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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1891)
His OKI Vtiiow Almanac i, I left fro firm when mother Jix5,and charged rrif phieo of uweliin' To ri:iusht?r Susie's stylish house, tight In the citv RlrfH't And tbpre wsts therm, before I came, that sort M'Hivq roe icmu - ton i wouia una the town folks ways so They (said Td have no comfort In the rustlln', flxed-iip throng. And I d tjave to wear stiff collars every week I find I take to city ways Just like a duck to srau-r, I like the racket and the-noise, and never - ' tire of shows; And there's no end of comfort In the mansion oi my cansnier. freely Sows. . -Ana hired help is all about, just listcnin for - my can, i But I miss the yellow almanac off my old Kiicuea wan. a,. The honse is full of calendars, from attlo to the cellar. t They're painted in all colors, and are fancy- But j-ost in this particular I'm not a modern And the yellow-covered almanac is good enough for me; I m used to it, I've seen it "round from boy h od to old aae, - And 1 rather like the Jokin' at the bottom of eacu page. I like the way the "S" stood out to show the week's bejrinnin (In these new-fanned calendars the days seamed sort of mixed). And the man upon the ooYer.thougb. he wa'n't exactly winnin, With lungs and liver all exposed.stiU showed . how we are fired: And the letters and credentials that were writ to Mr. Ayer I've often, on a rainy day. found readin' very fair. I tried to find one recently; there wa'n't one in the city. They toted out great calendars in every sort of style; Hooked at 'em in cold disdain, and answered 'em in pity: "I'd rather have my almanac than all that - costly pile." And, though I take to city life, I'm lonesome after all For that old yellow almanac upon my kitch- Ella Wheeler Wilcox. BEHIND JIN OCEAN HORSE. We were in the Japan sea, cruising for right whales. Oar ship was the Georgetown ofXew Bedford, Capt. Williams an old sea dog, with lists like the knots of an oak tree and a tremendous breadth of 6honlders. This man had the reputation of hav ing captured the largest whale ever caught in these seas a hump-backed "fellow," which on being" tried out yielded 140 barrels of oil. The skipper was proud of his fame as a skillful whale-hunter, which, in fact, was well "deserved. He could throw the barbed iron further than most men, and was always cool and self-possessed in moments of the great est peril, whether it was during his fights" with the monsters of the deep or with the angry elements. It was a close, sultry day. Far and near the surface of the sea lay un broken by a single ripple. A yellowish vapor or haze had. how ever, for some hours been noticed to windward. It seemed to rise slowly and to spread gradually over the blue, unclouded concave above us. The sun. meanwbile, nati assumed a singu lar appearance. It had turned to a fiery red color, and was surrounded by a green and blue ringr, which seemed to revolve round and round it. .finally a noitow. Hamming noise was beard, as if some brazen instru mentwas being blown bv unseen beings far above our heads. At the same moment, from aloft, like the wild cry of some distant sea-bird. we heard the voice of Hindok the Kanaka boatsteerer. who kept a loot out at the mainmast head. - "There biows! There there there blow-ow-sT' -Whereawa-?71 yelled Williams, tbroush his speakmg-trumiwjt- " At the same moment the son-browned faces of all the men on deck were turned aloft. "Three points of the lee-bow two miles off a try right whale, sir. There blows! blows! blows ' tJall all hands!' roared theeaptaio. This was" done and all hands below eame bounding on deck. "Stand by the boats!" was the next ' order. - " The boat-steere-s young, active fel lows, all of them sprang into their re spective boats to get their lines and craft in readiness. "Lower awayP' ordered old Wil liams, with lightning celeritv making his way to the deck. The fo nr boats dropped splashing in to the sea and the next moment away they went after the whale. In about half an hour we lay on our .0.ars waiting for the whale to come np. Hindok stood in the bow, scanning the ocean with his eagle eyes. He was as . ue-looking a specimen of an island er as was ever seen. His frame was tall and supple, his arms long and sinewy, his shoulders of great breadth, and his chest round and deep. "Do voa see anything, yet?" in quired Williams. Nothing yet see. sir," answered the islander, casting a dubious glance "around him. The haze had rilled all the air and the sun's light was darkened omin ously. The humming noise previously al luded to had grown louder, and we could all see a great line of white water tearing down toward us from wind ward. Suddenly Hindok. Dointin? ahead. 'futirhispered: "lhere. dat fellow, ; "Your oars, men." sir!" hissed the '. tain through his set teeth cap- W e seized the oars, and the boat ; glided swiftly and noiselessly toward - where the ripples ahead showed that he whale was coming up. We had not got half-way there, when rp came the leviathan, shooting straight Vom the sea. his whole monstrous orm revealed, his tins outspread like a air of wings. A moment he remained poised ap- rently on the very end of his flukes; ten down he came, striking the sea fce a thunderbolt, and sending the ray flying in a white, blinding shower around him. 'Now, Hindok give it to him!" "earned Williams. A line of steel-blue light went - Srough the air. then arother, and we "ere fast. . 