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AUI10UN. : :
NEBRASKA.
7,AWS 2'0 A, GUINEA HEN.
I honr thy wnmwlc'iit morning time, nwect
l.lnl: .
When rony-tlnted clouds flout In tlin Bklci,
Through dowy dlitances thy hour In hoard;
Alwvothorobln'nnoto (hy enrols rise,
Not lownnd bnahrul; tin, hut glud and strong
8iiawk8 to thu clouds thy clour, exultant
nong.
I cannot cateh thy warbled notp, nwoot hen;
Would ttiyBoft nuniburji might Innplro my
ihymul
Oouhl I nut mnko your cuoklo vf UJi my prn.
How down tho ringing eorrldorH of tlmo
I'd Bund thy votinor hymn.donr spccklo-back
K'ti kn, k'n ku, ku, ku, k'u ku, ku, kwitckl
Thr feet nro awl f for thnn tho tnmU of tlmo;
Whon down tho lanu 1 hour thy dlntunt
8'H0llk
I ice thco, through tlin fmioo got up una climb.
And anms tho inoudow, ono o,ulok, gpeoklod
.. itronk;
Bwlf t lo (tin bolt to dutch tlmo on tho tly,
AudoHtrlahoA, that hoo thoo run, go homo to
dlo.
1 mo thy nnplor mAcho bond, idiy Oulnou linn,
Wlicr iwiino tlio Hourlot popples In tho nun;
To roncli thy nest, far from tho huunU of mon,
About four thoimnnd nilltjt thou hunt tn run.
Deep In tho bending kiiius, olorfo by tho old rull
fence,
You luy your eggs in eggstuoy Intense
When evening falls, nud loud thocrlokets slug,
I noo you duck Ueueiith thu niortlfio Imrs,
And In tho orohnrd'H gloom, yoll bashful thing,
You Iny yourself to roost uanoiitli tho Htum,
And null vrlth tireless aini.ivrk your vigils
keep, J
And Htrlvo to Ring your tmstrorlng mates to
nlcou.
1 glenn tho lemon of thy Hfo bo Hwoet-
lt'
toot n
oluin;
toot my horn, though 1 may noil no
ehun:
To innko mj' enrol loud, my MotMops llept,
. U'lmt men may hour, but nut eomo whurp I
am;
And hide my treasures whoro no human nrm,
you bet,
Can take my uiiBiing songs to maku nn omelet.
iurMftM HawHcuc
' ItAdSDALE AND THE LKl'UOSY.
A correspondent writes from Hono
lulu: Hill Hagsdalo, ono of the most
famous political characters' tho Sand
rwich Islands oVor produced, was for
many years tho Parliament interpreter,
llagmlalo at that time wiolthid nioro in
fluence than any do.oil Nobles or As
semblymen Ho was a half-whito, very
well educated, a elo.se English student,
a brilliant, witty talker, immoral, fear
1tuu tnlltr fllwt u1lltn ITfi lllllltnil lllil
native members and misinterpreted thu
fin-ohm members. for or against miv
measure he was at ail interested in; and
as it was well known that a cash con
sideration Would interest him, ho gen
erally killed or curried a.moasuro'as Jin
'was paid best to do, Wheh the session
, wM t all dull, and some grizzled old
.native member had made a droning,
f;utiural speech in favorof, a now bridge
n tho Kojiula District, and sot oyory
ono asleop, Hagsdalo would riso im
pressively and interpret thus: tJ.Noblu
and Assemblymen: Tho learned, grave
and venerable mombur from Kuwaihao
stiVH " Thou Kaiwdalo would soar
nway in poetic flights of llowory En-1
gush; quoting half the huglish poets;
dash oil' into an impetuous, 7iery tirado
on tho ills of lifo gonorally; toll a witty
story, half in. Ji'toneli; and, having wakod
and interested tho foreign members,
would conclude thus: "That, paternal
old party from Kawuihao, who put you
' to sleep with his bad native speech,
says that if a new plank ain't put in
1 that Koliula bridgo, the lirst thing you
KnbW some waliina (woman) will break
her blossod Jog on i, or hor horse's leg,
which w.ould bo worse; and so if you
' have flnlshod ypurnaps, gentlemen, you
liad bolter'proccod to a vote,"
If some 'stupid foreign mombor made
a (lull speech in support of a measure
Hagsdalo favored, ho would "interpret"
it into nativo by ignoring it entirely, und
making a rattling and tolling speech in
native on his own account, probably
carrying a point whore thy foreign mem
bor would liavo failed, Ills worst trick,
or bos), as you like it, was to Imrlosquo
foreign members, who spoko against any
measure ho wns interested in. lie would
' ininiio tho foreigner's mannerisms, and
twist his sober Kugllsh into funny na
,tivo, all in thu grayest possible manner,
und do more harm than (rood with a
speech intonded to support the measuro
under discussion. Of Oouro this did
not always go unresepted, and ho was
morb than once discharged, but only to
bo employed, as his services, though
erratically performed,' were indfsponsa
blo. Onco Bill Hagsdalo was arrested by
a. man named Dowsott, who married
Bagsdalo's sister, Tho arrest was on
account of tho sudden disappearance
from Dowsott' 8 ranch of cortaiu lio:ds
of Uvo stock, 'and in, connection tljero-'
with Hagsdalo ot ono year, in prison.
