HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-1-21, Page 7Signing the Enrin Away.
BY IMV. W. R. COMITANN,.
nare Weenie, for a hundred years i .
Kept in the faintly ' mote ;
Coenneldseloh" wrth geaten eats ..a.
'Olt as the harvest eeete ; 'I.
Provided eiere and orow,aed ein, „,
And Seel the loads ire* Owning in.-,
Roiling In lOt II hundred yeere ;
And the Reedit:1u the nanny line 4pPore.
Oiehardeovered thesiopes orthe hill i
Older- forty barrels, they gay --
Sure in onion to come from Me mill.
To be tasted round Timeltiegiving Day I ,
And they drank as they worae'd.' and4h4 drank XI
they ate,
winter and summer. eariy and late,
Qt grwisher,
ounting ias a eat
ro hetounct °without a barrel on tap,"
. • ., ,
entataille tad sentinel arept along, !
nod Paeeiotte MO:berate grew,
their aupeticee banana° an strong
an ever a drunkard know, ,
And they labored lent and they squandered more,
Delay for mat the village etere,
rill miaow ' y the sheriff, ono bitter day,
ro Bi 9.1210BBBBB tarnt away.
rho tathe shattered and seentfd with rum;
The mo, or, Balk and pale and thin,
under the weight of her sorrow.) dumb,
In debt for the bed she was dying in ;
d h stand
Dh, I saw the wreaked household aroun er -
and the juettce lifted her trembling hand,
Helping nor, as In her pain tine lay,
ro Bien the homestead farm awav.
er), how she wept I And the flood of tears
Swept dowo her temples bare I
A,nd the father, already bowed with years,
'Bowed lower wiah despair Icame
Drink I Drink I It hact ripened into woein
b'or them and all they loved below,
And forced them, poor and old and gray,
re sign the homestead farm away.
ah, many scenes have I met in life,
„end many a call to pray;
But the saddest of all was the drunkarde wife
Signing the term away;
Home oiler. Ached in all like tewn,
Home, in that fatal oup poured down,
Worse their firs or ilmee dismay-
Drunkard eIgning the farna away 1
,
Mender; but thinge were different, then, and
I new that my 'father and mother were
not even even aware whether the Williamsee
were Btiii In Olio .world. ' ,
, The gentlemepa
n. rtueagerretired bout n. ill
nievenf otelegilen but ;Atm re at 'ef net sat
ehatting for neerly anether home During
thie Hui's. aorrie retharks 1 weidentallY Over
.
heard led me to the conclusion that We
ladies were just one tommenY feet' the sleep.
jek 'amornmodatiOn of ' the ahoturen Which
was not a Wiry large one, and that Mr,
Xiilianes himself intended to go and eleep
in a smallaottage that had once been the ban
Ws, but Was now unocoupied. To turn our
host out of his, own house, seemed really
barbarous, so.I entreated hiM to let me go
InMstede 4t , first het ieughed eV, the Idea
OA ritlionloUe ; but, wheal aho wed. hbn that
I was in earnest, was not tele least afraid,
and indeed rather enjoyed the idea of auch
a full& up to an adventurous day, he gave
in.
When' all the other gueets had retired,
my new friends kept me a little longer at
the drawing -room fire talking about my
father and mother ; then Mrs. Williams
!
wrapped me up and went to the hall -door
.
with me, There I bade Eel` good night ;
and Mr. Williams, with a lantern in hie
hand, led the way to theoottage, which stood
about a hundred yards from the house, and
consisted of two rooms opening into one
another. , Servants had been sent to pre-
pare the place; and with bright fires in
both roorne, it looked very snug; the cocu-
pants of the barna, I thought, rnight be leen
lonely, but could not be more ,comfortable.
The rooms were very bare ; but they were
olean enough to all appear &nee and there
in the inner one lay my bed, white and in-
viting. There vras a ohair, and a washing.
stand, and a small table with a looking -glass
and four lighted oandlee on it. Candles
were lit also in the other room ; and my
host advised me to keep them burning
through the night, so that, should I awake,
vrtie,rtanuoptpiyfitc,ly mozrittf table. dark, A
• •
'Now,' said Mr Williams, when we had
taken a ook round, 'shall I not stay, and
let you go back to the house? I am sure
it would be better -in foot, the only proper
thing to do.'
But I would not recant, and deolated
that I did not anticipate things could have
been made so comfortable; at . which Mr.
Williams laughed, and seeing that I was
.
obdurate, yielded.
'Shall I look you in, then, or will you
keep the key ?' he asked.different
'Look me in, please; it sounds more
eeoure,' I replied.
'Ah,' he said with a smile, shaking his
head' at the laat part of my answer, and
•
looking ready to begin the argument all
over again. 'But since you will be ob-
stinate, I will come and let you out at
half -past seven.' So sayirg he bade me
a kindly good -night, and went out, look -
ing the door behind him,
The door between the two rooms stood
open, the fire crackled cheerily, and the
candles burned brightly. On the table
stood a bag, which Mrs. Williams had
told me contained everything necessary to
my comfort. .
I undressed a little, took down my
hair, and began to Welsh it. Suddenly 1
waa startled by a peculiar sound, seem-
ingly quite close to me. It was a gentle
clink -clink, like a ohain rattling. I held
my brush suspended, and listened. Pooh!
What a white face was that In the glass !
