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THE STORM WILL HAVE ITS
WA V.
Tbe rain CUM liefttlug down, tbe winds bUw
tierce and loud,
Tb nifhtleM of tbe treei before (be blast
were bowed,
AnA 1 tcemt'd to bear tb**m any, on that (lark,
tempcttuou* day:
* Stoop and let It pan*. The atoriu will hare
1 be blosaonui that so beautiful sod
atront,
And bold tnelr beads up bravely all the Sum*
mer lone.
No longer bright and gay, submissively could
ssy:
"fHoop and let it pass. The storm will have
Its wsy."
Tbe spirit that would dsn*, with proud, defiant
form.
To fight against the whirlwind or battle with
tbe storm,
Kate, surely, will compel Its useless rage to
quell,
And lesrn *tls better to endure than always to
rebel.
Through the woods and meadows, as the
tempest goes.
They are soonest wrecked who its onward
way oppose;
They the: r fe • r-* allay who, ready to obey.
Stoop and let It pant. The atorm will have its
way.
Aching, breaking heart, o'erwhelnted w.tb
grief, and pain*.
Weary of tho boating of autumn*! ruin*.
On thy knee, 1 ay, for pluck and patience
Stoop P nJ let It paa*. The storm will have Its
way.
—Josephine /Word, in ST. r. IndtpriuUnl.
AJi HOUR OK TERROR.
1 fouml myself on the following morn
ing looking into the mirror to see wheth
er or not my hair had turned white, and
I have often wondered since how I ever
managed to come through it safely; but
I did somehow, and am here now to tell
you about it, if you will be patient and
listen.
1 was just sixteen years of age, and
ihe youngest of a large family, all of
whom had married and left home but
myself. We were residing in the coun
try. and I had never wished to lent e
ray quiet home until after that eventful
night of which l am alrout to tell you.
Mr mother used to call me her tom
boy” daughter, an l indeed, if it had
not been rormyac omp ishments in this
direction. I hardly know how 1 should
have taken care of myself on that night
—as you will observe when 1 have
finished.
My father was a physician. an t lia<l
been called to the bedside of a patient
who was expected to and e every moment,
consequently we did not expect him
back until some t me the next day.
My mother had dismissed all the serv
ants for the night and closed the doom.
It was pnst our usual bed time, but we
were both deeply absorbed in our new
books, and seemed indisposed to retire.
;' ‘ last, however, mother elosed her
book, an t said it was time we were in
l>cd. as we were expecting my brother
and h : s wi eto arrive the next morning
at about three o'clock, and wo ihl be
called up to meet them. 1 had just
fdaced mv novel on the table, amt was
caning hark to enjoy a huge yawn,
when the gate opened and someone
came rapidly lip the walk to the porch.
The ne\t moment there was n loud
kno k at the door, and mo her aud I
looked at ea h oilier a moment, as if
wondering who could be coming in at
such a late hour
•• borne one has Sent for your futher.
1 guess,” said mother, going to her
room door which opened into the hall.
•* Who’s there?” she inquired; 1 beard
the voice of my brother-in-law, who
lived about a mile from us, saying that
his wife was quite ill, and he had come
for father.
‘>f course I was sorry for my sister's
iilness, but at the same tine - was glad
that the caller was not an intiu ler, as I
had at first feared. When mother in
forme 1 him that father was away, lie
asked her if sh -- would not return home
with him, as she might be able to ren
der my sister some rel ef.
Of course she could not refuse, and so
I was to be left alone, for 1 could not
possibly leave home, also, on account
of ray brother and h s wife, and I should
be compelled to rema n at home to re
ceive.
Perhaps I was mow eas ly frightened
than most girls of mv age, nut the
fact that 1 was “the baby of the fani
Mv," ami b and never been left alone at
night. I think quite sufficient reason for
my failing.
After seeing mother safely off I
listened the disir, and taking mv book,
went up-stairs to my own room, where
1 determined to spend the remainder
of the night reading at least, until my
brother and wife came at three.
A door o|iened from my room u|>n n
little balcony, into which one from
the hall also opened. This I left aar
*o admit fresh air. as 1 knew there could
be no nossihle means of reaching it
from the porch below, except by a long
ladder.
I could not center my thoughts upon
the words before me, although I had
been very much interested before
mother left I would start and listen at,
the least sound 1 heard. Once 1 laid
a*ide my book, and going to the back
window, looked down toward the serv
ant’s honses to see if (hey had all re
tired. Everything was dark ami still,
and I again decided to be as brave as
possible, and forget all nbout robbers
and ghosts; and so, after satisfying my
self once more that the e was no one in
the closet or wardrobe, or under the
bed, I took possession of mv book and
sat down to read.
I managed to read a chapter or two,
and again I foun t myself peering out
through the window down into the gar
den. and trying to form the dancing
shadows there into human forms mak
ing their stealthy way through the
shrubbery.
