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IF THEY KNEW.
If only my mother knew
How my heart is hurt within mo,
She would take my face in her tender hands
And smooth my cheek, as she used to do
In the days that seein so long ago,
When childish tears were quick to flow;
She would smooth my face with her tender
hands
If sb* felt the grief within me.
If only my lover knew
Of the surging, passionate sorrow,
He would hold me close to his si "dy breast,
As once he held me the long hours through—
AVhen we had not learned to live apart,
But leaned for love on each other's heart;
H< would hold me close to his heaving breast,
If he guessed my passionate sorrow.
But it pierces me like a knife
To think that they do not know it;
T t h i]* t-V. o** Aor* 1 a t , _ | i ■
* ” i-<*“ I’jun. in niy pieaumg eyes, i
Yet never question my hidden life;—
Can touch my lips in the same old place
A et never look for the soul in my face.
< di. the tears are bitter that fill my eyes
To kuow that they do not know it!
—Curtis May.
THE Ainil.
The doctor and 1 wereen joyinga much
needed rest in a little cottage at Waikiki
Honolulu’s ideal watering-place, says F.'
L. ( 1 rke in the San Franciscis: o •
C>ronie)«. htrolling along the beach one
aay we came across a group of native
Hsheimen repairing a large saffron
colored net one hundred feet lon<>- per
haps, and ten feet wide.
“Take a 100 t at that,” said the doctor,
•who, born and brought up on the islands,
>vas ianiiliar with the language and
habits of the natives. ‘ That is made
from the fibrous inner bark of the olona
a sm ill tree growing in damp gulches!
I be natives have a way of separating the
inoei bark from the outer green pellicle,
and scrape it into long smooth threads,
which they twist into thin cords, with
which the net is made. The fiber is as
strong and smooth as silk, and fish lines
snd nets made from it hist a long time, 11
“If it is so strong what it
bo?” 1 asked.
The doctor repeated the question to
the fisherman and then translated.
“They say that they were just outside
the breakers yesterday with the net, and I
managed to entangle a specimen of the
‘.Mano Kiliikihi’ (the hammer-headed
shark) and he did the damage. It seems
that they can’t manage one of that spe
cies of the huge white shark in a net. ;
They have to use a hook to secure such
sea monsters.”
After asking a few more questions of
the na i.es the doctor told me that they
were going oti in a few days to try to
capture one of the huge sharks known as
“niuhi.’’ or man-eaters, and that they
had oil. re-l to take us (for a considera
tion if we would promise to sit still in
the cauods.
“It’s a good chance," he added, “to!
enjoy an experience that not one foreigner
in a thousand meets with And these
fellows wouldn’t oiler it now if they did ;
nut believe that the niuhi would scent us j
white men, and be a 1 tire more ready to j
take the baitjon the chance of its bein"
you or I.”
Having had some experience in a
Sandwdch Island canoe, it was not with
out a feeling of trepidation that I con
sented to embark again in one, under
the circumstances. The agreement was
made, however, and we he'd ourselves in
readiness to start wdienevcr the signal
should I,e given to do so.
But elaborate preparations had first to
be made by the fishermen for the pro
jected trip. They first took the live s
and part of the flesh of some common
sharks, they had caught and wrapped j
them in the broad, stout leaves of the
ki-p'ant. These packages were then
thoroughly ’naked in a rude s one oven
built on the beach and packed in the
canoes af bait. \\ hile this was being j
done two of the larger canoes were
lashed together by their “outriggers’’ so j
as to make one double canoe. Ou the !
interlocked outriggers a platform was
built, andoa this were arranged piles of 5
bait and a strong line. With the bait
was stowed two or three bundles of
‘ awa, ghe root of the piper methys
tichum, which, being chewed, is stupe
fying n its effect. Gourds filled with
fresh water we:e also provided, and
finally, when the fleet was ready to sail,
an ancient “kahuna” (half priest, half
I sorcerer; appeared and examined every
r thing critically. It was his province,
by Its incantations, to prevent the
dreaded man-eater f.om devouring any
oi the fisu-rmea, and so the doctor took
pains to have us specially mentioned in
his iuvo atious.
