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THE COUr.'TrtY CHURCH-
There w re no m .tib-ic l pews ttioniin,
llnely In-s.'.i "I .iling
"I !(-- t.-a-ii ii. i plainer riii is sin.
Nor deeper t'lui-th'n fi'i'ling;
lint through tli" Wiur'li's pensive slind'i
"1 hit s" iiunni-r iiir o.i;?,o stealing
From o'er tin1 litlis whoso outlines lands
Unuat ilromcilarit-fl kneeling
I see thni'ivtvds that ixnlhorfil then
While lan.iy's iin.:vvnrl winging
rhiin RDiiniry ( ilk. but women and axon
With fuitli di.iniily springing-.
Tlicro li iiMii Havs would leal lu prayer.
Ike l ilo would bu. In si iiiitiir
And ll.tppy J ;" wont straight from thero
To Huavm's sii ires up-rinsing!
And ..ni p.'rli;ip:i who liar, forget
lh-r ..Id-iiac boyish lover-"
Hi "r lai'c Mill h.-iiuis llio hallowed spot,
As ere n dream was over.
While 'tu nig III" colder city's way
lb' wishes, ill, aniing ci her,
H held tin- dead love nf those ilny
I'IicuIii'k li i i uf r-i now uncover.
- Will T. Hull.
tub siotwui suitor.
".My (Inn I my," observed a certain
negligent yi.imtr man ton certain oilier
iieti 1 ijxe :i1 young man, in they wero
both engaged in the laborious opera
tiuii of sitting uuiler n sliaily tree,
subsequently to u :i i tietilurly heavy
country dinner. ".My dear hoy. "snid
lie, "doyo-i know- that 1 think that
yn-.i nic - i i nn) mo rt little of a
i-u.rr
"Know it.' Corlainly, " I esponded
the other toiler; "why shouldn't 1 ?
'Hint is your rnmaioii run of thought,
ninl as yon lake onto to express it u
ilopu times a iluy I am tolerably used
to il. I uiu not surprised, I assure
yon. Hut what have 1 clone now?"
"Done'.' Nut h i:ivr. Doing every- I
tiling. You ae playing the mischief
with your after-happiness by allowing
yourself to net in iovo with your ',
'charmer,' as yon mo pleased to call '
her. Suppose you marry her. She,
Mill leal you the life of a servant. I
She has tin time the money you can I
lay yotir hand-upon, and, so far as I 1
ran see, is a maiden who would love
fondly to i ule th i rood. Sh j is self- I
willed, witty. high-tempered and exact i
ing. And brtii i t'li your stupid pood- !
nature and he tut iful laziness, and her i
touch utid-go six le, with her tiro and i
push. yon will cuiie out pretty tine, old I
boy. pretty deuced line." '
"Upon my wind, I'm half inclined
to think yen re i ight. Not a midden
conversion, by any means, hut I've
been di earning that she has more j
uhtck in i sms.lo dav than I've had j
since 1 is bin n. And this won't do, i
yuii see; can't bear to be made to do ;
anything, or think nt everything, and ,
she would always be nagging at my j
habits nn 1 lazy friends. That would
be misery indeed. My dear friend, i
you're handsomer than I, take her off j
me hinds. She'd be willing, no i
doubt." " j
"Weil." dia'A b'd the other," "I
don't mind. Kgiitisin nside. you'll j
pardon mc. of course, if J say that I ;
think we might get on better than if
you weie in my jdai e. Hut 1 ran't
etand an llii tat ions from yon, of
course, iiu ll have to ip.iit niooiilight
driv.-s an 1 b ntii!.r, and that stutXof ;
roitrfe, t '
' I'eilain. As von like. It is too
hot In talk. Suppose yo'i hunt her
up. shu's plaitng ci-o piet or some
surh i iibliisli behind the house, do go,
my boy, tor bin horiibly sicepy. "
1'pon thi, nothing loth, the first
couspiiutur dragged himself upon his
feet, and louugi'd away to begin his
toil of rapturing I he hand -ioni est and
ii, best girl in the country round
about, mid inmiediatrly after he was
lost to sight this identical handsomest
and richest unl steppe 1 from behind
the tri'c, with flushing eye, and con- j
templated the second conspirator with
subliiu.i wrath. He, however, smiles i
upon her blandly. ;
"Too hot to get up to receive you,
my love. There, don't fly off in a fury,
for I knew you were there, but I ;
couldn't stand the trouble of petting !
you alone in any other way. There's j
k shaw l or sunn thing; fetch it here, I
and sit down and take my head in j
your lap. Come. " j
"indeed, sir. " iiot'n she; 'indeed, i
sir, vour impudence is bevond everv
thing. 1- " '
"Yes." yawned the prostrate hero;
"I expect it is. But you wouldn't have
mc get up to get that fdiawl, would
you?"
"It is not a Matter of a shawl, I as
sure you," said the handsomest girl,
with a lino drawing up of her figure;
"but I demand to know why you pre
sume to talk of me in the milliner 1
was forced to overhear."
Here she dug her parasol deeply
into the t,-oiuid. mid looked savagely
upon the poor culprit before her. The
poor culp! it laughed.
'"A trick i t war only, inv cem. 1
minted to tickle his vanity. He ii a
consummate dandy. and you area con
summate beauty, and I am a cousiiin
mate lazy-bones, so, there you have
it, if you'll only take the trouble, to
find it out. ifs a bore explain."
