The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, February 24, 1881, Image 1
RI1lLWNBEKLY EIPTION. ~_
WINNSBORO, S. C., FEBRUARY 24 1881
AWAKI.
'lihe un gets upin the miorniog '
And ltftifhlistatel' bead;
Opefi you oyeJB, my si'oep skie,
-The sui fcott of bed!
TIto moon is very timid,
Sle daro not meet t4e sun.
N th a heigh ho! the, stars must gQ,
And hide theojselves ono by one.
The stun gets up in the morning,
TIg world'is all alight,
-Every troeo full of glee,.
Every blossom bright;
'Every bird Is singhig
. A welco etto his King,
Miti a I WIldone, 1b*itifI sun
You glorify everything."
lhe sun1 gete-up in the morning,
And so must ehildren, too;
How dar you keep fast asloep,
The sun is calling you!
Mid all the birds a Iblossoms
Youir merry voices raise
W*ith a h?4rrah ! How glad we are
Wo have got'a sua to praiso!
A'Fiery-Steed.
For once May gave pronwise of being a
bay worthy of the many beautiful songrs
which have been sung iii.her praise. She
came dancing along after -her sister April
who had just left in a shower of tears
with a bright smile upon her lips and a
wondrous rainbow halo about her head.
The young maples- began to blush 'in
happy consciousness of her approach, aind
the delioate pink and white blossoms on
the orchard trees opened their dainty leaves
and shyly flung a welcoming fragrance on
the soft, clear air.
All through the fields and meadows, the
vales and woodlands,' and over the hills
ran the violets and trailhug arbutus and
May-buds and daisies and theilr sister flow
ers. telling glad tidings of sunny days and'
moonlit nights and lovely butterflies and
sparkling raitt-drops cnd busy humming
bee, and birds, swinging on slender green
boughs, sang in sweet twittering notes to
each other:
Neighbor, soon we shall see the roses.
Along a pleasant, winding, lonely coun
try road, with splendid ;esat apple and pear
trees standing on either side, and the spring
flowers dotting the green carpet so thickly
that the green Is almost hidden, comes slow
ly cu this poel's blay day, a diminutive,
old, odd-looking white horse, drawing a
small market wagon filled with household
furniture, accompanied by an enormous
shaggy Newfoundland dog, and as pretty
a country maid as ever milked a cow, or
made a pot of golden butter.
The broad-brmimed straw hat she wears
shades a low brow to which clings babyish
ringlets of hair the color of glossy, satin
smooth buttgrcups, a pair of innocently
roguish eyes, cheeks of brown with an un
dqrlying tinge of rose,a.charming red-lipped
mouth, and a firm. minax
Across the brow, however, at this mo
ment flits the shadow of a frown, and a
look of comic perplexity conies into the
sweet young face. The odd-looking horse
has stopped in the middle of the road and
remains perfectly motionless, staring
straight before hhn, save when he bene
his head to take a nibble at the flower-thick
grass, as though suddenly oblivious of
everything under the sun except the tran
quility of the Junc-like May afternoon.
"Oh, Charley! Charley I go on-do I
that's a dear I" goaxes the girl coming to
his side andgently patting his head with
her little brown ungloved hand ; but Chg
ley merely whisks a too familiar fly away
with his forlorn old tail and makes no fur
ther sign.
"Olarley, good horse, Charley-ohl why
didn't I bring some carrots with me ?
Charley, you bad, bad fellow, If you don't
go on,1'll whil'you sure as you st and there.
Come, be a darling." And thins she alter
nately begs and threatens, Lion assisting in
dog language, with aii occasional dash at
the heels of his obstinate equine frieiid,but
Charley refuses to be a "darlin,'' plaints his
feet more firmly and never stirs; andi at
last, with an air of resignation, she goes
back to the p~ath, seats herself on a rude
seat formed by nature of the gnarled roo.ts
of a misshapen 01(1 tree, and waits patient
ly for at least ten minutes. At the end of
this time Charley looks about with a just
waiked-up expression in his eyes, as who
should say, "Dear I D~ear I I quite forgot
thereswas wvork to be (lone," and starts off
with a qjuick step that graduially becomes
slower and slower.
Wi a sigh of relief the young girl arises
and follows-Lion bounding baek from the
wood, whlere lhe has been making hasty ex
plorations, having it in his mind that his
mistress is not to be left without his pro
tection for more than two minutes at a
time, takes lia place a~t her side-and the
PeI plexed look' fades away into a smile
that brings to )ight two rows of p~earl-whlite
teeth.
But alas I the smile is prenmature. In
another ten minutes again overcome by
theo beauty and peacefulness of the (lay,
Charley falls into reverie, stops once more,
and1( once more refuses most decidedly .to
"go on."
And in this manner does that dreadful
horse behave f or a whole hour, making short
progresses and~ long pauses, until coming to
the conclusion thait there had been quite
enough of this sort of thing, lie dleliberately
drags thiewagoni to the side of the road, takes
up his station beneath a wide-spreading oak
and proceeds to munch the young grass at
his feet, with a look in lia eyes that say as
plain as words: "From this spot naove me
If y ou can."
