The Corvallis gazette., September 26, 1879, Page 4, Image 4

WEEKLY CORVALLIS GAZETTE
ORVALLIS, - SEPTEMBER 26, 1879
ABU BEN ABEND'S DONKEY.
Mrs. Elizabeth earnings in tbe Independent.,;
Aba Ben Abend was old and ricn ana
stingy. His brown face was puckered
and wrinkled, like an apple that has
baked too long. His body was bent over
till it looked like the letter C, and he
could not walk without the aid of a stout
stick; but he was as keen at a bargain
and an alert to make and keepmoney as
if he were young and strong. His only
pleasure were counting over his gold
pieces and beating his daughter and his
donkey.
His daughter, Fatima, was beautiful
and good; but he did not love her. He
valued her only for the price he thought
he should receive for her some time. I
do not know whether it is because girls
are worth "more or less than they are in
the United States, but they are sold in
Turkey.
Ziba, his donkey, was a perfect treas
ure of a beast. Out of him Abu Ben
Abend got no end of work, for he hired
fiim by the day to any driver who would
pay his price; but of Fatima he required
nothing. She sat in her chamber day
after day, with deaf old Zilpa, her nurse,
and made tatting and embroidered pin
cushions; but she wished with -all her
heart she could do something more use
ful and interesting. Once in a while she
was allowed to take a ride on Ziba's back,
when the poor little beast could not be
rented; and that she thought was the
greatest joy the world contained.
Across the way from Abu Ben Abend's
stately mansion was an old house, in
which lived a handsome young fellow,
named Youssif El Kedar, with his mother
and sisters. He had a right to wear the
green turban, for he was a descendant of
the prophet; but he was so poor he wore
an old fez' except on holy days, and car
ried bundles, or ran on errands, or did
anything by which he could earn a
copper.
For him Abu Ben Abend had the ut
most content and hatred. He despised
him because he was poor, and hated him
because he was young and handsome.
Often, when he struck his daughter for
some little offense, he would say: "By
the beard of my grandfather, you shall
marry that son of nothingness, Youssif
Jil Kedar, 11 you do not strive to piease
me more. And when he beat Ziba, be
tween the blows he would cry out: "To
destruction with you, most mulish of all
animals! Ill sell you to Xoussif Jil
Kedar if vou don t earn me more money
"Now, when one hears a man's name
spoken often, either for good or ill, one
desires to see him. So Fatima watched
for Youssif with great interest; and when
at last she saw him, standing in the
street, tall and straight like a palm tree,
she fell in love with him, and thought of
him constantly from morning till night.
But as it is considered unladylike in
Turkey for a maiden to show her face or
to speak to any man not ot her own lam
ily, Fatima contented herself with peep
ing at her neighbor through her barred
window or from her latticed balcony.
One afternoon, when her father was
away collecting his usury, Fatima crept
down the stairs to the stable of Ziba. the
one creature in the house she could pet
and love.
"Dear Ziba," she cried, throwing her
arms about the little beast s neck,
am very, very unhappy. My father
scolds me everv moment he is in the
house."
"Climb upon my back and let me
take you out into the busy streets," said
the donkey, rubbing his sort, warm nose
against her rosy cheek.
Fatima shrank back alarmed, for Ziba
had never spoken to her before.
"Don't be scared, dear mistress," said
he. "When donkeys have been beaten
999 times the prophet gives them the
power of speech as a recompense. Do
as I have bid you. Array "yourself in
your prettiest gown, put on your yellow
slippers and your veil, and I will carry
you out into the world and we will see
what will happen.
Fatima put on her nicest clothes and
hung over her face her veil, which was
made of thick white cloth, and left only
her beautiful black eyes visible; then
skipped down stairs and climbed upon
Ziba's back. Away he trotted, through
crowded streets, over high bridges and
across open squares, till he came to an
unfrequented lane that led through
fields of wheat. A young man was walk
ing in the road, and when Fatima over
took him, Ziba began to act in a singular
way; for he pranced, backed, and finally
reared up on his hind legs, and would
have thrown his mistress to the ground
had not the young man caught her in his
arms.
As he did so the envious veil slipped
to one side, and Youssif El Kedar (for it
was he) saw fatima s lovely, blushing
face lying on his breasc.
"Allah be praised !" he cried, and
kissed her on the lips.
