BLUE
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YOL. IV.-NO. 31.
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, The. wild bird siius and the rivulet rnas .
So cheerily round tbe spot
Wheqt pe pbscefal shades of the towering
t mum .
..Fall,&m.optn mother's oot. .
.the winders are low and ths thatch is low,
Andjta old atone walls are gray-'
, Ph 1 1 see I Jot where'er I go,
,.; jThit ol4o-far awaj. ' .
' - the little olook ticks on the kitchen waU ; '
--' T To eil the passing boars.
YmAnd thfc woodbind is climbing roand the oot,
; ' With ite sweet'y sdente i flowers, v.' .
- - And the old arm chair, so cosy and low,
: Where mother di 1 knit etoh day
; Oh f I see it, I love it, where'er I go,
That old Bom, far away.
My mother ; I see her before
e now,
With the sunshine tinging ber wrinkled brow
That was onee so smooth and tair
Her orimpled border, as wh te as the snow.
And her dark brown hair turned gray
Oh 1 1 see it, I love it. where'er I go,
That old home far away.
And there s the white cow on its homeward
.. ' .path. ,.
7W As if cornea eo quiet along ;
And the Hi tie maid with pail in her hand
la singing that dear old song.
And the frolicsome lambs in that barnyard
.Are gathering ro ind to p'ay
Oh ! I see it. I love it, where'er I go,
That old home far away.
'-'a.
Not all the p easuree the world can give,
N- r riches of land or sea.
Or the wealth or rank of earth's proud lords
Can e't-r estrange from me
The roof that cover'd my dear mother's head,
With tbe humble floor or day
Oh ! I see it, I love it, where'er I go.
That old home f.r away.
But alas I she has gone where all must go,
For we ail shall pass away I
Tea ! even the oot that I love so well !
Will crumble and decay ;
For this earth is only a resting place,
It joys are oars f r a day
All my pleasure of life has center'd in
That old home far away.
In the Gloaming.
"You are the best judge of your own
heart, but I do not think your future prom
ises much happiness as the wife of Godfrey
Hill. Remember who and what he is."
1 These were the words over which Alice
Hill pondered as she walked slowly through
the grove at Bellows Falls. It was her
favorite walk, when she wished for solitude,
though it lay at some distance from her
home, the stately house that crowned an
incline stretch of ground overlooking the
village.
Remember who and what he is !
"TSFoT'"'!!!'" UiiiJT'fi3the8e-- orris
JU11 iiiuT r7Hre8e-wonts rrrr
slowly, and with due emphasis, only a few
hours before, when Alice had read to her a
letter in which Godfrey Hill iad asked her
to be his wife.
Who was he, then ! . He was the second
cousin of Alice, a man of about twenty
seven, who had been brought up by his
grandfather in the house upon Bellows
Heights, and had supposed his inheritance
of house and fortune assured.
Alice and her widowed mother had never
entered the stately house while old Mr.
Hill lived, but had supported themselves
bv keeping a school for young children",
after Godfrey's cousin, Alice's father, had
died.
It had never crossed their wildest imagin
ation that the old gentleman at Bellows
Falls would remember them by even a
trifling legacy, and they were inclined to
think themselves the victims of a practical
joke, when they received the lawyer's letter
informing them that Alice was? the heiress
of the entire estate of John Hill, of Bel
lows Falls.
t It was like, a dream, to come to the
splendid home, to know there .were to be
no more weary struggles for daily bread, to
wander through magnificent rooms ana ex
tensive grounds with the deliriously novel
sensation of ownership,
And it must be confessed that Alice at
first thought but little of the dispossessed
heir.
But he introduced himself soon as
cousin, and visited the house as a welcome
euest.
Fori in answer to the second clause of
Mrs. Hill's question, what was he? Alice
could have answered trulv that he was the
most fascinating man she had ever seen,
And Alice Hill, though a bread winner
in the busy world, had moved in good so
ciety, having aristocratic family connections
both on her lather s and mother s side.
She was no novice to be won by a mere
ly courtly manner, but she had never met a
man whose intellect was so broad, whose
courtesy was so winning whoso face was so
handsome as were those of Godfrey inn.
And vet there was a letter in her writing
desk written by the dead man whose heiress
she was, warning her that, "because he is
unworthv. because he has betraved the
trust I put in him, I have disinherited God
freyHill."
. There was no specific charge, no direct
1 accusation, but the young heiress was
warned against her cousin.
Yet, in the many long conversations the
two had held together, Godfrey Hill had
endeavored to convince his fair cousin that
his grandfather had been influenced by
false .friends to believe statements to his
discredit utterly untrue.
He had almost convinced her that he
was an innocent victim to unfortunate cir
cumstances, a victim to a mistaken sense of
honor.
She was young, naturally trustful, and
her heart was free : so it is not wonderful
that Alice Hill was inclined to restore the
disinherited man to his estate by accepting
the offer of his heart and hand. Absorbed
in her reflections, Alice did not notice that
clouds were gathering, till a sudden sum
mer shower broke with violence above tht;
tree tops.
The rain came through the branches sud
denly, drenching through her thin black
dress, and she ran quickly to the nearest
house for shelter.
