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WHERE THE ROUGH ROAE>«URNS.
Where the rough road turns and the valley
6weet
Smiles soft with its balm and bloom.
We’ll forget the thorns that have pierced
the feet
And tbe nights with their grief and
gj o;>in
And the skies will smile aud the stars will
beam
And we’ll lay us down in the light to
dream.
We shall lay us down in the bloom and
light
With a prayer and a tear for rest, -
As tired children who creep at night
To the love of a mother’s breast; - ■
And for all the grief of the stormy cast
Rest shall be sweeter at last—at last!
Sweeter because of the weary way
And the lonesome night and long.
While the darkness drifts to the perfect
day
With its splendor of light and song; >
The light that shall bless us and kiss us and
love us
And sprinkle the roses of heaven above
us!
—F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
A SWISS LOVE STORY. 1
BY ANSA. PIKRPONT SI VITEK.
J N a pretty chalet
that nestled high
Mf against the shaggy
breast of Mount Ob-
gadin lived the
widow Neur and her
* -i daughter Marie.
gpjtfi A lonely home you
would have thought
it, but tbe fir trees
w; r ! that wailed so in
1 -!i A ,J y° ur ears whispered
^ goodeheer to Marie.
When tierce winds
came rushing down
the mountain side, she knew the trees
would bend their tall heads together and
twine their strong arms around her
home, until, robbed of his victim, the
bafllcd storm rushed by.
When morning broke, the same
friends stood erect and stately, drawing
aside their leaves and branches, that the
sunbeams might not linger in their soft
embraces, but hasten down to awaken
their favorite, Marie.
Very lovely was the little Swiss maid,
with violet eyes that now danced and
sparkled and then grew soft and tender
as a little child’s. Two rose red lips
shut In her pearly teeth, and when she
smiled a tiny dimple danced foi a mo-
meat -on her peachy cheek. Her hair
clung in caressing curls around her low
■white forehead, and fell in ripples of
golden sunshine far below her slender
waist. And her voice! Ah! that was
Marie’s greatest charm. Soft and clear,
not a discordant note marred its sweet,
pure harmony. Sometimes as she sang
at her evening devotions the herdsmen
far below in the valley, catching faint
notes of her song, looked up and crossed
themselves, half believing they heard
the echo of an ange' choir.
But very few knew of Marie’s beauty.
For when Bhe went with her mother on
one ot her rare visits to the hamlet be¬
low, she brushed her wavy hair straight
and smooth back from her forehead, and
braided it in long stiff plaits which fell
down her back.
Her eyelids, with their curtains of
long silky lashes, drooped over her danc¬
ing eyes until one looked in vain for a
glimpse of their beauty. Her red lips
shut firmly over her pearly teeth, while
the dimple hid itself resolutely away from
sight. Aud her sweet voice, frightened
at its own sound so far from home, grew
faint and husky, until, in this shrink-
ing, sober damsel, walking so timidly
beside the Widow Neur, you would have
found it bard to recognize the beautiful
Marie of the mountain.
So it happened that only her mother
and one other person knew h©Av good
and sweet and how fair Mane was.
1 his other was a stranger who came
from a iar away country and spent his
summers in a little house on the raouu-
tain s very top.
• The simple villagers called him “the
wizard, ’ aud told strange tales of how
he spent whole nights gazing at the
heavens through a long tube; that he
could foretell to an hour when the suu
would cover itself with darkness; but,
strangest, of a!!, he had a little Avire
stretched for miles over hills and valleys
to tho great city! Tills wire talked to
him in a queer language wtiich no one
els2 could understand.
“\ick, tick, rickety tick,” it said,
and it told him things that happened
miles and miles nway.
Marie aid not know how wise the
wizard was when lie came to her home
one morning ami asked for a drink of
water *
He followed _ her to the spring when
she went for it aud stopped by the way
to break open a curious stone. He
showed Marie how qucerly marked it was
inside, and then tclcl her a story about it.
