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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, Si JANUARY I, 1879. NO. 16. VOLUME XXV.
The Evening Time.
Together we walked in the evening time,
Above us the skv spread golden aud clear,
And he bent his head and looked in my eyes,
As if he held me of all most dear,
Grayer the light grew and grayer still.
The rooks flitted home throngh the purple
shade
The nightingales 6ang where the thorns stood I
high,
As I walked with him iu the woodland glade.
And onr pathway went through fields of wheat;
Narrow that oath aud rough the way,
o naor on/1 tViA Kir/la uonrr frnn
And the BtarH came out in the twilight gray. |
8oftlv he spoke of the days long past,
Softly of blessed days to be;
Close to his arm and closer I prest?
The cornfield path was Eden to me.
And the latest gleams of daylight died;
My hand in his enfolded lay ;
We swept the dew from tbo wheat as we passed.
For narrow and narrower wound the way. !
lie looked in the dopths of my eyes and said:
"Sorrow and gladness will come for us, sweet; 1
Bnt together we'll walk through the fields of
lifo
Close as we walked through the fields of j
wheat."
_
"in U Wiod that Blows Hobofly Good." i
j
With the exception of Mr. Bruce, who, j
with an interest in the Ice Company, was j
going out to India, aocompimied by his 1
wife and two children?with the exception
of this family, Miss Serena Selden,
and Mr. Anson Surrey, there were no
other passengers on board the Fairy,
bound for India and Japan. Indeed, Mr.
Shrrey had 110 idea that they numbered
so many souls, and was quite stunned
one morning, when they had ocen some :
weeks at sen, at the sight of n real live j
youug lady sitting on deck, crocheting ,
and'Miking with Mrs. Bruce as if she ,
had not rained down over night.
"Where in the deuce did that.heaven- j
ly creature come from, Bruce ?" said he, j
tossing his cigarette away. " Have the j
skies fallen that we catch larks ?"
"That is our friend Miss Selden," re- |
turned Mr. Bruce. " She has been too j
ill to leave her fferth, before since we |
started?Tom and Amy's governess. Let j
me iurroduce you, Surrey; it's a pity not j
to embrace all the advantages of travel. |
We're a small family on board. We j
really ought to know each other; it's a j
duty we owe society;" and Mr. Surrey I
was immediately presented in due form.
" I could hardly believe my eyes, Miss !
Sel'lcn, when I saw that we had another
passenger just now," said Mr. Surrey.
" It is a most agreeable surprise, I assure
you."
"Thanks," she returned. "I hope |
you will have no occasion to change your \
mind. They tell me that long voyages j
are very trying, and betray one's natural j
infirmities of disposition. We shall !
probablyYliscover all of eaclfotlier's weak j
points."
" Mine are at your service, if they will
amuse you," laughed Mr. Surrey, not at
all certain that he had any.
" You are really too generous. Don't
expect to hold out so good-naturedly.
We are all pretty sure to quarrel and i
hate each other before the voyage is !
ended, you know. Doubtless, Mrs. j
Bruce and I would be at swords'-points |
I this minute, if my illness hadn't post- j
poned the entertainment."
" When my lesson's done, Miss Sel- j
den, will you play cat's cradle with me, j
r?1oncn 9" intomirkfrvl littlo Amv " Tt.'si
such a long day."
"Yon son tlio demoralizing cflecta |
of travel already, Mr. Surrey," she :
Bftid. " Yes, Amy, imytliing to pi-ss the
time."
"Well, it's done'now, this minute.
Three turns two in six, three turns three j
is nine," rattling off her table in a breath. ]
" Have you got a string ?" Miss Selden j
off? d the ribbon on her fan. "Thatlll
do splendid. We won't leave Mr. Surrey
out, will we? He might feel mis'ble,"
suggested Amy.
" You might pass the compliment to j
him." j
" O h, I don't like to do that."
" And why not?"
"'Cause I heard mamma tell papa
not to give her such things?before
peoples."
"Compliment.K !" laughed both listeners;
and by the time that Amy had
wearied of " cat's-cradle," they were
established on easy terms of conversation,and
had found mutual acquaintances
to discuss.
"How narrow the world is, to b?>
oiii>a I*' coi/1 ftnronn " Tf unnmo or) r?? LI
that yon, ft total stranger yesterday,
should know some of ray friends, perhaps
even better than I do."
" We were, speaking of Professor
Lombard. I believe his nephew, Ned,
is in India somewhere; perhaps you will
meet him out there."
"Who knows?" murmured Miss Selden,struggling
with a knot in her thread, |
and smiling to herself. _ " Have you ever j
seen him?"
' We weie classmates at Yale. Wei
played many a foolish prank together, i
He used to swear that lie should die a '
bachelor, in those days."
''Like Benedick, because he didn't j
expect to live to get married. Tell me ;
about your ' foolish pranks' at Yale j
and as everybody is aware that these |
stories have a family resemblance to !
those of Scherezade, one being only 'the j
sequel to another, it was luncheon-time j
long before Mr. Suorey had finished the
recital. On shipboard one generally
grows into a closer acquaintanceship in
a briefer season than would happen elsewhere.
A handful of people drifting
about together, cut off from com muni- j
cation with the rest of Christendom, con- I
tract the habit of relying on each other
for comfort and entertainment, and become
more intimate with each other's resources
than would happen on terra
firma. Thus Mr. Surrey came to know
a great deal about Miss Selden's
thoughts and habits of mind, the sentiments
she expressed, the opinions she
formed of men aud things, and he took
a great deal for granted. In the mean- j
time they spent their lei ure hours talk-1
ing about everything, from Utopian ,
plans for the amelioration of the present,
/ ./ vrwlifinn fVio nnnr fn tVinoripft fnn.
cerning a future existence and the inhabitants
of the farthest planet. Mr.
Surrey read aloud during long afternoons,
a?d chatted in under tones during
long twilights, or sang her little
love songs full of tender sentiment and
regret, while they watched the shining
wake of the ship. Sometimes they
spoke a homeward-bound ship, and felt;
as if the strange ship's crew and passengers
were dear friends whom they |
would like to hug; sometimes a storm
crept upon them Like a painted Pawnee,
ana shook every stout cable like a ribbox,
&nd again they swung in latitudes
of calm, and watched strange fish dart
likesun beams throngh the sea; ami (luring
these seasons Mr. Surrey aud Mist
Seldon must have grown either desperately
interested unawares?seasons dur
iug which the flight of a sea-bird, tli<
plunging of some restless sea-monster,
the floating fragments ot some wreci;, was
au episode and an excitement.
