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GRANNY'S BAIRN. .. 'TheY 0101111 10 t111.11 014 0111 Of 11111 110
11 0.11101TOW,‘ he tub:were:1, bitnirly. 'IN
men, my lam, SIT 000111111' to 11111 0 1/110 pia
A Pathetic) Story of a Btrike,
al, lower teageis the day.'
1 1+ WAS 11 110110101 0 seene 1111 1 W01141001+11 I, .flut the bairn, istra :disk balm Ie i Lir'
among the pitfalls imil 1111101+1+41011 wurkinge I eels, !see 1,,,,„ ,,eyee fee e enp of bre/ it sit
of OW Beaver Meadow 1'010 Mines. In a hie- I early miemin . She le dein', Sandy - ilyite
low of on old mid teeileee strippitig lay tiM8,' the Isek of nourishment,
of elaty waitte, among whiell gleinneil'isits et "Sandy groaned. 1 le wee a, big, 11111,10
eee,1 here 10111 11101T, 1.110 1111110011 had long num, sir, wane' to tsrnrk, and Ile welbni
gone Its way to the market and Duly the re. 1„,„,hiped 11„, moo ,,,i,5 whio, lay el,,
infus remained I but. even theee bite the Pm's' nunttrat' and eryin' for the bristh which
about the distriet were forbidden by the couldn't give holt
owrtere 1,1 gime,
, " 'Ye matt» get a chicken, Sandy,' eel
The Winter li 1 1
tu. even 41 Hermit? one and the granny; ii,,,s 1,, ,,,,,,,, Teo emeee le etexei,
coal strike fOr IL few penee tnore 0. day hail can yo no see ?'
augmented the sulrerings tif the poor, net ii .A sedee,„, le ,,,iee ss„,„1,,, „,..e 1, ,,, ;,11
only in and abet»: the g Rat City, MA+ extend- laugh. 'Ye nutlet es well eek me for the 1st
ing out to the coal re”jony 1114 well. of heaven, granny. They would nee fele 1
The place looked 'deserted turn dreary de, settee ,,f o, pun of „oei, tie, 111,11.11,
enough, but I walked sm, musing ever the (thicken ; They would call nut mail (WI'
1010 which doomed the generality of leen to 11,,,,,ild esk f„r ft_...,„,„1 r
tail and poverty, when suddenly the figure ,, woe me," continued the %vomit after
11 of 0, Child 10.0110 fr0111 one of the heaps and painful pause, "the next; iley 15.101 1101d 11
lit01111 before me, trembling. in evely limb and raw. ee fine, driezling rain hut in, will
0 pite01111, Seared 0.110.011111011 upon his wan, froze au it fen. The little one was wor
pinched little face. She lay quite :dill now and summed no num
"Don't, be alarmed," I said, touched by " They will not 1,11111 1111 out in this eteri
his evident fear ; "1 weeldn't harm you. '' Sandy, with a sick bairn,' I said ; 'they e
"Bee' t you come te 01110 1110 for Peskin' ep never be so cruel ea that.'
the coal?" he inquired, falteringly; "didn't " 'The new men mute, have homes,' he a
the In:sisters send ye?" swered, despairing like.
At, him feet I 110W spied a pail half full of "..1 ust then mune ci, knish at the die
the precious stuff. Granny looked ont the window, then then
" We habit get no fire," Ile said, graspine with white face and set 111.10 0101 grasp
the pail with his little blue, hall.frozen. Sandy by the arm.
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en, A QUEER EXCHANGE,
- were (narked ly hours. It 10118 11111.1111y 111101 INDIAN is, GAMES. foot and a half Jong. With it short tetra:, he
were ereseiefs Hesse 1101418, 4111/i 1110 11001%1
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""l' A st art if itg 141 00,0 Or 11as vette 000110,
(+41 left, were whaling 111 1110 Atictie 0iierite ti
Ohlt [Urn% , A ?et in t
f(i(t1; Sigritellii bark Emma entvis, 'I illEtt W1111
111y fifth whaliug voyage, and no fillip 001431
n have hail woree luvic, Vlieu tee been
gee eut fourteen menthe we hail te buy it barrel
net of oil to keep. our lamps going. We hail
eV sighted v. whale oew Jed then, lint they W0111
OK W1111. 1111 deer, and twice then we bail
?el made i'ast •rne had our boats stove awl keit
i• tWO OP 1111TO mesh We hail lost topmeet,
, been Meek, had eeveral settle destroyed,
see been im fire, /WO it 0011110d (01 it the Very
deVil Wal4 10 pay with. the voyage, and yet
ne ee one ?meld blame 11115" 0110 elee. It wee
A simply " shipIe leelt," 111111 118 11011 10 1110101
1 t101 beet of it. tate the eeasim,
when we ought to have been beading for
the mouth, we got aineng the whalee. That
rid 111, they 1011111011iy 111.91000011 1111 000111111 1111,
Ch and on the very first day we killed fete"
: witlinut Recideut. We ettt them in without
e, , trying out, ati this was the quicker wity to
n, dispotie of them, and the lest el the blubber
an ' leas 110 sooner over the rail thitn floWn Went
i Ole beats and tiro Moro whales; were :ie.
