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America to Iceland.
We como, tho children of thy "Vinland,
Thft youngent of tho world's high peere,
0 land of steel, and aong, and Baga,
To greet thy gloriou thousand years !
A( rw that ea the pon of Erik
Dared with his venturous dragon's prow ;
From shores where Thorflnn set thy banner,
Their latest children seek thee now.
Hail mother-land of skalds and heroes,
By love of freedom hither burled,
Fire in their hearts as in thy mountains,
And t-trength like thine to shake tho
world !
When war and ravage wrecked the nations
The bird of song made thee her home ;
1 ho ancient godd, the ancient glory,
Still dwelt within thy shores of foam.
Hero, as a fount may keep its virtue
Where all the rivers turbid run,
The manly growth of deed and daring
Was thine beneath a scantier sun.
si apart, neglected, ej
Thy children wrote th
exiled,
y children wrote their runes oi pride,
With power that brings, in this thy triumph,
Tho conquering nations to thy side.
What though thy native harps be silent,
The chord they struck shall ours prolong
We claim thee kindred, call thee mother
O land of taga, steel and song !
Bayard, Taylqk.
THE HOYS AT BFCIiW00Da'
" Tho little cha needa breaking in.
That's what ho d born for wants tough
ening, you v,ef ana I feel it's my duty
to help jti that part of hia education
myHif."
" Duty !" and Kit gave a little sniff.
JIo von standing against a maple, whose
mn?; w:m not atraighter than his firm,
boyish back. " I wish, Rique Ramon,
that your duty would make you take
-some fellow of yonr own size; you're
always pitching into the small fry."
" Perhaps you'd enjoy my pitching
into you."
'If you think so, try it."
" Anyhow, Kit, didn 1 1 have a set-to
with tho deacon last year? And he
wouldn't fight mo ; didn't dare to do
it r
" I don't know about the ' dare.' "
"Well. I do," cried Henrique. "I
t;ll you. the deacon's a regular muff.
lie's n coward. That's why ho wouldn't
fight.'' 1
" 1'orhaps you thinK it iooks like a
coward to dive into twenty feet of water
to fitth out Tom Murphy s little boy.
The rest of us didn't see it that way.
Nousenso 1 You always hated Charlie,
ami yon know it.
(Charlie and the "deacon " are one).
Kit and Henrique were the two old
est boys of the twenty pupils in Dr.
Vose's school. I suppose you might
pick out a couple like them on the side
walk of nny city when the nine o'clock
school-boll rings.
Kit was gray-eyed, frank-faced, and
always in motion ; Rique had a pale
face, very red lips, and a flash of tho
eye which matched the jet black of his
curls. Ho had a figure all curves, which
fell naturally into indolent graces of
posture, a figure as flexible as that of
JapancHo contortionist. Kit had joints
of steel, had long, clean-cut limbs, and
a spring in his gait.
"Kit jumps over; Rique crawls
through," said a younger boy, one day
at a fence.
This was just tho difference between
the two. Kit was frank and open
Rique, though not a really bad boy, was
greatly spoiled by a rich mother, and
was in dauger of becoming a self-indulgent
and not wholly trustworthy
character.
" I say, youDgster," he exclaimed, as
a small boy stepped down from the
piazza, and stood near, "where did you
drop from?
It was a pink and-white face, which
grow less white and more pink at the
question. Thereupon, Rique grasped
the small white arm, as he went on,-
"Look here I Whats yonr name?
Where did you come from ? Speak
out. lou can talk, 1 suppose ?
" I'm Appleton Bernie Appletpn.
My mother lives in Philadelphia."
"Philadelphia?" Rique replied, to
the quiet, well-bred little voice. " Well
now, I take it Philadelphia isn't a good
place to raise infants? Is that why
your mother sent hers here T Hope she
sent a high-chair along.
" Rique 1"
Kit's indignaut protest was flung on
in this interjection.
Well, what?"
'"Let the little fellow alone, can'
you?"
" Why, yes ; if you make such a fuss
about it. lhere, go along then. I
?ou'ro in need of anything you've only
o go to Kit over there. He's nurse to
all the babies iu Beechwood."
" Hush up 1" and Kit looked af ter the
little retreating figure.
"I'll bo whipped if the child has
been tanght to walk. Don't you see ?'
sneered Rique.
" I see he's lame," Kit answered
coolly.
"Putting on airs," Rique muttered
" Now, I suppose he'll go off and cod
die that baby up. He'll adopt him di
rectly, and we sha'n't any of us be able
to touch a hair of his head- from this
time forth. Never mind ; 1 11 have my
chance with the young cub yet."
