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THE BELATED COURIER.
Why raited he, the lapgardmesssengert
A thousand suns like laneral pyres had burned:
A thousand days, slcny-wmged, had takes
flight
Through the dim valleys or the twilight land
Into the regions of eternal night.
Why tarried he, the absent messenger?
Through many u'.sMs the harvest moon had
waned,
' And shadows faded from deep dusk to gray
Then Eastern skies were flecked with crimson
streaks.
And all the nights had vanished Into day. ,
tVhy was he late, the tardy messenger! T3
The snows of many winters filled the skies V
Slow drifted down, then melted slow away
To babble se tward in the summer streams
That follow were June's sunny footsteps
stray.
TChy loitered he, the slothful messensrer?
Before mine eves the glow of summer days.
Slow-deepened like the tints of ripening
(rrain.
Until the north-wind's banners led the von
And snow-flakes fell, and covered aood and
plain.
Why lingered he, the slow-paed messengorf
Heeause to those who wait he latest comes.
I sought him then, but found that he h ad fled
To carry to the one who shunned him most
A strange and solemn message from the
dead.
Urnett Wettt-fnt. f if T-Ocian.
A COMMONPLACE WOMAN.
But the Dearest end Bravost
m
the World."
She was a
school-teacher spending
at her brother's by the
the vacatioa
sort.
Her bro!her was keeper of a light
house on an islai.d. separated from tha
mainland by a wile, deep channel that
could ht a sw rUng whirlpool whoa
t!io storm 4 were hixh.
WHl's wife was a pretty woman, but
he tlioeg'tt more of her own dainty
eomforL than of how the world went
oiu By what charm she won the
warm heart of Will Browning. Will's
sister could not determaie, but s le
was perfectly jnsf, even to those she
disliked, aud she knew the frivolous
iltle woman must bj lovable, or 11
would never have chosen her from
-Among her many friends. S sho met
r wi h a kiss, ovcrlo king the un-
flrclcom.3 erpres3ron on her sister-iu-
aw s fae?-; and as she was passio 1-
itely fond of the se t, the days were
full of pleasure for her.
The isiand wassmar. but a delightful
place ia snumier. tue cool bret-zi
weeping in from the sea, now moist
with iln touch of the mist, no'.v warm
from the kiss of the sun; the gray
skulls swarmed over the roe'.is, calling,
jallinjn their cries like
nmsie lo the
girl weary of the stifling city; tha
3cean a new world; tho sky a marvel
of beautv.
JTjar the tower, and connected wiih
by a covered passage, was the
keeper's cot! age of gray s one, ronjh
without but et zy within, and a cheery
ight for wcas-y eyes; and Carrie
Browning found the summer one of
iiappines?. and full of thoughts for all
ler future life.
O le of her chief pleasures was to go
with h?r brother as the sun wass9tting
jp the winding stone staircase to the
op of tiie tower; to stand at tin ridi
ng and watcn tue sua Bjttie lower
Mid lower beyond the widj sweep of
waters, and then when he was gone
ind the heavens glowing with
oso color and a'l warm lints
jf sui.sjt, to help her brother
light the great lamps inside the ha.tvy
;lnss case, and, turning again to the
?ea, to watch the darkness, soft and
3iysterio'":3, creep in and in with tho
jray niists till the tower light was
like ihe eye Of Gd. nevor weary, ever
watching!
So the days passed clear and snnny.
with no rain, only the sea mist3 to
;ool the parched earth, uatil vacation
ivas gone but for one lingering day;
nd of this day Carrie mads the
most. Her trunk was fairly
srammed with shells and pebbles and j
pressed soaweed, with which sue j
would teach the children in her care 1
nany a wonderful lesson of the life
beyond the city, and the exquisite
works of G .d.
Site had closed down the lid and
:urned the key with a half sigh, half
smile, saying to hr sister-in-laws
"Life is t o b3autiful to live ia ono
iiimmer, isn't it. Billa?"
But Bjl'a shitizge I her shoulders.
nd replied that f jr her part life was
woefully dull and uneventfuL
"Life would be simply unbearable,"
she add.fd. lightly, "were it not for
hese breaks once in a while," refer
ring to & party m the town across the
channel, that night, to wh'ch they all
were invited. "And I hope Will will
not be so absurd as to 1st the chance
pass. But he is so ridie-ulous, so thor
oughly commonplace like you, Car
. ie" a rippling laugh parting her red
dps, "that I can never be sure of his
leaving home even half a nigh ! There
is no sense in Lis being so particular.
So one would obj ict, and CarL his as
sistant, is perfectly capable of watch
ing ihe light till our return. Of course
he oes sometimes, if it is all fair, but
I am never sure of him."
"But he never keeps you home, Bella,
even it he can not go." Carrie said,
in defense of her brother. Sure
ly you can find no fault
with him tii.r ; and if he
thinks it unsafe for him to leave,
he ought to know better than we. I:
isn't his own pleasure he thinks of.
you know, but the lives of others."
"You are going to-night, of course."
