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SATfeM, C, JULY 25, 1878.
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PAT'S CRITICISM.
There's story that's old, .
But good If twice told.
Of a doctor of limited skill, i'
Who cured oeast and man.
On "a new-fangled" plan.
With the help of a stnmgaly-made pill.
On his portal of pir.e
Hung au elegant sign -. . .
Depicting a beautiful rill, :
And a lake where a sprite,'
W ith apparent delight,
Was'sporting in sweet dishabille.
. Tat McCarty one day, .
As he sauntered that way.
Stood and gazed at that iortal of pine,
Wlien the doctor with pride ' '
Stepiied up to his side, '.
Saying, "rat," how is that for a sign ?"
"'There's wan things" says Pat,
"Ye' ve lift out o' that.
Which, le Jabers, is quite a mistake :
It's trim and it's nate.
Hut to make it complate, .
Ye sliud have a foine buxd on the lake.V
"Ah 1 indeed ! pray, then, tell.
To make It look well,
What bird do you think It may lack?"
Says lat, "Of the same, ,
I've forgotten the name, '
Hut the song that he slugs Is 'quack', quack'.
THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER!
Spring ruled in earth and air ;
Thebreeze was soft and scented with the flowers ;
' 'Come, let us walk, re day away doth wear, 'T
My friend said suddenly 'nitd studious hours
"Whither I do notcare !",. , . .
Together fortli we set s
He led rue far along the river way
All blue with flowers that whisier "ne'er forget,"
And, when I spoke of turning, answered "Nay,
A little farther yet."
Amid the meadows green i -s v f
A frn-house nestled :a Ti4.uotvery far"-J ;
' My friend (ersuaded ' 'if you have not been
I'll take you ; on a farm the chances are
There'ssomething to be, seen." '
luce there my friend delayed ;
And I, half piqued, could seehis glance go round
Until it rested on a lingering;nvald, .
.Who looked at him, and then; uxn the ground.
And then retreat essayed. . -
Homeward our steps we turned :
"And who's the daniosel?" quoth I ; and he
"Why. nolMKly," and looked! with eyes that yearned
Tow ards where, alove us in Immensity,
Love's planet faintly burned.
WHO KNOWS?
have very
'It's nice this hot weather to
ittlft hair of onn'a -,,. t"
- v g vnui
"Don't scream so!" said noor mother.
ookine toward the Hunters' sid win
dows, i
As if the Hunters didn't know all about
my failing charms, and no doubt took an
inventory of them half vearlv to send
abroad to the eldest son, who had been
away in China these five yeais and more,
and would likely never come back again.
At least he had written to me to that effect
when he went away. ; 1 had the old letter
yet in a secret recess of that same old
bureau where lav the convenient switch
of hair.
Time was when I needed no curls shorn
from maidens across the seas or manufac
tured from home material. 1 had plenty
of my own. Jack Hunter c t one of them
oft with his penknife that night when we
parted. . i
"1 don t know," he said, savaselv.
"whether I most hate you or love you':
but I'll keen this to remember the cirl
who flirted and. fooled away the truest af-
lection a man ever had for a woman. '
He hacked the curl from my head with
his penknife, and looked at me as if he
was half tempted to do me further butch
ery; ana uou Knows i aian t care then it
he had drawn the knife across my throat;
I should not have resisted him
"Don't go, Jack!" I cried out at last,
holding the edge of his coat. Don't go,
anyway, so far as China; if you do, I shall
commence to dig a hole when you get
there. They say that China is right under
us, and I'll begin with a. little pick and
shovel as soon as we get news of your
arrival. Then you can begin on your
side, and we'll meet each other half-way."
He flung me from him with something
like an oath. "You would joke and laugh
over my grave," he said, and went away,
not to come back again.
Who would have believed it possible?
That the years could come and go, the
The birds made such a racket in the
honey suckle vine outside my window that
I couldn't sleep. The. moon was siill in
the sk, but a veiled yet luminous splen
dor in the east ; told that , the day was
breaking the day of June that began my
twenty-seventh year. . "When I say that I
was a woman, and add that I was unmar
ried, and, worst of all, that I had lost for
trood the requisite energy that held forth
any promise in that direction, it will na
turally be thought that I shall make but a
sorry " heroine; and it is Just because of
these discouraging facts that 1 want to jot
down this little experience of a day; as a
. son of consolation to that. suffering part of
my sex who have latent hopes, long lin
gering, unfulfilled, at times at the last
gasp, then flickering; up again with a
sickly tenacity most painful to contem
plate. But who knows what a day may
bring forth? "Who knows
I went about on tiptoe, not to awaken
mamma; and I took it as a pieceof ingrati
tude that when she came down to break
fast, and began to enjoy the toast I had so
nicely browned for her, and the egg I had
so nicely poached for her,' and to sniff the
fragrance of a bunch of honeysuckles that
I had scrambled for at the risk of a sprained
ankle and the cost of a shower of morning
dew upon my clean calico I thought it
mean of maihma to begin about that
church festival before ,the day had fairly
begun. ; '. i - ' :
"I'm so glad it's "fine weather, Jane,"
said mamma, with great urbanity of tone
and manner. -"J thought I'd get up early,
so that you' could reach the church in good
season; and I wouldn't waste any flowers
in the house, dear r-I'd keep them alitor
yotw tables'- . ; .' -
i-i4 "you,. know, yery well, mamma"ll re
' pfiecC ."'that I'm not" going, to have a tab e.
