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VOL. 38. YOEKVTLLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1883. NO. 33.
Selected factrg.
THE KING OF THE PLOW.
PAUL H. HAYNE.
The sword is re-sheathed in its scabbard,
Tne rive hangs safe on the wall;
No longer we quail at the hungry
Hot rush of the ravenous ball?
The war cloud has hurled its last lightning,
Its last awful thunders are still,
While the Dernou of Conflict in Hades
Ides fettered in force as in will:
Above the broad fields that he ravaged,
What monarch rules blissfully now ?
Oh! crown him with bays that are bloodless,
The King, the brave King of the Plow !
A King ! aj'e ! what Ruler more poteut
Has ever swayed earth by his nod?
A monarch ! aye, more than a monarch?
A homely, but bountiful God !
He stands where in earth's sure protection
The seed- grains are scattered and sown,
To uprise in serene resurrection
When Spring ber suit trumpet has blown.
A monarch ! yea, more than a monarch,
Tnough toil drops are thick on his brow;
O! crown him with corn-leaf and wheat-leaf,
The King, the strong King of the Plow !
Through the shadow ard shine of past ages,
(While tyrants were blinded with blood)
He reared the pure ensign of Ceres
Bv meadow, and mountain, and flood?
And the long, leafy gold of his harvests
The earth sprites uudair sprites had spun
Grew rhythmic when swept by the breezes,
Grew royal when kissed by the sun ;
Before the stern charm of his patience
What rock-rooted forces must bow !
Come ! crown him with corn-leaf and wheat-leaf,
The King, the bold King of the Plow!
Through valleys of balm-dropping myrtles,
By banks of Arcadian streauis.
Where the wind-songs are set to the mystic
Mild murmurof passionless dreams;
On the storm-haunted uplands of Thule,
On ice-girdled fiords and floes,
Alike speeds the spell of his godhood,
The bloom of his heritage glows ;
A monarch ! yea, more than a monarch?
All climes to his prowess must bow;
Come! crown him with bays that are stainless?
The King, the brave King of the Plow !
Far, far in earth's uttermost future,
N As boundless of splendor as scope,
I see the fair Angol?Fruition,
Outspeed his high heralds ot Hope;
The roses of joy rain around him,
The lilies of sweetness and calm,
For the sword has been changed to the plow-share,
The lion lias down with the lamb!
O angel majestic ! We know thee,
Though raised and transfigured art thou?
This lord of life's grand consummation
IY<is once the swart King of the Plow !
the Jtorg idler.
FLEEING FROM A FORTUNE.
The sun rose propitiously on Grace Sylvester's
wedding morn; the air was balmy, the
sky blue, and all nature seemed in sympathy
with the happy day.
Presently a stir awoke in the household, that
soon swelled into a murmur of consternation.
The bride was missing. Some one had gone to
her chamber to awaken her and found it empty.
Immediately a search was instituted,
which proved fruitless. The bridegroom was
sent for, but could offer no explanation ; like
the parents, he was distracted with anxiety.
Grace Sylvester was a proud, impulsive girl,
with a warm heart and impetuous temi>er.
She was an only child, and somewhat spoiled,
..a woo notm~.il hut. nfit.hirxr that, could be im
agined or adduced could account for this unheard-of
freak ; she had not even fastened a
.note on the toilet-cushion, as a key to the mystery,
after the custom of heroines.
For a week previous to this now unlucky
day, the Sylvester mansion had continuously
opened its hospitable portals to arriving guests.
Friends and relations of Mr. Frank Howard,
the expectant bridegroom, crowded to do honor
to the occasion, which the Sylvester connection
were not less eager to embellish with their
presence.
This singular occurrence, therefore, could
not possibly be preserved a secret, and the chagrined
and distracted host and hostess had all
the added misery of knowing that their daughter's
inexplicable flight was the subject of all
[ sort3of surmises and discussions by those who
in set phrase, endeavored to condole with them,
and, at the same time, hint at insanity as the
only solution of such an unprecedented freak.
But a special gleam was soon destined to illumine
the darkness. Grace had not been unmindful
of her dear parents, and her devoted
lover. A letter, addressed to the former, had
been dropped by her, in the post office. It was
brief, and evidently written under the pressure
of excitement; but, even in its fragmentary
haste, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester could trace their
daughter's tenderness ; and her lover, despite
the undisputed mystery of its tone, took consolation
from it.
Its contents may be rendered thus :
She had left of her own free will and unaccompanied,
though she admitted that she
would be met at her journey's end by a wor
thy guardian, in wliose care she would remain,
and who, at the expiration of a week, would
bring her home again ; until then, she begged
they would wait for her explanation, and,
above all, forgive any pain or annoyance her
hasty disappearance had caused.
This epistle, though gratefully received,
since it assured them of her safety, was not,
of course, entirely satisfactory to her parents
and lover.
Despite her promise to return, they could
not remain quiet until the expiration of the
time named, but sought her in every conceivable
place ; but, as was evident from the security
of her retreat, Grace did not mean to be
found till after the interval she had named.
One by one, or in small parties, as they had
come, the wedding guests departed. They
carried to their own houses a charmingly inexhaustible
theme for gossip and wonderment.
Every one held a separate solution and theory,
aiid the subject promised to be one of unusual
variety and entertainment.
But only one of them possessed any clue to
the truth?and she, shy, insidious plotter that
she was, had laid a train whose success promised
even beyond her hopes. She watched its
development in silence. It was not her cue to
speak, but to await the fulfillment of her design,
and so she lingered, professing the intensest
sympathy for all, and at the same time
contriving to bestow the most of it on Frank
Howard, her distant cousin.
This young lady, May Prescott, by name,
? had long been hopelessly in love with her
cousin Frank. She knew that his heart was
devoted to another, but had never had an oi>portunity
of seeing her rival till the generous
and unsuspecting Grace, wishing to give both
her and Frank pleasure, had asked her, by letter,
to be one of her bridesmaids.
May's darling object was then gained. She
had unlimited faith in her own |>ower of creating
discord, and had secretly resolved to sei>arate
the lovers and win Frank for herself,
even at the eleventh hour.
Her first interview with Grace convinced
her that ardent and impulsive generosity was
the strong point of her character. On this
she acted.
