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BOYS IVANTED.
Boys of sirit, boys of will,
Boys of -mU14c, brain and p)ower,
Iti to copo with anything
e are wanted every hour.
Not the wea whining dionem
That all trouble in
Not the watchword o "I can't,"
But the nobler one, "I'll try."
Do whate'er you have to do
With a true and earnemt zeal; -
Bend your sinown to tho task
Put your shoulder to the wieel.
'hough your duty may be hard,
Look not on it ats jn ill;
If it bo an honest task,
Do it with an honest will.
At tho anvil or the farn,
Wheresoever you itay be,
From your future elforts, boys,
Comos a nation's destiny.
IN TIE WIONG HOUSE.
It was in Boston. The first snow of
the season had fallen the night before,
and the wind was dashing it off the tops
of the high buildings, filling - the air
with tiny particles that glittered like
diamonds in the brilliant sunshine. It
wasn't quite so pleasant to have it come
with a rush right into one's face, but
every .one was merry and brisk this
mornig, and why shouldn't the wind
be so too? Two bright-faced girls were
rapidly threacing their way through the
crowds that thronged around the great
dry goods stores. For an hour they
had been flitting from place to place,
attending to matters important or other
wise, hovering over the pretty things
piled high upon the counters, but
laughingly shaking their heads over
their eenpty purses.
"1 shall have to appoint myself your
guardian, Alice, and put a veto on your
buying what you don't need." And the
speaker linked her arm with that of her
companion, and drew her towards the
door.
"I ought to be grateful, for I am in
debt now, and I really ought not to
spend a cent. Did you ever see such a
good-natured crowd? Now, you have
that call to make, and while you go
there I will run in and see Mollie. Don't
stay long, will you, Grace?"
- "No, I won't, What a wind! I should
think it came straight from Labrador.
This was rightly named Winter street!
Here, give me your hand. Let us get
into the sunshine, somehow, as quickly
as we can.
Hand in hand, laughing, breathless,
with heads bent to meet the fierce
I winds tnat came tearing around the
cerner, the cousins struggled forward
until they gained the corner, where
Alice halted for breath; but Grace ran
oh, across Tremont street, and stood in
the flooding sunlight, waiting for her
companion.
"Which way shall we go?" asked
Alice, when they were together again.
"Up Park street or across the Com.
men?"
5 '.'Aeross the Common by all means,"
said Grace. "I go out of my way when
in Boston, to walk on the Common. It
is such a relief to me to escape from the
cold shadow of the high buildings."
I So on they went, with faces so bright
from the cold air and their merry hearts
ri that all who met them smiled and went
their ways more blithely. Suddenly
their path was blocked by the snow, on
which men where still at work. An un
broken white expanse lay between them
,and their goal.
"Three alternatives," exclaimed
Grace, gayly; to wade through this
snow, which looks rather deep; to wait
till the men finish the path for,us, or
to take this path over to Park street.''
"In view of the lateness of the hour,
perhaps we had better make a conces
sion and accept the last. See, there Is
olhie's house. You see the house
>with the roof higher than the others?"
"Yes," said Grace, not very decided
*"Well, it is the third house from
hat. If you finish your call first you
stop for me, or vice versa, I will go
- meet you. Now don' stay long."
And they parted. Alice keeping on
own Beacon street in the sunshine,
race turning north over the hill.
either had far to go from the corner
here they separated, and Grace was
oonw aiting .for admittance at her
icnd's door. The servant who took
he card returned presently with the
ntellugence that her mistress was so ill
at she was quito unable to receive
hyone. So It happend that In a few
oments Grace was again upon the
-eet..
This is nice,"' she said to' herself, as
o retraced die steps. "Alice will not
urry herself, and, meantime, what .is
become of me? I do not wish to
orten her call. I will walk down the
reet very slowly and try to kill time."
What an e?quisite picture It is! And
lily it was beautiful. Tihe leafless
es on the Common lifted the delicate
cory of their branches' against the
udless sky. The newly fallen snow
,still spotless, on the streets and
usetops. Along the few paths that
d been opened on the Common people
sod and repassed. The roar and
h of the great city came softfl to the
across tbe white plain., ea at
d the State House raise I its shining
.me high in the air, and the tinkle of
gh bells and the merry shouts of
Idren added life and- Interest to the
ne.
'I am getting somewhat tired of this
ade, although I doubt if there
found a pleasanter place for It
je city. Which house did Alice
*a sure I don't know, if I walk
* t this club-house a few more
ball create a sensation. .That
do at all, Let me try
But as she turned,.the corner
* wind met *her, and' her feet
angerously,op the icy .pave
stalid this, In more senses
Why doesn't that gi-l appear?
not for the snow, now, 1 might
a e Uommon in the most unno
ay.possible. 1 yiIl cross over
thee Jos.What did Alice
I) a ttupidnot toAsk hertbI~e
StW the .shouldn't havd
*~h d~~l'me ~ren
to what people are saying. I declaW6
don't even know her friend's nase.
