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At Evening.
Upon the hills the wind is sharp and cold,
The sweet young grasses wither on tlie wold,
And we, oh Lord, havo wandered Irom thy
fold;
But evening brings us homo.
Among the mists we stumbled, and the rooks
Whore the brown lichen whitens, and the iox
Watolies the straggler irom tho scattered
flocks;
But evening bringB us home.
Tho sharp thorns prick ns, and our tender leet
Are cut and bleeding, and the lambB repeat
Their pitilul complaints—oh, rest is sweot,
When evening brings us homo.
Wo havo been wounded by tho hunter’s darts,
Our eyes are very heavy, and our heart*
Search lor thy ooming—when the light departs,
At evening, bring u« bcino.
The darkness gathers. Through the gloom no
star
Rises to guido us. We havo wandered far.
Without thy lamp we know not where we are—
At evening brirgs ns homo.
Tho olouds are round us, and the snow-drifts
thicken.
Ob, thou dear Shophord, leave us not to sicken
tho waste night—oar tardy lootstops
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“ Well, you see, 1 haven't always been
captain of a first class steamer—no,
siree ! I ran away to sea when I was
twelve years old, and I’ve worked my
way up from the bottom of the ladder.
Well, when I was thirty, I was ‘captain
of a large sailing vessel that was in tho
South American trade.
" I sailed from the port of Callao,
San Francisco being my destination.
My socond officer was an Englishman,
but my first was an American, only two
or three years younger than I, as good-
looking a fellow as I ever saw; tall and
straight and handsome, with eyes like
blue china. He was aright good fellow,
too; brave and honest, nut frisky as a
kitten and up to all sorts of larks.
“Well, wo crept up the coast, stop
ping at every ninth door, as our orders
obliged us to do, taking in all sorts of
things, all booked for San Francisoo.
Finally we came to San Jose de Guate
mala, which is the port for the city of
Guatemala—that'llos ninety miles inland
—and there we liove-to, and waited lor
a chance to go ashore.
"Did you ever hcarof the surf on that
coast, ladiesP NoP Well, it often rolls
fifteen or twenty feet high, and a good
art of tho time no boat can live in it.
orry we’re not going to stop this trip,
or you might see it. You see, there’s
really no harbor—nothing but an open
nt
ihc
Machine Needles
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°r all kinds of Machines, ior sale. I will
also order parts ot Machines that get
broke, and now pieces
are wanted.
- A. J. JERNIGAN.
Brown s landlady passed him a dish
vegetables at the dinner-table and
j ®, llel ped himself to about two spoon-
oi,L 3 ’ , t ? 08t bankrupting the dish, when
ao said to him, with a smile on her
* ace nn( ‘ ire in her eye: “Those are
Ir'v Potatoes, Mr. Brown, and some of
., other boarders may want some.”
Beg y° ur pardon,” choked Brown, in
surprise, ns two or three effected an un-
p easant lodgment in his windpipe; “I
nought they were peas,” and tnen ho
finished his dinner hurriedly. Brown
8 now hunting around for another
ooarding-piace.-Boston Globe.
LOVE ON THE HIGH SEAS.
" Now,” says the captain, “ we slm’n’t
sec any more land for a week, and you
young ladies ’ll have nothing to do but
; et some of these fellows lull in love
with you.”
“Fall in love 1” cries Hetty, her tip-
tilted nose curling with incredulity and
disgUBt. “Who could fall In love at
sea, I’d like to knowP”
“Who couldP" nsks the captain, ir,
innocent surprise. "Why, everybody
docs. Why notP"
Why, the sea’s so nasty,” emphati
cally exclaims Hetty. “ Of course I
don't mean Ihe water, but everything in
it and on it. Ships are so dirty and
smell so, and everybody’s seasick and
cross and selfish. How could any man
fall in love with a seasick womanP
Ugh!" and she views herself and Deb
with disgust.
“ Now, that’s a big mistake you
make," says the captain, eagerly. “Do
you think a woman can t be attractive
when she’s sca-BickP Why, sailors
most always court their wives at sea,
and there isn’t one woman in a hundred
that isn’t sick. Why, what else have
these youngsters got to do but think of
the womenP In a storm it’s diflerent;
but in calm weather a sailor hasn’t
enough to do to keep him busy half the
day, and naturally hisoyes ana thoughts
are occupied the rest o’ tho tirno with
tho prettiest girl on board. Look at my
first officer over there, pretending to
talk to the doctor and looking as de
mure as a cat. What do you suppose
he’s thinking ofP You, I’ll bet my hat!”
