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VOL. XXXIX.
MONTPELIER, VT., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2G. 1882.
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WEDKESDAY. JULY 20. 1882.
Concerning Pensions.
Jio little has been said and printed
lately about pitying such enormous sums
for pensions to the war-worn vetorans wh'
yet remuin. Wben will wealthy tax py
on begin to consider the matter in Its
true light t In 1861 they thought the
union must be saved at any cost, and they
cheered when the farmer left his plow, the
blacksmith his forge, and the carpentqr
his bench. What did the wealthy tax payor
then do? Said he would be willing to
sacrifice anything for the salvation of the
country even to the giving to the army ot
all his first wife's relations, and then staid
at home and loaned his money at exorbi
tant rates, or secured a government con
tract and trebled the money invested
True, large bounties were paid to recruits,
but who sacrificed the most those wh
went to the front or those who remained
at homcf The soldier has lost hi J health
or his limb, while the wealthy tax payer
lias quitted a large inoreaae in his wealth.
Those who went to the front had every
thing to lose, while those who staid ai
home had everything to gain. Why, then,
should they complain if a scanty return is
given to the soldier for his years of suffer
ing and sacrifice? Who ever knew of a
disbanded soldier having his taxes abated
or complaining of great sums paid for
pensions. Even though not receiving one
himsolf ho feels willing to help pay taxes
to pension others since be knows some'
thing of the sacrifices made by those who
fought the battles of their country and
saved frcm disgraco the old flag. Hut the
bond-holders who.in 1861, wero the loudest
inthoircall for ollitrn to no to tho front
ate now tho loudest to complain of the
inadequate roturn inado to llioso who
braved the dangor that thieves might be
the safety. 1 csmo home from the war
with my health shattered, found my house
robbed, my muadow a pasture for my
neighbors' cows, and 1 am to-day, (a fact,
Mr. Editor,) suffering from the disoase
I contracted in the prison pons of the
south. Uow much havo those who staid
at homo lost? Irt justice be dono though
iho heavens fall.
Akdejssonvili.e.
Sunday School Lesson Notes.
BT REV. J. O. SIIEItllUKN.
July tftth: TIjo Triumphal Entry-Mark 11:1 11.
Tho incidents of this days's lesson gain
their importance chiefly from tho fact that
by means of them a very important Old
Testament prophecy is fulfilled. Upon
this prophecy, (Zech. 9:9-11) perhaps as
much as any single passage from th
prophets, the people rosted their hope anil
expectation of a temporal kingdom sot U
by the Messiah. Christ bad no dispositior
to ft liter the expectations of the people in
this direction, but all the prophecies con
cerning him must be fulfilled. Fron
Jerico he has come a day's journey to tbi
village of Botbphage, loss than two tulles
from Jerusalem. The crowds about him
havo increased constantly. Tho groai
feast of the Jews is at hand, and pious
pilgrims throng every way loading to the
Holy City.
The divine prescience of Christ appears
iu all the provisions made for his entry
into Jerusalem.
He directs his disciples to a plaoe where
they may find an ass on which he can ride
and describes the exact place whero they
shall find him, and tells them what answer
to give wben they are questioned about
loosing him. Different views have been
taken of this incident ; some have supposed
that Jesus had pre-arranged the matter of
the use of this animal through some agent
there, as Lazarus, perhaps, or some other
friend in one of the villages.
It is not at all necessary to make such a
supposition; Jesus had many friends and
followers in Bethany, a few months bofore
ho had there raised from the dead one
who bad been in the grave four days, and
many believed on that account. Others
had long before that accepted him as the
promised deliverer of Sod's people. Any
one of these followers of Jesus would
doubtless have boen pleased to put at his
service anything they possessed. So it
was only necessary that tho two disciples
sent out for tbo purpose should say in
answer to tho ownor's question, " Tho
1orJ bath need of him," and this man was
ready to servo Christ by granting the uso
of what he possessed.
Some question Ins ariseu as to the
choice of an ass as the boast to be usod on
this occasion of kingly triumph. Two
nearly opposito viows have been taken by
different Biblo writers. Soma havo aOlrm
od that tho ass was tho royal animal,
and that eastorn kings evon to the prcsont
day use tho ass or mule on such occasions
Others have held, and their view soems to
have support in the prophecy already
mentioned, whore Christ is termod " low
ly and sitting upon an ass' colt," that
Christ rode upon an nnbroken and com
monplace animal that lie might put himself
on a footing with the lowly and the poor,
and might also symbolism tho rude imJ
untrained character of tho subjects over
which his sway is set up.
Another meaniug has iu more recent
time been put upau his aotion in this mut
ter. It is said that the horse was the
animal for kings when they wont forth to
war, but when they rola in peacoful state
among their subjects tho ass was chosen.
This view us iv, iu soma senso, bo said to
combine tho two former, and givos us,
doubtless, the better explanation. Christ's
kingdom is ono of peace, and royalty at
peace was jJit tin proper gym1)?! for this
occasion.
The lowliness of Ciirist is to tdo promi
nent in tlia fact tint ho rolo upon u
borrowed boast, and its only trappings
were the coarse outer garments which his
loving followors took 'from their own
persons to supply the place of a saddle.
The conduct of the disciplos is, however,
just as honoi'iibio to thorn and just as
much to the h mur of Christ as if they ' conference, was mado a D. D. by Dart
had furnished him tho most oostly saddle, j mouth college at its lato commencement.
trimmed with cloth of gold. They fur
nished the best they had, and sovereignty
can rightly ask no more. When once tho
ride toward the city is begun, we have a
picture upon which imagination and
thought may well lovo to linger. Christ
in his dignity and sorrow (for he wept
when the city of solemnities came into
view) is the central figure; bofore hiui in
eager adoration the multitudes carpet the
way with their garments and strew it with
palm branches, ami all the while they
unite with the crowds that follow after,
irylng, Hosanna, blessed is he that comoth
in the name of tho Lord.
Scholars tell us that the word Ilosinna
is the imperative form of the verb moan
ing to save, united with a pirlicle equiva
lent to our " now." S ive, now, would
bence be the senso of tho word which
came doubtless to ba use! almost like an
interjection. Tho root of the word is the same
that appears in Joshua or Jesus, and the
idea of salvation is prominent in all those
words. Joined with these expressions of
Joyful adoration were others which be
trayed the ignorance and worldly notions
which still possessed the minds of the
people They wero th'f'.'tig of the
splendor and glory of David's reign, and
looked to see the return of that glory,
while they failed to understand the real
mission of him whom they hailed as con
quering king and savior of their people.