'11' 018101(11("i winter gales were at hand and tee WM5
)1+, snaking fast, but it Was oir golden epportu-
ed nity. lefe drifted dewily to tile south, killing
ed luta cutting in as we went, mid if we colild
I have had two weeks 11101'00f it wet could have
1 °limiting, hauling, climbizig awl eliding were
; hough Le weer out the Is's ,, 111011 11/ the crew
1 We lied 'mule forty iniliei mote and
', Were etrung nut en the peek for a mile or
more, when a man minted Trakeriten and
mewl!, telte were filmed Pi piek the route,
mined it large Inineweet or hill of Lee to
frail ourselves bleeping up ageinet a three,
masted ship. 'Huge she lay, breadnide te
MI and not over fif ty feet amity, 10i:tiling up
In the darknese like a iremittatn. Werublirei
our eyes and locked around agnin, but it
WON not a deception. We sent the news
rbaeit and waited until 101 had wane tip, awl
; thee Pepe Tree went forward wl lei lies mates
; bailed her. There wits no reeve 11101
after hailing agaite the first mate climbed
in over he bows, in three in four :ideates
',he reported her abandoned, 01111 Wt. 1111 WOla
0111,0mill, We soon friend her to les the
Bristol ship leuiluremee, it whaler, of course,
'and two -tirade
Fru, tra 131,1'111/611 AN0 01Io,
ethe had a :slight list to port, mei after
looking her °vele the (»Beers said that ell
had hove out, the same as 0111, bark, buet1
bail settled back agaira She hail also bees
elandoned in a Inn•ry, as there were messy
evideneve, /nit an inepectien ehowed plenty
ef peovisiong abernsi, teal preyed her per -
/crate: sound, We had eur heeding and
clothing, and eyelets it wee decided to tak
Ns:we:nen of her the crew were pleased.
In three heirs ate), first sighting her eve
were as muell hame aboard an if we heel
formed the original crew. She was a larg.
or craft thee ours, and also better found,
mid we Inuit ted by the change,
We hail been aboard of the Endurance
about a month when the earpen ter fell siek.
In his came it WiLIO pure homesieknese and
nothing elae. He was meetly arid taciturn,
eefused tn nutke an effort to throw off the
feeling, and at length tonk to his bed. There
was really no medicine to touch his cam He
WaS slowly dying because of his desire
to get home to wife and bairns. All of us
had a touch of his malady, but We 81100k it
off by hunting, trapping, indulging in games,
and keeping our thoughts with the ship.
Lord I man, but I have often wondered why
half the crew did not go crazy. It was eml-
less night. It was ice -ice -lee. It wits
like being shut up in a dungeon, with the
addieion that when night cause and all was
still, the ship wits full of groans and sighs
from stein to storm -noises cannel by the ice
heiteing and settling. I War; appointed to
nurse the carpenter, and when he bed been
brought very low and knew that he must go,
he told me a secret. He said Ile had made
a false report to the Captain about the clam.
age to the bark's bottom on purpose to induce
lum to abandon her end start for laud. Ho
hoped in this way to get home the sooner.
This confessio» was made to me with the
promise en my port not to Isaias, the man
while living, and he lived on for two weeks
atm, making the statement. When he had
been buried in an icy grave I told the Cap.
Wit, and he at once fitted out an expedition
to go back and look up the bark. The first
mate and five men composed this party, and
after being gene a week, during which time
the weather was full of tempest, 1111010, and
sleet, they retureed from the west and blun-
dered right up against us before they saw
the ship. Their compass had been broken,
and they bad been lost for sb: days on
engem, " anti peer granny has been shiverin
and inottnin' and huggire the baby awful
elese, sir. She thinks that keeps it warm,
you know."
A wart smile flitted over his face as he
said it, but something in his tone brought a
lump to my throat.
" And what le your name ?" 1 next in-
quired.
"Jemmy, sir."
" And your fether-where ie he 1"
" 1 charm," anravered the boy.
" Dead ?" I queried.
" Melibe, I demo,"
" And you mothinir
Hia little lip quivered.
"Mettler went te work afore daylight,
ter. She gems out a-washin' and sorubbini
when she elm pit it. We'll Uwe Bonus supper
when she gits home -granny and me will,
and I'll have a fire, 'cense know mother -
be awful cold and tired,"
" Well," I said, struggling with nies emo-
tiara " let us till the pail and I will carry
it."
It. was moon done and before long we stood
upon the threshold of a miserable shanty
which the boy called "home,"
He hesitated a moment before opening the
door.
"You belle one of the maisters now, be
yer he askee solemnly.
"Cod forbid," I answered as seriously.
" And ye ain't come to turn us out o' the
cabin 7"
" Never fear," I smiled : " I earn° as a
friend, not as an enemy."
For answer he opened the deer.
Home! A earpetless floor, a bed, e., chair
(.1, two, a fireless stove.
Cowering close to the latter sat ill1 old
woman, crooning to a baby widish site held
in her arms, swathed in rags.