Mollie, Molle-what? I ought to kn#w.
I haYe heard her name times enoug
when I have be here before,i S1
one of '
At-AZzition her last name this morn
ing. This must be the house, Shall I
try it?
Grace, who bad been carefully sur
veying the house that she was approach
ing, suddenly looked very determined,
mounted the steps and rang the bell.
The door was opened almost instantly
by a dignihed old servant in livery.
"I bei pardon if .I am makeing a
mistake,' she began, in her most win
ning voice.. "Indeed, I am quite at
lo-s to explain myself. Has a young
lady called here within a half hour to
see a friend, a Miss Mollie--; m
cou in did not mention 'her surname.
And the paused with an embarassed
half.. smile. Bu. the old sorv.t had
already shaken his head.
"No, miss; no one has called. I
know, because I have been right here
all the time."
"Then I have made a mistake. I am
sorry to have troubled you. But, could
you. possibly?"-she hesitated.
"I think there is a young lady next
rtoor," indicating the house with his
band. "We have no young ladies in
this family."
"Thank you," aloud, To herself:
"That accounts for a slight trace of
3rustiness in your bearing, my good sir.
However, youltreated me very well
for a tramp.''
Should she dare again? Her blood
was up. The merry mood of the morn
ing had not passed. It would be no
worse than this horrid promenading, and
she ,might find her.
This time the door was opened by a
pleasant-ficed young mulatto, who
seemed instantly to appreciate the situa
tion, for a suppressed twinkle in his eye
answered to the smile that, do what she
would, Grace knew was twitching at the
corners of her mouth.
"I beg pardon," she said, with an air
of frankness that would have disarmed
the most suspicious mind: "My cou
sin Miss Raymond, left me to call on a
friend, while I madq another call in the
near neighborhood, My cousin pointed
out the house to me, but really I do not
know the house, the nuwber, or her
friend's name. She called her only
Mollie. Is there a Miss Mollie-? Bas
% Miss Raymond called? You see, I-.
It is really very absurd," and the young
lady ended with a little appealing ges.
lure of the hands that would liaye done
3redit to a 1"rench woman.
The young follow smiled, y9t very
respectfully. "There is a Miss Molly,"
he said, Grace looked relieved. But
she was not yet sure.
"A lady may have called," he con
tinued, "although I did not see her.
Miss Mollie is in Naw York."
"Oh, then," began Grace, preparing
to retreat. But he went on.
"If yoit will step into the parlor, if
you plenwe, miss, I will go itd inquire."
"I thaak you. I am sorry to trouble
you."
"How utterly ridiculous this is," she
said to herself, as she took th ]prOffered
ieat in a most elegant apartment. "To
think that I. Grace Carter. should be
in such a sorapo as this That man is
% true gentleman. How does he know
what I may intend to carry off in my
poeket while he is gone? What would
Alice--"
The sound of a half suppressed cough
in another part of the room started her.
She became conscious that she had been
thinking aloud, Throwing, for the first
time, a rapid glance around the room,
her eyes met those of a gentleman who
was almost hidden from her view by an
angle of the room and the de.np chair in
which he was sitting. He rose from his
seat, seeing himself discovered. Grace
arose also, turning towards the door,
for she heard the sound of returaing
footsteps.
"The lady is not here miss, I am
lorry."
All Grace thought of now was to get
out of her awkward positi1on as soon as
possib)le. The gentleman advanced to
offer assistance, but Grace rapidly and
somewhat incoherently uttered her
thanks and apologies to the servant,
tIed, and drew a long breath of ielief
us she reached the sidewalk once more.
"I feel as if I had lived an age, and it.
is not fifteen minutes since I blundered
into the first place, If that girl docs
not a ppear ~be[ore I reach the next
corner I shall go home without her'.
There she is this very minute, bliss
fully unconscious of the mischief I have
been into,"
"How nice; you are just in time,
Grage. I told Mollie you might call
for me, and I have been listening for
the belt for some time. Did you have
a pleasant call? Molle wvas looking
very lovely this morning; she had on a
new wrapper that is extremely becom
ing."
"Mrs. Benton was indisposed, so that
1 did nsot see her at all," said Grace, ra
ther grimly.
Alice looked up and laughed a queer
expression on her cousin's face. "Why
what did you do all this time?" she ask
ed.
Grace hesitated. "Oan you keep it to
yourself, if [ tell you something?".
"Yes, indeed!"
"Well, then. 1 have been making
morning calls, on New Year's Day, up
on the elite of Beacon street, Boston!"
"G*race Carter!"
"Pereisely; that's just what I say."
