TRAITS OF MEXICANS. I LAND mTI. , " 1 . '
Art Artletle and Their Children
e an Intellectual Item.
Thai the Mexican are an artUtlo
people no one who Uvea long among
them can deny. In music they excol,
and all that M needed to make Mexico
take a first place among muilcal na
tions la tho wider diffusion of tochnlcal
inuilcal education. The veriest gamin
,,kn catch ut once a novel air, nnd bits
from the oiwrua are everywhere heard
from the most Ignorant of the lower
classes. Not only are the Mexicans a
musical people, but they are lovers of
I rt In all Its forms, and thoir manners
aro pleasing, whethor you take the
fiost polished and traveled citizen or
the humblest poon. Dully intortourso
with educated Mexicans has a charm
about it that Is delightful to u northern
er; they "e polite, not from affection, but
becauso they are trained to be so from
thelryouth, and also becuuso thoy aro
desirous of 'pleasing, bolng by nature
kindly and warm-hearted. Well might
the United States copy the manners
which tho Moxicans have forevory-day
use, as between parents nnd children,
masters and servants, and between the
poorest und tho poor, who somotimes
loom to possess little eUe but their
courteous ways. Tho Mexicans are the
Italians of this continent; they have
been kept to tho rearward of richer and
more fortunate nntlons by thoir long
and disastrous civil wars. Give the
poor people of this country educational
privileges for twonty years and they
will come up as tho Italians hnvo done
since Italy became one country for all
ber children.
One thing a foreigner In Mexico
comes to notice Is tho decided intel
lectual bent of the youth of the land.
Mexicans havo grout facilities in ac
quiring languages, nnd almost every
lad in tho higher schools knows French
and roads it ns well ns he does Spanish.
Thoy tuko up English with enthusiasm
and muter its abomlnablo orthography
and difficult pronunciation by dint, of
downright hard work. Itisdifflnilt
for us, trained in the Anglo-Saxon
speech, to understand how very hard
our tonguo is to acquire in the caso o'
a SpnnV-li i I i lian speaking person.
It is impossible 10 .iiiow how an English
word Is pronounced from its spelling,
and, although our grammar Is com
paratively easy, our idioms aro diffi
cult and our unwritten rules for tho ar
raniremont of words aro tremendous
obstacles, only to be overcome by stren
uous practice and wide reading. Uos'
ton Herald.
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EIGHTY RADICAL CLUBS.
The Gt n Tint Racialism I Making In
the Kttgllth Metropolis.
There aro eighty Kadicul clubs in
London, and as many working-men's
clubs, to which tho Socialists proffer
Ihelr services on Sundays. Some of tho
speakers are extremely intelligent, and
craimlo with social problems with
ability. Among those are Wm. Morris
nlreudy mentioned, who speaks in
ltroudwuv. llummorsmiui, nnu mis a
lecturo hall uttachod to tils house;
Annie Hesiuit, notorious for her partner
ship w.lh l' adlaugh. and an extreme
Socialist; El nutor Murx-Kvoling, daugh
ter of the .'aaious Karl Marx; Rev.
Stewart Head.uin. a member of tho
London school board; Cunningham
Graham, a Soc allst niembor of l'arlia
mont, who served three months' im
prisonment for laVing part In the dis
turbances in Trafalgar Square in No
vember, 1887; George Bernard Shaw,
who has written sevoral novels and is
known as an art critic; 1L M. Hynd
nmn, thn founder of the Social Demo
cratic Federation und author ot text
books on English Socialism, and Sydnoy
Webb, lecturer on polical economy
at the City of London College. Each ol
these ipouk onco or twice in the opon
niroriuthe halls every Sunday. John
B.irns snys that he has delivered an
average of a hundred Socialist speeches
In London and provinces every year.
Ho was the leader in tlio recent strike
movement. London Gable.
The Great Applejack Belt
The groat applejack-producing bolt
of the country lies between the Hudson
rivor or tho east and the Delaware
river on the west, and is pretty much
comprised within the bounds of Orango
County, New York, and Sussex and
Warren Counties. Now Jersey. Within
this district aro some fifty distilleries
devoted exclusively to the manufacture
of tho fiery spirit known upon the
United Status internal revenue returns
as apple hrnndy, but commonly called
applejack. Ordinarily, when the apple
crop of the region is fair to good, the
distilleries start up when tho fruit be
gins to ripen ca-ly in September, and
re kept running until the crop is ex
hausted, say about the 1st of January
following. Some of the dis
tilleries turn out a large pro
duct. The biggest apple brandy
distillery in the country is at Warwick,
Orange County, and has turned out in
the course of a good season 13.IXX) gal
lons. The product of the entire dist-ict
In a proliiio applo s oson will reach
near 200, 000 gallons, on which an in
ternal revenue lax of180,000 is paid.
