The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, December 27, 1882, Image 1
j^EEKLY EDITION, WIj^^ DECiiMBElt' 27,; 1882. ^ ^ ESTABLI^im) 1844. ^
I The Farmer's Son?*
i * ?
harvest fields aro stripped of grain;
e lnto-eown oorn is shooked in dun,
id husked beneath a chilly sun;
ragged stubble checks tho plain.
hills are dosolate and cold,
ie maples stand in grim array, .
id through the forost'B muffled gray
winds of heaven strike the wold.
r7\ siec wimo tlio harvest splendors fail,
L The grain is sold, tho barter rnado,
B| 7 vAnd work, and care of crop, and trade
f ,?Lre put aside with plow and flail.
. '.e bins are filled, tho barns ato stored,
\ 1 ftie orchards robbed of scanty fruit,
,.?And in tho garret Cold and mute,
'*,? thrifty squirrols share the hoard.
hough the drought was long and sore,
tad scorched tlio Aold beaido the road
/ill half Jio crop was loft unhoed,
\ - ^ aftermath repaid the mower;
-'( ; ;j QUgh half tho ryo wfta winter-killod,
Uid horo tho wheat was struck by blight,
yj\..??- .. ? ? - -
im is kqou in noavon'8 Bight,
| / ,md still tlio waiting barns two fillod.
V And elill, through every ompty mood
Eljm JJeyond the momont'a harah (surprise,
Bt<' v At Inst a truer knowledge lies?
F~/ <the sense of some ?saonthil good.
[ So, since tho harvest moon haa waned,
; By yonder shining crescent's edgo,
I 1 "Our hands are struck upon n plodge,
| And muoh is lost?and more is gainedl
i V The Pilgrim seed has taken root,
? \ Despilo tho land so hard and groy,
I A?ld. jlownvnrl to tliin
r -n ? ? *..v..AivobiUl?ti U(%/,
^ -.ill yot bring forth abundant fruit.
i* ' ?Dora Head Good alt,
| : ?
I ; IN TIE HII1X.8.
g Chat old Anstice Purcoll loved lior
" Jno was not to be wondered at. Sho
I id been born in it, and so had her
. bther "before her. Sho had remem\
anco of no other, and it was as much
i mart of her existence as the sky and
| ? It would have seemed no stranger
her to bo without a coping of blue
?' f than it would to see four different
k -lis from theso about her and to call 1
m fm home. i
" Anilv certainly, if beauty could give :
no reason to lovo a spot, Anstico had '
. cason enough. For was not the long,;
>W stone house perched on a crag, so !
i\at it looked like nothing but a lichen
I'^that crag? And did it not overlook j
Idling hilltops below and far away,j
^lm-fringed intervales, with silver '
ams looping and doubling through j
11V And was not old Greyhead j
1 fering above her, with ail his |
kla and precipices ami storm-scored
3, and casting a shadow over her ;
Redcap, taking tho sunset (ires on
psito upper heights ; and greater
its, looming blue in tho horizon?
. I did sho not know when tho I
jfc .her was to ho fine by the vapors j
Al great Monasset? And, when!
:; , posts of rain or snow set in, did
'aot feel that Monasset and Uedcap |
i,j'proyhcad stood, like three power-1
'[ gonii, and shut her in and kept'
j;h and ward over her and her
( idchililrcn, in their sad fortunes, j
]iey had kept it over her ancestors :
generations?
or h'or only son had boon smitten j
v.A-A a strango unrest among these:
ir jatains?an unrest new to tho Pur
(and he twieo a Pureell, since'
tico had married her cousin)?and, !
I *ved by tho fear of poverty, per- \
I uiftU mo o lUivUlIU 111 tlJU
. !vso, should Greta givo him chil'
ho had gone away to sea, ten
t^jigo, as if only boundless hori^
^ ^vftor thoso imprisoning hills,
. , ^ill his yearning for space. He
J ;,:t Margaret,his young wife, with
\ ' nother; l'or, although tho Purcoll
i had shrunk with every gonera>there
was yot a pittance which
, -jd support tho household till ho !
Hp "".send back or bring back the'
1 that iie meant to have. But the !
* jit wlion shosaw his bright black
I %'.ashing through her tears, as ho j
Jwn tiio rocky path to cross Held \
cyood, and tako tho coach, and i
L ,il a moment to wave his hand '
,sly, was tho last in which Anstico I
1-ver seen him. The bnrk Ailm. I
B ttho owners affcor a timo wrote!
t aad gone down, with all on board, j
B a season, then, it did not seem !
fl ^ Anstice that she lived. 'J'lw 1
f jP&JaEf mt ti'!;
f J -'V iitul 8be saw only tlio
[ "waste of waters for days' and
" and months, till she was awak-,
from her apathy by the sound of a |
tj voice in tho night, the quick, ;
m tjd cry of a new-born baby. Of
I ] fU f WA aF X-A '
J V- .. 'y VJI UIVIIII OllU 1U3U liULI
My. to her feet, looked about her
t jalf-bowildorment, then hurriedly
B . Vd herself, as she bad not done for
BT ' '}g, and went out into another
S "Greta," she said, "you haw
H i? mo back my boy." And Greta :
Wy .to think in after days that An-!