Bella interrupted, carelessly. "Tom
Williams will be thero. and Tom yon
could not disappoint!''
"I've not decided yet about going,"
Carrie replied, ouietly, not heeding
the o:lt2r's laughter. "I would rather
listen to lho sea out on the rocks.
than to dan no the Lours away."
I believo." Bella said., sharply,
that you prefer b 'iug a common
ykMte sch joi.-leacaer, than c-xjrt your
self enough to be pleasant to Torn,
cren though you know he has plenty
of money! You and Will are as near
alike as possible."
"An unconscious compliment to
mo," Carrie said, softly, a warm light
on her face. "If I am ever as good a
woman as Will -is a man, I shall be
satisfied."
And she left lh.3 room and the house
with this thought possessing hei
mind; that a commonplace life may
be a beautiful life, if oneibut tries tc
make it so. The waves among the
rocks and alonsr Abe reoin and out
among the edj;e. sung life's ssn.' to
ht-r in monotone, and she listened.
The daj was unusually miitry, and
as lho sun sank lower and lower t:
tlio west, heavy clouds banknd them
selves along the northern horizon, and
widened and mounted up toward mid
heaven. I don't liko tha looks of tho
weather." Will an id. standing with
Carrie at tho doorway and watching
the going down of the sun. "I'd hot
ter not go to-night, B dla. B Mitly h:ts
a- v-r been alone, and 1 do ot wish lo
leave him in charge such an evening
as thin, for tho night will bo wild. Yon
two girls go; Boutly'll row you ovef
and Tom will bring yon home."
Wo' 11 do nothing of tho sort. Wil'T'
Bella declared, emphatically. "You
must go -with us. Bnnily is porf ctly
capable of caring for thd lamps this
once If ho isn't, why do you have
him? Anyway, it isn't so dreadfully
important!"
"Not important!" Will turned his
Ptendy brown eyes full on hi wife.
"My dear Bella, if but one life were
lost to-night in tho s:crn that is com
ing, would you have nit go?"
B 1 a protested eagnly that there
was no such danger; that Bsntty was
capabh-; that she, would never for jrive
l.i iidid ho net go this ouce,wheu Car
rie interrupted lur. .
Will." she said, a-id the sunlight
r d ana tureatening was inn :n ;r j
face, "yon go wi h Balla. I would ,
j.'rS'Il'r C 111: I II HI nu:ilt-, a Ii:iuci9l.uiii :
the lamps, aid lis i y will assist me.
Trust m ,
can help
alone."
At first
this, but
nothing shad happen if I
it. I rather wish to b-i
Will would not consent to
Me'Ia was persistent and
Carrie insisted; and he knv if once
the lamps were set, thvre was nothing
to do at least not until he eould re
turn; so ha fi ia'dy agreed, and they
started ere the sun went down, for
Billa would have it S't.
Tho heavens grew dark with form;
the sun was almost gone, and Carrie,
beginning to f jel nne;;sy becans.; Bont
lydid not com as usual, took into her
own siim hands the task of setting a
light f.r the s.tfety of ti: S on tho s-i-u
It was not a hard task. She lit tho
great double wicks with steady hand 4,
and fastened securely the glass doors
around tho lamps, but she did not
linger as usual on the balcony to
wa'ch the world of night come up from
the sea.
She went down stairs to the cheery
sitting-room and watched lho soa
tumble along the ncks aud the lurid
lightning play among the clouds, but
Biintly did not convj, and a feeling Jof
dread took po-session of her.
Curie leaned hor face against the
casing of, the window and watche.l
the storm.
D.trkness was over every thing,
broken only now and then by tjte titM
in the clouds; while tha rolling thun
der, the roar of the surf and tho beat
ing rain, were the only son 'ids.
Presently through Carrie's thought
the idea impressed itself on hei
mind ihat something was wroii;;
and sudd - nly like a blinding fi.isu, lh;
truth was upon her.
The light vj( not shining!
What was the matter she did not
know. Of only one thing was she
certain util -ss the lamps were lit at
once, any vessel near the coast was
in davgMr of shipwreck upon Hip
rocks.
She was alon. and the undertaking
was dangerous in the storm and dark-
neis; but she had "nnuertaken me
charge of the light nntll her brother's
return, and the charge should be as
faithfully carried out as was m her
power. She must have left some part
of her work undone, or the nec:d cut
would not have happened. Such a
thing never happened wbeu her
brother was there.
All these thoughts were swift as 'the
lightning, and hurriedly taking down
the lantern in the passage and light
Ing it. sdie ran up" ihe stairs to th.
tower, and was amazed to find both
the huge lamps burning brightly like
fiery monsters. Her eyes were quick to
note all things up there just then, and
she saw tin? ctuss of the outer dark
ness The heavy covering around the
outside of the glass had not been re
moved, and tho lights wiijiia were
useless.
It was a simpl solution of the mys
terious darkne.83, but it was fnil ol
danger and possible daathtotho brave
woman, who comprehended all with
only a tightening of the lipi and a
suddm paleness ever the delicate
f.1C!
