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AUTUMN.
The aster glow* the falling leaves beneath,
Tbo golden-rod guama by tho hodgcrow
v .brown,
As though the (lying summer in the frott*
king's toetli
Hod hurled her gauntlet down.
Bo when the shades of solemn silence sink
Upon us, and wo reach life's latest bivath,
The soul exultant bids, e'en on the gmve's
black brink, '?*?? ?
Do fiance unto death I
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We perish not. Tho mounting spirit towers
In conscious Immortality sublime;
And gains, beyond death's feeble, fleeting
winter hours,
Eternal summer time.
UNOI.E ABEL.
? ?j.-ft-i ?
It is proper, I boliovo, to symbolize a
town by a young woman; but if Tarry
town had over clio?en a presiding gen
av''t must have taken theshapo of
Abel Dowrcx. lie was Tarrytown lt
seir. All the bigotry, the intolerable
?njl the kindly feeling of
that mountain village, lived and
moved in the lean figure of the old
bachelor.
The Towroxes were in Tarrytown at
the beginning; and the beginning of
Tarry town ran dimly ^back, we all
vaguely felt, behind pre historic ages.
??Ve*matV>. if we had nover heard
of him, would hav'o been held as a
modo.n inter op:-r bos'do our old fain
ifies. It was President Madison,
think, who gave the po toUce to one
of the Dowrexcs, and a member of the
family had held the po?t ever sin- e.
Uncle Abnl had brfen bur' postmaster
.^orforty years. The one street of the
vlilago ran, as everybody knows, down
onesteep hill and up "another. The
old Dowrex house, bedded in its orchard
wad garden, stood in the bottom of
the cup, in the very center of evorv
S SIttIn9 . In his porch under
the big sycaniore, ' tilted back in
his hirkory chair, Abel could look ub
either slope into tho front yard of
every house in town. Whenever
Squire Plunkett's wife, in the big housfe
on the top of the hill,had chicken pio fqr
dinner, she would hanga*redbandan,a
handkerchief on the pump handle,
which was the sign for Abel to oomo
up. Everybody knew how fond he
was of ohioken pie,' and everybody s^nt
for him when that goo l Pennsylvania
dish was on the table. TarrytoWn
was a hospitable t lace.' It was the
universal habit t "> lay one more cover
than was' n*fetted* for every meal, "in
case somobody should drop inand
Ve^r pn?r< in on ea h otfier ince
?antly. Nobody was >o likely to roifce
as the grave, baggy, nut-colored
clothes, and his brown wlq pet, liko a
thatch, atop of the wizened fa e, and
nobody was more welcome. Hut when
anybody was . in trouble, or "out of
sorts^. and wanted h arten'ng, he was
sure^to find his way down to the Dow
rex house near to sunper-tlme. Cross
ing the por *h you rome to Undo Abel
in his warm, snug little office, seated
with some old orony ovor the. Are* .His
father had sat in that spl'fcba k chair,
with it* > sheepskin cushion. Abel
took it tho day the old squire
;Ul:d, r.aod ' ..then and there be
the^ head of the family.
A* back was the cherry
wood case, with its twenty pigeon
holes, in which, time out,of mind, a
Dowrex had kept the letters of Tarty.
-Xyfr'U/ ?;opMy a> the dock strdck
six the tea-bell tinkled inside "Potty
: Abel was used to say, "the ti -a
bell has rung on the stroke of six.] 1
have brought sister Parah into toter
thou?h 8,|e ia still
inoHned to be giddy. These giris, you
.. ?^?unt S'aral) was two years younger
than AW. As the tea-bell rang ^
and ?tood on the
threahul 1 With, "Conio brother," drop
ping a "welcome courtesy to the inevi
Ubfe "dropper-in." T&ere werenot
many hints of giddiness in the frail
?? btoxtotm, white
fewtoSfi rird?<
:5SSbwed ?Ur grAttdmother8 *e
The keeping-room behind the office
was Aunt Sarah's ddtorfln, ' Tljere
2!8uJ nP 1)11488 ,ender Rnd
scuttle (every Tump of coal in it
*wbed and wiped before it was !ad
mltted to that spotless retrskt).
there were her geraniums In tho
window, and her rocking-ohalr hnd
Bible, and Jay's Devotions; and tl ere
was the oozv table spread, and 4 sup
such as no other pot ever
btftod, and Hannah bringing in her
famous griddle cakes from the kitchen.
HlffltrthyrM ovgr?y ?HI tmS tdbu
mistress, but she had been known as
Dowrex's "bound giil" for ha* ?
century. The dish of gossip waiting
was as fine in quality ? the t??
Never had a black mark Wnleffcori
the character of' any human beinf by
to think of. They had never
twenty ml'eu from hometthey
nothing for books. The United ?
Eng'and, Asia. >were In faet to
only so many splatches of color
the maps. The wor d was Twr*
Indeed, heaven itsdf.to whlcl
mother and so many nanUgy
Plunkctte, Falrlamb* and Da<
and having no knowledge of books or
any science Or oraft, all of his enfargy
an t largo tendernesi and sympathy
went during h s whole life, t?/ his
neighbors. Tha mero fact that all of
thefr injer ot.wo with the, outside
world ea no through him gave him a
judge's love letters in that. One
every Monday, though postage was ten
cents then, ills* Katherlne Di*,
down In lJently, was the lady, mother
Of Henry Uassett, I remember the
first letter Iro wilt- t> Ids oousln 6u*y,
1 a* ho ma rhuh Tut I lie told raa
all about it when nobody In Tarrytown
suspeoioned a thing. ' Ab^l,' bo says,
giving mo the letter privately, 4 wish
me good luckt' Well, he hart it. Tut!
the Tetters I've stamped and put in
the bag and threw an old shoe after,
so to speak! Folks mostly tell me
what they're writing about when it is
of importance."
