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VOL. IV. NO. 23
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Finding the Sunset.
Oh, the beautiful home of the sunset,
Hung out on the western sky,
Where the days lay down their brightness,
And bathing in splendor, die!
Swekt friends in the home of our childhood,
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Gazins: oat as we enter life's wild wood
In search of the sunset land.
Fall soon do the meadows grow broader,
And rougher the path where we stray,
Lees frequent the cool, gushing fountains,
And the sunset seems further away.
And the friends who have journeyed with us,
We lay with the moldering dead;
They have reached the bright sunset before us,
And lonely the pathway we tread.
But the floods of molten glory
Which Beam from the sunset land
Fill our hearts with a restless longing
On those beautiful shores to stand.
Our locks, onoe sunny and golden,
Are white as the drifting snow;
Our eyes have grown dim with their gazing,
And our footsteps are feeble and slow.
As we near the eternal splendor
We pause at a swelling stream;
We must cross it ere reaching the hilltops
Which glow in the sunset's beam.
So, closing our eyes for a moment
In the son's last dazzling ray,
We awake where glory dwelleth,
In a land of perpetual day.
Tim Bunker on Printer's Ink.
44 Have you goi a game ruswjr t muu
Jake Frink to me one morning last
week, as he came over to our house.
44 No, I haven't. What's up now?" I
inquired.
44 Why, you see, Squire Bunker, that
boy of mine, up in the White Oaks, has
got it into ihs head that if he can raise
some game chickens, he can make his
fortune in a short time?says he won ten
dollars on a bet hist week on a figlitin'
cock?at a little set-to some of his neighbors
had in his barnyard, and if he bad
some smart rusters that would stand
Rteel ev.*ry time, he could make more
money in a cock-pit in one month than
he oould peddlin' cliarooal in a hull year
?and I guess he's rite. Says he's got
two pullt ts that is aH rite, and if he can
git a raster that is dead game, he would
raise some chickens next season that
would have the grit in 'em, and he would
bet on the White Oak3 agiu the hull
State of Connecticut. I knew you kept
blooded fowls, and I didn't know but
you might have some of that kind."
44 No, X don't keep that kind. Why
don't you use printer's ink ?"
44 Printer's ink 1" exclaimed Jake, 441
should like to know what that has got to
do with it. I've heerd of printer's ink
for canker worms, but I never heerd of
it for rusters?how d'ye apply it ?"
44 Just put it in the Hookertown Gazette
under the head of Wants?like i
this: 44 Wanted to buy a yearlingoock,
warranted dead game, Jacob Frink,
Hookertown, Ct."
44 Never did sioh a thing in my life.
Taint no use. I never read advertisements,
and gness nobody else don't.
They're pretty mnch all doctor stuff.
Might be some use in it ef I was a steam
dootor." '
44 Just try it," said I, "and if you
don't hear of roosters in less than a
week, I'll pay the bill."
I didn't much think Jake would ad- 1
vertise, but the notion seemed to work, j
especially my paying me dui, ana 1
guess the thought of getting that on to
me had more to do with it than his faith
in printer's ink. He made a straight
wake for the Gazette offioe, and told the
printer to advertise for a game rooster
as above, and send the bill to me. The
Hookertown Gazette is printed on
Thursday, and distributed to town subscribers
by carrier, and the rest sent off
by mail. Jake got his paper the same
evening, and for the first time begun to
look at the advertisements. It was quite
a while before he oould find his rooster,
and when he did it onlyoocupied the ;
space of two lines, and seemed so ridicu- '
lously small that nobody oould notice
it. He certainly would not have seen it
if he had not known it was there and
been looking for it He thought he had
struck Timothy Bunker this time, and
would get square on the horse pond lot
trade.. Next morning Jake was waked
just after daybreak by a loud knock on
his door. Jake poked his head out of
the chamber window, and shouted
" who's there ?"
Billy Peckham's voice answered from
below : " I saw your advertisement in
the paper last evening, Mr. Prink, and
I thought I'd catch my rooster this
morning before he got off the rooet.
He has licked in six fights, and will kill
any rooster in town. He was a year old
last spring, and cost me ten dollars.
But if you want him for Kier you can
have him for five dollars. If the White
Oaks are goin' in this business, I guess
I'll sell out."
"Couldn't think of giving that,"'
Jake answered, and shut the window in
disgust. He put on his clothes, and
while he was kindling his fire in the
stove, another rap at the door. Ben
Porter had brought up his rooster in a
- covered basket, said he saw the notice
in the paper, and thought he would
bring up his black-breasted red game,
that he would warrant to stand steel,
and lick all the roosters in town. The
bird cost him fifteen dollars, and he had
made a hundred on him, knowing just
how to bet. He could have him for
twenty dollars. Didn't care a cent
whether he took him or not. Two men j
were after the bird, and he only offered
him as a matter of neighborly accommodation.