The nearest refuge proved to be the cot
tage where Mrs. Mason, who did the wash
ing for the great house, lived with her
daughter Lizzie, one of the village beauties.
There was great bustling about when
Alice presented herself at the doer.
" Mercy sakes ! You're half drowned,"
the old woman cried, hurrying her unex
pected guest to the kitchen Are. " You're
wet to the stun, riarip -ww
blessing there's a whole washine in the bas
net to go home ? Yoa can go into Lizzie's
room and change your clothes, and I'll do
up them you've got on. Dear, dear ! your
hot la 4tio .! . . J
.-. juot.iuuieu crape won t bear wet
ting and you've no shawL You must Inst
f.,T " "" ol Aazzie s to go home in.
j.i ucunjr uarK anyway.'
'Where is Lizzie?" Alice asked.
-sewing at Mrs. Gorham's, dearie. She
will be coming home soon. I allers make
that a part of the bargain that she's to be
let home afore dark, and it gats dark now
by six fall days are shorter than summer
ones, bo shell be home soon. It's clear
ing up." . ,
It was clearing up," and it was also grow
ing dark, 89 promising to send home the
borrowed dress in the morning, Alice'started
iar no me.
She smiled at herself M she stand hpforp
wc ""Tor, tot te had not worn
gay color since her father's death five years
before.
Lizzie's blue dress, scarlet shawl and gay
Sunday hat were sadly out of place upon
mo eicuuer ngure, ana setting otf the pale.
ivuucu lace 01 Alice 11111.
-" veax me." said the old woman. T hmw
juu 11 buuu cnn-K up a Pit. Miss Alice, and
.A..m 1 1 ... ... 1
laae on your black. . The old gentleman
has been dead a year, now. Them roses
ao suit you beautiful. "
Alice glanced at the starintr red
rcnectea in the mirror and smiled, as she
saia:
"I will take great care of Lizzie's hat,
Mrs. Mason. Good-by, and thank you.
Tfr 1 J 1 ,
" "cany uusk. ana tnere was a
quarter of a mile to walk before home was
reached, so Alice hurried through the grove
where the trees had already shut out the
lingering daylight.
Bhe had tied a small veil of erav tissue
over the gaudy hat, as she left the cottage,
and she hoped, if she met any acquaint
ances, she would escape recognition.
When she was half through the Prove
she heard quick footsteps coniinsr from the
village, and a moment later a voice said :
1 ou are punctual." and she was rcuicrhf
for a moment in Godfrey Hill's arms. "
one Knew his voice, and struirfi'led to fre
herself, before realizing that he had mis
taken her for the village beauty, i
room" ne said, releasing her. ' "Don't
put on airs, Liz. Were you going to the
house?"
" Yes," she answered, faintly, indienant
and yet curious, her woman's wits auicklv
soeing his error.
I must go, too. before lone, thoueh I
had far rather stay here in the woods with
you, sweetheart." !
j our sweetheart is at the house." Alice
said, trying to assume the jealous tone of
an uneducated girl.
What I That chalky-faced rirl in
black ? Not a bit of it. Didn't I love
you long before she came to take what is
mine?"
And a curse followed, coupled with her
own name, that thrilled Alice Hill with
"But they say you will'marry her," she
persisted, calming her voice as well as she
could
"They say right 1 I will marry her, and
have my own I Then, when she is dead,
you shall have your old beau again, Lizzie,
and come to the great house, my wife. It
is only waiting a year or two.
" But she may not die !" gasped the hor
ror-stricken girl. : j
"She will die! I ll have no; nne aay
taking what is mine mine, 1 tell you.
But what ails you ? You are shaking as if
you had an ague fit. I've talked it all over
often enough before, and you never went
off into such shakes ! It is nothing new
I'm telling you."
"But you would not muraer
her?" the poor giri gasped, drawing her
veil closer.
"Come now. none-of that,' was the
rough answer; "you're not going back on
me now, alter al. youve neara 01 my
plans. Youve sworn to keep my secrets,
or I'd never have told you them. But
what is the matter?"
And here Alice found herself shaken
with no gentle hand, to her great indigna
tion. But her fears overmastered her
anger. Godfrey was heir-at-law to her
newly acquired fortune, and if he suspected
her identity, in those dark woods, she did
not doubt, after what he had already said,
that he would take her life.
"I am not well," she said, freeing her
self from the rough grasp oh her arm,
and I must hurry on. Wait for me here
until I do my .errand at the house and come
back."
"Be quick, then," was the gruff reply.
And if she was in haste, the scoundrel
might well be satisfied at the rapidity with
which his companion left him.
She scarcely knew how she reached her
home, tore off her borrowed finery and
wrote to Godfrey Hill, declining tne nonor
h had nroDosed to her. but giving no
other reason for her refusal than the state
ment that she did not love him sufficiently.
" Mamma," she said, coming into the
drawing room, " I have written to Godfrey,
refusing his offer, and sent the letter to him
by James. I have remembered who and
what he is."
Mr. Godfrey Hill's amazement was un
bounded when returning to his home, in the
village hotel, to dress for his promised call
upon Alice Hid, he found her note awaiting
him.