'Jindok had put both irons in the " ' le at the distance of s;x tnthonis. ' i1 R backward rush the monster jr struck the boat. The vapor his spout came into our faces, lie boat, thrown over upon her ard gunwale, was nearly cap- H went the whale the next mo ounding, and away went the "f drawn by lightning, with the "jming and drumming round " . . - "chead, aud her gunwales near- - level with the water. . at the same moment the nek us. nd us the wind howled with J, and the foam and spray, " tiding us, drenched every - skin. The ocean seemed " white, boiliug water, in "agged boat was buried so ; -. Awere nearly swept from while the tub oarsman, . .. -"'was to bail, vainly en- J ep the craft dry. jkiarEened with the fly d scud, which, in torn ! blown hither and thither demons come to seize ua: iwn to the depths below. ' vvv iame up, and w the order along mider the surface, for the boat now was almost continually buried. In fact, when we were near enough to enable the captain who, according to custom, had changed places with Hin dok, taking his station in the bow to hurl his lance, the boat was full of water. Williams, however, standing un moved, threw the lauce. The whale felt it, and, writhing, turned, makiug straight for the boat. " Stern! stern!" screamed the cap tain, as ho spoke again planting the lance in the monster's body. We endeavored to obey, but a great mass of blinding water, with spray and foam, struck us, and over went the boat. The last object I saw at that time was Capt. Williams, seated astride the capsized boat, churning away vigor ously at the whale. Then I lost con sciousness. When I came to T became sensible of a sort of flying motion, as if I were be ing borne through the air. I opened my eyes to see myself in the arms of Hindok, who sat astraddle the capsized boat, which was dashing along through the water, drawn by the whale. The storm was still raging, and the effect of the black and scud with the white, boiling sea, lighted by the ghastly glare of the sun struggling through the vapor was so weird and singular that for a moment I half be lieved i3-self in some unearthly region. Hindok, with his black hair stream ing on the blast, and his wild eyes flashing a lambent glare, added to "the strange effect of the scene. "Where am I?" I inquired. "All right!" answered Hindok. "Boat capsize; capting hurt whale so he no can go dowu. All right. We get whale." "Where is the captain?" "Don't know. Guess other boats pick up." "How came you to piek me ud?" "Boat strike you on head. You go faint. Me by you. Me pick 3011 up and get on boat with you." As I had now fully recovered mv senses Hindok. cautioning me to hold on hard to the boat's keel, let go of me. I scrambled along behind him and there we two were clinging to a cap sized boat in a storm, with a whale so injured that it could not sound, drag ging us onward. On, on, on. The seas flew up around us, and the spray nearly blinded us, yet we clung firmly to our hold. I glanced behind me several times to see the other boats, almost out of sight astern, tossing in the cauldron of waters, their crews evidently watching us. Still further astern, with the black rack almost hiding her like a curtain. lay the good ship under close reefed main-topsail and fore-tODicast stav- sait Meanwhile there was the whale, our ocean horse," drawinz us on. his spout ascending now and then with the noise of thunder. The shart keel made our position verv uncomfortable. and yet we were obliged to maintain it, as any motion sideways would in sure the rolling over of the boat, which we could not then hope to regain. It seemed to me as if the speed of that whale would never relax." Awav he went to leeward, now and then ris ing out of the water, revealing his great body with the two irons sticking in it, 1 had never before obtained such a good view of the whale in motion. xne vast oacK 01 me monster was fully shown every time he arose from the creamy waters. There was his hump, so thickly covered with bar nacles, as to resemble a hillock of oyster shells, with here and there broad cut which had healed up, but betokened that this was not the tirst time he had felt the barbed iron. It was, however, the singular appearance of the huge head which most impressed me. i,oug and ill-shaped, with its diminutive eyes, there was something so unearthly in its appearance every time it was lifted up that I involun tarily thought of the fables of sea- monsters which I had read when a child and which had first inspired me with the desire for a sea life. Drenched and shivering, the situa tion of Hindok and I was, meanwhile, anvtiiing but comfortable, with a rush ing pain in my head about the region of the temple which told me that I had been struck when I first tumbled into the sea. On on still on. isovv i iiuuecu ueiiiuu me. no more to see ship or boats. All were hidden by distance and the black rack of the storm. The speed of the whale, however had now begun to abate. His motions were palpably more feeble, and his spouting became weak and less fre quent, and sounded mournfully "Soon die now hooray!" cried wild Hindok. as the whale at last spouted blood. The blood came every moment thick er and slower. The boat's speed now was nearly stopped. Finally over went the monster on his side, the blood now rising scarcely six inches above his spout-hoie. He swam feeble, describing a half-circle, and theu he died. -viot wnaier- cried Hindok, moving his bauds joyfully. Ay," i. answered, "but where is the ship?" ".Never mind ship," answered the wild islander, his mouth fairly water ing as he looked toward the vast up heaving body of the monster. "We got whale." We now contrived boat and bail it out, lashed it to the whale. And thus we lay, storm, far away in knowing when or how picked ud. to right the when Hindok outriding midocean, we would the not be By night the storm had abated, but there was as yet no sign of the ship. We were both