It must be some deg kennelled near, andness
Mr. ,VVillia.ms had not thought of telling
inc of it. Yet I could have declared that
the sound was in the cottage -in the room
where P was, ,even 1 But that of course
was impostible. I drew a breath, very
gently, and went on brushieg my hair.
There ! it came again-olink-olank-this
time louder than before, and seemingly so
near my beak, that I looked over my shout-
der almost expecting to aee something. Butb
there was nothing visible. I turned my
eyes to the other : room. Nothing therein
either, that I could:see ; the:oandles'Lehadowly
but no other -shadows. It was nonsenseed,
to. tell myself that 'it might be imagination,'
for I knew it we,s not. 1 wished, that I had
eyes in every part of my body especially in
my back, and I began to regret that I hadfence
willed to be a prisoner, instead of keeping
the power of escape in my own hands.
All was quiet again, excspt thati fancied
„I heard the mound of breathing. W pi It o
a- -- P-13-
iiiible, I wondered,.- that eI, 'could hear the
breathing, Of any,' ereature eitutelde the oot-
tage ?Impossible', surely; ihis must be im-
agination ; it would be myeelf breathing!
And when people were nervous -I meant
frightened -their senses were not always
to be deptindedeupen 1 t w, t e
With thelie , 'reflections, I tried to shake
off my !sem, and went on brushing my hair.
BA I had newer noticed before what noisy
operation this was, my boots' creaked so
loudly ht .OVe11 motlen. I made h.aste with
as little noise as liveable; twisted it up, end
was ready to go into bed when the wand
came again-olinkclink-clatk, quite die-
tinctly. It startled me fearfully this time,
I had really I believe been half hoping that
it was imagination; but there was no
doubt new. Where the sounds came, from
I aould not before exactly tell; no w however
I felt certain that the cause of them was
not farther oft than against theoutside of
the cottage wall behind my bed, It might
be a dog ; bnt I could not help feeling 09
afraid aa if it were something yery different,
I got into bed; Once warmly covered up,
I did feel a little more secure; but my heart
' instead of trying
still kept thumping, and ine
I strained nay e es to their widest
to •sleep, y y
that they might take In every corner of the
place at ono% Some minutes paused, anal
heard no Bound but a ooal gently sinking,
and the breathing that must be My own
--arid imagination -then, suddenly, olink-
, . . .
clank, clitilVolitilk, lend and fast, and the
next - monnente It 'man crept , elowlY 'out
front under'. My bed! . . , .
. ' ' '' ' .
Now, indeed, ' my heart leaned! into my
mouth p,aralyzed with terror, I just lay and
gaied et him. HeatrePt along the floor to-
Wards thet fife, clanking an he went; then
he. etood up -a tall slightly made young
Main With a dark fiercer face and brilliant
eyrie -end leaning forward with ilia back
, ' '
to ine, he spread out his hands to the blaze :
awful hands to look at t and chains hung
round each 'Weird. rattling slightly and
• -
glittering in the firelight as his eyes did
elm
For wine momenta lay and gazed at him
croaroely breathing. expecting every instant
that he would turn his head and we me, He
did not; but of course ' I dared not stay
there, Yet I seemed epellbound to the
apt ; and it was with .a gteet effort of will,
but without te definite idea NOW trade, that
I managed one desperrite Move, I ell/Stied
out of bed, and, With my °Yea fisted on the
men I glided swiftly to the door, into the
ether reeve anti Into the Winer that was
most ht the ahad,e,/ Had he but turned hie
head an, inch eel Peeeedo Ile MUSt have Wen
me ; but he kept' hie eyes en ,the fire with
an Mt/hilly hungry look -end perhemei my
were ere etoiseleare ati 1 wished • thetn
s the o n r ' ' a
to be. Oetoot I Was 14, 0 or e he out
not tide tne without brad* into the mom.
gut, he might 0 that-ahy. moment]; and
. then 1 1 etoad atilt out rigid, listening; 1
eould not now we him. A leng
ed that he etood in the same
the ohaine Plunked loudly, and
walking moss the floor, • 2
„He mast be coming now I
would hey° died that Moment.
II0on0d to stand still. Idtit he
ha had gone toward the bed
f ,heard it °reek es he lay down
of it, Then after some restlees
%bout and ratt'ling of °halm' a 'al
oellid not tell whether he Ad
or not; fer&Idearreedwaaust umootilvbe
be awake, .
(n, and there I had to stand
feet on the uncarpeted wooden
no covering but my niehtdrees.
fully weld. If only I had hod
on, I thoeght I ehould not have
.
to defenoolese 1 , Then horrible
earn° and tortured me, '
man knew that I VMS there
though he might have been asleep
and was just keeping Inc in suepense
was his pleasure to write and.
with those awful chaimi and olaw-like
of his.
A long time passed in this
onoe more my heart leaped into
I heard the man get up, walk
and put on some coal, He
minute, then walked to the
was exactly opposite my door,
in range of my sight, snuffed
paused again a full nainute, hesitating,
hem], then walked back to the
down.pow
Suepense la a terrible thing;
was becoming every moment
Sometimes my knees bent under
slid down almost to the ground;
ed to find myself in so unguarded
I would start up again, and
straight and alert -as if my
would be of any avail when things
the wcrst.
