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EXPERIENCE
The licv. Z. I*. "Wiltls, well-known
missionary in New York, ami brother
of the late eminent Judge Wilds, of the
Massachusetts Supreme Court, writes
as follows:
“78 K. 5 1th St.. New York, .1 fat/ 10, lsß2.
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BALTIMORE, HID.
Woof Wanted,
BY THE
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in exchange for good honest jeans tweeds
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XUS WRIAA.WS.O'OS.
THE SQUIRE’S FUN.
]SY EISEN E. IlEXEOItl).
Squire Doolittle was a farmer, fat
and jolly, who liked fun, but always
preferred it at someone clse’s expense.
If lie could play a trick upon one of
his sons, he enjoyed it hugely. Asa
consequence, the boys did not iever
eucc him very much, and were always
trying some practical joke upon their
father. Sometimes they succeeded,but
not often.
“I’m too old a lish to be caught by
the pin hooks of boys,” lie would say,
when some plan of theirs had miscar
ried and the joke was turned upon
themselves, much to his delight and
their chagrin. “You’ve heard of wea
sels, haven’t you? Yes. Well, wea
sels, especially old weasels, never
sleep.”
“We must get a laugh against him
in some way,” said Tom. “He’s too
provoking! I’d give a dollar to trick
him in such a way that he wouldn’t
like to hear about it.”
“So would I,” said John.
“And I’d make it two,” said Robert.
“But we’re hardly sharp enough.
That’s the trouble.”
It happened that the squire was in
the haymow m the barn when this con
versation took place, and the boys were
sitting on some boxes on the barn floor,
lie chuckled as ha listened, and a
moment later called out from his lofty
perch, “I’ll tell you what I’ll do, hoys.
When you get a good joke on me, I’ll
buy each one of yon a hat.”
The boys looked foolish. But final
ly, because they had nothing else to
say, they' accepted the challenge, and
in a half-hearted sort of a way, set
their wits to work to earn the hats.
In the squire’s flock of sheep was an
old ram called David. The animal
had a chronic spite against the whole
human family, and never lost an oppor
tunity of exhibiting it to any member
of the family that crossed his path. If
a stranger entered the yard or pasture
.vheie David was, the poor man was
fortunate if he was not knocked down
as suddenly as if lie had been struck
by lightning. The ram always at
tacked Irom the rear. Tie would get,
behind the object of his attack, curb
bis neck, shut his eyes and charge!
As may be imagined, tlie great horns
of the animal, backed up by the mo
mentum gathered by his charge, gave
anything but a pleasant sensation when
they came in contact with the legs of
his unsuspecting victim. Generally a
board was strapped to his horns, over
his woolly face, to obstruct his range
of vision and serve as a warning to
strangers of his warlike propensities.
But he often contrived to tear it from
his head—and then alas for his unsus
pecting victim.
The boys enjoyed many an hour of
fun with David. The sheep pasture
came up to the barnyard on one side,
and a creek ran along by both. Where
the pasture came to tho creek there
was a very high bank, and .his bank
was steep. The Doolittle boys used
to get upon a narrow rock that was
just under the edge of the bank. Here,
where they stood up, all their bodies
above the waist could be seen above
the level of the pasture. Placing them
selves in this position, they would at
tract the attention of old David by call
ing and shaking their hats at him. He
was always ready for battle. With
lowered head, curbed neck and a snort
of anger, he would rush at them with
his eyes closed. Taking advantage of
this peculiarity, the boys would drop
down behind the bank, and David
would go over them and into the water,
with a plunge that would have done
credit to a Newfoundland dog. Then
he would get back to tho shore, look
ing wrathful and sheepish; but lie could
not be induced to renew tho attack
again at that time.
His memory, however, was poor, or
his pugnacity was too strong for his
discretion, for in an hour, it the boys
came back and showed themselves
above the bank, he was ready for an
other charge. Perhaps the foolish ani
mal thought that sometime he would
be too quick for them.
The squire had often watched this
spoit, and laughed at David’s reck
lessness and at his appearance as lie
plunged into the water and came forth
with wet wool and disgusted and wrath
ful aspect.
One day the squire was in the barn
yard salting the cows. He had a half
bushel measure in his hand, and as he
looked over the fence into the sheep pas
ture, and saw David watching him, he
held up the measure and shook it at
the old fellow.
David gave a snort of defiiance, and
began to curb bis neck and shake his
head, as if challenging tho squire to
combat.
“I wonder if I couldn’t trick the old
fellow in the same way that tho boys
fool him?” thought the deacon. He
looked about the yard, cautiously. His
sons were not in sight, and ho conclu
ded lie would have a laugh at David’s
expense. Crawling through the fence
he reached the rock on which the boys
stood in their encounters with David.