"0, Cncrly I Charley I howv can you ?"
begins the young girl, loudily and m ndig
nantly f ollowing him with her small br own
hands clasped beseechingly. "Oh, you
wicked, wicked Charley I"
''Did you call me ?'' asks a masculine
voice, to her great astonishmnent ; andi as
with a alight tlart she tuns In the direc
lion of the voice, she sees a young nian
walking rapidly towards her the sound of
his approaching footsteps having been com
pletely lost In the inquiring bow-wows of
her canine guardlian.
'"Did y ou call me ?" lhe repeuats.
"~No, sir," she replies, blushilng prettily,
and looking at hiiu with fuank, child-hike
eyes. "I was speaking u' thue horse. tie
still, Lion?"
"Beg pardon. I thought for .tn instedL
you were speaking to me. It seems that I
have the honor of being a namesake of your
fiery ster d. But you are In trouble. What
i, thie luatter ? Can I help you in any
way ?"
47herq is nothing very serious the mat.
'she says with a smile. "We are mov
ing to day, and father went on ahead a
long *hile ago, having sone business to
*SettleowlJi our new landlord. and he must
be at this very moment waiting fo me at
the new house, and wondering what in the
'world has become of me. You see, we have
40 boys in our family, and the other girls
are youilger than myself, and father and
,mother both thought-this being -a very
quiet road-that Lion and I cot d look
after Charlfy and the furniture, but, Char
ley,who generally behaves pretty well, has
ween awfully contrary, and has stopped ev
ery few moments, and the consequence is
that we have already been two hours on a
journey that should have taken us but one,
and there's just as longa distance to go yet;
and with Charley-oh, you wicked horsel
standing under that tree, I don't know how
we are ever to get to Grasstown."
"Iti.almost as bad a plight as the old wo
mnan was withi her pig, when he wouldn't
go under the stile, and she was afraid she
couldn't get home that night," laughs the
young man-a nice looking fellow he is,
with gentleman stamped on every feature
of his handsome lace. "But suppose I cut
you a switch I Perhaps that, used with
discretln, might have sonic intlueice on
the fiery steed. "
"0, no, that wouli never do I" she says,
shaking her head emphatically. "Charley
was never whipped in his life. He'd be so
scared at the very sight of a switch that I
believe he'd run away.."
"Wouldn't that be a desirable thing, un
der the circumstances ?" asks the young
man, with a broad smile; the idea of the old
horse,whose principle desire appeared to be
not to move at all, running away, striking
hin as inexpressibly conic, and thinking
"Bless her kind little heartl" lie continues:
.Well, since you refuse the switch, I will
try how a command in a masculine voice
will affect him ;" and lie commanded
"G'long, Charley I"
Charley started, turned his head toward
the speaker, recognizing a master, backed
away from the oak and went off on a quick
walk.
"Well, the idea I" exclaimed his young
mistress.
"And now with your permission, I'll walk
with you to the end of your jou I'mrney,for
sure if I leave you, Charley will-note my
sience immediately, and stop under the
irst tree."
'"0 no indeed I you must not," says the
pretty country maid. "You were going in
in entirely different direction. I could not
Ihink of taking you so far out of your way.
lany thanks for your kind offer, but in
leed,,sir, I couldn't. Charley will behave
vell now. Won't you, Charley ?"
"Good heavens I I never knew my name
vas so musical before," thinks the young
lan, and then explains: I was going in an
ntirely different direction because I miss
,d my train at the last station, and, if I had
vaied would have to hours for another;
nut being rathdr impatient by nature, and
ciupted by the fine day, I set out to walk,
" p ation bemg the next village. And
nuch pleasanter waik,diclfi Ln'e-i''Caar,
and lose no time after all. Lion approves
if my plan. Don't you Lion ?" And Lion
isually very suspicious of strangers, comes
nd lays his startlingly cold iose In his new
riend's hand.
And so the two young people walk along I
ide by side, crushing the pretty flowers un- I
ter their feet as they go, but Charley, look- j
ng back every now and then out of the I
iorner of his right eye to see if the mascu
ine voice is still there, never falters, but <
teeps steadily on his winding way. After I
L few molient's silence the innocent little I
naid raises her blue eyes --they have been
iidden by tlie long lashes-and says, in a I
ihy voice:
"You said you were going to Daisyville.
have lived there all my life."
"Not a very long times" says the young
tnan with a snile.
"Seventeen years. -I was born andl my
three sisters were born in the samne little
f arm house we are leaving now." And a
tear trenmbles on the long Iashes and rolls
down her round rosy cheek.
TIhe young man looks at the tear wvith
pitying wYonder.
"And were you very happy there ?" lie
asks.
"So happy," replies the girl, ''that we
fear we will never be half as happy any
where else. And"-a sudden light break
ing over her f ace-"I believe that is what
ails Charley. He knows it isn't right that
we should be going to a strange place, and(
does his best, p)oor fellow, to prevent our
going."
"Unidoubtedly," gravely asserts her
companion. " But why, if you will per
mit me to ask are you bidding farewell to
Daisy ville ?-G'iong, Charley, " as Char
Icy evinces a desire to listen to the conver
sat ion.
"Father didn't own the piace. Ile had it
on a long lease, which ran out the very
week (a month ago) our old landlady dhiedl,
and her heir-a nephew-and lis mother
are coming to take possession of the estate,
and they want our farm house for their
gardener, Whoe Mrs. Marks was alive her
gardener had rooms over the stable, and
very comfortable rooms they were, too, and
the kitchein garden was just back of the big
house. But I suppose the new people are
more stylish than the old ones, want their
kitchen-garden further away thin Mrs.