1 was about to turn mv eves to rny
book once more when I saw something
that caused me to start and look more
cioselv. Yes, it was, indeed, a man
creeping cautiously along behind the
hedge towards the servants’ houses.
Who could it be? The servants had
said nothing the night before about
leaving, and it was something unusual
for one of them to keep snch things a
secret, as they seemed to take delight
in making known their pleasure trips to
us for several days before they were to
take place. Even if it was one of them,
why should he be so careful to get to
his boose? And whv had he come
in through the garden instead of the
lane?
1 watched him until he reached the
garden gate, and opening it stepped
into the baek vard. He paused and
looked about in every direction, and I
saw him peering up through the branch
es of the trees towards the window near
which I stood. Shading mv eves, I
looked more closely to see if I could tell
who. it was, but conld not. He wore a
large. broad-brimmed black bat and a
long coat. He seemed to be gazing up
at my window for a full minute, and
then he stepped hastily across the yard
and disappeared arourid the house I
hurned to the back window in time to
see him enlfcr the house of Uncle Ben,
our old gardener.
■ Pshaw!” I a;d to mvself. "It’s
nobody but'Uncle Ben. after all. Been
over to see" some neighbors and cotne
home late.”
But stillJ was not exactly satisfied, for
J kept on thinking about ib manner in
which he had come to the house,
@1 )t (Diycttc.
VOL. IX.
It was just 12:80. Mercy! what was I
to do with the remainder of the time till
three o’clock came?
When tho excitement occasioned by the
appearance of the figure in the garden
had subsided a little, my eyelids begau
to get heavy, and almost before 1 knew
it, the chin rested on my chest, and I
was fast asleep.
When 1 awoke, it was with a sudden
start, and 1 almost sprang to my feet.
I wondered why I had been aroused so
suddenly, and listened intently to see if
the sound or whatever it was would be
repeated.
All was as still as death. Nothing to
meet my listening car save the mourn
ful breeze as it gently rustled the leaves
outside my window; and the faint tick,
tick, of the large clock in the hall down
stairs. Yes, a cricket was chirping from
the hearth, and I could hear the weird,
lonely hoot of an owl from the neighbor
ing wood.
A thrill ran through me. Everything
seemed so completely forsaken so quiet
nud desolate. Looking at mv watch 1
discovered that it was exactly two
o’clock, and indeed, was surprised to
learn that I had been asleep so long.
Another hour before my brother would
come. I thought it would never do to
allow myself to fall asleep again, and
remembering that there were some ap
ples in the closet, 1 started to get one.
hoping it would assist me to keep awake.
1 had just stooped over the basket when
I heard a strange, grinding, cutting
sound, very low, but distinct. I turned
to listen, and it came to my ear louder
than before.
I asked myself if it could ho a huge
rat cutting his way into the pantry be
low. but the next instant this hope was
driven from me, for the noise was evi
dently made by something larger than
a rat. Someone was trying to aflect
an entrance.
Oh, Heaven, what could I do? Sup
pose it were a robber attempting to
make an entrance Into the house? What
would become of me? 1 shuddered
and stood like one riveted to the floor.
1 felt the perspiration sealing out upon
my forehead in grea'. hot beads, and
almost heard my heart beating. Again
I li-tened in breathless suspense. The
sound was unmistakable this time, and
Ilia: it was an intruder I did not doubt,
trying to cut his way through some of
the blinds below.
There were guns in the house, and 1
could handle one about ns well as any
country girl: but the fact was they were
all down stairs in the pantry, and if 1
attempted to go after one 1 might rush
into th" very arms of a burglar. Be
sides, I did not know where the pantry
key was. Perhaps it was in the sitting
room, where mother sometimes kept it,
or perhaps in her room; but in wit t
exact place? Alas! may bo she had
taken it away in her pocket! So there
was no hope of obtaining a gun, and
the only thing remaining for me to do
was to try and make my ereape. But
how?
'The thought struck me that 1 might
extinguish the 1 ght and hide myself;
Hut then 1 should run the risk of being
discovered and perhaps killed
I was, indeed, in a state of perplexity,
and asked myself what should I do.
The sound still grew louder. Whoever
the intruder was, he was certainly get
ting holder,
1 unfastened my shoes and carefully
slipped them or, then blew out the
light, and cautiously making my way to
the door which opened into the balcony,
stood just inside and listened. Y'es, it
was most certainly at ono of the front
windows! Lying down on the floor, I
crawled to the edge of the balcony and
peeped carefully over at the windows
of my mother’s room.
I could see no one, but 1 could hear
the noise much plainer. 1 then made
my way to the other end of the balcony,
arid looked over in the same manner.
To my inexpressible horror, 1 saw the
dark figure of a man at one of the par
lor windows. If he once managed to
get in, he could go all through the house
except in the pantry.
I saw in an instant that it was the
man whom I had seen in the yard.
Could it be that our old gardener had
learned of father’s and mother's ab
sence and meant to take advantge of
it to rob our house? 1 could scarcely
believe it, for we had always reposed
such confidence in Uncle Ben that I
did not believe him capable of such a
deed.
