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Lucknow Sentinel, 1891-07-03, Page 7toogive up the old home to strangers, end start life in a new place. jl can't bear to think of it. Jim's such a good fel- low, 'and Mexico seems a long way off. When is he coming to say good -by to us, Berke?" � to tea ; so evening. H cisco mm , This eve g mind you have something special." After a panes_, Mrs Mason ,resumed the tiubjeet with the. inquuy whether he had heard ,�•n•vtb.u�u.relatayy+ t,sse-"kifeW t}hl "it1' place. had leen bought by a northern map, a retired army offleer, acid -that his naive' was Smith. -When his sister was out of hearing, Berkeley reopened the topic of Jim Byrd. He was standing at the mantle filling his pipe, which he balanced dexterously against one of ti ornaments, and his back was toward h(s' mother as he spoke. " Mother," he questioned, " did it ever occur ''to you that Jim might grow fond of Pocahontas—might want her for a wife,, PS"Ya3.rfis:arzSmn•:-Fr,T,rsas"f'actf, �2_.I P�1� k t,ti • has • happened, •and that he came to grief. He has been depressed and un- happy for months ; and neither business nor trouble about the old place can account for his shunning us in the way he has been doing lately. 1 don't believe he's been inside this house twice in the last 'three months." After a o ous exchan e o rr e 'th usually fond, and a sweet, gracious welcome to her old play -fellow, Pocahontas with: drew to tell her mother of their arrival, and to assure herself that everything was per- fectly arranged for Jinn's hest meal among them. Through s aesstrange deficiency in her- self, she was unable to give him what he most desired, but what she could, give him she lavished royally. She wore her pret- tiest dress in his honor, and adorned it with his favorite flowers, forgetful in her eager- ness to please him, that this might make things harder for him. She ordered till the dishes she knew he liked for tea, and spent 'a couple of hours in the hot kitchen that scorching morning preparing a cake that he always praised. With eager haste she took ..from its glass-doored cabinet the rare old Mason china, and rifled the garden of roses to the quaint century old punch -bowl for the centre of the table. All things possible should be done to make Jim feel himself, that night, the honored guest, the person of most importance in their world. , It was an heirloom—.the Mason china—quaint and curious, and most highly prized. There was a superstition—how originated n i ne knew—that a breakage of a softly to the wooing of the water; good t vo' ancient vrillowe of unusual size ; they were gnarled with age, but vigorous and long limbed- The story ran that once a Pocahontas Mason, the lady of" the manor here, had lovers twain—twin brothers who being also Masons were her distant cousins. One she loved, and one she did noC, but both loved her, and beim passionate• men both" :swore that thew would have her, game wildugiet, and cause any man that slily to rue it.tween the brothersthere arose guar.- refs; and ill feeling, which afflicted the lady, who was a good woman and averse to breaking the peace- of families: !That brother*—twin-brothers—should be scowl- ing venomously at each other because of her, appeared a grievous thing, and she set herself to mend it. By marrying the man she loved, she could end the affair at once, but his brother would . never forgive hien, and before love had maddened them mene the had been friends as well as k,Mtthalu.:',•33Lala" t. s i'?V+, ,rA 'T '60.&,,,Mar piece, whet! ..r by design or accident, for-, bode -misf to- the- --house .of- Mason. Very caref . )y it was always kept, being only ubed on rare occasions when, special honor was intended. During the civil war it .had lain securely hidden in a heavy box under the brick pavement of one of the cellar rooms, thereby escaping dire vicissitudes. Many pieces had been broken, said to have beeia.f_ell_owed ii1 every ease by calamities harder to endure than the loss of precious porcelain, but much of , it still re mained. In design it was unique, in execu- tion wonderful', and its history was roman- tic. \ In the olden time a rich and fanciful Mason had visited the colonies with one of the expeditions sent out by the Virginia 'Company of London. He was an artist of -no mean repute, and during his stay in the new world had made sketches of the strange beautiful scenery, and studies from the wild picturesque life which capti- vated his imagination. . After his return to England, he perfected these drawings from memory, and some years later crossed over to France, and had them transferred to china at fabulous cost. The "result was very beautiful, for each piece showed small but exquisite portrayals -of life and scenery in the new world. The scenes were varied, and depicted in soft, glowing colors, and with a finish that made each a gem. On one cup a hunter followed the chase :through the silent forest ; another showed a dusky maiden