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A'fril 1 W$uflives over again—
gAttfld Ana we sail fiestra in arfifcfcm. unruffled,
never ruled or sink,
Or lurched ’gitiniP life rocljni in pur ldin
1 sink? «
' Thatenee WjHNght pilot ourselves by the ledges
-Avoiding,the almost sheered our boat, *
. dangerous waters *
\Yl;ere lca|CeacbT.& ouw we wer^cnipted "brink. to float;
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pass cacWbreaker in safety?
•*IBN TJpw would it be,? What do you think?
oceafi is strewn with the flotsam
Thrown ov*b®ajdiout of her ships,
..WVHdipejfer a pilot.sjo skilful
I in the'rpray^ashing'cwe^UiVbreakers lie i
And strange if hears not the clink
Of the prow* breSUfljg'in on the ledges,
* MfV* —[Katherine H. Terry in u the * lMk! Housewife. '
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’ BESIEGED S.Y MONKEYS.
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*. f t, '• • *0^ ri. ,
, ttitecn me to Dhavmsala, a
li^il^SlSon’Jofisiderably west of. Simla.
OilAl*! retdjr*journey I turned off the
• main road r at Kangra. The object of
t his ex ursioii was t,> see a neighboring
eliril*e,"&i^i|,^oncrated by the Hindoos
and cailgAjjt jfyVlamookhee. ebme The native
.. pilgrims,Vbo in thousands; lodge
in the open air under the trees and
cook their own food ; the rich bring
ten! s for. fcheh} accommodation. But
.there was lip place for Europeans to
lodge.except the ustiul “district
officers’ bungalow ” This is always a
small bowse, with two or three rooms,
.built ,$jul furnished by the govern
* tnentj.-and put in charge of a man ser
'V va ^t, who. both looks after it and at
i •teii'ds
to the wants of those who occupy
UNi. JTn it tlie officers whom duty takes
,.^l|ieifi'-"ciut-of-the-Euroj)eai|j-world’s Ibdge And
transact business
\ duringWftW days of ffielr periodi¬
cal Visits. -To tins bungalow, there¬
fore, We went. On telling the care
. -taker who we were, he opened the
house p aud, while I went in and in
dnlged’ fn-a very needful and refrcsti
■ ing wash, he attended to my horse.
jTIresje^ seht hrm preliminaries into the town, being for the oyer, double we
• *c puhJhJao of profeitring food
us some
: an$ of,inquiring from the priests at
- what hour we might pay ilie temple a
Visit.'
.. .The main road passes through a
4 " dense wood not 100 yards from this
' libitse, which was more than half a
mile away from tlie nearest part of the
i$ltfn. From the road a narrow avc
” -nuo had been cut among (he trees to a
. small clearance around tlife house,other
.^jyjse When it was quite caretaker buried in the wood.
- • tho left me I found
t.. the house stuffy and’damp. It had
.-.probably not been opened or aired for
, srf a y»- The stillness around was op¬
’3 pressive. Not a sound was heard cx
. ccpt the munehihg of our horse in the
neighboring stable or the rare cry of a
bird in the trees. There was nothing
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in the hguse to read, and nothing to
do. Moreover, I had had a long ride
and felt rather stiff 1 in the legs. So
rising from the chair j. strolled out of
the house. After walking listlessly
around it. and pacing the small cleared
space in front, I fotllwed the avenue
to the main road, and, then returning,
passmll^fb the wood, immersed in my
own thoughts. It was literally a
“twilight wood;” for though it was
, nearly noon on a bright August day,
f. the trees stood so close and the leaves
grew so thick that scarce a patch of
sunshine lighted up a few favored
, Tlie S iant brandies of the
grand old trees more than touched;
they interlaced and formed a leafy
• . eafaopy overhead, with just here and
there a rent,'to admit a ii-ay of light
. and to give a glimpse of the bright
blue sky above. 1
Sauntering under these trees, I sud¬
denly beoame conscious of noises in
the branches above me. I looked up
and about; but, though the branches
stirred and the leaves moved, I could
fee nothing. I was nfet, however,
lpng lffl' in doubt or speculation. A
monkey, a large male, dropped from
* a bvawstm^rfround at a distance
of about thirty feet in front of me.
