The Brussels Post, 1889-7-19, Page 6HOUSEHOLD.
8.1vte in Renovating,,
Bc'i crushed velvet over a pan of
'boding water, and the ateam will gradually
cruise the pile, whioh you can omelet by
'bruthing it in a oontrary direction with e
:soft brush.
Brush the duet from blame le o e, Spon
+with green tea, and pin it on a blanket
todry,Ppulling It into shape tee You pin
along.;' Jet peseementerles muse be rut.bed with flannel and the last beads re.
!placed,
Web black cashmere iu nude made of
soap bark, rinse in deer water, then in a
second water to which blueing has been ad-
ded, If the goods are much hided, add a
;good deal of blueing and let the catheter°
lie in this overnight, l'iok it up by the
edges, and hang in a shady place to dry,
without wringing, and press while still
damp. A plain skirt need not be ripped,
In coloring dress goods there must be
.plenty of dye, the clothmuat not be crowded,
it must be aired often, and must have boon
very thoroughly wet before it was numerated
in :he dye. It should not be wrung, let it
drain instead, change position on the line
while draining or drying, preen while damp
until every crease is out of it, and then
lay it away with as few folds in it as pea.
aible.
The Num inwhich soap bark has been
boiled is excellent for washing lawns, cam
Pries and aateena that are easily faded. They
should be washed in more water than
woolen goods. It is especially reoom-
enended for aateena, ae it preserves their
original glome. Iron on the wrongeide while
alightly damp.
Brush blank Bilk with a velvet brush or
rub it with an old eilk handkerchief ; then
sponge with alochol and warm water on the
wrong side, and let it drip dry. Da nob
iron or fold it. A French method is to
sponge the eilk with hot coffee strained
through a muslin bag, Sponge it on the
right side and iron with a medium warm
erten when partly dry.
The Wrinkled Oilcloth,
There was a big hubble in the centre of
the two -yard strip of oiloloth that only a
month before had been necked in plane by
the wood box. The eitting-room door drag.
ged and naught on it when opened or oloaed,
and the great puffy bulge wickedly tripped
grandpa's and the little folk's feet.
" I shall be glad when this aggravating,
pestering wrinkle splits, eo the broken edges
will lap over on themselves and thio door
will se ing without a hitch l" Mary ex
claimed, giving the offendtng door an impa-
tient jerk es ebe tried to open it, carrying
s loaded tray of dishes.
But the oilcloth was new and strong, and
with wear the bulge grew longer and higher,
with no speedy promise of a eplit.
"I will cut that wrinkle and tack down
the edges as far es they lap, and be rid of
this nuisance ab once 1'' I said ova day when
the opening door bad brought up against the
babble in ebe matting with a sudden jerk,
giving out hurrying baby a oruel bump. Bub
just then Aunt Martha oame in and told us
a better way to remedy the matter.
"Oiloloth always stretches with wear and
should never be tacked to all eldee ; then, as
it stretches, it oan find room for the extra
space it meet have. You tanked this mat-
ting ae snug and firm on every side as though
Celled been rag carpeting, and no wonder it
wrinklea. Remove the tacks on the wall
nide, where the oil cloth will have plenty of
:xoom to spread as it stretches, and the loose
sedge will not be apt to trip feet and the
wrinkle will 00011 lie flat."
We followed Aunt Martha's advice and
the sitting room door soon swung free of
any hindrance, and we wondered that peep.
le as bright as we think ourselves bad never
.thought how to remedy such a nuisance.
Abbe to the Newly Married,
Afteryou two nine young people arer eally
married, just be natural. I hope you have
been nearly so before. If yon have faulte—
ae everyone has, myself excepted I—try to
'correct them, because you ought; but don't
-worry for fear your husband will get tired
of you. Jueb go on being your own loving,
trusting self, and don't be afraid of showing
your love. The sister who advised us not
to speak our love will never have me for her
disciple, You needn't be a slave; that is
not right upon the very face of it.
You can't always appear before your hue -
'"band with a fresh ribbon in your hair. If
yon are the dear fellow's cook and holm,
keeper, you needn't worry the roses out of
your cheeks trying to sleeve meet him in
.00mpany dress. If you have each other's
onnfidenoe, and are the "chums" you ought
to be, he will understand all these libtle
things, If you feel bad, don't be afraid to
tell*him eo; bat be careful not to let your.
meiftcomplaintoomnoh, for your own Babe
and for the sake of all that is gond and
pleasant in your home. Try desperately to
keep your, temper; it troubles agoodhnsband
to hear his wife scold. Of course, he thinks
lido' wieervouenes&" and is " afraid the poor
111 is sick." So I wouldn't scold much—
elf I could help ib, It just so happens that
ewhen people are properly married, they
manage to grow together unconaiouely.
