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ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 5,! 1884.
VOL. V.
NO. 18.
COLUMBIAN.
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THE BALLAD OF THE BABY.
Uii'd of h;al and rel in the face.
I'm only a b 'lv, weak and snmli;
A b in lie of tl:in::e'. and bib and lace:
Hut don't. I be;, iivo error fall.
For there's iot a t ilujc on this earthly ball,
Or biK or Utile, or old or new.
That hold the wor d in cotnp!eter thrall;
Come, .1st t j the UoeU that 1 cau do.
I can s' r'olt a shr'ek tn rend all space.
cm cht ke myse:i with my broidernd shawl;
Can Ken I my nurs ; on a franilii chase
Kor pins that nuvt r were there at all.
I can make inv pa. so brave and tall.
Jr'av curious w.r Is. just one or two.
As he walks th; lloor to huh my squall;
Come, lift t i the deeJs that I cau do.
I can coo and coo with tender jrrnce,
A'id brintr my sub'ects at lieck and call.
With cu:ininr smile .n l a sort embrace,
WM j into mischief i straightway crawl:
My mamma's ane I can forestall.
I can tv-cike and cm peek-a boo,
I can ciur n. enslave, delude, appall;
Come, list to the dcct'8 t' at I can do.
ENVOY.
With my tiny homls I can bu hl life's wall
Astrue and st on? as the skies are blue:
I am the monarch ot hut and hail;
t o:ne, list to the deeds that l can do.
Carlotta itrry. in (iwai Cheer.
YARNS BY A IIIUHWAYMA.V
A Forty-Nlnor VTlio lid Not Oo to Call
fomia to IIr Gold Robbing th Over.
IudiI Coach 'ntly Captured by Wom
an Surrendering to an Kiupty l'itol.
It is the prowl boast of Jim Smith
t' at he has passed thirty-three Christ
xn asses 'n the California Penitentiary at
San l'uentin. He is not, perhaps, the
only'', er in Mate Prison, but he is
probably the only one w ho has been in
Ma'e Prison for sm? j ortion of every
y-ar since ' ii).. He tame Wot with the
Argonauts, and never for a moment,
notwithstanding h s long penal servi
tude, considers himself unworthy to
rank with the best of them. He thinks
they were the most remarkable men of
the century, and his modesty does not
pre ent him from declaring that he was
with them. Jim Smith is the patriarch
of the prison. He is the guide, philoso
pher and friend of the younger con
victs. He is a model prisoner. So far
as anybody has been able to discover,
has b'lt'one fault. He can not leave
stage coaches alone. Once put him in
a place wheiu no stages are to be found
and he is an e emplary man.
Smith has no: been a prisoner at
fan v.uentin steadily for thirty-three
years. He has been out many "times,
t ut has. returned again so speedily,
convicted on the same old charge, that
he has not in all that time missed a
t hris u:as dinner behind the bars.
Thev gave him a sentence the last time
whit'lwill keep him in retirem?nt con
s deiab!y longer than usual, but no one
entertains the thovrlit that he can, ever,
be broken of his na' it while 'stage
coa.-h rurs. Lis failing is so well
known that kes a:e sometimes
cracked w.th him on the sub ect, and
wi:en he is permitted to converse he
will refer to some o: his exploits in a
wav which shows that no amount of
pttni-hment can ever convince him that
the stopping of a coach and the rob
bery ot the passengers is anything to be
ashamed of-
Havinir a little extra liberlv on the
Koi rth of . uly. Smith found time, and
his callers gave him the o casion to talk
freel. of his past life. He had heard
of some rcceut exploits ot highwaymen
which tilled him wi.h disgust. In the
course of a long conversation he said:
'It is enough to make a '4. er's blood
boil to hear about tne operations of
these sneak thieves who are now work-
in' these little country roads. There
ain't one in liftj- of them that has the
sand in h.m to hold up a thoroughbred,
l'ws pinched members of Congress
Judges of the supreme Court, ex-Gov
ernors, argonauts, and big men gen
eraliy more'u once, but these fellows
don't know an tiling about men of that
ual tv only to dodge them. Staging
ain t what it used to oj anyway. When
th:; over.and stages were running it
took a ood man to stop them. In the
1 rst place they were driven by the
nui.Nt r ckless men you ever see, ana
the men inside of them were true
Aniereans. if they gave up it was
because they ha 1 to that was all. The
fellows who t avel uowadays ain't got
th; spirit of '4'.i, or these "fellows who
a e in the business now never d get a
col r.
"1 renu-iuber oiice earlv in the six
ties 1 went out in Calaveras County
with two par; uers t soj about a stage
tha was due list about then. We all
had good gns, pis o!s and knives, and
we got tl.em ready to use, for in tho e
i.avs thins of tl.a. kind were not car
ried fo.- ornaments. The overland
di'in't show up as soon as was expect
ed - si.mf accident had happened to it
in tlni mountains and when it tint
come it to jk us a little su Ideu. We'd
been f oling arou .d for several days,
and got a 1 ttle careless, I must a lmit.