Bernie was the child whom Henrique
declared needed "toughening," and
his gentle reply to his questions only
gave his tormenter a stronger desire to
undertake this "part of his education.'
As for Kit. lliouo was right in lniac
ining that ho would take the little stran
ger under his wing. From the hour of
this afternoon, when he found Bernie
moistening his cambric handkerchief
with hot tears, curled upon the hay,
beside the nett of an astonished ban
tam, and comforted him with rough,
kindly boy-comfort, from that hour the
child had a strong defender. Bernie
was a home-boy. He had been ill a
great deal, and the widowed heart
whose treasure he was had bled sorely
at sending him among strangers. ;.
" I should mind it less," Ms. Apple
ton had told Dr. Vose, " was my boy
strong. But a fall last year caused this
lameness, besides giving a shock to his
whole nervous system. He is an excep
tionally sensitive child."
The good doctor smiled and consoled
her, and now be smiled again when he
saw Kit's guardianship.
Why doni t you come with me, you
little rascal ?" asked Henrique : and
when Birnie avoided him. he vowed
again to " toughen him some day."
"I m going with Kit : I'm fond of
Kit," the child answered.
" Go along by all means. Kit's train
ing to superintend a foundling asylum.
Ciood practice his is 1 But I'll b Pvn
with you before you're a hundred years
Rique had a natural though thought
less fondness for tormenting any crea
ture mat came into his power. He
eionea irogs to see 'em squirm ;" he
cut on wasps bodies, to see how long
they would live after it: and he did
actually enjoy " breaking) in " small
boys. In addition to this, h AinlikArl
Bernie, because the child had wounded
ms own sen-love, and because he bus
pected that the Appletona were of bet
uoj. ujwu una Dr&eaing, than the race
oi which he tame.
I do not mAftn that. TiifiTiA "Rammi vr
plained all this to himself, but it was
the truth, and I must tell it to you in
xer to account lor what followed.
caught. Just put your arm out, can't
you, and jerk the rope off that can by
the lightning-rod. It s Ciose to your
hand."
No anstre?. Through the clear night
cmo the rush and shriek of the mid
night train out from the city.
liernie 1 you can hear; come. iust
grab the rope and pull it off, and well
have you back up here, quick as wink."
Hull silence, and that dead weight
hanging away down below. ! A frightful
possibility, a horror of dread came
creeping over the minds of the two
boys. .
" O Jack, you don't suppose it isn't
he can't be dead 1"
"What shall we do? He will be;
hell freeze there in ten minutes more.
I'm going to call the master call
Haston."
" Stop ! Wait ; no, 111 call the dea
con." Two minutes, and Charlie Newman,
the sober, silent boy, whom Rique
called a coward, and whom he had for
months ridiculed, was beside them at
the window. The two bed-rooms were
at their left hand : at their right was
the roof of the wing a steep roof hav
child t talks all the time about it, and
pleads."
"Talks? Bernie? Why, I thought
i Rique seized Charlie's arm " I
thought be was dead I
A Tford to Adrentarerf. -
A friendly bit of advice to those who
intend visiting the Black Hills gold re
gions, says a correspondent, may cot
be out of place. The simple mention
Flogglnr Round the Fleet,
r?:Z' hnt ?hllTh'i of the existent of gold in any new sec- lish ship of v
dreadful shock, but he thinks hell of is enough to fixe the soon became di
5 round acram in time. . , i-
A well-known English gentleman
Mr. James Silk Buckingham lately
deceased, was about sixteen years old
when he volunteered onboard an Eng-
war. where, however, he
Ittos or Inttml
There are 800,000 more women than
There was at Beechwood a rough fel- ine a dormer window ooeninsr out noon
. kj i v aw x
I low -one . J ack Casey whose native it. Tho window at which Bernie hung
be round again in time.
Even Charlie could not comprehend
why Henrique should fling himself on
his knees and cover his head in the bed
clothing. He did not know of that
lower deep in which the wretched boy
had been struggling during these last
hours.
" And Dr. Vose ? What do you sup
pose he'll do with us ?" asked Jack, an
hour later.
" As though I cared what he does to
me, if Bernie will only get up again,"
answered Rique.
And Bernie did " get up again." The
first time he went out, it was to be
wheeled in an invalid's chair up and
down the south verandah, with Hen
rique pushing him Henrique, into
whose face had come a new look. I
think it grew there during that night of
horror, and the day of thanksgiving
which had dawned after it.
" Of course Dr. Vose will expel Ra-
OaiU WXLL IUO YYU11U , UU lUC 1CBI
mon,
viliaee had become too hot to hold him. was iust at the angle of the main build- duary half replied, " Of course he
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been sent, as a last resort, to Dr. Vose.