And half laughing, halt rueful, she told
the whole story,
Meanwhile the gentleman who had
been so suddenly disturbed in his quiet
doze did not seem inclined to-return to
his chair.
"You say she gave her cousin's name
as Miss Raymond, Alfred?"
- "Yes, sir."
"Very atoll. 'That will do, How long
before dinner? "I think I will go to the
store.aft#r dinner, My headache seems
"What a face that girl had!" he con.
tinued, wh e~ talne FShe s9sibe
a . haoft,i 3hea not a
Bio.tn & A edl lt a ha tackI
.. 1aynod, that is all I have to guid
me."' .
Alfrefe went away.chuckling to him
elf: "Mi. Frauk's struck at last
gfdl too. But. she is
Titt y, that's a fact!" But Mi
Frk. t to the store and studied th
dirtWoy with great care.
H been invited to a little No,
Ye 's partf that eV34ing, r -d as it we
to arp avery>quiat, infoi*mal affair, h
ha eneihted to golt?g, for althoug]
belonging to one of th6 most aristoore
tic wealthy fAmilies in 'the city, he wa
no society man. He wished now that i
had not promised to go, for he wantei
to take steps toward beginning hi
search for the apparition of the morn
ing.
"Fortune favors the brave." "A
Mr. Ellis turned away after paying hi
respects to his hostess, his eyes met thi
very eyes that had looked into his the
morning in hii mother's parlor, an(
although they were instantly turne:
away the swift rush of color showed the
het was recognized. With an adroi
excuse about "a very striking resemb
lance," he soon' gained the desired in
troduction and made himself so agree
able to the young lady that grace forgo
her determination to be frigidly polite
and ore long the two were ohattinj
together like old friends, to the utte:
astomshment of those present who kne
Ellis. Among his conpanions he wa
considered a little short of a "womai
hater," and there he sat completely on
grossed by a little, plainly dressee
country girl.
[The months fly swiftly, and. again i
is the eve of the Now Year. Come witl
me to a house in one of the pleasantesi
suburbs of Boston. A few snowflakei
are beginning to fall. Look! the doe
is opened and a servant stands on th:
threshold, and, shading his eyes, peen
into the surrounding gloom to see il
there is a promise of a storm. W:
recognize Alfred. Let us slip past bin
into the light and warmth of the hall
and looking into the drawing roon
where the ruddy fire light is dancing oi
the wall. T'wo persons are standing be
fore the open fire, and the the taller hai
his arm thrbwn carressingly around th:
slight little figure at his side.
"Grace, my darling," he is saying
"JL never can be thankful enough tha
you got into the wrong house last Nov
Year's. It was the making of my for
tune-and Alfred's." he adds laughing
"Do you know," Grace answers de
murely, but with the merry sparkle it
her eyes as of old, "I am not sure, it
the light of subsequent events that ii
was the wrong house."
A Wooden Log Unter Firo.
A fashionably dressed matron sat in th:
rear cabin ot a Fulton ferry boat, Nov
York. Sho-wam neeompania by n-- thin
legged, restless-eyed little girl of 4 0
thereabouts. A few seats away was a ma
with a wooden leg. With unerrig instine
the child's eye had lighted upon this man
That eye at once became fixed, dilatinp
with concentrated Interest. The chik
crawled down frum her seat, upon whici
she had been kneling, in order to affore
that eye better facilities for observation,
The object of scrutiny squirmed uneasils
In his seat. Turning to the mother th(
child exclained in a portentous whisper:
"Oh, ma I Look at that man."
"Hush, my dear. You must not bc
rude."
"But ma" (in a very audible whisper),
"do look at his leg."
"Be qiet, Ethel, I tell you," frantical
ly urged the matron in agitated tones. "Thc
poor man has lost his leg. It's very rude
to notice it."
"What's that one made of ?"
"flush I ot wood, my dear. Look at
that pretty little boy over there. See how
good be is."
"Did you over have a leg like that
"No, my dear. Look over there at
that-"
"Wili pa or Uncle John or I ever hiave
one, ma?9"
"No dear."
"Uould be kick a bail with that leg?9"
"Hlush, do I"
"But, ma
At this juncture the man with the wood=
en leg sought, in turn, to create a diversior
lHe drew from his pocket a prett.y littlh
bonbon box and offered the child somi
sweetmeats. The child accepted then
with some hesitation end mistrust. Ai
instant later the boat reached the slip. Thi
-nother rose, and smiling graciously, said :
"T'hank the gentleman, Ethel, and saa
good-bye."
Ethel advanced, her eyes still flrmhi
fixed upon the object of interest. S3he helk
out the tips of her little fingers.
"Good-bye," she said, in a voice full o:
emotion; "good-bye, you poor man."
The mother seIzed the child by the hiant
and, hurrying through the boat, gameci
the bridge."