Marks' was, and so they take from us our
hionme, and we are obliged to move to Grass
town,.4
And arc your father and mother as much
attached to D~aiisyville as you and your sis
ters are I" he asks.
"E~ven more attached to it,''she a nswers,
"if that be possible. it alnost breaks my
heart to see mother's sad face. But I miust
try to make the new home as bright for
them as I can-that is, if I tver get there.
o dear I how very unfortunate that Char
Icy should have taken it into his head to be
so naughty this day of all others!I"
"On the contrary, I think, Miss Grey "
it has transpiredi that her name is Bessie
Grey-"that it is the most'. forpunatc thing
that could have happrened."
Hecr blue cyas anid her redh mouth open in
wondher.
"Because"-anwermg the look-"if
Charley had behaved well insteadI of Ladly
you would have been at (rasatown long
befoie this, and 1 should not have had the
-pleasuire of meeting you. And now 1 am
aibout proposing'imething which will se.em
extremely absurd to you, although the
wisest, thing that could be done under the
circumst ances. Suppose we turin Charley's
hes~d in the direction of lisa old home and
see what speed he will make then ?"
"But," looking at flim half frightened,as
Lion bounds forward with a loud ch'eerful
bark to ieet a stalwart old man who comes
suddenly around a corner, his hat inl one
hand and a red silk handkerchief in the
other, and who .houts the moment he
catches sight of her:
"Why, girl, where have you been? What
on earth's the matter ?"
Bessie leaves unfluished the "But"--be
gun speech and runs laughingly to hin, and,
taking the hat fromi his hand, fans him eni
ergetically -while she explains: "Charley
was the matter, father. You can't think
how aggravating he's been. lie wouldn't
go until -this Kentleman"-with another
pretty blush-"was kind enough to make
hin go."
The old man looked keonly at the
young one. "And pray where (lid you
come from, and who may you be ?" he
asked ,harply.
"I will telt you where I cane from, and
how I happened to meet your daughter, at
some future tine. Meanwhile you will
learn from this who I am''--handing a card
to the old farmer, on whiqh was engraved
"Charles Marks, Jr."
'Qfur old landlady's nephew and heir ?"
I 'The sanie, at you' service; and having
no desire, in spite of my agent's arrange
ments to the contrary, to begin my life at
Daisyville by turning so worthy a tenant "
(in his heart he added 'with so pretty a
daughter") "out of the house he has occu
pied so many years,I was just proposing to
Miss Grey as you made your appearance
that Charley should be stopped in his mad
career, and once for all be turned toward
his old home."
"Are you quite in earnest air ?"
Never more so in my life. Whoa, Char
ley, poor old boy I" and around went horse
and wagon, and off started the fiery steed
so fast that they could no longer follow him,
Lion "leaped a yard in the air," in the
exuberance of his delight galloping by his
side.
"IHe's all right," said the old nian, his
face beaming with happiness. And won't
mother look wondei fully surprised when
ihe sees hi coming up the lane? I don't
know how to thank you, sir."
"lDon't thank me. I deserve no thanks ,
gays Charles Marks, holding aside a low
banging tree branch that Bessie may pass
Lnder. "And the new gardener?" asks
B3essic, looking back at him.
"Will have rooms over the stable. You
cnow you said they were 'very comfort
ible.'"I
"But ycur train ?" persists Bessie, with
he first gleamh of coquetry that ever spark
ed in her blue eyes.
"I'd much rather walk," says Mr.
larke. .
-
Nailed ui, in a Hou o.
On the border of the Flushingse Madows,
n Long Island, in a bleak spot west of the
rillage, near Ireland Mills, is the old Texi
lo mansion, formerly the residence of the I
ate Captain Manuel Texido. On his death f
lie house was soli. It passed into the I
tauds of Senator, now Chief Justice Prince t
f New Mexico, who now owns the farm. i
vas let to a Mrs. Allen, from New York. I
1he represented herself to be the. sister-in- I
iw of a prominent official of the last State
lovernmnct. She was greatly interested I
a religious matters. She said she had a
irother who is a clergyman of the Episco- I
)al Church in the western part of the State. E
kbout a month ago Mrs. Allen, who had I
nother woman living with her, moved to <
.ew York. Before going, Mrs. Allen ask -
d a lady here if it was safe to leave the
)remises without any occupant. When
old that it might not be safe, she said:
"Well, I've got a competent person to
ive there in my absence."
Miss Clarkson,who (lid not know of Mrs.
ilen's removal, recently went to collect
he rent dtue. 11cr summons at the door
received no response until it was vigorous.
y repeated. TIhen a window was opened,
izd a woman's head was thrust out. The
wonman looked wild, and~ lien . hair was di
ihevelled. She immediately began- chat
tering to Miss Clarkson. She said she had
not seen~ Mrs. Allen, and was starvinig.
Mliss Clarkson not knowing what else to
dio, camie back to thme village for assistance.