They may come to speak less often of their
dove, bt cause it grows to be so much a part
.of themselves and shows itself it every look
And gesture, There will always be the
spoken word and the loving mesa, butnot
sonnet, perhaps, ae in the first sweet novel.
ty of having a heart all one's own. We
grow used to happiness, And besides, a
man's life is full of the more practical things,
while. his wife's work lies in the charmed
oirole of Teeing hearts end tender, clinging
Uncle, Her ,vocabulary is the language
.of tenderness, her business is with her loved
ones; while he must deal with men and
things and talk of rates and profits, of plant -
'Ing end plowing. No, olstee, don't be
alarmed, Just be a good lovirg girl, keep -
ling on cotfidental terms with your husband,
and he will go on congratulating himself
and wondering how he ever happened to
win you away from all the other fellows
:,rho must have been admiring you.
-lot an Entirely Hopeless Case.
The proprietor of a "matrimonial estab-
lishment" in Europe was one day visited by
a lady of ouch extreme plainness that he was
at first aghast. He managed, however, to
collect bimaelf and assume hie usual cour-
beoua manner.
The lady proceeded to state that she had
'a considerable fortune, but that, from oomo
unaccountable reason, she had been unable
to find a husband to her liking. She ended
by aeking: "Now don't you think you could
find me a good party, sir ?"
"Ah, yea, madame 1" said the agent very
spolitely. "There's no telling ; there may
,lie a blind man in at any moment 1"
The Lord Proverb of' lildinburgh refused to
•00o10te at the aonferrfng of the freedom of
'that efty on Mr, Parnell.
THE BRUSSELS POST,
A 00RVIVORO STORY KILLED, FRTED ANA EATEN,
{ghat Woo Seim by a Aerial Who hen Johns. `—
ten tt Jant la $'
Ince,
Judge Joseph Montero, superintendent of
lands and dwellings for the Oambriu Iron
oompany, escaped all the Johnstown inter.
viea'ara,except the one otthehlrie Observer,
to whom he told a most interesting story,
He said that when he came down to beide..
feat the morning of the deed he saw the
backwater in the Conemaugh and Stony
or eek was higher then he remembered having
seen itbefore during ao abort a rain, He had
always mletrueted the dam at South Fork
and reasoned that if tho water had risen so
rapidly at Johnstown it must be very high
in the lake, He told hie family that when
the water oame up to the curb at the river
bank he should take them out of the pity to a
place of safety. He etarted out to gather
his relatives and by 10 o'clock helloed them
all in his haute, twentyaix in number,
There were his wife, two eons and their
families, ono daughter and family, and one
brother.in-law and hie family, in all twenty
six persona, At ten the water was up to
the curb, and this patriarch loaded his
twenty -afx into au omnibus and want up the
mountain aide. Hie neighbors jeered him
and not one would follow his a xample, He
left his load at a house an the Franketown
road and returned to the city, At 2 o'olock
at the Baltimore & Ohio station the operator
told him he had just reoeived a telephone
message from Conemaugh thab the dem had
gone out. The message had been brought
from South Fork to Conemaugh by a
locomotive and thenoe telephoned. As a
matter of fact, says Judge Masters the dam
had not then broken, but the people at the
lake had become satisfied that it would
and rent the message that it had in order to
alarm the people and induce them to flee.
Judge Masters rushed robe the Street and
shouted the news to all lie could fled. " I
told them to fly for their lives," he raid,
"but I am sorry to say I was met on all
eidea by incredulity and laughter, The
people said they had heard the same story for
thirty years and that 1 was a orank. The
more intelligent the men I spoke to the loss
heed they paid to my warning."
At 3 o'clock Judge Masters left the oity,
and reached the house where hie family were
before the flood same. It came In sight at
3:40 o'clock, and from hie station on the
mountain•eide Judge Masters had a full view
of it as it name down the narrow valley of
the Conemaugh, through the town of Wood.
vale, and into the city of Johnstown. The
wave was higher in the middle thanat the
sides and came at the speed of an express.
train, At the iron railroad bridge at Cone.
maugh it paused a moment, bub the bridge
snapped and the water Dame on faster than
aver. As it peeled over Woodvaie itrolled the
hones over crushing them like matches and
pinking them up like feathers. On the crest
of the wave os far as the eye oould reach
were wreoka of houses and whole trunks of
uprooted trees, As tne wave Struck some
impediment it would dash epray in the air
100 feet. Johnstown lay in its beautiful
valley ae peaceful es a babe, But soon the
roar of the fiood ked reached the ears of the
inhabitants and many were swarming out of
their houses and buildings and mak-
ing for the mountains, They looked
from the point of view on the moun-
tain rides like pigmies. "Alae, it was tco
late. How slowly they seemed to run and
how fast name tha wave of death." When
the wave emerged from the valley of the
upper Conemaugh it had been compressed
by the eider of the mountains into a cam.
paratively narrow apace. Ib shot into the
widening plane where Johnstown lay in a
straight line like water from the noeze of a
hose. Then the water split in two parts,
The smaller part went down the bed of the
Conemaugh river, while the larger part
plowed on in almoab a straight line through
the very heart of the city. At the atone
railroad bridge it had been weakened by
spreading out over a wider apace, The
wreckage formed a dam ab the bridge and
the water banked up, spreading out over the
:satire pity and up the valley of Stony creek
for two miles, Frame buildings that had
floated down with the wave from Woodvaje
to the atone bridge turned and followed the
new current of the backwater up Stony
creek
now , for two miles and oan be found there
A NEW NAVAL TERROR„
England's Latest Supply Shlp—A olaleo
Fighter and a Fast Sailer.
