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Oh. weary days and nighta bo stUl, so stiU ,
The useless sails hang flapping stiff and slow j
We pine and chafe, and set our helpless will t
In yain revolt at what to change, to know, 1
la not for us. We hear the strong winds blow;
And fret as in the east, the west we see
Oreat ships and small go sailing fast and free,
" " j , ADRIFT. .
Oh fearful days and nights, so "Hark, so cold
The swift waves mock and leap on every side ;
No rudder steers ; no mast, no spar can hold ;
We think no one could hear us if we cried ;
We think God would not miss us, if we died ;
We feel forgotten, helpless, cast away ;
We shut our eyes and do not even pray.
I ; ON SHORE.
Ob peaceful days, and peaceful nights, whose
peace -. J
Cannot be uttered ! Oh green shores of life
Beyond the body ! Shall we ever cease
To smile that through such hot and silly strife
We came ? j That doubt and fear could grow so
rife ? i
That we could fail to see how God's great hand
Our anchorages and our drif tings planned ?
How She Cured Johnny.
"My!"
That; was all Mrs. Pray saiU She
just stood at the back door, held up her
hands, and said "My!" If her Johnny
wasn't a pretty sight! He was dripping
all over from head to foot.
"There!" exclaimed Mrs. Pray; "if
this isn't discouraging ! Why, Johnny,
what do you go into the water for?
See! I should think you had been
soaking in a mud-puddle a fortnight.
Sit down near the door, and let me take
your things off."
Young Johnny sat down, looking
sheepish as any culprit in the land. He
knew he could say nothing for! himself,
and so he kept still.
"Just feel your stockings! Sopping
wet, I declare! Xow I must get the
clean ones out of the drawer that I have
been saving for Sunday. Johnny, now
look at me ! Look right into my eyes !"
Johnny lifted his big brown eyes to
his mother's face.
"Now, tell me, do you think it's right
to plague me so? This is the third time
in two weeks that jou have come borne
in this plight. Is it right?" I
Johnny's bright brown eyes dropped
like stars below the horizon. "No," he
murmured. "I know 'tain't."
"Well, what did you do it for ? jNow,
Johnny, look here ! This way, right in
my face!" Johnny did wish his mother
wouldn't keep inviting him to look into
her face. He had . much rather look
over toward the wall, and see if he
couldn't spy some chink through which
he could squeeze and so make off. But
no, his mother wanted him to look at
her. "Look up into my face, Johnny !"
And up above the horizon came the
bright stars again. I
"Johnny, do you know how much
iroubie this makes me? l,wanted to go
to the;afternoon service at the church,
but I can't now. I "wanted afterwards
to do some shopping, but I can't do
that, for I must wash out your clothes..
I wanted to make some blanc mange
for old Mrs. Moffltt and and John
ny, it is too bad ! When will you stop ?
Here, this way.and look into my face !"
"Wish mother wouldn't," thought
Johnny.
"Let me look at your feet!" she said,
suddenly, and she pounced on those of
fending members. "I want to see if
your toes are not webbed, for you do
like the water about as well as any duck
I ever saw."
"I ain't a duck," sobbed Johnny,
and yet at the same time inclined to
laugh, f I
"Well," said Mrs. Pray, getting up
from her knees. "I think you were in
tended for a duckj for why do you like
to wade so?" -
Johnny c id like to wade. The big
pond that collected in the meadow when
the spring rains came on, how it drew
him! It almost seemed as if a magnet
must have been concealed there like the
power hidden in the bit of iron that
lays hold of the toy-ships and the toy
fishes and whirls them around so un
ceremoniously. Gertain it was that
Johnny; had not yet been able to escape
the fascination of that pond. It would
draw him in, and this particular day it
had drawn him in all over !
There was a drain running through
the meadow about a foot deep, and as
he was; wading, he suddenly stepped
down Into the drain. He lost his bal
ance, and over he went. Instead of a
wade, it was a dive that day. The wrater
was not so very deep, but there was
enoughof it to hurry him home in the
sorry plight we have described. He
was finally sent up stairs to meditate
during ;the afternoon. He spent his
time variously, now reading stories out
of the Sunday School Times, now shout
ing out of the' window at any boys pas
sing along, or trying to see if he could
spit npon the cat creeping under the
window. " j "
For some time his mother was busy
soaking, scrubbing and thinking
thinking steadily. Couldn't she , cure
Johnny ? She' loved hin dearly ; : but
J Johnny couldn'
be allowed to go on in
Try-
this way, thoughtlessly making so much
trouble .; .;
"I've got it P' said Mrs. Pray, at the
tub ; and at the sametime she brought
her piece of soap energetically down on
the disgraced pants she was rubbing.