"How oddly the gifts of fate are distributed
!" said she, with a sigh, as they were talking
together the night before the wedding.
"One would think it was enough to get a beautiful
wife, without grasping at a great fortune,
too ; but then Frank always had a keen eye
for the main chance."
Grace's face flushed a deep, indignant crimson
; her full, bright eyes flashed with sudden
anger as she looked at May Prescott steadily.
"Pray explain yourself, Miss Prescott," she
said. "I do not understand you in the least."
"What! have you never heard of the will of
Frank's eccentric old Uncle Paul V But 1 am
sorry; i>erhaps I have done wrong in mentioning
it. No doubt he meant to deceive you?
no, no! I don't mean that?1 mean, perhaps
he did not wish you to know."
She affected to be overcome with confusion
at her own inadvertence, and pretended to regret
having said so much. Grace quietly but
firmly demanded to know all.
"You have said too much to recede!" she
exclaimed. "Tell me all there is to tell."
This was just the opportunity May desired.
j She arose to see that the door was closed ; then
1 satisfied that she and Grace were alone togethj
er, she poured into her victim's ear the story
whose result was Grace's flight from home.
The week passed anxiously enough to the
three people who were awaiting the wayward
bride's return. The appointed day came, and
early in the morning a carriage stopped before
the Sylvester mansion, and Grace alighted
from it, followed by an old nurse, of whom she
had always been fond, and whose presence explained
the fact that Grace had been staying
in her home, not five miles away.
Grace walked into the house with an air of
miugled triumph and deprecation. After the
strange greetings were over, Mr. Sylvester,
with attempted sternness, demanded the promised
explanation, and this was the story:
"The night before my wedding day I learned
from some one who thought I already knew it,
that Frank was about to inherit S100,000 upon
a strange condition. Tlis uncle had died and
left that amount to him provided he married
me within a year after the testator's death.
"I had never seen this uncle, but, as I learned
from my informant, he had met me by chance
in one of the New York hospitals, and, after
taking the trouble to inquire my name, and no
doubt, satisfying himself of the suitability of
the connection, he made up his eccentric mind
that Frank should marry me or lose a large
fortune in the event of disobeying his command.
"Now, though I am deeply obliged for the
distinguished honor meant me by the deceased,
I positively decline to l)e bartered away to any
one at a stated price.
"It was sufficiently embarrassing to me to
know that the old gentleman was attracted by
a whim of mine, and mistook it for characteristic
virtue. The fact is, during that winter?
my first in New York?I was seized with a
nr.Tr rAimd r?f > .10'l Q11 V\V fttl !lf
lilliujr tu vai j iuj iv/uuu wi. V(, .... ?
ternoon among the sick, to whom I carried the
ever welcome gift of fruits, and it was while
I was distributing these offerings that the
matrimonial project occurred to Frank's uncle.
"Do you not understand, and can you not
sympathize with me ? Had I remained here,
no explanation could have altered the case,
and I should inevitably have become Frank's
bride, under conditions alike painful to my
love of truth and self-resect. I have always
declared I would be loved for myself alone, not
for qualities I did not possess, nor the money
of a whimsical old gentleman.'"
She drew a long breath as she finished her
recital, and held out her hand with her own
winning frankness.
"The last week of the year expired yesterday,"
she said, with an unmistakable sparkle
of triumph in her handsome eyes. "If you
take me now, Frank, it must be all for love.
There's no longer any money in the question."
"With all my heart!" cried the indulgent
lover. "Since you have come back to me of
your own free will, and have no further objec|
tions to make to our union, I consider myself
one of the happiest and most fortunate of
bridegrooms."
He caught Grace's pretty, unreluctaut hand
in his and pressed it rapturously to his lips,
with a smile quite as triumphant as her own,
and a glance, whose intense and mischievous
meaning was not explained until after the
ciuiet wedding, at which May Prescott was the
only guest, for Sir. and Sirs. Sylvester's prudence
and worldly wisdom still condemned
their impulsive daughter's escapade, though
their partial tenderness forgave it.
"You have chosen poverty in preference to
wealth," they said, "and so you must be content
to do without the grand wedding Ave had
contemplated."
Grace submitted Avith the best humor possible
; she had tested Frank's love and gained
her own end, and all aa'jis bright before her inexperienced
eyes.
After the wedding, Frank asked his bride :
"Are you quite satislied with your choice of
poverty, and glad that your marriage occurred
to-day instead of a Aveek ago ?"
"I am perfectly delighted," Grace answered.
"Will you take a little Avedding gift from
me, as I have not yet presented you Avith
one V" Frank asked, meekly.
"With pleasure," Grace ansAvered, as she
extended her hand expecting to receive a jewel
case.
But, instead of that, a ponderous legal document
was produced, at Avhich Grace gazed in
blank surprise.
Then Frank explained that, despite Miss
Prescott's kind interest in their affairs, the
fortune was not lost, as she had made a slight
mistake in dates ; and his uncle's discernment
in selecting so charming a Avife for him had
made him the happiest of men.
May Prescott's chagrin at the failure of her
conspiracy, and the delight of Grace's parents
at her good fortune can easily be imagined.
Grace l>ore her partial defeat with charming
equanimity, as she Avas quite convinced, by
some mental process of her own, that she had
her husband's loA*e. So she Avas reconciled to
the possession of a fortune !
Canibalimi in Fiji.?It Avas only people
who had been killed that were considered good
for food. Those who died a natural deatn
were never eaten?invariably buried. But it
certainly is a wonder that the isles were not
altogether depopulated, owing to the number
who were killed. Thus, in Namena, in the
year 1851, fifty bodies were cooked for one
feast. And when the men of Bau were at war
with Verata they carried of *200 bodies, seventeen
of which were piled on a canoe and sent
! to Ttewa, where they were received with wild
[ joy, dragged about the town and subjectj
ed to every species of indignity ere they
reached the ovens. Then, too, just think of
the number of lives sacrificed in a country
where infanticide was a recognized institution,
and where widows were strangled as a
matter of course! Why, on one occasion,
when there had been a horrible massacre of
Namena people at Viwa, and upwards of 100
fishermen had been murdered, and their bodies
carried as bnkota to the ovens at Bau, no less
than eighty women were strangled to do honor
to the dead, and corpses lay in every direction
about the mission station. It is just thirty
years since the ltev. John Watsford, writing
from here, described how twenty-eight
victims had been seized in one day while fishing.
