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DOES DEATH END ALL t
"Yes, death ends ah the puny feuds of man—
The earthly fevers and the strife for gold,
Which make life seem as some half-finished
plan, told.
And look so little when the tale is
Men strive a while each circumstance to
mould,
To meet some feeble purpose of the heart,
Then nears the end—the blood grows thin
and cold,
And then the soul, grown tired of Time and
Art,
Half forms the wish that it might soon depart.
Death ends the platform quibbling of the weak
Who only caper to make mankind stare.
Scant is the meaning in the words they speak—
More scant the judgment in the creeds they
share:
But then, this land is free as God’s own air,
And men are free to institute rare schools
To mock morality and sneer at prayers—
To perch themselves on scientific stools,
And mete out wisdom—or bo simply fools.
Death ends all doubting, doubt belongs to
earth—
We know so little of our own estate.
We grow impatient close upon our birth;
And few there be who know ’tis well to wait.
Such small successes make the heart elate,
That we despise the wide, unknown abyss
Of God’s deep -wisdom, measureless and
great.
Onr pigmy judgment sees the world amiss,"
And charges to His name—death ends all this !
But what of man’s sublimer part, the soul ?
Hath it no longing scarcely satisfied?
Does this life seem to it a mighty whole,
Or but a wave on the eternal tide—
A stream so narrow to a sea so wide ?
Ah ! still to reason, when life’s ending nears,
One thought is paramount o’er all beside—
A wish to rise to more exalted spheres,
And progress still through everlasting years.
Whence comes this wish ? Did the eternal one
Furnish all things the spirit fairly knows
With tastes fulfilled, and leave tlio soul undone?
Not so. Toward the sun the leaflet grows,
While from the sun the leaflet’s living flow’s.
TIius shall the soul, through death's dark
shadows fall,
Find what it craves where’er its essence goes.
And through the tear-clouds that surround the
pall
Behold this legend—death does not end all.
—William Lyle in Rochester Union.
HOW ONE WIFE MANAGED.
BY DB. XHO LEWIS.
Deacon M., a rich, respectable man ot
Sixty-six, married for his third wife,
Katie C., a pretty sewing girl of twenty
two.
Some weeks before tlie wedding, Katie,
who had bem patient, came to ask
us'she my advice about lier marriage, though,
afterward confessed, she was al¬
ready engaged. I frankly advised against
the match,spoke of the Deacon’s daugh¬
ters older than herself, and urged his
well-known penuriousness. rich, But had Katie
was poor; the Deacon was a
fine house, kept a carriage, and was the
most considerable person in the neigh¬
borhood. They were married. The
neighbors congratulated after her. the wedding,
About two years
Katie asked mo, in a little noto, to call,
and mentioned that she wished to seo
me confidentially. She was not very
sick, but wanted to ask my advice about
her troubles.
With much sobbing she told me that
after being very kind for a few months,
the Deacon had joined his daughters
against her. I tried to comfort her,
urging that in every position in life there
■were trials which we must bear with
Christian patience. clothing, and
‘But,” said she, “I need
have often Bpoken of it, but he always
tellB me of what the Apostle says about
braided hair, and gold, and pearls, and
costly array.” quarrel, perhaps
Fearing a bitter a
separation, and thinking I might assist
in preventing it, I encouraged Katie to
confide in me, and begged ner to keep
her troubles from all the world besides.
She remained “sick” a week, that she
might have some one to talk to and cry
to. She finally said: “I suppose even
you think I am too fond of dress, and
that the Deacon is right when he lectures
me against the vanities of this world.
When I was married I had only three
good dresses. Our Irish servant lias a
better wardrobe than I ever had ”
Katie’s mind dwelt so much upon
dress, that 1 thought it best to learn the
facts. She at length convinced me that
the Deacon’s refusal was a piece of his
characteristic "Wanness. After a good
deal of thought, I reached the conclusion
for the thousandth time, that a wife has
rights which the husband is bound to
respect. I advised a plain, frank talk
with the Deacon. The next day she
told me that ho had said she had bet¬
ter wait till lie had paid the doctor’s bill
before she talked about dress.
