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"Our Own."
If I had known in the morning,
How wearily all the day
The words unkind
Would trouble my mind
I said When you went away,
I had been more careful, darling,
Nor give you needless pain ;
But we vex "our own"
With look and tone,
We might never lake back agaiu.
For though in the quiet eveniug
You may give me the kiss of peace.
Yet it might be
That never forme
The pain of the heart should cease.
How many go forth in the morning,
That never come Lome at night !
And the hearts have broken
For harsh words spoken
That sorrow can ne'er set right.
We have careful thoughts for the stranger.
And smiles for the sometime guest;
But oft for "our own"
The bitter tone,
Though we love "our own" the best.
Ah! lips with the curve impatient;
Ah! brow with that look of scorn;
'Twere a cruel fate,
Were the night too late
To undo the work of morn.
The Lily of Roslin Castle.
1 do not know why the very name of
Roslin Castle stirs up within ine a
crowd of tensations both sad and sweet.
Std, like the sound of line old music
the refrain of an air which we have heard
iu childhood and sweet, because it was
iu our car long before the bitterness of
life began.
And w ith the picture of the old castle
linnet ing.upon my imagination, as I have
seen it in beaufiful engravings, it seems
almost daguerreotyped upon my heart, as
part and parcel of that sereue beauty
which has no counterpart in scenes viewed
by us after the world spoiled us. "Time's
cold hand hath touched anl withered
them all!''
Iioslin Ca-tle overhangs the Esk. It
is now only a dilapidated pile of frag
ments a wreck of its former self yet
dear to Scottish hearts for all its tender
and beautiful associations, and the ro
mantic region in which it s-tands. By
whom it was built, or why sich a spot
should have been selected for a fortress,
is not known; but it is known in the ye.ir
1100, William de St. Clair, the son of
Waldernus Compte de St. Clair, who
came from Normandy with William the
Conqueror, obtained the lauds of Roslin
from Malcolm Canmore. It was not im
probable that he was the founder of Iios
lin Castle, as the early barons lived at
their fortresses.
ll'tslin Chapel, too, has its attractions,
both in pictui esqneness of station and
the tine crypt built by Lady Elizabeth
Douglas. But perhaps its chief attrac
tion is the Prentice's Pillar, the exquisite
sculpturing of which has been compared
t- Brussels lace. Below the pavement of
the chapel a large flagstone covers the en
trance to the vault where rest the remains
of ten of the barons of Roslin. Eighty
years after interment, the forms of these
dead barons were found as fresh and
perfect as ever. They were buried in
their armor without coffins. Sir Walter
speaks of the
"chapel proud
Where Roslin's chiefs uucoffined lie;
Each baron for a sable shroud,
Sheathed in his iron panoply."
In the fourteenth century one of the
lords of Roslin had a beautiful sister,
who had lived a very lonely and isolated
life since the death of her parents. Her
extreme beauty and the simplicity with
which ehe had been reared, made the
proud brother jealous lest some designing
person ot a lower rank than her own
might take advantage of both to spirit
her awav from the castle: aud acting
upon this, rather than upon any desire to
treat her cruelly, he shut her up in the
castle, with an old duennadike woman
called Elspeth Dirleton, and positively
forbade the latter to allow her charge to
cross the little one-arched bridge which
was the sole mode of csrress from the
ca-tle.
Indeed, the anxiety consequent upon
the possession of so beautiful a relative,
and the fear that she would disgrace her
self by a connection beneath her rank,
prevented all intercourse between Lord
Iioslin aid the neighboring gentlemen,
and limited h's associates to a few of the
older bar.mswhcse estates were nearest
his own.
Among the guests not prohibited was
the Baron Mackenzie old, infirm and
ugly to whom Lord Roslin would will
ingly have given up the care of the young
Isabella; and wh se attentions, though
deemed by himself irresistible, were re
ceived with a terrible shrinking by the
lovely girl. Nothing could have been
more uuseemly than a marriage between
the two;, yet the Lord of Roslin could
not see any reason why the blooming Isa
bella should resist one who, if not young
nor handsome, was still wealthy and high
born. Every visit which the pompous baron
made to the castle was the signal for a fit
of indiposition on the part of Isabella.