/p really felt as if the babies wore j
t own, and sho herself was only a
L Voll-meaning nurse. But sho never j
H grudged tho car? of her boys to their |
jn grandmother, great as tho comfort of
B that care was to horself. Sho knew
V what their lovo of their mother must!
Hi needs bo; nnrl she used to toll them
BF that it was becauso of them, stung to
H madness by tho thought of their com
MM. Ing to livo tho lifo of poverty mid caro
Hkthiit lio ?aw stretching out to old ago,
What her own Hon had gono away to
mo hack no moro. A woman, this
B /cot Greta, who shut hor sorrow
| t in hor own heart, and nover
k ,nispered it oxcopt to her bahiofl,
t tho watches of tho night, ;
WL on she would say to thorn how
S lUtifnl, how bright, how bravo a
W h their father was ; how ho loved j
and sho had worshiped him ; how ,
y must grow like him and make
l" vp to bo strong and good enough ]
F 'fo caro of tlioir littlo grand- j
r. ami !<> '
. F nvi tiuisuu iiway TO ]
L band. The only troublo that (
i g,| ^otweon h6r and Anstloo
was that she Would not ftiyo either of
tlie boys the father's name. "No,"
she said. "It is like parting his raiment.
Call them what you will, but
not John." And so Anstioe called tho
one Benoni, the soft of flty sotfcow, and
tho other Ashe*S because of her happiness
that had boen restored to her
with liiin. And little Ash and Ben,
as they presently were known, grew
and thrived, and ruled the household
with rods of iron. "What pretty littlo
darlings they were, rolling I'Ottiid
the lloor in their dhiipied play,
their curly yellow heads in
tho bttn ; their dark-fringed
eyes, their father's eyas, dancing with
mirth and mischief; their rosy fttttesso
velvety soft, and sweet. Anstlce would
catch one to hfet heart, and drop him
for the tttUer, and go back to tho first,
And hardly let them alone at all, in tho
swelling ecstacy of her love, but for
the kicking and struggling ttttd loudvoiced
protestations that they set up;
but Margaret would only pauso in her
WoUk, and follow them witli wistful
eyes, wondering if this was tho way
that their father looked at their age,
and silently thanking Heaven, that, if
tho father had been taken, It had, at
any rate given them each other.
Thoy needed each other, tho little feU
lniVfl aa
v <* m) vA*vy iuvjlvuouvi vuoail aujroi i. ui>y
lmd nobody else. It was lotig sinco
Anstico had kept a servant, and, although
tho old furnishing remained in
other rooms* the small family lived
chiefly in the narrow quarters of two,
opening into ono another. Neighbors
were scarco in that hill country. Children
did not exist at all. Tho only person
within reach was tho man round
the side of the mountain, who managed
Anstieo's little farm for her. There
was no school, of course (tho neatest
was down in tho Vttli?.y> ten miles
away); no church any nearer; wayfarers
did not faro that way; no
soldiers marching through bannered
streets with inusic ; no streets ; no
other torchlight procession than that
oi uie eternal stars ; nothing to break
the calm monotony but tho mail-coach,
that onco a day could bo soon, a mere
speck, winding down tho distant highway.
But it all mado no odds to the
children. The day was not long enough
for their pleasure. Thoy knew nothing
of any world outside of their kites and
balls and gardens and birds'-ncsts in the
lovely, swift summers; their snow
forts and snowshoes tmd sleds in tho
long winters. If it had not been for
their perpetual longing and yearning
for what was not Greta and Anstice
might have felt something liko a rellootion
of their ili luvililillf
at tiiem.
4< Do other little bovs have fathers?"
asked Asli, 0110 day.
"Only when they don't have
brothers," answered Ben.
" But fathers are nice to have,"
reasoned Ash. "Don't you remember
tho tart tho minister over at Bareback
brought us? And ho said his little
boy had one."
"Yea. It had raisins in it. liaisins
are so good!"
"But I iuifiR I'd rather have a
brother," urged Ash; "Tho brother's
there next day to plav and tho raisin
isn't."
" Hear the darlings," said Anstice.
"They will be father and brother both
to each other. Oh ! and they will have
n An/1 rvf i 4" ''
XXVJVjU \J 1 JlVi
For poor Anstice's ago. was even
more troubled than her youth Iia<l
been. Then she had seen, piece by
pieco, the substanco of the old estate
depart?farm by farm, field by field.
For two generations, except to sow
and reap the few aercs left the home
place, her people had done nothing but
to sell their patrimony, till, at length,
it held reached a point where all the
fertile glebe was gone and there was
nothing left to sell. The Porter place
had kept them talive so many years,
tho Green property so many more.
