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"The World is Governed Too Much." : HENRY L. BIOSSAT, Businem Manager. ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1887. VOL XLII,--NO. 7. UNSENTIMENTAL VALENTINE. If I met you face to face, Maiden fair and full of grace. I should bow and doff my hat, Say "your servant," and all that. While I watched your pretty ways, I could only smile and praise; And you'd never dream your lover Could a flaw in you discover. But rm bolder, lady mine, Hid behind St. Valentine; And I'll count you one. two, three Faults that I can plainly see. Once I saw a tempest rise, Clouding o'er your pretty eyes, When a guest came to the door, Who was old and sad, and poor. Once I saw you turn away, With a cold and freetful nay, When your little brother came Begging for some childish game. Once I saw you sit at ease, With ibook upon your knews, While your mother-patient saint Did your work without complaint. Ah I my pretty Valentine. E're I ask you to be mine, I must know that lovely face Shines with more than surface grace; That your captivating art Does not hide a careless heart. Lest when tresses brown grow white, Eyes get dim which now are bright, Age and trouble come apace, Stealing beauty from your face, I should bitterly repine Choosing you my Valentine. -Elizabeth P. Allen. in N. Y. Independent. THE GAME OF WHIST. Played for 150 Years "Aocording to Edmond Hoyle." Originally Called "Whisk," It was Played by Plebeians Until Hoyle Modified It ind Made It Go Among the Purple. To be at once the least known and the most famous person in the whole world; to leave a name which forever remains a synonym for accuracy and authority, and which is daily on the tongues of thousands of people; to have written a work which is ranked among English classics and considered indispensable to every well-furnished library, is the unique position accorded to Edmond Hoyle, Gentleman. There are probably no readers of the Herald who have not often referred to him as authority, for to say that a thing is "according to Hoyle," means that it is exactly right or correct, and is applied to many things besides games of cards. And yet there are probably but few persons who use this. phrase who have any knowledge whatever of the man they quote. It is more than two centuries now since this distinguished individual first saw the light of day. He was born in England in 1672, and was educated as a lawyer. In his earlier years the game of whist as yet was not known, but there was a game' named whisk, a very inferior and plebeian sort of game, which also went by the name of swab bers. It contained the possibilities of the royal game, but it had not yet reached the purple. It was played by four persons, to whom twelve cards each were dealt, so that the beauties of the "old trick" were not involved, and the points were nine. Certain cards at some period of the game were entitled to sweep the board, hence the name of whisk, a small broom or sweep. Most people think we call the game whist because it is a silent game, and most of the dictionaries tell us the name is so derived, but this is an error. It is merely a corruption of the original name of the game, thus modified when it was first introduced into polite society. Edmond Hoyle,' lawyer and gentleman, had a greater genius for games than for law. He was probably of the same mind as the lawyer mentioned by Bulwer in "Cax toniana." "I can," said the latter, "niake £500 a year at my profession with much pain and difficulty. I can make the same amount at whist without great labor andt with much pleasure. I, therefore, prefer whist." Hoyre abandoned the law, took up whist, and became immortal, and more than fifty years after his death Byron wrote Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle. He seems to have studied the game of whist for many years, and thus learned its great capabilities. He enlarged its scope by playing with the entire pack, fixing the game at ten points. He was a man of good education, moved in good society, and he soon made the game fashionable. He gave it a permanent, logical, and scientificform, called it whist, drew it from its ob scurity, and gave it an authentic station in the polite world. This was about the year 1730. He becameso skillful a player that people sought him as a teacher, and in the course of his teach ing he wrote out notes containing rules and directions for playing, which he sold to his pupils. In Johnson's "Ram bler," published in 1750, a fine lady Is made to say: "Papa made me drudge at whist until I was tired of it; and, far from wanting a head, Mr. Hoyle, when