RECOLLECTION.
Ttirousli tlie open doors of memory
Float tlio IMonA of the past,
Float and lade like; clouds of vapor
Home on evening's tiiful Mn.sL
Now tli pongs of childhood' mink
Tlirill mid llll our hearts with pain;
Paiti nnd pleasure strangely lilulidcd
O'er Uiu hop k of Itlf i vain
Can It t.e that once frcc-hrnrted,
lunccviil nnd mire were we
Aro the wrcnthn of lmpa thet frowned 111
Hut the withered leaves we sect
Smiles", like gleam of pimslilnc mellow,
When they o'er the meadows rha.t',
Played among the childish dimple.",
Gnvc to every feature grace.
Where are they those marks of favor,
Kvcr changing finger-prints,
Left ly the ereatlng angel,
Karthly trace of heavenly tints!
Comes a pure iwrt exhalation,
Gently wafted on the air;
Tin the fragrance and the incense
Of an Infant's lisping prayer.
bright as de drops In the morning,
Uleam of Imiotencc the tears,
Ulcam In youth, hut !oc their sparkle
And their he-Ire with the years.
Thus the past flits, flits before us;
Things are not what they were then;
Bad and solemn Is the feeling,
They will never bo again.
Hut despair not of the future;
The past, the past Is dead;
To-day Is life, to-morrow promise
bright the stars shine overhead.
liOt us not th Idly dreaming;
Hope for hotter things to come;
Through the light of morning gleaming
Klses our eternal home.
- Alrx.auicr Coj eland JtiWir, In the Current.
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doui'or AViKuiirrr.
X5y JfiiloB Verne
AUTHOR OP "JOOHKKV TO Tni". OHNTItl
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"AHOUND THE WOllM) IN HK1IITY
DAYS," " MICnAKIi STHOOOI'I',"
"TWKNTY TUOUHANIJ I.ltAIIUEa
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CHAPTER XXVI -Continui:i.
l$nt tho Fcrrnto I mil now como into
position iiiul begun tiring on the flotilla.
Her guns nml those of tho batteries thai
could bo brought to hour were, however,
insufficient to prevent tho pirates lnnd-
iuf. Although great number had
perished, although twenty of their
vessels Iiiul heen sunk, in on) than ono
thousand Borambled on to tho rook in
tho south, to which tho calm son ren
dared tho opproach so ens v.
It was then found that tho Honouists
woro not without artillery. Tho largest
of 'tho zobecs luid several hold-piooos on
wheeled carriages, nml thuso wero
lauded on tho shore, whiuh was out of
rmigo of tho guns either of tho town or
tlio central cone.
Tho Dootor, from his position on tho
nearest wdiout, had seen all this, ami
with his much lower men could not
attonipt to stop it. But us tluiy wero
sheltered by tho walls, tho assailants,
liuinoroui as they were, would llud their
task a difficult one.
Tho KcnousistH, dragging their light
gutiH with them, formed up into two
columns, and came marching along with
nil tho careless bravery of tho A rati and
tho andnoity of tho f.inatios, who glory
in their contempt of death, their hope
ofpillogo, nnd their hate of tho Knropeau.
When they wero within range tho
butteries oponod on them. More than
ono hundred foil, but tho others still
kopt on. " Thoir fiold-pieoos worn
brought into position, and they began
to bieaeh tho wall in tlio angle of tho
unlhiished our.ain towards tho south.
Thoir chief, oalm amid those who woro
falling at his side, directed tho operation.
Sarcany, close by, was exciting him to
deliver tlio assault, and hurl several
hundred men at tho falling wall.
From tho distance, Doctor Autekirtt
nnd l'iorro had recognised him, and ho
had reoogni'-0l tb"iT.
And now tho mass of besiegers began
thoir ndviuioo to tho wall, whiuh had
been beaten in snfiloieutly to lot them
through. If they succeeded in clearing
this breaeh, thoy would spread them
selves over tho town, and tho besieged,
too weak to resist, would have to aban
don it, and, with tho sanguinary temper
ament of tho pirates, tho victory would
bo followed by a genoral massacre.