A new acquisition to Eagland'e navy was
launched recently and christened the Vulcan.
She is designed as a twin-screw torpedo.
depot ship, but is a fast protected cruiser
and a formidable fighting craft as well and
repreeenta an entirely novel type,
The construction of the Vulcan was begun
on June 16, 1888. She is of 6,620 tone die-
placement—larger, in short, than any of the
large Indian troop -ships and three times as
large ae many a cruiser. She is built of
steel, her hull alone weighing 3,170 tons,
and her principal measurements aro as
follows: Length, 360 feet; beam, 68 feet;
mean draught, 22 feet. The vertical keel is
of an unusually heavy and substantial char.
aoter and is 3 feet 6 inches high. The east.
steel Reshaped eternpost is extra strong,
weighing five tone. The vessel is divided
into numerous water -tight compartments,
and is proteoted by a continuous steel deok
6 inches think in the elope and 21, inohee
elsewhere, The engines are cf the triple
expansion type and will give a oolleotive
indicated horse power under forced draught
of 12,000, They will drive the ship at a
speed of 20 knots (23 melee) and 18 knots
(20. 7 intim) at sea. There will be storage
for 1000 tone of coal, an amount sutSoient
for 3,003 miles steaming at 18 knots an hour.
She will have a balance rudder glibber to
that fibbed to the Spanish cruiser Reina
Regenti and to the Inman steamer Olby of
New York. This will enable the new war
ship to turn a complete oirole of nob more
than 400 yards fn diameter in little over
three minutes.
As a torpedo depot ship the will be ad.
mirably adapted for the work. She will be a
floating factory, full of forges and workshop!
for the repair of torpedo bombe and torpedoes.
submarine mines, and all the neoeuoary gear
for submarine work on a large scale, and ahe
will also have upon her deck a small flotilla,
probably eight in number, of seoond'olaos
torpedo-boateof the largest stem, These the
will be able to holeb overboard and despatch
In all directions at,a few minutes' noting,
The Vuloan will also have a torpedo arms-
ment of her own, ooneisoing of six launch•
ing tuber, tome of whioh aro to be under
water, Regarded more partioularly as a orbs.
er,she will possess qualites whioh will entitle
her to rank among thereoob formidable user.
meted oruleere of the world. She will have
weapons whioh at aloes range will be ospa-
ble of penetrating armor up to nearly sixteen
inches thick, The quick.firing armament
will bo the mob powerful of any ship in the
world, It will enable her to disoharge on
etch broadside a storm of from eighty to one
hundred and fifty projaotilee a minute : and
should eho ever bo atbeeked by unarmored
orbiters or torpedo•boate, the wouldbo ebb
to give theme warm reception,
Au Aft lettu ,dv,alure Lilo ,tt elutplec'
nous Alder Itngettrd.
,From the Caps Timee,l
18tely is the preeont century, about 1620,
Oho Bout° chieftain, Methods., being worried
and harried by a heat of enemies, Intrenohed
himself on n high, rooky fortrese now, as
then, known aeThabe Boeigo, whence, teeth
to the dismay of his assailants, ho would
hurl down high plea of atones, peeked up by
night, on their wooly beads,
The Bseutos wore a brave popple, but ro.
duced by their enemies to very hard straits,
ao that they were driven by absolute starve•
tion to resort to the horrible work of panni,
baliem. This fieodieh praotioe was certain-
ty not to be debited to the amount of the
native races of South Africa as a rule. In
the early days it was not, found among the
Hottentots, nor even among tete Ieweab of
South AMoan races the Bushmen; and it is
just as certain that it has not been among
the Zulus, but, as an exception, as with the
Basuto, it occurred Iu1 ate, about the same
period, 1820 23.