When her father went to eolloge
the sale of tho Itye farm paid the
hills?big bills too. When he was
buried tho great funeral cost the
barley fields. The long acres down in
the valley had furnished her and John
with food and clothes, after her own
husband's death from the mountain
lover. And then thoro was no remnant
of it all, but the home place, that
"ny one would take so much as a
mortgage on, and it was when she
mortgaged tjiat that John, in uespuiation,
wont away- uu nm. >
Anstice lnul depended on the rent of
two or three little outlying spots to pay
the interest on the mortgage; and
now, this cri^el year, they had been tloserted
by their tenants, who left the
Hterile heaps of stone and moss for the
rich Western lands, and there was no
other tenants to take them. Sho had
no money; and, como the last part of
November, the mortgage would be
foreclosed, and sho and Greta
and the boys would be
turned loose upon the world,
without a dollar. Greta could work,
maybe; but she herself and the litte
Ian*?mere was not even the poorlionso
beforo them. Up in that hill
country the abject poor were so few
that they .wero farmed out and boarded
from place to place. And that was the
end of all the Pureell wealth and Purcell
hope. Death would havo been a
kind tiling to .old Anstice in comparison.
Sho used to lie awako in the nights,
thinking over thtf- possibilities. The
horror of them grow upon her. She
would start up and puco the floor, and
flinging something on would run out,
as if to get help from all outdoors?the
at.nrs flut winrl tVin olro --J ?
.....m.vi.u oixjr?uiiu uuu i?y
wondering, as sho loaned ovor the parapet
of tho old atone wall, if it would
not bo best to put an end to thomsolves
iit onco down the precipice below her.
" When 1 think of it," sho said,
Fts Greta came onco to fetch her
In?" when I think that us far
lis tho eye could hoo an object
ivnd tell what it was, so far the land
was tho land of my family, yiohling
\
revenue, and now a bare two days and c
tbeir children will not own a foot of t
their inheritance cir bjwo. a toof oVer
their hcadfj, I doubt ProVidelice and it
drives me wild 1"
"Nof mother, dear," said Greta's
gentle voice, aa, with her arms round
Anstiee, she led hef back to tiio house
?"no, mother, dear, if wo doubt ProVidenca,
then alJ is gone, indeed."
" To think of it r cried Anstice,
again.. ''Ton I old Parson Mildredge's
daughter and my son's wifo, adrift
on the world, to earn your bread or
starve I And the little lads?the last
of the Purcells?with no future before
theni, Ho clothes to _ their backs I 1
Think of the Thanksgiving dinners all 1
this country over, and not a tart will '
my boys have. Other boys?" 1
"But, indeed, mother, so long as they ?
have bread and niillt tlrldask for no more, '
We need not fret at that. Such happy 1
little rogues-.?"' '
" Happy they'll be in the state alms- J
houso 1"
" It will never como to that 1 I have \
a pair of bands?" ^
" Much you can do with your hands, .
you as fragile as a reed I"
" I can work for you and the children
with them. Don't jfear;'*
" if voU can cret work I"
"IshtUl seo." Wo will go down to '
one of the great mill towns ; and it
will go hard but?"
" Go down to a mill town! ,
Down in .a dark, stifling alley
of a town I Away from all tho ,
light and frcedo\h here?the hills, the
glory of them, vho strength of them !
Oh I I will dio first. I'ftnd rathelrdie I't
" But we can't die, you see. And if
We doUbt Providence, that is worse
than death" "Oh I wo-are tried,"
half sobbed Greta. " Wo are being
tried I But somehow I seem to feel?
I know 1 I know !?that help is on tho
way to us, just as much as though I
heard a voice from heaven saying so."
And she went to bed and took the
shivering little mother in her arms,
and tho nervous storm throbbed itself
oft into'sleep for tho weary old Ansticej
and then Gfeta took her turn to see
tho strir.s slide by the window, pausing
LU lUUJv. HUieilllliy 111, Willie Hlie MIOUgUt
that, somewhere in tho wide world,
they were looking down on tho spot
whero her husband slept. Once or
twioo she rose, after Anstice had
been soothed to slumber, and
moved abcut tho room. When a
great meteor went slipping by, in a
swift blaze of glory, her heart gavo a
plunge; and then it seemed to be as if
the stars themselves had sent her messages
of comfort, ana she slept.
" lien," said little Aslier, in tho
morning, sitting up in bed, with the
sunshine breaking in new luster on
Ina nrnitu rrnl/lrvn lmn/1 nn/1 fI^a !
Hushing l'reshly up his face, "did you i
ever see an angel
"Ifo," said lien. "Did you?"
"Once I did. Yes. 1 saw an angel
last night, Ben."
"I guess so."
" I did. Keally and truly, I did,"
said Ash. " I saw two of them, Ben. j
I woke up in the night when it was !
dark and tho lire was out, and one was i
standing by tho hearth, arid the stars 1
shone all-over it. And I saw it all in '
white; and it went awav. And it
looked just liko the angels mother
reads about to us in tho Bible."
" I guess it was mother," said lien.
" Tho other wasn't mother !" answered
Ash, indignantly. " Tho other
was a real angel, any way. It went |
rxiuiii^ vy biiu imunv wim wings
like fire, and it left a path shining behind
it. And I know it was the Angel
ol' tho Lord."