"I'll fix that boy to-morrow."
The morrow came.
It was just after dinner. Johnny
wanted to find his mother. He had a
good deal of business on hand. He
wanted to go to the village with his
mother to buy a NoahVark. He wanted
her to mend his capl He wanted her
to bake him some ginger-bread, and he
wanted oh, a lot of things. But
where was mother? "James, have you
seen mother?" James' was cutting
wood back of the barn. He was the
hired man. He let his axe rest on the
block andlooked up.
uYes, I have seen her. She wrent
down in the meadow a little while ago
and she said you would find her there
wading!"
"Down in .the meadow wading?"
asked Johnny.
"That's what she said, and that's all
I know about it." James took up his
axe and began splitting again.
Johnny hurried down to the meadovv
and it was even so; mother was wading!
Wading, too, as if she had been used to
it all her life ; as if her feet had been
webbed like a duck's.
"Why, mother, what are you wading
for?"
"What for, Johnny? Oh, 1 wanted
to have a good time.""
"But a woman wading, mother!"
"Well, I don't see why women can't
have a good time wading as well as
boys."
johnny was somewhat mortified to
see his mother wading, and a good deal
mortified when he saw Charlie Burt
Coming across the next field to meet
him. "O, mother, don't! There's
Charlie Burt coming."
- "Charlie Burt!" and
mother looked coolly up.
John nj-'s
"Well, it
won't hurt him to see women
wadins
any more than boys."
To add to Johnny's distress, just then
his mother fell. Whether she stumbled
into that unlucky ditch I can't say; but
I doubt if there was any gash in the
meadow at that point, and it looked
like a skilful or unskilful manoeuvre
on Mrs. Tracy's part. Over she went,
wetting her clothes very thoroughly.
f'O mother, mother, I'm m " Johnny
was in distress.
But Mrs. Pray leisurely picked her
self and came ashore. "Now I guess
we'll go home." And she walked to
ward the house.
j Johnny -was dumbfounded. What
did mother' mean?
J Arriving at the house she said,,
"There, Johnny, I shall have to go up
stairs and stay there this afternoon, j
feel rather tired. You might pick up
these things," dropping her shawl and
bonnet, "and give them to Nancy."
She w as going out of the room, but sud
denly stopped. "O, Johnny, I want
you to stay and keep house this after
noon. If 1 am wanted tell people your
mother wanted to have a good time
wading, and fell into the water, and
-and " The rest Johnny couldn't
hear, for she was now slowly climbing
the stairs.
"Well," said Johnny, to himself,
"this is rather a bad job for me. I
wanted to go with mother to buy a
Noah's ark, and I wanted her to make
some gingerbread, and the fact is, I
didn't know to go in wading would
make so much trouble." It was the
longest afternoon for him. Nancy, the
bird; girl, put supper on the table by-and-bye,
$and told Johnny that his
mother wanted him to bring her up a
cup of ginger tea.
Ginger tea! What for? He took it
up stairs and found his mother in bed.
"Mother, are you sick?"
"No, but when you have been wading
you know there is danger of taking
cold, and I worry about you, and I
thought I would be on the safe side and
prevent sickness."
r. Mother sick! How Johnny worried
that night. He was as miserable as any
mother-loving boy could be, and was
relieved to hear her stirring at dawn,
and singing,
early." She
"Up in the
morning
did not say anything to
him on the subject of ponds, but it was
the last time Johnny went wading, and
he won't be so likely also to cut up
some other kind of thoughtless mischief
that makes lots of fun for him, but a
deal of trouble for his mother.
Flight of Storks.
! In their preparations for migration,
storks are very interesting. They are
never I heard to utter any sound until
Ihe time of their departure has arrived.
They then begin to make a very
singular kind of clatter, communicating
with every member of their flock.
They never start until each individual
i3 collected together. Night is the time
chosen, i Strict silence is then pre
served, and they rise immediately high
up in the air, forming themselves Into
a triangle, and one bird takes the apex.
The duties of this position are too
laborious to. be long sustained, and
therefore, when fatigue is felt, the lead
ing bird retires and another takes its
place. We could not manage better
ourselves. - ;
Economical Adornment.
Curtains are a great help toward a
pretty room, arid cheap ones can be
made from unbleached muslin, chintz,
plain or dotted Swiss muslin, trimmed
with a fluted ruffle along the edge, are
dainty enough to please and one. Un
bleached muslin is used now to a great
extent, and looks well. Colored cantonl
flannel, in blue, brown and crimson,
makes a very effective trimming; put
one or two deep bands of this across the
bottom of the curtain stitohed on in
feather sticb with yellow silk or zephyr.
