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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-9-1, Page 7, Ilan* me. BY Rev, ream* WILLIAXP ea harvest time, Ogoldeu sem, ve roll and WKSig OV017 breeze ; Out eti the voyagere UtrY The tortuake dreepee trom paths on hi& Returning with their argosieee Drone, not 0 mon, but se tho bees, Tiece bee:Aeons:ore tor whiter eese, And blOSS the days that pies you by In hareest time, Labor exactoth royal fees, e And ne reward win. him appease Vor sloth, when golden is the sky, And keeps the shed& ot plenty dry; Turn back in scorn the laggard's pleas, In harvest gine, The first time 1 ever saw Elizabeth Dill, k3he was hanging to the boot of a stage mach in the Rooky Mountains. I was climbing upe narrow, rooky pass, and the coach was. coming down. As it passed me, ek: I eau eight of a pale•faced, scrawny lit- tle fig re, in a dirty calico dress, holding to the en pa of the boot behind. Her tangled yellow hair was fit:ing out in the breeze, and her bare feet just escaped the 'coke in t' road. I , •egoat down on a rock, and watohed the ellamey coach until it went rolling and swaying around a curve in the paseee Here the girl dropped lightly to the geound, and came toward rue, kicking up the dust as she quickly advanced. A hundred yards or more ahead of me there stood a rough lo.g-cabin, to the door of which, before the girl reached me, there same a slatternlywoman, with a dirty baby in her arms, and called, in e sharp, rasping voice, "Lib ! You Lib Dill I 1Vhar on airth air ye ?" The child was within ten feet of me when the woman called. In reply she cried out, in an injured and Irritated tone, "Here I be 1" "What ye been doinR ? Oh, I know; hangire on to the stage, like the torreboy ye air 1 Want another Hokin', eh?' ' " I don't keer fer yer Hokin's 1" cried the child, tossing her unkempt head defiantly, while a frown came over her thin face. ' Well, you better care, miss 1" cried the wornan, angrily. The girl stood directly in front of me now, fearless and unabashed. With one swift, angry movement of her right hand, he stripped her thin white arm of the loose calico sleeve that covered it, and held it ont before me. ' "Look there and there, and there 1" she eried, pointing 'her finger at three long, dis- , colored marks on the upper part of her arm. "Do you think I keer fer any of her fickin's after that ?" she asked, with an expression pitiful to see in the face of a girl of fourteen years. " What ye dein', Lib Dill ?" screamed the woman. "I see ye, and ye'd better look oub 1" "1 said Levu going to show them marks to °everybody I could leng as they was there," saicbLib to me. "She give 'em to me fee breeltinl an old cracked teacup. It ain't fair fer to lick me like that fer an old sup. is it, mister ? Tlsere came a wistful() eipression to the in her voice„ as she pointed with her ebildesfria wietful and Wheel° quaver bare arm toward the stage coach, 'which had appeared. again on a distant part of ta88. I ' " o you know, mister, that if could only do it I'd hang onto that old coach some time till it had carried me clean away from here ?" " And leave your parents e I as ed. " Fermate !" she sneered. "'Them aint my permute ; wouldn't own 'em if they was. She ain't n� kin at all, an' her man's only some forty-fiith cousin or other of my dead - cue -go , e mother; but they're jiat as much Iv, kin as- -era 'era to be." eThe s were uttered with scorn, an en Lib's face was a malignant look that no yourig girl's face should wear. Unmindful ef the woman's command to "Come right straight here!" Lib eat down on a rock near me, rested her chin in one of her thin hands, and asked, "Where you from ?" , "From Ontario," I said. "Furey country, ain't it?'. "Very pretty indeed, at this time of the year." It was then October. "Rave you avec been East ?" I asked. "Me I" Lib laughed. that unpleasant laulah again. She stood on a bowlder, and pointed far away to the west, to where a long line of mountain peaks rose dark and unbroken in the distance. " Mister " she said "1 ain't never been 9 1, beyond them mountings in all the days of my life. Crystal City lays at the foot o' that range, an' I was born there. That stage coach goin' down. this paskell be further east by nom:eel:Ian I ever was. From this rock I can see further north an' south than I ever was. Me been East? Better ask if I aint been ter college too I" "IelOn't suppose you have a schoolthere," I said as gently as I- conlds "Mister, I'm the only: bo or girl of, school-age or eize in ten mile o' here. Have yon any children, mister ?" "1 have three," I said. i "Got a little girl, mebbe ?" "Yee," I said, :"a little gid," thankful that she was not as this child was. , " Ifebbe she's 'bout my size, mister ?" "-She is," I said. "Well, now, mister," said Lib, slowly and deliberately, "hew would you -like fer her to be like me? liew would you like fer her to be licked