"Be still, my bairn," elle murnmred,
startled hy the opening of the doer; "be
maisters shall nile 101101 ye, IleV'er
Jeer."
Oh ! those hollow eheeks, those trenidding
these etruggling locks, that bent,
shivering form.
Site gazed at me intriously at first with it
veined, dazed stare; then tt, shudder shook
her frame,
"lSe ye one o' the nedsters?" she bemired
in a hnsky
"No," I replied smiling; "ne."
•
"Here, Jemmy,' I hastened teeny, "take
money and go to the nearest shop.
our inothee will tell you what to buy."
Tie emit gime, but nevertheless, I seas
autited by those solemn, pleading, wistful
es-eyest in which the grad lights of Irappy
sildhoed had never hilted ; oyes winch
eked out upon life shadowed by the wing
poverty and hopeleps misery,
" You may remember, sir," began his
other, "the greet strike of the miners in
iis region, it) the yeas, 188,-. Sandy, nly
iebantl, was egin Sir, from the fleet.
sell, sir," she iso» ned, 'the men had been
le for months, but, still they clung to
hope that by holdin' out their future
meld be bettered, It WII8 bitter 801(1. and
fuldy haul gone out to got the trust of a
ail of coal, lie was vary white sir, whim
came back rind there wati that in his eyes
hieh made tee shudder."
" 'Why, Sandy,' I cried, 'my nutn,why do
oe look ?'
"For answer he pointed to the empty pail.
" 'They would gee manane,' says hes slows
ke and husky t they will nee trust, 118 Mr, th 0. Devitt, fe, 0., het been appointed
1, e.' Sheriff ?), Montreal.
.1 mann it-knowed it," she said with a mid;
"the dell n0'01! cosecs 0:5111ilin,' and --and
--'' here her Voiee fell to it, evhisper-iithe
maistere are all 8111d to the de il -did ye
know that?"
I mule no answer, and she continued 1101
crooning tO tile babe ill her arms.
"Hush, nly bairn," She Said tO Ole maim -
less figure ; "hush, thy father's a
coomsn' home the day. Meet seen him?" she
cried, suddenly turning to me. 'rate% seen
ymeIiet4..andy? My pulls boy Sandy-'-elid he $0101
The boy looked at me with a wistful,
touching expression,
"Sandy's my father," he exclaimed, "who
•went away. long ago."
At this Juncture the door opened and a,
woman about thirty years of egg entered,
with every appearance of wearmess and
heart-siekness m her form and face.
For the first time the boy's eyes lightened.
"Ivfother," he said, "the gentleman
fetched home a, whole pailful of cial-eee 1"
and the little fellow spread Ids hands over
the newly kindled fire with ft look of pride
and satisfaction.
"Rohl whispered granny; "the bairn
sleeps. Wake her not up to misery again,
it were a blestsitie when hunger 000100 and
cold, for es all to sleep,"
"The child intuit be cold," said to the
yotmger woman. "It's elothing seems .poor
and thin."
She smiled strangely and placed her finger
upon her Lip,
'"Teint no real baby," whispered the boy;
"It's only 0, stick o' wood the granny calls
the bai rn. "
I looked at the bey's mother inquiringly.
"Yes," eakl. she, "the beien died the
meriting poor Sandy WaS taken away.
Granny went crazed, as you see, Which Ives
a mercy, Or, seein' 8.8 how she loved the
bairn and Sandy better than life."
The old womanlrad returned to her chair,
am] cheered by the warmth, was sinking
te a gentle doze.
"Sandy I" she murmured, "Sandy'e imom-
in' hame the (ley, The bairn Will nee Mail
ery from hunger, for the fether is eoomin'
hame."
"Of whet dark day do you speak ?" I
inquired, "and who took your lvesband
away 7"
The boy shuddered and crept Close te his
mother's tilde. She hesitated.
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" ilie a nem,' she seed, in a, lew,deep TO100 1
"1111 a mon, Sandy, and dilute. let them turn 1
us out tids a wfu' day. Think o' your ((yin'
bairn and be ft mom' ,
"Sandy shook in every limb, butanswered
not a word. There was louder rap new at ,
the door, (lranny wrung her hands 1
agony, for just, then from the bed came a,
low moan,'
" 'Broth 1' cried the bairn " 'granny ;
broth t
" 'Open the door Sandy,' said granny ; t
"'open the door ;' and taking the 'dela One
in her arum, she acted like a figure turned. t
te sume in the middle of the floor. 1 J
"Jemmy, hardly 1110re than a baby, clung
weeping to my skirts, as I knelt in prayer 1 f
by the fireless stove, asking aid from Ono 1
greater and richer than the owners of the 1
veal mines.