He was an evil-faced fellew, with
high cheek bones, heavy brows, and
he coarsest black nair. It was Jack
whom Jiique drew into his room one
February evening, and shutting the
door, addressed,
" Jjook here, Jack, to-night s our
lme.
"For what?"
" Don't be a goose ! Time for sea
soning that young moon-calf, Apple-
on. The doctor s gone in town, and
Kit Banning with him.' They aren't
coming back till the ten o'clock train
o-morrow, so we re all right. It s just
he best kind of a night for our pur
pose, too. me thermometer is way
ing and the wing.
" Can t we bring a ladder ? asked
Jack.
" All fastened up in the barn. Be
sides, no ladder of Dr. Vose's is long
enough to reach this floor."
" There's but one way," said Charlie;
" I can go round and climb out that
dormer window, crawl along over the
eaves-trough, and nnhook the xope that
way."
" You 11 fall and break your neck.
" Give me two or three yards of this
rope to tie round my waist ; and al
ready Charlie had Rique s knife and
was cutting the rope. "Jack, come
with me ; Rique, you hold on to that
end."
O, what an age it seemed to Rique as
down to nowhere, and I tell you we can he stood there alone, grasping the rope
have one good haze.
"It's the old plan you spoke of,
Rique t
"Of course it is. I ve got the rope
ready. I brought it out of the barn
just now, before Tom locked up. All
you need to do is to get up and come
along when I scratch on the outside of
your door so. Eleven o'clock, sharp.
We must wait till Haston is asleep, and
the old lady and all the fellows.
Beechwood had been built for a fam
1 A 1
uy mansion. Aiierwards it was re-
modeled ior the school. There were
no large dormitories, but many small
rooms, and each one of the twenty pu
pils had his chamber to himself.
Away at the farthest end of the mam
building, opening off the hall, were two
bed-rooms. One of these was Kit s.
the other Bernie's. Tnis will show
why Rique had waited for Kit's absence
before carrying out his project.
Uernie was asleep, with his yellow
curls tossed about, and the moon shin
ing through the window upon his pil
low, A poor little kitten which he had
adopted was coiled up at his feet.
Suddenly a shake of the shoulder awak
ened him, and the child saw two figures
standing a, the side of the bed.
"iveep still, uon t scream u you
know what's good for yourself," said a
low voice. At the same time Bernie
felt a handkerchief bound tightly round
his mouth. " Here, now, slip on your
drawers and come along. It'll be the
worse ior you n you try to mate a
fuss."
Poor, little, shivering, frightened
child I ' More dead than alive, wonder
ing what it all meant, wondering if he
was ever to see his mother's face again,
he felt himself led by these muffled
figures out into the dim hall and up to
the open window.
Jake and Rique had disguised them
selves by means of hat-brims turned
down and coat-collars turned up. Ber
nie had no distant idea, save that .the
house had been attacked by robbers,
and all the rest killed.
But what were they doing to him ?
Ho saw a rope, and felt strong hands
binding it about his trembling body
and under tho arms. Then he felt
himself lifted to the window-ledge.
" jnow ue quiet, or youn get your
brains knocked out," said the taller of
the two, and the next instant the little,
delicate, lame, mother-loved boy was
tossed out of the window, and held
dangling in the terrible cold of that
February night between the heavens
and the earth.
The tormenters lowered the child and
raised him, lowered and raised again,
in this horrible see-saw of torture.
"Ding-dong,ding-dong," sang Rique,
under his breath; " Hope he's enjoy
iug this. Shouldn't wonder if his
white fingers got toughened a bit.
Look here, Bernie Appleton," extend
ing his head out into the night, " how
do you fancy it down there ? Having a
swing all for nothing, that's what you
are, my fine lad."
Jack put out his head and looked
down, too. No answer came up from
the child hanging bejow. It was a
bitter night. The very .stars had an
icy glitter. The moon was abou set
ting, and shone large and round across
the frozen lake.
"I say, Rique, it's fearfully cold.
You ain't afraid the young one '11 ' ;
. "Afraid? Bother! what's anybody
afraid of?"
"Nothing; only what if we should
haul him up a bit, and then let him
down again?"
'A11 right. Heave away, tnen.
There ! Why, pull, I say. Pull, why
don t you, Jack?
" I am pulling pulling as hard as I
can."
" So am I, and the rope don't give a
whit. What's the matter down there, I
wonder ? See here, Jack, there's
trouble" peering anxiously out and
down. "Here's a go I That miserable
rope is caught away down there, above
the first story, on the lightning-rod."