dreaming beside a waterfall ; • a third, a group, f deer resting in a sunny valley ; a fourth, a circle of braves around a council fire. • • When, in after years, the grandson of, the artist had married a bride with Indian blood in her veins, the punch -bowl had been added as a special compliment to the lady, and the china had been sent a wedding gift„ from the Masons of England to the Masons of Vlirginia. The bowl, was very' graceful, ,.and . contained „ on one side a lovely representation of the landing at Jamestown, with the tranquil, smiling river, the vessel in the. offing, and the group of friendly red men on - the shore ; ohi the other was, of course, depicted the rescue of Captain John Smith by the Indian girl. The bowl was finished at top and bottom with wreaths .of Virginia creepers, forest leaves' athi blos- soms. • To bring out this precious heirloom in honor of a guest was making him of conse- quence indeed. Jim knew 'all about it, and when he .caught sight of the pretty tea -table he derstood the girl's intention, and a quick, grateful glance across to her from his brown eyes. A whimsical memory of a superb breakfast he had once seen served to a roan about to be hanged obtruded itself, but he bahlished it loyally. It was a merryuneal, despite the shadow in the background, for the gentlemen ' taking their cue from Pocahontas vied with each other in talking nonsense, and depict- ing ridiculous phases of camp life in the tropics with Jini always for the hero of the scene. And Jim, shaking 'of the , dismal emotions peculiar to farewell visits, re, sponded gallantly, defending himself from each sportive attack, and illuminating his exile with such rays of promise as occurred to.him. He knew these old friends were sorry to lose him, and trying to lessen the • wrench of parting ; and being ru quiet, self - 'oiled man—mor© given to action than s ch, and with a deep abhorrence of c nes, he appreciated their efforts. fter tea, Berkeley and Royal! ht their pipes and strolled out toward the stables, leaving Jim and Pocahontas alone .together on the porch. The girl leaned back in her chair silently, nottryi yhg to make conversa- tion any more, and Jin sat on the steps at ker. feet, letting his lyes follow wistfully the slope of the lawn, and the flow of the river. Presently, 'with ut turning his head, he asked her to walk with him don's' to the old willows by the river de, for a farewell look on the scene so cl to high, and Po- cahontas rose instantly` and "slipped her ban& within his profferet ,uxm. Down by,.the river, wh Yb the,.lawn beat thoughtfully, and hit upon a plan— which, at the expense of some self-sacrifice, would arrange the matter peacefully. Bidding both lovers attend her one day, she brought them to this spot, and cutting two willow wands of exactly the same length and thickness she stuck them deep into the moist sell, and announced her c c' a ', .. • ' , , : ' Jirse gears. man whose tree had grown the strongest, should come and claim this answer. She would attend to both willows herself, giving to each the same care, and treating them with equal fairness. Then she made the men shake hands in amity once more, and swear to abide by her decision. The story further tells that both willows flourished finely, but, that in the last year the true love's tree outstripped its mate, as was right and proper. As the lady had anticipated, when the term of probation expired only one of the twins appeared to claim an answer to his suit. And in the pocket -of the constant man, when he kissed his own true love, lay a letter, from across the seas, full of brotherly affection and congratulation. This little story was a favorite with Pocahontas, and she was fond ofa relating how her great -great-grandmother by a little wit and generous self-sacrifice, averted a feud between •brothers, and kept family peace unbroken. (To be continued.) • „RARE OF TIE Ems. - A Few dimple, Rules That May Stave OR "Specs."' A skilled optician furnishes the following bits of information as to the care of the eyes: Keep a shade on your lamp or gas burner. Ayo c all surfdQ;p, allafgeabetween. light and darkness. Never begin to read, write •or sew- for g*,gwrgl axiaut+es after coning from darkness into_light.. .. Never read by twilight, moonlight or any light so scant t�,,ak it requires an _effort discriminate. Never read or sew directly in front of the light, window or door. It is best to let the light fall from above, obliquely over the left shoulder. Never sleep so that on first awakening the eyes shall open on the light of a win- dow. The`moment you are instinctively Tseo'Y ams'tL=Wsssttt tC EEW—e4 '� iE t'asaI' ` ia.ia stop using them. FAILING VISION. The symptoms of. failing vision are set forth in this way :. 1. "Spots or sparks of light floating before the eyes. ' 2. Quivering of the lids or sensation of sand in the eye. of strong light in reading. 4. The holding of objects at arm's length or elose to the eye. 5. Squinting one eye or seeing objects double. 