The herald-advance., November 21, 1890, Image 7

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f, courttn' when
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•I y.
w a w i
,. li i n an*
...in', 1 let the
..is go by
ii I was buyin'
:i buildm'-- and
ni work never
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i
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ilt
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fS twa
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jjftpf lOtik.Q *llld
ton* Mont.
Icacor.s ...
lM'«
hereabout.
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tell do.
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msy as si tx
invrkit! i*'1
cr me'
mthat
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know much 'bout a i
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ill liked hnfi, ye »"..
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s»ie up 11 1
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litnethat -u
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11
rj»ui'l.m i i,'
••-nuin't
!'fy
j'int i
1- ru-t•,! tl,
Wi'i'niiij along troin uiocl.n'
^yetnsjy
relum't iso otij'ct ion*.
ThunksjjiviH' aav-
CY
WASTKYIN"
a
«d
i
y br
'T
TO KIND THK IIEST OSES..
BMn'lln
lool:e(1
at
me, smilin' an' blusliin",
ne«t
swc.t
lll"'w
for a
4lnr,.,V'
ef I stood on my
"•or inv fivtu
I'tit!,'"?" 'east ohioctkui," sez she, as
utherVu "le
lo*loP'
sho 8ez
only: "It's
1"„f'sUf,,ht
uu 1
Jacob, but he'd kinder
"Wtl 01H
•WtrtJu,,
tt of a wa
u'»t
niftlit.
ddin' as I went along
'ny
,10use
all ready, an' spoke to
thei,^ moroin' I started to hev
c«n"i
t.ini
HUME AiLMUiiiii.s.
What a Tha ik ffivin# Ro^ D'L
Joun W uiania.
W ui'..
w ho
sue
i
boy
WOP
fee
to*
WAS tho nifrht
fore Thanks
Kiving day. and
t: 3 clocks in the
i I'igli borhood
v,iro striking nie
urof inidni£ht
i-.Io!in Williams
turned tho k«»y
in tlie look of t!m
door of his room
n' a fasliifm.iMe
ti te 1 in .\'W
.irk City.
His hand wa
u iitlle unsti'».l\.
t: Mm a little sup
rh iui-l
for bo ii.nl 11t I'limi- t:
per after the opera wsi
in company with a i ,t
ati'-es and friends.
i 'l'o bis irreat surjiriso,
tlie door be stumbled
wooden box that nearly blocked up tlie
doorway. Crowding past it through ti."
door lie made his way into the roon.
lit tlie gas and dragged in tho box. lib
name in plain black letters caught
his eye at mice. ami. marveling greatly
as to its contents, he looked nlx»|i t.itn
for means to open the bo:-
as ho
0)iened
over a
As he took off the oi
sjiii'y odor ditTused itst lr
room, and a little note v
on tlie heavy paper tlia' .rely bid
from view tl .'cnts beiow. lie to-.
open the n- :'id read read easj v
i enough, for :S' old-fashioned criara
i ters were is plum as i: nr. a! :.• ,r«.
the hand that, had w r- 1
i trembled not, a litt v. n/
"Mi- I»EAH SON In
few things from hotn I:
I .lithn that you have
i Thanltsiflvnc diiincr i\
4*,i -1
I
STP-
ii
ir«i-
v
golden-br
lion, who
posed of:
ing and
this
o i e
mot!
prist
pres.
rubb
•ST
and as
-iE-ii«.
Turning again to the box, be brought
out doughnuts, such as no one but
mother ever can or ever does make
cookies, delicate and tender and then
great slices of yellow pound cake, and
fruit cake whose dark sides were a store
of delight for the one so fortunate as to
tasie them. Three little glass jars of
fruit preserves, whose transparent sides
revealed the beauty and richness of
their delicious contents, as they were
caret'i1*v unwrapped, came out next.
Then.'from out its many wrappers,
the young man drew a glass of quiver
ing, amber quince jelly, with its won-
drously
a ii,' to the deacon's—I was walk
""'IlK unite spry,
iv sundry fceit, of course—a
dasliiu* tfi
"Seed
«t'h frltn
'ft.
sto
P* an' sez: "Allow me to interuuee
itavt!!r *',e ""I my of courtship
'"u wrong,
M"ee
»team
nZT'T""*'
U be t?UK*S
You see, 1
of jacob, an' takin' him alon?.
'inly be better fer ploughlu" an' hay-
e0urf*'1'—why,
delicate color and flavor.