It was no counterfeit illness either, for
such was her dread of him, that the an
nouncement of his coming was but the
commencement of a series of faintings,
too real to be disputed, and too lasting
in their nature and effects to be agreeable.
Suddenly, however, these symptoms
ceased in reality, although E spi-tli was
coaxed into keeping them up in appear
ance. She loved her young mistress too
well to cross her; but had she resisted the
Loul R Klin's wihes, he would have dis
charged her to make way for some one
who would obey him. Towards him,
therefore, E'speth kept up a show of per
fect sympathy with his choice of a hus
band for his sister.
"And how is the Lady Isabella to-day?"
adced the baron, as he placed his ponder
ous frame upon the chair of state. "I
trust her faintings are over by this time "
-"I will call Elspeth,my lord baron " an
swered Roslin, '-and ascertain from her
tne state oi my suter s health." EUtwh
"Indeed, my lord, the walk round the
garden was so fatiguing to my lady this
morning, that I persuaded her to lie
down. She will be up and lively again
by the time supper is over, and will then
come down."
"That is right, Elspeth; and hark ye,"
he continued, "see to it that she is bravely
dressed and that she does not look so pale
as she did yesterday."
The last words were inaudible to all
but the old woman herself, who under
stood that she was to try some artificial
remedy for her charge's" white face a
face, however, which had latterly began
to resume its former bloom, with as good
a reason for the change as for the former
paleness. Elspeth went back to her
young mistress, whom she ha i left in her
chamber, but the bird had flown. The
couch where she had been lying was tum
bled and untidy, as if left in haste, and
one feilken slipper wras still upon the
floor. But Elspeth well knew that the
pretty little room adjoining, which had
once held a bed for herself, was cleared
of all such furniture, and now displayed
only a rare Turkish carpet, about five
feet square, and two low footstools of
the young lady's own embroidery.
The door was partially opened, but so
managed by a cord that it could be shut
from within at the sound of an approach
ing footstep. One glance told the old
woman that there wa- more thin one be
hind tint vacillating screen; and her
conscience told her that it was young
Hector Graig, the old baron's forester,
who, being a great favorite with his mas
ter,was always allowed to accompany him
upon these occasions, leaving a subordi
nate to supply his plcf.
The youth, tired of tending upon the
baron's infirmities, lnd one day ventured
to leave him in the Lord Roslin's care,
under pretence of looking at the chapel,
of which he had heard so much, and re
ceived a very willing assent, as the baron
was unusually well. On that day Isa
bella had gone to the chapel, atter strug
gling with her nervous headache in vain.
The coolness of the chapel struck pleas
antly upon her aching head, and she felt
better. Wandering about, she had play
fully entered an empty niche, from which
she was just emerging, when Hector
Craig came into the chapel. The dim
light, her white dres, and the paleness
which her malady always left upon her
cheek, excited the superstitious irnagin
iugs of the young ni:in. He believed
that it was a spirit the animated gh s'
of some sunt who had inhabited the
niche until Isabella, perceiving the ef
fect of her presence, called upon him to
come near.
Blushing at his fears, he advanced, and
never had the youth's eyes rested upon a
sweeter vision. If no ghost, 9he could
not be less than angel while on her part
she was quite as much attracted by the
handsome youth, whose be.invnj eyef
and noble brow were but the reflex of as
lovely qualities within.
The baron was hunting one day, about
twenty years before, and in the very
depths of the forest he discovered a beau
tiful child, apparently two or three years
of age, lying asleep upon the grass. At
a little distance, its young mother had
thrown herself down,as he conjectured, to
die. When they moved her, Bhe had al
ready passed the dead portal.
The baron, never niggardly nor unkind,
took home the unconscious orphan aud
reared it as his own, but without giving
it his name. The boy was called Hector
Craig Iroui some whim ot the baron s.