he had not given me above forty lessons, said I was one of his best scholars." In the CGentleman's MagazineforFebruary, 1755, in an autobiography, the writer says: "Hoyle tutored me in several games of cards." The novelty and great value of these manuscript rules were soon discovered, and surreptitious copies began to get into circulation, when Mr. Hoyle, to se cure his copyright, had them published in 1743, and in that way the famous work originated. It was entitled: "A short treatise on the game of whist. Containing the laws of the game and also some rules whereby a beginner may, with due attention to them, at tain to the playing it well. Calcula tions for ~thoe who willbe the odds oil any point of the score of the'game then playing and defending. Cases stated to show what may be effected by a very good player in critical parts of the game. Calculations directing with moral certainty how to play well any hand or game, with variety of cases added in the appendix. By a gentle man." The book had a great and rapid suc cess. Edition after edition was sold, and Hoyle received one thousand pounds the first year. He states in this "Short Treatise" that he has framed an artificial memory for whist players, which he will communicate upon payment of a guinea, and that he will explain any case in the book upon payment of one guinea more. Later editions contain his system of mem ories, but good players say it is of no great value. It consists of a mode of arranging the suits in your hand that a keen-eyed opponent may often detect. The effect of Hoyle's promulgation of the game in its improved form ex cited a good deal of satire. In the same year, 1743, there was published a witty and amusing play on "The Humors of Whist; a Dramatic Satire, as Acted Every Day at White's and Other Coftee Houses." It is a short comedy, the prin cipal characters being Prof. Whiston (Hoyle), who gives lessons in the game; Sir Calculation Puzzle, an enthusiastic player, who muddles his head with Hoyle's calculations and always loses; pupils, sharpers and their dupes. The object is chiefly to ridicule the preten sions of Hoyle and the enthusiasm of his followers, and to show that skill and calculations are of no avail against bad luck or fraud. Hoyle had given out that he had spent forty years in its study, and the prologue says: Who would believe that man could e'er exist, Who spent near half an age in studying whist? Grow gray with calculation, labor hard, As if life's business centered in a card? That such there is, let me to those appeal, Who with such liberal hands reward his zeal, So ! whist he makes a science, and our peers Deign to turn schoolboys in their riper years. Sir Calculation Puzzle gives some amusing explanations of his loses. He says: "That certainly was the most out-of the-way bite ever heard of Upon the pinch of the game, when he must in fallibly have lost it, the dog ate the los ing card, by whisch means we dealt again, and faith he won the game.' Another passage is: "I find, Professor, your book does not teach how to beat four by honors. In my opinion there is still something ~vanting to complete the system of whist, and that is a dis sertation on the lucky chair." In ad dition to whist Hoyle also wrote treatises on quadrille, piquet, chess, backgammon and brag. Hoyle now became the celebrity he has continued to be down to our own day. His book, not himself, is fre quently mentioned in the literature of the eigteenth century. In "Tom Jones" Lord Fellmar says: "I happened to come home several hours before my usual time, when I find four gen tlemen or the cloth (ervants) at whist by my fire; and my Hoyle, sir, my best Hoyle, which cost me a guinea, lying open on the table, with a quanti ty of porter spilt cn one of the most material leaves of the whole book." An epic poem on whist by Alexander Thompson appeared in 1791, which contains an apostrophe to the spirit of Hoyle. But why thus vainly hesitates the Muse, In idle doubt what guardian power to chuse? What power so well can aid her daring.toil, As the bright spirit of immortal Hoyle? By whose enlightened efforts Whist became A sober, serious, scientific game. The poet thus goes on to suppose that the shadowy ghost of Hoyle still hovers around the tempting boards arrayed in green. Still with delight its favorite game regards, And, though it plays no more, o'erlooksathe cards. The laws of the game, as propounded by Hoyle in 1743, remained the only recognized authority until 1864, when a committee of the great whist clubs of London revised the old code and added some new laws. Hoyle's laws are, however, the