K. Y. Sun.
A lawsuit In New York developed
t' e fact thnt "after the owner of a lot
In Cypress Hills Cemetery has burled a
deceased member of his own family in
it he is absolutely forbidden, by tho law
under which tho cemetery Is inuorpor
sled, to cv-ir transfer or sell the lot
outside of his family."
A cnrtstion Irlfie, surroiinded by
Pagans, has just been discovered in the
of Africa. They had never be
fore seen a white man. While their re
ligious ideas are crude, still they
nve u priosthood, the cross sod other
mUems of Christianity. They are be
lieved to have been exiled from
Ayaslnia about eight hundred year
8 Catholic Review.
bfljes'for a Family.
Father of Family How much?
Shoe Dealer (figuring on back of
Pckage)-Pair of ahoes for the lady:
; eldest girl. $5; boy. 3; other girl.
; baby. $1.60. Just IW-SO- lr
Thanks ' Can't I show you some hoe
'of yourself?
Father of Family (wearily)-00-w't
bother about me. I can go hare-lwt.-N.
Y. Weekly.
ti... a- . r
, nut tal'h th. riNUll
.hM 1,nd 'ltallon ln mmi
should be Hceompanled by a ballad
meratureof tu own -a. a' forego,,,
Chi... . .. , . . . . w
' me Irish are, and alma
have been, a M.wtii.1
Wlad. In which iTZZ. 2
for their feeling though often
rude and rough, are .till Interesting,
because, like th. rv i l
i ii
tnev itw ik -
- v v "i irinw nivMiiw
.. . acuume outoome of popu
lar emotion at the time. The lawa of
rhythm and rhyme are frequently set
t naught For thee, no one carat a
traw; doggerel does juat a well, or
even belter, than the most poetic dic
tion; the great aim li to catch the
fleeting Impulses which ripple over
the surface of the popular mind, and
U throw In a little salt of advice from
a Und League point of view. If we
saunter down tho principal atreet of
an Irish town on a fair day, we
are almost sure to see two bal
lad singers. They generally draw
"P In the center of the town
after the business of the day
is over. Their stock ln trade con
sists of a handful of sheet ballad.
The lady vocalist usually hat a shawl
thrown over her head, and her balr.
which ncvor seems to have made a
quaintanco with brush or comb, hang
over her eyes In a tangled mats. She
begins by droning out the first verse
of a political ballad, or "ballaL" a it
Is generally pronounced, ln a shrill
monotonous treble; her companion
chimes In a second with a nasal drawL
and this goes on for at Jeast seven
versos, sometimes with the accom
paniment of a concertina, sometimes
not By this time a crowd has assem
bled round the singers, and if the bal
lad Is approved of every one Is eager
to pay a halfpenny to secure a copy of
it These copies are carried away to
many a farm by tho lonely mouatuln
side or to tho depths of many a shel
tered glen, and there, by the turf fires,
during the long winter evenings, they
aro diligently road and often loarned
by heart Meantime the vocal 1st,
with their pockots well lined with
coppers, sot off for the next fair or
race course to pursue their vocation
and to dispose of tho remainder of
their stock. It would bo Impossible
to overestimate the Influence of these
ballads on the excitable Celtlo mind.
Thoy stir up the passions and make all
tho right appear to be on one side.
National Keviow.
DEATH BY GUILLOTINE.
The Awful Sutpenie of a Criminal he
scribed br Abb Faure.
The recent double execution of Al
lorto and Selllor at La Roquette has
uguln given rise to a considerable
amount of discussion as to the moral
effect of tho "guillotine" on the crim
inal classes. It Is quite possible that
President Curnot's severity In accord
ing few rcprives has had a deterrent
effect on the cut-throats, who had
learned to expect so much from the
misplaced clemency of M. Grevy. This
would seem to be borne out by the ob
servations of the Abbe Faure, chap-
linn of La Roquette prison, who has
communicated a report on his minis
trations to the government Tho Abbe
believes that no other punishment
which may be substituted for execu
tion by the "guillotine" will have so
feur-producing nn effort as the terrible
instrument of justico at the service of
the public headsman.
In his report the Abbe draws a real
istic picture of the suspense in which
tho doomed murdorer lives from day
to day, until he hears either his sum
mons to the scaffold or the news of a
reprieve. Nearly all the murderers
seek consolation more or lees ln re
ligion, according to the degree of
education which they have received,
and none of thorn give up the hope of
a reprieve until the last moment The
condemned criminals rarely or never
sleep when they know that their time
Is approaching, or if they do It Is only
to doze off Into a horrible dream, from
which they jump up all livid with fear
and dread. Sleeping or stoking the
"guillotine," the lunotte, the heads
man and his assistants are for ever
present to their Imaginations. Out of
eleven persons whom the Abbe attend
ed during his six years of office only
three were really asleep when the
summons came.