The procession advances toward the city
and is met by a throng from within the
walls, and in one vast enthusiastic crowd
they enter within the city gates and go up
to the temple upon Mariah. It is probable
that Jerusalem had not witnessed such a
scene, and unless we admit special divino
restraint we can hardly ncoount for tho
fact that tho Jewish rulers in their hitter
hatred did not then seize upon him and
put him to death. Though such a thing
might havo been almost impossiblo while
tho multitude expected so confidently that
Jefus would soou proclaim himsolf their
king and rid them of tho hated Romans.
Jesus entered the temple and lookod
about upon his Fathor's house ; ho vicwod
tho Holy City in all its rcadinoss for tho
coming foast, and the day being ended ho
sought rest and retirement with tho loved
ones at Bethany.
To the poople tho day had boon ono of
disappointment, for Christ had not assum
ed tho place they hoped to see him take.
Co the Master the day had boon one of
keenest sorrow, for lie saw not only the
awful doom awaiting the sacred city, but
he walked in the shadow of Gethsemane
and Calvary.
Personal
Rev. M. D. Jump of Bennington has :i
vacation through tho month of August.
Ex-Gov. J. G. Smith delivers the ad
dress at the coming state fair at Burling
on. Rev. E. W. Whitney of the Brattleboro
Cniversalist church spends a fonr weeks'
vacation near Boston.
Rev. Dr. II. M. Storrs purposos to re
sign tho secretaryship of the American
ionie missionary society.
The salary of Rev. Dr. John P. Now
man of tho Madison avenue Congregation
tl church has boen increased to $10,000.
W. J. Bray of St. Johnsbury has been
warded the contract of building the new
Presbyterian church at that place.
Rev. Mr. Perry of Brunswick, Mo., is
conducting nt the Congregational church,
East llardwick.
Ralph, the promising son of Rev. U. II.
Parker of the Grafton Baptist church, died
last week, Wednesday, after a brief illness.
C. B. Simpson and wife of Sheffield have
been engaged to have charge of tho board
ing house, Seminary Hill, for tho ensuing
school year.
Win. Taylor is preparing a book upon
"Self-supporting Missions." For this
work he is doubtless better qualified than
any other man living.
John Wesley's obituary notice of Fletch
er was brief yet comprehensive: "A pat
tern of all holiness, scarce to be paralleled
in a century."
Dr. Fitzgerald, editor of the official
organ of the M. E. church, south, is re
covering from a dangorous illness, though
still unable to be at his post.
The two sons of Rov. W. M. Donslow of
Rutland certainly ought to bo patriotic.
One was born July 4th, 1878, and the
other July 4th, 1882.
It is rumored that Dr. Thayer, one of
tho professors who havo resigned chairs at
Andover, will go to Harvard divinity
school, Cambridge
Ex-Secretary Evarta says tho 'NJUti uicd
als given to those of the Chicago convention
who poriiistcntly votod for Grant should
havo boon tuado of boaton brass."
Bishop Foster proachod iu tho People's
church last Sunday, this being his last sor
vico In Boston previous to bis departure
for the tour of our missions in India and
China.
Simon Willard, an alumni of the scmin
ary at Montpeller and a rocent graduate
of a Now York modical collego, Is at home
in Pawlet preparatory to settling and
commencing practice.
John Bright has resigned his position in
the English cabinot, becauso of his nou
approval of tho government's foreign
policy. In this Mr. Bright is truo to tho
convictions of a lifo time.
A Venetian artist has completed a glass
mosaic portrait of Gon, Garfield, whioh is
to be bnng bosldo tho picture of Abraham
Lincoln in tho old House of Roprosenta
lives at Washington.
Tho Rev. E. C. Boaz, presiding elder of
the Fort Scott district, Kansas, wants two
"live young mon" to help him, promising
thum "plenty of work, a grand opportuni-
ty, and fair Bupport
Rev Clifford II. Smith of West Brattle
boro, just graduated from Yale thoologic'
, al seminary, reoently began his labors as
pastor of tho Congregational eburchos of
, 1'ittsQeld and Sherburne.
Rev. K it. Morideth, of Philip's Congre
gational church, South Boston, and form'
erly of the M. E. church, New England
The late Mrs. Elinor Parker Long, ol
Philadelphia, bequeathed an estate valued
at 200,000 for the establishment of a bom
for orphan girls in that city, especially the
orphan daughters of union soldiers and
firemen.
Miss Tourger, daughter of Dr. Eber.
Touigor of the celebrated New England
conservatory of music, having been teach
er of music for three years at St. Agnes
Episcopal ladies' school at Bellows Falls,
has resignod.
Rev. Dr. A. M. Shlpp has been elected
dean of the theological faculty of V'ander
bilt university in place of the lamented
Dr. T. O. Sumnors, who died during the
recent session of the general conference of
the M. E. church, sonlh.
Charles II. Goldtbwailo, a graduate of
Harvard college, second in a class of 183,
with several years' experience, has been
chosen principal of the St. Albans graded
school.vice S. W. Landon who resigned to
accept a similar position in Burlington.
W. 11. Barnes, an old chum of the assist
ant editor of this paper, has just graduated
with high rank at the medical department
of the U. V. M. The best wishes of his
many friends will go with him, and wish
him abundant success in whatever place
he may cast his lot.
The lato Rev. H. O. Higley and his sons.
Rev. II. P. Higley of Beloit, wis., Prof.
K. H. Higley of Middlebury and A. E.
Higley of Castleton, are all natives of
Castleton, fitted for college in Castleton
and were graduated at Middlebury be
tween tho years 18;)0nd 18G0.
Tho Boston Journal says: Probably
the wealthiest sexton in tho world is the
ono who, every Sunday, ushers to their
seats tho congregation of St. James' chap
el, Elboron, N. J. Ho lives near by in a
$70,000 cottage, has a bank account of sev
eral millions and is known to the world as
G. W. Childs, propriotor of the Philadel
phia Public Ledger.
Another Veruioulor, resident iu tho
West, is likoly to bo a member of uou
grcss. Rollin A. Horr, twin brother cf
Iieprcsoutativo Horr of Michigan, has just
been nominated by the republicans of tho
fourteenth Ohio district after uOo ballots.
Tho brothers are natives of Waitsfiold,
Washington county.
