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THE NEW DAY. 3vi from the broken calyx of the night The net-: day merges with a slow surprise, And like some new-winged thing with startled eyes. Kestj on. ths riven sheath ore taking flight. But as he:- pulses quicken, and grew strong Ine purple rrJsts are smitten from her face, And slowly knowing ail its new-born grace The red pomegranate flushes o'er it throng, Then up the elouly way in stately wise, Thrusting the shadows back with mystic hand. She ridoth slowly through the waiting land. 'So thought of yesterday doth dim her eyes, For jo. the new-born day that rules the earth Is not. a resurrection, but a birth! .'Try E. TiUey, in Harper's Weekly. THE CAPTAIN'S STORY. We were on our way from Hong Kong to Foocliow on the coasting steamer ISa mna, when Captain N., my "fidus Achates" of the voyage, looked at the ' gathering clouds to the westward and j remarked: "I hope it won't rain before i . - . 1 , ,1 . we get into Amoy; we are just tniny miles away." ''IJowdo you know the distance so ex actly, Captain?" "Look at that rock, and over beyond it, you can see through a rift in the clouds a little speck like a pin point on the top of that black mountain. The pin point is a tall pagoda on that high cliff, lud the pagoda is as good a signboard for this town as if that whole black cliff 1 were painted in white letters a mile high and hall' a mile wide A-M-O-Y. I never see either the pagoda or the city that a cold chill does not run all over me." "Will you tell me why, Captain?" "Certainly, but it's a long story well, here goes: Amoy was one of the first treaty ports in China open to foreign commerce, and for a long time the noted hatred of the Chinese for foreigners was more intense there than at any other port. I was then Captain of a steamer on the first line ply ing between Amoy and the English colony of Hong Kong, some two hundred miles nw.?y. On" cloudy evening in November I went ashore in Amoy to make a few final preparations for my ship's departure the next day. While on shore I noticed that my footsteps were dogged by a disrepu table looking coolie, who approached me with great earnestness in his manner as soon as he had reached a comparatively open spot, where the growing darkness shut out the teeming hordes of a Chinese city. T saw that it would be impossible to avoid au encounter if this strange fol lower should, prove to be a highwayman. So carrying my hand to my hip pocket, where 1 felt the friendly "grip" of my re volver. 1 waited for the man to comecloser. then s-v that the coolie was in great dis tress and, moved by his earnestness, I topped to listen to his tale. The maa ex- ilained in Chinese and "pidgin" English Shnt he had a brother in jail who was to be behcr.ded in two days more for capsiz ing in a sail boat and drowning his pas senger, a mandarin's son. The mandarin, I -en 1 :; revenge, had thrown the boat man into prison, where the farce of a trial had been gone through with and lh' innocent man had been doomed to die. The coolie said that his family ? were ;; wretchedly poor, but that they i had managed, by the sale of most of their J he longings, to raise money enough to bribe the jailer to allow the prisoner to escape, and all that was necessary to fave his life was to get him away on some ve-el to the nearest foreign colony. The poor creature fell on his knees and im plo'ed me to save his brother's life. He Wc ' , 1 v;ive me anything everything he had (.civ to give the hunted creature a hiding place, to save a fellow-being from j the headman's ax! All this was uttered J between broken sobs, and the poor man i wept as if it were he himself who was only to see two more suns rise before the 1 rartii would drink tin his life blood. I ie't my sympathies intensely excited, are! yet I knew the treacherous nature of th' Chinese and the danger in interfering with their ideas ot rutiee. and. wishirtor either to test the 1 ruth of his ?toy or 10 pre- j van upon trie cootie to chcose some other neaas U Y his brother? escape. I said: 'Til stow him away and carry him down toilong Kong for 500 tals" (about ;?550i, thinking ihat such a prie would K utterly beyond, the coolie s means. The poor man seems staggered at the cnormitv of the sum, a large fortune to one of hi? class, but he rallied in a moment ami -said he supposed he would have to pay it : that ir wa a earful sum. that he was verv poor, and ro rai-e so ?n ach money hi.; iamiiv v. ouid Lave to seil all th'W owntd: but lie must ave his brother's life; if the Caotain iu tistcd he would have K pay it. My sympathies were now still more keenly aroused, and seeing that the un welcome passenger would be sent, and not caring either to break my word or to profit by the poor wretch's misfortunes. I said: "Well, Til do it for the regular are" (about $10), "bring him down to the wharf at ll:-30; I am going off to .ny ship then." The coolie seemed overpowered with joy and was still "koV-towing" his thanks as I moved away and he dis appeared in the darkness. T had no sooner reached the wharf, about 11:45 r. m.. than I was touched by the same coode, wfo now ofTcred his ervices as "sampan" man. I . followed him to the boat and there saw another man whom the dim lamp light showed to be as poorly clad as his brother. "When we shoved off I noticed that both were very clumsy with theii oars, but