One day it was warm at.d sunny, and
we a J got scattered, thougn we bad an
undert:.n ling that, wherever we were,
we were to kt ep an e .e on the roa I
all t'.e time, a d if au of us discovert d
the stage, thi.' one doing so was to tire
a shot or two as an alarm signal. Along
ab nil the middle of the afternoon I
heard-a eun, and a minute later there
ame an' liter report that sounded like
a w!.;ev of mu-ketrv.' It pu..led me
a li tie, but I grabbed my shoot ng
iron-; and ir.ado for the tout. 1, hatt
just got a go d position wi en I heard
another s.;ot a little nearer, ami men
anot ler volley a goo I deal louder than
the other. Then came the clatter of
horses and the roll of wheels. It was
th.- s a iT'. I couid see her a-co;niiif.
t ti don't see driving like that
tlb-se tlays. She was on two wheels
half the time, and when she
Mt n ar enough to :ne and ihe dust
Ltd a li tie I could see the gun barre s
a stick n;; out o. her like mulls on
hodjre hog. The driver a hard man
tha 1 kn w m gliJy well had the lines
fur his leaders in h s teeth and th sefor
th?w e . let's t ed to his brake, and he
hatl a pistol in each hand. I never saw
a grander sight in all my life. I wanted
to stop that outfit single handed, just
for the sake of seeing, who. was m it,
but she l ad got up a tremeucous mo
rn ntum by tiie iime she came abreast
of me. and as she fatriv shook the earth
when she zipped pa t where 1 was
hiding, 1 just ducked my head and let
! '.v ' v the way she pctfd
;, ; t .-. ( y ti'r ttbieti !u;ro d,
.kmi . t..uii l car j to make mailers any
tr e n t then, r he was full ot men,
:t:t i the all i a I guns. hen the dust
had sealed ii little and the noise died
out, i crept to the roadway and walked
along slowly for a mile and a half,
where 1 found one of my partners with
about a pound of lead in him. A little
further on 1 came upon the other one.
lb; wasn t hurt, but he was sea ed with-
1 l 1.
in an men oi n;s uie. lie u never oeen
;n that road before, and as he said if
th.-.t was what I called stopping an over
land he had had enouzn. lie said
there was no stop to then). He hadn't
enlisted to light a man-of-war with
a double jnm deck and he wanted
me to understand it. Well, he came
pre'.tj- near getting into trouble with
me, particularly when we came along
to where the other fellow was, but I
pac lied him after awhil fby telling him
it was all our t.tuit. ue na m t ougnt
to have separated. In those days there
were iust as tough m n inside of the
coach :-s any you could recruit for the
outside, ami anyi.ody who got away
with them had to be a good one.
"Just after the war I got information
to the effect that a nurn!er of the boys
were going back to the States, and, as I
knew thev had a good deal of dust, I
made up my ni nd that I would have to
levy upon them. Ihe night belore
they :-tarted they d ank heavily, and
when thev came to get aboard thev
were all in a hekdes condition. I was
th- first man to d'scoverthis peculiarity
of homeward-bound passengers, and it
stood me in a good many hundreds of
dollars, leu could always get away
with a str.'ge a good deal easier dur ng
the lirst ten or twelve hours of its trip
than at any other tim-.. I made no
mistake as to the coach I am speaking
of. rinding out when it would stirt, 1
took a counle of friends and went out
on the road as far as we could get com
fortably. Toward evening wo heard
her a-coming, and we laid low. When
about near enough we jumped into the
road and covered the driver. He was a
1 ttle bit heavy, like the rest of them,
but he was smarter than they were.
When he saw us he reined right up, and
sat there perfectly still, while one ot mv
men kept watch of him and the other one
and myself interviewed the passengers.
They were thoroughly surprised, and
tnose who were not too drowsy to resist
were to sick. We got half a dozen
hi rs tf ftnat- some watches and a few
bills, and then left them. There was a
treasure box aboard, which we pried
off and undertook to carry away with
us. It was mighty heavy, and we
didn't make much progress with it be
fore nightfall. Feeling rather tired, we
went to sleep, never dreaming of
harm; but at davlight when we awoke
we heard a racket in the road, and
looking out -from behind the shrubbery
we saw the passengers whom we had
robbed the evening before. They were
evidently on the War-paffor us. I was
just motioning to my men to keep still.
when one of them, a clumsy cuss, lost
his balance, and in trying to recover
himself made a noise which attracted
the attention of the passengers. They
were after us in a minute. We had to
abandon the treasure bo, aud after
awhile thev got so hot on our trail t'tat
we had to drop the bags of dust, too
They tired about a doen shots after us;
but when they found the plunder they
seeme I to conclude that it wasn't
worth while following us anv further.
This little episode taught me another
important lesson in my business that
when you get anything trom a drunken
man that you want to keep you must
get out of his reach before he sobers up.
That was the case in the overland days,
anvhow.
I came m on a stage once that had
a woman in it a big-boned, red-faced
woman. The other inmates showed
light, and it tooli a shot or two from my
party to keep them quiet, We had got
ust about all there was to be had, and
had ordered the driver to go ahead,
wh n the wonion threw herself out ot
the vch eh ell ng: 'I'm one of vott.'