On tho whole, the French system of
keeping criminals in suspense for
weeks or months is a severe one; but
neithor the prison chaplain, who con
siders it his duty always to buoy up
the doomed man with hope, nor the
magistrates and police officials who
deal with the dangerous classes, are
Inclined to recommend its alteration
In any of its details. -London Time.
Window-Washers' Peril.
The primitive plan of washing win
dows by sitting out on the sill to clean
the outer sash killed one woman, who
fell backward into the street yester
day. It is always a marvel, seeing
this perilous plan for cleaning upper
windows, that more of such unaccus
tomed gymnasts do not lose their bal
ance, and. with it. their lives. Noth
, .. save them when they once
topple over, becauso their hands are
otherwise employed than in noiamg
on A fashion of sash that hinge., in
stead of being raised by weights and
..n,. i a desideratum. There are
Ltrivances for thl. purpose, but it
will probably take a number of tuner
alsbefon bruse-bullders and owner-
conclude to adopt them, even .
the window-washer doe. not fall out
. i t .v.- .train upon nerves and
Inmost injurious by ft M
old plan. -Fhliadelphi Ledger.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
. mc inversions and ao-
inere ------ .
i in the m lesion churches served
Dy stuueiiie o.
tute last year.
lhe Polytechnlo Institute at Wor-
M.. has touced a ne -course
of electric 'rln' J
Ug to the degree of bachelor of science.
The Moravians, though small In
number, and M
during the last W
.ionar.. and expended M- '9
ly. They hav. pine,mlalo ihlDa.
COUNTING BY ELECTRICITY,
laureeliag Meehla u He M la the
..rltir.,i.,l, ,,..
We have on mora than one occasion
published a note on the com plicated
electrical appliances which have been
- . r "TT
"nufMlured to be used in taking Ibe
oncoming
ceusus. We DOW five a
brief description of the process:
The census collector will call with
his printed blank, aud answers toques
tlons will be written ln the usual way.
These sheet, will then be placed be
fore a person who oporate a machine
which may be likened to a typewriter,
exoepl il,.. t luslead of the usual Ink
Usrks on paper, small round hole are
punched In a card. The card, one foe
each person, are about sli .n.l a h.lf
inches in length by three Inches la
width, aud the particular position of
hole ln a card ludicutea an answer to
ome of the questions in the printed
blank.
A many as HO items of information
can be punched out upon a card, al
though no one card would ever have
more than one-tenth part of the whole
number. For example, no one person
can be classed a both white and black.
American aud foreign born, and If
forelgu born he can only come from
one country. These card, when
punched, are placed one at a time In a
sort of press, and a lever operated by
one hand Is brought dowu, whett a
series of plus are brought against the
card. Whenever a hole has been
punched in a card, the corresponding
pin passes through luto a mercurv cud
brfneath. completing an electric circuit I
These circuit, one for every hole, pass I
oiU to a large number of oouoters I
which operate electrically, and which
add upon their dial all Items of the
same kind upon tho same dials. For
instance, all white men are counted
upon a dial marked "white males'
all business or professional people
upon dials which Indicate thoir par
ticular business or profession. The
cards, as thoy leave the press, are all
sorted by means of an electrical sort
ing device, whereby they may be
sorted Inlo groups of States. -Modern
Light and Heat
TO PREVENT CONSUMPTION,
The Lalett Medical Vlewi Courerulng
Tubercular lllteatet.
Medlca) views of consumption have
greatly changed within tho last few
years. It was onco regarded as In
curable; It is now regarded as curable,
If the right treatment is begun early.
It was once regarded hs specially
transmissible; so much so that children
of consumptive parents often looked on
themselves as doomed - feeling which
of Itself did much to induce tho
dreaded result Now the disease itself
Is not believed to lie transmitted, but
only a condition of special suscepti
bility to the disease, a susccptibity
which may be overcome or guarded
against by proper precautions.
Consumption was formerly looked
upon as incommunicable, it is now
believed to belong to the great class of
Infectious discuses caused by microbes.
The discovery of tho microbe the
tubercle baellus was made by Koch In
lt-81 and has been confirmed by hu
morous original Investigations con
ducted by other experts.
Tost, on animals provo that this mi
crobe communicates tubercular disease
when introduced into their systems;
and that the result, fatal or otherwise,
depends mainly or wholly upon whether
hl.e animals aro closely confined amid
bad surroundings, or are allowed free
exercise in the open air.
As to the curability of tho diseaso,
post-mortem examinations at the New
York hospitals constantly show that
large numbers of psrsons who have
once boen consumptive have fully re
covered, and havo died long afterward
of other diseases.
In consequence of these near views,
the questibn of prevention has become
extremely important. But to know how
to prevent consumption, we must know
how It is propagated,
Typhoid fever, the seat of which is
in the walls of the Intestines, is propa
gated mainly by the microbes in the dis
charges, which later find thoir way into
the intestines again through Infected
drinking wator.
Consumption, on the othor hund, hav
ing its special seat in the lungs, is
mainly propagated by microbes con
tained ln the expectorations.