She called upon a lady Iriend, who return
ad with her to the old mansion. Trhiey took
a loaf of bread with them. On their knock
ing at the door they saw the head again
thrust out of the \vindow. The woman
madle a heart rending appeal for something
to eat. 'I lie two ladies procured a rail froii
a fence in an adjoining fld, and sticking
time loaf on the end, held the bread up to
the famished woman. She showed the
greatest anxiety to secure the food. No
sooner did she get it in her hands(1 than she
began ravenousy to devour it.
Tlhen she begged for water, saying that
a dog that she had with her for company
was also famished. The ladies got a p~iee
of cord and threyv it to thme woman, who by
it let (down a pail. The ladles tilled the
pail with waer apd the woman drew it
up.
8till they were unable to get into thme
house, andl once more they returned to the
village called upon a Justice, who relerred
thenm to County Superintendent of the Poor
Sullivan. Hie, with the ladies, returned to
thme mansion. Mr. Bullivan triedi to get in
by a window, but it was firmly secured.
Hie then crawled through the cellar and
wvorked his way upstairs to the roomi where
the woman was. He found the (loon not
only locked, but nailed up with boards,and
the handle was tied with a rope to the han
(die of another door across the hall. Mr.
Sullivan tore away thiese obstacles and
bumr~it the door open.
In the middle oi the roomi 1tood thme wo
man, dlressed eonly in a tin cotton skirt
and a jacket of similar stuff. Under her
arms was the remains of the loaf, andl a
(log, barking aiid snarling at the lntrudiers,
was at her side. Tlhe only articles in the
room were a plie of mecadow grass in one
corner, on which lay a piece of covering
hour feet square, aiid a pall. Thelmre was no
erove. hlow the woiman livedi through the
recently very coldI weather it is hard tell
ing.
Mr. Sullivan and the ladies questioned
lien,.but all that she would say was that
Mrs. Allen land been very kind to her. She
said she had somie property at Locust Val
ley, L. I., andl had been so importuned by
hirs. Allen that she lihly assigned it to
her,the deed being on recordl in thme County
(Jlerk's office in Jamaica. The woman had
been conhined for over a month. She look
ed like a livmng skeleton. It was iearned
that she hard a sister In Locust Valley, and
after being cared for she was sent there by
I'uperinionennt Rnlihvan.
A Hufftlo Hunt.
The second afternoon out, a buffalo-herd
was discovered feeding far to the south,
resembling a flock of black shcop ilk thie
distance. A halt was at once called, and
preparations made for a descent upon the
game'in the morning.. 'T'lhj, horses were
tethered by long raW-hides, -0nd the men
proceeded to put their guns -*nd amiuni
tion In order. - Ind ning dawned
fresh and clear. The buffal es were still
in sight, thougil faithjer wia ; and, as the
wind blow from thehiiuitel toward the
lierd, a long detour was made In order to
approach them from thU optpbsite side. At
lenth, the hunters - dashedj among them
and commenced the - work of destruction.'
Will's horse, the , ureliablo Bonanza. be.
haved well while ainong his companions -
but no sooner did they, scatter than lie be
came unmanageable,, ind his rider heartily
wished he had taken his father's advice in
relation to the anihal, as lid found lie was
going to be left-out of the' sport. There
were no breech-loading ging In the party,
and it would astonish a crack sportsman
with his repeating Winchester and ready
loaded shells in a convenliedt belt-to see a
horseman charge a muzzle-loader fIron the
saddle. The report of the hunter's rifles
gradually diffused uneasfiess among the
buffaloes, which numbered' two thousand
or more, and they began to'nove, followed
by the relentless horsemen. In their course
they again approached the horse of our dis
appointed friend. Will tried desperately
to get close enough for a shot.. He sue
cecued, but a scared bull, with a shaggy
front aid furious, twinkling eyes, charged
toward Bonanza, and that animal turned
and fled ignominiously. ' The now terrified
buffaloes closed in upon' the panic-strickon
horse, and soon Will was surrounded by
the shaggy herd. Ile tugged vainly at the
bit ; and the loud laughtei- of his compan
ions, who remembered his boaston starting
ut, grew fainter as lie was borne swiftly
way. He was not at all alarmed till lie
looked back and saw that lie was fast leav
ng the men out of sight. Then flashed
ipon him the thought of how powerless he
was in the midst of the unwieldy herd.