Youssif helped Fatima to mount upon
the back of the naughty Ziba, and in
sisted on walking by her side until they
reached the street in Avhich they both
lived.
" "You are a bad beast,-" said Fatima,
and gave the donkey twice his allowance
for supper.
The next morning Abu Ben Abend
filled the house with uproar. He swore
and stamped and tore his beard and
threatened to beat somebody within an
inch of his life. "Youssif El Kedar, a
beggar, and the son of a beggar, has
written me a note demanding your hand
in marriage," he cried to Fatima. "By
the head of Mohammed, I would fry him
in oil for his impudence if it were in my
power."
Fatima went down to the stable to see
her one friend.
"Be comforted, dear lady," said Ziba.
"A kind act is never lost. You have been
kind to me many times, and Youssif El
Kedar is the kindest driver I have ever
known. Loose my halter and let me go,
and we shall see what will happen."
Fatima was afraid the donkey would
not return, and told him so.
"A kind act is never lost. Do as I bid
you, and we shall see what 'will happen,"
was his only reply.
Fatima untied him, gently patted his
shaggy gray head, and kissing him be
tween the eyes, undid the gate. Ziba
thrust his nose under her hands for a
moment, then turned and ran swiftly
down the street.
As soon as he knew the donkey was
missing from the stable, Abu Ben Abend
had another anger fit; and as the days
went bv and he did not return, Abu Ben
Abend, like all greedy people, magnified
his loss, till it seemed to him the most
precious treasure he had ever had was
Ziba, and he was willing to give anything
to regain him.
A month had passed and brought no
tidings, when one day Youssif El Kedar,
dressed in his green turban and his best
clothes and having at his side his grand
father's sword, which was shaped like
the new moon, knocked at Abu Ben
Abend's door.
Abu Ben Abend opened it himself.
'Ah !" he cried, his face turkey-red with
rage. "You want an answer to your let
ter, do you? Bring back my donkey
this afternoon, at 3 o'clock and you shall
marry my daughter !" and then "he slam
med the door in Youssif 's face.
For a moment Youssif felt like kick
ing the door down and slicing off Abu
Ben Abend's head with his sword, but
his anger cooled quickly, for he thought:
"Five hours must elapse before 3 o'clock.
I can at least look for the beast, Abu
Ben Abend may find a bargain is a bar
gain. Bound and round the city Youssif went
till he came to the lonely, lane between
the fields of wheat that were now as yel
low as amber and ready for the sickle.
Way down the road he saw a little gray
figure, very like a donkey.
"Ziba ! Ziba !" he cried. But when he
ran the beast ran, and when he walked
the beast walked, so he could not over
take him. And they soon came to a high
hill, when the gray figure"seemed to melt
away into the wall of gray rock.
"Ziba ! Ziba ! Most lovely of animals !
I am promised the hand of your mis
tress, the good and beautiful Fatima, if
I restore you to your master. Do not
hide from me."
"Knock on the rock five times," said a
voice.
Youssif knocked, and the gray stone
opened like a door and disclosed a nar
row staircase, which seemed to go down.
down into the heart of the earth. On
either side the wall was lined with sharp
knives that twinkled and glittered like a
thousand lamps; and far down the de
scent stood Ziba. Youssif ran down the
stone steps, unmindful of the keen
knives, and stood by the little donkey in
a moment.
"Ah, my treasure !" he cried. "My
eye's delight ! Come with me at once
from this place and return to Abu Ben
Abend, that I -may marry the rose of
women, the beautiful atima.
"On one condition," said Ziba.
"Name it," cried Youssif.
"You must buy me," said Ziba:
"Alas !" groaned Youssif, "you ask
the impossible. Abu Bend Abend would
not sell you for a thousand gold pieces,
and I am very poor.
"Knock on the wall before you five
times," said the donkey.
Youssif did as he was bidden. The
wall opened, as the gray rock had done;
and he saw a large vaulted room, in
which were great heaps of gold and
precious stones, before which sat strange
shapes, that held in their arms silver
harps, upon which they made sweet mu
sic.
"This man," said Ziba to them, "has
never done a dishonorable act; has never
spoken a cross word to a'- living creature,
nor struck a blow upon man or beast.
His safe passage down the stairway of
knives proves it. Uive him, 1 pray you,
his reward."
One of the strange beings laid a sack up
on Ziba's back, and another filled ti with
gold and precious gems, till the little fel
low cried: "I can bear no more
"Now," said the astonished Youssif, "we
will return to the upper world, and we
shall see what will happen.