A piece of muslin, two yards long and
eighteen or twenty inches wide, bor
dered with a couple of colored bands,
aud edged wit Ji fringe, is laid in deep
plaits and fastened to the cornice.
Lambrequins are such an addition to a
room that everyone should make them.
Chintz edged with a ruffle and pinked
on either side are easily made, and even
the common red-and-white stripped cot
ton goods, trimmed with fringe look
welJ. Old curtains which are too short
for the windows can be pieced under
ihe lambrequins. If your window is
low, you can greatly add to its apparent
height by placing the lambrequin on
the wall above. A divan forycur room
can be easily made by asking John to
make a box two feet wide, two feet high
and six feet long. Spread straw on the
top of the box, but do not allow it to
come too near the ede. , The straw
should be covered with refuse cotton;
laid on evenly, or with an old blanket;
be sure and cover the sharp edges with
the cotton. Cover the cotton with
coarse brown muslin, and tack the
-chintz over this; the sides should also
jhave a cover of cotton. Large square
pillows stufled with shavings, and
trimmed with cord and tassels are laid
against the back of the sofa. There
should be a binding of- braid for the
cushion, to match the chiniz. Barrels
make easy chairs by sawing one third
in two, about eighteen inches from the
bottom, and sawing the staves in a
curved shape for the back. The head
is nailed in for a seat, and the back and
seat are padded with straw or hay cov
ered first with an old quilt, and then
with the chintz. Ottomans to match
are made of cheese or soap boxes. A
book-case can be made of two packing
boxes, ! set upon each other; shelves
nailed iu, and a cheap mt ulding fastened
to the; edge of shelves and sides. If
the boards are" not perfectly smooth,
8ajnd-paper, then stain with walnut
stain nd varnish.
llanditg At Castle Garden.
Pasquale Francolino, chief of a fa
mous band of Italian bandits, who is ac
cused of the murder of between thirty
and forty persons, is en route for New
t
York. This desperado held the whole
Italian county of Potenza, in the pro
vince of Basilicoti, for several years in
a state of terror, and levied blackmail
on the land-owners to such an extent
that they were obliged to leave their es
tates and live in Naples. The Italian
Government has ottered a reward of ten
thousand francs for his apprehension.
Francolino commanded a picked band
of eighteen cutthroats, to whom his
slightest word was law. About three
years ago they are said to have carried
their depredations as far north as Rome,
and succeeded in capturing Prince Bor
ghse, a leading Italian nobleman, and
a very prominent member of the Catho
lic church. An enormous ransom was
demanded and paid, as the Prince no
doubt thought it was easier to replen
ish his exchequer than replace his ears
and nose, which Pasquale threatened
to cut off and send to the captive's
family, unless the the ransom was paid.
This affair created such a sensation that
vigorous measures were taken by Vic
tor Emanuel's Government to clear out
the banditti, and a large force of Ber
saglieri were dispatched to the Pro
vince where the bandit chief, made his
headquarters in a rempte mountain fast
ness. Every pass and avenue was
guarded by the troops, and formed a
cordon around the desperate band who,
fighting amid localities with which they
wrere familiar, gave the soldiers many
a bad lay-out. j The lines, however,
wrere being drawn closer and closer
around them, arid the peasantry and
retainers on the estates, who were to a
certain extent in league writh the ban
dit, gradually deserted Pasquale, who
eventually found himself in desperate
straits after two years of hard continu
ous fighting. Forced to the conclusion
that he. must soon be overpowered he
secretly dispatched his Lieutenant,
Guiseppe Luise, to this country. Luise
arrived in this country about a year
ago, and when asked by Interpreter
McPherson, at Castle Garden, if he had
money, replied, "I have all I want."
When warned that he must be careful
and not get robbed, be answered with
a laugh. "I know all about such tricks
and such people; I have lived among
them.V i The detectives afterwards dis
covered that this man was the medimof
correspondence with Pasquale, and they
kept him under surveillance. He re
sided in the Italian tenement-house No.
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68 Adams
stree Brooklyn. Luise was,
too shrewd, and having his
however,
suspicions aroused, decamped on hear
ing that one of jthe detectives had called
at the house under pretense of getting
men to work, o1n the Atlantic avenue
railroad, and had taken down;the names
of the residents. He is supposed to
have gone in the direction ofj Missouri,
but the detectives could obtain no clue,
as the Italians in the housej were ex
tremely non-communicatire; and re
garded every stranger with suspicion.
