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NEW SERIES—VOL. Y-NO. 21.
BOYS WANTED.
Boys of spirit, boys of will,
Boys of music, brain and power,
Fit to cope with anything—
These are wanted every hour.
Not the weak and whining drones
That all trouble magnify;
Not the watchword of “I can’t,”
But the nobler one, “I’ll try.”
Do whate’er you hare to do
With a true and earnest zeal;
Bend your sinews to the task,
Fat your shoulder to the wheel.
Though your duty may he hard,
Look not on it as an ill;
If it be an honest task,
Do it with an honest will.
At the anvil or the farm,
Wheresoever’you may he,
From your future efforts, hoys,
Comes a nation’s destiny.
IN THE WBONG HOUSE.
It was in Boston. The first snow of
the season had fallen the night before,
and the wind was dashing it off the toDS
of the high buildings, filling the air
with tiny particles that glittered Kite
diamonds in the brilliant sunshine. It
wasn’t quite so pleasant to have it come
with a rush right into one’s face, but
every one was merry and brisk this
morning, and why shouldn’t the wind
be so too? Two bright-faced girls were
rapidly threading their way through the
crowds that thronged around the great
dry goods stores. For an hour they
had been flitting from place to place,
attending to matters important or other
wise, hovering over the pretty things
piled high upon the counters, but
laughingly shaking their heads over
their empty purses.
“I shall have to appoint myself your
guardian, Alice, and put a veto on your
buying what you don’t need.” And the
speaker linked her arm with that of her
companion, and drew her towards the
door.
“J onght to be grateful, for I am in
debt now, and I really onght not to
spend a cent. Did you ever see such a
good-natured crowd? Now, you have
that call to make, and while you go
there I will run in and see Mollie. Don’t
stay long, will you, Grace?”
•‘No, I won’t, What a wind! I should
think it came straight from Labrador.
This wus rightly named Wijter street!
Here, give me your hand. Let ns get
into the sunshine, somehow, as quickly
as we can.
Hand in hand, laughing, breathless,
with heads bent to meet the fierce
winds tnat came tearing around the
corner, the cousins struggled forward
until they gained the corner, where
Alice halted for breath; but Grace ran
on, across Tremont street, and stood in
the flooding sunlight, waiting for her
companion.
•’Which way shall we go?” asked
Alice, when they were together again.
“Up Purk street or across the Com-
BOD?"
•'Across the Common by all means,”
said Grace. “I go out of my way when
in Boston, to walk on the Common. It
is sucliqi relief to me to escape from the
cold shadow of the high buildings. ”
So on they went, with faces so bright
from the cold air and their merry hearts
that all who met them smiled and went
their ways more blithely. Suddenly
their path was blocked by the snow, on
which men where still at work. An un
broken white expanse lay between them
and their goal.
“Three alternatives,” exclaimed
Grace, gayly; to wade through this
snow, which looks rather deep; to wait
, till the men finish the path for ns, 01
to take this path over to Park street.”
“In view of the lateness of the hour,
perhaps we had better make a conces
sion and accept the last See, there is
Mollie’s house. You see the house
with the roof higher than the others?”
“Yes,” said Grace, not very decided
ly.
“Weil, it is the third house from
that. If you finish your call first you
can stop for me, or vice versa, I will go
to meet you. Now don’ stay long.”
And they parted. Alice keeping on
down Beacon street in the sunshine,
Grace turning north over the hill
Neither had far to go from the comer
where they separated, and Grace was
soon waiting for admittance .at her
friend’s door. The servant who took
the card returned presently with the
intelligence that her mistress was so ill
that she was quite unable to receive
anyone. So it happend that in a few
moments Grace was again upon the
street.
This is nice,” she said to herself, as
she retraced the steps. “Alice will not
hurry herself, and, meantime, what is
to become of me? I do not wish to
shorten her call. I will walk down the
street very slowly and try to kill time.”
What an exquisite picture it is! And
truly it was beautiful. The leafless
trees on the Common lifted the delicate
tracery of their branches agajnst the
cloudless sky. The newly fallen snow
lay, still spotless, on the streets and
housetops. Along the few paths that
had been opened on the Common people
passed and repassed. The roar and
rusl) of the great city came softly to the
ear across the white plain. Near at
hand the State House raise 1 its shining
dome high m the air, and the tinkle of
sleigh bells and the merry shouts of
ehiluren added life and interest to the
seehe.
“1 am getting somewhat tired of this
promenade, although I doubt if there
oould be found a pleasanter place for it
in all the city. Which honse did Alice
aay? I’m sure I don’t know. If I walk
slowly past this club honse a few more
times I shall create a sensation. That
will not do at all. Let jne try
street.” But as she turned the comer
the north wind met her, and her feet
slipped dangerously on the icy pave
ment.
“Can't stand this, in more senses
than one. Why doesn’t that girl appear?
If it was not for the scow, now, I might
walk in the Common in the most nnno-
ticeable way possible. 1 will cross over
and study these roofs. What did Alice
say? What a stupid not to ask her the
number. But then I shon.dn’t have
heard it if she had told me. Serves me
nght for giving such careless attention
to what people are saying. I declare I
don’t even know her friend’s name.
Hollie, Mollie—what? I onght to kqow.
I have heard her name times enough
when I have been here before. She was
one of Alice’s classmates, hut she did
not mention her last name this morn
ing. This must be the house, Shall I
try it?
Grace, who had been carefully sur
veying the house that she was approach
ing, suddenly looked very determined,
mounted the steps and rang the bell.
The door was opened almost instantly
by a dignified old servant in. lively.
“1 beg pardon if 1 am makerng a
mistake,” she began, in her most win
ning voice. “Indeed, I am quite at
loss to explain myself. Has a young
lady called here within a half hour to
see a friend, a Miss Mollie——; my
cornin did not mention her surname.”