But he did not renounce his hope of
shaking her resolution until the next day,
when he met the true Lizzie Mason in the
ahartwi ornvp- and in the course of their
lover-like conversation, that dansel told
him who had worn her gay hat land red
shawl on the previous evening
"An' she sent a five dollar bill with the
dress, because it got wet," said the gut
"Au" that I call real . handsome of her.
Why, what ails you ? you're white' as
chalk 1" .
'Vr.thinr nnthinir Youwere "not in
the trove at all. then, yesterday? "
Nn' I mil dn t m Oil UU hjiik ki
dark and so I stayed all night I knowed
you'd be mad waiting for me7 but I couldn't
help it this time. Why"
For her lover had started for the village
without even the ceremony of a good-bye.
Hp Ins nn timfi. on big way. Until he
stood in tfie office of Jermyn & Jejinyn,
hin crrsLnrifsf hei-'n lawvera
White as death, with a voice hoarse and
thick, he said to the older partner :
"Yon told me mv trrandfather left me
ten thousand dollars, upon certain condi
Hons. '
" Quite correct. The conditions are that
vou leave Bellows Falls and never return
to it. and that you sign a deed relinquish
ing all claims as heir-at-law, in case Miss
MORGANTON,
um cues before she is of aire. Mr Hill
did not draw up this paper until his will
was signed and sealed, and he was remind
ed that he had made no'stipulation for the
reversion or his estate."
nemmded by yeu? " was the bitter re
joinder.
Kemmded by me! He was shown the
danger that you might become a suitor to
tne yonng heiress.
w ell, that danger is over. I have been
sincere suitor to the heiress, and she has
reiusea tne nonor of an alliance "
"Hum!"
"So, having lost that stake. T Jim nrp.
pared to accept the conditions, take th tn
thousand dollars, and turn my back unon
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jjcuu wb r aiis ior me.
It was with a sense of great relief from
a very urgent tear, that Alice Hill heard
from her lawyer of the demand upon the
GDutKs, ui maue Mr -poorer by tea thou
sand dollars, and temtffiXt Godfrey ITOI
from her path for life.
She told no one of the walk in the gloam
ing that had revealed to her the black
treacnery of the man who wooed her so
gently, and had so nearly won the treasure
of her young heart.
It made her shy of suitors for a long
time, fearing her money was the magnet
that drew them to her side; but there
came a true lover at last one she trusted
and loved, and who won her for his tender,
faithful wife.
And Godfrey Hill left his old home never
to return.
There was no thought of revenge in
Alice Hill's heart when she heard of the
death of her cousin, nearly three years after
his departure from Bellows Falls ; but she
could not restrain a fervent thought of
thanksgiving, when she realized that there
was no murderous thought hanging upon
her possible death.
And to her relief she told her himhAnd
for the first time of that involuntary mas
querade that saved her from the power of
a villain.
"It was at this hour, Will," she whispered
and this is the first time since that dav
that I have been able to sit, without a
shudder, in the gloaming."
Charmed by a Snake.
For some weeks the parents of Rert.hu
Miller, nearMt. Vernon, Ohio, had noticed
that their daughter was showing marks of
declining health, evidenced by an increas
ing paleness and emaciation and accompanied
by a melancholy mood. 80 marked was
the change becoming that they began feel
ing great solicitude concerning her and con
sulted a physician about the matter. The
physician visited the girL but was unable
to explain the cause of her decline or to
render her aid. It also fell under the ob
servation of her mother that each afternoon.
abeut three o'clock, the girl would leave
the house and remain away from one to
two hours. This factSbeing communicated
to the other parent, it. was decided to watch
the young lady and discover if possible the
ciingly on the llay following when the hour
had about arrived the father left the house
and watched for the going of his daughter.
In a few minutes the young girl was on her
way through a wood and up a ravine lead
ing from the house to a small stone quarry,
some half-mile distant, reaching which she
took a seat on a flat stone, under a small
clump of trees, and remainea sitting there
quietly for several minutes, her head held
in one position, and eyes evidently fixed
on one spot. The father had gotten up so
near by this time that he could observe all
that would happen. In a few moments, to
his amazement, there proceeded from the
direction in which the girl was looking a
snake about four feet in length, and known
to him as our common blacksnake or racer.
80 astonished was he at the peculiar man
ner of his daughter and the appearance of
the reptile that he remained quiet in his
concealment to observe what would happen.
The snake crept slowly along towards the
girl until it halted close to her feet. After
remaining there motionless for a minute or
more and gazing fixedly into the face of the
girl it slowly and stealthily began creeping
toward her, and in a moment lay coiled in
her lap. The girl remained perfectly mo
tionless, apparently not the least alarmed at
the presence of her visitor, but gazing in
tently at it. After lying in that. position
for a short time it slowly uncoiled, crept
down to the ground and back to its hiding
place in the rocks. The girl remained sit
ting motionless for a considerable time, and
then got up and retraced her steps to the
house. On the next day the father, at the
appointed time, took his gun and proceed
ing to the scene killed the reptile. The
girl, startled at the report of the gun, sprang
te her feet, but immediately recognizing
her father, proceeded without further ado
back home with him. She, when interro
gated, could give no intelligible reason for
visiting the spot, except that at a certain
hour she felt strongly inclined to go and sit
there. She has rapidly recovered ner neann,
and appears in no wise affected in her mind.
