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LIFE IS TOO SHORT.
Life is too short to waste
In QQiTailing tears.
Too short to spend in bootless grief.
In coward doubt* and fears.
Too short to g ve it np
To pleasure ; or to sow
One hour in guilt, to yield at last
Eterni y of woe.
Time lass not on its way.
Bat spans our days in haste ;
If life should last s thousand years
’Tweie still too ehort to waste.
For. abort lived as we are.
Cur pleasures yet. we see.
Vanish too soon, they live, indeed.
E'en shorter da .e than we.
Bat ever with as here
Bides sorrow, pain and care ;
The shortest life is long enough
Its Totted grief to boar.
To the old the end is nigh ;
To the young far off it seems ;
Yet neither should dare to toy with life
Or ua te it iu idle dreams.
For by each Time’s servant waits.
Though not for servant’s wage ;
And the same wjrm nibbles the bud of youth
That gnaweth the root of age.
Live, therefore, as he lives
Wt-0 earns his share of bliss ;
Strive for the prize that Virtue wins.
Life's not too short for this.
Phantom Lovers.
Before I begin my story I must tell you
I am a commercial traveler, bom and bred,
go to speak, to the business.
I have ray wits about me, aiad, as I often
happen to have a good many valuable arti
cles also, I have need of them.
I am an Englishman—English to the
back-lx)ne—and live on roast beef, bottied
ale and old port wine.
If you could feet my anus, and look at
my cheeks, and measure me across the
shoulders, you would have no doubt that I
am one of the men who does not dream
and don’t fancy.
When ! see a thing I see it.
When I hear a thing I hear it.
And what I saw and what I heard on one
particular occasion I mean to tell you.
You will not offend me at all if you
doubt it.
I should doubt it myself if any one had
told it to me.
I cannot expect of-any one the credence
that I would not give myself.
Neverthe less 1 shall, as I said, tell the
story.
It was in the year 18—, and the month
was May, and the place was England.
I had left London live days before, and
now 1 was miles and miles away from it, in
the very heart of the country, traveling to
ward a little town where 1 had business.
It was an* old fashioned place, and the
people were kind and obliging.
You do not look for such qualities on the
road now-a-days, if you are a traveler of
experience ; but here they came upon me
at the inn I stopped in a way to make me
think better of human nature.
Travelers did not stop often at that inn,
I suspect, for they were as particular about
my meals as though I had been a prodical
son come for the holidays.
They killed the fatted chicken for me, and
to crown all, as the train did not stop to take
me on as I wanted to go, and as it was only
a matter of five miles or so, what did the
landlord do but hunt up a rusty old coach
that was tucked away in the coach house,
and order his man to drive me over that
evening.
It wasn’t an extra mind you. It vas
sheer good will.
So 1 shook hands all round, and I * re
membered the chambermaid and the waiter
with half a crown each, and off I rode—the
old coach creaking, and the old horse wheez
ing, and the old driver coughing up on the
box, and it was like a bit out of an old
story, with an adventure in the middle of
it.
It was getting dark fast, and the road
wound away among the hill in a very ro
mantic sort of way.
I do not know much about art myself,
but I think if that painter with the white
umbrella that used to sit about in the mud
making pictures could have seen some of
those points, he would have touched them
np with pleasure.
When the sun went down and the moon
came up wliite and bright, and up against
it on the rocks you could see all the deli
cate, trembling little weeds and grasses,
and there were big, black shadows under
the trees, and glimpses of you did not
know what under the bushes.
Why, it made you think of ghosts, if you
were a commercial traveler.
“Here’s the place,” says I to myself
“where the gentlemen of the road would
have liked to meet me and my black bag
fifty years ago.”
A pretty joke it would have been to have
handed my valuables over and danced a jig
for their amusement besides fifty years ago.
A hundred years ago, anyhow, I shouldn’t
have felt so safe as I do now.
Just then the coach came to a sudden
pause.
“Hallo!” cried I out of the window,
“what’s the matter ?”
“It’s more than I can tell, sir,” said the
man. “Black Jane has turned sulky. She
won’t move a step.”
“With that he began t') shout and crack
his whip, I, with my head out of the win
dow, watching him, and suddenly the beast
started off like mad, and I drew in my face
and saw I had company.
While the coach was at a stand still, a
lady and gentleman had slipped in.
They sat on the seat opposite me; and
though it was an intrusion, I had not the
heart to find fault, for a prettier pair I
never saw in my life.
If he was twenty-one, it was as much as
he could be, and she was not seventeen.
I have seen a pair of china lovers on the
mantel-piece, the perfect image of what
they were, and they were as pretty and
dressed much the same.
His hair was powdered, and hers too.
She had on a yellow silk, lower in the
neck than a would like a daughter of mine.
of the coach, I pray you, and tell me If he
is gaining on us. ”
I looked out of the window.
“There’s a man on horseback riding up
the road,” said I, for I saw one.
“Oli, heaven!” said she.
“Courage, Betty,” said the young fellow.
“They shall never part us.”
Then I knew it was a runaway match.
“I see how it is,” said I. “Keep up
your heart, young man. If the young lady
likes you she’ll stick to you through thick
and thin. I’ll do my best to help you.”
‘Oh, heaven!” she cried again. “Oh,
my darling, I hear the horses’ feet There
are more of them. Oh, sir, look; tell me!”
I looked through the little back window.
The road seemed full of men.
I hadn’t the heart to tell her.
“Closer to my heart, Betty,” cried the
young man. “My beloved, they come.”
He drew his sword.
Among other odd things, he wore a
sword.
I pulled my pistol from my pocket.
We all stretched our hands forward, and
at that moment the coach turned a rocky
point of the road, and I saw we were on
the margin of a precipice.
All this time Black Jane kept up her
furious speed, and I saw we were in danger.
“Have a care 1” I cried.
“Faster!” screamed the young man.
Suddenly there came a jolt, and a scream
from the lady.
I heard him say :
“At least we die together.”
And the coach lay fiat on its side—not
over the precipice, but on the edge of it.
A man is a little stunned by a thing like
that.
When I’d climbed out of the window,
and helped old Anthony up with the coach,
and coaxed Black Jane to quietness, I re
membered that no one else had got out of
the vehicle, and I looked about in vain for
my pretty lovers.