hungry and thirsty; but every drop of fresh water, and all the salt meat and biscuit, usually car ried in whale boats, had been spilled out by the capsizing of the light craft. We did not sleep a wink that night. In the morning still no sign of a sail. Another day passed, aud now our parched tongues clove to the roof of our mouths. On the next day we were nearly driven mad for waut of water. Hin dok's wild eyes rolled in his head, and several times I saw him fasten them on me with a sort of hungry look, and I know the vulture-like feeling that animated his breast. Another day still no sail! At midnight of th next day, which had passed as the others, I lay weak and helpless in the bottom of the boat, where I saw a pair of eyeballs flashing into my face. It was Hindok, who now caught me by the throat, his uplifted sheath-knife gleaming. Vainly I struggled. The point of the knife pricked my flesh, when the fellow suddenly released me. The sound of creaking yards and blocks was heard right ahead. It proved to be our ship, which soon picked us np. We found the captain and all hands safe aboard and told our story. As soon as we had partaken ot re freshments the captain shook hands with Hindok and complimented him for so pluckily holding on to the whale. to the men, they gave three (' ,.s and carried us into the fore- a on their shoulders to listen - a to our story f that vMd ride on 3 capsized boat. N.Y. World. WIT AND IIUMOU. For every industrious man there is an idle one wanting to borrow money of him. Atchison Globe. How good a man is to his wife the first day after she has caught him do ing something wrong. Meadville 2ri- iMMf. "It was a magnificent mine, but they ruined it." "How?" "The poor Idiots took all the gold out of it." Harper's Bazar. You do not always get returns from your wisdom, but you always get big returns from your folliesr icAi'o Gtobe. She (after a lover's quarrel) "You may return my letters." He (editor) "Did you inclose stamps?" Harper's Bazar. Ethel (ambitious) "What would you do if you had a voice like mine?" Maud (spiteful) "1 try to put up with it." JV. 1". Herald. "I see the dethroned Emperor of Brazil has become a great studeut." "Yes; now that he cannot reign he pores! Boston Traveller. Actor to Promotor When does the cue come?" "Directly; don't j-ou hear the audience are already beginniug to hiss?" I'liegende Blatter. We have no words except praise for the dead. This is natural, as we usual ly exhaust our whole stock of blame on them while alive. fttck. . Cuuiso "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." Bauks "Just the same with a Colonel, isnt it!" Brooklyn Life. When you see a boy with beautiful, long, yellow curls there is very little doubt as to who is the head of the fam ily. Indianapolis Journal. Cumso "Brown is an ideal money maker." Banks "Yes. 'Wax to re ceive and marble to retain, as the adage says." X. T. Herald. "Porous plasters are good for a weak back." -That's all right, but I waut a plaster thajt will be good for a week hence." Harper's Bazar. Teach yoar boys how to earn money, and. to make the reform in the next generation complete, teach your girls how to spend it. Atchison Globe. A man who has beeu swindled in a bucket-shop transaction may not exact ly waut to die, but he feels a good deal like kicking the bucket. St. Joseph Xews. "Think that young doctor under stands his business pretty well?" "1 think not. I heard several of the old er physicians praising him yesterday." Indianapolis Journal. "Send this car to the repair shop." ordered the inspector. "Yes, sir. What is wrong?" "I notice that two of the windows open easily. Have them attended to." X. Y. Sun. Salvationist (stopping Jack on the road) "Young man, are you ready to die? Jack "Look here, my friend. 1 m entirely unarmed and haven't a cent about me." Brooklyn Life. "Well, your goose is cooked!" ex claimed Snodgrass. as he entered his parlor. "Who has been roasting you this time, love?" asked Mrs. Snod grass, anxiously. Munsey's Weekly. "I couldn't help getting mad. Now I appeal to you. if you were I, wouldn't you 'be angry?" "I don't know I would be angry; but, if I were you. I should be inexpressibly sad." Boston Transcript. A ' Bullion thinks a good deal of his home and grounds, and is fond of showing them off." B (in love with Bullion's daughter, sadly) "Yes. he showed me off the grouiids last even ing. laie meora. Teacher "Tommy, you may explain the difference between wages and salary." Tommy "The man that draws a salary has to spi-ud most of it for good clothes or lose his job." n dianapolis Journal. Customer "Have you any scouring sand?" tirocer ".o; wi re entirely out of it." Customer -Well, give me a half-pound of your sugar; my tins have to be scoured to-day n.T matter what it costs." Life. Young Author "You have no idea how flueutlj' I write when I am de scribing some object I like something I fairly dote on." Miss Fiio "What's the matter with writing your biogra phy?" Texas Sifting s. Travers "You have actually sent a bill with my clothes. What" insult! What iufam'y!" 