The Kershaw gazette. (Camden, Kershaw Co., S.C.) 1873-1887, October 03, 1878, Image 1
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PifmutdUMUlatoire. v
THE WASHER AT THE WELL.
. , A iMtOJUJMmO. *"1 . (t f i
Nlfrh a K-aguu to tho c??tlo Still ;
Tie* I *4 1 boum* the b?U from the old clock-tower.
Now, Urate outre, for the stretch up the hill,
Then Just a gallop of half au hour.
If air au hour, and hone and rent t
la the watching for him on the oriel stair,
Or cradllug the ba\>e ou her sllkeu breast
In the hush of the drowsy chamber there T
llola I steady, good Bounlbelle t
Beared at the wind, or the owlet's flighty
He 1 what stirs by the Waahlnjg Wellf -
Who goes there at the dead of night r
Over the stream lielow the slope, '? ? *
Where the women wash their webe at noon,
? form like atUadow seems to grope.
Doubtful under the doubtful moon.
tiood mother, your task Is late and lone.
Ail goes wall at the castle y say I
Mot a word speaks the withered crone,
Gray aa a ghost In the moonlight gray.
Stone-still over the running stream,
Uteadlly, swiftly, round and rouud,
Plying her web through gloom aud gleam, '
Out and in, with never a sound
Never * sound save tho blasted oak
llmtshakee lu the wind, aud Ute bubbling well ;
This la no face of the peasauWolk I?
With the alga of the crues be bars Ute spell.
Slowly, slowly she torus about t
Oh the creeping horror that chokes his breath
?s slowly she draws the Uneu out,
And fashions Its folds In guise of death
Long and loose, like a winding-sheet 1
Mo sharp he pulls at the bridle- rein
The mare ? lauds straight on her trembling feet
Before she cowers to the k rouud again.
How he knows, with a shudder of dread,
The O host of the Well be has looked upon
Washing the shroud for some one dead
Home one dear to him, dead aud goue :
Well and washer aud funeral-pall
Swim under his sight lu pale edlpee.
The good tiod send that the shroud be small !?
He bltee the words lu his bloodless lips.
Over the lonely moer alone,
fraying a prayer for the dearest life,
Stifling a cry for the dead unkuown,
Child or wife i Is It cblld or wife r
Over the threshold and up the stair, *
Aud Into the hush of the deathly room,
To a motionless form In the midnight there
Under the tapers' glimmering gloom |
And the babe on her bosom? child aud wife I
Child aud wife I and h|s Journey done. < **
Hark ! overhead, with a sullen strife,
'Me bell In tke old clock-tower booms? On* f
Katk POtham ohuood.
CHANG-HOW AND ANARKY.
"Grot Beetle I"
A dismayed silence whllo Anarky, our
009k? black as night, eyes set square in
her head, that head set level on her stout
blaok shoulders ? walked around the
Chinese yauth my husband had brought
home as a& experiment in our doinestlo
life around the Chinese youth with his
wiry frame and Insinuating stoop of the
shoulders, and a smile of neutral tint ly
ing placid but wary on his butY counte
nance.
"Lordy-mussy 1" quoth Anarky. An
other vehement, aggressive pause on her
part, a silence observant and self-defen
aiva An hla ?? XT *???,? ? **?_? ?? i |
J?E2?
lis headt Ah1
mattcrwid iu eyes, sot crank-sided right
'glhit its nose, kickln' up der heels, plntln'
ebry way tor Sunday? one en* tiv um ez
sharp as a 'nittlnVneedle, an' tudder en'
ez roun* ez a marble t"
Chang-how sent one eye skirmishing in
my . direction# and the other toward
Anarky, and the same deprecatory yet
wary smile rested like moonlight on his
placid face.
"That will do, Anarky, M said I. "1
' wish you to understand that this is to be
your. Ibl low -servant. You will 000k and
wash aa usual. Chang-how will attend in
the dinlng-rpom, and do 1 don't know yet
exactly What else ; but I wish you to be
kind to him, remembering that he la . a
hi ranger In a strange land, Also, I will
have further remarks 'on his personal
appearance."
Silenced by authority, but unmoved by
my eloquenoe, Anarky made another tour
oi Inspection ? silently raised the end of
Chang-how's queue, disgustedly let it
fell, and went to the door. There sho
stopped'and looked at him again. "Good
Lord t" said she under her breath by way
of oartlng salute.
Tho look of mild unooncern that had
routed on Chang how's features was rip
pled by a quaint, cunning smile, and tor
the first time he cast a quick glanoe fall
at her, then stood again with fouled hands,
calm, submissive, apparently unobser
vant.
roiling me antagonism timt Htm likely
to exist between them, I myself showed
Chang-how Mid hi* bundle to the room
he was to oooupy, And In a short time he
emerged clad in * neat white jacket, his
queue defUy bound around his head, ready
lor buslhesa.
The fellow was exceedingly bright and
quick, and, though he never seemed to be
"takln' notes," nothing escaped his ob
servation. lie learned our Ways in an in*
oredlbly short time, and when those ways
did hot come in conflict with any habit
previously formed hcadapted himself to
them at once s but woeio any pet notion
that interfered with Chang's preconceived
ideas I That notion had to go to the wail.
However, that has nothing to do here.