They were brought here alive ami were
only stunned when put into the oven. .Some
of the miserable wretches attempted to escape
from the scorching bed of red-hot stones, but
only to be driven back and buried in that livimr
tomb, whence they were taken out to feast
their barbarous captors. He adds * that more
human beings were eaten on this little isle of
Bau than anywhere else in Fiji. It is very
hard, indeed, to realize that the peaceful village
on which I am now looking, has really
been the scene of such horrors as these, and
that many of the gentile, kindly i>eople around
me have actually taken part in them.
Influence of Newspapers.?A schoolteacher,
who has been a long time engaged in
j his profession and witnessed the influence of a
newspaper on the minds of a family of chili
dren, writes as follows : 1 have found it to be
i a universal fact, without exception, that those
j scholars, of both sexes and all ages, who have
access to newspapers at home, when compared
I with those who have not, are :
First. Better readers, excellent in pronun|
ciation ; have consequently read more, and
i understanding^.
Second. They are letter spellers, and define
I words with ease and accuracy.
Third. They obtain practical knowledge of
geography in almost half the time it requires
! <?f niliPis. as the newspapers have made them
j acquainted with the location of the important
places of nature, their government, and doings
: on the globe.
Fourth. They are better grammarians, for,
i having become so familiar with every style in
I the newspapers, from the commonplace adverj
tisements to the finished and classical oration
i of the statesman, they more readily compre:
hend the meaning of the text, and consequent1
ly analyze its construction with accuracy,
i Fifth. They write better compositions, us!
ing better language, correctly expressed.
Sixth. Those young men who have for years
been readers of newspapers, and are always
j taking the lead in debating societies, exhibit a
' more extensive knowledge upon a greater variety
of subjects, and express their views with
' greater fluency, clearness and correctness.
fUadiug. I
THE BOY
as HE EXISTS IX STATE of XATVRE? Ills
ORIGIN, HABITS AND PECULIARITIES.
j [Essay read before the Ninty-Six Literary Club.] j
It would seem that if Xature taxed her re-1
j sources in any one direction more than in
I another, when she spake all things into exis- j
| tence, it was in giving variety to the different;
| objects of her creation. After every thing
j had been made and the divine plaudit, "Be!
liniH nil tinnrrs jiro vprv croud." had been pro
nounced, in order that a grand creative climax
might be readied, it was determined to
gather up all the odds and ends, together with
the various raspings and filings that lay scattered
throughout the vast laboratory of Nature,
and form them into one symmetrical
whole. This creative effort was exhaustive
and complete. The result was a Boy. It is
a stupendous fact that all of the antagonistic
principles found in Nature are blended in the
character of the Boy, and in such a way that
each principle retains its distinctive characteristics.
Would you have an example to prove
that the opposite principles do exist side by
side in this last and most complicated of all
the works of the Great Architect ? Just call
on a Boy of twelve Summers and request him
with his friend Fido to rid the premises of a
few cats, and then send him to dig a few potatoes
for dinner; and mark the difference in
his movements. Or take one of sixteen and
see with what complacency and satisfaction
he cultivates the little fuzz which has begunto
sprout upou his upper lip; and then see
him again as he sits in one corner watching
with jealous eye his rival who is having a good
time generally with his girl in the opposite
corner. Note the change in his countenance
and general behavior. Again, if you would
like to see a picture of extreme awkwardness,
tenderness, and love, combined with fear and
apprehension, just contemplate for a moment
Biy Btibby nursing little baby sister. But as
I propose further on in this essay to treat
more at length of the habits and peculiarities
of the Boy, I will revert again to his origin.
THAT TIIE HOY WAS NOT MADE AMONG THE
FIItST,
nor even at the same time with any of the
other creatures, but was entirely a subsequent
consideration, we have the most convincing
circumstantial evidence. It cannot be supposed,
that he existed during the formative
period of creation, while matter was yet plastic
and before it had hardened into organic
life. For if he had existed then, possessing
so much innate thoughtlessness and
carelessness as he does, would he not have
overturned the whole establishment and left it
in one mass of confusion ? Or, possessing such
a great instinctive propensity to gratify his
natural curiosity, would not his finger marks
have been indelibly impressed upon every
thing that came within his reach ? But some
objector will ask, 'Mi mere was no oo^ men
how will you explain the fact that rabbits
have no tails ? Or, who plucked out the tail
of the bunty hen ? or who knocked off the
muly cow's horns?" Well, it must be confessed
that these look wonderfully like the
pranks of a Boy. But the proof of the contrary
is so convincing that we are obliged to
refer them to the apparent whims of Nature,
which makes things to differ simply that they
may be differeut. Would not the fraternal
relations, which exist in Paradise soon have ,
ceased to t>e fraternal had the Boy been present
? Would he and Fido not have formed an ,
alliance, which would have made old Tabby
"git up and git ?" And would not the robbiu
and lark have had to hide out; while the ;
lizzard as lie basked in the sunshine of oblivi- J
ous contentment would have had to keep one
eye on duty whilst the other slept ? And even j
the old bull-frog perched upon his little tussock,
as he warbled forth his notes of praise >
and thanksgiving, would have had to have
kept his ears well open to catch the stealthy
footfall of the Boy, as (with stone in hand) lie
crept softly up behind a neighboring log. And ;
who can believe (if a stone could have been
found) that old Jack would not have been
moping about the grounds with but one eye? 1
The pig with his leg done up in splints would
have been hobbling around 011 crutches. ;
While the Boy would prove an expert in all
the above particulars, it would be in the character
of Itansy Sniffle (see Georgia Scenes) j
that he would appear most at home. For him
to originate a ditlieultybetween the patriarchs
of the herd or of the dock would afford genuine
pleasure; and from some some place of
safety to witness them test the hardness of
their heads would furnish him infinite delight.