as my ship was close to the wharf Ave were soon alongside. Here I handed mv overcoat to the ioatman and lie picked up a bundle t:ed Chinese fashion in a large handker chief , and w e went on board, leaving my vw acquaintance in the boat. I sent 03y steward forward on an errand that would detain h;m for a few moments and then had the coolie deposit his bundle in a small closet in the cabin, and told him hat that must be his brother's hiding place until we put to sea, and that he must be quick to get into it. At a motion over the side the con demned man sprang out of the boat, vhich he had made fast at the gangway, nd slid noiselessly aft through the cabin ind into the closet. I turned the lock md put the key in my pocket. But as he passed the cabin lamp cu riosity had led me to take a searching rlance at my strange passenger, and, in ;pite of his unkept hair and soiled and ;attered clothes, his light complexion md refined features revealed in the coo lie's brother a Chinaman of the fighcf ;lasses. I then tried to scrutinize the boatman, but the man's back was to the light, and the steward returning just then I paid my sampan fare, and my strange acquaint ance departed. I turned in, wondering who my mys terious passenger might be, .-md my thoughts were not without vague misgiv ings of the noted treachery of the' Chi nese. I woke early, and had hardly begun dressing before a herald came to inform me that the Viceroy of the province de sired to see me at his "yamen" at 10 that morning. This strange summons I at once connected Avith my harboring an es caped prisoner, and, full of vague dis trust, I had almost decided either to put to sea two hours before the advertised time, noon, and so temporarily avoid any explanations, or to plead press of busi ness and refuse to obey an almost royal command. Disturbed by such doubts, I hardly felt relieved Avhen another herald came to say that the Viceroy had con cluded, as he desired to see the ship, t o visit the Captain, and that my presence at the "yamen" woidd be excused. Such a thing as a Viceroy A-isiting in state a merchant vessel was almost unpre cedented, and I began to fear that 1 was implicated in the escape of a political prisoner of high rank. Now the customary official messengers began to pour in : First, two clad in robes of state announced that hi? excel lency Avould arrive m halt an h'ur; then four more that he was coming in ten minutes $ then four horsemen gaudily ca parisoned, rede down to the wharf Avhere I was now waiting to say that their mus ter would arrive in live minute;, then a procession of liA-ericd servants bearing aloft on high poles red sign boards, on which all the virtues under the cun were ascribed in Chinese characters to their lord; soldiers with Sags and swords and spears; men with whips and gong? to clear the way ; mandarin-, on horseb.u.'k ; lictors with long pheasants tails in their caps, r.nd a large rabble- on foot dl pro claimed that his excellency Lad arrived. Alighting from a gorgeou green sedan chair, borne by sixteen men in livery, he greeted me most politely and accepted my inA-itation to take p.-.sage in my gig oh to the ship. A large portion of his escort followed, occupying a small fleet ol sam pans. The Viceroy wn ushered into t3 cabin and, strange iy. selected a chair immediately in front 0 the deor of the closet in Avhh-h the refugee ay. concealed. After a few courte-:e; h ; i been :: chanced I was inform-'d through an i. terpreter that Prince Ieh.U', the le.el. vi an insurrection, who had been cap- ' tured and condemned to be beheaded, had made his escape. Suspicion, they fcaid, seemed to point to his being secreted on board my ship ; a sampan had been seen to go alongside of her the night before about midnight it reached the ship with two boatmen, and one foreigner and re turned to the shore with only one man, and ho made off in great haste as soon as he had landed, leaving the sampan adrift. :'0f c ours 3 the Captain knew nothing about the escaped prisoner, and so he could have no objections to allowing the ship to be soarched." This was subtly put. To refuse to allow it would be equivalent to acknowl edging that the man was on board, and would cost me my place in a company whose interest it was to placate the un friendly Chinese. To allow the ship to be searched involved the possible dis covery of the man, and in that case his recapture and certain death, as well as my own dismissal from the company. Either course might endanger the lives of the foreign community in Amoy, against whom the hatred of the Chinese needed only a pretext to begin a general massa cre. I felt the color come and go in my cheeks and for a moment I thought ol delivering the refugee up to certain death, saying that when I . took him on board I was not aware of the nature of the offence, and then revulsion of feel ing came over me. I thought "this man has trusted his life in my hands and, hunted criminal that he is, I will not be tray him.' All this flashed through my mind in an instant, and when I turned to the Vice roy I felt tne same spirit of helpless, yet indomitable defiance that every true sail or feels in the fury of tne storm. I said quietly, "Certainly, your excellency, my steward will turn over the keys to your servants, but they will find no such man on board my ship."' The search party went all over the ship, directed