basis Whether the game of whist, if well followed, promotes longevity, may be a question, but it is Scertain Mr. Hoyle is an example that it does. He died in London on the 29th of August, 1769, at the age of ninety seven. The papers of the day notice his death, and state that he was well known in the polite world, and that he lived to see his treatise on whist pass through no less than thirteen editions. And thus, full of years and honors, and secure of immortal fame, passed away the father of whist, Edmond Hoyle. Chicago Herald. -Sniflin (in his own estimation the rising poet)-Ah, do you know, Miss Bracing, that my fancies always come tome in my dreamsP Miss Bracing SYes, that is, perhaps, why they make Sother people so sleepy. Sniftln, after6 Smoment's hesitation, concluded that it would be well to retire for a while. N. Y. Telegram. --A boy can walk four miles to go skating, and drag some other fellow's sister all the way on a sled, but when his mother wants him to bring up a bag of crackers from the grocery his kidneys are so weak that he darsen't. -Burlington Free Press. -.-In a pistol fight atTin Cup, CoL. a spent bullet struck Tom Conners in the mouth and knocked out one tooth. The tooth fell to the floor, but Tom swallowed the bullet before he knew what had hit him. -A Chinaman is proprietor of i. n aewp tand at San Iernlrdouo, Cal, COUSIN AGAINST COUSIN. I The Different Way in Which James G. Blaine and His Dlstingulshed Cousln Treat 1 the Wage Question. t Let us call Gall Hamilton as a wit ness against her distinguished cousin, James G. Blaine. She might be called also as a witness against herself, but it will saufice on this occasion to use her testimony only against the states man from Maine. In suggesting rem-' edies for the unhappy condition of the working-women of the metropolis, it has been found that the majority of the people who have taken an interest in the matter have inclined to" the idea that if the women would more gener ally seek domestic employment they would be better off. Gail Ham ilton holds to this view. She also has some other opinions on. this subject, as she does on nearly every thing else. "Never, while the world lasts," says she, "can you expect to receive twelve dol lars for work which twelve other women are willing to do for six dollars. If you were a man, if you were a millionaire, if you were a voter, it would make no difference. You can never force your employer to employ you at -twelve dollars if he can hire some one else to do the same work for six dollars. You have no right to ex pect him to do it. It is not greed, or extortion, or inhumanity in him not to do it. It is extortion in you to ask him to do it. If he should undertake it he would fail in business and you would be worse off than before, because you would have no work at all. You would then be one of the dozens waiting at no price instead of the one employed at a low price. This law is absolute. It applies to the millionaire just as strongly as to the sewing girl." How different would Cousin James, of Maine, talk to the half-starved sew ing women of New-York, to their sis ters who eke out a miserable living in factories and stores, and to the dissat isfied laborer generally. Cousin James would say: "Your wages are low be cause you are not protected enough. You must ,keep the Democrats out of power. Just look at the condition that you are now in. It is the result of fear on the part of your employers that the Democrats will change the tariff laws. They have unsettled confidence all over the country. Do you observe the col ored man in the SouthP It is the inten tion of the Democrats to keep him in ignorance so that they can-use him as a cheap laborer. Where will you be when the South begins manufacturing with negro labor employed at one-half what you earn? The way to regulate wages is to elect Republicans tooffice. Some rascals will tell you that wages are not affected by law. That is false. You may think that you have hardships, but you are mistaken. The trouble with the American working-man is that he is too well off. He is pro tected by the tariff, and all the money that his employers get out of that beneficent scheme goes into his pockets, Supply and demand have nothing to do with labor. Vote the Republican ticket and wages will al vways be high. They are high now, if you only think so." For the last fifteen years Mr. Blaine and Gail Hamilton have been attempt ing to convince the American people that there is potency in law to raise wages. They have made that their stock in trade. If they were to be be lieved all that was necessary to make labor contented was to pass a law to that effect. Supply and demand had nothing to do with the question. By giving employers monopoly privileges the working-man was bound to be a sharer in them whether a dozen stood ready to take his place at half the wages that he wanted or .not. Gall Hamilton's sudden conversion to com mon sense and common honesty leads one to hope that the day may not be far distant -when her celebrated.rela tive will also abandon demagogy and surprise his fellow citizens by address ing them in words of truth and sober ness.