It was clear that between the father
and the daughters this poor child was
pretty sure to be crushed.
At length a plan of escape occurred to
me. Katie could run a sewing machine.
I took good Mrs. G. into my confidence,
and then said to Katie:
“Earn money with your sewing ma¬
chine, and buy a dress. Mrs. G. is my
friend. She is a prudent woman, and
will furnish the motive sewing.” getting well,
Having a for dropped
Katie was up the next day. I
in several times and found my patient
getting on famously. silk appeared
At length a resplendent
in the Deaoou’s pew. The sisters were
astonished, and after the “ninthly” divided had
been time safely passed, they path glory their
between the shining to
of which the good man was speaking,
and the Bhining gown in the Deacon’s
pew.
The Deaoon was puzzled ! Here was
ihe new dress which he had refused to
buy. How did she get it? He was
ashamed to ask. Katie said nothing.
The daughters interrogated the dress¬
maker. She said the silk came, she
made the dress; the Deacon’s wife had
paid her; she presumed the Deacon fur¬
nished the money; he certainly was rich
enough. The merchant was quizzed.
The young wife had paid That him for all the
silk and trimmings. was he
knew. There were only three of us whe
knew where the money came from. Tin
Deacon and his daughters were not like¬
ly to find out about it until we chose to
In another month a pretty hat was
added to the young wife’s wardrobe,
while the gorgeous silk shone on in all
its glory, mocking alike the curiosity of
her family and the ambition of the sis¬
terhood.
“And now for pity’s sake, where did
the vain, silly thing get that ridiculous
hat ? I wonder if she has forgotten that
she is a deacon’s wife ?”
Various articles of clothing appeared
from time to time, and we were develop¬
ing our “little game.” Katie knew noth¬
ing of onr ulterior purpose. We did not
dare to give her the least hint of it; it
would have frightened her. She with went her
on for months earning money
sewing machine, and buying coveted ar¬
ticles of dress and ornament. Of course
it was very silly, but the poor child was
not a bit of a deaconess. She had joined
her husband’s church, but the work of
grace did not go deep enough to touch
the love of French flowers.
After a time Mrs. G. whispered to a
gossiping neighbor. Everybody in town,
except the Deacon and his daughters,
knew the whole affair within twenty-four
hours. Soon the Deacon received an
anonymous letter, saying: wife is
“You are disgraced. Your
sewing to earn money to buy clothes.
The whole neighborhood is sneering at
you.”
The Deacon went straight at his young
wife.
“Where did you get the money to buy
your new clothes ?”
“I earned it by sewing!” ?”
“Who have you been sewing for
“I cannot tell you !”
“But I must know, and I will know!”
“If you ever find it out, it will be
through somebody besides me. I
wouldn’t tell to save my life!”
“But do you know wbat you are
doing? Does not the Bible command
wives to obey their husbands ? You will
be sorry for this.”
“That is possible; but my mind is
made up.”
“But, my dear Katie, if you wanted
money to buy clothes, You why did you not
come to me? know if yon need
money, all you have to do is to come
right to me. I would not have had you
done this thing for ten thousand dollars.
The world’s people will never stop talk¬
ing about it.”
“I am surprised,” said Katie. “You
can’t have forgotten that I have asked
you again and again for money to buy
clothing, and yon have not given me a
dollar since we were married.”
With mingled anger and shame, the
Deacon exclaimed:
“Then why won’t you set apart what¬
ever yon think is necessary for my
clothing ? If you will give me an allow¬
ance, as you do the girls, I will he very
thankful You know what you give
them. If yon want me to dress as well
as they do, and you will allow me the
same, it shall not be wasted !”
“Would it not be better, Katie, to
look upon our purse ns belonging to both
of us alike, and whenever you want any¬
thing you go to it the same as I do. I
am sure a man’s wife has just as goo l
rights as the man himself ! Katie, sha’n’t
we leave it just ns it is, and you spend
whatever you please ?”