As be rivalled the ground, he squatted
on his heels, resting both his hand s on
and
mine . Then near hint another monkey
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SPIUNG PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. AUGUST l , 1890.
down; 1 a third and a fourth
foHowid. It began to rain monkevs,
In tens, in scores, ,iu hundreds; old,
midtile-aged and young; large and
small; males and females—-many of
the latter carrying babies, some on
their backs, others in their arms—kept
diopping from the trees around me.
1 was sending under a mighty giant
of Alie-ftrest, and against its trunk,
801110 five f cct in diameter, I set my
back, as the monkeys in their hundreds semf
squafled down in an irregular
circle around. They did not go bo
Uhnl the for its trunfc was much
wider than my back, and they chose
to sit only where they could see me.
Around they lefi rf dlfcitv space, but at
the distance of about thirty fccit tliel'
snt, liuddled close together, in several
600 Rnd iu "« Wbcr -
It may be said in passing that mon
keys are sacred animals iu India.
They. ^ fed and protected and al
lowe( f (o rQam at , arge with irnpnl , ity .
Vast numbers infest Dill;!, Agra, and
other large towns. At Benares they
are * perfect plague. In s<* favmWc
a situation as Jwlainookhec, they nalu
rally multiply beyond reckoning, and
people the woods in sufficient hordes
to account for tho hundreds that now
surrounded me. At some distance be¬
yond, several voting monkey urchins,
which preferred play to curiosity, kept
suspending themselves from tho
btanelies in long living chains, holding
on io each other’s hands or tails, and
swinging froj.Njl'lA'yi^’ivcre jji^niselves peilchilhiruvisg to
and .qp^.the small
puny'YrbjfujTs generally seeii in Euro
peun menageries, but the real, genuine
Indian Hanooman of which race the
large and strong males stand when
erect, fully four feet in height. There
were many such, among others of
smaller size, in the crowd around me.
It had not taken three minutes to
form that; solid semicircle of monkeys.
They had coine down as thick -as a
shower of hailstones, but so softly and
bad they descended to liac gra^s
and leaf-covered ground that scarcely
any noise had been made. For a short
time they sat motionless and : sileut,
8taring hgyd at me, and a baby mon
key, having made s instant- '
ly smacked by its mother : i a most
hqma|( thefii fashifeii. They lodl Jd at m|,
and they began to chattel-—first
one, then a few together, then mai|y
at once, finally all in a chorus. They
talked, chattered, jabbered, discussed,
argued, shouted, and yellgd, gesticula¬
ting meanwhile, making faces and
grinning. Suddenly thfejti tyas a dead
silence for a short iptr^* iii during
which they gravely staredm moffiurder
than ever. Every now and again one
or another or several at once would
grip, snarl, and growl at me, showing
their large canine teeth. Again th^
chattering discourses would' be re¬
newed.
The laughter with which 1 had greet¬
ed the first of jpv visitors died a very
sudden death, for my curiosity to
watch their behavior did not prevent
my realizing the fact that 1 was not ie
a very safe position. Even ono or two
monkeys would be difficult enough to
deal with, if they chose to .attack a
man, for, though small, they ore ex¬
tremely muscular aud agile, and it
would be harder to prevent them Iroi®
biting and tearing than it would a mad
dog. True, 1 knew that one or two
would hardly dare to attack a lr.an
but when hundreds crowded together
around one stranger the circumstances
were far from encouraging; Here I
was, unarmed, nothing but a- light rid¬
ing whip in my hand, surrounded by
hundreds of monkeys, to which my
white face and European dress were
evidently objects of as much aversion
as curiosity. Natives they did not
mind, but Europeans they seemed to
regard with the hatred due to in¬
truder’s. ,
I fully realized my danger, but con¬
tinued calm and collected, <and rea¬
soned the position out with myself.