And she paused with an embaraesed
half smile. But the old servant had
already shaken his head.
“No, miss; no one has called,
snow, because I have been right here
all the time,”
“Then I have made a mistake. 1 am
sorry tc have troubled you. But, could
you. possibly?”—she hesitated.
T think there is a young lady next
door,” indicating the house with his
hand. “We have no young ladies in
this family.”
Thank you,” aloud. To herself:
“That accounts for a slight trace of
crustiness in your bearing, my good sir.
However, you .treated me very well—
for a tramp.’’
Should she dare again?- Her blood
was up. The merry mood of the morn
ing had not passed. It would be no
worse than this horrid promenading, and
she might find.her.
This time the door was opened by a
pleasant-faced yenng mulatto, who
seemed instantly to appreciate thesitua-
tion, for a suppressed twinkle in his eye
answered to the smile that, do what she
would, Grace knew was twitching at the
corners of her mouth.
“I beg pardon,’ she said, with an air
of frankness that would have disarmed
the most suspicious mind: “My con-
sin Miss Raymond, left me to call on a
friend, while I made another call in the
near neighborhood. My cousin pointed
out the house to me, but really I do not
know the house, the number, or her
friend’s name She called her only
Mollie Is there a Miss Mollie—? Has
a Miss Raymond called? You see, I—.
It is reallj very absurd,” and the young
lady ended with a little appealing ges
ture of the hauda that would haye done
credit to a F rench woman.
The young fellow smiled, y9t very
respectfully. “There is aMiss Molly,”
he said, Grace looked relieved. But
she was not yet sure.
“A lady may have called.” he con
tinued, “although I did not see her.
Miss Mollie is in New York.”
“Oh, then,” began Grace, preparing
to retreat. Rut he went on.
“If you will step into the parlor, if
you please, miss, I will go and inquire.”
“I thank you. I am sorry to trouble
you.”
“How utterly ridiculous this is,” she
said to herself, as she took the proffered
seat in a most elegant apartment. “To
think that I, Grace Carter, shonld be
in sncli a scrape as this! That man is
a true gentleman. How doee he know
what I may intend to carry off m my
pocket while he is gone? What would
Alice—”
The sound of a half suppressed cough
in another part of the room started her.
She became conscious that she had been
thinking aloud. Throwing, for the first
time, a rapid glance around the room,
her eyes met those of a gentleman who
was almost hidden from her view by an
angle of the room and the deop chair in
which he was sitting. He rose from Ins
seat, seeing himself discovered. Grace
arose also, turning towards the door,
for she heard the sound of returning
footsteps.
“The lady is not here miss, I am
Borry.” -
Ail Grace thought of now was to get
out of her awkward position as soon as
possible. The gentleman advanced to
offer assistance, but Grace rapidly and
somewhat incoherently uttered her
thanks and apologies to the servant,
fled, and drew a long breath of relief
as she reached lhe sidewalk once more.
“I feel as if I had lived an age, and it
is not fifteen minutes since I blundered
into the first place. If that girl dots
not appear before I reach the next
comer I shall go home withont her.
There she is this very minute, bliss
fully unconscious of the mischief I haye
been into.”
“How nice; you are just in time,
Grace. I told Mollie you might call
for me, and 1 have been listening for
the bell for some time. Did you have
a pleasant call? Mollie was looking
very lovely this morning; she had on a
new wrapper that is extremely becom
ing.”
“Mrs. Benton was indisposed, so that
1 did not see her at all,” said Grace, ra
ther grimly.
Alice looked np and langhed a qneer
expression on her cousin’s face. “Why
what did you do ail this time?” she ask
ed.
Grace hesitated. “Can yon keep it to
yonrself, if [ tell yon something?”
“Yes, indeed!”
“Well, then. 1 have been making
morning calls, on New Year’s Day, up
on the elite of Beacon street, Boston!”
“Grace Carter! ’
“Percisely; that’s just what I say. ”
And half laughing, half rueful, she told
the whole story.
Meanwhile the gentleman who had
been so suddenly disturbed in his quiet
doze did not seem inclined to retnm to
Iris chair.
“Yon say she gave her cousin's name
as Miss Raymond, Alfred?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Very well. That will do. How long
before dinner? I think I will go to the
store after dinner. My headache seems
to be better.”
“What a face that girl had!” he con
tinued, when left alone. “She most be
a stranger in the city. She is not a
Bostonian. A needle in a haystack!
Yet I am h '>uiid to find her. ano I w'"
Raymond, that is ail I have to guide
me.”
Alfred went away chuckling to him
self: “Mr. Frank’s struck at last.
With a country girl too. But she is a
little lady, that's a fact!” But Mr.
Frank went to the store and studied the
directory with great care.
He had been invited to a little New
Year’s party that evening, and as it was
to be a very quiet, informal affair, he
had consented to going, for although
belonging to one of the most aristocra
tic wealthy families in the city, he was
no society man. He wished now that he
had not promised to go, for he wanted
to take steps toward beginning his
search for the. apparition of the morn
ing.
“Fortune favors the brave.” “As
Mr. Ellis turned away after paying his
respects to his hostess, his eyes met the
very eyes that had looked into his that
morning in Ilia mother's parlor, and
although they were instantly turned
away the swift rush of color showed that
he was recognized. With an adroit
excuse about “a very striking resemb
lance,” he soon gained the desired in
troduction and made himself so agree
able to the young lady that Grace forgot
her determination to be frigidly polite,
and ere long the two were chatting
together like old friends, to the utter
astonishment of those present who knew
Ellis. Among his conpanions he was
considered a little short of a “woman
hater,” and there he sat completely en
grossed by a little, plainly dressed
country girl.