" You don't mean it ! What are
we ; - i ' f -
Jack stopped. The two boys stared
at each, other, through the shadows.
Then Rique exclaimed, "I know," and
bent forward again, speaking in a loud,
hoarse whisoer,
"Appleton I"
Only silence followed.
" Appleton I I Bay, Bernie ! you're
from whose other end was suspended
what ? A living or a dead child ? Was
he a murderer ?
" O, what a horror of trouble this
mischief has got me into 1" he cried to
himself.
Then he groaned. He grovelled on
his knees before the window. He dared
not think what the end might be, the
night with its fearful cold, the fright
Bernie must have gone through, .the
little fellow's delicate look.
"They say he has been sick so
much," thought wretched Henrique.
O, why didn 1 1 think of all this be
fore ? There, Charlie has got round."
Just across the angle formed by the
main building and the wing was the
dormer window, and out from it came
creeping cautiously Charlie's rather
heavy figure. The boy whom Rique
had called a " muff," was risking limb,
not to say life, in his effort to save
Bernie, and to shield his tormentors ;
for, of course, it would have been the
simplest thing to have aroused the fam
ily and told all. But that Charlie would
not do, even when he remembered how
Rique had abuse'd him.
Out upon the icy roof he crawled ;
on, little by little, where a misstep
would send him far down ; on to the
very edge of the roof, came the brave
boy.
O Charlie, do be careful," urged
Rique; and then, scarcely daring to
breathe, he watched until he saw the
shadowy arm outstretched, felt the
rope strain under his own grasp, and
then heard Charlie say,
" There, Rique, it's all right. Draw
him up."
All right ! Rique doubted that. The
rope to be sure was straightened, but
alas for that limp, motionless weight
at the end of it I
An instant, and the child's helpless
body was at the window ; the next,
Rique felt a strong grasp drawning him
backward, and a voice said, sternly,
"Leave him to me. Ramon, go to
your own room."
It was the doctor, who had come
home on the late train, and who had
reached his own house just in time to
witness the final movements of this
midnight torture.
" My own room ? O, Dr. Vose, can't
I wait and see how Bernie is ?"
For reply Dr. Vose motioned with
one arm towards Henrique's chamber ;
with the other he clasped little Bernie
to his bosom, walking with him down
the dim halL
The house responded with the sound
of feet that went and came in haste.
Doors opened and shut. Across the
snow-waste of the plain a horse and
rider went rushing villageward. Then
they returned with one pressing hard
behind.
"It is the dostor," said Henrique to
himself.
Then he stolo out on the landing.
People were hurrying back and forth
in the lower hall. Presently two men
came out, and stood whispering just be
low him.
" Had the child been a robust child,"
said one of the two (" it is Dr. Farley,"
thought Rique), " the result might have
been different ; but the little fellow was
so delicate. With such a boy the fright
and the fearful cold could scarcely be
anything but fatal. Doesn't take much
to kill such a little fellow."
" Kill," fatal," "he was " These
fearful words, what did they mean ?
To Henrique only one thing murder !
He dragged himself back to his room,
shut the door, and locked himself in
there with the horror of great darkness
upon his' mind.
Hour after hour passed, and the
winter dawn looked in on a boy flung
prostrate along the floor, his eyes
dilated with terror and remorse. No
word of mine, no words of a far better
narrator, ever can can tell what that
night was to Henrique Ramon.
" Rique," came a whisper, with the
first ray of sunshine at the door.
" Rique, let me in."
'Well?" gasped Rique, in frozen
desperation, as Charlie faced him. The
wretched boy had risen to unfasten the
door, and now stood showing a
ghastly, scared face with a hunted look
in the eyes.
" Don't tell me ; I know."
" Can you hear him away up here ?
It is awfuL He thinks he's up in the
air, and can't get down again. Poor
ought to do it."
But Dr. Vose, after an hour's talk in
the library with Henrique the day after
the trouble, came to another decision.
As for Henrique himself, he scarcely
thought what was to come to him now
that he had been saved the worat
doom.
" I tell you, boys," he said, the first
time he went upon the play-ground,
"you may say what you please. You
can't any of you hate me worse than I
hate myself for this performance ; and
whatever you do, I ve made up my
mind about one thing. I wont have a
hand again in breaking in' small boys.
That's all.
Rique turned and was walking off,
his head bent down. A voice called,
" Ramon, I say." It was Charlie.
" Come back here. I, for one, am
ready to hush up, so long as you you've
said so much. Bygones are bygones,
and there s my hand on it..
