in.
To storms.
trifo of heat an! cold:
is driven brsncctral forms
i the hissing waters rolled.
And now, at last, the air Is free;
Tfeflerelrauidnths' of lunv-.n nm itfirlc
Ob every side a shoreless sea
Is stretched around my shattered bark.
No help havo I from star or chart.
From beacon fire or signal 111.
And cold and bitter o'er my heart
Tfco deadly waters rise and swolL
But lo! a llffht on ocean's venro
Shines tremulous through nxy mist,
And flecks with red the throliblwr surge,
And warms the clouds to amctbyct.
AlasI so tempest-towd was I,
So blinded by tho rain and spray.
While lonjr, iKjwildcrcd hour wrbt by,
And tog and darkness hid tny way.
That If yon lurht be eve or morn,
A brightening or a waning glow,
A smile of life, tho newly bum.
Or torch of death, I may not know;
But ever toward that light I steer.
With stcadfiutt gnzo and yearning soul.
For life or death, through faith or fear,
My only hope, my only goal.
Frazlcr's Slagazln.
CONNOR MAUAK'S LUCK.
'Tm in luck, hurrah!" cried Connor
Magan, as he threw up his brimless hat
into the air the ringing, jubilant shout
he sent after it could only spring from
the reservoir of glee in the heart of a
twelve year-old boy. Giving a push
to the skill in which his father sat wait
ing for him, he jumped from tho shore
to the boat, and struck out into the
Ohio River.
Tim Magan, father, and Connor Ma
gan, son, were central figures in a very
strange picture.
Let us take in the situation.
It was a Western spring freshet. Tho
Ohio was on a rampage a turbulent,
coffee-colored stream, it had risen far
beyond its usual boundaries, washed
out the familiar landmarks, and, still
insolent and greedy, was licking the
banks, as if preparatory to swallowing
up the whole country. Trees torn up
by tho roots, their green branches
waving high above the flood, timbers
from cottages, and wrecks from
bridges, were floating down to tho Gulf
of Mexico.
It was curious to watch tho various
things in the vater as they sailed slowly
along. Demijohns bobbed about
Empty store boxes mockingly labeled
dry goods elbowed bales of hay. Some
times a weak cock-a-doodle-doo from a
traveling chicken-coop announced tho
whereabouts of a helpless though still
irrcpressiblo rooster. Backyards had
been visited, and oyster-cans, ash-barrels
and unsightly kitchen debris brought
to light. It was a mighty revolution
where tho dregs of society were no
longer suppressed, but sailed in state
on tho top wave.
"It is an idle wind which blows no
one good," and amid tho general dc-'
struction the driftwood was a God-send
to the poor people, and they caught
enough to supply them with fire-Avood
for months. Logs, fences, boards and
the contents of steamboat wood-yards
were swept into the current. On high
foints of land near the shore were col
ectcd piles bristling with rigged
stumps and limbs of trees. The great
gnarled branches of forest trees some
times spread over half the rivor, while
timbers lodging among them formed a
sort of raft which kept out of tto water
the most wonderful things pieces of
furniture and kitchen utensils, which
shone in the sun like silver.
Cullom's Ripple is a few miles below
Cincinnati. Here the deep current sets
close to tho shore, making a wild kind
of whirlpool or eddy that brings drift
wood almost to land; tho rippling water
makes a sudden turn and scoops out a
little cove in the sand. It is a splendid
place for fishermen, but quite danger
ous for boats.
Not far above Cullum's Ripple is situ
ated the Magan family mansion or
shanty. The river is on one side and
two parallel railroads arc on the other.
On the top of the bank, anil on a level
with the railroads, is a piece of land
not much longer or wider than a rope
walk, and on this only available scrap
the railroad compaiiy have built a few
temporary houses for their workmen.
The are all alike, except that a morning-glory
grows over Magan's door.
The colony is called Twinrip, possibly
the short of "Between Strip." (If the
name does not mean that, will some one
skilled in digging up language roots,
please tell me what it does mean?) Tho
atmosphere around these cabins is as
filled with bustling, whistling confusion
as achimncv witli smoke.
