The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, March 01, 1899, Page 7, Image 7
IN SHADOW.
vrrrM was fair, nm! v?>ry fair;
, ?kt und sunshine everywhere*
BM 'mid th?* flowering ?jf the world
lit I lo .u'* '"'l'1 elo?tily ourled.
!.. ||n ?1'?? wooing sunshine rim ital,
little bud was not beguiled.
?hon ?ho niulit wept wild with raia
r? n di?' d?woloted plain
Vi ?lil i!ir' ,1>:', "K'r B'u,dowa saw unclose
? tais "f the hidden rom';
if 1"V<\ to scent tli<* roars. '
fi. turn *l through your tearftl
. ' -E. Nesbit in Black und White.
F HECKLES.
~g WAn the most peculiar chap that
I'JUUC to Dunston's school, not ex
a?<'even Mason, who shot the doc
, '.. wife's parrot with a catapult, ami
Lr ?j.' bad he? n flogged ot?er?*<l to st ntl
, jn thc face of -the whole school ami
jV ?ct expelled. Freckles was sn
,.J owing t<? his skin, which was
a complicated pattern much liku
V von can see in any map of thu
iv., ail archipelago. This arose, he
, .-in. from his having hoen born in
.^tralla. Anyway, it was rum to soo,
\it were his hands, which had red
it down on the backs. His eyes were
^ reddish-a sort of mixture of rod
y ?n-ay specks, and they glimmered
iL a cat's when he was angry, which
EnVoften. His real name was Maine,
i;. fat ber had made a big fortuno sell
.MV M'lat Sydney, and his grandfu
vr was one of the last people tobe
jnsportcd to Botany Bay-through no
'.-lt ?.f Ids own. After he had been on
convict ship two years a chap at
me confessed on bis deathbed that he
1-loue the thing Maine's grandfather
?transported for. So they naturally
Maine's grandfather go free, and he
3 jo sick about it that ho never cunio
.k home again, but married a farm
s daughter near Sydney and settled
it there t'?>r good.
Maint'didn't think much of England
.} waa always talking about the Ans
han forests of blue gum trees and
yb and sneering rather at tho size of
jr forests round Merivale, though they
r,. good ones. He never joined in
hut roamed away alone for miles
i milos into the country on half holi
anil trespassed with a cheek I never
w equaled. Ho could run like a bare.
iiilly about half a mile or so,
ich, as lu? explained to me, is just
nt a distance to blow a keeper. Cer
nir, though often chased, ho was
rerranght and never recognized, ow
to things he did which he had
raed in Australia and copied from
ons bushrangers. His great hope
ie day was to be a bushranger him
!, and he practiced in a quiet way
erv Saturday afternoon, making it a
etogooutof bounds always. His get
was fine. Me, being fond of the coun
and not keen on games, he rather
ito, and after I had sworn on crossed
res not to say a word to a soul
hich I never did till Freckles left) he
me his secrets and showed mo his
ogs. If you'd seen Freckles starting
an excursion yon wouldn't have
there was anything remarkable
nt hiin, but really ho was armed to
teeth and bad everything a bush
ier would be likely to want in a
it place like Merivale. Down his leg
the barrel of an airgnn, strong
ugh to kill any small thing like a
it 23 yards. The rest of the gun was
lined inside tho lining of his coat,
the slags you fired, he carried loose
his trousers pockets. 'Round his
it he had a leather belt, he got from
ilor for a pound. Insido the leather
human skin, said to be flayed off a
> hy cannibals somewhere, which
a splendid thing to have for your
, if it was true, and in the belt a
had hoon specially made for a
ft Freckles, of course, had a knife
-a bowie knife that made you cold
He never used it, but kept it
y, and said if a keeper ever caught
he possibly might have to. In ad
n to these things he carried in his
pockets a little spirit lamp and a
psiblo tin pot and a bag of tea.
h, Freckles had a flat lead mask
i holes for the eyes and month
h he always fitted on when tres
Bg.