A swiit, light double canoe was fitted
up for us, and four stalwart paddlers as
signed to the duty of keeping us inrthe
midst of the S2)ort, and still out of dan
ger.
Everything being in readiness, two
or three of the lighter canoes w -re
launched and their occupants paddled
oiit to sea to discover some signs of the
wished for man-eater, while we were di
rected to be ready to c nbnrk at any tin<A
It might be a day or two before the fish
ermen sconts would come across the
proper indications of the presence of the
niuhi. That variety of the shark tribe
comes voluntarily into shallow water,
but must always be sought for a mile or
two from land. There he makes havoc
•• mong all other kinds of fish, and his
1 iresence is indicated by the commotion
among them.
So the doctor and I leisurely dined
that afternoon on the b-oau veranda
overhanging the rippling sea, and lazily
sauntered through the grove of paints
and down hybiscus-shaded, jasmine
scented paths, bordered by brilliant
leafed crotons, watching through thin
clouds of tobacco the shimmer and play
of light of the setting sun on the gleam
ing surf. Now and then we would
glance up to the sharply-defined peak of
I'amoud head, where seven hundred
et above ns we knew the sharp-eyed
uives were watching for the signal
l.om the fishermen far <>ut at sea.
At last it c une. When the western
sky was ablaze with the glory of a trop
ical sunset, a shout went up from the
group of expectant fishermen on the
beach. They pointed to idamond head,
where, c early drawn against the purple
sky, was seen the naked figure of the
watchman flourishing his scarlet malo.or
breech cloth, which he had torn off to
signs with.
It took is but a f3w moments to reach
our canoe and spring in. Immediately
our crew of paddlers forced the light
hulls into the water, and in another mo
ment we were darting over the smooth
water inside the reef in hot chase after
the large double canoe, ou the platform
of which sat the kahuna wildly tossing
his arms about and howling out a dismal
incantation. All the paddlers sat on the
gunwales of their canoes, and with
vigorous rhythmic strokes of their broad
bladed paddlesdrove fbrward the vessels.
Soon we felt from the plunging motion
that we were on the i n ner edge o f the
breakwater. Another moment and the
roar and hiss of the coming waves were
upon us. I glanced at the doctor and
J had ju-t a glimpse of him, as he sat low
I down in the stern of his canoe, his mus
cular hands clutching firmly the edges of
the craft, while from between his close
set teeth depended h : s beloved meer
schaum. Quick puffs of smoke betrayed
liis excitement as tne canoes reared and
plunged over the breakers, and then we
were gliding easily over the long swell
outside.
Though it did not take us long to reach
the spot where the man-eater was known
to be, yet n ght had fallen on them, and
it was by the light of torches made of
the baked kernels of the candle nut
strung upon cocoa-leif fibre that we drew
near the fleet. As we did so the dip of
paddles was noiseless, and it was by signs
alone that the “luna,”or head fisherman,
gave direction to the rest. By the smoky,
red light of the torches we could see men
busily scattering about the baked meat
they had brought, and also half-chewed
morsels of the awa root. As they did so
there was the gleam cf the fins and tails
of hundreds of fish darting to and fro
for the food. Now and then a larger one
than the rest, with sides glowing with
phosphorescent light, would dart among
the smaller fry, s altering ' them right
and left.
“They are tlie ‘mußO-Kanaka, ’ ” whis
pered the doctor (we had both crawled
ou to the platform of our canoe), “the
shark god of the old Hawaiians. It is
the kind they believed could assume the j
forms of human beings at will. And
there! there!” he added, quickly, as a :
massive bulk rose slowly from the depths j
below’, “there is the‘mano-keokeo, ’ the j
great white shark!”