le was completely surrounded, and the
'rightened buffaloss were running at their I
iwiftest speed, which they would probably
-ontinue for hours. He-thought of stop
>ing his horse by taking off his coat and
)utting it over th ammal's eyes. But
hun, should the horse stop, lie would be
mocked down by the buffaloes, and then
)oth of them be pounded to death beneath
he feet of the herd. 8o powerful are
hese clumsy beasts that in a large herd I
hey are almost invincible. They leave a t
rack behind which much resembles ai
flowed field. Should one of the number
os its footing it is alnobt sure to be killed
)y its compahions, as those in the rear,
-rOwding upon-the forward ranks, makes (
, pause impossible. Crocker observed his i
on's peril first. Ile was heard to cry out i
uddenly, and then, applying his spurs, he :
alloped in the rear of the fast-retreating t
erd. Leclerc and Dutch followed hard C,
pon his heels, but; the cooler-blooded Mex- c
-ans remaine to. skia 14- JYa.t F
:oked his peril in the face, with a courage
cgrotten of a life among dangers. Bud
lenly a desperate thought occurred to him
Ic had heard drovers and trappers tell of
ndian hunters whose mode of killing but
aloes was by running on their backs, and
pearing them as they ran. Why could
lot he escape that way ? The animals were
lose together and, though a misstep would I
)o fatal, to remain in his present position i
vas certain death. A dense cloud of black I
lust hung over the ht rd, through which i
a ight was visible but th. tosiing sea of
)easts near him. le, therefore, had no
dea how many animals intervened between
iimself and safety. His chances of es
ape seemed not one in ten, but the stun
ling of his horse decided~ him to make the
attempilt. More thoughtful than most, boys
would have been in the face of a dhanger
like this, lie unbuckled his horses bridle
amnd tiedi it around his gun (which lie car
ried strapped to his back), and then, get,
ting of1' his saddle on to the horse's withers,
lie 1oosedi the girth and let, it, fall to the
ground, initendling, shld lie make his es
cape, to go back aind pick it tip, lie now
rose to lia feet, on the horse a back, holding
to the aninal's inane, and in an instant
leapedi to thei nearest buffalo, holding his
gun, like a balancing-pole, in both hands.
TVhe animal plunged, but lhe jumnpedi to the
next, and~ the next, like Eliza, crossing thbc
Ohio on the ice, In "'Uncle Toni's Cabmn.''
lie had accomplished half the distance,
wheu one of the buffaloes, seeinghimi coin
ing, jumpedl to one side. The boy fell
between, but dropped his gun in, time to
grasp the animal by its long hair, andi with
difliculty ho climbed upon the terrifIed andl
1)1unging creature, andl jumnped (desperately
on till lie reached the outside of the herd,
when lie fell to the grouind and~ rolled over
and~ over, with his head swimming and a
heart leaping for joy. lIe was yet in dan
ger from the stragglers en the edge of the
herd, but the cloud of dust andl the animals
it obscured passed by, and faded into a
snioke-like billow, leaving him uninjured.
Ten minutes after, Crocker and his two
followers galloped iup andl, to their great
joy, found the boy unihurt beyond a few
bruises. Will rode hoine behind his
father's saddle, but whether or not the ad
venture hiad any effect for good on his
stubborn nature, the chronicle saith inot.
110w to Slang Thermomeoters.
In the fnrst place the lcmnlerature of the
wall of any buildinmg, at any hour of the
night or (lay, is not thbe true temperature
of the circulating air and is of no use to
science. A wood wall radiates its heat
more rapidly than a brick or a stone, andl
the amateur scienitist wvho hangs his ther
mometer on a woodl wall can force his
mercury (down below the amateur who
selects a brick wall. The proper way to
expose your t hermomneter is to surround it
with a light wood frame covered with slats,
like shutter work, and roofed over. 'lThism
i ill protect it from the direct rays of the
sun and reflected heat. Run a light wood
bar across the centre of your instrument
shelter, to which you can attache ther
mometers, which should be, when properly
exposedl, on thme north side of the building
andi the thermometer at least one foot from
all objects. If these directions are followed
erroneous reports of extreme cold weather
will not find their way mnto print so often.
It Is not a very funny thing (or the press
to report 25 deg. below zero when 15 deg.
represented the true temperature of the
circulating air. It gives persons a wrong
impression of your climate..
JImany's Scalp.
Tlis was the way it happened. - I was
playing Indian in the yard. I had a wood.
en tomahawk and a wooden scalping knife
and a bow an' arrow. I was dressed up
in his father's old coat turned inside out,
and had six chicken feathers in my hair.
I was playing that I was Green Thunder
the Delaware Chief, and was hunting for
pale faces in the yard. It was just after
supper, and I was having a real nice time.
Sir. Travers camne, and he said, "Jinny,
what are you up to now?" 6q i told bin
I wias Green Thunder, and was on the war
path. Said he: "Jimmy, I think I saw
Air. Martin on his way here. Do you think
you would nund scalping him?" I said I
wouldn't scalp Iim for nothing, for that
would be cruelty; but if Mr. Travers was
sure that Air. Martin w-ts the enemy of the
red Mian,then Green Thunder's heart wo.ild
acliq for revenge, and I'd scalp hin with
pleasure. Air. Travers said that the gen
tiian wias a notorious enemy of the In
dians, and gavp ie ten cents and saiud that
as soonl as A1r. Aartin should coie. and be
sitting comfortably on the piazza, I was to
give the war. whoop and scalp hiini.
Well, in a few minutes lie caine, and lie
and Ar. Travers and Susan gat on the
plazza and talked as if they were all pleas
ed to see each other, which was the high
est hypocrisy in the world. After a while
Martin saw ine and said: "llow silly boys
arel that boy makes believe he is an Indi
in, when he is only a silly nuisance." Now
Lhis iade ine mad, and I thought I would
give hint a good scare, just to teach him
tiot to call me nanies, I began to steal
softly up the steps, sid to get around be
iind him When I got within about six
reet of him I gave a war-whoop and jump.
,d at him. I caught hold of his scalp-lock
fvith one hianid and drew my wooden knife
tround his head with the other.
I never gtot such a fright in my whole
ife! Aly knife was that dull it would not
.ut butter, but tiue as I sit here, Ar. Alar
in's whole scalp cminie right off in my hand.
thought I had killed lin, and I dropped
uis scalp and said: "For mercy sakel I
lidn t nicav to do it, and I'm awful sorry."