"hereuj on ho spread a handker
chief over his face. Here the parasol
came in use to drag it away and throw
it off upon the grass, while tho perpe
trator of the outrage looked in
dignantl v dowuw aid.
"Sir," .-he began, with much calm
r.CiS though her eyo sparkled m if
sir1 we e a burning volcano iuside.
'Mi- lme."
"S11. I ow n that I have been foolish
enough to suppose that in a person tit
to be my husband there would bo at
leat sumo lingering spaik of mmili
ness, and
"Love, that was foolish ! It was,
indeed. "
"And some faint atom of spirit.
That there would be some energy that
would show itself' on some (rcat occa
sion, even if it was usually concealed
by othe .- ha'dls. Now, I hnve been
iuoiishiy led into becoming engaged to
yon, nnd 1 hoped that ail might coino
out. nil right but but," lieie the
voice began to break a little and tho
lips to tremble, but they both calmed
almost instantly; "hut now that I can
not help thinking that you will he ut
terly worthless to the world and to
everybody iu it, I now sav that
I desire to consider our
broken."
'a 'cmeut
There was a trifling silence, during
which the parasol prodded the earth
vigorously, and the party addressed
n,etcn,l..,l i o 1, ii' 1,1 ooi.h
spoke
I"""".'
"Excuse the slang, if enx that's
pretty rough!"
"llow much worse would it be for
me, a girl w ho loves spirit nnd vigor,
to be harnessed to a hulking fellow,
who can do almost nothing but sleep,
whose labor is playing billiards ami
whoso aspiif-tioii is to smoko better
cigars than all his friends. I feel
ashamed to think that ever looked
upon you with even forbeai ance. If
you could only show some scar, or
show smiio work done in this great
world, or show that you even give
some of your wealth to charity or
tho relief oLfuflei ing, 11 even had t!:
pluck to knock down the stable boy, I
might perb.np.-i think I otter of you, for
I can't love a man w hose weapon is a
laugh, and his defense ami argument
a at retell and a yawn.
I After all this the most beautiful 11 1
I must need go into hysterics, or,
! rather, an hysterical lit of weeping,
I whioh prevented her from seeing the
( scarlet Hush creep into the face of the
! disinrded youth, who still iitl'ccted to
! be unooncernml. They both remained
1 silent for some, ninl. indeed, many
j moments, and boih became aware of
1 an approaching torm, but neither
' cared to go away, ninl, indeed. partially
foigot that it was so close, until a
I w hirring cool breeze l iished through
! the leaves about them. Still they re
i mained quiet, both perfectly mini, he
I without a sign of his rid habit of
I laughing, ami she resolute and a little
j white in the face.
I I'resently he ror.se.l himself, and,
I without a word relating to the subject
1 then before them, looke 1 about at the
I threatening weather.
He ottered hi r his arm, but she drew
awnv nnd motioned him to go on alone.
lie did not move neither did she. II j
became rapidly darker, and shelter j
was some $0d yards oil'.
"Come," said he, finally, ' don't you j
think we had better gj?" I
' I will not go w ith you, fm I feel ,
that I have quarreled with yoti. Go ;
on alone and I will follow."
''.Vo, I will follow vuu, c-r else 1 1
ehall stay."
"Then stay!" i
It became darker and darker, and
soon the rain burst upon them, ami
mky-black clouds were rising in the
horizon. The lightning was terribly
near, and ho looked at her rather
nervously, and perceived that Ler
woman's nerve was yielding under the
frightful noie about them.
"I must insist on vour going, for
.i,, ,..-...,.1 ,,,! tl,, ,, i.,
is ' particularlv ' dangerous. the
tree is verv tall and stand; quite ,
nlone. " j
; She trembedns n new burst of storm 1
broke upon them, and shrank from
him further inward toward the trunk.
"No." she gasped. "I feel quite
safe here. Go yourself. I shall not j
stir." 1
"nut you iiius' '" ei ied he, decisively j
and approaching her. j
"Must!" She gaod at him in asfon- I
ishment. w hile a thrice terrible burst !
broke upon them. He looked about,
tilled w ith di ead, and upward at the
huge, towering shaft above linn, an. I
thou at the gill before him.
"Come," cried be again, but she
withdrew from him. Another burst
broke in rattling thunder from the
clouds above them, and the caith
seemed to tremble under their feet.
He dared wait no longer, but rushed
upon her. and seized her and fled, in
spite of her nngiy struggles and
screams.
It lasted but a second, she ha 1 a
sene of torrents of rain boating on
her upturned face, and of fierce winds
sweeping about her. and of- strong
arms encircling her. and he bad a
sense of a beautiful burden, a greater
strength, and then all became suddenly
jagged, torn and distorted.
There win a vision of splitting, of
while the and bluish flame, inula feel
nig (if rocking and stumbling, and a
great upbearing of all about lam, and
then a dashing to the earth, and then
a stillness and death like quiet.
The suu was shining when he 11 woke
again, and there were kind faces about
him, nnd among theies. that of the
first conspirator.
"Ah, old boy, it was piettv tough,
he's all right, but a little da.ed. The
lightning knocked the tree to shivcis,
and you got away just fur
be knocked over yourself.'
"What does she miv','"
nough to
w hisprred
Ihe other.
"Not much, but, from what
1 see.
there's tut chance for me."