Pasquale j Francolino, accompanied by
his wife, j Austalia Dagrosa, escaped
through the Italian military lines in
the disguise ofj an olive peddler, but
was hotly pursued by the; 'detectives
through $evera countries in Europe.
All trace ! of him was lost in France,
as Luise liad made every arrangement
for his chjef's departure arid secretion
so admirably that the pursuers'were
foiled at el very utep. Last March it is
supposed that he made his Way to Li
verpool, where detectives are now at
work watehing; every steamer , that
leaves the porjt. He is described as
broad t shouldered, of medium height,
dark eyes j low but wide brow,' -long aqui
line nose,! wide mouth, with harsh ex
pression, prominent chin, . high cheek
bones, square jajw, short, Ncoarse black
hair, and rings in his ears. He has a
long diagonal scar across his "ight hand
which heireceived in some affray. His
wife, Austalia Dagrosa, is a young wo
man of about 20 years, a tall, well-developed
blonde, pf marked hut rather
fine features. She is reportejjd as a wo
man of a sanguinary, determined char
acter, who has assisted her Husband in
many of his desperate enterprises, and
is devotedly attached to him. -The
Italian authorities say that she is the
more merciless of the two, and through
her influence many of the bandit's
prisoners were put to the torture, as she
is inordinately
fond of jevrelry and
suggestion Pasquale
finery. At heij
would arbitrarily increase too ransom
even after having arranged for the
captive's release'. She is saiii to have
fought with as desperate valbr as her
husband, and is
several wanton
accused of committing
murders.
The House of Commons.
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The room of the Lower Hoi
use is ex-
ceedingly plain J much inferior to our
House of Representatives, it is only
62 feet long by 45 feet wide, and hence
cannot accommodate more than two
thirds of jits 650 members ith seats.
There are galleries on all sidfes. These
are occupied by members," jstrangers,
reporters, and ladies, the latter having
a section to themselves, the front of
which is enclosed by an iron screen.
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How would some of our American la
dies like this arrangement? jTheniem
bers of the two Houses of parliament
are not provided with degksas at
Washington. They occupy long cush
ioned seats, wh ich rise one above
another from the centre to jthewalls.
The members have one'1 custom that
seems hardly in keeping with the dig
nity of a body of men making laws for
200,000,000 of the human race, and that
is, the wearing oi' hats during the ses
sions. The two houses generally as
semble late in . the afternboji and ad
journ late in the jnight, reminding one
of the famous "receipt" bjjr vfhich Ben
jamin Franklin said the people of Paris
might save millions annuallylviz : "Use
daylight ! instead of gasligjitl" An
American citizen wishing to j obtain ad
mission to either house while in session
can secure a card from our Ambassador.
which will be hohored by the Speaker
and doorkeeper.
Fireproof Dress.
Mr. Oestburg, a! Swede, hai been con
ducting some sensational experiments
with his fireproof suit. This is made
in two layers, th! inner one of India
Rubber, and the outer of English leath
er: the head being protected! by a hel
met resembling that worn by divers.
At the girdle is t xed a piece of hose,
which serves for both air and water.
The air-pipe, fed; from two blowers, is
placed inside the
water-pipe J and bring
the air, after being cooled by the sur
rounding water, jinto the inper part of
the dress,. The air inflates thje costume,
passing away through the two small
openings made for eye pieces. ;ine
made
current of air not
only keeps the en-
Closed body cool,
but drives Ssmoke and
flame away from
the eyes. " At the back
the water-pipe divides, one. branch ser
ving as an extinguisher, thepther pass
into the outer coating of th dress, the'
stream being distributed over the whole
outer surface. AVlth the apparatus on,
the experimenter stood in the middle of
a pile of burning shavings and logs
without taking the least barm. If a
continued use of j this apparatus shows
similar results, it is likely td be a use-
fur invention.'
j A great many people wonder why it
was that Christ did not cornel at once to
Martha and Mary, whom the loved,
when he heard of their affliction. It
was to try them; and It is tbe same
with His dealings toward us. If He
seems not to come to us in our affliction,
it is only to test us.
.The
WyomtngMaflsacr.
.The Invasion of the valley was accora
isued on the 3d of July, 1778, when
ElUmber of British nldipr rarrimnn.loil
by Col. John Butler, and accompanied
btt 7C0 Indians, led by the cruel half-
bhee, Brant, or Gi-en-gwah-toh, de
cended upoj the defenseless settlement.
TjBey were net by a few companies of
oi l tien- and boys, whose extreme age
and; youth j bad extmpted them from
se rylce in the distant randks of the Re
ptblic, and! for several hours a fierce
battle raged on the banks of The Susque
hanna. But the contest was uneoual.