> That was quite true. Oddly enough
all of the boys and girls in love affairs
made a confident of the ugly, lewigged
baohelor, and when there was sickness
or trouble in any house, the first mes
senger sent for was Undo Abel.
! M D'ye see that box ? Number nine?
There was a queer lett?r in that onco.
The widow Falrlamb's Zack ran off to
eea, left a note sayln' ho ha I g >ne to
embark on the brig Victory, Haines,
master. She was a sickly little body,
and Zack was all she had, so nobody
had the heart to tell hor It was a good
riddance. But we thought it. lie
was a lazy dog, Zack. Sho got a map
and sho wrote to every seaport where
American ships would put in, directed
to 'Unite.l States Brig Victory,
Haines, master,' begving him to come
home. I encouraged her, though I
knowed it was of no us^. But it kept
hor alive, you see. I 'gave her that
box, number nine, and I says, 'As suro
as a letter comes I'll put it there,' says
I. Sho como every mail day, and
would look away* again without a
word. So Sister Sarah and tho neigh
bors they heard of it and they
fell into the habit of putting
a trifle in, a pound of ten, or a
bunch of sage or balm or a pie, or the
like. So it went on for Ave years, and
that poor soul ha l sent out hundreds
of letters. I reckon most of .her earn
ings went in postage. When one dny
Sam drove up in the buggy with tho
mall, who should got out of it but
Zack, bi? and fat, and a goatee on his
chin. He hndn't been to sea at. all, but
had gone down to Alleghany county
and set to work rafting to Orleans and
bad a streak of luck.. ' I've as pretty
a farm and house at McKeerport as
you'd wish to see,'he said, 'and I've
oome home for mother !' So I to'dhim
about the box. ' There she comes,' I
said, and nothing would suit him but
he must go insido and hide. Zack al
ways was a cra*.y> joking follow. And
when she looked in tho box there was |
his red face staring out at hor. That,"
Abel would fay, taking off his wig to
rub his shining pate, " was as pleasant
a day as I ever enjoyoii After they
were gono Foa Hl'platook thebox."
" One of the Hippies went astray I
think V" somebody ventured
Hwtrev?rybo<ly In Tarrytown know,
thatk>when Joo- Illpply to^Jc to dripk;
ij^anfl was tinned 'oufr'pf doa/S^ by
a titfufed foo/bf ^ool?
hjji father, 4ld Abfel followed the jboy
and found iitift' In the swamp,1 carried
him homo and nursel him back to life.
More than that, he and Sarah kopt Joe
for four months in tin ir house, main
taining so strict a watch over him day
and night that ho could not get a drop
of liquor. Everybody knew, too, the
sacrifice which It must have boon to
the orderly^ dainty old people to bring
this wjor, drunkard; wttU his filthy
habits to tnr ir heartfi. Bbt the result
was that Joe was cured anl actually
became the "fino pithy man" in whom
Abel exulted.
When tho war broke out half a
dozen young Fairlamb) and Bassetts
wont down to Philadelphia to join tho
Iffdrtfcefcn army: I am afraid that was
Unolo Abel's only dear idea of tho
matter. lie eared nothing for slavory,
or Stato rights, or politics, or anything
else so far outside of TarrytQwn.
H&utlRtYohly meant w him
Charlie Plunkett, who thirty years
ago had gone to Texas, and the squire's
cousin Jane, who had taught and mat
rled in Georgia. That the boys should
tafajftp ?
In the second winter the women of
Tarrytown JTiado up^sqme boxoa of
comforts for r tho boys," blankets,
mittens; jellies Irad every kind of cake'
When they were all ready a town
meeting was held, and it wap decided
J&tft sdmebbdy mult go with theboxes
to/Qeirgetpwji, vyhere they were in
Btfmp. ^With one accord Unole Abel
was named as tho proper messenger
" It would seem like Tartytown itself
coming, to those poor fellows," the
widow Bassett said, sobbing.
So Abel went, and the town met to
gether once a week to read his letters,
Whili tisuitilly coverod twenty pages of
letterpress and were full or details
oustodlnn*, and they never tired of
reading them to all who came, or talk
ing them over line by lina
r' tfThe regiment was ordered to Vir
ginia, but Abel remained in Washing
ton. Month after month passed, and
yet he did not come home. .Every
week brought a letter, cheerful, evfen
Sinning to tease Aunt Sarah about
16 frisky propensities which Unole
Abel had developed at this late day,
Ister of the Presbyterian Ohurch at
Tarrytown." It was from the
surgeon of a hospital in Washing
ton, and stated that three months
before an old, man by the name of
threatened to end fatally. He endured
agonies of pain, and the surgeon had
dlsoovered Ujat he Intended to remain
'there and die in order to spare his
Sister tho sight of his sutterthg. uThfcrfc
is only one ehanoe fn a huntlrwl of ro
oovery, and that depends on earefi.l
fort ^*TA Wneoefcary' the hospital
being only a temporary one intended
for wounded soldiers In transitu. Dow
rex refused to give me his sister's ad
dress, and I am forced to direct as 1
have done."
Never had such a thunderbolt de
scended oh TatrrytOwn.' There was
not a man In the town who would not
gladly hsve set oft for Washington
tnat vefy night; but a committee of
five, headed bjr Squire Plunkett, Anally
took the management of the affair on
themselves, and a tually startei on
this tremendous expedition by sun
down. After they had gono a strange
watting hush fell on tho village, wo
understood for the Qrst time what a
large fthnre old Abel had held in our
lives. Tho o arsont boy In thi hamlet
i teemed to appreolatethe sory of saMi*
I flee brought in the letter, and to know
v what illness And death among
(strangers in the bare wards of an
1 army hospital would be to the old
man whose life lay so deep rooted
among his home and old neighbors. In
the five days that passed before he
came, every one of these old neighbors
was busy In preparation for him.
