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All wines are turned, when day is d
In homeward flight.
The wares a
To which tbej said a long farewell;
The listening foreits hear once more
The noog bird's swell.
The tree receives again Its crown
Of golden fruitage, singing leaves;
The fields but late n bare and brown
Are rich la sheaves.
is chaffing the
* L , looks at
»lver^ and
returns with Mr. Phibbs,
as he docs so; “And you
wouldn’t come.' Why, bless
, sir. I was over anxious, sir.
before you stuck your pistol in the
Tbs roving bee renews its pledge,
By Summer’s rosy sweets beguiled;'
June roses Iran from out the hedge
Where winds blew wild.
window, sir.’’ Mr. Phibbs points to the
child and the doctor hurries to the
conch. ;
that hot summer night a
_ ifed the hands of a child and
a worried doctor watched. All night
long a burglar watched a white, delicate
* * » end when the morning
O! waiting hearts, O! eyas thaTplead,
8hall ye not too, find gracious meed,
In days more fair.
-Linda It. Duvall
The Man With the Satchel.
Although Hr. Phibfcu wm * very en
ergetic professional man, it could nerer
he Mid thmt he sought fame. Fame came
to him, end the only sorrows in he life
were caused by its arrival. If be had erer
fed his business cards printed, which he
ant of his
did not, both on account of hie surpaa-
eing modesty and the confidential nature
of his affairs, ther would fern necesviril;
road rery much like this:
B. PHIBBS,'"
Mr. Phibbe was indeed of a retiring
■lition. Moreover, he etood so high
is profession tfet,despite its frequent
^ • - the},
interruptions, he wts beyond the fever
and heat of mercenary competition. On
a certain night Mr. Phibbs was plodding
his way through Allen street in reply ti
• professional call. A dark, diamalstreet
“ WM » on which a burning sun
beamed down all day long; a baker's
oven that fed been roasting rich and poor
*r?, wa ’ cooling off, while the
chimes of the for away church bells rang
themselves to rest; c black cavern of a
street, fit, you would think, only for
murder and rapine. Mr. Phibbs was in
ft and his eyes—very sharp, blackeyes-
Ktm dark caves of sockets, with lashes
lik<3>ushcs above them, wandered up and
a°*n«fe g'eat storehouses. lie was a
well built man, with a very long nose and
an oyer lip that was always being bitten
wrong Wll t ° t *' th “ if bad done
. °J eight he carried a satchel in his
fend. Who could tell his thoughts as his
eyes ran up and down the black fronts!
Were they of all the preciooa things stored
of the tired, weary fends that had made
co “ d touch them again!
Mr. Phibba stopped at the door o?one.
He smoothed the iron bolts gently and
soothingly as though the bolts had no
one to blame but themselves for not
up and down the iron shutter aim in a
reproachful manner. How still and calm
the great street is, like a cathedral when
the organ is hushed. Quickly the satchel
is opened and a bar of steel is in the hand
of the burglar. It rests on the iron shutter.
Hark! Whit was that? A step! No,
only the sobbing of the wind. The bar
cuts into the iron deeper and di
in hi* right, when the sound comes a^ain
this time from his very feet. The moon
draws her veil of cloud and the white
light shines down on a little childish
face there at the cracksman’s feet
Mr. Phibbs, from the nature of his
profession, was accustomed to surprises.
He bent his glance and saw that the face
below him was not of Allen street It
was a tender face—only to be kissed by
a mother's lips. On the little finger of
the left hand gleamed a tiny gold ring.
The collar at the throat was of lace, and
tho othor garments of rich texture. Mr.
Phibbs read the story in a second. He
knew some mamma shopping in Grand
street had lost her child, and he knew
that the baking sun had almost stilled
the life best in tho little one. He felt
the pulse. It had almost ceased to beat.
What would he do? Let it die? It would
only be one more little unfortunate swal
lowed up bv the streets, or perchsnee
cast on the bosom of tho river. If he
r
were to give it to a policeman he might
i Mr. Phibbs at once.
. ss well ssy he was —
Let it die? Had he not seen others
prettier and fairer smother and starve
In the tenements? There is a sound of
footsteps along the way. Slow, steady
footsteps, and Mr. Phibbs knows they
belong to a man in a blue uniform.
Woula he escape himself and trust the
policeman to find the child? The foot
steps are nearer. A memory comes over
a man's mind; an indistinct, strange
memory and a face wrinkled and care
worn comes with it. A face it is look
ing v* 1 ? calm, and Mr. Phibbs sees a
rocking cradle—what is that? The face
bends down and kisses the ore in the
cradle. How like and how unlike a
burglar. Like a weird'shadow a roan is
speeding noiselessly ^down Allen street
At his breast is the face of a child. Be
yond the great warehouses flies the man;
beyond the shuffling men and noisy
yomcn on a lighted street; beyond the
dark forms sleeping in the thoroughfare
down where the houses are thickest, but
never beyond that wrinkled, careworn
face, nor the rocking cradle fashioned
only m memory.
aim had come, the doctor gone and the
white face life-like again, a burglar
thought he saw a smile on a wrinkled,
careworn face that bent over a cradle
fashioned only in memory.