Hetty smiles in evident unbelief, but
glances furtively across deck toward the
handsome young first officer, where ho
leans on the rail, blowing rings of
smoke into the deep blue sky.
He is ostensibly absorbed in one of
the doctor’s long-winded yarns; but
just here his eyes, which have been fixed
on tho yellow const to windward, some-
how or other slide round to leeward,
and bestow a sidelong glance on
Hetty’s pretty little half sea-sick figure,
stretched nt full length in a steamer-
chair.
Mischievous Deb and the quick-
sighted captain detect both, and laugh
unmercifully. Hetty blushes, and the
first officer uncompromisingly turns his
back and a deaf ear to the captain’s
guffaws. *
“ There, I told you so,” said h ! s su
perior. “ Now you won’t bo out of his
head for a week. Oh, I tell you it
don’t make any difference a girl’s being
sea-sick! Cupid hns to havo his fling
at a sailor ns well as at every one else.
And they strike thoir colors quickor’n
any other men, for their love-making
has to be all done in the course of the
voyage. If they hang back and shilly
shally, why, the first thing they know
they’re in port, and off goes their lady
love, and that’s tho last they see ot her.
As for the sea-sickness, why, they ex
pect that, and it doesn’t discourage ’em
the least mite in the world. But tli
one thing that’s pretty hard on a sailor,
and that is, if his sweetheart’s sick, he
can’t get her to listen to him at all.
While he’s making love his very pret
tiest and courting his very darndest,
why, she’s thinking all the time how
her head does ache, or wishing she had
some more ice, or wondering when
they’ll get into port. And she don’t
mane no more account o’ the poor
feller’s feelin’s than if a mosauito was
a-buzzin’ round her ears. Oh, I tell
you, a sailor’s a much-abused animal!
And tho gallant captain sighs and
shakes his head over the sorrowful lot
of his fellows.
It is evening on shipboard; dinner is
ovcv, the day’s work done, and all who
can move are assembled on deck.
The sun, which has hung all day like
a copper gong on a brnss ceiling, is now
mercifully disappearing. The moun
tains of Lower California shine in his
fast-fading rays like “the golden lulls
of heaven,” while one little hummock
of an island, long and high and narrow
rises out of the sea like the grave-mound
of some ocean god.
For once the water is smooth; noth
ing breaks its stillness bnt the steamer s
trail, and the low-flying gulls now and
then brushing its surface. I* ar, far away
—far as the eye can reach—is pothing but
the same expanse of deep blue waters,
broken only by those yellow hills, now
fast vanishing into distance and night.
Overhead, only another and wider
expanse, still “deeply, darkly, beauti
fully blue,” and behind a cloud the
bashful new moon just beginning to
look forth upon the boisterous world
below i •
Prizsbv. from London, explains to a
gaping audience how the scenery now
before them suffers from comparison
„U> th.t.t tho BXtajJta«
g
roadstead—and except, in the Bay of
[host
Funday, this place shows the higl
and lowest tide in tho world. The peo-
E le here tried to build a breakwater out
eyond the surf, but it breaks over it
half the time, and when it doesn’t it
knocks it to pieces. Sometimes vessels
have to ride at anchor for a week before
they can send a boat ashore.
“We’d only just hove-to when I
noticed that a ship at anchor not far off
w»s making signals of distress, and
that a boat was putting off in our
direction. Of course, we were anchored
far out beyond the surf, and it was
comparatively easy for the boat to reach
us; so It was soon alongside, and ono of
the men came up the ship’s side and told
me what was wanted.
It appears the ship was a coffee-ship
from San Francisco, and lind conic to
San Jose for its cargo. It was only
half loaded when one of the boats cap
sized in tho surf, drowning tho captain
and first officer. The second officer was
very low with a fever, and they had no
body to navigate the vessel; so thoy’d
had to wait in port till some other slii
came along, and could lend ’em a
officer, or somebody who understood
navigation.
“ Well I called up my firstoffloer, and
put him aboard the coffee ship, and in a
day or two we both sailed. We were
going over just the same ground—or Bea,
rather—and aa the two vessels wore
about equally fast, we kept each other
in sight most of the time. We’d been
out about ten days, and were in Ameri
can waters again, when all of a sudden
the ship hove to, and signaled us to
stop. We ran as close to them ns we
could, and then wo hove to, and pres
ently through the glass I saw a boat
biing lowered and tliat there was
woman in it.