Precisely at 3 o'clock Youssif entered
Abu Ben Abend's gate, leading Ziba by
the halter.
"Allah be praised! and may all don
keys be destroyed!" cried Abu Ben
Abend, falling upon Ziba with his stout
stick. "Ill teach you abominable beast
to stay in your stable in the future.
"Hold! " said Youssif, seizing his arm.
"For how much will you sell so miser
able an animal?"
"Five hundred gold sequins!" shouted
Abu Ben Abend. "Five hundred gold
sequins, thou beggar! Not a para less."
"I will pay you that price for him,"
said Youssif, calmly opening his girdle.
"And to make you feel less lonely at
giving up the good and beautiful Fatima,
I shall be happy to add to that sum 500
gold lira as a wedding gift."
Youssif counted out the money; and
as a lira is equal to about $4 50, and a
sequin is worth about $1 25, the whole
amount made quite a little bill of gold
upon Abu Ben Abend's table.
"Bismillah!" cried that gentleman,
shutting his eyes and dropping down
upon his rug in an ecstacy of joy. "Bis
millah! That I should have a neighbor
and not know it. Now I can depart in
peace, since so great and excellent a man
is going to marry my daughter."
The wedding of Youssif and Fatima
was celebrated with great splendor as
became a descendant of the prophet and
the daughter of a rich money-lender;
and they began housekeeping in a beau
tiful villa that overlooked the Sweet
Waters.
When they had been married a year
and a day, Ziba bade them an affectionate
good-by, and trotted away down the lane
between the fields of wheat till he came
to the hill-side, where he disappeared in
the gray rocks, as he did on the memor
able day I have described, and though
Youssif knocked many times no answer
came.
That night a thicket of wild roses
sprang up about the gray rock and hid
it; and Youssif, believing it to be a sacred
place, erected a shrine there, and those
who visited it sometimes heard a voice in
the earth whisper: "A kind act is never
lost. Be kind. Be kind."
Youssif and Fatima were so vervhaonv
together, their bliss became a proverb;
and when they died, at the close of a loner
life, and were buried beneath the shrine,
among the roses, for many years young
people made pilgrimages to the spot, to
pray that in their wedded life they might
De as nappy as loussii and fatima. And
the voice in the earth always answered:
ae kind, tie kind.
Won lt rful Feats Id Telegraphing.
One night about three years ago, while
some experiments were trying in New
York with some automatic sender, some
of the boys probably prompted by jeal
ousy of the ability of Mr. George Idamil
ler, of Pitsburg, who has the reputation
of being one of the best operators in the
country, were struck with the idea of
" rushing " that expert individual. It
was the work of a moment to switch the
automatic on Pitttsburg and call up. As
luck would have it, Idamiller answered
and was told to get ready for a five thou
sand word special. The preliminaries
having been arranged he nnsuspectedly
told them to go ahead.
Well, they start off at a very moderate
rate for a few minutes, then they increase
it to the average press rate, and then be
gan climbing on him gradually, until 40
and then 45 words a minute were reach
ed; still not a break, Forty-six, 47, and
then 50 came tearing along, making the
Morse sounder buzz and whirl like a
circular saw in full motion. By this
time several of the boys in Pittsburg
were attracted by the unusual excitement
Idamiller seemed to be laboring under,
and went over to his table to see what
was going on. Not daring to say a work
for fear of interrupting him they could
but gaze in astonishment at the marvel
ous work of both sender and receiver.
Fifty-five words to the minute ! Like
lightning his hand seemed to fly over the
paper, and a dozen points would have
been worn down only to snatch another
that had been sharpened by one of hi8
admiring colleagues, and kept on, filled
with determination not to allow that man
in New York to rush him, if he never
took another word. But the climax was
reached when they turned the automatic
up to sixty words a minute, averaging
five letters to the word. Poor George
dropped back, his pencil dropped from
his hand, his eyes closed as he faintly
murmured, " Hank Cowen, Patsy Ayers,
or the devil." Letter to St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Tn firPf tr Opf rid nf ftia nnmovnno o r
nlirantft ffr frfo naficac an ITaaravn ctnnm.
boat company have caused the following
notice to ha nnnKnir-nnnwI v rwvafal in its
steamboats : "In those davs no passes
were given. Search the scriptures. Thou
shalf not. nm . .Tmla-oc iii 'Tkn
wicked shall no more pass.' Nahum i,15.