A 110ad Man.m
A story is told of a prominent Wlnmng
tonman, who several years ago was mnclihed
to he full of fun, a little irreverent ani
somewhat short of cash, One afternoon
perhaps seven or eight years ago, he wai
met by a friend who addressed him thus
"I say, Charlcy, who was that nice looks
ing old lady, you bad out riding the othe
day on the Kennett pike?i"
"That," replied the young man, "wa
my rich aunt. S3he is about 95 years old
and I was afraid she had been forgotte
and was never going to die, so I took be
out to fhiow her to the Lord."
TIhe questioner was somewhat shoeko:
at the reply, and made no further remarki
In about three weeks, however, he met hi
friend Charley, the old lady in the mean
time,bhaving died and been buried, an:
thus addressed him : "Well, Ubarley,
see you plan worked, a,nd the Lord ha
taken your aunt. How did you make ou
by her will."
"Only a part of the scheme worked
George," replied the young man, with
lugubrious east of features and J-havent
got-a-cent-in-the-world-voteo. "The oh
lady wasn taken, that's true, but when he:
laet will and testament was -read 1 founm
she lef t all, her wealth to two old datkel
servants ahd a home for aged inen, whif:
I only redeted as ihy share of the estate '
do earned ,and thumb-marked faly.
BiA The trouble didn't pay at all, b~e
sieI am'a dollartand ahalf out for eat
riage lure. The htert tibne I trot vw jofi
ount that has been overlooked, you'll Igno,
e About tlie Bed.
A Spanish minister signalized his ac.
cession to power by going straightway
to bed and staying there, lost ho should
bo expected to do something. No
a English minister ever adopted that
ignoble expedient to escape performing
r his duties; but Walpole relates that
s William Pitt and the Duke of Nowoastle
once held counsel together in bed.
i Pitt had the gout, and, as was his
custom when so afilictedolay under a
, pile of bed-clothes in a ireless room.
3 The Duke, who was terribly afraid of
catching cold, first sat down upon
3 another bed as the w Mest place
available, drew his legs j t -it as he
grew colder, and at lobt -i j*j6dged
himself under the bed6elotes. 8ome.
body coming in suddenlilmlield "the
two mainisters in bed at the' two ends of
t the room, while Pitt's long nose and
black beard, unshavod for some time,
i added to the grotesque nature of the
scene,"
Tho great Commoner was abed and
asleep when Wyndham and others of
his colleagues -burst Into his room and
shook their chief out of his slumbers
to toll him there was mutiny in the
fleet, that the Admiral was a prisoner
on board his own ship, and in danger
of death. Bitting up in bed, Pitt asked
for a pen, ink and paper, and wrote:
"'If the Admiral is not released, fire
upon the ship from the batteries;" and
turned over on his pillow, and was in a
sound sleep a few minutes later.
When, in 1814, the military affairs of
the allies looked somewhat unpromis
Ling, it was around the bed of General
Knesbech, at Baruur-Aube, that the
Emperors of Russia and Austria, the
King of Prussia, Hardonborg, Vol.
kousky, Sohwartzenberg, Motternioli,
Radetsky, Dlebitsch, Nessolrodo, and
Uastlereagh held their council (f war;
and the issue of the campaign culmi
nating in the occupation of Paris was
virtually decided by Castleroagh in
sisting upon the immediate transfer
once of waWring Bornadotte'i battalions
to Blucher's command, and taking the
responsibility upon his own shoulders.
It was in bed, at the Jittle inn at
Waterloo, that Wellington received the
terrible casualty-list of the memorablo
18th .f June; and as name after name
fell from Dr, Hume's lips, lie threw
himself backt on the pillow and groaned
out: "What victory is not too dearly
purchased at such a cost?" Wellington,
who possessed the faculty of sleeping
at will, held that when is was time to
turn over'it was time to turn out.
Napoleon, a man of another tempera
ment, provided for wakefulness by
keeping the returns of his army under
Ins pillow, to be conned apd considered
when tired hature's BwetA rtorQr je
IU904d tO Mh" 11ijA4 "iltiOtrm 1053,aI~
One of, Johnson's earliest ventures in
book-making was the translating of
Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia," whion
put fifty dollars into his pocket. Lying
in bed, he dictated sheet after sheet to
his friend Hector, who carried them off
to the printer without waiting for John
son to look over them.
When the fit was on him. iousseau
remained in bed, carefully drawing his
curtains to keep out the daylight, and
gave himself up to the fascinating
delights of composition.
In bed, .L'aesiello composed hid
"Barbiere di Seviglia" and "La Moli
nara." One at least ot Rossini's operas
was composed under the same condi
tions.
Swift, fond as he was of lying in bed
of a morning thinking of wit for the
day, wrote to his friend Sheridan:
"Pray do not employ your time in loll.
ing abed till noon to read Homer."