"There was silence for a moment whet) the I f1i
door was opened, then oue of the men
filed the ship. One atomism], as we had a
utlf-eut whale rut each side of us, 41. gale
sprang up, a lleaVy 13110W Storni CR1110 OD, 10141
11 less t10111 an hour ere had to let go of our
prizes and leek sharply after the bark, It
sus the begisming
'run ARCM WISTER
and while the Captain wits satisfied of it Ile
leehled to take one more chance. There
night 001110 a few days; of fine weather after
he gide, 111111 so we drifted away te the north
0 wear felt the gale. For thirty hours there
vas no let up, and every half hour We had
turn out and shovel snow over the rails.
ust as the gale broke we got among the
eld ice, and the temperature went down in
our hours from 2° belew zero to 18° be -
ow. I'reet a gale blowing at the ride of forty
ui les an hour the wincl di ed out until it hadn't
notion enough te flare a candle. On that
rst night, When We were surrounded by
eld ice and drifting with it, many of the
nen were badly frostbitten, and the frost
racked through the old ship like muskets.
Morning came without breath of wind,
with the temperature down to 27 0 below,
and now every man knew it was he dunce
in ten for us. We were drifting very slow-
ly to the Routh, and while we rnade every-
hing as smig po$sible the Celptain hoped
Cr a break before wuder actually shut down.
laughed.
"Come,' he said, " 'make ready to be out
of this by noon. Youhad your ordees yester-
day, Sandy, and we mean teeenferce 'ern'.
"Bill ale bairn is near to dying,' answer-
ed Sandy, hoking like, 'Sand sure ye will
not turn us eat in the storm ?'
11 ell if the brat be near clymg, said t
1111 officer, brutally, ehe may as well die ' f
outside as in.'
" continued the women, shielding
her eyes with mut hand, heard a growl
like as from a wild beast, then a cry aS of
mortal agony, and then-'
Her voice [woke and site half arose from
her ehair and looked with a fixed stony
gaze straight before her.
"Anil then, I queried, after a paintul pause.
"And then, she eesumed, with white lips,
"the Inn» who had uttered that cruel speech
flung hia arms, swayed to and fro and fell
at Samly's feet without life or motion. Then
the Isest sprang upon Sandy, who steed there
classed and horror-stricken, white as the
deltd. 11111,11 Mt his feet.
" ' did nee mean to kin him,' he said,
solemnly, with uplifted hand ; ' God (there
1010108 1111,1 nae mean to kill hira. But the
leans is the light o' 10y eyee, and if any of
ye be fathers, ye Mann know how -how---'
" Ile could say no more, Sir, for the tears
which choked him ; teara Wring from his
great snide heart --a bear! as tender as 0
W01111111'8,
" `Come,' said the dead Mall'S friends, sav-
agely, come. )1'0 don't want any more of
your whining. You'll get a, halter for this
eley's work, neVer fear.'
" A. halter !" exclaimed granny, dazed
like-itt halter for my Sandy 1"
" Then she looked at the dead man's face
and leughed, such borrid laugh, sir, that it
curdled the blood in our 1.011111.
" The 0111111 no longer moaned, but lay
quiet within her arms. Sandy shook ofr the
hands which hehl him and stooped to kiss
the bairn.
" She's (lead,' he said quietly ; my
Jenny, our pretty beirn is dead ; and, with.
out another word turned end went ont of
the door, never to enter it again."
" Surely," I stammered, " 110 WELS 11 01:,
110t-"
l' could not bring myself to utter the hor-
elide weld.
" No, sir," mid she, ,quietly ; but he Wile
sent to prieou for life.'
" And you and the boy and granny," I in-
grand- 'whet dill you do ?"
"The neighbors helped us to 1110re here,"
she said, wearily, "and helped to bury the
ehad. Granny% reason tied that dreadful
clay raul, as you see, she stillnurses the bairn
and ever in her ear rings that mournful cry,
Broth I granny, broth P "
The deoropened suddenly ali this juncture
and in sprang Jemmy, with a look upon his
face that brought us both to our feet.
"He's come 1" Ile !gasped ; "he's come 1
Grenny was rale mad When she said he'd
come the day."
"Who?" cried his mother, wild hope
gleaming, in her eye. "Quick, jemmy, tell
me. Who has come ?"
"My boy, Sandy," crooned gvanity,aroused
by the confusion ; "it's my Sandy come bank
rith the broth for the Num'
"Ay, mither," cried a tough, leanly voice
at the door, "God he thanked, 'tis thy boy
Sandy come back indeed !"
The wife, stood like ems turned to atoll°.
"Escaped 1" she gesped, with a shudder,
as ber husband held out hie (WM "escaped?"
"Nne, my lass," he cried ; "never fear,
'Us not esettped I am, but pardoned, Jenny --
pardoned,"
That meeting wits too sacred for it steam
gers'e eye to w1thess, and so I silently stole
away and left them ; the strong man sheken
with emotion, wife and child sobbing ripen
his breast a101 gtunny, With 1101' "bairn"
tenderly clasped in her alms, amiling upon
the gtrnop 1111)10,01d, sweet mentent,
A Child Accidentally Shot.
Toncragin, May Sth.-A most (110thessmg
eccident ocem•red at noon tlle melee day
when fortteyear-old Jennie Long, who residee
with her parents at 1 13 Duke street, was
het in the facie. If/meat Stephens, a, Boyd
Grenadier recruit, boarde with the femily
and left his rifle loaded with a blank cart-
eidge in his room. The child 1000 0001: to
001 hini to dinner, and itoticing the firearm
picked it, e.p. Stephens attempted to take
it fret» her, and ht the ecuille the gun wits
diseharged, the powder lodging in the ehild's
fah and °yeti, Dr, (theist was called in, but
cannot as yet say whether the eyes have
been deatroyed.