They were not there, nor were there any
signs of the troop of horsemen I had seen
dashing up the hill.
They could not have passed us in that
narrow path by any possibility.
“We ran a chance for our live«, master,’
said Anthony. “Yet I’m called a good
driver, and Black Jane is the kindest thing
I ever saw in harness generally. Thank God
for all His mercies. It’s a strange thing
we’re not over the cliff.
“But where did they go ?” I asked.
“"Who?” said Anthony.
“The two lovers—the pretty creatures in
fancy dress. The people who were after
them, where are they ?”
“Where are—” began old Athony.
Then he turned as pale as death.
“All good angels over us!” he cried.
“We’ve ridden with Lady Betty. It’s the
tenth of May. I might have known better
than to try the road to-night. Protect
all! Yes, yes, we’ve ridden with Lady
Betty.”
“Who is Lady Betty ?” said I. “As
pretty a creature as ever I saw at all events.
Who is she ?”
Old Anthony stood looking at me and
shaking his head.
“It’s an old story,” he said. “Book-
larned folks tell it better than I. But a
hundred years ago and more, on this blessed
night, my Lady Betty Hope, the prettiest
lady of her day, ran off from a county ball
with her father’s young secretary.
‘They put one cloak over their heads,
and an old servant drove them, knowing it
worm nia lire.
But before they had gone far, behind
them came her kinsfolk, armed and ready
for vengeance. And when they reached
this point, tlisy saw that all was over.
•Better die together than live apart, ’
he said, holding her dose. Then he called
out to the servant, ‘How goes it ?’
‘All lost, sir,’ says the man. ‘The
horses can’t hold up five minutes longer.’
‘ ‘Then drive over,’ says he.
‘The man obeyed orders.
‘Tha angry kinsfolk could only stand on
the cliff and look over at the dreadful sight
that lay below, when they reached the top.
“But ever since that night, sir, as sure as
the tenth of May comes around, there’s
plenty here will tell you that whoever drives
a coach past this bit of road after nightfall,
won’t ride alone.
“There’s noliody that remembered the
night would do it for a kingdom, but I for
got. I’m getting old, and I forget things
whiles; and so we’ve ridden with Lady
Betty.”
That’s the story old Anthony told me,
and what went before is what I saw and
heard. I’m a solid, sensible man, but facts
are facts, and here you have ’em.
•‘.Sa-lutinic tlie Bride.”
There-was a marriage at the upper end of
the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Road the
other day. A great big chap, almost able
to throw a car-load of lumber off the track,
fell in love with a widow who was cooking
for the hands in a sawmill, and after a
weeks’ acquaintance they were married.
The boys around th e mill lent William three
calico shirts, a dress-coat and a pair of white
pants, and chipped in a purse of about $20,
and the couple started for Detroit on a bri
dal tour within an hour after being married.
“This ’ere lady,” explained William, as
the conductor came along for tickets, “are
my bride. Just spliced fifty-six minits ago.
Cost $2, but dum the cost! She’s a lily of
the valley, Mary is, and I’m the rignt-bower
in a new pack of keerds. Conductor, sa
lute the bride!”
The man hesitated. The widow had
freckles and wrinkles and a turn-up nose,
and kissing the bride was no gratification.
“Conductor, sa-lute the bride or lookout
for tornadoes!” continued William as he
rose up and shed his coat.
The conductor sa-luted. It was the best
thing he could do just then.
“I never did try to put on style before,”
muttered William, “but I’m bound to see
this thing through if I have to fight
all Michigan. These ’ere passengers has
got to come up to the chalk, they has.” .
The car was full. William walked down
the aisle, waved his hand to command at
tention, and said:
“I’ve just been married; over thar’ sots
the bride. Anybody who wants to sa-lute
the bride kin now do so. Anybody who
don’t want to, will hev cause to believe
that a tree fell on him!”
One by one the men walked up and kiss
ed the widow, until only one was left. He
was asleep. William reached over and
lifted him into sitting position at one move
ment and commanded:
“At’ ye goin’ to dust over thar’ and kiss
the bride?”
4 ‘Blast your bride, and you, too! ’* growled
the passenger.
William drew him over the back of the
seat, laid him down in the aisle, tied his
legs in a knot and was making a bundle of
him just of a size to go through the win
dow, when the man caved and went over
and sa-luted.
“Now, then,” said William, as he put
on his coat, “this bridle tower will be re
sumed as usual, and if Mary and me squeeze
hands or git to laying heads on each other’9
shoulders I shall demand to know who
laffed about it, and I’ll make him e-magine
that I’m a hull boom full of the biggest
kind of sawlogs, an’ more cornin' down on
the rise. Now, Mary, hitch along an’ let
me git my arm around ye!”
Circumstantial Evidence.
A young lady—I forget the name, but
we will supply fictitiously—Mary Adams,
as missed from her home. Her disap
pearance caused intense exitement, and that
excitement ran wild when it was at length
announced that she had been murdered.
Her body had been found on the shore of a
tributary of the Hudson River, with bruises
upon her head, which gave ample evidence
that her death had been a violent one.
Such bruises might have been gained by
falling upon the rocks above the spot where
the remains were found, but there were
other circumstances that pointed in another
and more ghastly direction.
A young man named William Claypole
was arresteu uiiucr accusation of ti»« u.m-
der of Mary Adams. A preliminary ex
amination before a Justice afforded suffi
cient evidence to bind him over to appear
before a jury. Claypo e had waited upon
Miss Adams for a year or more, and during
the two or three months last past their in
tercourse had not been of the happiest kind.
She was proved to have been gay and
laughter-loving, with a light, volatile dis
position, a heart warm and impulsive, and
impatient of restraint. Claypole, it ap
peared, had been exceedingly jealous and
exacting, prone to fault-finding, and ready
to make his affianced miserable and fearful
if she dared to look smilingly upon another
man.
It was proved by several witnesses that
Claypole had threatened Miss Adams with
terrible vengeance if he ever caught her do
ing certain trifling things again; and a man
of the town—a man respectable and relia
ble—had seen the twain together in angry
the jailor aud demanded to see the prisoner '
who had been accused of her murder.