Mr. Phibbs moved the next day to an
other quarter of the town. Several men
who had called on him scowled at the
fair child playing with the gamin, and
said that Mr. Phibbs must give up keep-
must give up keep
ing a foundling asylum.
The child was very young and could
not tell its name distinctly. As near as
Mr. Phibbs could make out the name was
Willie Grounds. It did not seem to mind
its new home mich, and played and
romped as merrily with tho gamin as
though it had known him all his life.
Tha next day Mr. Phibbs put this noti.e
in the newspapers:
“Personal—A child wearing a nltin
gold ring found; parents or gui
tifying it through these columns. 1
On the following morning Mr.
, . - o Mr. Phibbs
read that he would receive a liberal re
ward by restoring the child to No.
West street. He went back to his
A EIGHT FOR LIFE.
OEM 2RATE BATTLE ON A SHIP'S
ECK WITH SAVAGES.
South Sea Islanders Board a British
Ship—Killing Four Men on Board
-A Sailor's Deadly Repeating
T '“*‘ Routed.
Rifle—The Native)
nved at Hsijborough, Queenstown, n -
centiy, reports that a desperate conflict
crew returned they found the’ scuppers
literally run ning with blood. Above the
captain’s cabin door are the deep marks
of tomahawks. On his bed the mate,
Harr, found stains of blood which had
rome from the tomahawk slashed at him
through his porthole, and which had
just come fresh from butchering the
c ?°* Carpenter. In different parts
of the ship are the tracks of bullets;
holes in canvas, rigging. — * ——
“ d aplintned -wood b<
Lnttendm’c
Crittenden’s bombardment.
This fearful tragedy brought the cra’se
‘I am going to take you to your mamma,”
and very tenderly he patted the curly
head as he spoke. The child’s eyes
brightened. He was anxious to go, and
after kissing the gamin many times he
and Mr. Phibbs set out. He had grown
accustomed to Air. Ph'bbs and was not
surprised to see the cracksman wearing
big black whiskers ss they left tho
house. Mr. Phibbs and the child were
within a block of the residence when
Mr. Phibbs paused. A gentleman was
i the Superintendent
knew him.
of Police.
‘‘Ah, my hearty,” ejaculated Mr.
Phibbs, “so that’s your game,” and be
fore the child was aware of the fact he
and rolling down town.
Allen street is no longer broiling and
baking in the sun. The Christmas days
have come! Christmas Eve with all its
legends, its ringing bells, its stories of
g hosts and goblins! Christmas Eve,
right and chewy I Christmas Eve, liko
a benediction on the land!
Air. Phibbs sits before his grate; the
gamin plays on the floor and a lost child is
playing at a burglar’s knee. Slowly but
surely the days are driving from a child’s
mind the memory of an early home.
There wcre his tin soldiers on the floor
and his rattle by the hearthstone? Air.
Phibbs was very much changed. There
was a solemn, settled look on his face.
He never smiled except when he held the
child on his knee. Very sagely the
gaimin shook his head and told the o!d
gentleman with the hooked nose: “Pop’s
going,” pointing to his head.
Mr. Phibbs went out that night. There
had been rumors of an over active Police
Superintendent and Mr. Phibbs was look
ing for another boarding-house. U6
found one and turned back to the lodg
ings. The hallway was very dark and
the stairs creaked. Never before had a
hallway been so dark in the mind of Air.
Phibbs, and the stairs creaked as though
they were saying: “Phibbs, Phibbs,
Phibbs, I’ve got you now, Phibbs.” lie
turned the knob of the doer, swung it
open and stood still. There before
knee.^ The burglar heard
“And oh,
Government agent: Martin, thecuok
tiie sailmaker, one recruit end about a
dozen savages. While the captain and
two boats’ crews were ashore recruiting
about fifty natives with tomahawks!
concealed in the yams and leaves, board
ed the vessel, ostensibly to recruit.
There were on board at this moment the
following: Mr. Popharo, Government
•gent, in his cabin; Charles Alarr, the
mate; Henry Merlin, the cook; Bierr,
the carpenter, in the deckhouse guarding
the traSe which lay spread outonth!
table; Lagerblom, th; sailmaker, on the
forward deck, and Thomas Crittenden,
•ble teaman, who was sleeping out his
watch below in the forecasueT
At a signal from the King the entire
party attacked the crew. A loud and
piercing yel! was instantly replied to by
a shriek from the crowd or naked savages
who thronged the deck space aft, mid
instantly violent hands were laid on the
Europeans. Tomahawks appeared as if
produced by magic. Alarr « as seized by
“J JSf***? d jV °. thers ’ on ® ot whom
toox the intended victim’s thumb in his
teeth and nearly bit it off. Mair, who
was fortunately standing in the recess of
the doorway, with his attackers in front
°f him, fortunately freed his right hand,
™ the Kin S • British blow with
clenched fiat, sent him reeling. In an
t i ie ilvn 8 e clutches,
snatched his loaded revolver from his
bed, and from the half closed door
opened fire. H.« first bullet sent one ol
Jis attackers, who was aiming a toma
hawk at him, to the deck a bleeding
corpse; the next served another, and the
revolver was then brought to bear on the
crowds who, on the port side of the deck
house, were tomahawking the carpenter
and cook, who, taken unawares by the
attack, were unable to reach their
weapons and offer defence. Aleantime
blows in the forward cabin told how Air.