The uoise ceased for a moment, and
looking closely I saw him thrust his
hand in through the hole he had cut
and unfasten tho blinds. Opening them
he tried the window, but fortunately it
could not be lifted from the outside.
He then set to work with his knife
again to cut out the sash.
How I shuddered. He would soon be
in, and what would become of me?
Could I make ray way down stairs and
out of the back door before ho cut
through? Was there nothing I could
do to prevent him from taking away my
mother's valuables? There were sev
eral handsome articles of silver in the
parlor, besides all the table silver on
the side-board in the hall. If I could
get out I might send for help before he
had sufficient time to make-away with
the stolen property. I spent little time,
however, in planning for their safety. I
was wondering how 1 was to take care
of myself.
1 had crept back to my room door,
and stood looking around for some
means of escape. The noise had ceased
altogether now, and stepping back to
the edge of the balcony, I looked over
—and the man had disappeared. He
had succeeded in entering the parlor
window!
There was no possible means of get
ting out by the lower story - now, for tbe
stairs went down immediately at the
parlor door, and I could not escape be
rng seen should I attempt to descend. I
bad almost made np mv mind to jump
from tbe balcony into tbe porch, but it
was a foolish thought, for it w a entire
ly too high, and 1 would be sure to break
a limb or sprain my ankle, and thus
throw myself into the villain’s power.
Once more 1 turned into my room,
and my brain was in such a whirl that I
could think of no course to pursue
nothing but to stand and listen. My
heart fluttered. I heard a soft step on
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27. 1882.
the stair, and tho next moment saw a
light thrown upon the wall in the en
try. He was coming.
1 wrung my hands and glanced hur
riedly about. Must 1 hide myself be
tween the feather-bed and mattress!
Good Heaven! I hadn't time for that,
for he was half way up the stairs.
The closet door stood open, and
springing to it 1 took out the key, and
stepping in. closed the door, looking it
on the inside. Peeping through a knot
hole, l saw the dark form of a roan step
ping caut'ously across the hall to mv
room, linking a small lantern in his
hand. When ho stood on the threshold,
he threw the light in and peered anx
iously about. Coming into the room he
examined tho bed he even stopped and
looked under it, then turned to tho ta
ble ami stood looking at my ttook and
the lamp, as if trying to solve some
mystery. He turned over one of my
shoes with his foot, and glanced up at
tbe open door.
Mercy! could it bo that he was search
ing for me? If so, ho would not fail to
examine tho closet and if he should suc
ceed in opening it—alasl 1 pressed my
hand involuntarily upon iny heart to
quiet its wild throbbing.
“Well,” 1 heard him mutter from be
neath his mask, “1 am sure I heard a
noise as I was coming up. She must bo
hero somewhere, for there was a light
burning in here. If I could only find
her—but it may be that —’’
Again he glanced t.p at the door. In
my anxiety to watch his movements I
rubbed against the key, and it fell to
ihe floor with a loud ring. Instantly his
gaze was rivited upi n the closet door ns
became slowly toward it Taking hold
of the b It, he shook it gently and then
sto< and very quiet for some time, as if
listen ng.
“Yes,” he said at length, “I saw a
bunch of keys down stairs somewhere,
and 1 guess I can find one to fit this
b ok; it 1 don't. I can make use of these
tools on it.”
So saying, he turned away, and as he
went into the hall I heard him shut my
dcor and lock it on the outside.
1 felt for the key on the floor, and
hastily opening the closet, stood and
listened in breathless suspense. Wi h
a bold, heavy step he descended into
the hal 1 , and although I hail not recog
nized him as Mich, 1 now firmly be
lieved him to be no o her than our
gardener, for he seemed to be nware
that I was the only occupant of the
bouse, and to believe tha' he had me
securely locked in my room; but,
strange to say, 1 e had forgotten tho
door beading into the balcony, and step
ping cut, 1 aga.n locked about me for
some means of o cape.
I tried the front hail door, ami to my
delight found it unfastened. I'roiu it a
little flight of states led up into a room
in the roof, where there were two
dormer windows.
Hastening up these steps, 1 raised
one of the windows and stepped out up
on the roof, lowering the sash after me.
The mi on was shining brilliantly, and
1 looked up and down the road to see if
nny object was in sight; but not a mov
ing object could I discern from among
the clustering shadows and bushes.
Once more I listened, and heard the
intruder coming up the first stair
way, and knew he was coming to break
into the closet. I had been thoughtful
enough to lock it when 1 came out, in
order to keep him employed as long as
possible, hoping aid might arrive be
fore he was gone.
He completed his task at the lock
with remarkable quickness for I heard
him come Into the hall with a distinct
oath, and start to come up the second
flight of stairs.
war me! Would he suspect what I
had done, and come out on the roof to
look for me? Perhaps he had heard me
raise the window.