Experts can offer no solution to this strange
. . . . 1 : ul un ,uA
proceeding, tne mosi inieiu&uic, iu
animal noseessed a powerful mesmeric' In
fluence, and had bO "wrought upon the mind
of the girl that bhe went automatically to
the place. This, in connection wnu an mi
cumulated inherited disposition to be be
guiled by a serpent transmitted from our
first mother, Eve oners tne omy rauouai
explanation.
The Pyramid.
The Pyramids continue to puzzle
man's ingenuity, not only as to their
methods of construction, but as to the
purposes for which they were built.
M. Smyth, whose astronomical views
imbued everything be looked at with
his favorite science.endeavored to show
that the pyramid was nothing more
than an everlasting monument, with
the beneflcient Intention of keepinr for
ever fixed the unit of length a sacred
cubit standard. The last idea is that
the pyramid is simply a cairn, ana
that as a cairn it will be resolved sohie
dav. and will crumble to the ground.
The labor employed on the Great pyra
mid was equivalent to lifting 15,733,
000 000 of cubic feet ot stone one foe
high.5; If accounts can be relied upon,
it took 100,000 men twenty years to
Pomnlete it. As a contrast, in con
structing one of our earliest lines of
railways there were lifted 25,000,000,-
000 cubic feet of material one roocnign
The road was built by 20,OOU
less than five years.
men
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K. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1879.
The Old Sekaol-nwaae.
It stood by itself on the outskirts of the
village, and had now fallen into decay.
The old porch through which we entered
was broken down, and no longer the honey
suckle clambered over the aides. There
was an air of gloomy desolation about the
place, and the moaning -doves in the trees
without added to- the gloomy picture. The
desks and benches weqe still there, but cov
ered with dust, and the spiders had hung
their gray drapery over them. The teach
er's table, raised on a platform, still stood,
and the inkstand black and dry, had never
been removed. -The Bible, from whose
pages the exercises of the school were
always opened, was in its accustomed place,
but like everything else, cowered with dust
and mold. ' - ; j
Twenty vf-rs before, wjfea a Terr rdnn
Iniaimtlu con-
ums uij ieswf'?awgrjj)6ltt.R'
was a different place then Tile warm sun
light came through the windows, . and the
balmy breezes crept in laden with the per
fume of the flowers without The butter
flies darted in and out of the windows, and
the little humming-birds hovered around
the honeysuckle which clambered over the
porch. The stream that dashed over its
rocky bed made a weird music which min
gled with the rustling of the leaves of the
tan trees without.
The teacher was a pale-faced, dark, sad-
eyea woman, not more than twenty-two
years old, with a gentle manner that
seemed almost hopeless. She had come to
the village a stranger and opened tbe school.
hhe called herself Mrs. Ray, and boarded
with the wife of the sexton of the church,
She evinced Jbut little inclination for socia
bility with the villagers, and generally re
fused all invitations to social gatherings.
She was evidently a woman of culture and
refinement, accustomed to moving in polite
circles ; and how she ever came to drift
into our quiet, little, out-of-the-way village
it was hard to tell. She happened to come
just at the time we needed a school, the
old teacher having died, and so, in a short
time, her school was full.
She was very gentle and the puoils
learned to love her. Her very gentleness
proved a restraining force, and the roughest
ooy pent readily to the rule of Mrs. Kay.
It worried us, however, to see her fo sad.
and we noticed, too, at any unusual noise,
or sudden appearing ef the parents in the
school-room, her dark eyes would assume
an eager startled look, and her white face
would turn still whiter.
Twenty years had rolled awav since, as a
nine boy, 1 had gone to school to Airs. Ray.
1 had left the village for the city, and now,
for the first time, had come to visit the
home of my childhood.
"Well, John," I said to the old sexton,
"let us take a walk now to the school-room."
"Ah, sir, many is the day any one has
been there.. It is never opened now, and is
fast falling to decay, " said John.
"And Mrs. Ray, John; what became of
"flln. rin-1 T Yy- "11 -
story' . w-
I shook my head.
"Ah, sir, that was a terrible thing. We
had to shut up the school-room because the
children refused to go there, and so we
built a new one. The building fell to decay,
and the flowers around it died, and the
weeds grew apace. It is very desolate
there, sir-"
"And what became of Mrs. Ray ?"
By this time we had reached the old
school-house, and , having entered, were
looking around. !
"We'll dust this Bench, John, and sit
down,Jand you caaiill me the story of Mrs.
Ray." 4i
The sun was jwtfnnking bfehind the hills
when we took our mts amid the dust and
cobwebs of the old khool-room. It seemed
to me that I could fe the sweet, pale face
of Mrs. Ray clearlypefined against the dark
background of the iwmy place, and hear
the gentle tones of fcr voice.
