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roEM r nenznAViK, a m-'mian port
HORN 1753.
Dcnbavtn, after serving some time
the army, u nude Councilor of
Bttte, Ambassador of Senate, President
of the College of Commerce, Public
Cashier, and In 1903, Minister of Justice. The
rboom on 'God,' by thl author, has been trans
lated Into Japanese, by ordsr of the Erapcror,
and Is hung op, embroidered with gold, In the
Temple of Jeddo. It was translated Into the
Chinese and Tartar languages, written on a
piece of rich silk, and suspended In the Imperial
Palace atPckln.j
O thou Eternal Onol whoso presence bright,
All space iloth occupy all motion guide;
Unchanged through time's all-devastating
flight,
Thou only Godl there Is no God beside.
Being above all beings I mighty onol
Whom nono can comprehend, nnd none ex
plore; Who flllest cxlstonco with thyself alono;
Embracing nil supporting, ruling o'er
Doing whom wo call God, and know no more I
lu Its sublime research, philosophy
May measure out the ocean deep may count
The sands or the sun's rays; but God, for thea
There Is no weight nor measure; none can
mount
Jp to thy mysteries. Reason's brightest spark,
Though kindled by thy light, In vain would
try
trace thy counsel, Infinite and dark;
And thought Is lost ere thought can soar so
high,
E'en like past moments In eternity.
Thou from primeval nothingness didst call
First chaos, then existence, Lord, on theo
Eternity had Its foundation; all
Sprung forth from thee; of light, joy, har
mony, Sole origin all life, nil beautr, thine.
Thy word created all, and doth create ;
Thy splendor fills all space with rays dlvlno;
Thou art, and wcrt, and shall be glorious,
great I
Llfo-glvlng, life-sustaining potentate.
Thy chains the unmeasured universe surround,
Upheld by thee, by thee Inspired with breath!
Thou the beginning with the end hast bound,
And beautiful mingled llfo and death I
As sparks mount upward from tho fiery blaze,
So suns aro born, so worlds spring forth from
theo I
And as the spangles In tho sunny rays
Shine round the silver snow, the pageantry
Of heaven's bright army glitters In thy praise I
A million torches, lighted by thy hand,
Wander unwearied through the blue abyss;
They own thy power, accomplish thy com
mand,
All guy with life, all eloquent with bliss;
What shall wo call them, piles of crystal light!
A gloilous company of golden streams !
Lamps of celestial (ather burning bright!
Suns, lightening systems with their Joyous
fc beams!
But thou to theso art as the noon to night.
Yes, as a drop of water In tho sea,
All this magnificence In thee Is lost;
What aro ten thousand worlds compared to
thee,
And what am I then! Heaven's unnumbered
Thougn uiultlpllcdby myriads, and arrayed
In all the glory of subllmcst thought,
Is but an atom In the balance, weighed
1 Against thy greatness Is a cipher brought
Agalust Infinity 1 What am I, then! Naughtl
Naught I but tho cllluence of thy light divine
Pervading worlds hath reached my bosom
too:
Yes, In my spirit doth tby spirit shine,
As shines tho sunbeam In a drop of dew.
Naughtl but I live, and onjliopc's pinions fly
Eager toward thy presence; for thee
I live cud breathe, and dwell; aspiring high,
Even to tho throno of thy divinity 1
I am, 0 God, and surely thou must be I
Thou art directing, gululnc all thou art I .
Direct my understanding, then, to thee;
Control my spirit, guldo my wandering heart;
Though but an atom 'midst Immensity,
Still I am sometimes fashioned by thy hand,
I hold a middle rank 'twlxt heaven and earth.
On tho last vereo of mortal being stand
KClose to the realms where angels have their
birth,
Just on tne boundaries of the spirit land I
The chain of being Is complete In me:
In me Is matter's last gradation lost,
And the next stop Is splrlt-delty 1 '
I can command the lightning and am dust;
A monarch, and a slavo; a worm, a god;
Whence canto I here, and how! So marvel
ously Constiucted and conceived unknown. This
clod
Lives iurely through somo higher energy;
For from Itself alone It could not be.
Creator 1. Yes I Thy wisdom and thy word
Created me. Thou source of life and good ;
Tnou spirit of my spirit, and my Lord;
Tby light, thy love, In their bright plenitude,
Filled ine with an Immortal soul to spring,
Over the abyss of death, and bade It wear
The garments of eternal day, and wing
Its heavenly fllg.lt boyond this little sphere
Even to Ita source, to thee, Its author, there.
Oh. thought lnf ff able I Oh, vision blest I
(Tboueh worthless our conceptions all of
ttee),
Yet shall thy shadowed Image fill our breast,
And waft Its bomar.0 to thy deity,
Godl thus alone my lowly thoughts can soar;
Thus seek thy presence, being wise and goodt
'Midst thy vast works, admire, obey, adore;
And when the tongue Is iloquant no more,
Tho soul shall speak In tears of gratitude.
"OUT OF BONDAGE."