'Jailor "It was all our new bookkeeper s fault, sir. He got you mixed up with those who pay." Clothier and Furnisher. "I've lost my position," said the man who had made application for assist ance. "What were you engaged at?" "I was director of the mint!" "In deed!" "Yes. sir; I used to mix juleps." Washington Post. A story at hand, describing a love scene between the hero and heroine, says: "He wooed her with a will." That's a good way, especially if the wooer is old and the- will is in" her fa Tor. " Binghamton Leader. Give the average man three days' work to be done in three days and'he will boast the first day, loaf the sec ond, and show the amount of work he bas to do to prove that be is worked to death on the third. Atchison Globe. "Did you enjov it off in the country, Jimmie?" "Did'l? Had a bully time. I used to get up before anybody in the hotel and change aW the boots and ring the fire-alarm, and I broke nine panes of glass in one week. Harper's liazar. Colonel Grevtop "Miss Uptown. I would like to introduce an old friend of mine a soldier one of the Balak lava Six Hundred." Miss Uptown "One of the Six Hundred! O, Colonel, hadn't I better see mamma tirst?" Life. "What, my child! You danced last night with the Colonel? And he goes to balls while he yet wears mourning? What a light man he must be!" -O but, mamma, really you should have seen how beautifully sadly he danced!" Fliegende Blatter. Mr. Ticks "Adam was certainly in great luck." Miss Wickles "How was that?" Mr. Ticks "Why, when he got a wife he had only to give up a rib; aud now it takes all 'the backbone a man has just to think of getting mar ried." Boston Courier. Husband "Anything vou waut down-down to-day, my deaf? Shall I order some of that self-rising flour?" Wife "We have plenty left; but I wish you would stop at an intelligence office and order me a self-rising serv ant girl." N. Y. Weekly. "The difference between au embez zler and a Napoleon of finance is practically naught." "How do you make that out?" "Well, it's a matter of one or more naughts. Steal thous ands and vou are an embezzler: steal millions anu you are the other thing.' St. Joseph Netus. Bilkins "Bothered by ajpiano next door, eh? Well, I have a dog which always howls when my wife plays the piano howls so that she has to stop and I'd let you have him if it wasn't for one thing." Wilkins "Is he cross?" Bilkius "No; I can't spare him." N. Y. Weekly. "Charlie, dear, what is a monopoly?" she asked, looking up tenderly, as she rested submissively in his farms with her dainty head "nestled Against ids coat-collar. "Well." replied Charlie, manfully struggling to brif r his mind to cope with ahstrus.1.s''r -"--"fin ing altogether to get beyond concrete facts, 'Tsiuccrely hope that this is." Somerville Journal. "Yes." said he, "we must conduct our affairs in a business-like manner. Wife will be my private secretary; my daughters, Enielino and Agnes, will direct my mail; our two sons will be obedient little pages and every one shall be paid a- salary." Then the youngest son raised his chubby fists to Heaven and exclaimed: "Father I out for Congress!" Dallas Kews. A KITTEN IN LOVE WITH A DUCK. Tha Fanny Friendship Bntween m Felln and Fowl. Some time ago, when spending tny summer holiday at a farm-house In Sur rey, I wns much amused by seeing a lit tle kitten and a large while duck ap parently on the most friendly terms with each other, says an English writer. The duck was most attentive to the kitten and the kitten returned the duck's RTJBBrSO ITSELF AO A.IXST THE OLD WUITK DUCK. affection by walking about with her and gently purring and rubbing itself against the old white duck. Every now and again the duck would nibble or run her IT WOULD CLASP THE DUCK AROtTXD HER XECK-" bill all over the fur of the kitten, which performance kitty much enjoyed. It would stand upon its bind legs and clnp the duck around ber neck, as If fondly emhracing the bird. There were other ducks and fowls about the poultry-yard, but kitty never condescended to pay such marked pre ference for them, but always remained true to its old favorite. One wonders what first gave rise to such an odd friendship, and it would have been interesting to know nheihei it was mnintnined ufter little pussy grew up to years of discretion. Bacteria Everywhere. The greater majority of these micro scopic plants are what the botauists call "bacteria." the smallest form of vegetable life. So small are they that it would take, in some cases, as many as 15.000 of them arranged in a row to extend one inch. They have different forms, some being round, some ovaL some rod-shaped, while others are much the shape of a corkscrew. In all cases they 'are so small that one needs a powerful microscope to exam ine them, and in no case can we per ceive them singly with the naked eye. When countless millious of them are grouped together in a mass or colony we can see them about as we are able to see an approaching army of which we are totally unable to distinguish a single soldier. I have said that these bacteria move about; and this is true of most of them, although there are some which do not appear to move at nil. but remain fixed wherever they find a good feeding place. Those that have motion behave in a very peculiar manner; some wobble about in one place without moving forward in the least; others dart hither and thither, back and forth, at an apparently furi ous rate, rocking and twirling about, and turning a hundred somersaults as they move along. Bacteria multiply very rapidly, and they do this in a very curious way. A single one breaks itself "n two; then each half grows very rapid ly un til it becomes as large as the original. Then these in turn divide up again, and so on, uutil from a single oue we have many thousauds iu a very short time. To give you the figures, such as they are, a single one can multiply at to enormous a rate that in forty-eight honrs it can produce something like 280,000.000.000 of its species. Great consequences follow this enormous in crease of bacteria, for while one, so small of itself, can do but little harm. the army resulting from such rapid multiplication makes it possible for them to accomplish a vast amount of damage. St. Louis Republic. The Sources of It 11 ma Beancjr. The dark colors of the Southern beauty are explained bv savants as duo to carbon