'So you don't,' savs I. 'I don"t know
you, and maybe you ain't what you
seem. She then went on to tell me
all alout herself, and in half an hou
she made me believe she was a born
robber, who had been wishing all her
life to go into the highway business. 1
rather liked her style, and in a day or
two I had corre to the conclusion that
she might be made useful in o.erhaul
ing stag -s. Sne and I were alone on
the road on j day. my two part le "s
hav.ng fallen behind us a l.ttie, wi.cn
she got to charting me about shooting
at a mark. She said she could shoot
better than I co.dd. Just for fun I
pinned a pit ce of paper on a t' ee and
let her take one ot mv pistols. ne
lired at the n a k, but didn't hit it.
Then 1 loaded her pistol again, and
handed it to her, and was . ust go ng
to load mine, when she savs" "Look
here.' She was pointing the weapon
at me. Sas I: 'Don't do that; it
might go off.' I know it,' says she
and maybe I will want it to go off.
Stop load ng that pistol, or this one
will go off, and I know it.' I thought
she was ioohng for awhile, but when
she gave me the order to march I knew
I'd been nabbed. That there woman
run me into '1 risco, and 1 did three
years' time on her account.
"I've been caught a good many
times, but 1 never was rea lv' ashamet
of myself except the last time. I got
into bad comp ny. and 1 ought to havt
been lynched right on the spot. 1 hai
iust cot out, and had heard a goo
deal about the fellows who are stopping
coa.hes now without anv guns or any
thin" of that kind. I found one of
them, and told him he was a chump.
Then he said it was owardly t use
firearms when moral suasion would do
iust as well. He claimed that he coul
put on a look that would frighten the
passengers more tha i a doen ritle
shots. I had never thought of it in
that liirht before, and. not wishing him
to tlrnk me a coward, I accepted his
cha'de me to go up in the mountains near
the Creon l.ne for an exf eritnent. We
had pistols, but we agreed that we were
not to load them. I was a Jittle ner
vous, but he seemed so confident that
begun to feel that perhaps tage rob
b ug had bejn improved along with
many other things. We stopped a
coach, and dri. er smiled and kept still
iust as mv menu said they alwa s did
1 was t keep him covered with my
empty pistol while the other leliow or
dered the passengers out and stood
;:r-i!gh tVm. My friend had got
i-, ii v well .'own the line, and I was
ii ! m ti . tn m vsi 1 that thescience had
certain I-.- made" some progress since my
d iv, when one o' the victims hauled oil
oulk nd knocked my partner down,
jumped on him. took his empty revol
ver away from him, and began snapp-
ing it at his tars, it uiun i go o i, oi
hnt in a minute the others were
on him holding him fast, and the man
with the revolver levelled it at me with
the order. "Throw up your hands. 1
ha. I nKvavs been used to loaded pistols
in my day, and, while I was painfully
conscious that mine was empty, 1 for-
. . . i it .
got for a moment that tne omer was
n.lso. and nn went, mv hands. Just then
the id'ocy ot the thing popped into my
lieau. out it was too laie. x uey were
on top of me in a minute, and they soon
Ko.l ,ia K..tl ;.! mi with hitchinor Rtntm
and ropes. Now. "that was a nice pickle
. r ... , . -. i a r
lor a 4i!er to Dem, wan i it nunuug
coacl es w.th empty guns and then
I fonfr n mtiirod wit.'i one of them? " I
wouldn't have blamed the Judge much
if he'd mad-? it forty years instead o
twenty." S? Francisco Cor. N. Y.
bun.
"Jist Afore."
"Black-skmned, ignorant, uncouth
what was it to the world if he lay dy
ing? They passed his humble dooi
with careless thought as the dampness
of death gathered on his brow, and the
children on tho corner never once
ceased their noisy play as the shadow
o " death flitted around the open door.
"Chloel"
Yes, she was there. Old and wrinkled
and black, her heart aching, her eyes
full of tears, she sat by his bedside
alone.
"Chloe, how long ago was it?''
"Nigh on to fifty y'ars, Moses," she
whispered. "De "same master owned
us boaf; we worked togedtT in de same
cotton fields; we prayed de same
pray'rs an' sung de same hymns to
geder in de long ago."
"An' de chiH'en"
"Dead all dead! It has bin twenty
y'ars since de voice of de la;t one made
our hearts beat faster."
"An' we has bin alone?"
"All alone, Moses. Our ole hearts
has pained nd ached fur de dead an'
gone. an', we Las sometimes cried out
Vonie home, chill'en come back to
us;' but de dead can not return."
"An' de time has been long!'"
"Yes, honey. We has bin pinin' an'
longin'. We "has bin on a journey an'
hopin' fur d eand of de road."
An' we has bin poo' an' lowly?"
"De same. Hunger an' cold have
sheered our home fur y'ars an' j'ars,
an de wor.d hardly Knows ctat we am
upon airth."
"An' now, Chloe, I'ze gwine 'way to
leave you
"Yes, .Vose."