“ I was surprised, as you can imagine,
for I didn’t know there were any pas
ents and
hiifmwudcauiB uuu AB’ll Pull
through.” Meantime, Hetty and Deb.
seeing the oaptain had a story in leserv ,
when he courted her. I’ll just ten you
about it, if you like.
sengers on the coffee ship, through there
were hall a dozen on my own. In n few
minutes up the side came my first offi
cer, more than half-carrying the i-retti
cst little Spanish girl I ever saw. Oh,
ladies! she was a beauty! Eyes like all
the stars in the flag, and the sweetest
little face—kisses just stiekin; out all
over itl But wasn’t she the sickest lit
tle mortal that ever set loot on deck?
tell you! she was nil green and yellow,
and looked half starved. I don’t be
lieve she’d kept down a quarter of a din
ner ior a month past.
‘‘‘Hullo, Jack! 1 said I: ‘what’s the
matter?’ And I gave tho lady a seat on
tho lounge in my cabin. The poor little
tiling couldn’t sit up straight, so I just
hoisted her feet up and made her com
fortable nmong the pillows.
“ ‘ Captain,’ said lie, ‘ I want you to
marry me to this young lady.’
“ ‘ Marry you P’ said I. ‘ What do you
meanP She’s too sick to be married
man! SL>o can't stand up. If you and
she want to be married, why don't you
wait, till you get ashoreP’
“You see,ladies, wo talked out free
before her, for she couldn’t understand
a word of English.
“ ‘ If we wait till then,’ said he. ‘ you
and I’ll be going to her funeral instead
of her wedding. We’vo got to be mar
ried, and right away, and you’ve got
to marry us.’
“You see again, ladies, we were ver
great friends outside the ship, and when
we were alone together we dropped all
ceremony.
“ ‘What in thunder are you in such a
hurry forP’said I. ‘Why can’t you
wait till you’re ashoreP where are the
lady’s friends.’
‘‘‘Her stepfather’s aboard my ship,
he said.
“ ‘ I thought so,’ said I; ‘ and I won’
have anything to do with it.’
“ He just turned and winked at me
‘ out o’ the tail of his eye,’ and then I
remembered, in a moment of misplaced
confidence, I had told him some little
circumstances in regard to my own
marriage.
“‘Hem!’ said he, grinning like
monkey, ‘I think they’re sometimes
justifiable. Now just look lieie, cap:
‘listen, and I’ll tell you all about it,
That little girl has no relations, nothing
but a stepfather, and she’s dependent
upon him for support. Well, the old
coot’s a doctor, and crazy at that; or,
if he isn’t, lie’s the meanest cuss on
earth. He’s taken it into his addled old
head to discover a sure cure for sea
sickness, and because just the name of
ship sets pooi little Delores to casting
up accounts, he’s been taking her on all
sorts of long voyages, nnd trying his
various decoctions on her. So I want
to marry her to get her out of his way
Of course I’m in love with her and all
that,’ said he, looking kind of foolish.
‘ but if that was all, Fd wait till we got
ashore. Of course I can’t make him
let her alone unless she’s my wife, and
if he has control of her much longer
she’ll never see port again.’
“ ‘ Do you mean to say,’ said I, star
ing at him in surprise, ‘ that he tries
experiments on her—gives her things
that ain’t medicine?’
“ ‘ I do,’ said ho; ‘ and I mean to say
that the last thing he gave her was a
bottle of bed-bug poison, and it most
killed her.’
“‘By the Flying Dutchman!’said I,
‘ I should think it would 1 Where’s the
old coot nowP”
“ ‘ In irons. I told him I wouldn’t
have any such doing aboard my ship,
and he slapped my face. So I put him
in irons ana came off to you.’
“ Well, ladies, I just went over to the
sofa where the little girl was rolling
her big black eyes at us, and wondering
what in thunder we were saying.
“‘How old are you. my dear?” I
asked in Spanish.
“You see, I’d been married moro’n
two yenrs, and I thought I’d a sorter
right to be paternal.
“ ‘Eighteen, Senor Captain,’said she,
in tho softest voice in the world.
“ I think that voice did [the business
for me.
Said I: ‘ Do you lovo this young
man nnd wnnt to marry him? You
needn’t If you don’t, because I’ll see to
it your stepfather doesn’t bother you
Any more.’
I didn’t dare look round at Jack,
for I knew he’d bo looking blacker’n
thunder nt me just then-. And, indeed,
lie took a step toward us; but I made
him keep off till she should have nn-
swored for herself.
“ Well, she blushed very prettily, and
hesitated for a second, then answered
very sweetly that If the Sonor Captain
didn’t mind the trouble, she should
rather marry the Senor First Officer.
That the Senor First Officer had been
hor only frlond: that, although she had
taken mnny voyages nnd seen many
people, sho had never before found any
ono who cared to interfere on her be
half ; that she had felt very gratetul to
the Senor First Officor, and had now
become attached to him, nnd with the
Senor Captain’s permission would
gladly become his wife.