not thrown off by the lungs. These are less active 'in the hot climate, ,ind the respiratory function is less complete. The pulmonary action is replaced by cutaneous transpiration, and the carbon, instead of being thrown off with the expired air, is deposited in a layer of the skin, which, in greater or less degree, gives it shading. The vegetable diet which chiefly supports life in the tropics is the supposed cause of the deep pigmentation ruling here. The difference in complexion and color ing of various races is probably due to certain principles in their food, which introduced into the body, by contact with atmospheric air. produces divers colorings, just as light is known to de compose certain vegetable uroducts and darken some salts. The peculiar tints of the Indies and the Antilles are said to be due to the saffron, rouncou. cayenne and other savories used- in food, which are dyes as well, and part ly to the bilious maladies prevalent there. The opaque corner of the eve is yellowish in tropic races ami their fat the color of wax, showing its affinity to the bile. The color of "eves and hair follows that of the skin naturally, the same being the great colorist in these cases. Eyes grow darker with healthy exercise, as well as more brilliant. "The most beautiful races are always to be found in the finest climates. The Circassians live on the table lands of the Caucasus, -a climate southern as Koine or Con stantinople but refreshed by the snows of the Caucasus and the vicinity of the Caspian aud Black Seas. They form erly conserved their beauty to n great age. Two thousand years ago the cli mate of Greece was as perfect as the beauty it gave the world for models. To-day, in some of the high-lands of Greece, the old charm of climate re mains and the antique beauty of face and form looks forth and makes natu ral the old Greek salutation. "Rejoice." Maine's Corn Pack. In the j'ear 1883 the corn pack in Maine aggregated 8.365.000 cans. This bo overstocked the market that it was two or three years before it fully re covered from the effects. In 1887 the pack was 14.000,000 cans; in 1888 it was also large; in 1889 and 1890 about 12. 000.000 each year, and yet we hear nothing of overproduction. It is evi dent that the market for this kind of goods is growing. The Dutch National Break rust. Coffee, brown bread constitute the national the p of Holland. and herrings breakfast of -I WMji "-4 -g- xne um-i'ash enect ftttcnen. Tno old-fashioned kitchen, with kettles and pans, Ami 17 M h llUNVlf R f I M f in t-A If. n iiu uaisies ana lilies aua "sparrowgrass All scattered about oh, I love It J At noon what a feast, when the dim nicely baked. From the oven with fragrance camo greet In! I ve wnndered all over hut never have I found A plaoo so delicious for eating. The ivy that cllnirs to the old kitchen porcb Swlngn Riueeiully, quiet and steady. Where expectant I sit an I wait for the call W blch tells me that "dinner is ready." A sweet little maiden whose elbows ar HVckcd By the traces of dough and or flour; A china bowl brimming with roees as rare At o'er graced a queen and her bower. Tha 1 phverust so crispy and biscuits so brown, The roBRt-rlb go succulent and tender: The cotTeo so fragrant and cutis yellow gold: Iho waitress, twice over I send her. The strawberry sauce and the green lettuce dish, Tho radishes, "snappy," all lay there; TIs a feast for the (rods, and I cannot resist, gulte man-like aud buugry, and stay there. Tho old-rashioned kitchen, with kettles and pans. And gable-roof reaching above It; With daisies and lilies and "sparrow grass" All scattered about oh, I love It! A sweet little maiden whoso elbows are Decked " By the traces of dough and flour, She won the n ay unto my heart, and I guess Twas done by her kitchen's endower. H. 8. Keller. Iu Good Housekeeping. ietty's simrmsE. 'Yes," said Mrs. Lansing Gibson, rising and shakinc out her silken skirts, with a gracious smile, "I am perfectly satisheU, Miss Whittaker. am certain that I would be, after Mrs. t .1 , .. . xiaisej s recommenuation. 1 am sure your playing is charming. You will give Genevieve her lirst lesson on Monday, at four? lou will find her tractable. I hope you will be mutu ally pleased with each other." And Mrs. Gibson went smilingly out of the music room, leaving her little girl's newly engaged music teacher roiling up her music and putting on her gloves. It was raining when she pulled on her rubbers in the hall; the drops were splashing down on the window L.etty on, tue euu 01 ner music roll in con sternation. She had on a new dress, ami new dresses were not a common occurrence with her. She was wondering whether she might not wait in a corner of the bi ball until the ram slackened, when somebody came bounding down the stairs, three steps at a time. It was a genial-faced young man, in hat and overcoat, and with an umbrella. Letty a fair cheek pinkened. This was Raymond Gibson, she knew. She bad seen him often enough in the street, and at church, where Letty was sometimes substituted for the organist, who had a habit of takiug a rest when he felt like it. She had heard Miss Taylor, to whom she gave lessons, talk abo'ut him to her bosom friend, detailing his good looks, the amount of his father's fortune and his general twrfections, and declaring that he was by far the most desirable "catch" in town. And Letty had come to have a certain timid consciousness concerning him, because he always looked at Ker so steadily when he met her, not to say stared. " She looked up at him now in tremulous shyness. "Oh, I'm so glad! ' cried young Sir. Gibson breathlessly. "I was afraid you'd be gone. Miss "Whittaker. You'll let me take you home, won't you? It's