Well sir, ' said Be old sexton, "it was
a terrible day whentve found Mrs. Ray
lying dead in the stool-room, ner throat
cut, and her dress lrered with blood. The
children ran home d told the news, and
the villagers hasten 1 there ; but she was
dead, sir, and all v sould do was to pick
her up and carry h ito my house, where
she boarded. "
"Did she cut herjwn throat ?"
"Oh, no, sir ; it lkst have been done by
a stranger who spenW night in the village,
and who was heard jt inquire if a person
answering to the detription of Mrs. Ray
lived here. You se sir, her name was not
Mrs. Ray at all, but? Irs. Mandeville. The
man was not seen tbi next day, and was
never heard of again! ' 1
"What reason coull b have-for murder
ing her?"
"Mrs. Ray told her rtfoy to my
wife.
She had been engaged to
be married to a
young man who was poor,
and who her
to marry. He
father did not wish net
wanted her to mferry Colonel Mandeville,
who was rich ifd influential. Then the
story reached Mr that the one she loved
had married a My in England, where he
lm l L -1 r -Tf" VttsT felt
desperate when she sw? in the news
papers. ' She marriel Colonel Mandeville,
but she was not hap' ' with him because
she did not love him and he was a fiery-
tpmnpreri man. and le was afraid ot nun.
Tn n of hi raires M told her one day that
the vounir man she Wed was not married
at all, and that he ana ner iainer uu
caused the marriage iotice to appear in the
and had intetepted all their letters
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to each other. Thei Jura. jjianaevme wiu
him that there was 10 forgiveness in her
heart for him ;-that be never wished to see
him again, or her faher either, for they
had broken her hear, wnen tne young
man had heard of he-itreachery in marry
ing another when s had promised to
marry him, he wrote her a terrible letter,
upbraiding her. He jrew a sort of melan
choly, and one day he was found dead in
his room ; he had shot himself. Mrs. Man
deville stole from her louse one nigni wnen
her husband was out, d made her way
here, because she kne that it was an out-of-the
wav place, and aone would be apt
tn find hpr. She lived in this village two
years, and we all learned to love her, she
was so gentle and so kad. But my wife
says she looked terrible, so white, and her
eyes Cashed whenever she spoke of her
father and husband, aad she used to say.
"I never can, I never intend to forgive
them, Mrs. Morrison; no, never 1 never 1"
We can form no idea how her husband
hpre for we supposed that the
man was her husband--lthough we had no
S -.!.. n h; .ft t ipft the village. Tbe
in children had left Mrs. Mandeville putting
I . ... .1 u inn
1 on her bonnet to leave uw -
that was the last time she was seen alive.
Her bonnet was lying beside her when we
found her dead, all bioody and crumpled.
Poor young lady 1 It was a terrible sight to
ee her lying there, her eyes wide open and
filled with an expression of fright and
agony. I think, sir, that it would have
been better if she could have forgiven those
who did her the great wrong ; Jbut she said
there was not one atom of forgiveness in
her heart, that she would rather die than to
say the word forgive to her father and her
husband."
I The sun had fairly gone down behind
the hills when the old sexton finished . his
story. The shadows enveloped the old
school-house in dusky dimness; we quietly
arose and walked out, glad to leave behind
a plsce haunted with such sad memories.
No doubt as the old sexton said, it would
have been better to have been forgiving,
for forgivenesa, like charity, covers a mul-
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The Kew "Annlhllator."
Bright and early, before one-tenth of the
citizens of Detroit had shaken off the ef
fects of the glorious Fourth. Professor
James K. r. Bnrhngame made his appear
ance on several streets in Detroit almost' at
the same moment. You would have known
him to be a professor, even if you had seen
mm tangled up with a butcher-cart. That
tall plug hat, tarrying the stains of years
U. i l: j . . i . . , 7
iui uuen uusier ginea at tne waist his
wag hair hanging down to keep his shoul
ders warm, was a dead give-away on his
title.
The Professor came here to dispose of
individual rights to use his "FJy Annihi
lator," and he didn't let thoughts of the
next Presidential ejection set him down on
a bench. His piccolo voice inquired of a
waman at the front door of a house on
Congress street east :
"Madame, have you ten seconds to spare
this morning?"
"No, sir," was the prompt reply.
"Very well, then ; you will miss seeing
my Fly Annihilator, '' he remarked, as he
walked off.1 "Thousands have missed it,
to their everlasting sorrow thousands have
accepted it and been made happy for life."
"It's some kind 0' pizen!" she called
after him down the street.
"Warranted free from all drugs or chem
icals dangerous to the human system, and
recommended to people troubled with
sleeplessness," he called back, as he briskly
retracted his steps.
"I've got screens in every window, and
yet the flys get in," she continued, as he
opened his satchel on the steps.
"Of course they do of course. A fly
is like a human being. Bar him oat and
he is seized with a desire to get in at any.
pnee. leu nun ne can t and he will or
break his neck. Fling away your screens
and depend entirely on my fly annihilator,
warranted to kill on sight, and can be
worked by a child four years old. This is
the application."