"Dear me!" yawned Mrs. Bruce
" even a water-spoilt or a tornado would
be a welcome change. This is uttei
stagnation, isn't it, Mr. Surrey ?"
" Do you find it so, Miss Seidell?" he
asked, relegating his reply to that young
lady. "Would you welcome the seaserpent,
or a piratical crew swooping
down upon us from no matter where ?"
"I?I?shall be very glnd when wc
reach Calcutta," said Serena. "In the
mean while I am not unhappy.''
" I don't believe we shall ever reach
Calcutta," groaned Mrs. Bruce. "I
think we are just like the pliautom ship
which sails ou and on for ever and ever."
"I, for one, shouldn't object, ' said
Surrey, lightly.
'' Certainly not. You are going round
the world pour parser fc tcmpx. Heavens
! I can't understood any one choosing
this everlasting voyage of his own
his will for pleasure. It's a perfect marvel
to me that Serena consented to
come."
"And perfect godsend to me," interpolated
Surrey.
" Some other people ought to think.
But I wonder you're not mot e impatient
to reach Calcutta, Serena; I do indeed."
" All impatience in the world wouldn't
carry me there a day earlier."
" Well, I wasn't so philosophic at your
age," as if that were a feather in her cap
of peculiar luster; and taking up her
novel: "Here's a goose of a heroine
who doesn't know which of her two lovers
she prefers. I would like to set her
adrift with them on a voyage like this."
" And the consequence would be that
she would hate both, yon think ?" asked
Mr. Surrey.
The following twilight Miss Selden
aud Mr. Surrey were pacing the deck together
and he was opening his heart to
her?a sanctuary always pretty securely
closed to most people?telling her of
his boyhood and his travels, his flirtation
and his lirst hobbledehoy lovemaking.
"And where will you go after you
have done up Japan ?"' she asked; " and
after you have made the world's tour,
will you not long for more world's like
Alexander?"
" After all, I may not go to Japan,"
he began, drawing a camp-stool beside
the deck chair she had just taken. " I
?it depends?it depends a great deal
upon?yourself, Miss Serena," lie said,
boldly, aud leaning forward to look into
her eyes.
"Upon me, Mr. Surrey?" repeated
Serena. "How can I possibly have anything
to do with it?"
" It all depends upon?upon?whether
you could consent to love me, Miss
Serena, as I have learned to love you ?"
"Love you, Mr. Surrey?" rising and
withdrawing the hand he had taken in
his own, while the light that broke in
upon the proceedings of the last few
months, showed her no fluttering picture
of herself in the attitude of a flirt.
"Love you? Oh, Mr. Surrey, don't
you know ? Has Mr. Bruce never told
you ? Don't you know that I am going
out to Calcutta to be married ?"
" To be married ?" repeated Mr. Surrey,
in a stifled voice?" to be married?
I give you my word, Miss Selden, that I
never dreamed of such a thing. Perhaps
it would have been well to have mentioned
it yourself. I supposed you
were Mrs. Bruee's governess?Mr. Bnice
did tell me as much as that. I bog
you will pardon my confession, and
forget it. Shall I take yi>'*\to Mrs.
Bruce?" 0
"Yes, thank you. I ought to have
mentioned it; only I thought you knew,
or it wouldn't signify to you," said
Serena, humbly. " You will pardon me
for taking so much for granted. I never
meditated mischief, believe me. I was
Mrs. Brace's governess before?before
my?engagement, or till I decided to
take this journey. "Good-night."
Then, hesitating, and offering the hand
she had withdrawn: " We are friends
still, Mr. Surrey?" timidly.
'4 Only friends the merest keep much
that I resign," iic quoted. " I don't feel
disposed to verify your prediction that
we should be sure to quarrel before the
voyage ended, though it might prove a
diversion. Pleasant dreams, Miss Seidell."
In a community so small, imprisoned
in space so limited, two people could
scarcely avoid each other without remark,
especially two who had been almost
inseparable the day before; therefore,
by tacit consent, they fell into the
same apparent intercourse in the presence
of others. To be sure, embarrassments
aiul anuoyancos waylaid them;
but people who will full in love, or inspire
tl? tender passion mul a propoxt
must suffer the conseauences. There
were not as mauy trie a-tctc as previously
; or if unavoidable circumstances
threw the two together, there followed
oppressive silence, or conversations
upon every topic but that which occupied
their thoughts. They 110 longer
killed the lagging hours with chess, or
read from the same page. For want of
other recreation, Mr. Surrey unearthed
his Cremona, and drew melancholy, beseeching
airs from it which made Serena
shiver.
"It is like the song in a sea-shell,"
she said. "Why will you play those
dolorous minor chords ? They remind
me of nothing but desolation."
Mr. Surrey put his violin away.
"Have you and Miss Selden been
cross with each other?" asked Amy, one
day, climbing jipon his knee, after seeing
them sit silent for half an hour, looking
out on the sea, or anywhere but at
each other?" have you and Miss Selden
been cross with each other ? Then why
don't you kiss and make up, like the
way Tom and me does ?"
"Perhaps Miss Selden and I don't
wnnf. in miikA 1m " said Surrev. amused
in spite of himself
" Oh, Tom and me always does. The
Sunday book says love your enemies
?you know it does."
Miss Seluen awoke that night with a
dreadful sound in her ears. Was Mr.
Surrey consoling himself with
those dirge-like airs at dead of night,
or was it the shout of angry waves besieging
the ship, the sound of voices hall
drowned by the blast, of winds chorusing
in the rigging, of feet hurrying from
stem to stern ? Had they been boarded
by pirates, struck a reef, or spruDg fi
leak ? She dressed hastily and opened
her state-room door. Mrs. Bruce wat
already up, wringing her hands and
pacing the saloon.
" I always said so; I /:uen< we should
go to the bottom sooner or later," slit
cried. "Oh, Sereuu, you'll never see
Calcutta, nor any body! And there's all
your troasseau '11 never do any one any
good?and that splendid peacock silt
I
j that was so becoming?and to think h<
i' never see yon in it?and I going frc
Dan to Beersheba to match the tri
j mings!"
i I "Are?we?going?down?" asked ?