John's favorite dainty! A mother
never forgets the tastes of her children
and though he would never know
bis mother could have
history,
few
a r.iugle
T. Corbett, in Harper's Magazine.
•wn in the hip
!'-d traUi'Ti-d
-in company
•. Joil.
IM-
pink and while hlossoi
lt
en ivin
1
.* A
Sweeter and dearer
and memories of hon
fresh air of his
.. .»"i I
i V.-3 ?i2J In'.",
/1
n si at e uf absol u
internal structure
el ig u
1 com poti n
iced
ider
the
sur-
n t:|fi tabo- v-ry
rose in his he.,rt
bird on i
•iits arose
i•-' o o that
for iii.m. A
ryes glowed
s In
lanned this
jar of cranberry
trlistene.l like
v. .mvr.ip' i
tie turke\
si-.it forth st .-'i
i waslif',
,,t. indeed," br! a
einio nig, Wit:, a
t,. licit in oni
..i.rse. nextca-ne
ie.i.,: y of a pi-1 ,!
ligb: as i v.
and placed by tie
And what was tin t:.at --,•
juicy, appetizing o i s ,r.
up into the lijht'.' W
•tn.inc» pie. rich i*:ii temp
crust tlia! was ready to ti.
mouth And n«-n. of cour-i
out a puili(.ikill Ie- .1 iie.il,
was, too. with its i golden
riuinded by the b":1 b*r of wli.I
like a jolly old woman in a cap.
on
As John W i!liarns placed tie
the table he fell to thinking I.
fully his mother used to elm
pumpkins for the Thanksgiving pies.
Through the hot. sco-ching da s of sum
mer, and the dewy nights and frosts of
autumn, the great yellow globes grew
and ripened, and drank in the sun
shine and the dew. and when the.v were
gathered in, the whole family looked
on while tlie mother chose the biggest
and the ripest pumpkin of ail for the
pies that graced tho crowning feast of
the year.
ire
e
overs
our he
r')ar
h.
rI
'ernul-i
K'
autuint
nutting frolics with tlie
oi
n
onif
eat
tlie
biff
t.
panions of his childhood, and
evenings around the hearth^*
inff ajipies and eraeking nuts, wt.ile
circle that sat in the light of the
wood fire sometimes widened until all
the older brothers and sisters and their
little ones sat with them, and acain
narrowed down to three -the dear old
mother with her knitting on ••:..
and tlie father with his new
the other, and he himself, a
Oi a low stool between the .,
I nuts and looking into the bin
bers, and dreaming of ,...
ti' should bo grown ,t.. s s
i' ave that hearthstone
in 'If wide wo-M b.*uud
l''1"' !as*
he rea •*.- i :-ui
tin-. »»!ILI" !•., !KX an i ,_'IR
ott apples from the old orchard. There
were several of each variety that grew
on the place, and. yellow and green and
re*I, fragrant an 1 m*.- .! ight
'.i'-smile of spr.n„'. •-v. !--.ath
"f summer and \of
autumn in their golden hearts. With
i them came the vision of the old orchard
in the spting-tinie, with its wealth of
ivenng
M'ees
and sh
ipreen grass beneath
i fairy snow: crreen and
bright with golden pro'
pleasure through the Ii
and then in autumn,
i :is gay as a
i' in brighl-co^
a i i tb" wind a
that
nd
!IiiUnsj4
s little
I chop]
tT.-. Ill ,'IV
n-n and i a
Ti.es, and I
u:ieeasin_r intere.:
ik .ng ot the ,i:
i, try skill that i
en 'hat happv
*.he tho
*i!. like
bills.
•arly tl.
lit ell
v of w i
/ors
ing.
had
had ih•
Hlg fe
with ti:
o had I:-.
had tlo'
:iat app
promotion
111
•ss-
:Trcat ri,
any te.
iin. bin
i ucreas.
and
sa a"v had come intimacy with tin- son
o' .s .• nployors and acquaintance wMii
ends. He had naturall.v a ta-.t"
•i)i-i ad-Miration for the refined ".b
res tnat lie in the power of thov w
nave wealth and leisure, and was a'.*
igraiify his intellectual and s,
ist-'S with his new set of friends, but.
i.iscinated and dazy.lod by their wa .s
ami doings, he became impatienl u,*:.
his lot. lie despised things that useti
to content, him. and strove to find means
to add to his salary, and in his feverish
thirst for greater gain.and in eompanion
sliip of his ne w friends, he had crowded
down, down into a very small corner of
his heart the duty and affection tha'
were due to the old folks at home.