we, as an awful favor-me being
smaller and not fast enough to
Iaway from a man-he let me come
we what he did when bushranging
?bali hobday in winter. "I shan't
oy nanni frightful risks with yon,"
dd, "because I might have to open
to eave yon, and that would be
disagreeable to me, but we'll tres
a hit, and I'll shoot a few things if
I don't shoot much. Only for
NSmado me a mask with tinfoil off
?plate, smoothed out nnd gummed
aigardhoard, but I had no arms, and
mwWfi } lmd better not try nnd get
We started for the usual walk,
wero allowed to go through a
c pino wood to Merivale, but half
i. by a place where waB a board
warned ns to keep the path,
ta branched off into some dead
eu and squatted down and put on
-uk. I also pnt on mine. Then he
?d his airgnn together and loaded
told mo to walk six paces behind
od do ns ho did. His eyes wero
keen, and now and then ho
to a feather on the ground or
nest or a patch of rum fungus or
b apple still hanging on the tree,
to all tho leaves were off.
* he fired at a jay and missed it,
'til down in the fern as if ho waa
imself and remained quito mo
for some tim* He told me that
&ys did so after firing that he
hear if anybody hnd been attract
?too sound. It was a well known
?n's dodge. Once we saw a keep
ngh a clearing, and Freckles lay
his stomach, and so did I. He
fte keeper well and told me he
*ny times escaped from him.
H. that gives yon an idea of Frec
An? the affair with Frenchy.
lam going to tell you of, showed
* really waa cutout for bn?hrang
T".^lPrencby. as we called him, waa
chel He didn't belong entirely
rg-i?0**00'8? but lived in Merivale
a ^ wme to us three days a week, and
ie a &TLS' school the other three,
s'.'f-.ff3 R,rum, oldish chap', whose great
?pities were to make puns in Eng
bflg"i to pppoal to our honor about
.ng.
oold slang, a fellow horribly one
i\ u'fl^ wave his arms and pretty near
P ont of bis skin, and the next
Would bring np a whacking pear
e fellow he'd slanged or a new
somtthins:. Ho pretty nearly
cried sometimes, nun ne T< >iiI ns nid
nerves w.re frightfully tricky, and of
ten bini to be harsh when he didn't
mean it. He couldn't keep order or
wake c haps work it' they didn't choose,
and Steggles, who had an awfully cun
ning dodge of always rubbing him up
the wrong way and then looking
crushed and broken' hearted so as to get
thing-, which ho ?lid. said that Frenchy
was like damp fireworks, because you
never knew exactly when he'd go off or
how.
One day. dashing ont of class with r
frightful yell, Freckles got sent for,
and went back and found monsieur
raving mad. lt seemed that Freckles
had yelled too soon-before he was out
of the classroom, in fact, and Frenchy
had got palpitation from it. He let into
Freckles properly then. He said he was
his "bete noire" and "un sot a vingt
quatre carats'* - which means an lt:
carat ass in English, but 24 carats in
French-and "one of the aborigines
whoonght to be kept on a chain," and
many other suchlike things. Freckles
turned all colors, and then white, with
a sort of bluish tint to his lips. Ho
didn't say a word, bnt looked at Frenchy
with snob a frightful expression that I
felt SDI ?ething would happen later. All
? that happened at tho time was that
Freckles got the eighth book of Tele
machus to write out into French from
English, and then correct by Fenelon,
which was a pretty big job if a chap
had been fool enough to try and do
it, and M. Michel went off to Meri
vale with a big card fluttering on his
coattail with "lei on parlo Francais"
written on it in red pencil. This I had
managed to do myself while Frenchy
was jawing Freckles. I told Freckles,
but it didn't comfort him much. Ho
said there wore some things no mortal
man would stand, and to be called "an
aborigine" because a man was born in
Australia seemed to him about tho bit
terest insult even an old frog eating
Frenchman could haye invented. Hap
pening to him of all chaps it was espe
cially a thing which would have to bo
revenged, seeing what his views were.
Be said:
"I couldn't busbrange or anything
with a clear conscience in the future if
I had a thing like this hanging over me.
It's the frightfulest slur on my char
acter, and I won't sit down under it
for J50 Frenchmen."
Then he said be should take a week
io settle what to do. and went into the
playground alone.