Running to the far end of the house,
I saw the limb of a tree extending out
quite near the edge of the roof, and
thought perhaps I might swing down
by it. It was very small and weak, and
1 was almost afraid to risk it,; but per
haps it would sustain my weight until I
could reach another limb. Hutsunpo.se
that it should break'. 1 The fall wotild be
quite sure to kill me.
I was almost ready to abandon the
idea and make myself contented upon
the roof until my brother came, allow
tbe robber to carry away every thing in
the house if he chose, when a loud rat
tle upon the dormer window aroused
me, and without even thinking further
of what might be the consequences, I
took hold of tho limb and stepped off
the roof, swinging far out over tho
yard.
As I looked down I grew faint, and
came near letting go my hold. There
1 was hanging high up in the air. sus
pended by a frail limb, and to fall
would be certain death.
( limbing hand over hand, I soon
reached the trunk of the tree, where
1 let go my hold and caught on a large
limb. Lowering myself from one
branch to another until I reached the
lowest limb, I stood for a moment, and
looking back tip at the roof, listened,
to ascertain whether or not I was being
pursued.
1 could bear nothing, however, and.
climbing carc'ully to the smallest end
of the limb, 1 bent it down, and swing
ing off by my hands, reached the
ground in safety.
Tbe next thought was to seek as
sistance, so that the, robber might be
captured and our valuables recovered.
I ran hastily to the house of our gar
dener, and finding the door slightly
ajar, pushed it open and looked In at
the hod. By the light of the moon fall
ing upon it, I saw that it was unoccu
pied and had not even been disturbed.
I had hoped that he was innocent, and
that I should find him in his bed asleep;
but I saw plainly now that my hopes
were in vain.
X then went to our cook’s room and
railed her. She sprang out of bed with
a frightened exclamation and ran to the
door to know what 1 wanted. I told
her in as few words as possible, asking
her to go for our nearest neighbor, who
lived about half a mile away from us.
Of course she would, and while she
drew on her clothes I took up an old
gun from a corner of the room, and
finding that it was loaded, hastened
back to the house.
1 stationed myself at tbe ertd of the
porch, behind r, clump ot vines, and
stood with my gnu ready toshoot at tho
shortest notice. 1 could hear the in
truder in tho house, going up and down
stairs, turning over chairs ami keeping
up a general racket At last he ap
peared at the window, and steppingout
upon the porch, stood looking up tho
road.
“ Guess I’d better lie glttin’ way from
here, ’cause that young miss has got
out, and first thing I know somebody’ll
be coinin’ in here to eat me up. skin and
bone. I’ve got tho money, anyway, and
that’s all 1 wanted, ’cept missus’ watch
and chain; but I’ll git it some day."
He turned as if to leave,and I lot him
have a load from my gun in one of his
legs. He fell to the floor with a terrible
yell, and kept uuiet. 1 thought If 1
could keep him there until help came
without taking his life, I should bo sat
isfied.
Itaising himself on his elbow with a
moan he looked about and said —
"Oh, lam shot! I’m killed! l’lease
don’t shoot mo any more, and I’ll give
the money all back—every cent!”
I did not show myself, hut prepared
the other barrel to shoot, if it should
become necessary. It did not, howevor,
for it was not long before tho cook re
turned, accompanied by our neighbor
and his two sons, who took possession
of tho gentleman, and relieved me of
my watching.
A few moments later my brother and
his wife arrived, and 1 discovered that
it hud been exactly one hour since I
was aroused from my slumber in my
room.
The robber was none other than tho
out gariteuer, amt lie ailerwant con
fessed he knew father was not at home,
and saw mother when she went away
with my brothor. He was very much
in need of the money, he said, and de
termined to take advantage of the op
portunity to go into the house and
search for some. He also said that ho
meant to force me to tell him tho
whereabouts of father’s money, but he
said nothing about intending to take
my money.
When { saw him cotno through tho
garden into the yard, he hail been off
to borrow the hat and cloak from his
brother, with whom he promised to di
vide the proceeds of the night.
The mask ho formed himself of a
piece of black cloth, and, Indeed, had I
not seen him enter his own house, 1
should never have known him, for the
disguise was perfect.
Rest assured that I have never since
remained in a large house alone at
night.
A California Snake Story.
W. I). Hampton, of Hainptonvllle, in
forms us of a thrilling adventure that
recently took place at the White Rock
quartz mine on tho north side of tho
San Joaquin, in Fine Gold District,
which for grit and daring is equal to
anything we have ever hoard of. Thero
is an old shaft on the mine which has
been unused for years, and recently it
became necessary to clear it out and
use it in working tho mine. The shaft
W about thirty feet dep, perpendicular
ly, with an incline of thirty feet more.