Whether Ohanghow had been "takin'
notes" wail a debatable point. but that
somebody Kwas taking everything takible
on the premises soon became a self evident
proposition ; and this was uncomfortable
for more re4sons than one. [?; J|r. Smith
and I almost quarrelled about It. He
would not believo it to be Ohang how,
and 1 was determined it should not bo
Anarky. Held he, "Anarky Is taking ad
vnntAge of the popular Idea that the
Chinese are invariably din ? "
"Now, who ever heard anything llko
that?" I Interrupted. "What does An^
arky know about the popular Idea con
cerning the Chinese t About as muoh
as 1 should know If vou were totAlk to me
aliout the Teutanto Idiom for moz/.<itlntcd
'phonetics." V"!,
? "You have convinced me, my dear,
that Chang-how la tho guilty party ; but
the idea 1 meant to convey before you
knocked me down wHh those big words
?was this? that Anarky knowing what
people think of the Chinese, Indulges her
dishonest yearnings, believing we shall
suppose the thief to be Chang-how."
'?But I know it Hn'i Anarky, bacausfr
Anarky always had a blundering, awk
ward, above -board way of stealing that
' made It only taking things, and she was
always getting caught ; and Chang h<f*
always manages not to be found out.
An<f I know it Is Ohang how ; I know it
by tnat. It shows he Is used to ltH
Mr. Smith laughed.
"It does I and I know It U Chang-how
sod It i$n't Anarky/' ?
. Then Mr. Smith laughed again, and
w?
dining-room servant, you remember):
"?v)v one epoonee no oome homee."
"llow you mean, Chang-bow ? Where
spoonoo got"
"All no light: all longee. Spoonee go
'way : I no mid him."
"Ob, but you must find them, ChaDg
how. How many got"
"Four spoonee."
"But they arc solid silver I You really
muBt And them."
"You tell where lookee, I go lookee."
,4I am sure I don't know were you axe
to look. And two forks were mining
lust week!" ^ ? fflrw
I stared reflectively at a June' bug on
the window-sill. Chang-how stood with
folded hands and drooping shoulders, a
scnipliio calm upon his features, as of one
who had stood upon the burning deck
wlion all but ho had tied. Evidently he
had done his duty. I was so - Impressed
with this fact, and that the res
ot the table then,
Chang-how. Mr. Smith will have?to tell
us what to do when he cornea home.''
Exit Chang.
Enter Anarky : "MIb' Maud, how many
bank'chers you sent out dls week Y"
'?Twenty -three, I believe."
"An' now I ain't got but nlneteon.
YouseudutY How many sockB for Alas'
Jim?"
"Six or seven, I suppose. Why?"
"You see dat again Y Ain't hut fo' par
lefl Ef I don't beat him, slioze I'm a
nigger I" ?
"Your Mas' Jimt" I asked, smiling.
Taln't nobody but dat yaller vaimlnt
dat's stcalln' roun' de lot ?Lor* ! Lor' i ef
I Jes* could ootch him i"
Anarky, while wo are talking about
it, I? I really wish you would manage a
little better about the biscuit and? well,
the eggs, and ? and a good many little
things of the kind. I am sure we have
an abundance of everything, and it mor
tifies me exceedingly not to have it at ta
ble. Haven't you and Chang everything
you want, and as muchf"
"We gets more'n 'nuff. An' what goes
outen de kitchen gees correc*. Whar dey
lands 'tween dar an* de dln'-room don't
1 nobody'1 know but dat yaller dorg. I
misses things oornBtant-? things dat I ain't
took my eyes off 'em, 'oep' tor wink ; an',
bless do Lord I while I wor a wlnkln' de
lard done took to its heels or de flour
now m
iiewea away." ? "
Tho next evening, when Chang brought
in support Anarky walked by lib side In
solemn state, empty handed, dignified,
watch l\il. He appeared totally uncon
scious of his escort, and I -made no re
mark ; bat Mr. Smith seat him into the
hall on an errand, and during hifl absence
Anarky rose to explain : "Which you sec
all dem bisklt, Mis' Maud?" .
Ye* ; I am glad we are gutting ull right
again, Anarky."
"Well, I got dat many rpo' in do ub'n
now? Jea' like I use ter hub ?fo' dat ? "
Here an appalling idea seemed to strike
her. ' War dat Chow-chow nigger Y '
she. exclaimed, and made a dash toward
^ie dow. reached it Chaurt-ht
v^SSW.Chaug
wheeled around on his
pin stern surprl)
Site turned to us, 4rembllng with ex
citement: "Well, ef dat ain't de beat
inest trick et ebber I 'seed I Think dat
yaller houn' ain't stole de bisklt oaten de
ub'n ? An', 'fo' Qord I I didn't know
ho'd been out o' here long 'nufffor a dog
to snap at a fly I ? Ef you afot't do oudal
sliusest? She Btopj>cd and glared at him
with the despairing, silent venom of one
who felt herself a pauper in w<pds, a ver
bal fkilure, a Wretched oreaiuro who in
thO supremo hour of trial was proving
herself the wrong person in the wrong
1 Chang-how's hands were iolded, and
his eyes rested dreamily op . tho floor.
Kvldontly, he was conumtedly rolling tea*
leaves in his native land.
Buspioiously regarding the abnormal
appearance of Chartg-how's neat yrhlte
Jacket, 1 forbore to ' rebuke my sable
favorite but Mr. Bmlth, Pot having ob
served the little protuberances which had ,
attracted my attention toward his more |
delicately-tinted protege, said with de
cislon, "Go to tike kitchen, Anarky. and
send In BUpper or bring It yourselff^nd
make haste about it,"
Anarky turned again to Chang-how and
fixed her great black eyes on him In
silence. Then she sounded a note of
solemn warning : "Lord 1 Lord t Shang
hal I" said she, "ef ebber I <loe? ootch you
out an' out, ef ebber 1 dtot git a good
square holt dp you, I'll far you ail to
pieces I Yo' mammy won't want what'il
be left uv von. W iwnn't tv> ?*.,r
oerrvin v
"Shut upee I to much Jawee," said
Chang-how benignly, and dreamed again
of his native land. But for three days
nothing waa missing In Anarky's opart
mont, and so for Chang-how escaped with
unbroken bonee.