F.rnily she passed down the first
low flight of sto ic stairs to tho land
ing; then, with an inarticulate prayei
on her lips, 6he reached up, and un
fastening tho heavy door at the side,
forced it open and fucel the wild
storm. A slender iron ladder up the
side ot th3 tower, without railing or
support, was her only means of reach
ing the balcony abjve; and up tliii
perilous way she went bravely.
The winds tore at her dress and hot
lantern; the rain beat In fury against
her; tho lightning was blinding, the
thunder like t oar of artillery in battle.
B.it she succeeded; aud unfastening
aud rolling together the cover, she
let ont a flood of light on the boilln g
waves along the shore, and showed
the white line of breakers on the reef
and a boat recking like a shell in the
mi 1st of it
Fr a moment she held her breath
in awe and terror; then, undaunted,
sought her w ay carefully down the
slippery ladder; but when fdie reached
the tower door and turned to enter,
she found it had blown shut, she hav.
5nr failed to fasten it open, and tt
could not bo opened from the oii'sid !
Frantically she clung to tho iron
Steps in the rush of wild thoughts that
overpowered her, while the storm
throbbed in fury around her. Sud
denly a Rull. driven by the wind past
her. struck the lantern and itjeli Irora
her hold, dashed in fragments below.
Should she lose her hold, the same fate
would be hers.
At midnight when the storm abated
enough for a boat to live on the water.
Will left his wife among her friends,
and crossed to the light-house in
nameless anxiety. In the cheery sitting-room
he found Carrie and Tom
Williams siting comlortabl? beside
an opt n f:ro on tho heartli, and learned
from the latter tho s'oryof his sister's
bravery, and how Williams found her
having crossed the channel In
lho lioreust of tho strm, on learning
from B 1 la that Cari-ie was alono in
the storm crouched on the stone
lodo outside tho tower door, drenched
and pallid, but brave as ever a woman
wa-f
And Will drew her in his arms
tenderly, his f:ico full of prl lo and sor-
rnw, and told hc?r of his regret for
li'iiv n r her so careless! v. And Carrie
lauglifd brightly no.v the danger was
over, and said, wi h a tender touch o i
her brother's hand, that "it wasn't
much, and even Tom agreed she was
a common placo woman a very com
monplace woman indeed!"
To which Tom added later, his
strong faro full of tenderness
B it the dearest and b avest eoni
monp"aeo woman in tho world, Car
rie!" And Carrie male no reply. J. K.
LuJlunt, in I! "o ''!:' Mayazin.
TABOGA BAY'S SHARK.
It lias Eten Varlou. 1'eopte, an J I Not
ltrsertled as a l'et.
A very large and ancient-'ooking
shark has been swimming abut
Tabnga Bay recently. It is known to
the islanders an 1 generally down the
Itnt V-.u It. mrfc. hikI liir llinj. wim
knmT t ,9 C!.hL.(, ,. S mrera,"
0,, to Us ,iayiu ? seiz : a;ul eaten
a man t IT Anton some years ago under
peculiar circumstances. It appears n
schooner was sailing slowly along off
Anton Point when tha hat of one of the
crew was blown overboard. The man
jumped itr.o tho sea to regain his hat.
when he was seiz-d by this shark,
which promptly dived wiih its prey.
Subs: queutly, off the Morro Island,
.lie same animal was seen to seize the
Lr. tht-r of Rev. Sa'tnaa. of Tabogs,
while ho was bathing, and to enrry
him under. No further trace of this
second victim . were ever seen. Tho
same shark is cie'.ited by the bay
sailors with other deaths, but tha in
stances mentioned are vouched for by
mavy. Ihe natives, who e aim to
recognise it as an mi mini visitor.
peak f these Incidents as a matter of
island history, dating from tho period
when Ihe Inc ory f lh ? Pacific R eam
N-.ivigation Company was at M rro.
and when the animal first at quired
not. r ety by eating an Eigl'shmau
who attempted to swim from a vessel
then at anchor there to another.
A"! the fishermen have a peculiar.
aud it appears well-f ou -tiled terror of
this animal, and none will dire i.i the
vicinity of its haunt, although tho
m a er is not over live feet in depth.
in connection wim lies carniv rous
moisier the old inhabitants of Tabo-
ga relate a legend, and In which
tiiey a. poar to h.ive perf-ct faiih.
which is worth recounting. They be
lieve that below th; Svt wh 're he so
constantly swims wIomi on his
periodical vbit to Taboga there
iies a valuable c-r.-d b d, sill
ihat when In that vicinity the
shark believes it to be lis peculiar
lutv to keep constant and careful
guard over that treasure. O.ie thing
in connection with this peculiar
legend is, however, certain, and that
is that not e of the bay divers and
hey are all g od men, na they have
proved when pearl fishing will at
tempt to dive in that vicinity, and
i you can not persuade any of the
islanders addicted as they avo to the
j water, to bathe
in that place. This
j animal, we
j shark sici
are informed, is if the
s, and not a marine
I monster i f the
fiat -headed tvie, Mich
1 ns was the last big one caught there
j some few years agoby an Italian man-
of-war which was then at anchor off
that island. ranaiua Star and Uera'd.