" Do yon really suppose it was, Ash ?"
"I know it was. And, of course, it
came for something, you know, Ben.
I shouldn't wonder if we were going to
have Thanksgiving to-day, after all."
"I hope there'll he raisins in it, then,"
said lien. " I like raisins so 1"
"Just hear the darlings," whispered
Anstice. after her custom, to (Jrota.
" I'd give my hand to get him raisins
for the day. Going to liavo Thanksgiving
after all! Thanksgiving for
hiring cast adrift upon the world 1"
And she began to cry bitterly.
"Come, boys," called Greta, who
had been gently moving about
till the HreS were bright in the
two rooms, for 'of wood they had
still plenty. " Ono should bo Stirling
uui'iy ou ximuKBgivuig iuominy.
Porridge is reudy when you have
said your prayers." And sho sat'down
where the roso and purple of the sunrise
fell over her like an aureole, as tho
two little chaps eamo pattering out to
tho snapping lire, in their long white
nightgowns, and, kneeling before her,
hid their faces in her lap while shosaid
the prayer.
Ono would have thought it little
enough that Greta I'urcell had to give
thanks for that day?husbandless, 1
homeless, portionless, and with three i
helpless souls hanging on her for help, i
But to ono hearing the simple words <
that she offered in her morning saeri- !
Ilc(i it would have seemed jus' though :
princes had no more to he grateful j
for?as she gave her thanks for
life, for health, for hearts not i
yet broken altogether, for the '
bright morning, the loyely earth, ]
for hope of heaven, for each other. I
"Amen 1" said a voico at tho door. 1
None thought of fastening any door in 1
that unvisited country, " i
Tho childron lifted their faces as <
they kneeled, and Greta turned her i
head, to see a tall man standing in tho '
doorway, with a loose cloak wrapped i
mm 1
"Perhaps it is tho angel," whispered !
lien, still a little under tho spoH of his i
mothor's prayer.
"John I John 1" eoino a cry from j
the inner room. " Oh I Joiin !" cried i
old Anstice. " My son 1 my son!" i
And sho Would havo fallen before (
she reached the bearded, black- ;
eyed stranger, witli a sort of wild t
beauty on Ids dark, swcot face, had lve i
not caught her on one arm while tho
itlior already folded GrSSpwho sat like
twhite stone. ? & V ,T.
him! \ J kntw/him
sried Attstice, j)reSehtly?o .<!Oht
ruBt a mother's. inatfipot. He's my.
leah and bleodl"
"And do you suppose$cUd not know i
lim ?" fliished baek GretAfaot vet quite j
icrsplf. " Ilois my VfiHr. self)., And
[ always knew ho was any,I fttways
loH it. I was sure haafof me was hot
leadl" wW'j
" But half of you eanjfo mighty n^ar
t twice," said John, fro^ >wh6re he
,vas sitting then, with an Abashed and
indfaped urchin on eitW. knee antl
na aIaqIt o l^nnf + *' l( T aV*nil I
VWMU UUVUV VUV1U 4. O^CViA
lever be any nearer doafyi, aftgy las.t,,.
light, than I was on thffrdH^'vlm^M?;,..
jatross went down. I-uSv* thought,
vll these teii cruel years* that. I liad_
letter have been dead; for t tfw'
kicked up by a craft-that carried
no into a Formosan} port, and*
[ have been a slave," he said.
' I have been a slave, .with slavery
nade more terrible M thought of
ivhat had becomt of liiy mother, my
wife, my child. 1 did not know that I
uul two of them!'* said John With
naif a sob; ... . & . *'
" Oh 1 John ! Dear Tohii I'V- . .
"To think of us," cried Anstice, lifting
up her voice, "when you were suffering
so yourself, my boy I"
" To think of you 1" he exclaimed,
with a flash in his eyes that melted in
M.A /1ai?. umi I
niu uow until/ 1WUUWCU. 'lUBlO UOYer
was day or night, sleeping or waking,
that I (lid not. The agony of it passed
all the rest, and I see ndw ttij worst
Eorp.bodirigs almost true:* /\rou would
have beeri starving iri a little?"
" Arid"' tlie mortgage 'is foreclosed
to-day," cried Anstice, \vringing her
hands, with the sudden remembrance
thrust upon her joy.
"Not oxactly," ho laughed?and he
was fumbling in his breast for a
little goatskin bag as ho spoke
?"although heaven knows what
might have been if --la^t night,
just as I was goirtg oVet "NVhitehorse
ledge; it huge meteor had i}ot suddenly
lllll'/Pfl fillt. nnrl ?lin\vnll tria flio utinuin
into which tho next step, would lead.
Not exactly; for, when I escaped,,
months ago, and found my way to the
Cape?South Africa, you know?I wont
to tho diamond Ileitis while I waited
for a ship. Great Heaven I ITow good
it was to go whero I would! Do you
seo this, Greta? Do you see this,
mother? These little crystals are
worthless-looking things, aro they
not?" And he poured them out in his
palm. " They aro diamonds, and of
my own finding. I liRVO Sold Ouongh
already for emergencies?"