I've served my, apprenticeship at tables.
Long ago," when I was young and fair, I
wore 'White, with my hair curling about
' my. shoulders, and had the flower, table,
and enjoyed it. Later on, I put my - hair
up, and had a fancy table, and endured it
with great resignation. Last year I had
recourseHo a switch to eke out my scanty
locks, and was compelled reluctantly to
take the post-office. This year I sha'n't
have any thing in fict, mamma, I'm not
going to the festival.' ......
Mamma; pur down her bit of toast, and
turned absolutely pale.
"Not going to the festival!" she echoed,
mournfully. " ; i : ' ;
"No," mamma," I said, beginning al
ready to plead my case. "Can't I have
one birthday to myself? I'm twenty seven
years old to-day." . j
"Oh, hush, Jane," said my poor mother.
"You scream so, the Hunters next door
will hear you, and blurt it 11 over the
place. I'm not deaf. If you choose to
give up all chance of of society, and neg
lect your Christian duties, and refuse to
help the church along, why, of course, I
have nothing to say, orily I must in that
case go myself."
'Yor!" I cried. ' "You'll be sick for a
month afterward; you haven't been able
to do any thingof that kind for years."
"I know it, Jane; but if you refuse to do
these things, I must. I know I shall be
prostrated with- the heat, and my nerves
will, be shattered, and you are young and
strong, and still attractive enough to com
pete with any young lady . in the place,
and might, I verily believe, if you were
not so obstinate and headstrong, be sur
rounded and admired as you used to be,
; and you might, for my sake, Jane at least
attend these little entertainments."
y Mamma put her handkerchief to her
eyes, and I yielded; I groaned in flesh and
in spirit, but 1 yteklea. ? Alter i naa
tidied up the work, and settled mamma in
the cool shady sitting-room, upon her
favorite lounge, with a nice bookrftt her
hand, and a? palm-leaf fen close.: by fo
the day was growing hot I twisted up
my hair before the glass, with many a sour
mocking grimace; at the dark, thin, dis
contented face therein, , put on an ugly
brown lihen "dressj a calabash: of a hat,
and went off to the church.
My" mother looked after me with such
misery in her face that I called back to her
'I would wear something nice in the eve
ning. '
'Will yoiL. wear -s your rose-colored
crape?" pleaded mamina.
"Will I wear spangles, and jump
through a hoop??.' I said. "No, mamma;
I'll wear my black silk." , -
'And curl your hair?", she coaxed.
sweet summers bloom and fade, the heart
of the roses lose strength and fail and fall
sway, to come again as sweet, as strong,
as fresh as ever, and Jack, my Jack, never
come back to me? Yet he was not dead
nor wed. That was one good thing.
And he was out there among those women
with narrow eyes and stinted feet, and he
didn t as yet know a word of the language.
He was growing fat, he wro e home to lus
people next door, and bald, which didn't
matter on the top of his head so long as he
could keep enough to cultivate a pigtail.
This was necessary, as he meant to set up
for a Chinese mandarin, and was already
embroidering a grown for the purpose on
spare nights. And I felt, when they read
me the letter, that it was Jack s turn now
to make merry, when other hearts were
sick and sad.
If ne had only sent me one little line!
He showered gifis upon other people
chests of tea and parcels of silk, lovely bits
of decorated china, big soft beautiful
shawls of crape. He sent gew-gaws and
gold to so many others: if he had only
given me one little word!
They must have told him I had been
sorely punished; that my mischievous
gayety he had whined out like the name
of a candle; that even the be tuty of which
he had been so proud and fond was gone
every bit of it gone. Sleepless nights
and useless repinings, long wearisome
days endless years filled with wild yearn
ing forthat which seemed forever hopeless,
had robbed me of all. The old bloom of
the heart took with it the crimson cheek,
the laughing eye, and the light, elastic
step. Lven my hair fell out. Alas! poor
me, the flesb tell from my bones. As I
hinted before, it was not a very alluring
object that greeted me in the glass on the
morning of my twenty-seventh birthday.
"Aroint thee, witch! ' I cried, and wiped
away with the hand-towel some salt tears
that fell upon the dimity bureau cover, and
upon the grave of sad, sweet memories.
Then I put on my ugly brown dress, and
the hideous bonnet to match, and went off
to the church, pausing at the portal to look
longingly over at the cool, quiet graves of
some of our old neighbors. A soft wind
stirred the long grass there; a few birds
hopped lightly and fearlessly about.