The months fly swiftly, and again it
is the eve of the New Year. Come with
me to a honse in one of the pleasantest
suburbs of Boston. A few snowflakes
are beginning to fall Look! the door
is opened and a servant stands on the
threshold, and, shading his eyes, peers
into the surrounding gloom to see if
there is a promise of a Btorm. We
recognize Alfred. Let ns slip past him
into the light and warmth of the hall,
and looking into the drawing room
where the rnddy fire light is dancing on
the wall. Two persons are standing be
fore the open fire, and the the taller has
his arm thrown carressingly around the
slight little figure at his side.
-••Grace, mi darling,” he is saying,
“i never can "be thankful eiiongh that
yon got into the wrong honse last New
Year’s. It was the making of my for
tune—and Alfred’s.” he adds laughing.
“Do yon know,” Grace answers de
murely, bnt with the merry Bparkle in
her eyes as of old, “F am not sure, in
the light ol subsequent events that it
was the wrong house.”
There is one article of merchandise
enumerated in the new tariff bill on which
an import has been laid for the purpose
of discouraging its importation and en
couraging its home production, which is
largely a California prednet This is
borax, of which large quantities are
gathered in that state and in Nevada.
Few people, except those engaged dii-
ectly in its production and sale, are like
ly to take much Interest in the tariff on
borax, and yet it is an article of almost
universal use. Prior to the discovery of
the California and Nevada fields lar e
quantities of the mineral were imported
from Turkey and Italy. Its value then
was about thirty-five cents a pound. At
present the production of American bor
ax has depressed the price to ten cents
a pound, and it would have gone still
lower and caused the cessation of mining
operations in California, if mining it can
be called, if Congress had not imposed
a customs duty upon the foreign pro
duct. This duty is five cents a pound,
and is to be levied after July 1st. The
local producers look forward with much
satisfaction to that period.
The prodnetion ot borax in the United
States at present is not sufficient to sup
ply the demand. Bat it is thought that
when the pnee shall have risen a few
cents under the fostering influences of
the ..duty first imposed the production
will increase sufficiently to supply the
entire market. At now ruling prices,
borax making in the Pacific states is not
a business which yields a great profit.
There are; it is true, immense fields of
Hie mineral, bnt they are in distant dis
tricts, not easy of access, and while the
cost of condensation is, not great, the
cost of freighting is so heavy that there
remains but a very small margin. A
nnmlierof incorporated companies, who,
in the enthusiasm engendered by the
first discovery undertook the business,
have gone the way of all flesh, Some
years ago there was one company which
operated quite successfully in Lake
county. There was in .the emuloy of
this company a young engineer who
sometimes struck an idea. The borax
in that particular locality was conduct
ed from the waters of a little lake, which
was very strongly impregnated with the
mineral. The engineer, therefore, con
ceived the idea that if the water on top
contained so much borax, that under
ground must contain so much more.
He therefore induced the company to
bore at the banks of the lake. " The au
ger went down and struck, not borax,
but a good, strong stream of fresh wat
er, which began to flow into the lake,
and thinned it so much that it did no
longer pay to condense its wateis for the
sake of the mineral.
The borax fields which have been
worked so far have been generally small
in extent. Only those in the neighbor
hood of good roads have been operated
upon. These are easily exhausted, and
the operators have to hunt for new bor
ax-fields. This is the cause and origin
of the numerous borax mining compan
ies which are inoorporated each year.
Several of those lately formed are to
operate in Inyo county, where the borax
fields ar# very extensive. The water
of Lower Owens’ lake contains a very
large percentage of borax. In early
days prospectors loved to wash theirJgray
or black woolen blankets in this water,
because it removed not only dirt, but
also color. They also liked to bathe iu
it, behause the poorest swimmer would
fioat in its saline fluid. But the water
was not good for drinking or cooking
purposes, and a very small quantity is
sufficient to produce sea-sickness. The
use of borax has materially increased of
late years. It is now used for a great
many mamffacturing purposes, such as
making agate household ware, pigments,
Ac. The trades, also, use it in liberal
quantities, and so do the soap-makers
and housewives, who .hate grease-spots
and cockroaches. The industry promis
es to become important in California.
A boat the Bed.
Not Insulted.
“That man to whom you sent me, in
sulted me, ” said a yonng drummer, who
had only been a few months in the busi
ness, to his trainer in a large house in this
city.
“Insulted you,” reiterated the trainer,
with an expression of contempt almost
sufficient to make the novice sink into the
floor.
“Were you never insulted,” timidly re
sponded the young man.
“Nqver, sir; not even during the period
of my novitiate, which passed through very
rapidly, and I have twenty years in the
business.”-
“That is very strange,” said the novice,
skeptically.
“Very strange if you don’t understand
it,” ferociously observed the old drummer.
“I have been often badly abused. 1 have
been ordered peremptorily to leave the
premises. 1 have been frequently knocked
down for standing on the order of my go
ing, and several times I hare been uncere
moniously kicked down stairs; but,” he
continued, gazing fiercely and triumphant
ly at the young man, “I have never been
insulted. The moment a drummer tee Is
himself insulted he is nojonger fit for
business.”
| [Reef ink is a solution of alum colored
with Brazil wood, or an .mmoniamd so
lution of cochineal.
A Spanish minister signalized bis ac
cession to power by going straightway
to lied and staying there, lest he shonld
be expected to do something. No
English minister. ever adopted that
ignoble expedient to escape performing
his duties; bnt Walpole relates that
William Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle
once held counsel together in bed.
Pitt had the goat, and, as was his
custom when so afflicted, lay under a
pile of bed-clothes in a fireless room.
The Dnke, who was terribly afraid' of
catching cold, first sat down upon
another bed as the warmest place
available, drew his legs Into it as he
grew colder, and at last fairly lodged
himself under the bed-clothes. Some
body coming in suddenly beheld “the
two ministers in bed at the two ends of
the room, while Pitt’s long nose and
black beard, nnahaved for some time,
added to the grotesque nature of the
scene,”
The great Commoner was abed and
asleep when Wyndham and others of
his colleagues burst into his room and
shook their chief out of his slumbers
to tell him there was mutiny iu the'
fleet, that the Admiral was a prisoner
on board his own ship, and in danger
of death. Sitting np in bed, Pitt asked
fur a pen, ink and paper, and wrote:
“If the Admiral is not released, fire
upon the ship from the batteries;” and
turned over on his pillow, and was m a
sound sleep a few minutes later.