Every comfort which housekeepers In
Tarrytawn had accumulated for gener
ations was carried down to the Dow
rex bouse, and without Aunt Sarah's
knowledge a sum was raised suttioient
to bring the most Bki Iful surgeon in
Philadelphia up to meet him on his ar
rival. Aunt Sarah, as the tension on
her grew extreme, only became more
quiet She moved about, gently ar
ranging his ohalv, and the pips beside
it for the thousandth time, saying:
44 Only let him get into his own chair
and it will bo all right! It's homo
Abel wants."
When they carried him in and
{riaced him on the old sheep-skin cusli
on he looked at Sarah, then at the
pigeon-holes, and then at the crowd of
kind faces around hi.11, and nodded,
closing his eye 1 with a smllo of un
speakable content.
" It's the first look of real life ho has
given," said \ Squlro Plunkett ; " i
shouldn't wonder if we kept him after
all."
We did keep him. Whether it was
the skill of the great surgeon, or the
care of the old neighbors, or the mere
air of the home that cured him, I do
not know. But at the end ol six.
months he was going up and down the
shady streets as bale and hearty as
ever.
But all this was twenty years ago.
Abel and Aunt Sarah long ajo have
"gone on'* to join their old friends,
who live beyond tho silence.
Since then 1 have seen the workings
of Christianity in large communities
and among people of culture and pow
erful intellects. But whenever on
Sunday i hear that canticle which tells
of the "holy and humble men of heart
who praise the Lord, and magnify Him
forever," I go back to Ignorant old
Abel Dowrex, and the ^revocable tie"
with which he bound together the peo
ple of his native village.?liebeooa
Harding Dati8.
A Story of Johns Hopkins.
A writer in the Baltimoro American
contradicts the oft-quoted story that
the late Johns Hopkins (the Baltimore
millionaire who founded the great uni
versity in that c'.ty) Ant entered that
city a friendless and penniless boy, and;
quotes the following story of Mr. Hop
kins' life given by, that philanthropist
himself a' short time before his death:
"Whjpn I svas a boy," said Mr.'Hop
kins, "my uncle, Gerard T. Hopkins,
often came to South' River to visit my
Earents, and noticing I was an active
oy on the farm asked my mother to
let me come to Bnltimore to live with
him, and said that he would bring me
up a merchant. At seventeen I came,
stayed in my uncle's store, who was a
wholesale grocer and commission mer
chant, and lived in hi* family. He was
an eminent mnlster in the Society of
Friends, arid whe?x I was but nine
teen he was appointed to go Out
to Ohio to the ilrst yeiirly meeting,
to be hel l at Mount Mea'ant. My
aunt accompanied him, with thre?
others. They all traveled on horse,
back, a great part of the way through
a wilderness, with no other roads but
Indian paths. But they returned,
after an absen< e of several months in
safety. Previo is to leaving, my uncle
arranged his business affairs, and call
ing roe to him said: " As thee ha* been
faithful to my interests since thee has
been with me, I am going to leave
everything in thy hands. Hero are
checks which I have sighed my name
to; there are upward or five hundred
of them. Thee will deposit the ihoney
as it Is received, and thee will till up
the cheoks which I leave thee. Buy
the goods and do th& btat thee can.* I
felt my responsibility to be very great.
But on hi* return, on> looking over his
affairs he Was surprised to tYud l had
done much better than he had expeoted.
I had increased his bUBinesfl cohfrlder
bly, and it is w.th pride and pleasure I
look ba k to that time and to the gieat
confidence Uncle Gerard reppsed in
me. I lived with my uncle until I
was twenty-four years of age, and one
day he took me aside and asked me if
I would like to go in business for
myself. I answered : " Yes; but.
uncle, I ttave no capital. I have only
#800, which 1 havd saved'up." He
said: " That will make no differenoe:
I will indorse Cor thoo, and this will
SWe thee good credit, and in a short
mo thee will make capital *, thee has
been faithful in my interests, and I
will start thee in business." So I took
a warehouse near his, and, with in
dorsements and assistance, the first
year* sold 1200,0 >0 Wtyth of goods,
and soon irtado the'capital which my
uncle sa'd I would make. 1 su ^eetlo<l
him in business* and realized largely,
and often think of my early days, and
like to talk of them sfrd IJ nele Gerard's
kiftdness to me."
An Opinion.
There were eight or ten of them
seatftd on the grocery steps as the
stranger came up, and one of them led
off with:
"Yes, gentlemen, th!s village needs
capital, and needs it bad."
" That's so," added a second. " What
we wanjt here is money."
"Yflfc we wfcni capital to develop
things," sigho.l A third.
And so it went down the line until
every one of the lot had expressed his
opinion that capital'was wanted. The
last man looked tip at the stranger,
and added:
"Don't it seem that way to you?"
"It does, sir," wasthepiompt reply.
" What would ba your opinion of
the way capital ought to bo invests!
hereV"
"Well, my nlan would bn to lay out
the first $5,000 in bar-soap, crash
towels, barber's shears and kicking
mao'ilno*," wad the twm reply, as he
prepared for a run of hSlf a mile to the
depot.- - Wall 8 r Jt
The lat? John A, ftoebllng, the first
englu or ofthe Brooklyn hrhlg*. haVing
bean n na'lve of Mtilhansen, tn (Jer
many, lhe> authorl.ia ! avo mtmtkl a
Rtroc-t in his honor, nn I lt:i. o placet a
hnUM fa' let ? ?* ring lih likomsA on tlw
hi.?u.? 1 > wliidt ..o wt\i Ijom. .