6. Dizziness or darting pains in the eye- balls, or over the temple. • 7. Perceiving a colored circle around the lamp. 8. Sensitiveness of the eyeballs or contrac- tion of the visual field. 9. Blurring of the vision or being unable to see objects distinctly ata distance. 10, Watering or redness of the eyes •or running -together of the letters when reading, or seeing the verticirl better than the horizontal lines. The hoards. • Their women go about with uncovered faces ; many of them are distinctly hand- some, with clerk raven locks dragged•_over their cheeks, bright -red complexions, and large, almost Jewish, noses ; but unfortu- nately they love to tattoo these otherwise comely faces, and to wear silver solitaires in their noses. Their heads are hung with all sorts of ornaments, cowry beads and savage jewelry, and their headgear generally is weighty and uncomfortable-leoking. Over their lose, baggy tro-nsers they' throw a red dress, and in the photographic groups we obtained weli-id our friends at home are generally at a loss to determine the sex unless° sonie babe in arms or other evidence of maternity settle the question. The men have for their distinguishing feature the turban made of checkered silk, red, yellow and blue, • with gold and silver thread ; this is bound round a red cap, ,and is infinitely more becoming than the sheep skin bonnet of. the Persian peasantry. A" .mounted Koordish chief, with his light blue jacket, long flowing shirt cuffs, and magni- ficent things in the way of daggers, keenly excited niy wife's desire to photograph— but before the camera could be set up he had fled, and we never saw his like again. Everything among the Koords points to a higher state ao f art than among the other tribes , stone is largely introduced into • the construction of the houses, red ornamenta- tions made with henna adorn the doors and windows, and the construction of the " compounds" is curious. You enter by a low wicket gate, which is covered with cakes of dung, into a courtyard ; a covered shed contains the tripod for mast, the black- smith's bellows with' double funnel orna- mented at the top with carving, and stand- ing on feet made . to represent birds with long beaks. Out of this shed you pass into the family rooms full of great store cup- boards for grain, elegantly -shaped ' watch pots made of a clay found close to the •vil- lage, in digging up which the women are employed ;. any number of quaint -shaped copper utensils for boiling milk and cooking stand around, and amid a haze of smoke you percieve women sitting on their haunches busily engaged in watching the pot boiling for the evening meal—The Gentleman's Magazine. In the Morning. " Four years ago," writes Col. David Wylie, Brockville, Ont., May, 1888, " I had a severe attack of 'rheumatism, and could not stand on my feet. The pain was excruciating. I was blistered' and purged in true orthodox style, but all to no pur- pose: I was advised to try St. Jacob's Oil, which I did. I had my ankles well rubbed and then wrapped with flannel saturated fin with the remedy. i In the morning I could walk without pain." Many get up and walk in the same way. He Got in. v,• The guard—What's your busiess now ? The stranger—Isn't that the convention of tanners ? The guard --It is. But you are not a member of the trade and cannot enter. The stranger—The :dickens I can't 1 I tell you I'm a public school teacher and I believe' in corporal punishment.' The guard --Walk right in and *i.ke a place on the stage. —Pittsburg Bulletin. I cheer, I help I strengthen, I aid, I gladden the help, of man and maid, i setconstipation's captive free, And all aro better for taking me. Thus spoke one of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. (They are pills that speak for them- selves.) Very small very nice to take, pro- duce Lno nausea or griping, yet are most effeotual in all cases of constipation, bilious or sick headache, or deranged liver. Only 25 cents a vial, at druggists. A perfect vest-pocket medicine.. - " Excuse me, sir, but haven't we met befoi a ? Your face is strangely familiar." " Yes, madam, our host introduced' us to earh.other just before dinner." " Ah, I Was ilositive I had seen you somewhere. I neveorget tb face." O !. woman, lovely woman, why will you suffer SO ;. Why bear such pain and anguish, and agony of Why donrt you seek the remedy—they one that's all the go 1 " All the go," because it makes the pain go. As an invigorating, restorative tonic, soothing cordial and bracing nervine, for debilitated and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce's"Favorite Prescription has no equaL It improve& digestion, invigorates the system, enriches the blood, dispels aches ,and, pains, produces.refreshing. sleep, .dispels. melancholy and nervousness, and builds up both the flesh and strength of those reduced below a healthy standard. Don't be put off -with some worthless compound, easily, but' dishonestly, recommended