Ho took his eonim'epiont pleasantly for
a few months, and mtl election time,
whon, by simply exerting his owninllu
oueo, ho secured 11 pardon, llis'broth
, er-in-law,. Dowsott, liad been in tho Par
liament a .number of terms; niid was
again a candidate. Upon securing his
Jinorty uagsdaio
district and did
went into Dowsott's
amonir tho natives, wlto all sworo bv
, him and who lloreely resented Dow
sett's unbrothorly 'treatment. The ro
sujt of the election, in that diitriot was
that Dowsott, who liad several times
boon elected by an immense majority,
-wits' defeated, and Bill Hagsdalo was
elected by th'o largest majority tho dis -
tnct over gave. Meeting tho defeated
and chagrined candidate a few
days
later, Bill said,: "That1 oven,
broth'cr-in'law. Ylm retired me
prison and i'vo' retired you from
1q aii, i r
dear
into
poll-
tics, Aloha,
Hagsdalo always dressed tii ' au ultra
dauilllied style, and when fiualH lie be
gan wearing one light glove, even while
- ''perfdiining hty 'duties as iniorprotui it
was thought to bo only one m his on.
rtilitrioltlos. lie told the sad truth soon
afterward. Ho was a lopor. lliohor-
riblo disease, tho scourge of fair Hawaii,
,had already made Its murk on thu con
stantly-gloved hand, into wliii'Ji a kntio
could Ijo plunged without inflicting tho
slightest pain. Poor Kagsdald-gavo liim
self up to tho authorities, And asked to
be Bent at once to flic lopor settlement
on Molokai. His cxanii1o in surren
dering himself probably induced scores
of lopfcrs, hiding from tho authorities'
on all (lie islands, to do likewise. He
wont to'Molokni and lived the rulor of
that ghastly community until about threo
years ago.
Four years ago a friend of mine visit
ed him thero. lie was living hi a com
fortable cottngc, attendod by all tho
servants he wanted, ruling'tho 700 poor
wroluhcs around him in a just, honora
blo mannor. Pointing to a room in
which no member of tho settlement
over entered, Hagsdalo said to his visit
ors; Yoti will lind wino there, gentle
men. It was brought horo by lricnds
and no lepers' hands have defiled it. Go
in uiid refresh yourselves. You cannot
bo waited on, as my servants are all
lepers." ,110 inquired atter menus in
Honolulu, to whom ho sent messages
and aloha. When my friend left he in
quired of Hagsdalo if thero was any
thing ho couludo for him. "Yos, keep
me supplied with reading matter. That
is all I ask for or wish in this lifo now
something to read and think about; !
mothinj: to shut out from my mind this
ummilli
lifO. It i
only a short time more with 1
mo now.'
It was only a short tlmo more, for
s,oon news came that poor Bill Hagsdalo,
a voluuteer exile in a leper settlement,
had shut out from his mind forevor this
lifo.