A number of rattlesnakes had taken pos
session of the incline, probably in Ihe
start by falling down trie shaft, and by
breeding had increased til! the whole
aperture seemed like a writhing mass ot
reptiles. At first an effort was made to
clean them out by discharging giant
powder cartridges at the bottom of tho
Hhaft, but this process only succeeded in
killing such of the snakes as chanced to
be at the top of the incline, and as a
last resort one of t he workmen, Charles
Campbell, agreed to go to the bottom
and kill the horrible, venomous reptiles,
whose hissing and rattling could be
filainly heard at the top of the shaft,
’rociiring a quantity of antidotes for
snake poison, and making all needed
preparations for rais ng and lowering
the adventurous man, who was about,
as it were, to place his life in his own
hands, Charles Campbell was lowered
into the shaft by his trembling fellow
laborers. He was armed only with a
lantern and small stick.
The stench occasioned by the poisoned
breaths of the rattlesnakes was almost
overpowering, but, nothing daunted, lie
proceeded on his errand Reaching tho
location of the shaft he gradually
groped his way down the steep and slip
jterv incline, stopping ever and anon
to kill a venomous rattler that im
peded his wav. Reaching the bottom
he plied his stick with vigor, while the
mass of the snakes squirmed and r ti
tled, their eyes sparkling li'e diamonds
and their forked tongues lopping the
air as they moved their heads in the
intensity of their fury, or struck with
their poisoned fangs at the brave man
that bad tried to encroach on their
quarters. Rapidly they fell over in the
agonies of death from the unerring
blows from his live oak stick till not a
single one was left alive. 1 hirtcen
large snakes, with from seven to nine
raUloseaeh, were killed, and two with
fourteen and fifteen rattles, respectively.
In addition a number of young ones
wore destroyed. Finishing his daring
labors he returned to the bottom of the
shaft and was hauled out, hut the sick
ening and poisonous air of the snake
den so overcame him that he fainted
away on reaching the top, Restoratives
were administered and ho was taken to
his home where he lay sick two or
three days, but is now fully recovered
and ready to assail another den of the
vipers.— Fresno {Cal.) Expositor.
Fined for Profanity.
A boy seven years of age was fined
three dollars and twelve cents by a .Jus
tice in Camden County, N. J., lor using
loud and profane language. The boy’s
father—a poor man—was unable to raise
the full amount, but managed to pay
one dollar on account, promising to set
tle the balance within a few days. He
failed to keep his promise, however, and
the Justice caused the child to be re
arrested and thrown into tho county
prison among a lot of hardened crimi
nals, where he remained until released
‘hrough the efforts of Counselor Sparks,
of Camden. Under the law seventy
five cents was the highest fine that could
be assessed for the offense, and for ex
ceeding his powers the Justice was in
dieted, tried and convicted, sentence be
j ing suspended pending anew trial. —N.
V. Times.
The Norwegian Liberal Parly.
In a letter to the press Hjnlmer H.
Boycsen says: “It is very true that
Hjornstjerne lljoinsim is the leader of
the opposition to King Os :tr 11., lmt it
is not true that Bjomson was ever sen
tenced by a court of justice for 'chal
lenging iiis sovereign,’ and if ho had
been lie would have been the last man
to run away from his sentence. Tho
Norwegian Government knows better
than to prosecute so powerful a man as
lljornson. King Oscar and his Minis
ters have hitherto confined themselves
to punishing humbler men (such as the
editor Forenson) for imaginary in-ults
to his Majesty, but although Bjorn son
has said much severer tilings than those
who have hitherto been prosecuted,
they have so far had the prudence to
let him alone. The Liberal party in
Norway (it is as yet premature to call it
Republican) has no quarrel with tho
Swedish Government, but merely with
Oscar Bornadotto personally, who hap
pens to bo King of Sweden as well ns
of Norway, tin the contrary, there is
considerable sympathy in the Swedish
Parliament and among the Swedish
poople at large wit li the Liberal move
ment in Norway, which aims merely at
protecting the Constitution of IKH
against the violation of the King, and
securing in reality the right of self
government which Ibis Constitution
guarantees.
“The issues in ihe canipn’gn which
has just been concluded, and which has
resulted in such an overwhelming de
feat for the Government, are briefly ns
follows: The Norwegian Storthing
passed several years ago a bill giving
the Ministers of the Crown seats in
Parliament. The King vetoed it twice,
but the Storthing passed it once more
over his veto. Now, according to the
Norwegian Constitution, a bill becomes
law without the King’s sanction if
passed by three successive Storthings.
King Oscar, however, who felt these
successive defeats as a personal humili
ation, set up a novel claim that in con
stitutional amendments he possessed an
absolute veto, and ho accordingly re
fused to promulgate the new law. Such
a thing had never been heard of before
in Norway, and it aroused an amount
of indignation among the people, which
can only he measured by the size ot the
Liberal vote in the recent elections,
ltjornson, who is a man of tremendous
eloquence, gave voice to this universal
indignation, and protested in the name
of the people against tho usurpations
of the Government. If he had been
the ambitious, but cowardly, demagogue
which this London News represents him
as being, do you suppose (he whole Na
tion would have risen to indorse his
verdict on the King and to emphasize
his condemnation of the Government?