An Elephant Hunt In Sumatra.
rens was still clinging, who, violently sha
ken by this shook and by fear had nearly
The jailor came nigh to fainting with! I had often, in my childhood, heard Su- 1 followed the colossus in his fall,
superstitious terror; but by and by the ap- matra spokep off, and had for a longtime j Several elephants were extended lifeless
plicant succeeded in convincing him that! experienced a desire to visit an island which j on the ground; some were staggering like
she was a thing of flesh and blood, like i promise so many mountains and marvels toj houses about to fall and could only stand
other women, and he admitted her to the my imagination. | by leaning against those who had not yet
prison. We need not describe the scene'*' So, when I landed on the southwest coast been struck and who supported them m a
that followed the meeting of the lovers. Injof the island, I was enamored with the fiaternal manner. There a as something
In due time,: beauty of the climate, that I had not cou-
some respects it was secred.
the custodians of judical power and autho- rage to find it too warm. And yet my ther-
rity came to the prison, where they listened^moraeter marked in the shade thirty-seven
to a new revelation. centy-grade degrees. We were in June,
Mary Adams was not dead at all! The 1848, precisely at the period when it was
story which her lover had told was true, warm also in the streets of Paris. I may
On the night of the quarrel, fearing that he be permitted to prefer the fires of Bengal
might do some rash thing, and really desi- to those of cannon. Not that Sumatra has
rous, for the time, of getting out of his way, 1 never enjoyed revolutions; this beautiful
and beyond his knowledge, she returned country, like so many others, has had her
secretly to her home, where she made up a : own, but they are not the principal merit
small bundle of necessary clothing, and of this island, neither does this lie in its
then, unknown to any one, she crept away, productions, which rival those of the tro-
and before morning was beyond the possi-}pics; it is, dare I avow it, almost entirely
bility of reach or recognition. in its elephants, its most ancient as well as
Having found a new home in a far-away, : its most legitimate sovereigns. Their
mountainous region, she nad not seen any strength is disputed by no one, and their
newspaper until she had been several week^d“eds, if not words, are in every mouth,
in her new home. She read the account In order to judge of them, one must see
of her own death, and the arrest of her old them on their own territory, through the
lover for her murder with * astonishment, large trees of the forest, and in the free
and now she had come to set matters right, exercise of their powers, I soon had an
As fortune would have it, on the very upportunity of observing in an exciting
day of Bliss Adam’s return an officer from hunt in the company with the Marquis and
an insane asylum appeared in search of an Marchioness de Fienne, amiable Parisians,
escaped patient, whom, after weeks of la- [ whom affairs of interest had brought to
bor, he had succeeded in tracing in that di-1 Sumatra. There was a third person, a
rection He saw the garments which had j French Jew, a banker of profession, Mr.
been taken from the body of the dead wo- Isaac du Laurens, a friend of the marquis,
man, and recognized them at once as liav- A great lover of hunting, a still more intre
ing belonged to his patient.
The initials, “M. A.,” which had been
supposed to stand for Mary Adams, were
really meant to represent ‘‘Mortonborough
Asylum.” The officer saw Miss Adams,
and declared that if he had met her on the
highway or in a crowded public conveyance
pid boaster, there was no trophy of this
kind to which he could not offer you a
counterpart. Such were the members of our
expedition. We were joined by some na
tive chiefs as guides, and a great number
of Indians, laden with munition and arms,
or leading packs of dogs impatient to enter
he should certainly have arrested her. j upon the campaign. The rendezvous was
Her resemblance to the patient he had fixed beyond a great lake which separated
sought was wonderful. ! us from the forest, where, according to the
And so the truth was known at last. By j Indians, the elephants were in the habit of
a fortunate revolution of the wheel light j coming their for their sports. Arrived on
came to Mary Adams, and her reappear-1 the opposite shore of the lake, we left our
ance upon the scene came with saving \prahoua (a species of pirogues), and re-
power to William Claypole. ! paired to the Spot where, according to the
The lovers went away from the prison j latest advices, we were to find the eleph-
together, and certainly we have just ground i ants. We advanced resolutely, M. de
for the belief that the ordeal through w'hich j Fienne, the marchioness and myself, having
they had passed had been sufficient in its I besides us the native chiefs, and M. du
terrible experience to lead and sustain them
in the only safe and peaceful way in life—
the way of trustful love and wise forbear
ance.
Robinnoo Cruitoe.
Laurens—behind us.
Very soon the sight of giant tracks corn-
very affecting in the scene. But it was
less than that of which we were witnesses
an instant after. A young elephant, grie
vously wounded, maintained his equilibrum
with difficulty, and with the aid of his
mother who was watching over him; at
last he fell on the ground before the con
tinual fire of the huuters; the poor mother
did not desert her post; she uttered howls
of anguish and fury, and tried to protect
the corpse of her child; but she soon paid
for maternal devotion with her life. The
marchioness, whom this picture moved to
tears, wished to obtain the life of this noble
animal; she even solicited it earnestly, but
it would have been dangerous to have
granted it, and the tiring continued. There
were no more enemies on the battle-field;
only corpses strewed the ground in eveiy
direction. The air echoed with a joyous
merriment, and each began to relate his ex
ploits. The hunters celebrated the victory
most noisily were, as usual, those who had
not dared to take part in it.' There are
men who, in times of peril and emergency
think they afford much aid by expending
their action in words and cries. Such was
the dear and deafening Du Laurens. He
had descended from the tree only after the
danger was passed, and, by own account,
it was he who had killed the most ele
phants.
“What there is prodigious about it,” said
Mme. de Fienne, ‘4s that you have ac
complished these fine exploits without
burning any tinder. But perhaps you used
the sonorous instrument with which the
soldiers of Joshua made the walls ef Jeri
cho fall. In this case, worthy son walls
of Israels, I will no longer be astonished at
the sound of your trumpet. ”
During this time the Indians were des
poiling the elephants of their enormous
jaws, and preparing to carry them home as
a rememberance of this glorious day. Thus
ended this famous elephant hunt, a scene
of excitement and some danger.
away look out of his window. Then he
would draw a huge bowie-knife from his
coat pocket, and, after strapping it upon
his boot, he would run his thumb along the
A Boy’s Adventure.
municated the first emotion to the beaters
the effect was electric; M. du Laurens
turned pale. Each took his post behind an . . . ,,. . .....
am-bush of canes which had been raised his kite and his pet pigeon with the dangn
against the stags. The corner which we
Little John Green, of Louisville, Ky.,
having heard how once upon a time Benja
min Franklin experimented with a kite, re
solved to do something in that line himself.