So the long hours passed.
nasoitegos.)tpt axienri,artindienlgt the
candies in both rooms went out
ultaneously, he took no notice
as in darknees. For some hours
darknees that might be felt;
add much to my terror, for it
a little safer aud farther away
•All hi d 'what
t s posse in seem
t d of hours • till at last m
e -ea 9 . . y
great bound of hope ; for there,
window, which had neither blind
I could see lights moving about
dire i
snow in ot one.
lights came together at the door,
. .of
one tried to open it. Alas lit
the key gone, as I knew. • So,
u e , o open e
f tilattempt' t it the 11
d slowly away. I was afraid
ed
thed indowh lest the man
hw, b h Id
an t e tore earera 8 ou
d lon the all so as to
initevaend a wavedgywha da i a
No one mem,- and hands
n11
on a
peered quite. This disappointment
m
ar t deprived'e of all
a 'nee
strength I had left; but I was
terrified to faint. I was in wintery
d
such luxury, an now every
peoted that the man, roused by
the door would come into my
amine it, However, time passed
did not move only now and then
rattled a little, as if he were
sleep ,
At 1t the total darkness
way; a faint grayness came stealing
the little window. The night
the to last forever 1 Slowly
toward light, very slowly but
and I could dimly see every
room, -when at last I heard
side, then the key put in the
how slowly 1 -turned. It was
All the terror of the past
joy of the present moment seemed
denly crushed and pressed upon
I was mad for the time, I suppose.
till the door way open and then
the snow. 'Don't go hi there
whisper like a shriek. 'Lock
'Good heavens l' Mr Williams
obeying -and then he caught
his arms -My hair had turned
But I did not discover that
months afterwards, for b in
, t e g
need of. a looking -glass. I
. 0,
to for the first time, tbat
frisoner was a madman, who
from an asylum some miles off.
with cold, he had crept into
ter the servants -who had left
the door -had finished their
and so had not been discovered.
dangerous lunatic ; so it was
did not know that, for a madman
er terror to me than the most
escaped convicts. The men ,with
had come in search of him. '
Mr. Williams ran with me
and sent three men to the cottage.
were no more than in time, am
man was escaping from one of
just as they came up, and they
straggle with him before he was
ed. The mute morning be was
the asylum, where he died a
terwarde, worn out with an excess
nen. .
Ever sires that time I
dread of going mad. Indeed,
think I am always -tother quito so
people. But I arn an old wernan
I think I shall be spared worse
have written this in the hope
mind a little; though I can
that night.
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e immure o urma
Th British • f B
ed the history of the hairy family,
home is neer Mandela and
genu e o y
inoriginal f the many
annually paraded. The mother,
Id ' th d ht of
yeah+ o , is e ang er
L9•°e, She married a Burmese,
. . .. .., ..
thew onuaren were two, e
of which , were covered (just
that of her father was) with long
after the manner of a Scotch
family? dill lives in a village
I dd
'Tit"' Y9
Some singular facts are given
of the remarkable
to the character ,,
p Is which have been discovered
OBI ,
- h FL Ri
localities on t e tzroy ver,
Wales. The most notable feature
hated cone, rising from the
the River Dee the
which rune ,
flenked east and wed by bluffs
out of yvhiohthe valley
sandstone, ,
dently been carved down to the
primitive rocker that now form
and gureetzitee
These old shales,d
by dykes of rhiolite, anci through
outface
have evidently thittle to theh-
springe, deysits from which
the cone, he water has, besides
ried in eolation rillioa, iron,
But the gold seems to have
toted chiefly in the cep of the
to be richeat „In a large .mats
whiehr in tile form . of an
forms the vodka' axis of the
hi the nodulee of iron ore that
tabi ofteellulat ellielotte layei•se
with . 'n Old
ternate .th more r Imo f t
all of which fediate like the leaves
and endue° the lien Ore, 'Gold
its layers except ia a silioious
. ,
time t seem-
Peeitleu ' thee.
1 heard him
• • „;.
I thoug ht '. t
My' heart
did not cone;
for Presently
on the tot)
inovinl
woe' WI
falleu ailleoP
lirti h000euhicr :et
,
with my hare
floor, with
It was fear-
some clothes
., .
. been quite
thoughts
Inrhaps the
quite ' wen,
at first,
till it
pounce on me
had s
way, and then
my mouth.
to the fire,
stood there a
table, which
but not with-
each candle,
per-
bed and lay
and the cold
more intense.
me, and I
then, alarm-
a position,wed
try to stand
poor readiness
came to
,
The man did
ehtfilg end the
almost sim-
of it. but left
it was a
but it did not
made me feel
from him.
years -
d in
heart aye a
. g
through the
or shutter,
over the
T 11
hen a the
and some-
was looked and
after another
g mov-
hts all
to go forward
should we me
I I
not ; on Y
be poeit to
aileenPf f e ez e
h li hr ndr '
t e g ta is -
the mainin e
re
'
too thoroughly
for an,
- '
moment ex-
the noise at
room to ex-
on, and he
the chains
turning in his
began to give
through
wee not going
grayness
grew ra
unceasingly,
,
object in the
footsteps out -
lock, and -oh,
my deliverer.
night and the
now sud•
my head,
I alt cl
w e
fled out into
l' I said in a
the door 1'
exclaim -
me up in
quite white,
tin many
I had
ill,no
learned then,
my fellow-
had escaped
Perishing
the cottage af-
the key in
preparations,
He was a
as well that I
is a great-
desperate of
the torches
to the house,
They
the wretched
the windows
had a severe
overpower-
restored to
few weeks af-
of mad-
have lived' in
I do not
sane as
now, and
madness. I
of easing my
never forget
•
•
h h de -
as rem
whose
whioh is the
circus frauds
- now 62
a lave from
a i
an among
.