Bettor, perhaps, do that than imitate
George IV., and lie in bed devouring
newspapers the best part of the day.
Many very clever p.eople, however, have
scouted the idea of health, wealth and
wisdom coming of early rising.
Macauley read much In bed, and
anxious to keep up his German, Im
posed upon himself the task of perusing
twenty pages of Schiiller every day
before getting up.
Maule won his senior-wvrangleship by
'studying hard, long after ordinary folk
were up and about, snugly esconced
under the blankets.
John I"oster thought his sermons out
in bed; methodical Anthony Trollopo
regularly read for an hour before rising;
and Mary Homerville made it a rule not
to get up before twelve or one, although
she began work at eight; reading, writ
Ing, and calculating hard-with her pot
sparrow upon her arm-four or five
hours eyey day, but those four or flve
hours were spent in bed.
Not Insulted.
"That man to whom you sent me, in.
suIted me,*' said a young drummer, who
had only been a few months In the busi
ns,to his trainer in a large house in this
'Insulted .you," reiterated the trainer,
with an expression of contempt almost
sufficient to make the novice sink into the
floor.
."Were you never insulted," timidly re
sponded the young man.
"Never, sir; not oven during the period
-of my novItiate, which passed through very
rapidly, and I have twenty years mn the
business."
"That is very strange," said the novice,
skeptically.
S "Very strange if you don't understand
it," ferociously observed the old'drummer.
"I have beeni often badly abused. 1 have
L been ordered peremptorily to leave the
premises. I have been frequently knocked
down for standing on the order of 'my go
ing, and several times I hare been uncero
monlously kicked down stairs; but," he
continued, gazing fiercely and triumphant.
ly at the young man, "I have never been
insulted. 'The mnoment a drumninor tel
,hImself insulted lae is no longer fil for
bileiness."
--The law~ hbrwy of the late Justice
Clifford, of the Unilted Statesf Supreme
Court,pnow. ffered for- sale at rort
said to by the lggstl
IEngland except 0ne in0oto
1orax.
There is one article of merchandise
enumerated in the new tariff bill on which
an import has been laid for the purpose
.of discouraging its importation and en
couraging its home production, which is
largely a California product. This is
borax, of which large quantities are
gathered in that state and in Nevada.
Few people, except those engaged dit
ectly in its production and sale, are like
ly to taka much Interest in the tariff on
borax, and yet it is an article of almost
universal use. Prior to the discovery of
the California and Nevada fields lar e
quantities of the mineral wore imported
from T.Vurkey and Italy. > Its value then
.Wasbout thirty-fiveoents apout M
present the production of American bor
ax has depressed the price to ton cents
a pound, and it would have gone still
lower and caused the cessation of mining
operations in California, if mining it can
be called, if Congress havi not imposed
a customs duty upon the foreign pro
duct. This duty is five cents a pound,
and is to be levied after July 1st. The
local producers look formard with much
satisfaction to that period.
The production ot borax in the United.
States at present is not suffloient to sup
ply the demand. But it is thought that
when the price shall have risen a few
cents under the fostering influences of
the ..duty first imposed the production
will increase sufficiently to supply the
entire market. At now ruling prices,
borax making in the Pacific states is not
a business which yields .a great prolit.
There are; it is true, immense fields of
the mineral, but they are in distant dis
triots, not easy of access, and while the
cost of condensation is. not great, the
cost of freighting is so heavy that there
remains but a very small margin. A
number of incorporated companies, who,
in the euthusiasm engendered by the
first discovery undertook the business,
have gone the way of all flesh, Somo
years ago there was one company which
operated quite successfully in Lake
county. There was in the emiloy of
this company a young engineer who
sometimes struck an idea. The borax
in that pal ticular locality was conduct
ed from the waters of a little lake, which
was very strongly impregnted witi the
mineral. The engineer, therefore, con
ceived the idea that if the water on top
.contained so much borax, that under
ground must contain so much moro.
He therefore induced the company to
bore at the banks of the lake. The au
ger went down and struoi, not borax,
but a good, strong stream of fresh wat
er, which began to flow into the lake,
and thined it so much that it did no
longer pay to condense its waters for the
sake of the minoral.
The borax ftldswhich have boon
SYWihihve been gendihily sni
in extent. Only those in the neighbor
hood of good roads have been operated
upon. These are easily exhausted, and
the operators have to hunt for new bor
ax-floelds. This is the cause and origin
of the numeraus borax mining compan
ies which are incorporated each year,
Several of those lately formed are to
operate in Inyo county, whore the borax
fields are very extenive. The 'water
of Lower Owens' lake contains a very
large percentage of borax. In early
days prospectors loved to wash theirigray
or black woolen blankets in this water,
because it removed not only dirt, but
also color. They also liked to bathe in
it, bohause the poorest swimmuer would
float in its saline fluid. But the water
was not good for drinking or cookiug
purposes, and a very small qnantity is
sufficient to produce sea.sickness. The
use of borax has materially increased of
late years. It is now used for a great
many manufacturing purposes, such as
making agate household ware, pigments,
&c. The trades, also, use it in liberal
quantities, and so do the soap-maiters
and housewives, who.*hate grease-spotsa
and cockroaches. The industry promis
es to become important in California.
saved by a 1ion-Iirti.