Sir Thoophilue Stepstone, in a paper he
contributed Hone years ago to the Royal
Colonial Institute, says: "I have heard
many a stirring story of escapes from the
lips of those who were oaptered, and who
had themselves listened 00 dieouesions as to
whether they would oat tough or tender
when they were killed. I have ntyaelf oon•
versed with Several men who escaped after
having been captured by ' Amazimu,' or
Man E eters, and after having been told off
to furnish the next feast for their captors,
and with one—a chief still living in this
colony—who was compelled by the oanni-
bale to Derry the pot la whioh he was told he
would himself be cooked. The eoene of his
escape is not five miles from the spot (liar-
ilzburg) on whioh this paper is written,
and at present forms part of the epiaoopal
property held by Dr. Colenso,"
There is no reason to believe thab the
Basutoo brought the custom with them,
though there is ample evidence that they
practiced it duriug the time of their wars
with Umziligar zi and .with the Korannas,
and it may reasonably be supposed that it
has been carried on in a hidden, shamefaced
way, in spite of the opposition of their
chiefs, down to a very modern date. Cas-
silis tells the stories of oannibaliam whioh
he heard from the natives on his firth arri-
val in Basutoland, and giving 1820 as a
date, Saye that Moshesh pub and end to
these horrors. He says there were " thirty
or forty villages the entire population of
which le composed of those who were for-
merly oannibale and who make no secret of
their peat life."
I have seen, when quite a boy, the Natal
Kafire listen with eager andbreathless in-
terest to the wild, weird and horrible tales
that the elder Kafiri, used to tell of their ex-
periences in the gloomy fastneeeee of the
Malabi—the high and tumbled ''Double
Mountains" of Basutoland. I well remember
a fine old Kafir, who, as seems to be usual
with really good authorities, was rather
taciturn regarding the imparting of informa.
1 tion ooncerniag these and other early re.
markable events, being at length persuaded
to relate some of his adventures in the
' Militia in the days gone by. Of comae the
Zulus and the reit of the "human" tribes
had the liveliest horror and the moth awful
dread of the. "Amozimu"—a name that
mothers instantly silenced naughty children
wf th,
However, the old Kafir (he was one of
Motiwane'a tribe, hailing from the Drakeno.
berg, vel ere the late Matiwane's eon, called
'-Z kali," was governing the tribe—the
Amangwane—Zikali had been planed there
to guard the mountain passes against the
miaohievoue and somotimes deadly inroads of
the Buehmet); well, "the old" Kafir took a
drink of native beer and cleared his throat,
throwing, with a graceful jerk of Itis arm,
his robs off his shoulder, to give freedom to
the impressive and expressive geotloulations
employed—much as the Roman orator of
days gone by would ease his shoulder of the
toga before he extended Its hand and ad.
dressed the "Romano, friends and country
men," and all the rest. These remarkable
people, the Zulus, in telling a story are most
minute in matters of detail, I may say I
speak the Zulu like a native.
Old Marwenf then, the storyteller in
question, said that he and two companion
had been deputed by Mstiwane to take a
girl to a chieftain beyond Basutoland, to
whom she was to be given in marriage,
"Well, people of my father," said he, "1
bold the 'mothers,' to make Home bread of
boiled and then hard baked mein, and the
next morning we eachatuok one of our sticks
through a loaf of bread, and taking our
knobkerriee and our assegais, and rolling
our blankets up and slinging them over our
shoulders, took the poor weeping maiden
from her mother and started. Through
two rivers we had to swim and get through
as best we oould with the girl, who couldn't
swim. But we nut down a large bundle of
dry reeds, and binding them together so as
to make a sharp point of their ends, placed
the bride-eleeb on it, and piloted it, point
forward, over the river, She lions
about this time were very numerous,
and it wee a 'common matter for those
who were too old bo earth game to eat
people every day until they got quite used
to ib, and proferred human to game flesh.
Oh 1 I will never forget that first night,
We had to sleep in a bleak, miserable spot,
and had chopped down a foto bushes with
Maktes's (one of my companions) axe and
made a soreen f r the girl, and than made
A flee to windward of the eoreen ; and hasp
ing set an ant heap alight on either side, we
all lay down to sleep.
"It was pitoh dark. ' ' ' I fell asleep,
' ' ' I awoke with a terrible feeling.
The water was flowing all around ne, a
dark bank of thick clouds which, ae the
sun set, we had seen to northwestward had
rolled down upon us and buret over our
heads, The lightning was blazing and
blinding—broad and quivering ribbonlike
streams of ib claimed bluely on every side,
and the bellowing thunder crashed as if it
were going to kill the earth, We were too
frightened to speak, or oven to get up oub
cf the water, when suddenly, the dog that
was with uo howled and yelped and tore au
hard ea he could right over us, and the
next inotanb, with a terrible roar, almoeb
like the thunder iteelf, a huge llon eprarg
upon us and bit Makrza,
' Friends, 1 shall never, never forget the
dull, eorunohiug quash that the brute'e teeth
made on poor Makuza's bocce, We struck
wildly at him with sticks of the dead fire,
and saw by the blaze of the lightning that he
was a male lion of the largo blaok•maned
species, Bub, my people, 10 was all over in
a moment, and the groat Watt leaped off
with our friend in his huge jaws, while an.