Rev. Ohan Gladzakyan, a native of
Torsus, Asia Minor, converted through
missionary effort, is now in this country
studying medicine. He has taken ono
coarse of lectures at Burlington and com
pletes his preparation at Dartmouth, when
he will return to work among bis own
peoplo as pastor and physician.
The Boston Jurml says somebody hns
spoken of Gladstone enthusiastically as
"the grand old man," and the phrase hav
ing boen taken up and ridiculed. Sir
Stafford Northcoto, the loader of the con
servatives in tho Houso of Commons, has
been dubbod "tho grand old woman," be
causo of his "general tea party aspect."
Prof. C. W. Bennott, of Syracuse Uni
versity, ia spending his summer vacation
in Boston and Cambridge, not in sight see
ing and pleasure hut in historical research
in the great libraries of those cities He
is at work upon his history of Christian
Archnsology, which is nearing completion.
He has bad bis work in hand since 1869
and hopes to havo it ready for the printers
next year.
The Rev. J. B.Vernim.father of Dr.Leroy
M. Vernon, superintendent of tbo Italian
mission, and of Dr. S. M. Vernon, pastor
of Roberts Park church, Indianapolis, died
in Mt. Pleasant Grovo, June 16, 1882. He
was a member of tho M. E. church from
boyhood, a local preacher for forty years,
and win greatly respected and beloved in
tho community where he lived.
J. J. Lafferty, D. I) , says in the ilich-
mond Christian Adcoeile, "The Yankees
bother us. They were on the wrong side
in the war. Tlioy are given to heresies.
They are avaricious; anil, somehow,
nearly every morning in opening the
papers some Yankee has given a million
to found a charily, endow a college or
start a 'plank' for the poor. All those
queer things piuzle us. The religion of
the Yankee runs to udder for the feeding
of the race. The religion of the south, we
fear, is likely to develop in the line of
Texas cattle in horni, elevated, hard and
hollow."
Rev. Moses Fatleo, famliarly called
Father" Patloo, and widelv known in
Northern Now Hampshire, died recently
at Bloouifiold, Vt., nt tho ngo of 71. He
began as a preacher in the Methodist
Church nearly half a century ago, and
continued in active work until 1R81. His
stations extended not only in New Hamp
shire and Vermont, bin into Canada. He
was mainly instrumental in tho erection of
the fiuc Methodist church at Colebrook.
His character was blameless and bis long
lifo was one of groat usefulness. Tho
doeoasod was frequently called to civil
positions, having beco lour times elected
a representative to tho logislattiro of'
Vormont and onco to that of New Hamp
shire, although it proved that ho had not
been longonoueh a rcsidonl of the stato to
qualify him for tho seat. Tho funeral
occured al Holland, Vt., his old home,
Rev. D. J. Smith of tho New Hampshire
cenferonca otriciatcd. "Father" Tattoo
left a widow and two children.
Levi Scott, D. D., one of tho bishops of
tho M. E. church, diod at his homo at
Odessa, Delaware, on Thursday, July 1.3.
Ho had been vory fceblo for several
months, and tho death seemed to result
from a gradual giving way of tho vital
powers. Simpson's Cyclopedia of Meth
odism says: "Bishop Soott was born in
Odessa, Del., October 11, 1882. His par
ents wero mombors of tho church, his
father being a class leader and local
preacher, wbo became in 1803 a member
of the Philadelphia conference, but died
during tho following year. He labored
on a farm until his sixteonth year, when
be engagod in mechanical operations. In
1822 be was oonvertod and united with the
ohurch, and aflor groat hesitation and
under a thorough conviction of duty, he
was licensed to preach in 1825, and the
following Tear was received into the
Philadelphia conference. Ilia appoint
monts were successively to Talbot, Dover,
St. Georgo's charge, Philadelphia and
West Chester. In 1832, on account of
impaired health, ho recoivod a supernu
nierary relation, but tho following year he
was able to resume work. In 1834 ba was
unexpectedly appointed presiding eldor of
Delaware district. He continued to fill
oa9toral charges until, in 1810, nt the
arnest solicitation of Dr. Durbin, he ac
cepted the position of principal of Dickin
son grammar school at Carlisle. He held
that position for three years, when he
returned again u the pastoral work which
was more congenial to bis taste. Ho was
elected a member of every general eon ter
mer from 183() to 1852. At theenoral
-onference of 1818 ha was elected assistant
wok agent at New York. After hiving
-erved four years ho was in 1852, elected
-lishop Ho has traveled extensively
hrougb all the states and territories. The
winter after his election he sailed for
Africa and visited the mission! on that
coast, holding the session of the Liberia
'onference, and he has tlirco times visited
the conferences of the Pacific. At the time
of his death lie was tho senior bishop of
the church, and was greatly beloved by
all wbo knew liltu. May the mantle of
bis saintly lifo tail upon his followers."
Congratuliitoy Address Iu the Methodist
Ministers Iowa.
Tho recent grand victory for prohibition
iu Iowa was promoted in no slight degree
by the constant co operatiou of the Meth
odist clergy and people of that state, in the
canvas and the vote for constitutional o
hibition. Bishop Hurst has therefore pub
lished tho following:
To the mir.itters of the Melkoilist EpUcopal
ehureh of Iowa :
With glad and grateful heartll congrat
ulate you on the magnificent triumph of
me prohibitory amendment on June 27th
On that day the sun set on redeemed Iowa.
Your part in this conflict has been worthy
of the first decades in the history of our
church. Your irresistiblo appeals; your
tireless work by day and night, at home
and abroad ; your sympathy with the suf
ferer, and charity towards the authors of
his sorrow; your intelligent presentation
of the evils of intemperance, to tho young
and old, to the English, Germnu, and
Scandinavian tongues; your unanimous
and simultaneous uprising even before the
general assembly placod the privilege of a
vote bofore tho peoplo; and your patience
in the midst of innumerable obstacles and
much misrepresentation, havo helped iu
no small measure to achicvo a victory
whose territorial area and scope in time
no faith or imagination is strong enough
to measure.
When the first woslorn itiuerauts preach
ed in tho cabins and out on the broad
prairies between tho Mississippi and tho
Missouri thny encountered only the Indiau
and tho wild boast, and all tho inconveni
ences of an unsettled country. But in
every community whore you have lived
and labored, you have had intemperance
as your constant foe, fortified by wealth,
talents, social arts and great persistence.