Next time Frenchy came np he was
just the same as ever-awfully easygo
ing and jolly and let Freckles off tho
Telemachus, and offered him as classy
a knife, with a corkscrew and other
things, including tweezers, as ever yon
saw-just the knife for Freckles, con
sidering his ways. But it didn't come
off. Freckles got white again when he
saw the knife and said:
"Thank you, monsieur. I don't want
yonr knife, and the imposition is half
done, and will be finished next time
yon come."
Then Frenchy called him a silly boy
and tried to make a joke and playfully
pinch Freckles by tho ear. Bnt nobody
saw the joke, and Freckles dodged
away. Then Frenchy sighed and looked
round to see who should have the knife,
and didn't seem to see anybody in par
ticular, and left it on his desk. He of
ten sighed in class, and sometimes told
na he was without friends, unless he
might call ns friends, and we said he
might.
When he went, Freckles told me he
considered the knife was another insult.
Then he explained what he was going
to do. He said :
"? shall finish the i tn po. first, so at
not to be obliged to him for anything,
and then I shall stick him np."
"Stick him up? How?" I said.
"It'sa bushranging expression," ht
explained. "To 'stick np' a man is ti
make bim stand and deliver what he'f
got. I seo my way to do this witl
Frenchy. He always goes and coiaef
from Merivale through the woods, a?
yon know, and now he's np here ot
Friday nights coaching Slade and Bet
terton for their army exam. Afterward
he has supper with Mr. Thompson 01
the doctor. There yon are. I wait mj
time in the wood, which is jolly lonel]
by night, though it is such a potty lit
tie placo hardly worth calling a wood
Then he comes along, and I stick hin
up."
"li's highway robbery," I said
"You might get years and years of im
prisenment. "
*'I might," he said, "bnt I shan't
You mnst begin your career some time
and I'm going to next Friday night
I've often got out of the dormitory am
been in that wood by night, and onl;
the chaps in the dormitory have know
it. "
Well, the night came, and all tha
we heard about it till afterward wa
that about 11 o'clock, or possibly evei
later than that, there was a fearfn
pealing at the front door of Dunston's
and looking ont we could see a stretche
and something on it. That somethin
was actnally Freckles, though the fet
chaps who knew what was going to b
done felt snre it mnst he Frenchy. B?
causo Freckles is 5 feet 10 inches an
growing, and Frenchy isn't more tba
5 feet 6 inches at the outside, and
poor thing at that. But it was Freckle
all right, and two laboring men ha
brought him back, and Frenchy ha
come with them.
Not for five weeks afterward, whe
Freckles could get up and limp aboul
did I hear the truth, and I'll tell it i
his own words, because they must t
better than a chap's who wasn't then
He seemed frightfully down in tb
month and said that he conld neve
look fellows in the eyes again, but i
cheered him telling me, and when I toi
him he was thundering well ont of
he admitted he waa He said :
**I got off all right, and the moo
waa as clear as day, and every thin
jnst ripe for sticking a chap up. Thei
like a fool, having a longish time 1
wait, I didn't just stop in shadow b
hind a tree trunk or something in tl
usual way, bnt thought I'd do a thin
I'd never heard of bushrangers doini
though Indian thugs are pretty good .
it I went and got up a tree which hi
a branch over the road, and I thong]
' I'd drop down almost on top of Frond
to start with. And that's jnst what
did do, only I dropped wrong and can
down pretty nearly on my head owii
to slipping somehow at the start. Wibi
did exactly happen to me as I left tl
tree I shall never know. Anywi
Frenchy rame along sure enough, and
dropped, and he jumped I should thii
fully a yard into the air, but that w
all. became in falling I hit a bis. ro
?it was a beech tree) and went anti
broke something in 1113'ankle and some
thing in my chest and couldn't stain!.
Consequently, of course, Iconldn'tstiek
him un. The pain was pretty thick, but
feeling what a fool I was seemed to
make me forget it. Anyway, finding it
was useless thinking of sticking 'um
up, I tried to hobble into the fern and
get ont of sight, and finding 1 could n r
crawl I rolled. But, of course, you can't
roll away from a chap, and he come
after me, and my mask fell ?>ff whih I
rolled, and r>> recognized me.
" 'Mon Dieu! It is the boy Maine:
he said. 'Speak, child! What in the
wide world was this'.''