The only chance of safety was t’o" re¬
main quietly agafiist tins friendly tree,
silently observing the monkeys, care¬
ful to give no offense or provocation,
watchful to give them no advantage
over me till the return of the caretake r
or some other chance came to my aid.
Had I attempted to strike them or to
frighten thorn, or to break through
them or to flee from them, I have no*
the slightest doubt that I should not
now be writing thig account. Their
enormous numbers would have em¬
boldened them to any act. I should
have been quite helpless in their grasp
indeed, have been pounced
upon by scores of them, overpowered,
bitted and torn to pieces. So, making,
a virtue of necessity, 1 kept up a bold
front, watched, waited, and prated,
the luoneof the intervals of first silence^,
great monkey that had ar¬
rived, and that seemed to be one of
the leaders, suddenly hopped nearer
to mo, two feet or so. Ilis action was
immediately imitated by all the inon-
keys forming the front vow of the
semicircle, while those behind closed
up as before; and the semicircle con-V
traeted around me by two feet in the
/ullus. More chatteri ng and gesticu¬
lating followed, more growling and
grinning, with intervals of silence.
They had a great deal to sav, and they
all said it, and it was all about me,
too, for they frequently pointed at me
with their hands, and snarled and
gnashed their teeth at me. Again they
contracted the semicircle as before.
And so they kept.gradually coming
nearer and.nearer, and growing more
and more excited. Still I remained
quiet and silent, and’ still in the dis¬
tance the monkey youths played the
mad gambols of their living pendu¬
lum, heedless of wimt engaged the
attention of their seniors. All else
was silent—no sign of man.
The semicircle had gradually con¬
tracted to within fourteen or fifteen
feet of whero 1 stood; the monkeys
indeed were so negy that in tfljb or
threo leaps they could easil.v have
jumped upon me. I feit decidedly un¬
easy; w ondered how they would at¬
tack me, and when? From the right,
or the left,, or the-fyont? By jumping
on me from a distance* or waiting till
quite near? Then.I.wondered whether
the .caretaker would return in lime to
s(4vu off' the' assault^* fpi; 1 was still
quite close. v to tfic ' 'hotjse. Of the
dreadful had'^hoft results of ,tjie aittack, if once
made, I re/#anSe^ thq. (Slighest ddubt.
Still I leaning immovable
against limin' thpllj^e, caftnja^.cool, faring
straight, looking fully into their
faces, all in turn, and .‘showing out¬
wardly no sign of flinching or alarm.
Yet I began to think that it was now
only a matter of a few more minutes.
Before a quarter of an hour at the
farthest they would be within touch¬
ing distance of me. They would be
sure to begin to handle iny clothes;
and whether 1 permitted it,or resisted,
or tried to fly, I would with equal
certainty be attacked and killed.
But my deliverance was at hand. In
the midst of one of their most noisy
discussions—or did it only seem more
noisy because they were now so near?
—they one and all became suddenly
silent and perfectly still, They
seemed to be listening attentively. 1
listened, too, but at first could catch
no sound anywhere; the stillness of
deatli was all around, for even the
young monkeys had ceased their
tricks. AVhat could have disturbed
and silenced the noisy throng? Or
what did they now purpose? Next
from afar off'came the loud cry of a
monkey—evidently the warning cail'
of a scout on outpost duty. Then,first
faintly from afar, and then gradually
nearer and louder, came down the
main road through the wood ti e wel¬
come sound of the clatter of a horse’i
hoofs at a swift walking pace. This it
was which their quicker ears had de¬
tected long before I bad heard it.
They kept their ground for a few mo¬
ments more, but their attention was
now evidently divided between me
and the approaching horse.
Again, and hearer, the scout’s
cry sounded through the wood.
There was an immediate stampede.
One and all the monkeys rushed off to
the neighboring trees, and, scrambling
up the trunks and into the branches,
they were in the twinkling of an eye
lost to sight in the leafy canopy overt
head. They had disappeared in theii
hundreds as rapidly as they had come,
land almost as silently., save when th^
rustling among the leaves indicated trej
their course as they passed from
'to tree and,fled further into the wood.