Stronger and clearer grew the vis.oii*
of home, until in fancy he couid see the
old homo as it would be on the morrow
couid see the dinner-table with its load
of good things, surrounded by the fam
ily and friends, and could hear one
another ask in surprise: "Why. whero's
John?'1 lie could see the tear trem
bling ir. his mother's eye as she
answered: "He was to- busy to come
home this year,"
"Too busy io go home
its
told
and
quite a story of the infinite pains a
trouble she had taken to get that jelly
for his home-coming at Thanksgiving.
The quince crop had been a failure that
year, but she had succeeded in procur
ing a
gnarled little quinces, and.
by tho utmost caro and patience, had
made from them that one glass of jelly
for John.
lie nearly overlooked a paper bag
crammed with nuts-nuts from tho old
1(
-. inten i an I tho
return 1 nor to
joII"11F
of his preparations, bovt
...lit of the eatables on U.8
'Ilder feelings
"'•". •1 .. .n desj- ».:• i•• a
'e i .) their a
w.i- t'ie ptace to senu uis
1
il" repacked the box
K
:—. picturing1 to liim
it with which r-
sic-.. would greet r...-*.
•ii' i
I-
a
I I
i i e a o e 1
i). :. He then 1 '.. *i
i, eparations, l.-t*
directio* It i m-11 :i :i-c
box. and w..- s,.,, 1)11 j.» V til v.i"
depot.
And the liox went to a narrow street
and up fowrfl:glits of stairs to a small.
b.u-k room, and made two y o u n e o w s
s.j hatn-v tlia' *. ,.-y e.»u"l in vo Othar
mm
if"
Pi
1! dark
njuseu
odors
i Mi HIM AT Till.
The
W i 1 i i a
along
the lit".
tbruUj.'
is bad
for
Thanksgiv­
ing?" What, evil spirit, w hat foul fiend
had prompted him to pen that message
to grieve the dear old father s heart &ad
bring a tear to those patient, loving
mother eyes? Too busy? And the
true self of John Williams ros» up in its
manhood and truth, and be said: "I told
niv mother a paltry lie! What are my
engagements for to-morrow with Mor
ton and the rest of the boys compared
to a visit home! I did not care to go,
hardened young fool that 1 am! This
box has been more to me to-night than
mother ever dreamed it would be. It
I' has been the means of recalling mo
to myself, and showing me how foolish
and selfish and unprincipled I have
been." and a flush of shame came over
his face as he thought of his follies.
Pulling out his watch, he scanned its
face eagerly, and exclaimed: "1 can
catch the early morning train and get
home in tiino to eat dinner with the
folks, and surprise them all. I am go
ing home." It did not take very long
to vvrito a note excusing himself from
his engagement with his friend Morton
for the next dav. nor to write to hi: em-
the gr
Then the light fill meal
ntil late in the day. and tho
evening around the hearthstone,
night John Williams slept once
he little, low-roofed chamber
in
of his
ambit,
innoc
oil and as I. allied the
.nd hopes of mire and
.nth came bu to him and
ver after, and though
.. il visions and 1 also
i". o-is might assail him,
i.te-d power over him
i tie care and responsioil
business life he often
A
night
thankfulness to the
i\as sa\ecl from a downward
i. s
II
.other's Thanksgiving
a M. obb. iii Christian
IliuiKcr in Wind Inst rumeula.
A French military surgeon has been
i'. 'ig researches on wind instruments
which had been used by phthisical
bandmen. and warns musicians of tho
importance of disinfection. He rec
ommends that instruments should be
i::led with a iive-per-cent. solution of
carbolic acid, or. in the case of metallic
instruments, that they should IK* dipped
into boiling water. These precautions
are of tho utmost importance when
phthi-i• tpersons have used the in
struments. for it was found in such
cases that liquids used to wash them
out present.-.! a virulent- s.rniiar to
that of a pure culture of i -rculosis.
Fortunately. ,e danger is small as
long as tho interior is thoroughly
moist, which, of course, .* .,- tally is*
but when an instrument i.us been lying
by for some time, so that the interior
has In on... dry. there is real danger
air containing dried germs of the dis
ease being- drawn into the lungs of tho
person who next, plays upon it. N. Y.
Ledger.