When he was sixteen he bestowed upon
him the post of forester more from a w ish
of giving him some authority in Ins
household than from any desire to require
any service from him. Latterly, since
the infirmities of age had begun to afflict
him, he h id kept him about his own per
son. The first interview with Lady Isabella
was not the last. Every visit of the baron
was the prelude to a stolen half hour in
the chapel, or subsequently, in Elspeth's
dismantled room now converted into a per
feet bower of roses and superb heath?;
while the Lord of Roslin gave no thought
t the fact that his sister was actually lov
ing one beneath her.
This had been his constant dread but
when he thought of her doing so, his ideas
only embraced the neighboring lairds
whom he c msiuereu ins interiors. lhat
she would even speak to one of the
baron's servants, as he considered Hec
tor, was an enormity too great to be tol
erated for an instant.
It was true that a few brief moments
were all that Hector d ired to stay ; but
the very scantiness of the time made it all
the more sweet, and th-se stolen inter
ws being succeeded by Isabella s en
trance into th-i grand hall, where she
tried to greet the baron kindly, the
youth consoled himselt by repairing
thither also. In short, tne two youn
hearts hid alrea iy become one and in
separable, and it only remained lor some
plausible scneme or mainienance ir ooiu
to present itself, to take the requisite
stens for a union.
Poor Elspeth, she could not go uacK
now. although she dreaded her mister's
wrath, when the plot was discovered
Hector, tot, felt, sometimes, that he was
proving lvmself an iugrate to his bene
factor.and Isabella had compunctions
visitino- her about her brother; but the
atfecti n of the old nurse prevailed, and
love, all powerful, invincible, ruled the
younger hearts.
A sott sweet evening uau ucguucu me
young Lord of Roslin to a long ride..
The same enchanting hour had brought
i.o hmn to the castle, where, in the
twilioht. he sat iu the hill, and waited
r..- vicrtli ti announce his arrival to
TJaliAila. and ber her to receive him; and
Elspeth, in all the glory of a new kirtle,
had bustleu ou to see n uc juu3 a
lioarl TeM hotter.
The dy had been hot and the baron was
fatigued. It was no wonder thit, not
;Katanlinfr his Great love for the Lady
of Roslin, he should fall "asleep, while
waiting. The easy posture which he had
nnon the lonr oaKen seme,
rcWK sra ioati.orn cushion nicely adjusted
, f.,..nKU trt rnn tinned sleep. lie
nwnir. however, about oae hour atter-
ward, and looked out of the window un
der which stood his temporary uuuiu.
The twilight had given place to a glo
rious moonlight, that lay silvering with
dazzling brightness' the bosom of the Esk.
Upon that bosom was a trace of white
foam that caught the moon's rays, as
fleecy clouds catch the sunbeams, and ap
pear more glorious than the pure blue
sky or sea; and in that track a single
dark speck was dancing like a seagull
above the waters.
The old baron's perceptions did not
take in the palpable fact that, having
lain too long in the breezy night air, he
had contracted a dreadful pain in his
bald head, and with a long groan he
called for Hector. Hector did not
come; but the Lord of Roslin was thun
dering over the bridge with his swift
charger, and soon appeared at the dojr of
the cattle.
There was no light save that of the
moon; but the Lord of Roslin needed
nothing to guide him to the apartment
where he usually received the baron, but
of whose previous presence thore now he
was unconscious. To Lord Roslin's
surprise, the door of the apartment was
barred, and to his cries for Elspeth he
fonly heard the response of the ba-on's
deep-toned voice in high wrath.
"Ah, is that you, baron? Nay, unlock
the door. It is I. Is Isabella with you?"
"No!" roared his visitor, in a spas
modic effort to burst opea the refractory
door, which could not be made to yield
on either side. The exasperated Lird of
Roslin stamped h's foot upon the oaken
floor, and the missing key rang back to
the pressure of his iron heel. He ap
plied it to the rude lock that hung at the
end of the iron bar, and found the baron,
as he hid said, quite alone, and in an
agony of pain as well as rage, at the non
appearance of Hector.