"Twenty dollars," exclaimed Jake,"
that's all a feller can git for a two-yearold
steer. 1 ain't a fool quite."
Jake started to milk his farrow cow, ,
and on his way to the yard he met a
boy with a game bantam cock under his j
arm, in earnest to sell. He admitted
the cock was small, but he was true as
steel, and had whipped Deacon Smith's
buff cochin, five times his weight, in a
pitched battle. He hated to part with
him, but would sell for three dollars
.cash on the nail. When Jake had done
milking, he found at tho barnyard bars
two more boys waiting for him, one
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with a cock in a bag, and the other with
a bird under his arm. They were only
common roosters, and Jake declined to
buy. As be came out from Dreaxiast,
and was going to yoke the cattle, Mike
Flaharty met him with a dressed fowl in
a basket?"And sure it was a dead-game
rooster that ye were wantin', and I
thought Mistress Frink might be haying
company to dine, and I brought
him ip airly." Jake thought there was
a difference between a dead game cock
and a cock dead, but failed to make
Mike see it, and he went off in a pet.
He now started on his sled for the wood
lot, and was hailed seven times in Hookertown
street about that "dead game
raster." It seemed as if every man had
rooster on the brain, and the boys rooster
on the tongue. He began to think
Hookertown had done nothing else but
breed game birds for the last few years.
Saturday he went down to the grooery
store, where they keep the post-office,
for a jug of molasses, and Colonel Sizer,
the postmaster, told him he had some
letters, which was a very rare thing.
He thought at onoe that some of his
wife's folks must be sick or dead, especially
as the letters were all postmarked
Shad town. He was thinking of a funeral
when he opened the first letter, but
there was nothiDg dead but that " game
raster.'* Every letter offered game birds
varying in price from one dollar to
twenty. As he opened the eleventh and
last lotter, and caught sight of that game
hire, he dropped his spectacles and
made for the door. He did not stop
until he reached the Gazette office?
where he offered the following advertisement
for next week: " No more
game rasters wanted. Jacob Frink."
Jake is converted to a firm faith in
nrinter's ink. and there is not the least
danger of his falling from grace. I wish
we had more of these conversions. Not
one farmer in ten pays out a dollar a
year for advertising?either for what he
wants or what he has to sell. He does
not read the advertisements in his agricultural
paper if he takes one?and if he
ever ventures upon fine stock of any
kind, he grudges a few dollars fpr printer
s ink, and sells them to some middle-man
who advertises and doubles his
money. He thinks fine stock don't pay.
Printer's ink would make it pay, and
everything else worth raising upon the
farm.?American Agriculturist.
Trimmings for Ladies' Dresses.
Fly fringe is one of the most popular
trimmings, says a fashion journal. It is
little tasseled clusters of light fluffy silk 1
tied in strands of twist, and is very 1
eff ctive. Four inches is the width
m< st used, and this costs $2.50 a yard 1
in olack or colors. There is also fly- ;
ar i-braid fringe, with clusters of crimped
braid and clusters of the silk-tied fly 1
tassels. This is also $2.50. More ex- (
peasive fly fringes have heavily netted
headings, and cost $4 a yard. Hand- ^
somest of all is a fringe six inches 1
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wiae, maae wiin aeepiy pomw;u uetKuug
th it is netted and fancifully plaited; <
small tassels are strung in the net, and 1
the price is $6.50. A fringe for service 1
has a braided and netted heading, but '
is only three inches deep, and costs
$1.25 a yard. There are elaborate
fringes, made to order to match certain
dresses, that are as costly as lace, bringing
$8 or $10 a yard. Worsted tassel (
fringes are chosen for wool suits, and ,
oost thirty or forty oents. .
Feather-edged galloons in light open- |
work patterns are shown in the 6tylish (
two-inch widths at from ninety cents to 1
$1.75 a yard. New cashmere trimmings ^
are galloons made up of narrow wool ,
braid arranged in points and flutes on ^
heavier braid; price $1.15. Plain wool
galloons in loops and figures are from ]
thirty to seventy-five cents. j
Wool Titan braids in all shades and (
black are chosen for trimming de bego j
and other woolens. Those half an inch ,
wide are fifteen cents, and are put on (
French costumes in clusters of parallel !
rows, having eight rows in a cluster.
Inch-wide braids are thirty cents, and J
are most seen in lines of two or three ,
rows. Wider braid, measuring nearly !
three inches, is seventy-five cents or $1
a yard, and is most stylish in but one .
or two rows arranged as a border.
In the Olden Time.
In the memory of people now living,
ic was the custom of the country that
housewives should card, spin, and weave
their own wool and flax. The children 1
and the grown folks were dressed in
home-spun cloth. The bride went to !
her joyful husband with a great store of
linen, prepared by her own hands while i
she was a " spinster" in her mother's
house ; she " hired out " in the families 1
of the neighbors to earn money to add
to her dowry, and her stalwart spouse
wrought out his time at the plow, loom,
anvil, or bench of some substantial citizen.