Some one has made a studv of the
different pij ea'.ls in different se 10m
of the country, nnd says that in Penn
sylvania the far er calls Pig-pig,
pig, pig.gie, pig-gh'i" in North Caro.
ina he shouts Pig-ny, pig-eye,"
dwelling on the "eye;'' the lloosier
whoops "Whoo-oe. whoo-ee," and the
hoirs answer gladly; tho B:ckeye
ca'ls "fc'oo-soo, soo, soo. soo-o;" the
liiuo urass pork raiser snouts "l'oo-
.lee. poo-heo," and the Dakota man
brings his hogs with a wtiU lo.
IX- Brnzza, tho African explorer.
says I he upper Congo region teems
with ivory. Hi f am I large quantities
of tusks in soiiiO of the villages, nnd
they were offered to him for small
q-iantilies of ixads. While he was
i'.Oiiting down tho river ho saw in eight
days 105 elephants alouij the han't.
HUMOROUS.
If thirty-two is the freezing point,
what Is the squeezing point? Two in
the shade. I'uck.
When Mr. Hamlet remarked: "Eye,
there s the nil), he is supposed te
have just got off a railroad train with
a cinder in his optic Eclipsed Ex
change,
In tho court room. "Why is it
they are so mighty particular about
order here P" The judge, you remenv
ber, can only serve during good beha
vior. - Boston Ttanscrijit.
"i our sojourn in Texas seems to
have done you a great deal of good;
must be a fine climate. "I feel liko
a new mau, but it wasn t the climate;
it was tho exercise" "We never
could prevail on you to take exercise
here." "1 was on the jump all the
time in Texas." Well. well. Effect
of tho air?" "No; centipedes. OmaJia
World.
Hat-seed says he doesn't think
much of tho city hotel-keepers, They
have a lig room magnificently fitted
up and label it Sample Room." This
raises a fodow s expectations to tho
highest notch, but when . he is shown
to a littlo seven-by-nine room at the
top of the house he finds that he has
been swindled. It is not a bit like the
sample. Boslon Transcript.
Johnny and his elder sister made
up the class, and Johnny had come to
rely on his sister's industry for his les
sons. "Johnny, upon what does the
earth revolve?" asked the teacher.
" Ax sis." replied Johnny, scratching
his head to evoke an idea. "Correct.
And as Johnny afterward explained it
to a companion, ho was the "puzzled
est boy In creation.
OCEAN.
An Argument
In Furor of at line. Filling
It in to (irailo.
Any one who has given thoughtful
attention to the subject must, it seems
to us, have been impressed with tho
nselessness of the ocean, and our
readers therefore will agree with us
that the time has conic when it should
bo filled in to common grade.
There are many good reasons why
this should be done. In tho first place
inasmuch as the submerged surface of
the globe occupies two-thirds the entire
superficial area, the amount of land re
claimed would be enormous, and as the
sentiment seems to Ihj growing that all
taxes should be laid upon real estate, it
follows that the more real estate there
Is to lny taxes upon the greater the
revenuo accruing from that sonreo.
and by consequence municipalities
which now have great difliculty in
making both ends meet would no
longer be obstructed in their appro
priations for sia-h internal improve
ments as wine dinners for the city
fathers, and, incidentally, for the im
provement and embellishment of the
city; though, to be sure, the larger the
area of land the greater the number of
street widening nnd street openings
for the accommodation of the several
varieties of pipes of the various corpo
rate bodies for w hose use and emolu
ment cities are called into being.
But let that pass. If the sea wero
tilled there would be no more seasick
ness, which is a great point and i-hotild
not be lost sight of for a moment, and
there would be no more drownings,
save and except an occasional drown
ing of one's sorrow in tho flowing
ttowl. and then there would forever be
an end to those Interminable fishery
fusses, which have strained tho other
wise friendly relations between .the
United Mates and her M ajesty's mari
time provinces of North A nertca. Pos
sibly th amateur fi h 'rman might be
come a truth teller. This, however. Is
itfinust too much to h pe for.
It mijht be urged that tho filling ot
the ocean would ruin ourthore resorts.
but this is an objection which is of lit
tle moment. It is quite posiblo that
the resorters could liml other places in
which to swallow vinous and cereal
liquids and to take on thsjr annual coat
ing of tan; and It is probable that
cooking quite as atrocious could be
obtained without the marine propin
quity which now render the abnormal
culinary interest so fashionable.
But. says some one, there could bn
no shipping without water for ships to
sail in. A foolish obj-t-tion, truly,
when It Is remembered that the United
States has no shippin at the present
time. The iiiling in if the sea would
not affect us; let others look out for
themselves. And it so happens that
the uflicers of our gallant navr are al
ready thoroughly Inured lo land ser
vice, so that it would be no hardship
to them to continue to serve on shore;
while, on the other hand, the grand na
vies of foreign nations would be ren
dered useless, and there would bt mi
further fear ef our great seaports being
under tribute by Uie seagoing Kings of
the earth, and. consequently, no nei-d
of disfiguring our environment with
hideous fortifications.