'An' de nights will seem darker an'
de days longer when I am gone. You'll
have another mem'ry to make de h'art
ache another sorrow to dim de poo'
ole eyes wid tears. I wish de Lawd
had called you fust."
"No. no. Moses. What He docth
am for de best. Men has told you dar'
was no (iod."
"Hut dar' am, Chloe! I'ze got de
feelin' heah in my heart. I'ze got sich
peace an contentment dat I'm sinkin'
away like a chile gwine to sleep."
An' men have scoffed at a hereafter
fur de soul."
"I'ze driftin' to it," he whispered, as
his face lighted up. "I k n see across
de dark valley into de glorious sun
shine of de speerit world!"
"An' dar' am happiness an' rest for
eben sich as us." .
"Come cluser, Chloe! Lay your
lace on mine. I'ze driftin' driftin'!
I'e partin' wid dis poo' o'e body and
dis black skin, l'z.e leabin' old age
sorrow hunger an' pain all behind.
De sunlight from across de valley falls
upon your face, an' it am whiter dan
snow. It am de sunlight of de here
after of Heaven! Cluser, Chloe, I'ze
driftin' driftin' "
And as she held the hand of the dead
and rocked to and fro her face wore a
smile of happiness.
"Jist afew days afore me!" she whis
pered "jist long 'ntifftotell em dat
I'ze ole an' poo' an' lonely an' want to
come up dar so bad! An' de chill'en
will be dar', aud we'll all be young
again, an' Moses will meet me on de
bank of de ribber an' tell 'em dat my
faith has never wandered nor weakened
from all de trials of a lifetime!" De
irj.t Free l'r.ss.
A Burlington Idji.
As the shades of evening efiTfcloped
the huge tree tops in silence and hushed
the melodious song of the fresh summer
leaves, a young couple entered the
park on 1 ourth street, and reclined
upon one of the comfortable and ele
gant benches prepared for the accom
modation of ycutn. 'Ihe sweet tunes
of the early ha'y dids and the frolic
some pranks of the frogs in the ad oin
ing founta'n made the occasion one of
exTraordinary interest. "Ah, my be
loved Cecilia," b gan the youngswain,
"how happy will we be when the
church has pronoun ed its ble-ising
upon our union. .Verily, I love to think
of the scenes of our future home,
where you, my dear, shall be the queen
and 1 the faithful vassal. When, oh
when my dearest love, wilt thou be
wholly mine? ' Au enchanting blush
passed over the freckled features
of the adorable Cecilia. She hesitated,
she stammered, but utterance failed
her. '1 he faithful lover slowly passed
his arm around her waist to support her
at this trying moment. Timidly she
moved away, but V alter, thinking only
of his future happ ness, pursued her.
A close embrace a piercing cry - and
he vanished. Cecelia looked at tho
disappearing form of her Adonis,
and murmured sweetly: "Hast him.
it was only a pip! Does the fool
th'nk I can h ld my red sash together
with my hands!" Ihe results of this
a?cident are sad. Walter will never
more call upon the fair freckled-faced
Cecelia; and the loving maiden will
never forget the hasty departure and
alter's cry of anguish. (The poetical
expressions in th.s item are Chicago
property. ) Haw eye.
Instead of saying now-a-days that
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some one "promises to write a oook,
the word used is threatens."
Rare Stamps.
Tha announcement that $300 had
been raid for a canceled Brattle boro
postal-stamp calls our attention to a
mania which has gradually increased
until it has reached an extent that is
really extraordinary. borne may in
quire, what leads people to collect postal-stamps?
The only reply is found
in another question, what leads peopl
to collect anything? The fact is that a
disposition to make collections of some
kind has always been a feature of our
race. One of the strangest of these
collections, which in one instance, at
least, became a mania, is mentioned in
the life of Tom Moofe. While travel
ing through England he met a man
who collected nangmen's ropes, and
woo had two hundred, each ticketed
with the name of the victhn. The
postal-stamp mania is of modern date,
but it haa during a brief period reached
such an extent that it is impossible to
foresee any limit to prices.
Formerly payment of postage was
made in money, and was marked with
pen and ink; at present, however, twe
hundred Governments use stamps. In
1840 the latter were adopted in the
British postoffice, and seven years later
our own Governments made a similar
change. The example thus set on both
sides of the Atlantic was gradually fol
lowed until the use of stamps ha be
come universal. The mania for col
lecting them soon began, though at
first it was very limited. It grew like
all other forms of mania until it be
came a regular traffic and was reduced
to a system. The value of rare stamps
is now generally fixed, and there are
collectors in all parts of the world.