The microbes are harmless so long
as they are in a fiuid stale, but whun
allowed to dry, they are taken up In
the air ns dust and Inhaled.
This infected duct may lodge on the
walls of the room, and communicate
the disease to tenant of tho house. It
has been scraped off with a sponge,
and animals inoculated with it have
become tuberculous; while animals
Inoculated with scrapings from unin
fected rooms showed no signs of the
disease.
To prevent consumption, therefore
1. Observe all the conditions of vig
orous health. Most kinds of microbes
are powerldss against high health.
3. Have all sick rooms thoroughly
ventilated. It require many microbe,
to Infect Ventilation greatly reduce
the danger.
8. Let the expectorations be Invari
ably received in spit-cups, and care
fully dlslufecled.
But cefnsumption may be communi
cated by the milk of consumpt.ve cows.
Therefore, let .11 milk be boiled. This
destroys the various kinds of microbe.,
and .houid be made a permanent habit
a a guard against all Infectiou. dm
sases. Youth's Companion.
a very gooo nnimenllor sore, and
bruises is made of ooealf pint of
sweet oil. one ouuee of laudanum, and
a piece of camphor gum the slie of
walnut -Housekeeper.
A Ae fur physician recom
mends the Jewish custom of washing
heads before meals a. a preventative
against typhoid fever. He says thai
contagion can be conveyed Into the
system by the handa
-From the general appearance of
the vegetation, together with adUcus
tion of the origin and relation of the
Bora. It is concluded by eminent
botanist, that Greenland I. not a
European province from the point of
botanical geography, but ha. nearer
relations to America.
THE ROCKING CHAIR.
Mr grandmother tat In this old roiling chair:
Uut she was set my fraailmotber then.
And hrr meet lutle ' r u bewuehiugly fair,
At it laughed a defleare i. men.
Hrr aun bonnet fluttered uke bird on lit ttrtag.
Her lrttt I railed free un tee breere.
And fully I ri did my (randmolher ting.
Underneath the o d gnarled apple trees.
My grandfather rode through the white orchard
WM
And inhered hi steed to a tree;
He had curls g roe in thick o er his lUly youat
P'.
And high Hetslaa boot to 1 1. knee.
From ihr pink tpple bloatoois thai over him
hung,
He bruthrd olT the daw with hit hat.
Till ha came to the spot where th rooking chair
swung
And my merry young graadni. tae r tat
TB k'agcup and eowallp blu.
round lar
nd wide.
The beei from their tweetni'tt did tip .
But my grandfather bluihed-aad my grand
father tlghed.
At h nicked off their beadt with hit whip.
Then my grandmother hummed bar a cunning
old tong
i.i heart never won lady fair, '
So he tlghed and he sued, and before rery long
There tat two la thla old rooking chair
Pittsburgh Dltpatoh.
CHARACTER-MAKING,
The Most Importaat start Any otnntoalty
Caw Hare la law.
With all our many appliances for
spreading knowledge and disciplining
the mind, and our rightful Interest in
the work, there are few who would not
agree that. Important as It Is, the
building up of moral character out
weighs It In It serious results upon
the welfare of the community. A poor
education Is a thing greatly to he re-
(fretted, but poor character is far
mon lamentable. That a workman
hould bo unable to read and write ln a
lanu lllt0 our " ln"-v cepioranie. Out
that ho should be an idler, a drunkard
or a cheat is much worse. Who
would not prefer to employ tho youth
who. with the mere rudiments of learn
ing, was trustworthy, rather than one
who, with talents and education, was
lacking In Integrity? And what com
munity would not be more happy and
prosperous. If the cltltens were honora
ble, law-abiding aud conscientious, than
If. without these qualities, they were
adepts in all the scholarship of tho ageP
Of course a good oducatlon and a good
character need not, and ought not, to
be separated. Happily thoy are tho
united possession of large numbers of
our favored citizens ln this land of op
portunities. But it 1. too readily taken
for granted that tho former will Insure
the latter, and this Is not the case.
There are too many Borrow ful lnstauces
of well-educated men and women fall
ing Into vicious habit, and criminal
practices to allow u. to cherish any
such delusions. Yet, although character-making
Is thus tho most Import
ant end that any community have ln
view, It Is by no means recognized as
auch, or provided for a. It deserve.. If
Intellectual uxorclses fall to Instil It,
as they certainly do. It becomes a vital
question what means to use to train up
tho good and conscientious men and
women of which our country has such
sore need. How shall wo teach the
young the lossons of sobriety and hon
esty, truth and purity, industry and
economy, brotherly love and mutual
giiml- will, as successfully and as thor
oughly as we now do thoso of language
and of thought? Such questions fre
quently rise up in tho mind of every
conscientious teacher, and regret 1.
felt that a compluto answer 1. uot forth
coming. Still the personal Influence
of the faithful teacher is very great ln
this direction. No ono knows how
much good seed Is thus dropped luto
tho soil of young hearts, or how rich a
harvest it often yields. The difficul
ties of systematizing moral develop
ment are so numerous and grave that
thoy may well tax the powers of the
wisest and most zealous advocate.