The more one thinks upon the sub
ject the more convinced must he be
come of the nselessness of the sea. and
of the expediency and wisdom of at
once filling it in to grade. It will give
land to tho farmer and the real estate
magnate; it will offer to-the railway
constructors new and virgin fields for
track laying, and, in short, it will be a
general good thing for every body.
By all means, then, fill er up! Boslon
Irnnscrxyl.
CHEVREUL'S SYSTEM.
rhree fqninmentl f.'tnr to Which
All
Othrr. May lUi KtHlucrti.
Chevreul, the eminent French chem
ist, whose hundredth birthday was so
gloriously celebrated two years ngo, if
not the first to discover, was the first
to make plain to all the world, the
system of contrasted colors which, in
Franco, at least, bears his iiamo, IIow
true it is that to give an idea universal
circulation it mut be spread bv a
Frenchman! According to Chcvreul's
system there are in nature three funda
mental colors to which all others mnv
be reduced; red, blue and yellow. If
these three wore to' bo had in absolute
purity, and were to be mixed together
n exact intensity and proportion.
they would neutralize one another,
and no color, or pure white, would re
sult. If the three be put in imagina
tion at equal distnncos about a circle.
then directly opposite the point occu
pied by any one of the three will be
Uie point on me circio wnere mo mix
of the other two will constitute its di
rect opposite! or, as it is called, its
compliment. For instance, tako rod;
its compliment is bine and yellow
mixed, that is green. The compliment
of blue Is red and yellow mixed, that is
orange. Of yellow, red and blue mixed,
that is purple. In other words pure
red mixed with puro green will give
white; so will pure blue mixed with
pure orange and puro yellow mixed
with pure purple. And so on all
tround the circle wiih the intermediate
hues, cyery huo finding its compli
ment at the other end of its diameter.
Throughout this paper I avoid the
technical and uso every-day terms and
adjectives.
Now tho inner eye apparently always
desires whito light; so that the outer
eye is constantly manufacturing the
compliment of tho color of the object
at which it is looking so as to transfer
a white image to the inner eye. For
instance, let the eye rest on a red
object After a while turn tho eye to n
white surface. In a second or two the
Ul'lUl.b H III UI'I'Cj.W JI IHU Dili lilU. UllV
J
. .K .,! 1 1 .,-.,. tl. Bmlo.a lint
trreou; hUowlug that the eye has bee u
manufacturing the complimentary
color of the object, and in a manner to
coyer it exactly. Of courso this is only
one of the various ways of putting a
well-known phenomenon. The fact
remains, put it any way you please,
that to make the eye comfortable and
to relieve it of extra work, whenever
you present it to a strong color, present
along with it some of the compliment
ary color. This is the reason, why a
blue house needs green blinds; why
a blue ribbon looks well in golden
hair; or why purple, trimming go
with a yellow dress. It follows, too.
THE NEEDLESS
thatMis the complimental color assists
the eye to see the original color more
easily, it assists it to see more of it;
that is, to see it more intensely. A
red disk surrounded by a green rim
appears stronger than when the rim is
away. A red-headed girl is always
more striking in a greenish-blue dress.
Yet she is always wearing one; and
the carrot-headed boy is always at his
happiest when he has under his chin a
blue, or green, tie of vast dimensions.
The two, intuitively, select the colors
that relieve their own eyes, thongh
they thereby make their peculiarities
more conspicuous. There is no law of
aesthetics of more extended or of easier
application. Practice first with strong
colors of the gres; te .t attainable purity.
Soon the eye will be able to apply the
law to the most delicate tints and the
most varied hues. The secret of the
success of f Worth, the great Paris
dressmaker, is his skill in using many
colors and still keeping well within
this simple law. The law is as valu
able in the manufacture and decoration
of the humblest garment or utensil, as
it is in the production of the grandest
work of art. D. Cady Eaton, in l'a!t
'Jlcview.
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CALIFORNIA'S SAVIOR.
Starr King'. "Xliht With tho CanalbalV
and tt hat Cam of It.
General Scott declared that "Cali
fornia was saved to the Union by the
eloquence of a young minister named
King." This was undoubtedly true.
But, nevertheless the cannibals had
something to do with it
Before he entered upon his glorious
mission to our Paeifio chores. Rev. T.
Starr King was one of our most eifteu.
and popular lyceum lecturers at the
East.
He had been secured for the evening
of October 13, 1859, by the lyceum
committee of the flourishing town of
Westborough in Worcester County,
Mass., where I had settled after a
twenty years' exile in the Hawaiian
Islands. Our families having been ac
quainted in Cbarleitown, we had the
pleasure of entertaining him, as well
as being entertained by him, during his
visit. Our other guests were all Ha
waiian friends, two of them natives.
born of English and American parents,
whose fathers were tiffieersof the King,
and one the widow of the former Chief
Justice of the Island, who since her
husband's death has been living in San
Fmncise'o.