1 waited still against the tree till the
horse and his rider—a mounted police¬
man going his rounds—had come quite
near. Then I made for the house and
bolted myself in,.thankful for the
timely arrival and involuntary aid of
the unconscious patrol. Unknowing¬
ly, but providentially, he had saved
uiy life.—(Chamber's Journal.
No language can express the feel¬
ings of a deaf-mute who steps on a
tack in a dark room.
LIGHT KEEPERS.
i
the Mem -Who Attend to Uncle
-. .. Sam’s Beacons.
A Keeper Is Expected to Stand
By His Lighthouse to the Last.
•*
There arc fn the service of the
United-Slates, 1150 lighthouse keepers.
The average salary” is $000, but by a
system of grading some get as high as
tlOfiO. Discipline is very strict. For
two offence; the penalty is immediate
dismissal. A keeper found under the
influence of liquor is not only dis¬
missed from the service but lie is eject¬
ed from the .lighthouse as soon as pos¬
sible. The keeper win allows his light
to go out is dismissed, no matter what
his excuse may be or how good his
conduct may iiave been. These are
the two unpardonable sins.
The keeper is expected to stand by
his light as long sis the, lighthouse
stands. The Sharp’s Island lighthouse
in Chesapeake Bay, was. lifted from
its foundations, thrown upon its side,
and carried awtiy by the ice. The
keepers had a boat and might have
made their way ashore. Instead of
looking out for their own safety they
remained with the lighthouse wreck,
floating about until it grounded. Then
they carried ashore the movable por¬
tions of the light, the oil, the library,
and even the empty oil cans. They
were drifting at the mercy of the ice
cakes and without food or fire for six¬
teen hours. The keepers of another
lighthouse, becoming alarmed at the
ice, abandoned their post and, went
ashore. They were immediately dis¬
missed. . It mafic no difference, that the
ice Tendered the light unnecessary.
The offence was the, same. The two
keepers who had clung to the light¬
house tliat floated, sway were promoted
to'Hie .lighthouse which tlie two uli
fftidiftri keepers abandoned. *
*
Where the lighthouse is loea'ed on
land the keeper is encouraged to keep
a little garden. A barn is built for
his cattle anti horses. But wherfeHhc
r '
, from his door
Keeper must step into a
boat, the best that the Government tan
do is to see that lie lias a staunch craft.
Some light bouses are so far from sup¬
plies that the Government issues futl
and rations to the 1 keeper.
One of the interesting features of
lighthouse life is the library which the
Government furnishes. There are
650 of these libraries. They are kept
moving. When the inspector comes
along on a quarterly inspcctiou he
brings a fresh library aiul takes the
old one on to the next lighthouse.
Each library consists of about fifty
volumes of history, science, poems,
and fiction in about equal proportions.
The libraries are put up iu neat eases.
In the course of a year each lighthouse
keeper handles about 200 volumes.
One of the strict regulations is that
the keeper must not engage In any
business whieh can interfere with his
presence at the lighthouse. This,
however, does not prevent keepers
from working at trades like tailoring
and shocniakiug, which do not require
them to be away from the lighthouse
much of the time. There are keepers
who preach in neighboring churches,
who act as justices of the peace,and. who
can teach school. A nice source of
revenue was cut off not long ago by an
order which prohibited keepers of
lighthouses from takinig summer board¬
ers. There is a fascination about life
in a lighthouse for %:few weeks it
seems. Keepers, were overwhelmed
with applications’for $pap rooms, and
some of them -were making more titan
their salaries iu this* wiy, when the
Board felt , compelled) to step in and
prohibit the renting of Summer quar¬
ters in building* ^Jipstnicted and
owned by the government.—FNew
York Sun.
He Knew His Man.
The late Senator Beck once fell
asleep After dinner in company with a
couple of prosy members of Congress.