3ut he just took up lils scalp, stuffed it in
ns pocket, clapped his hat on his head,
nd'Iwalked off, saying to Susan, 11 didn't
omie here to be insulted by a little wretch
Yho deserves the gallows."
Air. Travers and Susan never said a word
intil he had gone, and then they laughed
mutil the noise brought father out to see
vhat was the matter. When he Leard
vhat had happened, lie did not laugh, but
,oKed very angry, and said that Air. Alar
in was a very worthy man, "My son, you
ay come up stairs with me."
If you have ever been a boy you know
htat happened upstairs, and I needn't say
ny more on a very painful subject. I
idn't mind it so much, for I thought my
ictim would die, and I would be put in
Al and hung, but before she went to bed
usan came to my door and whispered
Ltrough the key-hole that it was all right;
tat Alartin was. made that way, so he
ould be taken apart easy,and that I hadn't
urt hini. I'll have to stay in iy room
itsfcAIlps ciRwnmy -cUAU , m'j. _.- _
E a boy just touches them, it isn't fair to
lame the boy.
Tie Toad.
It has been denionsirated that the toad
s highly venomous. Dogs and other ani
nals inoculated with toad poison have
ioon died: A boy in Paris accidentally
eized a toad, received the poison through
, wound in his hand, and in spite of the
test medical assistance, shortly after died.
J'liis poison exudes through the skin of the
Jack when the animal is violently molested,
md is the only defence it has against its
aumerons foes,'for it cannot bite like the
make, nor bound out of sight in a single
ipring like the frog. A toad might be
tandled a thousand times without ill re
mults, since It is a necessary conidition that
the skiin of the hand should be broken to
ifford the liquid poison Ingress to the
veins; yet considiering what has been|
proved by patient investigation, it is not
uniimportant to warn all, but particularly
boys, who are su often inclined to emiulatb
each other in clever feats, not to me~ke a
plaything or a Pet o'f the toad, nor, on the
other hand, to ill-treat it, but simiply to
let It alone. D~ogs froth at the muouth when
encouraged to worry a toad, and eats, it is
said can never be got to touch them. TIhe
poison has been proved by recent experi
ment to be exceedingly actIve, and no one
can be too careful in avoiding contact with
it. At the same time the creature is per
fectly harmless when not meddled with,
aiid useful as a destroyer of inets. When
it is overtaken in the lane, or on the foot
p~ath, it will always show the greatest, humi
bleness and respect ; it will hobble away
out. of sight as fast as it. can, and give you
all the road to pass. The eye is the only
part of the toad that can be called be.auti
fuil, but is seldom observed. Th'le lustrous
eye is unquestionably a jewel of rare vaine,
aiid it is the only attractive feature that.
the toad Ia endowed with to comp~ensatec
for its general ugliness.
I Don4& rare.
At 10 o'clock a boot-black stood at the
south door of the Postollice. in Detroit
looking across Larned street. A woman
camne out of the ohlce and bangedi the door
against his head and back and heels and
lfted him clear off the steps by the con
cusion.
"I dlon't care--you liad no business
there !" she snappedt as he picked hiself
uip
"Say, that was real mean," he said, as
lie rubbed Is head.
"Well, then, keep away frein the
dIoos. goin' to makce you a Christmiat
present," lie remarked as he followed hei
up Larned street.
"1 don't, want any."
"Yes, 1 was goin' to buy you a fifty.
pound sack of flour and put it in yec
stockin'."
"'I dlon't care I"
'That's what I wr.igoin' to do, biut'v(
concluded not to. f 'or see, It would slij
dlown into the foot of your stockim' an' fl
so clus thatL ye couldn't git it out without
buildin' a stagin' an' hirin' carpenters an
goin' to more trouble than the flour wai
worth I"
She gave him one awful look rind ho fel
back, but she had no sdbner turned th
edrner than she halted beforeawin-dow fo
no other purpose than to get a sly -look a
her foot and see if tney had swelled an:
sine alma left home.
A Honiano of the soa.