He served seven years, as Jaoob j
served for Raohel, and "thought the
years not long for the love he had
rioher." The hired men and maids sat
at table with tbeir masters ana mis- *
tresses. The matrons wrought in the
midst of their hand-maidens, just as
Penelope did in the midst of her women.
The sturdy children waded through the
mow two or three miles to the district
school. They were soundly whipped
with a birchen rod when they were
stupid or unruly, and the boys followed
the plow as soon as they were out of
pinafores. In city and in country the
greatest wealth procured no such luxury
and convenience as that enjoyed by the
middle class to-day. The finest acquisitions,
compared with what is now needful
for common comfort, would seem
poor and mean.
A Shower of Worms,
Something similar to the meat shower
of Kentucky are the worm showers in
Norway. The Morgenblad of Christiania
states that this singular pheno menon
was observed there after a reoent
violent storm, a number of worms were
found crawling on the snow, and it was
impossible to find any crevices in the
ground from which they* might have
crept out, as the earth was frozen. The
explanation of the Kentucky meat shower
as of the presence of the worms is the
same. Both the frogs and lizards were
lifted up by wind storms, having their
centers in distant localities, carried up
in the air, and dropped again in otli* r i
places.
ZPOIR/:
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BEAUFORT, S.
At the Beginning,
There lately passed away, at the clos
of a long and well-spent life, one of our 8
wealthiest merchants?a man honored 8
and respected by all who knew him, and a
noted not more for his worldy wealth c
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and honor than lor his aeeas 01 true Christian
benevolence. We once heard r
that man tell how he commenced his \
business career. 1
At the age of sixteen, having master- 9
ed a good common school education, he L
went to the city in search of employ- ^
ment. His ambition was in the direc- 1
tion of mercantile pursuits. Entering a '
large store, to which he had been rec- F
ommended as conducted by excellent '
men, he asked if they wished to hire a ?
clerk. .The answer was in the negative, J
and emphatic. *!
The youth reflected that if they did ^
not want a clerk, they might be willing a
to hire a laborer; but his garb?he had r
on his very best?was hardly in keeping J
with the requirements of such a posi- J3
tion; so he returned to his lodgings, and 11
donned a garb that had seen service on *
the old farm, and on the following day a
he applied again at the same store, and a
asked if they wanted to hire a porter. ^
No?they wanted nothing of the kind. ^
" Then," cried the young man, earn- a
estly, " will you not hire me as a com- 9
mon laborer ?"
" A laborer! Are /on not the same ?
young gentleman who applied yesterday 9
for a clerkship ?" J
"Yes, sir," replied the applicant, *
frankly. " I wish to learn your busi- 0
ness, and I am willing to begin any- F
where. I care not how humble, or even P
servile, the place may be, so that it be c
honorable,- and in it I can make myself ^
useful." ?
One of the partners, overhearing these "
last words, examined the youth more c
particularly, and finally hired him as a *
laborer in the packing and shipping department,
down in the basement, where M
he went to work with a will. Ere long a
he attracted the attention of the ship- "
nine olerk. and then of the head book- n
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keeper. It was found that in various P
ways he saved more by his method? B
saved mor? to his employers?than his J*
wages amounted to. There was no "
petty thefts committed under his eye, "
nor was there any waste. If he was y
wanted to work till midnight, he made r<
no complaint; if he was wanted to come n
to his work before daylight in the morn- ^
ing, he came brightly and cheerfully. "
In short, the young man labored to y
make himself not only useful, but in- ^
dispensable, to his employers, and he P
succeeded. He was promoted from j1
post to post, thoroughly mastering "
everything in the way of business that ?]
came under his observation, until at 81
length he was admitted a partner in the ai
3oncern, and became, finally, the head B:
of the house. e'
"And," he added, as he ooncluded J*
[lis narrative of experience, "though
the beginning was somewhat rough and ?|
bard, I am satisfied that my marked sue- 8t
3ess has been in a great measure owing Yi
to my having made myself thoroughly
icquainted with even the most trivial
ind servile parts of the business."
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The Wonderful Ventriloquist. ^
Sir David Brewster notices a ventrilo]uist
of exceptional skill, M. St. Gille, ^
who one day entered a church where
some monks were lamenting the death of n<
i brother. Suddenly they heard a voice, 86
*8 if from over their heads, bewailing v
the oondition of the departed in purga- ?'
tory, and reproaching them for their 1?
want of zeal; not suspecting the triok, 01
they fell on their faces and chanted the
" De Profundis." A committee ap- to
pointed by the Academie des Scienoesto k1
report on the phenomena of ventrilo- &(
quism went with M. St. Gille to the ^
bouse of a lady, to whom they announoed
that they had come to investigate a case ^
of aerial "spirits" somewhere in the
neighborhood. During the interview she 86
heard what she termed "spirit voioes " &
above her head, underneath the floor. M
and in distant parts of the room, and was
with difficulty convinced that the only
spirit present was the ventriloquistic
voice of M. St Gille. Brewster tells of w
another master of this art, Louis Bra- 8?