Before noon the sea, as far as could be dis-
covered from the crow's nest with a glass,
was covered with field ice, and by night the
temperature was 82 0 below. IN e kept up
our fires and got out all the spare clothing
and betiding, but many of the men
SITPERED WITH TIM VOLD,
811d TIO 11/10 slept more than ten mine tee itt
a, time On aecount of the noises. When
morning cante again it brought in wind,
while the cold was just as intense, (11111 we
could neW discover a great change 111 the ice
around ue. It was rugged aud broken, the
heave of the sea having piled cakes on top
of each other, and the held Wad 10111, or five
feet thick. The olcl Man himself went to
the crow's nest and took a long look, and
when he came dean) 110 said -to the men,
who were -waiting to hear Ids words
"Well, boys, rt looks very setiens to me,
end I expect yell 100 better prepare to win-
ter th iS side ofDtindee."
That settled it with uu. We turned to
and began eaulk and batten to keep out
the cold, and ill it couple of days WO Were as
reedy 00 we eould be. For four days and
nights there witen't a puff of wind, with the
cold $0 inteuee that ice formed to 1,110 thiCk-
ness of seven feet alongside the bark. At
daylight on the morning of the fifth a squall
came out of the sonth-evest accompanied by
snow, and before 110011 the ice field WM;
broken up. At neon the wind died almost
out, bat within nu hour it shipped to the
north, end away went everything to the
south. A wilder sight than it Sea covered
with great cakes and blocks of ice, 00011 one
tossing, grinding, and crashing on its own
account, 110 011e eVer Saw. We dared show
only a rag of sell -just enough to give her
steerage way -and the smashing she got
Hutt afternoon seemed etiongli to break every
timber te her bows. At night the wind fell
again, and at 7 olhck the thertnometer
1011rked 4'2 0 below, As scion as the heame
of the sea subsided the ice was firmly weld-
ed together again, and
WHEN MORNING cote
there were hills and hummocks in sight as
big as the ship, The men were now told by
the mate diet our position was about ninety
miles north of Smith's Bay, and that our flo
was no longer drifting. This signified that
the southern edge of it rested against the
shore iee, and that we were in for it, unless
some unlocked for streak. of luck came to our
aid.
Next.clay there were heavy wind squalls,
but the ice did not tweak nor did the ehip
Move, That settled it. For the next week
•we had cabeni end squalls, with the tempera-
ture ranging from e7 0 to 88 ° below, but
the rink was as solid ne a rocky ledge.
We were hoesed in by this th»e, and had
oistablished thewinter routine, andthe Arnie
nighe had eche. For the next month, not to
weary the reader with deteils, our life was
that so chest described in the books. Then
a sudden end terrible interruption came.
The bark hegira to henve ht. The first
movement ushered at ebout 10 reelook
the forenoon, and filled everybody with dire
' alarm. After five minutes she heaved again,
lifting right nut of the solid field, with etre
I slakes clinging to her, as if machinery was at
work, As thelifted she canted to starlicard,
end at noon her decks were :Han angle of 45
degrees. It has alwaysseemed to ine that
powder ought to have been nsed to blow tip
the ice amend. her and !ether bah, Indeed,
had not otn, Captain get so badly rattled we
-could have tern and sawed and dragged away
intlf am acre of ice in a half it day, Thu
carpenter, who hail little plan of liss own,
reported that the heave had shattered several
planks in her bottom, and Hutt see would 1111
If site wrts cradled back. She took one more
heave, tending ever until alineet en her
beam mule, and then we got the order
est enerame:
We gee eras elothrag, bedding, provisions,
a compass, and four boats, and at midnight
headed away in four gangs far 811 ith's Bay,
each gang having boat, widish was drag -
god and lilted over the ice. 'rho melee to
abandon ship hes the same effect on 018
sailor that tho order of retreat haa on the
Holdiers, It creates it paracky feeling, and
he loses his judgment. We had net gone
five 1111105 before sonic of the 111011 begen to
erase the Captain's stupidity in leaving the
neighborhood of the bark, awl others (ex-
pressed their doubts ef the molten( er's re.
pot•ts. However, all proseed forward, end,
after maki»et ten mi108, wo weed into ce mp,
Pert/mutely for nes:there was no wind, while
the thermometer 'WU 011ly about Si 0 be -I
low. After a rot of six hours we pushed
ce again, and now our marches anti rots
THAT PEARF11T+ WASTE OF ICH.
One man died of exposure that night, and
two ethers were used up for a month. Two
weeks leter the second mate headed a, party,
but they only went about fifteen miles to
the north. They reported travelling :to
(Mettle that they had to return. Nothing
further was done until the sun and daylight
came again. Then the first mate set ant
agaie, but after making tthout half the
distance he found open water and signS of a
break-up, and returned.