When, in 1814, the military affairs of
the allies looked somewhat unpromis
ing, it was around the bed of General
Knesbeoh, at Barsnr-Anbe, that the
Emperors of Russia and Austria, the
King of Prussia, Hardenberg, Vol
konsky, Schwartzenberg, Mettemich,
Radetsky, Diebitsch, Nesselrode, and
Castlereagh held their council c.f war;
and the issue of the campaign culmi
nating in the occupation of Paris was
virtually decided by Castlereagh in
sisting upon the immediate transfer
ence of wavering Bernadotte’s battalions
to Blucher’s command, and taking the
responsibility upon his own shoulders.
It'was in bed, at the little inn at
Waterloo, that Wellington received the
terrible casualty-list of the memorable
18th cf June; and as name after name
fell fiom Dr, Hume’s lips, he threw
himself back on the pillow anjj groaned
out: “What victory is not too dearly
purchased at such a C06t?” Wellington,
who possessed the faculty of sleeping
at will, held that when it was time to
turn over it wus time to torn ont.
Napoleon, a man of another tempera
ment, provided for wakefulness by
keeping the returns of his army nnder
his pillow, to be conned and^considered
when tired nature’s sweet restorer re
fused to share liis “bed majestical. ”
One of Johnson’s earliest ventures in
book-making was the translating of
Lobo’s “Voyage to Abyssinia,” whicn
put fifty dollars into his pocket. Lying
in bed, he dictated sheet after sheet to
his friend Hector,'who carried them off
to the printer without waiting for John
son to look over them.
Mexican Common Life.
Yon wifi find the miserable iseals (huts)
of the Mexican lower class on the outskirts
of every town, made of mud, sticks, straw,
cornstalks, barrel staves, shoe boxes, tin
cases any old drift that will hang together
when once faster ed into place. They are
tufitly roofed with tule thatch, which
slopes almost to the ground. Sometimes
they stand in rows m the suburbs. some
times they are perched on the top of a
clay cone, and sometimes tucked away in
the oacks of dry ravines. Every" jacal
has its garden patch, where the women
cultivate a few onions, red pepoers. beans
and sweet potatoes. A little mud oven
stands close by. A Mexican family can
live on a hill of beans rer day. In the
winter a five penny soup bone and a yam
will satisfy their needs. Nearly every
one keeps a small donkey and a few chick
ens, a couple of goats and a blue-skinned
dog, with no hair on except a white tufa
on the top of his head and the tip of his
tail. They singe the thorns off the cactus
and feed the pods to the donkey; give the
soup-bone to the dog and the goats have
what is !eP-in the bean-hill. Other dogs
have they, marvelous in number and va
riety, whose bile disturbs no one, hut
whose ‘nocturnal baying divides the voices
of the night with the cock-crowing that
resounds from house to jac&l, and from
term to ranch, in surges of sound like the
waves of the sea.”
Of the interior of these hut3, it may be
said that the earthen floors are always
swept, and the gaudily covered bed looks
clean and neat, thanks to the house-thrift
of the women, who seem always busy.
There are abundant evidences of extreme
poverty, but not of filth or squalor. As
for pater fanulias, who dozes in the sun
or shade alternately, according to the sea
son, it costs him a mighty effort to turn
over, even to light his cigarette is too
great an exertion. Occasionally, in des
perate straits, he musters energy enough
to bestride his d-nfcey and ride out to the
chaparral for a black load of mesquite
sticks, which he wih sell for a “bit” on his
return, driving his beast before him. This
is the most momentous event of his life,
and stimulated with the proud conscious
ness of having earned a shilling, he rises
in his rags and salutes you with the grave
courtesy of a Spanish don. It is the cli
max of his ambition, but it is painful. His
children arc more active, and they vary
their ont-door play by throwing the lasso
at each other, the dogs and the goats; but
they never lasso the old man. He is too
dignified to be trifled with. And you will
notice that he never demeans himself by
attempting to speak English—he has not
sunk so low as that; but he will accept
American money without question, it pre
sented to him in a respectful way. Vul-
game dios!
It 14 interesting to walk through these
strange purlieus ot the lowos and watch
the beggars at the church doors; visit the
coffee stalls on the plazas; note the water
carts on their merciful errands ; the wo
men at their spinning wheels or pounding
corn tor their frugal meal, and the grotes
que milkman astride his donkey, going
his morning rounds, dipping from one can
or the other as he serves and sells. It is
ail very strange and foreign, bnt Dot a
whit like the halls of the Montezum&s or
SftfCdartflirn Advertiser.
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cheaply and promptly.
A Queer Joke.
°“,i li ^- Eon88 ^ the Alhambra- I see the accquios run-
remained in bed, carefully drawing hie ping trough lhe aa(T ,J e Irrigat .
curtains to keep ont the daylight, and
gave himself up to the fascinating
delights of composition.
In bed, Faesiello composed his
“Barbiere di Seviglia” and “La Moli-
nara.” One at least ot Rossini's operas
was composed nnder the same condi
tions.
Swift, fond as he was of lying in bed
of a morning thinking of wit for the
day, wrote to his friend Sheridan:
“Fray do not employ your time in loll
ing abed till noon to read Homer.”
Better, perhaps, do that than imitate
George IV., and lie in bed devouring
newspapers the best part of the day.
Many very clever people, however, have
scouted the idea of health, wealth and
wisdom coining of early rising.
Macauley read mnch in bed, and
anxious to keep up his German, Im
posed upon himself the task of pernsing
twenty pages of Schiller every day
before getting np.