-Chicago Herald. S IN THEIR POWER. Th!e Jiepublcean Senate Considered as' a Creature of the Corporations. The Argus has had occasion; fre 4luently;, to call attention -to the de 1 cadence of the United States Senate , and the enormous influence wielded in , that body by corporations. The re proach, uttered two years ago, that S"the Senate is merely an association of railroad attorneys and speculators, not Sonly useless to the Nation, but posi tively injurious to its best in terests," acquires more signifi cance in the light of present ex perience. We see on every hand the power and influence of great corpor ations exerted to the utmost to retain control of a body which once repre sented the mst intellectual most pa trioticand most incorruptible men in the Nation. Brains are no longer con sidered a necessary qualificatiof for the office, and Legislatures are beseiged by moneyed influence to control their choice for men .who, without money, Swould never be thought of for a seat in 1 the United States Senate. The compe tition to such a seat is no longer open to men who can intellectually fill it The power of the corpo rations is being exerted in. New Jersey to deprive the people of that Democratic State of the right of be ing represented at Washington by a Democratic Senator. The same I malign influence is felt in Indiana, [ and no -means, revolutionary or un constitutional, is left untried to per vert the will of tha people and keep [the United States Senate under the oto of the cQYorpootions .- Te Brooklyn Citizen, that stanch Demo cratic newspaper, gives a solemn warning on the subject, which appeals t to the earnest reflection of the Ameri can people: With the upper House of the National Legis lature in the hands of unscrupulous, and banded wealth, the Admitilitration and the II popular branch are alike paralyzed, and the v victories Won for the plain people by the defeat of Mr. Blaine and redemption of the House from Republican control are hopelessly thrown away. By every foul means, the Democratic strength in the Legislatures is undermined by the money of the corporations, and the control C is bought for them through the Republicans. n There is no longer the slightest attempt at con. cealment. The Republican party is openly owned by the capitalists of the. country, and the rights of the plate people are being stolei a from them. These corporations know too well that only through the Republican party can their interests be protected, even when they clash with those of the peo ple. They know too well that while the Senate is in Republican hands no bill in the interests of the whole peo ple is likely to be adopted, but an un surmountable barrier is opposed to the just and reasonable demands of the tax-payers and of labor organizations, whose groWing power they fear. They 3 know that when they succeed, through buying up legislatures or bulldozing a a Democratic Legislature by riotous methods, in putting their creatures again in control of the Senate, they i will have under their thumb for a term of years a department of the Govern - ment so far beyond the reach of public opinion as to be practically unaffected by its censure.-Albany Argus. SWINDLED. COLORED MEN. How the -Democracy Are Attempting to Right a Great Republican Wrong. Soon after the war the Republican politicians, in order to show their great love for the race whom the fortunes of war hl set free, got up a swindling concern called the "Freedman's Bank." It rnimified into all the Southern States, and the colored people were taught to believe that the United States Govern ment would secure all depositors. They took the bait and most of the poor de luded wretches have never seen their money since. Many of them are dead, and buried in very poor graves. It remained for, a Democratic Presi dent to recommend that some restitu tion be made to such of' the unhappy victims of the swindle as still live. Im. mediately -a fresh lot' of swindlers started up and began buying the cer tificates of deposit andi-other evidences of the bank's indebtedness to its de l positors. As