On the evening of the fourth day I re
ceived a letter announcing the coming of
visitors, and It unfortunately occurred to
me that Chang-how might assist Anarky
In the laundry, thus ?fiordlng her an op
portunity for greater display Ik the? dullf
nary department; so I called him tip:
"You washerman, Chang how?"
"Oh yes, I washee all light," said
Chang,
"You help Anarky Iron to-day I give
you more money."
"All light I How muclieeT"
"One dollar."
' "Two dollar."
?lOne dollar."
"No washeeone dollar," said Chang.
"No washee at all, then."
?'One dollar ap."
"Nora dollar and a half: I get other
washee."
"Mollcan man no washee ap.."
4 Oh yee. Mellcan woman Suit me."
"AH light I I washeeone dollar."
"Very well. As soon, then, as you
leave the dining-room go to the laundry.
And, Chang, no make cook oroee."
"Cbok to much talkoe : oookon hud
'Well, you no make oookeo crowi per
haps I ?We you more money. '
**AH light i How muehee?"
IE2PW ' w
Going to the laundry, I Mid to Anarky,.
"C5hang-how will aMl*tyou In the Ironing
to-day. ho that you can got through
quickly and ?how my flrtendi some. of
your l>eat oooktng, Anarky. I do hope?"
"What Bhang-doodle know 'bout
1'unln?" aaked Anarky nulklly.
"Oh, he known ever to much." ?ald I
with oheerfUl (kith ; "and I do hope yon
will try to get on nicely with him thl*
time. You know what the Bible aaya
about brothers dwelling together In unity,
and all thatt"
"Chang-Jaw ain't none o' ray brudder,
an* I ain't none o' hls'n," restated An
you -will only be Chang-how's Ions
enough to mtithrough with the Ironing, I
will give you almost anything you
want.
"Gimme a nigger all day long," said
Anarky i "I fa'rly hates a Chinee an' a
Orrlsher."
"Try it to-day, though, Anarky, for my
sake, said I persuasively ; and Bhe con
sented, though sulkily enough.
Hearing ChanK-how coming, I seated
myself on the stairway leading into the
laundry, curious to see how they would
work together.
i Anarky pointed authoritatively to a
heap of dried linen. "Sprinkle dem ar
cloze," said she to Chang. "I'm gwine
out in de yard to git what's on de line."
While Bhe was gone, Cluing- how, as is
the manner of hla people, filled his mouth
with water, and was blowing It, In a fine
spray over the linen when Anarky ap
peared In the doorway, a basket of clothes '
on her head, her knuckles on her hips.,
As she caught sight of Chang-how moist
ening the linen with water from his mouth
she stopped : she staggered, her basket
fell to the floor, and, stooping down, Bhe
threw her hands above her head, then
bnpight them down again with a violent
slap on her knees.
Good Lor' I come down," sahlshe, "an'
look at dat yaller houn' a-spKtlirv^iU'/Ml8'
Maud's cloze. ? I got you now I Can't
nobody blame me fur beatln' you 'botit
dat.}'
Then she flew at him, and wj
it was I 8he, black, brawny,' of tmrrtftn.,^
physical power ? he, lithe, sinewy, supple
as a pnntlier. It waq a. spectacle 1 First
one, thon the other, seemed to have the
advantage. She would catch him In her
powerful grasp, and, lifting him off his
feet, swing him in the air as if about to
?lam him to his final resting-place, when
by some inexplicable manceuvrehe would,
writhe from between her Angers or wrig
gle himself to the back of her n^ck and
mash her nose flat against her breast as If
bent on suffocating ber or breaking her I
neck. In a moment she would reach
back with both hands and pull him over
her head very muoh as men doff a shirt, i
Likely as not, Chang came down with his I
queue halfway up her arm and had her
knee on his breast. '
"Good for you, An? I I mean, aren't
you ashamed of yourtelff Stop 1 Mr
Heaven's sake, stop! You might kill
him,"
As well have spoken to thp winds.
And as they became *more terribly In
earnest I began to scream for help
"Stop, Anarkv I (Murder I murder I)?
Sere, Chang, take the poker.,, (ijfu?
? ? ? r? der !) Great Heaven 1 don t
hither with it I Stop, Chang-hew 1 (Mur-r
d ? r / Oh, mercy I somebody come !)
-?Here, Anarky, take ? the pota-(Mur?
dr-e ? r? rtJ? ,to-masher and don't
"111 ( M?u ? r? der I? kill him with h.
jp
iPttere'a V
(Murder I ? FLro ! fixe -t
This brought the neighbors .>*a<t<tii8r.)
n ilghbors' children, and their neighbors I
id their neighbors' children, and
. Kplls pigtail ailelsure, and IS-. ,
how often ho had sinned And gone un
wiilpt of Justice, and now, in the hotlr of I
peace and tho act of duty, retribution
hid deliberately sought him out, and
found him and disposed of him as afore
told. . .
It seems that Anarky went quietly
enough to the magistrate, who gave her
the choloe between going to Jail and de
positing Ave dollars as security for her ap
pearance next morning for examination.
Not having flvo dollars to deposit, she
was allowed an hour In which to seek
>me ono who would go ball for hor. ./'At
nome one who would go ball for her. /'At
tho end of that timo she returned to the*
office panting, exhausted, wiping the. per
spiration from hor face with her bluri|(/K>t
tob apron
apron.