Frederick Dounlass Tells the Story of His
Escape from Slavery.
In tho. forthcomlnrr numbor of tho
Century Magazlno Frodorlck Douglass,
for tho -first tlmo,' relates tho story of his
osoapo from bondage Nearly fifty
yoars ago, wbMItho flight was mado, it
was tho oustof A tho State of Maryland
to requlro nllAoe'colored JjJoplo to bo
TroYJdeifr5' K'frnv3ts:v without
' -colli rlft. jtonroflbYlonifttod to travel
AdPScrTplion of tho rfson was given
in theso papors, and tho person was ex
amined very rigidly to mako good his
idontlty. A slavcansworlng tho gener
al description would somotimea borrow
or hlro his papors from a free noso,
bnt this was a critical thing to do and
often resulted disastrously to both the
owner and tho borrower. Douglass an
swered no description papers he had
soon, so that plan could not bo adopted
in his case He bad a friend a sailor
who was provided with certain gov
ernment papors that had at least an of
ficial look. Baltimore was his starting
point Ho arranged with a friendly
hackman to tako him to the station,
and arriving thoro himsolf just intimo
tc jump aboard tho train, hoplog in tho
confusion attending' its tiopnrturo to
avoid oxcitlng suspicion. Tho story is
best told In Douglass' own language:
In my clothing I was rigged out in
sailor style. I had on a rod shirt and a
tarpaulin hat, and a black cravat tied
in a sailor fashion carelessly and loosely
about my nock. My knowlodgo of ships
nd sailor's talk camo much to my as
slstanco, for I know a ship from atom
to a torn and from koolson to cross-trocs,
and could talk sailor llko an 'old salt'
was well on tho way to Havre do
Graco boforo tho conductor oamo into
tho nogro car to colloct tickets and ox-
amlno tho papers of his black passen
gers, a his was a critical moment in
tho drama. My wholo future dopondod
upon tho decision of this conductor.
Agitated though I was whllo this coro
mony was proccodlng, still, externally
at loast, I was apparonty calm and self
pojsossnl. Ho wont on with his duty,
examining several colored passengers
boforo reaching mo. Ho was somowhnt
harsh in t?no and poromptory in manner
until ho roachod mo, when, stranjo
enough, nnd to my stirprlso and rellof,
his wholo manner changed. Seolog
that I did not readily produco my freo
papors, as tho othor colorod persons In
tho car had dono, ho sa'd to mo, in a
friendly contrast with his boaring to
ward tho others;"
I supposo you havo your freo pa-
porsP"
To wh'oh I nnsworod:
"No, sir; I novor carry my freo pa-
pors to sea with mo."
But vou havo something to show
that you nro a froomau, havon't youP"
"Yes. sir." I answorou; "I havo a
papor with tho Amorlcan Eaglo on it,
and that will carry mo around tho
world."
At Havro do Graco ho mot a young
colorod man whoa: ho know, nnd who
scorned curious to firm out his business
so far away from homo. Ho got rid of
this difficulty only tooncorntor ;nothor,
At tho window of :v train standing on
asldo-traok directly opposlto tho ono
ho was In sat a man for whom ho had
just boon worKing at Baltimore liy
good luek tho man did not turn around
so ho was undiscovered. On reaching
Philadelphia ho inquired tho wny to tho
Now York trains, and arrived thoro on
tho 4th of Soptombor, 1838, a freo man.
But his troubles wcro nov over. In Now
York ho found that it was hard to find
a trustworthy man oven cl his own
race Largo proiuiums woro offered for
tho return of runaway slaves, ond Jew
of tho mlsorablo darkios In tho city
could withstand tho temptation to bo
tray a brother. For days Douglass
wnndorcd homeless and hungry through
tho streots. Finally he found a good
Samaritan who directed him to tho houso
of David Itugglcs, ono of tho officers of
tho Underground Railroad, who Uvea
on tho corner of Church and Llspcnurd
streots. Thcro tho poor runaway was
hidtlon for sovoral days, nnd thero ho
was jolnod by his intended wifo, a freo
woman from Baltimore and thoy woro
married by a Presbyterian minister,
From Now York tho nowly-mnrricd
couplo went to Now Bedford, Mass.,
whero their freo life began In earnest,
It was In Now Bodford that Douglass,
on tho ndvlco of a colorod friend
changed tho namo given him at birth to
thn one ho now bears. Frodorlck Au
gustus Washington Balloy washisorlgi
nal namo. His friend, having just rond
Tho Lady of tho Lako," suggested,
indeod insisted, upon Douglass ns tho
now surname and Douglass it was
mado.
Egyptian Meohewcs.
n. o. Pole, la Contcmpowr Ucdcw.