Pophamwas being hacked to death in
the some cruel fashion. Expending the
resources of his revolver, Alarr snatched
up a Saider rifle, jumped across the
traderoom for cartridges, and continued
the fight.
From his vantage ground Alarr kept
up a steady fire, and more than one sav-
age, as he made his appearance on the
taffrail, got his bullet and fell buck into
the sea to drown. Unable to face Alarr’s
nfle, the ravages, of whom there were
now fully fifty on board, sought to attack
him in the rear, and endeavored, by
reaching through tho cabin win’dow
astern, to tomahawk him.
papa, papa, he’s so good and so kind,
you Wall love him.” The gamin was In
his corner. Air. Phibbs's revolver was
pointed at the Police Superintendent’!
“Don’t move,” he said, “or I’ll bore
you through.” The child clung to its
father's knee. He had never seen the
over lip as now being gnashed by the
white teeth, nor the gray eyes g cam like
Phibbs so cool, 60 deadly and so
bloodless as he stood there, holding the
life of his father in his hand.
“Kid,” said the burglar, “pack that
bag and get down into the street.” The
bov did so. “And now, raid Air. Phibbs,
•s his clear, gray eye ran along the bar
rel, “I am going, too. You have your
Christmas present in your arms.” Only
for a second the eye wavered as it fell on
the face of the child. “Good-bye, Wil-
said the man’s voice. The door
itendent Brown and his child were
in the street they saw only the driving
snow flakes wrapping np the city in a
white mantle, and covering all its sins
and its sorrows and its crimes beneath its
folds.—New York Graphic.
Perhaps you read this one day in your
daily ]taper: J
I.SlIKf"-'!*—B 01 til. Tenth Precinct
■ ..The policeman met a
■ ratrhel aevcral h<
they almost scared them to death.
Then Empress struck at one with her
trunk, and when it bounded into the air
both trumpeted and scrambled out of the
pond. Empress, who has the cariosity of
her sex ana a mind of her own, gently
fished one of the bladders out of the
water and then kicked at it with her
hind feet. No serious results following,
she continued her investigations, which
the perpetration of a robbery.
looking for the man
;le room with the cot in one
id the tattered gamin asleep in
is Mr. Phibbs’s home,
a’ready,” cries the boy, sud-
ivhy I thought—”
says Air. Phibbs, “go
,1 right, Pop, I’m off,
i places a senseless child on
Many strange things hsd the
“'ice in that room. Ho had
silk piled on the floor and
standing over it cursing
an old man with a hooked nose!
and more than once
Phibbs totter in braised
pale, and many a time
the burglar’s wounds,
’a a minute and rays
Pop, the doctor’s
Elephants Seared by Little Things.
“It is a well known fact that elephants
are afraid of small objects, said Head
Keeper Byrne at the Zoological Garden,
“ana I Have seen one of them almost
scared into a fit at the sight of a mouse.
These warm days we have been giving
them a bath at 4 o’clock, and to .amuse
them and the spectators we have thrown
half a dozen inflated bladders into the
This ma
noeuvre was responded to by Alarr, who
S that the carpenter and cook were
ly slain within a few feet cf him,
retired into his cabin, and closing the
door, directed his bullets to the enemy
at the window.
How the government agent and Lager-
blom met their horrible death can never
be accurately known. It is certain that
they were attacked at tho same moment
as the others and chopped to death.
^ nC * “Murder!” f rom Ji r . p C pham
were heard, but his agonies were short
lived.
Crittenden, who was awakened from
sleep by the ravage yelling, ran, clothed
only in a singlet, on deck. Tho first
spectacle which he witnessed was Lager-
blom, tho sailmaker, straggling violently
with half a dozen 'naked ravages on
the starboard side of the main hatch.
Crittenden immediately returned to the
forecastle for his revolver, jumped on
deck again, ran aft and found himself
also the object of a general attack. He
fired several shots with telling effect, the
recipients of the bullets leaping over-
M soon as they were struck. Two
bnt that
ly affording
natives clutched
gave way, and his naked ,,
no Crittenden freed himself, an<
making a leap into the forecastle, put on
hw trousers, filled his pockets with cart-
ndges, took a Snider nfle, and returned
to the combat Reaching the deck, he
conceived the idea of conducting opera
tions from the superior vantage afforded
by the topsail yard, and hastily making
his way hither, he coolly sat down and
opened fire on the screeching mob of
devils who were rushing hither and
thither on the deck below, chopping the
prostrate Lagerblom out of all recogni-
Shot after shot came from the foretop-
*“1 yawl with unerring aim, now di
rected at some especially prominent
slayer on deck, now piercing a canoe
alongside and carrying dismay into the
savage ranks. Fifteen bullets from the
intrepid Crittenden’s rifle found their
billet^ and the ravage enemy came to
the conclusion that jack alolt was too
much for them; so, with yells of disap
pointment and fear, they went helter-
skelter over the sides, and with their
numberless wounded hastened ashore.
With only two cartridges left,Crittendon
descended and warily proceeded along
tKn tnn Af .1 ..1.1— 1 _ a* , _ A
en< 3> and the vessel made for
rod las soon as the land breeze
fht allowed of a departure.—San
Factory.