Tho hand-to-haiid struggle at this
point won terrible. Under tho Doctor's
orders, who stood as impassible in tho
danror os ho was invlunorablo amid tho
bullets, l'iorro and his companions per
formed prodigies of valor, Point Pescado
and Capo Matifou lent their assistance,
and displayed I ho most brilliant audacity.
Tlio Ilm-onlos, with a lcuifo in ono
hand, and an axe in tho other, kept
clear the spac around him.
Go it. my Gape, go it I Down with
them 1" Bhontod Point Peseade, whoso
rovolvor, incessantly recharging and
discharging, was going like a (lutling.
But tho foe would not yield. After
being many times driven out of tho
breaoh they had again swarmed on to
tho utlttck, utul wero slowly lighting
through it, they suddenly found them
selves attacked in the rear,
Tho Forrato had managed to got into n
commanding position, within three
eanlo-lo'igtliH of the shore, aud with her
cannonades all brought to tho one side,
her long chaser, her Hotohkiss cautious,
and liar (lading mlUnlleiisos, sho -pouod
such a firo on tho assailants that they
woro mowed down as tho grass hsforo
tho scythe. Sho attacked them in tho
roar, nnd cannonaded them on the
bcaoh nt tho same time, so as to dof.roy
and nuiIc tho boats which h.ul beat,
moored round tho rook.
Tho blow was a torrihlfl ono, nnd mis
quito nnoxpototl by tho Seuomists.
Not only woro thoy taken in tho rear,
but all moans of oioapo would bo out off
it their voaaoLi wero knocked to pieces
Sandorf's
Reven
tiii: i:vn or thk
by tho guns of tho Forrato. Tin assail
ants hesitated in the breach that tlio
militia wero defending so obstinately.
Already more than fivo hundred had
met their deaths, wliilo the besieged
had loat but few.
Tho leader of tho expedition saw that
ho must immediately retreat into tho
sea or expose his companions to certain
and complete destruction. In vain Sar
cany demanded that thoy might continue
tho attack on tho town. Tho order was
given to rot urn to tho shore; anil tho
Senousists drewofTas if thoy would bo
hilled to the last man, wero tho ordor3
given them to die.
Hut it was necessary to givo th3o
pirates a lesson thoy would nover forget-
"Forward! my friend! forward 1"
shouted the Doctor.
And under tho orders of Tiorro and
Luigi, a hundred of the militia throw
themselves on to the fugitives as they
retreated to theshoro. Between the llro
from the Ferrato and tho llro from the
batteries, tho Senousistj? had to givo way.
Thoir ranks broke in disorder, and they
ran in a crowd to tho soven or oight
vosels that still wero left to them.
Pierre and Xiuigi, amid the confusion,
endeavorod above all things, to tuko
one man prisoner. That man was Sar
eany. But thoy wished to havo him
alive, and it was only by a miracle that
they escaped tho revolver shots tho
flcoundrol tired at them.
It scorned, however, that fate would
ngain withdraw him from their hands.
Kaivuny and the leader of the Soiiou
sist. followed by a dozen of their com
panions, had managed to regain a small
polaocn, which they had cast oil and
wero preparing to get under way Tho
Ferrato was loo far oil' for them to signal
her to pursue, aud it looked as though
sho would escape.
At tho moment C'apo Matifoti saw a
field-gun dismount from its carriage and
thrown on the beach.
To hurl himself on the still loaded
gun, to lift it with superhuman forco on
to ono of tho rocks, to steady it by tho
trunnions, and in a voice of thunder to
shout, "Come here, Peseade! Herd"
was tho work of a moment,
Pescado heard Matifou's shout, and
saw what ho had done; instantly ho
understood, ran up, pointed the gun at
tho polaoaa, and tired.
Tho shot went clean through the hull.