Tho holght of tho Great Pyramid tho
tomb of Khuru, of Cheops, of tho fourth
dvnasty, was originally 480 foctO inches,
and tho base 7C4 foot. It is virtually a
mass of solid masonry, for tho rock
must tako up but a small proportion of,
the interior, and passagos havo no np
prociablo rolatlon to tho wholo bulk
Tlin material ohloflv CIMployod Is tho
lim?6tono onwhiohtho structure stands,
which was In part cleared away to mako
a levol platform; but tho liner quality,
usod for tho casting and lining of pas
sagos, was quarried on tho other sido of
tho river, nearly, ten miles away; and
tho rod granlto also usod for Innor ens
ing and for tho sarcophagus, was quao
i-tnrl nt Svnno. nt tho oxtromo
nt tho extromo south
- H,,niilii KK( ntllna ntvfiv hv timTtlon, by moans
XKjl,'t UUttHJ JJJ liaa.J a-.s.V J
OJ i '
course of tho river. Wo mustromom-
bor that tho Third Pyramid, now 203
foot high, was oasod in part, or wholly,
with granlto from Syone How did tho
Egyptians contrivo to transport and
raiso thoso vast blocks of stono. Lot
us look at tho wholo process. First, the
labor of quarrying without any of tho
modern aids of blasting, must havo
boon onormous, especially whon tho
hard red granlto, which turns thoodges
of our modorn stool tools, nnd yot was
out by bronzo onos, had to bo hown ouj
and shaped into acourato blooks. Tho
transport to tho rlvor was., not dlflloult
and tho doscent on rafts durlngtho high
Nllo would havo mot no risks except iy
from sand-banks. At this period of tbor 1
year tho rafts would havo been brought :
by a canal very noar tno sue ox mo
poriod. A causeway, of whloh thpro
aro remains, wemkavo made tho land
tra,pport jogs diiumilt. But it must bo
fnemberod that tho only modo of
moving groat masses on land was by
moans of sledges drawn by men or.
oxen. So far wo seo only a vast expom
dituro of unaided labor; how vast we dl
. . ... t i.'l
not appreciate, lor it 10 ooyonu jmugi.
atlon to master the tremendous wor
wo are constantly confused by our
Ing unablo to oast away tho modorn
notions of facility to whloh wo aro ac
customed. All this preliminary work
was followed by the actual work, of
building. Tho Great Pyramid is not a
mass of piled-up stones; it Is a modol of
construotlvo skill. A sheet of papor
cannot be pi .tied botween tho cosing
stones and wo can scarcely imaglno that
any mortar was spread on tlclr sides.
Tho passages prosont no roughness that
could arroflt tho sarcophagus. Every
thing was exquisitely finished. Allow
ance was mado for tho prossuro of vast
mass. Tho groat chambor of tho sar
cophagus has no less than fivo small
chambers above It to lighten tho super
incumbent weight; over tho entrance of
tho first passage (wo great stones arc
placed In a vaulted position for tho
samo purpose. In conscquonco nothing
has givon way. Our rdal dltnoulty bo
gins whon wo endeavor to explain any
modejby which tho great blocks of
which tho pyramid is built woro placed
In position nt their various heights until
tho top stono was put upon tho summit,
and tho work of casing completed tho
wondor. It would bo cosy to find n
method if it did not cntnll as much
labor as tho building of tho pyramid
itself. Rejecting any such view tho
most roasonnblo conjecturo that can bu
offered is that Inclined planes ran along
tho sides of tho giant stops in which the
pyrnmld was built, and that tho stones
woro dragged up them by thoworkmon.
It is nocossnry hero to nolo then whon
tho mummy of tho King had boon
placed In tho sopulchrnl chambor, tho
ontranco passago was permanently
closed, and hoavy portcullises lowered
at intervals; this needing grcatmcchan
leal skill. Tho chapel attached to each
pyramid for tho sepulchral rites was
built nt a sultablo distance in front of it,
contrary to tho prnctlco In tho tombs of
subjocts around, in which tho chnpol
was constructed in tho mass of tho
masonry, or hown in tho rock. Tho
final closing of ovcry pyramid, which
was tho universal custom, Is an Impor
tant fact, which Is In itself enough to
dlsprovo a sclontilio horosy, n' cording
to which deep secrets wero concoalod In
tho heart of tho Great Pyramid for tho
onllghtmont of romoto generations.
Prof Plnzzl Smvth does not consider
tho rod granlto sarcophagus a royal
coffin, llko every other sarcophagus in
Egypt, but a divinely appointed sacred
standard, connecting tho ancient meas
ures with for instance, tho English inoh.
Yet moro hero, and in other parts of tho
pyramid ho faucics that ho sees the In
dications of profound astronomical
truth?, which wero unknown to tho old
Egyptians. This phantasy has been
pushed to tho lenth of making tho pyr
nmld, not alono n record of an ancient
mlth, but a stono prophecy on tho acs
to comu. An Egyptologist may ridiculo
n theory wnich destroys tho wholo vnluo
of his labors; a logician may protest
against tho soloctlon of ono pyramid on
which to found a hypothesis and tho re
jection of all others, and tho cholco of
measurements which best suit tho ovo-
lutlon of tho fancies of tho speculator;
but tho true answor can only bo given
by good mathematicians. Thoy can
explain tho reasons of tho proportions
which havo been interpreted away from
their original purpose nnd show how
easy It is to provo anything to tho un
initiated by thoso "dangerous play
things," numbers which at last decoivo
tho theorist himsolf. Sir Henry.Jamcs,
Itovnl Engineer, and Prof. Wackcr-
barth, of Upsnlo, havo thus abundantly
refuted tho extraordinary fancies of
Prof. riuzzi Smyth.