Your heroism, however, has prove 1 to bo
of the same firm, fine fibre as that of our
fathers, and posterity will give it as secure
a place in Its love and gratitude. But our
victory will be barren, and our accounta
bility greater, if we do not embrace tho
now wider opportunity ot the good work
of gathering in souls, of healing the wounds
made by uncontrolled intemperance, and
of guarding and educating our people on
those more insidious dangers of intoxicat
ing drinks from which no popular verdict
or righteous legislation can exempt us.
To this new phase of tho great reform let
us now address ourselves. For what you
have done toward tho triumph of the
27lh, our 80,000 members in Iowa, and the
millions of our communion in this and dis
tant lands, will thank you, and join with
you and your congregations in thanks
giving to him who gave bis Inspiration at
tbe beginning of this great contest, and In
prayer that he may give us the courage
and wisdom to reap the best possible har
vest from tho signal popular triumph of
over thirty thousand majority in Iowa over
the biting serpent and stinging adder of
intemperance. John i. Hurst
CUIUOSITIES Ol' AN Owis Nest. It is
commonly known that owls havo two or
three sets of young in the course of a sea
son ; but as far as I can make out, after
sitting upon tho hrst egg, or pair of eggs,
and hatching tho birds, no further eH'ort in
incubation is mado. Directly after the
owlets are out of the shell, tin; hen bird
lays one or two more beautiful white oirgs,
but does not sit, devoting herself to feed
ing the insatiable little monsters she has
started into life, and the warmth of their
bodies hutches tho next owlet. This one
hatched, nrcthor is laid with the same re
suit, and it Is vivified by I lie yoong one's
warmth, escapes from the shell, and once
more an egg or two occupy the nest, so
that in the same corner, in a shallow,
downy spot, may lie seen an owlet three
parts grown, nnotnor halt grown, another
a few hours old, and a couple of egos
four stages in all; and, if inspected by
day, the three .youngsters will he seen
huddled together in very good fellowship,
one and all asleep, and the eggs in the
coldest place outside. The sight is not
pleasing, as may be supposed from the
description of tho young owls; but if the
eye is offended, what is to he said of the
nose? Take something in a bad state of
putrefaction and arithmetically squaro it,
the result will bo an approach to the foul
odor of a nest of owls in hot weather. The
reason is not far to seek, when it is borne
in mind that tho owl is a bird of Diev;
but all the same I have visited the ucsl
earlier in the soason, and found the place
quite sccutlesi, and tbat, too, at a time
wuen rangcti in a semicircio about ttie
young were no less than twenty-two young
rats and full grown mice, so fresh that
they must havo been caught during the
previous night, tho larder being supple
mented by a couple of young rabbits. If
then a pair of owls dispose of so many
spcoiuionts of mischievous vermin in a
night, they certainly earn the title of
friends of man.
It may bo argued that, inhabiting it
pigeon ooto, the youngstors wore the off
springs of two or thrco pairs ; but as far as
I can mnko out, a single pair occupy the
coto from year to year, tho young birds
scoking a homo elsewhere; and I may say
for certain that the old birds do not come
near their young and eggs by day, gener
ally passing tho timo in somo ivy-shaded
treo while the sun is above tbo borison,
faraway from tbo ooto containing their
sleeping babes. When fully Hedged and
nearly ready to fly, if tho strong scent is
risked and a visit paid, tho birds start into
something approaching to wakcfulnes,
and, huddling up togethor, will staro and
hiss at the intruder, ready to resist hand
ling with beak and claw and a clutch
from a full-grown owl's set of claws is no
light matter ; for nature has endowed them
with most powerful muscles, and an
adaptability for their use that is most strik
ing. When bunting for food, tbo owl
glides along on silent wing beside somo
barn or stack, and woe betide the cower
ing mouse or ratling that is busy on the
grain I As the owl passes over, down
goes ono log, and four sharp claws have
snatched tbe little quadruped from tbo
ground, the four points seeming to slope
toward a common centre, so tbat escapo
is impossible. Every solzure is performed
with tho claws; the beak being reserved
for dividing tho animal when too largo,
and not degradod into forming nn instru
ment for solzure or carriage of prey. I
have bad owls calmly seated upon my
nana, out ior a very snort time, and 1 can
not recommend ladios to try them for
pete; for the sooner they aro perched
olsewbere tho more ploasant it is for the
skin, their claws being exquisitely sharp,
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tii it oi.d w tat.
HuJr tin Ahk-lr apple tree.
Lioklntr ap to the sun and hreexi.
Walled at, hU with tta moaay bauds,
rue stieioat well of tbe homestead staud;
Its time worn rurb In the irraeB mink deep,
Uib la the air Ita till weU sweep.
Where the sailing swallows oorue and iro.
Or sun themselves in a slanting: row.
Feathery fonts wave over the eds-os.
Uuchene cling- Id th. stonr letbres.
And all tbe stars ol the evening sky
In Its sUent darknau seems to lie.
Warfarins- men with wrarr feet
'Hop to drink of Ita waters sweet
To watch the buekt with orjrstal dip
Brliu np ite oomfort for ere and Up.
tnd the laborers come whan the snn Is hkru;
With tkeir dinner-paUa. from the aelds near by
iid. renin then, will sometimes tell
Of Michael Orlswold' who do the well.
0 vraudslre mine, you did not know.
When yon dux tho well so lone uo -
Wlinu you irs'bered tbe stones and piled in a heap.
And laid tho foundations strong; and deep:
When you yoked your oien at break of day.
And into the forest plodded away.
Where yon wakened the yornw birds out of their sleep
As you foiled a tree for the Ions; well-iweep-
r.lttle yon knew when you rearet It bhch.
With Its i-halu and bucket to swlna- thereby.
Aud the post In the ((round did Irmly nt.:
What au excolleut Job you made of it.
Ynu did not know tbat the well's smooth face
Would bear the ptctureshf all your race;
That lootr after you had passed away.
Tour ctiildreii, HilldrHi would round It flay.
When 1 wa a child t need to see
Plnasnut face looking- with me:
Fattit-r aud mother-kin and klu
Shadowed Ita quiet depths within.
Now lieu I lean and look, ah, me !
What Is the picture that I see?
A weary face, some tresses gray.
And tho tran'inil hea vena-far away.
ilariu 11. Ilu tint.
A WIFK TO HER 111X11 ll
Ouc of us, dcar-
iiut one
Will alt by a bed with a marvelous four,
Aud i'laap a hand,
ti rowlnx cold as it feels for the spirit laud
Darling which one ?
One of us, dear--
IJi.t oue
Will htaud by theother's eolhu bier.