“Of course. Deacon, I shall have to do
just as you thuik best, but I ought to
be honest, and tell you that I think it
would be better to arrange a definite
sum, lie and then thinking I shall about not it. be ” obliged to
awake
• « ‘Well,” said the Deacon, “I will tell
you what wc will do. I will hand you
ten dollars every three months, which
you must use for pin money, and when
you want ... to buy a dress, or any other
such arge thing, come right to me.”
Katie made one more effort. Deacon,
r am sorry you can t see it as I do. I.
shall use all the money you may give me
ju a very prudent way, but it there is
less than I need, I shall earn it with my
own hands. I '*nll not beg again as
“Well, now I want you to understand
tlint if you need any money you must
come right to me. This scandal, which
is sure to spread all over town, is a burn
ing shame. I can’t see what you were
thinking about. It will be an eternal
disgrace to us all. The girls won’t dare
hold up their heads. My wife taking in
have sewing ! Pretty story ! I had rather
in given you a satin dress every day
the year, than to. have had you done
this thing! Why in the world didn’t
you tell me you wanted some money?
I would have given you a thousand dol
lars any day.”
“Why, Deacon, what makes you say
that ? Don’t you remember that day
when the dressmaker -was here making
dresses for the girls, I begged for a
dress, and at last was foolish enough to
cry about it, and you pushed me away,
and said you didn’t think you had mar
ried a cry-baby ? That is the last time
I ever asked you for money. I fear I
am not as useful as yon expected, and I
don’t see why I may not earn the little
money I need. I am sure I don’t want
to be a burden to you. ”
“Katie, don’t talk in that way. Wily,
the world’s people will never stop poking
at me. My wife taking in sewing!
Don’t that sound nice.”
long as I live.” This was exactly what
she had promised to say.
“Well,” angrily interrupted the Dea¬
con, “as I am dealing with a Jew, I
must come down. Madam, what are
your terms ?”
“I have no terms; I only want admail
amount of money to buy a'few garnronts.
I will not humiliate myself by begging
for it. If you will arrange to furnish
me with it, I shall be grateful, and give
you in return all there is of me. If yon
do not give me the money when I need
it, I shall work for it. If there is any
extra work in your family which I can
do for pay, I shall prefer to work for
you; but if not, I shall, with every pre¬
caution to save your feelings, ask for
work outside.”
“Madam, will you be kind enough to
mention your terms ?”
“If you will give two hundred dollars
a year, and will be kind enough to let
me have a quarter of it every three
months, I will make it pay for my cloth¬
ing. You give each of your daughters
three hundred, bat I will make two
hundred dollars do, and I will never ask
tor more. If yon will be so good as to
allow me this sum, it will relieve me of a
great trouble.”
“Let it be so,” angrily exclaimed the
Deacon.
As he went out, he muttered tc him¬
self, “My wife taking in sewing I The
world's people will never stop sneering
at me. Taking in sewing! Pretty will story !
Never can tell what a woman do !
Most unreasonable creatures in the
world ! Taking in sewing ! Wouldn’t
bad it happen for ten thousand dollars !
The world’s people will never stop laugh¬
ing about it.”
With persons in comfortable circum¬
stances this is a good and wise expedient.
Most happily I have known it to work
in a number of cases. It has many ad¬
vantages; it is honest, convincing and
effective. It challenges the respect of
the husband, and if done in and a gentle
spirit awakens his sympathy sense
of justice. With a little patience I think
it will prove uniformly successful.
Most husbands will indignantly de¬
nounce all such interference with the
management of their families, If a
husband goes astray, nine men in ten are
furious at the tale-bearer who communi¬
cates with the wife; but let the wife go
astray, how full of sympathy and help
for the wronged husband these same
nine men are.
Gentlemen, fellow-husbands, has not
this animal, brutal selfishness gone
about far enough? Has not the time
come, in the race of life, to remove ail
obstacles from the pathway of those
whom we call “the weaker vessels ?” If
either of us must be handicapped, which
do you, brave men, say it shall be ?—
Dio Lewis's Monthly.
MILLIONS OF SWALLOWS.