"No, I don't think there is, for I
think I'll keep her myself.if she thinks
that I turned out any better than she
thought nnd if she'll have me."
"And she will," spoke up another
voice, gently, on the other side, "for
you've got a seal and one 1 shall always
be proud of. Hurry aud get well,
lazy bones, and then "
It was a!! completed properly, of
course, and the second conspirator
turned over many new leaves hence
forth. New York News.
4 Snubbing Srrvlir.
The vicar of St. Lawrence's church,
I'lrminghnni 1 England ', recently an
nounced a "scrubbing service," and
iuvited the congregation to assist in
the work. Soap, water and scrubbery
were provided. The service lasted
from 3 o'clock until S.:10, by w hich
time the interior of the church pre
sented a glossy and shining appear-auce.
THE CIRAFFE'S SORE THROAT.
It Wn Jloul I Itrlitccn I'ret I.iini; nn;l Vriy
lliiril In 1 real.
"Scenis to me I told you once, "said
the old circus man, "about tho giraii'e,
having a sore throat? It is a serious
matter for anv giraii'e to have a sore
i '"rtut; '" 1' ,ue gii'oU'e and bad for
tiie owner. When you come to take
eiguiceu-ioo. g.raue m eours .yore
throat ineaut large e:q.ense and a large
?m1,,lt (,t '"" the fe low
had u t more 11 got over this before
.1.:..-. .1.... 1 1
1 p-.uiiri :i 1 u n i imj uniiMeiitii
happened to him that
gave us even moie trouble. He caught
cold nnd the cold settled in bis throat
-1 suppose he was still sensitive
there --nnd it pave him a still' neck,
so that he couldn't bend bis neck at
"Von can't have any idea of what a
still' neck means until you see n giratt'o
nillicted ill that way; w e'd had nil sorts
of trouble with animals iu one way or
! another, but for real bother this beat
j 'em nil. We discovered it one day on
! the Km 1. The giraffe always ducked
' his hea l under the branches that hung
I dow 11, sort of like n swan or goose
; does, but this day, ciu iying his heft I
I right up straight in tho air, ho brought
I ii)i against a branch that was at least
I fifteen i'eet above the ground. That was
1 such 1111 amazing thing that v.r knew
I something must be the mutter, and
' when the giraffe's keener tame, up and
I spoke to him, and all he did was to
j bend his nose down and look down,
I why, we saw he couldn't bend his
neck, ami then we knew what was the
matter.
"Well, of course, the Mist thing we
I did was to set a man to march along
side of him with a tent pole with a
crotch iu the end of it to lift the
! branches for him. Most of the time
j almost all of the time, in fact we
j rould steer him clear of overhanging
branches, nud of course lots of tho
I way there was long stretches where
there wasn't any trees at all. and then
I we'd come to places where the man
I would have to lift a branch to let the
big giraffe go under; and a great pity
it was too, to sec him compelled to go
about in that manner.
I "He went that way for about (en
I diirs. Ordinarily we used to put hi J
I bed for him on top of an animal cage,
j so thai lie wouldn't have to bend
down more fhan eight or ten feet, but
he couldn't do that now. So we set a
ring 111 the centre pole eighteen fer-t
from the ground, and we used to reeve
a 1 ope through that nnd make one end
fast to the bucket with his feed or
dj ink in it, aud hoist it up and lei
him eat there. On the road we used
to throw the rope over the crotch of a
tree at a suitable height. For his
entry into the great tent nt show time
we had to cut a great slit in the can
vas; but we didn't regret thut.beeau.so
it w as a mighty impressive thiug to
see him march 111 that way. It made
him look thirty six feet tall iustead of
eighteen.
"J'nice a day a man used to go up
on a ladder and put n strap around
his head, nnd we'd hook 011 n fall with
j " l'-'s'm s .cbair.nnd a man would ride
low 11 his neck and rub in liniment.
He used to like that very much, and
it helped him greatly, too, nnd one
morning when the men went out to
give him the usual rub they were de
lighted to see the old chap wnh his
head down pretty near to the roof of
the grizzly bear cage, which stood
next lo him, which showed t lint his
neck w as coming around all right, and
also indicated that he'd fake his break
fast this morning in t hn old way, if
you please. " - -Huston Herald.
Tho Fnllier ol lo nlianl ISt-cml.
II would be interest ing to trace the
rise and fall of n fad. In lS:t'J Sylves
ter Graham, n Yankee preacher of the
Presbyterian faith, decided that the
surest way to cure the people of in
temperance in drinking was to cure
them of the Hesb-eating habit. He
went up and down preaching vege
tarianism nud became the leader of 11
great following. He not only con
demned liquors, but tea, coffee, but
ter and salt, and wrote a book to
prove that the only bread Ht to eat
was made of unbolted flour. Ibis re
sulted iu the Graham -flour brand,
culled to this day in his honor. "Gra
ham hoarding-houses" were estab
lished everywhere, nt which these
doctrines were practised. Horaeo
Greeley found his bride at a Graham
boarding-house, and for a time fid
lowed Graham's teachings. Graham
advocated that following his diet would
cause one to live to n biblical age. but
he died at the early ago of titty six.
Atchison Globe.
Itletsini; In I'liguiac.
"The big floods iu the Mississippi
last year overflowed two cotton plan
tations of mine down in Mississippi,
aud my tenants thought they were
everlastingly ruined," said Calvin
Nutt of Maryland nt Chanibci liu s.