THE SIOUX SUN DANCE.
f'Mftly (fee U|t Occrfrreare?HarrlUe Tor
*ar?a lufllcloU Upon Taeuaoirea by the
Devotee*.
An army officer, a wltnoss to the
great sun dance of the &oux at Rose
bud agency, in Dakota, sends an affect
ing description of tha tortures to the
Chicago Times. The oamp this year
near the agency, he siys, contained
10,000 Indians, and ma:le a circle five
miles in circumference?a beautiful
sight. In front of the tent, w here the
sun-dancers were awaiting their or<'eal,
lay a whitened buffaloskull on a
bunch of wild sage. Inside the tepae
was the sacred medicino pipe on some
mysterious sticks.
A scouting party was sent out to
discover a suitable pole tor tl.e center
of the dancing circle, aD " the next
day the pole, a tall elm tree, was cut
by an Indian maiden consecrated to
this oftlce, Her Pipe, niece of Standing
Bear. 8he is said to have cut thirteen
poles, and will never marry. When it
had been trimmed and placed in posi
tion, there came the "charge on the
pole," a thousand warriors on a thou
sand horses, down from the hill,
around the camp, reokless of limb,
pell-mell, themselves and their hor es
decked with green branohes, "Birnam
wood came to Dunsinane." What rush
of color, what life, what vigorous
movement 1 These were the men who
circled round Custer when he stood
alone. Many are in saddles that be
longed to that command. With the
boughs they bring the pavilion is built
around the pole, and by the following
Sunday evening tho tali grass in the
arena has been tramped smooth with
much ceremony an I all is ready.
Just as the full moon peeped over
the eastern range of hills the dangers
to the sun, llfteen in a 1, entered to
fulfill their vbw. On their heads were
wreaths of sweet grass or horns, over
their chests depended representations |
of the sun, and from their wrists hung
totems. The singers commenced to
howl and beat their drum. The
dancers put to their lips th ? gooseborte
whjstlfcs*trimmed; with the rare testlier
of the " hiedi-iae* bird/' fond began to
hop up and down. As long as they
danced they were to whistle?and they j
were to dan.'e until the next sundown.
Some women, to supplement tho noisy
music of the drum, commenced to
" Hl-yl " in a shrill k y and beat a hide
spread on the ground.
There was not a light in tho inclosure.
The pole, fluttering with banners, stood
out In the moonlight. Near to its top
was bound a fasca3 of willow twigs,
which gave it resemblance to a cr >ss.
The ffgure of a bulla o, cut from hide, j
represented the sun, and above it dan- j
gled the figure of an Indian, black on
one side, white on tho other?tho bal j
and the good spirit. All night the
dancing never flagged^ While the
moon was up their faces were turned j
and their arms outstretched to it, and
when Cheezes, the sun, came " like a
warrior, robed and painted from his
shining lodge of silver," they turned to
it and pravtd earnestly. They faced It
all day; If one shows signs of breaking
down he is taken to tho shade for a
moment an I given a pull at a pipe or
a bit of wild sage to encourage saliva.
The Indians look on indifferently and
cat hard egg and boiled dog, which the
squaws havo brought in dirty black
kettles; outside the little Indian boys
are playing tricks on eardi other.
Aoout noon the medicine man com
menced to paint the three dancers who
were to be tied to the pole. Folio w-a
Woman, the first to sniffer, was thrown
on the ground, and the medicine man
skiiLully made two incisions with a
sharp knife over each breast, in tho
vicinity of the peotoral muscles. Tho
flesh was lifted, and a hardwood
skewer thrust under and fastened by
sinews to the rope which hung from
the pole. Already weakened l>y the
fifteen hours of exertion, of thirst, of
hunger, he was to strain at the rope
until he broke loose by tearing out his
own flesh. He was magn llcently
brave, and it did not take long. In
five minutes he was d noing with the
others its if nothing had happened, and
the parasol then allowed him would
have made him ridiculous had not the
red blood been seen coursing down his
body.
Li\es-ln-the-Alr whs tho next. II&
tore out one stick in ten mihutes, and
Was then released from tearing outthe
other by the gift of three ponies. Poor
Bog had a dog's luck. The outs
seemed to have been deeper On him.
He Struggled and pulled, then gave tho
rope slack and dahcfed about the polo
until, suddenly jerking back, the flesh
would stand out two or three lnohei
from the breast. Tho s juaws, who
came near to throw olothi s aud call*
toes at his feet or on the rope as gifts
to tho poor, turned away crying.
Twenty minutes of this agony with
out an cutory* A friend came up,
and catohing the man around the
waist, gave a tremendous pull. Even
this did not break the stout integu
ment, and it was not until half an
hour had pavsed that the brave fellow
fell back on the earth, pant ng and
weak, two gteat wound* torn In his
breast.
One more exhibition remained. Yel
low was cut in the shoulder, and a
?kewer inserted, from which a rope
was passed around the head of ahorse.
Tho animal was hit, and jumped, and
thus the Instrument of torture was
torn out. Sov'ernl men who did not
tfanco had b;ts of flash cut from their
arms; also some squaws, to make the
amount nocefsnry from their husbands
less, or to satisfy vows of their own.
The dancer* by this time were a shook
ing sight, tottering about,' not able to
stand erect* one qr two supported by
friends, their whistles still clinging to
their dry Hps, their movements slow,
mechanical, spasmodic. Not one had
failed in the ordeal, however, which
ceased at sundown. Not one had cried
out for relief or made a sign of dis
tress. If he had he wotkld nave lost
hla place among the warriors forever,
been ranked with the women and by
them dosplsed.
A catalogue published by the Ger
man Pomologtcal society enumerates
839 kinds of apples, 912 kinds of prars,
286 kinds of cherries, 289 . kinds of
plums, 108 kinds of peaohea and thirty
five kinds of apricots, ,
The consumption of tobaoce la the
United States is said to be about ten
times what It la In Great Britain.