soon as that was done a bill-was introduced by Senator Sher man to reimburse the depositors.' But fortunately some of the Senators were aware of. the attempted -second s swindle, and in committee incorporated, 1 the following amendmnent: No part of the money herebiy appropriated | shall be paid to any assignee of any such de positbrs, and the benefit and relief provided by this act shall extend only to those'depositors in whose favor such balances have been properly verified, and to-their heirs and legal repre sentatives.. This is as it should be. No assign ment of any deposit has been made for any except a swindler's consideration. The original depositors may have traded off their certificates for circus tickets, or some such -consideration. ; If they and their heirs can be founnm and given back their money it will, simply be set. tling up the accounts of a lot of Re-. publican swindlers out of charity to: their victims. Shall we ever get done paying for the corruption of twenty-five years of Republican ruleP It seems as if the bills come in pretty thick and pretty constantly. Let us hope they will run out some time. We should think the average Republican would blush to read suich telegraphic Iews as that re~ lating to the .Freedmrian's Bank.-Des· Moines Leader. Sectionalism Is Buried. eThe South wan-ts no more war. It wants peace and to build up the jNew South. :This the Southern Speople are doing. They are pros pering as they never did before. Our developments of railroads, nisatifactures and trade has beeni won derful Everywhere there are evidences of new growth and unprecedented. prosperity. The land forfuture homes is not in the West, nor the East, nor in the North, but it is in the South, where there are more unimproved acres than e the present total inproved land in all Sthe States of the Union excepting Illi nois. It is to behoped Grady's speech will bury sectionalism out of sight for t ever-put an end to the policy of sus picion and continuous insult and crit icism of the South. We are destined to live together; that is inevitable that wam the verdict of the war. The Smagnificent history of the North and South pitted against each other on the deadly battlefield is the common prop erty of all If we had not fought as we did, the North would have been ashamed of us, as we are the same race n and nationality. But the waris ended, the South is loyal to the Union, afnd to Smake the whole country great and r prosperous should be the aim of all see tion~.--enpMis Appeai. a -When the Democratic House of Representatives passes a pension bill r appropriating76,OO,000o,000forthe year Y more than the entire expenses of the SGovernment before the war--all for SFederal soldiers and their representa t tives, it is high time to ceasetallng of SDemocrats as "rebels" or enemies of the a Government.~iBut that political -'prop 0 ,erty" will never do service in another * compaign.-Boston Herald. e- -It is urged as an objection to p Mr. Cleveland that hiis qualitiess are Le e enegative H negative is just what Le 9go cotir uee8004-4Lt 4 4 ri PITH AND POINT. -Charity, they say, covers a multi bide of sins; but there is not nearly enough of it to go robnd.l-N. Y. Mail. -There are a great many young inen nowadays who charter a ten-dol lar livery rig when they really can not afford to have the nightmare.--Boston Bulletin. -The types last week made us to say that the showers were "not -suffi cient to meet the wants of the milk men,"'etc., instead of the millmen. Field and Farm. -Entire sets of bureau' articles, brush and comb, glove and button hook, etc., now come in solid. silver.-Faarhion' Note. Do. they? ,Well, they don't come this way fast enough to cause a. rush.-Washington Critic. . . -A fashion magazine says "The new pocket-books are, long and slender." We -don't know anything about the length of them, but on the slender proportions we claim to be authority.-New Haven Netos. -Mother-Johnny. brush the dust off your boots.. Johnny--Is that the kind of dust papa was talking to governess aboutP Mother-What did he sayP Johnny-He said: "Dost thou love me, Agnes?" Mother-No, it is not, John nie; but Agnes will dust out of here to-morrow morning.--Boston Globe. -Lawyer-You say the prisoner ac cidentally shot himself in the leg? Witness-Idid. Lawyer-Wasthe gun loaded? Witness-I don't know. Law yer-Now, then, will you please state to the jury how he shot himselfP Wit ness-Well, I suppose that the blamed old gun was like a lawyer's mouth- went off whether there was .anything in it or not.