"How calmly, calmly smile the dead
Who do not therefore grieve 5"
"The Yea of heaven is Yea," I said,
and went on into the church, where the
ladies were grouped around the strawber
ries that had just arrived. I took posses
sion of a whole crate of these, sending the
young and pretty maidens home to recruit
for the evening.
There were a few faint, polite remon
strances when I declined to take any active
part in the evening's entertainment. "We
must leave that part to the young and
attractive," I said, and there was a general
buzz of acquiescence, I had the con sola
tion of hearing several remarks uponf my
extraordinary good sense and practical
capability.
I was graciously allowed, after I had
hulled a whole crate of strawberries, to
hold a step-ladder and some nails for Mrs.
Smith, the apothecary's wife, while she
hung some gorgeous drapery, and other
wise deformed the cool gray walls of our
little chapel, so that I was pretty well
tired when I! went home at night-fall.
Mamma met me at the gate, and looked
at me so dolefully that I burst out laughing-
, .
"Never mind, mamma," I said; "I
won't look so cadaverous after I'm rested
and dressed for the evening."
But I'm afraid I was rather a painful
object for the gaze of a doting and once
ambitious mother even when I had donned
my black silk, and was ready for the eve
ning. My hair was neither crimped nor
curled. You" see, I had depended upon
the switch, which was bought for purposes
of that kind, and failed me ignominiously
at the last moment. My head ached, and
I could not bear many hair-pins thrust
into my scalp; in no other way would the
obstinate thing be induced to stay on.
Mamma was heart-broken, and I was dis
appointed; but even inanimate articles
become perverse at times. I thought per
haps the switch was grieving over a
beloved and lost head of which it was once
part and parcel, and I forgave it, and left
it to its perverseness from that time on
ward. When I reached the church I was im
mediately seized upon for something they
called "the grocery counter" an innova
tion brought about by the advent of a
well-to-do grocer in our midst, a widower,
a stock-raiser, and a man afflicted with
many maladies, of which he loved to talk.
He had generously sent down from the
city, in pound packages and tin cans, sam
ples of his available goods, and had pro
posed this "grocery counter" to the young
ladies, which they despised and would
Lave none of. The grocer himself found
favor in their sight They flitted about
him, filled his button-holes with bouquets.
in his face, and tried to talk to him, poor
children! as best they could. But they
appealed to me to take the ugly counter,
with its sordid pound packages for home
necessity, and I took it with an ill-concealed
avidity, i The truth was, a kind of
heart-sickness seized me when I thought
that the evening must be passed in making
myself generally agreeable, and I felt that
to wander about this place, distorted out
of its sweet savor of godliness and quiet
Sabbath rest so dear to a weary soul to
wander about among the flags and wreaths
and tents and arbors, with a smile for one,
a nod for another was like the protracted
and agonizing pilgrimage of a lost soul
beyond the borders of the Styx.
So J speedily put myself behind the
counter, which comfortably hid more than
half my tall, gaunt figure, and was so glad
of the shelter that I found myself becom
ing interested in these despised parcels
piled up before me. I determined, ifl
could, to make, my mission a success, o
that l and other jtoor weary women might
have this refuge to fly to in these gala
seasons of misery.
The successful grocer, who had not been
very well pleased with the open ingrati
tule for his bequest, look h 'art and
brightened up when he saw me giving an
air of smartness to his goods. He ex
tricated himself from a bevy of young and
fair ones, and came generously over to help
me. In sheer gratitude I legun to praise
his young colt that was pasturing in a field
adjoining our- garden, and he remained
with me. Shortly after, when he found
that a queer feeling in his head agreed
with the same discomfort in my own poor
cranium, he brought a chair behind the
counter, and in a low tender voice he
detailed to me the interesting diagnosis of
his pel malady.
On the other side of me the minister's
son. who was home from college, and suf
fering from that period of egotism which
Comes to young men of his kind, remained
during the eulire eveniug, to show his
contempt for; the young, the fair, the
frivolous. A few old married friends,
whose wives were sick or away, hovered
about the grocery counter, so that it really
did happeu that I was surrounded by men.
The evening was passiug pleasantly
enough. My dark corner was well
patronized, and every woman who has to
do with church entertainments will under
stand my gratification and relief when I
found it was nearly ten o'clock and all
was well. At this time a letter was put
into my hand by one of the little post-
office messengers we always made a fea
ture of the post office at our festivals, where
pink and parti-colored missives, with
doves and otherj doting designs upon the
envelopes, were distributed at extravagant
rates of postage. I had just been favored
with a liberal offer from a customer, and,
elated with my bargain, proceeded to put
up my bundles, not giving much heed to
the love-letter from the neighboring booth.
Truth to say I felt a little tingling of the
blood as the idea of the mockery that
might be concealed therein by one of those
witty village! youths, and the letter lay
there for a fulfhalf hour, when somebody
said, in the most commonplace way.
"So Jack Hunter is back from China."