Just then the old fisherman stationed ;
ne ir us suddenly crouched down, and, j
touching the doctor with brown :
hand, pointed to the water near the
stern of the canoe, next to us. We there
saw, gleaming in the opalescent depths, !
two bright spots that shone with a ma
lignant, greenish light. They were set
in a monstrous, shadowy head, beyond
which we could dimly see a huge brown
body. Below the cold, cruel eyes wre
traced the outlines of a iormida- j
ble mouth, that, even as we looked j
opened slowly, disclosing row upon row
of strongly hooked, pearly white teeth,
with deeply serrated edges. As this
frightful mouth opened the monster
rolled half over and vigorously snapped
at the b ndle of food sinking near him,
It was the Miuhi, the fiercest and most
voracious of his tribe, and as he moved
along the crowd of fish darted away in
terror. Even the great white shark sul- ‘
lenly gave place to this tiger of the sea, \
who swam slowly about swa lowing the ;
food the fishermen kept throwing to him. I
As he thus moved from place to place his j
whole body seemed to exhale a peculiar
light, that streamed from the tips of his
fins and long, unevenly lobed tail. &
the gleam of ih s peculiar phosphores
cence his motion could be c osely
watched, and finally the experienced
fishermen saw’ that he was becoming
gorged, So intent had we been watch- j
ing his movements that we had <f.* t
noticed that w r hile be was being fed the |
fleet of canoes had been silently moved
in near the shore. Now, looking down, i
we could dimly see the white sandy bot
tom, and in a few minutes were in quite
shallow water, opposite an opening in |
the reef where the surf did not break. !
Our progress had been very slow, and 1
now for awhile the canoes halted, while !
hovering between them was the man
eater, evidently somewhat stupefied by
the awa he had swallowed with the food
so freely given him.
The old Kahuna had, during the
whole performance, kept up his pano
ramic display, though in a guarded,
quiet mannejr, while the fishermen kept
close watch upon the shark. He gorged
to repletion, evidently intended to take
a maj), and so settled slowly down on
the white sandy bottom. He was the
perfect (submarine) picture of overfed
helplessness, and it seemed as though
we could almost hear him snore.
And then commenced a curious exhi
bition of and daring. A noose had
been made in the end ot a long, strong
rope, and this was taken by an experi
enced old fisherman, who quietly slipped
overboard from his canoe and allowed
himself to sink to where the man-eater
was resting his body enveloped in that
strange, weird light. That was the
moment when, if the shark had been
shamming sleep, he would with one vig-
orous sweep of his tail aud a snap of
his jaws have earned the name of ‘ man
eater.” But no; he was for the time
being powerless, and w;tli infinite dex
terity and skill the native succeeded in
passing the noose over the brute’s head
aud about his middle. lie then quickly
rose to the surface and clambered into
his canoe, and the fleet was again set in
motion. The canoe to which the line
about the shark's body was attached
moved very slowly aud carefully, just
enough strain being kept on the line to
raise the captive’s body clear of the bot
tom. Sometimes the shark would be a
little restive, and then wc all waited
“until.” as the doctor said, “he rolled
over aud went tc sleep again.”
At length we ivere close into the beach
and all but two canoes were drawn up
on the sands to wait for daylight. The |
two remaining ones lay over the sleep
ing niuhi, the end of the line to which
he was secured being taken on the
beach, and then all hands took turns in
watching and sleeping. The job might
have been completed that night, but this
the Kahuna forbade.
“We have the right to snare the man
i eater in the night, while he is drunk, ’
he said, “but we must wait for daylight,
when he is sober, before we kill him.”