"thought so ton, as une of the
choicest was teu feet under the water,
nnd the ether from four to eight feet.
I was down there not long since to col
lect rents from my colored tenants, nnd
they paid me dollar for dollar, having
produced 011 those flooded farms the
biggest crops of cotton on record.
They had paid their debts to the local
merchants, too, and still had more
cotton left iu the fields than they had
gathered. Yon never saw a happier
lot of people in your life. The over
flow was a blessing iu disguiso tohun
dreds of us. It left my lands in far
better conditiou than beforo the rise,
for the waters deposited on them a
layer of silt that added immensely to
the fertility of the soil." Washing
ton Post.
somo iny.
Tbc Fair One-I suppose von will I
marry, though, when tho gol'deu op- i
portiinitv offers, won't vou?
The Cautious One-It will depend j
upon how much gold there is in th
opportunity. -Harper's Bazar. I
WliEOKEI) WIIEX1X POUT
V'tSSELS THAT VVLNT DOWN WHEN
THEY SKEMED PERFECT! Y SAt'E.
T-spM-ist 4ii:illiiiK llati"i:i to H ni sliips
Have OcclllTi'it W;tliutit u Mftitienl'M
Vanillic-How tbc lloynl f;'nr.;o (J up
s'.etl -Awful I'nlc (if tin I'lM'tir-iu!! lloat.
If there is one place where a vessel
is supposed popularly to be safe, says
the New York Sun, that phu-o is port.
It need not be her home port; but so
long 113 a vessel is in port, in the
minds of the public she is safe, yet,
ns the recent disaster to the Maine
shows, even port is nut always safe.
Iu fact, eonie of the great naval disas
ters iu history occurred in port.
Probably the greatest accident on
record, nnd celfainly thmost famous,
was the capsizing ot the Koyal George,
a lino uf battleship of the lirilish
navy. It was the flagship of Hear
Admiral Uiehard Keiupeiilcldl. n
Aug. i!;l. IT.vJ, as it lay oil' Spithead,
at the mouth of the Thames, it was
heeled, in older that a pipe might be
repaired. Ib'iling was a simple pro
cess; one broadside, of guns was run
from our side of the ship to the other,
so that ail the weight wa-cii one : lde:
this laid ihe ship over fur enough to
lay bare 'lie end of the pipe Heeling
wa'n'l ulisoluioly safe, but the repair---were:o
simple that it wasn't worth
while lo dork I lie ship. So 1 hoy
heeled tho loiyal George.
The fdiip had not been put out of
commission, nnd practically all her
officers and crew wero aboard. He-
sides, the friends of many of the
ship's company were 011 board, men,
women and children. A land breeze
spraug up, the stays did not hold, and
the great ship capsized, nearly si id
persons being drowned, Tho lloynl
George carried ldrt Runs, nnd wns one
of the best xessels in the royal navy.
On June !!, 1S5!, the steamship
Eastern Monarch lay off Spithead, af
ter a voyage fiom India, with Slit) olli
rers and men on board, most of whom
were invalids. That night she was
burned, but providentially only eight
persons lost their lives. On !eo. '12,
lTo. just three days before Christ
mas, H. M. S. Goliath, used psa train
ing ship, lay 111 the Thames w ith iib.-.ut
."iiid oliieers, men nnd boys, 1110.1 ,f
tho boys being rcnoued from the slums
of Loudon. lamp upset on the oil-
room Moor; but again fortune was on
tliosnie 01 mat), mm only twi
per
sons were burned to death.
Sunday, March 24, lS7!r was an un
pleasant day in parts cf England.
There was a snowstorm, which is al
ways unpleasant in Englaud, aud then
there came thunder and purple light
ning, and, to top off, a furious squall
raged for a short time. Just before
the squall H. M. S. sailing frigate En-
rydice, used as a training ship, sailed
up along the Isle of W ight. she had
about 300 men and hoys on board,
and came iu with a good breeze, most
of her snils drawing and her poits
open. Tho boys were crowding the
decks, happy to see England again
after a loiij? voyage from the Bermu
das. Off Dnnnose head, near Vent
nor, that snow squall struck her and
she capsized. Ventnor is a watering
place, winter as well as summer, aud
right before the eyes of hundreds of
persons unable to help, the old frigate
went down. Hardly any one was
saved. Captain Hare, Lieutenant Ta
bor, the executive otheer, and nearly
every other person on board was
drowned almost within reach of land
a? the entrance of the harbor for which
they had hoped.
Forty-five years ngo Captain Cow
per Coles of the British navy invented
what he called a turret ship, a ve-scl
to carry few guns, but those of large
calibre, in movable towers on the deck.
Ericsson had the same idea nud carried
it out iu his monitor, but Captain
Coles was not able t embody bis
plans in a ship until nearly fifteen
years had passed. Finally, the lords
commissioners for executing the olliee
of lord high admiral accepted the cap
tain's plans, and H. M. S. Capt.un w as
the result. It wns n tull-rigged iron
ship, armored, with auxiliary steam
power. High bulwarks were intended
to he let down when the vessel was
cleared for action, uncovering the two
turrets.
The shij was launched iu 1 '. nnd
bad trouble from the first. Finally,
she seemed to "find herself" and
joined tbo Channel fleet. On Sept.