Maule won his senior-wrangleship by
studying bard, long after ordinary folk
were np and about, snugly esconced
under the blankets,
John Foster thought his sermons out
in bed; methodical Anthony Trollope
regularly read for an hour before rising;
and Mary Somerville made it a rule not
to get up before twelve or one, although
she began work at eight; reading, writ
ing, and calculating hard—with her pet
sparrow upon her arm—four or five
hours every day, but those four or five
hours were spent in bed.
A YVuoden Leg Under Fire.
A fashionably dressed. matron sat id the
rear cabin ot a Fulton ferry boat, New
York. She was accompanied by a thin-
legged, restless-eyed little girl of 4 oi
thereabouts. A few seats away was a man
with a wooden leg. With unerring instinct
the child's eye had lighted upon this man.
That eye at once became fixed, dilating
with concentrated interest. The child
crawled down from her seat, npon which
she bad been kneeling, m order to afford
that eye better facilities for observation.
The object of scrutiny squirmed uneasily
in bis seat. Taming to the mother the
child exclaimed in a portentous whisper:
“Oh, ma! Look at that man.”
“Hush, my dear. You must not be
rude.”
“But ma’’ (in a very audible whisper),
“do look at bis leg.”
“Be qraet, Ethel, I tell you,” frantical
ly urged the matron in agitated tones. “The
poor man has lost his leg. It’s very rude
to notice it.”
•What’s that one made of?”
•Hush! ot wood, my dear. Look at
that pretty little boy over there. See how
good he is.”
“Did you ever have a leg like that,
ma?”
“No, my dear. Look over there at
that ”
‘Will pa or Uncle John or I ever have
one, ma i”
“No dear.”
“Could he kick a ball with that legI”
“Hush, do!”
“But, ma ”
At this juncture the man with the wood-
en.ieg sought, m turn, to create a diversion
He drew from his pocket a pretty little
bonbon box and offered the child some
sweetmeats. The child accepted them
with some hesitation and mistrust. Ah
instant later the boat reached the slip. The
mother rose, and smiling graciously, said:
’•Thank the gentleman, Ethel, and say
good-hve.”
Ethel advanced, her eyea still firmly
fixed npon the object of interest. She held
out the tips of her little fingers.
•Good bye,” she said, in a voice full of
emotion; “good-bye, you poor, man.”
The mother adzed the child by the hand
and, hurrying through the boat, gained
the bridge.”
ing ditches dug by the early Spanish co
lonists. 1 saunter under the shade of huge
grape vines with stems as large as a tree,
and hear the clang of the iron bells in the
old stone belfry, built two centuries ago.
I recognize ail these traces of an attempted
civilization, li$e halt-obliterated footprints
in the mire, it is the imprint of the
sterling coin upon the basest sort of com
position, I would fain flee in disgust from
the squalor, poverty, ignorance and semi
barbarism which has settled in the valley
like a miasma—but already I behold the
sun of a new dispensation; I see that all
these Mexican features are being rapidly
wiped out by the settlements from the
East, which have followed the completion
of the railroads.
Female Halluejnatlons.
“Dr. Legranddu Saulle, physician to
the Salpetriere, Paris, describes in his
standard work, ‘Les JTybteriques,’ some
remarkable casesof hallucination, where
females labored under the belief that
they have been struck or stabbed by
others, even after having inflicted blows
and wounds npon themselves. In one
instance a young woman was found by
her husband lying on tne floor of her
room in a fainting fit, her face covered
with blood. On reviving from her
swoon she stated that she had been at
tacked by armed men; the Paris news
papers related the ease, and within
three weens two similar events occurred
in the French metropolis. All these
cases proved to be fabricated by the
supposed victims. A young girl wound
ed herself slightly with a pistol. She
gave the police authorities the most
minute details about an imaginary as
sassin, who, according to her account,
fired the weapon, bnt she was found to
be highly hysterical, and it was proved
that she had wilfully wounded herself.
In a third case in Dr, du Sanlle’s ex
perience, a young woman was found in
a railway carriage stabbed in the left
side. The incident caused great excite
ment, but it was proved, contrary to
her assertions, that she had inflicted
the wound herself, and was a hysterical
subject A housemaid was found lying
behind a door, bound, gagged, and
covered with bruises. She stated that
she had been brutally attacked by two.
burglars with blackened faoes! but she
was a highly hysterical woman, and
there appears to have been strong evi
dence that she had contrived to tie her
own hands and to gag.and bruise her
self. Perhaps the strongest case of all
occurred in M. Tardien’s practice. A
yonng lady living at Gourbeyoie wished
to make herself an object of public in
terest by passing as a victim of a politi
cal conspiracy, which she pretended to
have discovered. One night she was
found in a state of the greatest mental
perturbation at the door of her apart
menU She could not talk; but stated in
writing that she had been attacked out
side her own honse by a man, who had
attempted to garrote her, at the same
time striking her twice with'a dagger.