The Fro* Industry.
The frog industry in this section is
becoming one of no little iinportan e,
and a small boy is a bloated bond*
holder, for the time being, for his
goods And a ready sale at the hotels
and among private citizens, says the
Laramie (Nev.) Boomerang. One
who knows says the Lara i>ie plains
ftog is the finest in the world. The
flavor is preferable to that of tlio
French product, and is far superior to
those captured at Lake Pontchartrain.
The clearness of the water in which
they live in this section, - its freedom
from the many animal poisons and tho
^mperaturo is said to produce the re
sults as cltod above. Tho method of
,Preparing the frog for market is the
only cruel feature connected with the
industry, and should some member of
the humane society devote as much
time to cruelty to frogs as to prying
mto a family muddle when a recalci
trant boy is being punished, there I
might bo some method devised reliev- j
ing it of that one objectionable
feature. Very few know how to pro
pare a frog for market.- A writer in
the Denver News thus describes the J
"modus operandi." He says : "Tho
frogger takes the animal's hind legs in
his left hand, and a pair of formidable
looking shears in the right; and before
the animal knows what fate is in store
for him his hind quarters aro am
putated with a speed and ease that
would do credit to an army surgeon."
If tho frog was killed at this juncture
no one could possibly object. But he
is not. lie is allowed to get along the
best he can on his fore legs, often
hopping around for hours before yield
ing up tho ghost Tho htnd quarters
are then stripped of their skin, put
in cold, clo ir water, and are ready for
the table?either for breakfast, dinner,
supper or luncheon.
i Frogs are the best for the table in
the fill1. They are then fat and sleek,
and there is a peculiar and desirable
flavor about them at that season not
possessed at any other. In the spring
they aro poor and not so palatable, but
are, nevertheless, eaten. At this sea
son they are quite desirable, and form
a very clever side dish at any meal.-, j
The lloeky mountain frog is not a
remarkable loaper?ho is too fat and
the altitude is against him. llut he
makes a remarkably savory dish, and,
as siiid before, ii becoming more
popular than over in the West.
Undo Nam's Mold and Silver.
Uncle bam has a money-hcuso in
Wa'.l street, New York, called the sub
tiensury, which old King C rues us would
have liked to visit. It contains at
prt sent, in gold and silver coin, about
one hundred and five millions of dol
lars, all neatly packed in bags, or
Stowed in bins, in vaults which aro
supposed to be burglar-proof.
In fact, they aro burglar-proof; else
aomo gentlemen of the profession would
have attempted tliem during tho last
forty years. Thry aro deep down in
the bowels of the earth, undor a build
ing the most massive and solid in all
America. The building was built as
if lor eternity, covering the whole
basement w.th arches as strong as a
stone quarry. Down in that marvel
ous und.rs'.ructure Uncle Sam keeps
the bulk of his gold. Doors beyond
doors of sol d steel proteot it, these se
cured by locks that are wound up
every night like so many elooks, which
no key < f man enn open tiil they run
down.
The silver vault is a spacious under
ground ha'l, forty-seven feet long,
twenty eight feet wide and twelve feet
high, divided into bins of various sizes.
Here are nine hundreJ tons of silver
c in, with thirty-three ml lions of dol
lars. Tne gold is all kept in' bans,
oach of which contains five thousand
dollars, an.l tho bags are plied one
upon the other in evon columns twelve
bag* high.
when the sub-treasyry bill was be
fore Congress, Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster and the Whigs generally saw
in it certain ruin of the republic.
Since the system was adopted, how
ever, the sub-treasury has received and
paid 8>/nethii:g more than a billion
and a-half of the public mon-y with
out the loss ot a single dollar, and
without disturbing the course of busi
ness.
A lady of great ability, Mrs. Lamb,
ed'.tor the " Magazine of Amerloan
History," has leen looking Into the
vaults and oil'ces of the sub-treasury
j recently, and she gives us a pleasing
senso of its excellent and easy work*
| ing. The sub-treasurer, however, has
anything btit'an easy time. In one
i day the office has paid eleven thousand
! p't i si on checks, averaging twenty-six
dollars eah, and it 1s not uncommon
for the treasurer to sign his namo
three thousand times In one morning
to bond and gold certificates.?Youths
Companion.
? i. a? ?
A Stem Brewing.
"Charley has an awful disposition.
He is selfish, little and cowardly. I
don't know where he got Itsaid a
fattier to his wife on North Tenth
street the other day.
"Nor I, either," said the wife.
"He certalnlv didn't get these de
fects from me, continued the father.
" No, 1 don't think he did," said the
mother. "In fact, I'm sure he didn't
got them from you."
"What makes ybu s> certain?"
asked the husband.
" Hecauso you nave not lost any of
your selflshnoss ot littleness that I can
see/'
Tableau, with indications of storm.
--Pretzel's Weekly,
A Remarkable Family.
A. B. Fox, of Gowsnda, N. Y? is
one of twelve children?six sons and
six daughters. Their parents were
married in 1816, and lived together
sixty years. The first death thai ever
occurred In the family was that of the
f&ther, who died aged eighty. The
mother died soon afterward. The
twelve children are all married, and
have six ohlldren each. Old Mr. Fox
wa* six feet two Inches high, and
weighed 250 pound*. Ills wife was
six feet tall and weighed 200. Not
one of their ohlldren is less than six
fe?t tall, and the lightest one weighs
200 pounds. There are two years be
tween their awe, the youngest being
forty-four and the eldest sixty-six.
The present French debt Is $5,000,
000,000, and the annual expenditure.)
are about $1,000,000,000.
HUM0I0U9 SKETCHES.
" The trouble with you, young man,*
said the o d doctor, who had bem
called on for advloe, " you live alto
gether too high."