The others came up and shook hands,
one by one, and Ramon- tore himself off
at last, to rush into the house and up
to Bernie's room, where he threw him
self down and whispered
" I could have gone through a good
flogging easier ; they were so kind."
" Some one else is kind ;" and Bernie
put out a little hand to stroke the black
curls, for the two were fast friends
now.
On the play-ground Bernie was never
seen without his "guardian," as the
boys said, close at hand.
were bygones " save
one was Rique's memory of that night
of horror, the other was Bernie s start
ing up sometimes in his sleep, and cry
ing out in terror, "Please let me down!
imagination and unsettle the mind or a
great many persons," who are alwiys
waiting for something to turn np.
Somehow there is a fascination in dig
ging gold directly from the earth in
stead of getting its equivalent by other
forms of labor. The effect of the re
ports from the Black Hills, therefore,
may be to create, especially in the
West, a new gold fever, which, like all
such diseases, must have its run. Rea
son and wholesome advice have little
power to check the malady when once
it has begun. Possibly they nay be
of use in preventing it.
To those, therefore, who contemplate
an immediate rush to the Black Hills
gold district, let me administer a friend
ly caution, based on two or three con
siderations. First, that the coup try is
the recognized home of powerful bands
of hostile Indians, who nave sworn to
repel any intrusion of the white man.
This country is a part of their reserva
tion. Until it is purchased from them
by the Government they have a prior
claim and a perfect right to protect it.
Be assured that they will do it. That
they have not met
present expedition is
argument. They were informed of its
object, which was not to settle but
simply to explore. They knew also its
great strength, and feared an encoun
ter. Small parties of whites entering
the Hills in defiance of the red man's
right, as well as the laws of the Gov
ernment, would find themselves be
tween two fires, and would be pretty
sure to be burnt by one of them. The
scalp-dance is a favorite pastime of the
oioux, and a lew unprotected miners
might easily afford them material for
una sport.
Secondly, though I have no reason
to doubt the truthfulness and skill of
our miners, and the correctness of their
reports as to the extent and value of
the gold field, yet it must be remem
bered that the yielding area, so far as
determined, is not great ; nor can it be
said with any certainty how long it
would last. The results thus far,
though promising and satisfactory,
have still been local and superficial. It
would not be surprising if the field
should provo both extensive and rich.
But only further exploration and ex
periment can establish the fact. Those
who seek the Hills only for gold must
be prepared to take their chances. Let
the over-confident study the history of
Pike's Peak. The Black Hills, too. are
men in England,
A California hotel haa waUr tanks ia
the attic, and ia proposing to cultivate
flh there in sufflcieai quantity to sup-
agusted with the severity ply boarders.
discipline, and deserted. The iy fop aaked hia physician what
of the
scene which impelled him to take this
course - was the "flogging round the
fleet" of a deserter.
The poor fellow had been impressed
and torn from his wife and children.
He had daertcd. and, when recaptured,
he struck the officer who took Liza. The
merciful sentence of the court-martial
was that he should receive twelve lashes
at each vessel in the fleet. A boat from
each vessel attended the execution, and
Mr. Buckingham was in one of these.
He says : " The prisoner was in the
launch, one of the largest boats of his
own shiD. in the center ox which was
Km Mnti.Mii Lh best size lor a man.
Exercise P exclaimed the sturdy dii
ciple of Eeculapias.
A Roman Catholio priett of Darm
stadt, Germany, Las been sentenced to
eight days' imprisonment for introduc
ing politics into the pulpit,
"Grandma, why don't yon keep a
servant any longer ?" " Well, yon see.
my child, I'm getting old now, and
can't take care of one, as I used to do,
yon know."
One-aixth of America's popnUtion of
fcbnnt M 000 000 it is said cannot read
7?ones not without ready-made monuments for
for tWO things ; thft mA7tvr1, ho roav Twrish in their
parks.
The Sea-Cow.
Both the Indian and St. Lucie rivers
Please don't drop me ! O, I'm falling, f116 lnaJa,n t- nver?
I'm falling !" of Florida are filled with a course, rank
grass, which takes root at a depth of
from twenty to thirty feet, and rises to
the surface. It is called menatee grass.
" He will not get over that foryears,'
Dr. Farrey said. "It was a fearful
shock. A little more and he would
have been unsettled for all time. A
narrow escape."
And this " narrow escape " was the!
first and last of hazing among the boys
at lieechwood. Youth s Companion,
erected a triangular framework.made of or write ; 5.000,000 out of a total school
population oi almost 13,aw,uaj receive
instruction,
A gentleman who landed from an
Erie express train in Brooklyn attracted
universal attentian by the magnincenco
of his diamond breast pin, ne was
supjoecd to be ahackman from Niagara
Quite a crop of carbuncles and malig
nant pustules) appeared at Varennea,
France, brought from the Beance in
sheepskins ; bnt they were stamped
out by iodine injections into the cellu
lar tissue.