Only the lady’s clothing was injured,
and the body of her dress and her cor
set were found to be out through, but
at different levels. She tried to make
out that the attempt at strangulation
had caused dumbness. M Tardieu re
marked in her hearing that this infirmity
rapidly disappeared when produced un
der (jjrcumstances of thm kind. She
soon managed to regain her speech;
and, in a short time, admitted that the
whole narrative had been developed ont
of her inner consciousness. ”
Every invention that reduces the cost
of a material, or makes it cheaper, in
creases the consumption, and consequent
ly the demand for iL
The cash office of the Treasurer s De
partment in the Treasury Building at
Washington often contains many hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, and great
care is taken against the possible de
predations of thieves: The room is very
high studded and contains a gallery
which can be reached by the general
public from the floor above. The inter
est clerk is an auburn-haired individual
of the most nervous temperament, and
notwithstanding the fact that he has been
in his position for many years he has
never lost sight of the tremendous re
sponsibility of handling the vast sums
of money which daily pass into his pos
session. His nervousness has grown
chronic, and he is made the butt of many
a quite practical joke. The greatest of
these was played some time ago by one
of his intimate personal friends who ob
tained permission from Treasurer Gilfil-
lan to try his little scheme. The gen
tleman armed himself with about twen
ty-five feet of twine, and attached to one
end of it a machine composed of a steel
prod pointed as fine as a needle, and a
solid piece of rubber as a ballast. He
stationed himself in the gallery directly
over the interest clerk’s desk, where
there were heaps of money all nicely
done up in packages. Then he slowly
let down his string until it was directly
over a large package, and releasing his
hold on the twine, the steel prod impal
ed a bundle of notes, which he quickly
drew to the gallery, and having secured
them, rushed to the Treasurer’s office
with his prize, which proved to be $6,
000 in legal tendeis. Meanwhile .the in
terest clerk saw his money going sky
ward and gave the general alarm, but
not in time, however, to detect the cul
prit. The clerk was nearly crazed when
he received anote signed “James Gilfil-
ian,” asking him to come at once to the
Treasurer’s office. He went as fast as
his legs could carry him, and imagine
liis joy when the Treasurer handed him
the missing $0,000, advising him to be
more careful that bis money did not
“take unto itself wings and fly away” in
the future. This practical joke has
taught the department a good lesson,
to-wit; that it was possible for a clever
thief to abstract money in the method
mentioned, and so doable precautions
have been taken, and under the existing
state of affairs snch an event is not at
all likely to happen again.
The Canadian Pacific —
Saved by a Sea-Bird.
A singular story has been related to us
by the master of the bark “Gladstone,
which arrived from London at Sydney,
Australia,ou the 22d, of March. While the
vessel was in latitude 42 degrees south and
longitude 90 degrees east, a seaman fell
overboard from the starboard gangway.
The bark was scudding along with a
rough °ea and moderate wind, but on the
alarm of “man overboard” being given
she was rounded to. and the starboard life
boat was lowered, manned by the chief
officer and four men. A search for the
unfortunate man was made, but owing to
the roughness of’the sea be could not be
discovered; but the boat steered to the
spot where be was last seen. Here they
found him floating, but exhausted, clinging
for bare life to the legs and wings of a
buge albatross. The bird had swooped
down on tie man while the latter was
strugglmg with the waves and attempted
to peck him with its powerful beak.Twice
the bird attacked its prey unsuccessfully,
being beaten off by the sailor battling with
two enemies—the„water and the albatross
—both greedy and insatiable. For the
third time the hnge white form of the bird
hovered over the seaman, peeparatory to a
final swoop. The bird, eager for its meal,
fanned its victim with its wide-spread
wings. Suddenly a thought occurred to
turn that the huge form so close to Ins face
might become his involuntary rescuer.
Quick as thought be reached up and
seized the biro, which he proceeded to-
strangle with all his might. The huge
creature struggled with wings and paddles
to free itself, in the contest the sailor
was beaten black and blue, and cruelly
lacerated, but he held his own, and slowly
the bird quivered and died. The carcass
floated lighty on the waves, its feathers
forming a comfortable support for the ex
hausted man, who had so narrowly es
caped a lingering death. But another
danger awaited him. He was not much
of a swimmer, and the excitement of the
extraordinary conflict began to tell upon
him. He was faint and grew giddy. But
with one arm around the albatross’ body,
under the wing, aod one hand clutching
the bird’s feet, the sailor awaited his
chance of rescue. Presently he heard his
comrades shout from the boat, and in a
few minutes more was safe on board the
bark, though a good deal shaken and ex
hausted.
a Bad Man.
A story is told of a prominent Wilming-
toman, who several years ago was inclined
to be full of fun, u little irreverent and
somewhat short ot cash. One afternoon,
perhaps seven or eight years ago, he was
met by a friend wbo addressed bim thus;:
“I say, Charley, who was that nice look
ing old lady, you had out riding the other
day on the Kennett pike?”
“That,” replied the young man, “was
my rich aunt. She is about 95 years old,
and 1 was afraid she had been forgotten
and was never going to die, so I took her
out to show her to the Lord.”
The questioner was somewhat shocked
at the reply, and made no farther remarks.
In about three weeks, however, he met his
friend Charley, the old lady m the mean
time having died and been buried, and
thus addressed him: “Well, Charley, 1
see you plan worked, and the Lard has
taken your aunt. How did you make out
by her will.”
“Only a part of the scheme worked,
George;” replied the young man, with a
lugubrious cast of features and 1-haven’t-
got-a-cent-m-the-world-volce. “The old
lady was taken, that’s true, bnt when her
last will and testament was read I found
she left all her wealth to two old darkey
servants and a home for aged men, while
I only received sis my share of the estate a
dog-earned and thumb-marked family.