, rena, steadying herself and her voi
? with an effort.
" Any minute, for all I know. I cn:
; | find out exactly what's happened, bu
I know the Fairy has become unmanaf
:! able, and she's drifting about at her 01
i sweet will. We might as well have a <
> j at the helm. The three men who we
: to sea in a bowl aren't a circumstance
, us. They've cut away heaven kno
, what, and there was a noise like the era
I of doom iust now. which must have be
! 1 a inast."
(i "Where?is?Mr. Surrey?"
j ."I don't know. Swept overboard, f
t ' all I can Bay. Mr. Bruce would have i
. ; lowed me to go to the bottom in r
11 sleep, I do believe. He never so mn
: as called me. Well, Mr. Surrey," as th
i | gentleman appeared, "this ix a nice sit
! ation for Mr. Bruce to drag his innoce
. ' family into, isn't it? Don't mind ir
| Comfort Serena, if you can. If ho w]
j has promised to love and cherish leav
' me at such a crisis, what can I expect
' a stranger ? Will the ship hold togeth
till sunrise, do you think ?"
" I've no doubt of it," he auswere
1 crossing Serena. At that instant the
j was a sound as if the heavens themselv
j rolled together like a scroll; the sh
quivered at every fibre, and seemed
crack at every beam. Mrs. Bruce tlire
j up her arms and uttered a prolonged cr
! " I think we have struck," said Mr. Sn
I rev, solemnly. " I'm afraid our days a
' numbered. Miss Selden?Serena?hatli
we better take Amy's advice and mal
I up? If I may not live in the light
t your countenance, you will not deny e
i the privilege of dying with you ?"
For an instant it seemed to him th
j her figure swayed toward him, that si
I trembled and half turned to him, wi
i an unwonted softness in her gaze, ai
' flinn alio W>1 <1rftwn* liPVKfilf III) DrOlldl
j and had left him with outstretch)
: arms, alone.
It proved that thoy had collidi
I with a merchantman, bound homewai
; from India with a cargo of juto ar
guuny-bags; but while the Fairy w,
' found to be in u sinking condition, tl
| Comet, being a heavier .vessel, had su
l taiued but slight injuries, and was e
I at?led to put about to the rescue of ere
! and passengers. It war a ghastly scei
tlint followed, 'photographed iudelib
upon Miss Seidell's memory; the aw
struck faces of the rough men who we:
gashing little Amy upon Mr. Surrej
shoulders; the ineffectual flare of ligh
against the twilight of dawn ; the boi
iug sea which tore the life-boat ini
chips; the slippery cable across whk
she toiled to the Comet's side, hand ov<
hand, now suspended above some deatl
ly ocean chasm,-now almost shrouded i
the spray of its angry waves.
"I shut my eyes tight," said Anv
afterward, "and hugged Mr. Surre;
It was awful dark and lonesome. Ha^
we got to do it again? Do we alwa;
stop that way ?"
"Heaven save us!" ejaculated Mi
Seldeu. "I don't believe but I slioul
| slip into the sea and have doi^e with i
i if it were to do over;" and she learn
; back indolently in her seat under tl
j canopy which Surrey had improvisei
being on deck for the first time aft
days of illness, the reaction from excit
meut. "What are you reading M
Surrev ? I really begin to be persuad(
: that I am still a denizeii of this breatl
i ing world, and to take an interest in n
I species."
! "I am reading the Calcutta Daii
| and it's like a newspaper issued the dr
; before the flood. It tells us things v
didn't know, to be sure, but which a:
old stories at the same time."
" We are finding a new road to the Ii
dies, like Yasco de Gama, only it isn't
short cut. What is there new in Calcn
I ta, or rather what is there old ?"
i "I see that my old classmate, N(
I Lombard, has forsworn himself and ma
| ried?a Begum princess, for all I kno^
| That won't interest you, though. Here
j an interesting account of the receptk
of the Prince of Wales, and? Are y<
i faint, Miss Seidell? Shall I take you b
1 low?"
" I must sec the Calcutta J)ai/,i/ firs
| please;" but the letters all swam befo:
J her eyes. "Who did you say was ma
, ried ? Your old classmate ? Who ?"
" Only Ned Lombard. You knew
him, didn't you ?"
"Married! Ned Lombard marriei
I Yes?I?knew?him. If you could gr
me your arm, Mr. Surrey; the ship
I pitchiug badly, is it not ? I was goir
to Calcutta, you know, to marry?M
! Lombard. I suppose he ha? treated 11
very badly, but I can't feel as sorry as
j ought. 1 may as well tell you, Mr. Su
! rev, that it is six years since I saw hi
! ?out of sight?out of mind?and ' tin
! say that absence conquers love.' Thai
j some excuse for him, if not for me. Im
gine me sailing into Calcutta and findii
Mrs. Lombard iu possessirL ! Wouldu
it have been awkward?" and she tried
i laugh, and broke down. "I'm sure
j don't know why I should cry, only
j isn't so pleasant to be jilted, even ifHowever,
would you ask Mrs. Bruce
come here ? I must let her know that
shall bid you all good-by when you lea'
j the Comet, and keep on to New York,
suppose she will consider it horribly ii
proper without a chaperon; but wh
else can I do ?"
"There's the Eev. Mr. Hymen <
board, the missionary from Upper Indi
j though he has hardly been out of li
berth," mused Mr. Surrey.
"Yes; Mr. Bruce might intrust mo
! his ghostly care; but he's so bilion
j looking, it wouldn't be cheerful."
"I think, Miss Serena, since you a
my advice, the best thing for you to <
; would be to marry your humble servai
Anson Surrey, before the Bruces lea
us."
"Here? Oh, Mr. Surrey, you tn
me by surprise ! Married and jilted tl
same day ! To be sure, tho Rev. ft]
Hymen could read the service, if lie
yellow and jaundiced. And you real
nip 9 Do von know, it was on
when you proposed to me on board t
| Fairy that I discovered I was going
| Calcutta to marry a man I didn't lot
1 What will Mrs. Brace say ? What w
every body say ?"
" They will say, 'It's an ill wind til
I)lows nobody good,'" answered h
* lover.?Harper'x Jiazar.
;i
i s
l i It is predicted that within fifty yeai
1 n district of 100 miles square, includii
; the comities of Athens, Peny, ai
[ Hocking, in Ohio, will equal in produ<
i iveness any coal regiou in the worl
i This section has twenty-two feet of sol
: coal in live seams, the greatest vc
! j being in some places twelve feet thic
I and nowhere less than six. Mingl
'' among the coal bedB are inexhaurtit
; o iee of iron.