And look aud weep,
Wltile tlioHo marble lips strange silence keep
Harlinif, which one ?
One of us. dear -
ltitt ouc -liy
an opeu grave will drop a tear.
And homeward go,
Ttie anguish orau unshared grief to know -
Darliug which ouo ?
i uc of us, darliug, it must be,
II may be you will slip from me:
Or perhaps my life will first be done;
Which uue t
The Old, Old Story.
Wo've had a most awful timo in our
houso. There have been over so many
robberies in town, and everybody has
boen almost afraid to go to bed,
lue robbers broke into old Dr. Smith's
house one night. Dr. Smith is one of those
doctors that don't give any medicine ex
cept cold water ; and he heard the robbers
and eanio down stairs in his nightgown,
wan a nig umbrella in bis band, nnd said.
"If you don't leave this minute, I'll shoot
you."" And the robbers they said, " Olio!
that umbrella isn't loaded;" and thoy look
hiui nnd tied his bands and feet, and put a
mustard plaster ever his month so that
be couldn't yell, and then they filled the
wash tub with water and made him sit
down iu it, and told him tbat now he'd
know how it was himself, and went away
and left him, and he nearly froze to death
before morning.
Father wasn't a bit afraid of the robbers,
but bo said ho'd fix something so that he
would wake up if they got in the house.
So ho put a coal scuttle full of coal about
half way up the stairs, and tied a string
across tho upper hall just at the bead of
the stairs. Ho said that if a robber tried
to come up stairs, he would upset the coal
scuttle and make a tremendous noise, and
that if he did not happen to upsot it he
would certainly fall over the string at the
top of tho stairs. Ho told us that if we
hoard the coal scuttle go off in the night,
Sue and mother and I were to open tbe
windows and scream, while he got up and
shot tho robber.
The first night, after father had fixed
everything nicely for the robbers, he went
to bi'd, and then mother told him that she
ba l forgotten to lock the back door. So
father he said, "Why can't women some
times remember something," and he got
up and started to go down stairs in tho
il:irk. lie forgot all about the string and
fell over it wiih an awful crash, and then
b i'-ui to fall down stairs. When ho ''ot
Irilf way down he met the coalscuttle
and that went down the rest of the way
witu linn, ami you never in your lite Heard
anything like the noise the two of them-
made. vVe opened our windows and cried
murder and lire and thieves and some
men that wero going by rushed in and
picked father up and would have taken
him off to jail, ho was that dreadfully
black, it 1 had a t told them wbo he was.
But this was not the awful time that I
mentioned when I began to write, and if
I don't oegin to tell you about it I shan't
have any room left on my paper. Mother
gave a dinner party last Thursday. There
were ten ladies and twelve gentlemen,
and one of them was that dreadful Mr.
Mardiu witli a cork leg, tni other im
provements, as Mr. Travers calls them.
Mother told me not to let her see me in
the dining room or she'd lot me know;
and I meant to mind, only I forgot, and
went into tbe dining room just to look at
the table, a few minutes before dinner.
I was looking at the raw oysters, when
Juno that's tho girl thnt waits on the
table said, "Bun, Master Jimmy; hero's
your mother coming." Now 1 hadn't
time enough to run, so I just divod undor
the table, and thought I'd stay there for a
miuulo or two, until mother went out of
the room nai.i.
It wasn't only mother that camo iu, hut
ia tvlipiln e.inininv an I tlinu ant iliiwrn in
the whole company, nnd thoy sat down to
dinner without giving mo any chanco to
got out. I toll you, it was a dreadful sit
uation. I had only room onough to sit
still, and pearly evory timo I movod I hit
somobody's foot. Once I tried to turn
around, nnd while I was doing it I hit my
head against tho tablo so hard that I
thought I had upset somothing, and was
sure tint peoplo would know I was there.
But fortunately ovorybody thought that
somolio ly olso had joggled, so 1 oscapod
for that liuio.
Il was awfully tirosomu waiting for
those people to got through dinner. It
seemed as if they could nevor oat enough,
and when they were not eating thoy were
all talking at once. It taught me a lesson
against gluttony, and nobody will ever
find mo silting for hours and hours at the
dinner tablo. Finally I mado up my
mind that I must have somo amusement,
and as Mr. Martin's cork leg was closo by
mo, I thought I would have some fun
with that.
There was a big darning needle in my
pockit, that I kept there in case I should
want to use it for anything. I happened
to think that Mr. Martin couldn't feel any
thing tbat was done to his coik leg and
tbat it would be great fun to drive the
darning needle into It, so that peoplo who
didn't know that his log was cork would
see it, and think he was suffering drond
fully, only ho didn't know it. So I got
out tho ueodle, nnd jammed It into his
leg with botli hands, so that it would go
in good and deeu.
Mr. Martin gave a yell that made my
balr run cold, and sprang up, ana nearly
nyset tho table, and fell ovor his chair
.backward, and wasn't there a circus in
that dining-room! I had mado a mistake
about tho leg, aud run tho neodlo into his
real one.
I was dragged oat from under tbo table,
and But I needn't say what happened to
mo after. It was "the old, old story," t
Suo says when she sings a foolish son;
about up at five o'clock in tho morning
as if she'd ever been awnko at that time
in her whole life! Jimmu Urown, in liar'
per's Youny 1'copfc.
Do not wear your troubles and inisfor
tunes all on the outside like an over ooat
but keep them hidden within like a ragged
back vest. Lowell Citiien.
In all cases of slander currency, when
ever the former of the lie is not to be found
the injured parties should have a right lr
come on any of the indoraers. Shcridiir.
They don't havo rains out west. A clou.'
just saunters np and examines a town an
tnen collapses right over it. Nobody e
capes but the newspaper reporters and th
book agents. Atlanta Constitution.
There is a boy in Columbia couniy, N
Y., who has living a great great-grand
mother, three great grandmothers, iw.
grandmothers, and two grandfathers. If
tbat boy doesn't know the taste of pre
serves, he is not awake to Ids advantages
Noise is the music of industry. Thai
will do on general principles, but wben
tbe sweot cherub of the honsehold is try
ing to work the tight-fitting cover off a
glass jar full of jam without his mother V
knowing it, there isn't much noiso in the
operation, yet there can be found a better
sample of industry. Yonl er Qatctte.