-N. Y. Bun. -"Now, Mr. Nibson, you must sing for us," said Miss Feathertop, "and I am sure you- will 'sing something to oblige us." " "Of course I will-=always willing to oblige. Just ask the com pany to pass out quietly, please." "Pass out quietly! What do you mean by that?" ": 'It is better so,' Miss Feathertop, as it prevents them from stampeding and breaking the furniture when Ibegin to sing.'--Drake'i Travel. era' Magazine. -."Manima," said a beautiful West End belle, "I have two offers of mar. riage." "Indeed, my dear, who are the men?" "One, mamma, is a Coutt: and the other a coachman. Which.shall' I' chooseP" : "Well, daughter,- you must use your own judgment. -I don't= know how to advise., It-hap becomen so in this country that one can't reallyde ddi whether a'coachman is a Count in disguise' or a Count -i' a coaehman in" disguise. Ase,Isaid before .yon muSt make your own choice,=-W.asington-, Critic. -Learninig a trade: Blacksmith (ta young man)-Yoit think you posseds the necessary qualifications for a black-, smithP Young man-Yes, sir. I was a member of the foot-liall team at col lege. Blacksmith '(dubiously)-'You may be strong enough, young man,,but this business demands brains as Well as strength.--Chicago, journal. SPAIN'S-: BABY, KING. How Be :Must Be Treated Aeeording to the. Regulations of Court Etiquette. The baby King of Spain is a fine, handsome shild; who enjoys robust health and does credit to the immense amount of .care with which he is. sur rounded. Though court etiquette re quires that the baby Alphonose XII. should be* treated with the most rigid ceremony, his mother will never call him "the King", unless on very strict state occasions, but uses the simple termnof "my child.' ' His Majesty has :hisown vast suite of apartments next to those of the Queen Regent, and a special guard-)eeps his bed-room door at night. His foster-mother, the'-sturdy peasant RaymUnda, feeds and amuses the baby; but he'is rashed-anddressed according to traditional ceremonial'by a bevy of ladies of honor; under the directions of his' "governess," who held the same ofllce tdwarcl his father. Doctors visit the baby twice daily, and every day he drives out with his gov erness and.-aymunds--ome tmnes with the Queen. In oourt ceremonies, Ray munda must not carry the!King; that if the duty of the Mistress of the Robes or of his aunt, the Infants Isabel. Queen Chriitina is a most devoted mother, spending all her spare time with her boy and the Infants Isabella is equally at:ached to her nephew.-- · N. 1'. Herald. STRANGE DISEASE. Death of Twe .Vietims of Beri-Beri Ia a esei York-lospital The presence in New YOrk city of a& number of cases of beri-beri, r kak-ke, has re-awalgeneud medical Interest inp this peculiar disease.:. The patients came from S&n Francisco by vessel;' and three'of them were taken to Belte vue Hospital. Two of these died.. On the voyage, most of the crew were affectil with the disease, and some of thein fatally. This affection prevails, in Japan, India, South and -Osntral America; and in the islands of the Gult, and is teehnically considered to be a multiple nuieritis,'-or an inflammatory condition of the serveas. As a rule the spinal neryes alone are implicated, but occasiohally the cianial nerves as well. It has been demonstrated with a great degree of prolbability by. Cornelissen and Sugenoyi that l~ri-beri is san in fectious disease, the specific cause be. Itng a micro.orgsanism resembling tfe bacllus of anthran, which is found in the blood, muscles and nerves. J the cases at Bellevue the l.-natire of the I disease wias not recognized at a sufi ciently early stage- to enable theqiphys Scians to study the microbes, or to ik READING FOR THE YOUNG. T en A LITTLE GIRL'S VALENTINE.. tl If Not Quits True, It.Oght to Be. Valentine's Day is on its way;. :.., 'Twill be here very soon, For heard sisterB uesay so S To Bell this afternoon. ut .rm afraid nobody 'll think To send me even one, 'Cause I was only detn years old When the new year begun; And.so I'll write oneto myself :: -(:I.couldn't beartobe. , - .:Without a single rvalentine), Andplay'twar sentto me, ; - th SDearnGraie"Wthat'ah iO i ben- of '. You area lovely child; You never rive your mother or . gc SYour grandma nearly wild; You never tease the baby, nor - BefujeWlth him to play; . . . -You stadyhard, and how by heart "to Your"lessons every day; '' You keep your dress and apron'neat.. :'i Your hair is always curled, · And you are just as nie a girl As aIyai.the world" a:. There! that sounds very pretty, and Ithink that it will do, . . But 'pesrs to me it isn't quite Exactly truly true. . But theaIt owght to be, and that's' - Almost,'think, the same, And 60 down