The recoil hardly shook tho living gun
cixrriage. Tho leader of the Sunomists
and his companions wero pitched into
tho water and, for the mojt part,
drowned. Baroany was struggling with
tho surf when Luigi throw himself into
tho sea.
A niiuuto afterwards Srcaii3' was safo
in tho huge hands of Capo Matifou.
Tlio victory was complete. Of tho
two thousand assailants who had lauded
on the island, only a few escaped to tho
Oyrennio to toll tho story of tho disaster.
Aiitokirtta would, it could bo hoped,
for many n voar bo freo from anothor
attack from pirates.
CIIAPTICU XXVtt
JUKT10U.
Count Mathias Saudorf had paid his
debt of gratitudo to .Maria and Luigi
lerralo. .Madame Bathory, Pierre and
Rava woro nt last rounitod. After tlio
reward came tho punishment.
l or some dii3-a following the defoat of
tho SenousisUs, tho colonists wero
actively employed in roparing damage.
With tho cxcoption of a fow trilling
scars, l'iorro, Point Pescado and O.ioo
Matifou that is to say all thoso who
had beon most intimately connected
with the ovents of this drama woro safo
nnd sound. That they had not spared
themselves, however, needs no iitHrnm
Unn. Great, therefore, was tho rejoicing
whon thoy met togelhor in tho Stodtlmus
with Sava Saudorf, Maria Ferrato,
Mndamo Bathory nnd her old servant
Borik. After tho funeral of those who
had fallen in tho battlo, tho little colony
resumed ils happy existence. Its future
would bo freo from troublo. Tlio defeat
of tho Senousists hid boen disas'roiis,
and Soroonv, who had persua led them
to undertake this campaign against
Aiitokirtta, would no lunger be with
them to fan tlit lame of hatred and
vengettiiee. O
The Dootor proiwM complotlnc hli
system of 'ofonsa without data v. Not,
only would Aitonak bo promptly ren
dered mwiiro from a kitddeu surprint but
tho island itswlf would nowhere IT il a
Iniidiiig-phuM. And it whs intends! to
invito thithur a few moro oolonlaU to
conspiiiaioiis
whom tho fertility of tho soil would
prove nn attraction and a guaranteo of
well-being.
Meanwhile no fur her obstacle existed
to tho marriage of Pierre and Suva,
Tho ceremony had beon llxcd for tho 9th
of December ; and it would toko placo
on that dale. And so Point Pescado
was particularly busy with tho prepara
tions that had been interrupted by tho
invasion of the piratei from tho Cyronaio.
And now without delav tho fata of
Saroany, ToronUml nod Carpona was tj
bo decided.
On tho tith of December, two days
after the retreat of the Senousists, tho
Doctor ordered them to be brought to
tho Stadthaus. Tho prisoners woro
unaware of each other's proseuoo in tho
island, and for tho first timo foim I
themselves together, whon under n guard
of a detachment of militia, they como
before tho tribunal of Artonak, consist
ing of the chief magis'rato of Aiitokirtta.
Carpena appeared uneasy ; but having
lost nothing of his sneakish look, ho
merely throw furtive glanco? to tho
right and left of him, and dared not lift
his eyes to his judges.
Toronthal seemed quito cast down,
and bowed his head, mid instinctively
avoided tho touch of his old accomplice.
Sarcany had only ono feeling ho was
furious at having fallen into tho hands
of this Doctor Autekirtt.
Luigi advanced towards the judges,
nnd lx'gan by addressing tho Spaniard.
' "Carpena," said he, "I am Luigi t
' Ferrato, tho son of tho lishermun of j
' ltovigno, whom you informed against
and sent to prison at Stein, whero ho
! died."
Carpona drew himself up for an
instant. A paroxysm of linger sent the
blood to his eyos. 'L'lien it was indeed
Maria whom he had leeogniKed in tho
lanes of the Munderaggio, and it wis
her brother Luigi who thus accused
him. !
l'iorro then advanced, and at first
pointing to the banker ho said:
"Silas Toronthal, I am Pierre Bath
ory, tho son (if Stephen Bathory, the
Hungarian patriot, whom you, with
your accomplice Sarcany, most shame
fully betrayed to tho Austrian police at
Trieste, and sent to death !"