The earth itself is the best of all disin
fectants, owing to its antiseptic and de
odorizing properties. It is porous In the
highest degree, and readily transmits air
through its surlace, thus changing to
healthy action the otherwise obnoxious
fermentation. It does not act so rapidly,
or rather its results are not so instantly
apparent as those following the use of the
chlorides, but its effect is more widespread
and lasting.
Iifc is made of little things. He wbo
travols over a continent must go step by
step. He who writes a book must do it
sentenco by sentence; ho who learns a
science must master itjfact by fact.and prin
ciple by principle. Of what is the happi
ness of our lifo mado up? Littlo courto
sics, little kindnesses, ploasant words,
genial smiles, a friendly letter, good
wishes, and good deeds. Ono ina inilllion,
onco iu a lifetime, may do a heroic action ;
but the little things that make np our life
come every day and every hour.
A Presbyterian minister relates the fol
lowing, which camo under his observation,
to illustrate'the wit of southern ex-slaves:
A little colored boy was brought before
the overseer to be whipped. He had hoen
on his master's watermelon patch. "What
were you there for?" asked the overseer.
"I wasn't stealing your melons," was tho
answor, "I was prayin'." "Prayin', were
you. Well, want to hear you pray now.
Down on your knees and get at it. I'ray,
or you'll get the cowhide." The boy saw
he was cornered, but his wit saved him.
Kneeling down, he raised his eyes and
clasped hands toward hoaven and offered
the following petition: "Lord, dismiss
us with thy blessing."
It is Charles Dudley Warucr who urgos
that boys should bo caught young, put in
a barrel and fed through tho bung-hole
until they havo arrived at years of discre
tion. And yet after many and forcible
reasons for regarding boys as blessings in
disguise, and so well disguised as to be
mistaken for something quite the contrary,
most everybody will agree with tho eulogy
he pronounces upon the boy. "After all,"
he says, "there is something I like about
a boy." Boys are certainly a nuisance,
and yet in their most obnoxious aspect
they have an invaluablo disciplinary value,
which all who have nothing to do with
them cannot sulliciently admire.
A minister who had lost his child askod
another minister to come and preach for
him. Ho came nnd told that ho lived on
ono side of a river and felt vory litllo in
terest in the people on the other side until
his daughter was married and went over
there to live, and then evory morning he
wont to tho window and looked over that
river and felt very much concerned about
that town and all the peoplo there. "Now,"
said no, "I think as this child has crossed
another river heaven will be much dearer
than it has ever been before. Shall we
not lust let our hearts and affections be set
on the other sido of the river? It is but a
stop; it Is but a veil; wo shall soon be in
the other world."
Oive the young and struggling a word
would not ,aV(J tho,0 ,,ufl9 jn j ' .
dow boxes without water, nor refuse tt
of encouragement when you can. You
to
open the shutters that the sunlight might
tall upon mem; but you would leave somo
human flower to suffer from waut of ap
preciation or the sunlight of encourage
ment. There are a few hardy souls that
can struggle along on stony soil shrubs
that can wait for the dews and sunbeams
vines that climb without kindly training;
but only a few. 1,'ttnr the kind word
when you can seo that it is deserved. The
thought that "no ono cares and no one
knows" blights many a bud of promise.
Bo it tho young artist at the casol, tho
young preachor In his pulpit, tho work
man at his bench, tho boy at his mathe
matical problems, or your little girl at the
piano, give what praise you can.
How Jamib Woi:iii-.!. "I'm going to
have the nicest kind of a garden," said
Jamie one morning. "I'm goiug touiako
it in that pretty little spot just over tho
bauk. l'apa said I might have that for
my own. 1 mean to have some flowers
in pots aud some in Uuls, just liko tho
gardoner, and then .you can havo fresh j
! rjut OVer llicro now.
I .......
ones every day, mamma. i iu going
jamio started oil bravely wiih his spade
on his shoulder. But when, aftor an hour.
mamma wont to soo how lie was frottinrf
on, sho found him lying ou the grass with
the ground untouched :
"Why, Jamie, where is your garden?"
"I was iust lying horoaud thinking how
nico it will look when it is all dono," said
Jamio.
Mamma shook her head : "lint that
will not dig the grouud nor make the flow
ers grow, little boy. No good dood in nil
tho world was cvor dono by only lying
still aud thinking about i?'Thc Sun
beam. Tim Trouble at mi: l'osr uti e. A
Milesian female approaches Sho is short
and angular, with a hatchet shaped face
and a hatchet edged voice : "Whore's mo
lotthor?" is hor abrupt question. "What
lettor?" askod tho clerk. " Nivor mind
now; I want me three chits." "What thrco
oonlsP" "The three chits I gov yo to sond
a lotthor to Baltimuor." "What do you
want tho throo cents for, then?" "Because
tbe letther nivor wint." "And how do
you know it noverwent?" "Beoausewhcn
me sister answored it sho said she niver
got It." 'How could she answor it if sho
never got it?" "Arrah, hould your head!
Will yor givo me three cents, or won't
ye?" "No, ma'am; you must bo crazy to
ask it." "Is it mo crazy?" "Certainly;
crazy as a bod bug.'1 "Bad luck to ye,
an' is it the likes of you that tin re to call
me a bed hug? Is thoro any other way of
gottin' nt ye excopt through this little
windy?" asked the now furious woman.
"No, ma'am, no other way." "Faith, it's
lucky for you, thin. Av there was, I'd
come and welt yc liko nn old shoo. Niver
mind," oontinucd tho lady, as sho wont
away, "I'll tell me husband to-night, and
he'll dot tho two eyes of yo, so he will."
Education for the Farmer.