other viviC flash of lightning blinded us
again, and another oreeking clap of thunder
seemed to deafen, stun and deprive us of all
action,
1' At lash the miserable day dawned, and
we had to go on, as the girl wouldn't be left
alone, and we were afraid to take her with
uo to look for what was left of poor Malmo o
inexeneelineetherdegiverelellentietefeeneleileeWeinefeareedieetareseer
body, because the lion might take her alae
and then our (thief would kill me However,
It was n0Imo looking for our lost oolnpenion,
especially as after the lieu had done with
him the hytnao, jaokulo, wild doge, &).,
would fall upon all that WAS left, After we
got some dietant' from the spot, and the
sun wee up and hot, we looked back and
could see the vultures circling overhead
about the piece where we had slept, and
over and anon drooping their long lege and
oltwa, and swooping down to the ground,
and wo only know too well whab thab meant.
Alae 1 it was a miserable time that—those
two awful days in Baeutolend ; and I the
only one that was to return 1"
Ae the old Kafir was relating this story,
with all the over glowieg eloquence and
otroug graphic powers of oratory posooeeod
by there people, I soy, to an eminent and
singular degree, it was moat interesting to
watch the fuosa of his mute and immovable
auditore as is the Kafir hut the fiiokeriog
fire light danoed upon their swarthy and
eorapt features. Not to sound could be
heard, except every now and then a deep,
cheat intoned "Ough l" whioh spoke elm
quontly of the oonoontratod attention paid
to the tale of the narrator,
" Yee, people of my father," resumed old
Marweni, " the next day I The wooed day
in Basutoland wee even more terrible, if
possible, We had not gone far when the
girl, pointing to something running down
the steep aide of a great mountain we were
walking past, said 'What's that?' We
looked up, and I immediately reoognized,
from the wild look, the head -long speed,
and the long, upright, uncut hair, the fear-
ful ' Telma' or human body eater.' I
quickly told the girl it was all righo, and
not to be afraid, and told my companion,
Sondoda, to stand by and we'd kill hint, as
he was only one. Bub alas I Sondoda was
young, and the shocking stories he had
heard about the Arnazimu had now, when
he was actually lookiug ab one of the demons
of his nursery tales, utterly paralyzed him,
so that he was almost powerless, while the
strange being ran shouting down the hill.
" However, I engaged him myself. Bub it
was all to no purpose, I meet out the story
short. Ib sickens me. With a wild yell,
seven or eight more cannibals burst over a
little rise to our left and were on us like
lightning just as I struck my opponent down
with my battle-axe. I now reoeived a stun-
ning blow on the head, and instinctively ran,
The cannibals left me and busied themselves
binding the,girl and Son doda,who, however,
so far regained himself as to strike a feel
blows to wound one fiend with hie assegai,
Just as I pot to an ono bear hole in the long
grass I looked back, and seeing the Am, el.
mus atilt securing whab they doubtless
thought their birds in the hand, I popped
down into the hole and drew down aftor me
on to my head, the earth, grass and twigs
that the ant bear had cast out. The can.
oibals came after me and looked for mo a
while, bub not seeing me, seemed to think
that they had enough for their larder, and
returned to their victims.
"After some time, as I beard them busily
engaged, I ventured to pop my head care-
fully out of the hole, I could see nothing at
first, but gently dividing the grass with my
hands, saw the brutes making a fire, while a
ghastly -looking old hag appeared on the
eoene with a large,roughlymade earthenware
pot. I now found I was badly wounded by
one of their broad•cutting assegais, and had
my head nearly eplib open. Why ray any-
thing more ?I saw them stab the girl and
Sondoda, and seem still to hear the dull thud
of the assegai an their bodies, and their
thrillingly mournful shrieks, bat what could
I do ?—half stunned and badly wounded—
and one to eight, I saw them sub my dear
friend up, roast the shin bones first—eat the
meat off them, and crank the bones for the
morrow. I eat entranced, quite forgetting I
was showing my head—* * * They boil
ed the root. * * * I can't tell any more.
* * * The night now falling, I orept
out of the hole and ran steadily towards
Natal for my life. The good spirit of my
dead father, I suppose, kept the lions off me.
I never saw the dog after the lion hod killed
Mamba. I gob home the next night—half in
a dream—aiok at heart, miserableandmolan.
choly, I told my sad We to the ohief andin-
denae assembled, The dog was at home."
Royal Correspondence.
Since Canadian children are all kings and
queens, it is only natural to suppose that
they will be interested in the correspondence
between the Princess Wilhelmina, who is
likely soon to be Queen of the Netherlands,
—notwithstanding the surprising recovery
of her father, the king, from what was ex•
peoted to be permanent insanity,—and the
infant King of Spain.