I think not. There is not a no! ler,
moro fearless, and more gifted man in
Norway than Hjornstjerne Bjomson.
And the people know it, and they love
and revere him.
“As for the insurance of 000,000
crowns which the King recently pro
cured before starting for Christiania,
1 hat was a mere flimsy coup it' tinnier
which is thoroughly characteristic of
Oscar Bernadotte. He is himself fully
aware that he would personally be as
safe in Norway as ltjornson himself.
Much as the people hate him, there is
not one who would raise a linger to do
him harm. What he wished to do (and
probably has succeeded in doing) was
to advertise to tho world what a bravo
man he is, and what a fierce and dan
gerous people his Norwegian subjects
are. And yet every ora' who knows the
Norsemen is aware that they are the
quietest and most law-abiding people in
Europe. They merely have the inso
lence to demand tho right to govern
themselves and to resist the King’s at
tempt to overthrow their Constitution.
It is, therefore, Oscar and his Ministers,
and not Bjornson and the Parliamentary
majority, who are the revolutionists iit
Norway.”
Being Neighh trly.
There are people who seem t.) base
friendship on borrowing as long as you
will lend to them. Neighbors of that
stamp illustrate the impudence that de
mands without consideration, and the
familiarity that breeds contempt. Tho
following appears in the New York
Mercantile Journal:
He was a small boy, with dirt on his
nose and a faded straw baton his head,
and feet so long unwashed that it was
haftl to tell where his toe-nails were
located. Ho walked boldly up tho
steps, pulled the bell, and when the
lady came to the door he said:
“ Sav, can you lend me your tele
phone for a few minits?”
“ Why, I can’t,” she gasped out.
“We’ll bring it back in Half an
hour ”
"Hut I can’t lend it, child. You
don’t,seem to know what a telephone
is. Who are you?”
“We live around the corner—jus%
moved in, and we want to bo neighbor
ly. I tried to borrow your wheel-bar
row and shovel, but your boy wouldn’t
lend ’em, and our hired girl has been
over to borrow tea and sugar and
couldn't get any. We kinder thought
wo might borrow your telephone or
something, anil ma would bring it back
and get a chance to see your style and
ask you to run right in with your old
clothes on.”
Economical Soap.
The properties of soap and of silicate
of soda possess great analogy. The com
binations of weak acids possess a slightly
alkaline reaction, their solutions being
capable of forming an emulsion witli
fatty substances, these properties in
common have led to tho manufacture of
cheap soaps, containing a large propor
tion of silicate of soda or soluble glass.
Two processes may be employed: (1)
the addition of a concentrated solution
of silicate of soda to fatty or resinous
soap and (2) tho saponification of fatty
or resinous substances by alkaloids in
the presence of silicate of s ida. By
either method a soap is obtained suita
ble for all the uses to which ordinary
soap has hitherto been applied, and at a
much lower price, as silicate of s dads
extremely cheap. —Boston Journo/ of
Chemislru. , Jit.
—Never boil nice white good
i should be scalded only-— Chic
NO. 49.
Sore Eyes ami School Child ton.
A child may have sore eyes from vari
ous causes, and the ailment is simply
painful and troublesome. Hut thero is
a form that concerns the community—
an inflammation of the mucous mem
brane which lines the inside of tho lids
and tho front, of tin' eyes.
The membrane is called the conjunc
tion, mid tho disease conjunctivitis; f.e.,
inflammation of tho conjunctiva. Tho
inflammation may soon become severe,
and tho secretions abundant and of a
yellow tinge. This is pus, and is so
Virulent that tho smallest; particle car
ried to tho eye of another child will
communicate the disease to him, and ho
to others indefinitely.
The disease, however, may originate
without this contagious particle. it
may begin with the individual; butwhon
once started, the first case may become
a center of a most fearful epidemic.
It generally originates among ill-fed,
scrofulous children; and those most
liable to take it are of this same class.
But the scrofulous are fouml every
where, and arc* apt to be ill-nourished,
however abundant their food. School
children, therefore, cannot he too carp
felly guarded against the infection, and
those who are obviously iiflocted should,
if possible, ho kopt apart.
Says the eminent Lionel Beale “Now
if many children in weak health, who
for some time previously have been
badly managed as regards food, air, ex
ercise ami cleanliness, are allowed to
congregate, and especially if they are
confined in close, ill-ventilated rooms,
tho disease may not only arise, but soon
acquire an extraordinary degree of viru
lence.
“It may spread so quickly in such a
community of children, that in a short
time, out of four or five hundred, one
third, or oven a larger proportion, may
be suffering from (he disease. Of the
number affected many " ill suffer very
severely, and serious si ructural changes
will result.
“The transparent part of tho eye in
front, known as the cornea, may ulcer
ate, and when, after a time, it heals,
will be so altered that the transparent
tissue will become opaque, or the eye it
self may lie destroyed, blindness, of
course, resulting in both cases."—
youth's Companion.