es. a an aces
as hens be and
silky hair,
terrier. This;
on the upper
in relation
g old de -
in some
ew ou ,
N S th
is an iso -on
plain through
lain bein
p g
of Megozoic
has OVII•
, .
level of the
•
its • floor,
are riven
them,
geyser
have formed
gold, car-
1
alum na, &a,
been procipi-
gaper, anti
of iron ore,
inverted cone,
mountain, and
Mout in cer-
Thew al-
g ittoile layers '
of t); fAn.
mama in all
earth, ,
YOUNG
• '
THE LITTLE
an
Twenty years
tle boy who
leaa pear of eludes
' dit
6,:oeuld'hoayreebooene
a pi kl d pepper,
okateri,eas it indicritee
ci the k t
e e e a ea
every one,
The red skates
aggravating
g
go around the
dkl
etep. Tbis heel
stitude for the
h it in
skater derovge
means of i'amP
The runners n
had a groove
4S
as go re,
tte
more diffioult
were unbevelied.
awe t d
y out an
g over o
in th
feeture 'f it
, I
d th k t
e e s a ea
and they frequently
in contact
those days
th emersion].
than by the
with the "rockers"
was regarded
degrees devele
wee envied for-bein
was revered
withoue interfering
metry of the
were comparatively
not more than
a pair, and if
at sa hard end
uldn't enjoy
littleThebowned
was a poor boy
he had i no
huge comforter
sed on his breast,
hard knot at
with the exercise
ly warm, and
he ehould possess
overcesat soon
get more glowing
He was a ehort,
the fact that
not subjected
e fighter o a ghter not
than he deserted.
When he
but one skate
of learning to
He would run
ont and slide
but as the ice
head never,
put on the pair.
by before he
jump over things,
e .
in on
ed ear g
trouble seemed
on securely.
the peg into
thrust sticks
tighter. When
of etioksrunder
his face wore
triumph, and
wind.
Nothing niaset
led youth on
always arose
into him, that
of it. If he
out and skated
It used to
oompaniment
have a large
foundland that
the frozen surface
swimming in
and cheerfully
thrown far into
them thrown
little boy with
the dog would
rails on
open because'
estildtwalk and
perfectempunity,
ekateria
' The reason
was that one
skates grasped
him with a
made him run
the tormentor
made theleille
as he flew along
motive. The
ine on him,
dog vowed '
enjoy at his
But in spite
erous., One
was quite painfiel,
to keep him from
ly painful to
while he was
he lent the idle
whem oven a
of princely
Arabian Night.
in this way until
necks," as they
strike out with
and played shinney
sombre gray
and et joliier
club skates.
smiled the little
little red skates
ball. but thie
part, I removed
and have not
:
ever he is, I
along as gayly
.
°I2 his little re
'
A COWBOY
Fatal Irl Mtn
g
nve-nalibre
am °oilmen
S Th
the filet newts
rue o
M t It Plaza
trouble Watered
is a oo] oam
P IP
boy e were
feetivities.
Martjust
I no had
de Theca The
.
about 7 o'clock
big began
b
geoond set
ophy an
„B d
r .
and, meeting
di ' cement
asage
ti
th eni worn em
camp, and Johneene
that Brophy
not go by lte
Brophy to i
disputennaneel
"area Tont
make peke.
Pi 1.1 the
ne Y
question t� la
Bettie., tiatill
FOLKS
' '
xhopvion, and while he was gone. the die-
p,ube pew warmer, and both men pulled
their revolver'. Aa Hants came out Brophy
94few feet apart. are4 Jeheelm Were fatting each ether but a
Hntgrabbed both &tole,
turned the Muzzles don, and etooddietween,
,
the two .angrY men'f°k' nearly half an no",
()ritual hie bandit Weenie se heininnbed that
he could amid It no ,letliter. Ilt vain he beg,
ged, the Men to put up their weapon But
hie effort a were futile, Johnson ' emineled,
owenee latievand let us settle it. At 'last
. . . . ,.
Hearts pushed the mantes of the revelyeas
down railer as. he could and jitmped back
, . - . . • • - . '
Instantly tWolePorte rang out in the night
air. Brophy's Shat took effeot in. Johusonse
chest about dwid inchea below the Gollar
bone ,passed through the body, and came
' ' ,
out below the eight /Mouler blade, John-
eon's first shot Hit Brophy's watoh, and did
no further damage than to emash that time.
keeper. Brophy then started to run, John-
son fired to !iwoond thne, the ball entering
the small of Brophy's back, and dropping j
down were a probe could not reaah it.
' Brophy fell as soon as JOillIS011ta second
hot took effi3ot, but o son coolly
J hnwalked
into the house. put on his overcoat, and
abated off. Brophy was carried into the
d til
house and J oilmen was not foun un neer-
ly an hour afterwarcle. He had walked
dawn to the corral' in order to get is horse
.
and had fainted from lose of blood. He was
carried back to the house, A dootor was
summoned and examined the wounds. As
they were made with forty-five calibre wen-
scarcely more than anne length away,
the wounds, and especially that of Johnson,
were ghastly and terrible, The physician
a id Johneon was liable to die at any mo-
a
ment, and that Brophy could not live to ex-
ten days.