The usually timid maiden was so inter-
ested she forgot to be frightened, and
thus a strong friendship between the two
Afterthis tbe wizard often f came to
he widow s chalet for rest aud refresh-
went on his long rambles, and Marie un-
consciously revealed her charms to him,
one by one, until, long before the first
summer was ended, the stranger knew
that no girl in all the canton could be
rompared v. ith Marie.
otber ride ot the mountaiu from
the , Midow Neur’s home lived another
widow. Sh', too, had but one child, a
son, who was the pride and delight of
her life. This was the brave young
hunter and guide Gustavus I riel.
Every one knew and liked Gustavus.
He was tall, straight, and haudsomc,
with flashing brown eyes, and a laugh as
frank as a child’s; he was the favorite of
the canton, and there was not a girl
within its bounds who would not have
been proud to plight her troth with
him.
Gust&vus, hoAvever, cared littie for the
Obgadin maidens, lie would far rather
ubase the chamois up the mouctaiaside
or guide travelers through its dangerous
passes than spend his time with the finest
of the maids of the hamlet.
His pother often said, “My son, when
wilt thou bring uie home a daughter and
thyself a wife?”
And Gustavu-', smiling aud and press-
ing a kiss ou her forehead, would an-
»wer:
“When I find a maid as good as thee,
mother; but I Asaatnoidle, shrill-voiced
wife to disturb our quiet home.”
But oue day bis mother said more
tadiy and ftcriotts^ t an ever before;
“Gostavu* ; V am growing old and
feeble. I can no longer make and mend
thy clothes and keep our home. Thou
must have a wife. Promise me at the
fete next week thou wilt choose one
from among the maidens there.”
Gustavus reluctantly gave her the de-
sircd P romi9e > but ifc weighed heavily
upon him. He could think of nothing
ebe » anf ^ the more h e pondered the
heavier bis heart grew.
At last he seized his gun and went
out on the mountain, but the perplexing
questions followed him, until at last he
threw himself on the ground groaning,
“Oh, that some wise man would make
this choice for me!”
A moment after he looked up and
saw, as if in answer to his wish, the
wizard approaching him.
“Wbv,” he exclaimed to himself,
“did I not think of him before? Surely
he, if any one, can help me.” Then,
with a throbbing heart, Gustavas sprang
up to meet him.
The wizard greeted Gustavus warmly,
for he felt a strong friendship for the
young guide who had taken him safely
through many a dangerous mountain
excursion. «r-
And now his sympathetic question,
“Why, what's troubling you, my boy?”
opened the way for Gustavus to pour out
all his perplexity, ending his recital
with the question;
“Can3t thou not help me choose a
good wife who will make my life hap-
py? For now I have given my mother
my promise to find a wife at the fete
next week.”
The wizard 6miled sympathetically,
and then thought in silence a little
while before he answered,
“If a pure, true heart is united to a
true, pure heart, both lives must be
bappv.”
“Alas!” answered Gustavus, “but I
know not which maiden among them all
has the purest, truest heart l”
“There will be one such heart at the
fete,” answered the wizard, “but you
may fail to recognize it. However, if you
will come to me to-morrow I will give
you a charm that wjll show you this
heart.”
Here was comfort, indeed, and with a
light heart Gustavus thanked his friend
and bounded forward,
Left alone, the wizard continued down
the mountain-side until he came in sight
of the Widow Neur’s chalet, where he
found Marie sitting by the spring. In-
stead of her usual sunshiny smile, tiny
tear-drops stood in her eyes, and there
was a grieved look about her rosy lips
that made him wish to comfort her.
“What is the matter little one?” he
asked gently.
“Oh, sir,” she said, “I want to see
the great fete next week, but I have no
pretty ornaments to wear, and then—”
The long curtains drooped over her
shining eyes and the sweet voice sank
almost to a whisper.
“The good mother says none of the
young men will care to dance with me.”
“But why?” asked the wizard in sur¬
prise.