What Volcanoes aro Not.
Popular Sclcnco Monthly (or Xou-mbi-r.
"Whatis a volcano?" This is a fa
miliar question, often nudrossou to us
in our youth, which "Catechisms of
Unlvorsal Knowledge" nnd similar
school manuals havo taught us to reply
to in somo such terras as the following:
"A voloano is a burning mountln,from
tho summit of which issuo smoko nnd
flames." This description, says Prof
Judd, is not merely incomplcto and in
adequate ns a wholo, but each individ
ual proposition of whloh it Is mado up
is grossly Inadequato and, what is worso,
porversoly misleading. In tho first
place, tho action which takes placo nt
volcanoes is not "burning," or combus
tlon. and boars, indeed, no rolatlon
whntoi'br to that well known procoss
Nor nro volcanoes necessarily "moun
tains" at all; ossonllally thoy aro
just tho roverso namoly, holes in
tho earth's crust, or outer por
of which a com'
-
n.HH Aiiihin fa L'tittt. lln
botween
tl.V surf aeo and tho interior of our glouo,
hcn mountains do oxlst nt contois of
Jblcnnio a.tlvlty, thoy aro simply tho
ft oaps of materials thrown out of thosj
lrpli'S, nnd must, thereforo, bo regarded
nt as tho cnusus but as tho conso
nances of volcanic action. Nelthu
dons this action always tako placo at
tlui "summits" of volcanio mountains
wljin suoh exist, for eruptions occur
qulto as frequently on tholr sides or at
their b-Bt That, too, whloh popular
farcy regards as "smoko" is really
cordonslng 6team or water vapor, and
thaij supposoa raging "names nro
nollin
'a- Jiias
frjfa t!
g moro th-.n tho glowing light of
i ass i of molten material reflected
hoso vapor-clouds. Tlio namo of
voloano lias boon borrowed from tho
mountain Vuloino.ln thoLlpurl Islands,
whero tho anolonts beliovod that Heph
nwtus, or Vulcan, had his forgo. Vol
canio phenomena havo boeu at all times
regarded with a superstitious awo, which
has resulted in tho generation of suoh
myths as tho ono just montionod, or f
that in whloh Etna was said to havo
been formod by tho mountains under
which nn antry Rod had buried the
rebellious Typhon. Theso stories ohang-
od tholr form, but not tholr essenco,
undor a Christian dispensation, and
Vuloano became rogardod as tho place
of punishment of tho Arlan Emporor
Theodosius, and Etna ns that of Anno
Boloyu, who had sinned by perverting
tho faith of King Henry YIII,
What It Costs.
Dr. nichsrd Newton.
A gentloman was walking in Regent's
Park, in London, nnd ho met a man
whoso only homo was In tho poor-house.
He had como out to tnko tho air, and
oxcltcdtho gentleman's interested atten
tion. Well, my frlond," said tho gentle
man, getting into conversation; "it Is a
pity that a man llko you should bo situ
ated whero you aro. Now may I ask
how old you nroP"
Tho man said ho was oighty yoars
old.
Had you any trndo boforo you bo-
camo ponlloss?"
"Yes, I was a carpontor."
"Did you uso intoxicating drink?"
"No, O no; I only took my boor; nov
or anything stronger; nothing but my
bcor."
How much did your beer como to a
day?"
"0, a slxponco a day, I supposo."
"For how long n time?"
"Well. I supposo for sixty years."
Tho gentleman had taken out his note
book, nnd ho continuod figuring with
his pencil whilo ho wont on talking with
tho man.
'Now, lot mo tell jou." said ho, as
ho finished his calculations, "how much
thnt beer cost vou, my man. You can
go over tho figures yourself."
And tho gentleman demonstrated
that tho monoy, a slxpenco a day for
sixty years, expended in boor, would, if
it had been saved and placed at inter
est, liavo yielded hlm(, oar'y $800 a
year, or an incomo of .?lo a. 'veck for
solf-support.
Lot mo tell you how much a gallon
of whisky costs," said a judge, after
trying a case Ono gallon of whisky
mado two men murdcrors; it mado two
wives widows; aud mado eight children
orphans."
O! its a costly thin.
Talking Birds.
Parrots, starlings and jackdaws aro
not tho only birds that "talk." Birds
not possossod of actlvo power of mel
ody aro usually gifted with varied abil
ities of articulatiou. A hooded crow,
for in jtnnco, can produco an astonishing
variety of complex noises from his
throat, and his talents only lack culti
vation to enable him to give uttoranco
to words, but his natural languago is
tho very rovorso of molodious, and can
not Inany sonso boconsidorcd ns a song,
I havo known a hooded crow to say
"papa" with groat correctness, and
what is moro romarkablo, ho invnriably
applied tho namo to its proper owner
not tho hoodlo 8 papa but his mastor's.