bant, valet des chambre to Francis I., re
whose suit was rejected by the parents 01
of a beautiful and well dowered girl with
whom he was in love. He called on the {J*
mother, after the death of the father,
again to urge his suit; and while he was 00
present she heard the voice of her deceased
husband, expressing remorse for
having rejected Louis Brabant, and conjuring
her to give her immediate consent
to the betrothal. Frightened and 0]
alarmed, she consented. Brabant, deem- &
ing it desirable to behave liberally in a
the marriage arrangements, but having g,
not much cash at command, resolved to hi
try whether his ventriloquism would be m
as efficacious with a money lending 8C
banker as it had been with the widow, hi
Calling on the old usurer at Lyons, he a
managed that the conversation should it
turn upon the subject of demons, spec- &
tors, and purgatory. Suddenly was n<
heard the voice of the usurer's father, p]
complaining of the horrible sufferings w
he was endurin?*in purgatorv, and say- \i
ing that there was no way of obtaining tl
alleviation exoept by the usurer ad vane- p
ing money to the visitor for the sake of la
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the Turks. The usurer was terrified, h
but too much in love with his gold to 0I
yield at or oe. Brabant went next day p(
and resumed the conversation, when
shortly were heard voices of a host of
dead relations, all telling the same terrible
story, and all pointing out the only
way of obtaining relief. The usurer
could resist no longer; he placed 10,000 y
crowns in the hands of the unsuspected
ventriloquist, who of course forgot to j*
pay it over for the ransom of Christians [J
either in Turkey or anywhere else. [J
When the usurer learned afterward how y
he had been duped he died of vexation. ?j
Black Hills.?The adventurers in T
the Black Hills are having a " high old ifc
time," if the high price of provisions is tl
any sign. Camp board there is from a<
$15 to $20 per week (no extras) and hard u
to procure at that. Wages average from o'
$40 to $55 per month. By this it t<
would appeal iLut it would be cheaper o
for a fellow to stay in the States and so- r<
jor.ru at-a first-class hotel, though'per- ti
haps not quite so exciting. 1
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C., THURSDAY,
Curious Customs in Alaska.
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J. lie M IHMKH IHUUtllB UCUCVO 111 CYU
pirits who live in the water, and send
ickness and disease among the people?
, belief to which the occasional disasters
aused by mussel or fisli poisoning have
lonbtless given rise. They hold comaunication
with these spirits through
heir sorcerers, but do not worship them
u any way or try to propitiate them with
ifferings. When a Koloah dies his body
9 burned, and a rude monument placed
There the ashes are buried. They beieve
that the spirit lives forever, but
lave no idea of any reward for virtue or
innishment for vice. According to their
relief, strict distinction of rank is preerved
in the other world, all the chiefs
>eing in one place, the common people
a another, and the slaves in a corner by
hemselves. Only when slaves are killed
t the funeral of their chiefs their souls
emaiD in eternal attendance on their
aaster. This cruel custom was said to
e abolished under the Russian rule, but
k always has existed and is kept up to
he present day, though the ceremonies
re performed out of the reach of the
uthorities. Several cases of this kind
lave occurred since the transfer of the
erritory, in spite of the vigilance of the
uthorities. When a child is born it is
arried and nursed by the mother until
k is able to crawl and munch away on
[ried salmon; then the scanty clothing
f fur with which it was oovered at first
b removed, and to strengthen its oonstiuirion,
the chil i is immersed in the river
r sea every morning; but as their own
* u 1-. lil 1? A- AU-n.
'arenis wouia oe immjr wj jioiu w mo
iteous cries of the little martyrs to disipline,
this duty is generally intrusted
o an nncle or some other relative, who
tops all weeping and screaming with a
iberal application of the switch. The
hildren implicitly obey their parents at
11 ages, and great care is bestowed upon
be old and disabled. Orphans are always
provided for by the community,
nd fare as well as any of the other chilren.
When a young man wishes to
larry, he first asks the consent of his
arents, and when that is obtained he
oes to the village where his intended
ves, and sends a proposal through some
'mutual friend," and if the answer is
ivorable he repairs to the house at once
ith some presents for the parents and
slatives of the girl, and then takes imlediate
possession of his new chattel
ithont any further ceremonies. A short
me after this the new Benedick pays a
[sit to his wife's relations in oompany
ith her, and if she has nothing to cornlain
of then, presents most be made to
im and his bride, exceeding in value
lose he made at first. The Koloski
aly regard relationship on the mother's
de, and the succession and inheritance
re confined to the female line. Polyamy
is the general custom, and exists
cen among the Christian Kenaitze,
here it is tolerated by the native and
alf-breed priests in the families of
liefs. The wives often quarrel, and
abs with knives and daggers are not of
3ry rare occurrence.