by the crew, and after probing into corners and peering in amongst the bales of silk and boxes of tea, no stran ger was found. This was reported to the Viceroy, who said: "You have not searched this cabin,; do so." I was wild with excitement and alarm, but my re lief was intense when my furtive glances showed me that the search party did. not dare to ask their master to move from in front of the door. This relief was of hort duration, for he again asked if they had searched everywhere. "Everywhere except in that apartment behind your excellency's chair. We will look there too; where is the key?"" I now became thoroughly fright ened, and, fumbling for some oophole to escape, I told the Viceroy that that, was a locker where I kept my Mines, and I was ashamed to confess it to so high a ruler under the 'son of I heaven' that I sometimes hid opium and i other contraband articles there. Would j his excellency forgive me if I begged that ! that place be kept unopened, as my pec cadilloes, if discovered, would cost me J my post as Captain. "Ia that case," said , die Viceroy, "I will save you from trou ble by inspecting myself the key?" ! Doubtful whether to confess my com plicity or to brave it through, I thought of the mysterious nature of the whole af ' fair, and hoped that the strange passen ' er rnhdit, in some nivsterious manner, j have escaped. This straw of hope that ; drowning desperation clung to saved tho day. T reached in my pocket and with ; trembling fingers pulled out the key. j The Viceroy unlocked the door,opened it, and closed it hastily behind him. My nerves were then so v rought upon that I could almost have heard the dew fall, and I fancied I heard a word within spoken very low. Then the door opened aifain. there was a rustle of silk robes, the door closed, and the Viceroy said in Chinese : ' 'Zno one there !" I lelt my heart throb with one great bound and thinrs seemed to reel around me. When I recovered my composure enough to look up with pleased and grate ful eyes I saw an expression I thought I rec oguiued, and in an instant I knew what my own unstrung nerves and the regal robes had before concealed the miser able coolie of the night before was cone other than the Viceroy of the Province of Fuh-kied, the absolute ruler of twenty tive millions of people. I had no longer n doubt that my mysterious passenger and th j roval fugitive were the sane, and thit the Vicerov himself was conniving at his escape. Th? --hip sailed on time and Prince I:ha::g was landed safely in Hong Kong, where he lived under Engli-h ji.-:-tct:o:i u-iii a severe illness let him him have that privilege most mortals enjoy of dying with his head on. Subsequent developments pointed to the fact that the Viceroy Avas influenced not only by personal friendship but by an enormous bribe with which the rich prince bought his own head, and that, fearing the treachery of any of his subor dinates, he had planned and executed the escape entirely alone. Of my betraying him he had no fear, as the Avord of a "foreign devil" would then weigh noth ing in a Chinese court. Two years afterward I received from the Viceroy of Kwang Tung a gorgeous pair of vases and some magnificent em broideries, 'dn gratitude for past hospi talities;" and 1 found that my coolie friend had been promoted to the govern ment of one of the largest provinces of the Empire. Washington tstor. FUN. The weigh of the unjust Fifteen ounces inake a pound . "Do you think bicycle riding is fall ing off?" "Yes, mostly." Bazar. It isn't the "ifs" of life that worry the gutter-searching gamin. It's the buts. Mrrchant Traveler. It takes more than a well starched shirt front to make a polished gentleman. Kearney Enterprise. In milking a cow sit on the side furth est from the cow and near a soft spot in the pasture. Mihcavlet Blurf. Jasper "Where is that A-ery obliging clerk who waited on me the other day?" Clerk "Oh, that was the boss." Sew York Sun. Common courtesy is quite distinct from a matter of common curtesy, but some people don't seem to know it. Merchant Traveler. She fat the piano) "Listen! Hoav do you enjoy this refrain?" He "Very much! The more you refrain the better I like it." Musical Courier. The Weather Bureau has invented a new storm signal. It is of a yellow color, and denotes that the weather man feels in his bones that something or other is going to happen soon. Chicago Xev,s. Political Kicker "I wonder if them fellows in City Hall see the handwriting on the wall?" Janitor "I think not, mister. They have just Avhitewashed all the rooms in City Hall." Lowell Mail. A traveler had just returned from a voyage around the world. He Avas de luded with questions. "But how did you manage to get along in those coun tries where you didn't know the lan guage?" asked a particularly brainiess idiot. "Why, as there are dumb people in all lands, I followed their example." Judge. How Tenpin Balls are Made. All the world is now either rolling or talking about tenpins. The balls are made of lignum vita-, Avhich groAvs in South America. The trees grow to be fifteen inches in diameter, but the out side of the Avood is not bard enough to make a good ball, and only the heart of the tree is used. The largest balls usually made are tight inches in diameter, while th-- smallest, ones are four inches. Twelve balls constitute a set for one alley, and they are Avorthfrom fl.50 