3*11 [ Thoughts for Saturday Night,
)m j The sure way to miss success is
m* j mif-s ihe opportunity.
je_ j Philosophy, if rightly defined,
ico I naught but the love of windoni.
| Hypocrites are beings of darkness d
n't! guised in the garment of light.
11 i He that keeps his temper is betl
je-1 than he that can keep a carriage.
i Though fnncy may be the patien
:a? | complaint, necessity is often the doctx
to ; He who will not reason is a big*
: he who cannot is a fool, and he w
k dares not is a slave.
eu If all the year were playing* holiday
to sport would be as tedious as to wor.
but when they seldom come, they a
or ! wished for.
il- Vanity is our clearest weakness,
uy more senses than ono : a man will sac
ch fice, and starve out all his inclinations
iat keep alive that one.
u" There is nothing evil in life for hi
who rightly comphrebends that death
|e* no evil ; to know how to die delivers
'10 from all subjection and constraint.
Cp Likfc many virtues, hospitality
? practiced in its perfection by the poc
r If the rich did their share, how wou
^ the woes of this world be lightened !
re We die every day ; every moment d
es prives us of a portion of life and adva
jp ces us a step toward the grave; o
to whole life is a long and painful sicknef
>w Death opens the gate of fame, a:
y. shuts the gate of envy after it; it u
ir- looses the chain of the captive, and pn
re the bondsmnn's task into another mai
l't hand.
ke Many an honest man practices upi
of himself an amount of deceit sufficient,
tie practiced upon another, and in a litt
different way, to send him to the Sta
at prison.
10 By what strange law of mind is
th that an idea long overlooked and tro
den under foot as a useless-stone, su
denly sparkled out in new light, as
2(1 discovered diamond ?
"Death alone of the gods loves n
5'-' gifts, nor do you need to offnr incen
r,l libations. He cares not for altar n
u* hymn ; the goddess of persuasion aloi
ftS lias no power over him.
Persons who practice deceit and ari
fice always deceive themselves mo
" than they deceive others. They mi
\ feel great complacency in view of tl
? success of their doings ; but they are
^ reality casting a mist before their ov
nroo Qnstli nor arm a nnf. mile
,, | false estimate of tlieir own charactc
^ but they estimate falsely the opinio!
j_ nml conduct of others. No person
j. ~ obliged to toll all he thinks ; but bo
I duty and self-interest forbid him ever
makewfalse pretences.
;l" Capt. CrajKi's Voyage.
!
Tiie New Bedford (Mass.) Mcrcw
y publishes a letter from Capt. Crapo ai
' some extracts from u little volume whi<
,q has been published in Eugland,in whi<
,,8 the captain " spins his yarn," giving d
tails of his experience in crossing tl
3S Atlantic in a twenty-foot boat. He sa;
jj he has crossed the "big drink " twent
^ ouc times, that he is not a captain e
>(j cept of the New Bedford, never havii
je risen above first mate. He undertoc
j this last venture from a desire to ouU
everything previously recorded in tl
e_ way of crossing the ocean in a sms
boat. Hiu wife accompanied him becau
; j she could not consent to his going alon
jj_ The passage was a good deal rough
,y than he had anticipated; it was like
bad winter passage, and had they n
t succeeded in getting from passing vesse
fresh meat, bread and water, their fa
? would have been sealed before th<
reached England, though they had tak<
rc u supply of corned meats, fish and fru
calculated to last through, even if mo
a~ than ordinarily delayed. The only e
tt citement experienced was when, 011 tv
or three occasions, they found ther
selves in a school of whales, who
spouting and blustering frightened Mr
r" Crapo. In rough weather, sometim
T- for two or three days at a time, th<
18 would lie to, attached to a drag or buo
)u and on these occasions the captain g
)U most rest, for when favorable winds pr
e* vailed he dared not leave the helm for
moment. In fine weather he never to<
t, moro thau four hours' rest a day. On
re he kept at his post seventy hours coi
r-1 secutively without rest. His wife hi
scarcely a good night's rest during tl
of -whole voyage, which occupied forty-ni]
days. They spoke a dozen vessels ai
L! steam ships, and were kindly treated \
re all. Once the rudder of the boat w
is twisted off, but an extra one was at han
)8 His wife has now crossed the ocean foi
r. times, but will never do the journi
10 again in so small a craft, nor would tl
I captain, for he declares the task a gre
r- deal rougher than he looked for. Tl
m boat is schooner-rigged, with two mae
jy carrying leg-of-mutton sails. She drai
;'s only three feet of water; her keel
a- thirteen feet; her total length is bare
10 ftvonfv fppf* )if?r tonnatrft is 1.62. and si
-o V,,V"V *vvw> o *
11 is thirty-four inches deep.
to -
I A Tennesscean's Bad Bargain.
^ Last Thursday morning a raffle w
~~ made up by some of the citizens of Pai
for a box of five hundred cigars. The
* were twenty-five chances at one dollar
p? chance. The plan was that known
the shot-gun plan, in which each mi
n" taking a chance puts his mark on t-1
ft^ blaak paper surrounding a target. T1
target is placed on a pivot and whirle
)U and while thus whirling is fired at wi
a gun loaded with small shot. The mi
118 whose mark comes nearest being h
takes the prize. In this case Geori
to Leflis took a chance, but would, not p
is- I down his mark until all the other mar
had been placed around the target. I
sk then went to each of the rafflers ai
lo said: "You and I have each got
it, | chance in this cigar raffle ; let us go
ve ' cahoot/?if you get them divide wi
| me, and' if I get them I'll divide wi
ke j you." This arrangement he made wi
ie j eighteen of the chance holders, tellii
It. j each to Keep uieir pariueruuip u own
is To prevent, any possibility, as ]
ly thought, of winning the cigars himse
ly lie made His mark as far from the targ
ho as the paper would allow. He then f<
to sure of half the cigars, and already,
p. imagination, was puffing the fragra
ill weed, and laughing iii his sleeve ov
the sharp trick and excellent joke he hi
at played the "other boys." But, ala
er the joke was soon turned, and visions
a cob pipe floated before his astonish
eyes. "The gun was fired, and a str
shot knocked the center out of Georg<
s, mark. Eighteen men stepped up ai
ug said: " I'll take my half now." Let
nd thus found himself booked for S3
;t- worth of cigars. Ho compromised, ho
Id. ever, after somo wrangling, by dividii
lid | the cigars equally among his partner.