The Pet Calf's Grave.
A London paper says it is impossible
? disconcert a Scotchmen, unless he has
sen demoralized by residence in the
>uth, and as proof thereof tells the fol wing
story : A lady residing near a
cotch city had set her affections on a
andsome little calf, and was much anDyed
on being informed by her man
irvant that her pet had been accidental
so much hurt that he had been
? - i a- ' JJ. mu - 1
mgea I/O Kill It, XUO ittujr, nuu uau
ved the creature too well to think for
le moment of disposing of its remains
p any culinary process, ordered the man
> bury it, and herself superintended the
irial. When the chief mourner was
me, however, it forcibly occurred to
ie sexton that here was a waste of good
aterial, so he disinterred the calf,
[eanwhile, the lady dreamed a dream;
ie saw a round of veal smoking on her
irvant's board, and, when morning
iwned, summoned him to her presence,
id explained to him that for divers
asons she desired once more to behold
te body of her favorite. Without beaying
the slightest uneasiness, the
orthy man followed her to the rifled
spulcher, took his rpade, and dug; no
suit appeared, and still he dug; dug
1, indeed, till his mistress cried out in
iter weariness: " Why, John, von must
ive eaten the calf." " 'Deed, replied
)hn, without moving a muscle of his
mntenance, " and that's just what I've
me, my leddy."
A Perplexed Indian
Somebody dropped some quicksilver
a the sidewalk in Montana, and an In- 1
Lan tried to pick it up. First he made
grab at it with his thumb and forefln- !
er, and was astonished when he found
a couldn't pick it up. He was deterined
to have that quicksilver anyhow;
> he unwound a handkerchief from his
it, and spreading it on the ground got
chip and scraped the quicksilver into
. A look of triumph shot from his
tgle eye as he gathered up the four cor?rs
of the handkerchief, but it was relaced
by one of horror and disgust
hen the metal run tnrcmgn tne laonc
ke water through a sieve. Looking at
le metal as it lay on the ground in a
n 7.7.I ed sort of way for a moment, he
unched a vicious kick at it, and utterig
an angry ejaculation, he turned on
is heel and left the quicksilver for some
iher untutored son of the forest to exariment
on.
The Talue of Our Crops for 1874.
The total value of all agricultural proacts
in the United States for the year
374 was $2,447,538,659. The products
erived, directly and indirectly, from
le grass crop, are estimated at $1,292,30,000,
itemized as follows: Hay, 27,30,000
tons, at $20 per ton, $500,000,30;
live stock, $1,525,000,000; animals
aughtered for food, $309,000,000; but)r,
$514,000,000; milk, $25,000,000;
ool, $25,000,000; cheese, $5,000,000.
he estimated total derived from grass
i probably too large, for the reason that
le hay crop, the value of which is given
j one of the items, must have been
sed to some extent in swelling the
fcher values. Still it is doubtless safe
) say, allowing more than half the value
f the hay to go to this account, that in
mud numbers the value of the produoons
depending upon the grass yield of
874 was $1,000,000,000.
OOMJV
MAY 11, 1876.
THE SEAL FISHERYHow
the Meal* are Canght?lncldentsof the
Work?Danger all Around.
An interesting letter on the seal fishery
is published in the World. The writer
gives the following incidents of the
work :
The aim of the hunters is to reach the
young seals which lie cradled on the ice,
in " patches*' or groups, somewhere in
the vast ice covered area extending between
two and three hundred miles
from our shores. There they lie daring
the first four or five weeks of their existence,
fed by their mother's milk, and
growing fat at an enormous rate. Armed
with their " gaffs " or iron bound olubs,
the seal hunters on getting among the
"white ceats " leap on the ice, and then
commenoeo the " slaughter of the innocents."
A blow on the nose from the
" gaff" stuns or kills the young seal,
and instantly the knife is at work; the '
skin and adhering fat are detached with
amazing rapidity from the carcass, which
is left on the ice, still quivering with
life, while the fat and skin alone are carried
off. The fact that each seal !
slaughtered is worth $3 gives zest and
energy to the bloody work. Fancy the 1
crew of one of our largest steamers, J
numbering three hundred, on an ice
field, eagerly carrying on their murder- ]
ous work; their persons smeared with
blood and fat, the ice stained with gore 1
and dotted with the skinless carcasses of 1
the slain; " the shivering seals' low '
moans," like the cries of babies in distress,
filling tho air. The shouts of the 1
hunters; the blows of the "gaffs" as
they dispatch their victims; the blood '
that covers the hands and arms of the '
men and stains the virgin snow; the car- ^
casses denuded of skin and fat, and yet (
palpitating with warm life, as they are ]
i AA<VA? Am 1 f an f 1
nuiig OH U1D 1UC| IUD CO(}Dit OAiimmiv
hunters, slaying, "scalping," hauling !
the loads of fat to the ship?what a scene amid
these ice solitudes of the ocean,
with the bright sun in the heavens lighting
up the gittering pinnacles and far
spreading fields of ioe. On the deck
men are moving about knee-deep in fat
and blood, as there the pelts are piled
previous to being stowed under the
hatches when cooled. The hunters arrive
with their loads of fat, snatch a
hasty moment to drink a bowl of tea,
and are off presently in search of new
victims.