'Who is going bail for yod V feho was
asked.
Calmly turning down the sleeves that
had been rolled above hor shining black
elt>ows, she replied With contempt. "I
ain't been arter no baiU I dun been home
an* finish boatln'. fie fltee outen dat yaller
houn*. Dat all de hall 1 wants 1 Whloh
head a-sticklnvto It, bin' de chiek'n coop
at Mas' Jim!#. Now kyar me to Jail ppf;
lemme res'. I boun' ho don't spit on no
ra?Tolo?./go,?,,h,?^^ ,.rj ,t:|A
A TtjHILLINfl tyTQRY.
The folTcf^hib jnoident actually oc
curred on b&tfTof a Hritish frigate,
and was comfaunlcatcd to the writer,
several years ago,, to ad old man-of
war's man: rl
A timid boy, abouWpyUen years of
hesitated to go afyt/friit by tike,
u'h orders, was forolwSUtfn the
rigging, and then a ixgRMraln's
was oommanded to lasmjAjtite
dog until he learned to run aloft,
poor fellow's legs and arms trem
he grasped the shrouds, he on<flQ
he prayed the inhuman captain fof
Ckoq's sake to have mercy on him; but
all in vain. The boatswain's mate was
ordered to lay on harder, and harder,
regardless of the boy's piercing screams,
which made even Veteran scafnen turn
from the brutal soene with disgust.
.His clothes were rent from his back,
the Mood followed the lash, and still the
tyi-ant roared out, "I Ay on, boatswain'*
matel"
With one wild soream he sprang from
under the lash, and bounded up the
rigging with amaslng rapidity.
| doubled tlys flittock rl '
passed up the topmast
rigging fifith undiminii
nea the unrattled ro' ?
Krched himself like a bird alongside of
o pennant which streamed from the
masthead. Here he pftuied, looking
fearlessly upon tho deck below. An
hands came up to see hOn-z-hlj. cjrles
and cruol treatment had already en
listed their sympathy, and, If possible,
had tnceased their haired of the cap
The monster was smiling compla-#
oentlV at the success of his experiment:*
he was ono of those tyrants who boasted
that tho cat, properly applied, could
mfcke men do anything. Btlll he was
apprehensive that,, the boy? mig^t cto?
stroy <hlmsd1f, and the cltcumfetanoes be
usod against him at the Admiralty,
whure he knew representations ol his
cruelty hsd already been made. The
men gaxed In silence, looking first at
the boy. and thon at the oaptatn, who
was seated near the taffrall. They
dared not to be seen speaking to one
another? it was a flogging offence; even
at night spies paused undor their ham
the fli
JhlW tnado
?6, the ship
That night, while the
undressing, he was seised 1
and dragged to the bridal
fair lady, on me," said
"but do not scream, or I ;
Look on me. 1 Aid within my i
a i devil, who Rights in oruoll
merciless flond W?o has foourge
:back?; of 'hundreds m<
ruffian who ha* vriftM OWof mj
SOP i, J Md him wlthlta tfie gra
?tain was
ao throat
. "Look,
death, at the 'very moment his black
soul thought itself within, tho reach or
&
lv Joy almost within your reach?then
n,
bed; brit the manWljrho killed him
amst 3aE&m9s
lady stated at thetiuAiftd many years
,aft0rwardH(.that tWDEek of the ma
niac was so sndcHNifoV silent that she
zss m
pressure of the captain's body bont
over the edge ofthe bjft. Joe held his
?victim around the ne#c with the right
hand, and turned hlOpJ|6m side to sidfc
as easily as If Hfo h*A been a child,
while the foreflngev&nd thum of the
left hand ginspea nr own throat
was pale and deathlike, his eye* started
but were motionless and every woti
he uttered seemed ftp issue from the
very depths of his soil. The captain %
looks wore ttrHblefSyond deseriptiql
? death left the impose of ferocity
upon his darkened flfttures. How the
maniac entered or /left tho room she
was she wlthfW,Tfcu an hour claimed
before she could mutter courage to call
for help: but she thanked Qod, when tho
.<* PjfcMnV .qfuoUctAfaoter became geti*
orally known ashofcfthat she had be$n
rescued from hW alliauoe. ? /xmdon
Afautitcal Maycuinif - f ?? <? ?
ACTIVITY NOT ENEMY.
There are eotn 4 men wfcoee (Mlureto
MWetf Jqrllfe Ufa problem toother,
MVeftirto theth selves. They are in
duntnaas, prudent and eoonbtfiloal;?&
aftor a long life of striving, old hgv
Hud# oompflp
activity fhr en
things ewertth!
supposed thai
they would he
their fortunes
that ralsdlrocfl
activity. Thj
oeed le like al
Were al
BP it fcfcijwta ttkitbe mark,?et
Wire a waste of powder. So In the great
ie of life, wnafc a man does muM be
s to count, or It might almost as
have been left uuaono. Every
knows some one in his circle of
friends, who. though always active, has
this want of energy. The distemper,
if we may call it such, exhibits Itself in
various ways. In some cases the man
has ngerely an executive capacity when
he should have a dl recti ve one; in
other language, he makes a capital
cldrk lor himself, when he ought to do
thinking of the business. In other
cases what Is done is not done either at
the right time or In the right way.
Energy, correctly understood, Is
Uvityproportioned to the end.
ac
ARGUING WITH A KING.