I r? fir? \
in i arm [jziui.j iww(yti(u?r
;k, ?
ed Two million acres of cultivated lai
ile hardly auffloe to produce the grain co
8umed in New York breweries yearly.
WONDERFUL RAILROADING./
to i
i How One Train Punned Another on a Single
Track on the Union Pacific.
*s I The Beloit (Wis.) Free Press says that
| Dr. H. P. Strong, brother of the general
is-1 superintendent of the Chicago, Barlington
and Quincy railroad, who has re;er
cently returned from Colorado, tells the
I following exciting story:
t>s ' Last Saturday our train was running
jr> from Denver to Cheyenne, to connect
with the Union Pacifici at Cheyenne.
, ' When within 18 miles of Cheyenne and
1 about thirty-five miles of Greeley, and
wxiixc x uuuiu^ ib icu-mac giuuc, uuu
'fi? of the axles of the tender breke, and the
k ? whole train, with the exception of our
ire car, was thrown from the track and badly
jammed up.- The assistant superintendent
in i of the road happened to be on board,
ri- and, as we surveyed the ruins, he told us
to that there was no engine at Cheyenne
that could be sent to our assistance, and
im we must look to Greeley, and that we
j8 were probably booked for an eighteen
U0 mile walk to Cheyenne, where we would
have to remain over Sunday.
While thinking of our hard luck, I
happened to look back over the road,
i(i and observed that we had been running
1 ( on an up grade for a long distance, and
at tbe same time I remembered that
^e" about fifteen minutes before we had
n" jumped the track we met a train on a
nr side track going to Denver. A thought
!Si struck me that there was a way out of
ad our dilemma. I turned to the engineer
n- and asked him if there was any up grade
its toward Greeley. He said that there was
i's only one?a heavy one, about eight miles
back. After that it was all down grade,
an I called for crowbars instantly, and two
if or three train men ran out thirty or forty
le rods on to the prairie and dug up the
to bars. You see, the railroad company
have coupling irons, crowbars and such
it things "cached " in the ground all alorg
d- the road, so as to have them ready for
d- use at any time. They have to keep
il 41
(V tliClU UUUCl LUC UCIUUBC IJLLU U1X
is sorarifie'd that iron and all the coarser
0(. metalB, wliei exposed to its action, very
8e soon : lose their density, the particles
or separating and the metal becoming like
so much sand, -without strength, and
perfectly worthless. While the boys
. were after the crowbars, I explained to
our party that I believed we could pry
re our car loose from the coupling with the
train, and having a down grade, we
!e could catch the train we hnd met. We
m soon had the car uncoupled with the
m aid of crowbars, and a dozen or more of
a us started on the car. She glided along
ir? faster and faster, gathering speed every
"?8 second.
j1,8 Not only familiar with the grades, the
J only fear I bad was that our car would
not gain sufficient momentum to overcome
the up grade, though, of course, I
hoped it would. We very soon Btruck
it, and I assure you I watched the pro y
gress of the car with a good deal of inid
terest. And it just made it and that was
?h all. We jumped off and pushed her a
3h little, find down we started on a twentye
five mile down grade. I looked ahead
ie and several miles off could easily see the
78 ti ain wc wero after, but it was almost
y- instantly shut out from sight by our
x- suddenly running into a dense mass of
)g flying gasshoppers, evidently seeking to
>k alight on the ground. Wo had all been
lo standing on the platfoj m to this time,
ie but when we met those grasshoppers we
ill were driven into the car, as they struck
sc our faces with the force of hailstonen.
e. Looking through the windows we could
er see nothing but grasshoppers, so thick
a were they, and only now and then could
nt we get a glimpse of the ground even.
'is After ft minute or two I became a little
te anxious, as I knew we were going very
3J fust, and, ns I liml engineered the brake,
?n I started up from my seat, and tyiDg a
lit heavy handkerchief about my face, went
re out to the platform and seized the brake,
x- For a minute it wasn't clear in my mind
ro whether I could hold out against the
Q- pelting of the 'hoppers or not, but sudse
denly, when I was about whipped, our
s. car emerged from the swarm, and as
es soon as I realized it I tore the haudkersy
chief from my face and looked out for
y, the train, with my hands on the brake;
ot ready to avoid running into it. I felt
o- queer, when, in looking, I couldn't see
a that train, and when I took ene look
Jk around ftnd sftw that our car was running
ce on bare ground, with the track about
a* twenty-five rods off to my left, I tell you
"1 the cold shivers ran up aud down my
10 back to a considerable extent. If a man
2e ever put " down brakes," it was mi. I
>d laid right back and tightened that brake
>y wheel three more cogs than had ever
&s been done bj? the stoutest man on the
d. road. She stopped, aud as I opened
lir the car door to call out the crowd, I
sy heard an engine whistle "down brakes."
lie I jumped off to the ground, and, looking
at backward toward the Bound, saw that
ae flnm'ne slowimz un behind us on the
0 U -1
'te track.
y8 I hadn't a word to say. I began to
is think that I would like to get out of that
ly country right away, and be tucked up in
h? ray little bed at home uutil I got well.
The other fellows were soon jumping out
on the ground, and they were astonished
as I was. We started for the train,
us which had now coine to a standstill, the
is conductor shouting afi we came up:
re "Well, boys, you did that pretty well."
a Says I: " See here, mister, we're
as strangers in this country, and though
ra we've had some experience in the East,
lie we'll be blamed if we know what you
lie mean when you say we did that pretty
d, well." " Why, taking your car past us,
th of course. We were afraid some green!m
horn was managing your car when we
lit saw it coming down the grade, before
ge the 'hoppers struck us. We knew, liowut
ever, we were leaving you a 'hopper bed
ks to do the trick on." Well, to come to
le the point, the train ahead of us had
id mashed so many dead 'hoppers on to the
a road bed that it was filled up full, even
in with the rails, so that when our "car got
th along it slid right off the rails, and the
th ground was so hard and even that it ran
th close on to four miles before I put on
ig the brakes and stopped her, and while
it. she was running those four miles wo
lie passed the train we were trying to overlf.
take, the dense mass of flying 'hoppers
;et preventing us from seeing it as we
;lt went by.
in In conversation with the conductor
nt afterward I learned that it was quite a
er trick of the engineers on the Union
ad Pacific road to pass another train. They
s ! will pull their trains off the track, go by
of j undiscovered by reason of the density yf
ed t the 'hoppers, pull back on to the track,
ay | nnd when the passed train fetches up at
j's th? next station its engineer has to "set
ad 'em up " for all hands. As it is supper
lis time, and to get down to results, we got
00 our car back on the track, hitched a
w-1 'hopper plow 011 to the rear car, and the
:ig j engine and train backed up to the wreck,
: J rum v lliuu wo nau ut cu ^uac J uou xiujuj
teen minutes, in which time we had trav!
eled eighteen miles twice.
ad
n-1 Ten thousand glass eyes are sold anI
nually in the United States.