The absence of Elspeth and Isabella
was equally strange; but on the opposite
bank of the Esk, where a boat was land
ing, the moon was looking down upon
the sweetest face, framed in curls that
glittered like golden thread upon a hand
some brown cheek, glowing with joy and
pride, and last, but not least, upon the
matronly form of old Elspeth, quivering
with the pent-up fear of her m-.ster s in
dignation.
A fine-looking man.apparently between
forty an l fifty years of age, was standing
on the bank when they landed. He heard
Hectors voice, and saw his face. It
seemed to waken in him some lafent
emotion, and he paused, as if about to
peak, but changed" his mind. When
they arrived at the inn, the same lordly
looking man was there, surrounded bv
several servants, who seemed to listen to
him with the greatest deference, as he
gave them orders in a calm quiet voice,
speaking in English.
Hector's sole anxiety seemed to be to
procure a private room tor his compan
ions, and the stranger instantly addressed
a young man of superior appearance, and
atter a moment a conver?ation, he turned
to Hector, and offered a room for his ac
ceptance. To glad to obtain one, Hec
tor uttered a hasty expression of thanks,
and turned to usher his charge into the
one pointed out. Aga'n the stranger
started at the voice.
"It is the very tone of the Leighs," he
said to the young: manbe-ide him. "You
have not more the sound ot the
Leigh
voice than this stranger."
' O, father," answered
the English
yourself for
now many
iournev, have
youth, "do not prepare
another disappointment.
times since we began to
you believed you have iound my lost
brother?"
"But this seems so real. Besides, he
resembles you. I shall see more of him
before I sleep. '
And wheu Hector appeared again, after
leaving E!speth and Isabella, he drew
him into the room opposite, and ques
tioned him of his life. Hector answered
him frankly. He had no wish to conceal
anything. He had longed too deeply for
the unknown father, whom he sometimes
believed would appear to claim him.
And lo, here indeed was the unknown
father 1
Sir Henry Leigh, a young English
baronet, had married a po r girl, but
one who in all oth-r things was his
equal. His family had treated her in a
way that outraged all her sensibilities.
Oa the b:rth of her second child, she be
came jlightly deranged, and continued
so tor more than two years. Her hus
band banished her tormentors, and tried
every means to soothe and restore her;
but n returning from a short absence.
he lound that she had eluded the nurse
and had gone, no one knew whither, car
rying her youngest boy.
Half distracted, the husband had
searched for years without success. Only
as his son had said, he had met with dis-
anpiintment; but this night he felt an
intuitive perception of what proved to
be the joy tul truth.
It was a meeting worthy of the sym
pathy of the world. Hector explained
his position, and placed the Lady Isa
bella under his new-found father's pro
tection. They all set on for England the
nrxt day, and the first step on their ar
rival was to summon Lord R slin to
Warwickshire to find his sister, who was
the aunt of Sir Henry Leigh. The latter
sent the message, Hector choosing not to
appeir at present, until all was ex
plained.
Lord Roslin arrived in hot haste, but
the dignity and respectability of the
family in which his sister had found a
refuse from the importunities of the
baron, precluded any refusal to become
connected with them. He stayed to see
his sister united formally to the Honor
able Hector Leigh, and returned to com
fort the crest-fallen baron, who eventu
ally solaced his wounded pride by ob
taining the hand of a rich widowed
baroness, much nearer to nis own age
than The Lily of Roslis. American
Union.
There are in Connecticut 256 ponds,
each having hve acres or more ot sur
face. Efforts have been ma ie to intro
duce valuable fish into them, apparently
without success. In thirteen ponds
130,000 jouog land-locked salmon were
put last year, but none oi them we are in
formed are now to be found.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
TrvnTTRTTV HP r t -r-v-.T-.,T .
How to Tell a Gentleman.
You should never judge by appear
ances. The other day a little weazen
faced man, wearing a $3.50 suit of
clothes, went to one of the big hotels,
and registering himself as from Texas,
asked for a room and if breakfast was on
the table.
The Olympian clerk gazed at him
scornfully for a moment, and languidly
remarked:
"Any baggage?"
"No," replied the guest.