“Because I cannot talk aud laugh
with them as other maidens do. My
heart beats fast if they do but glance
toward me, and 1 kuow not what to say,
and so,”—here a tear slipped from under
the long eyelashes—“my mother says I
had better not go.”
“Courage, little one,” the wizard an¬
swered. “Tell your mother,” he added
suddenly, “that I am going to lend you
a silver belt to wear, and that my knowl¬
edge tells me that the bravest, hand¬
somest youth in all the land will dance
with you quite joyfully.”
Ths happy. Marie thanked tho wizard
as Gustavus had done, and ran off to tell
the wonderful news to her mother.
Early next morning Gustavus went for
his charm. He lound the wizard waiting
for him, and taking him into his strange
room, the wise man said, smiling, as he
bad the day before, half quizzically,
half sympathetically:
“Here’s the charm, my good fellow.
You see it is a magic ring. Put it on
before you go to the fete, aud be sure
you dance with every maiden vhere.
When you place your arm about the
waist of the one whose heart is true and
good a strange feeling will run through
vou your hand will cling to her. But
you must be sure that you dance with all l”
Gustavus, greatly wondering, thanked
the wizard and slipped on the ring,
It was a curious circlet of iron, with a
fiat extension, which the wizard bade
him wear pointing toward his palm,
"When the fete day came Gustavus was
there among the other young men, eager
to try liis charm.
All the maidens of Obgadin were there
also, aud on the outskirts of one of the
gay crowds little Marie hovered timidiy
beside her mother,
“Why didst thou come, Marie? ’ asked
one of tue girls,
“Didst thou think any youth would
want to dance with a mouse to-day?”
asked another.
Then seeing the quick tears trembling
on Marie's lashes, she added more kind-
“Ah, well, thou caust nt least see aur
good times.”
“What a lovely belt thou hast,Marie!”
cried another maiden. “Where didst
thou get it?”
“The wizard gave it to her,” the
Widow Neur answered shortly, for she
‘lid not relish the girls tone, and she
drew her daughter away.
“Come, Marie, let us sit here under
the trees and watch the dance. ’
Marie nestled olose to her mother’s
side, and as the hours fled and no youth
asked her to dance, her head dropped
lower, and she wondered if the wise
man had made a misiake.
In the meantime Gustavus danced
with one after another of the maids, but
though he watched with intense eager-
ness, not once did he feel the strange
thrill for which he waited.
“I have danced with them all,” he
said at last to himseF, “except that shy
one over there: surely she is not the
girl 1”
He asked her name of one of the
girls, and then going to her, said sim-
ply:
“Marie, wilt thou dance with me?’*
Astonishment and delight made Marie
for a moment forget her shyness. The
wizard's words had come true!
Rising quickly, she said, smiling upon
him, and showing her beautiful eyes
already dancing with delight, and the
dear little dimple in her cheek: “Art
thou come?”
“She is not so plain, after all,”
thought Gustavus, as he answered:
“Wast thou looking for me, Marie?”
Marie huag her head without answer-
ing, and Gustavus, wondering a little at
her words, led her to the dance.
As he placed his arm around her his
baud touched her shining belt.
Instantly a strange thrill ran through
Ifhem both,and Gustavu9*s arm seemed tc
cling to Marie’s waist.
“Marie, didst thou feel that?” he asked
earnestly.
And Marie smilingly an9wercf:
“Yes.”
So they began dancing, and as the5
danced it seemed to those watching then:
that a wonderful transformation caou
over Marie.
Her hair, shaken loose from its Ion?,
stiff braids, hung like a glittering gol¬
den veil all around her, her beautiful
eyes shone like stars, and the dimpled
cheeks and pearly teeth formed a fit hid
ing-place for the laughing voice that now
and then rang sweet and clear from he
rosy lips. Not one of the village maid
ens was half so fair as she!
“Surely," said the amazed villagers
“there was never such a handsoou
couple.”