Bible. The trouble didn’t pay at all, be
sides 1 am a dollar and a half out for car
nage hire. The next time X trot anv one
out that has been overlooked, you’ll kno#
When completed, together with connec
tions. this line will extend 2,850 miles,
from Montreal, Canada, to Port Moody,'
on the Georgian GiilE. The mam hne be
gins at Prince Arthur’s landing, on Lake
Superior, and has been built to Winnipeg,
435 miles. Westward, of 500 miles con
tracted to be built, grading has been com
pleted 480 miles. Iron has been laid to a
point within 61 miles of the Saskatchewan
river. A portion of the last sixty five
miles has been graded, and reduced crews
have been left at different points along the
uncompleted sections, so that work has
not altogether been suspended. The Hne
is open for traffic west from Winnipeg
935 mires. On the Thunder Bay division,
the road is operated from Winnipeg to Rat
Portage, 135 miles east of Winnipeg,
lhe remainder of the distance, about 3S5
miles, to Thunder Bay, is being operated
by the Canadian Government contractors,
trams passing over the entire road two
times weekly. Contracts have been let
upon the Lake Superior section east from
Prince Arthur’s Landing, snd work will
be continued simultaneously along the
whole section. This eastern Hne is near
the shores or Lake Superior, making a
more costly road, perhaps, than if the
builders had sought easier paths, but the
tacihties for getting supplies along the
numerous rivers which the road will cross
so helps them in their construction work
that this route was considered the most
feasible. On the west the proposed point
of crossing the Rocky Mountains, as found
by Engineer Rogers and settled upon by
the company, is Ricking Horse Pass,
which Is shout 140 miles north of the
boundary hne between this county and the
British Possessions, and nearly 200 miles
north of Fend d’Oreille, where the
Northern Pacific enters the mountains
from the west. From K'cking Horse
I’ass the Canadian Pacific road passes due
west to Shusway lake, and then turns-al-
most due south and runs 200 miles to
Thompson river, then bends to the west
and strikes the Pac'fic eoast at Port
Moody, on the Georgian Gulf.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Color-Blind.
“I should think you would meet with
funny mistakes?”
“I do. 1 often get on the wrong car
late at night, and, after a while, find my
self almost beyond walking distance of
my destination. Of course I swear; but
that don’t help matters. The other day
my wife said: 'Henry, do get a black suit
of clothes this time, and don’t come home
here wearing that eternal brown cloth.
1 said *811 right.’ I bought wttat I was
supremely confident was a jet black suit.
Upon going home I gazed proudly at my
partner and said: ‘See. I nave got this
time a black suit.* She laughed, aDd to
this day I am wearing those clothes, which
are a deep brown in color. When 1 want
a little circus all to myself, 1 close my
eyelids and vigorously rub my eyeballs.
I never see over seven colors, but I see
these seven mighty quick and they dance
around in spots and streaks and zigz ig
shapes Uke demons. Blood has a dull
gray appearance, like stone. My inability
to distinguish colors renders me more sus
ceptible to music thaD most people. The
lost power is thus compensated for.
“1 am also magnetic, but whether this
depends upon my color blindness I do not
know. Seel l brusn my hair, you hear
a cracking sound and sparks jump from
under my hat. I do this without any
effort. To a certain extent I am insensi
ble to pain. I think this is consequent
upon most color blindness. My nerves
are blunted! Once I dropped a heavy
piece of iron on my toe, cutting it com
pletely trom the foot. It did not hurt me.
saw blood, but that was all. But I
must say good-bye here; we are at the
depot,” and the stranger jumped out and
disappeared.
—Many CathoUc priests in Italy re
ceive only $80 a year.
—Monks iiave doubled in number in
Belgium since 1850.
—A ton of pure gold will make some
thing over $602,785.
—There is a project to revive ancien t
Roman names in thp Coliseum.
- ~® now has fallen for eleven success
ive Sundays at Bar Harbor, Me.
. -Longfellow’s daughters are spend
ing the winter in Washington.
• 77 The Parisian Florist says that spring
mhe very worst season for selling fiow-
—Oscar Wilile is studying for the
stage. One of his first efforts will be
Romeo.”
United States one person in
-8o is said to he a pauper; in England
one in 35.
. There are 2,187 miles of telephone
wire m 1 aris, and what is better, they
are all under ground.
Under the new law, the State Treas-
urcr of Colorado has to give bonds in the
sum of half a million.
—Ex-Senator David Davis is to be
presented by admiring friends in Texas
ivith a chair made of ox horns.
, ~h>r. Y ates, of Shanghai, says the
Chinese pay $154,752,000 annually to
quiet the spirits of their ancestors.
f,n oacli 1,000 of siiver dollars the
Government clears $183.75. The silver
costs $803.75 and the labor $12.50.
—’’I be Crow Indians of Montana num-
lier about 3,400 and are cliiefly engag
ed in agricidture and stock raising.
—A thousand dollar bill was placed
upon the contribution plate in St. Paul’s
Church,. Pawtucket, R. I., Easter morn
ing.
—A lady tourist at Jacksonville, Fla.
took to a jeweller a live lizard, asking «
that it be mounted in gold for a scarf
pin.
Th« Color of Horses.
The Navajo Indians in Arizona have
900,500 sheep and 2 : 0,000 goats, the
result of an investment of $30,000 for
them by the Government 2 or 3 years
ago. This heretofore expensive tribe
required an appropriation of only $5000
a year and are now considered seif sus
taining. They occupy an immense
tract of land, however, which is held
for settlers.
Ban points, or unsoandneas, are as
easily transmiaaable by the parent
stock as the goed qualities; therefore,
the greatest care’should be exercised in
selecting breeders.
Considering how important a factor
color is m the selling value of a team,
especially if the buyer places a high valoe
upon the general appearance—the attrac
tiveness of his turn-out—it is a little sing
ular that no greater attention is paid to
breeding for colors that are especially
attractive, it is well known that a team
of richly dappled grays, having long,
well- carried tails, never go begging for a
buyer, even though they may be a little
plain m form, have only a medium gait,
and feet and limbs that require gentle
usage and irequent aid from the veterin
ary surgeon. Such a team does fairly
well for service before the family carriage,
if put to light use, and in the hands of a
careful groom will wear pretty well.
While selling quite readily at $500 or
$600, for city use, on account of its show
qualities, if it were stripped ot these, by
giving it a plain color .and the tail of a
common plug, such a team would go slow
at |$50 or so. That is but an illustration
of what we see in other Unes, for instance
furs, certain shades selling for very high
prices as compared to others. What is
true of a nice dapple-grey, is also true of
a rich black ur bay team, provided they
have the accompaniment of full, flowing
mane aDd tails, and fine, stylish appear
ance. Therefore, when it is considered
that the demand for horses, for the pur
pose of making up showy equipages, is
very great in all the larger cities, it is a
Uttie singular that no special attention is
given lo breeding horses through which
scientists term methodical selection.