Both the wounded men are Texans and
well known in the territory. All their ao-
quaintances epeak ot them as "mighty good
hewn b his con-
boys," Johnson, as was a y
duet after the stootrg, was stbireerarkAaibtly
gr
thet tZotiiiira men°haclibeeleir meaBdegase4;omforetr.
able as possible, it was found that there
were no more grudges to settle, and, as
everybody present felt kindly dispoeed to-
ward everybody else, the fears of the ladies
were quieted, and the baterrupted dance
proceeded as though nothing had happened.
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A HAMM ItiWatery.
A. citizen of Harper, Kansas, who has a
claim three miles from Meade Center,
came into the town the other morning
and unraveled one of the greatest myster-
les that has ever been heard of in the an -
nals of earth eruptions. Last week he
i tlwalking hi 1 i
was qu e y over s c a m when
he was startled by a rumbling sound re-
e bli e thunder. He ato ed welkin
a III .nn _ _ PP, g
and distinctly felt the earth quiver under
' his feet, that, to Me his own language,
"made the cold sweet gather on hie fore-
head." All at once a hissing sound was
heard coming from a small knoll or raise
in the ground about 200 yards frornwhere
he stood. resembling the sound peculiar
to 10,000 sky rockets going off at once.
A. vaat cloud of steam, vapor and duet
arose and ascended in the heavens, look-
Eng not unlike a ponderous balloon start -
Ing on a trip to the moon. Birds that
flaw into the masa in passing fell lifeless
t the ground.
0 e
Large chunks of rock, salt and sod
_ .
were thown aeverai hundred. feet into the
air, and fell scattered for over 100 yards
or more over the prairie. Immediately
following the eruption, steam was seen
rising and following the first black cloud.
The rumbline noise had ceased, and the
lone witnees of that frightful scene stood
riveted in his tracks, and, geared almost
to death. He said : "I knew not which
way to turn or what to do. My firat
• 9 . .
i •
thou ht was that it was the eg nning of
g ,. zing
d of the world. t stood E at
the en g
steam for at least twenty min-
the ria g y
utes perfectly mystified and terror-
en. I woke up, however, and went to
my cabin and lay down."
On going out of his (whin the next
morning he was astonished to see the
steam still rising from the knoll. He
ventured to approach it, and his surprise
can be imagined when he saw before him
a round hole about 100 feet in diameter P
filled to within eighteen inchee of the
. e put his hand
surface w water.
ithH
into it and found it almost scalding hot,
and that it was strong salt water. He
tied a rock to forty feet of rope and threw
it in the new pond. It sank, but stiuck
no bottom. He afterward attempted to
test the depth of the pnol with 340 feet of
rope, but still no bottom was touched. '
TER LINE-XILN. OLUB
When the meeting opened in dne forxn
Brother Gardner announeed tilat the Hen.
Pronle Livermore, of Arkansain the
n, wow.
antermin and Welting to addresa the meet.
ing' The f"ablf et of hfa ad4re" W" ;
the White Man Pa.esoe.d We Zenith r If
there were no • ebjectIont he would be
braught in
Pxoi. ' W., intergreeee Dania didn't PrePotie
to olsjeot but he would like to he tnforined
P • ,
of the meaning of the word aenith. He had
attended twenty-one different ward callous.
• • • •
es and had clerked in A wood yard for three
weeks, but he had never met vvith the weird
before.
Thera was a deep silence aa he ;settled
down, and Brother Gardner leratohed his
bald pate until as if the friction would start
a fire '
" Zenith," he finally eaid, "why, I ar'
mo' dan surprised at your ignerence. Ebery
oull'd puseon in die 'teary orter to know all
about zenith.),
"Yeo, Rah, but de word breaks me up."
am a e u eaay con 're-
" Zenith dr ff 1word," t•
tied the President as he looleed up and down
the hall in a nervous manner. " You did -
n t g t zenith an c er a mixed up, did
' i ' z1her 11
you ?"
"No, sah."
" When anybody eat El dat Samuel Shin,
fur inetance, has passed hie zenith dey can't
be tooken up fur elander. It meane-it
meane—"
Re waited so lone that the Rev. Penstock
arose and said :
" Miner President, it means dat he has
passed hie beet pint. Zenith am de higheet
pitch."
" Brndder Penstock, sot right down die
minit 1" exclaimed the Preeident as he used
his gavel in a vigorous manner. " Who an -
ed you to riz up an"splain 'bout zenith 1'•
When die cloak can't an' on one le an'
, et g
'plain any word in common use he evi ill teorri
fine 1;losulgegOictue ralcilistenaribitirdine eti:'h:ild'
Prof. Davie will now be brung 1"
LIE IS " BRTING."
It wee evident to all as soon as he entered
the room that the Professor WAS "off," He
grinned and bowed and scraped, and finally
took a chair near the etove . When Giver
dam Jones went over to him and anked if he
was ill, he replied :
"Shay 1 III fight you two rounds for
twenty-five shente 1"
He was drunk! As soon as Brother Gard -
ner realized tktis fact he ordered him renew -
ed from the lodge. The stranger was asaist-
ed down stairs into the alley, and hasn't
been seen since. From the splashes of rand
on the right board fenoe, and the distance
between his tracks, it is believed that he
left in a hurry.
" Die am but another proof," said Broth.
er Gardner, as he took his seat, "Dat when
you pit brains agin whisky, common-sense
agin gin or intellect agin lager -beer, de licp
,b d t
raids am Dun o go under de wire a length
ahead. '
A CLOSE SUAVE.