Besides the water highway, on the
other side, just a few feet beyond the
iron roads, a horse-car track and a turn-
ike ofl'er additional facilities for
ocomotion. Birds perched on tho
numerous telegraph wires amid wrecks
of kites and dingy pennons once kite
tails nothing hurts them; and below
. the children of Twinrip appear just as
free and safe, and seem to havo as much
delight in mere living as tho feathered
friends.
The Magans were a light-hearted
Irish family, whose cheerfulness seemed
better than eucalyptus or sunflowers to
keep off the fever and ague, and who
made the most of the litile bits of sun
shine that came to them. Tim, astrong
armed laborer, was brakeman on the
Road. His wife, a hopeful little body,
a woman of expedients, was voted by
her neighbors tho "cheeriest, condol
ingest" woman in Twinrip.
Good luck, according to her, was
always coming to the Magans. It was
food luck brought them to America
y good luck Tim became brakeman.
It was good luck that the school for
Connor was free of expense and so con
venient. Her loyalty to her husband rather
modified the expression of her views,
yet she often expatiated to her eldest
on his advantages, beginning, "There's
your father, Connor I hope you'll be
as good a man! remember it wasn't the
fashion in the ould country to bother
over the little black letters people
don't have to read there but you just
mind your books, and some day you
may come to be a conductor, and snap
a punch of your own."
No doubt Connor made good resolu
tions, l)ut when he sat by the window
in the schoolroom and looked at the
dimpling, sparkling river, so suggestive
of fishing, or at the green trees filled
with biros, he was not as devoted to
literature as a free-born expectant
American citizen ought to be. The
teacher was somewhat strict, and it may
have been in some of her passes with
Connor, the " bubblingoverest" of all
her youngsters, that she earned the
name of a "daisy lammer."
But the boy knew some things by
heart that could not be learned at
school. To his ear, tho steam whistle
of each boat spoke its name as plainly
as if it could talk. He need-not look to
tell whether a passing train was on the
O. & M. or on the L C. & L. He knew
the name of every fiery engine, and felt
anadmiration a real friendship for
the resistless creatures.
To climb a tree was as easy for him
as if lie were a cat; there were rumors
that he had worked himself to the top
of. the tall flag-staff which was as
omontti u omnKfd rtole but I will
"vr . o ., . ., xj.
He ouldf
BOtvoscn zor weir uruwi.
i vcr tioirod.
addled about on
an ill-natured
liarled out that
ud
certain
bo
bo
ta't
born to
f Connor's lifo was
t wave" from a big
's Maloncy was his cora
lotHgatuc. They rowed
TTof a boat close to tho
renched with spray for a
nt tbey felt the wild excitement
or uangor. rotir aicrc eyes iour w.-.nj
hands kept them from being sucked un
derthen came the triumuh of meeting
the first wave that left the it.amb:at.
and the ecstatic r ck:.ng in it on of the
skiff as she role the other waves, in the
wake but to ca'eh the lirit was the
point in the frolic! Connor was known
to many of the pilots as an adept in
" catching the first wave." Sometimes
he was tipped" by an unlooked for
motion of the in ichinery, but was as
certain as an india-rubber ball to rise to
tho surface, and a swim to shore was
but fun to the young Magan.
In the housH .Mother Maggie was
happv when little Mike was tied in his
chair; and a bar put in the doorway to
kccD him from crawling into tho
attractive water if he should break
loose; and when the door was bolted on
the railroad side, he was allowed to
gaze throifh the window at the engines
0mb;n.r nn.i t i.nnilirmcr hv all d.iv.
and fixing each blazing red eye on him
at night an entrancing spc 'tacle to the
child. And when the still younger Pat
was tucked ui in bed sucking a moist
rag with sugar tied up in it.
her world
was all right and at rest.