I went with Dr. Fitch to tho branch
settlement for lepers. It is an inclosure
of several acres on what is called Fisher
men's Point, on Honolulu Bay. Scat
tered over tho grounds aro scores of
cottages, some connected, others de
tached, and tho ollicos and buildings
used by Dr. Fitch's assistants. Im
agine, if you can, a settlement of
Anglo-Saxons, or peoplo of any other
highly civilized race, all of them af
flicted with, and all more or less do
formed, by an incurable and horrible
disease knowing it to bo incurable,
and seeing thomsolvcs and each other
dropping to pieces from its dreaded ef
fects. I cannot imagine such a picture,
because t honestly boliovo that suicide
would make a settlement impossible
amonir any oilier than a people still
barbarians, or olso in tho childhood of
civilization. Such was the settlement I
- . ... . . j .
visited. Therp were men, women and
children livjnr in a world apart from
ours, navmg noti.ing worm living lor ,
save mere existence, a succession of ,
days, marked only by slow consumma
tion of tho death that had already
seized upon their bodies, and hndrni-
roadyjdoprivo them of portious, wliYeh
Nyero airoauy aoturneu to uusu
Thoro were in that Irango and un
natural community marriages, births,
deaths. I wpuld not attempt to describe
in detail tho ,uuroliovcd gnastliness of
tho sights there, yet uot ono of tho in
mates who helped to make up the abso
lute dreadfulness of tho scone fnilcd io
greet us with a smilo and cordial aloha.
That only served to omphasizo tho
darkness, of tho picture. I said not ono;
yot there was ono. On a bed in a little
coUago room, whoso open door faced
th'o dark, cool canyons back of tho city,
and whoso window looked out upon tho
lovely, bay. and lot in the lazy murmur of
waves breaking over tho coral reefs, lay
a nativo woman, dying. Nearly all her
right hand had dropped off, but in tho
remnunta of her lingers alio held a foathor
fan, which slio faintly waved across her
distorted face, to cool tho hot, aching
eyes that had not been closed for
months, tho palsiod muscles of her eyo
lids refusing their duty.
As tho doctor spoko pleasantly to her,
sho turned her glaring oyos toward us,
but did not speak. 'Her mouth is af
fected, too," tho doctor said. Wo
stood aside from hor door to admit a ;
cooling breath of air that just then camo j
down from tho mountains. Tho swoll- J
en face rested, and the feobly moving .
hand foil, in gratitude for tho mountain
breeze, yot, when it died away, tho
hand did not move again; it was hor
last moment. Tho mountain's gentle
breath had comforted hor, and when it
died away hor breathing ceased, too.
In oho cottage wo saw a little girl
whoso fingers had boon drawn tip un
til hor hand was half closed. Sho had
experimented with a novel euro by
calmly stepping on tho bent lingers un
til sho had straightened thorn out. Sho
exhibited tho result with pride; four
lingers straight and stiff, and as usoful
as so many wooden pogs would have
boon.
Out on what is called tho play ground
wore some boys playing hall, ono with
a usoless hand, another with a palsied
leg. another with a foot partly gone,
and others with swollen, senseless laces.
On tho veranda of a cottage sat two old
natives, both with useless logs, but
neither of whom showod any trace of
i leprosy in face or hands. As 1 watched
a little nuiot worklthnin ono of- thorn ' booran chantinsr a
itilu hUlu, noeontpanlng It with appro -
priato inovomouts of Us hands. 1'ossl-
bly, observing the look orastonlshmont
on my faco, tho old man's companion,
with a meaning wink at me, joined in
tint clmnt. nnffsoon both tlin nld'lonm-s
wpro chanting and waving th6lr'hunds
1 in tho sensuous measures of the, hulit
llulu. .-It wnsl a dance of death, indeed;
Piiivnliliiidlr.'k nnmt- rivnr n inhlillm
skull; a rollicking revelry in a charnui
house; lifo moeklng a gaping tomb.
Tiio modio.il profession bore in Hon
olulu is in a terrm 0
what leprosy is (') ami
dispute nhout
whether or notr
It is contagious. This, of course, Is an
old, old (lispujo, but It lias boon revived
with grout violence by tlin assertion 01
Dr., V.teh (hat it is, if not curable,
amenable in a large degree to tre.it
tnent, and th.it It is uol contagious from
ordinary contact, such as would de5
man'd tho transportation of lepers in
to isolation. Dr. Fitch has been horo
two ..years, and naturally his ydulhful
but dogmatical contradiction of tiio tho-,
orics of tho old and oxporionced practi
tioners has raised a discussion of a
rathor warm nature. Howovcr, his
practico appeals to tho sympathies of
thenatives, and ho has a large, if rather
ignorant, following. San Francisco
CalL
, Louisiana Moss. ,J
As tho best qualities and tho largest'
quantities are found in cypress swamps,
and. generally on the tallest trees, unless
tho moss clinging to these bo detached
and thrown to tho ground by wind
storms, tliq usual and easiest method is
to fell tho trees, whon all tho moss can
with facility and rapidity bo removed.
