A false bottom had concealed i tre
J POETS INSPIRATIONS.
mándoos charge o f dynamite that was
arranged to Ignite when any upward
O MR. WILSON YISLDCD A R T -
Longfellow Came to W rite Hie
O LY TO FEAR, PARTLY TO
• force was applied to any o f the seats.
Meet Fsmews Works.
‘"Tbs Inhabitants o f the town, who
© , HOPE OF POLITICAL
O
When Henry Wadsworth Long-
O
PROFIT.
O bed watched their stratagem destroy
fallow was appointed professor o f
a
great
man-of-war
without
the
small
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P m ld e it Wilson yielded to the o eat risk to themselves, returned hllari modern languages and literature at
O dictation o f the head* o f the o ©only to their bourne with songa and Harvard university in 1888 he took
up his residence in the old Vassal
o Brotherhoods, sod mode so ef- o
mansion, once the most pretentious
o fort to find oat whether the do- a
home in Cambridge. It was there
o msad was right or wrong. He o
LITERARY HOBBIES.
o made no effort to End oat wbeth- o
that Washington mads his head-
• or R could be complied with o ■van Railway Time Tablet May Mahe
ter. when he took charge o f
• without raising freight rate«. Ho o
Interesting Reading.
colonial army in July, 1775.
mode no effort to Sod out oil the •
Kudyaid Kipling finds both
and under the elms which shaded
equities la the cose; those offset- • and profit la reading the dictionary, it the first president and General
lag the men. those effecting the • aad this habit largely accounts for his
Lafayette m et and conferred.
stockholders, those effecting the • wonderful knowledge o f i
It was in this home, acoording
shippers. He took his orders • rich vocabulary aad his newness in the
to
no less an authority than Hexe-
use o f words. He does not confine him
tram that one o f the parties la
kiah
Butterworth, the historian, o f
Interest which he noet feared, o self to the ordinary dictionary. He
He Instate^ that the law be pass- o likes to look et a slang edition or e dic Boston, that many o f Longfellow 's
most famous poems were written.
ed without inquiry. And then he o tionary o f a dialect
There is a certain noble lord
T he original o f “ T he Clock on the
deferred the operation o f the law •
lovoo nothing better than turning
until after election, which, e f
Stairs'’ chimed the hours as the
• course, could only have “L 2 5 the pages o f Bradshaw, spying out all poet worked. A summer m orning
9 done for political reasons. • • • • Urn ways to anywhere, all the breach was the inspiration o f “ T he Psalm
linee and nodng-tbe railway stations,
o The question at Issue was not
o f L ife " in 1838, when Longfellow
with queer names. He is an adept hi
o that e f an eight-hour day at alL
ill was a young man. He placed
all railway lore and is often referred ts
o The question was whether Presi
by hie brother peers when a moot point it in his diary and fo r many years
o dent and Congress should enact
Is raised about the In k roods o f the would not consent to its publica
o a law. without tnrestigation aad
world, for hie knowledge extends from tion, but when he finally did it
• without knowledge, to give In
Charing Cross to New York via Toko- quickly “ flew over the w orld," to
e creased wages to a certain por
uote Butterworth. A few lines o f
o tion o f the body o f the wage
But probably the queerest literary
o earners. The labor leaders on
be poem in Japanese characters on
hobby was a certain doctor's predilec A Japanese fan once were found by
o this Issue, without regard to the
o right or wrong of the Ota
itter. • tion for reading an old file o f the Loo- a fr|end traveling in the orient, who
don Times. He said It made him bat
o first coerced the President, and
sent the fan to Longfellow as evi-
ter contented with things at present to
o then with bis aid coerced Con
dence o f the wide audience which
see
how
things
were
muddled
up
twen
o gress. The question at Issue was
ty years ago. He found politician* Just “ The Psalm o f L ife " enjoyed.
o not one o f the hours e f labor. It
In 1839 a storm o f unusual vio
as
quarrelsome and the comments Just
o was one o f wages. And It wan
lence swept the New England coast,
as csnstic, and yet he concluded:
o settled by the President and
"H ere we are. much as usual f“ —Lon and that night Longfellow could
o Congress without Investigation
o and without knowledge. The set- O don Answers.
not sleep. He got up aind wrote
o dement was due partly to fear, o
“ T he Wreck o f tne H esperus," fin
o and partly to hope o f political
MATURE'S COMPENSATIONS. ishing the verses- as the d o ck on
o profit.—From the Speech o f Colo-
the stairs struck 3.