Eapecially Is this the case becuuso
maxims of good conduut, though ever
o diligently laid down, are not of
themselves sufficient to Insure the good
conduct which thoy recommend. Just
as mental discipline consist, more in
the constant exorcise of the mind Itself
ln right paths than ln the Information
Imparted, so moral discipline con
sists mom ln the continual exer
cise of right feelings, right desires,
and right actions, than in any repeti
tions of moral precepts, be they ever
so true. Whoever can succeed ln In
spiring these, and cultivating tbem a
habits, bus found the true secret of
character-tanking. A. has bcon well
said, "Not by procept, though hoard
dally, not by example, unless It Is fol
lowed, but only by action often caused
by tho related feeling, can a moral
habit be formed." If this Is thought a
delicate and difficult task we may re
member that It I. one not confined to a
certain class, as mental development
usually is, but intrusted to us all. It
1. a duty which every oae must share,
a responsibility which none can throw
off. Tho truth Is that we are always
making character, both our own and
others, eithor for good or for evil. By
the emotions we cherish, by the desires
we indulge, by the actions which
resiond to them, we are stoadiljr
building up our own. Kvory hour
we are adding .tone upon .tone, either
for strength or beauty, or for weakness
and deformity. And, willingly or not
we thus help to form the character of
those around us. Not only by our ex
ample, but even by the unconcciou ln
fluenoe which emanate, from ua, are
others being helped or hurt We are
a part of their surroundings, and they
are a part of ours, and as such we are all
helping to form each other's character
by our daily life. As we aro. and a. we
do, so we teach others to be and to do.
though we utter no word of instruction
or advice. Philadelphia Lodger.
Tne greatest work which the teach
er can do for the pupli U the work
which Cardinal Newman says Dr.
Whately did for him: he "taught mo
to tee with my own eye. and to walk
with my owa feet
a novel scheme' in railroading If
ibout to be tried by an English .yndlo
ate on the Austrian railway system.
Lending libraries will be established
it all the railroad stations of any size,
rt which books will be loaned at a low
rate. They can be returned at any ol
e libraries of the company. 1 ravel
in are. as a rule, greedy 'or hooka,
and the venture Is expected to meet
with success, notwithstanding the op
position of train news agents, whose
business will be sadly ham tiered.
DISCOVERY.
'- world's Brat gral westward voy
ager R died out la faith to thlt taw rontlornt
Wh ther he felt all h t IIIS-curMnlt tlir,
Thouich kaowiag out unto hal place he weat,
tne day, do land la tight, hit gratiug keel
Reported thoalt; ihe uocoavuu vettet tlld
kc oet, nor beard the grinding land reveal
The arcrel of the eoaat beyond them hid.
He drifted path, though wall ot leaf and bird
Flouting aad Buttering aftar, hade him Hay;
Vague latitat ont ererywher h heard;
Hy hope't owa daithng glaBor led astray,
fie ttaded oa an ttlaad't rim, nor guested
How nearly he had woa hit larger queit
Alat' the dumb, Interulablt human tea
Tnat will not tell utof the thoies we tsekt
lit ytalout aavea. In moaning niookery.
Hut )utt returned from pretiing a blue cheek
ajraintt treth roset blowa tor ui. aateea,
la our own realm, that aver will be ourt.
Though through ihe starry dutk all night wt
lean
And, unaware, breathe baltam from the flow
era, and feel lit toft mliU wrapping nt around.
Aad hear far, wave-totted volcet whitperlng
from tome dim bourn beyond th hornon
bound
lltart't kindred itarvmg for th lovs wo
bring.
At wa for thtlrt aa unreaped harvstl-fleldi
Osfl treasure Jutt wilhlt our reach-concealed!
And yet Columbus, this Now World It thine I
f hy cla m wit In thy forward-raachlng toul,
Aa Inner, pretoeat right; thoudldtl dlvin
VsaSMNV that th vailed hemttpber thould
unroll
At la. i, from out the blue blank ot the st;
And whaitoe ver foot might tread thit thora.
Clear waa thy title of ditcovory,
Whoic thought outsailed thy ihlpisoloag
before.
That which we recognise and seek Is ours;
ADproaching un perceived, related toula
Stir Irretlttihty our noblest powers;
Us toward our own lb tide of being rolls!
And thall it nut be ov, the voyage done.
To know the continent and Itland one!
t.ucy Larcom, In Harper t Magailna.
THEIR WEDDING TOUR.
Jack and Katy'a Somewhat Nova)
Experlenoe.