* - 1 1- T 1
But the crowning argument, ami tne iasi i
shall oifer, that
THE 150Y WAS THE LAST OF ALL THINGS
CHEATED,
is that the apple was left to ripen before it was
pulled. Had there been a boy present, that
apple would have disappeared before it fairly
turned. Of course, the Boy would have assert- :
ed his own innoceucy, and saddled it off on
the monkey, who is second only to the Boy
in his pranks. 80 we may safely conclude
that the Boy was not in the garden. But
[ after every thing else had been made and the
entire machinery put in full operation, then
the Boy made his apjiearance. From that
time until Noah entered the Ark we have the
most unmistakable evidence of his presence.
That
IIE WAS NOT ADMITTED INTO THE AUK,
we feci assured ; for while the Ark was amply
sufficient to hold all of the beasts both clean
and unclean ; yet if the Boy had been crowded
in, forty-eight hours would not have passed
before such a stir would have been created
among the animals, that while the Boy clinging
in safety to a rafter above, enjoying the
general confusion below, old Noah would have
been seriously considering whether it would
be better for him to be drowned outside or devoured
alive inside. Then what became of
the Boy V He was evidently not drowned nor
devoured by the beasts of the ark ; for ;is soon
as dry land appears, the Boy appears also. It
would be hard to make a railroad conductor of
the present day believe that if Noah had
searched the nooks and corners outside the
ark, he would not have discovered the Boy
fixed up for a free ride. From the Hood
through all of the succeeding generations, up
to the present time, the Boy has given the
..e 1.:
IUI1CSI eviuciiuea Ul ma pn-acutc. hc imir
now concluded the history of the boy's origin.
In treating of his habits and peculiarities,
THE Sl'lSJECT NATURALLY DIVIDES ITSELF |
INTO THREE DISTINCT PERIODS
1 which we will consider separately. The first!
I period is the time which elapses between the
I ages of twelve and sixteen years ; the second,
I between sixteen and eighteen ; and the third
j period is fro in eighteen until he developes into
a man, which ordinarily takes place between
the ages of twenty-one and twenty-live, depending
entirely upon the amount of common
j sense which he has at his command. "We will
! take the average boy as we come in contact
i with him in our every day intercourse, leaving
i enough of margin on the other hand for those
| who are better, and on the other for those who
i are worse.
The first tiling we notice as characteristic
of the Hoy in
TIIE FIRST PERIOD
| is his hat, which though not an old one, has j
i the greater part of the crown torn out 'and j
| with only a few detached pieces of the brim i
j left. This dilapidated state of things was j
I brought about by a recent effort on the part i
j of the Boy to teach his friend Fido how to
I futnli .nut rai'pv Tip nnlv tstmrlit him hnw to i
I ItlVII V.IUIJ. W...J w...p - .. .
I carry, however. But if there is any one thing !
j more characteristic of him in this stage of his j
existence than another, it is his pants and the I
! manner in which lie wears them. Each leg is ;
i rolled up just high enough not to hide the;
| large patches of new cloth of different colors '
which adorn the knees. And as his pants are j
entirely destitute of buttons, they are held j
together at the top by a skewer manufactured |
out of a six-penny nail, which is almost at-1
taclied to the front end of one of the suspen- j
ders. The other suspender serves to hold the j
tongue of his wagon in its place. Now let
him face about a little and you will see that
the other end of the former suspender is fas
teneil to another skewer similar to the one
mentioned above. We will also find two more
patches, if anything, Larger than those in front.
But without stopping to locate them, we will
pass to the contents of his pockets, which as
curiosities are only second to the Boy himself.
Upon examination, the first thing discovered
is a whirligig made of the bottom of an old
blacking box. Then comes his strings attached
to each end ; after that a hame-string
which his father has been inquiring about for
the last three days. This latter constitutes
his whip thong, though he never uses it about
the house, for reasons best known to himself.
Then come whip-lashes and old shoe-strings
without number, toward the bottom, an old
knife-blade, and last, but not least in his estimation,
are several nails, some sharp and others
a little flattened at the end. With these
he picks out his walnut and hickory-nut goodies.
In the other pocket are a set of new traptriggers,
his quill for blowing, and half a dozen
old ribs from the carcass of a dead horse.
These last he calls his bones and prizes them
very highly. If we will prosecute our examination
a little further we will be sure to find
the nail stumped off of a toe of one foot and a
stone bruise on the heel of the other. There
is nothing which a lopy dislikes more than
washing his face in the morning, unless it be
washing his feet at night. If any one doubts
the existence of
A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE IN REIIALF OF THE
BOY,
we refer him to the many narrow escapes he
makes in turning the sharp angles in the progress
of events, with only a skinned nose, a
blackened eye, or a patched head. Otherwise
for these light afflictions would be substituted
broken limbs, broken heads, and broken necks.
During this stage of the Boy's existence he
makes his first acquaintance with the world
around mm ; ana as ne nas no experience 01
his own, lie takes hold of and appropriates to
himself everything that is new and striking.
Hence we find him imitating the vices rather
than the virtues of those with whom he associates.
After two years' experience, when he
has reached the latter part of this first stage
of boyish existence, another examination of
pockets will reveal a wonderful change. The
whirligigs, strings, and nails have all disappeared
; and in their stead will be found
an old pijie, crumbs of tobacco, a few stumps
of cigars, most likely a pack of cards, and an
old pistol. Before starting for the cows in
the afternoon he is sure to add a few matches.
He is hardly out of sight before he lights up
his old pipe, or the stump of a cigar. At this
age he also learns to chew tobacco ; and when
off to himself he tries to curse a little, which
is quite awkward and startling to himself at
first. These little accomplishments he thinks
necessary to back up the soft and tender down
which he has discovered breaking out upon his
chin and upper lip.
He now approaches
THE SECOND PEKIOD
mentioned above, into which he passes by
such easy graduations that you would hardly
suspect the fact, were it not for the smell of cologne
with which he has saturated his bandanna
and the amount of sweet smelling oils with
which he has perfumed his hair. What wonderful
results would be accomplished if a boy during
this stage of his life would put even one
half of the care and labor on the inside of his
head which he bestows on the outside. If you
were to examine his pockets again, you would
find at least your double handful of kiss verses
and pieces of poetry cut from newspapers, and,
it may be an effort on his part at an acrostic
on the name of his sweet-heart. You are sure
to find a rosebu pinned to the lapel of his
coat. And as he is a school boy at this age,
if you will find and examine his text books,
you will find the name of his sweetheart inscribed
on every liage. The truth is, he is
desperately in love ; and if he thought he had
to wait until he was twenty-one before he and
his dear could be united in the holy bands of
wedlock, he would actually give up in despair.