"1 disguised my voice and said I
wasn't Maine, and that he'd better
leave me alone or it might be tho worse
for him yet. But he wouldn't go, and
chancing to get queer about the head
.somehow I went off, I suppose, though
it wasn't for long. When I came to, ho
was gone, but he rushed back in a min
ute with that rotten old top hat be
wears full of water ha'd got from tho
puddle in the stone pit. He doused my
head and made me sit up with my back
against a tree. Then, feeling tho fright
fulness of ii, I again begged bim to go
and let me be. I said:
" 'Yon don't know what you're do
ing. I'm no friend to you, but tho
deadliest enanty 5*011've got in the world
very likely, and if I hadn't fallen down
ot a critical moment and broken myself
I shonld have stuck you up, M. Michel.
So now 5*ou know. '
"He said to himself: 'Tho poor mad
boy, tho poor mad boyl I will run a
toutes jambes for succor. ' But I told
him not to. I began to get a rum hot
pain in my side then, but I felt I would
gladly have died there rather than bo
obliged to hiui. I said:
" 'Yon called me an "alxjrigine, "
which is the most terriblo thing yon
can call au Australian born chap, und
yon wanted to pass it off with a knife
with a corkscrew nnd tweezers in it.
But you couldn't expect me to take it
feeling as I did. Now tho fortunes of
war have given you the vietor\*, nnd, if
yon please, I wish 5*on'd go.'
"He wouldn't, thongh. He said ho
wouldn't have hurt ni5* feelings for
any tiling. He seemed to overlook alto
gether what I was going to do to him
and asked me where it hurt me. I told
him, and he said it was his funlt-fancy
that-and wished he was big enough to
carry mo back. I kept on asking him
to go, and at last, after begging my
pardon like anything for about a week
it seemed, he went. But I beard him
shouting and yelling French yells in
tho woods, and after a bit he came bael
with two men and a hurdle. They pres
ently took me back, and what Frenchy's
said since to the doctor I don't know.
In fact, I didn't know anything foi
days. Anyway I've had nothing but J:
mild rowing and very good grub, ant
I'm not to be even flogged, thongl
that's probably because I broke a rib 01
two, not including the bone in my leg
But I'm all right now, and I think it
was about the most sporting thing (
chap ever did for Frenchy to treat nu
like that, eh? I shouldn't have though'
it was in a Frenchman to do it, espc
cially after I told him what I was go
ing to do. "
"Yes. "I said, "that's all right. Bu
what abont bushranging?"
"It's pretty sickening," he Baid
"bujb I feel as if all the keenness wa
knocked ont of me. If a chap can't si
mn ch as fall out of a tree on a wander
er's path at the nick of time wi thon
smashing himself, what's the good o
him?"
"Besides," 7. said, "if it hadn't beei
Frenchy, but someI>ody else of a differ
ent turn of mind, be might have take;
yon at a disadvantage and billed yo\i. '
"In real bushranging that is wha
would have happened," admitted Free
kies. "As it is, I feel months, per hap
years, will have to go by before I fot
to hanker after it again. And mean
time I shan't rest in peace till I've pai
Frenchy. ' '
"How?" I asked.
"Well, I believe it's tobe dene. He'
often come to see me while I was on m
back in bed. and he's told me a lc
about himself. He's frightfully hard n
and a Roman Catholic, and hopes t
lay his bones in la belle France, wit
luck, but he doesn't think he'll ever t
able to manage it He told me all thii
little knowing my father was extreme'
rich. Well, yon see, the mater warn
somebody French for the kids at bonn
which are girls, and knowing French
bars this climate I think Austral]
might do him good. He's 53 years oh
and it seems to me if thegnv'nor wrot
and offered him his passage and a goc
screw he'd go. I have mado it a person:
thing to myself, and told the gnv'ni
what a good little chap he is and whi
a beautiful accent he's got and il
thing that happened in the wood."
The affair dropped then, and aboi
six weeks after, when Freckles was ge
ting fit again, he walked with me ox
half holiday to see the place where I
was smashed np. The bough was
frightful high one to drop from even i
daylight ; also it was broken. Freckh
got awfully excited when he spotted i
J "There, there!" he said. "That's tl
best thing I've seen for 12 weeks!"
|. "I don't see mnch to squeak obont,
! I said, "especially as tho beastly tbir
nearly did for yon."