His idea was to test the relative strength of
of basing some grand invention upon
the result. So he took kite and
pigeon and wended his way to the nearest
common several days ago. He ran the kite
up to the limit of 200 yards of cord, the
wind blowing a stiff breeze fioin the north
west the while. Then taking the pigeon
from his basket he tied the bird by the leg
to the end of the kite string which he had
held in his hand. The pigeon, feeling half
was directly
tween which he worked upon his pale, he
mentions, a few pages further on, and in
connection with his sad lack of tools, that,
“It was near a whole year before 1 had
finished my little pale or surrounded habit
ation.” Here it is plain enough to anyone
not willfully blind that it was the habita
tion as a whole, not that part of it only
comprehended in the pale, that required
near a whole year to finish. Umbrage is
taken at the “still more curious slip,”
which “ occurs when he speaks of taking
fish, for he says that he had a long line of
ropeyarn, but no books; yet in the same
sentence he states that he frequently caught
fish enough, without in the least indicating
how he did it.” The critic suggests on his
own account: “Defoe probably meant to
. describe some contrivance, but could not
discussion on the very night of the disap-1 0 f anything at the moments and for-
pearance. | got to supply the deficiency.” We have
He had been on his way home on foot, j nQ ^ our “Cmgoe ” by us as we write, but
and walking leisurely along, by the nver s our remembrance of this passage is that it
A writer in the Saturday Review,
points out some lapses of memory in the j occupied was not less than two or three
writer of Robinson Crusoe. He says2! feet wide; so all the huuters could, tnanks
Crusoe mentions that he had brought from |*to the underwood, hide there comfortably,
the wreck pens, ink and paper, “yet in the They inspected their guns and carbines;
next paragraph he audaciously makes this! the hunting knife, the klcwang and the
statement: * I now found I wanted many ! lances gleamed. All was the most lively
things, notwithstanding all that I had j anxiety.
amassed together, and of these things ink Already the Arrzos were sent to give the nieeon
was one. In his diary-he states with much ! tn ollr , lnf i their nacks of do^s • i neia ms na , , 1 ue
evannena. that hia nal« nr inf Insure in ; , l ° ° U , r a | US , an( l l ^Cir paCKS OI UOgs, f fl ew towan j home, which was directly
fixrat oMi^cave^was^be^un on^anuarr 3d' ^ ^ against the wind. The resistance of the
l 1 f howls, uS ! «“■? upward, and,
ceding 31st day of October ho tells about j from the /enter of the forest and froze us
shooting the mother geat, and>dds: ‘When; with ter ror. j t seemed to me as if a hum- UtG 10 ^ bl ° the ai .
I earned the old one upon my shoulders 1 bad passed through the foliage. There
the kid followed me quite to my enclosure, j waa n0 room for doubt, a herd of elephants
upon which I laid down the dam and took j were there, in the inclosure, at a few paces
the kid in my arms and carried it over my from us. There u-aa nn iootuni pack,
pale’—about two months before any pale <» error . The ide’* 8 which we had, aud with
was begun.” These nninf*^really are,-in a , Vc-ason, or iuc extraordinary strength of
8inall wav, well taken, and they are the . jbese animals, who could overthrow every-
only points well taken in the entire charge, j thing in their passage, little disposed the
A considerable stress is laid upon the fact | men t 0 await them with firm foot. The
that, after giving the dates, as above, be- = hunters therefore disbanded. Though native
The RuHsian Soldiers.
The Russian officer has the splendid
valor of his nationality; he is no braggart
but does his fighting as a matter of course,
and as part of the day’s work, when he is
bidden to do it. As for the Russian pri
vate, I regard him as the finest material for
a soldier that the soldier-producing world,
so far as I am acquainted with it, affords.
He is an extraordinary weight-carrying
marcher, tramping mile after mile with a
good heart, with singular freedom from re
liance on sustenance, and with a good
stomach for immediate fighting at the end
of the longest foodless march. He never
grumbles; matters must have come to a
bad pass, indeed, when he lets loose his
tongue in adverse comment on his superiors.
Inured to privation from his childhood, he
is a hard man to starve, and will live on
rations, or chance instalments of rations,
at which the British barrack-room cur
would turn up his nose. His sincere piety
according to his narrow lights, his whole
hearted devotion to the Czar—which is in
grained into his mental system, not the
result of a process of reasoning—and his
constitutional courage, combine to bring
about that he faces the casualties of the
battle-field with willing, prompt and long-
sustained bravery. He needs to be led,
however; not so much because of the
moral encouragement which a gallant lead
er imparts, but because his reasoning fac
ulties, for lack of education, being com
paratively dormant, he does not not know
what to do when an unaccustomed or
unlooked for emergency occurs, He is
destitute of perception when left to him
self. Somebody must do the thinking for
him, and impart to him the result in the
shape of an order; and then he can be
trusted, while physical power lasts, to strive
his prettiest to execute the order. But if
to wear it, and her anus would have been ; there is nobody in front of him or within
bare only for her long kid gloves. i sight of him to undertake the mental part
She had pearls in her ears and on her i of the work, the Russian soldier gets dazed,
throat, and she had just the most innocent Even in his bewilderment, however, he is
little face my two eyes ever rested on. * “* J 1
bank, not a hundred yards from where the
dead body had been found. He had heard
Claypole use language of terrible signifi
cance, and one sentence, spoken loudly and
distinctly, he could repeat word for word,
and swear to it.
It was a bright moonlight evening, and
he had gained but a short distance from
the angry pair when he saw the man grasp
the girl by the arm and fiercely exclaim:
“I’d rather kill you and throw your body
into this cold flood than live under such
torture as you’ve made me suffer for the
last few weeks. Beware! I tell you, wo
man, I am desperate. ”
To this the man swore most positively.