Tho starling talks very roughly indeed
to his fellows, but ho is ono of tho l.cst
mimics wo havo, imitating tho notes of
otlur birds, nnd oven tho human voice,
with groat accuracy. Magpies also can
bo taught to articulato with a tolorablo
degrco of accuracy. Tho mockingbird,
too, fco well known in somo pat ts of tho
United States, has no natural melody of
his own, but ho contrives to copy, in a
most faithful manner, tho songs of
nearly all his fea.horcd neighbors. Cu
riously enough, tho only cases I havo
known of talking canaries havo oo
currod in tho west of England, but '.
am not ablo to draw any conclusion of
vnluo from thnt chcumstanco. It may
bo a coincidence, or thoro may possibly
bo certain families settled in tho west
ern country, whoso peculiar gift is to
imltato, with a fair amount of accu
racy, tho various intonntlons of tho bu
man voice A canary, which was
owned by a lady in VVeston-supcr-Maro
was accustomed to hoar its mistress, an
invalid, say, on conclusion of its song,
'Oh, beauty! boauty! Sing thnt over
again!" Thoso words tho bird plckod
up, and was soon ablo to ropoat, but its
education mado no further progross
and no additional words woro acquired
Tho short sontonco was novor uttorod,
save after a brilliant burst of song. It
Is wholly incorrect to supposo that no
moaning is over attached by talking
birds to suoh words or short sontenccs
as thoy may bo ablo to pronounce Tho
woll-known caso of tho Edinburgh par
rot, whoso singular accomplishments
have already boon noticed In moro than
ono periodical, has sottlod tho question
once nnd forovor. So fnrwasthlsclover
bird abovo "moro parrot talk" that ho
raroly spoko a word that had not direct
rolatlon to surrounding objoets or
ovonts. A strango dog Introduced into
tho room was grootod with loud cries of
"Put him out! Put him out! I'm so
frightenedl" Clorgymen nttonding his
numorous lovoes woro politely requested
to "GIo oot tho Psalm!" and, ns this by
itsolf would savor somowhat of habitual
Irrovorenco on Poll's part, it is only fair
to add that ho was vory particular at
meal times In tolling tho assembled
family to "Say graco llrstl"
On Translating Greek.
The Drltlah Quarterly.
In translating from Greek Into Eng
lish thero is always this dlllloulty toen
coitntor, that, from tho vory largo pro
portion of Roman words in our languago
wo aro compelled to rendortho Greek by
at'least half the number of Latin equl
valouta. Now no two languagos can bo
moro unliko, both in struoturo and
idiom, than Greok and Latin. In these
respects English comes far noaror to
Greek than Latin does; and it is just
because tho genius of tho Latin lan
guago differs so widely from that of our
own that Latin is tho)moro difficult lan
guago to learn. It is possiblo, no doubt,
to uso a much largor proportion of Sax
on words, but this is to Book for equiva
lents to the most polished of languages
from the scanty vocabulary of a soml
barbarlo dialect. What now pnssos as
tho most sonorous and ellectivo English
proso is that mainly basod on tho lan
guage and tho poriodsof Cicero, and
not that of iElfrlo's Saxon homilies.
To translate- Thuoydldcs woll is, on this
ground alono, to say nothing of tho
many nnd groat perplexities about read
ings nnd meanings, nn oxtromoly diffi
cult task. Decidedly, It Is a work re
quiring tho highest Intellect ns woll ns
tho most accurate and oxtenslvo Grook
scholarship.
Another Youthful Train Robber.
ClnrlnnMI Bituntur Xlaht.
It was night.
Night in Arkansas.
It was night in sovoral othor States as
woll, but Arkansas is tho ono with
which wo havo to deal at this writ
ing. It being our turn to deal.
A lightning express t:nln was boom
ing along a', tho rato of sixty miles an
hour. Every enr wan full, many stand
ing In tho aisles with thatmeokness run!
patlencu only seen on nn American
railroad, to accommodate the follow
who wants four souls all to himsolf.
Tho lamps blazed fitfully over tho
passengers' dusters, which seemed to fit
fully at woll as traveling dusters usual
ly do.
Tho conductor had passed through
(which was moro than ho would allow
any ono els to do without tho roqtilslto
pass); punching pooplo Into wnkoful
noss in order that ho might punch tholr
tickets.
Tho train boy had filled tho passen
gers' laps with books, to keep them ftom
bouncing in tholr soats whllo going over
rough placos.
A brnkemnn had put his head In nnd
shouted, "Tho noxt stopping placo Is
," tho namo of tho station boing
lost in tho slamming of tho enr
door.
Tho boy who is always dry had mado
his tlfty-socond pllgrlmngo to tho water
tank.
And tho woman who wants air had
just torn oil her last remaining linger
nail In trying to got her window
up.