to be " just as good," that the dealer may make more profit. " Favorite Prescription " is in- comparable. Electric Shadows. If you ever observe it, the electric light is responsible for many grotesquerie& nightly painted on respectable walls and matter-of- fact sidewalks. Shadows are only shadows,. but they give one the shivers sometimes, especially at a late hour, when honest folks are supposed to be in bed. Giants of despair then stretch out long arms at the corners of silent streets, and strange profiles are thrown against the unconscious houses and weirdtraceries of dancing branches make the pavement rise and fall in a style that must puzzle a. person who knows heis sober. Alone, without the presence of humanity,' these electric shadows lend the sleeping city a mystic animation that even conventional moonshine fails to dispeL The sputter, the swish of the lights, too, add to the uncanny effect, and their fluctuations would in time drive the sane Mad if thought was taken of them. Luckily, man can accustom himself to almost anything. —Boston Herald. People We Rear Of' Senator Edmundssays that .Secretary Blaine has Bright's disease. -Yesterday in- New York Miss Elaine Goodale, the well-known authoress, was married to Dr. Charles A. Eastman, an Indian of the Sioux tribe. ; In the opinion of the New York World John D: Rockefeller, now on the sick list at Cleveland, 0., is worth as much as $125,000,000. ' Mr. Andrew Carnegie is now 55 years old. Heis a little man—not so tall as General Grant was. He looks a little like the Gen- eral did, andwearsafullbeard, which isquite gray. ' Vice -President Morton is 65 years old. He dresses carefully, and has a compact, sturdy form and stands as erect as a soldier. Mr. Morton isaan early riser, and takes his breakfast at 8.30. Rudyard Kipling arrived in New York on the City of Paris Wednesday. He is travelling incognito, as his health does not permit him to see visitors. Hejeft yester- day afternoon to spend a few weeks in th country with friends. ust lower" 1E I have been afflict - Blllousness, "ed with biliousness " a n d constipation Constipation, for fifteen years k Stomach " first one and then another prepara- Pai ns. " tion was suggested " tome and tried but ' to no purpose. At last a friend " recommended August Flower. I " tookit according to directions and �•, "ing me of those disagreeable stomach pains which I had been " troubled with So long. Words " cannot describe the admiration "'in which I hold your August "lower --it has given me a new lease of life, which before was a " efaction to humanity, and its good "qualities and " wonderful mer- Jesse Barker, "its should be " madeeknown to Printer, "everyone suffer- " ing with dyspep- "sia or biliousness G. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr,Woodbary,NJ. Journalistic Quallllcattons. Detroit News ; I,f . you have 'endless patience, great good nature, don't know what it is to be discouraged, can summon tact and perseverance as your handmaidens, are fairly well educated, have • magnificent health, and the feeling that there is nothing in the heavens above, or in the earth be- neath or in the waters which surround the earth, or in the atmosphere that envelopes it, about which you cannot get a full and accurate description, if it pleases you to do so, then you may be sure that you have the journalistic feeling, and that the newspaper instinct abides in you. And you may grasp tlhp reporter's notebook and the pencil sharpened at both ends and prosper, for you are starting from the roads which lead to great comfort and contentment and joy—and more than this it is not given to the lot of mortals to enjoy. Accepted the Designation. A young lieutenant in a line regiment recently met with a sad rebuff at Ports- mouth. The lieutenant was parading in full uniform one day and approached a sentry, who challenged him with " Halt ! Who goes there.?" The lieutenant, with contempt, in every lineament' of,,iiia face, expresses his feelings with an indignant " ABS 1" The sentry's reply, apt and quick, carne : " Advance, ass, and give the coun- tersign." • H-umboldt, Kansas: A TALE OF FOUR TRAVELERS. SONE FURRY J6 i snatesno. Titles dr Books ¥logo sited by Woa1.4b Pa rcllasera. "There's a broadly- liiimoromi side to the book trade, says Landon Tit -Bits. The fun is generally furnished by the ridiculous mis- tak es ole make in the pAnsee .01 Was,. A lady sent here maid one day for Annie Thomas' novel of "He Cometh Not, She Said," but the damsel asked for " He Combeth Not His Head." The little boy of a prominent divine went to a shop to procure for his father a relig- ions book .cti,lleiL'The Hpnr, hiehf^'ome , -_ , but he inquired for "The Hen Which Crowe eth." At the time that Thomas Hardy's cleveir novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes," was at heighth of its popularity, a young azsiutamt in a bookseller's, who was as new to the business as he was slow of comprelienison, when a lady came in and said to him, very est 1 andv on A eagerly in uirin ly, Have y r•n. . 