A Strange Sight Seen in a Small Suburban
Town*
In the little town of Westerly, B. I.,
there has been annually occurring for
several years past a peculiar phenome¬
non of great interest. The phenomenon
consists in the fact that millions of swal¬
lows and other birds are accustomed
during each summer season to congre¬ in
gate every night in a certain grove
the town roosting of Westerly, place, and making their the trees
their move¬
ments as they come and go about this
resort afford a basis for much comment
and speculation. When we first reached
the scene we noticed several swallows
flitting here and there in the air, but
about seven o’clock their number seemed
legion. One could think of nothing but
a snow storm with large black flakes.
From the plainest outlines of the lowest
flying birds to the merest black specks
of the most aspiring wanderers, the pic¬
ture was that ofconstantly moving, inter¬
mingling millions of little winged crea¬
tures.
It was a sight never to be forgotten.
At times no two birds seemed to be fly¬
ing in the same direction, though, as a
whole, the v^st side company would sway
from side to above the grove.
Again, a group of hundreds would take
a common direction, circling around the
inner circumference of the general com¬
pany, now descending toward the tree
tops with a symmetrical swoop, then
rising in the air till almost lost to view.
Then they would return to the common
crowd and resume their separate courses
as before. The individual flyers would
tilt and joust with each other, or play at
cross-tag in the air. It was a constantly
moving kaleidoscope. All the while
new comers were still streaming < in from
all quarters, and at 7:15 o’clock the
multitude had become dense. About
this time there was a sudden cessation of
the various flights, and a general circu¬
lar motion of the whole company was
apparent. Round and round in a broad
sweeping circle over the grove they flow
for several minutes, until all had joined
in the common direction. Then they
began to draw closer and closer together
ina constantly narrowing circle, and the
centre of the mass was observed grad
uad y J j- 0 gink in funnel shape toward
tlle tree tops f . Suddenly with almost
the rapidit o{ thought, the whole host
van j sbedi circling in the tree tops with a
wb i rr ing G f wings distinctly tili, heard, and
goon tbe ft j r waa a j mos t 8 broken only
by the greeting chirps of the now late
comers, who were still straggling in in
8ma li groups and singly. These last
arrivals did not pause to circle about in
the air, but flew in toward the grove as
straight as an brothers arrow and vanished lightning-like among
their settled with
rapidity. As we now drew still nearer
the edge of the grove the rustling and
chirping of tlio birds settled among themselves the leaves
and branches as they
in comfort for the night could be dis
tincly beard.
To say that the cubic space occupied
by the birds in this nightly flying to and
fro, after all hare gathered, does not
exceed 500 feet dimensions each way,
and that, compressed into this space in
tlieir close flight, the birds would not
exceed twenty-five in each 1,000 cubic
feet of space (ten feet each way) is to
make estimates which all who have seen
the birds will most certainly call wi h
in bounds; and yet these estimates
would give a total of at least 3,125,000
birds,
China’s Strength.
The military of China consists of the
imperial guard, 18,000 strong; the in¬
fantry guard, 5,200 strong; 1,750 artil¬
lerymen; the Chihli armory, officered by
Englishmen, 80,000 strong and armed
with breech-loading rifles. Altogether
China cau put into the field at a mo¬
ment’s notice about 120,000 men. Be¬
hind this her reserve in case of conscrip¬
tion is almost incalculable. She has
three fleets, the Canton, the Fu Klang
and the Shanghai, numbering twenty
nine men-of-war of modern pattern.
Thirteen of these vessels are built of
steel and are said to be superior iu arm¬
ament and defensive equipment to any
boat of their size afloat
i Monster Locomotive.
A single locomotive is now being
built in the Sacramento car shops of
the Central Pacific which will be larger
than any ever before built in the world.
The engine will have five pair of driving
wheels. The weight of the engine will
be seventy-three tons; weight on driv¬
ers, sixty-four tons ; weight of tender,
over twenty-five tons ; weight of engine
and tender when fully equipped for the
road, 105 tons. The length of the en¬
gine and tender will be sixty-five feet
and five inches.
A "dispatch states that 1 ‘serious trouble
is brewing among the New York trades
naions.” Oh, that’s nothing. They al¬
ways are at lager-heads.
ia l&e Brave Days of OM.