“But is not Marie under a charm,’
cried others, “she has suddenly grown
so lovely?”
“Love’s witchery, if it is true and
pure, will transform all of us and bring
out all that is loveliest and best within
us.”
As for Gustavus, he thought rightly
that he never seen so good aud beautiful
a creature, and he blessed the wizard foi
tbe charm which had led his heart tc
hers.
Long before the summer ended, Gus-
tavxs took home Maria to be his own
and his mother’s greatest joy and hap¬
piness.
When M. le Wizard returned to Paris
that winter, he read a scientific paper
before the savauts of the Academy,
In it he detailed many of his wonder¬
ful discoveries and his work during the
summer. But he did not speak of the
most interesting of all—how, by tbe
aid ot a little magnet, concealed in a
steel belt, and a rude ring, he had
brought together two loving human
hearts, and by so doing had caught
some of the happiness of Paradise and
imprisoned it in a chalet on old Obgadin
Mountain.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A door-closer is operated by gravity.
A machine is made for grooving horse¬
shoes.
Plowing by electricity is in contempla¬
tion for a large property in Spain.
At the present time the average height
of the tides the world over is only about
three feet.
An incorrodible metal, which is like¬
wise very hard, is made by amalgamating
nickel with steel.
A French chemist has succeeded in
making imitation diamonds that cost
more than the genuine.
It is believed that diphtheria is some¬
times contracted by little children while
playing near the sewers when tbe latter
are open for repairs or other purposes.
The use of minute quantities of chro¬
mium in steel to give it exceptional hard¬
ness was probably first carried out on a
commercial scale by Julius Bauer, of New
York.
The life of a locomotive crank pin,
which is almost the first thing about an
engine to wear out, is 60,000 miles, and
the life of a thirty-three-inch wheel is
66,733 miles.
A California company makes a splendid
article of toilet soap from the froth
skimmed from a boiling compound. It
is supposed to be a mixture of borax,
alkali and mineral oil.
At Baku, Russia, there is an immense
oil well that "ebbs and flows” with the
same regularity as do the ocean tide 3 .
It is believed to have some mysterious
connection with the sea.
The lower grade of molasses sells for
such a poor price (two cents a gallon),
that some of the Louisiana sugar houses
use it for fuel. Several of the Cuban
sugar houses thus use it.
Sir John Lubbock, who probably
knows more about bees than any other
man m the world, living or dead,
says that there is strong evidence that
the queen bee has the power of control-
ing the sex of the egg.
It appears that a colored or dark pig¬
ment in the olfactory region is essential
to perfect smell. In cases where ani¬
mals are pure white they are usually
totally devoid of both smell and taste,
and some, the white cat for instance,
are almost invariably deaf.
A Bostou dentist advocated hypnotism
as a local anaesthetic in a paper read be¬
fore tho New England Dental Society
and hypnotized a patient there and then
as an object lesson in tbe practice, per¬
forming a dental cutting without elicit¬
ing from the patient any manifestation
of feeling. The paper wa3 unaccom¬
panied by drawings.
The gall of a gall-fly produced on an
oak attracts, states Dr. Rathay, by their
viscid secretion, a number of small ants,
which he believes to be advantageous to
the tree iu killing quantities of caterpil-
lars and other insects which are its
natural enemies. He illustrates the
value of this protection by the statement
that the inhabitants of a single ant’s nest
may destroy in a single day upward of
100,000 insects.
It is found that masonry may be ren-
dered impervious to water, especially in
positions exposed to direct contact to
that element, by the application of coal
tar. The latter is employed in a boiling
state, in one or more layers, or it may
be m^de to flame up before being surges used,
the first being suitable for ex-
posed proprfate to tho air, while the second is ap-
in the case of parts intended
to be covered up. This method of treat-
j Q g foundations is declared to be of
special utility m all public buildings,
particularly those designed for the pres¬
ervation of works of art, preventing as it
does exudations of water charged with
lime salts from the mortar,
The First Steamboat.