“As she said this, Jack got out of her
sight behind the door, put his thumb to
his nose, and twinkled his fingers at mo
in the most disrespectful manner. I
had a great mind to put him in irons for
mutiny—but no matter.
“ Of course there was nothing to be
done except marry them; sho was over
eighteen, nnd at sen a captain’s as good
ns a parson, you know.
So I called up tho passengers nnd
the officers; and the ladies dressed hor
up in their own finery, and we had a
wedding in short order. After that the
Bhip’s surgeon prescribed nn antidote
for tho boa-bug poison.
“Tho second officer went over and
took command of the coffee ship, in
Jack’s placo, and ho sent back Delores’
trunk and clothing. At first I thought
wo shouldn’t be able to get along with
out him, for Jack was so terribly In
love with his little seasick girl I thought
he’d be of no manner of use. But we
had good weather most of the time, and
Jack did hiB duty like a man.
“ But it was real touching lb see him
to down to his wifo’B cabin and bring
iier up on deck every day, and fix her
comfortable on a bed the steward made
up lor her under an awning. And there
he’d nurse her and caro for ncr just as if
he’d been a sister ol charity. You might
ha’ seen then, Miss Hetty, how a Bailor
can lovo a sea-sick woman!
Well, sho soon got better and
stronger. Jack and the doctor fixed
her up between’em and a healthier,live
lier, happier little woman never sot foot
in San Francisco. Jack took her right to
his married sistor, and thcro sho staid
between voyages till sho had a lot ol
children,land her husband bought her a
house of her own.
What about the coffee snip ? Oh,
that made port a day before us, and I he
old doctor had us all arrested the
minute we touched land. So we were
all lmulccl up in court, and Jack had it
out there with his stepfather-in-law.
“ I think the court was rathor against
us at first; but tho bed-bug poison and
the slap in tbe face did tho business,
ind turned everything in our favor. He
was afterward decided to bo a lunatic,
and turned over to his brother’s keep
ing.
“ Wnat’s become of Jack P Why, ho
sailed with mo lor several years as first
officer; now he’s captain of tho com
panion-steamer to this. That good
ooking young fellow that’s been making
eyes at you. Miss Hetty, is his son; ana
I daresay ho agrees with his father that
sea sickness makes precious little differ
ence when a man’s once fairly in love."
The moon is quite up now, flooding
tho sea witli silver. Between us ana
that shining mirror interposes the head
of ycung Jack, showing in fine, clear-
cut siliouctte. What wonder that Hetty
has to put severe restraint upon her eyes
tliat they shall not wander in that direc
tion?
The captain Eaunters away to do the
agreeable to other passengers,while Deb
strays down the deck to listen at a little
closer quarters, to the tinkle of a guitar
and to a soft tenor voice humming a
Spanisli love song.
As she strolls back, she finds a mascu
line form usurping her place; and peep
ing under Hetty’s downcast lids are a
pa.ii* of honest sailer eyes, whoso dawn-
: ng love and hope no sea can fright or
quell.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Aiioulatlon of Old Maid*.
Tho Old MaldB’ association, of Geau
ga county, Ohio, had a picnic on the
lake recently and mustered eighty-six
souls. This society was an outgrowth
of the war, and was organized in 1863
by a bevy ol young ladies whose
brothers and sweethearts were fighting
for their country nnd left them without
the resources of male escort, except
the laggards wbo remained at home.
Unwilling to accept the gallnntry of
these young men, the young ladies pre
ferred to depend upon themselves, and
formed tbe association mentioned. Out
of revenge the gallants dubbed these in
dependent damsels “ old maids,” and
they ncceptcd the cognomen and made
It their own. A humorous constitution
and by-laws were drafted by Mrs. C. E.
Henry, then a single young Indy, and
one of the lounders of the Institution.
Man was declared the “common
enemy,” and ono of the chiol objects of
the society was a continued wnr against
advances. He was religiously ex-
ded irom all meetings, and a special
clause of tho by-laws said that any
member who should marry should bo
fined one hundred big copper cents and
should be branded with tar on the soles
of her feet, “ U. D. I.,” meaning “ up
and done it.” 1 he boautiful consistency
of woman’s nature will be appreciated
when it is known that every one of the
oharter members and nearly nil of
eligible age since are married.— New
York Tribune.