A correspondent of the Chicago Inter- of
Ocean, writing from the ancient town
Yarmouth, Me., says: There are some
good stories told about the old meeting
house, of which nothing remains now
but the vane, which some enthusiastic
antiquarians have placed upon “the
ledge”—one of the hills of the town. It
was the first church built in Maine. In
those days every man carried his musket
to church with him, and these were
stacked outside the door, while the sen¬
tinels kept watch during the service, and
others were posted at different points
through the town. One quiet Sabbath,
while the preacher held forth upon the
ruin of unbelievers, and the congrega¬
tion slumbered peacefully in their high
backed pews, a signal gun was heard
from the Prince’s Point Station. An¬
other sharp report followed, and still- an
other. The minister did not wait for
the fifthly in his discourse, but dashed
down the pulpit stairs and joined the
excited multitude outside. From their
commanding situation they saw a strange
craft sailing up Casco Bay. It carried
no colors. They couia see no men on
its deck. After a hurried consultation
it was decided to send an armed depu¬
tation to Prince’s Point to find out the
mission of the mysterious vessel. The
women and children, with a few men for
defence, remained on the hill, while the
heroic band marched down to the point
and awaited the arrival of the stranger.
An hour passed and they returned. The
bark was—a schooner from down the
coast which had sailed up for timber !
The Chronicle tells only the bare story,
and with a grain of facetiousness, as if
the humor was evident enough without
any comments. It does not attempt to
account either for the fall of the plaster
in the same church at the very moment
when the parson, a gloomy man with a
sonorous voice and pessimistic views of
life, was enlarging on the parage
• ‘Blow ye the trumpet! Babylon shall
fall and become heaps,” but simply says
that “the people thought that the end of
the world had come, and did leave the
meeting-house in great distraction, in¬
juring a woman seriously by trampling
upon her in their haste to get out of the
door.”
Advice To a Young Man.
Yon will perceive, my boy, that every
time man undertakes to manufacture a
little Bible on his own account, he makes
a mortifying failure of it. He is caught
at it, and in one-tentli the time it took
him to conceive his fraud, in as many
hours as it took him months to prepare
it, he is exposed, and his hand made ad¬
dition to the Bible is swept away in the
other rubbish of other counterfeiters.
You see, my son, the Bible doesn’t need
any of these 19tli century proofs of its
truth; it needs the word of no man to
establish its genuineness; it has stood by
itself, ‘ ‘an anvil that has worn out many
hammers” through century after cen¬
tury, unchanged and unchangeable.
Every time a man manufactures a new
verse or a new chapter, we know it is
not genuine, we detect the counterfeit.
The Bible has no need of the support
ing prop of a fraudulent ark or a leather
Deuteronomy. There was a complete
Bible centuries before Shapira hap¬
pened and there will be the same Bible
ages after Shapira and his patent Deu¬
teronomy have together crumbled
into indistinguishable dust. The
Bible doesn’t need our help, our testi¬
mony, our indorsement. And if there
had never been discovered in all the
world, a bit of parchment, a piece of
pottery or a scratched stone the Bible
would be just as strong as it is to-day,
and men would believe just as firmly
and trustfully in its truth. Don’t you
worry, my boy, because Shapira’s an¬
cient manuscript was written with Lon¬
don ink, and don’t fret because the ark
in the glacier turns out to bo put to¬
gether with Pittsburg nails. That all
the frauds on the Bible and its history
are so quickly and easily detected,
should only convince you how impossi¬
ble it is for man to counterfeit the work
of God. Wait until some man fools us
with an artificial moon; and until some
philosopher stores away tlio sunlight in
parlor lamps, before you believe that
man can successfully imitate what man
never made. Bubdettk.
How Many Murderers Escape.
It appears that from 1860 to 1882 a
hundred and seventy persons were tried
in Massachusetts for murder in the first
degree. Of this number only twenty- sixteen
nine were convicted and only
jiaid the extreme penalty of the law. Of
those convicted one committed suicide
aud twelve got their sentences com¬
muted. Here, then, during a period of
little more than twenty years were a
hundred and seventy murders in one
State and only sixteen executions.