It is not generally known that the
first steamboat ever built in the United
States was constructed by James Rum-
sev, at Shephetdstown, W. Ya., in the
year 1785 . Robert Fulton, with his
Clermont, was anticipated by Ramsey
twenty-two years. According to the
Frederick (W. Ya.) News, the steam-
boat was fitted up with machinery partly
manufactured at the Catoctin furnace of
the Johnson Bros., near Frederick. The
boiler; two cylinders, pumps, etc., were
manufactured in Baltimore. Some por¬
lions of 1 he works were made at the An-
tietam Iron Works. Oa March 14 ,
1785 , a public experiment, the first ever
undeitaken -in America, was made op
tbe Potomac River. Rumsev succeeded
in attaining a speed of four miles ao
hour against the current,-—Railway Re¬
view.
MRS. PEARY’S EXPERIENCE,
WHAT THE ZXPLOF.ER’3 WIFE
, SAW IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE.
The Clothes She Wore on the ex¬
pedition—The Home She Lived
In and Food She Ate.
^ T RS. PEARY, wife of the
} / /I Arctic explorer, has been in-
\ I terviewed by a New her lork trip
g World reporter ou
with ner husband to the Far North. We
quote from the interview as follows:
“What did you take with you to wear
on your expedition?” 1
“All my old clothes, of course,
knew that I should never have such a
good opportunity to get them worn out
without any anxiety as to changing
fashions. That applies only to gowns.
My Arctic dress was odd enough.
Lieutenant Peary, as you know, had
been in Greenland before, and had a
good idea of the needs of the climate.
Nothing but fur will give sufficient pro-
tection against tho cold, and sve did not
make the mistake of having our fur gar-
ments made up before leaving. In addi-
tion to the discomfort of trying oa furs
in the spring, we knew that no furrier
had sufficient disregard of appearance to
make our outfit as we would order it.
Instead we took on board well-cured
deer skins, which I cut during the voy-
age to the evset shape I wanted. Then
when we reached Greenland we lured
the Eskimo women to sew the skins,
which they do with great skill. I had
an undergarment—a sort of divided
skirt—made of deer skins with the fur
inside.. This I wore between my usual
underwear and my dress, instead of extra
skirts. Above the waist I had a hooded
blouse of fur which I put oa to go out
in. I never knew what it was to suffer
Ir Twf‘? t ! ir ° II S hou t th0 i 011 ™?-”
“What kind , of a house , cau one have
“ “ .£ 5 ££ 5 »*
“It was a very good house, indeed,
though it had only two rooms. In one
of these I had a carpet, heavy curtains,
portieres and most of the comforts of a
well-appointed home in lower latitudes.
The other room, which was used for all
sorts of household purposes, could not
be made so pretty. We all lived to¬
gether in a sort of happy family. There
were seven members of the expedition,
none of whom were previously known to
ns, but we found them very pleasant and
harmonious. We had a colored boy,
Matt, whom we took with us to do the
cooking and other work. His first at¬
tempts at cookery were so bad that I as¬
sumed that duty myself- for a few months,
until he was trained into a very efficient
servant. Lieutenant Peary sat at one
end of the table and I at the other. We
had a very jolly party throughout the
long winter with its three months of un¬
broken night.”
“What did you have to eat? I should
think the fare would have been verv
limited?”
“Not at all. We had just the same
things that you were eating down here.
Most of it came out of tin cans, but that
is a winter necessity everywhere. We
had three kinds of vegetables every day
at dinner and there was always plenty of
fresh meat. It was no trouble to keep
it iu that latitude; all out-of-doors was
one great refrigerator. When we wanted
fresh water we went out to the nearest
glacier aud chopped off chunks with a
hatchet till we had enough to melt for
drinking and household purposes. Under
these conditions a daily bath is labori¬
ous. It is small wonder that the natives
never think of such a thing as washing,
even their faces.”
“Did you see very much of the native
life, or were you away from even such*
primitive society as that?”