There is mf h that may be seen by a
▼utt to a doljfactory, that would have
for many people all the force of a revela
tion. Few probably realize what a num
ber of processes are necessary before even
the tiniest of dolls is ready for the
nursery. There is certainly a bewilder
ing number of suitable substances. Be-
•idra the various kinds of wax from the
.best English to the commoner foreign
•orta, there ate spermaceti and various
kinds of composition; india-rubber,
guttapercha, wood and rags, not to men
tion various jidicious combinations of
these and other materials. But the best
dolls are made only of the best English
Then 001118 the composition dolls,
, 1C T. a /° muct more durable, and some
k* Te Hwir faces protected by a
ram piecj of muslin, and so on through
tiie whole list. It is, however, the waxen
dolls that appeal most powerfully to the
THE CO.
ER.
The Houses They Live In—A Miner’s
Outfit—What they Earn—Pre
paring for * Blast—Mi
ners' Amusements.
Dotted along the hillsides and the val-
ys of the anthracite area of Pennsylva
nia, says a Scranton letter to the Phila-
mat appeal most powerfully to tho
affections ana the admiration of the girls
of England.
The construction of the molds in
which these are made involves some
knowledge of modeling. The molds are
anowieage ox modeling. The molds are
made of plaster of Pans, the various sec
tions being deftly joined together with
such nicety as to leave but few marks of
the joints. Into this the melted wax is
poured, while still very hot, and a thin
film immediately adheres to the sides of
the mold, which is quickly inverted in
order that the molten wax in the center
may flow out. But although this rough
mask is fairly complete in F oint
of outline, much remains to be
done before it can be regarded ,
as possessing those charms which are i what
delphia Time*, are thousands of modest
little homes, around whose porches the
roses are blooming and in whose adja
cent gardens the traces of industry and
good taste are visible in these golden
days. Some of these dwellings are only
a .single story, but the majority of them
are two stories high. They are cosy
frame buildings, erected for accommoda
tion rather than comfort, jet combining
both, and around the doors of many of
them and under the friendly shade of
the fruit trees .that throw their C<>ol
shadows across the walks are heard the
voices of children, whose meny prattle
is fatal to anarchism and all other isms
that aim at the destruction of love and
home and hope and religion. As a gen
eral thing, the miners have large fami
lies, ana while .their tables do not
boast of many of life’s luxuries, they
manage to get a moderate share of such
substantial fare as pork and cabbage,
potatoes and beefsteak, with an occa
sional pie. The majority of them now
find it a difficult matter to feed them
selves and their families. It requires no
small degree of tact, at the present rate
of earning, to pay the monthly store
Quicksilver.
Quicksilver forms a part of a soft, red
rock called cinnabar, composed of mer
cury and sulphur. The cinnabar is
crushed and exposed to the heat, when
the metal, in form of vapor, passes into
a vessel suitable for the purpose, where
it is cooled. Then, being reduced to its
liquid state, it is pure ana fit for use.
When men working in the mines host
the rock*, the quicksilver will sometimes
roll out in drops as huge as a pigeon's
egg, and fall on the ground in a million
sparkling globules. It is said to be very
beautiful against the dark, red rock,
ilver,” while every crack and crevice
also filled with it
Just as wood floats on water because it
is lighter, so large stones thrown into a
kettle of mercury would float on top, it
is so much more heavy a substance than
the stone.
There are only four important local!-
v— jj obtained—California,
. yet the
other necessities of life,
output of coal is large.
When business is brisk seven or eight
hours constitute a miner’s working day,
while the laborers work ten hours or
more per day. On full time a miner
earns from $3.50 to $2.75 a day, and he
is. fortunate just now if his earnings aver
age $1.25 to $1.50.' Under favorable cir
cumstances, and with pienty of work, a
laborer earns $1.75 n day generally, but
he does not earn much more than 75 cents
a day at present. The men employed on
_v-. i_ (,^1^ «t t h e a n y shift” generally
commonly believed to be a doll’s right- j go to work at 7 o’clock’in the morning’,
fill inheritance. The roughnesses have and those employed in the mines at night,
to* be smoothed down, a distinctive or on the “niirht shift.”hpn-in thnirtn«ir<
character has to be given to the mouth : at 5 o’clock
the “night shift,” begin their tasks
— — — B ..v- w uiuuiu . — « o’clock in the afternoon. The food
. tie eyebrows have to be deli- J of the miner and his family generally
cafcely pencilled in; and we may well I consists of plain, substantial faro, meat
cease to wonder that Shakespeare’s lover
should have written an ode “to his mis
tress’s eyebrow,” when we see tho won
derful effect produced on a doll’s face
by various arrangements of brow and
lash. Then the eyes, which are like
beautiful shells, although they can be
bought by the gross, of any color and
size, have to be fixed in, which is done
by plastering them at the back with a
little soft wax. The method of fasten-
of some kina being used invariably
a day. Aluch of this meat is bacon
“shoulder,” which is bought because it
is cheaper than “butchers’ meat. ” This"
tho staple article of diet and it is sup
plemented by bread, potatoes, cabbage,
when in season, and a good deal of salt
fish and cheese. These constitite t’«
main articles of food on a miner's table,
but when work is steadier and pay better
the love of luxury extends to an occa-
ing the hair so as to give it a natural sional c«ke or pie. 8ome of the miners,
appearance, is one of the best tests of although they are the exceptions to the
the care with which a doll has been general rule, are so fortunately situated
made. In the best dolls almost every as to be able to raise their own pork, and
strand is attached separately to the wax *t their tables meat is not as scarce
itself, while in the cheaper kind
iclf, while in the cheaper kinds a wig is with those who depend for the neces-
roughly stuck on the doll's head. This saries and comforts of life on their slender
is a very important point, which doll- i earnings.