Through adherence lo a system, the qual
ities mentioned could be secured, whereas
now, rich colors and ornamentation ODly
come occasionally, through cnance.
“Slay 1 Kiss That Baby?’’
To a soldier, tar away from home, there
is no more touching sight than that of a
baby in its mother’s arms. W hue on their
way to Gettysburg our troops were march
ing by night througb a village over whose
gateways hung lighted lanterns, wnile
yonng girls shed tears as they watched the
brothers of other women march on to pos
sible death. A scene of the march is thus
described by the author of “Bullet and
Shell. *
Stopping for a moment at the gate of a
dwelling, 1 noticed a young mottier lean
ing over it with a chubby child in her arms.
Above the woman’s head swing a couple
ot Stable lanterns, their light falling upon
her face. The child was crowing with
delight at the str&Dge pageant, as it
watched the armed host pass "on. “J beg
your pardon, ma’am,” said Jim Manners,
one of my men, as he dropped the butt of
bis masked on the ground, and peered
wistfully into the fadbs of the mother and
her child. “1 beg pardon, but may I kiss
that baby of yours ? I’ve got one Just like
him at home, at least he was when I last
saw him, two years ago.” The mother, a
sympathetic tear relliDg down her bloom
ing cbeek, silently held out the child. Jim
pressed his unshaven face to its innocent,
snai'tog lips for a moment, and the
walked on, saying: “God bleaa you,
ma’am, for that I” Poor Jim Manners!
He never saw his boy again in life. A
ballet laid him low the neat day. as we
made our. first charge.
Franklin Pierce’s old home in the
outskirts of Concord, N. H., is to be
transformed into a Protestant Episcopal
school for girls.
A man up town made a wager witb
a lady that lie could thread a needle
quicker than she could sharpen a lead
pencil. The man won.
—Tarring and feathering is a Euro
pean invention. It was one of Richard
Cceur de Lion’s ordinances for seamen
in punishment for theft.
—Edward the Confessor was the first
monarch of England who used a seal in
liis charters. This is the origin of the
broad seal of England.
—Between the years of 1783 and 1S57
six great earthquakes took place at Na
ples, which lost thereby 1,500 inhabit
ants per year for that period.
—Orange trees are cultivated from
seed. A tree requires fifteen years to
reach maturity, but produces both flow
ers and fruit in the fourth or fifth year:
—Canal locus were Known in upper
Egypt from the most ancient times
known to history. They were intro
duced into England from Flanders in
1652.
—Of the $150,000,000 worth of wheat
imported by Great Britain last year
$100,000,000 worth was from the United
States.
There is talk in Georgia of purchas
ing Liberty Hall, Alexander II. Steph
en’s late residence, by voluntary contri
butions, anil to retain in it his famous
rolling-chair and other relics.
—Mis. Carter, of Bellair,0., says in
her application for divorce that her hus
band compelled her to swallow spools,
buttons, long strings of wrapping yam
kind marbles as punishment for smiling
at other railroad men as they passed the
house.
—Of the 11,060,000 acres of land oc
cupied by the Sioux Indians in Dakota
Uncle Sam will take 8,000,000 for white
settlement, placing the Indians on sepa
rate reservations. The Indian territory
west of Arkansas will lie the next cus
tomer.
—For a long time official circles in
Loudon have been agitated over the
question whether or not a woman should
be appointed to be superintendent of the
female employes in the post-office. It
has at last been decided by the appoint
ment of a woman physician.
—French mails have increased in in-
closiues, etc., sent from 865,000,000 in
1877 to 1,340,000,000 in 1881; French
telegraphs from 8,174,000 dispatches in
18i 6 to 19,466,000 in 1881; French money
orders from $1,341,000 in 1879, when
they were established to $9,775,000 in
1881.
—Since the Cotton Exhibition at At
lanta last year, $1,500,000 of capital has
been invested there; a grain elevator and
a cotton compress built; a spinning com
pany completed, and nearly filled its
capacious building with machinery, and
a concern organized for. the manufac
ture of oleomargarine.
—There is an earnest attempt being
made to root out the terrible disease of
leprosy from the Hawaiian Islands.
Fifty lepers have recently been removed
from Honolulu to the leper settlement
at the island of Molokai, to be separated
from their friends and families forever.
—The law library of the late Justice
Clifford, of the United States Supreme
Court, is now offered for sale at Port
land, Maine, and an effort is being made
to have it purchased as a whole and kept
in that city as a public library.' It is
said to be the largest law library in New
England except one in Boston.
—Sir William Thompson finds that
sunlight has about 70,000 times the in
tensity of the Ught of the full moon at
any place on the earth, and about 53,000
that of candle flame. The latter result
differs widely from that obtained by
Arago, who found the light of the sun
to have about 15,000 times the intensity
of candle flame.
—Antwerp, a city of 200,000 has no
water supply but wells and canals, and
in 1879 works were built to filter the
waters of the Nethe by passing them
through filters of sand and spongy iron
and gravel. The plan has proved suc
cessful, but the supply is very small, ac
cording to American ideas, being receiv
ed in a tank of only 340,090 gallons.
—The number of newspapers now
published in Great Britain and Ireland
is 1962, of which 1530 are published in
England alone, London claiming 386 of
them. In Wales there are 75 papers, in
Scotland 181, in Ireland 152, in the Isles
2L The daily papers are thus distrib
uted: 127 in England, 4 in Wales, 22 in
Scotland, 16 in Ireland and 2 in the
Isles. In 1846 the number of newspo-
pers in Great Britain and Ireland was
only 551, or about one-fourth the num
ber now, and only 14 of them were dai
lies. The magazines now in existence,
including the quarterlies, number 1311
of which 326 have a decidedly reliirious
character. • -