J sojourned lot the beautiful Queen of
the Mite la r, Stockholm, a. lew weeks last
?Ummer. : One day I took a trip across
the i little channel, which separates the
city from that splendid place of recrea
ation, Djurgarden, a park where suoh
lights of genius as Bejlhian, Ltdner,
Kjollgren, and otherl? all clustering
around that dilettante King, Gustavus
HI.? 80 tow.jri&rs ago? ware wont to
spend their leisure hours in taking a
social glass) which, by Ae way, was
the absolute ruin of the, in *U respects,
immoderate tragic poet Bengt Lidner.
Here the quick-witted Bellman Impro
vised both words and music to a num
ber of his popular lays, and here stands
his bust. Well, In company with a
mend, I went over to the Garden of An
imals (Djur&ardon) In a little steamboat,
took a long stroll about the magnificent
place, admiring Its tplendid wallas, -its
" roads, its grand trees, its fragrant
bracing air. A very attractive
:lng restaurant was too tempting a1
e to pms by on a hot day, so lu we
stepped, ordering some refreshments,
and were waited upon by a beautiful
and polite young lady, who could speak
a little broken English. After a while
two other gentlemen entered, one of
whom attracted my attention on ac
count of his great neight and distin
guished air. They, also ordered refresh
ments, meanwhile keeping up a Very
animated conversation. Suddenly the
tall man turned around and fixed his
ddurlc eyes on mo. '.??? '? ? . -1/ ?"*
44 Are you an Englishman, sir V" he
asked with a strong Swedish accont.
41 No, sir ; lama cltisen of the United
States."
uAh! Is that so? I heard you speak
English. Well, so much the belter.
K ftlways admired the United
rower? glad to hear you say so,"
Wif a monarchy like Sw&
uld hardly expect to hear
\U Mulf of the Gw$3e
, w*cept It be from the working
i; but even they seem to be going
an her now on acoouot of the
* lch have prevailed
for thelaet few y?
.~.u
with apparent difficulty,) r ?
what I have always expeoted, ,
in nature is the same the wofta,
and a working man stands As
and Is as muoh respected
g leave to differ with
Lerelcalled for another1
bottle of olaret, Inviting the two
strangers to partake* which they ac
cepted with thanks. Besumlng the
conversation, I expressed my innate
hatred to the monarchical system,
pointing out and vehemently de
nouncing, among other things, the en
ormous salaries which the over-bur
dened people had to pay those parasites
of Bocfety called Kings, Queens, Dukes
and Princesses i how the system created
an absurd, imaginary distinction be
tween the rulers ' and the ruled, de
grading the people in their own self
esteem, and lalsely exalting the 44royal
family. ?? I also emphasised with con
siderable vigor the extravaganoe and
licentiousness so common among said
personage*, referring to the cases of
Catharine II., of BUssia: Louis XV. ,
of France, andOharles X v., of Sweden, i
as instances. The latter's request or |
Parliament to grant a dower of 200,000
crowns to his daughter, Louisa, at her
marriage with a Danish Prince, some
nine years ago. while the country suf
fered from fkmlne, and the poor Swedes
In America were sending relief across
the ocean, I stamped as an act of In
fernal shamelessness, reciting a stansa
of the scathing Satire which Edward
Axoh, a Swedish writer, had on that
occasion addressed to Charles X V.
After listening to my arguments a
few moments more, tflke two strangers
bade me adieu, the tall one remarking :
"I should be glad to see you again
and resume the conversation with you.
For the present my business calls me
away/'
44Doyou know that tall gentleman?"
I asked the watter girl, after they had
led.
The girl smiled. "Indeed I do, sir.
He is Oscar II., King of Sweden."?
Correspondence Chicago Inter* Ocean,
THE flRF.AT WALL OF CHINA.
- The great wall of China was measured
in many places by Mr. Unthank, an
American engineer, lately engaged In a
survey for a Chinese railway. His
mtfMuftments give a height of eighteen
feet and a width on the top of fifteen
feet. Ev#$r few hundred yards there
Is a tower fwe^ty-four feet square and
from twenty to twenty-five feet high.
Thfc foundation of the wall is of Holid
granite. Mr. Onthank brought with
him a brick from the wall, wiiioh is
StippoAd to have been made two hun
dred years before the time of Christ.
In building this ImmntiHu stone fenoe
to keep out the Tartars, the builders
neVer attempted to avoid mountains or
ohasms to save expense. For thirteen
hundred mile* the wall goes over plain
and mountain, ibid every foot of tho
foundation is in solid granite, and the
rest of the structure Is solid masonry.
In some place* Ihe wall Is built up
smooth against ttVn bank, or oaiions, or
precipices, where there Is a sheer
descent of a tifcnisaud feet. Small
stroams are arehW over, but on the
larger streams thb wall rutin to the
water's edge, and a tower Is built on
each nlde. On the top of the wall
there are breastworks, defences facing
In and out, so that the defending forces
can pais from one tower to another
without being exptoed to the enemy
from either sldo. To calculate the
time of building, ot the cost of this
wall, is beyond human skill. So far as
the magnitude of the work Is con
cerned. it surpasses everything in
ancient or mmlern times of which
there is any trace. The Pyramids of
Egypt are nothing compared to it.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ANIMALS.