The poor mother seals, now cubless,
are seen popping their heads up in the
small lakes of water, anxiously looking
for their snow-white darlings, and refusing
to believe that the bloody carcasses
on the ice are all that remains of their
tender offspring. With a moan of distress
they plunge into the water, as if
anxious to escape from a scene polluted
by the ensanguined trail of the hunters.
The maternal instinct is very strong in.
the seals. The mothers remain near
their young, fishing in the neighborhood,
and returning occasionally to give
them suck. It is a most carious fact
that when the ice is unbroken each
mother seal has its own hole by which
it reaches the water, and which it takes
care to keep from freezing. On returning
from a fishing excursion extending
over fifty or a hundred miles, each is
able to find its own hole and, among
thousands of others, at once to aisran
gnish its own snow-white cub?by the 1
sense of smell, it is believed?which it .
proceeds to fondle and suckle. This is J
one of the most wonderful achievements
of animal instinct. The young ore scat- J
tered in myriads on the ice, and during 1
the absence of the mothers the ice, borne A
on. the current, has shifted its position 8
many miles?yet each is aole to find her c
own ice hole and to pick out her own j
darling from the immense herd with on- *
erring accuracy. J
At times the hunters have to push for- *
ward over the ice two or three miles 8
from the vessel in pursuit of the seals, '
and should a fog or snow storm set in
there is a terrible risK of losing their 8
way and perishing miserably on these .
ice deserts, or of falling through the J
openings which are covered with snow. ?
Sometimes the ice field on which they 1
are at work separates without a mo- T
ment's warning, and they are floated off v
to lie down and die on the ice, unless c
rescued by some other vessel of the 1
fleet. Or perhaps a furious northeaster 1
blows, "rafting the ice or piling the 8
huge blocks one upon another all around
the imprisoned ship, and at length crush- a
ing her like a nutshell and leaving the 8
unhappy sealers shivering and perishing ?
with hunger on the floating loe fields. ?
Sometimes their sufferings are very
great, but on the whole, such are their
skill and fortitude in meeting all emergencies,
and such their acquaintance c
with the manners and movements of the ^
ice, that comparatively few mishaps oo- a
cur. The very dangers of the seal hunt t
present an irresistible charm of excite- c
ment to these daring men who have 5
been nurtured amid such perils. Be- 8
aides, it is thus they win the bread for *
their wives and littlo ones at home; and I
how happy to be able to enter port 8
with enough to keep the wolf from the '
door and gladden the hearts of those '
who on shore are longing and praying I
for their success. fi
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Learn to Swim. j
Uapt. W6DD, W16 greac. BWiuimer,
writes, in Cassell's Family Magazine: *
It is the duty of every parent to insist ^
on his son's learning to swim. To teach I
a very young child to swim, the best f
place is a large puddle in the sand at 1
low tide. The child, like a puppy, will <
begin by paddling. If you throw a oork t
into the water, you will see the puppy '
run in up to its depth and give a short
bark; and.the chances are, especially if
there is a grown up dog that can swim
to set him an example, that in a day or
two he will take his plunge of his own {
accord, and very proud he will be of his s
first success; only here again, don't c
overdo it. As soon as the puppy has ?
been in, walk away, and call him, and he t
will be more anxious to go into the water e
another time. Now, treat your'child ?
like your puppy. Entice him to go in, ?
and if you can get some older child who i
can swim to go in with him all the bet- 1
ter, but let the child do just as he likes, i
Get two children to play at splashing <
one another; they will enjoy the fun, and, i
gradually getting excited, will venture in i
deeper and deeper. <
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OUT OF THE SHADOW.
The Konantlc Story of a New York Girl
?Her Conviction and Pardon.
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Liizzie Jones, a young, weii educated
and pretty girl, some time since arrived
in New York city from her native place
in the interior of the State, where she
lived with her aged parents. She had
there fallen in love with a young man of
the neighborhood, who, after due courtship,
made proposal of marriage, and
they were betrothed. But her father
opposed the match, and prohibited their
marriage, on the ground that her
affianced lover was addicted to liquor.
Her grief and despair were so violent
that her mind became affected, and the
once gay daughter of the household
turned melancholy, took on strange
ways, talked and laughed whimsically,[fell
into fits of abstraction, and was no more
herself. For the sake of her mind, and
in hope that a change of scene and circumstances
would bring her out of her
condition, her father sent her to New
York city to take up her stay with some
relatives. Anxious to earn her own livelihood,
she quickly found a place as
servant for a wealthy family. She had
been there but a few days when she was
accused of stealing a gold watch, arrested,
taken to court, and sent to the penitentiary.