Among the many German emigrants
thnt from time to time landed at In
dian Point Matagorda Hay. on the coast
of Texas, und proceeded Inland for
hundreds of mile, to make a settle
ment on the extromo frontier of that
pe Hons region, wa a rcd-chookcd las
of seventeen, who, being nn orphan,
and without relatives In the old coun
try, had ventured over to try her
fortunes In the new. Hut though
without kin. Gentle Katy, a. she was
familiarly termed, was not without
friends, and the same vessel which
bin ght her over hud on board ut
least six sturdy young fellows who
thought her more lovely than any
other female thoy had ever seen.
Gentle Katy cast her lot with a now-
ly-marrled couple, and with thorn
went far northward, to settle In a
beautiful spot on the green bank of
the Llano. There, strnngo as It may
soem, she saw and fo I In lovo with as
rough and ugly a specimen of civiliza
tion as could easily be found in a re
gion where the men have alwuys been
more celebrated for their pluck than
their bounty. Juck Huwksworth meas
ured six feet and two Inches; was
rough in manner, blunt In speech, and
had never boon Inside of a school
house ln his life; but he had a good
heart and the courage of a lion. On
one of his hunting excursions ho came
across Kitty, and the result was a mu
tual pitsslon und a marriage
"Now. then, my little beauty," said
Jnck, pluyfully tapping the bride',
chin with his long, brown, bony
lingers, "I've got the bird, ye see.
and 1 wants the cage to put II ln. I'm
agwlne to git tho cage, and so jest you
slay hero ipilottlll 1 come back."
In her imperfect Kngllsh. Gontle
Katy managed to Inquire how long he
would bo gone, nnd Jack assured her
"It wouldn't be over a thousand
years.
He finally took leave of her. In his
rude way. and wi at about fifty miles
to tho eastward, whore, partly for
cash and partly on o-dit, he pur
chased a small shanty and land
enough to live on comfortably, and
then returned for the purpose of re
moving his bird to hi. cage
Hut judge of his anguish on finding
that Katy was los' to him, perhaps
forever. The young couple with
whom she bad made bur homo In tho
wilderness were almost frenzied with
fear nnJ t Ibulation. They told him,
with wringing hunds and tearful eyos,
that Katy had tho day before gone
over to a little prairie grove to gather
some flowers, and that shortly after,
hoarlng some wild screams and horri
ble yells, they had looked out just ln
time to too her borne off by a party of
mounted Indians.
At thl. direful Intelligence Jack
Huwksworth sank down on the near
est scat, buried hi. face In hi. hands,
and for a few minute, shook all over
like u man with tho ague. When he
again looked up hi hand and Up.
were working convulsively, hi. dark,
bronzed feature, were white and
ghastly, largo bead, of perspiration
were standing all over his face, and
his small, black eyes had a piercing,
fiery, wicked expression. He stag
gered to his feet without saying a
word, clutched his long rifle with a
grip that seemed to sink his lingers
into the cold metal, and then went
straight to the spot where bis un
fortunate wife had been seen In the
power of a savage foe. For half an
hour he walked to and fro over the
ground, minutely examining the foot
prints of the different horses and cal
culating thoir number; and then, fill
ing upon the departing trail, he .truck
off at a long, .leady, Indian lope and
soon disappeared from sight of the
excited couple who had come forth to
watch him.
The trail led almost directly south
ward, and all the remainder of that
day the old hunter pursued It at the
ame loping psoe. When at length
night fell upon him, and he could no
linger tee the hoof-prlnta he was fol
lowing, he threw himself down upoo
the green bank of a running stream,
ate a few mouthful, from his wallet
took a long drink of the flowing
water, stretched himself out oa the
ground, with ooe hand retting on his
trusty rifle, and almost immediately
went to sleep, though In that peculiar
condition of mind and body, the re
sult of long experience la scene, of
danger, that the slightest unusual
sound would be sure to wake bin.
Six or seven hours was all the rest
that Jack required; and the moon by
that time being well up, aad pouring
down a silvery flood through a cloud
less sky. he arose, took another drink.
and resumed his course"on tne broad
trail. This he followed at a slower
pace till daylight once more made it
clear befo e him. and then he hurried
forward as on the day preceding.
The sun was perhaps two hnu s
above tho horizon when he reached
the place where tho Indians hud en
camped on the night following the
capture of his wife. Hero ho sp nt
some half an hour In examining the
different foot-prints, and when, among
others, he found those of his pretty
bird, and saw where sho bad passed
the night his agitation and excite
ment became painful, and ho several
times groaned nut us ono enduring;
great bodily suffering.
At length ho set bis teeth hnrd, with
an unswerving determination drew
his hands slowly over his face, and
outwardly became more composed.
1 hen he commenced a broad circuit I
around the camp, to find the depart
ing trail. In doing this h discovered
r point where throe horse hod filed i
"f from tho main body; and suspect
ing these had bcon detached and sent
off with tho fair captive ln a home-1
ward direction, ho at onco resolved ;
to follow thit trail Instead of tho
other.