In Connecticut during a period of
thirty years, from 1850 to 1880, ninety
seven persons were tried for murder in
the first degree. Of these only and thirteen
were convicted of that crime not
more than seven were hanged.
The statistics for other States would
doubtless show similar results. In New
York city there were a hundred and
eighty-five homicides during the four
years ending with 1877. There was an
average of nearly one homicide a week.
During the same period there were four
executions, or just one a year. The
number of persons tried for murder in
the first degree in the city is about
twenty-five every year, the number
hanged does not exceed on the average
one or two a year.
These figures are full of significance.
They show that either through the fault
of the law itself or its administration by
juries the statute imposing, the death
penalty for murder is in the vast ma¬
jority of eases a dead letter. They
further show that while murder is a
common crime the murderer iu a great
many instances succeeds in escaping
punishment entirely .— N. Y. Herald.
Miss Phcebe Corzr-s, who was in the
vicinity of the Minnesota cyclone, was
reported among the lost. She writes
that she is safe. It appears that when
she commenced saw the cyclone deliver approaching she
to one of her wo¬
men’s rights speeches, suddenly when the bosom
of destruction turned on its
heel and went bowling howlfnily over
the prairies in another direction.—Nor
ristown Herald.
POOR JACK AT SEA.
THE BEST MEN FOB SAIEOES.
Some Snlty Tnlk Irom an Old .Mariner Wlio
has a Prejudice and Makes it Known.
[From the New York Tribune.J
all “Yes,” kinds said the mate, “we have most
o’men aboard at times. We
never gets the same crew two vovages
picks running, an’ one way an’ another we
which up nation chaps from all countries. Au’
do I think makes the best
sailors ?” he asked, echoing the report
er s query; “well I ain’t going to say as
any nation makes the best sailor. There’s
bad an’ there’s good of all kinds, an’ it
don’t follow cos a chap’s got one kind
of a skin as he’s a good sailor, nor it
dop’t follow ’cos he’s got another he’s a
bad one. Not but that there may be
more good ones among some kinds ’n
among others, an’ I won’t deny as I’ve
got a prejudice in favor of Norwegians,
Those two fellows sittin’ aft with the
queer pipes in their mouths and their
eyes fixed away on the sky-line are both
like Norwegians. They’ll sit side by side
that for hours ’em* together when there
ain’t no call for to work They
don’t speak, an’ I don’t know as they
think, but they just set and smoke—an”
mighty poor ’bacca it is they smoke, too
—an Norwegians seem is perfectly all contented. An’
alike. There ain’t no
more difference between’em’n there is
between so many ropes’ ends. They
ain’t never no trouble when thev’re off
but, as soon there’s work to be done
ass
Here there was a short pause during
which the mate and the reporter kept
their eyes fixed on a dog which was try
mg to balance itself up a plank from the
p !er to the side ot a small schooner. It
got half way up when the plank began
to rock. Then it stood still and shiv
ered, whined, slipped and with a yelp
dropped on to the pier and away it went
in a cloud of dust. The mate made no
comment bat quietly resumed his liar-
“Now, with Italians y, I’m prejudiced all
the other way. I never knowed an Ital
lan though as I J ve could met be shipmates in time. with, As
a many my
a general rule, hows’ever, they seem to
keep more to their own ships ’n any
other nation. That brig there’s aul-tal
ian craft, and from mornin’ to night
they never stops jabbering. They don’t
seem to make no rule agin it on their
boats, but just let ’em jabber away ail
day—and when lliey come on a ’Merican
boat they find it different and don’t like
havin’ to keep their mouths shut. Con
sequence officers is the they never gets on with the
nor officers with them, an’
they mostly quarrel with the men, too,
from what I can see. And there's
Frenchies—they’re talks deal much the same and
a more’n they work. An’
that’s how it is we usually keeps to Nor
wogians and Americans—an’ I’m natu
rally prejudiced in favor of Americans,
an’ there ain’t many others left ’cept
these ’ere Manillies, with whom I’ve
shipped once or twice, hut is queer luh
cnni^wtberfi’s ®
coiuse there s the Irish—but no one as
I ever knew, unless he was a crank
shinped an else. Irishman when he could get
anybody I haven’t had an Iri4i J
„i man aboard „ i o this ii • craft ,, for r nigh on to ,
ye ° W ’ a * * rnea ! 1 l°<
n other. mi T ey may do i well enough for
what you call a politician or for driving
a hack; but. they won t never be equal
to sailori l, lot a man among em. Yes,
Im mortal prejudiced agm Irishmen,
too; a most as much—well, no, riot as
much as I am agin Englishmen. They
turns out good sailors, too, does
men, but they am tuo good unless they re
allowed to boss. We had an English
man aboard aiong o that last Irishman
eight years ago, and they was alius fight
m , them two. Sometimes the English
man wouJd cryoufc God save fclie Queen,
and tnen the Irishman would swear, and
they’d fight. And then agin the Irisji
man would sing out, ‘Erin go bragh!’