No further efforts Were made, Day by day
the elm laSted a little longer, giVing 110 1nore
of the blessed daylight, anti at last a gale
came to break ep the great field and show
us streaks of open water. When we wet•e
finally (dear of the ley bed had hold
the ship, WO headed for Point Barron, some-
times gaining and sometimes losing ground.
One clay, I remember, W8 made twenty miles
to the south, but cm the very next a change of
wind packed the ice and drifted us that far
bah to the north. We were slowly working
clown toward the Straits, however, when,
one day at noon, after a snow squall lasting
amid two hours we got into a ehannel run-
ning southwest. 'We had scercely entered it
before we caught sight of a bark coining
down a ohannel from the north,and not over
a mile to the west of us. Twenty voices at
once cried ont that the etranger WAS 0111' old
craft, the Emma Davis, and as we neared
each other, running oil the long lines of is
triangle, everybody felt sure of it. 'We else
oticed much. excitement aboard the barks
but it was oray when the two crafts got out
their leo =shoes within a stene's throw of
emit other that matters were fully explain.
ed.
Who do you suppose the strange men were?
None others than the crew of the Endure:me.
They had ottr bark and welled their ship, A
Imp had been made of crafts. Their ship
had hove out about the same time ours did,
and they had abandoned her for the same
reasons, Instead of trying to make the land,
they had sought to flud a brig which they
had seen to the north of thorn. This brig
was myth er some foreign vessel which got
sefely out and. could net afterward be traced.
In hunting for her they came nevem our
bark. Three rate's only had passed, and yet
she had earned busk almost to an even keel,
fhey had boarded hoe, taken full poeseesion,
ml then worked her out on the break-up.
We hanged crews and resumed the voyage,
and both crafts entered the port of Netwuk
together, whence later on, hall resumed
the besiness of wlialing. ealledeven
p all the way Mural, and neither was deb.
or nor creditor,
A Willing' Substitnte,
"011, what is that belt for?" the maiden in-
ratired
Of her lover, who sat by her side,
"Why that is a life.ratoy, daegee re-
quired,"
The happy young fellow replied.
"I think len In clanger," the maiden went
on,
"And I mad a, life -buoy very badly ;
I guess I must have one ere the year's gone,"
Said her lover "I'll be that boy gladly."
An Unnecessary hxpense.
She Oust taking vocal lessees) : -Henry,
dente won't yen hare double windows put,
on ell over the hause 9 My sieging may dia.
ter 1 1 neighbors:
Ife Well, if it does, it strike:3 me that
the nesghbore ere the ones to buy the double
windows.
IPlinth Germany keeps its four Intra
erne teueiten is Were the sitainsaidens
si etre r tea see by sle ite siemens,
1 The greatest bell idnyers timong
:North American Indians wore the I 100110
!The rule of the game ise regent( 31 deem, 1,
' very etriet, No pluyer 11111013,11 111 Wl
100001011111. 11401.0 W1111 lin NtiCh
"spilling" another player unleise the foul w
eleste by emu, fellow with extriterdhe
, long and Strong toe The only elo
g IV( 11 e 1 iv /I 1100111411 1110 lid
4 / t• 1 /
,111111 13 110101 bolt, mil of white he
elude or quills ptsijeeted lernied like IL Ole
ing eppiii•atits. A 001101' or mime
Imre. hair was woro around the nee
The Anne embraced the skilful femme%
lawn terotie and the brutv focal of iflotba
Catlin mays that. lifter seeing t we or tra
,01111100 of Indian ball 11, neon- it a, rule 10.0
10 111i101 01104 lie would ride thirty miles m
day for the :Tort. game Wit0 11111101
ealled about e'eleek the inorniug,
front that time till meltdown the w
51T1110 of exeiting and lielierons (ern
without any Mt ermitieion. It wits nothil
minimal for fienn MO to 1 earn telneitaw yont
to eu,sgage in gione. Tam leaders were ti
leeted, lout they (home alternetely until the
were front 300 to 500 on each gide. Sever
cral Men of the t(ibe acted as judges. 'flit
me:unwed off the ground and set up the goal
For ea011 goal two poste ubout 25 feet hig
were
player was expected to sue s the bans the
eee tering and dram' thon. plasm e tv ges
divided into Vivo eterties, nod the aim
side was to throw the (we belle 1/1:01' it, 00'11
OW goal. The women erinviled mid sientrae; eitti
ie. 1 nodded oVer each other. While the Mu ,,re
vas tolled talent the ground and laughed tietil
esi' tin ir bides 111.11011,
ay 1
O. 1 PEARLS _OF TRUTH,
„„ I
Remorse virtue's; ritet.
I Iniument lure hae no hypoorisy.
of Prelim from an 11110111)1 511101113 eraft.
k. eloileety is the cenecienee of elle body.
I :amine and forbtude conquer all thi-
Originality is naught, but judicious Indies
er ti011,
ty A itennentes thought is paseionl messing
ly knell.