" And I need not leave my home,
my father's home, this spot of heaven
to me, and all of earth, full of tho Purcell's
life and death I" cried Anstice,
sharply, springing forward, to look in
her son's face again.
"Never, mother. And we wiL
make it what it used to bo;
for, worthless as they look, in
that handful lies a whole universe
of happy possibilities for us. Oh!
Greta, my faithful wif? \ Mmro lio?
homo regained, my mother blessed, my
children educated, and you without a
care. There lie all tlio Puvcell fortunes
and all the Purcell acres once again
our own."
" It was the angel, you see,"
whispered Ash.
"And raisins, father?" asked Ben.
?Harriot Prcscott tivofl'ord.
One's First 'jtiiu'thquako.
A private letter recently received
from Miss Fanny Snow, containing an
interesting account of tho earthquake
in Mexico, is so full of interest that
we have been permitted to make tho
following extract. It is known to
some of Miss .Snow's friends that she
went to tho City of Mexico last Octo*
bor to bo associated with Miss M. L.
Latimer, formerly of ltochestor, in organizing
a mission school for girls, under
tho Presbyterian boaid of foreign
missions : " This has been a day to bo
remembered. This morning we invited
tlio Q s to come up to tea tonight.
After school wo sallied forth
to buy clams for a clam-chowder, cake
and various . things. Wo wero
walking briskly along San Francisco
street, in the hot sun, when I felt myself
suddenly whirling?could not see.
I called out, frightoned, Why, Miss
L?, I'm dizzy!' "So am I,' she re
Hljuimciii una tnon 1 uunK lor a moment
I lost my senses, for I had
a wild idea that I must get somewhere
under shelter. As I saw people
all around dropping on their knees,
I did not want to bo the ono conspicuous
personago on the street who
could not kneel to the archbishop or
tho holy sacrament. Whatever I
thought I staggered into a shoo store,
and just as I got inside it struck mo
that, an earthquako was in session.
They wero ropairing something or
other in tho store, and I vaguply folt
tnrougu my dizziness mat 1 must get
nut from, under tho scaffolding, nnd I
Somehow found myself in the
street, standing on tho cornor
ind clinging to a building. By
that timo I had recovered my senses,
nnd could philosophize on tho subject.
It was very interesting to watch the
people. They poured out of tho stores
into tho streets, and very generally
knelt. I took in tho height of tho
buildings around, and concluded that
should thoy fall into tho narrow streets
nno might as well bo in ono spot as in
unother, so stayed in tho shade. It
was very quiot, not a word spokon
iny whero. I don't supposo it lasted
three minutes, but it was tho queerest
sensation imaginable. For tho moment
that I did not know what it was
[ was dread fully frightened, but tho
moment it occurred to mo it was only
m carthquako, I was as composed as
ii i nau ia?en oaruiquaKes ior a ciany
exorcise all my lifo. I was quite seadck
for a mtlo while, and never was
waslck a* jea. I am actually so dizzy
now, at 10 o'clock, that I can hardly
rite."'?Jtoohcster Domoorat,
SCfENTlfrlOHOTES.
'
?A very durai)l^> artificial iroty has
recently been prepared by dissolving
sheilao iti itUtiriOiiltt# mixing the solution
with oxldo of fclnc; driving .off
tho ammonia by beating, powdermg'
and strongly compressing in molds.;
Professor Burns, of Tubingen, hta
made Soiiie experiments on dogs which
ho regards as proving thai jboHe#ri?r->
row, ^completely separated froto the
bone*may be transplanted under the
skin of, tho same animid at a remote
part of the boc^ with tlio, result of
giving rise to the fortbtitldii ox riew
bone and cartilage.
The law that bodies evaporate the
njorauu'o they contain tho faster tlie
more surface they have will remaintrue
in regard w earth, and itj will follow
that the finer the soil is pulvefi?ed
the faster it will become dry under
given circumstance*; but evaporation*
to be rapid, requires dry air to receive
the vapor. And to give soil the most
benefit from dew, it must be made porous
so that the moist air can touch the
greatest surface
"Vaccination is henceforth to be compulsory
in China. One cause for popular
opposition to it is that it is tho
practice there to vacciriiite children on
the tip of tho nose. A reward of half
a tael, which the government lias offered
for every child vaccinated, has
not been sufficient to persuade parents
in easy circumstances to disfigure their
children in this way; and a law has
therefore been promulgated punishing
by fine and imprisonment tho failure to
vaccinate.
During his recent researches JNlr.
Brown-Sequard has proved the possibility
of introducing a tube into the
larynx of tho higher animals without
causing any pain or any subsequent
bad result, although the experiment
was performed repeatedly, in at least
one ease, on a single, suojeet. 'l'lie
local insensibility to pain was caused
by directing a l'apid current of carbonic
acid upon tho upper part of the
larynx th/ongh an incision, for from
fifteen seconds to two or three minutes.