The prinoess, who le in her ninth year,
has always been delighted to hear all that
her mother, Queen Emma, could tell her
about the baby King of Spain, A day or
two before het last birthday, entirely of her
own a000rd, ahe eat down and wro to
her cousin—all kings and queens are
cousins—a letter, in which, after giving him
o list of her principal treasures, inoluding
her favorite big doll Pauline and hor pet
pony, she went on to tell him that some day
she would baa Queen, though she did not
want to bo one, one bit,
She added that oho supposed little kings
liked toys as well as other little boys, and if
her mamma would allow hor, ahe would
Bond him the biggest Noah's Ark she had
dean,—whioh had in it every animal in the
Zoological Gardeneat Rotterdam, and others
besides,
Both the letter and the Noah's Ark were
send to Madrid, and in due time the Prin.
ecru Wilhelmina received from the King of
Spain a charming little answer, written, of
oouree,by his devoted mother.
Knew His Own
The dog is as far as possible from being a
socialist. It would be idle to tell him that
everything belongs to everybody. Some
things, he believes, belong to tie maater, and
he show% him faith by his works.
A gentleman and his wife from Franklin
La., wishing to attend the Methodimb Confer -
nee in New Orleansand unwilling to leave
their pet dog and chickens to the uncertain
care of servants, removed them for aefeby o
the home of a relative in a town near by
After a week in New Orleans, they return-
ed home, and on their way atopped for their
elite, The dog, Jeb, as soon ae his firth
expreeoiono of welcome were over, ran to the
barnyard, separated his master's ohiokene
from the others, drove them to a corner,
where he stood guard over them until all
were planed In the carriage to be taken
home,— (Detroit News.
Young writers should remember that sr.
Holm for newspapers are not like trees. Ib
does not kill them to out them down. On
the contrary, many articles are killed by lazy
editors because it is too touch trouble to out
them down,
"You wish to marry one of my daughters,
The youngest will gob 15,000 marks, the
aeoond 30,000 and the oldest 45,000." "You
don't happen to have ono still older''?—
C
G'liog ende Blotter.
YOUNG FOLKS.
ABOUT JAOK,
nr w'10. 01,0u0 arm,
To begin with, we wore getting ready to
go to the seashore for a month. Arrange•
mote had boon made for the whole fancily,
bobbing Grandma and Dm, 11,11 is our
dog, he coed to belong to Robert, and Grend-
nta—but Grandam is, of oourae, j'oat Grand-
ma, It ion's easy for us to got Wall together.
There are ao many of us, end wo coma so
close together—" so unexpectedly close,"
Fethor says, sotnetimeo when ho'o worried,
Grandma says there's always a good side to
everything, and our alotbeo all do with-
out oven being made over ; and then there
are no twine, which wo don't think a good
aide at all, for Reward and I have alwaye
been diasppointed that we worou'b twine—
lie blamee one baaause I was born too noon
but I say it is hie fault for not being born
soon enough, And as for ourolothoa—welll
there's no use talking about them ; but if
you had to wear a drone your older sister
wore last year, and had to he careful to
leave though of it for the one next to you,
you would know bow dreadful it is, Grand-
ma always did see a good side to everything
tho.
At last we had found a boarding house
that would bake ohildren, including babies,
give Grandma a room fronting the south,
with a window on the east ; and the prices
were as low, Father said, as could be ex-
peoted "by a than with seven children all of
the same ags.'' father is always teasing
and making fun about us, yet ho esome all
the fonder of us for it, Indeed. he hasn't
yet gotten used to Rob's being gone, rho
Mother never leaves the room now when we
talk of him, and has taught us nob to wish
him book again.
This did seem a very nine sorb of a board-
ing•houso. They didn't have mot quitoes,
Father said: "Oh, no, boarding-boueee
never do I" and ib was only ten minutes
walk from a good bathing beach. Graudma
was afraid some of us would bo drowned,
Tom and Ethel were wild over the wrecke
that .would be washed up, and Jack saved
two weeks' pin money to buy a shovel ; with
whioh, he confided to me, after making me
ones my hoarb I'd keep it !worst, he was
going to dig after Captain Kidd's treasure.
We had a busy time getting reedy,
Mother said ab the beginning it was no use
thinking of getting bathing suite for us all ;
we would get four, and half of us could go
in one day and half the next ; and Grandma
saw the good in it right away, and said ft
"wasn't healthy" to go into the salt water
too often,
Besides, we had a few new clothes to
gab, and there were buttons, and buttons,
and buttons to be sewed on, There were
hats to be fixed up and bought, the silver
(wedding presents, all of ib, except Jack's
mug and bow 1, for he was named after a
doh relative, the only one we've got) to be
put away, and finally Bridget to be gotten
off. Mother said it hardly seemed as if it
would pay, sometimes, she did get ao tired
and worried ; and I didn't blame her, ec-
peoially over Bridget. You see Bridget was
determined to go with us, and then to stay
and look after the house. Ib was very hard
to persuade her to go and stay with her
sister et Gsrrioon's, but finally Father did,
Then, one day late in the afternoon, the
train landed all of us inBsyport, very dusty
and very tired, and Father pretty worried.