One of these reproached the Sena¬
tor. “1 have not been asleep,” said
Beck; “and, to prove it, I will back
myself to repeat all you have been
saying.” The wager was accepted,
and he recited a long story which the
Congressman had been telling. When
he had pocketed his money, Beck said,
“Well, to confess the truth, I net er
heard one word of it. I went to sleep
because I knew that about this time in
the evening you would tell that storr.”
Vol. X. New Series. NO. T,
Mexican Habits and Traits.
A. E. Davis, who has just returned
from a trip to Mexico, told a New
York Press man that for three days,
at the mines where lie is interested, the
thermometer registered L’>8 degrees of
heat at an altitude of 7500 feet above
the sea. The temperature changed
sixty degrees in a single night. Sir.
.Davis lias spent two months in Mexico,
traveling over nearly every portion ol
it accessible by rail, lie praises un¬
stintedly the educated people there,
but said about the people that the
masses of them were the most dirty
and filthy and repulsive he ever saw
anywhere. One old man whom he
met, and who professed to be 90 years
old, said he had not washed himself,
except his hands and feet, for twenty
fivo years.
“He looked to bo 200 years old,”
said Mr. Davis, “and I w^s fully pre¬
pared to believe from 'his filthy ap¬
pearance that he had never been even
so much as sprinkled with water. " I
regard the black men in this country.:
as infinitely superior in nearly every
partieu’ar to tlie working Mexicans.
There is a peculiar trait of Mexican
character whieh I can hardly compre¬
hend. You may give a Mexican a bag
of gold to take to a given place for
’you.' It may be five hundred miles
away. If be accepts' the trust you
will find your gold delivered unless
the man is killed on the way. But tho
moment lie has passed it out of his
hands he would stab the man who has
it and rob him’of it, if the opportunity
occurred.”
The Prime Minister of China.
Li Hnng Chang is the prime minis¬
ister of Uhiiia, ami though he wears
a pigtail and wooden shoes, and dress¬
es like a woman, he must be ranked
with the great statesmen .of tjho world,
with Bismarck, Crispi, Gladstone, etc.
If lie did not live in a land of such in¬
vincible conversation lie would do
great things for the vast empire over
which lie is virtually the practical
ru'er. But China has awakened con¬
siderably from her lotus dreams under
the stimulus of his genius. He be¬
lieves in railroads, commerce, and
education. It is said that he has con¬
templated vast schemes of conquest.
The late General Gordon aud the
present Lord AVolseley of England
have both expressed a fear of a Euro¬
pean invasion from tne irui in enable
hordes of Chinn, Led by such a born
leader of njen as Li Hung Chang, such
an invasion would be a formidable
affair. Li Hung Chang was a warm
personal friend of General Grant and
bad many pleasant interviews witli the
American general, during iiis visit to
China iu his trip around the world.—
Taxed to Wear a Beard.
In Russia Peter tho Great compelled
his subjects to pay a tax for the privi¬
lege of retaining their beards. It
proved lo be an unpopular law, but
was rigidly euforced, and those who
would not or could not pay were forci¬
bly deprived of this ornament.
During the latter part of tjie reign
of Louis XIV great fare wa9 taken of
the beard. When the gallant of those
days went to spend an evening with
his sweetheart he usually provided
himself with wax for his whiskers,
sweet-scented oils, and in fact every
necessary article for the lady to use in
combing and dressing bis beard. What
an agreeable pastime it must have
been. If the custom were to be revived
what a tailing off’ there would be in tlie
number of barber shops.
When tho practice of shaving was
again revived in Europe instrumental
music was employed in barber shops
to amuse customers while waiting their
turn.—[Washington Star. i
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Remarkable Census Coincidence. .
■ A remarkable coincidence is report¬
ed from West Virginia. A census ol
Elm Grove was taken, preparatory to
incorporating the village as a town,
with the following result: Number qf
males over 31 rears of age, 148; num¬
ber of males under 21 years of age,
148; number of females over 16 years
of age, 148; number of females under
16 years of age, 148; grand total, 582.
Vindicated Himself.