After the operation was completed the
anrcsthotic effect lasted ?rom two tr
eight minutes.
A Hank Clerk's Sacrifice.
A good many years ago a cashier
took a little lad from a neighboring
poovhouso and When tho boy had become
a youth be Was given a responsible
position in tho blink of Which his
patron was practically t.hwhnud. Ti?tor
tho cashier stolo moro than $15*000
from tho bank. Exposure was threatened
every day, and tho guilty ofllcer.
in a period of depression, confessed to
tho youth that lie proposed to kill himself.
Young liny, tho protege, was
smitten with horn r as ho thought of
tho terrible turn in afFairs, but having
weighed tho matter, the next day ho
threw himself into the broach. lie
suggested, arid tho cashier eagerly accepted
the suggestion, that ho shov.ld
fasten tho guilt upon himself and abscond,
thus leaving his patron honest
in the world's eyes, though blackened
in his own. What, the public he^rd
of the Wcstport robbery was thvt a
hank clerk named Kay had stolen
$15,000.
Detectives found several clows, but
not until years afterward was the
3ecret disclosed. One of the detectives
who had been employed in tho case
sanio up with Kay under still more
romantic circumstancos. Tlie detective,
according to his reminiscences
published in a San Francisco paper,
was called recently to a Western city
to ferret out the person who had
robbed a private hoitso of 200 gold
eagles. Tho only man under arrestwas
one, Ilenry Martin. As soon as
the detective saw Martin the former
said: "You are Dallas Kay, who
robbed theWestport bank." Kay then
told the true story of tho robbery and
tho story has been verified since. Hay
claimed thai ho was innocent of tho
gold eaglo burglary and. asked tho detective
to tako a noto to his sweetheart,
a Miss Morse. When the latter
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neuni ,ui nur jovur h predicament sue
threw her whole soul into obtaining
proof of his innocence. She went to
the houso where the robherv had been
committed. Having asked if tho burglar
had left anything in his flight, shewas
given a handkerchief that had
been dropped by the intruder. 6ho
[ put the handkerchief to her nose and
exclaimed: "Find tho thief who uses
this .perfume (naming tho peculiar
brand) and you will find your eagles."
It was found that only ona drug store
in tho city sold that kind of perfumery,
and that only one bottle bad boon
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xuiiguu WIK1MU uuu piuuuuillg J11U1LU1.
Need it. 1)0 added that tho purchaser
was traced, tho eagles regained and
tho lovors married I
HEALTH HINTS.
A handful of (lour bound 01 a v,ut
I will immediately stop tho bleeding.
AVhcn suitering fyom Hour stomach,
Dr. Footo, in his Health Monthly, advises
tho sufferer to try sv allowing
saliva.
A good wash to prevent tho hair
from falling out is made with one
ounce powdered borax, half an ounco
of nowdnrnd rsnvrnhnr nnn minrt. r?f
__ 4 : - I J 7 w*boiling
water. When cool pour into a
bottlo for \ise, and clean tho head with
it, applying with a flannel or spongo
once a week.
For dyspepsia, pour ono quart of
cold water on two tablcspoonfuls of
unslacked lime; let stand a few irinutes,
bottle and cork, and when clear
it is ready for use; put three tablespdonfuls
in a cup of milk, and drink
any timo, usually before meals.
A Chicago policeman shot cloven
times at a burglar and each timo
missed. Ho made the serious mistake
of aiming at tho follow.
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TUB OCEAN'S lJErTHS.
rtha Woiulorl'nl Tiling* IMncovcrcrt
at ?ho KlttVOI af tll? Atlantic. .
' j' At a meeting of the National AcatlcAiy
of ScienceB in Now York Proifea*
BOtf A,. 13? Verrill, afc Yalo college,
described the physical and geological
character of the sou bottom off our
coast, especially that which lfefl beh?ath
the Gulf stream. If? lias made
1,500 obsemitiohi this suirimer for the
United States fish comfrtiMioners. He
has cruised from Labrador to Chosa
peak? bay and about 200 miles out to
He& . About sixty mlias outsldo of
Nantucket id tt streak of very cold
water, and animals dfcfclged'up.aro
llko those caught in tlio writers of
Greenland, Spit/bergen or Siberia.
The water is fifty fathoms deep, and
tlio. bod of the ocean is of clay.