1,1 Alost WW1 need more love than thee- dee
"1)7;1 0011 1.00011 stupidity nnly with
ig
I. 0011 ball.
e- Experience teaches slowly end at the cost
re 1/1100 Oh
al Everybody's little yard -room opens into
all ant-doer:4.
s• Grief counte the seceerls ; heppinees for -
h gets the hours.
When change itself can give Ile more it 10
). easy, to be true.
e be rash is to be bold without sitame
e.
(3,, and without skill.
is Grant but memory to es, we can lose
P1111/1,Y PLANTED IN '1110 11110t1,111
OiX feet apart. Across the tOps of the ite
right poets; was fitstened 11 1101.17011011 pol
These goals were fifty rods apart, Midwi
between them Was a email stake. From th
ei nothing by death.
Do yeti know what duty 10 ? It is whae
we exact of others.
lievenge is alwar the weak pleaeure of a
point the ball, at a given signal, was toss,.
in the air by one of the jtidges. And then
10 game began.
There were some (serious prelnninaries,
When the judges had set the geabs they drew
11110 from one gnal to the other. To this
line the old mon, the boys, and the semen
of the tribe came fuel bet across it whatever
they wanted to stake en the remelt. Any-
thing whii•11 had valne Was inellieled ill Ole
betting. Knives, dressete bfankets, dogs,
horses, anil a hundred other possessions
were delivered acrosts the line to be wane
tired 031 one side or the other. The stak7s.
holders receive the stakes eelleeted
a little distance finm the ball ground, and
kept gutted over them until the end.
The laying out ef the ground and the bet.
ting Was all arranged the afternoon before
the game, Bless mght mine on the ground
was lighted hy torchem and tl.e
dance WWI peon. ale players crowded
eround their respective goals, held up thei
sticks and rattled them together. The womenr
formed. in two rows between the goals,
according to the side they were betting
on, and danced while they sang to
the Greet Spirit in favor of then re-
spective interests. At it little distance en
one side the four haps, who were to have
the tossing of the ball, and Wil0 were to de-.
cide the result, eat and
'SMOKED AND PRAYED
to the Clreat Spirit that they might be able
to jedge impartially inul escape being mole
bed by the losers. This dance WaS given at
intervals of half an hour all night. .Nlbeity
thenght of going to bed.
The game Opened et o'elock in the pre-
sence of the whole tribe. A gun was fired.
The ball was tossed up. In an instant the
hundreds of players were in motion. Each
player hail two sticks with hooped ends.
Thongs were stretched serosS the hoops se
that the ball could not slip through. The
gante Was to catch the ball betweee the net-
ted ende of the tWO slicks and throw it to -
Ward the goal. When the ball passed
through the space between the high posts
end below the cress pole the Wile 01 10111011
that geed belonged scored point.
There were no such tltings Rs fouls in the
Choctaw ball game. Players jumped ever
each other's heads. They crawled between
each other's legs. They tripped and kicked
and scuffed. For newsy minutes the confused
mass would be pushing and crowding toward
a common point, anti not a glimpse of the
ball could be had. Then the ball would be
slipped outside of the crowd, which would
keep on struggling end crowding without
diecovering that the ball WaS gone. Clouds
of dust anise. Every player made all the
noise he possibly could, Occesionally
siwo MITER PARTISANS
111.011p84 out of the melee and began to settle
numenderntanding with their fists. That
was all right. But perhaps below half a
dozen blows had been exchanged the for-
tune of the game trent the crowd down upon
the scorn of fistienfie, ned in an instant the
fighters were swallowed up in the eviM stems
pink. One inviolable rule of the game woe
that all weapents must beleft in the catnip. No
pleyer, however angry he might become, was
allowed to leave the ground to get a weapon.
All diffieulties must be settled. on the spot
and with the fists, But this waa the only
restriction on fighting, and before the game
was over bloody noses and bruised elutes
were numerous.
The two bodies of players were distil).
guished by those on one side painting them-
selves white with elay. When the ball was
driven through a goal there WEIS a brief rest
for minute. Then the ballwae tossed again
from the centre stake, and the wi10 struggle
was repeated. When ono side luul thrash
the bell through its goal 100 times the game
was wine Usually the sides were an well
matched that the contest was eet decided
sendewn.
Catlin SayS be often stet on his horse for
eight Or ten hernre at a stretch watching
these exciting contests, But Ile confessed
that when he tried to reproduce
THE SPIRIT OP TIIIt SVUNS1.4
his pencil failed him. When the ball Was
"ep"-- that is, flying through the air -every-
body was running and reaching for it, But
when it, wits "down" -that is, on theground
-the players flung themselves together each
side pushing and crowding toward its' own
goal. The 1 °Operate 11WVIllg beea scored by
one side or the other, there was a general
distribution of whiskey, and then the stakes
were awarded.