A singular story has been related to us<
by the master of the bark "Umadstone,"<
which arrived from .iiondoen at Sydney, 1
Australia,on the 22d, of March. While the I
vessel was in latitude 42 degrees south and
longitude 90 degrees east, a seaman fell
everboard from the starboard gangway.<
The bark was scudding along with a
rough sea and mYodierate windl, but on the
alarm of "man overboard" being given i
she was rounded to, and the starboard lirei
boat was lQwered, manned by the chief
officer and four men. A tearch for the
unfortunate man was made, but owIng to a
the roughness of the sea he could not be <
discovered; but the boat steered to the e
spot where he was last seen. Here they
found him floating, but exhausted, clingting
for bare life to the legs and wings of a
huge albatross. The bird had swooped]
down on the man while the latter was
struggling with the waves and attempted
to pca~ him with its powerful boak.Tlwice
the bird attacked Its prey unsuccessfully,
being beaten off by the sailor battling with
two enemies-the wate-r and the albatross
--both greedy and insatiable. F.4or the
third time the huge white form of the bird
hovered over the seaman, peeparatory to a
final swoop. The bird, eager for its meal,
fanned its victim with its wide-spread
wmngs. Suddenly a thought occurred to
him that the huge form so closo to his face
might become his involuntary rescuer.
Quick as thought he reached up and
seized the bird, which lhe proceede to
strangle with all his might. 'The. huge
creature struggled with'wings and paddles
to free itself. In the contest the sailor
was beaten black and blue, and cruelly
lacotated, but he held his own, andaslowly
the bird quivered and died. Tihe circass
floated lighty on the waves, Its feathers I
forming a comfortable support for the ox- I
hausted man, who had so narrowly es
caped a lingering death,' Buat another
danger awaited him. Hie was nbt muchI
of a swimmer, and the excitement of the i
extraprdimary confict began to' teU uponi
hun, lie was faint and grew giddy. But
with'"one arm around the albatross' body,
under the wing, and one hand clutchingi
the bird's feet, the ,sailor awaited4 his I
chance of rescue, k'res6ntly he heard puIs .I
eomrades shout from the boat, anud in a
'few niinutee more was beafe on'. bosrd' the
bark, though a good deal shaken and' et
hausted
' Mexicanx C,ssnmaun Lute.
You will find the miserable jacals (huts)
of the Mexican lower class on the outskirts
of every town, made of mud, sticks, straw,
cornstalks, 1'arrel staves, shoe boxes, tn
cases any old drift that will hang together
when once fastered into place. They are
tightly roofed with tule thatch, which
slopes almost to the ground. Sometines
they stand in rows in the suburbs , some
times they are perched on the top of a
clay cone, and sometimes tucked away in
the cracks of dry ravines. Every jacal
has its garden patch, where the women
eultivate a few onions, red peppers, beans
and sweet potatoes. A little mud oven
stands close by. A Moxican family can
live on a hill of beans per day. in the
,wnter a five penny soup iie and a yam
will satisfy their needs. Nearly every
one keeps a sdiall donkey and a kw chick
ens, a couple of goats and a blue-akinned
dog, with no hair on except a white tufs
on the top of his head and the tip of his
tail. They singe the thorns off the cactus
and feed the pods to the donkey; give the
soup-bone to the dog, and the goats have
what is lefl; in the bean-hill. Other dogs
have they, marvelous in number and va
riety, whose bite disturbs no one, but
whose 'nocturnal baying dividea the voices
Df the night with the cock-crowing that
resounds from house to jacal, and from
tarin to ranch, In surges of souna like the
waves of the sea."