Tho well-known writer of books of
adventure and travel. Captain Mayne
Reid, has been engaged the past three
years in experimenting with seed pota
toes, with a view to escape the blight
which has been so disastrous to the
potnto
As the
brought from Mexico alone showed not
a spot of hlitlit, all the other kinds hav
ing been found to be diseased inn greater
or less degree. The Mexican potato,
he claims, also will yield almost double
hob Deen so uisaswous io uie *****
crop in England and Ireland. lew recognized in the
result of his experience, those f? oln ® man the
frnm Mot inn nlnnn allowed not « ee P WSpeot Of ills fCllOW-Citizeni, IM
hav- once cool-headed, imperturbable gam
eater bier, who, in his day, figured promt
tnto nently along tho Pacitto coast, and wai
as many bushels to the acre, and sug- for twentvveaff
gests that the government take in hand L Aealt that game *? r '
fLe importation of the seed in large bg Dye quit,>OW‘
quantities.
Tho Chicago fire of 1871 burned 9,000 OUUJC
acres and destroyed $160,000,000 of toned „ me at a oer taln place you prob*
property. The Boston fire burned over 1 - - - * - - - — T -
sixty acres and destroyed over $70,000
000 of property. There is) now on forty
ncrcs in the dry goods district, between
Chamber street and Canal street, nnd
Broadway and West Broadway, New
York city, more value of merchandise
A Sad Bathing Place.
A correspondent of the London Globe,
writing irom Hull, an Austrian “bad"
(bath), says: The fearful ravages of
these diseases meet one at every turn —
here a livid wretch wrapped up and
being drawn about in a wheeled chair;
there some one painfully supporting
himself on a crutch; sadly sitting un
der this tree a aroman, her hexaand
face wrapped up, a mass of scrofula, and
many equally l>alhsome sights. Nu
merous arc the suicides which here
take place, for people put off coming
till hope is gone, and when they find it
too late go to some quiet corner and
send a bullet through their heads. But
the saddest ot sad sights is the children,
of whom there are many suffering in
silence or crying with pain. No romp
ing here, no shouts of pleasure, no
games in the fields, no rosv cheeks and
eunburnt legs, but crooked limbs and
suppurating wounds, a heritage from
their parents. The little patients sit sad
and downcast or walk quietly by their
nurses. Many of them suffer from eye
disease, and are led about blindfolded.
Hall is quite a moden " bad,” for al
though tlie springs havo flowed for
ages—as records show—they were, until
forty years ago, used only by peasants in
the neighborhood. The waters are very
powerlul, and many a casus desperatus
has found a new lease of life through
their agency; but they are limited in
quantity, for their flow, although regu
lar, is inconsiderable. Hall can thus
never become a large “ bad,” and could
not supply the wants of more than
3,060 invalids. About half that num-
be. are there now. I ascertained on
inquiry that one Englishman was takin
the waters—they are bathed in am
drank—and this gentleman and au
American are the only two “ Anglo
Saxons” who have been there for the
last four years. Strange to say the
most numerous community of foreign
ers is that of the Russians, of whom
there are many first-rata families. Of
the good Austrians and Hungarians one
meets in Hall some of the oreme. Could
the stones of thiB quiet place but speak
they could tell some startling family
tales'
Tli* Family Puri*.
The money question between husband
and wife is one of the most serious draw*
hacks to married happiness, and it is
time it was adjusted on a more just and
equal basis. The life of utter depend
ence wliioh some women lead is crush
ing and degraded. Men do not realize
the utter helplessness nnd vacuity to
which the system condemns woman
Now, docs anybody believe tliat it is
nocessnry for the welfare of tho family
that she should go to him for twenty-
five cents every time she needs it for
car-laro or a spool of thread P Is it
right or just to take her imbecility in
money matters for granted before she
lias been tested? Is it not just such
women, who are left by the failure of
some speculative craze to their own re
sources, with tho burden of a family
upon their unexperienced shoulders
who often dUplny wonderful powors o:l
energy and calculation, in addition to
thrift nnd persevering industry, which
ought to put all such men to BhanieP
Women, as a general rule, cau make
one dollar go us far as two in the hands
of men; and many conceited individu
als, who now consider that tho social
system bounded by four walls of their
dwelling wouid cease to revolve if they
were taken out of it, would find groat
happiness and great pecuniary advi
tago in putting the control of all tho in
terior details of thoir homes in tho
hands ol their wives, with a division of
tho income equal to tho requirement.—
Woman's Journal.
Faslllon Mole*.
Lace mitts to matcli costumes are
worn for evening.
Lisle thread gloves are the favorites
for summer wear.
Handkerchief bows for tho throat have
gingham-like borders.
Zones pointed back and front are again
worn with dressy toilct3.
Just now it is nt the left side of the
neck that the bouquet is fixed.
The fashion of won: ing flowers, cither
natural or artificial, never goes out.