LARGE VS. SMALL CITIES.
The Enorutouft Gro%vth of Municipal Inricbt*
ertiiona? Some Saiffcmive FiKurc*.
Mr. Robert P. Porter, of Rockford,
! El., in an article in the September Oal!
axy, makes a rather forcible comparison
1 of the management of large anil small
j cities. To present the sad defects in
our management of municipal affairs in
densely populated cities, he selected
twelve of the largest cities on the continent,
and shows their debt, valuation,
tax levy, and population now and in
1866. The cities taken were New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati,
St. Louis, Baltimore, San Francisco,
New Orleans, Brooklyn, Louisville
and Pittsburgh. The aggregates of the
four elements in these cities are as follows
:
1876 1866
Municipal debt....* 436,008,119 $152,055,877
Assessed valuation
of the property. .4,008,580,081 2,300,842,000
Annual taxation... 79,153,777 42,523,574
. Population 5,043,618 2,671,554
The writer then takes twelve cities of
medium size, and presumably governed
by those who pay tho taxes. Iu such
communities the proportion of the pro
prictors to the whole is larger than in
the twelve cities given above. In the
twelve smaller cities the reckless and
vicious part of the community is small,.
and incapable of being* organized and
led by unscrupulous men. That these
conditions diminish the daugers of abuses
in the management of municipal expendtures
seems proven by a comparison of
the following table of aggregates with
the one above given. The cities taken
for the second comparison were Alleghany,
Columbus, Chelsea, Davenport,
Fort Wayne, New Haven, Patereon, St.
Paul, Taunton, Troy, Utica and Burlington,
with the following aggregate results:
18fi6 1876
Municipal dobt $ 11,685,060 $ 5, WW, 248
Assessed value of
the property 278,873,913 12G,230,714
Annual taxation.... 3,431,227 1,645,082
Population 441,121 308,861
In the first table, representing the
dozen large cities, we find debt increasing
at the enormous rate of 187 per
cent, in ten years ; in the serond table,
representing the twelve smaller cities,
the rate of increase is nearly 90 per cent,
less, or 98 per cent. In the largo cities
valuation increased but 74 per cent.; in
the smaller, 121 per cent. Of course
the rate of increase in population was
higher. in large cities tne amount or
debt per capita of the population is $86.50,
and yet it must be remembered the
praportion .of the proprietors or taxpayers
to the whole population is much
greater in the small than in the large
cities. Below we give a table showing a
summary of these comparisons :
Small ('ilie* iAirgr. ritin
percent, per r en/.
Aggregate increase of debt in
ten years 98 187
Aggregate increase of valuation
iu ten years 121 74
Aggregate increase of taxation
in ten years 108 8G
Aggregate increase of population
in ten years 42 8&
i Amount debt per capita ?26.50 $80,50
From this it seems that the great danger
aud disgrace in the management of
municipal matters is confined to our
large aud densely populated cities, the
facts and figures presented certainly indicating
that such is the case.
Horrors of the Eastern War.
The London Times war correspondent
in Armenia writes: I have received
j fresh details concerning the lamentable
! occurrences at Bajazid, and -as they
come from an official source, I am justified
in claiming some attention for
them. Aft? deliberately murdering a
detachment of 900 Cossacks, the Kurds
under their fanatical leaders, entered
Bajazid. The scene that ensued was one
of unparalleled horror. The town contained
one hundred and sixty-five
Christian familes, and all of the men?
women and children were ruthlessly
I put to the sword. A Turkish officer
j who visited the town a few days subsequently
states that there was not a
single inhabitant left; all liad fled, and,
including Russian prisoners, upward of
2,400 people had been killed. In every
house ho entered small groups of dead
were lying shockingly mutilated and in
the most revolting positions.
Captain M'Oalmont, who visited the
place shortly after the Russian relief,
states that it is entirely deserted and a
mere heap of ruins ; also, that soldiers
I wer?TemployeU lor six miys in uuryiug
the dead, the number of whom it was
impossible to estimate. On hearing of
this massacre Mukhtar Pasha at once
scut down orders to have the Kurds disbanded
and disarmed, and their ringleaders
shot. They, however, anticipated
the first of these instructioLS by
I throwing down their arms and deserting
cn masse on the approach of TergukassofTs
column. Safe in their mountaiu
fastnesses, these miscreants will
defy the commander-in-chief's orders,
and unless Europe sternly demands
their execution, and deputes officials to
| sec the sentences carried into effect
I they will escape.
Legend of the Jasmine.
We are told that a dukj of Tuscany
was the first possessor of this pretty
shrub in Europe; and he was so jealously
fearful lest others should enjoy what he
alone wished to possess, that strict
injunctions wore given to his gardener
not to give a slip,not so much as a single
+/-> miT ruirnrvn Tn this command
: the gardener would have been faithful,
i had not love wounded him by the
: sparkling eye of a fair but portionless
j peasant, whose want of a little dowry,
j and his poverty, alone kept them from
I the liyjnenial altar. On the birthday of
j his mistress he presented her with a
I nosegay, and to render the bouquet more
acceptable, ornamented it with a branch
i of jasmine. The jwvcra jlglia, wishing
| to preserve the bloom of this new flower,
put it into fresh earth, and the branch
i remained green all the year. In the
following spring it grew, and was
j covered with flowers. It flourished and
j multiplied so much under the fair
! nymph's cultivation, that she was able
to amass a little fortune from the sale
of the precious gift which love had made
her; when, with a sprig of jasmine in
her breast, she bestowed her hand and
wealth on the happy gardener of her
heart. And the Tuscan girls, to this
day, preserve the remembrance of this
adventure, by invariably wearing a nosegay
of jasmine on their wedding day;
and they have a proverb which says a
young girl worthy of wearing this nosei
gay is rich enough to make the fortune
of a good husband.