This was on a railroad in tho Stato of
Arkansas.
Suddenly tho car door opens.
A youthful llguro appears, holding
somotliiug in his hand upon which tho
light gllttors. Ho presents it In n slg
nllleant manner and cries:
"Now, gentlemen, your monoy "
Fifty mon turn palo aud cry, "Don't
shoot."
Twonty fomalcs scream with ono voico
nnd somo faint.
Thoro is a hasty thrusting of watches
and pocket books beneath cushions nnd
Into boots. ,
Women unfasten tholr jowelry and
slip It into secret placos whoro no rob
ber who is anything of a gentleman
would think of exploring.
Strong men fight for n placo undor
tho soats whoro thoy can socroto thoiu
solves. .
"Gontlomon," again cries tho boyish
voice, ringing high nnd clear abovo tho
screams of women and tho din of tho
train, (gasps for mercy from sonio of
tho men,) "lot mo soli you somo of
this excellent tropical fruit," and
ho extends in Ills dexterous hand a
banana.
It was tho train boy, pursuing his
useful nnd harmless vocation.
The Grandest of Vulcaulo Action.
Macmlllim's Magazine,
Tho last section of our rldo "through
tho Yollowstono roglon provod to bo, In
a geological sonso, ono of tho most In
teresting parts of tho wholo journoy.
Wo found that tho oldor trachytlc lavas
of tho hills had boon dooply trenched
by latoral valloys, and that all thoso
valleys had a floor of tho black basalt
that had boon poured out as tho last of
tho molten materials from tho now ex
tinct volcanoes. Thcro woro no vlslblo
conos or vonts from which thoso floods
cf basalt could havo proceoded. Wo
rodo for hours by tho margin of a vast
plain of basalt, strotching southward
aud westward as far as tho eyo could
reach. It soomcd as if tho plain had
boon onco a groat Inko or soa of molten
rock, which surgod along tho baso of
tho hills, entorlng ovory vnlloy, and
loaving thoro a solid floor of baro black
stono. Wo camped on this basalt plain,
noar somo springs cf cloar cold water
which rlso closo to its edgo. Wandor
intr over tho baro hummocks of rock,
on many of which not n vostigo of veg
etation had yet taken root, I realized
with vividness tho truth of an nssortion
mado first by Rtohthofon, but very gen
erally noirloctod by cooloirists, that our
modorn voloanoos, such ns Vesuvius or
Etna, prosont us with by no means tho
grandest typo of volcanio action, but
rather belong to a tlmo of failing activ
ity. Thoro havo been poriods of tre
mendous volcanio energy, when, in
stead of escaping from a local vont,
llko a Vesuvlan cono, tho Java has
found Its way to tho surfaco by lnnum
orablo fissures opened for It in tho
solid crust of tho globo over thousands
of tquaro milos.. I. felt that tho struc
ture of this nnd tho other volcanio
plains of tho far West furnish tho truo
koy to tho history of tho basaltio plat
oaus of Ireland anU. Scotland, whloh
had been an enigma to mo for many
years.
Djiessino ron Cou Meat. Yolks of
two eggs, threo tablespoonfuls French
mustard, ono tablespoonful blaok pop
per, one-half toaspoonful eayenno pop
per, ono toaspoonful salt, one toaspoon
ful white sugar, one-half toaoupf ul cider
vinegar, and stir over tho fire till about
the thickness of cream. Add the othor
ingredient, stlrlng all tho tlmo till
smooth and thlok. Let it cool, and
sorvo cold with siloes of cold moat. It
is also a nlco drosslng for raw oabbago
or salad.
Favors of ovory kind aro doublod
whon they aro speedily conforrod.
CHILDREN'S COHNKK.
IIOCK-A-1IYK, 1IADV.
Church Union.
Hock a lire, hahr, In the tree-top;
When tho wind Wows the cradlo will rook;
When the hough breaks the cradle will fall J
Down tumbles baby, ahd cradle, and nil.
IliX'k a lije, baby; the meadow 's In bloom;
Laugh at the sunbeams that dsnco In the
room; 1
Kcho the birds with your own baby tune;
Coo In tho sunshine and flowers of June.
I lock a bye baby; as softly It swings,
Over thy cradle the mother love sings ;
Hroodlng and cooing at even or dawn,
What will It do when the mother Is goncl
ltock a bye, baby, as cloudless the skies,
HIuc ns the depth of your own laughing eyes;
Sweet as the lullaby over your nest,
That tenderly sings little baby to rest.
Hock a bye, baby; the blue eyes will dream
Sweetest when mamma's eyes over them beam;
Never again will the world seem so fair
Sleep, little b.ihy, tlu-re's a cloud In the air.
Hoi-k a bye, b.diy; the bhio eyes will burn
And ache with that pain which your manhood
will lenm;
Swiftly the years come with sorrow nnd care, w
With burdens the wee dimpled shoulders must
liear.