The ram had not seen him. When
the squire raised himself cautiously
and looked over the bank, David was
watching the barnyard, and evidently
wondering vvliat had become of the
man who had just challenged him.
“Hi, David!” cried the squire, hold
ing the half bushel measure out before
him as a target for the sheep to aim at.
“Hi, David!”
David “lii-ed” at once. He gave a
, grand flourish as if to say. Look out
1 there!” then charged,
i Unfortunately for tho squire, he was
j so excited over the fun that he forgot
i himself completely, and only thought
j about the half bushel measure. Instead
J of dropping out of the sheep’s way, he
j swung the measure on one side, in his
i excitement forgetting that David al
ways shut his eyes when lie charged,
and aimed for the object before him
when he closed them. The consequence
was that the ram did not follow the
measme, but bolting straight for the
place where ho last saw it, struck the
poor squire square in tho stomach and
ho and David went over the bank and
into the creek as if shot out of a can
non.
“Wall, I snum!” sputtered the
squire, as he made his way to the bank.
“1 forgot all about dodging. I de
b’leevc the old reprobate’s broke my
stomach in, by the way it feels. You
old rascal!” lie screamed to David,
whose air was one of victory, as ho
stood on the pasture side of the fence,
making defiant motions with his head
at the deacon who had clambered out of
the water on the barnyard side; “I’d
like to break your old neck! I shan’t
get over this for a month, if I ever do.
I wouldn’t have been so bruised for
five dollars. I’m glad tho hoys didn’t
see me.”
He made his way up the bank and
toward the barn, under cover of the
fence. He didn’t want any one at the
house to see him in his wet clothes. As
he opened the barndoor, a broadside of
laughter saluted his ears from tho hay
mow in the end of the barn toward the
creek. He knew then that boys’
hour of triumph had come. They had
seen his discomfiture.
“I say, father!” irreverantly called
out Tom, in a voice choked with laugh
ter. “You didn’t scooch quick enough.
Next time you’ll know better how to
do it.”
“What became of the half-bnshel?”
asked John, and Bob screamed “Hi,
David!” in such a way that, notwith
standing liis pain the squire was half
inclined to laugh himself.
“I—l acknowledge that David was
too much for me that time,” said the
squire, looking very red and foolish.
“Laugh away, hoys, if it does yon any
good.”
“What’s the price of hats?” asks
John.
“Well, but the joke wasn’t yours,”
said the tquire. “But I’ll tell yon
what I’ll do. If you won’t say any
thing about this foolish affair I’ll buy
the hats, and give you a day’s fishing
any time you want to take it.”
“We agree! we agree!” cried the
boys.
But the story leaked out in some
way, and the squire had to endure a
great deal of sly laughter from his fun
loving neighbors. But he never quite
forgave old David, and although he
did not say so. he had a feeling of un
qualified satisfaction when he heard
one day that the old sheep’s neck had
been broken in a fight.
A YORKSHIRE LEGEND.
Some three hundred years ago a very
old man kept a shop underneath tho
Munster tower. His business was as
poor as he was; lie had already five
children, and one morning his wife
gave birth to a sixth, a fine little girl.
The poor old father sighed; betook the
child in the shop, and laid it on the
counter. Then he fairly broke down
and sobbed over his now possession.
Now the shop was an open one, and a
knight who happened to bo riding by
stopped his horse when he saw the pooi
old man’s distress.
“Alas,” said the father, “I have al
ready five young ones, and know not
how to find food for them, and so my
wife has but now given mo another. I
would that it had not conic info this
suffering world.”
“I will see what will happen toller,”
the knight said, for he was a sorcerer,
and he always carried his great Book
of Fate in his saddle-bow.
The poor man gazed at him as ho
read. All at once ho saw the knight
turn pale, his hair bristled on his head,
but ho spoke with a smiling face to
the distressed father.
“Be consoled, friend. I have no
daughter and if you will give me your
unwelcomed infant I will adopt it and
make it heir to my possessions.”
Tho father’s delight was great; lie
loaded the kniglit with thanks, and
placed the baby in his arms. The knight
spurred his horse and rode swiftly to
the banks of the Ouse, at some dis
tance from the city. Here he dismoun
ted and thing the infant into the mid
dle of the river, for he had read in the
Book of Fate that this newly-born
babe was destined to marry his only
son.
Then lie rode away rejoicing. But
the river was more compassionate than
the knight. It washed the baby ashore
and a fisherman hearing its cries car
ried it homo to his cottage.