The highest price ever paid for a post
age stamp was $500. The one referred
to was issuod on the French island of
Re Union. The original cast of this
stamp was fifteen centimes and thirty
centimes (three cents and six cents),
and the immense advance is solely due
to their rarity and the fact that they are
necessary to a eomplete collection of for
eign stamps. There is not one for sale at
anv once, ine next nignesi is
rr - . u : u i :
Brattleboro stamp, which is mentioned
in the paragraph above referred to as
having been sold for three hundred
dollars. This statement is evidently
incorrect, and perhaps its author
has one of these stamps for sale,
and therefore take this method to bull
the market. The best quotation I can
obtain for the Brattleboro stamp is $100,
which certainly seems high enough
when the first cost was from 6 to 1SJ
cents. The origin of the Brattleboro
stamp, as I am informed, is as follows:
In 1846 the postmaster of that place
had some stamps made in order to
obviate the necessity of using the pen.
It Was merely a private convenience,
and its sole importance is due to the
fact that it is the first stamp ever used
in America. The first New Haven
stamps are also of high value for a
similar reason. The next year stamps
were ordered by the Government, and
we new wonder how they ever got
along without them.
The demand for stamps is now so gen
eral that clerks in houses engaged in
J 1 ...
foreign commerce carefully remove
them from all letters, and this affords
a large supply. The foreign corres-
ftondence of the Herald is sufficiently
arge to form an item in the stamp
traSe. The same statement applies to
all great journals, and, in fact, as soon
as an office-boy gets hold of a foreign
letter he strips the stamp off and carries
it to some dealer. Among the greatest
varieties are the Phillipine and Peru
vian stamps, while, on the other hand,
tho Porto Rico stamp is verv cheap.
Maderia and British Guinea, however,
are high, and the law of supply and
demand prevails in this as in all
other commodities. As soon as a
stamp becomes rare the maniac
collector increases his bids until
fabulous prices are obtained. There
are a number of stamp-dealers, the
most extensive being the Scott es
tablishment, in Broadway. Mr. Scott
is a native of London, but ho has been
in this country a quarter of a century.
He issues an international postage al
bum, which gives sample! of a very ex
tensive range, the price being $250.
Some may think this a large sum to in
vest in such a volume, but there are as
the suddIv will
permit. There is an all-sufficient
aSnndanee of common Stamps, for
which thev pay five cents per hundred.
and sell the same quantity for ten
cents. German stamps are very abun
dant, owing to the immense amount of
correspondence with that country.
Hence they are very cheap, and the
quotation at present is one cent per
hundred, ocott sens six nunureu as
sorted stamps for $10, but as soon as
one gets into the varieties fancy prices
must be expected. Scott has custom
ers who are ready to pay almost any
thinw that may be asked for the fancies
He operates boldly when he sees a good
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opening, anu ueuce, w ucu niaui.ii
stamp was issued he sent orders for all
that could be obtained from the au
thorities. He also ordered at one time
$5,000 worth of Porto Rico stamps. One
of his natrons is a member or tne
nrinoelv Vanderbilt family, whose col
lection has already cost $10,003. These
facts show the immense extent which
this sneeialtv has reached, and also
those fanciful prices which are the re
sult of so w idespread a mania. Stamp-
collectors are found in all large cities,
and one of the most liberal of this class
is a Rnstonian. whose collection fully
rivals that of Vanderbilt. Hartford
Post.
. - m
a nn, ciirwMan civilization an
vances, new problems, undreamed of a
centurv or two a io. rise to the front
and clamor for solution. But step br
step with the new slate of things which
awaken these problems,, marches the
now uimlnm which is to Solve them.
The day of human power, of human
knowledge, of human wisdom, is gtow-
inir- inH tha tn mnrroW whicll Olir
children will see shall be wiser than
the to-day in the wisdom ot wnicn so
manv of us eult. As we look back
tUn vesterdav of civiliza
tion with its to-day, we gain some faint
glimpse or now great nau
dom of its to-morrow. Sunday School
Times.
A picture of Meissonier, calle
iiTh. ii nn.ntiasorl a. niiai'ter of
nonlnri' m rrn hr Va nnlpfin TH. for SS.1.000.
U uar rained at. S50.000. It is owned
by Queen Victoria.
What Site Founl.
One sultry July afternoon, about five
vears asro. an accident occurred on a
prowded street of Philadelphia, j A
wagon trying to pass a basket phaeton
pad wrencnea tne wneei on ana oronen
the shaft. The lad v who was driving was
forced to take refuge in a shop until
her carriage was repaired. She would
1 If 1 fa. i.1
Be ooiigea w wan xnree or pernaoo mui
hours. She looked about with ill con
cealed disgust. What had induced her
to make the "short cut" out of town
which brought her to such a quarterr
Mrs. C! was a refined, wealthy
woman, whose wiling taste for years
had been a love of art. of the beautliui
or sublime in nature. If she had been
wrecked in one of the miserably poor
districts of the citv she would not have
been so bored. There was always some
thing picturesque and interesting in
novertv and crime. But she was in the
neighborhood of the great woolen
mills, and mile after mue oi nine
dwellings and shops stretched out about
Var a. wilderness of "cheap groceries.
cheap ready-made clothing, cheap tin
ware. 1 he streets were narrow as lanes.
the atmosphere hot and foul. The
room in which she sat was an eignt-
hv-fcen drop shop; the smell of cop
peras and ipecac heavy in the air. The
apothecary, a little, old, keen-eyed
man, watched ner as ne worseu ms
pestle. I I
"Yon do not find much to! interest
vou in this street?" he said, after an
i .. .1 J- .1 :
tiour haa passeu. j
"I think I never saw any place so
drearily commonplace!" she said.