"Ef I'm wrong," ho muttered,
good-bye to little Kate for tho pre- j
ont; but ef I'm right, and it's in one;
human nittor to do It, I'll hov her back
ag'in. and tho scalps of them as tuk
her!"
With this he again set forward In
the manner described, and, with only
now and then a brie? rest continued
the same hurried pace till near sun
set, when he came upon the pievlous
night's camp of tho throe Iudii ,
showing that thus far he had gained
upon his one mli With the wildest
anxiety of hope and fear, he now made
an eager search for the footprints of
his little wife; and when at length ho
found them, where she hail dismount
ed anil boon secured to a tree, thus
proving that her life had so fur I i
spared and he had taken the proper
course, such contending emotions of
joy and rage took possession of him
joy at the discovery and rage against
her foes that for a time ho was like
one demented.
Since branching off from the main
body, tho throe warriors hail kept a
straight course, a little north of west;
but on tho third day Jack Huwks
worth reached a spot on an open
plain, where they had made a bait
and from wlilch, to his surprise, ho
now found tho trail lod directly
south, toward a range of hills
that could barely be discerned
in the blue distance Knowing
sjiitt among thoso hills was a rare
spring of medicinal waters, which tho
Indians not uiifreiiiontly visited, It oc
curred to him that tho present party
had gone thither, and might, perhaps,
make it halt long enough for him to
come up with them. Tho idea afforded
him fresh hope, and raised his spirits
materially as ho started onward again.
When night again felt upon tho
scene, tho hills were looming up ln
rugged linos before him, but still mile
away. Knowing the oxuet location of
tho spring, and thai it was so situated
as to command a view of the broad
plain In tho direction of his approach,
ho resolved, weary a ho was, to push
on In tho dark und gain a safe position
among the hill before morning, even
houid he not lucccod in surprising his
enemies whllo resting in supposed se
curity. It was life or death to him, and ho
strained every nerve und muscle to the
last tension, and succeeded In reach
ing the buso of the hills In such an ox
huustod condition that ho wus obllgod
to throw himself down on the earth
nnd rest for un hour to recover
strength enough to go through with
what wus yet before him. Ho hud two
miles yot to go to reach the spring,
and h hen at last he slowly dragged his
aching frame In sight of It the lute
moon wus already slivering the tops
of tho trees, and he knew that day was
about breaking.
Hut now there camo a thrill of Joy
to his heart that sent new life through
out his drooping frame; fo now It
was ho who hoard tho whinny of a
horse only a few rod distant , and felt
assured thut ho had not niudo a futal
mistake In Ills calculations. Guided
by the sound, and moving with the
stealthy caution of u punther, ho soou
reached a grassy und beautiful plat
eau, where ho saw tho three animals
ho had so long followed picketed with
in half pistol shot of him. 'Ike horses
showed some fear at his advance, and
more than once snuffed and snorted so
loud that he fairly trembled lest their
maater. should come to learn the
cause. He reached them, however,
without discovery, and In loss thun a
minute had cut every throat As thoy
floundered, groaned, fell and kicked
they mado a noise that routed up the
sleeping savages and brought them
upon the ground In frightened hatha;
but for thit the old hunter wa pre
pared. Throwing hlmtelf down be
hind one of the animals, with hi long
rifle brought to bear upon the point
from which tho Indiuns were hur
riedly approaching, bo waited till
ne taw a n.uvlug tLttOow between
hlmtelf and the background of
the iky, and then taking as good
aim at thl. as the circumstance, would
permit, he pulled th. trigger. With
the .harp report the savage dropped,
and his companions close behind ut
tered yells of dismay and terror. Hut
their yells were not as loud and ter
rible aa those of the old hunter, as he
prang to his feet, knife In hand, and
bounded toward them; and probably
supposing themselves assailed by
numbers, they turned with wild
shrieks and fled, fast and far, down
tho steep hills, and escaped ln the
darkness.
Having thus gained a complete vic
tory. In less time than it has taken us
to reco d the facts, the old hunter now
began to shout the name of bis wife,
and at the third call be received an
answer that sent the blood bounding
with the wildest rapture through
every vein. In another minute be
had reached the side of his darling
wife, and cut the cords that bound
her; and at the sprang Into his rough
but manly arms, and clung wildly
around his neck, be became so over
powered with his emotions that be
reeled to and fro, holding her In his
embrace, i)d finally .unk down on the
eurth, and alternately wept, laughed
and shouted like a mudtnan.
It Is not necessary for us to dwell
upon their long, wearisome, perilous
journey homeward. Suffice It to say
thut Jack Hawksworth put forth ail
bis experience, sagacity and manly
qualitio. and brought his pretty little
wife safely back among hor friends, to
their great wonder and dollght, he
himself becoming quite a lion among
her countrymon for his brave exploit
"Yo seo," Jack used to say, ln
winding up the narration of his ad
ventures, "when a big nob gits
spliced, as I'vo hearn tell, they has
what thoy calls thar wedding towr;
and so. to be ln the fashion, me
and Kitty tuk ours amongst the
Comanche, and I'm jest one old scalp
the richer for't Whoop!" -N. Y.