It is a mistake to suppose, as was at om
line supposed, that education is on'
leeded if a boy is to be a doctor or a law
or or a minister. Tho chj.-ct of cdueatim
' to tench the stmlenl as much as posMb',
f tho most valunble facts that are known
ind to train him so lha' he can stiily ami
tteep up with tho times in whatever ne
ihings are discovered, nnd if need be i,
discover new thii.gs for himself If yen
want a bov t bo a goid mechanic send
him to a school where he nn atmlv on
gineering nnd drawing; if ymt wuit hii..
to be a civil engineer you do not sum
him out carrying a cnain, hut you sen 1
him to a school where he can study civ
ngineering; and if von wm a hoy I
"wcome a chemist you do nut make him a
elork in a drug store, but send him to
wll appointed laboratory. In every d.
pjrtment of work meu aro making :t 1
rancesnnd improvements and inventions;
ind if a man is to keep np with tho time
be must be thinking and reading as wi-1
ts working; if he works to day as he (tin
e. years ago he will get left behind; an.
d bny is to hold his own with the bes
h . must havo tho ndvatnages of the bust
It is just as true of farmer's sons as of ant
ither class of boys. It is getting to b.
gcnenlry understood that lawyers nnd
ualn hJ-s and doctors nro not neeessarih
wiser or greater than the rest of mankind ;
nor are they tho only ones who need to
use their brains. It" you say that a farm
er's boy, or girl either, doesn't need cdti
eating, you say that tho amount of intelli
gence nnd brains needctl to work and
manage a farm is less than in any other
pursuit. That is not true. If farming is
lo be mado to pay, if it is to be just as
lionorablo to be a farmer as to he a mcr
chant or a lawyer or a mechanic, if the
eomforts and requirements of civijized lift
aro to be brought into nnd kept in tin
farmers' homes to tho same extent they
tro in thoso of their city friends, If a
farmer's sons and daughters are to feel
that they havo, and have a right to have,
the same culture and intelligence and
respectful consideration that other people
havo, then thoso sons and daughters
must havo tho samo chanco for tin educa
tion that is given to every one clso. And
if this is not so, if farming is a business
that doesn't need brains and scientific
education for tho same, then urge every
ooy nna gin oi you, acquaintance to leave
tho farm ami get into some business where
they can look down on tho lifo their
fathers led. Aud if that time ever comes
wo shall indeed havo a lower class, and
this country will no longer be a republic,
but will be governed by nn aristocracy ;
and wo will have to chango the declara
tion of independence so that it shall lead
that all men except farmers are created
free and equal, and that nil men except
farmers are entitled to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happinoss. That is just exactly
what it comes to. And that is just exactly
what it isn't coming to, because all men
know better. Farming never was makino-
such progress as it is at tlio present time;
never until now wero agricultural books
and papers so numerous; never before
were so many farmers' sons and daughters
fitting themselves for life-work in our
higher schools.
Within the recollection of middle-aged
men, there has grown up in this country,
as well as in other countries, what we
may regard as thi most encouraging sign
of the times a demand for a practical
education. It is not tho first time in the
history of tho world that such a demand
has been mado; aud it always means
intellectual growth.
In tho fifteenth century, when the study
ef Greek was introduced into the ICnglish
universities, it was bitterly opposed by
tho most of the teachors of that time; but
there was a real need and demand f jr it,
for the learning of tho timo Lad degener
ated into pedantry, and tho study of Greek
gave new birth to notions, not themselves
now, but which had almost died out, ol
political freedom and iudupundeueu of tile
mind; and no study was ever more prac
ticed than was L,reok nt that tune, lor it
brought in the new current of thought
and feeling which soon gave rlso to tho
English Bible and tho reformation,
religious and civil liberty. Does any one
study Greek for sueh a purpose now? No
one pretends to. It serves ns a means ol
intellectual training of a certain sort, very
perfect in its way; but no ono now ever
thinks to get new ideas or practical meth
ods from it. Undoubtedly classical litera
ture abounds in eloquence and sense; but
the man who, on reading Plato, said
" there wero a groat many now thinirs
'that book" is generally quoted with that
Massachusetts man who, alter attenilin
the performance of "Hamlet," said "he
didn't believe there were ten men in Bos
ton who could write a play like that."
Now we have the complaint that the
time which can bo given to getting an
education is inadequate at the best; and
that tho exclusivo .study of the classics
leaves a youth ignorant of the great scien
tific progress of the age, without knowl
edge of which ho is unlit to enter the
world of business. It is useless for tho
advocates of classical education to pretond
that tho classical courses of study have
been so modified as to contain the main
things in scientific knowlodgo; tho fact is
that all the scientific knowledge a student
in a classical course of study gets is the
merest smatterings; it is very doubtful
whether it is worth what little timo is
spent upon it or not. It would bo butter
to say, what no one disputes, that if a man
wishes to bo a lawyer of a ministor tho
best training ho can get is a classical one;
and let it go at that. Almostcvcry classical
graduate spends a year or so in teaching
as soon as ho is through college; it is
becauso he can find nothing clso to do;
soldom or uover do you Itnd a graduate of
a scientific school teaching, for a bettor
salary awaits hiui iu somo technical work.
This shows that there is a real demand for
strictly scientific education. It cannot bo
objected to this that touching is the high
est grade of work, for, In fact, it is gener
ally tho least in point of enumeration,
anil the condition of our public, schools is
a disgrace to our country.
How, what sort of an education docs a
farmer want? 1 boliovo that tho popular
vordict is right, as it gcnorally is, and
that tho best that tho schools can do for
bim is to teach him as much as possiblo of
the real things ho will cucouutor in his
every day, out-of-doors life. I,ot him be
taught to understand correctly what be
sees, and know tho true reasons for things,
and to havo genuine scientific methods of
thoujht; not desccuding to verbal quib
bles or rhetorical whimsicalities, but
graspiug tho truth as a wholo, with a
thorough, knowledge ot tho principles
which govorn tho details, and with a
practical oxporicnoo of tho best way of
examining tho details themselves. Such
knowledge as this is what evory scientific
school gives ; if it docs not it has no right
to tho name. Wo hear a great deal from
time to timo about tho " breadth of cul
ture " given by a classical education,
which is what men who know nothing but
classics are ploascd to call a " liberal ed
ucation;' now it tends to make a man
more of a man, aud n more intelligent
citizen, as if scientific study did not do the
same. To my mind, it is shcor humbug
to talk of breadth of culture as bolonging
to a man who is ignorant, as most olassical
graduates aro, of a thorough knowledgo
of tho methods and facts of modern scien
tific discovery and research; nnd when
suuh u man tells you that he is able, from
his own overflowing store of knowlodgo,
to give to aspiriuz young peoplo a " liber
al " education, ho is simply boasting of
his ignorance with a rhetorical flourish.
Givo a young man a wide knowledgo of
'he facts and processes and laws of nature;
train him thoroughly In habits of oher
vilion, experimenting, nnu reasoning;
n-till Into his mind a sincere lovo for
s-ckkI literature, especially history, and a
Imlike for meredip!ay; do thext thing,
and ihn chancei are that ho will hn an
intelligent citiz n. a useful menilx'r ot tlm
cmmiinity, anitn mn of good j'ldgm -r.t
net liberal thought.
All sects are diflerent, because they tome
(mm man. Morality is everywhere the
-ime, because it conies Irom (tod. lot-
f'lf're.