In a moment every thing was black be
fore me. 1 dropped my hands and my
eyes to the counter, and when this sudden
dizziness was gone, I saw upon the little
tawdry envelope Jack's scrawling hand
writing. Here was the little line 1 had
coveted all these years, and this is what
my half-bunded eyes made out:
"I came home because 1 was mad to see
you because all these years, and your old
perfidy, couldn't kill my love for you. 1
find you just as I expected to, in a space
small enough to be tilled outside and in
side with men. You are as beautiful
and fascinating as ever, and as fond of ad
miration. I hear that you are about to be
married to the grocer ; your elbow, who
so engrosses your attention that you do
not care to look at the passers-by. God
help him, and God bless you! I have had
my lesson. Now I shall, perhaps, be
satisfied. Good-by."
Five minutes after that I was running
home, without my hat, and with his note
crumbled up in my hand. The people at
the festival no doubt thought that mamma
was taken suddenly ill. They could not
have fancied I was running after Jack,
because he, had been there at the church
for an hour, and I had been totally un
conscious of his presence. Dear Heaven
how could it be that 1 didn't know, that
something didn't tell me, that 1 didn't fu
he was near me?
But I didn't I went on talking to the
grocer about a remarkable operation for
an ulcer that he had undergone, when
Jack must have been only a few rods
away! 1 ran down the road, my heart in
my throat Fortunately the village street
was deserted. - Every man, woman, and
child were, at the festival, except those
who could' not be out at all; so I ran on
unchecked, a dim fear gaining weight
with me that Jack had not unpacked his
trunk, and was off for China again within
the hour. But when I reached his house,
which was next door to my own, I saw
him sitting out on the balcony smoking a
cigar, with his feet perched upon the rail
ing. But his face grew very pale in the
moonlight and his feet clattered quickly
down upon the porch when he saw me
run in at the gate. The cigar fell from
his lips, the ashes tumbling over his broad
white waist-coat
"Why, thank God," he said, "this must
be my own dear little girl. Now, see here,
Jenny," he began, scolding, a minute
after; but he kept tight hold of me, and
trembled fully as much with happiness as
I did. !
Nothing can persuade him that I am not
a desperate flirt, as beautiful as an angel,
and irresistibly fascinating.' I have not
the' least doubt that half the village are
laughing at Jack's ridiculous devotion and
jealousy; but the well meant endeavors of
his friends and lamtly to convince nim
that I am a plain,' faded, unattractive, and
neglected old maid he laughs to scorn as
conspiracy of envy or jealousy. And how
can 1 wonder at his delusion? Mamma
says Jack lias terribly aged during these
years of loneliness, and exile, and looks
older and not so comely as our neighbor
the grocer; but to me he is still the hand
some, alluring, in every way adorable
Jack. He is walking up and down the
little balcony next door at this present
moment and, hidden by our odorous
honeysuckle vine, I am listening to him
trill out the last words of his favorite bal
lad: "So girls be tru while your lover's away, '
For a cloudy morning, for a cloudy m o o ruing
Oft prove a pleasant day."
EDUCATION IN INDIA,
DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAT OF TEACH
ING THE YOUXO IDEA. ;
The young idea Is not very easily
taught how to shoot in British India,
where the alphabet presents vexation
of spirit undreamed of in the philoso
phy of the European or American
schooT-boy. The immense assortment
of simple and conjunct letters requires
the Uife of five hundred dUtinct types in
print ing the most ordinary Sanskrit
book, while the complicated symbols
employed even for the dialects in ever)'
day use surround tlie process of learn
ing to read with a thorn fence, so to
sieak, bristling with crooked strokes
and tortuous lines. .The art of reading
alone requires the toil and practice of u
hoary scholar for its ierfect mastery.
"Writing about the facts of Indian Pro-,
gress in a recent - number of the Co
temporary JlevUicy I'rof. Moniex Wil
liams holds mat one of the first reforms
necessary for the spread of education
among the Indian subjects of the Bri
tish Empress is tlit application of the
llomau alphabet to the Jmliau vernacu
lar, an experiment which seems feasible
enough from the recent succtsful em
ployment of the 1 Ionian letters, supple
mented by dots and accents in the
printing of Suiu-krit books. Since
talking is so easy and reading Is so
hard in that country, it is not strange
that the women there have a supreme
contempt for learning, and hold a know
ledge of reading and writing to be an
unwomanly accomplishment. This
prejudice, however, has been gradually
wearing away under the influence of
the British government and of mis
sionaries in the cause of education.
Sixty years ago it was estimated that
of forty million Hindoo females, only
four hundred could read or write. In
1872, out of aliout 1,1U0,U00 children in
government and nou - government
schools of all kinds, fU,0UO were girls
Still the demand for female education
is mainly restricted to the lower classes
and most of those who attend the
schools leave them with very little
learning, since they quit school to be
come wives at ten or twelve years of
age. Male education, on the other
hand, h:is, as yet, not extended beyond
the aristocratic classes of the population.
THE MONEY OF OUR FATHERS.