"In that case," said the clerk, "the rules
of the house compel me to insist on pay
ment ia advance."
"Very well," said the guest,, without
hesitation or appearing offended, "take
two day's board out of this," and from a
wad of greenbacks as big as his arm he
produced a one hundred dollar note.
"I beg your pardon," stammered the
abashed clerk, "but we are so often taken
in, and your face not being familiar to
me, I "
"No offence," cheerily answered the
guest; "business 13 business and rules
are rules. It does look a little odd to
be w ithout baggage, but us cattle dealers
ain't much on style, and "
"That's all right, Colonel," said the
clerk. "Put up your money; we know a
gentleman when we see him. Jim, show
the gentleman up to 14(5. Call for the
best in the house, General."
The old man stowed away an ample
breakfast, got the clerk to give him small
bills for tifty, and asked where. Billy
Coolbaugh, the bauker, had his office, in
quired when they had dinner, desired the
clerk to tell Mr. Farwell, if he called,
that he would be back at 2 o'clock, then
went, aud hasn t been seen since. The
clerk subsequently disco?ered the $50 bill
was bad. T he sad event has casta gloom
over the hotel office. Chicago Times.
A Telephonic Outrage.
In the interest of young men and
women who sit up together late every
Suuday night, we demand that this tele
phonic invention be crushed out of ex
istence or suppressed bv iniunction.
Unless somethiug of this kind be done
there will be trouble in every family
throughout the land which includes a
fdr young lady, in every club of mar
ried men, and everv sewinsr soeietv
where characters are frayed, cut bias,
and stitched together airain in inhar-
uiouius style, iu Masonic and Feniau
lodge-", clubs, and elsewhere. With this
telephone, by which apparatus oral con
versation cau be heard for miles, what is
there to prevent ithe:s, mothers, and
big brothers iroui turning the crank, and
listening to all the pretty words, soft
sayings, and sweet coouigs between
Ira ik and L'zzie ia ths p trior every
Sunday eveniug? Think of it, fathers and
mothers, who know how it is yourselves!
How are the sewing societies, Masons,
Odd Fellows, Fenians, politicians of the
Gobble order, to have aay secrets from
the public with this abominable tele
phone busine-s echoing their sayings and
dispensing them through fog horns of
the reporters and tha rest of maukind.
Tne country is in great danger from the
operatiojs of this new internal machine.
Young men and maidens should rise up
with one voice and demaud the execu
tion of the in venter of the telephon
and the destruction of his work. The
Salem witches were no comparison to
this enemy of peaceable civilization and
happy courting reunions. Utica Observer.
The Petroleum Trade.
Iu reviewing the petroleum trade for
the year 187G, the Pittsburg Commercial
says last year was one of the most pros
perous the dealers in the crude article
have ever had. Matters were very dis
couraging at the beginning of the year
and so continued until August, when the
Standard Oil Company ot Cleveland,
with its albes.taking advantage of the gen-
eral despondedcy, purchased or entered
into ass ciatioa with nearly every Term
ing interest in the country, and by this
emip took effectual control of the whole
retiued trade, advanced its prices, quietly
awaited the exhaustion of the small
stocks of Europe, and finally, towards
the end of the year, compelled the
European consumer to pay the exacted
price, ine result was a large proai 10
the refiner. The arrangement was artificial-
unnatural but exceedingly prof
itable. The advance in price was from
10la to 11 cents per gillon, Jan. 1st to
27 cents at the end of the year an ad
vance of 170 per cent. The total ex
ports from the United States in 1876
were 255,372,226 gallons, an increase of
22,060,400 gallons (or ten per cent.) over
the exports of the previous year. It is
believed that this increase does not rep
resent actual consumption, but that must
of the excess still remains on hand in
foreign part9, or is still on its way there
to. The calculation is that the great ad
vance in price has checked consumption,
and that less was really consumed abroad
in 1876 than in 1875; and further, that
foreign dealers had in hands and going
to them, on Jan. 1, 187 1, some 500,000
barrels more than on Jan. 1, 1876.