in the corner hem. rn sign a mke-b'lieve name. -Margaret A.qnge, in Hrper'a Young tef. ini -A YOUNG HERO.. I, Hlitory of the Work ofllramDadley Back in the Bsaving of Human Live. - g In the long and honorable roll of those who have saved the lives of st others : at the imminent risk of their r( own. it is doubtful if you will find an- k other record to match. that of young w Hiram Dudley .Buck. There are men A "whose occupations give them peculiar s] opportunities for imperiling their own lives for-those of their fellow men;,and sl there are women too-for who can. for get the noble work of the English- 1l Grace Dar8tUl and her American coun terpart, Ida LewisP--whose names have b been added to the roll. of honor while b they have been yet young; but seldom, d itf ever, has it .been give to a lad to r save four persons from death by drown ihg, before completing his sixteenth a year, as has been the ease with the-sub. r ject of this sketch. ' Hira Dudley Back was; born at& Crown Point, Essex County, New York, .in 1868. It was whlien he was only ttin` years old-.that he was- called upoii -to perform the first of .the brave deeds whe are to -be, recorded' here. H.. is. sster Effie,, a;irl a.. fe years older than himself, was bathing in ?utnam'.s creek, neartheir :home in Essex County, in ,company `with sp mei feiends.. In order to keep afloat inideep water she. had fastened a rubber life-preserver underher arms, and this treacherous aid sliui ed 'from_ iits place, and becoming entangled with, her' feet, threw 'her head under, witer.: Dudley, the ten year-old: boy, :was attracted from~ a -dis tance by the frantic cries of his sister's' -- playmates, and-runninggup, he-plunged . into the deep-,water, ;and-despite the drowning girls greater sizs and weight; succeeded in.bringing her ashore. - ' The- following summer Dudley :and a .number of. young friends -wre- fishing off. ahigh dam at Crown Point:.Centre. A careless action onthe part of one of the boys threw Freddie B-- into the seething, waters below )h$ . dame; anad though there.were perhapsla dozenboys present, only one of them had the cour age to leap in to Proddie'se '.assistance. Assoon as e realized his friend's peril -for he knew that the boy could not swimm Dudley. unhesitatingly sprang into ,the water,. caught the struggling boy as he rose to the sutrface and at length brought him ashore,' though not Suntil his strength was almost ex hausted" In August, 1884,; a party of younig people wer~e bithing in Schroon'Lake, : among whom- were-- Sam and Kate R--and Dudley Buck. Sam could swimI a little, but htb: silster was inore daring than prudent, and declaring thatl she could go where her brother wentshe': followed him into dee~p water.. .In a few mom~eiits she was in distress, and -elutching Sai,- whoha4- turned td. ais sist her, she dragged ihmi dowi with her.'. Dudley was resting on the bank, butas soon as he saw. the peril his friend wer Iin bhe dived" after them, and found them atu~ally at-the b6ttoml of the lake. -With great dfmi lty he Sdisengaged the girl's arms from- her brother's neck, and brought the two tothe suirface. aite's instinct of Dudley hf drowned both . ' r0Irhebother andhh ei nowr endkangerd ih thlife their gtlant rescue., aind it wau oiily withr extireme dimenity" thrit DIuley could cintutl Iber siulclently to bring himself snd ho ersafely ainto shalldr water. n " ' '" Such sets of galntry as have been here redlteds al peforned byl lad un Sder sixtee~ yeare of age aSre worthy of whatever public ,eoog~ntiok it is in the; -- power- of -a grateful gQvernment to bestow. IthIpleasant, therefore, to be Sable to recor&. the fact that the Con egras of tAie Unied States of Amerlca has awarded to young Dudley SBuck -ites- siver .life-saving lnedl. The silver mede t which Dudley thus re ceived is the: highest honor thaft'the Government can bestow, the -gold Smedal provided for under the acts of SCongressiseng awardedonly for sav ing life in salt-water..-The medal awarded is of sterling silver, and about twice the sise of a silver dollar. IHiram a Dudley Btick wears - another, medal whlih hemusa t value highly. ';it is a " five-point star surrnded by a? ,- wreah_ ius,. o'i-- golda- , b.., , R friendo wl v their iva to his The other medals on his breast are for supremacy, in athletic sports, one of them, quite naturally, for swimming. Harper's Young People. Two Little Girls. It was: a blowiing, blustering St. Val entine's Day, "1fty years ago. Mrs. Bly wa making :gingei bead-'iniuster rg-l she clltt and Nellie was watdhing her. Si was a wee. chubb>y girl i a linsey-woolsey gown that was long enough to reach the .tops of her laced-up leather ;shoes, and a dark tier that was almost as long as her gown.