The British steamer West Indian. which
arrived at Baltimore in the early part of
January, brought from Jamaica the news
of one of the most heartrending marine
disasters which even the present tempest
lous winter has caused. About the middle
of December th l3ritish barque Fontabelle,
Captain Nixon, sailed from Jamaica for
London, having oil bard a crew of twen
ty-five men and ten passengers, including
the captain's wife and three children, and
two young couples, who had been marrieaI
only six weeks before. The voyage
opened with promise ; the wind was fair
and gentle, and everything indicated a
quick and pleasant passage to the English
shores. The Vest Iiidhan seas, however,
are treacherous, and when one day out the
wind fell and the vessel lay becalmed,
rolling lazily upon the long waves. Fer
days after sailing, when every sail wias set
to catch the listless breeze, a hurricane of
prodigious fury fell without warning upon
the barque, and stripped her of masts siul
rigging in, teni minutes' time. The gale
lncreased in fury, and the dismasted hulk
was driven violently before it, being re
peatedly swept by huge waves, which mao
mentarily threatened to sink it by the very
weight of the tons of water which they
threw on board. The passengers and
crew, abandoning hope, crouched under
the bulwarks, and through the long night
listened to the howling of the wind and the
shrieks of anguish, as, one by one, their
numbers were diminished by the relentless
seas. Vivid flashes of lightning at. times
illumined the scene, making its detalis more
terrible. With every flash the Iassengers
who crouched in the stern could perceive
one of the young married couples clinging
to the wreck and to each other, the Is
band standing over his wife to shield her
from the force of the waves. One wave
of unusual power struck the pair and tore
from the body of the young wife the night
clothing in which she was wrapped, where
upon the husband, stripping oil his own
clothing, fastened it about his wife, and
leaving her bound securely to the side,
plunged down into the hol, at, the risk of
his life, and brought up for her more suit
able attire. Just as the dawn was break
ing the climax caime. A tremendous wave
hurled tie vessel high in air ; it came down
crashing upon a reef ; another torrent of
water struck the deck, and the captain
and teln men, with the young bride, were
hurled into ile sea. As she was torn from
her husband's arms the latter appeared
stupelied, but the next, moment lie leampei
after her with a terrible cry, and he, too,
was swept, away and out of sight of Lthe
horrified survivors. To these the prospect
of instant death was not to be avoided, and
they clung to their fastenings and watched
with despair the slow crumbling of the
vessel beneath the blows of the sea. About
noon the storm abated, and the survivors
began to gather a little courage. The
night came, and the other tride, overcome
by exhaustion, died in the arims of her
husband. Day dawned again, but only to
arouse one of the seamen, who, crazed by
thirst, leaped into the sea before the eyes
them, it lodgeffi"E"11ll'ow-1f' nuo6m;
Toward night the wind again rose, and the
storm raged so fiercely that, wihen the morn
ing came, seven more had Ween swept away,
and only the mate, one seaman and time
captain's wife remained alive. Late in the
afternoon of this awful (lily a vessel hove
in eight, perceived the plight, of the surviv
ors and sent a crew of six men to rescue
them. But the pitiless seal had 'not yet
been appeased with victimis ; a wave over
turned tile boat when it hadt(I almost reached
the barque, and the entire crew were
drowied in the surf beneath the very eyes
of those whom their bravery had vainly
attempted to save. Another boat was sent
off, however, and at great, risk brought, oin
board the men and the womaii whlo had sat
with death for eight and forty hours.
Tis is but one1 of the terrible tales which
are every year brought, home by those who
go downi to the sea in ships), mind wvhichi
ilmke the romances of imaiginative writers
seem like idle tales. It is raicely thait a ship
wreck occurs whIch is attended by more
distrcsing details, but the seas are full of
terrors, many of which are knuwn only to
those who (lie in them, and whose fate is
never knowni. Buch narratives as these
give a lively stimulus to thme imagination in
thinking of the multitudinous wrecks from
which no survivor has ever come, and
which go to sweli the chiap~tcrs of romance
of the muysterious and threateninig deep,.
Dlssipated D~ogs.
Of all the rakes whose principal pleasure
Is to turn night into day, none1 are more in
veterate noctambul ists than two charactecrs
well known to that portion of Paris so
ciety which repairs during the small11 hours
to Peters', the Holder, etc., for supper
andl gay converse. The hiardiened roues In
quiestion are two (logs, a poodiie of extreme
wooliness, and a nondescript, who is gen
orally clothed round~ hko a blaniket, with
mud1(, as Sancho Panza was with sleep.
Tis pair of constant comrades lead an ex
istence of the most regular irregularity.
Every night, at about twelve, they may be
seen, always quite masterless, lounging
about the boulevardly and earnestly seeking
for some person with the air of a noctam
buliat, till, having made(1 a choice after
much deliberation, they follow their victim
like his shadow until he has reaced~ some1
restauriant with Intent to slip. If the ca
nine confidence is misplaced andi the pass
cr-by goes soberly home, those roystering
blades, the dogs, make their waty along up
the broad marble staircase of Peters',
where, being well known to the frequenters
of that establishment, they are cordimlily
received andl plicd with all the (delicacies
of the festive board. At the hour of two
they disappear from Peters', turning upl a
moment afterward at the Helder, oin the
other side of the boulevard, and they top
off the evening's excitement at a distant all1
night estabilistiinent niear the central mar
ket, Baratte's by name. When the light
of early morning peeps in upon the scene
of their revels, they disappear with the last
of the nmght birds and are b~ehld~ no more
tili one a. mn. has again come round. Those
who have made the personal acquaintance
of this remarkable pair state that their
grave enjoyment, of their nightly dissipa.
tlion is most edifying to witness, andu that
their general demeanor reminds one strongly
of that character in a novel by Murger, w
believe, whose pure and patrIarchal fact
was never seen but at seome pot~house irl
I, the deepest hours of the night, beamims
complacently at the drunken reveilen
arouind him.
NEWS Til IRIRr.
-1t is 13ai10 that the wine crop of
Californ la this year will be 10,000,000
gallons.
-Tie lose by fire in New Orleans
11-1i19 the past year has been only
$121,740.
-The Pittsburg pension agency pays
Out two million dollars annually in
pensions.
-Thirty tholtsand square miles -of
pine timber are now awaiting the saws
at Beaumont, Texas.
-Tite statement of the Imperial
Ilank of (ernany shows a decrease in
spefe of 74,000 marks.