And the faces of the people who pass
have but one meaning: Work; for
your bread.' " ' ! !
r i , . i ; i
The old man smueuquicuy, griuumg
way in silence. !
. "Take that woman wno Dougut a
stamp just now" Mrs. C con
tinued, to relieve the monotony of
her wearisome waiting "middle-aged,
neat to a fault, and half-fed; I suppose
th historv of her life is: Work for six
(day., for money that will barely keep
her like five?
"That's about it! That is Anne
SootL She makes women's skirts on
the machine at a dollar a dozen. 1 She
has been engaged to be married for hf-
tin vain to John furlon?. that
stoope'd-shouldered man on tho other
side oi the street. -
"Why don't they marry?" j
"It's John's mother, ma'am, i She
had a fever and it touched her brain
and she went quite mad. It takes all
John makes at the loom to keep her in
a private asylum. There's some j men
that would have quietly put ner in me
almshouse. . Bnt FurlongTl never de
sert his mother even to marry poor
Anne Scott. He's fond of her, i too.
Ua u-nitfl -it. that, corner half of his
noon-hour every day, just to see ller go
by." i
"Fifteen vears!" said Mrs. CJ ,
under her breath. j
"You see. the old man continued.
Fnrfonc-'s not a skilled weaver. I His
earnings are smaller than those of the
other men. He is a shepherd by rights;
a herder from Scotland. But he
landed here without a dollar. ! And
what could he do in that case? There
are no sheep in the streets of, Philadel
phia."' Mrs. O rose; quickly, and jwent
to the door. The stooped, "high-featured
wrirkinir-man and the nrim little wo
man who passed each other with a sud
den lightening ot the iaco, were more
interesting after all than any piece of
old Satsuma or Capo di Monti. ! Yet
what prices had she not paid for these!
She loliowea Anne nome anu jspeut
an hour in her solitary little room.
Then she went to find John I urlong.
She was eager, enthusiastic. Never
had anv chase for Capo di Monti in
Kurope been so exciting as this, j Mrs.
C was a widow, tne owner oi a
country seat, a farm and many flocks.
She wanted a trusty shepherd and a
woman who could take charge of the
house in her absence. j
John Furlong and his wife have been
established in a pretty cottage on her
farm for four years. They have gained
a home and happiness, but her gain is
greater. She has found higher nses
for her life than artistic devotion to old
china and bric-a-brac. The heathen
maxim for life was "Know thyself!"
but the Christian's is "Know thy
brother!" Youth's Companion, j
The Steerable French Balloon.
Messrs. Renard and Krebs' reported
discovery of a steerable balloon, occu
pied the Paris Academy of Sciences
again recently. A letter was reauirom
M. Dupuy de Lome, a member; of the
Academv, well known as a zealous
laborer m the science of aeronautics.
It is, in fact, by the principles laid
down bv M. Dupuy de Lome that
Messrs. Renard and Krebs have been
guided in the construction of their bal
loon. In the letter referred to,M. Du
puy de Lome affirms that his own ex-
-t i : 1 ; 1
pen meats in cuuuusiycivi piuiou
the practicability of guiding' balloons
in a horizontal direction, tlis ma
chinery, however, did not permit a
greater speed than ten kilometre an
hour, and this was not sufficient in face
of a wind of anv superior I degree
of velocity. Messrs. : Renard and
Krebs will, however, j says i M. de
Lome, employ, in an experiment to
be made at an earlv date, a motor ol a
donble power to that which he had
used, and attain a speed of twenty-live
kilometres per hour. Ihe great prog
ress made is. he adds, the invention
of a machine which, including batteries
and accessories, weighs only five
hundred and sixty kilogrammes. M.
Dupuy de Lome expresses himself alto
gether as verv sanguine upon tne
achievements of his fellow laborers.
but it will seem to most people that
light as the new electric machinery
may be in comparison with that hitherto
experimented with, a weight of five
hundred and sixty kilogrammes is a
dangerously largo proportion of the
total weight, namely, two thousand
kilogrammes, of Messrs. , Kenard and
Krebs' balloon. Various ; explanations
are civen of the reasons preventing the
aerial vovaire from Meudon to Paris
Ifiafc Saturdar. which thousands of ter
sons had assembled to witness. The
truth is, that in the previous experiment
the machinery had been damaged and
Rome modifications of detail had been
nidged desirable before further expert
ments were undertaken. London
Standard. j :
Earthquakes in England.
More than three hundred earthquakes
have been recorded as having occurred
in Great Britain. The direction in
which the wave of disturbance has
traveled hag in every instance been
found to be from southwest to north
east, and the region affected has usually
had its greatest extension in the sam
direction. It has been suggested that
the center of disturbance thus indicated
is the submarine region between the
Azores, Teneriffe, and the Cape Verd
Island a region which has been re
garded as the principal source of the
chief European earthquakes. In the
great Lisbon earthquake, for instance,
the wave of disturbance came from this
volcanic region in the western seas.