fer nothin', like I am ?" I ehuddered at the mere suggestion of such dread contingencies. Lib went on : s" You wouldn't like it, hey? I reckon not. Well, I do hope that little girl of yourn'll never be like I am, nor what I'm likely to be when I grow up." --e The pathos and hopelessness in her voice ''' oug t ars o my eyes. " And, mister, do ye know I'd walk, rd rawl, away from this place this day if it wasn't fer—fer—" Her ragged sleeve went up to her eyes; her head, held high in defiance until now, dropped low; her voice faltered as she went on : "11 it wasn't for Laty." And who je Lae', ?" ' The baby that that there woman held in her arms when she come to the door. Her baby, it is.' He's cunnin'est little thing I an' he loves ine, he does. He. puts his arms round my neck, and save° plain as anything. Don't you want to see him? He ain't a bit afraid oi strangers, and he likes men folks. She thinks a sight of Laty, she does; so does Laty's pa." The vsoman here came out to the cabin, with the adored Laty in her arms. Lib and I went forward to meet them, V' otnan's face wee harsh and forbidding. . "What's she ben tallin' you, mister?" she asked. "A pack of lies, I'll be bound, The truth ain't in her, no, it ain't. Now you gib up to the cabiu, iniss, and mind Litter. I'm goin' to tell yer pa on ye, an you'll see what you'll git then." " My paw I" cried Lib. "Jack Lane abe t my pp, an 'you know it. "Sass -box ?" was all the onewer the wo- 3h; velefeeleafe to this outburet "item 14 I stayed three week a Jack. Leale's mien, for it watt the only habitation withie two mike of the &toe, end hi them three weeks Pew enough to cenvinoe me that poor Lib had not told. "a pack eif limein deaceihing her sufferinge -Her life with the Lain* 1Y4e a herd dee, They Were mali- ciously and wilfully cruel to her. More than once did I intercede to MVO her from the cruelty of Jack and 'Mandy Lane. Her devotion th baby Lathan did mot win frotn• his parents any corresponding kind- ness foe,Lib, his willing aleve. I often met her carling the heavy baby in her Weak arms on the inountein trails. 0' We have real good times when we're off by our two aelves' " Lib said to me one day. "We talk to eachother SO ! I'm goin' to make a man of Laty BOHM day; h0 ain't goin' to be like the things there are round here. He's goin' to have schoolin''an' go out enong decent folks, an' be somebody in the world. Ain't he purty when he's fixed up ?" He was " fixed up" that day. He had on a new pink calico dress, clumsily made, and a long, sleeved white apron, His hands and face were clean, his yellow hair lay in what Lib called a " tumble curl" on top of his head. I had never seen him looking so pretty before. Lib had twined a wreath of mount ain flowers around his head, and penned a bunch of them in front of his coarse white apron, Whee the time came for me to go away, Lib followed me far down the dusty road, uoniindful of Mandy' s shyelly uttered com- mands t� "come right straight back 1" "You had better not go too far, Lib," I said, when we lied walked about half a mile; "'Mandy will be so severe with you." " Oh, well, what if she is ?" asked Lib, wearily ; but her voice heel none of its old defiant ring, and her bright eyes were red and downcast. "1 should be sorry to have you suffer on my account," I seid. "Oh, I don't mind it, but I reckon IT go back now; Laty might ,ffeed me. I jest thought Pd like to go a piece with you. I been thinicin' 'bout thatlittle girt o' yourn to -day, an' Ithonght I'd kind o' like to send her riomethine I've got it in this little box. bee. It ain't rituah of anything, but mebbe she'll "'1 kin,' says I, an Pm goin', too. like it, °ensile' so far like." An' now,• "Manly,' says you jest brace Lib held out a small, flat pasteboard box. un till I it back; you jest think o' Laty. In it was a bunch fif pressed mountain 'You're hie ma an' he needs you; think flowers, tied together with a bit of faded that. An', 'Mandy,' says I, if I don't gie green ribbon—Lib's one treasured bit of back, an' you git•out o' here all right; 'you feminine finery.' remember that Lib Dill ain't no hard feel - "Well, good-bye; mister 1" she said- hes agin you nor Jack; an' if 1 do git bade "You've took more netiCe Of me than most an' you, deal git out o' here, you Ternenibee folks takes, an' I ,woret fergit ye; an' I'll to your last .breath that -Lib Dill will be it try to remember some , o' the things you've mother toyour baby.' said 'bout me bein' patient an' good'an' 8.111 ' " Then,Lbrought straw an' rags an' cov- that. They'll do to tell Laty someday. ered ,her up the beet' could. She lay still, reckon I'm 'beet as goocl as P11 ever' be. 4orYire This aint much of a place fer folks to grow au' gob.' on fit to break one's heart. I bent over her an' said, "Good-bye, 'Man - decent in. If anything should ever happen ey ; Fee pee.' to Laty, I'd run away from here."' She neer said. a wore, belt she flung My heart ached for the forlorn little crea- l her one free arm round my neok an' kissed v turtle is I watched hereslimbehe mountains me, an' that made it all right lween me en' in her rageewhile I held he my hand the one , 'Mandy Lane. Livin' or dead, I ain't noth- poor possession she edged moat. in' agin' her. My busniess took me to a small muting " I went back to the cave, and made eatmla, five males distant, where 1 was to re- Tobe lay down by Late,. 