By daylight a crowd of people had as
sembled on the beach, and the signal
was given from the canoes that the niuhi
was awake and getting restive. So the
long line was seized by a hundred hands;
! it straightened out, and then, amidst
the triumphant song of the Kahuna who
took immense credit to himself for the
1 capture) and the yells and laughter of
the crowd tramping away with the rope,
the enraged man-eater thrashing and
plunging about, was drawn out of the
| water and over the yellow sands. As his
; huge body plunged hither and thither
i he snapped savagely at everything, but in
vain. A crowd of fishermen were al
ways about him, raining a shower of
blows ou his ugly head, until he lay,
beaten to death, on the shore.
Great were the rejoicings over the suc
cess of this hunt for the niuhi. Every
portion of the body (whch was eighteen
feet in length) was eaten, for it—the
bones and skin especially—are supposed
to endow the eater with high courage
and great strength. As for the one
who slipped the noose over the head of
the man-eater, he was given ati extra
portion of the liver, was extravagantly
praised for his skill, and would, the
Ivahum said, be fortunate in everything
he undertook thereafter.
The Working Girls' Friends.
“What class of persons are your best
customers!” asked a reporter for the
Mill and Express of a New York bird
fancier recently.
“Shop girls, seamstresses, milliners
and other working women.” was his un
expected reply. “Rich folks buy the
parrots, educated canaries, the rare for
eign birds and the expensive aquaria,
but the pretty working girls are the best
and steadiest buyers of the common
varieties, and without their custom we
should fare badly. We are one with the
florists in that respect.”
“How do you mean:”
“Well, you just ask the florists—l
mean the cheap sidewalk florists of the
market and street corners—who are their
best customers, and you will get the
same answer that I have given you. I
can’t understand it, either.”
“These pets and flowers,” said a mod
es* working girl to the reporter a half
hour later, “they cheer us and we should
feel lost without them. Why, we can
almost always tell when one of our com
panions is going wrong, that is, coming
home late, becoming bold any gay and
entertaining longings for dress and orna
ments, by her giving away her pets and
plants or neglecting them.”
The canary is by long odds the favor
ite pet with working girls. The little
stcy-blue nonpareil birds, as they are
called, love birds, Java sparrows and
others are well represented. Guinea
pigs and white mice also occasionally
receive their share of fostering attention
in these humble homes. As to flowers,’
the hardier, cheaper and prettier of pot
plants are the most popular. The geran
nium is the most common; then comes
the heliotrope, then the fuschia, and
they also cultivate the wall flower, daisy,
the gilly flower, the primrose, several
varieties of the pink, the oxalis or wood
sorrel and whatever will thrive in cir
cumscribed quarters with limited care.
The working girls are often put to their
ingenuity to have their pets and flow’ers
attended to during their absence from
home in the pursuit of their vocation,
especially in coid weather, whim the
more delicate specimens are apt to suffer
severlv in the lofty, unwarmed tene
ments if not cared for. Sometimes one
who is too ill to seek her daily work,
but able to be about within doors, vfill
minister to the wants of a dozen pr more
of such possessions on behalf of com
panions lodging in the same house.
Sometimes a kind-hearted landlady will
volunteer similar offices for a trifling re
ciprocation in the way of stitching,
mending, or of some cheap but pretty
worsted or cardboard ornaments- for her
vacant walls.
Child-Catchers For Locomotives.
A Birmingham, lirgland, contempor
ary reports a child-catchers.”
This is a startling title, but it refers
neither to kidnapping nor to any other
form of crime: and the trial was not a
judicial proceeding. It was an experi
ment with new appliances which had
been fitted to a steam tramway engine to
prevent, if possible, any dangerous con
sequences to children straying on the
rails. This humane purpose seems to
have occupied the attention of quite a
number of inventors; but ths result of
the experiments with their various in
ventious is not entirely satisfactory.
AVhether the appliance consists of arms
to seize the child and lift it off the track,
of a mouth to sunk the child in to a place
of safety in a' hollow at the back of the
engine, or an india -rubber sheeting to
catch and hold the child, or of “a spring
cushioned triangular projection” to push
the child aside, or of brushes to sweep
it away, confidence in the gentleness of
the steam motor's use of its benevolent
machinery when iu full working trim has
not been established. The india rubber
dummy child, of course, made no objec
tion to its treatment; but a mother could
not yet see her child in front of the
tramway engine without apprehension.