O nel Roosevelt at Battle* Creek.
When One fienee Is Dulled
“ The Hanging o f the C rane" waa ,
O Michigan. In Behalf o f Mr.
Faculty Is Awakened.
suggested when Longfellow wont to
o Hughes,
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Clever Tricks by Which Two Chilean
.
Warships Wore Sunk.
Between the years. 1879 and 1884 the
republics o f Peru and Chile were at
war; and, although the Peruvians were
discomfited, they displayed
greet adroitness in naval matters. On
one occasion they succeeded in sinking
two Chilean warships, their clever
strategy being thus described by Ste
phen Coleridge In his memoirs:
“Soon after the Chilean fleet had set
tled down to the blockade o f Callao
there appeared in the bay one morning
a large barge e f fruit that had obvious
ly gone adrift from the shore.
Peruvians put out In boats and
to bring the barge beck,
the Chileans, seeing what
tag. also sent out pinnaces
Intercept aad captare the drifting
A fierce fusillade between the
hostile boats followed, and several man
ware killed or wounded. A t length the
Peruvians drew, off and left the barge
ta the hands o f the triumphant Chile
ans, who towed It off amid the cheers
o f their ships’ craws, who had watched
the fight with keen interest
“They brought the barge alongside
one o f the Mg man-of-war and quickly
sent the cargo o f luscious fresh fruit
up the side ta baskets. When about
half the cargo bad been taken on board
a terrific explosion shook the bay. and
on enormous hole appeared ta the side
o f the great ship which sank instantly
with all hands. By an arrangement o f
springs and balance« a huga charge o f
dynamite la the bottom o f the barge
was Ignited when a certain amount o f
the weight o f the cargo was removed.
Although the Peruvians had waged the
fight for the possession o f the barge
with fierce persistence, they had never
intended to be successful.
"A few weeks later a large man-«f-
war waa sent up the coast to capture
anything worth having at Hnacho. On
the appearance o f the vessel the in
habitants drew their boats far inland
and. taking aD their valuables, fled into
the Interior. One boat a new one,
larger than the others, they hauled
some little way up the beach and then
abandoned.
“ A fter pillaging the place the Chile
ans looked at the boat which was en
tirely empty. The Peruvians had re
moved oars, sails, most and even the
rowlocks. The Chileans looked It over
to be sure that there waa no dynamite
ta It and then towed It sw sy to their
L The captain had the davits ran
out and ropes pat round the seats at
the bow and the stern. Then be or
dered his men to haul away.
t was the last order be ever gave,
for the moment the ropes tightened
the ship was blown to pieces and d lo
in seventy fathoms o f
As we get older (oh, the pity o f
it— before we leave the grammar
school!) one or more o f our faculties
o f sense begin to fail.
Few people know how to smell.
Most children have spectacled eyes.
Few more than thirty-five yea n can
hear well, and few possess sensitive
fingers.
Eyes constantly raised to black
m ails or bent upon the -printed
>age or working under electric
hints are overstrained.
Outdoor
sing gives a more varied and lem
asked exercise o f sight. A t least
one day in the week we can relieve
m onotonous study or labor with a
new and restful outlook.
Pleasure in using our five sense«
ceepe them in good working order.
People who can be intensely inter
ested in tbeir’ labor seldom feel a
strain.
Our dulled faculties becom e so as
much from lack o f ms « and lack o f
pleasure in use ss Jffjm overwork.
But there is slwsys s compensat
ing gift if for any reason one or
m ore faculties have become dulL
The deaf one sees the keener. The
dim sighted person generally hears
like a lynx or smells with the noee
o f a dog. Nature always brings
about this sharpening o f one sense
if another sense is slow. Insects,
limals, birds, usually have not
more than one sense made marvel
ously keen to outwit and survive
danger. The coyote does not see
extrs well. The hawk does not hear
extra well. The snake neither hears
nor sees above ordinary power, but
with the whole length o f hia body
he feels an infinitesimal vibration.
I f an animal becomes deaf or
blind on one side he develops anoth
er sort o f sensitiveness on that ride
o f his body. He feels when he can
not see or hear on one side. Often
he is quicker to perceive on his
blind or deaf side than with his
normal organs.— Virginia Ballen in
San Francisco Bulletin.
call on a bride and bridegroom . He j
found them seated at a little tea
table in fr o q j o f the hearth. The
oufig husband also waa a poet, and
xm gfellow advised him to write a
romance on the Acadian custom of
hanging the crane. Ten years later
they met again, and, finding that
bis suggestion had- not impressed
the other, Longfellow ' wrote “ The
Hanging o f the Crafie” him self.