' Where are you going, my little man?'
I'o seli iol." "You learn to read? " "No."
Whit do yon do?'' "I wait for school to
be out."
IIusbnd ani Wife. In tho majority of
homes in this country tbe husband ami
wife must work. It is for the family and
for the common gond, and should lt not
only without harm to either of them, t nt a
positive good to both. A good deal of
tboughtfulness on the part of the husband,
aud a largo disregard of Mrs. Grnndv by
both nusbanu anu wito. should go far to
relieve the matter . The work of the hus
band is ontside. It takes him into daily
contact with his fellow men He Is at tho
village store, at the post office, at the black
smith shop, at the grist mill. His work
varies with the seasons, and It is carried
on amid the song of birds nnd tho sough
of tho wind. He must sometimes bido ; he
storm also.
The toil of the wife Is an unvarying round
Little children arc born, but the work goes
on all the same, with the added labor
which each child brings But if with thi
there could be an oeassional "outing," a
genuine appreciation of lior work, and
sympathy expressed for her in Its perform
ance, and a generous sharing of tho oom-
mon gain or income, it would be n great
relief of the tedium and e.are of the work
that devolves on her. It'om iw's Jnumal.
A Citv Under Oi:olni. For the pist
six months tho work of digging the canal
to connect Lakes Kustis and Dora' in order
to open up the more southern lakes of the
Great lake Itegion ot t lorula" has been
prosecuted. The second cutting of Iho
canal was finished last week, under tho
supervision of Mr. T. II. Sprott, who has
been Horn tbe commencement one 01 tna
foremen on tho work. At the outlet of
Lake Dora tho sand bar had already been
cut to tho depth of nearly or quite three
feet on the previous digging, and was dug
ahout two feet deeper last week. At a
dntance ol over tour loet below the old
level of Liko Dora a moundwas discover
ed. Tho first excavations revealed the ex
istence of it clearly defined wall lying in
a lino lending toward the southwest from
where it was struck This wall was com
posed of a dark brovvn sand stone, very
much crumbled in places, but more dis
tinct, more clearly defined, nnd the stone
more solid as the digging increased in
depth. Tho wall was evidently the eas
tern side of an ancient homo or fortifica
tion, as tho slooa of the outer w ill was to
the west.
About eight feet from tho slope of the
eastern wall a mound of sand was struck.
tubedded in the muck formation above
and around it. This sand mound wns dug
into only a few inches, us the depth of the
water demanded but a slight increased
lep h of the channel at that point, but
enou"h was discovered to warrant mo
belief that here on the north western shore
of Liko Dora is submerged a city or town
or fortification older by centuries than
anything vet discovered in that part ot
Florida. Small curiously shaped blocks
of s indstouo, some of tliein showing traces
of lire, pieces of pottery and utensils made
of a mot' led flint, were thrown out by the
meu while working waist deep in water.
V spear head of mottled llint, live nnd a
half inches long by ono and a quarter
inches wide, nietily finished, was taken
from tilts top of the sand mound and abotu
four feet below the water-level of the lakn.
Tracers Herald
Is a. WiiAi.h's Moi Til. Fayal is tho
rendezvous of the whalers from tho neigh
boring whaling grounds, and Captain
C and his wife are much looked np to
by the rest. lie is a sun-burnt fellow,
sober, silent and retiring, like all tho rest,
in the usual shore o'.ottms of the sailor,
blue broadcloth suit and white waistcoat.
His wife is a tine specimen of a smart ynn
kee woman. In hor shiny alpaca gown
and stiff lace rulllo at her throat, she is as
trig ns her own brig. Her husband seems
very proud of her, but is himself of gentler
mien. Kach defers pleasantly to the other,
and neither is self asserting. When Mi s.
C was pressed by a tourist to relate
the story of how she saved her husband's
lifo Willi hot plates, she hesitated, but final
ly began tho recital in a subdued voice,
with an admirable re-nrvo and dieuiiy
and a solemn senso of the awful peril
through which her husbaud had passe, t.
They had captured a whale and got it
alongside to cut up. Thu jiws were un
usually large, nnd the captain himself
was occupied in getting tho upper one,
which contains the whakbono of com
merce, out from the-head. As is uri.il' an
inimcnco iron hook was inserted in the
lower jaw, attached to chains and blocks
in tho rigging by which it was lifted.
Vthin the' cavity of the mouth thus form
ed, ou a platform rigged over the ship's
side, directly abovo tho upper jaw, the
captain stood hard at work, carefully cut
ting out the thin plates of whalobono from
tho upper jaw. His wife came up from
below, looked over the sido at her hus
band's position, and cxclalmod, "Oh,
V illiam. how dangerous that looks!" at
that instant tho hook gavo way, the hor
rible iaw fell, crushing tho staging to
spliuters, shutting tho captain within the
nwttil cavern oi mo mouiu, aim uuiyiug
him under water. Tho oruol tooth pene
trated tho llosh of his back, goring him
terribly; but tho wavos buoyed up tt
great jaw, and the captaiu, with the most
remarkable'presence of mind, fooling him
solf loosed, pushed his foot against the
ship's sido, aud so kickod himself clear of
the whale s inouin 110 was picscu up
for dead and lifted on deok. He made
signs that ho was dying, and tbat ho did
not wish to po carriod polow. "But"
said his wife, "I wa'n't a-goin' to givo
him nn so: I told the uieu to carry mm
below; I stripped off bis wot clothes. His
faoe was gashed and bleeding ;he couldn't
breathe ; ho gaspod now ana toon ; uo wns
cold as death. I told the stoward to boat
all the plates there wore on the imp ana I
oovored him with hot platos till I began
to feel bim growing warm. Then I pour
ed brandy into bim. Ir five days nnd
nights, I and a man from forward watoh
ed and nursed him. I wrapped him in
poultioes as big as a sheet, and changed
nem every twenty minutes to tano wo
soreness out of him; and so he lived.
Then aftor a ruomont's pause, entirely
ignoring her own part in tho matter' tho
captain's wife added earnostly: "But ho
couldn't have lived if he'd been a drink
ing mnn. He'd always been strictly tem
perate ; so, when he needed the brandy, it
brought him right up." It was the best
temperance lecture I ever hoard.
"I dunno about the brandy," said tho
captain quiotly. "I guoss brandy could'nt
havo done much for me without my w'f;
but, anyhow, I hain't never meddled
much with whales' jaw sence.' Prom
"A Summer in the Awes."