The inventors will doubtle-s tv/ again,
and we hope withancre success.— London
Fete '.
Shootinsr Trout With a Gun.
Mr. Hatcher says: ■“Whenever I felt as
if 1 wanted a trout- for dinner I would
stroll over to the pond aud bring one
down, or up ratliei, with ray rifle. Be
tween 11 and Ti o'clock at midday are
the hours when they can be shot, as for
some unexplained reason they come up
near the surface. 1 always aim for the
head. No, the ball never penetrates the
head or any portion of the fish. It is
seldom that even a scale is disturbed.
The rifle ball never touches them. They
are killed apparently by concussion.
The water, 1 think, flattens the ball.
Immediately upon being shot they rice
to the surface, floating upon their backs.
I never take the trouble to fish with a
hook, preferring my rifle.” —Atlanta Co/ 1-
stituij-n.
A Modern Solomon.
It has always been supposed that Solo
mon was the wisest man who ever lived,
but it looks now as if Mr. P. T. Barnum.
the showman, is worthy to wear the sage
king’s crown. A Kentucky farmer recent
ly wrote the great showman that he had
“the only three-legged chicken in the
world,” and would part with it for
•SIOOO. In the same mail, Mr. Barnum
received a letter from a .Jersey farmer
who also claimed that he had “the only
three-legged chicken in the world,” and
would sell it for SIOOO. Mr. Barnum
simply sent the Kentuckian's letter to
the .Jerseyn an aud the Jerseyman’s letter
to the Kentuckian. Could Solomou have
done any better in deciding this case?—
New York Journal.
No exposures will destroy the delusion
of dupes who doto «i being humbugged.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Make the Kitchen Attractive.
Considering the fact that so many wo
men are obliged to pass a great portion
; of their time in the kitchen, why noi
make it an attractive apartment rathe' 1
than stow it away in the basement, or in
i some dark corner of the house, as is notV
j too frequently done ? Most houses dis
play pleasant sitting-rooms; but if we
j judge of the conveniences and general
pleasantness of the kitchen by the rooms
in front of the house, we utterly fail in
our conjectures. To make a little show
in company rooms, how many actual
kitchen comforts are denied in many
households? It is surely better to begin
our house-furnishing at the kitchen and
work toward the front as we are able.
Let the kitchen closet be well stocked,
even though the parlor suffer a little.—
Agent's Herald.
Instruction for Laving Carpets.
Carpets are often badly laid down,
i either from ignorance or carelessness,
j The carpet, neatly folded, should be
! brought in and laid down as it is folded,
; the way the widths are to run. It must
then be unfolded by degrees, aot dragged
open any way. When the carpet is
thoroughly opened out, let the centre
width be laid perfectly straight from one
end to thi other, a tinned tack put at
each end to keep it in his place and all
the other widths laid straight according
to the first. AVhen one end of the
widths is straight and thoroughly
stretched, let it be tacked down with
tinned tacks at rejpilar intervals, begin
ning at one end and working towards :
the other. When thin first end has- been ;
firmly fastened down, let one side, at
right engles to the end nailed already,
be tacked, taking care to pull it out
“taut,” as'the sailors say. AVhen the
side and end at right angles have been
fastened down, the coßic-sponding side
and end are easily manured, and the
thing is done.— Fete Tori World.
Peacock Feather Fan.
Take a small Chinese fan, round or
slightly oval in shape, cover it with
dark green paper muslin or any dark
green thin material; cut the feathers-;
about four inches long, measured from
the top of the fibers, Have a bottle of
mucilage ready; begin by clippiug the )
libera remaining on the quill, from
which has been cut the tops, takes these
fibers and glue them all around the edge
of the fan,so they will extendabout two
inches over the top of the fan. Take
the largest size of the feathers and glue
in the center of the top and have them j
about one inch longer than top of fibers.