Ifo%v to Make Home I.ile
Find your chief pleasure at home. It
is unfortunate when it is otherwise. If
the husband spend the most of his
nights away from home, of choice, and
not of necessity, he is not. the bead of
household he is only the cashier. If
the wife throw the cares of the house
hold into the servant's lap, and then
stiend five nights of the week at, tho
opera or theater, she may clothe her
children with satins and la.res and rily
bons that would confound a French
milliner, but they are orphans, it is
sad when a child has no one to say
its prayers to because mother has gone
off to the evening entertainment! In
India they bring children ar.d throw
them to the crocodiles, and it seems
very cruel but the jaws of New ^ork
and Brooklyn dissipation arc swallow
ing down more little children to-day
than all the monsters that ever crawled
upon the banks of the Ganges!—'1 al«
mage, in N. Y. Observer.
—Druggist-—"Did you say you wanted
camphor?" Small Hoy (trying to b»
fn ny)—"That's what I camphor
i iggist (to assistant i —'T'ut him n
io drawer. lie won't keep through
11 summer."
FULL OF
A.tv
that tilled
his heart forbade his leav •,/ cm ta
an uncertain fate. He hast ,-i ovr
•s tv, ,L.. if hj
bih list of aequaintani
coubl think of any
would be an acceptab
he retnemtiered two u
dents rooming a few
whose acquaintance he hud made sumo
weeks since, and as he recalb-1 the ac»
ounts tliey had given him .. i". he in
enuotisness of youth, of the." fgrin*
•, ""t|
1
whom tiiey
At length
medical stu-
sijuares awa1-'.
f'"e
cliea" ,- i-,-
st with
"e I tho
thibgs
,ed on
id beet
1
and as his iu
n step upon tl
him at the do
•n there was
.ither, the re
and old.
i i
i i t-
i u e i n i
w a e w i
i i n a n 1
About as tight a plaen as I evwr
into, n:iid a •'oiDsto,,k mi-ier, was some
years ago at the old [-jinpiro Shaft. (Jobl
Hill. Mvself and another man went
down in tlio shaft for the purpose of
trimming it up. as the swelling g-rroimi
was squeezing in the sides ,i-i I i: a
good deal out of shape.
We were not on a cage, but .-iiiipiy on
a platform uf planks, with ropes going
up f\ the corners to the main cable,
which was of hemp. When wo reached
a tight place in tho shaft we stopped
and trimmed out the guides, then went
on till another such place was reached.
At one point, having given the signal
to lower, we went down so
mo distance,
when we finally stuck. We reached
for tVi•
1
Down upon us came the heavy cabb
We feared every moment that the pbr
form would turn vi «r would bo
pre-i«ed through *.,•• .! p'.aco and
drop from under us.
Ml we could do was to get bold of the
cable and keep the coils of it under our
feet as it came down. Should the plat
form turn over or drop ." ior us
we might be ahlo to sa'-e .-,.r i\es by
banning on to the cable.
We shouted up the shaft till wo were
hoarse, but no one heard our cries, and
steadily d'*wn erum* th* e-ihlo, causing
lis great tli i.'i'.e to keep oil tp Of itS
coils.
Ud li lt ilia the gniw n.ust
soon start the platform, when both
would most likely be hurled to tho bot
tom of tho shaft.
Finally, to our gn .it relief, the cal
ceased to descend. I nr a long time o
waiti 1 hi suspense, not knowing what
woul ic next move of thoso above.
At
lr-1
PERIL. TIME FOR REFORM.
nlurt' in tlie Kmplr
I.oll Mln.
Sluift fine 1 tin-
i rope in order to givt* the
signa.
1
A brief not- \'. *t-
s*..p, but we found that it bad
wound round a nail distance above,
and we could not u Tho engineer
knew nothing of o ublo, and con
tinued to lower away. There was no
station near, and on all sides rose the
smooth walls of the shaft, leaving us
suspended over the horrible chasm.
,'.\pvei*. we heard the voice of
a man iting d".\ t, us tho
near. tion ab e
\V -. kined o i ,s i in
a few words, and at length the great
cabio began so crawl slowly up the shaft
again. Still being afraid the platform
would give way, we were o' 1
keep hold of the rope and da:.
in the coils as they unwound.
It i i tedious busine— a-i.l was all]
-I :.,i- .1 mafer of the of a cent
w e gut on' alive -nt to the
boMom but at last the platform tight
ened up under us, and we began to as
cend. Our work was oven then and wo
felt .'