worshippers will properly appreciate, for I The miner'e outfit requires in the first
aidl.’hfilettethfh , par n° f#d i? 11 ’ pitted * coaiao suit of clothing. If the
‘J^ br “ M »* and combing working place is wet au oilel suit simi-
itfei Of^fefr th™ "°. maIi y 9 111 * 1 - lar to that worn by sailors is esscnt'al,
lttee of hair, from the best moiyur to with a broad sou'wester hat and heavy
The hat is generally
common flax. _
Wo have said little about the tinting
of lips and cheeks, processes which ii
volve a nice appreciation of effect. lu „
far doll fanciers seem to be believers in —cenerallv
flip nirlrlw Vina nf hanUk i .. ° . . - -
to with
hob-nailed boots.
provided with a place for hording the
lamp in front while the miner is at
work. Thq miner also must have a drill
interesting 1
BuTkwLdf? U , nder<r °T P Mtry ’ piwn.xive mecnoa ox making room for
h 1 s P eculat0 u P° n the blast that brings down the anthra-
“t <*«•“?** patent 0 augur does duty”
may yet influence even the nursery and
the doll trade.—Catadl.
augur docs duty
many places at present for the cumber
some drill aud' is much handier. The
outfit of the miner includes an oil-can, a
mining-lamp, wicks for the latter, a din
ner pail and a pail for coffee or water.
Close to the gendarmerie there stands The blasting materials consist of powder
a caravan, the portal of which is deco- served in twenty-five-pound kegs or in
rated with a picture calculated to strike prepared cartridges. When the former
terror into the doughtiest heart. It rep- is used the miner makes up his own
resents a French sailor being leisurely charges and uses water-preof paper for
?u teD “Phy \ , band of . 8ira Ses. Al- the purpose. The ready-made cartridges
tnough the Iuck.ess mariner is almost are supplied in fire-proof cases,
dismembered, the expression of his face In preparing for a blast a steel needle
" —A_ ' *’ ’“OUt five or R1T fpnt Innrr is
betokens an intense interest in the ulti- about five or six feet long is inserted i
mat ft ffttft rtf 111* men l«f«. _.T_- . ° , . .
-r -—- - —jersey, 1 tnus made for the purpose of igniting
lying near, would lead one to suppose the explosive. In giseous mines touch-
that a beloved cqmrade is by this time squibs are employea to fire the blast as a
undergoing the process of digestion, j flame would be specially dangerous.’
And above all this is a richly-emblazoned All these fine points must be under
scroll, which states with pardonable stood by the miner to carry on his work
tautology that for two sons a head the successfully; but, careful as he is, great
>ubl:c can see the man-eating cannibal accidents that startle the country and fill
rom Patagonia. The door is opened as j whole communities with woe sometimes
the clock strikes twelve and the booth is 1 occur. To this class of mining horrors
opened. In an iron cage is the ravage, i belong the disasters at Avondale, West
clad in little more than a string of shells • Pittston and Nanticoke, all of compara-
and an elaborate headdre-s. He is but j tively recent occurrence, and the Carbon-
small and, despite his dusky skin, is by } dale mine “cave-in” of nearly thirty
no means so terrible as one m : ght have years ago, which is still remembered
expected. The proprietor of the show . vividly by some of the older miners of
.“ little Gascon, who rapidly i the Lackawana Valley. A dii
the top of the deckhouse aft to see if
any of the enemy were in ambush in its
ended by her putting her front foot on
the bladder. It exploded with a loud
report, and the two elephants scampered
home.”—Philadelphia Tima.
Don’t Blind the Babies.
Has it ever occurred to those who pur
chase coaches for their babies, and who
make it a point to select the brightest
colors they can find for the screen that is in
terposed between the eyes of the child Xnd
the sun, that they are liable to do irrepar
able injury to the Tiaion of the tittle ones?
An infant generally lies on its back, its
eyes, of course, upturned toward the
bright covering above it, its gaze being
the more intense the brighter the cover
ing and the more direct'the rays of the
sun upon it.. Nothing but injurv can
result from such thoughtless exposure.
An experienced nurse rays there cannot
men divide piles of be a doubt as to the injurious effects of
those bright so-called shields upon the
tender eyes of children. Parents who
are wise will select the darker and denser
shades, even though they may not be as
handsome or showy r~ “ *'
ntnasome or snowy m their eyes as son
of those which are more fashionable.