Keep- on glueing one feather after an
other, arranging so the smallest wili
come to he bottom. AVhen the first
layer has been placed all around the out- 1
side etlge of the fan begiu the second
layer. Keep on until one side is all
finished: let it dry then begin on the
other side; when all is finished and dry,,
take a curling knife or any other blunt
knife or shears and begin curling the j
long fibers into nice large and soft 1
curls. Those on the edge curl closely ;
down to the-edge. Next wind the han- I
die with peacock-blue ribbon, finish with
a full bow with long ends of the same
and you will have a beautiful fan.—De
troit Free Press.
Veal in Tempting Snapps.
Many very delicious dishes may be
made of veal. To be good, veal should
be about two months old, when the flesh
will be firm,, with, a pink tinge, and the
bones hard. , Veal is divided into fore
and hind quarters; the fore quarter is
divided into loin, breast, shoulder and
neck, the hind quarter into leg and loin.
Chops are cut Irom the loin, and the leg
is used, for cutlets and fillets. „The loin,
shoulder and fillet and breast are used
for roasting. The knuckle and neck are
used forsoup, stews, pies and croquettes.
Fricandelles of Veal.—Put on one gib
of sweet milk and half a teacup of bread
crumbs to boil until thick. Chop a
pound of lean veal very tine, and add to
the bread crumbs and milk; season with
a tablespoonful of butter, salt and pepper
to taste, take from the fire and stand
aside to cool. When cold form into
small balls, dip in beaten egg and fry in
butter until a light brown; take up care
fully. Thicken the gravy in the pan with
two tablespoons of flour, then add a pint
of soup stock, stir until it boils. Put
the frii audelles into a saucepan, pour
over the gravy and let simmer one hour.
AAffien ready to serve add a tablespoonful
of AVoreestershire sauce.
Veal Loaf.—Chop three pounds of
lean veal and a pound of fat pork very
fine; roll a dozen crackers and moisten
with a teacup of sweet milk and two
well beaten eggs; mix all together and
serve with nutmeg, allspice pepper and
salt. Make in the shape of a large loaf
and bake an hour and a half: butter
frequently with a little butter and hot
water; take up dry, set away to cool;
when ready to serve, slice thin.
Fricandeau of Veal.—Cut a thick
slice four or five pounds from a fillet of
veal, trim it, and lard the top. Put some
pieces of pork in a kettle, with some
slices of carrot, an onion stuck with
cloves, a stalk of celery and a bunch of
parsley. Put in the meats, sprinkle with
pepper and salt, and cover with a greased
Fill up the kettle with sufficient
boiling stock to cover the meats. Put
on a tight lid. JSet in a hot oven for
two hours, and serve with tomato sauce.
Blind Hare. —Mince three pounds of
veal and three pounds of beef; mix with
light well beaten eggs, a pint of stale
bread crumbs, a littld pepper and salt,
two grated nutmegs, and a tablespoon
fui of cinnamon. Form into an oblong
cake, roll in cracker crumbs and bake in
a hot oven three hours.
Veal Patties. —Mince a little cold
veal and ham, allowing one-third ham to
two-thirds veal; add a hard boiled egg,
chopped, and a . seasoning of pounded
mace, salt, pepper aud lemon peel ; moist
en with a little gravy and warm. Make
puff paste, roll thin and cut in round
pieces, put the mince between two of
them, pinching the edges together, and
fry in hot grease.
Salmi of Cold Veal.—Put two or three
ounces butter in a saucepan, when
it melts stir in two tablespoonsful of
flour, when this bubbles add slowly a
half pint good broth, a chopped onion,
a bunch of sweet herbs, pepper and salt
to taste, and a tablespoonful of current
jelly and mushroom catsup each; cut
some slices from a cold roast of veal, lay
them on the prepared gravy, after it has
, simmered fifteen minutes add a squeeze
of lemon juice, take up and serve on
toast. Courier-Journal.