"No doubt I do," exclaimed the
youth, 44 I live at the top of an eleven
story apartment-house up near the
park."
The doctor prescribed a tonic to ele
vate the young man's system.?New
York H orld.
44 Banter,"
A young minister who succeeded an
old worker in the promulgation of
gospel to the people of a " wild and
woolly" section of Arkansas, ap
proached the old brother and asked:
" What kind of people am I likely to
meet?"
"All kinds."
"Any rough characters?"
" Somo of them are pretty tough."
44 Suppose they insult me, what must
I do?"
" Sorter Bauter off us though your
business called you away."
"Suppose they follow me?"
"Santer a little faster."
44 Suppose they cha^e me V"
44 Then santer like the deuce."
44 And if they catch me, what then ?*'
44 In that case I reckon you'd better
wait till they get through with you,
and then if you aro able you'd better
santer."- -Arkansaw Traveler.
Club* Have Chnnged.
4t Want a hundred dollars this morn
ing?'' echoed the governor, as he
wheeled uround on his twenty-year-old
boh. 44 Why, sir, I gave you fifty only
yesterday I
44 Yes, father, but belonging to a
fashionable club is expensive, you
know."
"I don't know anything of the sort,
sir I When I was a young man I be
longed to the Apollo olub. It inoluded
the cream of the city, and my expenses
weren't $25 per year."
44 Yes, father, but clubs are run dif
ferently now."
"They are, eh? Well, I can't help
that. If a lot of you fellows oan't hire
a room over a tannery, put in six
lamps, two dozen chairs, three fiddles
and a checker-board, and enjoy your
selves in a rational manner, as we did,
you had better pass your evenings
posting my books. Fashionable clubs !
Hundred dollars ! I'd like to see you
get it!"?Wall /Street News.
He Didn't Wnnt ttio Jng Htretcliod.
A clay or two since a Norwich man
carried a jug to a cash grocery to have
it tilled with New Orleans molasses,
lie was tin* ht>ad of a big amily, and
had a large jug, hence he bought at
the most favorable prices. Later in
the day when ho called for it ho was
surprised to learn that the price was
nearly if 5.
"IIow is this," asked the buyer,
"has molasses gonoup?"
"Oh, no," re,>116:1 the grocery man,
" I am selling at the regular price."
11 Well, how much does that jug
hold?" inquired the purchaser.
"Six gallons," responded the seller.
"I have tried time, time and aga n,"
said the owner of the jug, "to get flvo
gallons of molasses into it, and could
never do it. I had a* soon j>ay for six
gallons of molasses as not, but I hate
to h:?ve that jug stretched so."
The grocery man said ho would let
off a ga.lon in the price and call it
square, and In that way the difference
was settled.?Norwich, {Conn.) Bul
letin
A Fntlier>? Hoax.
A clergyman, a widower, recently
created qu te a sensation in his house
hold, whi h consists of seven grown-up
daughter.'). Toe reverend gentleman
was absent, from home for a number
of days, visiting in an adjoining county.
The daughters received a letter from
their father, which Btated that he had
"married a widow with six sprightly
ohildren," and that he might be ex
pooled home at a certain time. The
e..ect of Ihe news was a great shook
to the happy family. The glr s, noted
for their meekness and amiable tem
peraments, seemid anot.ier set of
beings; there was weeping and wail
ing an I tearing of hair, and all manner
of aattjhty things sad. The tidy
house was neglocted, and when the
day of arrival came the house was
anything but inviting. At last the
Uev. Mr.X. came, but he was alone.
He greeted his daughters as usual, and
as he viewed the neglected apartments
there was a merry twinklo in his eye.
The daughters were nervous and
evidently anxious. At l&<)t the eldar
mustered courage and asked : "Where
is our mother y" "Ja heaven/' said
the good man. 44 But where Is the
widow with six children whom you
married?'' "Why, 1 married her to
another man, rrty dears/' he replied,
highly delighted at the success of his
Utile Joke.
flaw Unele Jeff* Vuitf ? Dnd?.
M How oould I cure a dude, young
fellow f Well, I'll tell yer, so j?s yer
can bcH the receipt. A ohap with
suoh a receipt ought to make a pile
ontin it.
' "Yer nee, my boy f An took a notion
three or four years Hgo es farmin'
wasn't good enough feriiim, so I give
him a note on a ilaptist preacher for
$400 and let him go. lie went to
'Frisco and struck the preacher and
'got the cash. Then he got some edu
cation and went to oounter jumpin'
and euin up to Oregon.
44 He was purtv steady and sensible,
though I heard he was fine on dress,
but 1 had no idea he hud got to be a
dude.
44 Well, he got bounced for bein'
good-lookin', he says, but I sneot it was
bein' too sassy and la/.y, an' lie cum up
to see the folks.
44 \V hett I got ter tho depot there
was Y)an'l, but I hnrdly kni?w\l him.
His pants was a kind of speckled s:<y
blue, and were ns tight on him as the
ftkinonafat hog; and his coat was
about three sizes too small for ir.m, an'
as tight M the pants, with the color of
a yellow dog. lie had a fancy brass
watch staged out with two chains on
his vest; he had a stitT little hat, a
little oane and a pair of gloves. He
limped up to me in a pair of pinched
lip shoes, hed out two Angers to
shake, and snid: 4Aw, paw, aw'm
61 al to see yer, yer know.'. I got
im in the wagon an qnlok as I oould,
for fear the folks would think I was
moving lunatics to the now asylum.
Ho said suthiu' a >out the team loing
very ancient an' tho wagon the co < r
of the roa i an' the haim^nyof nature.