The games were not played without emelt
riuctice and preparation. Choosing of sides
tegini several weeks before the day set ins,
the game. As the leaders hose thefr phtyers
they se»t 1'1011101% through the village. The
1111111M carried ball Meeks decorated with
ribbone. Ile player eignilied his acceptance
by 1011011111g the stick of the champion who
had hash him, awl from that time on Ito
W08 eugaged for the game. "This gave the
rest of tile tribe plenty of thee to decide
widish side they would bet on, Oslo gave
the lenders time to train their followers ht.
g n
The Sioux had a favorite ball game. The
women played it, When the warriors WOVO
full of whiskey and wanted something to
make them hotel they arranged a tourna-
minter the women. Usually the game took
1 , 1 I fl
ceived fe their annual hargains with the
r traders, Calieeee, riblems, and other
rags dear to the fetninitie mind, tutored or
tittered, were Innig on pole which rested
crotched sticks, These were the prima
m balls AVM tiOC1 tegetho by a string a
deed end ftieth Inetlebty this year, and the re
Penned° Printers' Vision intena to celebrate fe
the anniversary right worthily, th
Judge Rylands, of Missouri, ha,e decided ue
thatprogemeive euchre and olutroh rattles are on
gambling and ;atoll, T0
little, narrow mini .
Women excel in a sort of courage -the
menage of resignation.
Next to the originator of a good sentences
is the first (peter of it.
Munli reading is like much eating, -whol-
ly uselees without clig,estion.
Whom believes in the feeedem of the will
has never loved and never hated.
Constant toil is the law of art, as it is of
life, for Ernt is idealized creation.
The blaze of reputation cannot be brawn
ont, but it often dies in its socket.
Women seldom forfeit their claims to the
respect of men whom thess respect.
One very wretchedness grows dearer to
s when suffering for one that we love,
A WOIllan takes a lover not so much for
himself as to injure some other wOnlan.
We are not apt to form for the fearless
when we are courannions in their tlanger.
Other Worlds Than Oars.
By means ot the spectroscope a very won.
derful discovery has been made respecting
Sirius. Astronomers had noticed that this
star was in rapid motion through space, as
it wasfound that yearby year it west:hanging
its position in the heavens, traversing ne
about 1,300 years a space equal to the ap-
parent diameter of the moon, at a, velocity
of no less than twenty miles per second. Of
ceurse, by acute/ observation, the only mo-
tion capable of being detected would be that
WhiCh Wail square to the hie of sight, so
that although Skins appears to us to move
across the heavens, he may be really travel-
ing 111 n slanting direction, either toward or
from tte, No 011e would ever have expected
to be Mile to tell whether a erar was ap.
preaching or receding from us, yet evert tins
eeeming insolvablepreblem has of late years
been accomplished by the spectroscope. Dr.
lieggins, our greatest authority on this tab-
jeet, having identified certain lines in the
spectrum of Sirius as those of 1,,ei; eeten,
found on comparison Hutt thesis were 'die
placed in such a manner as to indicete teat
tee star was receding from us. It has 1 een
estimated Hutt tins recession, combined
with the thwart motion of twenty miles per
second, gives as the actual movement of
about thirty- three 'whisper second.
These, then, constitute scum of the chief
items of information about atpresent
within our knowledge.
There seems to be no -reason to doubt that,
in common with other mune, he has his sseestein
of planets circling round Inin after the !Dan-
ner of one own sun ; and what syetem
Vast as oras appears it is dwarfed into in-
significance compared with system evhose
ruling orb is 5,000 Hulett larger than that
which does duty for us. There seems, also,
no reason to doubt that these planets are in-
tended to be the abode of life ; it may bo thee?
at the preseet moment noee of them present
any signs of life, but think we may infer
without improbability, that each one of those
worlds has a destined. period in its develop-
ment, during which life, similar to that
Whi011 11011- prevaile en our planet, would be
in existence. what a worlds11011 a one would
be, in size perhaps not inferior to that of our
atm, himself a nullion Hines larger then our ;
earth ; and it may be that as this Shim
world is so vastly superior to ours its inhabi-
tants would be on a sealeht peoportion tette
dimenaions, a race of beings of such intellect
and civilization comparedwith Wh010 WO are
bat sits -ages.
A Song of Spring.
'rho swift is wheeling ttnel gleaming,
The swift is brown in its bed,
Rain from the aloud is streaming;
And the bow bends overhead.
The hum of the winter is broken r
The last of the spell is said 1
The col in the pona is, quickening,
The grayliug leaps in the stream;
What if the clouds are thickening':
See how the meadows. gleam 1
The spell of the winter is shaken
The world awakes from a dream t
The fir puts out green fingers
The pear tree softly blows,
The •rese in her dierk bower lingers,
But her curtains will soon unclose ;
The Mae will hake her ringlets
Over the blueb of the rose,
The swift is wheeling and glomming,
The woods are begmeing to ring,
Rain from the cloud is streaming;
There, whore the bow cloth 01111g,
S. 10110)er is smiling afar off
, Over theshoulder of Spring 1
-RODEILT 13unnANAR.
I .A vntly I'VritOr IS Ilke a porcupine ; his
grail mikes no distinction between friend
and foe,
'Remorse of conscience is like an old wound
man is in no condition to fight under such •
eirennutternms.
Whatever dieierveties WO have Made in
the region of self lore, there etill remain
many nnknown lands.
Al pale for A, wedding pmeession always 1,04
minds me of the mune whieh accompaniel
soldiorA About to charge,