“Oh, the Eskimos, or ‘Huskies,’ as
we called them, were our chief source of
entertainment all through the long
winter. They came hundreds of miles
on their sledges to see the white people
and their wonderful house. In fact, we
held one continuous reception, We
could not have been gayer at home in
Washington. We always offered re-
freshments—coffee and biscuits—to new
comers, but made no attempt after that
to feed them, as our supplies would very
soon have been exhausted. In return
they did anything they could for us,
and if one was asked for some little favor,
the rest all were very jealous, I could
not entertain them, good nature! and
kind as they were, in my inner room, as
all natives are fairly alive with vermin
and must not be brought into contract
with anything which cannot be scrubbed;
but they swarmed into the outer room
whenever we would allow it. They are
very docile and could be sent away at
any time like a flock of exceptionally
good children.”
“I suppose you were the first white
woman most of them had ever seen,”
“Yes, and on the whole they eon-
sidered me about the most curious
session the white man had. The Eskimo,
like most other savages, devotes all fata
time to hunting, and lets his womankind
do the work. I have seen a whole party
of them sit by and Avatch the women
roll the heavy stones which fasten down
tho edges of the skin tent-thc summer
residence of thc native Greenlander. As
a great concession the man will occas-
ionally hold the tent in position while his
wife does the heavy work in securing it.
It amazed them to see me shoulder
a gun and start out hunting with my
husband, but not so much as to see him
and the other men of the party carefully
spare me from any extra-arduous task.
‘White woman very lazy,’ was the open-
ly expressed \ T erdict. This, however,
did not prevent one prominent Eskimo
citizen from proposing an exchange of
wives with Lieutenant Peary. As an
additional inducement to the trade he
offered to throw in his two children.”
“How do you know when spring ba3
come in such high latitudes? Is there
any outward and visible sign besides
perpetual day instead of perpetual
night?”
“Tiie warmth of a Greenland spring
is delicious. Iu April before the tx-
plorihg party started I went on a littie
journey of about two hundred and fifty
miles. It was light all the time, though
during the night the suu was just below
the horizon. IVe travelled on a sledge
drawn by sixteen dogs, journeying by
night to avoid the strong Arctic sun-
shine aud sleeping by day. I was
wrapped in deerskins ia addition to iny
usual fur garments, and never had a
more delightful jourcev in my life,
Talk about park driving! An Eskimo
sledge on the ice plains of Greenland
takes tbe flavor out of any other way of
getting over ground that thc ivorld af-
jforda!”
“Waa there any vegetatiou aroaad
your home in McCormick Bay, or was it
all barren and icy ?”
“The flowers of high latitude arc ex¬
quisite, and the suddenness with which
they come adds greatly to the enjoyment
of them. One day you see an ice cov¬
ered space, the next day there is bare
ground, and two days later you begin to
see green. A week afterwards the whole
piace will be covered with bloom. There
are poppies and daisies and buttercups,
all very much like our own, but smaller.
It is a mistake to suppose that Arctic
summers are celd. The thermometer
often gets up to ninety, and eighty de¬
crees is not exceptionally hot, even in
high attitudes.”
WISE WORDS.
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
What is the truest wealth? Health.
All that is human must retrograde if
it does not advance,
Nothing is more unjust or capricious
thaQ public opinion.
_ Jo , have strong head , , . good, . , but , it
a is
. to e ea stloa
13 Ji ' =’
Quarrels would not last long if the
fault was only on one side.
There is always room for a mm of
force, aud he maxes room for many.
Beware of sloth; for by sloth every
energy is disorganized > and destroyed.
or „ et or to onJuro the
of othcrs bj appreciating our own.
Pride is . essential . to noble character, .
a
au( \ tbe * ove P raass Is 0Qe ot the civ-
Hiding elements.
At the present time friendship seems
to be taken only in homceipatluc doses
at the highest dilution,
Beware of frivolity; for through
frivolity reverence is effaced and sub¬
lime aspirations flattened into trifie3.