- There has been on exhibition at the
New York Aquarium a collection of
trained animals, the performances of
which indicate a degree of intelligence
which is very remarkablel There are
ten Broncho horses, a number of doge
and a pair of Kooky Mountain goats,
all of which possess accomplishments
sufficient to till up a long and interest
ing programme. It is stated that the
horses were wild upon the plaius three
years ago. and consequently that dur
ing this brief period their education
has been effected. In beginning the
performance the whole ten are first in
troduced, and at the word of command
they perform various military evolu
tions. such as marching in line abreast,
in columns of fours, by the Hanks, etc.,
both at common and quick time. A
handkerchief given to one is passed to
,the next and so on from mouth to
k mouth of the ten ; any one horse called
by name steps forward, and Anally the
act is closed by one o{ the number who
goes to each of his comrades iu turn,
and, crowding him out of the line,
wishes him with hiB nose as a signal
for exit. Each horse is then introduced
in turn to exhibit his special accom
plishments. One walks up and to the
middle of a balanced board, and there
by moving his fore feet oscillates the
plank, accommodating every muscle of
the body to the movement. Finally he .
retires to one end of the board, bearing |
that extremity down and leaving the
other high in air. A second horse now
called in puts his nose over the elevated
end of the plank,* forces it down until
he can plant his fore hoofs on it, and
then mounts thereon. The curious
?||ht is theu presented of two horses
at the respective ends of the 44 teeter,"
gravely swinging eaoh other up and
down. The difficulty of teaching all
this to an animal so careful as to step
ping on inseoure supports as the horse
?is, can well be imagined. Perhaps the
most remarkable feats accomplished on
the board, which is quite narrow, are
the turning around of a horse (who
stands direotly over the ?Mctunyand
is oowpelled while turning to balance
himself with .reat care), aful.the roll
ing of, a ban el over the whole length
of the plank. Trainers * fifltf that it is
an exceedingly troublesome undertak
ing to get a horse to do anything with .
his front hoofs whioh Involves raising
them to any height, but hove the arnqMuJ
plants both hoofs on a barrel And rolls
it up one side of the balanced board.
Then, as the latter swings over; the
horse catches the barrel with, the rear .
side of his hoofs, and walks down the;
steep iuoline holding the barrel back,.;
There are several tricks conixhomy per
formed by trained horses in; circuses
which these animals execute with re- j
marka^le readiness and accuracy^ One
his hii^i leg, or around that of- aSoWier ]
horse ; a third jumps, over a gate, then
turns uudpnUsa string whichnres a
piafcol attached to its surcingle ; a fourth
waltzes In excellent time to music : tihd
a tilth, a magnificent cream-cOlored
animal, accomplishes an' -astonishing
leap over a slit-foot gate , and four
horses placed side by side against it.
The exhibition of the horses Is followed
by that of a troupe of dogs, one of
which exhibits considerable skill as a
rider on a pad saddle. It leaps over
banners and through paper hoops, and
finally springs upon a platform under
which the horse passes? Then as the
horse returns at a gallop around* the
ring the dog springs from the platform
back upon the saddle. The eagerness
of the dog in watching for the return
of the horse, and its prompt retrial in
case of failure, seem to show that it
takes actual pleasure iu its perform
ances.
a ne troop 01 trained uogs appear to
belong to no particular breed ? a fact
somewliat extraordinary, as trainers
usually prefer to teach the intelligent
French poodle. The performance opens
With roll-call, each dbg answering to
its name by a sharp bark. One animal
then dances, two dance on their hind
legs and seat themselves human fashion
in small chairs, and others jump the
rope.. The most curious trick is one in
which all participate. At the word of
thq, trainer oue of the animals takes
oil its collar with its forepaws. As
the collar falls upon the ground a little
dog etuis forward, seizes it and scam
pers away. Another animal pursues
him, regains the collar and puts it on.
The trainer then asks, " What ought
to be done to a dog that steals ? " No
sooner are these words uttered than
two jump upon ohairs, to which up
rights having large hooks at their upper
extremities are secured. The third dog
picks up a oross-bar in his mouth, car
ries It to the two on the chairs, and
tliese lift it up aud insert it on the
hooks. The trainer meanwhile slips a
noose over the' Binall thief's head, and
another dog grasps the end of the rope
and drags the culprit to the gallows.
The problem then Is how to got the
rope over the oross-bar with the -rope in
bur mouth. The hangman then pulls
cord, aud lifts the struggling vic
tim Into the air, keeps him up for a few
uihlutes, and lowers iiim apjmrently
dead. A wagon is now brought in,
aud the hanged dog placed in front.
Immediately one large dog places him
self between?the shafts, two inore seat
themselves upright on the seats, aud
another two nusli the vehicle from be
hind, aud with tho exit of tho latter
. this littlo melodrama, which Is played
through without a word from the
trainer or any other help thau tho am x
Ing of the noose, terminates.
The accomplishments of the Kooky
Mountain goats ? large white animals
with enormous horns ? are the more
ourious, when the stupid, phlegmatic
nature of the brute is remembered.
Yet they leap upon the backs of horses,
ride around the ring at full gallop, and
are not displaced even when the horses
take flying leaps over high fences. One
of the goats omulates the dog In leap
ing upon and from a platform ; but the
solemn manner in which this is done,
and the pertinacity with which the
ffoat refuses to jump down until the
horse is placed in what he considers
exactly tlio proper position beneath
him, are very ludicrous. A remarkable
act performed by both goats Is circling
from one horse to another while at a
full gallop. The horses run side by
side, and the goat on one places his
fore feet on one pad and hind feet on
the other ; the other goat does the
same. Then" they follow each other
in a circle, passing from horse to horse
and back again.
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STORM AND HEAT PHENOMENA.
The Mississippi Valley has always
been subject to hurricanes. Their tracks
are traceable in every State from Ohio
to the Black IIllls, and from the great
lakes to the Gulf of Mexloo, through
riven forests aud desolated villages.