This is
iiis first genuine matrimonial paroxysm,
and while it lasts the Boy is decidedly in a
precarious condition. All of this is new material
growing out of the nature and circumstances
attending the particular stage of the
Boy's life which we are now considering. He
also retains all of the most objectionable features
of that stage through which he has already
passed. Between the ages of sixteen
and eighteen years, the one absorbing, controlling
thought with the Boy is, how to look
lovely. To have all of the girls in love with
him is now the Alpha and Omega of his aspirations.
If he could be auctioned off during
this interesting period of his existence at his
true value and then resold at his own estimate
of himself, what a handsome fortune would
be realized ! Fortunately this stage of the
Boy's existence is of short duration.
A Rattlesnake Romance.?A place called
Cobham's Rocks, near Warren, Penn., is
the home of thousands of rattlesnakes. Every
year hnnters go out to kill them, and the
slaughter is unbounded. A lire set among the
leaves and brushes will drive the snakes out by
the hundred, and a sight of them fleeing in
terror from the flames is said to be something
frightful. But the place is also the scene of a
rattlesnake romance, and the following story
is told of it :
. A party of young people, returning from a
basket picnic on the island, stopped on the
hillside to gather wild flowers. Two young
men and a woman sat down on a large rock to
rest. In reaching out his hand to -a bed of
moss, one of the young men touched something
cold and clammy. Instinctively lie knew
that he had placed his hand upon a rattlesnake.
At the same instant the snake was discovered I
by the other young man and the young woman.
Both screamed and ran from the s}K>t.
It was a critical moment, but the first young
man proved equal to the emergency. Knowing
that if he removed his hand the snake
would sting him to death, he pressed his arm
downward with all his strength, at the same
time reaching into his jmcket for a knife. Before
he could open the knife with his teeth the
snake had wound itself about his arm. "Run
and help him," screamed the young woman to
the young man by her side. "Go kill the
snake !" The young man, however, had really
no desire to die, hut remained at a safe distance
and shouted lustily for help. "I'll go
myself !" exclaimed the young woman, springing
forward. Her services were not needed.
Pale to the lips with the pain caused by the
tightening folds of the snake, the young man
coolly cut off the snake's head with the knife
which he had opened between his teeth. The
snake was nearly six feet in length and was so
strong that the young man's arm w;ts black
and blue for a month afterward. The sequel
need not be detailed. The young woman accepted
the brave young man, and both have
lived happily together ever since. Thesnake's
skin, cured and stuffed, occupies a shelf in
their parlor. The other young man, driven
desperate by the young woman's choice, wandered
away Westward. lie is now serving out
a term in the Kansas legislature.
Managing a Man.?Before the husbands
are admitted to the charmed circle of "The
Household," I have a few hints to the ladies
that may be of some service. You know that
these "lords of creation" have but very litt'e i
patience, hardly a grain compared to what
women have, so on very slight provocation
sometimes will tly into a rage and say things
that are not very easy to hear, and here is the
time to get the advantage. Keep cool, lips
closed, let not an unkind word escape. It may
be an effort, but you can, for women hardly
ever give up what they undertake, and take
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will In; at your knees begging forgiveness.
-Viid if, by any means you should let a few
hasty words slip and the tables are turned,
just get him up the nicest dinner you are capable
of, and you will reach his hear'- and be
sailing along as peaceably as ever. And if by
any means dinner may be a little late, be sure
and have the table set, and he will take the pa]>er
and wait an hour, whereas, the table not
l>eing spread, he can hardly wait ten minutes.
If you have biscuit to bake get them out of
sight about the time of his coming around,
for he will be likely to exclaim, "What, bread
to bake yet!" not knowing that a smart woman,
with a hot oven, can have them ready to
eat in fifteen minutes, and good ones, too.
SOME SOUTHWESTERN PROVINCIALISMS.
Rev. H. W. Pierson, in his book, "In the
Brush," says: "In attending a conference,
presbytery, association or other ecclesiastical
meeting in the wilds of the country, as the
old veteran and other preachers were pointed
out to me by some friend, he would say :
" 'That is Father A . He is an old
Brush-Breaker''?and all the younger men
would press forward to shake his hand and
do him honor; or, 'That is brother B .
He has broken a right smart chance of brush
or, 'That is young brother C , wonderfully
self-satisiied and conceited as you see. The
sisters have ilattered him so much that he has
'big head' badly. He will be sent to Brush
College to break brush a year or two, and he
will come back humbled, and make a laborious
and useful man.' This use of the
ed, and Dot in the cradle calls yon grandpa,
you are "the boy" so long as mother lives.
You are the children of the old home. Nothing
can crowd you out of your mother's heart.
You may have failed in the battle of life, and
your manhood may have been crushed out
against the wall of circumstances ; you may
have been prosperous, gained wealth and fame;
but mother's love has followed you always.
Many a "boy" has not been home for five or
ten or twenty years. And all this time mother
has been waiting. Ah, who does not know
the agony expressed by that word V She may be
even now saying, "I dreamed of my John last
night. May be he will come to-day. He may
drop in for dinner ;" and the poor, trembling
hands prepare some favorite dish for him.
Dinner comes and goes, but John comes not
with it. Thus, day after day, month after
month, year after year, passes, till at hist,
"hope deferred maketh the heart sick," aye,
sick unto death ; the feeble arras are stretched
out no longer.
The dim eyes are closed, the gray hairs
smoothed for the last time, and the tired hands
are folded for everlasting rest, and the mother
waits no more on earth for one who comes
not. God grant that she may not, in vain,
wait for his coming in the heavenly home.
Once more I say unto you, boys, go home if only
for a day. Let your mother know you have
not forgotten her. Next winter may cover
her grave with snow.
MAN ANIMNSECTS.