The most fashionable parasols arc of
Surah silk or satiD, in any color pro
ferred, or black or white and hand
painted
Square bows of gros grain ribbon
_.ado of three loops and one notched
end, drape the sides of taffeta silk over
skirts.
Three-cornered pieces of India mull,
dotted with tiny specks of black, blue
or rod, aro worn in kerchief shape close
around the neck. They have a wide
hem.
Colored stockings are much worn
both plain and with small patterns or
embroidered corners near the ankle
Silk stockings for the evening are some
times embroidered with pearls.
The most fashionable colors in millin
ery are straw color, bran color, all the
tussore shades, seal brown, Du Barrie
rose, white, almond, biscuit, violet,
heliotrope, the cashmere shades, and
red.
Linen, brown Holland, workhouse
sheeting and pique seem to have utterly
disappeared from fashionable life, and
their place has been taken by sateens
and Foulards, soft Indian silks, and
cream-colored Corahs.
Unbleached lace, embroidered in col
ors, is worn by artistio English women
witli all washing dresses—colored dots
and sprigs upon either dark or light
grounds are the favorite style; also
quaint Japanose patterns.
Very odd-looking dressing jackets
have appeared, made of the favorite
pockotjhandkerchiefs; those in red with
a gay Indian arabesque in yellow on
them are very bright. The trimmings
are coffee-colored Languedoc lace, with
bows of the handkerchiefs
In London, in Rotten Row, round
felt hats are as much, if not more, worn
than the high silk hats; and every lady
appears to have a bouquet of flowers
pinned to the side of her fiabit. Jit is just
the one touch of color that is wanted,
and the only one that is admissible.
New neckties are of lace—old gold,
yellow, brown and cream; swathed
round and round the neck, like a coach
man’s wrap, the end fastened on the left
side with a scarf pin, or else witli a long
brooch, and below it the inevitable bou
quet, which is universally worn.
Guimpes of lace and mull, and of em
broidered insertions with Swiss musiin
are sold in the shop3 for wearing inside
square necks of dress. They are made
to fasten behind and are ouly deep
enough to cover the shoulders, where
they are held in placo by tape strings.
Tbe neck has usually a full ruche or a
high plaited ruff.
TIMELY TOPICS.
THE LAST DEAL.
Tli* OnfeMlon of • BlhrMI* •“■****
-A b la tit that Mail* Hlat iwttt •»
Foravor.
■I never dealt again!”
The words fell from the llpe ot a gen*
tleman well known in Leadvllle, yet
ly tiling, ana DUt ior a signs a
once saw I should probably be a gambler
still. Hereby hangs a tale. Tet me tell it i
Some three years ago I ran a high*
!r ably know, for it strikes me I saw yo»
•' there. It was a square game, aa I will
leavo any one to say—a thriving game.
lately broken out in a very explosive
way. A woman whoBe husband was in
a house of detention, feloniously and ot
malice aforethought carried to him con
cealed in a pie a quarter of an ounoe of
tobacco. For tills offense one Mr. Bar- „„„„„„„ .. _
stow, a magistrate, sentenced her to couidnMTsay a'word,Though, and yeti
imprisonment nt hard liked tUe w. Ho had lots of the filthy.
. j Any _ _
for I dealt lor Halt the bloods in town,
and olten I had as many as five layouts
at a time, with too much business on
-i ... hand to even get time to rest. One
than was burned in Uljleago and Boston ove ning a young man strolled in, with a
at their great fires. The average loss ^ 0 j curious stare on his face, and I
per ncie h. Chicago was $57,093; in concluded right there that he was green.
Boston, $1,160,067. The value per acre I u. fairAiaired and had a pair of
in Now York is $6,000,000. Distributed “ffio e“ s and ol6ar-cut features-^ in
in stores, twenty feet front by 900feet noccn t. loo king young fellow, if ever I
deep, each store would contain $6,000,- gaw one j t reqa ired a glance to
... Twenty-five Moves conduct) you that he was a stranger in
of the size above named contain as the gambling-room. He soon was nt
much in value as the who e amount of k om | though, for I saw in his blue
property destroyed in Chicago by the eyeg ^ he lo “ 0 of play, and after that
great tire. evening he wai a constant visitors He
‘ TTT . , played his pile right up and up and
The wrath of Englishmen against any £ e / er growled if his luck was hntd, and
act of injustice under the forms of law on e " second card he’d stack the
Is oasily excited, nnd tills wrath has | * in b i ue> Xake It altogether,
his luck was hard—sometimes the
hardest, I think, I ever saw. I ve
known him to lose at a single deal seven
double shots. . .