Then to Sarcany he said:
"I am Pierre Bathory, whom yon
tried to assassinate in tho road at Bag
usa. I am the intended husband ol
Sava, tho daughter of Count Muthias
Saudorf, whom ,V'Ut stole It I won yours
ago from tho Castlo of Artenak !"
Toronthal was struck us by a crowbar
when ho recognized IVrro Bathory,
whom ho thought dead.
Sarcany stood wilh crossed arm?, and
except for a slight trembling of lus eyo
lids. retained his impudent immobility.
Neither Toronthal nor S ireany said a
word in reply. And what could they
say to their victim who seemed to havj
risen from the tomb to accuse them?
But it wivs quite another thing when
Dootor Anlekirtt rose in his turn, and
said in a grnvo voice:
"And I, 1 am the companion of Lvlis
las ZathniaruudS ephen Ihrhory, whom
your treaclierv oiused to be shot in the
donjon of Pisiuo ! 1 am tho father of
Suva, whom you stole to get possesion
of her fortune 1 am Count Mathiaa
Saudorf!"
This time the ofl'eet of the declaration
was such that tho knees of Silas Toron
thal bent to tho ground, while Sarcany
bent down as if he would sink into him-
ftflf.
Thou the throe- accused wero examined
one after the other. Their crimes they
could not deny, aud for their crimes no
paidon was possible. The chief niagis
trato reminded Sarcany that tlio attack
on the islaml, undertaken in his own
personal iuterest, had made mnny vie
tims whoso blood cried out for ven
geance. Then having given tho ucou.ed
full liberty to reply, ho gavo seuteiico
conformably to tho right given him by
this regularly-constituted jurisdiction.
"Silas Toronthal, Sarcany mil Car
pena. you have caused tho death t of
Stephen Bathory, Lulislus Zathmnr
mid Andrea Ferrato I You arc son'.onuud
to death 1"
Whenever you like!
replied Sir-
cany, whuon tmpudtiiico ngittn uwtotl
itself.
"Pardon I" oriod Oarpoosv
Toioutlml hail not tho etmigtlt to
sponk,
Tim litre were tkt) nwny to th
iwxuwUm and tlum) kopt uudur furd.
Jiow moio tlio tjoouudittU to d!I
Wi re they to be shot in fnmo corner of
the island? That would bo to dellio tho
Foil of Aiitokirtta with tho blood of
traitors! And it was dociled tint tho
execution should take place at Iv'tieraf.
That evoii'iig ono cf tho Electrics,
commnn led by Luigi Ferrato, took tho
prisoners on board, and bore t em off to
the island, where thoy wero to wait till
Biiiiriso for the firing party.
Sflicany, Toronthal an 1 Carpena saw
that their timo hnl erne; and when
thoy hud beon lauded. Sarcany went up
to Luigi and nskod him:
" Is it to bo this evening ?"
Luigi made no reply. Tho threo
donnvjd men were left nil alone, nnd
night had fallen wluu the Electrio
returned to Aiitokirtta.
Tho island was now freo from tho
presence of tho tr itors. That thoy
could oci.po from Kencraf, which was
twenty miles nwny from tho mainland,
was impossible
"Befo-o to-morrow," said Point Pc
cade, "they will have eaten each other!"
"Porrnh!" said Capo Matifou, in
disgust.
The ni dit passed at tho Stodthaus.
Count Saudorf had not a mo no it's
renose. Locked in his room, ho did not
leave it until four o'clock in t o m rn
ing, when ho do-cended to tho hall to
meet l'iorro and Luigi, who woro
immediately summoned.
A lilo of militia Mas waiting in the
courtyard of ihe Stadthaus under orders
to embark for Kencraf.
"Pierre Bathory, Luigi Ferrato,'
said Count Saudorf; "havo thes.- traitors
been justly condemned to dio ?"