Hoek a bye, baby; there's coming a day '
Whose sorrows a mother's Hps can't kiss away;
Days, when Its song will lie changed to a
moan ;
Crosses, thnt baby must liear all alone.
Hock a bye, baby; the meadow's In bloom;
May never the frosts pall the beauty In gloom,
He thy world ever bright ns to-day It Is seen;
ltock n bye, baby: "thy crndlc Is green."
"Wanted A Hoy!"
"Wanti:!) A boy to run errands nnd
mako himsolf ironorally useful."
Mr. Popporgrass camo out, with his
cap on tho back of his head and his
spectacles pushed high up on his foro
head, to wafer this notico on tho sldo of
his storo. And livo minutes afterwords
(it might havo boon loss, or it might
havo boon moro) a erowd of eager little
lads assembled around it, standing on
tip too to read every word.
Johnny Jarvls had jtiBtbccn discharg
ed from hi- placo as cash-boy in a dry
goods store, bceauso businoss was dull
and customers few.
Ho was a lino, tall boy of twelve with
bright blaekoycs andn laughing mouth,
and ho didn't nt all llko having nothing
to do.
Charlto Warner wanted a situation
becauso thero woro a good many littlo
Warners, and nothing to feed thorn
with sinco tholr father died.
Louis Brown had been out of regular
employment ovory slnco tho china fac
tory closed in the fall.
For thoso littlo follows bolongod to
tho innumcrrblo nrmy of boys who can
not play and enjoy tho bright hours as
thoy go up, but must work and drudge
and count ovory day lost that doos not
bring in its corresponding wages.
Children did you over think how hard
tho world was on thoso poor littlo toll
ers? It was not long boforo Mr. Popper
grass' storo wns full of boys who wantod
to "run errands nnd mako themselves
gonorally useful."
Big boys and littlo boys, tall boys nnd
short boys, and well tlressod boys nnd
shabby boys boys who leaned up
against tho flour and potato barrels, as
if thoy had loft tholr backbones nt homo;
boys who stood straight up boys who
took off tholr caps, and boys who kopt
them on. And still thoy kept coming.
"Hold on!" said Mr. Pepporgrass,
"this will do!"
So ho took down tho notico nnd bolted
tho t-toro door.
"Now, I will procood to businoss,"
said Mr. Pepporgrass, rumpling up his
hair and adjusting his spectacles so as
to mako his kcon, gray oyes sharpor
than ovor.
A fow penotratlng glances, half a
dozen questions, and tho number of
boys was speedily roduccd to our throo
littlo frionds Johnny Jarvis, Charllo
Wamor and Louis Brown.
Thoy woro all threo willing and nnx
ious to work; all threo brought good
rpconuuomlations, had honest fncos,
wantod to enter on tho situation at onco,
and wroto a neat, round hand.
"Humph! humph I" said Mr. Poppor
grass, with his hands lockod under his
coat-tails bohlnd. "Thoro's threo of
vou. nnd I can't find work for threo
boys!"
Tho littlo lads said novor a word, but
looked oagorly at tho grocor, each ono
hoping that ho might bo tho boy selected
"to run errands nnd mako himsolf gen
erally useful."
Mr. Popporgrass stared hard at tho
spice-boxos and preservo bottlo in tho
window, frowning at tho oracker-boxes
and finally mado up his mind.
"Brown!" said ho.
"Sir!" said Louis Brown.
"I'll try you on a few sums. I want
my boy to understand tho firstprlnclplcs
of arithmetic!"
"I am good at figures, sir!" criod
Louis.
"Aro you?" said Mr. Popporgrass.
Vory woll, I'll give you a trial."
lit wroto down a labyrinth of figures
on a slnto, and thon oponod tho door of
a littlo room which communicated with
tho storo.
"Sit down hore, Brown, and work out
thoso sums," said ho. "I'll como to
you in a fow minutes.rt
Johnny Jarvls and Charlie Warner
looked blankly at each other, thon at
tho grocor.
"Please, sir, what aro wo to doP" said
they.
"You aro to wait," said Mr. Poppor
grass, shortly. Your turns will como
in duo time"
Tho sums woro not especially hard,
and Louis Browu was qulok at figures.
Ho soon dlspatohed his task and bogan
to look around.
It was a stuffy, oloso-smelling littlo
ro n), with ouo window oloso up to tho
colling; and a curious, cld-fashloned
book-caso or dosk, with glass doors,
lined with faded rod silk, in tho oomor.
"I do wonder what Mr. Popporgrftsa
koeps thoroP" said Louis to himself; nnd
after ho had wondorod a littlo whllo, h
got up and wont softly toward tho dosk
"Tho koy is in tho holo," said ho; thero
can't bo any hnrm in looking. Perhaps
thoro aro story books ormaybo curious
sholls and stonos or "
As theso thoughts crossed his mind ho
openod tho sllk-llnod door. Bus z
whow! out flew n beautiful pearl color
ed dovo.
Louis stood ajrhast. In vain woro his
endeavors to capture tho littlo croattrro.