“ Business for me, ol course, but
somehow it almost seemed too bad. I
,. . ... , , couldn’t say a word, though, and yet I
twenty-ono days’ imprisonment at hard n ked ti, e boy
labor, but took off the hard labor wfion | think from the day be began he must
lie lound that she was in a I'clicate state bav0 drop ped a cool $100,000 on the
of health. This was enough to set Mr. g ame -nd lie never growled.
Bull nnd his wife to writing indignantly \Ye both quit gambling the same
to tho newspapers, and letters on iho he, poor lad, for sufficient rea-
subjcct appear signed ‘An Angrv son Htld because I loathed the game.
Woman." “AnIndignant Mother." “A j t w ’ a8 j n thiswise:
Hater of Petty Tyranny." Maylutrate jjjg co | n gave ou t i n a deal or two,
Barstow, who has won nn unenviable and be put up a diamond ring, just to
reputation by the severity o( his sen-1 8e0 hi 8 \\\ luck out, you know. The
chips soon went. He bad a pin, a flam*
ing stone in massive metal. He passed
that In without a word and drew $800
cold. So help me heaven I I wished
him luek as heartily as any player there;
but no, his last stack went my way on a
losing ace. He drew $300 more, I
think, on his watch and chain, and tried
ills line of bets again, but his luok was
gone. I’ll never forget the pale, haggard
look tliat crossed his face, but he was
ame. He never uttered a word, and
_ept his chair like a pillar of stone. For
a moment he seemed dazed at his re*
verses, but suddenly his eye caught the
thin, worn circlet of dull gold on his
little finger. He looked at it a little
while, amt a dark wave of hot crimson
blood passed over ills face, for tills cir
clet scorned to cling even luster than the
flashing gem he had passed in before,
lie at last stripped it off his finger and
handed it to me. It came reluctantly,
this worn, old ring. 1 What can I have
on thisP’ lie asked. ‘ I don’t know what
tcnces, now finds himself unpleasantly
mentioned in the house of commons;
and large public meetings were to he
hold to denounce him in London, when
tho homo secretary thought it best to
order the release ot tho woman.
One of the things which thoy order
belter in France tuan in mnny other
countries is the treatment of men re
sponsible for railway accidents. The
disaster nt Ciinehy on tho third cf Feb
ruary last may he recnlled by our read
ers, when a train of the Northern com*
any ran into one of tho Western line,
ng sixteen persons and wounding
nincty-iour. The principal culprits,
the conductor of the first train, who
lind neglected tho uso of fog signals,
and the engincor of the second, who
had run through the log too r pldly,
were killed, but a guard and two
switchmen were sent before the crimi
nal tribunals for neglecting the precau
tions which it should havo occurred to
them to take in view of the weather its value is, but I’ll redeem it first of
and the proximity to each other of the nil.* It might have cost $5 new, but it
trains. All three men bore good char- was worthless then,
acters, which was lucky for them, as “Still 1 passed out a fifty stack lure
one wns acquitted nnd tho other two turn, just to let him try again, ne
got off with sentences of four months' planked it down inlhojx
imprisonment nnd ten dollars line, be
sides the costs, but the Weitern com
pany was declare civilly responsible
for all consequences ot their negligence
The now volumo oi “ Poor’s
Manual" gives a very encouraging
view o! the railroads of the United
States. The most conspicuous feature
iot and then lo v
upon the tnblo he laid his face on his
folded arras. Well, ior a wonder, his
luck changed nnd ho won three times.
He took no notice of me as 1 told him
when the limit barred, and to we played
$350 on each card. Would you believe
it? In the deal the pot won out and
never lost! And still ho lay with his
face hid in his arms. The deal was out
iDCiU a HViU *• OIUVIJ w» Miv I uuu X DIIUUA IJIUl upt uuu UUU w «wwsv*«
statistics is the groat increase of busi- moved, and raising his face I started
ness nnd the reduction in the cost oi back in horror at the glassy exi
carrying freight, There were at the 0 f his eyes, for the boy was dead
close of 1879, 80,497 miles of railroad in “ I’ve often wondered to myself since
operation, an increase of 4 731 miles that night what thoughts went flitting
over the previous year, a greater growth through his brain as he bowed his head
than in any year since 1873. The gross and ilia his face from our sight, what
earnings of all these roads were four
hundred and twenty-nine millions,
against four hundred and ninoty mil
lions in 1878. But, as hns been said,
this increase in gross receipts repre
sented a much greater increase in traffic.