The expression of "A bit piece" is
often heard in t lie southwestern section
of the United States, where the term is
used to indicate the value of twelve and
a half cents. For example, a huckster
tells you his price for a melon'is "two
bits" (quarter of a dollar), "four bits"
(half dolIar),or "six bits" (seventy-five
tents). It is seldom used in estimating
any other fractional ivirts of currency;
that is; we never hear the term three
bits, or five bits, or seven bits; but "a
bit apiece," or "a bit a van!" is used
constantly in making sales, purchases
and estimates.
During many years, the word "bit"
was a provincialism, ' the same as a
"York shilling," in New York State,
or a "levy" in IVnnsylvania. It doubt
less originated in the English name of
eleven-ienny bit, as applied to the
Sinish,or old style carol us or pillar
shilling, which was once in common
use in the States, long after they ceased
to be colonies. In many tortious of
New York State, rennsyivania, and
some of the Western States, the terms,
"levenpenny bit,' or levy (value twelve
and a half cents), and tippenny bit, or
lip (value six and a fourth cents), are
often used in reckoning. In the south
west eleven-ienny bit became contracted
into the word bit, and is now more
commonly used than the name shilling
was in the olden time.! The coin, how
ever, to which it refers has almost
ceased to circulate, and sjecimens are
seldom seen, except in numismatic col
lections. The fact that the silver in a
lerfect bit is worth at le;ist twelve or
more cents, but does not iwss for more
than ten cents, has caused them to be
that white people made a temporary couldn't stand. History says that tl
auoue wun me Indians, and had the I Scotch bra was 1UAMJ and the Enrlish
head of the lodge of which they 1-ecame
nominal members certify to their bogus
claim, and thus secure a large si tare of
the iiayments. After the lists were
given, to the agents, the amounts of
money due to each representative were
placed in convenient piles on tables.
Tlie Indians stood iu line, and when
the Individual name of each was called,
be took his pile of shiners, swooped
them into a blanket, twisted the cor
ners together, flung the load ou his
kick and retired to distribute the
shares to those w ho were entitled to
them. .
Tlie bucks (warriors) then gave to
eacn squaw a few dollars, with which
they purchased ornaments, gewgaws,
and other articles of dress and useful
ness tluit were brought to the agencies
for 'sale by hordes of traders, thieves,
gamblers and swindlers of every class,
who swarmed about the osts at t-uch
times. Many of the shrewdest and
most prudent of the squaws, old braves,
and children, upon receiving their
shares, immediately departed and hid
away ia the distant fastnesses, where
their lodges were located.
After the bucks liad received their
Iiy and presents, and had provided tlie
squaws with allowances they deliber
ately proceeded to indulge in a gaming
spree and drunken debauchery, tlai
was concluded only when they were
fleeced out of every dollar they had,
after which they returned ltome in a
worse condition of degradation than
before they came to the agency. Thou
sands of these cut coins were taken
away by the agency thieves and carried
to the towns, cities, and countries, far
away from their normal scene of circu
lation. . 11 Itagki in ikribner for
July.
2U. History lira, probably. The Go
vernment Uld the lop!e wliat to be
lieve. If they did .as they were tohL
they must ay taxes for their ldief.
If tliey didn't do st, tliey were rrcistrl.
Things were ml hot. Someloly told
stories about the Protector, and so he
wai taken to the Tower and had his
head chopped off. It was not much of
a head, but he hated to part with it.
Then there was a rUing of common
lop!e, but they did not know what
lor. Most of them got ra on to
trees with ropes around tlwir necks.
Some very fat men were burned, thus
making light or vntir complaints. .Nu
I iruess it H time for the little King to
die He was only sixteen when I
rave up the crown and the ehosL Eng
land is not yet dr.; sq I cannot finish
the history yet. Finis. Erie Uazrtte.
ALFONSO AND MERCEDES.
"There's a whole switch already curled
for nie up in my bureau drawer," I replied. his pockets with bonbons; they looked up
Street boys in Landon get arrested
for " playing at Turks and Russians,"
which seems to involve some hearty
fightiug.
melted and assayed into modern coins
and used for other purposes.
There is one form of bit, which was
once in common use in the South and
West, which lias disappeared so com
pletely that my earnest and irsistent
efforts have not enabled me to secure a
siecimeu, or find one in any of the nu
merous collections which 1 have exam
ined. In the early part of this century, nd
up to about thirty years ago, the form
of bit to which I refer was made by
cutting a Carolus silver dollar into
eight pieces, or a half dollar into four
pieces, which were triangular or wedge
shaped, and had a recognized value of
twelve and a half cents each, in United
Ufntiui jl..rriMiAW A 1 -i t ol- tiurliwl
American coins were cut and circulated
in the same manner.
Tlie use of this kind of coin arose
from the scarcity of small change, in
frontier countries, and especially about
the government agencies. When an
Indian or trader wanted change of a
smaller denomination than a half dol
lar, he placed a coin on an anvil or
stone, and, with a tomahawk, cut a
dollar into eight pieces, with which he
met the emergency and the demands
made on his exchequer.