Sir 'saw Walpole then moved to take
from the table the wee of the keeper of the
.Museum, who was last week easpended
from office and fined $8,000. - Sir Isaac had
carefully beg:aired into all the facts in the
case and believed them to be as follows :
The keeper desired to run down to the post -
office to mail aedetter to his father-in-law.
There was presentire the Mueenm a etlered
man who claimed to be a professor of botany
at Harvard, and he was aem
ked to reain
until the keeper a return. The time
occupied was only twelve minutee, but
when the keeper returned be found the
strangen hed departed, takir g with him an
eight dawelock once owned by Napoleen I,
The kee er was to blame and et he was
P . . e . 9 y
min along here and
not. If everybody co g
claiming to be a professor at Harvard was
to be anspeoted and watched, the whole po.
•
hce force would kept busy. The clock
was probablis gone beyond recovery, but
the less was tot irreparable. Sir Isaac had
.
in his possession a clock vihioh Napoleon
wanted to buy, but didn't have money
enaugh. He would' turn this in to the Mia -
sewn in case the keeper was reinstated and
his fine remitted. It would take him 190
very beet he could do to pay the
years, ' ' 1
fine, and he hadn't seemed two home a eel
since being suspended.
" Bein' dat die matter has bin tooken ur
an' considered by doh a distir guiehed mem-
ber " said the President, "1 shall not herd.
,
tate to comply wid de request, though]
want de keeper of de Museum to fully real.
ize dat he has had a powerful close en ave.'
BED SKATES
n. IL arUNXITTRiele,
ago there was a certain lit,
had a paw of roe, shatee i, that
whoee runners were fast.
df t Thi shade d hih
beauteifsulaine‘aogirt,edowlus °az:,
• i i f
was vulgar n a pa r o
ohea nes and stamp-
b • Ph 4''
as being wit, in the reach of
]
had a peculiar and moat
kind ot heel strap, deal reed to
a p, g ,
an o nstea o cross t e 11.
i d f • la 1
band was intended BB a eub-
Earew in the heel the red
• ' h
Prirtoidtehdewlhteheal oPfegLiwe heiheohetbve
ing and • '
stampmg.
1 d
were narrow and ow, an
which caused themto be known
" it beingid d rather
, cons ere
to whirl about on thoae that
In. front the steel came
around in a great curve, en •
d • t d
' t • b Th.
ins ep In a raes acorn. to
may ea caus-
b termed feature,
t b k ne
o e known as turn-upe,
trippedany one that
with them.
boys were judged, among
b the d
more y e .snates they use
company they kept, The boy
in a nitre green baize bag
with peculiar teeny, which b,
d int • "
pe o reverence, for if he
bl hh
g a e to have a pair, e
for his ability to fly on them
with the natural elan-
back of his head. Club skates
unknown at this time ,
one boy in n hundred owned
he put them on he was stared
cniestioned so freely that he
his skating,
dk
boy who owne t e 're e ates
-in faot, he was so,poor that
overcoat, He used to wear a
around his neck, which area-
and. was fastened In a
This
the small of his back. ,
he had,kept him sufficient-
the boys who wondered that
a pair of skates and not an
began to realize that he could
comfort out of the fernier.
stocky boy, and in epite
.
his skates were red, he yeas
to ridicule. He was too much
to be respected even more
. .
first appeared on the ice he had
as he believed in the system
' skate on one foot at a time.
five or six feet, and then strike
twenty. • He frequently fell,
- cracked sometimes, and his
he concluded he might as Well
Hardly a;week had passed
could "grind the bark" and
a feat that was consider-
" turn -up ' skates His great
P •
to be in keeping the aketes
Frequently he had to stamp
his heel, and oftener he had to
under the straps to make them
he had a sufficient number
the etraps to light a fire with
the hrippy expression of
he would glide along like the
the composureof this freak-
the red skates, If he fell, he
feeling better. If any one ran
person always ,got the worst
broke throe gh the ice, he came
himself dry in half an hour
be considered a charming ae-
to the pastime of 'skating to
dog on the ice. We had a New-
was as fond of running on
in winter as he was of
the pond in summewand as free.
as he would swim for sticks
the water, he would run for
on the ice. But when the
the red skates was around,
go and lie down by the fire of
the shore, and keep one eyethe
be seemed to knowithat a boy
run on land and stones with
and not injure a pair of red
'
the dog kept out Of the way
day the boy with the red
hie tail in one hand and beat
switch held in the other, and
with might and main, while
held hie feet together, and
send back his merry Omuta
behind his four -footed low -
witch kept the dog from turn
and he had man a ride as the
that boy should never again
expense.
of this the little boy WWII gen:
day he sprained his ankle, It
Not sufficie ntly painful
skating, but just an fficient-
keep him from :school. So
obl'ged to skate on tone foot,
skate to another boy, to
pair of red skates was a dream
opulence . little short of an
And they skated together
the owner of the " swan
were called, was able to
both feet. And he skated
on the lee through that
winter of twenty year a ago,
or merrier boy never stood on
Perhape when the springrom
,
freckled boy exchanged hiscations
for a trap -cage or a base-
is only a conjecture on my
froin the place in the spring.
seen the boy since, but wbere
only trust that he is gliding
and happily as he once did
d k
a ates
r---unstott•-nes—.