And it has been held by some of our
ablest vulcanologists that nearly all, if
not all, the regions of disturbance in
Southern Europe communicate with the
region under the Atlantic. -
The earliest British earthquake of
which any record has reached us is that
which, according to Wendover, shook
the whole of England in 974. Proba
bly in those days a few scattered reports
of earth throes from places tolerable far
apart would do duty as evidence of an
earthquake shaking all England. As
suredly Wendover had not satisfactory
evidence from all parts of England; and
from what we know o f later earth
quakes it is probable that that of 974
was limited to a much smaller region
than this accountwould seem to suggest.
In the earthquake of 1081 a hoary bel
lowing, according to one chronicler,
was heard throughout the length and
breadth of England, and in like man
ner the accounts of the earthquake of
1089 indicate, with similar want of pre
cision, most probably, a disturbance
affecting the whole country "a mickle
earth-stirring over all England." The
unscientific observers of the day attrib
uted the late harvest of that year to the
earthquake.
A severe earthquake was iem in tne
western and midland Darts of England
in 1110. The valley of the river Trent
must have been very violently shaten,
for the river was dried up at Notting
ham, and so remained, according to
the chronicler, "from morning to the
third hour of the day, insomuch that
menne walked drye-shodde" through
its channel. This shock may probably
have been due to a remote disturbance
of great violence, for it has been ob
served that when England has been
slightly shaken by the effects of a dis
tant earth-shock the waters in the
rivers and lakes have often shown tbe
most marked effects of the disturbance.
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries
were remarkably prolific in great earth
quakes in the British Isles. Passing
over the widely felt earthquake of 1133,
there was an earthquake of great vio
lence in 11G5. It was felt in tbe eastern
counties, and apparently belonged to
the same set of earthquakes as that
which was felt so sharply last April in
Essex. Matthew Paris tells us that in
Ely, Norfolk and Suffolk this earth
quake threw men to the ground and
rang the bells. It does not seem to
have fully relieved the pent-up forces
beneath the eastern counties, for only
twenty vears later there eccurred an
earthquake in which old Lincoln Ca
thedral was thrown down, and mucn
dsstructiou wrought in Lincolnshire and
neighboring counties. Two years later
another violent earthquake was experi
enced in the eastern parts of England,
and many strong buildings were thrown
down. It seems likely that during the
next ten or twenty years we may have
similar evidence that a single earth
quake is insufficient to relieve the east
ern earthquake region of England. In the
years of 1247 and 1248 two remarkable
earthquakes occurred, one in the east,
the other in the west ef England, as
though a mighty subterranean oscilla
tion had slowly taken place, throwing
the line of disturbance over from east
to west. In the former year, according
to Matthew Paris, many buildings on
the banks of the Thames were flung to
the ground. He adds that "a few days
after", the 6ea became unnaturally calm,
as if the tides had ceased, and so re
mained for about three mouths." But
it is very unlikely that the earthquake
had anything to do with this oceanic
anomaly. In the western earthquake
of 1248 the destruction wrought was
greater than in any modern British
earthquake. The Cathedral of St.
David's was partially destroyed; a part
of the tower of ells Cathedral was
flung down and fell through the roof;
several churches in Somersetshire were
seriously damaged, wide rents being
apparent in the walls.
But the earthquake of September,
1275, was still more destructive. Wfe
are told by Matthew of Westminster
that the church of St. Michael of the
Hill, outside Glastonbury, was levelled
to tho ground by the violence of tho
earthquake. Many other large churches
were destroyed or greatly injured.
Those who recognize or imagine a
connection between the earthquakes in
Great Britain and the movements oc
curring within the volcanic region of
Southern Europe remark that during
all the time that England was thus dis
turbed, the region of which Vesuvius is
the principal outlet had been quiescent.
It is perhaps ratber convenient for the
theory of connection between British
earthquakes and the Vesuvian volcanic
region that we may recognize evidence
in favor of the theory whether disturb
ance in one region synchronizes with
disturbances in the other, or, on the
other hand.with a time when the other
region is unusually quiescent. Yet it
must be admitted ihat even the appar
ently contradictory forms of evidence
derived from the quiescence of Vesuvius
and its fellow-craters on the one hand,
or their unusual activity on the other,
when British earthquakes occur with
exceptional violence, may in reality
point in the same direction. For on
the smaller scale it certainly has been
observed that within the Vesuvian re
gion itself, at a time when Vesuvius is
at rest, the minor craters of this region
are often found to bo unusually active,
while yet at times when Vesuvius is in
violent eruptions these same volcanoes
seem exceptionally active too. It is as
though when Vesuvius rests they tried
to do the work which Vesuvius is neg
lecting, while, when Vesuvius is very
active, they try to help the greater cra
ter bv sharing in its labors. It may
therefore quite possibly be the case that
distant volcanic regions may show their
kinship as much by alternating throea
as by simultaneous disturbances.
ir He Had Asked Us.