'Don't you main for a month. It was the first of De- move,' says I to the dog, and he won't. ember before I Could set a day for rriy.de- They'll,find him an' Laty all covered up parture. I intended' starting on the third. under straw and rags behind a tater box in On the afternoon of the second, signs of a corner of the cave where Laty can't get stoem wereseen in the low -hanging clouds out. I'ain't worried none 'bout him, but, that hid the enow-covered mountain peaks 0 Jack 0 'Mandy 1" The snow lay smooth and white' ;meal the I , "Yes," said Lib, wearily, a little' later, mountain sides, and it was feared that " did have an awful pull to git here; loet another fallwould make the mountain roads keowed ey'ry foot of the way. It was impassable. %dry I, snatched. my old cloak and shawl I watched with diemay that gathering when 'Mandy drove me out, or I'd froze.' " shorn on the afterriedia of the doirdi By I Before noon the next day Silas' Ray, the .4 4, •,4 three o clock it was snowing fast: the short landlord', came down the mountain, carry - day was nearly done • it was growing dark ing baby Laty tenderly in his strong arms. in the narrow gulch; the wind moaned up The child was asleep with theteara on his and down the long black canons; the stunt: pretty liteee Lib reached up her arms for ed pines bent low; the mountains seemed the baby. Silas laid him gently down by frowning down on the heeplese littleminipg her side a.ed Odds' " I reeked you'ye as good camp, and the snow fele feeterainifeetee. aright to him as anybody now. They're Iia t by the widow- of the office in the beinging 'his father andmother down— little mountain hotel and watched the day- dead." light disappear. By four O'clock it was My interest in the brave girl and her for and the storm had increasee. lorn charge led me to take them with me " It's 'darker 'n a stack o'black cats, 'a& when I left Crystal Camp, and I finally turn - the wind's blowiri' a a reeler cyclone," said -ea them over to some wealthy friends of thelandlord, at nine oChick.' Mine in the East, who were both willirig and At ten 'clock he and I sat along by the able to provide for them. office stove. The wind' had gene down a This was ten years ago. A few day! since 'little and it had ,stopped snowing. I was I received a letter from Lib Dill, who is now Waiting to hear the conclusion of a •" yarn" a school teacher ie a new' town-in:North- the zartulous landlord was telling me. I ern, Ontario, in-, ;-zelliele .abe ' ealYte that "An"sir," he was pitying, if you'll Laty has gthwettobeibri li el" y, b'leeve met that, thar ole cattymount jist and that she hopekiIth 'en e a geed mai of natchelly riz up an'—great Scotland 1 did him yet. , • e —1 • • ye hear that" , She also alludes' to 'a Certain young -farm - He jumped to his feet and stood still, in a er, betweentehom and herself there appears listening attitude. ' to have 'sprung up' a nentual interest; Which "What is it ?". I asked, eagerly.; "1 clid has led to plans whicheifearried out, will not "— old Tobe, Jeck'e dog, wite in there, I Mug- gled, tne hitn, are cried 'cause I'd hurt Laty. " Purty mon the froze, room door opened a little Laty came toddlin1 into the shed -room, I could Bee Jack an' 'llaney playin' checkere by the fire, an' they didn't notice Laty. I dipped Out ale 4etched the little felleo up in my arms. 'You poor lit- rle teller,' I gays, • Lib didn't go to hurt you; Lib loves you better 'n anything else on earth 1" Then be coo -cooed in his °unpin' little way, an' laid his wet little cheeks ou mine in a way that like to 'ave broke my heart. I was etandin' in the cave -door, holdite him eo, when there come an awful roar, I saw Jerk an' 'Mandy jump up, scared like, an' I stepped back inth the cave with Laty, an' then"— Here Lib quite broke down, and cried for a long time before she said ; " Well, the next minute everything was pitch dark. Jack nor 'Mandy nor the cabin nor nothin' was to be seen. '1'here was the awfulleat roarin' an' math& ever I heerd. Me an' Laty an' Tobe all cuddled up in a corner of the cave, scared out of four seven senses, " After awhile I crawled to the pave door, The snow an' wind was blovvin in. The cabin was gone ; there wasn't a sign of it. Then I knowed there'd been a snow - slide. "1 yelled an' yelled for 'Mandy and Jack, but there wa,ret no answer tie first, By-and-by I heerd some one cryin'. Jack's lantern was in the pave, He'd jest been in there, coverin' ,up the things with old rags an straw, areWe always kept matches on a shelf in there. I got the lantern an' light- ed it; then eovered Laty all up good with the rags an' straw, an' made Tobe lisy down by him. "Then I started out, an I found 'Mandy wedged in 'reozig some melts 'bout a hun- dred yards down the mountain. She was cryin' an' goin' on awful, poor woman! The way she tuk on 'bout Laty was awful. She couldn't stand, an' I oeuldn't get her up to the cave. " "Mandy,' says I, ett last, I'm goin' down to Crystal Camp for help." " You can't,' says she, awful feeble I reenit in her having ece heme of her own. Sh-sh-sh !" he held his red and calloused , " We are all-.