He remembered the circumstances and the
exact date, and this was the evening on
which Mary had left her home not to re
turn. William Claypole was committed
for trial, and in due time he was brought
before the jury.
If anything, the evidence before the jury
was more conclusive than had been the
preliminary evidence. There was more of
it, and it all pointed directly to the accused.
In fact, if Mary Adams had been killed, it
was an absolute impossibility that any one
else could have done it. That she could
have killed herself was a proposition not to
be entertained.
William Claypole told his story. Most
of the evidence he had heard he acknowl
edged true.
He had been exceedingly jealous, and
he had threatened the girl, and though he
could not clearly remember all that he
might have said under the influence of
strong passion, yet he would not deny that
the man who had reported his last terrible
speech upon the liver’s bank, had reported
it correctly.
He said he had been there with Mary on
that evening, and he remembered that he
saw the witness on the road. After seeing
witness, he spoke the angry, impulsive
words to Man*. He could only swear to
the simple fact that very shortly after using
contained something, either expressed
implied, to the effect that the ease with
which the fish could be caught without a
hook was another strong proof of how ut
terly unknowing of man were the creatures
living upon the island and within the waters
which girt it round about. Skipping what
really is a wholly unintelligible objection
relating to Crusoe's desire to remove to the
“pleasant valley ” (where he subsequently
built the “bower”) and his final determin
ation to remain in the cave, we come to the
As for the boy, lie had a chocolate velvet
coat and white silk stockings, and lace ruf
fles at his wrists.
And they had one large cloak—his, I
fancy—cast about the two of them, though
it had dropped back a bit as they sat down.
“Two young folks going to a fancy ball,
proof against panic, and we saw him with
sore hearts at Plevna, on the 30th of July,
1878, standing up to be killed in piteously
noble stubbornness or ignorance, rather
than retreat without the ordors which there
were none to give. The Turkish soldier is
his master in the intuitive perception of
fighting necessities. The former is a born
perhaps,” says’I, “and just took a lift on ; soldier, the latter a brave peasant drilled
the way.” into a soldier. If the Turk advancing fiuds
And I touched my cap to them, and himself exposed to a flank attack, he needs
^.q i. ' no officer to order him to change his front;
“Fine evening, sir.” he grasps the situation for himself, and this
He did not answer me, but she looked at i is what the Russian soldier has neither in-
jne and stretched out her little white hand, j tuitive soldierhood nor acquired intelligence
“Oh, sir,” she said, “look out at thiback 1 to do.
chiefs, more experienced, in vain retained
their courage, the confussion redoubled,
and most of the Indians fled toward the
lake.
Unfortunately, the lake is full of cay
mans, and the cry arose: Bceaja! bceaja!
They knew not which way to flee; on all
sides they saw themselves surrounded with
monsters. Several had climbed the trees;
M du Laurens was of the number.
The sight of this insensate fear restored
our courage, and we regained our post with
the greatest coolness. When I say our cou
rage, it is a plural which is singular and
regards only myself, for M. de Fienne had
not shrunk for an instant. The marchio
ness, firm also, yet tietrayed the most live
ly emotion. She was impatient to see the
conflict commence, and prepared, not only
to be a spectator of this drama, but to play
a part in it.
Suddenly thirty elephants issued from the
higher
the bird seemed to liavd the best of the
struggle, making slow progress for at least
a square, but in spite of all efforts to take
a direct course, flying higher and higher.
After the bird had reached an altitude of
perhaps four hundred >feet, the kite be
ing about one hundred feet higher still, it
was plain that the latter had greatly the ad
vantage. It was flesh, blood and feathers
against the untiring winds. Unable to con
tinue the strain the pigeon changed his
course to one side, thus slackening the string
and causing the kite to fall, slanting from
side to side in a helpless sort of way. But
feeling free again the pigeon once more
made a break for home, when, the string
being pulled taut, the kite, with a spring,
glancing in the sun a thing of ^ife, rose
rapidly and gracefully from its former level.
Soon both bird and kite became mere specks
and at last vanishing in the southwestern
sky left Johnny to weep over his unexpect
ed loss. Next morning, when the little
fellow went to look in his empty cote, there
stood the pigeon nodding its head in pride.
It had broken from the kite, a piece of the
string still hanging to its leg.
NmonHneu.
Every organ and every muscle in the
human body depends for its action on the
nerve-force, elaborated by the brain, or
, , . spinal ganglia; and so does every thought
forest, arranged in close columns, and ad- , and feeling,—the more active the thinking,
vancing with a majectic air. They were
formidable to behold; they marched with
their trunks high and threatening, like a
wounded serpent; their large ears beat their
temples with redoubled blows; their breath
would have overthrown a man, and the
ground seemed to tremble benealh them.
The moment was critical and there was
not a moment to lose if we did not wish to
be destroyed. When they were four or five
paces from the thicket, which concealed us
for bass in Hogan Creek, near Aurora, they
were disturbed by a splash in the water, as
of some animal jumping into the stream.
Looking in the direction, they saw a large
black hog, which had evidently come dowi.
from among the roaming lot of porker*
^ ^ w which make life a burden in and around th*
the language just presentled he” had become j town, swimming rapidly toward the oente*
startled by his own fierce passions, and had i of the pool, wh»ch was about 100 feet widi
sent the girl from him—had bade her go to ■ and eight feet deep. At about the cente*
her home, telling her that he hoped he j the animal disappeared, remaining unde
might never see her again. With that she j the water for a considerable time, and oi
had left him, and he knew no more. j reappearing was seen to have in his mouti
Claypole*8 story bore the stamp of truth 1 a live bass about eight inches long, witl
final attempt to make a point against the from their view, we received them with a
exactness of Defoe. Robinson Crusoe, it ! ciose fire from our carbines, which we had
may be remembered, when ill from the taken care to load with balls of tin and cop-
ague, has a dream which frightens him per. Woe to us if we had used leaden
much, and in telling of his feelings on balls, they would have been flattened by
awakening he says: “1 had, alas, no divine the large ears of the elephants, and have
knowledge; what I had received by the rendered them more trouble to us, without
good instructions of my father was then having the chance of killing one. “Near
worn out by an uninterrupted series (for ; the ears! near the ears!” was the exclama-
eight years) of seafaring wickedness, and I j tion on all sides, and each cne suddenly re-
was all that the most hardened,unthinking, turned V the charge, aiming at the sensi-
wicked creature, among common sailors can tive spot which made at first, more noise
be supposed to be; not having the least than they did harm.