"Yes thoy deservo it,'' answered
Pierre.
" Yes," replied Luigi. " mid tho scomv
drols deserve no mercy."
"Then let justice ho done, and may
God givo tho pardon that in in cannot''
Ho had scarcely finished speaiiinp
when a fearful explosion shook tin
Stadthaus and tho wlmlo of the island
as if an earthquuko ha.l taken plaoe.
Count Saudorf nnd his companions
rushed out. and tho wholo population
in terror camo streaming into tho streots
of Artenak.
An immense sheet of ilamo, with enor
mous masses of rocks and showers oi
stones, was blazing to a prodigioui
height towards tho sky. Then Hit;
masses of rock fell back round tho islet, '
mining hugo waves in tho sea, and o ,
thick ciouu remained suspended h
space.
Not a trace was loft of tho islet o
Kencraf, nor of tho threo men whoa
tho explosion had annihilated.
What, then, had happened.
It will not havo been forgotten that
tho island had been mined in prepara
tion for tho landing of the Senousists,
nnd that in ease tho submarine cable
which united it to Aiitokirtta wero put
out of action, Certain electrical batteries
had been buried in tho ground, so thnt
tho wires had only to bo pressed by the
feet to be brought in contact aud fire
the fougasses of pancliistite.
What had happened was this. By
chance, ono of the doomed men hnd
trodden on those wires. And hence the
complete and instantaneous destruction
of tho islet.
"Heaven has spared us tho horrors of
nn execution ! ' said Count Saudorf.
Three davs afterwards tho marriage of
Pierre nod Sava was duly celebrated at
tho church at Artenak. On that
occasion Doctor Autekirtt signed his
real name of Mathias Saudorf; whioh
ho wou'd nover again lay down now
justico had been done.
A fow words wili suffice us to finish
our story.
Threo weeks nf forwards Siva Bathory
was recognized as the heiress of tlio
Saudorf property. The hut r from
Mndanio Toronthal nnd a declaration
obtained from tho banker, in which tho
circumstances and the o''ect of hor
being stolon wero duly sot forth, proved
sullicientto establish her identity. As
Sava was not yet eighteen all that
remained of the Carpathian estates in
Transylvania came back to hor.
Cnint Saudorf himself cmld if ho
had chosen have entoro 1 into possession
of this property, under an amnesty
which had boen issued in favor of politi
cal prisoners. But if ho returned to
public life as Muthias Saudorf he could
not remain cliiefof the great family of
Anteku ttn. And ho wished to pass his
life anions.' those who loved him.
Tho little colony, thauks to his
renewed efforts, began to flourish exceed
ingly. In loss than a year it hail
doubled its population. Scientists and
inventors, invited lhithor by Count
Saudorf, had come to make good use of
discoveries that would have remained
barren without his advice, aud tho
wealth of which ho was tho master.
And ho Antekirtto would soon becoaio
the most important place in tho Syrtic
Sea. and with the accomplishment of its '
defen ive system ito security would
become absolute. I
Ot Madame Bathory, Maria and Luigi
Forrato. and of Pierre aud Sava, wo ;
need uy no moro ; who doo. not feel '
that their lives wero happy ? Nor need
we say more about Point Pescado and
Matifou, who wero now, perhaps, tlio
most famous colonists of Autokirtta.
If they ifgro.ted anythiii. it was that '
they had no more occasion to display '
their devotion to him to whom they ,
owed their happv oxistonoe.
Count Saudorf had accomplished his
task, and had it not Iwen for the remem
brance of his two companions, Stephen
Bathory and Lidisdas Zathniiir, ho
would havo been as h ippy as a generous
man can bo on this earth when ho is
doing good around him.
In tho whole Mediterranean, in nil
tho other sens of th globe, oven in tho
rortuunto islands we may soak ui vain
for an island whost prosperity rivals
that of Antekirtto!