WISE WORDS.
A good conscience is the finest opiate.
It is oetter to do well than to say
well.
V ou must love in order to understand
love.
Goo 1 nature should lead in the list of
the virtues.
The friendship of the artful is mere
self-interest.
No place, no company, no age, no
person, is temptation freS.
The majority of people are most
generous when they have nothing to
give.
Education begins the gentleman, but
reading, good company and reflection
finish him
AA'oman is the Sunday of man. Not
his repose only, hut his joy. She is the
salt of his life.
Look up. and not down;look forward,
and not back; look out, and not in; and
then lend a hand.
Ah! when shall all men’s good be each
man’s, and universal peace lie-like a shaft
of light across the land?
He is rich whose income is more than
his expenses, ana he is poor whose ex
penses exceed his income.
How cunningly nature hides every
wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity
under roses and violets and morning
dew!
Aou may deceive all the people- some
of the time, and some of the people all
the time, but not all the people all the
time.
Marriage is the best state for man in
general, and every man is a worse man
in proportion as he- is unfit for the mar
ried state.
A good book is commendable for two
reasons, because of the thoughts which
it contains, and because of the thoughts
which it suggests.
A man without discretion may be com
pared to a vessel without a helm; which,
however rich its cargo, is in continual
danger of being wrecked.
Violin Villages,
No- miTsical instrument is deservingof'
greater care than the violin. A good
one will last for centuries-, and improve
with age. A newspaper writer tells
something of the people who make the
best violins, in MarKneukirchen, with
its surrounding villages, Klingenthal,
Fleissen, Kohrback and Graslitz. in Sax
ony. where there are about 11,000 people
who do nothing but make violins. The
inhabitants, from the little urchin to the
old; gray-headed man, the small girl and
the oid mother, are all engaged in mak
ing some parts of a fiddle.
A good instrument consists of 62 dif
ferent pieces. The older men make the
finger board from ebon\’ and the string
holder of the screws. The small boys
make themselves useful by looking after
the glue-pot. A man with strong,
steady hands and a clear eye puts the
different pieces together and this is the
most difficult task of all.
The women generally occupy them
selves as polishers. This requires long
practice, and a family having a daugh
ter who is a. good polisher is- considered
very lucky.
Even a young man, when he goes
a-wooing, inquires whether the young
girl is a good polisher, and if she is it
certainly will increase, his affection for
her at least twofold. The polishing
takes a good deal of time, some of the
best violins being twenty and, even thirty
times polished.
Every family has its peculiar style of
polishing and never varies from that.
There is one that makes nothing but a
deep wines color, another a citron color,
yet another an orange color and so on.
il ascriptions in Saxon Houses.
Many of the houses in Saxon villages
bear an inscription of some motto or
sentiment. Often, says the Youth's
Companion, these sentences show great
originality, seeming to reflect the
characteristics of the house-owner. The
following examples of such homely
literature are taken from “The Land Be
yond the Forest
“ Till money I get from mv father-in-law,
My roof,alas! must be covered with straw,”
of course adorns a thatched cottage.
Another has a more serious ring:
“ Within this house a guest to day.
So long the Lord doth let me live;
But when He bids, I must away,
Against his will I cannot strive.”
The mistrustful character of the Saxon
thus finds vent:
“ Trust yourself to every one;
’Tis not wise to trust to none.
Better, though, to have no friend,
Than on many to depend.”
Another wise body writes:
“ Howto content every man.
Is a trick which no one can;
If to do so you can claim,
Rub this out and write your name •”
Hanged For Witchcraft.