3
e Indians, from their ambush, kent
a deadly flank fire, which soou
thin tied the ranks of the yeoman, and,'
utterly shattered, they were forced; to
fall; 3ack, despite the appeals of their
couf igeous leader. Col. Zebulou But
lejy wrho cited, "Don't leave me, my
chile rent a nd the day . is ours." The
Indiins,;8eciiig their foes retreat, fell
udoe them and slaughtered without
merely, men, women and children.
IjVVben the Six Nations espoused the
English caui e against the Colonies it
was part of
he compact that the latter
hem against Wyoming, to
should lead
afford them an opportunity of being
avenged upo i the settlers, whom they
rat
inh
vJ,
ueu : as
tne usurpers or tne reu
s Darad
ise, a name sometimes given
4 the valley
and so, the first skirmish
over, the Indians gave full scope
to the spirit
bf destruction
which pos
away from
seised them
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and, breaking
their! leaders
they reaped a terrible, re
venge upon
the gentle people or Arca-
diaan bode. About 300 were put to death
with! torch, tomahawk, and spear, re-
or sex, and the most
ii i
torture that a fiendish spirit could
devise were Employed to make the last
lingering moments of their victims full
agony. An awful
night followed
The huts, and
that
day o
carnage.
bo1
mes, the crops and orchards, wereset
ori fire, and the devastation of the entire
settlement was made complete. Several
were! drowned in the efforts to escape
ddwn theri
biit a party
r unaer tne cover oi night,
f a hundred women and
children su
ceded in making their way
to the mou
ins, under the leadership
of! one old
in, who was their sole pro-
tectolr.
Bu
hough they fled the ter-
rors of the
assacre, it was to encounter
hardships equally severe.
Their path
, rkt:
lay tnroug
the Great Swamp, now
lrtwvtfrn oa the 'Sharlh- nf rRth hv
1 1 -j i r
rejason of the numbers who had perish
ed there, aud the sufferings they endured
from fear and famine and sickness are
urm itched by anything on record. Ona
poor woman whose babe died at her
brjeant in a vain effort to obtain nourish
ment, carried her dead darling 20 miles
rather than jeave the precious burden
behind to fall a prey to the wolves, and
manr other Incidents of love and devo
tion jare relaed. Only a few survived
the fatigue jqjf the march and the plague
jwijiidh overtook them in the swamp.
jTheibqdlea of those who were massacred
jnjthie Wyoming Valley lay unburied
on the plain tor months, until a detach
ment of soldiers gathered them together
one-nlight 'anfcl consigned them to a large
hole in, the ground, fearful lest a more
respectful interment might excite the
enmity of tbe Indians, who were still
prowling about the neighborhood. The
result was that the exact location of the
exact locatiojn of the remains was un
known to the friends of the dead for
manjr years Jand their discovery at last
was j a -mere accident. An assuming
obelisk commemorative of the virtues
of the fallenUheroes ha3 been raised over
Uieir! resting piauo uy tut? uaniuui;
women of Wlvoming and is visited every
Summer! byf hundreds of persons at
tracted to the scene by a spirit of rever-
erilce or curiosity.
U-HTfl - ! .
i : IIol ram, the Strong Blan.
Jlqltum stretches himself along a lad
der on his ftfee. his feet against one of
lue rungs, aaiu his nanus ciasping au-
other. Round his wrists are bands
fastebed in the ladder to assist his grip.
ojer j his ilioulders and around his
waist is a well-padded harness, fitting
Cli8eily, with a tail, to which is attached
a jexjk in Which the chains of the tra
ces is placed!. Two good sized van hor
8C are fastened on, and strive their ut
most to mojve him, but in vain; the
tackle may give way, hut he doesn't.
Tie Strain weems to be distributed oyer
hi whole f-me and the tension, par
ti luiarly': in the . muscles of the neck
ar d arms, lis most marked. Holtum has
arbtber feat. It consists In holding
w .tb arms outstretched two horses pull
ing opposlteiways. IIol turn's measure-
mend Is as jfollows; Ohest, 41 inches;
necki 16J inches : waist, 32J inche;
forearm, 13 inche; upper arm, 15 in-
cbea i thiff
24M
inches; calf, 15 in-
cheat height, 5
feet 9 inches ; weight.
19f pounds i age, 32 years. nol turn
is a Pane, and took to this business in
1S72.
bail,
jThe idea of catching - a cannon
another of his wonderful feats,
ich he exhibits daily at the West
minster Aqttarium, was first suggested
htm in a dream. He draws a salary
about J640ber week; He has shov-n
that the body supine can stand a direct
tension of five tons. ,
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