But this year will be long remembered
for the great numl)er and terrible char
acter of its storms. It has produced
moro of them than the preceding teu
years, and with a frightful loss or life
and property. Aud now. directly after
these great slonnH, which should have
cooled and puritled the air, comes the
equally startling phenomena of heat,
the intensity of which has not been he
fore experienced by the oldest settlers.
The number of people struck down by
this cause in the citv of St. Ix>uis since
hist Friday must fiavo been three or
four hundred ? a third of them fataily.
Doubtless there occurred other hun
dreds of cases in the smaller towns and
in the harvest flelds, not reported; for
the high temperature extends as far up
the Missouri Valley as fe*. Joseph aud
Omaha, and from Southern llliuois to
Chicago, where a range of 01 degrees
on Monday caused three cases of sun
stroke. the lake Influence being over
come by the heated atmosphere upon
the land. These heated spells are com
monly, in the Western Slates, followed
by great storms of wind and rain, dis
astrous to iho crops outstanding. The
corn crop has already suffered from this
cause, and if it should be repeated agaiu,
many millions of dollars would nut cover
the losses of the farmers. California aud
the region between the Sierra aud the
Kocky Mountains are happily exempt
'from these fearftil phenomena. \Ne
have never heard of a well-authenti
cated case of sun-stroke in this State,
nor of a wind stroug enough to destroy a
well-oonstructed building. Yet it is not
unusual for the meroury to rise as high
as 112 degrees in the shade in the foot
hills, and 100 to 108 degrees at Sacra
mento and MarysvllU). . In June, 1860,
from the effects of a slrocoo then blow
lug this way from the Colorado desert,
,the thermometer marked 122 degrees
at Knight's Ferry, Stanislaus couuty,
and 133 degrees In the shade at various
places In San ? Bernardino and Santa
Barbara counties. In the' era of active
plttoer mining 110 to 114 degrees In the
shade was not at all uncommon. Yet
.In this intense 'heat (suoh Is the purity
aftd freedom of our atmosphere from
malaria and humidity) thousands oi
miners worked in the sun all day long
Without prostration or suffering. ? San
.Francisco Chronicle.
SINGING IN THE FAMILY.
Cultivate singing in the family
gin when the T
fotir? oldi The
mother sang, br
memory, and teao!
ones; mi k f*
the sin^llar
oom*6j
-- ?.-^eets, and ainldthe splendor
the drives In a pqpk, some little thing
I? XP/ SffSiiP
tbecool
the
?.v V.W IU1U, >uv WVI, Baling, but} I
shady tree by the Uttlfe achoolhouse ? |
and the next instant we almost see
again the ruddy cheeks, the smiling
mcos, and the merry eyes of the school
mate#, Home gray-beaded now, mo?t
"lie mouldering in the grave.'' And
uthe sonfc your niother sang" springs
unbidden to the lips, and soothes and
sweetens ail these memories. ' At othor
times, amid the crushing mishaps of
business, a men/ ditty of the olden
time popa,up its little head, breaks in
upon the ugly train of thought, throws
the mind into another channel*, light
breaks in firOin behind the clouds in the
sky, and new courage is given to us.
The honest man goetf singing to his
work, and when the day's labor is (lone,
his tools laid aside, and he is on his
way home, where wife ana ohlld, and
tidy table, and ?cheerfbl fireside await
him, he can not b\lt whistle or sing.
MARRIAGE.
Perhaps nothing shows the existence
of the Divine idea in marriage so much
as its incomprehensible mystery, which
all those who enter it, save the most
frivolous and thoughtless, are obliged
to recognize, feeling themselves as much
surrounded oy it an if they lived among
the great, primeval agencies that llrst
sot the world going ? for to all it seems
as strange as if they were the first and
only ones, and they wore at a loss to
explain it or ponetrate the meaning of
the deep and sacred enigma. They
understood a mother's iove for the
flesh of her flesh in her children, a
child's love for the visible provideuce
of its father: but who is to comprehend
the love of tliehusbiind, who, arrived
at maturity, with all his prejudices
formed, ills course marked out, meets
one who, in scarcely more than an In
stant, becomes more to him lhan father
or mother, sister or bother, or all the
world ? In short, on whose presonce the
happiness of the world hinges? And
who shall comprehend the devotion of
the wife, who, if need were, would die
for her husband?
? A Cincinnati man is roaponsible
for the following : Some years ago at
the funeral of a friend, I wan Heated in
? a carriage with a person who in face
carried all tho habiliment* of woe. 1
wan not aware he was acquainted with
the deceased. I became iuquisltlvo.
Hays I. "Are you a relation ?" "No."
"A mend?" "No." In Yankee
fa?hlon, I said, "VVhy attond his fu
neral. and look so sad Y" He naid,
"In fact, I am troubled with dyspepsia.
My doctor advised mo to ride. I am
too poor to hire a carriage, and there
for** ride free to funerals." A cheerful
situation for a dyspeptic, we should
? Some of thewe Ixiautifnl evening a
man with a wiited-eollar and a sprink
1(h1 coat will mutter an old fashioned
bit of profanity between hit tooth ; lie
will scud swiftly Across the street ; he
will pick ut> the boy that In manipulat
ing the Hide- walk hose', he will twist
bin head around five time* ; ho will
jam bin head into a crack in the fence
and kick his whole body through after
It, and then that l>oy will learn that It
is not right nor safe to glue his eyes
into the top of a tree while he sprink
les the stroote, the sidowalks and the
citizens, indiscriminately and impar ,
tiailr. Mind, we do not advocate the
reckless, extraagent or wanton killlti$v
of boys but these aro revolutionary
times and ihe temper of a down trod
don people is restleao and unsafe. ?