sense, either of the fear of God in danger, Bleanwhile the monsters, seized with ter-
or of thankfulness to God in deliverance/’ 1 rorj reC oiled and retook the road to the for-
It is strange that Defoe, when writing this ^. but the barking of the dogs, which did
impressive passage, should have forgotten l not bite, constrained them to turn back al-
that he made Crusoe say, after describing mogt immediately. Their numbers bad ra
the manner in which he was first washed crea ^ed to sixty ; a great part of these ani
on shore, that directly he found himself ( ma ] 8 bad not come out from the woods at
safe he began to look up and thank Proyi- the first attack.
dence that his life was saved. , yy e bad had time to charge anew our
IT u__ guns and carbines; and, more assured, like
* * soldiers after the first fire, we received the
An account sf a remarkable incident anemy in a more vigorous manner than at
comes from Aurora, Ind. A few days ago, first. The elephants then disbanded with a
as a trio of young men, one a son of a terror mingled with fury, crushing every-
prominent citizen of this city, were fishing thing in their passage, and, seeking a re
fuge, uttering cries which were enough to
make one sink into the earth. There was
something gigantic in such a spectacle.
These elephants were for the most part
twelve and thirteen feet in height. Their
refusal to combat contrasted strangely
or the more intense the feeling, the greater
the expenditure of nerve-force. The little
white threads that run in branches through
the body from the brain and spinal cord are
merely conductors of this force, just as the
decline wires are of the electricity. The
brain-battery, when in a vigorous condition,
elaborates enough nervous-force, not only
for all ordinary, but for a vast deal of ex
traordinary use, directly from the raw ma
terial in the blood, for in such case the raw
material is furnished in proportion to the
expenditure. But in “nervousness” of
every form the balance is disturbed; the
supply is not equal to the demand, hence
there is a state of nervous exhaustion. By
carefully guarding the outgo, the person
may enjoy a tolerable degree of health;
but he feels, often to prostration, a little
extra demand, especially if protracted.
Generally self-control is weakened; one is
easily startled; laughter and tears come at
trifles; the pereon is touchy, perhaps hys
terical; the blood is impoverished, and
hence no organ or tissue in the body is
properly fed, nor can fully do its work.
This deficiency of nerve-force may result
from a deficient diet; the abuse of stimu
lants ; too little sleep; protracted overwork
of brain or muscle; long-continued care,
anxiety or grief; sensual or emotional ex
cess of any kind; lack of recreation.
Escape from Death.
One of the most extraordinary escapes
from death ever recorded occurred at Mel
bourne, Australia, to L’Estrange the aero
naut. In the presence of thousands of
spectators he made an ascension from the
agricultural grounds, on the 8t. Kilda road,
in the balloon Aurora, the same, it is said,
which was used to convey dispatches dur
ing the Franco-Prussian war. When the
balloon had attained the great altitude of a
mile and three quarters it suddenly col-
with the powerful organization with which ! lapsed, the gas bursting through its side;
they were endowed. The marchioness, by j but the parachute came into play, and, in-
the aid of her interpreter, manifested her 1 stead of the wreck falling like a stone it
astonishment on the subjrrct to one of the | came down in a zigzag course, and finally
Indian chiefs, who replied; with uncourte- struck a tree in the government domain,
ous frankness, that the herd was composed
only of females. Madame de Finne smiled,
and, by way of reply brandished with her
uiaypoie s story wore u*b stamp ui uuiu w , ’ •» - . • - ... , , , ,
_ everything save the bearing upon it of | which he swam ashore, and proceeded D pretty hands the gun which she had been
the fact already stated. Everybody was i eat with the avidity and relish peculiar D vialiantly using.
sorry. • Nobody believed that William | his species. After having swallowed tie Hardly she had given it to the Indian to
Claypole ever nourished murder in his! last vestige, with a grunt the animal agaii reload, when an enormous elephant, se-
heart. It had been but the creature of
dreadful impulse.
Yet the evidence was all against him—
all, all—and not a point whereon to hang a
doubt, and he was found guilty of murder.
One bright, pleasant day, while William
Claypole lay crushed and broken in his
dark cell, and while the people shook their
heads in sorrow that one so young and pro
mising should meet so terrible a fate—on
such a day Mary Adams appeared before
betook himself to the water, and agan parated from the herd and larger than any
dived to the bottom. Coming up with i
snort, he made agam for the shore with ai-
other fish, which he dispatched as quick}'
as before. This was repeated a third tine,
and on the fourth trip the animal secureda
small turtle, which it also carried aahon,
and after some difficulty managed to dii-
patch, breaking the shell with ita stroig
teeth, after which it ambled off, satisfiti
with iu fishing experiences of the day.
of the rest, came toward the ambush behind
which we still remained. It was furious,
and seemed to wish to revenge the defeat of
his brethren. He was fourteen feet high!
“It is a male! It is a male!” exclaimed
the native ehiefs; and more prompt than
these words twenty shots of the carbines
hit aDd struck dead hia new enemy. He
staggered a few yards and fell exactly at
he foot of the tree in which brave Du Lau-
edge. After scowling a few minutes more, ; aut * reduced the rate from 7
he would take oui a revolver, examine the ° * er < f ei . *
chambers, to assure himself they were j, —Russia is the bank clerk’s paradise-
loaded, mutter a few vigorous sentences, j f4 ,e,e 100 legal holidays in that
and put it away again. j countr y.
I watched him a day or two, and at last! —l* 1 Jh® year 1878 there were only 3
he saw me looking at him. He said • [.men killed bv Apaches iu Anzoua,
‘I reckon you think I am excited about j against 197 in 1868.
something? Well I am! I am going up; —Mr. Robert Falkner, of Warren
to Salt Lake to kill a man.” | county. North Carolina, is 105 years
Indeed. How terrible! What’s the old and has voted eiglity-oue times in
matter?”
thus breaking the fall, and L’Estrange
reached the ground half stunned, but alive.