Whon first gathorod from tiio troo, it is
of light grayish or lead color, and in
that condition not marketable thorc
foro not shipped, Before this can bo
done, it is made to undergo a rotting or
curing process, by which what is known
and termed the bark of the moss fiber
is removed. This process requires from
thirty to forty days and is ofl'octed by
depositing- tho green moss in wet
ditches or trenches, whoro a How of
Wltcr vorc a.ml thro"eh fho 0?3 '
?cured. Subsequently, when tho bark
has been removed and tho moss has as
sumed a black, glossy color, it is ex
posed to tho sun, tnoroiighly dried,
then baled and shipped to New Orleans,
where other treatment awaits it.
It must h? .understood that thero aro
grades and elassilications in moss, as in
other articles of commerce, and that
thoy aro adopted and recognized as
.standards of typo in tiio market and by
tho trade These classifications aro four
in number, ranging from No. 1 to No.
4, tho latter being tho highest typo.
When moss reaches Now Orleans, it is
sent to tho factory, whoro it is unbaled
and picked, so as to separate tho various
typoi which may be in ono halo, and
after fulling and immersion in baths,
whero,'J- is thoroughly cleansed, it is
cxpctjjk.il p air and sun to bo dried.
After ffaSsmg through the picking, wash
"ing and drying process, it is then passed
throiigh thu moss gin, each quautj' or
typc.'vitrutely, and tints baled, whon it
the classifications aro agaui changed.
Tho former, No. 1 to No. 4, applying to
moss as it reachj; 4ho city, while aftor
undergoing tho several processes at the
factory itibecomes known as wash No. 1
to No. S, tho No. 4 being technically
known as vegetable hair, tho highest
-r,
feIU"u Ul"""
chltfllsat
present
lis at tits rate of 12
conks pepou
Thoro aro m present in Now Orleans
three of theso factories or moss cleaning
establishments, each handling and ma
nipulating daily fifty to sixty bales of
tfnoavtialo, and a total during tho year
if thirfWFforty thousand bales. Thoy
employ together about ono hundred la
borers, male and female, paying- weekly
wages ranging from live to ten dollars.
There is no reason whatever why the
receipts at New Orleans should not bo.
one hundred thousand bales. With that
increase thero would bo no glut, as tho
demand will keep stop with the increase
and doyolopniontof the industries which
utilize- and absorb it. The swamps and
forests of Louisiana can furnisli any sup
ply for generations to como. Ono par
ish alone, tiiat of L:fouroho, is capablo
j of an annual yield of twenty thousand
l bales if tho proper energy .and labor be
appnod.
It is estimated that an activo and
able-bodied man, in u choson locality,
can gather daily of green moss what
will make when cured and dried ono
hundred pounds, worth at current prices
from throe to four dollars, according to
typo; which, aftor deductions for bail
ing, freight, etc., will yield, a return of
two and one-half to throe dollars for
each day's work. With theso induce
ments, and the additional ono that little
or no capital is needed, there is no rea
son why during tho idle months pro
ceding tho cotton-picking season all
hands, particularly in parishes which
suffered most and longest from tho over
flow, should not turn out in forco and
set tliomsolves to moss gathering. Tho
swamps are full of tho material, and tho
i overflow has contributed to euro (and
that is tho host of curing) all tho moss
which was on tho ground. All that is
l to bo dono is to gather and dry it.
What can thus bo collected and sent to
market will contribute somewhat to
make good tho losses sustained from in-
1 initiation, and will go far toward pay
I ing for tiio cotton bagging and other
fall necessities of tho larm and planta
tion. . 0. Picayune.
A Hazardous Unilertnktng.
At tho mill of Palmer Brothors,
Palmorstown, Conn., tho other day, an
attempt was made to put belting on n
largo wheel, fourteen feet in diameter,
and in order to got tho bolt in position
several of tho employes got on tho
spokes of tho wheol to turn it. It was
fjintwl tmiwi.jcI1il(i tr mtt. nnivor nnmtrrli
1 m lhis ' limi Comi;ngly tho engine,
'wns started liefore it was nolicad that
0ne of tho hands was .still on tho wheol.