7, 1S70, commanded by Captain Hugh
Hurgoyne, she was sailing through the
Bay of Biscay. She carried a compa
ny of 4Ntf persons, and Captain Coles
aud Mr. Childers. a son of the lirst
lord of the admiralty, who were pas
sengers, made the total number on
board iW. At I J.l-'i a. 111. a squall
sprung up nu 1 struck the top-heavy
ship. The bulwarks were down, the
ship heeled over and never lighted.
Of the I'.l'l persons on board only
eighteen escaped. 11 nil when thecouit
martial sat to try some one for negligence-
in losing the vessel, the only
person they could try wns James May,
the gunner! Every officer was lost.
The Captain was not in harbor; but
she might as well have been; she wns
alone, there was no danger of colli
sion, her ammunition didn't explode.
Seemingly she was as safe as n ship
well could be. SI10 and tho Eurydice
and the Koyal George Mere beaten
down by 110 great storms. It wns s
though the finger of Providence had
pointed at those three ships aud al
nothing else.
Not quite three years after the Eu
rydice capsized there was a boat race
on the Thames up in Canada. The
lay was Queen Victoria's birthday.
I Mav 21, 1881. Tho day was clear, it
,vas a holiday, and the race was excit-
nK' 80 tho steamboats accompanying;
tbo. rA,cet,s were crowded. Tho ic
tom on liel' ,le(,ks eve,T so'11 sh
po"!J rft,IT,'; but everJrbo,1.v, ''eiiaved
well nml ihcre was uo troble nl n
4auger until au exciting part of a
nr. d to null to one
'I hell f h" 1 'Ii I is i ..( d.
She bad Toil peisois on IokmI, and
1,101 e tiian Ilnil died. I he suddenness
of this disaster was nppa'.ling.
Theie me countless other iindai'.cc
of suh strange j r .videiit ial happi n
ings; they all go to show Unit n man
i us sn'(.- anywiK le as he is anywhere
else, and that when his time is u; ho
must go.
CURLINC.
A Scotch flume i-jiIoii-Iv f'ultitatcil
ly
Scdfi liiiieii Iu A iiierl' n.
Tho game of curling has secured a
firm place among the winter sports in
all parts of the country where there
is heavy ice and whore there are
Scotchmen to teach the game to their
American neighbors. There are about
fifty curling clubs m the Cnite.l
States, and the Grand National Cn. !
'lie, club of Amci ii lun a inemb: 1 -ship
of many hundreds iu all parts of
I he N01 1 h and Xoi t Invest ; but still I ho
game is spoken 1 f 11s "Scotland's ui'i
rame. "
The game :s always played on he
covered lakes or ri eis. except in Kng
hind, where it is t'j e. pient ly played
tiiidiT fia.-'S root's by men whoso whito
waisteiints. siruw has. floral dreo:;'
tious ninl gene n! i-i -k of Scotch s:!e
noise the real curlers to regard tin m
w i:li scorn.
The rili lei s who ai.; :nemh"rs ot tho
New Yo; k clubs have their conies'
on Yaii Cortland! hike, mid tln-ie is
probably 110 class nf sport-no 11 wh-i
go about a game so seriously as Ihi-y,
The object of the game is to plant
the r irling-stolio, which has h tea ki t
tle shape and weighs from thirty-two
to forty-four pounds, near the "tee'1
or cen'ro of a circle at a dis ance of
forty yards and to guard it there.
Next to the f tone the broi.m play s
the most impuitant pnit iu the game
of culling, because, iu the hands (if a
sweepe.- who is anxious to see the
stone a-hance to the 1 irele whe:o i:
will count, it is wielded dexterous! c,
so that every particle of snow or he
may be removed from the stone's
course. The ".-kips" or captain of
the opposing sides have rhni-.e of the
sweeping 1h.pnrtmcuts.11nd the swe ti
ns have the light lo i'sr their brooms
after the stone has got beyond the li t-1
which marks the middle ol the 1 ink.
The sweej.ing is nlwavs to ,1 . i ie o.
l oss I ne rinic mid not !-: iu:- l
! backward, where the sw roping - m;
olistiurt the passage 01 a iiiuii'ng
j stone
I Match games, called a I ottspiel, tire
j played by opposing teams of foiii t-a -1,
and wnen it is al home curling is c
sentiaily democratic, ft has been sai l
that the lord of the manor, the
clergyman aud the, village bln -k.-mi' h
may be seen on the same rink with
the smith ns "skip." shouting to ihe
clergyman to "Soop, soop'" when he
thinks a "soop," or s.veep in front of
the moving stone will help it along.
The enthusiastic curler sees and
bears nothing but the speeding stones
and the applause, the shouts of "Weol
curled, moil!" and the boyish shouts
which rise on the winiry air show that
o youthful spirit may live iu a mature
body, j artieuiarly if it be that of 11
Scotch curler New York Tribune.
A Simis of i:itav.