"But can't yon see? It's brokei
That's what did it. I thought I slippo
and if I had I shouldn't have been ma<
of the stuff for a bushranger ; bnt i
breaking is jolly different. That wasn
my fault. The most hardened old hai
must have come down then. In fae
you couldn't have stopped np. O
what a lot of misery I'd have bei
saved through all these weeks if I
known it broke in a natural sort
way 1"
He got an extraordinary deal of coi
fort ont of it, and said he shonld rein
to his. old ways again as soon as
could run a mile without stopping. At
wo found his lead mask, like Ned K<
ly's, just where it had dropped when
rolled over in the fern, and he welcom
it like a friend or a dog. That's t
end, except that his I atherdid write
Duns ton, and Dunst on. not being ve
keen about Frenchy himself, seemed
think he would be just the chap for t
girls of Freckles' father. Anyway
went, and he cried when he said "Got
by" to the school, and Freckles told 1
that when he said "Qoodby" to him
yelled with crying and Hessed him
French, and said that thu sunny atm
phero of Australia wou'd very lik<
prolong his life till ho had saved enon
to get his bones back to France.
So he went, an I Feck les went af
bini much sooner than he ever expected j
t?>, because tho keepers finally caught {
him in th?? game preserves sitting in .
his hole under thu stream bank frizzling
thc leg of a pheasant which lu- had shot
out <>f a tree with his nirgnn, ami
Dunstan wrote to his father, and his
father wrote bark that Freckles, being
now 14 und apparently having loss
sense than when hu left Australia, had
bettor return and begin lifo as an office
hoy in his piaf?? of business. Freckles
told mo that office hoy? in his father's
office generally got a fortnight's holi
day, hut that his mother would prob
ably work iii ' is . vernor to ?iv?? him
three weeks. Tl n lu? would get a
proper outfit an?! wk away to tho
boundless scrub ann all in with other
chaps who had simi r i?l?'as and begin
to bushrange seriously Hut he never
wrote to nu-, and 1 don't know if ho
really succeeded well. I'm sure I luipi?
be did, for he was a tidy ? hap. though
queer.-Eden Philpott*, in I?U?'r
Miitrlniony mid II II ri I ne na In Africa.
Tho sailor who had a wife in every
port ho visited hus his counterpart in
tho nativo trader of west Africa, who
has a wife in every village with which
he trades. There is on?, important dif
ference-Jack's wives helped t?> spend
his money, whereas the trader's wives
help to make it. Miss Kingsley tells us
of tho custom and also gives thu expla
nation.
It would bo useless for the trader to
sit at homo und wait for his customers
to come t?> him, because each village is
usually at feud with all the neighboring
villages, and the inhabitants dare not
venture beyond their own district on
pain ?if being robbed first and eaten aft
erward. On the other hand, it is obvi
I onsly a risky thing for the black trader
j to travel from village to village with an
; assortment of tho very goods best cal
culated to arouse tho cupidity of tho
guileless African.
To lessen tho danger he resort? to fre
qnent matrimony. In every village he
takes a wife from one of the most im
portant families and so secures a fac
tion who favor him. Th?? African wife
is not subject to jealousy, ami so each
of the wives is more than content to
have a husband who can keep her sup
plied with cloth and beads to outshine
her neighbors. Her male relatives are
proud of the connection with so impor
tant a man and hopo besides to bo es
pecially favored in matters of business
In return they take his part in dispntes
and help bim to collect his debts and
treat him generally us a respected mem
ber of the family.
I'lrnt Run on a RanU.
Although banking was practiced
among tho Egyptians GOO years liefere
Christ, and among the Romans almost
in its modern form 1,900 years ago, yet,
according to Gilburt, the first "run" of
which we have any account in history
of banking occurred in tho year 1067.
At that date tho bankers of England
! were the goldsmiths, who had a short
! time before begun to add banking to
! their ordinary business, and had bc
: come very numerous and intinentiaL In
1669 the Dntch fleet sailed np the
i Thames, blew np the fort at Sheerness,
; set fire to Chatham and burned some
: ships of tho line.