Jiaxnfceye.
"7
%'ttrieiies.
? Always look on the bright side of
everything.
? >\hat pupil is most to be pitied? ?
The pupil or the eye, because it is al
ways under the lash.
? When the world lias once got hold
of a lie. it is astonishing how hard it is
to get it out of the world.
? Austria has forbidden the circula
tion within her territory of all German
socialistic newspapers.
? The German army is to use the
telephone. It is to be esj>ociaLly ser
viceable on the outposts.
? Georgia has 2390 miles of railroad
completed and in operation, or about
one mile of road to 488 inhabitants.
? The Sultan of Turkey is obliged to
have 305 suits of clothes in a year; he
never wears the same garments twice.
? Life is a state of embryo, a pre
paration for life. A man is not com
pletely boru uutil he has passed through
death.
? An Ottawa (Can.) Alderman was
attacked by a bear. The Alderman re
covered from the tight, the bear it was
that died.
? Heaven exercises men with trials,
holds in its hands the issue* of things,
and determines men's lot according to
their conduct.
? None are more apparently valiant
than the coward when freed from dan
ger. What is lost in reality finds a
supply in assumption.
? Prince Bismarck is becoming very
corpulent. When weighed recently
at Klssongen, in Germany, he pulled
up two hundred and forty pounds. ^
? German and Austrian law forbids
the sale of dead llsh. The are/
brought from the sea and rlvfeTv; in'
tanks and are killed after being sold.
? There is a proposition to found a
new conservatory in Paris for declina
tion and for teaching actors and ic
rtresses, separating this branch from that
of the musical profession.
? Opinion should guide in public af
fairs. not feeling. Opinion is grounded
on circumstances, on observation, and
on reileotion. Feeling acts from im
pulse, which sees but half.
? Frances Alice Flintoff, the Califor
nia Giantess, is dead. She was forty
four, Btood six feet six Inches, was a
native of New York, and had travelled
with Lee, & Marshall'^ Circus. . , /
? The sale of Marshal Baaaine's
his "Escape from Fort St.
V Is ihterdlcted In France.
v. A lad of considerable looal celebrity
drowning.
?Mrs. Fanny Washington. Finch,
th?>fcreat-fcrand-nieCe of Washlngtoii,
and supposed to be. his nearest Uvlftg
relative. Is keeping a boarding house
in Washington, and has recently had
her furnlturo attached by a landlord for '
rant*
? A Hartford (Conn.) liiwy or, as
signed to defend a thief at the Superiqr
Court in 1873, received then no pay for
his services, but has Just received from
N ew Zealand a letter from the thief
asking for his definite address in order
to pay him. ' ; a
? Mr. Lockyer, the English astrono
mer, while staying at Lake View, near
Buffalo, witnessed a water-spout. It
was of remarkable dimensions and very
complete. It traversed about two miles
of Lake Erie before bursting, and was
in full view all tho time.
?Dr. J. 8. Myer, of Virginia City,,
Nevada, has rediscovered a lost Egyp
tian art. Ho tempers copper tools x6'
a more lasting cutting euge man steel,
tools will hold, similar to that the
copper implements with which the
stone for the Pyramids wua out.
? A now species of tea shrub resem
bling that which grows in China, has
been discovered in Armenia* near Tre
biscond. The peasants pick the leaves
and dry them in the sun, and large
quantities have been sent to , Persia, ...
where the new product is highly
predated. , !
Mr. lleuben Peterson, of Duxbury, i
Mass.. aged 87 years, and wife, aged 84,. f
have been married sixty yearn : have
had seven children, four sons and three 1
daughters ; ulso twelve grandohlldren
and nine great-grandchildren, and no
death has ever occurred among their '
descendants. 1 ? > ; >1
? Tiro little follows found a loaded
revolver on a window Hill In a house In il
Chester county, and one of them began
snapping It at the other. Two cham
bers were not loaded, but the third con- 1
tainud a bullet, which was seat Into;!)
tho fleshy part of one of the lad's ariua, ,
Inflicting a painful wound. ? '
? They are at this moment the un- '!
precedented numlier of thirty-three' '?
ironclads In cominission In thejRritish -ii
navy, Ijesldes many uuarmored frigates
and corvettes of recent construction!-^- '
Of the ironclads in commission four- >
teen are in tho Mediterranean with ( k
Admirals Hornby and l<ord John Ha^. .vj
? One of Gilbert Htuart's Portraits
of Washington has beon presented to ,
the Maryland Historical Hociety. It- w
was originally palute<l for the latu (Jolot *u
mon Ktting, of Baltimore, and was ;
given to the Hoclety by his daughter, ' ,
who was nresent on a number of oobo* *'?*
sions while the artist was performing }<?)
his work. <
< .i )!.. i >1
? A project is afoot for the thorough: u
and systematic exploration of the an
ti<H?lties of the Euphrates Valley, it
is proposed to organize an expedition t
to leavo England during next spring,
the funds for which are to be raised by 1
contributions. the Government haVlng ??
refused its aid. Tho organization for ,j
the carrying out of the scheme is to be ,
on the model of the J'aleetlne ExplOfa*
tlon Fund. .
? A summary account of Dr. Bchlle
manii's recent excavations at Olympia
says that the monitor of marble object*
found during the last three Winter's is
1M)4 ; of bronzes, 3734 j of terracottas, ?
1H)1 ; of Inscriptions, 420, and of coins,
1270. All the more Important ruins
Iwtve boen photographed, and the third
volume of the official account Is almut ^
"to appear. An exhibition of all the *
casts taken will shortly be opened In |
Berlin.
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