A very interesting balmo of our
Inrd s.iligs is tile wing-song or solute!
ecstasy. Ii is ied the e.fi ,,f many of
our hi ids. Indeed, less than a di-Z :i
-pecies nir known to me u-' i vcr - inn
ing on the wing. It seems to spring
from iiioie mteii-e exeiieiuciit aid
self abandonment than the ordinary
song delivered 11-. 11 the perch. When
the bird s joy n iches Ihe point of
rapture it is liteiiilly rallied elf it-
feet, and up it goes into ihe air. pour
ing out its song as a rocket pours its
sparks. The sky lark ami the bolm
link habitually do this, but a few
others of our birds do it only on occa
sions. Last summer, up in ihe Cat
skills, I added another name to my
list of ecstatic singers- I hat i f the ve.--per
sparrow. Several times I heard a
new song in the nil, nnd caught a
glimpse of the bird as it dropped bark
to the earth. My attention would be
attracted by a succession of berried,
chirping notes, followed by a brief
burst of song, tnen by the vanishing
form of the bird. Our day I was lucky
enough to see the bird 11s it wa'-ri-in;;
to its rlima 111 the air. and identified
it as the vesper sparrow. The biut
of song that crowned tin Upward
flight of seventy five or one-hundred
feet was hi id', but it was brilliant aid
striking. ;:nd eiitiri'y unlike the b is
urely chant of the hud while upon the
.round. It .suggested a lalk. but was
less buzzing or humming The p- c
limiiiui y chit 1 ing in-l 1 s.ut ti red faster
and fasti" a the bird mounted in the
air, w ere 1 1 lie t ho trail ot si .11 !, s w !ii 'h
a locket et:ii;.s betel c its gland bur. t
of color al the top of its flight -John
Hip roughs in The Cent uy
in lilnii.
The first requisite-, nf a good diivei
are a cool head, a v.nlchfni and a ready
linger, with n quick understanding nt
the needs and requirements of his
horse, says Our Animal Friends. He
must also be ready to detect any ob
ject by the roadside t tint would be
likely to annoy the horse, and to com
prehend in a glance the character ol
the road that lies ahead of him. No
quirk tempered, loud voiced man can
expect to have a quiet, obedient horse,
and the undue haste i f the impatient
driver to correct what seems to him
misbehavior is one of the leasous why
so many boises are dangerous tc
drive. Much of the abuse, how eves,
to which the horse is subjected, arise;:
more from ignornr.ee and carelessness
than from wanton cruelty. Few poi
sons give proper attention to the de
tails of di iv ing-, foig"tting Hint it is
attention to detail w hich makes differ
ence bet we'll the esnert driver nnd the
uuskillel. 1
"V n.T
I side id the boa!
IN TIIE MAMMOTH CAVE.
1
EXHILARATING EFFECT OF THE COOI.
AND CERMLESS AIR.
II Is Not Known by What Procpan the Al-lii,i-liil'e
Is Mei-ilipit -IVrtve of Jcln
dv W'linileiliil Itl'i'eit of Mu-lc lu the
nveiiii in Kentucky' Natural VVoniltT.
John B. Procter, formerly stale ge
ologist of Kentucky, writes of "The
1 Mammoth Cave of Kentucky" for the
Century, the aiticle having many
I striking illustrations by Castaigne.
' Mr. Procter nays
j The entrance to Mammoth C; ye is
: rea died by descending a picturesque
pathway leading from the hotel down
the hillside over juttiugmoss aud fern-
1 covered limestone cliffs into a beauti
ful glen extending from tho top of tho
hill down to Green river, which is ltd
feet below the Month of the enve and
about half a mile distant, ff tho
weather is warm, as we near the en
trance wo step into n bracing, cool,
pure air, welimg up from the cave and
flowing ilow 11 the e'en beneath the
si'iili'in of li , Li r-r a-el wanner air. 1
have stoud iieai' the cntiance nnd ex
tended one hi, lei into a o.-):i einturc of
'..to degi! es. w'.i!e t :,e other lian l was
extended into a cm! flowing liver cf
nir with a temperature of about t'.li de
grees. 'Ihe air wit bin the cave has
unii'oim temporal iirr, Mimmer aud
winter, nf i degrees. The cave may
be said to breat ho 1 1' ire a year--in
haling during the winter and. exhaling
din ing the summer. This breathing
of the cave, nnd the purity of the air
and its fieedom from perms, m'o among
t the mo:-t interesting problems to be
studied, i'y what process the air in
, the cave becomes steriliil remains to
I bo determined.
But our faithful negTu guide has
1 counted the parly, selected the requi
site number of lamps nud given the
w ord, and we follow him in single file
: dowu the rude stone steps into the
vestibule of t lie cave. Turning, we
look up at the beautiful e fleet of day-
: light which we are leaving, nnd ad
mire the delicate ( a-cade fulling from
the ovei hauling n ch at the entiance.
Here our lamps are lighted ami wc
enter this sih-i;t, mysterious, change-le.-s
11110 le nf e'r! u.li llight, where tho
htat of in itics- and thoro'd ofwint.-i,
the stoi.us a. id linln lei s ol the inter
v ol Id, 1. evi l j-oiiclrate. A low b in
died yards and we feci the peculiar
sensation of eniergi;,;':- into expanding
space. We catch only glimpsi 1 of
w hite limestone projecting out of black
shadows of the fai -away walls and
'ciiing of a a immense, almost circiiiai
room about 7ii feet high, which cm
gui le proclaims the liotunda.