Well, that feller slid round the house
for more than a week, and went down
town showln' oil lils clothe.", but ho
wouldn't do no work. I thought I
maybe ho would come to his senses I
alter a bit, but he kept on just the i
Ba ne. lie w< nt down to the wood
lot with me and the boys to seo 4 Na- |
ture in her wild brauty,' or something 1
of that sort, ono inurning, while wo
got er load of wood.
"I got him to give mo a lift with a
log to chuck it in the wagon, but wlun
he ought to have chucked ho lot lis
end drop, and then that made my end
sot quick onto my foot. When I was
cussin' about my foot he dr iwled out
suthin' about iti being too heavy, and
grinned sidoways to the boys. I
couldn't stand that and I went for
him; 1 don't remember exactly how it
went clear through, but in about IIvo
minutes that ground was covered with
rags, and silk handkerchiefs and pintod
shoeB llko a tornado had been to work.
His two-chained watch was hanging
in a lot of oak sprouts, tho pup had
run oil with his stiff hat and he was
wiping his nose with his kid gloves,
while strips of his pants hung ter his
waist band like ribbons on a trick
mule. The cano was broken to pieces
over his b.ick, an' three or four
switches besides. Oh, ho' felt better
than ho had for four years, and we
loaned him a buiralo hide to get homo
in an* cum with tho wood. Ho laid
abed for two days, an' then got in-ido
a pair of overalls and a llannel shirt,
put a pair of brogans outside his foot
grabbed an ol 1 hat and went to work,
I an* has worked as steady as a clock er
ticken ever since."?San Fraiicisoo
Wasp.
Aphorisms of Oliver Wendell HoIihoh.
Memory is a net. One rinds it full
of fish when hetak.-s it from the brook,
but a do/.en miles of water have run
through ir without slicking.
God bless all goo 1 women. To their
soft hands and pitying hearts we must
all come at last.
J ut not your trust in money, but
put your money in trust.
When a strong brain is weighed
with a true heart it stems to be liko
balancing a bubble against a wedge of
gold.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise
men n the sumo way?and the fools
know it.
1 find the great tiling in this world
is not so much whero we stand as in
what direction we are moving.
If the sense of the ridiculous is one
side of an impressible nature.it is very
well, but if that is all there is in a man
he had better have been an apo and
stood at the head of his profession at
onco.
Travelers change their guineas, not
their characters.
Thero are ttireo little wicks to tho
lamp of a man's lite, brain, blood and
breath. Press the brain a little, its
1 ght goes out followed by both tho
others. Stop tho heart a ininuto and
out g.es all throo of tho wicks,, Chok t
the air out of tho lungs and presently
tho fluid ceases to 8 ipply tho other
centers of (lame, and all is soon stagna
tion, cold and darkness.
Thore are a good many roal miseries
in life that wo c.innot help smiling at,
but they aro tho smiles that mako
wrinkles not dimples.
Wo mu tluive a weak spot or two in
a character before wo can ovo it much,
l'oop ethat do not laugh or cry or take
m iro of an) tiling than is ^ood for
them, or uso anything but dictionary
words, aro admirablo subject* for
biographe-s. Hut we don't caro most
for t ieso line pattern (lowers that p. ess
best in tho horbapi-um.
Faith always implies disbelief of a
lesser fa t in favor of a greater.
1 would have a woman as true as
dea h. At tho first real lie, which
wor;<s from tho heart outward, she
should be tenderly chlorafor.iiei into
a better world, where she can have an
angol for a governess and feed on
strange fruits, which shall mako her
all over again, oven to her bones and
marrow.
Why can't somebody give us a list
of things which everybody thinks
and nobody says, and anothor list of
things that everybody says and nobody
thinks?
The Oroom's Offer.
There in r o end to tlio laughable
stories that tho clergy teli a'>out tha
queer marriage th.it thoy {solemnize,
and the quoer fees which they receivo,
or sometimes don't receivo. une of
the lat: st of those Is t< Id by tho Hev.
Dr. Hamuel R. Appleton, of Philadel
phia, and is to the following effect: A
young < ouple < a'h d on him not long
ago and asned him to marry them,
wnich ho did. The happy groom thon
walkod reluctantly to him and aikod :
" Doctor, how muoh li your fee?"
"I havo no fixed price, tut generally
receive $10," wai the answer. Tho
bright tmllo of the trrootn seemed to
leave him thon ; hut bracing i?luiB0lf,
he paid: "You see, doctor, I am a
little short at present, hut would like
very much to pay y. u. I ain a'bird
fanoier and urn importing a lot of
educated parrots fr >m London. Now,'
instead or paying you in easily suppose
I present you with one of theso birds
on their arrival ?" " I should he glad
to have a parrot," admitted the doctor.
"Well, It's agreed then. I will send
you one In a few days; but havo you
a caga to put the bird in?" "No, I
have not How much does a < ago
cost?" "Oh, you can got a good one
for was .he reply. Dr. Applo
ton hand d tho young man the amount
required to buy the cage, and that was
the last ho over flaw of tho groom,
bride, parrot, cage, or tho |2.50.
Mount Hood, in Washington Terri
tory, was recently ascended by a largo
party. They reached an olovation of
12,650 fe t, whero they spent several
hours. When above tho snow lln> the
men constructed a sleigh, and treated
the women to a Rummer sleigh ride.
The crater was penetrate I a dtotance
of 100 fe)t, There wai a ceas. le*s
drip of water from thereof of the Ice
encased entrance, cars d by a warm
air ourrent coining from the ulnmber
ing fires far below, from whence a loud
hissing noise arose. A rock hurled
dow* produced a deafening reverl>er
ation.
THB PRESCRIPTION.
They were parting at the gate
Man and maid
Still ho tarried, although late,
Longing uiuch to hoar liia fato,
Yet to ask it luilf afraid.
" If I only know," said he?
" Only know."
" Lot mo give advice," Said she,
" Mako a confidant of mo;
I can bo of help to you."