to $3.50 each. They are turned in a lathe by a tool Avhich moves in a true circle, and will make a ball from an inch to a foot in size. The block of Avood is set in a chuck, and one end is turned into a hemisphere. It i- then ( hanged around, and the other end presented to the tool and the ball is nearly finished, needing only to be fin ished with sand 'piper and polished, all the work being done in the lathe. The balls get out "out of true" from use. and they have to be turned occasionally. The pins are usually made of maple, and are turned iu a laihe. Rocheter Poet-Express. ArivanTsqes ot Insomnia. Insomnia is not without its advantages. I heard of a New Yorker only the other davs, sr.s a Chicago Htrall corre spondent, who has been able to double his income by learning to do Avith four hours' s'eep j cr night. He habitually gees to bed between 2 and 4 a. m. and seldom rises r than 7. He seems thoroughly wide a.vahe all day, and most of the night does clever writing for several publications. foreign and domestic, Aud accomplishes this without apparently trenching on the time that, men ot leis ure give to amusement. He earns his living while others sleep. A new phosphate company has been or ganized in Florida with the object of de veloping an extensive tract of phosphat laud iu thit State. CUR13US FACTS. Four big sausages, made for S. B. Hill, of Letterkenny, Penn., STtcJ a bushel measure. s An accomplished young man of Lon don is employed by a fashionable sta tioner to write speeches for Aveddinn breakfasts. The year 211S, according to the Presi dent of the Manchester Geological So ciety, will see the exhaustion of the English coal. Farmer Harms, of Kings County, Oregon, cut down j cot ton wood tree recently, from which he took 700 pounds of fine honey. An Allegan (Mich.) minister recently astonished some of the world's people down there by lifting a ."100-pound box of chickens and depositing it in a waon. 31rs. Hiram Peters, colored, of Ritchie County, W. Va., has just found her sou, who was stolen when an infant. He is now a clerk of courts in Iowa, and is worth $20,000. Governor Joseph C. Yates, of New York, was buried iu 1S37, at Schenec tady. The other day the body, when taken up for rcburial in Ncav York city, was found to be petrified. A Northampton County (Penn.) far mer while butchering the other day struck a bullock with a sledge-hammer, and left the animal for dead. "When he returned from his breakfast the bullock was finish ing a chest of meal. A citizen of TIawkinsville, Ga., who was suffering from asthma, Avas advised to try a remedy sometimes used by the colored people. He got a hornet's nest, boiled it, made a tea, drank the liquid and was completely cured. A girl at Reading, Penn., postponed her Avedding because she was unable to secure the white horses owned by a cer tain liveryman for the date she had fixed. The animals are in great demand for Aved dings and are said to bring luck to tho bride. A newspaper in California relates that after a rain storm, which occurred there last November, many people of Angles Camp, Calaveras County, got money enough for their Thanksgiving dinners by picking up gold in the streets and in the shallow streams. 3rany families on the'vshorcs of the Straits of Mackinaw, Mich., Avill buy no Hour this winter. The recent wrecks there enabled them to get hundreds ol barrels of it and no questions asked. Some wreckers have flour to sell at twenty five cents per barrel. In some of the Indian A illagesof British Guiana, South America, a traveler no ticed many tamed animals such as par rots, macaAvs, trumpeters, monkeys, tou cans, etc. which Avcre used as currency 10 adjust b-lances in the bartering be tween the different villages. The feat of playing twenty games ot checkers simultaneously and winning all but one, which was a draw, w;is recently Accomplished by Clarence A. Freeman, in Providence, R. I. UU contestants were experts from all over Rhode Island. The play lasted one hour arid forty minutes. Recently a party of hunters in lb neigh borhood of Fairfield, Iowa, brought t town in a wagon 84 7 rabbits, which they had shot in a day's hunt. Another party brought in 150, and it is a common thin for a single hunter to capture twenty or thirty in a day. The country is overrun with thp pests, and much damage to fruit trees and vines is the result. Thomas Edwards, of Erie. Penn., wa.1 walking along the Mre( t the other day when his dog came up, pulled his coat and tried to make him retrace his steps. He turned around and followe.l the dog a short distance and picked up a fine re volver. The dog seemed to know that the weapon Avas valuable, although it was too heavy for him to carry in hi-; mouth. Even vegetation seems to acknowledge :hat this is the age of electricity. There ias just been discovered in the forests of India, a strange plant, which possesses istonishing magnetic poAver. The hand which breaks a leaf from it receives im mediately a shock equal to that Avhich Li produced by the conductor of an induc tion coil. At a distance of twenty feet 1 magnetic needle is affected by it, and it Avill be quite deranged, if brought near. It is shunned by birds and insects; its power is increased during a storm; yet all magnetic force is lost when rain falls, even though the plant be sheltered hj aa uoibrclU.
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