We note t'u pi runai- nni-ioal effect
of ihe human voice. Year-ago it was
my go id fortune to hear a celebrated
German musical society sing iu this
liotunda. 1 went far away iu one of
the great avenues leading from here,
blew out my light and sat alone in the
darkness and listened while the great
'ihtheuis rolled an 1 reverberated
through the lofty roiiidorsiu majestic
waves of melody. I could then ap
preciate the iue-tiiiiabie privilege of
the few w ho heinl Jenny Lind sing
here, and who in the Star Chamber
heard a member of her part
lih v in! ill the pi 111 el' l oiu
rebut "
render on
T'er I ici
Wliell the
not,-. I I;,
uo ;,!,er...
r,n!i:n.ei is tl
illuminated,
ie.-s of the
fin.,, dust
pcliect ,1
pa: 1 1.
learn
Ir- of
''iy 1, in I : ae-l wc soon
1 hci in th.- ea v e will
upiiii 1, Hi -.hoes. .
hi!a:aini:f e'V-ct of the
coluber : ol oiu parly. 1 1
, .! t he mi ha- become
- . ie-uilci! 1)1 Dress, rer
purity and dry-no--:-., it
1 iiio'eigo exercise for
th It I,
ihi-t 11
.l-o in-
not.
.11
ill.' le
be!-. v.-l t:,
oy veil .led by
laiuly, fi.-ei it
r i:a I -les one to
hour- without
It. 1 e before u
t fatigue.
u is evidence of ! he oil
ss of the air. The salt
!( eti d in ls J. and the
del nil ilryn
pet re vats
timbers which have icm iued in their
present po.-i; u,n since then, show- no
evidences of decay. In these vats the
saltpetie was leeched from the nitrons
earth abounding in the upper and
middle dry avenues, and used lm- the
iiiunufa. tin e nf gunpowder. The war
of lslli was fought, on the American
side, with gunpowder made from salt
petre taken f rom caves, and Mammoth
( '.-i e supplied th-- gt enter pari. One
wonders io.w. in 'he absence of germs
and of decay, lee earth becomes
cb., 1 god w it h nitiogen. J has been
rlaiilK
Ihi.e.
lm tec
i 1 1 , e g ,
r-l,!a..
tl egel
d th;
ii 1 ic acid 111 Ihe at mus
ing w i- h t he limestone,
I crleium, and the dis
t,. fi o.e the w alls and
i,c u -eat .-'ipl-lv ot 1:1
I w:
i -1 i
,0 . :i t..i ;:.-, IU t he ca v e.
ohi" i s .1 ,,:i v and ,1 halt' to make
flint 1 ! j' el rtiey - tie ongli I he
uc I, .-If a day- to w bat i- known
sin ) I 1 mi'.,-, and an 'iltt " day
! lie
t - the Long or l'-. ; ,,,tit". Hat licit
by 110 mean-, exhausts th.' objects ,;'
1 ii t ! 1 t and one may speu I days in
i-itu,g avenues Mil 1 liainhors and
ihiines no' included i'l Ihe regular
mutes.
'.1 iui " ltnw le.
Brave, generous, delern.ined and
enterprising, Ja-ues Bow ie sought ad
venture for its hazards, and he was
nat ui ally among ihe first to take up
arms for Texas independence. Three
more desvere'e men were never
brought together than Travis, Crock
ett and Bowie, they took their last
stand v ithiu the wa'ls of the Alamo.
Sick and helpless in bed on that last
le; 1 tide d.iy. "Jim" Bowie died fight
ing. As a ylexica-i ran forward to kill
hiui ho l'l-u-ed himself by a supreme
fto:i. ca'ig'.tt bis as-allant by the
nair, piungo 1
1 the la'al knife into his
heart and K
1 1 k dead.
When tli"
1oId to hi- ,
she said: "I
-t.1 v of his death ',i-ii:i
Id motile;- 11 Louisiana.
in sir,." 'Jim' never lied -
with a won hi ui his beck," nnd with j
a qi iet smile turned a0uiu to her j
household duties.
A PEST OF EAGLES.
; I. mill's nml roulliy ilei I;
t on.
I idii iit Kin-Mi Ii) lliir. Ucut (lii'ls.
I Eagles have become a est to farin
I ers in Connecticut. Tho boldness and
tielci uess with which they ha-o been
preying upon farm animals a:e re
markable. At th" siinir time tle y 11,0
so wary that few of tiiemaie -li d.
There is n la- go uw-.l ar-i-ehii ly
ugly bald-headed 1 agio in th" Gardi
ner's Lake country, i.i New London
county, which b::s l.ia !o s'.eh a
nuisance 01 ite f in tho mutter o
stealing lambs nud p ultry from the
fanners nil wiuter,thut 11 special effort
has been ma le to duy it, but thus far
it has succeeded in avoiding the guns
of a score of hunters and evaded any
number of pole tiaj s which have beeu
set and temptingly baited up in tho
air for it.
J. N. Newton, foreman of the Fi-h-ei
's Island farm, killed a 1 i f 1 ahl
eagle on the island. It had become
exbau.-ted from some unknown reason
and fallen iu the road. Mr. Newton
leaped from his wagon and attacked
the eagle vvitii the I) tit of his whip.
The eagle '.ir ned on him fierc'dy. and
il was some t imo before be could kill
it. '! i.o bird had a i preadnf wings of
s ix feet four inch, iitid v-..s b,.::iiti-f'-i
lly lm.-ked, hav ing 11 vlii'.o bead,
llee'i; and tail, and tho re-l nf its b idy
beieg of a hii::od le.e.vn. j'i--her's
Island I.- id O being hail it- d bya gloat
g 1 len eagle, attracted the -e by tho
large poultry fat 111-.