Fifteen years after, tho knight with
many of his friends came riding along
the hanks of tho Ouse, and stopped at
the fisherman’s cottage to buy fish. A
young girl camo to the door, and the
knight and all his friends were startled
by her wonderful beauty. Her man
ner, too, was so sweet and gracious
that as they went on their way they
continued to praise and wonder at her
loveliness, till the knight said with a
laugh—“l will search my took anil
see which of you is destined to he the
fisher-maiden’s husband.”
But his laughter ceased and his face
grew white when lie read that tliis was
the very maiden lie hail tiling into the
stream long ago.
He soon made an excuse to leave his
friends, and going back to the cottage
asked the fisherman if ho would allow
his daughter to carry a message from
him to his brother, a noble knight who
lived at Scarborough.
The fisherman consented, and then
the -knight wrote a letter, and sealing
it gave it to the girl. She put the let
ter into her purse and started on her
journey. When night fell she went to
a littlo inn, where she aslod for a bed
and slept soundly. Now it happened
that a thief found his way into the inn
that night, and prowling about he
camo into the maiden’s room and saw
her purse lying on the table. In it lie
found the letter, which lie opened and
read. It contained these words:
“Dear Brother—Take the bearer and
put her to death immediately.”
The thief turned his lantern on to
the face of the sleeper and seeing how
young and beautiful ho felt compas
sion. “She deserves a better fate,” he
said, “and she shall have it.” Then
he wrote a note in the handwriting of
the knight;
“Dear Brother—Take the bearer and
marry her at once to my son.” He
then sealed the letter and placed it in
the girl’s ptinc instead of the other.
Next morning the gill woke up ear
ly and hurried on to Scarborough.
The knight’s brother received her
kindly; but when ho had read the letter
lie embraced her, and went to seek his
nephew, who happened to be on a visit
to bis castle. As soon as tbe youth
beheld the maiden ho became enamored
of her, and desired to be wedded next
day; and the marriage celebrated with
much splendor, the bride looked more
beautiful than ei er in her weildingSgar
ments.
After a day or two tho knight told
his nephew that lie must go to York
and seek the knight his father, and tell
him lie had obeyed his commands. The
young husband was unwilling to leave
his wife; however, he departed with
many promises of a speedy return.
He had not been gone long when his
father arrived—they missed each other
on the road—-and when tho York
knight learned what had happened he
was almost mad with rage. He asked
liis daughter-in-law to come with him
outside of the castle; then seizing her
by the hair dragged her to the sea-shore
and drew his dagger. She fell on her
knees.
“Spare my life,” said she, “and
toil me how I have angered you.”
At this he told her history, and bade
Her prepare for death; but at last her
tears and entreaties so far softened him
that ho sheathed his dagger, then pluck
ing a gold ring from his finger, he flung
it into tho sea.
“Swear to me,” he said, “that you
will not come into my sight nor that
of my sou till that ring is on your fin
ger and I will spare your life.”
She swore, and then she lied in wild
terror till she found herself in a strange
place, obliged to beg for food.
At last, after long wondering, she
became to cook for a nobleman.
One day as she looked out of a win
dow at tho guests arriving for a ban
quet, she saw her cruel enemy and his
soil, her dearly loved husband. She
drew back hastily and then she trem
bled so she could hardly cook the din
ner. Just before it w;is ready a fisher
man came to the door. Ho had brought
a splendid fish for sale, and she took
it in and began to clean it. All at
once she saw something glitter.
She looked closer; it was the knights
ring; then she ceased trembling, her
fear turned to joy and she cooked the
dinner to perfection.
“Who is your cook, my lord?” asked
the knight, who, notwithstanding liis
cruelty, was extremely fond of good
eating.
“She is a strange girl, but she is
fair to see,” his host answered; “she
came begging to my door, and I took
her in from charity;” then, turning to
tho servants behind him: “Some of
you hid the cook come up into the din
ing hall.”
The girl washed her face and smooth
ed her hair, and then she put on her
best clothes, and with the ring on her
finger she entered the hall.
The guests looked at her with won
der, for she seemed to them “as fair as
the moon, as lovely as the rose.”
But the knight uttered a tierce yell
and started from Ills seat. He drew
his sword and made a rush at her, but
she smiled and held up her hand, tin
it he saw the ling which he had cast
into the sea. lie saw, too, that her
young husband stood beside her and
clasped her in liis arms. Then the
knight bent his head, for he saw that
fate had been too strong lor him, and
ho suffered her to dwell peacefully
with her loving husband; and she be
came famous throughout the country
for her beauty, her courtesy and her
goodness.