On .it t: e
S
lamuiar roadway, and
:ovvn farm-house, and ttien
low gateway and along tlie
s
I may have bei-n i:i t: ore ibuu'eroita
pbi''es in the mil.. -. .*.
•o
e joy of meeting
-.Ms an I friends,
I a* the old
at family festival
AJ-
THE BRUNEAU MASK.
IIuimiiK- Way of Mnutrhtprlng Cattle
hy the Trench.
A while ago the barbarous man
ner of slaughtering was renounced in
Paris. The men then employed a deadly
instrument called a "merlin," something
afier the style of a directory cane, and
heavily loaded with lead. With this
they would strike a bullock on the head,
in the place whore tho majority of
horned animals have a star, a single
stroke sufficing to perforate the frontal
bone and fell it to the ground. IJut.it
often happened that the man missed his
blow the animal, scared by the brand
ishing of the merlin, abruptly pulled
back its head, the weapon did not carry,
and the bullock, half killed only, fled
in agony. A butcher sought for and
found means of shortening useless suf
fering. and the apparatus which, from
its name, is called the "masquo
liruneau,'" has been imposed on slaugh
terers by the municipalities of several
largo cities in France, Germany and
Helgium. M. Bruneau masks tho ani
mal in the cow stable, taking care to
fasten the leather strap that is fixed
behind tho ears of a beast in such a man
ner that the plate lies perfectly on the
frontal. Just over the brain this mask
is pierced with a hob- sufficiently large
to permit of a bolt being introduced that
is hardly bigger or longer than one's
forefinger. The slaughter's assistant
puts the animal's head into position by
a chain fastened to the floor then tho
slaughterer places the bolt to the hoio
*jf the mask, and with a single blow with
a heavy mallet be drives it into the
Bkull. The
OK
falls, a boy rushes up.
and into the small hole that tho bolt has
just, pierced, be pushes a long and bloody
ratio, and hardly has it touched tlie spi
nal marrow than tho convulsive move
ment ceases, the animal being killed as
rjuicklv as from a stroke of lightning.
The Bruneau mask is now almost, uni
versally adopted in French abattoirs,
hut there is one category of butchers
who have always been against its adop
tion. These are rabbi adherents to re
ligious ceremonies as old as the prom
ised land. Jewish sacrilieers never knock
bullock down tho auimal is brought
to them with its front uncovered, the
legs are bound, and the animal is thrown
down on its back and raised a little from
tho ground with a windlass in such a
manner that it presents its throat to the
front well extended. Then the slaugh
terer advances he is armed with a point
id knife—these are usually of sacred
Drigin —and is he plunges into the
throat straight to the heart, and the an
imal bleeds to death. —Boston Herald.
—The fruit packers of California will
suffer this year because of their contracts
to deliver dried and canned fruits for
about one-half the ruling rates. One
largo package firm will lose about 850,
000 on prunes alone, while several
smaller ones will probably go under.
•'My husband is a great inventor,"
said one woman to another, "I hadn't
heard of it." "Yes: I believe he can in
vent more different kinds of excuses
than any other man. alive."--Washing
ton Post*
M««t i u v i v e Dutlei of tb*
A n i u a n
Tliere was a time, a few generations
ago. when both the formative and th«
conservative influence of the English
tongue were exerted almost exclusively
by tho few literary leaders of the time.
If Addison admitted to his exquisite
manuscript any word, that word was at
onco ennobled and so in the coffee
bouses of old London, the process of
language making went on, both through
the medium of conversation and that of
formal literary work. Tho reading
class was at that time a limited ono. It
was so rare as to be almost sensational
to tlnd a homely worker in his shop fol
lowin tho thoughts and expressions of
the intellectual leaders of the day and
the little guild of l.terary workers who
wore so sadly patronized by tho rich and
noble, really determined tho English
which their patrons spoke. It was
possible for Pope to legitimatize a
bastard word or for Johnson to render
current, an outer expresion but it was
scarcely possible for the slang of tho
many to percolate through the social
s-rata far enou_rh to corrupt tho lan
i age of the few.
Nowadays this is nil changed. The
functions once held by these great lit
erary leaders has passed to the news
papers. It has the greatest power for
evil and the greatest power for good in
this as in other respects. Let some man
use a striking word of his own coinage,
it needs only the influence of the press
to add that word to the popular currency
of tho tongue, and ten years hence we
shall find it in tfte dictionaries. Of
course, a language must bo enriched or
it will die, and, of course, new con
ditions demand new words, but it is
none tho less true that this process of
accretion goes on too fast, and that
there is too little regard for the tradi
tions and the dignity of the grand old
tongue which we all speak and which is
i.-iw becoming dominant.