Of the interior of these huts, it may be
3ald that the earthen floors are always
3wept, and the gaudily covered bed looks
Mlean and neat, thanks to the house-thrift
Df the women, who seem always busy.
rhere are abundant evidences of extreme
poverty, but not of filth or squalor. As
ror pater familias, who dozes in the sun
:r shade alternately, according to the sea
ion, it costs him a mighty effort to turn
aver, even to light his cigarette is too
great an exertion. Occasionally, in des
perate straita, he musters energy enough
to b"otride his d-nkey and ride out to the
Dhaparral for a black load of mesquite
ticks, which he will sell for a "bit" on his
return, driving his beast before him. This
is the most momentous event of his life,
ind stimulated with the proud conscious
ness of having earned a shiling, he rises
Ln his rags and salutes you with the grave
Dourtesy of a Spanish (Ion. It is the eli
inax of his ambition, but it Is painful. ils
Aildren are more active, and they vary
Lheir out-door play by throwing the lasso
it each other, the (logs and the goats; but
Jhoy never lasso the old man. lie is too
hgnified to be trifled witb. And you wlil
otilce that he never demeans hinself by
ittempting to speak English-ho has not
nunk so low as that; but he will accept
Anerican money without question, It pre
sented to him in a respectful way. Vul
game dios i
It ii interesting ' -k through these
strange purlieus ot LL, -wns and watch
the beggars at the cht. -cn doors ; visit the
uoueo~strniu-Un U'n1 pi no-ui-w r
carts on their marciful errands ; the wo
men at their spinning wheels or pounding
corn for their frugal meal, and the grotes
que milkman astride his donkey, going
his morning rounds, dipping from one can
:>r the other as he serves and sells. It is
ill very strange and foreign, but not a
whit like the halls of the Montezumas or
;ho Alhambra. I see the acequios run
ing through the streets, and the irrigat
ng ditches dug by the early Spanish co
onists. I saunter under the shade of huge
grape vines with stens as large as a treo,
Lnd hear the clang of the iron bells in the
>ld stone belfry, built two centuries ago.
recognize all these traces of an attempted
:Avilization, like halt-obliterated footprints
n the mire, It is the imprint of the
terling coin upon the basest sort of com
)osition, I would fain lee In disgust from
he squalor, poverty, ignorance ani( sni
)arbarism which has settled in the valley
Ike a miasma-but already I behol the
un of a new dispensation; I see that all
hese Mexican features are being rapidly
viped out by the settlements from the
Cast, which have followed the completion
>f the railroads.
A Quoeer Joke.
The cash office of the Treasurer s Do
>ar tment in the Treasury Liuiding at
W1ashington of ton contains many hun
Ireds of thousands of dollars, and great
are is taken against the possible do
redations of thieves: The room is very
uigh stuldded and contains a gallery
vhichb can be reached by the general
mublic from the floor ab)ove. The inter
st;clork is ain auburn-haired individual
i the most nervous temperament, and
motwithistanding the fact that he has been
ni his position for many years he has
iever lost sight of the tremendous re
ponsibility of handling the vast sums
>f money which daily pass into his pea
ession. Hisi nervousness has grown
blronic, and his made the butt of many
quito practio al joke. The greatcst of
hese was played some time ago by one
>f his intimate personal friends who ob
ained permission from Treasurer G3ilill
an to try his little scheme. The gen
leman armed himself with about twen
y-flve feet of twine, and attached to one
nd of it a machine composed of a steel
rodl pointed as line as a needle, and a
olid piceo of rubber as a ballast. Hie
tationed himself in thme gallery directly
>ver the interest clerk's desk, where
here were heaps of money all nicely
lone up in packages. Then he slowly
ct down his string until it was directly
,ver a large package, and releasing his
told on the twine, the steel prod impal
id a bundle of notes, Which he quickly
irew to the gallery, and having secured
hem, rushed to the Tfreasurer's office
vith his prize, which proved to be $6,
00 in legal tendeis. Meanwhile the in
erest clerk sawr his money going sky.
yard and gave the general alarm, but
LOt in time, however, to detect the cul
>rt. The clerk was nearly crazed when
me received a note signed "James (111111
an," asking ini to come at once to the
lDreasurer's office. He went as fast as
ns legs could carry him, and imagine
mis joy when the TreArstitor lhanded him
he missing $6,000, advising hiin to be
aore~oareig1 tfat huis moiydid not
'takte uintd it4911 iis and ilr way" in
he fnture, Thi ~iactica joke has
aught 'tio depastia ago4esoi,
o-wit; that It was possible for a eleov
#tief to a treet oc ith nhh0
tat, of aiar.*o an eyi xot
il likely (o ha?~ Agahi
NEWS IN BR1E1P.
-Snow has fallen for eleven success
Ive Sundays at Bar Harbor, Me.
-Longfellow's daughters are spend
ing the winter in Washington.
-TPhe lParisia iorist says that spring
is the very worst season forselling flow
ONa.
--Oscar Wilde is studyig for the
stage. Oneo of his first effortq will be
"Riomeo."I
-[i the United Statemone pers9on in
285 is said to be a pauper; in England
one in 35.
-.lhere are 2,187 miles-of telephone
wire In Pais gn what.4s bet, they
are all indor,tomd.
-Undetlie new 1 the tat TreAs
urer of Colorado has o ive bonds in the
sum of half a million.
-Ex-Senator David Davis is to be
presented by admiring friends Jji Texas
with a chair made of ox horns..