The excitement when the balloon came
down was intense. Women screamed and
fainted some fell on their knees with their
hands slasped in prayer, while hundreds of
men rushed into the government domain ex
pecting to find a mangled body, but to their
great astonishment they discovered L’Es
trange alive and almost unhurt. The escape
was certainly one of the most marvellous
on record. The balloon U3ed was an old
one, and L’Estrange patched up some rents
in the morning; but the direct cause of the
catastrophe was the inexperience of the
aeronaut, who did not allow for the great
expansion of gas consequent upon his rapid
ascent
Too Many Weddings.
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
During the last trip I took over the —Mississiopi produced 640,000 bales
Pacific Railroad, I noticed that after we i 0 f cotton last year
left Omaha the man in the seat in front of j _ Mr r R Tini ' n?hlst cit e<litorof
me appeared to have something upon his the Button Journal, has teen appointed
mind. He would scowl dreadfully for “ State Librar;.,, of Massachusetts,
moment, then he would gaze with a far-
—The Illinois Legislature has appro
priated $9000 for the monument to
Stephen A Douglass in Chicago.
—New York still retains her usurv
“Well, you see—by the way, do you
know Jim Stephens?”
•‘No, no; I think not.**
“Well, this is the way it came about:
Twelve years ago Jim and I were friends,
and when I got married Jim made me a
present of the most splendid silver cake
basket you ever saw in your life.”
“That’s not what you are going to kill
him for, is it?”
“Of course not! And I felt so grateful
that I took him by the hand, and said.
’Jim, I’ll get you a cake basket as hand
some as that whenever you are married, as
sure as my name is Jonathan Lockwood.’
Made him a solid pledge, you know. ”
“Did he marry subsequently ?”
“Marry ? O thunder! Ltt me tell you
about it. About a year after he went to
Utah and became a Mormon. Within a
month he sent me cards for his wedding to
Hannah Watson. So I went oat and
bought a sublime cake basket, and for
warded it by express. Two weeks later he
wrote to say that Hannah’s sister, Ethel-
betta, had been sealed to him, and he asked
me out to the wedding.”
“Did you go?”
‘No; but 1 sent him another cake basket.
consecutive years.
—The cotton mill at Natchez, Mis3. y
can in one day niannfa' tnre goo la val
ued at $1121, wiili a profit Of $142 over
all expeu>es.
—In t'.e ten yearsending June. 1861,
the elilel English railroads had to pay
$1 655.000 compensation tor injuries re
ceived by railroad accidents.
—Mr. Barr/ Sullivan, the English
actor, prides himself on having played
Hamlet more than 2,800 times in all
quarters of the gloDe.
—Iowa has 20 savings banks, with
deposits aggregating $2,447,166, and
33 general banks, whose total assets
amount to $3,783,065.
—The Philadelphia mint coined dar
ing April $50,800 of haif-eagies; 1,300,-
OOo silver Hollars; $13 <>80 oi base coins
(cents)—total 1 364.480.
—The daily circulation of the most
popular newspaper iu the dry of Mex
ico. with a population of 200.000, does
not exceed 2,000 copies.
—A lady near Pedricktown, N. J., a
short time ago ran a spiinter under ner
finger nail, and has siuce died of lock
jaw.
—The Hotel de Ville, in Paris, the
But hardly had a fortnight elapsed when ; lhe Municipal tvnvcru.u’eut,
Stephens telegraphed to me that as old Mrs. . which was destroyed i.i 1871. is far ad-
Watson, Hannah’s and Ethelberta’s mother,
seemed so lonely now that the girls were
gone, he had concluded to annex her, also.
He promised to send full particulars by
mail. That night a third resplendent cake
basket went west in charge of the express
company.”
“You have paid three to one, then.”
“Three? Wait till I get done. Well, I
heard nothing more from him for a year or
more, when one day cards came for his
marriage with Louisa G. Carboy. I was
pretty poor about that time, and hardly
able to make presents to anybody, but I
liad pledged my word: so out went another
imposing cake basket.”
_“Did he get it ?”
“He wrote and said his darling Louisa
thought it was beautiful, and he added a
postscript in which he mentioned that he
had arranged for a further consolidation on
the following Thursday with Helene Bilk-
ersham, relict of old Bilkersham the popular
hatter.”
“Did you respond ?”
“I did ; I borrowed some money from a
friend, and forwarded the most stupen
dous cake basket I could find. At the
anted in rebuilding, and will be com
pleted in 1881, at a total cost ot about
$4,400,000.
—George Fordham, the jockev, un
der the term of Barou Lionel Rjths-
< hiId’s will, receives a present of $10.-
000 and an annuity of $1500 a year for
life.
—The English Factories act requires
rliat no woman shall be employed con
tinuously for more than four hours and
a half. After working that length of
time she must have a rest.
—In the south, the centre and the
west of France the grape crop will, it
is said, suffer seriously. In consequence
the importation of wines from Spain
and Italy into France is increasing.
—Mrs. Franlc H. Delano, of New
York city, lias given$5000 toSt..l > aul’s
American Church, iu Rome, with
which to finish the aisle walls and put
a railing arouud the church lot.
—Secretary McCrary will retire from
the Cabinet about the 1st of September
next aud accept the United States
Judgship for the Eighth Circuit, in
same time I wrote to him and asked him | P 1 ** . of Jud «e Dillon, who has decided
if he didn’t think it most time to knock off. i LO resl 3 u *
He replied and eaid he was sorry I had —The rate of taxation in Buffalo was
such narrow views about matrimony, par- re ^ ucei ^ year $6 on the $1,000 of
ticularly as he had everything ready for an- rea ^ a,l( ^ personal estate. The assessed
other marriage on the following Tuesday | vacation of Buffalo for the current
with Mary Jane Wilberforce, a charming $88,402,44o against $88,./6,51a
girl of property.”
“You didn’t send one to her, did you ?”
“Of course! Couldn’t break my word!
She got the most impressive cake basket I
could lay my hands on. Well, Stephens
didn’t stop there. That was two years ago.
He has married eight times since, and I
have come to time promptly with the cake
baskets. Three days ago I received notice
that he was going to many' again. ”
“Again!”