A Two-Shilling Offer. Yesterday
forenoon a young mai secured a livery
rig and drove around town at a furious
rate, as if his sole object was to kill the
horse mstead of taking a ride. He
smashed a wheel off the buggy while
driving oa W ood ward avenue, aud after
peiimg a cuiiiijg uuuer me axietree so
that the vehicle could be driven on three
wheels, he called to a boy and said :
"Here, boy, you drive this rig back to
the stables and tell 'em I was thrown
out, had eight ribs broken, and that
was taken to the hospital in a hack
Do this and I'll give you two shillings."
"I can't tell a lie not for two shil
lings," replied the boy.
"lney won t hurt you," protested the
man.
"I know they won't, but when
told 'em you'd broken eight ribs, and
they believed it, I'd feel that it was
mighty mean man who wouldn't pay a
boy a shilling a rib for lying, right ia
the middle ot a hard winter, tool" De
troit t ree jfress.
How a Dog" Disappointed a Duke.
The Grand Duke Alexis went to see
Aimee in the "Grand Duchess" Monday
evening, but the sweet singer not being
in an Aimee-able mood, was absent on
the ancient plea of indisposition.
The Grand Duke Alexis' situation can
be easily imagined. He and his mentor,
the polished Bir.m Schilling, had evi
dently gone to the Eagle Theater on
Monday eveniug to hear Aimee aud none
but Aimee. He gave emphatic proof of
his condition of mind when he promptly
left the theater alter the first act because
Aimee did not appear.
The cause of the disappointment of his
Imperial Highuess may be gathered
from the following advertisement, which
appeared in the New York papers:
S?;n REWARD Lost, on Sunday, Februa
"O ry isth, between 2 and 3 o'eiock,after
noon, a Black and Tan Terrier, long ears, in
Fourth avenue, between Twenty-ninth and
Thirtieth streets. Apply at Maison Riche
lieu, No. 161 Lexington avenue, corner
Thirtieth street.
This dog belonged to Aimea, and she
felt so bad about its loss that she gave
way to grief and also gave away a $500
engagement, and instead of singing Otfen
bach's airs she mournfully hummed to
herself, "Oh, where, oh, where is my lit
tle dog gone :
But this is as nothing to
the feelings of his Hi-jhue-s.
The Herald says he s diioquized as fol
lows: "Oh, what a fall was there! I,
Imperial Gran I Duke of Il issia, and the
possible Czar; I, for whom prayers are
offered in every Russian church on every
holiday; I, whom theatrical managers
feel honored to invite to their performan
ces; I, Alexis Alexandrovitch, balked iu
my pleasure by a black and tan terrier !
Can it be possible?"
However, all's well that ends well, and
last evening as Grand Duchess Guey
nard was toying with her victorious
Fritz a wild rumor ran round the coulis
ses and caused a tremeudou3 sensation.
"Mile. Aimee's dog h ,s been found,"
whispered Gen. Bourn t j Priuce Paul as
they stood at the wings," and the words
being spoken in a stage whispir reached
the ears of the Duchess, who suddenly
lost interest in her quondam lover. "Yes,
the dear little dog is, indeed, found,"
was the reply of the Prince to her Majes
ty's mute inquiry, and so the great agony
was over. TI13 curtain tell oa the act
and the wonderful ue ws reached the
auditorium, aud as it pdssed from mouth
to in .'Uth a seme id satisfaction aid
peace seamed to fall upon the audience,
and one and all rejoiced that the black
and tin member of the opera bouffe com
pany h id, in leed, been tounJ. iJalletius
were at once sent tar and near by the
enterprising manager, joyfully announc
ing the recovery ot his lour-tooted star,
but he wisely maintained silence as to
the meth id e.nployed to find the mus
ing quadruped. "L ve rn love my
dog," is no.v the motto for the entiro
company.