9 .c• .. �., n ^^es . f�'d4+1�`�'I"�-''�'Dl'tYtrR'��.�e�'3'•yilk-�iT�'�u'iiiDlau''��z'rL�iY�li�ik�it�'�,•u.a:z>�'�•w out, "No, miss ; my eyes are ck." One day an errand boy brought up froia the cellar a trap containinga large rat, just as a well-known society belle, wishing t e look at one of Anthony Trollope's moat popular novels, said to the new assistant : " I want to see ' What Will He Do With. It?'" t5. c VOW Row They -Quarrelled and , Why They Bade up. Four travellers, an Arab, a Turk, a Greek and a Persian, met at the gate of a city. They agreed to pool their cash and purchase food. But, the Arab insisted that agub must he the dish procured, while the Per- sian begged that it be aughar. The Turk said that azum was the best of all foods, and the Greek as strongly contended for sym- phalione They came quite to a quarrel ; 'but just then an ass was driven by loaded with grapes. Each one sprang up shouting joy. " It is agub," cried the Persian. "Aughar," cried the Arab. ". No ! " screamed the Turk; " it is azum. "- "'That is inysynizs phalion," added the Greek. Then they all ate grapes together, and loved each other with whole hearts and comfortable bellies. Our quarrels are mostly matters of words ; or over affairs that we know nothing about., —St. Louis Globe -Democrat. Fire-Y.roof1IOtels._ There is hardly a new hotel or business buildmg in New York but that is advertised as fireproof, and yet a leading architect told a Herald reporter that such a thing could not exist. " They may be fireproof to all intents and purposes," said he, " but if in- flammable material be in them and it get afire the iron girders and beams will" so expand that they will let the floor above down. Whenone floor falls in an iron - beamed building they will all go, and then the side walls fall The ruin is usually more complete that it is in an ordinary building. We do not build those iron fire proof fronts any more, because in case of a fire they fall forward anddemolish the building across the street. Local Item. Elsewhere in this issue we republish an article from the Hamilton TIMES relating th. the wonderful cure of a gentleman in that city, who had been pronounced • by phy- - sicians incurable, and who had been paid the $1,000 total disability grante&members of the Royal Templar* The well-known standing of the TIMES is a guarantee as to the entire reliability of the statements con- tained in the article. wA Friend's Sympathy. ` I suppose you know that Miss Sage re- jected.me ?" " No, did she, though ?" " She did." " Well, old fellow, I sympathize with you. But it's just as I expected. I tell you women are not the fools men take them to be."—New York Press. Neighbor, see you not the signal In the loved one's cheek ? Heed you not that constant hacking, While the form grows weak 1 0, delay not, or this dear one Soon deaths own will be. You can save her by the use of ' Pierce's G. M. D. In other words, get the " Golden Medical Discovery," and rescue this member of your family from consumption, which threatens' her. It has saved thousands. According to' the doctors it has wrought miracles, for it has cured those whom they pronounced incurable, except by a miracle. It is a truly wonderful remedy. For all bronchial, throat and lung diseases, weak lungs, spit- ting of blood and kindred ailments, it is a sovereign remedy. If that volatile essence` which is senti- ment in youth be not crystalized into prin- ciple 'at maturity, the chances are that its vapor Will :have passed beyond the horizon • and the sunset. -St. Louis has just added 100 men to its police. force. you will walk to the back part of the shop and look out of the window you will see him drown it." Princess Alexander's Busy fife. The Princess of Wales is one of the busiest women in the world, says the Chi- cago hicago Post, compared to whom the wife of a day laborer has leisure. When her daugh- - ters were in the school -room, punctually at 9 o'clock every morning she went into the school -room with the teachers and masters to examine the work of the previous day, and now that they are in society she per- sonally supervises their gowns, designing and working on them herself, as she is a skilled dressmaker. Besides her own ardu- ous public duties and those she has to per- form for the Queen, .she undertakes a large correspondence with her brothers, sisters and parents. So numerous are her calla of duty, and pleasure which' frequently takes the form of duty, that when in London this royal lady, who is never expected to button her own boots or curl her royal hair, cannot get her work done Co retire earlier than o clock in the morning: . " Mother Coosa" " Mother Goose" was a real character, and not an imaginary personage, a& - basin= supposed. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Foster, and she was born in 1665. 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