or some such like, and the Englishman
would swear, and they’d fight. Some¬
times one would begin and sometimes
fight the other, but they usually fixed up a
somehow.
“We had more Englishmen arter that
one. too. but I only git more prejudiced
agin ’em. See this scar over my eye ?
Well, that come nigh on to killin’ me
and did more to prejudice me 'n It any¬
thin’ else against Englishmen. October, were if I
’bout six years ago this
don’t disremember, as we were into
Wilmington, North Carolina, and the
Englishman in question weren’t never
much better ’n a savage—he came from
Shields, an’ I hear they’re all savages
thereabouts. Well, he couldn’t bear
bein’ interfered with, an’ I’ve known
him to larrup a chap for offerin’ him a
light for his pipe. Well, I knowed
this and never offered to help him at
nothing until this time down to Wil¬
mington, when I came along one night
an’ found a constable takin’ him off to
the station for making a row in a drink
in’ place ’cos a stranger wanted to pay
for his drink. So I up and told the
officer if he’d let him go I’d see him
safe home and not let him ashore agin
till we sailed. Which the officer did
after a. bit o’ parley. But this ’ere
Englishman never said nothin’ till we
got into a dark street and then he outs
with his knife. If I’d only knowed
what he was arter afore he started I
wouldn’t a bin there when he began cut¬
ting. But I hadn’t time to run or do
anythin’. Luckily some chaps I came
along and saved my life, though and was he
insensible and pretty nigh dead,
was locked up arter all. The ship, hows’¬
ever, sailed afore the trial came on an’ I
guess he was acquitted. But, as I say,
that did more to prejudice me agin Eng¬
lishmen’n anything else, an’I haven’t
^hipped another since then. No, I don’t
know as any nation's better ’n another,
’eos there’s good and bad of all, as I
say. But I’m strongly prejudiced in fa
vor of Americans an’ Norwegians, an'
you’ll find most mates are o’ my way ’o
thinking.”
Cotjbtney might be more successful
in an attempt to beat his mother-in-law,
but the chances are against him in that
even.
STILL AJf OTHER COLORED
Not CADET.
a Negro Minstrel this Time.
'tf^SSg'ElSSS''**
new cadet is not bounced is W° n the
“ is able the P‘ to a whip In any dozen li t Vi ° adeta v he
f ce. such a case
1010111 ? to haze a colored man
I s S 00 ? amusement when the g
UI ? P lnto a smail cadet and torture Caa
Jut i when , and a cadet strong is a six. of f.wter limb ’who i !«
ff:, a platoon of ordinary cadets radish?
t toTr/? “ bunclles ‘ike
the Zll: f ' of 1 ' azlIJ g is not visible
T cadet Bnt there to the
- are otW
IT? why new coloredcadet Z
a He is a gentle
His skin is dark, but he is ki„,i
braved tlir f &S ou « wel1 l! l v good educated fello^ a Is
£ i f f pnt boys at West Point
favors^ „ 011 all >' airs because he
L man ’. and does not ask any
the Hnf r f U °f f lther He soeiaP is vor
neero Whittaklrnl'fpr TIle trouble not a
fadet« J Pper tbo othfir with
colored adets w ‘ JO ’ bounced, two
SnSfLET ti +. Werc regS was
C ° lored , dad es,
Wh ° tb ° T! g:ht th ey
must ml bas on one side, and
orfd annear ^bwome? ■* 011 T The , . white cadets of
disHWi ^feir ^not* . f tbe lirst
and lot hlf^w ™ ba \W -
Wbenwhite gc ! to p T oiut one.