Texts from the Talmud.?If thy
wife be small, bend clown to her, ami
speak to her; do nothing without hor
advice. Everything in' life can be replaced;
thy wife of early days is irreplaceable.
An honorable man honors
his wife; a contemptible one despisetli
her. The loss of a first wife is like the
loss of a man's sanotuary in hiB lifetime.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Celery Culture.
Tlic soil on which celery is designed to
be grown should be such as is not subject
to drought, in common seasons.
The seed-bed should be rich and mellow,
free from stones, sticks or like obstructions;
and specially prepared by
thorough, deep pulverizing of the soil,
and mixing therewith well fined, partly
I decayed stable manure ; that which hns
been prepared and kept under cover is
best. Fine the surface soil thoroughly,
1-- ? ? <1 asviir
muiilllfj lit VVVU UUU Blliuubu , nun viiv/
seed thinly in rows, eight or ten inches
apart; make the beds of convenient width
to weed handy. After the seed is sown,
roll the bed with a garden-roll, or spat
it over to have a compact surface. Seed
sown in the open ground in April is
early enough for early garden culture.
Give all the after cultivation necessary
to keep perfectly clear of weeds, stirring
the soil to keep the plants healthy
and growing. "We have found that much
stronger roots are produced if the plants
are sheared or stopped, once or twice
previous to transplaming.
The ground for transplanting into
should be rich, freshly prepared, and
well worked. Lay off in rows three feet
apart for the dwarf varieties, somewhat
wider for the larger kinds, having the
surface ns even as possible ; a convenient
marker does this to best advantage, and
set plants six inches apart in the row.
Much depends upon the care and skill
used in transplanting, to have it done
well, so that the roots are properly inserted,
tne soil being put in contact with
them all, and properly firmed, so that
there will be the least possible check of
growth of the plauts, Moist or damp
weather is the most suitable for transplanting,
and July the best time for general
garden culture ; often that planted
early in July will mature quite as early
as that planted a mouth earlier, give sufficient
cultivation to keep the soil loose,
free of weeds, and a healthy progressive
xu At?? i. i.1.^ A
gruwiij. AUUUb LUC JUOb Ui AUIjUOU LUC
plants will have made sufficient growth
to begin to earth up?this earthing is
necessary for the proper bianchirig and
rendering it eatable ; be careful in earthing
to close the stem up so that no dirt
will get into the center, and never cover
the crown. Earthing is done some three
or four times, as the plants grow, the
earth from between the rows being
used, hauled each way to the rows ; the
last or finishing earthing, is done with
the spade, banking to the top of the
plants. Some three to five weeks are
needed to thoroughly blanch so as to
give the stems that crisp, tender quality
bo desirable. Earthing should always
be done when the foliage Of the plants is
free of wet or moisture, that the dirt may
not stick to it .?Rural IIovic.
IIonnclioldNofex.
Tooth Wash.?The safest, cheapest,
most universally accessible and most
efficient is a piece of white soap, with a
moderately stiff tooth-brush, every morning.
? * ??
To Kid a House of Fleas.?Sprinkle
plenty of common table salt all over the
carpets just before the sweeping is done'i
and sweep often: If this is followed
closely the fleas will disappear within a
few weeks.
Inflamed Eyelids.?Cut a slice of
stale bread as thin as possible; toast
both sides well, but don't burn; when
cold lay in cold spring or ice water; put
between a piece of old linen and apply,
changing when it gets warm.
Simple Remedy for Burns.?Common
whiting mixed with water to the
consistency of a thick cream, spread on
linen, forms an excellent local application
to burns or scalds. The whole burnt
surface should be covered, thus excluding
the action of the air. The case it
affords is instantaneous, and it only requires
to bo kept moist by occasional
sprinkling of cold water.
To Take Rust Out of Steel.?Place
the article in a bowl containing oil, or
wrap the steel up in a soft cloth well
saturated with kerosene. Let it remain
i. L- t \ ? 1 s\v\ rtai* fl, an a/tnnr
lwclil/j-luut liuuxo ul luu^li, wvvu4 .
the rusty spots with brickdust. If badly
rusted, use salt wet with hot vinegar.
After scouring, rinse every particle of
brick dust or salt off with boiling hot
water, dry thoroughly, then polish off
with a clean flannel cloth and a little
sweet oil.
To Wash a Black and White Cotton
Dress.?Have a tub partly filled with
hot water, add one large tablespoonful
of powdered borax; wet only one part of
the dress at a time, the basque first; use
very little soap, and only on the most
soiled pieces; wash quickly, rinse in
warm water containing a tablespo mful
of table salt; starch on the wrong side,
v ring vAy dry, shake out well, and hang
where it will dry quickly; next wash the
overskirt and then the underskirt in the
same way.
To Remove Grease Spots.?In removing
grease spots from clothing with
benzole or turpentine, the usual way is
to wet the cloth with the detergent and
< *ai ii il.? i;i,?
tueil rill) 11 Willi me ayouye ui nil- imc,
This only spreads the grease aud does
not remove it. The proper method is to
place soft blotting pnper beneath and on
top of the grease spot, after the latter
has been thoroughly saturated with the
benzole; then press wfill. The fat is
thus dissolved and absorbed by the
paper, and entirely removed from the
clothing.
I.ons in Hwlne.
Investigations by the department of
Agriculture, at Washington, according
to Mr. Dodge, the statistician, show
losses from diseases of swine during the
past twelve months of 4,000,000 animals
of all ages, or a money loss of more than
$20,000,000. One-fith of the reported
loss occurs in the State of Illinois.
Next in prominence are Missouri, Iowa
and Indiana, which together lose 810,000,000.
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana have nearly as large a
percentage in loss of numbers, aggregating
in value 81,500,000. The losses
are very small in the country bordering
on the great lakes and the Pacific coast.
Of the remaining districts West Virginia
eomes nearest exemption, and Ohio and
tho Atlantic coast States stand better
than the alluvial districts. The apparent
loss is equivalent to a third of the
sum of the exports of the pork products
last year.
Where an Acorn Sprouted.