What Our A net stars Ate.
Persons of extreme views ate apt to
maintain that all mankind, being nor
mally savages, wero as normally canni
bals; but, leaving that moot question
altogether on one side, it seems proba
ble that humanity ate acorns long be
fore they ate cereals or learned the art
of making bread, and that the venera
tion entertained by the Druids of Gaul
and Britain for the oak was due to tho
circumstance that its glands were tho
staple food of tho people. Bread, prop
erly so called, was transmitted by tho
Greeks to the Romans: and either the
latter or the Phoenicians may have in
troduced the cultivation of corn into
Gaul. While, however, the land was
mainly covered with immense forests, a
long time must have elapsed be
fore tho practice of eating acorns,
chestnuts and beach mast was aban
doned, and even when corn was regu
larly grown, ripened and harvested,
the grains were merely plucked from
Hit! car and eaten raw or slightly
parched. The next step was to infuse
the grains in hot water for tho making
of a species of gruel or porridge, ami a
long time afterward it may have occur
red to some bright genius to pound tho
corn in a mortar or rub it to a powder
between two stones. Subsequently
came the hand-mill; hut it was not until
after the First Crusade that Hie wind
mill was introduced from the East,
whither it had probably found its way
from China. The first bread was evi
dently baked on the ashes and unleav
ened. and the intolerable, pangs of indi
gestion brought on by a continual course
of “galette” or “damper" may have
suggested the use of a fermenting agent,
which in the first instance was probably
■stale bread turned sour. Pliny has dis
tinctly toW us in his 'Natural History’
that tho Gauls leavened their bread with
yeast made from tho lye of beer; yet,
strangely enough, they abandoned the use
of beer yeast, and did not resume it
until the middle of the seventeenth
century. Its revival in France made
the fortune of many bakers; then the
medical faculty sounded an alarm, de
claring that yeast made from beer was
poisonous. Its employment was pro
hibited by law in DifiO, but the outcry
raised by the bakers and the public was
so vehement that in the following year
the decree of prohibition was canceled,
with the proviso that the veast was to
be procured only from beer freshly
brewed in Paris or its immediate neigh
borhood. Some form of fermented
bread, however, the French bad been
eating for sixteen hundred years, in
contradistinction to the gruel and pulse
eating Italians and Levantines and the
purely vcgetalinn Hindus.— Loudon
Telegraph.
Taking It Out of the Store.
Mr. Komper, of Illinois, was in the
mercantile business. He had a great
deal of work outside of his store, and he
generally made it a point to pay men
that worked for him' with goods. On
one occasion ho had a pile of wood he
wanted cut into stove wood. Calling to
a boy on the street he said:
“ Here, Dock, I want to get a little
wood out. Can you do it?”
“Yes,” said the boy.
“ All right; you go over to tho house
and cut up that pile, and come back and
I'll pay you for it; but,” he added, af
ter a moment’s pause, “I suppose you
will take it out of tho store?”
“Of course,” replied the boy, “I
would just as soon take it out of the
store as not.”
Meeting Kemper on tho street a day
or two after, tho boy said:
“ Say, Mr. Kemper, I would like to
have the cash for cutting that wood.”
“Why,” said Kemner, “I thought
you,were going to take it out of the
store.” _
“Well, who said I wouldn't? We are
oat of the store now, and I will take the
cash."— Detroit Free Press.
—Why is tho railroad so patriotic?
Give it up? Because it is bouud to tho
country with the strongest ties,— Haiti
mors veru Saturdau }
FACTS ANnjTGCRFS.
Pennsylvania produces about one
half of the entire crop of buckwheat of
the United States. The total yiold for
tho year will ho over 11,000,000 bushels.
-The two underground lines of rail
way in London carry 110,000,000 pas
sengers every year, and the Metropol
itan alone carries 20,000,000 for a maxi
mum charge of ono penny. jP*
—Fulton County, Pennsylvania, has.a
hog i) years old us large as an ordinary*'-
cow, and which, if fattened, woulit
weigh about 1,500 pounds, its tusks
are like Ihoso of au elephant. —Chicago
Time*.
—The capital stock of all the National
batiks In tho country is $468,410,202.
The assets claimed by life’insurance
companies, and there'are but few of
them as compared with tho number of
National banks, is $168,541,798.
—ln tho commonwealth of Massachu
setts there are new twenty-one cities,
with a total valuation for the current
year of $1,149,982,625. allowing n gain
of $28,033,224 over 1881. Boston alone
shows a gain of nearly $7,000,000.
Tho cost of treating free gold ores
in twenty stamp-mills on the Pacific
coast during the year 1877 was S2O per
ton. In 18(8 it was reduced to $6 per
ton, anil in 1879 to $4 per ton. In soma
districts tho cost now ranges from $1.26
to $1.60 per ton only, which show*
remarkable progress in the right direc
tion.