raining hard. And you haven't an umbrella. I've been in the library lis tening to your playing, and I can't say how much I've "enjoyed it. Miss Whittaker. I'm sure Genevieve is aw fully lucky to get you." They were going down the front stops. He had her music roll, and had offered his arm, and was holding his umbrella so far over ber that his'silk bat was getting rained on. "I've enjoyed your playing in church so much. Miss hittaker!' he went on eagerly. "I wish Paterson would stay twv all the time." "Oh," Letty protested, with her eyes on tne wet street, "I m a very poor substitute, Mr. Gibscn!" "Indeed you're not!" said the young man earnestly. "I prefer your "inter pretations, really your touch, your expression, everything. I'm alwa3-s delighted when Paterson's away. How muddy its getting! Let's cross the street. Miss Whittaker." They met Sadie Merritt as they crossed it- Sadie was in the Gibson "set," and she gave the little music teacher and her escort a stare of amazement. Letty felt somewhat frightened as they walked on; but Mr. Gibson seemed to gain enthusiasm. "Do you like music teaching?" he said, helping her across a puddle. "1 suppose it's a boreP" "1 do get tired sometimes," Letty admitted. "But I like it. I've a nice class." "AU ages, I suppose?" said Mr. Gib son. "Oh yes; from six to twenty. From the first lesson in the instruction book up to Chopin," Letty rejoined. "You take beginners, thenP' "Yes." The Wilcox carriage was approach ing, aud the Wilcoxes were particular friends of the Gibsons. Letty was glad tho corner of her street was so near. "I have always liked music," said Mr. Gibson hesitatingly. "I I sup pose I'm rather old to learn, but could you take another pupil?'' "Anothet pupil!" she echoed. "I should like awfully to learn, you know," said Sir. Gibson eagerly. "And it sha'n't be any trouble to you. I'll come to the house. You do take pupils at the house, don't youP I should like it immensely." Letty was dumb with astonishment. A music pupil? Sir. Gibson P What an incredible idea! And yet she was not displeased at the prospect. They had reached her modest little gate, and she looked up with a timor ous smile. "Why, certainly. Sir. Gibson, if you wish," she murmured. "I certainly do wish," he responded emphatically; aud ho looked highly delighted. And when lie turned away from the door, live minut.es after, the date and hour of his tirst lesson had been ar ranged, and lie had forced upon his teacher his first term's tuition. Letty gave her mother a light sketch of that first term, at its close. She had gradually recovered from her amazement at tho acquirement of hor latest pupil, and had given herself to his instruction with all her usual inter est and energy. "He's very bright, really, mamma," she declared. "Of course it seemed funny to have to teach him the very rudiments. Why, ho had to begin with the staff, and learn the names of the lines and spaces, just as my youngest keep Horn laugunig, tue lust! "essou? But he learns so easily. He really has good technique aud I can see he s go ing to have lots of feeling for music. He's got along really well. I know he must practice awfully hard. He can play a little piece with both hands al ready, and he Sivys he'll play it at the rehearsal Thursday afternoon. I told him he needn't if he didn't want to. You know all my class is going to play, and I'm afraid they'll laugh, it's so funny to see him playing it. But he says he'd just as leave as not- Of course I'll explain that he hasn't taken lessons long." Mr. Gibson came next day for his lesson; ho took two a week. lie played his scales through carefully, and then executed his "piece" with laborous pains, but with great success. Letty was delighted. "If you do as well as that nt the re hearsal!'' she said, with a pretty en thusiasm which glued her pupil's eyes to her face. "Miss Taylor has offered their jtarlor, you know, and I'm so glad, oecause if all the parents and friends tome there'll hardly be room enough here." M j '1'iv'ni-0" Mr. Oilwnn re tieiitod. somewhat blankly, it struck his teach er. But he went on talkingof something else, and talked on till the striking of the clock made him jump up. He had fallen inti the habit of stay ing after his lesson was over to talk; so that after twenty lessons it was not strange that they felt tolerably well acquainted. And Letty had confided to herself more than once that Mr. Gibson was "uncommonly" entertain ing and nice. The rehearsal passed off with all pos sible smoothness; but Mr. Gibson was not there. Letty had received a note from him at the last minute, stating his unavoidable detention. A bunch of flowers had accompanied it. and a white rose shone in Letty's soft hair at the rehearsal. Littlo Genevieve came and played successfully. Sirs. Gibson came with her, and she smiled blandly on Letty, and complimented heron Genevieve's progress. She did not mention her son, and Letty went home vaguely wondering. She gave Genevieve a lesson nri day. She didn't understand why it was, but the imposing hall, with its stately furnishings, and the charming ly apointed music room, somehow depressed her. She had another rose from Mr. Gib son's bouquet in a button hole of her jacket, and she looked down at it rather drearily. She had come to know him so well, and all this gran deur seemed to thrust her so hope lessly far away from him. Not that she had that thought distinctly in mind. She was a sensible girl, and by no means foolishly impressionable and romantic. But she was dimly un happy. It was due to this mood, doubtless, that she forgot her muff, and was go ing on her way home without. She saw young Sir. Gibson run up the steps as she turned back, and she walked slow