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“Look before you leap,” said the
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Physicians use Shriner’s In
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A Faulty Game a Ease Ball.
Philadelphia Cor. N. Y. World.
A remarkable game of base ball was
played at the Pastime Park to-day be
tween the Snorkys and the Hoppers.
Every member of the Kuorkys’ Club
had but one arm, and tho Hopper had
each but one leg.
The two nines were composed of
young and active men, all of whom,
with one exception, owed the loss of
their limbs to railroad accidents. The
one exception was William Young, a
Suorkv, who lost one of his arms at
Gettysburg.
Both nines wore neat uniforms, the
Suorkys having red and the Hoppers
blue as their distinguishing colors.
About 2,000 persons were in the grand
stand, and they laughed and shouted
and went wild over the game.
When time was called Morris Hines,
the pitcher of the Hoppers, went to the
bat and dealt heavily with the very
first ball that John Gormon, the one
armed pitcher, hurled at him. He sent
it between second base and left field,
anil got two liases easily.
Flick, the next batter, sent a fly to
second base, which was muffed, and
thus brought Hines home and got a
base. The first inning resulted in
three runs for the Hoppers.
W hen the one-legged men took the
field it was noticed that a judicious
distribution of their forces had been
made. The pitcher, Morris Hines, dis
played a shapely wooden leg, such as
were wont to he used by Hogging sail
ors. The leg looked as though it weie
full of life and movement.
George Dowds, the catcher, had a
leg of smaller dimensions, but was as
quick on his feet and as handy with
liis hands as any catcher.
The first baseman, William Knnff,
wore an aristocratic artificial limb,
which made him look much like any
other man, but all the rest had legs of
plain democratic wood, fastened out
wardly with straps in the good old
fashioned way.
5\ iiliatn Stewart at light-field and
Paul Launce at centre-field had each a
wooden leg and a crutch. Their run
ning after fly balls was something ex
traordinary, especially when both got
mixed up and fell on the ground un
able to move, while the ball lay a few
feet away.
“Pick it up!” yelled tho captain.
“Sock it to third,” cried out a score
of voices, while the two players delib
erately unstrapped their legs to get out
of the tangle. By that time the base
runner got home. One of the unfortu
nates literally put his foot on his shoul
der and went to a dry spot to draw on
his leg.
Both of these gentlemen were sue- '
cessful in batting, but lamentably
lame in running, and the scores they '
made were tho product of shrewdness
and persistence.
One Stewart fell fiat on liis face just
as he reached first base, owing to the '
slipping of his crutch, and Launce was ’
run out a second by tripping and fall- '
ing over liis crutch.
When these players made a hit their
opponents refrained front throwing the
ball to the base, preferring the more ,
certain method of pursuing and over
taking them before they could roach
their bases.
There were some funny incidents in •
the fielding. Once when Flick first 1
base, and John Lilly, second base, were :
running to catch a liy from Douds,
they got under it together, and, both ;
having only the leit arm, managed to
drop it. I
Meantime Flick, who was hopping ;
from first to second at prodigious speed, '
suddenly stopped in liis onward career 1
and stretched out his hands appeal- 1
ingly
“Go on! Run! Go for it. Scoot 1
for second,” the crowd yelled and
shouted themselves hoarse.
“Why don’t you go?” shouted the
captain. 5 ou’ve got to go if you want
to get it.”
“I can’t,” shouted back the poor
fellow. “My leg’s stuck in the ground.”
Then the basemen fumbled around
with tlieir left hands, got the ball, and
put him out, after wieli they obligingly
pulled his leg out of the mud and help
ed him home.
Then the game went on.
The one-legged long fielders had an
easy time of it, and leaned leisurely '
upon their supports and watched the
game with a philosophic interest, but
once in a while some lusty Snorky
would send a sky-scraper out their way
and "prompt them to jerky movements.
It was curious then to see the speed
they could make on the soft ground
with their crutches, and the eagerness
with which they ran toward the ap
proaching ball. It must be said, how
ever, that they invariably missed it,
and that it pleasantly bounded past
them, giving tho batter and his one
armed comrades a chance to exhibit
tlieir speed around tho bases.
Tho one-armed men had all tho ad
vantage in running, and it was to this
that they owed the largeness of tlieir
scores.
They stole runs audaciously, taking
the chances of the fielding by the one
legged men. Now and then they were
caught at this game, and once a well
managed double-play sent two of them
out and ended an inning.
In the first inning two batters of the
one-armed nine got tlieir bases on call
ed balls and stole their way home,
thanks to a series of accidents among
the one-legged fellows.