As Mr. King entered our premises
bis attention was arrested by a majes-
ic elm, the pride of V orcester County,
winch ornamented our grounds. lie
stopped short, took off his hat and
made lo it a low bow, savins! that he
never saw a magnificent tree without
feeling that his respectful obeisance
was due to it. Among the stories with
which he entertained ns I remember
one of a cynical relative who had been In
clined to belittle his work as a lecturer.
Desiring to convert hirn he persuaded
him to attend one of his most brilliant
and successful ones. The audience
wore delighted and at the close of the
lecture nisnv crowded around him to
express the pleasure it had given them.
Turning to the old gentleman, at whom
he leveled his most impassioned shafts
of oratorv, he asked him what he
thought of it "Wall." replied he, de
litierately. "yon warn't half as tejus as
X thought vou d be,"
As we sat down to supper, I said
jur. rung, uo you know you are
among the cannibals? He replied
that he hadn't been aware of it, but
trusted that his lean condition would
be bis safety, as none of us could be
tempted by it I explained that of the
seven at table ae was the only one
who was not either a native Hawaiian
or had been for years a resident of the
group and of California.
Laving down his knife and fork, he
exclaimed: "Is this really so? Mr
good star has benight mo hither. I
am In just the company in which for
weeks I have longed to find myself.
He then informed ns that he had re
ceived sum e lime ago a call to the Unita
rian Church in California, which he had
declined. That the invitation had now
been urgently renewed and most
flattering Inducements offered him.
and he had felt anxious to meet some
one from there who could give him
the information he wanted about tho
place, the people, state of society, oost
of living, etc., about all of which he
was utterly ignorant Feeling that he
was just the man for the impending
crisis, whose magnetism and eloquence
was needed to give the right direction
to public sentiment on our Pacific
coast, we with one accord urged him
to accept the invitation and gave him
the information he needed. We talked
earnestly till it was time to go to the
hall, and on our return resumed the
conversation till midnight and the
next morning at breakfast, the discus
sion being kept up till we left him at
the cars. He warmly expressed his
great satisfaction with his visit
A few weeks later, I met Mr. King
on the train, when he said, "1 have
deutded lo go to California, and let me
say to you that I received my deciding
itupulae from my night with the canni
bals." V. B. F. Marshall, in Boston
2'ranscrint
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In the San Francisco tree library
is one of the most remarkable works
ever given to tho world. It is the
Lord's Trayer in io less than 81-4 dif.
fcrent dialects. The work was com
piled by A. Amcr, and published in
V icnna in 1844.
F. C Burn ami, of London Punch,
possesses remarkable skill as a ven
triloquist He was educated for
Jesuit priest but his inclination to
play praotioal jokes with the ventrilb-
qulal power under his control brought
I , . . . ... , .
I liim into OisfnA-or w.l.n ln mi nenm-a-
.... .
An advertisement from a Prague
(Hungary) newspaper is translated as
follows: "A literary lady would like
to meet a literary gentleman with- a
view to matrimony. Prose preferred,
as tho lady is a poet and contrasts
generally harmonize best matrimo
nially," William D. Howells, the novelist
was a type-setter, and so was Bret
II arte, and so w:is Mark Twain. R. H.
Stoddard, the poet was a blacksmith,
Frank Stockton was an engraver, and
John G. Whittier was ta farmer with
slight interruption, until lie was nearly
thirty years tild, ... i.
FAMINE IN GOLD.
A statistical Miner Ul.cs Some Terr Inter
esting; Flg-orea.
"Probably nine-tenths of all the
gold obtained by man has been taken
'rom placer deposits, and our Ameri
can experience has been no exception
to the general rule." remarked an ex
perienced mining operator in speaking
of the past and future of this valuable
product the other evening. "Previous
to 1817 our total gold production
amounted to $12,000,000, but between
1847 and 1887 about f 1,750.000,000
were contibuted to our stock of gold.
Of this, nearly three-fourths came from
placer deposits. In 1850-56 we obtained
more than $50,000,000 per annum in
gold from the placers of California,
and almost nothing from gold-bearing
veins. Now, with an annual produc
tion of 130.000,000 about one-half is
from placers. Our own territory has
been so thorpnghly explored that no
considerable superficial deposits of
gold are likely to be discovered, and
nearly the same thing can be said of
the entire world. -
"In the northern extension of our
.vestern mountain ranges in British
Columbia and Alaska there are prob
ably important deposits of gold. It is
likely, however, to come from this re
gion in a moderate but perennial
stream, and not in a flood. Great
difliculty will attend the working of
those mines on account of the
cold, long winters and the difliculty
in transporting supplies. Unless the
mines snouui prove richer than ex
pected there may be a dearth of gold
in the near future. In the Allegheny
belt of mountains, in this couotrv.
there are large deposits of gold, but
they are difficult to work. Still in-
ustry and perseverance may make
them pay a profit Mexico may be ex
pected to turn ont f 1.000.000 a vear.
but no more. The west coast of South
America yields little but silver.