The last persons judicially executed in
England for witchcraft were a woman
and her daughter, nine years of age,
w r ho were hanged at Huntingdon in
171 G. The last judicial execution in
Scotland for witchcraft was a woman in
1722, who was.condemned to death by
the Sheriff of Sutherlandshire. There
is an account of a woman having in 1727
been put into a tar barrel and burnt at
Dornoch, Scotland. The penal acts*
against witchcraft were repealed in 17:10
in the reign of George 11. In 1751 Ruth
Osborne, suspected of witchcraft, was
murdered by a riotous mob at Tring, in
England; Thomas Colley, one of the
leaders of the mob, was tried at the
ensuing county a-sizes, found guilty and
hung in chains on the spot where the
murder was committed. Tid-Bits.
New Zealand Sport.
New Zealand now contains greatnum
bers of wild cattle, which have descended
from those lest by the farmers during
the Maori wars which ended in 1868.
Hunting these animals is an exciting and
dangerous sport. The game is not easily
secured, as the animals hover—seemingly
for protection—about thickets filled
with long twining creepers, in which
progression is very difficult. Into these
vines they dash at the slightest alarm,
eeming fully aware that neither horse
nor man cau follow them.
Chinese Ginners,
Consul Peters, of Ningpo, sijs the on
ly large cotton gins are situated in Ning
po. The cotton is separated from the
seed by the use of hand-power treadle
gins, manufactured in Japan. They are
worked eighteen hours a day, and iu
that time turn out 240 pounds of seed
cotton, or 80 pounds of lint cotton per
gin. These contrivances, although prim
itive, are superior to the little treadle
gins used by the cotton growers. Steam
power is now being introduced to work
the gins with. The Chinese gins clean
the seed better than the American saw
gins. The cotton ginned retains the en
tire strength of the fibre; it pulls the cot
ton from the seed. Cotton is purchased
by buyers in the cotton growing sections
and shipped to Ningpo to be ginned.
AA r hen ginned the cotton is packed in
sacks weighing 160 pounds. The staple
is short, ranging from naif to five
eighths of an inch. Cotton in bales is
not packed tightly, and a 160-pound
bale is as bulky as a bale of American
cotton. The price paid for the cotton iu
April, 1888, was 7£centsa poundginned.
Most of the cotton ginned in Ningpo is
manufaetuced into cotton goods in China.
One American 100-saw gin would do the
work of twelve of the hand-power gins
used in Ningpo. The chief profit in the
ginning of cotton seems to be in the
selling of seed. The seed sell at about-the
rate of 00 cents to $1.12 per bushel.
The seed when sold is used- in the manu
facture of oil for fertilizing and for feed
ing of stock.
Certain of Success.
Patient (to young Sawbones, who is
about to-cut off his arm) —“Doyou think
the operation will fee successful, doc
tor;”
Young Sawbones—“Of course it will;
111 have that arm off in less than tn#-
minutes.”
The sponics ami goblins that delight
To till with terror all the night;
That stalk abroad in hideous dreams
Wit h which, dyspepsia’s fancy teems,
AVili never trouble with their ills
The man. who-trusts in Pierce’s-Pills.
I)r. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets:—
vegetable, harmless, painless, sue!
The Union League Club of New York will
raise $500,000 to complete Grant's monument.
Conventional “ VI on on ” Resolutions.
_ Whereas, The Monon Route (L. N. A. & O.
Ry Co.) uesires to make it known to the world
at large that it forms the double connecting
link of Pullman tourist travel between the
winter cities of Florida a d the summer re
sorts of the Northwest; and
Whereas, Its “rapid transit” system is un
surpa-sed, its elegant Pullman Buffet Sleeper
and Chair car service between Chicago and
Louisville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati un
equalled; and
Whereas, Its ratos aro as low as the lowest;
then he it
Resolved, That in the event of starting on a
trip it is i/ood policy to consult with E. O. Mc-
Cormick, GenT Pass. Agent Monon Route, 185
Dearborn St., Chicago, tor full particulars. (In
any event send for a Tourist Guide, enclose 4c.
postage.)
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