These wedge-shaped bits were freely
used as a circulating medium, and I
saw them in use until about the year
lto0, when the decimal currency of ten
and five cent pieces hurried them out
of sight. Their inconvenient shape,
rough edges, ragged points and cutting
corners made them very objectionable,
and they soon fell out of use.
Tlie method by which these bits were
forced into circulation and used as
money will be best understood from a
description of distribution or pay day
at an Indian agency. At such eriods
the tribes were paid exclusively in sil
ver dollars and half dollars, large quan
tities of which were sent to the stations
and posts for this purpose. I have
seen at an agency several wagon loads
of silver coins used to make one regular
payment. !
On these occasions the heads of fami
lies made up in regular form scliedules
of the members, and these were certi
fied to by the chief and the sums paid
by the disbursing; agent. It often oc
curred then, as at the present time,
A WESTERN WOMAN'S PLUCK.
her rnosrERors career as a ne-
URASKA HERDER.
A letter from Chicago to the Madison
(Wis.,) Journal contains the follow
ing: Six years ago a gentleman who had
been a war governor of an upper Mis
sissippi state, was afterward tniubter
to a European court, andsulnequently,
at the head of one of the most import
ant departments of the government,
and a member of the national cabinet,
died, leaving a wife from $ir,tj to
J-M.UUO, and Ihis mainly in au unpro
ductive homestead in southern New
York. Through the advice of a atij
losid friend of her husband, this lady
was induced to sell her property ami
put the proceeds in a herd of cattle in
soutkwest Nebraska. She came out to
look after her investment, and finding
the condition of the herd unsatisfac
tory, assumed f 13,tU) dollars of liabil
ities, and luught out and took the man
agement into her own liands. In a
few months the herd was in a good and
thriving condition. But at the same
time she found herself suffering from
lecunlary embarrassment, and apt,-aled
to her eastern friends for aid. They
looked upon her-venture as a visionary
one, and declined to assist her, but ad
vised her to give it up, save wliat she
could from" the wreck, and return to
them. She did not believe there wm
any such word as fail, and applied tier
self all the more diligently to her busi
ness. She rode to the herd every day,
except Sundays, sometinu in a buggy,
but generally on horseback 1G miles
each way and gave the most minute
instructions to her men. Her troubles
she kept entirely to herself. Her help
or her neighbors did not know but slw
had a bunk to draw upon for all the
money she needed.
" At the end of the year she nent for
the father of her late partner, and Uwy
divided the herd equally and settled,
with a loss to her of over $3,UO. which
she aid to get the partnership dis
solved. She then borrowed o) to
enable her to paj some small debts,
and make some improvement in buil
dings, and start afresh, entirely disem
barrassed. 44 At the present time her liabilities
are only $3,UU0. She has a herd of over
l,uxi head of cattle, lias an abundance
of conveniences for them, and no stock
farm or range within lUU miles is pro
vided with as good l urns, sheds, corrals,
and ranges, for cattle. Her herd is
IXC1DEXTSOF A CALL TIT M)MK AME
RICAN VISITOR. A (OIU)IAL WEL
COME AMI rXCUXVKNTlOXAL
TREATMENT.
The following extracts ar from a
letter frotn an Americau in Spain, who
paid a visit to King Alfonso and hw
wife a short time before the sad death
of the young Queen :
"Turning to tlie right there were
two figures standing in the doorwav
Alfonso and Mercedes. They Uu h
shook hands with in. and he seated
Aunt M. by him, while she rave me a
clatr beside her. At first 1 did not
think ler very pretty, but as I watched
her talk I changed my mind. She
dressed in an Indian silk, very idtuple.
It was cut Muar neck, with a muslin
tucker imdde. Around her jeck was a
garnet-colored velvet, with gold lads
on it. She wore gold ear-rings, and
her hair which is black was simtfv
braided, and had one or two gold pins
in it ; white stockings and go. J com
fortable, large slippers ; no glove. He
wore a black frock ct, lrownuh
trousers, and a dark blue scarf, with a
ring on It of gold, a snake with a tiny
diamond heatL We talked on various
subjects, lie speaks English a littK
and so does she, but neither of them
like to. While he was talking, the
Queen sat and looked at him as if hi
words were diamonds. SIm was con
stantly opening and shutting her fan,
which is the way all S.unish women d w
The room was a small one. I cannot
tell wlat was in it, except some very
pretty pictures. We commenced talk
ing about the gallery here. He, it
serins. Is interested in paintings; I
everything, in fact. When Aunt men
tioned muue Stunidi art bis w!mm
works she lud hod to s, he juml
up, saying : There Is one of his ; and
then he sliowed her all the pictures in
the room, telling the names of tlie ar
tits. He found we were interested in
i-irccUin, pictures and Ut-try. and so
took us from oue thing to another, ex
plaining the merits of various tables,
chandeliers, pictures, and cabinet.