ly in order to avoid him. His hat was on a peg when she was admitted to the hall. Letty looked at it wistfully. It looked woefully differ ent, hanging on a mahogany hat rack, with a long mirror, and lying infor mally on her piano top at home. The notes of the Gibson piano were sounding, and Letty listened wonder ingly. She recognized the Moonlight Sonata, brilliantly and charmingly ex ecuted. Who was it? Sirs. Gibson possibly; but Letty had had the impression that Sirs. Gibson didn't play. She listened with quickly apprecia tive admiration and with some longing, because she felt certain that tbaf was better than she coukl have done. oue went on into tne music room In eager curiosity. Her muff lay on the chair where she had left it; but Letty did not take it. She stood quite still in the doorway, gazing speechless at the person on the piano stool. It was Raymond Gibson. He was absorbed in his occupation. His head was thrown back, and his eyes were on the ceiling. He was using the pedals vigorously. His music teacher had stood in the doorway some three minutes before he bee:, me aware of her presence. Then there was a crashing of the keys. "Sliss Whittaker! gasped '-er pupiL Letty only gazed at him. She was quite stunned. Mr. Gibson sprang tohjs feet "Don't look like that!" be entreated, rushing towards her. "Dea't Miss Whittaker!" But Letty shrank back, her es fixed upon him in solemnity and stern ness. "What; what does this mean. Sir. Gibson?'' she said, with an austerity which was marred by her falterin voice. " 0 Mr.Gibson pulled her gently inside, and shut the door. "I know j-ou'll forgive me!" he im plored. Letty looked at him with reddening cheeks, and then burst into tears. "What did you do it for?" she nobbed. "vtiat tor?"- Her pupil repeated, standing very close to her and getting possession of one Of her hands. "Don t vou know. Miss Whittaker Letty? I've wanted to know you so for years ever since I first saw you. And I'd begun to think I never should be able to manage it. I used to lie awake nights worryingover it. Anil walking home with you that day I hadn't in tended it, truly, but we were talking about your pupils, you know, and the idea occurred to me, and and I couldn't help it Don't be angry. I did accomplish it, vou see. We do know each other. What's the odds. dear?" "You've made me perfectly ridicu lous!" Letty sobbed. 11 she bad heard iiis last adjective, she ignored it "No, no I've been careful not to! Nobody knows it not a soul. That's why I didn't go to the rehearsal the Taylors know I can play, you see." lie did bis best to stifle a laugh; but his teacher was laughing, too, through her tears. The vision of her tall pupil laboring through "Little Katy's First Waltz" overcame her. "You ought to be ashamed of your self!" she cried, laughing and crying together. "I am I am!" said Raymond. "I'm ashamed; but I am not sorry. Why, I might not have known you yet if I hadn't" - Then he paused, palpitatingly. "What duets we'll have when we're married, dear?" he said softly. "What will your mother say?" said Letty, gasping with bewildered joy. Say? She'll say I've got the sweet est girl in the world. She hasn't any ridiculous notions; and, besides, she 11 never think of denying me anything J want A t naithaw Al.'- Re-toninjc and Regulating Pianos. At least once in ten years a piano should be re-toned and regulated, and an "upright" oftener, as the "squares" usually have had the ham mers protected by a covering of deer skin; the "uprights" are all sent out unprotected, but it is only a question of use before these must receive a coveriug. or else have a new set of hammers at five times the expense. Be very careful who does the toning. The tDniug and toning are the oniy artistic jobs connected with the con struction of n piano. All the rest however difficult of execution, have definite rules aud patterns. These two alone depend lor correctness of ex pression upon the discretion of their producer. Poor tuning may be cor rected by a good tuner, while a set of hammers may be spoiled by an experi mental toner. Good Housekeeping. ' The Black Sea. Soundings in the Black Sea show that beyond a depth of COO feet the water is so impregnated with sulphuretted hydrogen gas emanatingirom decaying animal aud vegetable mutter that Hy ing organisp; re not fouud there. THE BIBLE. History of the Translations of tha Book f Books. In the year 285 B. C. seventy of the wise men of Alexandria engaged them selves in compiling aad collating the Hebrew scriptures into their present united form, says the St. Louis Globe Democrat, and further simplifying the worKs Dy translating mem into Greek lor the benefit of the Jews then in i-gypt The resnlts of their labors have since been known collectiiely as the Septuagint, from tho fact that it was the work ot the seventy translat ors. About 400 years later, in the sec ond century. A. I)., the books of the new testament were added and the whole translated into Latin. The Italia, or Latin version, soon became the standard of the primitive. Chris tians, and was used to the exclusion of both the Hebrew and Greek versions lor two centuries, until the St. Jerome revision of A. D. 405. After St Jerome naa unisnea his crowning wors, a great ceai 01 wnicn he per formed in the village of Bethlehem. almost in sight of the birthplace of Jesus, the Dalmatian and Paononian monks bid away their old versions of tne bible and would use no other ex cept me one wnicn naa been given them by their patron Jerome himself. The Jerome revision was as superior to tne woik 01 tne seventy as their work was to the old semi-barbaric work which existed prior to the trans lation of 285 B. C. The most carefully written copies 01 the