A. Tru.e Story of the
t
Old Coaching -Days•
- '
Many years ago, when the journey from
Edinbuigh to London was a matter of days
indeed of hours, I started to make it, for
the first time in my life, in the stagecoach
which I shall call the Royal W illiarn. I
was travelling alone, inasmuch BEI I knew
none of the other passengers ; but the
guard had been 'tipped' to look after. me,
and he did that as well and for BB long- as
he could. It was about ten days before
Christmas. I was going to pay my first
visit to London,. he.viog left, school 'for
good ' some 'months before, The prospect
of the journey had been Scarcely .lees de-
lightful than that of London, itself, and
tedious as it would be thought in these
luxurious days, even by healthy young
people such an I then was; I enjoyed it
thoroughly -at least until more than half of
it was over. There was snow in the air,
but none on 'the ground, and our four
' spankine./$4eses took us along at ten
miles an ho 'including the stoppage%
.
All went well until we got to 1 orkehire.
We had for some hones been going through
snow -covered region, and our pace had
consequently been somewhat diminished ;
but when we reached the wild moors of
Yorkshire, the snow came down in
blinding clouds, and darkness setting in,
we lost our way. Between the drift and
the darkness -for it was about five o'clock
in the afternoon -we had xi -reneged to get
off the high - road, and only discovered our
mistake pile` after much plunging and
struggling he part of the horses, and
waxing and aring on that of the driver
and guardaa which was more exciting
than agreeable, the wheels stuck fast in the
UMW, and the exhausted animals absolutely
refused to go a dem farther.
Where we were, we could not tell -it
.
was even a matter of doubt if we were on a
road at all. ' We could jut dimly see the
white moorland stretching away on every
side. There were neither stars nor moon,
and the pale rays from the coach -lamps,
which shone coldly . on the Wow, . extended
no farther than the leaders' heads.
One passenger proposed that we should
ail erstyrd together inside the coach, then-
Decessity having no law-feaat upon any
edibles that happened to be in it, and finally
try to sleep till morning. But, for several
reasons, few of at oared for that pian, with,
out first making =Other effort to get back
to the high -road ; eo the guard took his
horn, and two - gentlemen a lantern, and
they went off together to reconnoitre, 'In
ten ,niinutes ,they came back to say that
they could not, make anything. of the
iittiation i but that they had seen the lights
of a house down in a hollow not far off,
and wore of the Opinion that ' it Would be
better for as to try to reach it, rather than
remain where , we were all night. We
ell got out of the coach and started for the
house, leaving guard and coachman behind,
but proiniaing to send them aesistance when
we reached our destination, The two
gentlemen with the lantern guided ue; and
In about a quarter of an hour we reached
the lodge.gatee, after much parleying where-
at, we were at length allowed to proceed
to the house itself,
We were not astonished that the potter
had been eo unwilling to adroit ,ne when we
discovered, aa we soon did, that the house
was already full of Christmas guests, most
if not all of whom would.be remaining oder
the night; for in the country in those days,
flying visits were more or less impracticable
in winter, andithis was one .of those 'sleeted
dwellings who e inmates might bedkept
prisoners fer eeles et a, time, But not.
withataid g their crowd , of guests, the
master and• (dress -whom I shall call Wil-
llama -received us very kindly, warmed 1113,
fed urn and immediately eent efftwie of.thetr
. , te to andet. the guard. Wind
driVerto bring the horeett to their' stables; !-
Never were belated travelleitentore fortin
.,. •
nate I Suck an inundation ef. strangers
must have been a 'widens, iintienvenience ' in'
a home already gCI hill of 'People i' but Mr,
ad Mr% Williams made us all at, .once feel
at ease, and were yen, mut* disteessed.
that they could only fin d sleeping aocoroince
eation for the ladled of our party ; , beds
%Wend be made up in the • barns
for the gentlemen, however, dethieh
would not,' they hoped, ' be found very tit-
comfortable,' The gentlemen of course
were delighted with the idea,, and declared
their willingnme to sleep anywhere -as • in.
deed we ladies had also done.
.. So the evening passed on : and a very
pleasant evening it vvae, with. miusip and
daneing-those dear old country-dancee
that ohe never wee neevadaye, when old
ladies and old gentleinen danced together
aid looked dignified, or heertily, merry,
and cometimee greceful. Also, it added
greatly to my enjoyment whteen &devoted
in the armee of the evening that tgr, and
Men Williaree were old and Warta, triennia af
nay owe father and Mother. Although I
had seater before seen them, I bad heerd
then) spoken a by my parents, who wouldmotions
be delighted when they got news , of their
old frientle in to inienpooted a ivf‘y, • Ite
these dap of railWay treble and penny':
ening, One need never lose eight of Oneti
--
DEATH CLAIMS ANOTHER. .
The Secretary 'rep r rted a communicative
from Kansas City giving the news of the
death et No Compromise Johnson, an honer
ary member of the club, The communice
tion eald that he had been bc rne away,
Shindig Watkins believed the man dead
enough, but wanted further particulars.
" De letter Bays he vas lathier eah, [an
fell into de tergia river."
" If lie fell in an' was drownded how war
he borne away ? '
"ty de current, I 'spose,"
"1 metre, Misser President, dat he fel'
into de Missouri, instead of de Turgid River,
We'd better be kreot on eieh pints whet
dey go 'on record."
,rhe . au
cn ge was made, and the usual ern,
limn of mourning was ordered to be hunt
on the outer door -knob for the nenal thirtt
days, ,
' a • neweanotrs maw.