The only nerves fworth mentioning) in the
human body which are not under the control
of the brain, are those of the heart and
other internal organs ; and over these parts, as
everybody knows, we have not any voluntary
power. But all our limbs and muscles are
moved in accordance with the impulses sent
down from the brain, so that for instance,
when I have made up my mind to send a tele-'
gram to a friend, my legs take me duly to the
telegraph office, my hand writes the proper
message, and my tongue undertakes the necessary
arrangements with the clerk. But in
the insect's body there is no such regular subordination
of the parts composing the nervous
system to a single central organ or head
office. The largest knot of nerve matter it is
true, is generally to be found in the neighborhood
of the sense organs, and it receives direct
nerve bundles from the eyes, attenme, mouth
and other chief adjacent parts ; but the wings
and legs are moved by separate knots of nerve
cells, connected by a sort of spinal cord with
the head, but capable of acting quite independently
on their own account. Thus, if we cut
off a wasp's head and stick it on a needle in
front of some sugar and water, the mouth
will greedily begin to eat the sweet syrup, ap1..
nn/iAiio/iinna nf tlio fa of that. if has
brush enters largely into the figures of speecli
of the i>eople of the Southwest.
"In returning from church, a young circuit-rider
said tome: 'Didn't you think the
bishop got badly brushed in the first part of
the sermon V I sometimes get so brushed in
my sermons that I think I will never try to
preach again, it's a comfort to a beginner
to know that an old preacher sometimes gets
brushed.'
"Figurative language of this kind abounded
among the people of the Southwest, and
was very expressive. These provincialisms had
usually grown out of the peculiar life and
habits of the people. Many of them seem to
have orignated in the perils of early flat-boat
navigation?when they were accustomed to
float down-stream by day-light, and tie up to
some stump or tree for the night! Hence, as
I suppose, this provincialism. If I made inquiries
in regard to the character of a man
who been recommended to me for a Bible distributor,
I was not told that he was a reliable
or unreliable man, but 'He'll do to tie to,' or
'lie won't do to tie to;' and if the case was
particularly bad, 'He won't do to tie to in a
calm, let alone a storm.' As there were so
many perils in this kind of navigation, those
were regarded as extremely fortunate who
reached their destination in safety, and could
send back word that they made the trip; hence,
'to make the trip' was a universal synonym
for success. And so, when a novice attempted
to make a speech, preach a sermon, address a
jury, or engage in any kind of business, the
people predicted his success or failure by saying
'He'll make the trip' or 'lie won't make
the trip.' They never said of a young man,
or an old widower, that he was addressing or
courting a lady, but 'He is setting to her,' a
figure of speech derived from bird-hunting
with setter-dogs, I suppose. When such a
suit has been unsuccessful, they do not say
the lady rejected or 'mitened' her suitor, but
'She kicked him.' ? When many persons
were striving for the same object, or where
there were rival aspirants for the heart and
hand of the same lady, they said of the successful
one, "The tallest pole takes the persimmon.'
"
A Humorist on the Taruiff.?During
the recent debate 011 the tariff question, Congressman
Cox, of New York edified the House
with the following humorous remarks:
Before I call attention to these taxes on the
babies, I desire to say that if I had a child and
he did not oppose theso high tariff bounties I
would disown him. [Laughter.]
The little girl cannot play with her doll, nor
the boy whiz his top, nor the mother wash
her offspring with soap, except at an expense
of from one-third to one-half of their cost
for the domestic privilege. [Laughter.] If
the mother gives her child castor-oil she pours
down 158 per cent, ad valorem, [Laughter;]
if the child does not enjoy the dose, there is a
'25 per cent, bowl as the recipient of the contents
of its tender stomach. And though she
"wash it with niter and take to it much soap,
yet the iniquity is marked before me, s<*ith the
Lord," for the soap is taxed 40 per cent.!
God help the child!
Mr. Townsend, of Illinois. How about
candy ?
Mr. Cox, of New York. I am coming to
that in a moment, my honey. [Great laughter.]
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cotton night-shirt, it has a nightmare of
5? cents per square yard specific, [laughter;]
when the child awakes in the morning fretful,
she combs its little head at 35 cents ad valorem,
[laughter;] if she would amuse it she rolls it
over a Brussels carpet at 90 cents per square
yard, or gives it confectionery made of refined
sugar at 4 cents a pound tax, and 25 per cent,
ad valorem; if it tears its little panties, the
gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Kelley]
sews them up with spool-thread taxed at threequarters
of its value. [Laughter] Why, if
she used a shingle to bring the little "toddling,
wee thing" to its senses, as the honorable gentlemen
can recall, the cost would be at the
rate of 17 per cent, taxation. [Laughter.]
If the youngster has a patriotic inclination
on our Fourth of July, his fire-crackers
are taxed as patriotic luxury at ?1 extra a box,
and the bunting which furnishes the Dag,
though but 23 cents a pound, costs 121 per
cent, extra, while the band plays on instruments
taxed at 30 cents. She takes him to
the menagerie to study natural history. There
is the zebra, symbolic of a mixed ad valorem
and specific, [laughter,] and the stately giraffe,
high protection, [laughter,J the royal tiger and
unicorn of Holy Writ are 20 per cent. And
the procession of elephants! Every one 20
per cent. True, Jumbo, for purposes not to be
mentioned, is excluded on the affidavit of a
consistent protectionist 1 but the log-chain
th.at holds his huge legs binds the monster in
protective chains ! [Laughter.]
Business for Women.?There is no more
doubt about the ability of women to do good
work, and continuous work, than there is of
that of men. The continuity of perseverance
is altogether in favor of women, where it has
been trained by exercise; the power of concentration
upon a given point, or for a given
length of time, is in favor of men. But the
conditions of work are inexorable for both,
and they can not be wished or sentimentalized,
or scolded, or even voted away. Tliere are
certain kinds of work that are less fitted for
women than others ; and, as a rule, women
very properly avoid them ; there are other
kinds, however, for which women are extremely
well fitted, some of which men at present
perform, and these women who are wise will
fit themselves for and try to secure. There is
no reason why women should be chambermaids
and employes, and men managers and also
proprietors. In France men do most of the
chamber work in hotels and public places, and
women are the managers and superintendents,
the sellers and Cashiers. The whole business
of retail buying and selling might be in the
hands of women, with very great advantage
to the buyer and the seller. It is a most absurd
thing that the whole retail provisioning
of our great cities is in the hands of ignorant
men and liquor sellers, while while women are
starving in garrets, or making shirts at six
cents apiece. These men often do not know
the articles that they sell by their names, they
do not know their uses ; buy in a blind way
what is offered them ; they take "samples"
from agents, and test the thing by their ability
to sell it. Women know better what is
needed ; they could accommodate their goods
hotter to the needs of their customer's ; they
arc moie willing to take trouble ; they have
more faculty for detail.