- At the recent Cincinnati exposition
7,467 men aggregated 1,160,108 pounds
weight, an average of 154.02, and lb
-688 women weighed 1,922.198, an aver
age of 130.87. Classified, Ohio men
averaged 157.38 pounds, those ffom
Southern Indiana and Illinois 158.52,
and Kentuckians 158.48 pounds. A*
near as this came to being a “unanimous
vote,” that of tho women was still
closer, Ohio women averaging 183.36,
Kentucky 133.76, and Southern Indiana
and Illinois ladies 133.55. —Detroit Post.
Some idea of the great slaughter of
doer which annually takes place in Cal
ifornia, Nevada aiid Oregon, may b
f rained from tho trade statistics of thy
tide dealers. One export housn in-Szto
Francisco has a pile containing 8,000
deer skins in its warehouse. Jt handles
annually over 76,000 skins, and esti
mates the annual number of deer killed
at 200,000. Tho largest portion of the
skins come from Northwestern Nevada
and Southeastern Oregon. In Oregon
and California large numbers of the an
imals are left to rot, tho skins being all
that is desired. Chicago Herald. j
—One of tho largest ropes in thick
ness and length ever produced in En
gland is that recently manufactured for
service in New Zealand, where it is to
lie employed in battling up ships when
they run aground on the soft mud bot
tom I here, which is occasionally the
ease. The rope in question is a twenty
onc-inch white manilla hawser, 120
fathoms long, and composed of nine
strands of 316 yards to the strand.
Another rope, intended for the same
purpose, is a fifteen-inch hawser, of the
same material and length, and com
posed of nine strands, with 164 yards to
tho strand. Twelve-inch ropes are tho
largest sizo ordinarily made.
Rat-Proof Granaries.
Every farmer understands the Im
portance of having rat and mouse proof
granaries, as few have not, at times,
suffered severely from tho depredations
of these destructive pests. Wo have,
(but years ago,) on one or two occa
sions alluded to this matter and gavo
directions for constructing granaries
that would resist all attempts nt en
trance. The following, from an old cor
respondent, would seem to bo all that
is necessary in constructing rat-proof
granaries:
“Tho lumber for the floor below and
above as well as for the aides must bo
of hemlock 1 i inches thick, seasoned,
planed and matched; the joists for the
lower floor 2 by lOof anvdurable wood;
the studding of the silos hemlock. Lay
the floor perfectly love!. Take four
pieces of 2 tiy 4 scantling, the length of
each side of the room, and dress; make
a groove near tho upper side near tiic
outer edge to receive the tongue of tho
first board of the ceiling, the ceiling to
be put up tongue down and nailed
through both edges just beneath tho
tongue and grootes. Miter the ends of
these scantlings and nail firmly - to the
floor. Erect at each corner two niecos
of like scantling, the sides of whlchhave
been squared, perpendicular to the scant
ling on the floor; carry up to the top of
the joists above on which lay the upper
floor. Never ceil below these joists.
Make the door to slide and fit, and then
you may hid rats and mice to do their
best and their worst. Ventilation may
be given through the door at tho top and
bottom, protected with a strong wire
screen.”
If, however, any - of our practical farm
ers have any otiier method known to be
a complete protection against rats, wo
should be glad to hear from them.
Hemlock, owing to its resinous na
ture, otters an impenetrable barrier to
these desperate rodents, who gnaw
through a leaden water-pipe. In teed,
so far as our experience extends, it is
so. Some years age wo built what wo
called a refrigerator in the bottom of
the cellar, three by six feet in length
and breadth, and three in depth. It
was lined with hemlock, except tho
bottom, which was the solid ground,
and covered witli a hemlock door. In
this our meats, butter, etc., were kept,
as they were never kept before, but tho
rats got into it —not however through
the hemlock lining or covering, but by
digging down the three feet outside to
the bottom of the lining, an l passing
under it! They were effectually hoaded
oil by flooring the bottom with hemlock
— (Jcrrnantown Telegraph.
The Boston Girl,
“Mamma,” said a little three-year
old Boston girl, while examining the
phrenological bumps of her doll's head,
“if the comet should become disinte
grated, as some of the scientists prog
nott cate, might not a portion of tho
fragments stnke the earth in the form
of aerolites?” “Possibly,” said the moth
or, arranging a bang. “And similarly
dear mamma, if this great meteoro
logical sphinx should come into too
close juxtaposition with the earth, how
sorious would be the result in conse
quence to our own planetary system ?
and would such an event bo in accord
ance with the Copernican or Ptolemaic
theories?” And the mother, who was a
native of Now York City, replied:
“There, there, dear, you mustn’t ask so
many questions ; little children should
bo seen, not heard."
—A news item says the “decay of na
tive art in India is so marked that the
European masters of that country have
taken the alarm.” This is a sad condi
tion of things, truly, and in order to
give art a fresh boom in that country,
sortie (esthetic American should go there
and start a chromo tea-store. — Detroit
Post.