—Laty and the farmer and I" hand up at; a sign of silence and tip -toed —she says, "very diappy.in planning the gently toward the. door. Sharp and clear; future thatproihises so fan.," arose nprolonged cry as of one in pain. "Somebody's in trOnble I" cried the land- lord as, he hurriedly thrust lighted candle Bovereip Die1„ *Mei his lantern, thieve on his great Coat of The following story is told of an under- buffalceShhIS ancleterted for the door, .graduate of Trinity about forty yeareback: I folloe;ed him pullihe; on my'o'vercoat One night, being engaged to an in -college and mittens as r went. We had taken but Bunker' he unfortunately did not reaoh the a, few steps from the door when the cry was gate till five minutes, past ten. [After ten repeated. I could not tell from whence it no out -college man could enter, nor could came, but my conapanion's sense of, hearing 'any in -college man go out.] The young man however rang the bell; and to him appeared Waselnore acute and better trained than mine. a vision of an under -porter's face reconnoit- " It's from the Red Mountain trail," he ring through the'peep-hole, of course refus- said, "an' the person that's dein' the yell& ing admittance, and saying, "It's as much is gittin' mighty weak." , • as my place is worth. Mr., B., to let you ire" Very weak, indeed, was the'person *hose ; To hire B., persuasively : " Will a sovereign pitiful ory we had heard. We found her I do it ?" The temptatieen was too great. hale -buried in a great drift of snow far up "Well, Mr. B.," said the janitor, "slip it the mountain side& As we bent over her ender the gate, sir." Th8 coin duly appear - the rays of the lantern fell across the thin, ',mg, the gate was gently opened : but mo pale face of Elizabeth Dill,—thinner than sooner was B. inside than, seizing the un- ev'ere and paler from the suffering she lad fortunate porter by the collar,'he herled him endured that night. into the street and barred him out. "Oh, Mr. B " he cried, " Mr. B., for Heaven's She , had fallen prostrate and was too e" much exhausted th rise: A ragged old cloak was wrapped aroundh d a thin shawl had fallen from her tangled yellow hair. A lantern lay by her side, but its light was out. She could not speak until we had carried her down to the little hotel and chafed her chilled form for a long time. Her first words were, "Jack Lane—'Mandy I Git doctor an' go to them. Let zne beleo to them an' to Jetty. He's all alone. Poor little feller! Poor Jack I Poor 'Mandy 1" A dozen' men were 'soon fighting their way through the drifts to the Lane cabin, five mike distant. It WWI midnight before Lib could tell her sorrowful story; and then it was told with sobs and tears. "It *as only a little atter dark," she said, We was all satin' in the front room. Later was in my lap an', some way or other, I let the little feller fall. Of course Jack and' 'Mandy was mad. I don't blame 'em; an' I didn't mind it introit when Jack whipp- ed me with the ramrod of his gun, I'd ought to 'ave been keerful. 'Mahdy was so mad she driv me out into the shedroone You know how that is, mister." Lio said, tuining to um. It runs back right up agiti the moun- tain, an' there's a cave of the end „ot re ernes jeck keeps his titters ae' ternips, in wietee. It was real snug in the cave, an' sake, let me in, sir—it's as much as my place is worth 1" To him B., master of "the situation, from within: "A soverefgn will do it ; slip it under the gate." The coin duly arriving, the porter was readmitted, and B. went to enliven theelupper-parter with his story. 0 ' ' It Will Go the Rounds Now, "Say," said Berkley to his:wife yesterday at dinner, "you didn't say anything to any one about what I was telling you night be- fore last, did you / That's a secret." "A secret? Why, I didn't know it was a secret," she replied kind of regretfully. Well, did you tell it? I want to know." "Why, no, 1 never thought of it since. I didn't know it was a secret." Button•hnoks of oxidized silver, with handles of Egyptian designs, are hi vogue. Mrs. II. M, elunkett of Pittsburg, wrote the edmirable little volume, "Women, Plumbers and Doctors,' in which the tecessity of a knowledge °Monitory science is Bet forth clearly and well. Many of the woinee's chile are takihg hold of hottaehold sanitation. it is a study particularly necessary to every woman who has, or ever expects to have, any supervision of a house. Yrkere Some Pratemelt Article; Were First , Intredueed lath Mollies:rid Surnarnee were lint adopted in thereign of Edward the Confemor. Linen was first made in England in 1243, and only wore by the luxurione, The first bread WaS made by the Greeks and the first windmill by the Saracens. 