She was taken ill after reaching
Blackwell's island, had to be sent to
the hospital, and was there seized with
the smallpox. She had recovered, returned
to her quarters in the penitentiary,
and was employed in the women's
workroom, where she happened to come
under the eye of Mrs. Bigelow, wife of
Hon. John Bigelow, secretary of State
of New York, who saw there was something
wrong with her, upon hearing
tier screams and observing now she ooniacted
herself in her presence. After
making full inquiry into the young
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woman's nistory, ana learning me cir3umstanoes
of the aocnsation against her,
Mrs. Bigelow determined to take up her
sase and carry it to the governor as a
It case for executive clemency. It has
required time, patience, and energy to
secure the pardon, but, nevertheless,
she obtained it
At work among the women, old and
roung, black and white, was Lizzie
Jones, whose comely face was deeply
pitted all over with smallpox from which
)he has lately recovered. When the
natron was made aware of the pardon
he spoke in the highest terms of the
poung woman, fend of her conduct in
prison, and expressed gratification over
let reloase. When Lizzie was called to
he desk and told of her fortune, she was
iveroome with joyous emotion. She
aughed, kissed her fellow convicts, and
rambled with delight, though her eyes
lad the look of far away. In her prison
jarb she passed through the women at
vork in companv with the matron to an
k3 jacent room, from which she soon reippeared
with a gay little hat on her
lead and a cloak of bine woolen stuff
mveloping her person. It was evident
ihat she was the favorite of all her com3anions,
as she went from bench to
>ench kissingand embracing her friends;
is she stepped up to the desk to kiss
he matron; as she gazed upon those
vho had oome to her relief; and as she
ingered within the walls that had encompassed
her shame. There was universal
joy over her luck among the convicts.
As the party landed in New York, the
oy of the young girl knew no bounds.
Oh, I'm free ? I'm free 1" she cried,
rad soon the party were within the
>eautiful mansion of a Quaker family,
rhere Lizzie's father had been asked to
iwait her arrival. " Father!" she cried
ratamid her tears when she saw the
ace of the venerable old man. and
he twain, sire and child, were oversome.
The gray beard told his bene:
actress how he had " wept every day
ind every night" for the loss of his
laughter, and how he would take her
>aok to his home in the country to live
klways with her mother.
" Is this the court house where the
udgeis?" Lizzie had asked, as she assended
the steps of the Qo&ker mansion,
n front of which was a line of carriages
raiting for a fashionable marriage which
ras taking place in the church oA the
>pposite side of the street. Lizzie was
eassured of her safety; but the mariage
was not that of herself with her
Jfianoed lover.
The patriarch and his daughter walked
.way from the mansion through the
unshine and left for the home of her
ihildhood in the interior of New York
Jtate.?aS^vi.
A, T. Stewart's Real Estate.
The total assessed value of all A. T.
Stewart's real estate in New York city,
according to the official figures, is a lit'
At* fthn AAA 1,. nai^ a
over ^UjUWjVWj UU WiilUU uo pmu n
sity tax last year of $180,000. The aseased
values, it is well known, reprelent
about two-thirds of the market
ralue of city property, which would
>laoe the aggregate worth of this prop>rty
at $8,000,000. Garden City, on
iiong Island, is worth $1,000,000; the
jtrand Union Hotel at Saratoga and apinrtenanoes
are worth another million,
rnd the Glenham carpet works and facories,
near Fishkill on the Hudson,
jossibly an additional million. Assumng
the New York city real estate to be
vorth $8,000,000, which is an outside
igure, the total iumof these enterprises
vould reach $11,000,000. He invariably
>aid the whole of the purchase money
or his real estate in cash, never giving
i mortgage, but insisting on clearing off
3very incumbrance. He was opposed
0 selling any of his real estate, and
'bought to keep."
Two Mothers and Two Babes.
Two women in Des Moines, Iowa,
?ave birth to children in the same room
ind at the same time. The woman who
sared for the little strangers, bathed
ind olothed them, and started to present
ihem to their waiting mammaa. Then
the made the startling discovery that
ihe had inextricably mixed the infants
k> that she was unable to decide which
vas the mother of either. The two
nothers cast lots for choice, agreeing
;bat if the children should, when grown,
levelop family traits sufficiently to
dentify them they should be exchanged
1 the selection should prove to be inxnrrecfc.
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in. Single Copy 5 Cents.
Items of Interest,
Romantic death?A young lady
drowned in tears.
The monotony of life is wearing. Any
change is better than an empty pocket.
San Francisco has a population of
i "AA J.' .'4n
nearly z<u,uuv, accoruiug w i? wwo?
directory.
Five thousand batchers in uniform
will parade in Philadelphia on the opening
of the Centennial.
