread Waited.
All bakers, wholesale and retail,
seek to produce at their several bak
ings through the day only so much as
may be required to supply the wants
of their trade, but in making sure to
provide enough there is likely to be
some left over to get stale. There is
some demand for stale bread for house
hold uses—for making toast and for
cooking purposes —but the demand is
limited. Such stale bread as may re
main unsold in this manner is never
wasted; it is sold to farmers aud market
gardeners who drive into the city with
produoe to sell, and who buy more or
less supplies here to oarry back to feed
stock. When finally disposed of thus
it is sold by the barrel, at so muck a
barrel; tho price being very low, but
depending somewhat ou the surplus
. stock on hand on the day of sale. —
New York Sun. * i
Shakeftp<Mii-e*a Gloves.
A pair of interesting gloves are in
possession of Miss Frances Benson.
Breathe low and speak in whispers;
they are Shakespeare's gloves. That
they aro a good specimen of tho hand
covering of the sixteenth centuiy is of
paltry interest compared with the well
authenticated statement that the great
man had soiled the leather and worn
through the finger-tips. Did he
squeeze the hand of Ann with them as
intermedials ? Have they, under his
guidance, grasped tho handle of a
flagon or of an inkhorn? Accompany
ing them is the following memoran
dum, which no ono will care to dis
pute: "A pair of gloves worn by
Shakespeare. Presented to Garrick
by the Mayor and Corporation of Strat
ford-on-Avon, at tho time of the jubi
lee there, 17(5!), in a finely-carved box
of the mulberry tree planted by
Shakespeare, together with the lease
of his house, in Stratford and the free
dom of the town." These real work
a-day gloves, deemed worthy to be
placed with legal documents, have
plainly seen wear. They aro of sub
stantial leather, and doubtless made
up in ornament what they lacked in
fit. The scroll stitching 011 tho
knuckles has been in red and gold,
these two colors being maintained
throughout the accessories. The cuff
is of double leather, with a pattern
pinked on the upper skin. The rib
bon, outlining the cuff, is of yellow
silk, and that on the lowtr edge is of
c/imson silk with yellow fringe.—
Philadelphia Record.
Big Prices For Animals.
The biggest price ever given for a
horse was $150,000, when Ormonde,
once the property of tho Duke of
Westminster, was bought for that sum
by a California millionaire. The fam
ous winner of tho Derby, St. Leger
and tho Two Thousand Guineas, in
one year was recently sold for $105,-
000—Galteo More. The most volu
able collio dog known is owned by
Mr. Megson.of Manchester, who gave
$6500 for him. He is the finest dog
of his kind that has ever been reared,
and has taken forty-eight prizes at
various shows. Perhaps the most ex
pensive fowl ever heard of is a game
cock named Peter Jackson, belonging
, to a, gentleman in Plymouth. This
bird'has been known to fight under a
bet of $200,000 to a pinch of Bnuff.
Needless to say he wou it. His owner
has refused $2500 for luui. —Tit-Bits.
Thft Trekking Wn^oii,
Tlio South African wagon is a long,
heavy cart mounted on four high
wheels, aa a rule, with a sort of can
vas tent over the back half, leaving
the front clear to carry the miscellane
ous furniture of its owner, drawn by
sixteen, eighteen or twenty oxen,
curiously lierce-looking with their im
mense spread of horn, sometimes as
much as eight feet from tip to tip and
rarely less than six, but in reality as
patient and hard-working beasts as
one could wish to fiud. Their mode
of progression is certainly slow, but
there is a strangeness and a fascina
tion about it which may draw men to
it almost as the Alps draws their de
votees. In front there marches the
"voor-looper," generally a small boy,
leading the two foremost oxen by a
rein or rope passed through their nos
trils. The driver walks alongside
with the long and terrible whip he
uses so unsparingly, or else sits 011
the front of the wagon and gets off
occasionally to lash up the whole team
with unfailing impartiality. The
traveling is all done at night, starting
a little before sunset anil marching
till perhaps 11 or 12 o'clock; then
there is a halt, till a little before the
first signs of dawn, when they goon
again till the sun begius to get hot
overhead, and then they lie by for the
day.—Gentleman's Magazine.
A Wonderful Battlwliip.
A story is going the rounds in Cen
tral and South American papers of a
battleship to be called the American
Boy, which is to be built by popular
subscription amoug the boys iu vari
ous cities of the United States. The
description given of the projected
American wonder is staggering. The
ship, according to the gullible press,
will bo 1000 feet long, with 207 feet
beam and a displacement of 48,410
tons. Forty knots an hour is the
speed she is expected to develop.
Her guns are too numerous to men
tion, but among them are four 15-iueh
monsters, while those of the 12-inch
and 10-incli class mount up in the
scores. The armor-belt will be thir
ty-six inches thick, backed by eight
inches of asbestos felt! Then she will
carry 25,000 tons of smokeless coal;
there will be a gymnasium in the
cabin as large as a small auditorium;
she will have 170 officers and 2500
men, and the cost of the completed
ship will be s2o,ooo,ooo!—Chicago
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