This created tho greatest consterna
tion in Londou, especially among those
! who bad intrnsted their money to tho
bankers, for it was known that the lat
ter had advanced large snms to the king
for public purposes, and it was rumored
that now the king would not be able So
pay the money. To quell the panic a
royal proclamation WHS issued to tho
effect that payments hy the exchequer
to the bankers would be made as usual.
In 1671 there was another run on tho
I London banks, when Charles II shut np
I the exchequer and refused to pay the
bankers cither principal or interest of
tho money which they had advanced.
On this occasion many of the banks and
their customers were mined.-Pitts
burg Dispatch.
Pert.
Sue Brette--Doe:; not applause denote
pleasure in an audience ?
Footlight-Why, certainly.
"I notice you always get more ap
plause when jen go off the stage than
when yon come on. "-Yonkers States*
man.
Woo? For Canea.
Oak and hazel have always held their
own. Holly was almost an equal favor
ite. The gronnd ash. has constantly
been used by country folk of all degrees
having any association with horses or
cattle. At one time it was fashionable
in London simplex munditiis, just thc
plain supple, elastic stick, but with a
gold band aronnd the top to give it a
mark of distinction. At present the ha
I zel seems fashionable. Those who nse
j it are not in the majority of cases, we
surmise, aware of the magic lore always
associated with the hazel and its nuts,
os to which much might be written.
Orange wood and lemon wood find favor
with some.
Curious sticks there are, too, if this
be not a "boll, " mndo of lingo cabbage
stalks from the Channel islands. The
blackthorn has always found Ireland
trno to it os tho needle to tho pole,
whilo somo part of Scotland likes the
rowan. This is a tree of much magical
legend. Twigs of it nailed on cowhouse
or stable act as does tho horseshoe else
where, and the herd boy or girl often
carries n rowan stick with a bit of red
thread attached to ward off fro<.vi the
cattlo the evil eye. warlocks or witch
es.-Gentleman's Magazine.
Robert I.oulo Stevenrjon'a Humor.
Jun ?. 187.*), after a visit to London.
Simply a scratch. All right, jolly, well
and through with the difficulty. My fa
ther pleased about the Burns. Never
travel in the same carriage with three
ablebodied seamen and a fruiterer from
Kent. The A. B. 's speak all night as
though they were hailing vessels at sea,
and the fruiterer as if he were crying
fruit in a noisy market place. Such, at
least, is my funeste experience. I won
der if a fruiterer from some place else
say Worcestershire-would offer the
same phenomenon ? Insoluble doubt.
"Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson"
in Scribner'?.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature of
THE BITE (>F A SNAKE j
EVERY LAND HAS ITS CHARMS AND !
CURES FOR IT.
--
A Hoer Snake Stout* 'flint I* Said to
Ilavo tho I'ower of Dru?? lou tlio
l'oliuu From lilt?-?-A St?otoh S mi ko :
Stout* With tx TPIIKII' llltttor)'.
In every land tho nativos have a cure,
or a dozen, ti? whioh they trust, besides
charms, lt is probalde that tho great
majority of these have never been test
ed, and persons who have not looked
inti? tho matter naturally blame the
government and the doctors for neg
lecting au intiniry of such profound im
portance. Hut invest igat h n PO far
luis not been encouraging. Nearly al
ways it proves that the healing herb is
chosen nuder the influence of the max
im that * * 1 ik?? cures like." Dur forefa
thors held it as strongly as any modern
savages a few hundred years ago, and
it is not extinct among us to this day.
Various plants resemble a snake in
flower or mode of growth, and for no
better reasou they are accounted reme
dies for its bite. A root which curls
and twists proclaims its own virtue, as
one may say, and if it bo mottled there
is no further room for doubt. Some of
these resemblances aro so strong, in
deed, that tho fancy of the savage bo
comes quite intelligible.
Messrs. Sander introduced a new
aroid from tho Malay countries some
years ago, tho bloom of which is so
strangely like a cobra in tho act of
striking that tho idea of a connection
between tho plant and the snake sug
gests itself t?> even tho unlearned ob
server. It is called Arisiema timbriata.