Ledger.
LITTLE HELEN KELLER.
Anecdote Illustrating th Hllud Deaf
Mute's Iteinarkahle Intelligence.
Helen Keller has a wonderful mem
ory, and seldom forgets what she has
onco loarnod; nnd she learns very
quickly, Mic I a wonderfully bright
child, and her teacher, lnsteud of urg
ing her to study, Is often obliged to
coax Helen away from some example
in arithmetic, or othor tusk, lest the
little girl should Injure her health by
working too hard at her lessons Hut
her marvolous progress 1 not due to
her lino memory alone, but also to her
great quickness of perception, and to
her remarkable powers of thought
To speak a little more clearly, Helen
understands with lingular rapidity,
not only what Is said to her, but even
tho feeling-, nnd tho itute of mind of
those about her, and she think more
' than most children of hor age. The
"Touch" schoolmistress has done
such wonders for her little pupil
that you would scarcely be
liove how many things Helen
finds out, at with electric qulcknett,
through her fingers. Sho knows ln a
moment whether her companions are
sad, or frightened, or Impatient In
other words, she ha learned o well
what movement people make under
tho influence of different feelings that
at times she aoeins to road our
thoughts. Thus, whoo she was walk
ing ono day with her mother, a boy
exploded a torpedo which frightened
Mrs Keller. Helen asked ut once:
"What aro you afraid of P" Some of
you a1 ready know that sound (I. a,
noise of all sorts) Is produced by the
vibrations of tho air striking against
our organs of hearing that is to say,
tho oat's; and deaf people, oven though
they can hear absolutely nothing, are
still conscious of these vibrations
Thus, thoy can "feel" loud music,
probably becauso it shakes tho floor;
and Helen's sense of feeling is so
wonderfully acute thM sho no doubt
learns many things from those vibra
tions of the air which to us aro im
perceptible. The following anecdote Illustrates
both hor quickness of touch and her
reasoning powers Tho matron of the
Perkins Institution for tho Hllnd ex
hibited ono day, to a number of friends,
a glass loinon-squoezer of a new pat
tern. Il bits never been used, und no
ono prosont could guess for what pur
pose It was Intended. Some one
handed It to Helen, who spollod "lem
onade" on her fingers, and asked for a
drinking glass. When the glass was
brought, she placed tho iquoozor ln
proper position for use
Tho little maid was closely ques
tioned as to how sho found out a secret
that had bullied all tho "seeing" peo
ple prosont She tapped her forehead
twice, and spelled. "I think."
I can not forbear tolling you one more
anocdoto about her, which teems to
me a very pathotio one. She Is a very
good mimic, and loves to Imitate the
motions and gestures of those about
her, und she can do fit very cleverly.
On a certain Sunday sbe went to
church with a lady named Mrs Hop
kins, having been cautioned before
hand by her teacher that sho must
keep very quiet during the church
service. It Is very hard to sit per
fectly still, however, whon you can't
hear one word of what the minister Is
saying, and little Helen presently be
gan to talk to Mrs Hopkins, and ask
what was going on. Mrs. Hopkins
told her, und reminded her of Miss
Sullivan's Injunction about keeping
qulut She immediately obeyed, and
turning hor head In a listening atti
tude, sho said "I listen." Florunce
Howe Hall, ln St Nicholas
adoui oen-onprov.m.nt.
Propose to yourself an object that I
noble; pursue it from motives that are
high, le t what Is best In you take
the mattery. You .hall be ranked
with the wlso and good long before
you are fully either. And ns you go
on In the course of Improvement the
Idea of your better self .hall become
more definite, aud the life of thlt Idea
and wisdom and goodness shall be
dearer and stronger In you. You (hall
be named after the Idea of your life;
you are wise, for you are becoming so;
you are good, for you are becoming so.
In all right course, of life, a man res
olutely desirlous of becoming a wiser,
better informed, better disciplined,
mora useful individual, will find his
thoughts, both of the end and the way,
get clearer as he precede, ln his work.
He sees more truly and more brightly
what It Is he want.; be sees more ful
ly the means for its attainment And
with better prospect both of the end
aud the way, there comes Increased
motive for the self-Improving effort of
the journey. N. Y. Ledger.
PITH AND POINT.
People who call each other liars
often get hurt for telling the truth.
Merchant Traveler.
A wife owe. a duty to her hus
band, and the husband, as In courtesy
bound, pay. the debt Blnghamton
Leader.
Man will never be a free agent so
long at woman chooses either to rule
or bamboozle him. Milwaukee Jour
nal. The man who keeps a secret from
his wife may be a discreet man, but ha
teaches his wife to keep a secret from
him by doing It Atchison Globe. ;