330°118 be their Preeent form Were drat made by Atthlus, King of Bergamua, in 1337. The model of the first lingliah steam ves- sel vsas laid before the Board of Admiralty in 1789. The filet royal letter was written by Henry V. to the Bishop of Durham, Febuary 10, 1418. The first idea of eleotricity was given by the friction of two globes of quicksilver in the year 1617. The first home over numbered in London was oee abutting mat of Northumberland, House, Strand. The first Lord Mayor's show was in 1453, and Sir John Shaw was the first that leeld a feast in the Guildhall, 1501. The first advertisements known of in Eng- land were in the shape of email bills affixed to the doors of St Paul's Church. - The first book centaining musical charac- ters was Leaned in -1495 from the prees of the celebrated ' Wynken de Worde." The first record of a j udge'asalary give ES 4138 13s 4d as the stipend of Thomee Littleton, judge of the King% bench, 1466. Turnpikes were origbaated in 1267, the SUM of one penny having to be paid for eaoh wagon passing through a certain manor. The first Italian lady vrho sang in public in England was Francesca Margherita de l'Epine, who appeared in various operas in 1693. The first play -bill issued from Drury Lane Theater was on April 8, 1663, the piece re- presented being "The Humorous Lieuten- ant" The Earl of Arundel (temp. Charlree 1.) was the first person who brought to Eng- land from hely the new way of building with bricks, The firat toll for the repair of English highways was imposed, in the reign of Ed- ward III., and was for repairing the road between St. Giles and Temple Bar. The first English almanac was brought out at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1347, and the first printed almanac appeared in London about one hundred years later. The first balloon was made by a Jesuit about 1620. The idea was revived in France by Mr. liontgolfier in 1783, and introduced in England the following year. The first striking clock was imported into Europe by the Persians about the year A. D. 800. It was brought as a present to Char- lemagne from Abdelia, King of Persia, by two monks of Jerusalem. The hrst English newspaper was the Eng- liah Mercury, issued in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was in the shape of a pemph- e . The Gazetn of Venioewas the original model of the modernnewspaper. The first record we have of coal is about 300 years before the Christian era. Coal , was used as fuel in Englans1 8.8 early as 852, and in 1234 the first chartet to dig for it was granted by Henry III. to the inhabitants of +Newcastle -on -Tyne. . I The first !glass window in England was one put up in an abbey about 680. Glass windows, however, did not become general f manyh d y , and as late as 1577 the glass casements at Ainwick Castle,' the Duke ofCtimberland'e steit, were regularly - taken down wben the family were y frorn home. I • I Who Discovered the Hudson. ' A London peb isher issued a few months ago a facsimile of the famous Ribero map, i made in 1529, 'and copies of it arelaeing pro- cured by the principal historical libraries of the country. Iftwas the greatest map made up th its thine and erabracedelie discoveries of the early Spanish., Portuguese and French voyegeri. A copy received at the State' library at Albany :has convinced a writer hi the Albany Tartrnal that it shows the Hud - 'f4LEEPING iffUNDERS. Felt" Am""*Plilliked 'in the Arms or egge. spaoe ef eight hours. ,EXCOOMIIS to this nnees. Sleep in most individuals lasts for the , . . etaternent are numerous 3e 'Whether these Min from duty or latieees we shall not ven- ture. to exemlne. Si- E. Codringtom the fapaeue 'need officer, whet, e ,esidehieream could, wetch pallet* for aa howl. ;. due lefe .oply five for aleep, whieh n hie owe was most ,profoepd—so peofound that, no WASS was SUI0Oithat# etireeg th, waken him 3 yet, if the woed " SigneEl" wee Whiseered his Mr he aweke end was im clock instantly, Reporters' of the House of Conimons re- quire great exertiona to keep themeelvee from sleeping. " A few years ago a distip. guiehed memberof "the gentlemen in the gallery' took down, a speech while he was ' sleepipg His statement testa on his oath. • CalVin tells of e friend of hie reading aloud , to hien while asleep. The organ of vision was alone active. Coleridge, the dreaming philesopher, com- posed Culsla Khan" (one of his poems) while fast aeleep, Next morning he was SUT "there had been an acquisition to his literature, but was too negligent to write the stanzas. 