The Queen followed. miU n and an x hnis
to pica.. It was like calling on some
very cordial neighbors in the country.
The King explained things to Aunt,
and then came lack and explained
again to ns. We went first from the
little room we were in into one fur
nished in blue satin light. There were
all sorts of little knickknacks In all the
rooms, and lovely pictures. From the
blue room we pastwl into a music mom.
There was a grand piano with a cover
of black satin. There was a taUe
covered with fresh flowers. As the
Queen and I paw-d she went to it and
pulled me a big bunch of Marecha
NIel ro. The others had gotten on
aliead ; but w:en saw my flowers
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TIjc antidote of tpiam is mflee. .
No l.ie-lall c!ul in (iermsiry.
Tlie magnet J the jower to
kill small IievtU and pUnts. '.s
An unusual amount of flat will
this year 1 raised in tlmVrprS, j
You should forgive many this; In
others, bat nulling in yours If. ; a
Tlx-re U but one thing that U sure
here on earth, and that is death. !
The Iwauty of the emerald Is l--t
by an exrure to strong sunlight.
He titat ly the plow would thrive,
hituarlf must eillter Ix4d or drive
The weakest spot in every nun it
win-re lie thinks him If lire wimt,
All sorrow and Joys ate lct
temporary, so aim higher than tlirm.
He that cannot l-ar with lotlr
'plea icuaions, cannot govern Li
own. .
Arijr UliVeafiill-liot bore, wlio,
lMi;g allotted his way, slf-mttJe tins
him.
Have one ett!M purpose fa life,
and if it be honor! je it will brirg y ou
reward. J
Mommen l In Italy, conr.f.etln?
his historical and arcldioloicjJ iatei
gat ions
Think not of faults committed In
theuAt, when one lias reform! his
conluct. j
lie severe to yourself, and in lul-
gvnt to others; you thus avoia au re
sentment.
Man believes hintwlf always greater
tlian be U, and Is tn ail "lm ttian
lie is w orth.
Wliat I desire that oilier sJt"uM
not do to me, 1 equally desire, toot to
do to tltem.
Wisconsin lias W,f rr-s
land which haTe never lm broken
felt Ue plow.
All nature U but art unknown
of
r
to
direction which UhU
!
thee ; all cliance
cans't not are.
Over 4Vn tulips were In 14vm
at one time In tlie ILon public garden
tlie t.tlier day. j
If lou listen talk nil J to calumny.
you are only a tmle Icjm guilly tlan tin-
actual calumniator.
he a&ked me to give him one. where
upon she rushed Uuk and got him a
pink rone. Next to the music-room
came one lurtiUbed lu tapestry. All
along outside tltese rooms ran a covered
terrace, on which were fresh flowers
growing, wi uie Litry room we
E"-ven foreign jnimals luve aj
Iared in Japan, if which leu are Eng
lish, and one Ervwlu j
There are many m-n wboe tongue
might govrrn muUiludea, if lie-yrouU
govern their tongu. f
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Wliat Is neoKMary to make one fr
laring? A great iW-al of pl stf
joined to a Itltle pity.
If anrvr Is not rwdrainM, it l '
fmpicntly more hurtful to us tlian ibe
Injury tliat provoke it. j
When tle sun of virtu U rt. tlie
Mush tf jdiaiue is the twilighLj When
that die, all is darknrv. j
Tlie manner In which a command
Isolvyrtl U f more imiitaice titan
the mere fu'Jilmrtit of it. j
Hall fights have jut ln Intro
duced fnun Sjialn to Maixrillrs Fraor
and attract Immens crowd, j
The silver wedding of Hie King
and Queen of IVUictu l U b cele
brated on tlie 2 of August,
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Of the 41 yonnggir!wbi were ajw
iilicatits for admisMon to llbi
.at in S1k4 for liirU, I tit oe faiJM
to ulss examination. j
A genlns In Vermont ha si floating
saw-mill, wntcn lie scuis aiong i.
Champlain, doing a good tusinras with
the farmers along the tanks.
Parisians are tired of l ing Heir
ujcket-handkerchiefs at the wash, and
turned a comer, and, to my amazement, I now they have their pboUtgraphs eie-
waikea into the Queen's Lrd-ruom.
The Kng apologized, but be wanted to
clearing over fi,0UJ a year, and con
stantly increasing iu size. At a railway
station where she resides, she has a
farm of 140 acres, on which are a good
dwelling, barns, sheds, cheese factory,
corral, etc, in perfect order. The farm
is all under fence; she buys all lumber
used herself, and has every improve
ment, large and small, made under her
own ey e, and as she directs. In truth,
she is her own superintendent, ami
personally looks after everything both
on the farm and at the cattle rauche.
At the ranch she has a comforlaMe
house, which she occupies when her
business confines her there. She visits
the ranch about five times a week, gen
erally on horseback, and goes and re
turns the same day. No business man
in Nebraska is a better credit than this
enterprising and excellent lady."