A nnKot-SriAii trit(Aa f an k r fl fl fl (YA .
asking a question based upon the fol
lowing statement of facts:
I was married to a tine looking young
girl about two years ago, and about a
year ago a horse she was driving ran
away and threw her irom ner carnage,
and she was so injured that she has been
partially paralyzed ever ince. She
can not walk except on crutches, and
then only with great dllhculty. l am
very fond of society, and especially of
dancing and boating, but my income is
small, and my sister says 1 ought to
save my money and buy my wifo an
invalid chair, or hire a carriage and
take her out for an airing occasionally,
but 1 do not enjoy her company as well
as that of other ladies, since she was
hurt, for she is not lively now, as she
waj before I married her, and 1 am
very much disappointed ' with life.
What would you advise me to do?!
Tn thi. Lho exchange. reoUcs: VDo
as you please, and don't bother, people
If that question had been put to us in
stead of an exchange, we should have
given an answer about like this:
Young man, did you ever see a fel
low who had whipped his wife dressed
up in a 6hining black suit of tar and
featfcers, promenading on the public
highway astride tho roof of a worm
fence? Well, sir, if vou think for a
single minute of abandoning your poor,
crippled wife, and spending your
money in dancing and boating with
other women, that is the kind of trans
portation you may expect. When you -stooi
before the altar with that gay
young girl yqu have described and
promised to love and honor her. and to
her only cling in sickness and health,
in adversity as well as prosperity,there
was no exception made and no proviso
in the vow you took, that in case she
became paralyzed you should be at lib
erty to leave ner housed up like a caged
bird, and go dancing and boating with
other women while she is pining her
life away for a few kind words from
you and a drive in your company, and
whenever you do that sort of a trick
you deserve to be struck by lightning
or have the dome of the court house
fall on you.
You think it is pretty hard on you to
give up dancing and boating and save
your money to buy your poor, sick lit
tle wife an invalid chair, by means of
which you can take her out on pleasant
evenings, and talk over the good old
times to her, and make her smile, bo
cause it does her good to breathe the
pure air out of doors, and know that
you have not forgotten the old days
when she was well, and that you sym
pathize with her and have just a little
of that love which you swore would
never grow less, before she promised to
marry you, left- If you will take a
maul and pound your "giddy head with
it until you can see what an ass you
have made of yourself by asking such
a question, you will come to your nenses,
and wonder why you did not fall into a
coal mine a thousand feet deep, when
such a vile and silly notion came into
your head.
Your sister is right. You have no
more right to go boating and dancing
with other women when your wifo is
sitting in her chair and crying because
she sees you drifting further and further
away from her and tbe old love, every
day, than you have to poison her. She
is wasting away and fretting herself to
death, because you do not seem to care
for her any more, and if there is a spark
of manhood in you as large as a grain
of cosmic dust, you will get somebody
to take a base-ball club and fan it into
a glow that will warm you up and
make you feel as if there is something
else besides lungs in your bosom.
If you can work yourself up to tbe
level of manly feeling, do it before that
little woman becomes anere shadow of
what she was when you married her,
and buy her a chair on wheels, and
every evening when tho weather is fair,
take her out for an airing, and if it is
not too much trouble, bend over the
back of her chair once in a while and
kiss her right on the mouth, like you
used to before you married her, and
you will feci as if you aro something
more than a stomach on stilts before
you get back from the first evening out,
and tbe people will not look at you ai
if they suspected you of being a horse
thief, as thoy do now, and they will
smile when they meet you, and will not
be afraid you will bite their beads od
if they venture to inquire about your
suffering little wife on the street.
If it is so hard on you to give
up dancing and boating, how
do you suppose she feels when the
awful fact that she cannot walk crowds
upon her brain, and sees you running
off after other women, who are not
worthy to touch the hem of her garment.
You think you are acting smart when
you go around flirting with brainless
women whose feet aro a thousand
times larger than their hearts, and who
would rather have a plump arm and
wear clothes that will let you see it
than to possess a warranty deed to a
home in Heaven. That is the kind ot
a hair-pin any woman hj who will
dance and flirt and boatrido with you
when she knows you are spending the
money that ought to comfort your
sick wife, in giving her and yourself a
a good time, and we are not afraid to
bet a thousand dollars against her false
hair that she has not brains enough to
till her shoe. You take tho advice of
your sister and buy tho invalid chair,
and if it don't prove the best investment
you ever made we will support your
wifo the rest of her life. Bloominqton
Through Mail.
' Sflxondom.
The larger half of the English peo
ple, including under that term all na
tions in which the English is the pre
ponderating element and using the
English language, is now to be found
or will very soon be found in the United
States. It appears possible a'so that -before
long the center of wealth may
be there also. This fact seems to bo
fully realized by thinking Englishmen
who have been for years visiting this
continent in continuous succession, ap
parently to study the future seat of
Anglo-Saxondom. Men of this class
have usually tnrned but a passing
glance to Canada as though it had no
future of its own and was unimportant,
except as an obstruction to the growth .
of the greater Britain in America.
Montreal Witness.
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them up in a row, preparatory to going