For a moment Crittenden experienced
the strange sensation which a man must
feel when he finds himself alone in tho
face of death. Below him and around
him lay the bleeding corpses of his ship
mates md no living creature with a
white skin visible, itot a voice from the
mate’s cabin reassured him, and Critten
den. hailing him with th; remark that the
deck was clear, Afarr, whose rifle, by the
way, had some minutes before this be-
comc’injured and useless, emerged from
his retreat. Ey way of precaution the
two men looked into the other cabin for
skulkers. In the government agent's
cabin was thedtad and mutilated body
of Mr. Popharn. but tome sign of life was
visiblo in that gentleman’s great coat,
whidt was hanging on a rail in the cor
ner. From thence sprang a naked
aged armed with a tomahawk, but be
fore he could strike his intended blow
Crittenden’s rifle was in position and a
Snider bullet pierced his eye, passed
through Lis head and imbedded itself in
the timber wail, where it still remains,
visible testimony to the deed.
No more skulxers were found, bnt
down the main hatch were the thirteen
native recruits who had been previously
obtained and were unwilling witnesses of
the terrible scene. The fourteenth joined
in the fight against the invaders and was
shun. Those remaining were at ont e
brought on deck and expressed their
willingness to defend tho ship. The
retreating enemy though malrjng a show
on reaching the beach of renewing the
attack and carrying out their ’ *
the Young Dick, hesitated until the
ship’s boats hove in sight, and then it
was too late.
'When the captain and the rest of the
relates the history of the cannibal* and takes twenty or forty*precious lives at a
ncidents of his capture, single swoop is naturally remembered
toe thrilling incidents of his capture, single swoop is naturally remembered
The story finished, toe keeper cuts with with terror, but the miscellaneous deaths
a short sword some raw meat from a that are caused by fall of roof and ex
joint and, unbolting the cage door,flings plosions of fire damp in a single year are
it to the savage. The latter seizes it and not less appalling. The death list in the
tears at it ravenously. The keeper turns j coal regions is te vibly augmented every
ties where
Peru, Austria, and Almaden, in Spain!
The nearest mines to us are those in Cal
ifornia. The mines in Peru were dis
covered in a curious manner. Cinnabar,
when ground very fine, makes a beautiful
red paint. The Indiana used this to or
nament their bodies on great occasions.
This caused the country where they lived
to be examined, and the cinnabar was
found. The Romans used this paint
hundreds of yeara ago in decorating their
images. It is of great value now in our
times, and we call it vermillion.
This wonderful quicksilver is very use-
to which they' cling. The rocks are
crushed fine, sift'd, and washed until
as much of the gold and silver is removed
os possible. Then it is placed in a bat
tle with the quicksilver, which seems to
absorb it at once, separating it entirely
from every particle of sand or rock. If
the metal to be cleansed is gold, you
will seo a yellowish mass of a sort of
paste or amalgam. This is heated, and
the mercury or quicksilver flies away,
leaving behind it pure gold.
Although mercury is so useful in many
ways, it is also a deadly poison, and its
vapor so dangerous that in the search for
it many persons have lost their lives.
Not many years ago the mines of Aus
tria took fire, and 1,300 workmen were
poisoned, many of them dying in con
sequence; snd the water used to quench
the flames, pumped into a river near by,
caused all the fish in the river to die.
Have you ever seen mercury carried
about? It is put in sheepskin bags and
cast iron bottles. It is so heavy that
instead of an ordinary co:k, an :ron
stopper is used—screwed in!
Sometimes these bags do sad havoc, as
in the cose of a storage of several in the
IiaM a ski. : .1 •
Ak- INVITATION.
When in the bouse the day is warm,
And dogs lie stretched before tho door,
Come out to my neglected farm.
And sit upon the grassy floor.
Under the apple-trees’ green roof,
Laced with the yellow light of morn,
Share nature’s joy without rvptoof,
Thou man who art to trouble born 1
Alas! *^1 said for pries of gold
Tho axe shall hewthese leafy towers;
The spade shall trample in the mould
This fragrant grars, these dewy flowers.
A mansion built for earthly care,
For waiting days and tiresome haste,
Shall lift a stately front in air.
Then come, before the day declines,
And hear the bees among the bough •
Soe where the early moon entwines.
Her crescent in my bloomy house.
Perhaps before tho spade shall wound
This turf, to plant the cares of earth,
A smaller plot of turf be found
More green to tell our noble birth.
Then hasten ere tho day shall die,
Aud lay the heart to summer's bliss,
And learn whatever joys may fly,
To know the permanence of this.
Ann'e Fields, in Harpers,
PITH AND POINT.
Every crat* has its own side walk.
Religious notes.—Hymn-book music.
Tho Associate l Press—A lover’s
squeeze.
A court-ship has two mates and no
captain.
still
girl may have plenty of bustle and
be very lazy.
hold of a ship bringing it to this
‘ ° of the bags leaked. Every-
try. Some w
body on b >ard was^poisonod. ^
bit of metal was covered with a silver
coating of quicksilver.
Every
McClellan and Burnside.
Among the accounts from various
points of view of the Battle of 1 red-
ericksburg, in the Century, is one by
General. I). N. Couch, from which we
quote as follows: “Toward evening, on
the 8th of November, 1862, at Warren-
ton, AIcClellan rode up to Burnside’s
headquarters to say that he had been
relieved of the command of the army.
Burnside replied:
“‘I am afraid it is bad policy; very,
very, very!’
“It was just at dark. I had dismounted,
and, standing there in the snow, was
superintending toe camp arrangements of
my troops, when AIcClellan came up with
his staff, accompanied by General Bum-
side. . AIcClellan drew in his horse, and
the first thing he said was:
“ ‘Couch, I am relieved from the com
mand of tho army, and Burnside is my
successor.’