It fluttered from tho top of tho book
caso to n pllo of boxes boyond, nnd to
tho top molding of tho window, ns If it
enjoyed tho chaso; and In tho midst of
It nil, In camo Mr. Popporgrass.
"Eh? Whnt?" said he "How did
this happen ?'
"Ple.aso, si;-," Said Louis; hanging lib
head, "the bird got out, and I was try
ing to catch It."
"f!ot out, did it?" said Mr. Peppor
grass. "It must boa very Ingenious
bird to bo nblo to op n tho desk from
tho outsido! You may go, boy. lam
quite certain that you won't suit mo.
I don't approvo of meddlers."
So saying, ho opened a door which
led directly out into tho back street,
and dismissed poor Louis Brown with
out further coromony.
"Now, Penrllo," said ho to tho littlo
dove, who was perched on his shoulder
ntonco, "you can go back to your nest.
You havo helped mo out of the difficulty
this tlmo."
So ho let tho littlo creaturo fly out into
tho yard whero it belonged.
Chnrllo Warner wns tho noxt ono ush
ered into tho stuffy smelling room. Ho,
too, speedily finished his sums, nnd be
gan to look around him for- somuthlng
to occupy his nttontlon.
"Oh, my! What a lot of boxes," said
ho, "piled up ono abovo another, liko a
Tower of Bnbol! What can Mr. Pep
porgrass keep in all of thorn?"
Charllo listened. No advancing foot-
stops wcro near. Ho looked cautiously
about him, but ho saw nothing. Thon
ho roso from his chnlr, and crept toward
tho mysterious pllo of boxes. Thoy
woro of all shapes, rathot small, and fit
ted with looso, wooden covers.
Charlie lifted tho lid of ono. It wa3
full of English walnuts.
"Hollo!" thought Charlie "I'm In
luck! Old Popporgrass will novor miss
two or threo of thoso," nnd hopockotod
a handful.
Tho noxt box was full of beautiful
Malaga raisins. Charllo nlppod two or
threo bloomy, wrinklod follows off tho
stem, and nto them. Ho was fond of
raisins.
"What noxt?" ho said, tucrging nttho
covers of tho third box, whloh scorned
to fit a littlo closer.
11 of a sudden, howevor, it flow off
with n jork, filling tho air with i-ayonno
poppor, and setting poor Chnrllo to
sneezing as if ho meant to shoozo his
head oil'.
Mr. Pepporgrass bustled in.
"Ah." said ho. "I seo! But you
needn't havo boon in such a hurry to
oxumlHo my stock, young man. I
havon't engaged you yot, and I don't
intend to."
And poor Charllo sneaked away
through tho back door, which Mr. Pep
porgrays hold polltoly opon for him,
fooling that his curiosity had ruined his
causo.
It was somo timo before tho Cayonno
poppor wa sufficiently cleared from tho
atmosphoro for Johnny Jarvls to tako
his turn nt tho sums In decimal frac
tions, but ho worked them pationtly out,
nnd sat looking around him, as tho
othors had done But ho was Uo honor
nMo to dream of meddling, no, too
wondorod what was in tho boxos, but
ho didn't do anything moro than won
dor. Ho heard a mysterious rustling
bohlnd tho fndod silk doors of tho book
caso, whoro Mr. Popporgraso had shut
up hlf pet kitton, but ho novor thought
of opening it to soo what it all meant.
Ho saw n glass jar of mixed candles
on tho mnntlo (sly Mr. Popporgrass had
counted ovory ono, bosidos covering it
with a dusty lid, so that tho loast fingor-
mark would havo boon qulto visible),
but ho sat thoro qulto still until Mr.
Popporgrass bouncod Into tho room.
Tho old grocor looked at tho candy
jar, ho planced nttho unmolested boxes,
and oponlng tho dosk, saw tho kitten,
fast asleep in tho corner.
"Ah I" said Mr. Popporgrass, with a
long broath. "Yes, exactly ! You aro
tho boy I want. Come right back into
tho storo, nnd I'll sot you to work
woighlng out ton and coffee"
And that was tho way Mr. Poppor
grass sultod himsolf with a boy.
Jamlo is a bad boy, and last wook ho
askod his teacher this connundrum:
"Why am I liko a nallP" Rocoivlng no
reply, ho voluntcorod this nnswor: "Be
causo I am so ofton drivon homo." Ho
was immediately sent to tho matornal
bosom with a note intimating that ho
had bettor bo sent to learn a trado, for
it Wfcs impossiblo to hammor anything
Into his hoad at school.
A numbor of littlo boys and girls wero
playing on ono of our. streots, andquar
roled, whon ono of the party, a littlo
girl, ran to tho homo of a boy to com
plain of him for using "profano lan
guago." Tho boy's mother was very
much surprised and could not be por
suaded her boy was guilty, and on in
sisting on tho words, tho littlo com
plainant, with offended pride, said hs
bid hor "Got away, you jackass."
Cincinnati has a "New Widow's
Homo." This is more to be dreaded
than a homo devoted to old widow
still, both aro dangerous.
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