-e snau ever pass.- isaian xxxvni,l0.
"This generation shall not pass.'-Jeremiab
ii 42. 'So ht nairi Vila lava aiA
- - - ' .in tiuu nciit.
Jonah 1, 3." Under the last quotation, in
large letters, is me word west.
There was a man in Paris, who when
he went out, was always robbed. Some
body said: "Why don't vou carrv pis
tols?" He replied : "Suppose I did why
the robbers would take them too."
The Hackensack Republican truth
fully says: The swell who has nothing
to-do but stand in front of a hotel and
ogle the women is about as much use to
the world as a last year's bird's nest.
Butter Working. The opinion of a
Journal of Chemistry is worth knowing,
and it says : " Do not work too much nor
too iasi. nurs Biowiy uimi an la luur-
oughly and evenly absorbed, otherwise
the butter will not be of uniform color.
Working it too fast will destroy the grain,
and the butter becomes saiey and nara
like in its texture. Let it stand or put it
away in the tray for twenty-four hours.
Then work it enough to remove all the
buttermilk, or surplus brine, so that the
butter may become dry or like a piece of
cheese. Moid into rolls, and set these
away for twenty-four hours, or until they
become hard and firm. The cloth should
be cut in pieces of exact side width.
Scissors and Paste.
It is strangely singular how the boy
with a new pair of suspenders hates to
wear a coat.
The only place where the bald heads do
not struggle for the front seats is in the
Indian country.
"Keep advice until a man asks for it,"
says an exchange. Don't do it; it would
probably spoil.
A man may make money picking up
chips if - he has good hands and under
stands how to cheat at poker.
The Hawlceye describes a shingle wed
ding as occurring when the first child is
old enough to spank.
Now we've got a good one: Kerosene
oil will fuddle as well as whisky. Any
how it makes a locomotive's headlight.
The height of ingenuity To make a
quart jneasure look very full indeed when
it" contains only six peaches.
Sniffles can't see a barn door three feet
distant since he heard that near-sighted
people were always intellectual.
Professor C. "Mr. , what will be
the effect if I hold a piece of calcite in
the blowpipe flame?" Student "It will
get hot." '
Snodgrass has the fault of abruptness.
He says if you doubt whether to kiss a
pretty girl, give her the benefit of the
doubt, and sail in.
An English philosopher says that lazi
ness begets fat, and that nobody ever saw
a real live, ambitious man who was bur
dened with too much flesh.
It may not be generally known that
there is a sure remedy for the toothache
by taking into the palm of the band a
certain root to wit, the root of the aching
tooth.
It is when his wife hands him a brand
new napkin, that has never had the
starch washed out of it, that the newly
married man thinks how much better he
could clean his face with a yard or two of
floor oilcloth.
"What does 12mo mean?" asked a Dunil
of his teacher, a few days since. "12mo ;
wny don't you know what that means? It
means the same as d&weowl2t. Haven't
you seen it in advertisements in a news
paper.'"
"What we want now." commenced a
confused and timid speaker at a meeting
of a debating society, 'is is not not so
much what we don't want as that which
we most require." His hearers agreed
with him.
A Niagara hackman drew $15,000 in a
lottery recently. He said it was almost
as profitable as getting a passenger to
nae iour oiocks.
Residents of Lead ville speak proudly
of the oldest and best families of that
place.
"You. always exaggerate. I did not
ask you not to drink. I only ask you
not to put water in what s left; for,
really, it isn't fair that you should drink
rum pure, and that I should drink rum
and water.
"I know where there is another arm
just as pretty as this one," said a young
fellow to his sweetheart, as he pinched
her fair arm the other evening. The
storm that gathered upon the lady s
brow as ouicklv nassed awav when the
i mJ jr .j --
young man pinched the other arm and
said, "It is this one, dear."
M. Gambetta has just received a re
markable gift a portrait of his mother
embroidered in silk on crimson velvet.
The work, which was executed by a
Mile. Giraud, aynng lady of Marseilles,
is said to be excellent in its minuteness
and in its artistic and life-like appear
ance. There is not much nourishment in but
termilk, but the presence of the lactic
acid assists the digestion of any food
taken with it. The Welsh peasants al
most live on oat-cake and buttermilk.