Is it not time that the press of tlie
baited States set its face in favor of
the reform of newspaper English? This
should not bo done with any pedantry or
with any assumption of infallibility,
but rather wit a desire to weed out tho
flimsv pretensions of flimsy writers, who
are themselves inspired by the argot of
the lower populace. Why. for example,
may we not call a barber a harbor rather
than atonsorial artist? Why is not a corn
ictor a corn doctor or a horse doctor a
,irse doc ior, just as much when one is
called a chiropodist and the other a
I veterinary surgeon? Why, too, is it
permitted to every mountebank who
i rides a
bicycle,
..:-?a-e w ind
that e i .- a e hat
we were going too far, and baiting, or
stopping, his engine, had sent a man
dow n to the station to find out if any
thing had gone w r-ii.-.
in .. a
lace where the danger lasted «o long.
It
ascends in a balloon or
gives sparring lessons to call himself a
professor? The bad application of a
good word destroys its original useful
ness and gives it a brand of meretric
iousness which can never bo effaced.—
Free Press.
THE TALKING FLY.
All Insect That SlnkM fiain« of Kwy
One It
Not ..nee, but a half-do/.en times has
this comical-looking fiy made game of
me in my walks. It needs only a single
and all the time up to fever heat. specimen tosee mat some
was too long a time for any tuan 8 hair K'f»"• «»_ ,..
to stand on end. -N. Y. World.
ihing out of the ordinary run of things
might be expected from him. Tho first
'imo he experimented on me 1 well re
member. 1 was sitting beneath a hiizel
bush in the shadow of a stone wall, ex
amining sonic flowers which I had just
gathered. For a matter of five minates
while thus employed I was carelessly
conscious of voices somewhere in tho
remote neighborhood at the other ?ide
Uf the wall. The tone suggested a mas
culine source, and at one momentseo nod
to take the form of a soliloquy, and
then of an interrupted lialogue. now
suggesting a long drawn nasal exclama
tion which pictured to my mind a Corio*
lan us in the far distance "driving his
.\en by sheer force of his lungs," "Ila
a-aw-w-»:*" with a falling inflectio®.
and again a yell across the meado*.
"Sa-ay! Fra-a-nk! Waou!" or perhaps i
brief nasal interchange of seasonable
comment upon crops or woather. All
these pretty pastoral visions hovered in
my fancy between my botany glass and
my flowers, as I have said, and would
have vanished like a dream bad not a
little incident served to revive them,
and forever frame them in my memory.
My flower identified. I prepared to re
sume my walk, when
my
claimed
attention was
by a curious visitor, which had
i suddenly perched upon a head of tear
thumb blossoms close at my elbow,
ogling me most michievously.
I had seen portraits of this black
sheep in the rogues' gallery of insects,
but was never brought into such close
quarters with the original before. I
soon identified him, and knowing that
in my superior fighting weight I would
be perfectly safe in tackling him, I pre
pared to catch him with a sweep of my
hand, when a away he went with a "Ba
a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a!" which seemed drawn
out in a long nasal perspective to thf
limit of my hearing, and tin*' inspiration
of my pastoral visions was suddenly re
vealed.
On several occasions since I have been
momentarily deceived by the twanging
buzz of the big fly. It is impossible te
suggest in type the peculiar quality of
the sound, but he may be heard tuning
up any autumn day in our meadows. Ho
is closely related to the murderous mock
bumblebee which I recently described.
--William Hamilton Gibson, in Harper'i
Young People
New Jer*ey'« Sunken Foroit,
There is a sunken forest of white
cedar in New Jersey which has been
continuously "mined" 'or its valuable
timber for over eighty years. Tho curi
ous industry of digging for the sunken
logs is carried on by the people of Den
nisville, Cape May County, a village
which was brought into existence solely
through the wealth of the buried timber
in its vicinity. Over the sunken forost
trees of large size are growing, and in
many instances these are cut away in
order to get at the more valuable tim
ber, which lies only three or four feot
below the surface. All the sunken trees
are of enormous size, two to five times
larger than those now growing on the
surface. The exact age in which they
lived is a matter of curious conjecture.
It is probable that they were buried
many centuries ago by the action of an
•arthouake.--St.
r^ouis
KeouWicau.