And when Cipo M it i foil, iu tho
ex ibrtnineo of his ood toriuue, thought
lit to say:
" Do you think wo deserve to bo ao
happy i ' Q
Poiut ILtsMd replied :
"No, lrty Gnuol 1 don't! But what
euu yatt do? Shall wu itiguf"
Ituk um.
i
1 Jilleu'sss in German Universities.
The following is nn extract from an
open 1 tier by Prof. Schmollcr. one of
tho most infiucntiiil men m the law fa
cult, of the Univcrsitx of Berlin. Its
publ cation has tailed forth a storm of
controversy in the German newspapers.
The fact that German stutleuts fre
quently spend tho first half of their uni
vers ty course in idleness is not denied,
oven by those, who oppose the views of
tho learned prof ssor. and thoir ch cf
argument of tle.fon.'o is that these years
of dion.'ss make up the only season of
romance .n tho otlnrwiso unbroken life
of examination nml positon-huntin to
wh ch German outlis arc doomed:
What I want to sec done away with is
tho officially organ Z"d untruth, which
exc.t. s my mdignat on every tunc I
have to caVrv it into execution. Every
professor twice a year test lies that
dozens of students have been present at
his lectures, who, he knows, have nev
or set loot in his room. It has hap
ponod repeatedly that students guile
less I y presented to me Prof. Eek's pan
tlecls for me to s yrn, thereby admitting
that they did not know that either Prof.
Lck or mo by sight. 1 don t want to
forco am body to hear tctl.ous lectures;
I've cut many a letiuro myself, anil
know well enough that hard reading
ami industry in his own room aro in
tho end more important, perhaps, to
a .student than hearing tho university
courses. But 1 can not pursuade my
self that this industry is to be found in
tho easo of thoso who attend no lec
tures tho first two or three snmcstcra
and calculate from tho very beginning
on tho ability of the paul "coach" to
cram thcni ifp for examination. The
number of these men, however, is very
large among tho law studenU cortain
lv from one-fourth to one third; and so
tho question simply is. Can not a sys
tem of mat king, without compulsion,
be employed? To all industrious stu
dents this would be a matter of inditler
onee. Would it not save the major. ty
of the lower layer of our future govern
ment officials from that "bumming"
which niiist occur when one wastes from
ono to three years of his life? Tho aca
dem c freedom would not be affected in
the least by lh:s plan, only the right to
conceal laziness from parents, guar
dians, aud the univoristy ofiiccrs would
bo put an end to. 1 'added that the
carrying out of such a change would
not bo easy. If it be deemed unworthy
of a student to bo thus da ly controlled,
let nic merely call attention to our
great military educational establish
ments. The ofiiccrs in the war acade
my and in tho artillery school, who arc
on the average much older than uni
versity students, who are in possession
of offices anil rank, and are man)' of
them married men, must daily put up
with having their attendance at courses
of instructions marked.
The llaiin Jlvicisbolr, commenting
editorialh on this letter, is much sharp
er in its criticism :
If any form of life has remained in
tho rear of reform it is the academic,
and only the romance of student life,
and tho easy-going partiality of wider
circles in the outer world, havo kept
tho public eye closed to this fact. There
is a mistaken idea current as to the po
sition of the better and more capable
class of students in regard to the ox. st
ing state of affairs. Tho general opin
ion is that th s class would bitterly ro
sent everv change as an a. tack "upon
their traditional privileges, w o should
like to cinphas zo the fact that, on the
contrary, a deep desire to reform the
present" evil circumstances hits long
been making itself felt in ucadem.o
c ivies. Thi re is great d seontont and
inipat ence, especially w th the extra
ordinary arrangement of lecture cour
ses, the" lack of .system, the indigot b I
itv aud oven tho partial absence of
spir.t of tho great mass of information
oil'cred in tho universities. One of the
most alarming features in the complete
irresponsibil ty of the professor for tho
intellectual progress of his hearers.
From this resint tho willfulness w th
which every instructor, according to Ii s
personal inclinations, chooses and
handles his subject, the dry, uninter
ested tono which makes most lectures
an alioni nation to the useful ferment
ing spir.ts of the auditors, and tlio re
markably slight, personal relations
which nowadays exist between profes
sors and students, in scientific matters.