Hut in business or labor of any other kind,
that enters into competition with the active
world, there are no favors to be asked, no con*
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than another, you must do your work as
well or better than another, and you must always
be at your post. Nor must you be so
foolish as to consider yourself necessary in
your place?a gap made is easily filled?few
are able to distinguish the difference ; and so
the tide goes on, and rolls over us, unless we
can keep abreast of its current. It is not easy;
it is not flattering to our self love, but it is the
law of competitive life.
Boys, Go Home.?Ah, boys ! you who have
gone out from the homesteads into the rush
and bustle of life, do you ever think of the patient
mothers who are stretching out to you
arms that are powerless to draw you back to
the old home nest V?arms that were strong to
carry you once, pressed to hearts that love you
now as then.
No matter, though your hair is silver-streak
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lost its stomach, and that the food is quietly
dropping out of the gullet at the other end as
fast as it is swallowed. So, too, if we decapitate
that queer Mediterranean insect, the praying
mantis, the headless body will stand catching
dies with its outstretched arms, and fumbling
about for its mouth when it has caught
one, evidently much surprised to find that its
head is unaccountably missing. In fact, whatever
may may be the case with man, the insect
at least is really a conscious automaton.
It sees or smells food, and is at once impelled
by its nervous constitution to eat it. It receives
a sense impression from the bright hue
of a flower, and it is irresistibly attracted towards
it, as the moth is to the candle. It has
no powers of deliberation, no ability even to
move its own limbs in unaccustomed manners.
Its whole life is governed for it by its fixed
nervous constitution, and by the stimulations
it receives from outside. And so, though the
world probably appears much the same to the
beetle as to us, the nature of its life is very
different. It acts like a piece of clockwork
mechanism, wound up to perform a certain
number of fixed movements, and incapable of
ever going beyond the narrow circles for which
it is designed.?Grant Allen, in Knowledge.
Single Women.?A clever old maid once
said that it was far better to be laughed at because
you were not married, than not to be
able to laugh because you were. There is
sound logic in that. It is well for a woman to
marry if she meets a good, true man, who loves
her, and whom she loves ; but if she be not
suited, better that sue remain single. j.ne
majority of old maids are helpful, loveable and
sweet tempered, and till their allotted niche as
acceptably as do their married sisters. Are
they not more to be honored than they would
have been had they merely married for a home
or position ? Our young ladies have erroneous
ideas upon this subject. They feel almost disgraced
if they have arrived at a mature age
and are not yet able to write Mrs. before their
names. Their whole ambition is to get a husband,
by hook or crook ; but get him somehow
they must. Consequently, they take the
first man that offers himself, whether he really
suits them or not.
Now, girls, do not marry in haste. Get the
best education possible, help about domestic
affairs, and enter upon some trade or profession
for which you have a taste, and master it.
Skilled labor is always well paid. Don't spend
your time in repining because you cannot see
the coming man. If you never see him you
can live useful, happy lives. You think if you
had a husband you would have a strong arm
on which to lean, a sharer of sorrow and trouble.
Alas ! many a slender woman has not
only had to stand alone, but serve also as a
prop for children and husband ; and very few
wives find in their husbands all the sympathy
and companionship they desire. If you are
good for anything you will not be hurt by remaining
single, neither will you be elevated by
becoming John's wife. Do your duty in life,
and you will count for one in the world whether
you are married or single.
The Newspaper Man.?The reason why
so few men, comparatively, succeed in jour
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I>erament and the constitution. More than a
xuoiety of mankind is slow, lacking in alacrity,
and devoid of a sense of proportion. The art
of putting things rapidly into shape is not well
understood by the public. This is the reason
why we have long-winded sermons, lectures
promotive of somnolency, and magazine work
which presupposes that longevity vouchsafed
to the long-abiding old gentlemen and ladies
of the Old Testament.
The public is not inconsiderate?it is only
ignorant. The newspaper is a mystery of the
manufacture of which it knows hardly anything.
Those who give to it the enthusiasm
of youth, the vigor of manhood and whatever
of wisdom and experience old age may have
brought with it, might have had an abiding
fame in this department of literature or the
other in the field of science, or the arena of
public affairs. Taste or accident has betrayed
them into a humble sphere of human exertion,
nor do they quarrel with their fortune. lie
who drifts into journalism rarely leaves it ; he
still plods on the daily toil which for him has
a rare fascination. Often there is no fame for
liiin. The cleverest newspai>er man may be
utterly unknown, and not forgotten only because
he has never been remembered. His
heart, however, is stout, at any rate ; and
come competence, or the lack of it?come the
highest or the humblest position?he still toils
with irrepressible cheerfulness, and hopes,
when all is over with him, that his associates
who survive him will be reasonably sorry or
solemn at his funeral.
A Dun.?That debt is a small one, to be
sure, and apparently not worth a serious
thought. "Why not pay it then ? Why be compelled
to suffer the mortification of a dun ?
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finger at once V It will fester if allowed to
remain, and cause ten times the trouble. Why
not relieve the conscience of that little load V
You will feel better by doing it. You contracted
the debt knowingly and willingly. Did you
not mean to pay it V Certainly you did. Then
why don't you do it at once ? Every day's delay
increases, morally, the amount of the obligation.
Remember, too, that your little
debt, and another man's little debt, and a
thousand other mens' little debts, make a little
fortune for your creditor ; or they enable
him to pay his larger debt, or feed bis workmen
and keep his machinery going in times
like these. Don't you see how it is ? You
do ? Well then, pay the amount at once, and
to-night the ghost of that debt will not
trouble your dreams.
SHORTENED LIFE IN THE HUMAN RALE.
The maturity of man, calculated by the completed
condition of the skeleton, is twenty-one
years. Twenty-one years multiplied by five?