Wo havo not heard that the natives uso
it as au antidoto to the venom of tho
cobra, but n savant inclined to bet
would tiff er long odds that they do.
Upon the samo reasoning the Indians
of. Peru uso the root of Polyanthus
tuberosa and a creeper which they call
hunco. Credible persons have borne
testimony to tho good effect of both,
but neither could sustain a trial at the
hands of scientitic menin Lima. In Un
successful cases reported, ci HUT the
poison bad not been imbibed or else
the snake did not really belong to a
poisonous species.
The famous markhor of the Himala
yas, which young sportsmen dream
ul ion t-and old ones, too, for that mat
ter--is said to eat snakes-in fact, that
is the meaning of the word markhor.
The statement is not improbable, if it
be true, ns highland shepherds allege
that goats wage war tm the adders. But
in the entrails of any ?dd markhor that
mystic su lis ta nco bezoar is found sonie
t tn as.
It maybe suspected indeed that most
of tho "stones" used as charms, which
puzzle European observers by their
singular formation, would be recognized
nt sight by Chinese doctor us bezoar.
The latest testimony which wo have
noticed to the merit of "snake stones"
is that of Mr. Scions. Ho describes om
from his own observation and experi
ence as light, porous, polished on thc
upper surface, which had blackish am:
grayish mott lings, rough below. Thc
latter was applied to the wound, and il
sncked up the poison like a sponge, giv
ing it off "in a thin white thread*
when plunged in ammonia. This stone
belonged to a Boer, in whoso family il
had remained for several generations
Mr. Scions gives some examples of it.1
efficacy from his own knowledge. Bu*
he did not personally witness any o:
them.
Such stories are innumerable, an<
many of then, rest upon good nnthori
ty. Ono of tho best will bo found ii
Frank Buckland's 'Curiosities of Nat
ural History.' In this instance th?
"stone" was submitted to analysis a
tho College of Surgeons, and reader
who have a healthy love for the marvel
ons will be delighted to learn that Mr
Qnekett, the chemist of that institu
tion, could make nothing of it. He sat
isfied himself that it was a vegetabl
substance, but tho resources of scienc
could not go beyond that. It seem
curions that so little should bo knowi
about these things when a score at leas
are in the bands of rich and charita bl
Hindoos, who lend them in case of need
Some of those gentlemen would not ot
joot to an examination probably. Bu
doctors are bard worked in India, an
they commonly despise all treatmen
which is not regular. There is no regn
lar treatment for snake bite, howevei
so they might allow themselves an vi
enrsion into unauthorized realms.
Much has been done of late yean
indeed, and it may be hoped that a rei
cure, with no mystery about it, will I
discovered soon. That is beyond on
theme. But wo need not travel to Ii
din for a snake stone. There is a spec
men in Scotland older probably tba
any of these foreigners and more rt
nownod-the Lee penny, now, by latei
report, in tho hands of Lockhart c
Lee. It must be admitted that thia vet
erahlo object is rather too much of
panacea. One might feel moro cont
dence in its efficacy against snake bil
if it did not also profess to enre hydri
phobia, burns and tho cattle plugui
Yet tho evidence is equally strong an
equally abundant in its favor for a
these cases. And that evidence extent
over ninny centuries. It was Simo
Lockhart of Lee, te ie same who carrie
Bruce's heart in the train of Dongla
that brought the precious relic hon
from paganry, for proof, it is monntc
in a silver coin of Edward I. And fro:
that time until the ages of faith ht
quite vanished-say, tho middle of tl
last century-the stone was in contii
nal reqnest There are tragic inciden
in its story. Isabel Young was burnt
ki 1029 for curing her cattle with w:
ter in which the Lee penny had bet
dipped. Under tho commonwealth, 5
years later, tho synod of Glasgow vei
tured to attack Sir James Lee himse
for unholy practices It lost courag
however, and withdrew the indictmen
contenting itself with a "serions a
monition to the said laird"-Londi
Standard.
- William Dickerson, of Chestt
Pa., has beep treated by physicians f
bronchitis and other ailments; but wi
little relief. Last Wednesday nig
while lying on a lounge, he was seiz
with a lit of coughing, and ejected
live Hazard from his mouth. He thin
that thc reptile was taken into 1
stomach when he drank water from
spring while gunning.