- I am safraid if you had seen her, .you would liAe said she looked justlike: a little old womaiýsi.' She° wore a cap;; too--I forgot to mention that a U.ts linen cap, trimined withlace.:; x> l She haooked. on and wondered a long time -:before .,'she se p o k e. thick n der:< - and over what she should say. "If yeou please, mo ther," smdal· , ab:` last,t would liketoknow what makes' you call Ait .musteer -ginger-bread. : there mustard in itP" ' Her mother laughed : "Oh no, myf child there's no mustad hiit," she'sald, kindly. "And t don'lt know why it's called mister- ginger bread, unless.because it :s the kind that is most always :sold on the. mustes ground." - . Well, itsmnells very nice,. Ithink,." said Nellie. Pretty soon, her mother rolled her dough again, and taking a knife, out out a heart-shaped piece, which she put-in to bake with the, "es And when it was done to ainice brown' she gave it to Nellie.., .:_+. "There's a valentine heart for you, she said. "Oh, thank you, mi'amW' cried N lie, eagerly. She was so happy! She iouildn't hav been better pleased with a real :golden. heart, such as el. saw on -a valentinet to day, with a pretty verse beneathlit, and. roses and lilies :all ariund. Only a little while ,ago I heard this same Nellie telling this story to a little maid in a white pinafore, wh ose cash lmere frock doesn'treach anyliere near theitops of.her: dainty kid booit and who. had been eryingfor as -muoha ste minutes because he, only -had: five love ly valentines, all silver and gold, and cobwebby lace and ltwers. wiih a linger in each eye. Bly, told her this story.- 'iYoa' (amt'm panion . . UNCONSCIOUS NEEDS. : Needy Oa; s dheiudd 5' It may be thoughtithat-wi th son mfn needs of which pes are follycdonucaiou,:: and which they ae . eagerly endeavor.: lig to supply, it, is somewhat spay fluous to recount or osider those of which they, are .uncnsious, andýh can not, therefore, o ruble or distress them. If-they can not, .with all their efforts, respond to the. many need; which' they feel, why lead. them 1oa search for others of: which they known nothingP '.Yet the :truthi remainsthats the deepest and most pathetio needs of humanity, ,those which, appeal most loudly for succor to such as -can di;. cover them, are largely unfelt and un known by the needy ones itiiheelves. The unconsclousnesi of :real. necee sides Is not confined to'chiidhood."The youth entering active life -has mans conscious *ts. -Full-of vitality, he; desires to put it forth; :he craves a su cess in his enterprises; - wealthor fame or love or glory seeni to him brilliant' possibilities for which, he will: strive. Yet. none of these things are so essen tial to his welfare as 6thers of which. 3, he is profoundly unconsciqus-a flm moral principle that shall enable him to resist all alriements to evil; patience, ereverancea, ndustry, eco nomy, a kindly disposition, a love of juletie,. a -benevolent heart. WhOlvei helps him to attain li.s coiscoiis wa~it . may benefithim aiid earn ld hbiratitde but he who .ca; arouse within him a sense of the deeper needs of his nature and, help him to supply theb is 1s trpcst frientd and benefator. ; So throughi all 1i .T.i qtudeut knows thati hie needs more kn tedg ,; -but be does not recognize. thalata ;thrst· for knowledge. and a minnd eqil dto consloeus thatihe needs more capital, . :but i iisometimes quite ignorant that he' needa :umore caution. ;The: mo I.n . her family Walhts to hJavmoreobe oeni children and.more Iutiful . ervants; she 0known. not that.Ate ,abmly's.real need. isthat of wiiser sand mpre elf-oent troled mother and mistreass.. :: ,. :This unconsciousness of timdeepep needs is the great foe to all grFO, and. improvement. The content theof slave with his chains forges thpz mor. firmly than the tyranny of any mast & can do. It is.whet'ith. real need fi liberty becomes also a conscious need that the ers of friedom has begun. .So with other evils; as ong as we are un conscious that they are evils, contentto abide in them, -taking them as matters of course to be accepted, instead of foes to be oiquered, so long they will re Stasi their power over us. ' e. who: a arouses us from this torpor, who shakes us out- of our self-satisfied condition,; [ even at the risk of disturbing our; pass ive ease and comfort, renders us . far cgreater service than if he ministered:to * thousand wants which our is consta,tity suggesting., !.- 4 t : of. antlers. . easu ; feet between. ' the tlp~ ,which were taken freom thebh i4-f 14 on?0Il@4