Tinatee Pullback then arose to armee
e. . . _. „ ,
' the action of the. unnarnittee on Appll
in reeetin ' the ate 'titration 'of Elder
awe, y Sjih gf T P
------Th-na t , o month. e e er
was a man of cri inal stamp. He had E
, g
theory that this earth Wite gradually sink
Ing down in the centre, and that in tin
oourse of the next hunth
dred years all .
buildinge, fences, trees, people and cats aM
doge would go sliding toward a commoz
nter. The Elder had various roofs the
oe p
this them was correct and it was on ao
-- Y •
count of his belief that the comnaittee ha(
a arm ca ion,
re'eated hi li t'
3 „ .
" Am dis k'rect 2 asked the President o
the chairman of that committee
... - e '
Only in part, sah, was the anewer
" De men has seb'ral other theoriesnone o
hit& dat 11 de ti 1 • H b air
w ama na s et in ea en
furnished by brain beads an' ficidlee, an' dte
ohly ouli'd men am 'lowed to play."
" D ' k h f d • 1 ' t
e ac s un o e cotnunttee n rejeo
in' de applicaehnn am wietained," emit
BrotherG d " ' d 1 f B d
ar, new an' o appeal o , rit
der Pullback ata rejected, I regard Elde
. .
as a clan moue man. De man wh.
f li 't' dwide them mut
goes to oo n rout ,,, y _
s eerier Or later come to Berne bad end,"
--notell-noteennolswen---
id
Tim death of I)r. P. Helen Pr Wax ha
called forth many expreseions of regret ii
England. Sher war oho of the meat dia
tinguished of the tnonien graduates of Lon
don University, In her examination in 188!
she held the firet honors in anatomy ean
took the gold medal and recliolarsbip. Ii
,
'884 eh a deeded 'hohorte in emit • sub
e . o was c
e t Her death . was due to diphtlaerta
j o . . k,
contented. while at her orit of hotiao out
I goon, in the Paddiegton oepital for :Child
.
reni .
t---r1IN14111.•-illa
A Tough Story. .
Every tourist who goes to Wyoming
Territory Is told of the beautiful but dead-
ly Rattlesnake Mountain and warned not
to bathe in the famous Clinging Spring.
The spring is in a valley of the te lidera
b eau t y. It is circular in form and per-
b 100 i Ix nmf Th
arksfeet n C C erence. e wa-
ter is clear and two feet deep: The tem-
,
perature during the fall in of blood warmth
andluring the remainder of the year icy
cold. The beautiful spring entices the
weary traveller on the mountain tramp to
bathe in its water% But the pleasant
temptation conceals a deadly snare. Many
have bathed, but it was the bath of death.
Th b hi h through th 11 'd
The bottom w c ,e pe um
waters, seems to be comported of a white
d almost rble-like in purity d 1-
y en P0
een . .. .. . .
!eh, is in re,ality a, waking quagmire, and
once within its clinging grasp there la no
or 0ECS 0
such thing as aid p .
Men without nunaber have perielied in
this fatal trap, eome with agonized friends
standing not more than a score of feet
away and utter y powerless. While the
mining is remote from any high road, or
n an general trail all around it is a
ere y g t
. Occasional' an
noted hunting region , Y
nds himeelf on the
unfortunate etranger ft ,
margin of this fatal tipsily, and yielding
to its gednotions plunges in and is Wen no
k , , _
More. Hie fate is a mystery, and is very
probablnlaid to the acaatint of the savage
- - • -
monntain lion or .the ferocious edver-tip
beat' Indians relate that years ago a par.
'
ty of tea hunters found the !spring at the
close of a toilworn hunt in the early fall.
- ..Staith
b d . '
Oile of the ranee 'dee! ed to bathe in the
*Mere The dlluging sands soon
- ,
him and he cried fir help. This
, , ,
was prompfly afffdded, one Of the Indian;
throwing him the nootie end of a etont
b 1 ki 1 1 t. The siblrin brave Mined
tic e n ar a _ g , n
- a
the neosearound one armandinecomra ea
began to haul on the) rope. They could
not even arrest the fearftd destieht. A
horse was 'Madly brought and hitched to
thte end of the litiat. The geed cord held
fast but in place of the man ehly hie Mill
0 . ,
wait jerked famothe clinging depthe,,while
the crawling Wad choked the death song
' f the burled brave.
0 , .. ,
.41° -
EPISODE.
_-- .
g at Artn's length wfth Forty»
Revolvers.
o er y. es ronght m
f Lib t h b •
of a fatal shooting affray at
ranch New Mexico The
! . '-.
at a wedding steno. maitre
at that point, and all tin
n atten anoe a e wedding
d t the
s
The daughter of Annetasia,
been wedded to Eremites.
ceremony. was performed-.
. .
d
in the evening, an anew-
I 1 dietel afterward. The
m ne y
' atJohnteptd
was on t e oor when
Will ' J lin left the house,lieleed
i am o sone
oast'de, haasome word about
that had enisted 'between
e Brophyhad charge of the
. ,
it e a had heard
,.. atilt itri 0 ,, ,, dm
had ataid that
en ' X Ina: rinwatited
skit neme
ta OA 'the remark, The
• - 0 - tt cle, - a - 0 de
pre Y war/1411fl
Hanle OBMEI OB:6J trier to
disputants' agreed to lean° the
' ri ' 'a Charles'Th m a retie
Ar a an. i ,
' ' e Pt.° t
Went ritO the .hotifie o get
1