.. IT . ,1 r tnvl.li.l,. nlLht n.inn
vided with a small brush, and holding it
up continued :
"One twenty-five cent bottle does for
twenty doors, and I give you directions
how to make all you want. No poison
here nothing in this bottle to trot little
children up to the cemetery."
"Why, you don't put it on the flies, do
you?" she asked.
"Not altogether, madam. Any child
can use it, as I said before. Just watch
me a moment."
He swung the front door open, and with
the brush applied the mixture to the back
edge, giving it a thin coat from top to bot
tom. "Now, then," he said, as he swumr the
door back, 'flies like sweet. This mixture
is sweet. The fly alights on the door, and
you swing it shut, and he is jammed
against tne casing ana crushed in an in-
stant. Every door is capable of killing
1,000 flies per day. If you have twelve ,
aoors, your aggregate of dead flies will be
exactly 12,000. When you have crushed
aoout z,uw on a door, take an old knife
and scrape them off, and begin over again. "
"Do you suppose 1" began the indig
nant woman, but he interrupted with :
"Don't suppose anything about it, except
that it will mash flies and never miss. All
you have to do is to open every door, apply
the mixture, and shut them in succession.
If you have twelve doors and twelve
children, you can leave it an u, ltoo
children. And only twenty-five cents a
bottle."
Do you suppose 1 want my doors
dftiihed with flies and molasses
BCSt
made a cuff at the bottle.
"Just as you prefer, madam," he quietly
replied. ''Some do and some don t. some
won't have it at any price, anu uiucio r"
set up extra doors in the back yard in order
to use lots of it. I'll warrant this liquid to
draw 'em, if youH only open and snut tne
rtrvira "
"I won't buv it I won t have 11 1 sne
shouted, as she jammed the broom against
at-wt mtiifliTWTerr wen. xx yvu
prefer a fly on your nose to one on me aoor
I can raise no objections. Remember, how
that this is mv farewell tour previous
.,.., - j 1 j.
tn annparinff before the CTOWneu ucnua ui
Europe, and you will not have another
rhunce to secure the annihilator. All you
have to do is to take your sewing on your
lap and open and shut the door at regular
intervals." .
"If my husband was here he d he d
"He'd buy the right for this county and
oirfi in two months : but, as he
is not here, we'll bid you good day and pass
S7ilV. JW u - '
on. oorry msusiu, um r -
j u... falka nrpler
to kill their flies with a pitcniorK, anu u
man with pitchforks will call here in- fif
teen minutes.
The Boy Barn-Burner.
n,p hnir Blood on the back-yard fence,
whence all but him had fled; the flames
.t i;t fathpr'a harn shone lust above
the shed. One bunch of crackers in his j
hand, two others in his hat, with piteous j
accents loud he cried, " I never thougnt of
that 1 " A bunch of cractters to me uui
one small dog he'd tied ; the dog in anguish
sought the barn ana mia its ruiuu mcu.
The sparks flew wide and red and hot, they
lit upon that brat ; they fired the crackers
in bis hand and eke those in his hat. Then
. hnrat of ratttin sound the boy!
vi i , hp mnet Ask of the winds
th.t f.r .mnnd strewed bits of meat and
bone, scraps of clotn ana oaus,
cloth and balls, ana tops
and nails and hooks and yarn,
1
tne dreadful boy that burned his iainer a
barn.
Bank'a Itobiae.
I was detained over Sunday in Barns
bury, and on Sunday morning I resolved to
go to church. The first church I came to,
a small frame structure with a wooden
steeple, had the doors and windows tightly
shut, but there was a man sitting oa the
front steps whittling a stick, and I said to
him:
"Are you connected with this church ?"
"Yes," he said, T the sexton."
"What is it closed for f"
"Well, mostly on account of Bank's
babies."
"Babies?"
f8it down, and Til tell you about it.
Yon know Banks, be come to this town to
live a few weeks ago, a perfect stranger, aad
he rented a pew in this church. 4 It seems
that Banks had three little bits of babies,
triplets, not more'n two month old. &nd
then, fcridM jheearl twins about a
ew aborf th nsv
bies, but Banks wantedthe nwnr (tama
baptized, and he allowed to Mrs. Banks that
to rush the whole five babies into church
oa one Sunday might excite remark, you
understand. So he settled it that he'd have
em christened gradually, so to speak Ac
cordingly the next Sunday he fetched little
Jimmy, one of the triplets, and all went off
well eneugh. On the followin' Sunday he
came a promenadin' up the aisle with
George Washington, another triplet, and
Dr. Binns, our preacher, he fixed him up
all right People thought it was queer,
but when on the next Sunday mornin'
Banks and his wie ceme into church with
another baby, William Henry, crying like
a Pawnee war-whoop, some of the folks
couldn't help snickerin'.
"Howsomdever nobody complained, and
all might have been well if Banks had'nt
come along the Sunday after with Elijah
Hunsiker Banks, one of the twins. Every
body laughed, and Mr. and Mrs. Banks
they were furious mad as anything, you
know; and when Elijah Hunsiker Banks
hauled off accidently with his hand and hit
Dr. Binns, who was holding him during the
ceremony, a wack in the face, and the doc
tor dropped him in the water, the congre
gation just fairly roared with laughter.