-Dr. Yates, of Shanghai, says the ,
Chimese pay $154,752 000 annually t
uIlet the spirits of their ancestors.
-(i each I ,000 of silver dollar the'
Govermuent. clears $183.75. The liver
costs $803.75 and the labor $12.5
-The Crow I1dalus of Montaml num
ber about 3,400 and are el 'elly ngag
ed inl agriculture and stock raisii.
--A thousid dollar bill was >laced
up1oni (i he cont rihlitionl plate in St. auil's
Church-0, Pawtilcket,1R. I., 11,astet norn
ing.
--A hady tourist'at Jacksonville, ;la.,
took to a Jeweller a live lizAtrd, a. cing
that it he nonited in gold for a. rf
pill.
-Franklin Pierce's old home in the
outskirts of Concortt, N. 11., is to be
tmuislforimed intoa Protestant Episcopal
school for girls.
-A man up town made a wager with
a lady that he could thread a needle
quick(ir tihan she colild sharpen a lea(l
pen<cil. The 1an won.
- Tarr1-i ng and feathering is a Euro
ealn invettioi. It. ivas one of Richard
Coeur de Lionl's 0ordiiances for seaiel
in punishient for (heft.
-Edwar(I the Confessor was the ih-st
monarch of England who used a seal in
hi4 charters. This is the origin of the
brmad seal of Enlgland.
---Between the years of 1783 and 1857
six great, earthittakes took place at Na
Wdes, which host. thereby 1,500 inhabit
ants per year for that period.
--Orange trees are cultivated from
seed. A tree requires fifteen years to
reach ma-turity, but produces both flow
ers and fruit in the fourth or fifth year.
-Canal locks were kcnown in Upper
Egypt from the most ancient times
1052.
-Of the $150,000,000 worth of wheat
imported by Great Britain hast year
$100,000,000 worth was from the United
States.
-There is talk in Georgia of pitrchas
ing Liberty Hall, Alexander 1I. Steph
en's late iesidence, by voluntary contri
butions, and to retain in it his famous
rolling-chiair and other relics.
-Mrs. Carter, of Bellair 0 says in
her appl ication for divorce tilat ier hIms
band compolled her to swallow spools,
but tons, long strings of wrapping yarni
and marbles as punishment for smiling
at other railroad men as they passed the
house.
-Of the 11,000,000 acres of land oc
Cupied by the Sioux hlidians in Dakota
Uncle Sam will take 8,000,000 for white
settloinient, placing the Indians on sepa
rate reservationus. -The Indian territory
west of Arkansas will be the nuext cus
tot er.
-For a long time oflcial circles in
Lonidont have been agtitated over the
(questionl whether or not a wvomann should
be apploinited to be superintendlent of the
female empItloyes in the p)ost-oillce. 1t0
has at last beeni decided by the appoit
mient of a womuan phlysician.
-French mails have increased in in
closures, etc., sent from 8615,000 000 ini
1877 to 1,340,000,000 in 1881; fPrench
telegraphs from 8,174 00 (dispatches in
lH76 to 19),4Ot6,000 in l1 1; French money
orders froma $1 ,3411,000 in 1879, whent
they were established to $9., 775,000 in
1881.
-Since the Cotton Exhibition at At
lantta hist year, $[,500,000 of capital has
been invested there; a graini elevator and
a cotton compress built; a spinning comt
pany completed, and nearly filled its
cap)acious building with machinery, andl
a concern organized for the mnufac
tuare of oleonmargari no.
--1There is an earniest attempt being
made to root out the terrible disease of
leprosy from the IIawvaiian Islands.
Fifty lepers have recently been removed
from IIonolulu to the leper settlement
at the island of Molokal, to be separated
fronm their friends and families forever.
-Sir WVilliami Tihompson finds that
sunlight has about 70,000 times the in
tensity of the light of the full moon at
any placee on the earth, andl about 63,000
that of cand1le flame. Tihue latter result
dliffers widely fronm that obtainied by
Arago, who found the light of the sun
to have about 15,000 thnes the Intensity
of 05andle liamie.
--Antwerp, a city of 200,000 has no
water supply but wells and canals, and
in 1879 works were built to fIlter the
waters of the Nothe by passing them
through filters of sand and spongy iron
and gravel. The plan has prove suc
cessful, but the supply is very striall, ac
cording to American iea being'rsceiY
ed in a talnk of only 340 gallbns.
--The number of ne ppa nowv
pulishled in (Gm'eat Britain and ~reland
is 1902, of which 15i30 are pibf~ d in
England alone, London claiMt of43
them. In Walsthee te 7 irs 11
Scotlarnd 184 in' n 11 6j~~t
21 'The ii1di .i'r' hti sti.
uted:127In hln,4ila~ 22'Inh
Scothind1 16 in i6,be~
IR. n 841 heRtlb