Mabel (mischievously)—Do yqu
know something I heard about you the
other day? I heard you wouffiiPt say
‘Boo’ to a pretty girl.
Tom (heartily)—Boo!—[Munsey’i
W eekly.'
SCIENTIFIC SCUM'S.
Experiments arc now being conduct,
cd at Chester, England, with a com¬
pressed air system for operating street
railways.
It is now generally accepted that
pulmonary consumption is a contagious
disease and that it can be communicat¬
ed from man to man.
In a single day 75,000 shad woro
caught in the Delaware Hiver as a re¬
sult of the hatching jar audits appli¬
ances. There has been a rapid increase
in numbers during the past three
years.
From recent observations it is stated
that there is reason for believing that
fresh dirt thrown upon potato leaves
when wet starts-the mildew on the
leaf, which later in the season results
iu blight.
Silkworms when newly hatched
scarcely weigh one-quarter of . an.
ounce, yet in the course of their life,
" hi eh only lasts about thirty-five days,
G ,(> y will consume l^etweeu 11000 and
1000 pounds of leaves.
A wonderful tree is the camanba
tree that in t •
grows Brazil. Every part
of it froni its roots to its leaves is put
to some good use, apd altogether it
fui'nishes .food, light' luntber, fences
and medicine for the Brazilians.
Steam heating of railway carriages
was introduced during the past winter
in Prussia. The steam is supplied
from t'Jio locomotive and passes through
pipes underneath the carriages, the
pressure iu these being reduced to
thirty pounds per square inch.
An immense squid was recently
stranded np^n Aciiill Island, off (he
west coast of Maydj'Irelaud. Though
shrunk, its long arms measured thirty .
feet in length, and the body and short
arms wete sixty feet in circumference.
Some of -the. short arms were four feet
in circumference.
Ml »/•
Experiments have been recently car¬
ried on at Toulon with a view of de¬
termining to what extent accuracy of
aim could be attained at night with
the use of an electric jight. A gun
was mounted on a revolving platform,
which also carried an electric projec¬
tor. The target was fixed at a distance
of three or four kilometers, audit was
found that the same accuracy could be
attained under these conditions as
during daylight.
Dr. Barr, of the Liverpool (Eng¬
land) Northern Hospital, reports a
number of cases of treatment of ty¬
phoid fever by prolonged immersion
in warm water. One girl, aged six
tccu, spent six days iu a tank, and was
completely cured. A man, aged twen¬
ty-eight, was immersed in a tank for
thirty-one days, with successful results.
The doctor states that lie has treated
iu all twelve patients to the “water
cure,” and that the mortality has been
nil.
Felling a Forest in An Instant.
The falling of a big tree under.the
woodman's axe is always an impres¬
sive sight—and an impressive sound—
as all country-bred readers will testify.
The historian of the “Seventy-ninth
Highlanders,” of New York, describes
the cutting down of a whole hillside
of trees under circumstances that must
have made it a memorable spectacle.
It was during the advance of the army
of tlie Potomac after the defeat at
Bull Run. Fortifications were ordered
thrown up, ami the men of the Maine
and Wisconsin regiments were set at
the work of tree-felling, a wortcWith.
which they proved themselves perfect¬
ly familiar. It was an interesting
tight to witness the simultaneous fall
of a whole hillside of timber.
, The choppers began at the foot of
Ihe hill, the line extending for perhaps
half a mile. They cut only part way
firough the tree, and in this way
worked up to the crest, leaving’tlie
trees in the top row in such a condition
lliat a single brow would bring them
down. Then, when all was reatfy, the
bugle sounded, and the last strokes
were given. Down came ’ tfio upper
tier of trees. These brought 'down
those below them, and, like the billow
on the surface of ihe ocean, th« entire
forest fell With a crash like., mighty
thunder.— [Argonaut.
Great Self.Pessessijin.
“I bought a donkey Gurjevf yeBterday, ju8t
for fun,” remarked '
“Well,” replied Unzzfffi, $la#a a
remarkable instance of self-possession.” III:’
—[Bazar.