ledges of a better life, regrets for a for-
iway
of hi
tunelie had thrown away with a lavish
hand, and loathing of his irrevocable
course. Who can tell? Wc can but
guess at them? but may never feel. His
face showed years of torturo endured in
Thirteen leading lines which in 1873 that brief game, but it was not until the
carried 45,557,002 tonB of freight, on coroner’s jury sat that 1 learned all.
which the charges amounted to $112,- Before them wns developed the fact that
004,618, an average rate of 1.77 cents per the ring which had changed his luck, as
ton per mi'lo, carried in 1879 07,092,549 it did his existence, was one given him
tons, and received $110,311,452, or at by his dear dead mother years before,
tho rate of only 1.02 oents per mile. As Poor boy! I never dealt again.”—Lead-
tlie report says, “the rate per mile at I ville (Col.) Chronicle.
which the railroadB now carry freight
would have been considered impossible
five years a?o,” and yet the statistics
further show that the business is
conducted at a substantial profit. If
the dividends are smaller they are more
To Cube a Felon.—Take out a por
tion ot the inside of a lemon, and thrust
the finger into it. Or take the skin of
the inside of a fresh egg, bind it on with
the moisture of the white ol the egg
next to the finger, and it will draw the
small globule that causes the sore to the
surface. As it dries make new applica
tions. This recipe has been often recom
mended, and we believe that it has bees
very successful.
Indian Superstitions About Thunder.
Almost all the tribes in the United
States believed the thuader to be pro
duced by tbe wings of a great bird,
anil that the lightning was the serpents
w.c ‘ i* , nmr ,„nt nf anil that the lightning was the serpents
securely earned and a larger amount of h invariably connected with the
the earn in 23 than ever before uas gone _ ... n,„
the earnings than
into permanent
reserve funds.
gone
improvements and
thunder bird. Among the ancient
tribes of the Mississippi valley the
thunder, therefore, soon became a thun
der god, who could be propitiated with
sacrifices. The Illinois Indians offered
up n small dog when a child happened
| to bo sick upon a day when there was
idei
Alpaca.
This useful material, so much iu de
mand at the present day, is manufac- —
tured from the wool of the alpaca goat, much thunder, supposing the latter to
a species oi the Llama, whoso home is in be the cause of the malady. Many in-
the mountain regions of Peru. It lives cidents,like conflagrations,were attribn-
on tho coarsest iare, the scanty herbage ted to this angry god, and some tribes
that springs up in the fastness of the did bloody penance in propitiation,
rocks; but it ha9 a beautiful, wavy coat olten burning to death their own chil*
of white, chestnut- brown wool, which dren. Statements that the Indians
is nearly a foot in length, very soft and adored the thunder, however, seems to
elastic, nearly as fine ns that of the Cash- be erroneous. It was the cause of the
mere goat. This is sheared off every year thunder that they worshiped, and be*
or two, and sent in little bales or ballots fore which they burned tobacco and
to England or France, or to wherever buffalo meat, or cut off the joints of
it is to be manufactured. It is then their fingers or throw thoir children
washed, dried, combed and finally sorted into the fire when they were overcome
preparatory to being manufactured into witli fear. The Peruvians had as au
the yarn from which is made the cloth, idol a stone that had been split by the
the material undergoing thirteen or lightning. They offered it gold and sil*
fourteen different processes in the course | ver. The natives of Honduras burned
of its preparation. Ladies will admit i cotton seed when it thundered. Other
tliat it is worth tho trouble, however, southern tribes made no sacrifices on
Half a century ago this durable fabric the approach of a storm, but abased
was unknown to us. But about that themselves in the most abjeot fear,
time some sacks oi a queer, fibroos ma- The wild rice being aquatic and looking
terial, which looked like “ superannu- like an arrow or spear, it is also attribu-
aced horse hair,” were landed on Liver- ted to tho thunder spirit as its origin,
pool dooks. There they lay a long time In '.Mexico great temples were built
unsold, until one day a young man of upon the sacred spots where lightning
an inquiring turn of mind, peering | had struck. A curious notion, among
about, noticed some of tbeir contents
sticking out of a hole in one of them.
He looked curiously at it, rubbed it in
his fingers, and finally pocketed it and
walked off. The result was—alpaca.
He had discovered tho “ horse hair ” to
be the wool of the alpaca goat, and,|was one <_. . ...
ingenious enough to conceive it into and Piquerad. The tradition was utii*
dress goods, ana enterprising enough to | ized by Pizarro’s missionaries to town
carry hiB idea out.'
Peruviins was that the preserved bodies
of twin children who died in infancy
should be worshiped, supposing tbit
one of them was the son of the thunder,
the origin of this idea being the fact
that the thunder god of that people wee
ized by Pizarro’s missionaries io wwn
the Indians the doctrine of the Trinity;