The King of Beasts. In the Zoolog
ical Gardens of D ablin an old lioness re
cently fell ill. As she becauie more and
more infirm, the rats w hich were tempted
into the den by the pieces of flesh lying
about, grew so bold that at last they be
gan t j nibble her majesty's poor old toes,
aud troubled her exceedingly. A little
terrier was put into the cage to keep
them in order; but the lioness resented
Ins entrance aud showed her dislike in
every sort of way. At length, however,
she saw the dog catch a rat, when its use
seemed to strike her. Sne became exceed
ingly attached to her little protector, let
him sleep upon her fi out paws, right un
der her no.-e, every night, for warmth, a
place of honor, no doubt, if a somewhat
alarming one, and testified her ten
der affectiou for him continually until
her death. "We visited a French me
nagerie one day," says a writer. "In
one of the cages were a lion and a lioness
together. They were standiug up, quite
motionless, and seemed not eveu t j se
us. iTesently the Hon, luting up his
great paw, placed it slowly and softly on
the lorehead ot the lionets, and both con-
tinned in the same attitude as long as
we remained before them. What was in
tended by the gesture? A painter who
should have desired to represent calm
grief aud the deepest compassion could
not have invented anything more eti ik
ing. 'What does it mean?' sail I to the
keeper. 'Their lion whelp died this
morning,' he replied. Then I under
stood what I saw; pity, good-will, sym
ptthy, all these scatiments might be
read in those fierce couutrnances."
ILe Hadn't. The temperance revival in
Detroit has set men to thinking seriously.
One of the serious was discovered
coming out of a Limed street saloon ves-
terciay, and an acquaintance collared him
and said :
"You have been drinking."
"Not a drop," was the reply.
"But I saw you wiping your mouth."
"Yes, I wiped off my mouth, but I
hadn't been drinkinir."
"That's honest, is it?"
"That's hoaest. If you don't believe it
smell my breath. 7
He turned bu face, the other got his
nose down to inhale, and as he staggered
back he called out:
"If a little whiskey will kill that
smell vou eo and cret it risht away and
I'll stand between you and the pledge
and pav for the drink to boot !" De-
a r
troit Free Press.
General. Fisk tells with great effect
the storv of the colored color-bearer, who
when thH command of tli3 captain of
his company rung out for the soldiers
to fall back, thinking their exposure
too serious, kept oa alone in advance
When again personally ordered to
fall back, lest the colors might be lost,
he shouted to his captain, "Dese colors
never fall back I You jess bring up the
men to them, and they won t be lost."
A Birmingham, Ct., dog, which had
for a vear or two regularly run to the
train, on hearing the whistle, for the
morninz paper, has died, and a coach
dog, which had frequently been his com
panion, has voluntarily succeeded to the
Dusiness, uomg i iuuuuuj.
The Battle of Saratoga.
If the battle of Bunker Hill was the
famous beginning of the revolution, Sar
atoga claims to have been the scene of
its triumphant crisis, the place where
proud Burgoyne gave up his sword and
acknowledged himself and his Eaglish
army beaten. The centennial year can
not have the glory of this eveat, for there
were weary months of fighting after the
declaration of independence, but the au
tumn of 1777 claims the honor, and next
September and October will be the time
for Saratoga county to indu'ge in its pro
cessions, speeches, sham tights and re
joicings. Nor let any one suggest that
this will all be local pride; for Hal lam,
the historian, defines decisive batues as
"those few battles of which a contrary
event would have essentially varied the
drama of the world in all its subsequent
scenes;" and a distinguished historical
lecturer, commenting on this definition,
some years ag, named fifteen decisive
battles in the world's history, beginning
with, Marathon, ending with Waterloo,
but including Saratoga.
Now, under this expression, "Battle of
Saratoga," many confusing names, dates
and places are grouped. To begin with,
a hundred years ago, Saratoga meant the
unexplored forests, the few clearings aud
farms, the army roads, the Indian hunting
grounds west of the Hudson, in the angle
between the Mohawk river and the lakes
George and Champlain, where are now
the towns and villages of Old Saratoga,
Saratoga Springs, Stillwater and Schuy
lerville.witti thenunierous neighborhoods,
farms, hills and corners, with their local
and constantly changing names.