"Colombia. Venezuela and Brazil'
tve, on the contrarv. Ajwavs been
prtMiacers or gold, it is estimated
that from Brazil alone more than
f 1,000,000, 000 in gold were obtained
during the first 3 years after the ad-
rent of the Portuguese. Colombia and
Venezuela are now yielding about
f 4.000. 090 each annnallv nnd little mort
than that c:in be expected iu the future.
"Australia produces about fSO.OOO,-
000 a year and we can not hope fot
more than fo.000.000 annually from
" A
Asia. That will cover it all. I don't
fear that you and I wilr-ever suffer
from a famine of froW, but unless the
North American deposits are richer
than is expected some one will suffer.1
-V. I. Mail and Ezvrtss.
THE LIMEKILN CLUB.
Brother Ctnlnrr Comment, oa theSeliisli-
orof the If atnmn Family.
"Man is an onreasonable animal
then you cum to rigger him down,"
aid Brother Gardner, when the meet
ing quietly opened and Trustee Pull-
intcK nnany got seated. "tnen 1 go
to trade horses wid a man I expect he
ill pint out all the nngftones an
spavins on Ins beast, an let me con
ceal all de ailments in mv own.
If my navbur bamt got sugar to
lend do fackt riles mv hull family. If
I havn't a hoe to lend him I calmlv ad
vise him to buy one of his own.
nc git together an agree dat de
kentry ar' gwine todedogs on account
of dishonest office-holders, an' on leck-
simn dav we turn out aa' work hard
for a rascally candydate bckase he has
promised us a fat pintment
"W e see de need of a stringent law
an we leet our best lawvers to the
Legislachcr to make it Delaw coches
us whar' tie har' ar' short and we go
to dose same lawyers an offer 'em a
bribe to find a loop-hole.
avdowu 15 e bee buys a boss. He
scbrimps on de hav in order to buy mo'
plug tobackcr fnr himself, and bekase.
de horse begins to show his ribs Brud-
der Belree howls about de dishonesty
oi de farmers.
'We sot on de fence an' injoy de
sunshine an' count dp how many bush
els of turnips orter grow while we are
offfi.sh n. If we ar short on turnips
we excuse ourselves but blame de
Lawd.
"We kin see whar de man nex' doah
crn't afford to keep two hired gals an'
buv Ins w ife a sealskin cloak, but it s
all right fur us to buy a pianer an put
up ligntiiiu rods on a good deal less
wages.
"De man who gits up in Jinnary an'
howls fur spring kin alius be found
cussiu de hot weather 'bout de middle
of J uly.
"If Samuel Shin lends Pickles Smith
a couple of dollars he can't sleep nights
fur fear he won't git it back. If de con
trary ar' de case, Samnel kin sleep till
nine o'clock in the mawnin' an' loaf all
de rest of de day.
"Lot a friend cum to ns wid de toot
ache an' we kin calmly give him dreck-
shuns how to reach de Highest dentist
Let us have an achin' molar an' we ex-
peck elery pnssen to break his back
nuntm up some remedy an lee r.n sor
ry. Take us all iu all. an' we ar a
selfish, onreasonable, inconsistent lot
an do only reason tie Lawd lets us lib
on is bckase He hain't got no place
to bury us all to once." Detroit Free
tress. -
A sq iare minister. After one or
two gentle efforts on the part of the
collector to awaken Deacon Jones, the
minister said from the palpit: "Never
mind. Brother Layman, a Djacon
Jones nas not neant ttio sermon, per-
hads it wo ill not be right to expect
him to pay any thing for it. Epoch.
A Congressman dead against wom
an s rights was talking to a delegate
to tho Interuation il Ctuneilof Women.
"Why," ha s.'.ld. 'yon women can't Le
men, yon can't vote and you can't
licht." "Can't fight, caa't wc?" she
said, with a cold glare in her eyes.
"You are a bachelor, ain't you?" He
was (VitiA.
"iTou accepted a story Tast week,"
he said to the editor, "sent you by my
little daughter, aged lourteeiu As sne
is very uncertain in her spelling, and
very sensitive on the subject she asked
mo to look in and correet it before vou
print it in your Children's Department
1 see you have it before you on your
desk 'Redd Hed Gim.' " Correct!
Children's Department!" shrieked the
editor. "Why, mai, that's the best
dialect story we've accepted in a year!"
rue. v . .
SAVE YOUR TEETH.
fsaw Talnable Sneze.tlons That
Am
Well Worth Trying;.
What should a man use to clean
his teeth?" a3ked a reporter of a well-
known dentist recently.
JSothing but water. There are
more good teeth ruined by so-called
dentifrices than by all other causes in
the world put together. The object of
the makers of these dentifrices is. of
course, to produce a preparation that.
will, with very little rubbing of the
brnvh, make the teeth look perfectly
clean and white. To accomplish this
they put pumice stone, and sometimes
strong alkalies, in their preparations.