Invalids who are suffering from indiges
tion would do well to drink buttermilk
at meal time.
A young man dressed in the height of
fashion, and with a poetic turn of mind,
was driving along a country road, and,
upon gazing at the pond which skirted
the highway, said, "Oh, how I would like
to lave my "heated head in those cooling
waters!" An Irishman, overhearing the
exclamation, immediately replied, " Be
dad, you might lave it there and it would
not sink."
Scotch Deer Forests. Scotch forests
are most lucrative to their owners. The
rents paid are enormous, and not many
years ago would have sounded incredi
ble. Lord Dudley paid a rent of 5000
a year for the Beay forest. The 5000
represent' 5000 deer, as far as maybe
computed, and some 50,000 acres over
which they roam, comprising some of the
loveliest of Scottish scenery. The deer
are the finest in Scotland, often attaining
eighteen stone, and they possess the pe
culiarity of forked tails. Lord Dudley
did not seem very keen about his deer.
Months of the season will pass away be
fore he begins deer-stalking. The deer of
other forests seem to find this out,and
when hard beset flee for safety to the
Beay forest. The Scotch have a great
regard for the original Lord Ward, who
first took a pleasure yacht into the almost
unknown northern waters of Scotland,
and set an example to tourists in pene
trating to the farthermost recesses of the
land. Last season Lord Dudley had the
famous Black Forest in Argyllshire, be
longing to Lord Beadalbane, paying
4500. The forest stretches for twenty
miles, the haunt of the finest red deer;
and the sport has been excellent, though
deer-stalking is exceptionally difficult in
this country. Lord Aveland is credited
with almost the best shooting last season
in " lone Glenartney's hazel shade." The
Inverness-shire shootings reach a total
rental of some 65,000 a year. It is all
very well for Professor Blackie, in his
Braemar Ballads, to denounce the in
cursions of the Saxon "A London
brewer shoots the grouse, a landlord
stalks the deer." The regret of the Gael
is not that they come in such numbers,as
that there may be a falling off in number
of his southern guests. The visitors fur
nish employment, promote trade, put
heaps of money in brisk circulation, and
increase the comforts and savings of the
peasants. If they can really reclaim the
wastes, and find sufficient food of em
ployment to fave Highlanders from emi
grating, doubtless so much the better,
but the issue is problematical and cer
tainly remote. London Society.
Calcium. Calcium is the metalic base
of lime, and was obtained by Sir Hum
phrey Davy from that material by means
of galvanic agency. During the process
the product was received in a vessel
filled with naptha. in which it was ex
cluded from oxygen, and consequently
it retained its metalic appearance
which resembles teat of silver. If at
mospheric air be admitted to it, it ab
sorbs oxygen rapidly and burns with an
intense, white light, and reproduces
lime, which is an oxide of calcium. The
name of metal is derived from calx, the
Matid word for lime. As obtained by
the fusion of sodium with iodide of cal
cium, it is a light, yellow metal, which is
very malleable, and slowly decomposes
water at ordinary temperatures. It en
ters into combination with oxygen,
chlorine, bromine, iodine and sulphur,
when heated with them. Calcium ap
pears to enter the composition of nearly
all pig-irons, but not directly, and, al
though found in cast-irons, has not
been found in wrought iron. It behaves
in regard to iron, very much like the al
kaline metals, and, like them, does not
possess sufficient fixity to enter largely
into combination with iron, and It is
thought to injure the quality of that
metal to some extent. The chloride of
calcium, or chloride of lime, as it is
more familiarly called, is a most import
ant compound in the arts from its prop
erty of bleaching vegetable tissues. In
the bleaching of linen, and in paper
making, the saving of time caused by
the use of this substance is incalcuable.
Fecundity of the Herring. It is diffi
cult to convey an adequate idea of the
number of the individual fish which may
compose a shoal of herrings, says Cham
ber's Journal, and it has been avered that
they would speedily impede navigation
were it not for the vast number of agen
cies that are at work to prevent an undue
increase of their number. As the result
of recent inquiry, we have been informed
that the quantities which man takes from
the water for food uses do not represent
a tenth of what are captured by the sea
birds, or devoured by marine enemies.
As the herring is the only fish of which
statistics of the capture are collected
and tabulated, we are in possession
of figures which afford us a rough
idea of the numbers annually with
drawn from the sea for food pur
poses. In a recent yea- sufficient her
rings were taken to fill a million barrels,
and as each barrel contains on an average
seven hundred fish, we have thus a num
ber equal to seven hundred millions.