Hawthorne told Longfellow the
story o f Evangeline, adding that he
had been urged to write a romance
baaed on it, bat thought it better
suited for verses. The story o f Hia-
watha, related to Schoolcraft by
Abraham Le F ort. an Onondaga
chieftain, furnished the poet with
the outline o f his em bellished verse.
The “ Tales o f a Wayside Inn” were
suggested by an old colonial hostel
ry at Sudbury, Maas., which still it
in exiatence.-^Kanaas City Timas.
Sunday In OM Scotland.
Looking out o f the window used
to be an indictable offense on the
Sabbath, the London Chronielo
says In 1709 the kirk sesaion o f
Edinburgh, “ taking into consider
ation that the Lord’s day is pro
faned by people standing in the
streets, vaguing in the fields and
gardens, as also by idly gazing out
o f windows, it is ordered that each
sasaiom take its torn to watch the
streets on Sabbath and to visit each
suspected house in each pariah by
elders and deacons with beadle and
officers and after sermon, when the
day is long, to paaa through the
streets and to reprove such as trans
gress and inform on such as do not
refrain ." ____
Curious Labrador.
Dr. W. T . G renfell describee Lab
rador as a land still hardly known
beyond its borders. The cold cur
rent
that flows along its shores from
*
the
north dominates its clim ate,
m
and, notwithstanding that it is con
siderably farther south, it receives
Underground Mountains.
less continuous sunshine than Alas
A curious result o f operations by ka, because its summer is shorter.
the trigonom etrical survey in India The coldness o f the soil and the
was the conclusion that there was dryness o f the winds stunt many o f
in the middle of India an under- its plants to such a degree that a
ound or buried mountain range a larch growing at the southern end
€ v e r b e a rin g
ousand miles in length and lying o f Labrador which showed thirty-
about parallel with the chain o f the two annual growth rings was only
S tra w b e rry ¡P ia n te
Himalayas.
nine inches tall, and its trank was
This conclusion was based on thq hut three-eigbtbs o f an inch in di-
singularities o f the local attraction a m e t s r .________________
o f gravitation in central India, tbs
M ark T w ain MJssad the Bom .
plumb line being deflected south
The success achieved by Hark
ward on the north ride o f the
supposed subterranean chain and Tw ain during hia boating days on
northward on the south side, lead- ths Mississippi rivar was due not
in «
the inference that a great only to the fact that he waa a skill
elongated mast o f r o d o f excessive fu l pilot, bat that be waa an ear
J . H. GIBSON, Mgr.
,
density underlies the surface o f the nest one as well. A man who knew
Tkfi o n ly A b s tra ct B ook s in earth between the two seta o f ob Mr. Clsmena in those days told how
{ha gonial hum orist once mimed hia
serving stations.
b o a t Instead e f inventing an ex-
Yamhfll County Abstract C o.
ease, as many o f hia companions
Batting Out ef H.
did,
ha reported to hia superior offi
Constable, the English painter,
•
. ,
attended an exhibition o f land cer as follow s:
“ My boat le ft at 6:10. I arrived
scapes and sea views which was
the work o f another eminent artist at the lending at 6 :90 and could not
whom he detested. "L ike putty," catch i t " ________________
he growled as ha soanned them
Turner's ta la d tuM eotlen.
otar. It happened that a friend of
A
t
a dinner a salad waa offered
the pa in ter! was present and waa
Carriefifi
•••ortment of everything to be found in
so stupid as to repeat Constable's to Turner, the great artist, which
th e
All kinds of Pur« Fresh Drug»,
When, later, Constable, caused him to call tbs attention e f
Perfumes, School Books find 8up-
ting the gentleman whom ho hia neighbor at the table—Jon es
Statfamory, Liggett'« end Lowney’a Candies. Our
hod condemned, congratulated him U qyd, afterward Lori! Overstone—
stock of Cigar* is the best in town. You're always welcome.
«p en one o f his works, the latter t o l l "N ice co o l green lettuce, ien't
■»id, “ W hy, I am told yon say my I t r he mid. “ And the beetroot,
L Y N N B . F J3R G U S O N
■Mooes are putty." “ What of pretty red, not quite strong enough,
¡h otr aaplied Constable. “ I like and the m ixture, delicate tint o f
yellow th a t Add soma mustard aad
potty."
than you ha?a one a f my pictures.”
Moramente
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