Bouldefa Weighing 800 or 1,000'pounds
aro dredged up. IWfessgf Vefrill believes
they are brought doWni by icebergs
from the Arctic regions tftid
dropped when the ice melts. Tht
boulders are found as far south as Long
imtuiu. j: uibiirL uuv w nt'tv, iv
120 miles stmth .from the southeastern
coast of New ICnglaUdf the bottom ol
tho sea, which lias inclined vei'/ gradually
eastward, forming a tableland,
tilkes a sudden dip downward, so that
whereas tho WUtef on tho edgo of tho
bluff is 100 fathomskdeep, fit; the bottom
of tho basin it is 1,000 fathoms
deep. Tho slope is as high and as
stoop as Mount Washington, and
on its summit, which is level,
a diver, could lie go to so low a dopth,
colild not put out his hand Without
touching a living creature. Tho bottom
of the sea is coveted just there
with a fauna which has novel:' boon
before found outside of tlio Mediterranean
soil, the (Julf of Mexico, the
Indies, or other tropleflt t'ejadons. Tho
number of species of fish dredged lip is
800, and over half of them have never
before been seen by naturalists. Sev
enty kinds of fish, ninety of crustacea,
ancl 2?0 lnollusks havo been added to
our fauna. Tlio age of many of the
specimens shows that they imi?C he
permanent in that region. The trowel
let down from tite ships by a mile of
ropo brings lip a ton of living.,,'nd
dead crabs, schrimp, star fish.4 t*nd
as the trowel simply scrapes ovtu u
small surface, the ocean bed is plainly
carpeted with creatures.
Sharks are seen by thousands in this
region, and countless dolphins, but it
seems strange that not a ilsli bone is
over dredged up, A piece of wood
iiuw bo iij-y .1K00 ? your, huh 1^
's honeycombed by the boring shell fish
i falls to pieces at the touch of the
and. This shows what destruction is
constantly going 011 in tlio.se depths.
If a ship sinks at sea with all on boHrd,
it would be eaten up by fish with the
exception of the metal, and that would
corrode and disappear. Not a bone of
a human body would remain after a
few days. It iw a constant display of the
law of the survival of the fittest.
Nothing made by the hand of man
was dredged up after cruising l'oi
months in tho track of ocean vessob
excepting coal clinkers shoved overboard
from steamships. Hero Professor
Vcrrill corrected himself. Twentyfive
miles from land ho dredged up an
india rubber doll. That, he said, win
ono thing tho llah conlcl not eat.
Here the Gulf stream is forty miles
further west than any map show?,
Professor Verrili continued ; and iiiis
stream of v. arm water from the south
nourishes the tropic;** life near Massachusetts.
The temperature further in
shore is thirty-five degrees in August ,
on the edge ol tho submarine Mount
Washington fifty-two degrees, and
toward the bottom of the basin thirtynine
degrees, while further out to sea
the temperature of tho water grows
colder. On the siirfaco tho jelly fish,
nautilus and the Portuguese man-ofwar,
with other tropical flab, aro found.
In this belt the tile lish, about which
ro much was said a year ago, were
found in immense quantities, but tlii.-j
summer, although expeditions have
been made for the express puf potto ol
patching some, not one could be taken.
Undoubtedly they had been killed, to a
flsh, by a storm which caruied tho cold
water into the Gulf stream; indeed, it. is
known that a cold current of water
resting on tho ocean's bed may contain
Arctic fish,, and a current of warm
water floating ovor it on tho surface
may be alive with tropical lish.
As to tho quantity of light at tho
bottom of tho sea there has been touch
uin^iibi,:. y\iiiiinu?(ircugcairom neiow
700 fathoms either have no eyas, or faint
Indications of thorn, or else their eyes are
very largo and protruding. Crabs' eyes
are four or live times as lavgo as those of
a crab from surface water, .which
shows that that light is feeble, and
that eyes to bo of any use must be
very large and sensitive. Anothei
c.trango thing is that whoro tho creatures
in those lower depths haVo any
color, it is of orange or red, or reddish
orange. Sea anemones, corals, shrimp
and crabs have this brilliant color.
Sometimes it is pure red or scarlet, and
in many specimens it inclines toward
purple. Not a green or blue llsh is
found. The orange red is the fish's
protection, for tlio bluish green light
in the bottom of tho ocean makes the
orango or red fish appear of a neutral
tint and hides it from enemies. Many
animals aro black, other* neutral in
color,. Some fishes are provided with
boring tails, so that they can burrow in
the mud. Finally, the surf ace of the
submarine mountain is covered with
shells, like, an ordinary sea beach, showing
that it is the eating-house of vast
soliools of carnivorous animals. A
codfish takes a whole oyster into its
mouth, cracks the sholls, tligests tho
meat and spits out tho rost Crabs
crack the shells and stick out tho meat.
In that way eomo whole mounds of
shells that arn dredged up.
. There aro in the German empire 17601
physicians and 4,457 apothecaries.
Tlumksglylngv
Through centuries the golden link* have nrn
Oar fathers' fathers, like their girls and
boys, .. ..
; E'er blesawd the mellow Indian ptunmw ?un
That gave this oxovrn of all their house.- ? . _ ^
Y4 tt,* Jo??
*V w*v'fliMV VUW VtVM* UUU VWOV^UV nuuuviv^
baok, > * .
It placed' the infant on the grandsire't
ltpee,
And wondrously it smoothed vexation's traok,.
New warmth rekindling for the time to he}
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Oh, rich the garnore by our fathers stored, ^
And glad and deep their dpar Thanks*
giving glow;
Our own but eoho round the festive board
The voices of a hundred years ago.