We had left Dan the last place we changed
Dara, and Jack had wept moab of the time
since because the engine wouldn't turn
round and go bank after him. Jaok is so
funny and you oan'breaoon with him,
When we gob to boarding-house, we found
the landlady had only expected six children,
instead of seven ; but she promleed to put up
a oot in one, of the rooms and make it all
right, As we wont up the steps a lady on
the piazza said : " Good gracious, look at
the children 1" which made Father laugh
and Jaok, who heard her, turned around
and said in his sweet way : " There aro
seven of us, whioh ie not counting Rob ; but
there are no twins." He knew how diva;.
pointed Howard and I were.
The rooms did very wall ; clary wont in
with Grandma, and 1 had the younger ohild-
ren in charge in the ono next. The boys
were near Father and Mother upstairs. I
always have charge of the younger ones.
They call me "Sister," though Mary is older
than I ; but Mary is pretty and I am not (I
have red hair and a very bad nose), and she
playa the piano. I never could play any-
thing bub scales, and even then I omni quite
manage my thumbs. Mary has gentlemen
callers, too, but I always liked to be about
the house and help Mother. I suppose that's
the reason they coma to me—ae they did
when it happened, For something did
happen, and of course it was Jaok. When
anything happens I always know f0 is Jack.
Why, when people ask about us, they al-
ways say; "How Jaok and the reseed the
children ?"—and it was the same way Ohio
time.
We were at the breakfast table the first
morning, and the landlady said : "I thought
there were seven ohildren, hire. Edgeworth,
but there are only five here." I supposed
there were six down, all except Maly, whom
eve never waited for. L had left her up•
stairs when I came down, doing her hair,
and it takee her a long time. Sometimes I
stn glad I've gob red hair—dear Mother
oalls it auburn ; but I might as well own up
ib Isbell honest red, because it doesn't seem
to make any difference how you "do it," and
so I had hair like Mary's I suppose I'd take
just as long as she in the morning, rho I
hope not. Bub besides Mary's not being
down, Jaok was not there. Fabher rent
him up•stefrs, and he Dame break quite
frightened, and said Jack's oot hadn't
been elopb in. The boys didn't notice last
night he was not there, or if Choy did they
must have supposed him in one of the other
roumo, on account of the landlady's mistake.
Mother said he acme in and kissed her good.
night, and got hie shovel out of the trunk at
about eight o'olook. Righb away I had a
auspioion—he had gone down to the beach
for that Kidd treasure ; but why hadn't he
oome beak 9 Jusb then Mary awe into the
r,om, She had her hair done up high to
wear with her new elude hat; and had a
veil to put over her oomplexion. She said
she found !hie note pinned on my door as
she passed, 1 hadn't noticed it, It was fro.n
Jaok. t road it aloud :
" Dere Margy I me gond to hunt for Kap-
tin Kid'e trezuro by munelite. Ib'o the best
tim his epirub is sed be haver over the place
I shall konjeal myself in that bete on the
shore and keep my oyea open don't) forget
yore ooh to keep mum, I than be tom for
brekfast, Jack."
Wo all laughed and telt Meier ; of oourae
he hod overslept in the boat. Futhor and
Tom had already etarted for the beeot and
they would find him. Mary was ao nervous
she couldn't oat any breakfast, and she and
Mother went to meet Father, while 2 took
Grandma's breakfast up to her. I had got.
ten all my thinge unpacked, and mob et
Mary's, when Tom burst into my room, and
acid right out : " Margy go to Mother i
taok'a drowned."
Z just fell right' down, with my head in the
trunk, I felt as if I had died, or was going
JULY, 19, 18Sta
to, and 1 should have been very weak and
ae Yeti if Ole lid of the trunk hadn't fallen on
me, whioh made me gob up and remember
Mather,
Sho was in her room by the window,
Liming the sea, and in her lap was Jaek'e hob
all wet and draggled. She did not stir, eho
did not look at no, but sat there like the
women in that poem, "Tarso &there want
sailing out into the Went." I couldn'tspeak
to her than. 1 ran out and ought Tom by
the oro, in the hall, and method hien
hard, and cried: "Tell me, tell me," He
said, the tide had been unusually
high, and the boat had not been
neatened, and—well—the bomb wee gone,
and bloat was all there was to tell, except
that the hat had been picked up eomewhare
onthe bomb, Tomo volae was veryehoky,
but he didn't ory ; he drinks ft isn't manly.
I don't nee why, when there's such trouble.
I told Tom not to tell Grandma yet, and
then I wont baok be Mother. Sho Still sob
by the window, with her oyes wide open
Wing the sea. Somehow or other I wanted
her to cry, I sat down ab her fent with my
head against her knees and oriod myself, I
oouldn't keep in any longer, and she put her
hand on my head—right on the rod hair—
bub bltab waa aft.