Mrs. Banks turned red as fire and looked as
if she would like to murder somebody.
Well, you know, we all thought this was
the last, and public feeling kinder simmered
down on toward the end of the week, when
who should come booming up the asile on
Sunday morning but Mr. and Mrs. Banks,
with Tecum seh Aristotle Banks, the remain
ing twin! Well, you ought to 've heard the
congregation laugh I I never seen nothin'
like it in all my experience. Even Dr.
Binns had to smile. And the Bankses, they
were perfect wild with rage. Anyhow,
they baptized Tecumseh ; and after meetin'
some of jthe elders got to jokin' about it.
One, they'd have to apply to the town su
pervisors for an extension of the water
works ; another allowed that arrangements
ought to be made to divert Huckleberry
Creek and run it down the middle aisle of
thfi CllllWh- another msue onma IrinH nt
many banks were in town ; another said that
uanKS would need about twelve pews when
his family grew up. Somebody must have
told Banks about it, for what does he do to
revenge himself! He sends down to Cla
non county to his tws sisters to come and
bring their children. So they had a uple
of babies apiece, and as soon as they arrived
uu" "e oegins to bring them to church
gradually, like the others. Yon never seen
dui.u uiociiuta oa mem i i ne cnumn wna
jammed full, and people lust roarin.
Ana wnen Hanks came m on Sunday with
mc luunu ana last 01 his sister s babies,
mo irusiees inought It wai tnu tr
interfere. Getting' to be a farce, yeu
know! So Deacon Smith he stepped up
ouu oaiu Houieinin or otner to Banks, and
Banks, quicker'n a wink, laid down the
baby and banged the Deacon with his fist.
-ana so, 1 dunno how it it was, but in a
minute there was Banks and Dpiunn Smith
and Deacon Hubbard, and Ranks' itpr'
! oaoy, and me, all a rolling and a bumpin'
joer the floor, hittin' and kickin' and
woopin' in a manner that was ridicnlona to
behold.
And when we all come to, and got
straightenerj out, Banks picked up the bat
tered baby of his sister and quiet, and the
trustees held an informal meetin' and
agreed to close the church for a month so's
to kinder freeze Banks out, and now we've
shut ui; but I reckon is is no use, for I
hear Banks has got his Itack up and gone
ojer and joined the Baptists." So I said
??d day to the sexton and went in aparrh
another sanctuarv
-
The h'ge Meticn ADtm1
with stately bigmvJBio Fuerte are lined
saw for the first time the-eand here I
tile which the Spaniards call iguan-.
the Portuguese tayman do motto t.
'tree-alligator.' The latter name may
have been suggested by tbe formidable
appearance of an animal which atttalns
a length of seven feet and a weight of
sixty-five pounds, and jumps from tree
to tree with the impetus of a tiger-cat;
but there is no doubt that the iguana is
the most harmless creature of that size
Which ever jumped or flew or swam on
this nlanet of ours the most harmless
creature of its size, we might say, for
the little goldfish and the robin red
breast are beasts'of prey compared with
the tree-alligator : tbey will hurt a fly,
but the iguana is a strict vegetarian,
and like an orthodox Hindoo endeavors
to prolong his life without shortening
that of a fellow-creature. Still, with
lu saurian beak, its preposterous claws
and the row of bristles along its back
hone, this riant lizard is a scandalous
phenomenon.
The Two Will.
There are two pasjages in the will of
Chlselhurat and the will of Long wood
which may be contrasted and read with
curious interest. The First Napoleon
writes: , ,
"1 die prematurely, assassinated by
the English oligarchy and its
The English nation will not be slow in
venu me.
The Fourth Napoleon writes:
"1 shall die with a sentiment of pro
found gratitude toward Her Majesty
the Queen of Eagland, toward all the
f,mliv. and toward the country
where 1 nave rccenwu
i years so cordial a hospitality.
WHOLE NUMBER 187.
NKWS IN BRIEF.
There are 1,800,000 marriageable
kTirla in France.
During tbe month of July the New
York police captured sixteen runaway
boys, from Boston and vlclult.7.
The consumption of coffee through
out the world has increased durlnr the
past forty year from 19O.0OGLO00 to 850.
COO.OOO pounds.
D vi lei Lawrence, a rich distiller,
who died at Medford, Mass, recently
left $7000 to the town of Tyngsboo,
Mass., for a poor fund.
Fourteen caps of Sevres china will
be offered In competition by the French
War Office to the societies of carrier
pigeon breeders. r
It is estimated that the Minnesota
wheat crop will yield an average of fif
ten buKhels to the aore-r altogether
44 .. baa hp 1 IrtthfiihM.. T .
2Thpr mr . aArA
bd7 deutisw m im vw . t i
three times as many learning the busi
ness.
The number of convicts In, 1878 tn
all the State prisons of the Ujslon was
29,197, of whom 13,186 were employed
iu mechanical industries.
The amount of lumber on hand at
the different points on the Susquehanna
is represented as larger this year, at
this season, than for years past at the
same time.