A hall that was thrown by tho catch
er to the pitcher passed that agile ath-
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leto and rolled between the two fielders
on crutches at left and center-field.
They both grabbed for and missed
it. By tie time it was sent home
three runs had been scored by tlienim
> ble one-armers, whose strength and
agility seemed to he transferred to their
legs, which fairly twinkled as they
ran.
In the third inning tho one-armed
men got five runs on the slightest kind
of hits and laughed as they swung
around the diamond at the hasty
scrambling for the ball among the one
legged fielders.
In the fourth inning they made sev
en, and this left the game nineteen to
thirteen in favor of the one-armed nine.
It was then so dark that plav was
suspended.
The “Cripples,” as the nines are
called, never played together before,
and their success was so great thai it
has been resolved to take them on a
tour to New York, Chicago, St, Louis
and other cities.
NOAH’S ARK DISCOVERED.
FINDING Ol' THE ANCIENT VESSEL IN A
OLACIF.It ON MOUNT ARARAT.
A Constantinople contemporary an
nounces the discovery of Noah’s Ark.
It appears that some Turkish Commis
sioners appointed to investigate the
question of avalanches on Mount Ara
rat suddenly came upon a gigantic
structure of very dark wood protruding
from a glacier. They made inquiries
of the inhabitants (<j. 1,725 in their
report.) These liad seen it for six
years, but had been afraid to approach
it because a spirit of fierce aspect hail
sew: looking out of the upper win
dow. Turkish Commissioners, how
ever. are bold men, not deterred by such
trifles, and they determined to reach it.
Situated as it was'among tho fastness
of one of the glens of Mount Ararat, it
was a work of enormous difficulty, and
it was only after incredible hardships
that they succeeded. The ark, one
will be glad to hear, was in a good
state ot preservation, although the an
gles—observe, not the how or stern —
had been a good deal broken in its de
scent, They recognized it at once.
There was an Englishman among them
who had presumably read liis Bible,
and he saw it was made of the ancient
gopher wood of Scripture, which as
every one knows, only grows on tho
plains ol the Euphrates. Effecting an
entrance into the structure, which was
painted brown, they found that tho
Admiralty requirement for the convey
ance of horses had been carried oiit,
and the interior was divided into parti
tions fifteen feet high. Into three of
these only could they get, the others
being full of ice, and how far the ark
extended into the glacier they could
not tell. If, however, on being un
covered it turns out to bo 30U cubits
long it will go hard with disbelievers
in the book of Genesis. “Needless to
say,” says the Pall Mall Gazette, “an
American was soon on the spot, and
negotiations have been entered into
with the local Pacha for its speedy
transfer to the United States.
A FATHER’S LONG VIGIL.
WATCHING OVER THE DEAD BODY OF Ills
DAUGHTER FOR NEARLY FIVE MONTHS.
A few days ago the remains of Miss
Annie Brewer were interred in a marble
sarcophagus constructed in tho yard
adjoining Her father’s house in East
Hartford, Connecticut. The circum
stances of this case is sad and peculiar.
Miss Brewer was the IG-year-old daugh
ter of Edward Brewer, a leading citi
zen. She was the idol of her father,
whose whole life seemed to he wrapped
up in her. A week or two before
Christmas she was then sick, and, af
ter a short illness, died. On her
deathbed she expressed a horror of be
ing put into the ground, and her father
promised that she should not be. In
spite of the entreaties and persuasions
of the friends and relatives, lie declin
ed to allow the remains to be taken
from the house. The corpse was dress
ed for the grave and was enclosed in a
handsome coffin, which was placed in
the parlor. Every day an undertaker
visited tho house, and did wliat was
necessary to preserve the remains. Tho
unhappy father refused to bo comforted.
He sat by the coffin all day long, and
it was with great difficulty that ho
could be persuaded to snatch even a
few moments for his meals. In the
early evening lie retired to bed, but at
about midnight arose again, dressed
himself, and returned to his vigil, lie
addressed to the inanimate form words
of endearing affection, kissed the mar
ble lips, and passed his hand across
the brow. When day-light came he
returned to his bed for a few hours, and
then rose to go through the same pro
gramme. Day and night trom the
time of her death until about the mid
dle of April, these strange actions were
kept up. At about that time Mr.
Brewer’s Health broke down, and Jhc
agreed to the removal of tho remains
to a vault to be constructed on liis own
premises and easily accessible, so Unit
he might still hold communion with
his child. It is in this vault, just
completed, that the girl’s long unbur
ied remains were placed. The cere
monies were simple and private.
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