‘I stepped up to him and took hold of
his hand, and said: ‘General AIcClellan,
I am sorry for it.’ Then, going around
the head of the horse to Burns'de, I
said: ‘General Burnside, I congratulate
“Burnside heard what I said to Gen
eral AIcClellan; he turned away his head,
- b roa d gesture as he ex-
The rabbit is timid, but no cook can
make it quail;—Pack.
“How's crops?” is now the prevalent
form of salutation in the poultry yard.—
Merchant- Traveler.
The proper study for mankind is man.
That is the only reason why girls go to
school.—Burlingto n Fiee Pre s.
The most confirmed skeptic will take
your word for it if you point a gun at his
head and tell him it is loaded.—Philadel
phia CaU.
If you can’t trust a man for tho full
amount, let him skip. This trying to
failure.—Jodi Billings.
That Chicago dog with hydrophobia,
which rushed into a saloon, was in search
of congenial company. Everybody there
was afraid of water.—^Buffalo News.
In summer when wo want him not
All day the Son is shining hot
Like all the friends whom men may boast
He's coldest when we need him most.
—Merchant Traveler.
A pious old lady recently sent as wed
ding presents a pair of flatirons, a rolling
pin and a motto worked on cardboard,
reading: “Fight on.”—Bangor Com
mercial.
New Yorkers want elevators which
will cany them up at the rate of 500 feet
per minute. The average citizen of
Gotham always was in a great hurry to
get high.—Boston Globe.
“Did you ever try a deal in stocks?*’
asked one Burlington merchir.t ol
another. “Yes,” was the sad reply, “I
have tried a deal too much for my good.”
—Burlington Free Press.
Mrs. Dusenbeny—“Now just look at
those flannels 1 If any think will shrink
more from washing I’d like to know what
it is.” Air. Dusenberry—“A boy will,
mv dftftr ”—C..11
away for a moment to relight his cigar- j year by toe fatalities in the mines, and
general stampede commences. The Gas- ■ are thus suddenly deprived of the means
con, it seems, has omitted to bolt the of support is something pitifnl to con-
door, and the cannibal, having seized a • template.
5'° b ’ r j“ ch >>** hithert “ I Th. pleasures in the life of the miner
tfe corner of hit cage, fea dashed out 1 are of a primitire sort. Occasionally
worn ArfLn m i 2ht V he dunI> S the dramatic reason he may nit-
aid. Tie proprietor, however, is equal hear comic
to the emergei— ” •**
with drawn sw<
• , , " ------ i -wwmwws auvowt and has a good.deal of
before the savage, he i respect for the man who can talk common
dfetS" b *?V ncl i > ^ h ' *"* £5TAs’a^ml
dim recesses of his lair. The door is thing toe hard working
f * Vh' ," „, k keeps the word of;promise to the ear and
f" r ’ 5s?*? * 11 d ”J i breaks it to the hope. In the picnic
long. The other showmen, however, , ewa tbe mineri if hi has the time, en-
mmees ln S?v U iTwith^72l'lIri?t CO,? ' W* bimself most. He believes in simple
men ccs, they say, with a sun larly tragic pleasures and will take a class of hm-
occnrrence, and they hint that Cheutel, Sc. nsionnily unless h<Tis . strfct tempTr?
the “man-csting oanmble " is n very ance man. There i. not n greet deTof
harmless native of the 'Outh Pac fie drinking among the miners these times
Islands, w.lh an unrequited attachment and a gSod ms5y of them srememfe”
for the pig faced lady.end a pretty toste 0 f various temperance organizations
rn the matter of entrees—Won QUbt. , They kftp a c i.Me wntch on tfeprogresi
of public questions and the movements
of public men and are careful readers of
A •‘Witty Courtier.
Frederick the Gre.t was very fond of ““.I”
IknntAtfnn*. hnf .. >>• rr.nftr.iivr t.™.; aloD g the Lackawanna Valley own toe
nated the discussion by c
tagonist and k
his guests wei
wasseekingfor an argument hofeBd, ^ «ny memm extravagant,
one of his suite why he did not venture
to give hie opinion on eome particular | A few months ago a paper was started
at Heber, Ark., and named Oh, PiSow/
question.
* IIT . • . — , . . „ l *■ AAcirci, oife, auu named un. jrtnaic:
“It is impossible, your majesty,” wa, The salutatory was: “Tli monkey with
toe reply, “to express an opinion before this thing awhile.—The Editor ” Re-
a sovereign who has such very strong centiy it expired, and here is its dying
rs suen very gasp: “Valedictory: The monkey ceases
. to perform.”
sovereign who
convictions, "and who
thick boots I”
and made
claimed:
“ ‘Couch, don’t say a word about it.’
“His manner indicated that he did
t wish to talk about the change; that
he thought it wasn’t' good policy to do
so, nor the place to do it. He told me
afterward that he did not like to take
the command, but that he did so to keep
it from going to somebody manifestly
unfit for it. I assumed that he meant
Hooker. Those of us who were well
acquainted with Burnside knew that he
was a brave, loyal man, but we did not
think he had the military ability to com
mand the Army of the Potomac.
“McClellan took leave on the ICth.