It is reported that some people at
Port Henry, N. Y., use nitro-glycerina
for catching fUh. It kills everything
within fifty feet, and from fifty to seventy-five
pounds of fish are taken at a
single explosion.
The kicking to death mania has ex
tended to Ireland. A man named
Nolan, in the county of Meath, recently
received fatal injuries by being kicked
by some persons who are not yet fully
identified with the crime.
It is quite usual for a Colorado
farmer to be aroused in the night by
knock on the door, and it is quite usual
for him to open the door and shoot the
stranger before asking any questions.
The stranger is most always some one
who deserves killing.
Baz sine's bargain was apparently
made with a steamship company at
Genoa a gentleman and a lauy char
tered a little steamer for an excursion
along the littoral, with privilege totop
at any point for any time, to be paid at
so much a day.
They tell of an Admiral wife at
Newport who walked to church, and
found herself so stared at that she
thought there was something wrong
a boats ienii T . .8 T Tt.
last having the launch leit the cnurcn sue xouna vu
herself was walking.
Give a man the necessaries of life and
he wants the conveniences. Give him
the conveniences, and he craves for the
luxuries. Grant him the luxuries, and
he sighs for the elegancies. Let him
handspikes or poles. To this he was
fastened, by the arms being extended
upward and outward, and his wrists
bound tightly to the framework by
cords, his body being perfectly naked
to the waist.
"In this boat there were about a
dozen of his own shipmates, the officer
s aperin tending the punishment, a lieu
tenant of his own ship, and surgeon of
the same, whose duty it was to see that
and opposed the the punishment was kept short of in-
nothing in the liicting death.
" Ua reaching the leeward ship, ine
launch hauled alongside ; and at least
twenty boats, in one of which I was
stationed at the bow, clustered round
the vessel on the starboard side, a few
yards only from tho lsunch, so we
could see every lash that fell, and hear
every shriek and groan pf the sufferer.
" From the ship there descended an
officer, with two boatswains' mates, and
an assistant surgeon. The naked body
of the victim was exposed, and we heard
the order given: The prisoner was to
receive a dozen lashes from each ship.
Boatswains' mates do your duty 1'
"The strokes of the lash fell heavily,
and at what to me seemed long inter
vals (a minute between each at least).
The very first brought blood ; the suf
ferer restrained his utterance till about
the fifth or sixth ; but then the pent np
agony had vent in a shriek, enough to
rend a heart of stone.
" At the end of the first instalment of
a dozen lashes, the victim's back was
one mass of lacerated flesh and blood ;
and over this spread a blanket, which,
we were assured, was steeped in vine
gar and brine, as some said to augment
the suffering, as others contended, to
prevent mortification.
"The boats now all fell into line
each towing the one next behind her at
an interval of about
apart, and the
with the prisoner in tow, all pulling
against a stiff head wind to the ship
next in order to windward; occupying
from fifteen to twenty minutes.
" Here the same horrible scene was
repeated, and so onward till about ten
or twelve ships had been visited, there
Newspaper Advertising.
Whoever would be heard in a crowd
pleading his own cause, about his own
business and in his own interest, as
against all competition, must thrust
and push and squeeze and crowd until
ne has secured a position wherein he
is a little taller and more conspicuous
than his fellows.
The newspaper advertiser occupies a
similar situation. He knows that com
petition among business men has
everywhere shown the necessity of
keeping his name and occupation be
fore the public if he would secure the
largest success. It is acknowledged,
even by those who profess not to adver
tise, members of the learned profes
sions Who protest against the system as
being something unworthy of their
calling, but they too advertise in some
way ; they publish a book, and adver
tise that, write letters to the newspa
pers about the coming comet, or de
liver lectures, or do anything in fact to
keep their names before the public in a
manner that seems to them to be at
once dignified and effective.
But nowhere has the value of this ac
cessory to a successful business been
more fully recognized than in this
country. The active determination
with which men engage in all kinds of
commercial occupations has forced
them to see that publicity is essential
to success. It is this habit of the great
mass of the public to rush into print
that has made room for the business of
advertising agents, securing to the ad
vertiser the benefit of advice and skill
in a branch of business frequently in
volving large outlay, and requiring
great experience, discrimination, and
natural and acquired skill.
A Rapid Raise.