'A few clays afterward he attempted to recall the versa, but they had for the. most part fled, and the poem as it now stands is but a fragment. Tem SAVAGE. EVISTy0I10 knows that extrema fatigue in- duces sleep and:, thie in spite of surrounding relations which in ordinery, circumstances would hinder enemies, frem resting. Previ- ous to the shorteeing of the, heers qf work factory children freeuently fell asleep while working t the machines, although well aware that they would incur severe Finish- ment by doing so. The North American Indian, at the stake of torture, has been known to go to sleep on the least remission of agony, and will slumber until the fire is applied to awaken him. It is on record that during the heat of the battle of the Nile some of the overfatigned boys fell asleep upon the deck; and during the attack upon Rangoon, in the Bermeee war, the captain.of one of the steam frigate§ most actively' engaged, worn out by the ex. cess of continued mental tension, fell Weep and remained perfectly unconscious for two hours within a yard of his largest guns, which were being worked energetically the Whole period. ' Habit and time; place and circumettinees predispose us all to sleep. The celebrated pedestrian, Captain Barclay; when aecom- 'dishing his extraordinary feat of ' walking 1,000 railee in as many succeseive hours, obtained at last sech a mastery :over himself that he fell Weep the instant he •lay down. The doctor's wife never hears the doer bell clueing the night, althoegh, the noise is suf- ficient to Avulse the' 'weaned' husband; but ahotald &it'd in the nursery cry, then the Mother, °teethes to all other souiade, hears at mice the infant's yoke. ' It is related that the Abbe Feria, whoac- quired notoriety through his tower of in- ducing somnambulism, • • was 'accustomed merely to place his patient in an arm chair,' after telling him to shut his eyes and colleet himself, and pronounce M etrong voice, " dormez," which was usually seccessful. There seems to be no limit tothe wonders displayed by man in sleeping.: Concloreet, the mathematician, solved one Of his most, difficult problems whiee pfoblem, too, Which puzzled him durieg his waking' hours. tA professor of theology in bhnni- versity Of Basle 'once wrote a seemon• while asleep; he found it on hie desk next main - Mg. The preceding '' night he toe not, grapple with the stibeect ae he desired, but the performance of his sleeping hours was quiet: satisfaetorrto , • , J,enpy Lind, was one, of the mese celebrate ed Imagers of her tune. No -:ono "could rival her powers eicepe a factory girt who sang some:firma better than the farobue Jeniy. Thegirlco,uLd not attempt any difficult intee when aivake, bet when sleeping she mpg so c'orrectly, so like the renowned artiste, they ie wish difficult to distinguish lietWeen•there' voices. On one becitsien Mlle. 'Line beard' the eel, and'even tested the accuracy' -of her powers by giving her 'along and 'elabor: ate . chromatic • exercise. , This . the eleefoing girl. performed, ,much to the wonderekthe famous ,Swedish singer. , son river, and, therefore that ,that majestic stream was known long before Heinrich Hudson's time. Dr. Qeorge H. Moore, of the Lenox Li- brary, which, also has a copy of the map, observes, however, that it would be a wise man who should decide whether the stream ' indicated le the Hudson river or Chesa- i peakeisay, scevery uncertain ore the outlies "death was never to be mentoiled or re - and so defective is the scale. ferred to in, conversation within the pre - unquestionably covers the coast The maof Northdiets of his great establishment. egnie America,' but the only points indicated with years ago a relation of his wife% came to cettabity areFlorida and Cape Cod. A lotIstat with him, and was taken suddenly ill OTHER REMAREABLE. FEATS. , The Eocentrioities of Herr Irapp. The following stories of the late Herr Krupp are curious: It was a standing order to all those who surrounded or approached him that the word of the coast 'between the two is marked "Land of Stephen Gomez," but as there is no full %comet of Gomez's voyage in -1525 there is no telling whether he diecovered she Hudson or not. The Ribero map has long been known to scholars, there being three ancient copies., in existence, one in the Vatican, one in , Wemiar, and one in Jena. There are men who think it very probable that the Hudson river was sailed by other white men before the one for whom it is named, but there is no evidence that will justify the next or any, subsequent Legislature in changing the historic name to the Rio Gomez. an died. When Krupp heard of it he fled :hinnediately to theneigliboring town of Dus- seldorf, and would not return until afeer his relation had been duly buried. This very naturally led to a scene with his wife, the result being that they separated. Mre