This quantity, it must be observed, repre
sents cured fish only, and only those
which are caught in Scotland under the
superintendence of the Fishery Board. It
is pretty certain that as many herrings
are captured and offered for sale as fresh
fish and "reds" as are cured for the mar
kets in Scotland and offered for sale as
salt herrings ; which gives us the pro-
J - . 1 . t . I ...
uigiouH ioiai oi iuuneen nunarea minions
withdrawn annually from the sea; and
even this number, vast as it is, does not
include what are used in the form of
white bait, or those which are sold as
sprats.
Appearance of Eviii. An incomplete
idea is apt to be a false idea it i . neces
sary to take the whole in order to make
it valuable. (Janseur remembers a good
country parson who preached a series of
sermons on practical morality, and very
interesting and instructive they were. A
lad in the village who had heard only
one oi mem was coming out of an
orchard one day, his pockets bulging
with stolen fruit. He met the parson,
who noticed his efforts to conceal the
evidences of his guilt. "Have you been
stealing apples ? " asked the minister.
"Ye8, sir,' answered the boy, sheepish
ly. ''And you are trying to hide them
from me? continued the good man.
"Yes, sir," said the culprit, and then
added, his face brightening up, "you
said last Sunday that we must avoid the
appearance of evil."
"So," said Hood, addressing the gate
keeper, who was very hoarse, "you
haven't recovered yonr voice yet ? " ''No,
ir," the man answered ; "I've caught a'
fresh cold." "But why did you catch a
fresh one ? Why didn't you have the old
one cured ? "
Hunter, the Grayhound.
BY MRS. M. Ii. BALDWIN.
A prominent Congressman took his
daughter to task the other evening be
cause she permitted her lover to stay
awhile after 10 o'clock. "La, pa," said
she, "we were only holding a little ex
tra session."
No man starts in his professional ca
reer wise, strong and thoroughly fitted
for his work. One must gain wisdom
by experience, strength bv exercise, and
fitness by reitterated, and at first often
ineffectual endeavor.
Rftiri hp until) Rtnla rma. ' T oa.1
" v. , J. WiH JUV
love with a kiss." And she, suiting the
action to the word, replied. " T wnl
with whacks."
Come, little ones; gather around me.
Come close as you can. The more of you
there are and the nearer you get to me
the better, for I love to tell you stories.
I like to see the bright eyes grow
brighter, the dimples in the cheeks and
smiles on the rosy lips; for I dearly love
good little children, and I like to make
them happy.
I am going to tell you some true stories
about dogs. Let me see! Which shall I
tell first?
"Hunter, the grayhound," did you say,
Master Harry? Well, then, here it is:
Many years ago a family, friends of
mine, moved from an Eastern city, way
out West, where the country was all new,
and most of the people lived in log
houses. There were few roads over the
prairies and the wild deer were very
plentiful.
A neighbor of my friends owned a fine,
white grayhound. Perhaps some of you
have never seen a grayhound; so I will
tell you that they are very slender dogs,
with long legs, sharp noses and bright
eyes; they can see a long distance and
run very fast.
This dog was named hunter. He used
often to come with his master to the
house of my friend; and he had a way of
making himself quite at home when
there. He would scratch at the door
when he came, and when it was opened
for him. would walk right in and stretch
himself on the rug in front of the blazing
wood fire; and sometimes when he tound
himself too warm there, would take a
place on the sofa without waiting to be
asked.
I am sorrv that he was not very care
ful about keeping clean. He used to
come sometimes with very muddy feet
and his nice, white coat all soiled with
mud; but if he was turned from the door
as he was sure to be when in this
pliffht-he would jump m at the first open
window he could find, and make himself
auite as much at home as if he were
clean. My friend, who was very neat
and particular in all his ways, at last
kept a long whip where he could get it
quickly when needed, and wouiu anve
tiie dog away whenever he came with
muddy feet.
Hunter's master had gone from home
and he seemed lonely and restless, and
made frequent calls at the house of my
friend, as if he was looting tor his mas
ter.