One can boldly say that if a student
really does any good work, he owes
this to h s own si lt-teaching industry,
a good school pioparat on, or per
haps to the personal interest of sonio
professor, but least of all, to the in4i
stitutions of tho university. When one
1 adds to this tho evils in tho system of
salaries, which have turned tho ollico
of private doccnt into a money speeu
hit on. In tho ono-sidod education of
wholo profess ons, as of the philolog
ians and theologians, who receivo from
tho university a good as nothing for
thoir practical calling in life, in tho had
arrangement of examinations, in tho
social life of the students, as in tho
' dueling abomination, tho awarding of
scholarships, and so forth, ono is forced
I to w sh with all his soul that at last
1 some (Edipus might anso to uinlertako
; tho solution of these complicated rid.
' dies. It is only a consequence of the
want of earnestness with winch, owing
to nil sorts of sentimental rein nis
ccnccs, th s subject is usually dealt
I with, that in no walk of lifo does an
equal number of persons morally and
, physically go to ruin, as in tho student
world, before they have done anything
for tho good of the coininunin. Sta
I tistics on this subject would bring some
surprising facts to light facts that
would open the eyes of tho blindest.
Wo bebevo that wo are within the
truth when wo say that not half of our
students reach that degree of attain
ment which they could through a quieter
and more earnest development, and that
a largo proportion actually go to the
bad. This is not a question of lini ting
academic freedom; th shall ent iiuo
iu its noble sense; that is that the stu
I dent have the gro.itct possible amount
of opportunity ami time to form him
belf and his intellect iu ail indiv dual
way, but not nut 1 he luin p. ilorm-d
' those duties which I fu with iu n ossU
t os iemaiio of him nfi a scholar.
Only frtHMlom bed on fulMlhul duty
bits am worth, but not u frulutu ;io
cIm'm1 wiih inactivity ami pricking ui
eotucicne which uf( n unniliihtUM ihs
uubieti povrur in litu wry genu.
THE LAST RESORT
Sweet Cnnadn ! Pnto thy horc I tt
For rest ami recreation;
Long branch and Saratoga I pass bv.
Fur. far removed from style iinU fai'lilon I
Will spend my long vacation.
Cnne Mnv nnd Old Point Comfort have for me
Ko longer their attraction:
No more 1 1 llml-on landscapes do I fco
The Ilnest In the world, and unto thee
1 humbly make retraction.
From trouMe. toll, and tr!fc lliey say PII llnd
Thv bre 7. disinfect ves;
f turn all thouchlsof businw from my mluil,
I skip to thee nml leave all eareo behind,
Also U. S. detectives.
Loved Canada! nneonred Iu thy coo! clime.
With lliee for my protector.
I'll eperd in weet Vecurilv mr time.
Some phel.el, loo, think I'll sx.'ud, for I'm
A defunct bank director.
-Ufe.
The Peppermint King.
This potentate was born in Oneida
county, Xow York, on Juno 10, 1S10,
says The Farm and HowcloUI, and his
name, which has for many years been
kept standing in typo iu tho chief mar
ket journals of the world, is Hiram G.
Ilotchkiss. Now 7o years old, ho is ro
bust and plump, bustling with activity
among his peppermint bottles during
the season of oil production, and in ev
ery wa ' master of his speciality. Whon
ho was 7 ears old h s parents removed
from Oneida county to OnUir o county,
which adjoins Wayne, and settled in
tho town of Phelp. At tho ago of IS
ho started a small country store, to
which later ho attache I a llouring-mill,
thcrel). becoming a general furnisher
of food material. About 1837. ton to
twelve years after Burnett had put a
practical appraisement on the value of
the now famous Wauio county weed,
Mr. Ilotchkiss began to huv "pepper
mint oil of the farmers about Lyons,
who took it to him as tho most enter
prising merchant they know. Ho also
got into tho business of buying tho raw
meter al, as it would bu offered to him
in connection with wheat taken to his
mill, and d st lling the o 1 himself, lie
presently saw a future for Wayne
county peppermint, and, disposing of
his business in Phelps, removed in
1811 to Lyons, here gradually to assert
dominion over tho peppermint-oil busi
ness of the world. There aro two or
throe other dealers in tho county, but
tho bulk of the crop goes to market
through tho hands of Mr. llolchkiss.