A tierce fight iiel w-eeti a bald (agio
nud a hen, winch, itnregeto ay, di I
not result in the death of the hen, or
cured on eni.is Peiigo's farm in
Kent. The In 11 lad. lly in t the o iglo,
which dropped like a plummet from
t he upper air. Feathers and blood
flew at a lively rate fm- a.-nnuu ui, and
the eagle seemed somewhat nonplused
by- its reception. Then the hen .sud
denly flew into tho woods-he I, le.iviiij
her tail f-uitheis in the clutches of tho
glorious bird. The hen is still in go.nl
health.
A bald-headed eagle w.-.s : ho' while
banging over James Way's farm in
Lyme. An npi e itr i' ic t .r!;cy h il
this specimen of the king i.i'b ids in'o
trouble. While It w a - s .v o . iag dnwu
upon tho tin key most Mi.Wi.y lamrcil
the eonto;,i-i of mi oid musket iut 1 it,
hrooki'i one v. inc. It : 1 1 into tho
V 11 1-1. llopiorf; aed !:;'. g at c.eiy
tiiiii;; w i ,1.1; Kc'.'h v. th i'-- v.i l.ed-
lookinc Lock, 'i hi:; bud w
lee la. go t i '.or -In ill m
1 1 n;e;-s ;i e I sc. ( 11 feet t-u 111
tip to tiji of w in .'S, i h.i I
oral months been a pes: te'e
- one of
..'."ieut.
in from
fur S-V-
fai ;:ie:s
of Lyme
On Goose Is1 and in I ong Island
S al. ol. James Moiitcith. n liu 1; hunt
er, shot n lal ee bmdeavl e and b 'ought
it to the giouiid. As i,o s eppc d for
ward to pi'-k it nu. thinking it was
dead, be was attache 1 by lee bid a-ul
bally seiatch"d. Befoie he finally
killed it his clothing vv a lm u into
shreds. 'I he ea .le inea-;ii e l six ami
one-half feet ueross the wi'.igs. New
York Suii.
Kind Oilier ill the A I a -liii I, ild 1 ieliU.
'The .Hi voi Trip to the Klondike"
is the title of an a' tielei'i The Ce'itury
by John Sidney Webb. The author
say -:
I'i.-jeites, who' her of contract or
fort, nimei :,' rights, claims, or what
hoi, i'ic, in the abseu -e of any civil
goveruuie-.it, :eille l by minors' meet
ings. The a :gi ioved -. !-"i called a
mine!-' n.ee;. tig, a enm n.a'l was ap
pointed. a"e! tit- grievan o set forth.
II Ihe !;i. o,,i,g -a-v lit to cocsldcl' the
in sti,,u r l in.ed its,. If into a court
Ly ' i,pi oiiit cent of n i'ldge Hlid il
mats ha!, by the sii in on re i: g of a jury,
ii ml by foiiow ing out Ihe term . of u
mart of law. so tar ns they knew tuc n,
and seine of them were e -.pel :c:i' oil
men. The panics and th if w it iiesses
were heal, I, a' gumeins vv e; c made, tiio
jury wcic in -It'll' tod, a id ii." a. -tc,l to
make up their verdict. Tin- verdict,
was absolutely I'l'luln-i'.' ", t.ll tho
p-.iie.es ("lir-'ii'd. all I in s' lne in
stances judgments have been rendered
for several thourands of dolia- -.which
have always been paid. Whatever
men learned in '.he law may lulnk of
such tribunals, th- result nu double Hy
has hern that even-handed u-;i c has
been dealt out without fear or Liver,
and n on. nnmuity liable to -,i'.o -t violent
passions has Icon conducted without
so: ioiis (iist urbauees of the peace or
infringement of the rights of others.
No shoot ing sci ape has i-ce.n red, ex
ei pt in a siugl" instance, iu which :t
man ciii.'ril with li inn '. after a pm
longed debauch, lute'.i pted to kill a
sii'ooii-keepci' who ie:'u-e! any longer
to sell him l:,;t-or. 'i his ,1 e ' ui ber,
nfier f.li'lg two s iol-, v a e Ki.'e l by
the ' id'" II In e"i 1 in se: ! loietioe.
Toe latter '.-a- t :i i and 'U'omi liy ac
onitte.i. ".ial I ,i lit i li in - il Hi. I i il-OH.i.
I h-'i c is an i dd i ,i o;u i i New
('liaii- ol po ling de, h n-eie s ill
public 1'iacc -. I
t he lindci t el.ef . ii
is as o!d as t i- c.
the iii"diiim by
li leu Is a' c in i'i
recently adopted i
bed to liV
ic i i rili: I . i s and
to a lu .c a'. A
iiia'icc proli; bit ing
ihe j o-ting of printed A 1 ... ,-e lien's
was thought to interfere w il h tiii - ens
ton), and a tct case was ma !', an al
leged offending undertaker being ar
rested. The llocorder i ui, ,1, iio vever,
that the pi art ice might eon; iii ie. Tim
intent ol t he ordinance. he said, w as lo
prohibit t'oe posting of mal'ei calcula
ted to interfere w ith the public peace or
the morals of the community. More
over, it expressly excepted the dulii
butioti of invitation cat ds to religion
met tings, and funeral notices ,l: ..!,t
be regarded as invitations to religious
meetings, as burial exercise; are gen
erally accompanied by lellgions Her.
viccn.
Although the flap of skin wliffii
covet s n-i tlopha it's ear is of colijjl
eiiible sie, the ear itsoif is very nt ill
in propoitiJU.