- If a man is easily discouraged
will languish his obscurity.
Dfflvfita' Minute Olmcrvatlun. ?
Tho observation of Diekens was as I
pi L'uliar in kind as minuto and sleepless !
in xeiviso. Every human being, ot* ; .
e<iuv.so. down to the st lui-idiotic landlord
of Ute inn in "Barnaby Kadgo, " sees
existence at an angle of his own. W.t
look nt lifo each through our personal
prism. Btit the prism of Dickens, if tim
pkruso is permissible, was peculiarly
prismatic, lt lent eccentricity ot* color I
and of form to tho object observed. It ?
settled on a feature and exaggerated j
that. Now, to look at things thus is tho i
essence of the nrt of the caricaturist.
lt has been denied that Dickens' work
is caricature, und to say that it is al- t
ways caricature would bo vastly unjust.
Nevertheless, tho insistence on (barker's v
teeth. Panks' snort, Sk i tupelo's mau- |
tier. Jarndyce'seast wind, ami Rigaud'* i
umst?che, to take only a fi w case-, is
exactly what wo mean by caricature; !
and it is caricature in tho manner of j
Mr. Carlyle, The historian, like thu
novelist, was wont to lix on a single 1
trait or two-in Robespierre, St. Just,
or whoever it might be and to hum
ilier insistently upon that. It was a
ready, if inexpensive, method of secur
ing a distinct impression. Doth Dick
ens and Carlyle overworked this meth
od, which becomes, in the long run, a
stumbling block - to M. Taine, for ex- i
ample.- Andrew Lung in tho Fort
nightly Review.
1* rn II Ko ?if tile Typen.
Experience shows that errors will oc
cur in the best regulated typesetting
establishments. Recently, in writing 1
nu article un ancient theories with re
gard to the universe. 1 bad occasion to
refer to the idea ? nee advanced that
the earth was circular, with roots ,
reaching downward without end. As a
suitable beading to this paragraph 1 g
wrote "Tho Earth With Roots. " lmag
ino my surprise on reading thu title in t
print as "The Earth With Hoots." '
Not long ago 1 quoted tho following ,
remark made by Professor Barnard 1
with regard to variable stars: "As
many as i. hundred of them have been ,
found ill a space in tho sky that would '
be covered by u pin's head held at tho
distance of distinct vision. " Tho type- ,
setter carefully changed thc pin's head
to a pig's bead, and he still survives 1
When engaged to lecture before tho
Bridgeport Scientific society on "Onr
Place Among Infinities," the morning
papers in that'city gave tho titlo of my
lectnre as "Our Placo Among Infirmi
ties." However, tho climax of errors
was reached, not bj* a typesetter, bnt
by a small boy who was sent to a eir
cnlntiug library in quest of my father's
book. "Other Worlds Than Ours," and
overwhelmed tho librarian by asking
for "Other Worms Than Curs."-Mary
Proctor in New York Herald.
Wino's In ?he Air?
Thero would appear to bo more than
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expression, "What's in tho air'.'" Thus,
according to a writer in Cosmos, a par
ticle of dust floating in the air is made
np of a nucleus of variable form, solid
or liquid, surrounded by nit "atmo
derm, " or thin gaseous layer, adhering
to the nucleus by attraction, this titmo*
denn diminishing the weight of the dust,
but not sufficiently to explain its sus
per don in the air. Although denser
than tho exterior air, it is still composed
tif gaseous molecules that have preserv
ed their essential properties. They yet,
like those less closely bound, aro repell
ed by tin* moving molecules that circu
late freely near them or that form part
of other attnoderms, and thus there re
sults a resistance that is. a friction of
the dust particles against tho surround
ing atmospheric molecules.
In this way friction causes very light
powders to fall to earth very slowly, and
once raised by thu wind they follow thu
currents, even the slightest ones, of tho
lower layers of the air. Thus dust parti
cles aro raised easily by ascending cur
rents, and having reached tho top of
their course fall back, but slowly, and
being taken up by new currents may
couseqnently remain long in suspen
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