His portions position was quickly per
ceived and a sceno of tho greatest ox
oitomont onsued. Tho unfortunate man
owos his lifo to tle presence of mind
which ho displayod. Had ho attempted
to jump from th'o wheol his death would
hao been Inevitable, hut ho' clung to
ono of the spokes with both hands and
feet as tho ro volutins of the great
wheol. w tli Us swoon or lllty loot, ear-
ried him first to the colllriglind thou to
tho basement of tlib mill: The great
difficulty was in stopping tho yngltio su
that tho wheol would lie in a position
which Would allow 1dm to otri.oato him
sl If, bur this was nceolripliihd after
quite a number of trials, llartjunl
Uuus.
W
TIT FOR
J A
Grasshopper Goggloycfl, down In tho clover, '
Dronrlly cries: "Weill l'vo traveled all
High iw the clovor tops, down to tho ground;
Kent for my weary legs riovor I've found.
Over Held und through meadow, up hill and
down dido,
There's a fnt llttlo foot coming Just at my
And tho Bhrlll llttlo volco of that fat llttlo Joo
ExelulniH: 'Jump, Mr. Grasshopper, don't bo
ho plow, ,
Jump high and low. St ., .. J,
Hop, Mr.-OnuHhoppcr KoUupnndgol' "
" Would Joo find It pleasant, I'd Just lljco to
1 know,
If ,7 suddenly stretched, and, beginning to
, grow, I
Grow Digger, nnd bigger, and bigger Just so
And thou, gently extending my -little green
Jgayly crjodout: 'Como,.getup, llttlo Joo?
.lump, httlo fut boy, und don't bo so tavr. v-
Jump high and low! - V
Hop, llttlo fat boy-got up and go J' " ,, , ,
Eva b L. Cat ton. In St. McMaa.
' " ' " "' JL,
INTELLIGENT PONIES. "
? , f ,
I wish I could write about ponied from
experiences of my own, for I havrQ groat
respect and admiration fbrvthosof quaint
little horses. ' But I am loft to thu next
best thing, whioh is to avail myself of
the experiences of som'o friends, of rn'mo
when thoy wcro children.
Tho children were English thoro
woro five of thorn and each always
had ono pony, nnd sometimes more.
The special potfl woro Fly (because ho
went so fast,) Pontedarro,, Lesmehajo,
Kitty and Jack. Tho ponies vvero in
dispensable, because there could-bo no
going anywhere in any other way. And
beforoyou beginto waste any timo'in won
dering how that ootid bo', I may as well
say that tho country was South Wales,
and that it was a mining region.C The
place where tho family wore living was
a lovel spot in the midst of hills full of
copper and ironfnnd limestones Thero
was not a treo ofia house in sight: and J
tho nearest village -.was fifteen' miles oft',
whero thoro was a turnpike- on which
tho mail-coach wont. 'I horoj woro no
roads; consequently there' were no
wheeled vehicles of any description.
Tho only way of traveling was on tiio
ponies; and as soon as thoy Wcro broken,
theso little children were put on their
backs, and presently learned to ride as
if they grow thoro. ,..l(
Thu Welch ponies belong; to the, wild
race peculiar to' tho north of Europe
known as tho dun or tan stock. Button
gives nn account of them; and I think
that charming artist,.Bosa Bonheur, who
is so fond of animals, lias painted ex
cellent portraits of some of tliein.
Thoy all are close-built, hardy, sure
footed, bright and small; but no others
ampng.them so very diminutive as tho
Shdtlands, .which are such 'tiny, 'crea
tures' that we'ean uiny of ti tyHo-e the
story that a gentleman onco carried one
homo in his chalso, covered with the
apron, whoro ho kept him quiet down
out of '.sight by giving him .bits of broad.