105? years?is, therefore, the natural duration
of the life of man on this estimate, and with
a certain natural limited range, may be accepted
as the true and full duration. But
when the actual value of life is taken it is
found to present, in this country, an average
of forty-two years, so that there are grand
agencies at work which are reducing the natural
life to a very low value. If the enquirer
enter further into the matter, he will observe
that the grand agencies leading to this reduced
value of life must be in some way removeable,
because they are not always in action to reduce
every form of life to the same level of duration.
He will discover that the domestic animals
which surround us, if we do not kill them
outright by hard labor, privation or exposure
to the vicissitudes of seasons, are so much
longer lived than we are, that they exist practically,
to their full term with as much exactitude
as we exist to the first or second stage of
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light, he will discover that if our lower domestic
animals were to die, their duration of life,
as it is now known, would be redyced to
nearly half what it is. The dog would have
an average term of eight years, and other animals
a reduced term of life. Such observations
as these will lead the sanitarian tofind uniform
object in his labor. He will ask what is
the reason why man, who holds all the knowledge
and skill above the brute creation, should
have so little control over his destiny that he
cannot control it in respect to health and life
as well as the inferior creature, which compared
with himself, has neither reason nor
skill. lie will wonder in vain so long as he
looks simply at the general fact. He will not
wonder at all when he proceeds to an analysis
of all the details upon which that general fact
depends.
In the first place we will learn from an
analysis of the data he may collect, that man
is subject to many more diseases than inferior
animals are; that he suffers from certain diseases
of the mind incidental to his possession
of a mental organization superior altogether to
theirs, and from which diseases they are exempt
; that he suffers from some diseases connected
with industrial pursuits from which
they are exempt; that he suffers from indulgences
of certain luxuries of a deadly kind
from which they are exempt; that he suffers
from various accidents from which they are
exempt; that he suffers from hereditary taints
of disease from which they are exempt.?yOur
Homes.
IIow tiie Thistle Became an Emulem.?
It was at the time of an invasion when the
destinies of Scotland hung upon the result of
A tnuue soon lo come. JLiie liivaueia were
upon the soil, and if they gained the victory
in the first encounter they might not afterward
be overcome. It matters not whether
the invaders were Danes or Norwegians, or
Normans, the simple origin of the emblem is
the same. The invaders knew that the Scots
were desperate, and if they would surely conquer
them they must fall upon them suddenly
and unawares. To this end they availed
themselves of a dark, stormy night, and planned
to fall upon the Scottish army on every
side at the same moment. Had they been
suffered to execute their plan undetected, they
would certainly have succeeded in entirely
destroying the Scots, but a simple accident
betrayed them. When near the Scottish camp
the foremost of the invaders removed the heavy
shoes from their feet so that their steps might
not be heard, and thus stealthily advancing,
bare-footed, a heavy, quick-tempered soldier
trod squarely upon a huge thistle, the sharp
point of which gave such sudden and exquisite
pain that he cried out with a bitter curse in
agony. His cry aroused the outlying Scots,
and apprised them of their danger. With wonderful
alacrity they sprang to their arms, and
meeting the foe widely divided for the purpose
of encompassing the camp, they were
enabled easily to overcome them, which they
did with great slaughter. The unfortunate
soldier v ho had so unwittingly given the alarm
was captured alive ; and when he had told his
story, and the Scots knew to what their deliverance
was due, they resolved to adopt the
thistle as the national insignia of their country.
?
A Little Boy's Coolxess.?The suit of
William O'Connor against the Boston & Lowell
Railroad at Lawrence has resulted in a
verdict for the plaintiff in $10,000, one-half
the amount sued for. This suit grew out of
an accident which occurred August 26, 1880.
The plaintiff was the father of a child between
5 and 6 years old. He and his brother, three
years older, were crossing a private way maintained
by the railroad for the Essex Company,
and the younger boy, while walking backward,
stepped between the rail and the planking of
the roadway inside and was unable to extricate
his foot. At that moment the whistle of
a train was heard within a few hundred feet
and out of sight around a curve, and it appeared
from the evidence that the older brother,
finding himself unable to relieve his brother,
ran down the track toward the train ; but
finding he could not attract the attention
of the trainmen to his brother's condition,
and that he must be run over, ran back to
biro, and telling him to lie down, pulled him
outward and down and held him there until
the train had passed. Both feet of the little
fellow were cut off or mangled so that amputation
was necessary. The theory of the defense
was that the boy was not caught, but
while running across the track, fell and was
run over. But the testimony of the older'
brother was unshaken in every particular. It
would be difficult to match the nerve, thoughtfulness,
and disregard of self displayed by this
boy, who at that time was less than 9 yearn
old.?Boston Herald.
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Oriental Indifference to Life.?It
needs a very long time and much bitter experience
to teach a European how lightly an
Oriental stakes his life, how quietly he pays
forfeit when he loses. Be it a savage for or a
remorseless climate against which he plays,
the low caste Hindoo will wager death and
torment for a few copper coins. I had a bheestie
in that war, who was invalid from frostbite,
and probably lost both his feet, while all
the time he was carrying in his knapsack the
good English boots and long warm stockings
I had given him. These he meant to sell,
putting them on only when sure to see me: but
he waited to secure a higher price. And he
tramped barefoot, he slept in cotton clothes,
when the thermometer fell below zero, until
he sacrificed his limbs, perhaps his life. Playing
the same stakes against a human enemy,
the Hindoo is still more recniess.
It is one of the most striking illustrations
of the power of machinery that cotton can be
brought from the far interior of India, on the
backs of bullocks, to the sea, shipped around
the Cape of Good Hope to England, manufactured,
shipjied back by the same route, paying
repeated commissions and profits, and undersell
the native manufacturer 011 the spot where
the raw product is grown, and where labor is
considered well paid at fifteen cents a day.?
Senator Bayard.
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until they have made themselves supremely
miserable. If no real cause for such misery
exists, they will manage to invent one. They
are morbidly sensitive, always on the look out
for a slight, ready to construe any little occurrence
into an intentional affront. The more
you try to assure them of your good disposition
toward them, the more they disturb you.
The best policy is to let them alone, to give
no heed to their whimsicalness.
fgr The promise, "My grace is sufficient for
thee," is a consoling one to every Christian,
and at the same time the communicable, or
Christian graces, "love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, meekness and
temperance are food to his soul. The Christian
graces have been compared to trees?the
more they are shaken by storms the deeper root
they take, and the more fruit they bear."
J