Atter a while I commenced to think. I
didn't believe ho was drowned, after all.
Tho boat had just fleeted off, and ib would
Il cab back or be brought book by a steamer
or something. I was sure of ib. And so I
commenced to talk, and told Mother Itow
many ways there were to Save him and how
foolish it was to believe he was drowned
yet, The hat didn't mean anything; and
by and by I managed to get that away from
her and hid it under the chair. It waen'b
like mother to give way so ; but I suppose
oho was worn cub with getting ready to go
away, and that twee why.
Anyway, ab last sheepoko to me, called
me ' her daughter" (now, I love that ; ahe
never ovals Mary anything bub Mary), and
elle Dried a little, too, and said she felt
better. I often wonder why a good ary
makes you fool better, espeoially if you've
been unchristian and spiteful. And there
we eat together at the window, looking out.
Two boats, she said, had gone out,
Father in ono of them, Wo set there
whole hours, Mother and I, and I never
was so sad and so happy at the same tiro
in my life, I pretended be was surely
Doming bank, and before long. Every
time I spoke of him I said, " When he
eomeo back "; and Mother helped and did
the same way, till by and by I felt as if
ho really were, and Mother too, for elle
commenced to wonder if she ought to
punish him. Sbo d cin b see how she
could, and I said I didn 1 think she ought,
for ib Inver did any ; ri arvwny; and now
just after being drowned—and I laughed
and said perhnpa he'd oomo home with a
treasure, and just then Mother started and
leaned out of the window.
"Mangy," she screamed, "look I" She
stood up, but she trembled so she bed to
hold on to me and there, sure enough, com-
ing from the beach, was Jaok, Father on
one aide of him, a fisherman on the other,
and the boys running all aboub him, Don
had turned up too, and was walking solemn-
ly behind. Mother ran down the stairs and
I after her, only abopping to tell Mary to
come, and why.
"This good fisherman has found our
Kid,"' shouted Father.
"Bub wo ain't found no treasure," said
fisherman, as they came neat. Bub Jaok
screamed, as Mother hugged him tight In
her arms : "Yes, you have, because I'm
Mother's little treasure.'"
No one could have panished him after
that; and he had been punished enough
anyway, tor he had waked up and fount
himself off on the water in the boat. He
had gotten in when it was way up on the
beach, and was so tired he forgot to keep
his eyes open, He said he forgot all about
the treasure when he was oub on the ocean,
and he didn't believe he would ever hunb for
it again, the waves were so very big, and
made him feel so much 'littler' than ever.
'But, there," he didn'b dare think of Father
and Mother and Slater and the others. Ho
just knelt down 10 the boat and said "Now
I lay me" over and over and over again. Re
didn't want to go to sleep of oourae ; but 10
was the only prayer he could think of,
The fisherman bad found him among the
!koaba by the second beach,
Jaok kept near Mother all the day ; ho
seemed to realize how dreadfully he had
made her feel, And that night Howard and
1, Doming from a walk on the beech, heard
Mother singing the same sweet songs she
sang to all the ohildren when we were babies;
and looking up, by the moonlight, we saw
hor with Jack in the big their by the win.
dow, his two armeabout her nook.
Always a River to erste.
There la always a.river to cross ;
Always an effort to make
11 there's anything good to win,
Any rich prize to take.
Yonder's the fruit we crave,
Yonder the charming eoene ;
But deep and wide, with a troubled tide,
Is the river that lies between.
For the treasures of prooious worth
We must patiently dig and dive ;
For the' places we long to fill
We must push and struggle and strive,
And always and everywhere .
We'll find, on our onward course,
Thorne for the feet and trials to meet
And a (Weide a river to Dross.
For the rougher the way that we take,
The stouter the heart, and the nerve ;
The stones in our path we break, eel
Nor e'er from our impulse swerve,
For the glory we hope to win
Our labors we aounbno loss;
'Tis folly to pause and murmur because
Of the river we have to cross:
So, ready to do and to dare,
Should we in our planes attend,
Fulflling the master's will,
Fulfilling the soul's demand ;
For though as the mountain high
The billows may war and toes,
They'll not overwhelm if the Lord's ab the
helm
When the ditfioult river we arose,
solid OF 0110 hrusQVITo,
Some go to the mountains,
And some to the 500,
And some stay at home
'Noabh their own fig tree 1
And I'm a mooquite,
So happy and free,
With nothing to dot
But 00 do them all throe—
And 2'11 got there,
You see 1
—.oe :ees
Lot us nob be too prodigal when we are
young or too paroimonloue when we aro old,
otherwise we shall fall into the common
error of those who, when they had the power
to enjoy, had nob the protium to acquire,
and, when the: had the den
Y p ruoe to acquire,
had no longer the power bo enjoy,