have servants* tn 11lb . to humiliation, and they be
the disciphnf f
teaches them
“ffiste a
would the first not thing submit to soldier disciplinfwhiS has’to let™
a nf’
they were finally fired out naSe The fa!
colored cadet, Alexander by
different sort of a colored man. He W
gone there the same as a white tlienf W
would, to take things as lie finds
and not to become a full-fledged officer
the first month. He says:
“Gentlemen, anything clo,' vou say it is
my humiliating duty to do, I will and however
it is, 1 will never kick, out
if I find you have compelled me to do
place humiliating things that it was not mv
shall to do, 1 shall be displeased and
retaliate.”
That colored man will come out all
right, and graduate'with some day we shall hear of
him as a high honors,
He does not presume upon his color to
pull him through his examination with
out study, as Flipper and the other
minstrel did, but he will study night
and day, and conquer. His example
could be safely followed by many white
young men. A year from now no cadet
at West Point will be more respected
both by officers, cadets and visitors,
than the colored young man, who goes
there a student, instead of a song and
dance man, and who seeks education,
and not notoriety. Success to the colored
cadet, and may he throw' the first crowd
that attempts to haze him into the Hud
son river.— Peck's Sun.
Revenge is Sweet.
There was a voting man of Bing Sing,
,l. New York Trilr.me ’ imt npr. p
h ? : f H b , ? be ■. . , , a Pa > ’!! . ! T 9
statement ot this ma ter, though the line
runs to metre, ’ in writing J ol romance and
(Var . He was jeahm hjs wif6| from
whom he had been separated after asked two
c i ays J 0 f marr i e d life, ’young and when he
h why / a certa , n man came to
gee he so oftell) he found himself snd
denly slapped as to bis mouth and kicked
as to his shins. Then he determined on
reV enge. He did not shoot her or him,
nor did he take poison himself. He lay
^ wa it for the young man, angered him
by J some remarks, and when the young
m an wickedly swore, the husband had
y,im arrested, and stood by in fiendish
exnlt ation while the Judge fined him
two dol i ars for profanity. This was a
i^afe and peaceable vengeance, and may
be eomme nded to husbands of a fiery
aml j mp etuous disposition, who may be
led ^ when tbeir s hj n8 arc kicked, into
80l e deed G f terrible rashness,
For Kicking His Wife.
A newspaper correspondent who has
recently made a visit to the Massachu¬
setts State Prison at Concord, relates an
interesting incident which many will be
inclined to look upon as illustrative o£
the fact that Divine retribution is not
always delayed in its application untU
the 'future life is entered upon, fie
'“I was standing in the main hall, en¬
gaged in conversation with the deputy
warden, when I observed an old man ad¬
vancing through the corridor who was
dragging his right leg behind him
was perfectly useless, and mmg abend
mass of lead. I asked the ward n
bis history, and he told me that.be M
been sentenced for life tor kicbn-g
wife to death, and that soon after he en
tered the prison the leg whichi be had
used less, and for that till now purpose it was begau entnely togr, devoid '^
of life.”
An Attack.
seized immediately after eatingr**
such violent internal pains and assume
with whom deathly the possibility th.l of UK' at** sgj
from Egypt is frequently a top c of cem
versation, hurried “ con?tomabo was ^
the place. The young man
to hospital apparently m a state
a the h 7®j®“?“L soon
collapse, but there P shamming- it *
concluded that he was
turned oat finally ° attack
_______ j feigned , a
abon t his person, and ired to
0 f diolera to avoid being req
„ ay f or fifa meal. •
* _
A St. RICH Louis. sensation A »c>It >■"S’«< 'J , J J “f ; .n
in m i
ruu
have her.