For now as th<ui, Thanksgiving goethup, j
A v? WIVIJ U(UHOOU luijmjnu UlKl/.UUiXIy
For bl68Bing& lingering in old ngo's cup,
And nil the promise round the feet ot
youth.
?George H. Coo ier,
g= .1 11 'aanjf
llUMOROFfHE Dlt.
Josh Billings says: ' "Next to a clear
conscience foi' solid comfort comes an ,,
old shoe."
Marriage makes men thoughtful. ,
About Halt their time is spent m forming
excuses. \
It is the rich oyster dealer who
known how to shell out.-?-iVeM> York
Commercial.
Any good-looking lass Is perfectly
hapfty when loft to her own rejections.
?New Yoi'k News. |
The man who "couldn't stand it
any longer" has taken it seat and now
feels more comfortable. >
The circus rider who was elected to
the Italian parliament is, wo believe,
the' only politician who can success
fully fid? Mvp liorses at onco.?Philadelphia
NeuJs'. ' ' $
A woman was offered $1,000 if sho
would remain silent l'or two hours. *
At tho end of lifteon minutes sho
asked: "Isn't the time nearly up?"
and thus lost. * )
lie was making a call .'tnd they were
talking of literature. " Tho Pilgrim's
ProgiteSs/' she remarked, " always
seemed to me prtinful. Of course you
are familiar with Bdft^an?" IIo said
ho had one on each' foot and they
uuun^ir-u iiiui it guuu utiu. I
Association of ideas : " Tliat was u,
powerful sermon the dominie preached
this morning," said old farmer Furrow
to his wife as they sat at the dinner
table yesterday. " 'Deed it was,*' rciplied
she^f-but do you know,. John,
uvuiy tltno'llie parson spoke oi' tlm
golden calf that them 'ere heathens
worshiped X couldn't help thinking of
you and tho brindle heifer what you
won't sell for love or money ?"?New
York Commercial.
BOTH DEIilTDED.
" Yonr girl may bo pretty," said Harry,
"May be, ps you call lior, divino;
A Mtrl any fellow yrculd marry,
But Walt, Charlie, till you've seen mine.
% Ah 1 then, my denr boy, you'.U boo beauty
United to BwoetnosB and gracd,
With buqIi a high notion of duty?
why, condor is writ on her face."
"Indeed,1' rtrplted Charlie, "such graces
Might well adom maiden or dnme;
'Tib Holdom wo look on such faces?
lJray tell me, old follow', her. name."
" Her name," replied Harry, " 'tis Eltu?
The daughter of Old Deacon SiOne,
And I would bo willing io bet a
Small Bum that she loves me# alono."
" What, Etta I" crios Charlie, in pnssiou,
" Yoti can't mean that swGot little elf?
.She knows not of jlirting the fashion-"
'Twas l?ttft I spoke of myself 1"
"That so i:: mutie^fxl Harry; "then surely
Wo'vo both boon deluded 'tis plain,
And ore she 1ms hooked One securoly
She's got to go fishing agaifc<"
For Young Folks Winter Nights.
tho ioiiowing may seryo to while?
away somo long winter evenings : Can
you place a newspaper on tho lloor in
such a way that two persons can easily
stand upon it and not be able to touch
one another with their Winds? Answer?Yes,
by putting tho paper in
tho doorway, one-half inside and tho '
other half outside of the room, and
closing tho door over it, two persons
can easily stand upon it and still be be
yond each other's reach. C.m you put
ono of your hands where tlio other cannot
touch it? Easily ; by putting one
hand on tho elbow of the other arm;
Can you.place a pencil on tho floor in
such a way that no ono can jump ovor
it? Yes, if I placo it close enough to
the wall of tho room. Can ybu push
a ohair through a 'finger ring? You >
by putting a ring on the finger and
pushing tho chair with tho linger.
You can put yourself through a keyhole
by taking a piece of paper with
the words " yourself " written upon it
and pushing it through the hole. You
uuii sisK a question tnat no one can answer
with a '{ no," by saying what does
y-e-s spell? You can go out of the
room with two legs anil return witli '\
six, by .bringing a chair with you.
,
There is no element that enters moro
largely into the happiness and general
comfort of society than the disposition
to make tho best of what happens. (
Good and ovil. or what we esteem as
sUoh, como to us at different times and
in various ways, but tho message
they bring and tho effeet they produce
aro chiefly determined by tho way wo
receive them. To make tho host of
the thousand details of every-day life,
as they arise, is^i great power for I
good in human lives, and ono which
every man and every woman can ;
f ?1.i
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W1U1U.
"Bobt. II. M.," Soinift, Ala.: "You
seem to know a littlo about almost
everything, and I hope you will answer
this question : How can I permanently
remove an indelible grease spot from
a broadcloth coat?" The,only way to
permanently romovc an indelible grease
spot from a coat is to saw it out of the
coat, but that would possibly injure i
tho coat. On the other band, if you
wov.!d saw tho coat from tho groaso
spot?but roally wo feel inadequate to
tl.o task of furnishing the right brand
of adyjeo Jn t,hls eiwe,
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