Captain Sutter, an ex-officer of
Charles X's. Swiss Guards, who had
been forced to emigrate in 1830, had
settled in California and founded a lit
tle colony, which he called " New Hel
vetia." In the year 1847, he entered
into a contract with a Mr. Marshall to
have a saw-mill built for him on a
branch of the Sacramento river. Dur
ing the progress of the work, a little
girl, the millwright's daughter, picked
up a shining yellow lump under the
mill race, and showed it to her father
as a pretty stone. Marshall took it to
because it is eaten by the wonderful
menatee or sea-cow. Florida is the
only spot on. the North American con
tinent where this animal is found. It
is amphibious and herbivorous, and
weighs from 800 to 2,000 pounds. It
suckles its young, and has a head like
a seal, a nose like a cow, flippers like a
sea-lion, and a tail like a whale. Such
is the description by those who have
seen it. pt immense strength, when
at bay it can easily knock a boat to
oieces. The body is powerfully built.
The bones are like iron, and the ribs
are short, thick, and heavy, and as
white as ivory. The menatee is very
shy. Once in a while one is shot.
Several have been netted. One was
captured a year ago and taken to Savan
nah alive, but it died within a few
months. The meat is eaten by the
people living on the upper Indian river,
and is said to be sweet and palatable.
Indians are extremely fond of it.
While on the way up from Lake
Worth, two men named Moore and
Hammond had a narrow escape from a
menatee. They were sailing at twilight
ia one of the sluggish and tortuous
lagoons leading to the Everglades.
While rounding an abrupt curve in a
mangrove swamp they startled a mena
tee. The monster was sleeping under
some low branches. Thinking, itself
cornered, it made a rush for the boat.
Fortunately the water was deep, and it
slipped under the bow. Its back, how
ever, scraped the keel, and the craft
was lifted from the water. The mena
tee lashed the waves with its tail, barely
missing the boat, and raised such a
swell that she half filled with water.
Two as pale-faced men as you ever
looked upon baled bar out and con
tinued their journey.
Years ago an Indian river hunter was
caught in a similar fix. The sky was
overcast and the night very dark. A
frightened menatee shattered his boat
and she went to the bottom. The hun
ter caught the boughs of the over
hanging mangroves and tried to pull
himself ashore, but was barred by a
network of roots. All night long he
clung to the mangroves. Clouds of
mosquitoes and sandflies surronnded
him and he suffered almost intolerable
tortures. At daylight he managed to
get into the swamp, and after incredi
ble hardships worked his way to a
point opposite Jupiter light, where he
made himself heard and was rescued.
being six or eight more to go to ; when hsve the elegancies, and he yearns for
the victim having several times fainted.
and his voice ceased to give forth either
shrieks or groans, he was reported, by
the surgeon to be incapable of bearing
any further infliction, and was ordered
the follies. Give him all together, and
he complains that he has been chested
both in price and quality of the articles.
An eight-hour man, on going home
stoop, reading a volume of
How's this T' he exclaimed.
to be rowed ashore to the hospital, be- I the other evening for his supper, found
fore reaching which he was discovered his wife sitting in her best clothes, on
to oe aeaa ; and some aeciarea mat no the front
had received the last heavy lashes on travels.
his body after the spirit had quitted its
earthly tenement."
Before the fleet sailed Mr. Bucking
ham deserted,and was fortunate enough
to escape re-capture, and its consequent
repetition of this disgusting and dis
graceful scene, with himself for the
principal actor.
Salient Points of Character.
The world generally takes men at I
their own apparent estimate of them
selves. Hence, modest men never at
tain the same consideration which bust-
Captain Sutter, who at once recognized ling, forward men i.o. It has not time
the precious metal, made careful in- or patience to inquire rigidly, and it is
vestigations and soon found that the I rartlv imcosed urxm and carried away
' i ar a, r ' -i. . , r
whole country, watered by the Sacra-1 by the man who vigorously claims its regard to classification ; they publish
Appearances Deceitful.
Landlords and waiters, who form
their estimate of men from looks and
clothing, deserve to fall into blunders
which mortify their self-conceit. A
capital case of this kind happened re
cently in Germany.
A stranger who arrived at Ragatz to
enjoy its healthful springs was heard
at the depot to inquire for a vehicle to
take him to some hotel. It was a gen
tleman advanced in age, plainly clad ;
in fact, his clothes discovered an un
usual simplicity. On his arm he bore
a traveling-gown, and his baggage was
by no means very extensive, lie had
been referred to the Ragatz hotel, but,
being somewhat absent-minded, he
mounted the omnibus of the Spring
hotel, at which place it left him.
The porter scrutinized him closely,
assigning him rooms on the third story.