Pumice stone will unquestionably take
all the enamel with it. An alkaH will
make a vellow tooth look white in m
few seconds, but before a week has
passed it will have eaten away nearly
all the enamel and utterly destroyed
the tooth.
In walking along the street yon
cften see a -fakir, by way of adver
tising his patent dentifrices, call a
small boy from the crowd near by, and
opening the boy's month, rub the
dentifrice on his dirty teeth, and in a
minute almost takes off all the tartar
and makes the teeth look perfectly
pure and white. Now, a man like that
fakir ought to be arrested, for he has
forever destroyed the boy's teeth. His
preparation, composed of a powerful
alkali, is eating away the enamel of
the boy's teeth, and in a few months
the boy will not have a sound tooth in
his head. The dentifrices, composed
chiefly of pumice stone, are not as bad
as those containing aa alkali, because
thr-y will not destroy the teeth so
quicklv; but if used habitually, they
will certainly destroy them in the end.
I should advise any man by all means
to use no dentifrice of any 'descrip
tion, unless it be piepared chalk. II
this is used not eftener than one
a week it will not injure tie teeth, .
and may help to cleanse them.
but It shonld on no account be nsed
every day. Orris root does the teeth "
no harm and gives a pleasant odor te
the breath, and if all our dentifrices
were composed simply of orris root
and prepared chalk they would be
harmless enongh, if not beneficial.
'My own plan is to nse a moderate
ly hard brush and plenty cf cold
water, and nothing else, and my teeth
are in excelent condition. If people
would only pick their teeth carefully
after each meal, making sure that not
the slightest particle of food remains
near the gums or between the teeth.
and would, also, bifore retiring al
night rnn a piece of soft thread
through their teeth, they would not
have any necessity for a dentifrice.
Of course, sweetmeats and candies
are bad for the teeth; so is smoking.
or taking very hot or co'.d drinks; but
bad as all these undoubtedly are. 1
really think the worst enemy the tooth
has is the so-called dentifrice. Take
the advice of a dentist and never nsa .
any thing for your teeth but a brtisb
and good cold water- X. I. Mail
and Express. m
THE VAfdPIRE BAT.
How It Is Said to Sack: Blood from
Ant-
mall and Men.
This, to my mind, much maligned
animal is of the genus PhyUastomce.
has a curious membrane like a leaf.
wfiich grows on the end of bis nose,
and i found principally in South
America. It has a very bad reputa
tion for sucking the blool from ani
mals and even from men. The ends
of the toes of persons, the 'ears oi
horses or ihe combs or wattles ol
fowls are said to be its favorite past
ures. When it has f juad a feeding
place it watches until the creature it
proposes to bleed is fast asleep. Then
it carefully fans ite victim while it
bites a tiny hole, not larger than a
pin's head, through which it drawi
blood sufficient for a meat
Prot Darwin relates that in Chili.
near Coquimbo, the servant found the
horses very restive; putting his hand
in the dark suddenly upon the withers
of one of them he caught a vampire.
In the morning the place where the
bite had been made was readily found
While "Mr. Waterton says he has re
peatedly seen both men aad animals
which had been bled by vampires, he
could never discover how they act a al
ly drew the blood; and thongh ho ofres
saw them hovering over his hammock
they never attempted to light on him
or suck his blood. This is explained
by some naturalists, who have care
fully examined them and studied their
habits, that some people and animals
they will not touch, while others, per
haps in the same' room, Kiskbe bled
nearly every night
This bat a specimen of which I have
sti'ffjd. is about six inches long, has s
reddish-brown coat and ia
known aa
P. sputrum. N. T. Voice.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL,
Gru? fvimrvtlft m Ia learn ni-elv bit .
ter lessons, that by knowing and saf
fering we may also know the eternal
consolations. Burleigh.
Many favors which God rirs us
ravel ont for want of hemming, through
our own unthankfulness; for though
prayer procureth blessings, giving
praise doth keep the quiet possession of
them. Fuller.
To understand tho world ia wiser
than to condemn it To study the
world is better than to shun it -To
nse the world is better than to abuse it
To make the world better and hapi
pier is the noblest task of man or wo
man. ,
Let no superstition bind thee, or
hypocrisy clothe them. Lst God's light
enter thy spirit and his love dwell in
thee. Learn to listen for his voice;
and, when thou nearest his word, do
his will as it be revealed.
tiive us a man, young or old. high
or low, on whom we can thoroughly
depend who will stand firm when
others fail the friend faithful and
true, the adviser honest and fearless,
the adversary just and chivalrous; ia
such a one there is a fragment of tha
Rock of Ages. Bean Stanley.
It is claimed that generally speak
ing, aa aptitude lor learning loreiga
languages is indicative of a low degree
of intellectual power, aad results from
the concentration of the lower intel
lectual faculties upon such mechanical
effort without the distracting iafluanco
oi the higher reasouins powers,
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