A man may be said to have been
drinking like a fish when he finds that
he has taken enough to make his head
swim.
No man knows how attractive his
home is until he offers it for sale, and
reads what the real estate agents say
about it.
" Too many men been hanged on that
side of it," was the explanation given
why a Sacramento lamppost leaned to
the north.
Bread purchased with unearned
money is never so sweet as that which
has been earned by the sweat of one's
own brow.
Every daily paper in Montreal but
one has a libel suit on hand; one
has three, another two, and the other
five have one each.
A Mexican girl living at Tuescola has
three well developed arms. Shu can do
up her hair without cramming her
mouth full of hairpins.
Five thousand workmen in the coal
mines of North Derbyshire, England,
have struck work in consequence of a
proposed reduction of wages. .
* * * ? 1 .1 JUu. 41,-4 ha
A'pnjBlCiaU UUCbBMXA ail VUUUC1 HUM
cored bis own hams, when one of his
guests remarked: " Doctor, I'd sooner
be your ham than your patient"
Representative Williams, of Indiana,
cared his consumption by driving a
blind yoko of ox^n around the farm.
His voice is now two miles loud.
In th^ English House of Commons
the increase of a penny on a pound in
the income tax war. agreed to by a vote
of one hundred and thirteen yeas to
to fifty-two nays.
We ought to live, says Dr. Hall, five
times as long as requires to get our
growth. We ought to weigh twenty
times as much at thirty-five as on the
day we were born.
If a generous but Hgly boy gives his
younger brother "60 for stealing one
of his apples, and that night the apples
S've him " sixty " 2, how many apples
d the younger brother reoeive ?
" Mother," said Ike Partington, "did
yon know that the 'iron horse' has but
one ear!" " One ear! merciful
gracious, child, what do you mean?"
" Why, the engineer, of course."
"No man was better inoculated to
prejudge pork than my husband was,"
says Mrs. Partington ; "he knew what
good hogs were, he did, for he had been
brought up with 'em from his childhood."
An American started a bank in Alaska
a while ago, but the natives oouldn't get
checks, drafts, exchange, and discount
through their heads, and so they took
?*v -? 1? 1?J ..J ?11 ?,3
ail tne money me ommer uau ouu wwou
it square.
Large orders have been received in
England for steel rails for foreign railroads,
and works which have been
closed daring several months are about
to be put in operation again in consequence.
T. J. Megibben, of Paris, Ky., has
lost the short-horn ball Second Duke of
Oneida, for which he paid $12,000 at
the New York Mills sale. The cow, the
Daohess of Oneida, for which he paid
$25,000, had died previously.
They have brought things to a pretty
fine point in the Boston custom house,
where a coin check for one cent was
issued. It is directed to the assistant
treasurer of the United States, and bears
the signatures of the collector and
deputy collector.
A little neglect may breed a great mischief
; for want if a nail the shoe was
lost; for want of a shoe the horse was
lost; and for want a horse the rider was
lost, being overtaken and slain by the
enemy; all for want of a little care
about a horseshoe nail.
A schoolmaster at Exeter, England,
punished a boy by beating him with a
green willow rod, and in some manner
happened to destroy one of the little
fellow's eyes. Ho was tried on a criminal
indictment, and sentenced to five
years' penal servitude.
The children of school age in England
and Wales, that is from three to thirteen,
number 5,374,801, or twenty-three
per cent of the whole population. The
amount expended upon primary education
during the last ten years in England,
Wales and Scotland is ?9,918,277.
Some people seem to be extremely
sensitive. At one of the churches in
Norwich, aooording to the Bulletin, one
Sunday the minister read the prayer for
a person in deep affliction, and a man
who had just been married got up and
went out. He said he didn't wtuit public
sympathy obtruded on him in that
way.
In Burmah if two married persons are ,
tired of each other's society, they dissolve
partnership in the followingtouch
ing bat conclusive manner. They light
two candlea, and, shutting up tLeir hat,
sit down and wait qdietly until they are
borned oat. The one whose cr.ndlo
burns oat first gets ap at once and leaves
the house (and forever), taking nothing
but the olothee he or she may have on
at the time; all else becomes the property
of the other party.
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Fairly Caught.?Old Mr. Russell
was fairly caught in his own trap. He
was better known as Major Ben Russell,
and being met by his old friend Busby,
he was familiarly saluted with a hearty
shake of the hand. *" How do yoa do,
old Ben Bossed ?" " Come now," said
Major Ben, 44 I'll not take that from you 1
?not a bit of it You are as old as 1 am
this minute." " Upon my word," said
Mr. Busby, 44 you are my senior by at
least ten years." "Not at all, friend
Basby, and if you please, we will determine
that question very soon. Just tell
me what is the first thing you recollect."
" Well, the first thing I recollect, '' said
Mr. Busby, whs hearing people say;
4 There goes old Ben Russell 1'
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