" Ah I I know that," answered he,
With a sigh.
" Now I guess it all," cried she;
" You are in love, I plainly see,
And afraid to tell her?llo !'
" You're a witch to guess bo well,"
Answerod he.
" I would liko to liavo you toll
How to mako a sick heart well;
Kindly now prescribe for me."
" Every heart will cure a heart,"
Now laughed she;
" You must find another heart,
Then your own will lose its smart?
Try this oldon remedy."
" Lot mo havo your heart," lie plead;
" Nay !" she said;
"I havonono." "No heart!" ho said;
" Then I go uncomfortod?
Mine a broken heart must bo ?"
?' It is yours!" and she lnughod low;
" Don't you soef
I prescribed it long ago,
Seeing that you suffered so.
W hat so blind as men can bo
" Had I oidy known before,"
Whispered ho,
" What a euro you had in store!"
" You'd havo suffered all the more;
Men nro foolish things," said she. /
HUMOROUS.
J
Calf's head?That of a dude.
Tho girl with a new umbrella wmi*
stay in tho house whin ii rains.?JS'eu
York Journal.
A new color is known by tho poeti
cal namo of "bleaihol mouse." W<
venture it is a sort of rat-tan color.?
Statesman,
Even the sands of tho sea aro hardlj
moro numerous than tho mtfft AVho
thinks he can edit a uowspaper.?
1 Linkers (iazetle.
Class in natural history. "Kmile,''
asks the teacher, "which animal at
taches himself tho must to man?"
Emi e, after much reflection?" Tho
leech, sir I"?French Wit.
A perpetual clock lias been in opera-'
tion in Jirus^el-i l'ur eight mouths.
There aro a great many ?? perpetual"
things that will last just about that
long. Hut tho great demand among
tho young peop o of this ago ii not a
clock that will run forever, out a ciock
that will never get past 10 on a Sunday
night.?11a rk< j,e.
"Colonel," Mild un Arkansas Ji
address ng a lawyer, "jou say that
you're not ready to go on with this
ca^o?" "Vis, sir." "What's the
trouble?'' "Because I have done a
great doal of mental wurk recently
and am comp lied to rest my mind.
" Want to re.st your mind, eh? Well,
we'll put y> u on tho jury."?Traveler.
A Western jury was just about to
acquit a u.an chargul with murder,
when tho foioman said: "That man
Is my next dour no g bur. 1 don't be
lieve ho ever kiilo.i aiybody, but ho
plays an t-ccordlun on his trout step
every night of his ;if The sy.i pa
thi/.ing jurymen brought in a verdut
of "Gul ty of murder in tho lirst de
gree."?Philadelphia Nt ws.
Light weight : " How much do you
think I weigh?" asko.l a young swell
who was visiting a b uff old da ryman.
" NVel ," replied tho milk handler, "I
o ml !n't exactly say ; 1 ut from t >o ex
perience I have had with calves I
should say that when you'ru weanod
you might weigh almost as much na a
box of cheese. The youth bellowed
for his ma and was led home by tho
hired man.?The I.airy.
W| o ' 1 tin in s -miliar'* hen*,?
W o bo. e i i b ofn n m tho nti'? et?
> ho ireqi o it y nt homo ne noct?
Who v?i 8 ? round i n pimoiiB floet?
W. o tnki Bin ov? ry fr?o ' nch t ?out?
Who dinon with poor iind th elit??
Wh > ft way* . o- e i <-n iref?h rnuat?
\\iionovord i<xn- t? tft e a tie it?
But tuwuyH t tft d-ui on hi t fo >t
Whonovoi- ho nolh od t > cut?
Who hh uM .t b > i?\ t that not te
1 it lo lii o ', wan t'.io hwo t
Nnino, Mo?quit?
?Uvstvn Courier.
Peonllar Well*.
In Pol'c county, Nebraska, are many
wells which oxulhlt peculiar phenom
ena of intern,iltonco. They vary from
100 to 1.0 loet in de^th, and ebb and
flow Irregularly. Tiio How Is accom
panied by a roaring sound like that of
the son, as though a distant wave were
coming in, and at the name time a cur
rent of air issues out of the mouth.
The ebb is accompanied by a draft of
air downward. The period of ebb and
flow does not np.iear to depend upon
heat or cold, upon the 'dHmpnfs< or
dryness of tho atmosphere, upon the
Reason of tho year, or upon tho time
of day, but, on the other hand, scoiub
to he in soino way eonneoted with tho
direction of the wind. Tho farmors
think that tho water-bearing level is
identical with that of the wator of
thePlattn river, which bounds on the
north thoso eountios in which tho wells
are situated.
A lift go Pnrm.
? Holl Farming company's farm
. hiiit to ho t' o largest In the worl I.
It is in tho (Ju' A | p dlo valley, Mani
toba, and is about ton miles S(|U iro.
Tho capital is $(>000.0, of wh c i thir
ty-live per cont. Ia< been expon led,
and the stock l? held entirely in ('ana 'n
and Englan I. Last fall, before the
railroad reached tnore, tho c> mpany
broke several hundred a res of land,
j and added to it largely in tho spr.ng,
[ now hav ng a growlr.g crop of l,i.0()
acres of whoat and 1,800 of oats.
The value of tho poultry consumed
in the United 8tatos annua ly is o ti
mated at $800 00 >,00 ), cr $o to ea h
inhabitant. Tho v.iluo of the egg*
"onsumod is set at $210,000,000, or
$ol0,000.0(0 for poultry an I eggs to
f;ether, or a out $ 0 por y< ar to each
nhah tant. The nmrotr of e gs c n
?umod is est matol tob ? 0,000,000,00 >,
or lbO eggs to each inhnh.tant, which
would allow ore egg to ea h person
Other dav.