-Charles O'Conor aged 70, has be
come a eleien of Vatntucket, where ho
is at work on a law treatise.
--It Is stated tihit it will cost over
$31,000,000 to run the Sew York city
government the coming year.
-General Walker has already esti
mated that hi 1900 this eountry will
have a populatian of 65,000,000.
-The duke of Westminstor, the rich
est man i Englaid, was ralsed to his
present title by Mr. Gladstone.
-Tie Washlagton banker'Uorcoran
has given away $4,000,000 and has only
about $1,000,000 left for himself,
-Tiore are .10,000 negroes In Wash
ington, of whom not more than 5,000
'-re steady at work during the year.
-it is estimated that the Indian
river country of Florida will alone pro
duce this year 70,000 boxes of oranges.
-A farmor in Chilton county Ala
batna, raised 408 bushels of yellow
yais on a half acre of common pine
latit d.
--Miscourl, Kl entucky and Tennessee
are the three most populous states of
the bouth., Georgia ranks next to Ten
-The wife of Gen. Sherman is In
such uneomfortable health that she
will notr perform any soclal duties this
season.
-The Colorado bullion production
for 1880, is ostmated at $22,000,000, of
wh ich eadville is credited with $15,
000,do.
-A silver dollar of 1708, "In excel
lent condition," is worth about $1,50.
l:tif. dollars of 1812 are worth about
sixty cents.
-Uommissioner L- Duc has located
his experituental tea farm 20 imiles
tromn Otarleiton on the South Caro
1l I iatilroad..
-Kansas harvested 25,000 acres of
EgyPtinu or rice corn laat year, the
average yield being twenty-live bush
els to the iero.
-it takes two and a half million dol
lars to pay the annual expenses of the
20,009 hounds said to he owned in
Groat Britain.
-D)uraig the past seven years the
mines of the iMnited States have pro
olueod $28,000,000 of gold and $271-.
500,000 of Silver.
-The total coinage of all coins, gold,
backs, $362 588 424, national bank
notes, $313,210,933 -total, $805,808,307
in paper icurrency.
-ThItle-it turnpike over made in the
United States was that construoted be
twoen Philadelphia and Lancaster in
1703, cost ing $500,000.
-The first time the White Houle, at
Washing' on, was thrown open to the
public was at the New Year's levee of
1'resiuent Adams, in 1801.
-The Russian Army has 25,000 ef1l
cers, wileh iustgequals the wvhoe army
of' Lihe Uni'ed Stales, counting In hos-.
pital stewatrds and the rest.
-Nearly $9500 has been contributed
ini Cineinnati for the benefit of the
famuilies of live liremen who lost their
hv es at, a r-ecent lire in that city.
-Th'le numibor of croquet sets sold ia
this country during the p)ast flveyoars,
is estimatited at 8,000,000, and still we
cotlinue to send mIssionaries to Africa.
--Vanderbilt draws $510,000 fromt
the gover-nment every ninety days,
that amount, bein1g the qluarterly inter-.
est on tihe 4I per centt. honds hlcd by
him.
-'Te gross earnings of the Missonri
Pajcitlie railwvay for the year endIng
IDecemnber 31, 1880, werec $25,404,100.08,
an inc(rease of $4,884,401.34 over those
of 1879.
-An English writer places the num
ber of horses in the world at 49,000,
000, o1 which the Ui~ated States andi
Canada have 11,'000,0,adRsi
21,000,000.,00ad usi
-Eastport, Me., exported 65,000
cases of sar-dirnes last year-, woth $050,
000, agaInst 25,000 in 1870. Seven new
l actoris wore ctreeted, makiug thirteen
no0w ml operattionl.
-It is estimated that the railroads
of the country have tequii'ed this year
1,595 new locomotIves and 8,420 ears,
worth $65,679,920, and $71,140,000
wortht of new ties anid rails.
-The exports of grain from the port
of New %>rtk dluring the year 1890
reached 107,000,000 bushels, an excess
of near-ly 13,000,000 busticfs over the
exports of aniy previous year.
-T1he most, careful estimates, allow
ing for thte losses by bad woatuer and
the scarcity of labor, puts the cotton
Orop) of' 188J at 6,017,.101 bales,' an in
crease over 1879 of 250,000 bales.
-TIhe .L'erson noi of the German Navy
comuprises 10,000 men, of whieh nutm
tier during the twelve months ending
on the 1st of April last, on an avet-age,
5,107 wero afloat atnd 4962 on shiol'e.
-T1he Mahtara~lah Dhuleep Silngh,
the well-known Eaist Indian prtnce
who lives in EFngland, advertises 8,000
pheasants aund 1,000 hares for sale, all
oni the Elvedon estate, necar Tihetford.
-rThe Moccasints, necklace and other
barbarous persotnal property of "D)on't
Knowv-llow," a member of the Y ank..
tonnals tribe of sloux, have been re
eived by decietary dehurz by mail,
thtat Indian having no furdier use for
-The total number of paubers in
London on the last day of the third
week in December was 02,262, of whom
51,500 were In workhouses, and 40,706
received outdoor relief. Compared
with the correspondiug week in 1870,
these .tigures shtow a decreaso of 8,550 ;
but as compared with 1878 and 1877
they show an inoropso of 6,061 and (,604
respectively.