The Pennsylvania Railroad baa
erec ed gas works near the Union De
pot, Pittsburg, for the manufacture of
gas to be used In the depot and on the
cars.
Gadshlll Place, Hlgham, the resi
dence of the late Charles Dickens, and
which has been for a Ions: time in the
market, has at length found a purchaser
in Captain Austin Budden, of the
Twelfth Kent Artillery. ;
The export of American beer was
valued at $150,(00 last year, against
$50,000 in 1874. The Importations, on
the contrary, have fallen off very large
ly, being 2.167,251 gallon in 1175,
against 767,709 gallons in 1878.
In recognition of the labors of Pro
fessor Greist, of the Law Faculty of
Berlin. President Hayes has transmitted
to the Professor, through Mr. Everett,
a collection of volumes on the history
of iuregprudence.
A woman was drinking milk from
a cup in Paris on the 28th ot Juue, at
6 o'clock in tbe morning. Tbe light
ning knocked - he cup from her hands,
but left her unhurt. The cup could
not be found.
Three of the surviving descendants
of Massasoit, th noted Indian, Mrs.
Mitchell and her two daughters, are
passing the summer in camp at Betty's
Neck, a tract of land up the shores of
A88awampett Pond, In Massachusetts.
The national debt Is now about $2,
304,000,000, which bears interest as fol
lows, In round numbers; 3 per cent.,
tu um nm,- rourjjXx-eot..tn5J.QflQ,QW :
, tcui., fwv.wu,uuvj no
interest. $4W,000,000.
Ten years ago the exportation of
leather to Europe was first stilted as
an experiment. Slijce then the trade
has grown to 25,000,000 pounds (valued
at $4,000,000) per annum, with an In
crease tor tne first six mouths of this
year of 1,000,000 pounds
The Chicago elevators contain at
the present time 2,535,273 bushels ot
wheat, 2,958,576 bunelui com, '154 ,219
bushels of oats. 50,070 bushels or rye,
and 76,960 buiiucla ot barley, making a
grand total of 5,775,098 bushels, against .
1,570,055 busheis at this period last year.
In Parts and iu suburbs there are
more than 18,000 people who live by
,n:. 1 iiihi. h r.i ..,, r ri nnii iuui. '
....... ' ' ' v" mXJlJ , " f .T. 11
ragipickiiig or rag-selling. There are
10,000 chiffon uiers who go about collec
ting scrap of rags or uauer. and 3.000
old clothes dealers who buy rags, and
who again employ 2,000 workmen.
In New South Wales last vear the
sum of $1,708,485 was expended upon
primary education. Teacuers' salaries
absorbed $719,320. There were in oper
ation 1,187 schools, attended in tbe ag
gregate by 12i,125 pupils, blnce 1877
there has beeu au increase of seveuly '
si-ioois. Ten years ago -Jxem were onl v
642 school!. J
Tne Boston Fish Bureau has lust
completed statistics of the catch of
mackerel, the receipts and imports from
January 1 to August 1, The New
England eaten of mackerel for that
time is 61,763 barrels, of which 19,414
oarreis nave been packed out at Boston.
12,490 barrel at Gloucester and 29.941
at all other New ugland ports.
A mile Is 5.280 feet, or 1.760 vards
in length. A fathom Is six feet. A
' JpKfrup iilhrMmlliu 1 ll.kh.ti.
32JiTI,w M86 yards less tbsn two
tiaud (borseift. A day's journey Is
A palm Is three iuc1n4two feet. A
inches. A space is three lew-ipcbes.
Of 17,000 guns constructed byfKsl,.
Krupp at hi work at: Essen during """"
the last tweniy-vnree years ouy
have burst, aud nvarly ail 01 ie were
destroyed during trial undertaken to
test their power 01 resistance or tuum
auce, and when, consequently, they
were loaded with cnarge. neavwr
they we designed to lire.
Thirty-two American horses arriv
ed at Havre recently for the Jf rencn
cavalry. They were Inspected by
French omcers aeiauea ior me w
aud were all accepted at prices ranging
irom$220to $270, which are 'ne up
prices lor D'reuc-n remounts. iuu.
ses were in splendid condition after
their voyage, no accident wnaiever
bat ing occurred on board snip.
Th immigration statistics at Vas-
tle Garden, New York, give the number
of arrivals of imigrants during July at
12.408, against 8KB in Juiy, i,
total arrivals since January 1 re8,JUO,
an twrease ot 21,550 over the same per
iod last year. Tne records of each
month show an increase.pa iu
being tbe greatest, wnen w.r.
1S.328 arrivals, against 11,450 In Xay,
1878. v
-Mrs. Dam Sri Boutelle has iut oie
at Fitcbburg, Mass.. at tne "
agr of 99 years, longevity -ioeristicot
her family. 'fwo of her
brothers died a few years since, on the
8th day of August, at the ripe ageof
82 and 8 reiietlTeiy A Urge u um
ber of tbe lamily nave died at age
Spying from 80 to 92. Mr. Boute 1
l"rl brother, Mr. Dvid Bouwlle,
oHFVicbburg. now 88 years old, aod
twin sUters, aged 81. v