A BOrS HISTORY COMPOSITION.
EUWARI) VI. ENGLAND.
Henry VI. died one day with great
success, lie leu tnree cmiaren wno
did not care to go with him. Their
names were Mary, Ellzal-th and Ed
ward. Tlie bust was tlie 'Ed of the
family. He was a boy. Ills sisters
were not. Their father also left a Will.
His will was stronger than all Ids chil
dren. By will Karl Hertford was to
boss the State while Edward was young.
Hertford loved the glass so much that
lie became a tumbler, and was called
the Duke of Summerset. He wanted
the King to take the Queen (of Scot
land), but the trick was lost because
the Scotch refused to assist. Tlie Duke
was called the Protector because he
protected his own family and put every
body else away In the Tower. The
border men of England and Scotland
were those who boarded on tlte frontier
and bored each other almost to death ;
so they liad a fight about Edward mar
rying their Quern. The English at
tacked them by water; which they
show us a chandelier in her bath-room.
wnich ojneU out of Ue bed-room.
The chamber was f umUhnl in pink cre
tonne, and tlie walls were hung Willi
the same. There was a cover on tlie
bud of pink cretonne, and a canopy
over it ; a sofa by the side of the fire
place, and a rug of fur or feather in
front of it. The bath-room had a mar
ble tub and a big ash-basin. A toilet
table stood between tlie windows, with
vases of rosea in it. The chandelier
which he spoke of was beautiful. It Is
of glass SpunUh work. The King
kept saying, 1 don't show you that, be
cause it is not Spanish, pointing to
Sevres, or Chinese, or some article. In
the tapestry room was the Quern's
work-lusket. She was knitting some
thing in ugly brown. In order the
letter to show us some pictures site
opened a window and some shutters.
We returned to the room we went into
first, the King apologizing all the time
for leading us about so, and descanting
on different objects as they haiinM
to come before bis eyea. Then carpets
next took his attention. He ushered
us out another way, ami bowed us.
with pride, a room lie had crmstrrrted
where there used to be a staircase and
two rooms. Everything but the lea
ther on the walls was Sjaih. Tlie
chairs are of beautif ully-carved wood.
covered In red velvet, embroidered in
gold and dark colors. The curtains are
of the same, and there are curtains at
all tlie doors. The carpets were Span
ish and very beautiful, ami, as tbeKiog
told roe very confidentially, they were
very cheap. The carpels in the two
rooms we next entered were perfectly
exquisite, tl colors were so fresh and
delicate; tlie King said they would
wear forever. Next to this room was
the King's study, a small room, with
some lovely little terra cot la figures
from Grenada in it. and some amethyst
roam and this leautiful carpet. There
was a writing table and ever so many
books. From this ojned another bd
room and another, remark aUe carpet.
We went back to our starting place
and took our leave, baring staid nearly
an hour.
ruled in tlie centre of each.
A oartv of English engineers and
mining managers are I ay lug a visit to
the coal fields of tlie North ef Kranoe,
tbHr ot-ject being to examine tl gw-l-r-lcal
trala and ascertain whether
the coal bnl l not the conti&ualmn of
that in Simersetahire. S i
It Is announced that Mr. Tlawrn
ha found at Nin-veh, itnlMM In a '
wall of the palace fcf Aur-iUtil-Ialo,
a round clay cylinder dlvVlrd Into ti .
compartments, and containing nmrly
1.3 J line of Cue Inscription. What
the lu-riptkn mean ha yet to I de
terra ineL i
The recent growth of I'aris U ia
mnarkaUe contract w i:h former j ear. .
lathe reign of Henry II., Curing th
sixtemlh century, it contained about
U.'iM hou-a. About 5W fear UtT. ,
in IT the number had only incrra.l
to ZHQh In aner a u;e i
forty-four years, tbre are IWZll. "
TtoJdwin Smith says thai it l most J,
prohuble that the private buildings ef
H-jiue under the king were roof! ;
with nothing letter than shinsle, and t
it is very likely thai they -re mean
and dirty, as the rivate UilMing of
Allien appear to have borrt. and a
Uu of most of the great cils of the :
Middle Ages unquestionably were.
A curious scene recently occurred
during the proloction of a new 4rx
at a IWlln theatre. The prologue
opened tn the box at the risht of ttw
stag, in whkh a humber of actor
quietly ensconced thcmsrltcs btiore
tlie performance b-gan. Pmwt.iiy a
comic actor ajp-ared anj ordered tbta
to vacate; tlry refund and a fry war
of words foUowed. which oaght to
have bren mJnl by another artor.
dnwd as police o5ctT, coming up and
turning them out. On lte night in
question a green rl Iceman, who had
never swti the play, danced to I In
charge of the house, and, hearing tlie
vociferous crk and tuj posing the
wb4e thing to be In earnest, he a!i
anlly roM to the !r and tumKM
the actors out. Deck and heels, l-fore
th matter could l eipUined to his
comprehension.
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