bible obtainable were consulted by the scholarly saint and. compared with the Arabic, He brew and Syriac versions, in all of which he made emendations and cor rections which have stood the test of all subsequent time. The herculean task undertaken by St Jerome will be better understood when the reader has been informed that over 200 versions of the evangel ists, each differing from the other in many of its essential details, were pre sented for the consideration of the sages at the council of Nice in 825 A. D. For hundreds of years copyists have added to and taken from the scriptures to such an extent as to make it extremely difficult for even the most learned to decide what should remain for the edification of future generations, or what would be elimi- uaieu irom tne sacrea pages as apo cryphal. The word "bible," meaning book, or as applied by the early writers. the book," was first used by Chrysos- 10 111 as eany as tne tuts century, where he speaks of the sacred writings col lectively as the Biblia or "the books." The infinite variations which occurred in the manuscripts written by the early Christian fathers have caused a great deal of contention among church men, some admitting certain books as canonical, which are rejected by others as apocryphal. This yon can find illustrated by comparing a Donay and a King James bible of to-day. The former admits several books which tha King James translators would not The books as arranged and accepted at present are the results of years of labor and of countless councils and re vision assemblages. For 1,200-vears after the savior of men ended his'brief career on the rugged heights of Cal vary, tne touching details 01 which are known to over 700,000,000 of people and in every land on the globe," each book of the bible was one continued story, undivided into chapters, para graphs or verses. Prior to the time of the Spanish rabbi the Jews employed a system of dividing the chapters into verses in the old testament, a system which had never been adopted by the Christians, and was discarded for that of the learned Spaniard by the Jews themselves. The new testament was not divided into verses until after the invention of the art of priuting, and then first by the Robert Stevens Greek edition in 1551. Of the early translations of the bible the most important, aside from the Septuagint and the St. Jerome ver sions, are the three-fold Egyptian translations of the fourth century (this remarkable work of the copyist "was in three languages and was intended for all parts of Egypt); the Yersio Fign rata. collected by Jacob of Edessa in the eighth century; that of Paul, bishop of Tela, in 617; and the eighth, ninth and tenth century translations, made respectively by Bede, Alfred and .Elfric Dnring the dark ages and on down to the time that Luther gave his masterpiece to the world, several trans lations were made, including that of Notker-Labeo. 980 A. D.; that pre pared under the supervision of Petrus Waldus. 1170; the important work of Louis the Pious. 1227;that of Charles the Wise, 1S80; the Guyars version of 1286; the thirteenth century version in Spanish during the reign of Alphonse V.. and the two excellent works ol WickliSe and Huss, the latter for the Bohemians and the former for the English-speaking people. With the invention of printing every person who had ever laid claim to literary abilities seemed to think that he had been specially commissioned from on high to translate the word of God, as one would naturally infer from the fact that not less than seventeen Ger man translations alone were given the public between the time of Gutenberg and Faust and that of Siartin Luther. The Wickliffe (sometimes spelled Wycliffe) version of 1384 was the first English translation. John Wickliffe, the translator, was condemned to be burned for presuming to do such a thing without the consent of tho cler gy, but was finally allowed to die a natural death. His bible was never printed; however, there are many mauuscript copies of it THE MONKEY AND THE MIRROR. Some years ago an "aquarium and menagerie in Boston came to grief and wns sold under the hammer. After the Sheriff's visit there remained nothing on the premises but a few mir rors, which had lined a passage way, and a cage filled with a forlorn lot of monkeys which nobody had been willing to buy. Mischievous boys broke the mirrors nd threw pieces of them into the monk eys' cage. And so it befell that foi want of something better to do one ol the monkeys took up a piece of the glass and held it reflectively in bis paws. Suddenly the monkey started and his countenance assumed an expression of mingled astonishment and rage. He saw another monkey or he thought he did boldly looking through the glass at him, as he had seen people look at him through windows many a time and oft. Disturbed by ihe fancied approach ol this phantasmal monkey, which was nothing more nor less than the presenta tion of himself in the mirror, be chatter ed at it and extended a warning paw. To his immense surprise the other monkey did the same thing, which was at once construed as an insult The monkey holding the glass thereupon put forth a sudden paw, with a view to grasping the adversary who was derid ing him. But although the paw went around the side of the glass like lightning, it encountered nothing, for the simple reason that nothing was there. Again and again did the angry mon key endeavor to come at the enemy, which-chattered when he chattered and threatened when he threatened. He reached -over the top of the glass, he threw down the glass and tried to flatten the enemyi beneath it, but all was of no aviL W r- - r. 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