Fitz John Porter sent notes to the corps
commanders, informing them that AIc
Clellan was going away, and suggesting
that wc ride around with him. Such a
sccna as that leave-taking had never
been known in our army. Alen shed
tears and there was great excitement
among the troops.
“I think the soldiers hod an idea that
AIcClellan wopld take care of them;
wouldn’t put them in places where they
would be unnecessarily cut up; and if a
rneral has the confidence of nis men he
is pretty strong. But officers and men
were determined to serve Burnside
loyally.”
The Shying Horse.
Why does a horse shy? asks the Live
stock Journal. Because he sees some
thing which he docs not understand, and
is filled with a greater or less degree of
fear, something as the boy feels when he
shys at the burying-ground and goes
around to keep clear of it. It maybe
some new or unusual object that the
horse sees, or it may be an imperfect view
of it. Even a familiar object, if it comes
to view suddenly snd unexpectedly will
cause a horse to shy or jump, just as an
unexpected object or sound causes a*
is so startled, how much would
prove the matter to be scolded at or given
a cut with the whip? Just as much as
the same treatment would in the case of
the horse. Harshness only aggravates
the matter. The more the none is
scolded snd whipped the more nervous
he gets, and every time he passes the
place where the fright and whipping oc
curred he will recollect the unpleasant
affair, and he will begin to prick up his
ew-s, and fidget, ready for another jump.
Give him the lines and he will go by in a
hurry. 1 he proper way is never to strike
or scold a horse that is startled or fright
ened. Speak to him coolly, calmly and
Itindly; give him time to see and collect
his scattered senses, and make him feel
that you are his friend and protector.
When he sees that all is right, there is an
end to all farther trouble. We have
seen a horse refuse to cross- an unsafe-
looking bridge, bnt when the driver took
him by the bits and walked ahead, the
horse cautiously followed. Next time
he required no coaxing or urging to cross
toe bridge. He might have been whipped
into it at first, bnt was not the milder
course, although a little trouble, toe bet
ter one? The horse showed his confi
dence in the driver ever afterward.
my dear. ”—Philadc’phia Call
A dealer advertises “Lightning Fruit
Jars.” They ma^ be a new brand, but
for lightening fruit jars there is nothing
more successful than a small boy ana
solitude.—Norristown Herald.
It was a grim joke on the part of a
condemned man, who, the night before,
his execution, requested the jailor to
close his grated window because ho con
sidered night air unhealthy.—Siftings.
Every evening a good-looking Mr.
Comes around for to visit my Sr.;
One night on the stairs,
He, all unawares,
Pats his arm round her figure and Kr.
—Boston Globe.
A young man came to us the other dsy,
and wanted to know if we could toll him
where he could get a position with a
chance to rise. We 'directed him to the
nearest powder mill.—Burlington Free
coffee, I am sorry to say. is exhausted,
Mr. Smith.” Boarder Smith: "**
Mr. Smith.” Boarder Smith: “Ah, yes,
poor thing. I was expecting that. I’ve
noticed that for some time it hasn’t been
strong.”—Siftings.
Tommy (who hai just received a severe
scolding)—“Am I really so bad.mamma?”
Mamma—“Yes, Tommy, you are a very
bad boy.” Tommy (reflectively)—“Well’,
anyway, mamma. I think you ought to be
real glad I ain’t twins! '—Harper’s Weekly.
Down in the heart of the bottle-green wood
Tbe shadows are shifting and Jong;
And over tbe pool in the butter-nut tree.
The chickadee rattles in song:
And then like a rasp comes a dtful ki-yi
That echoes through mountain and vale,
And you know that some small boy has hurled
his dog out
In the green-coated pond by the taiL
—Puck.
“Here, Jame?, take these two cakes
and give the smaller one to your littlo
brother.” James examined the cakes
took a heroic bite out of one of
which he passed over to hit brother with
the remark: “There, Tommy, I have
made you a smaller one—They were both
the same size.—Philadelphia Call.
Old-Time Credulity.
The New York Legislature of 1806
public “a perfect and infallible remedy”
for the hydrophobia. The bill seems
. jbia. The bill seems
to have passed the Senate, of which De
Witt Canton, Joseph C. Yates, Ezra
L’Hommedieu and other distinguished
men were members, unanimously, and al
though it met with some opposition in
the House, it passed that body, with
some amendments which were afterward
stricken out by toe House, by sixty-five
to twenty. The council of revision, con
sisting of Governor Lewis Morgan, Chan-
celor John Lansing, Jr., Ambrose Spen
cer, DanielD.Tompkins and James Kent,
the great legal authority, approved the
measure, and it was signed by the Gov
ernor. Crons was required by it to give
a bond in $2,000 to retain toe money
with interrat in case toe remedy proved
ineffectual at any time within four years,
bnt trace of toe bond has been dis-
COTO J a « The prescription called for
such ingredients as an ounce of toe jaw
bone of a dog, burned and pulverized;
oono Ol aaog, Dumea and pulverized:
l* 18 Iftlso tongue of a newly foaled colt,
.*?T. a w 5 ™]^ 8 ofverdigris from a copper
of G
during
II. Crous was a Hessian
revolution, who deserted from
toe British s
what is now Athens, and grew rich upon
the credulity of toe people of that
region.- •« • *