One night the family were all gath
ered around the fire, when they heard
the well-known scratch at the door; and
when it was opened there stood Hunter
but instead of running into the house
and settling before the fire, as he was in
the habit of doing, he stood outside,
wagged his tail and whined. He would
not come in until called and coaxed for
some time; and when he did come into
the lighted room, my friends were
shocked to see him covered with blood
They examined his body, bnt found no
wounds. He was so uneasy and seemed
so anxious to get out that they opened
the door tor him, but he was not satis
fied to go alone. At last one of the
young men of the family said he would
follow him and see what was the matter.
Hunter became perfectly quiet when
this was proposed, and waited quite pa
tiently for the young man to put on nia
overcoat, for it was very cold.
Hunter trotted on ahead of the young
man, looking back now and then to be
sure he was coming, until they had
walked nearly a mile, when he stopped
and stood wagging his tail when the
young man came up with him.
What do you think the dog had done?
He had chased a deer, caught and killed
it, and then went to the house and told of
it as well as he knew how. The young
man went home and got a sleigh, for the
deer was too heavy to carry so far alone,
and Hunter staid there and watched it
until the young man returned with his
brother.
After this, Hunter became a pet in my
friend's family and was always welcomed
at the fireside; and my friend kept an old
blanket and a fur cape with which he
used to make a nice, warm bed for him
on the sofa; for he said, "a dog who
knows enough to go out and kill a deer,
and return for help to bring it home,
ought to be very well treated.
Politeness.
Nothing adds more to the happiness
of home life than true politeness shone
at all times among the different members
of the family toward each other.
It is a singular fact that most people
treat those thev love best with the least
respect; and this is probably the great
cause of inharmony in many homes.
Husbands, do you not remember in
your courting days how particular you
were in your action, conversation and
personal appearance;
And wives, have you forgotton how
you always took care to appear to the
best advantage when your lover was
present?
Ah! surely many of you .husbands and
wives, have forgotten one thing, and that
is, to cultivate politeness in your homes;
and consequently your children seem
ingly have no respect for father, mother,
sister nor brother.
Some may argue that an adherence to
the rules of politeness brings about too
much formality in the home circle. .Bet
ter a little formality that too much
familiarity in expression or action.
Should a son treat another lady with
more marked respect than his mother ?
Should a daughter treat another's father
with more veneration than her own?
Is there a place in the universe where
the gem of loving hearts should shine
more brightly than in the home.'
Then cultivate politeness; it is that
which will keep inharmony from your
door and bind the household together m
the dissoluble bonds of love.
The Poweb of Prayer. An excellent
lady in this city tells what a trial to her
her first husband was, being a scoffer at
holy things, and how, after vainly re
monstrating with him for years, she at
last organized a prayer campaign con
cerning him. "and in less than three
weeks from that time, his horse ran
away with him and he was thrown out of
the buggy and killed." iV. Y. World.
There is a young sculptor in a certain
city who says he is certain that republics
are failures, and ought to be at once
swept from the face of the earth. He says
ne sent a mouei cut group representing
' 'Truth Guarding the Temple of Justice,"
to the Congressional Committee for ap
proval, and it was returned with a letter,
declining with thanks, his "humorous,
but inappropriate design of a female
bare back-rider keeping deadheads out of
a ire. a with a tent-pin."
The Postage stanm knows its nlafln
after it has been licked once.
Drugging Babies. I think it will be
found that the increase in the sale of
opium, about which there has been some
outcry, is due to the school boards. A
poor woman, obliged to send her child
ren to school, is left with the baby. The
girl who in past times would have attend
ed to the baby whilst her mother went to
her work, is at school. The mother must,
therefore, choose between stopping at
home to watch the baby and forfeiting
the money she can earn out of doors, and
going to work and leaving the baby to
shift for itself. It may not be natural.but
it is perhaps inelligible, that she should
compromise with her maternal instincts
drugging the baby, so that while she is
absent she may console herself with re
flecting that baby cannot possibly be in
mischief, and that it does not need her
care. If the establishment of a creche were
a compulsory condition of the establish
ment of a school board, the sale of laud
anum, I take it, would very sensibly de
crease. Mayfair. .
A Hartford juvenile, who has always
declined to eat oatmeal, although his
mother has urged it upon him as a
strengthening diet, suddenly surprised
her by one morning eating a liberal
plateful and calling for more. When
she asked for an explanation, he replied:
"I am bound to eat oatmeal till I get
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RUPTURE
CURED!
From a Merchant.
Davton, W. T. Feb. 10, 1879.
W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
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