Those of Wales,1 aro of fair size, Svith
elegantly shaped heads and beautiful
eyes, and manes which sweep tho
ground. Thoy aro not shaggy like tho
bhotlands, but, thoy have riph colors all
jet black, or bay, or bhiY, or dappled
with gray; ami they make beautiful
pictures feon in droves on tho naked
mountains, whoro, thoy run wild tho
year round. A colt is nover used until
no is two years old, and that is why
thoy have such perfect forms. Each
ono lias a mark burned into his hair by
tho owner, who pays the great land pro
prietor so mpcjifa year torjpastureago
(luk they call it, for tax), and then all
aro turned loose to roam about in com
pany. But they 'are so gentle that thoy
can bo caught; and whon a Wololi peas
ant woman wishes to go somewhere she
wjl) runloutand catch one, spring upon
his back by just touching her hands,
and rido ofl' with only a halter to guide
him. hcrr thick, sergo potticquts making
all'tno s'addlo she needs. iCiiti when
sho comes back sho turns him looso
again to tako care of himself.
Thoy aro wonderfully wise creatures,
and can pick up their living whore a
stablo-fey horso would starve, If thoy
cannobiiud what they Hike best, they
will mako the most of what thoro is:
snatch a mouthful of bitter herbs, and;
suck up a few drops of water loft in the
hollow of a rook, and bo satisfied. Their
instincts are .sharpened by tho necessi
ties of their roving life; they can always
contrive to go whore they want to. and
aro keen at all manner of triekspossiblo
for a pony to dp. . u
SomoQfitlioso which: I was told about
soon found out that the steward (tho
children's father) always carried salt in
,hjs, pockety when Iiq wjent aboqt, over
1110 cpuuirvv 10 juoivauui- uiu.bucuivuiiu
thoy would gather around him anil
thrust tjioir noses in after it, so that
thoy wore his coats out with tlioir rub-'
bing. 1 And thoy woifld yino down to
tho valley where tho cottage was, anil
crawl under tho bars like, a dog ,to got
into th'o yard aftor something good to
oat. Ono pioeo of mischief thoy perpe
trated was to help thorns-elves to tho
din'persof the "fnruT laborers. Those'
111611 enmo in tho morning to their work,
nnd oiioli lind liis ilinner in an oval
'WooYlen box, worn smooth by long use,
slung in or tho shoulders by a leathern
strap. The Xppd was al win's tho same,
for HkbMho VoasantryMn' alL'eouiitrias,
they never in their lives could afford va
ioty. bread and olu!o,o, bqrlpy broad
(which they called Ixim cowc), jiud
hard rwhitof,,choqsu. , Suoh, it- Was,
'however, itfwas aj.delootablo'.trcni tqlho
ponies, who'mado a practice of waiting
somewhere in tlje noighboihood' 'until
tho men had put the boxes away in the
sheds and gono oil 'about their Work.
I'lion those crafty animals would go to
tho spot, eat the contents, and that
was tho 'eutiwt" feat of all they know
how to do -drop the covers back into
I'laceiisif nothing had happened. Whon
the hungry to low lame down for their
toawo and hard earned noon day mud,
uot a crumb remained. They soou
Youths' Dcuprtinciit.
found who had done tho mischief; butfl
was not so easy to find a hiding-placo
wjiiclf the four-footed depredators could
not smell or spy out.
It was on tiio backs of such bright
ponies, mado if possible more intelli-
ijent, and so faithful and affectionate by
icing much petted, that tho party of lit
tle folks always used to be going off on
errands or for tlioir own pleasure. Such
a joyous, healthful kind of life as it was,
too, though thoso jaunts on which thoy
went to deliver messages for tlioir fath
cr often took them into dangeroiu
plaCes. But tho ponies 'were to ba
trusted; and so wcro tho children, who
grow to be courageous and solf-reliaut,
and no harm over came to them. In
tho summer tho only paths over tha
mountains wtiro tho beds of the brooks,
from which tha water had dried away
crooked channels, gullied and worn
by the Winter ,' torrents, and turning
many a sharp 'angle whore a craggj
ledge or a bouldor almost shut tho way,
but tho small rider would leave every
thing to 'tfio faithful, pony, drop tha
bridle on liis neck) and stick fast, sure
that ho would pick his way and coma
out all right.
It was as dangerous a kind of country
a3couldwcl.be imagined. Groat por
ils lurkbd in the old forsaken limo-pitsyk
which had been left open when there
was no further tiso for theln. Thesa
woro on tho edgo of somo precipice
deep, vast, cemented pits, into which
tho broken lime-stone rooks liad been
thrown, then a lire made below, which
would burn thero with a solid white heat
for days together, lighting up tiio whole
country-side.