Out on the Indian Valley road, in
Nevada, there is a pine tree, with a
diameter of nearly two feet, in which is
an oak limb growing which has already
attained a considerable length and a
diumeter of three inches. It does not
seem to thrive in its strange Quarters.
The theory is that an acorn by some
means got lodged in the bark of the pine
tree, and dust settled around it in sufficient
quantities to make it sprout, and
that it gradually became a part of the
tree itself.
To Be Dead.
BY MRS. 8. M. B. PIATT.
If I should have void darknesa in my eyes
While there were violets in the sun to Bee;
If I should fail to hear my child's sweet cries,
Or any bird's voice in our threshold-tree.
If I should cease to answer love or wit:
Blind, deaf, or dumb, how bitter each must
be!
Wind, doaf, or dumb?I will not think of it
Yet the night comes when I shall be all
three.
Items or Interest.
The key by wnicn a man gew mio
prison?whiskey.
From observations, made in the far
West, by naturalists, it has been proved
that grasshoppers, like spiders, can foretell
the changes in the weather and provide
against the same.
A New York chemist says, he wanta
nothing more than three pails, a barrel
of old water and twenty cents' worth of
drugs to make six gallons of just such
champagne as fools pay a dollar a pint
for.
Japan baa perfected another evidence
of her adoption of Western civilization.
She has established twenty national
banks, with a capital of $22,276,100 yen.
The yen is nearly equal to an American
dollar.
The eighteen thousand bombs thrown
by the Russians into Ears cost them one
million, live hundred thousand rubles,
or about $1,096,000. Thus far they
have not collected the interest on that
large sum.
Capt. Beaufort saw neat Smyrnn, in
the East, a cloud of locusts forty miles
long and three hundred yards deep,
containing at least 169,000,000,000.
That beats all the Kansas grasshopper
stories.
In England it has been proven by a
series of careful examinations that coun- .
try boys of fourteen years, average, an
inch and a quarter more in height and
' ?~ in Yrrm'rylif thflll
ueveu punjuuo muic m ?...
boys of the same age.
Thomas Jefferson's birthplace, Shadwell,
/in Albemarle county, Ya., is advertised
for sale. Martha Washington's
house, in the same State, where she
lived before she married George, has
just been sold for $1,225.
The loveliest, sweetest flower (humility)
that bloomed in Paradise, and the
first that died, lias rarely blossomed
since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so
delicate a thing, it is gone if it but look
upon itself; and she who ventures to
esteem it her'B, proves by that single
thought she has it not. ,
If you ask a boy to break up a piece of
lump coal so as to keep himself from
freezing, he regards his lot as one of exceptional
hardsliip ; but let him find an
old torpedo lying around loose, be "will
hammer at it with a stone until the perspiration
stands in great drops upon hifi
forehead, or an explosion lelieves him
from his self-appoiutcd task.
The operations of the internal revenue
officers against illicit distillers in the
South during the last six months have
resulted as follows : Illicit stills seized,
forty-one ; distillers arrested or surrendered,
1,064; officers killed, including
Lieut. Mclntire, United States army,
four ; officers wounded, four; citizert
assisting officers killed, two ; wounded,
two ; distillers killed or wounded, four.
Going to School.
"The cause of education be hangedI"
ho muttered, as lie sat down on the curbstone
on Shelby street.
He was a lud of thirteen. -His pants ^
were supported by a piece of wire
clothes-line girted around his waist, his
I hat was imcient and greasy, and his big
' flat feet seemed to be waiting for a thunder
shower to wash them clean.
" That's what, ails me !" he went on,
as he pushed his toes into the wet sand.
"Idon't believe in a feller diffing in
and learning all there is to learn, and
I not letting other folks have a chance.
There's lots of other folks in fhis world
besides me, and I ain't going to be
a hog, and try to learn all there is to
learn."
After a minute he went on:
"Don't I know 'nuff now? Three
! times two are six, four times five are
twenty, and four and four are eight.
That's as correct as I could get 'em if I
went to school for-a hundred years.
And don't I know how to spell? C-a-t
is 4 cat' the world over, and I'll bet on
it every time. H-e-n spells Mien,' and
1 know it as well as if I weighed a ton."
He rose up to throw a stone at a dog
across the street, and after resuming his
! neat, lie went oa:
" Jogerfy kinder wrestles rue down,
j but I don't go much on jogerfy. What
I do I care whether an island is entirely
j surrounded by water, or whether there
j niu't auy water within ten miles of it?
j S'pose I'm going to buy and sell islands
| for a living ? I don't care which is the
; highest mountain or the longest river,
i do I ? I'm goiug to keep a feed store,
I and when I'm rolling bales o' hay around
j will I care about mountains and rivers ?
: I've heard the boys go on about exports
and imports, and straits, and seas, and
; capes, but what's them to me ? If a
i feller wants a bng o' oats, is he going to
j wait and ask me when the Island of
| Madagascar was discovered ?"
; He carefully examined the big toe of
his left foot and the heel of his right
foot, and gloomily observed:
" The old folks are making ready to
push me into school, and I've got to
! make ready to keep out. I can't take to
: school, somehow. I could sit here and
j study all day, but the minute I git into
a school-house I'm nervous. Something's
I going to happen to me this week. I'll
j be taken home in a wheel-barrow with a
: big gash in this heel, or this toe* almost
j cut off. That will mean four weeks on
, a crutch, and they don't allow lame boys
I to go to school and crutch up and down
the aisles. Or, sposin I go home with
palpitation of the heart ? The old lady
' lias had it, and I won't more than get
j into the house before she'll have me
I tucked up on the lounge, the camphor
bottle down, currant jell and sponge
cake in the distance, ami she'll c.ill out
| to the old gtnt: M
j Father, it's no ufc of thinking of
| sending this boy to school. Lie looks
I stout and healthy, but he's a mere
shaddcr. The close atmosphere of the
school-room will kill him before snow
flies.'"
The bov looked up. There wag a grin
-11 i'-- e l,? ol?w.l-1?.1.
ail over jus iuuc, uuu uc uiuu?vu.
" Palpitation is the key note ! A sort)
toe can he seen?a palpitating heart is
hidden away under hide and fat and ribs.
Now then?oosh?Wooah, u-m-m-m?
hold yer. breath, roll yer eyes, kick out
ver left leg, and make her bob around
like a fly on a hot stove-cover."?Detroit
Free Press. . '