Krupp went to live at Dresden and not even the entreaties of their son prevailed ori Herr Krupp to see her before he died. The same stubbornness wasshown by him when his son Fritz, who contested the parliamentary borough (Essen) at the last general election in the interest of the Government, was de- feated by the "ultra" dr "clerical party." Herr Krupp issued an edict that no em- ployee should take into his cottage or read the local papers of the Illtramontane party. A few days after this edict a poor workman being found wrapping up his "Butterbrod" in a sheet of this journal was instantly dis- missed. Advertising in China, „," The North China Herald" gives one or two very curious specimens of the advertise ments which -appear in the Chinese papers. One is from a mother to her son who has run away from home and it is worded as fol- lows : "Take care that you are not struck down by lightning. Your mother weeps bit- terly for you as shepens these lines in order that they may be read by her son. When you, ran away from home on the 301h of the eighth moon, the people of all the shop came and asked us what had become of you ; it was thus that we learned your flight, and since then my food aud sleep have benefited me butlittle I am still crying and moaning. I have received your letter which hag come from beyond the horizon, but it doesnot tell me where I can find you. I am now at almost the last extremity, and your family has had to pi at up with cruel nsults froth straheers. if you do not return I cm stand all this no longer, and shall surely put an end to my existence in which ease y ou would be in danger of beihg thruck down by lightning. If you retern no matter in what way all will be arranged. Gordon Cumming likened an African jun- gle to a forest of fish -books relieved by an occasional patch of penknives. Two ladies paid a cabman a shilling for the distance they had ridden with one four - penny -bit, two threepenny pieces, onepetnee and two helfpenties. The eabby looked at the coins, and asked, "te ell, how long might you have been eaviug for this little treat ?" Englishmen Combining. The Englishinee who celebrated the Queen's jubilee in Faneuil hall have organ- ized apolitical body to cougteract the in- fluence of the Irish and have enrolled the names of 5,000 Englishmen and Scotchmen scattered over Massachusetts. The leading spirit thinks they will be truckled to by the very men who were so fierce against them at the time of the celebration, He says they will have a city and a &see committee and will work in a systematic manner, hunt- ing up British resident', getting them naturalized and Meing that they vote right. They will send out 80,000 circulars and will soon hold a mass meeting He thinks the mbvement Will spread 'throughoet the country and become an important factor in national politics.—Beeecio Paper. rhe June -bug disappears in June, The lightning bug in May; The bed -bug take e his bonnet off, And says, "I've come to stay." A colored man of Ilopkinsville" Ky., thonght to Scare a deaf mute �f the plao e by sacidenly rushing out on him as he 110.8S - ed. He was successful, for the mute was so alarmed that lie drew a revolver and shot five halls into the prattled joker, killing ATTER SURXEN R48iRES. Sealreb Ifor eleintous or Seeped+ Doubt loone• Duthie the weer between Englatur and FritaricewahpeonieGozrfeettIelrIma.a. ws vntrayrica ulgete:;erepe whN granted bythe former, and jamas Drew, a bold bet irnpeounioes Irish miler secured mob letters in January, 1798, and sailed for the Spanish main on the brig De Break, which was equipped with a dozen braes cell - non and inauned by 38 officers and men. On May 25 the De 13reak appeared off Cape Henlopen, having in tow the Spanish galleon Le Plate. She was bound for Halifax, but was constrained to come to Lewes, Del, for water. The captain was in a hilarious mood, He had had good luck, but a utorm was brewing in the southwest. Ominous clouds were leomitig up behind Reheboth, The De Break was then rounding Henlopep ; min - etc later she was brought th and 4 bat lowered to allow her captain to go ashore. Several sailors bad dropped into the boat and Captaie Drew was about to step down 'when a furious gust of wind struck the sloop, threw her on her beam ends, and, the port holes being open, SHE FILLED AND SANK INSTANTLY. Pilot Allen sprang from the De Braak's deck into the boat and broke his leg, but he lived many years afterward to tell the tragic story of the De Braak's disaster. Capt. Drew, his lieutenants and 38 men, including 15 prisoners taken from the La Plate, went th the bottom. Twenty-five were picked up alive by other boats. The reecued men be. moaned the lose of the countless treesures ef geld and silver and. diamonds that had gone down with the De Break. They said that they had taken two Spanish galleons with millions of dollars worth of precious metals, bound from Peru and