Mau stabs himself with a tridcut of
thought, aad bleed, at once under the
P~“*
aad ? eware revenge; of* for temper that of temper hatred, kindles scorn a
| lvin o m the breast which harbors
He who thinks he can do anything,
and never have it known, must fancy
that the all-seeing Eye has winked itself
out. -«»
Man sometimes appears to be so fool¬
ish as to imagine that he frees himself
by engraving the word Liberty oa his
chains.
Our estimate of a character always de¬
pends much on the manuer in which
that character affects our own interests
and passions.
True popularity takes deep roct and
spreads itself wide, but the false falls
away like blossoms, for nothing that is
false can be lasting.
Beware of sensuality; for by seusual-
ity imagination is defiled aad the higtier
part of our nature dragged down and en¬
slaved to the lower.
To procrastinate seems inherent in
mfU b for if y° u d< ? to-day that you may
eDjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the
enjoyment; so that to be idle or indus-
trious, is but with a view of procrastin*
atingthe one or the other,
Human Treis of India.
The human trees of India, although
not really trees at all, are at least inter¬
esting as a very clever manoeuvre. The
Bheel robbers lurk in lonely places near
the mountains and jungles, and are very
swift and cunning in eluding capture.
They are perfect pests in India and a
band of them will often be pursued by
mounted Englishmen. Their first attempt
is to reach the jungle, the beginning of
which has perhaps been cleared by fire,
but there is no time to seek its sheltering
depths, for their pursuers are close at
hand.
^ ortunately for the robbers, some
of small burned trees arc also at
an ^ taking off what little clothing
wear > t ^ ie y scatter it around Avith
^ eir stolen goods over the open space,
and cover the low piles with tbeir round
shields so that they look like mounds of
eart , b. Then they pick up some black—
® ne d tree branches, and set into very un¬
comfortable attitudes to resemble twisted
trua '' cs > keeping perfectly quiet, and
S reatl y enjoying the surprise of their
pursuers at their mysterious disappear¬
ance. When the coast is clear again
they untwist themselves, gather up their
possessions, and make off as fast as pos¬
sible.
It is said that once, before the English
hafl become used to these manoeuvres, an
°® cei ‘ with a party of horse was chasing
a sma ^ body of Bheel robbers, and was
overtaking them. Suddenly the
robbers ran behind a rock, or some ob*
rtacle, which hid them lor a moment,
and when the soldiers came up the men
had mysteriously disappeared. After an
unavailing search, the officer ordered hi*
men to dismount beside a clump of
scorched and withered trees, and the day
bel n f yer >’ hot ’ be took off his helmet
and . h branch b wmch he
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r e iau< ;b . ^question . turned out to
, ,e , ie , C f K:U bar t iQt0
?,° laugbt a , ® r ‘ C and ” fl un tbe ® astoa a
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hed a ? -
1S of C ' r t0 thc g r ? Uad , ’ m Thc cium P
Jrmed f f SC0 " cbed into , trees men; sud and , <^ the v became whom trans- party
in different directions before
the Lu S ilshmen could recover from their
^pnse carrying with them the officer s
beltoGt by wa J of trophy. -Harper«
l0UDg People , *
The Magic Bracelet.
The rascette, or magic bracelet, is
according to authorities on palmistry, hand'and to
be found at the base of the
forms the line or lines which mark the
junction of hand and Avrist. One such
line, if unbroken, deep and strongly
marked, is supposed to for:ell a happy
life and to indicate calmness of disposi-
tion; if the line is chained, that is,
crossed and recrossed bv numerous small
lines, the indication is 'that of a life of
labor. Two such lines indicate
happiness and long life, while three form
the magic bracelet, adding great riches
to the other blessings. The addition of
the third line to the other two is rare,
Desbarroles, the great authority on
palmistry, found it in only three cases,
iu alt of which thc outside indications
seemed to confirm the omen.—-Bostou
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