Soon a waiter knocked and presented
the hotel register, in which the old gen
tleman signed his name and returned
him the book. The waiter read the
name, when, eyeing the guest at first
with surprise and then in doubt, he ran
forthwith to the proprietor of the hoteL
Having scarcely observed the name of
his guest he ran np stairs, and, enter
ing the room with a low bow, stam
mered some kind of an apology, saying
that the saloons of the entire first story
were at his disposal.
I thank you, my mend, answered
the stranger ; "I find myself very com
fortable here, indeed ; and, besides,
these rooms are cheaper.
Our host retreated, and the stranger,
who retained his rooms on the third
story, was a person of no leas conse
quence than General Field-Marshal
Moltke.
London 5ewipapers.
The D anbury man does not have an
exalted view of London daily newspa
pers, for in one of his letters he says :
They are rather alow concerns, are
these London dailies. They crowd
their advertisers into repulsive limits ;
they mix np their matter without any
"Where's my supper 7" "I dont
know," replied his wife. " I began to
get yonr breakfast at aix o'clock this
morning, and my eight hours ended at
two P. X."
Benito Sarona of Now Mexico, went
to Arizona, recently, and stolo two
horses. He was followed by three
frontiersmen. They overtook him,
bound him to a sapling, whipped him
till blood flowed, elit his trs, and left
him tied in the wilderness, A man
named Martinez released him, nd in
less than a week he stole Martinez's
saddle, but gratefully left Lis Lorse.
A bequest of 8150.000, made two
years ago by Dr. E. B. Johnson to es
tablish a charitable institution for col
ored people at New Bedford, Mass.,
has failed of its purpose by the fact
that one condition was that Lis daugh
ter should leave no heirs," when he
probably meant M no iarue. The
daughter has died without children,
but her mother ia her heir and geU the
property.
Mr. Higgin, Q. C, sitting as Assis
tant Judge at the Liverpool Assizes, on
August 14, sentenced ayoungJWigan
collier, named John Glover, who had
all but kicked to death an old man of
eighty-four, to ten years penal servi
tude. Mr. Higgin Lad consulted Mr.
Justice Archibald.who agreed with him
thxt a very heavy punishment was nec
esaary to put down this brutality in
Lancashire.
A disconsolate widow in' the west
ern part of New York 8tate,daugbter of
a former noted railroad officer, repairs
to the tomb of her husband every even
ing at sunset, enters the vault, and
seats herself in a chair formerly used
by the departed, where aha remains
sometimes several hours, always an
hour, and she has done this, with
scarcely an intermission, for two years
since her husband's death.
mento nver and its numerous tributa
ries, abounded in gold. San Francisco
was then a wretched village containing
400 inhabitants ; and in a few years the
population rose to 40,000 ; and it is now
a magnificent city, the capital of the
western world, the terminus of the
longest line of railway ever planned or
executed, and the rival ot New York in
the greatest contest of cities for the
seat of government of America, And
all this has been brought around in
twenty years by a few tons of gold.
regards. The world, also, never, has
two leading ideas about any man.
There is always a remarkable unity in
its conceptions of the characters of in
dividuals. If an historical person has
been cruel in a single degree he is set
down as cruel and nothing else, al
though he may have had many good
fualities, all not equally conspicuous,
f a literary man is industrious in a re
markable degree, the world speaks of
I him as only industrious, though he may
I be also very ingenious,
but a beggarly handful of American
news ; they report in full the most in
significant speeches ; they don't seem
to realize that there is such an attrac
tion as condensed news paragraphs
they issue no Sunday paper, and bnt
one or two havo a weeklj ; they ignore
agriculture and science, personals and
gossip ; they carefully exclude all
humor' and head-lines, and come to
their readers every week day, a sombre
and mournful spectacle that is most ex
asperating to behold.
Boarding Heme Spirits,
Milwaukee has a boarding "house
that, to ssy the least, is not a desirable
home for those who love quiet. Spir
its have taken possession, and create a
furious uproar. The phenomena have
been observed by many witnesses, and
are ox a various character. xgg.
sausages and eroekery-ware fly about in
the air indiscriminately A currant pie
took a walk anout the room, and then
deliberately burst into pieces, scatter
ing the crust and fruit over the room.
Stove-ware, diahea, sticks af wood,
pails and furniture seem suddenly im
bued with life, aadjperform furious an
tics. A domestic in the employ of
Mrs. Giddings, in whose house these
denonstrations occur, is a somnambu
list, and to her influence all the dis
turbances are attributed, When the Is
out of the house no manifestations oc
cur, but when she returns they com
mence with redoubled energy. Physi
cians and spiritual ists are ranch inter
ested in the case.