In the village of Schuylerville, on the
Hudson itself, they show you an elm tree
marking the exact spot where Gen. Gates,
in behalf of the independent United
States, received the sword of the defeated
English Burgoyne, on October 17th, 1777.
But for two months preceding this,
there had been one long, almost daily
fight between the two armies, face to face
with each other. We read of American
intrenchments on Bemis' Hights, of Eng
lish earthworks on Saratoga Hights, of
skirmishes and sallies by sharp shooters,
of advances when reinforcements came,
of retreats to trenches and earthworks
when ammunition gave out; of a dread
ful battle on the afternoon of September
19th, when Freeman's farm, a clearing of
twelve acres, bore the horrid harvest of
five hundred British and four hundred
American dead men, as the sun went
down; of another desperate tight on the
7th of Ootooer, at the sains place, whea
Burgoyne, his supplies from, the north
cut off aud no help coming from the
s uth, was driven to risk everything by
another battle aod lo-t again. At tha
close of this terrible day, one of his best
officers, Brig. Gen. Frazer, and many
brave men 1 iy dead on the field which the
Americans heid in possessioa; and after
teu days more of huoger, d. stress, crowd
ing; aud defeat, Burgoyne gave up the
hopeless coutest, and the American cause
was virtually decided.
Animals and S team-En gines.
A writer in Dingier Polutechtiszhss
Journal, in noting tue behavior of differ
ent animals toward the steam-eugine, re
marks upon the dexterity with which
dogs run about among the wheels of a de-
parting railway-traiu without suffering
the least injury, whereas a host of rail-
way workmen annually lose their lives.
On the other hand, the ox, a proverbially
stupid animal, continues standing com
posedly on the rails, havin n idea of
the danger which threatens him, and is
run over. Mauy kinds of birds seem to
have a peculiar delight in the steam-en-gine.
It has often happened that larks
have built their nests and reared their
young uuder the switches of a much-
traveled railway. In eDgine-houses the
swallow is a frequent guest. In a certain
mill, where a noisy three hundred horse
power engine works night and day, two
pairs ot swallows have built their nests
for years, and rear their young there reg
ularly. A case of almost incredible
truthfulness on the part of swallo.vs oc
curred in the early part of last year, when
a pair ot these birds built m the paddle-
box of a steamer, and regularly made the
journey from Pesth to Semlin. The au
thor concludes with this caustic remark :
"I have never yet found auy animal at
lrtime in the boiler-house. Even the dog
tteers clear of boilers. It is almost as if
the lower animals knew what an amount
of stupidity and folly appears in our con
struction of boilers." Poxular Science
Monthly.
A Maniac's Vision and a Watcher's
Nerve. A gentleman in Connellsville
had lost his reason, and, pending his com
mittal to Dixm.mt, Mr. R. M. Sibbett was
sitting up with him one night to prevent
him from doing himself bodily injur-.
Near midnight, when the only occupants
of the room were Mr. Sibbett aud his
crazy patient, the latter, who was in bed,
reached under the pillow, and, drawing
from beneath it a revolver, cocked the
weapon and pointed it at Mr. Sibbett, ac
companying the act with a statement
that be bad a vision, and that an augel
from heaven had commanded him to
shoot the watcher at his bedside. Mr.
Sibbett looked at the man an instant and
then coolly said: "Why, that pistol isn't
loaded." This had the effect of diverting
the patieqt's mind from his purpose, and
also aroused his curiosity as to whether
the revolver was really loaded. lie got
out of bed to examine it, and in an un
guarded moment Mr. Sibbett snatched it
from him. He found that four of its six
chambers were loaded. He then, as a
precautionary measure, closely examined
the room and bed, and under the pillow
from which the revolver was taken he also
found a hatchet. Pittsburgh Gazette.
A little fellew ran to his mother
the
other day and asked, "Ma, can I have
some bread and jam?" His mother,
wishing to break him of the vicious habit,
replied, "When I was your age I couldn't
get anything to eat between meals if I
wanted." "Yes," said the boy, after a
moment's pause, "but you didn't have
a gool nice mamma, did you?" This
settled it in favor of the young flatterer.
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