Of tho 'many ponies who woro their
companions, right ' good comrades in
tho best of fellowship, over so many
lhiles almost every day of their lives,
,tho handsomest was Jack, lluovas ol
pure Welch black, execj t m diamond
shaped ifpot as white ' as 'jsho'wjin tho
middlo 'bf . hiB forcjioad. In(Tgeiiuinc
prido 'and solf-respdct, which kept him
always at his", best, ho was,as near hu
man as a pony could be. He carried
his head so high that when his ton
year old mistress was on lite back their
,t wo heads were nearly on. a level. He
was very fond of her,, and would follow
hor about liko a dog. and, so far as he
knew how, was a useful little servant
to her; and when sho was riding ho
soQmod tto fool it his duty to take chargo
of the whip, which he hold between his
teeth as he galloped "along.
-in uiu morning sue always weni uus
to the stable to see him; and, like the
trim ...English, maiden she was as
quaintly sweet, I imagine, as Kato
Greenaway'slittle damsels she hjul on
a white apron tiud with long strings.
Theso had an irresistible fasi-mation to
Jack, who immediately began to
untie thorn: but if by any chaucp he
took hold of one of the bows instead of
an end, lie saw his mistake, and
dropped it. seeming to undertautl that
otherwise ho should pulf it into u.kixot.
After he had made the apron 'fall otVf ho
would try to. twist .the. buttons from her
dress.
Tho stable opened into the door-yard,
and as soon as lie was let out he would '
start for. the-house to lind her. going up
the steps into the,, hall, and oust the
kitchen door, as if thet'e was 'nothing
there to attract him. If it happened to
bo meal-timo ho would stop in tho
dining-room, and, walking up to the
table, lay his hcudjon -.U10 shoulder of
somo ono of tho tiimlly, and drink a cup
of. tea. His'lavorito. place, however,
was in the parlor, whore at certain
hours little "Missy" was sure to be
practicing on tiio piano. To got thero
he was obliged to 4go ip - several
more steps; then ho would unlatch tho
door and let himself inwnarcii straight
m to where' slio,was, porclied, at the 111
'fltrumonir, and lay his nose against the
keys, lie would oven go and snill at
thum, coaxing her to play; and many a
time sho was to bo seen at tho piano,
with the kitton lying on one end and
Jack's head on tho other; and until the
music oeajjod it was,net; to impossible
fb 'get 'him out "of the room. Avianiln
B. Harris, in Wide Aira,-.
Wh0
the Ancients Believed.
1 i r '
jiiiiiui, wjiu uuiu imiuu nuutu wio miu
illo of tho second century of the Chris
tian ora, was of a skeptical frame of
mind and had a wholesome distrust of
tho ovldlinco bf oyc-witribstc's. He rid
iculed tho old stories about ants that
dug up gold,ra"nd griflihs thatjjjuardod
tho precious motals, and declared that
noiiOrWurp to bo louud u.-tlioo-fiarts
of India that' were veiled 'by A'oxander
and his ollicors. Ho describes, howev
er, a learned, or rather' a musical ele
phant which "beat upon a cymbal while
hbveral ,nthor, danced.-to his music.
Two cymbals wero hung between his
forelegs, nmlu one tied Io'his proboscis
or trunk, lie then striking tho cymbal
Which Was tied to his trunk ag.iinst the
others botween his forelegs alternately,
the rest of -tho elephants' moved round
him,as.m a dauco. a.nd lilted up or
liowod their bodies ns fitly and justly
as (he measure and re ison of tho sound
seemed to require, or as he who played
upou tho instrument 'directed." , Ho
also speaks, though from hearsay' of
an elephant dying of grief beeau'so it
had killed its keoperin a moment of
irony. Nearohus, it seoms, had pro
tested that he once saw the skin of a
tiger, and that tho nathos averred that
the animal, when alive, was as big as a
full-grown horso. and lurthor, That it
woiud leap upon an elephant, and
strangle it , Thereupon Arrjan remarks
that'thoso ho saw were liko spoekled
wolves, only 11 little larger, that ho
never saw a tigor at all, but only u loop
ard. All the I car Hon ml.
Thero is,a olook in Nantucket that
shows the movements of tho tides and
planets, one wheel of the clook requir
ing Urn j. aw to complete a single revo
lution. -1 :,il'u$t.
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