“Yes, again. That, you know, lets him
out What does the man mean ? Does he
suppose I own a cake basket factory, where
they turn ’em out with a crank ? Does he
suppose I have a mine where we excavate
baskets by the bushel ? Has he got an idea
that cake baskets grow on a tree, and thal
all I have got to do is to knock ’em down
with a pole when they are ripe ? Why, he’s
an unmitigated ass! And as be won’t let
me off from my promise I’m going out to
massacre him. You understand ? In less
than three days there will be a dozen or so
widows in Salt Lake City going to see a
man named Stephens buried.”
Then Mr. Lockwood turned gloomily
away, sharpened his knife again on his
boot, and relapsed into silence.
It was a little hard on him, I think my
self.
Winter In Summer.
Those who arrived at the Glen House,
Mount Washington, on the third of June
were surprised to find the weather so cold
and to see the mountain top9 covered half a
foot deep with new fallen snow. Coming
up out of more summery latitudes, thev
found the thick underclothing and over
coats they all had the prudence to bring
with them, as comfortable as they would be
at home in November or March. Not thajp
the weather ir quite like that, for it is not;
it is June, unmistakably, by its fresh, full
verdure, and this all-embracing light of the
year’s longest days; but up here among
the mountains it is June and April strange
ly mixed. The world looks green on all
the Hills and vales below, and a morning
bird is singing among the birches that fringe
the babbling Peabody river, in front of this
hotel, his morning song of joy tc the risen
sun; but up there on those nigged moun
tain slopes are numerous patches of snow.
Our excursionists, on reaching the top,
found the Summit House windows, on the
exposed side, all snowed up and frozen up,
and the promenade platform, like the rocks
about, still almost over shoes in snow, and
every post and northwest-facing rock still
covered to a depth of nearly half a foot
with Mount Washington frostwork. This
frostwork is unlike anything we see in win
ter at home. • It is a solid mass of snow
and ice crystals—frozen snow and ice,
seemingly mixed in about equal parts, and
built out, inch by inch, against the wind.
As it is built out per ectly straight, at right
angles with the perpendicular object to
which it is frozen, it speaks more eloquent
ly than words of the force and fury of the
blast that brought it. Picking my way up
to the signal staff of the official survey
which marks the highest point on the sum
mit—a pole like a telegraph pole, firmly
fixed in the rocks—I broke off masses of
in 1878.
—The second sale of Queen Christina’s
jewels has produced $1,800,000. One
oroad girdle of sapphires and brilliants
-old for $8,420. and a magnificent neck
lace. containing 529 pearls, brought
$14,860.
—Mrs. Hannah Cox, of Holderness,
X J., celebrated her 103d birthday re
cently. The venerable lady is in full
possession of all her faculties, with the
exception of her hearing, which is im
paired.
—During the first year of the reci
procity treaty between the Uuited Slates
and ttie Sandwich Islands, our imports
Iroui the Islands show an increase of
fifty-seven |»er cent, over the preceding
year and our exports to the Islands of
125 per cent.
—Milley Williams, a miser of Easton
Cro*s Roads, N. C., was accustomed to
invest her earnings in gold, $1 at a
time. Her dwelling was recently de
stroyed by lire, and lumps of melted
gold, worth about 10,000, were taken
from tbe ruins.
A watch lost two years ago in &
j barnyard, near Lebanon, Pa., was
‘ found the other day by a grandson of
tbe loser in a meadow hard by while
plowing. The face was broken, but
otherwise the watch was complete but
very rusty.
—There are twenty-five Mennonite
villages in Menitoba, with 480 dwel
lings and 2,841 residents. Tne immi
grants from Russia have 10,470 acres
under cultivation, 362 horses aud some
2,500 cows and uxeu. aud have already
large stores oi grain aud other products.
—A return as to the religious persua
sions of tne. non-commissioned officers
and men of the British army shows
ihat of a total of 91,842 men, 62.860 he-
loug to the Church ot England, 20,872
are Roman Catholics, 7125 are PresDy-
leriaus, aud 3385 are Protestants of
other denominations.
—Elmira, N. Y., is makingextensive
preparations io celebrate the liuudredth
inniver-ary of the battle of Newtown
(now Elmira), which was fought Au
gust 19, 1779, by Federal troops under
General Sullivan. lowns air ng the
route of General Sullivan’s match will
contribute to the celebration.
—Tbe next electoral college will not
be based ou tbe census of 1880. The
electoral votes of the states in the next
presidential election, w ill stand as they
•Jid in 1876, the whole number being
three hundred aud sixty-nine, with one
iiuudred aud eighty-live necessary for
a choice.
—The exports of Egvpt in 1778 were
about $40,060,000; iu 1877 about $60,-
000,000, and iu 1&76 about $90.0(X>,U00.
These figures, says a correspondent of
the Loudon Times, are worthy of study
by every oue who holds Egypt a rich
country and able to pay her debt. The
leasonof the falling off* is the falling
off of the crops.
—One million dollars in gold weighs
3.6S5 5-6 pounds avordupms; 1,000.000
trade dollars weigh 60,000; $1/00,1*00
of 412)£ grains weigh 58,928 47; $1,000,-
000 in fractional coins weigh 55,114 2-7;
$1,000,000 in five cent nickels weigh
these wintry crystals, that covered one side ^
of the staff, like a frosty beard, from top j 220,457”1-7; $1,000,000 in three cent
to bottom. The crystals were built out to j 1B i e L.els weigh 141,856 1-7; $1,000,000 in
nearly a foot in depth. On the day of our oue pieces weigh 685,714 2-7.
arrival at the Glen House the snow on the j j t j s expected that the St. Gothard
Summit is said to have been half a foot! Tunnel, through* the Alps, will be corn-
deep. Patches of it, in size from a few pi e ted by the end of November. The
acres down to a dinner-plate, are seen at point now reached on the Airolo side is
different heights on all the slopes of the. 128I metres, that on the Goeschen^t
White Blountain range. ; aide 649 metres from the centre of the
I mountain; and It is expected that the
In the twelye years ending with j junction of the two galleries will be
1878, Louisiana paid $9,361,095 as in- made some 300 metres Irom the centre
terest on its public debt. 1 on iu southern side.