The muit is raised chicily in the
towns of Huron. SodiH, Galen, Marion,
Arcadia, Williamson, Lyons, and Hose.
The loam soil of the fiat lands of theso
towns is naturally adapted to it, but tho
richness of the plant in oil varies so
greatly that producers can not mix
their crops for distilling, taking a pro
rata share of the oil, as dairymen mix
their milk in a common pool at. tho
cheese factory, and take a pro rata
share of the cheese. The mint acreage
of the county this year is estimated to
bo about four thousand acres, and this
area is said to he only about one-half
what it would have been if the season
had been favorable. Mr. llolchkiss
estimates the total product of oil this
year to be worth .S'lL'0,000. In a fairly
good season it rises much hcond this
amount. The crop is now, of course,
all in, and much of it has been sent on
its way to the candy factories, the
bakeries, and the aching stomachs of
the world.
P pperniint long ago ceased to be
looked upon as a weed n these parts.
it is a legit mate agricultural product,
planted and attended to as systematical
ly as a crop of wheat or potatoes, Tho
oil is sent to market Iron. Lyons in
wholesale (pianlities bill a small part
of each ear's product is put up in
phials "to gie away to my colicky
friends-,'' as Mr. Hote'hkNs says. The
bottles for commerce contain twenty
ounces, and eighteen bottles are packed
in a case, the current worlh of a case
at first hand being jf'JG. Mint fanners,
who duri.ig the season of shipping ami
packing frequent Mr. Ilotchkiss' fac
tory, say that peppermint-raising; is
considerably more profitable than
wheat raising, and is a surer crop, the
average of seasons and tho market
considered, than almost anything olso
they could produce on thoir available
mint soil.
A Lost Papa.
Tho following true story is sent us by
a correspondent in Ithodo Island:
Three little children rode down to tho
station with papa, who was going "to
town" for family supplies. Papa had
always worn heavy wh skers ami mous
tache. Ho visited thobaibor and oamo
homo with closelv-croppod looks and
closely-trimmed moustacho only. Tho
loss of tho luxuriant beard actually
transformed him, so that his bwt
friends" would havo scarcely known
him. Tho children, being accustomed
to strangers, chatted with him on his
return, and nothing strange was notion!
until they began to worry lost papa was
not coming home that night!
"Why, papa has come home." said
mamma in wond uing tonos.
"Why don't he como to tho house?"
"Why. he has been in; don't vou re
member he t roughtyou sonio poanuts."
That gentleman? VioTi company!"
In vain mamma explained, and when
pupa came into the hoitso again ho was
told the children's grief at his 110:1 re
turn, lie tried to convince them, but
it was not possible; tho positive tem
perament they had inherited from him
was not to be argued with successfully.
Gravely they noticed that ho actually
received all papa's prhiloges, anil
seemed scandalized tha he put them to
bed, and occupied papa's room, and
waited on them just a papa used to do!
Gradually thoy fcl' in the habit of call
ing him papa," but to them he was tho
"new papa," and they sadly wondorol
for months if the "old papa" wl.
wotit to town" would never, never
come homo any moro. Iinbyhood,
Wlmt They Died Ot
Mistfos (to applicant to cook)
"WliKt expor.enco have you had as
cook?"
Apid'cant "I wuz seven months in
me lushl place, mum."
MUtrws "Why did yon leavo Hiiro?"
Applient "Tho mimthar and mU
ihreoa both tliotL mum."
"Mtre "Wlmt did thev tl'o of?"
Applionjit "liidigojtiou, mum."