Mexico to Spain. They paid their bills in half doub- loons, of which they said they had many caskets full in the hold of the De Break - The efforts to locate and recover this lost treasure have been many, and began 75 year§ ago. It is in the memory of some old people that once an English frigete and a sloop came and tried to raise the De Break. It is also said that this frigate "bridled the wreck with its stoutest hawsers and never budged her." SEEKING THE LOST TREASURE. Modern divers and suction engines ,hope to have better luck, The story of the effert goes that about 1805 Gilbert McCracken, the chum of Pilot Allen, in company with his son Henry, "set the bearings of .the wreck for the purpose of aiding some future offer:0 These bearings were of course, faithfully recorded, and the document is,in the po,seession of a grandson of one of them. For the purpose of muting this sunken treasure the International Submarine Com- pany, of Philadelphia, was formed some Years ago. The hulk of its stock is owned at present by ,Dr. Samuel pancoast, of Phil- adelphia, who is very sanguine of finding the De Break and her valuable freight. The schooner Orr'after much preparation, was onthe 1st of this month brought down from Philadelphia by ,the tug Startle. It had a WOThing force of ten men under command of 'the (looter, ,purnping apparatus and, a couple of expert divers. Everything then was m readiness th'begin work, es the doctor had located the wreck to his own satisfaction in the mouth of Delaware Bay,. The bottom is covered with a, semi -soft blue clay and ooze -everywhere, except where a ten foot mound of sand has collected, covering an area of 100 by 50 feet, lying lengthwise from cape to cape. This is the mound of record. On it as found a dumb buoy, made of an or- dinary nail keg, anchored by a galvanized wire and a bit of "pig." Over the mound" the water is about 60 feet deep, and this fibited about 10 feet below the surface,. of the sea. THE DIVERS neve BEEN AT WORK on the De Braak's grave a great deal of late. What More they forinds? Efandfule of de- cayed weed. The washer is being industre busty; worked this week and the ntourelhas been penetrated to a depth of ha f a dozen feet all ever. Now a powerful suction. eitimp will be. pet to work end Will deposit the woodysaid on the deek Of the Orr, where the &tater .will sieve it carefully. TEe doctor says the golden treeeures were, when last seen, snugly paeked ep en heavy ealien iron-beurd'boxes, about three feet each way. To rernoee these the doctor''has a large steam .ceanceaboard. When the vessel sank she had a full armament of !heavy guns. These will be presented to the Society of the Cincinnati. In fact the final dispositiOne of everything to be found has been decided upon, even to the treasure. "1 expect to find front $5,000,000 to $7,- 000,000 worth of precious metal," the docthr says. Yet the amounedepends upondie number, of Spanish galleoeis capthred by the De Break. A galleon ' usually contained eornel$3,000,000, and I estimate thaeduring the last years Of the last centufer Span- ish , America, sent home not less 436,- 000,000 annually.", '..1111.11410.1.1 Need Of Organization- Iirummer---" Off on a trip, eh ?" Hotels Keeper —" Yes, the hotel men throeglient the country are , forming a na- tional asseciation for mutual protection and I bArr ping te the first meeting." "Thet's eonaething like. , You hotel men are the:meet helpless beings in the country and I am, glad you are gbing to protect yourselves. ria tell you just what ,You ought tie do arse." •" Thanks. I should like nothing better than a fa:ye points from a traVelling man." Well justas quick as the association is torined you should all make an organized atla determined effort to get a law passed to coniiel dealers totop sending hotels taa the poor meat and tough chickens in the mar- ket"— American Piracy. Canada will be compelled to build and arra cruisers for the protection of her inter- ests in the Pacific as well as of those in the Atlantic if the American Goeernment con- tintres its acts of piracy against Canadian sealera in the Behring Sea. The American Government cottfesses that it has no right to preventCanadian vessels from fishing en the high seas, whether Behring or other; but it does not take the trouble to prevent its vessels from committing the outrage of seiz- ing Canadian, vessels, and as yet has made no restitution. If the news of the latest seizures be confirmed, the Canadian Gov- ernment should, through the British Gov- ernment, make a sharp remonstrance. OWN A Real Mean Girl. "1 just detest that girl," said one fair young thing to enothee, as a mutual ac- quaintance passed. " She's too mean and disobliging for anything." "What did she do ?" "Why, we were on a picnic the other day, and although she kneW 1 had on my new bronze boots and those lovely open•work " stockings Tom sent me she never mreaened Snakes 1' once."