But it would have taken a person of
considerable penetration, or. as Maggie
said, one who knew all "the ins and
the outs" to see the peculiar good luck
of th;s day. The water was swashing
rnnnil within n.
lew feet ol the door.
Knmn nf tlw ivfirkmnn had moved their ,
beds to the space between tho tracks, which had kept the child in her wicker
which was piled up with kitchen uten- nest. Little Mike was staring open
sils, and looked like a second-hand eyed at the beads round baby s neck
store. I and at the coral horseshoe which hung
in 'n.. il?ivi of ilnvntion to nntimics ' from them. The pretty little mrl
we hear dealers in such wares say that
bl.W - T w -. - - -
things are more valuable for being
carefully used. This would not apply
to Twinrip' s relics. The poor shabby
furniture looked more than ever dilapi- I
dated in the open daylight. The social
air of a home that w.is lived iu per
vaded this temporary baggage room
between the tracks. One child was I
asleep in a cradle, others were eating '
their coarse food off a board. When a '
sprinkling of rain fell, an old grand
mother under an umbrella fastened to
a bed post went on Knitting ueiuueiy.
Youngsters, who needed rubbers and
waterproofs about as much is did New
foundland dogs, enjoyed the fun. One
four-vear-old. sitting on a tub turned
upside down, was waving a small Hag,
a relic of the Fourth of July and look-
ino- n linnnv :md indcticndcnt as a
...- -w --"I-f-J "-A -
kin
n
It took all his wife's hopeful elo
quence to comfort Tim. There was no
water in Tim's cellar, because ho had
no cellar. The cow, their most valua
ble? niece of nroncrtv. was taken be-
vnn.l ihn tracks u on the hillside, and
fastened to a stake in a deserted vine- and reigned like a queen among her
yard. If the worst came to tho worst, 1 subjects.
and they wore drowned out of homo Connor was the scholar of tho farai
and home, their neighbors were no bet- I ly, and at length his conscience was
tir off. and thov would all bo lively ! siftTiciently roused to make him indite
lively !
tojrcther. That was the way
Maggie
nut it.
"Do you moind, Tim," sho said,
"when Kcely O' Burke tratcd his new
wife to a ride on a hand -car? Soon as
your eyes lighted on him you shouted
like a house-a-lire, 'Number Five will
be down in three minutes!' Didn't
Kcely clane lose his head? But be
tween you, you pushed the car off the
track in a jiffy. And Mrs. O' Burke's
new bonnet was all smashed in the
ditch, an' the bloody snort of Number
tl-.; i- .1....1 w.. c,..,-nli.c- vi.
rive knocked 3011 senseless. ho
would have thought that boost of tho
cow-catcher was jist clear good luck?
And 3011 moped about with a short
d$iw in your chist, and seemed bound
to bo a grouty old man in the chimney
corner that could niver lift a stroke for
your childer, ah' you didn't see the good
luck, you know.'Tim but when the
Prisidcnt sent tho bran new cow with
a card tied to one horn, an
Connor
read it when ho camo homo from
school: 'For Tim Mayan, who saved the
train. Good luck lo Aim' wasn't it
all right then? Now you are as good
as new, and our niooley is quiet as a
lamb, and if I was Queen Victoria her
sel, she couldn't give any sweeter milk
for me. She's the born beauty."
Well, Counor was his mother's own
boy for making the mosc and tho best
of everything, and he saw several items
of good luck ibis day.
First: Tho river had risen so near the
school-house that the desks aud benches
were moved up between the tracks and
the school dismissed; therefore there
was perfect freedom to enjoy the ex
citement of the occasion. It was as
good as a move or a lire.
Second: There was so much dangct
that the track might bo undermined
that all trains were stopped by order of
the railroad company; therefore his fa
ther was at liberty.
Third, and best of all: Larry O' Fla
herty, who lived up Bald Face Creek,
had lent him his skiff for the day. The
boys had an ecstatic time the evening
before, hauling in driftwood. Though
the coal barges ha 1 bright roil lights at
their bows, and the steamboats were
ablaze with green and red signals, and
blew their gruff whistles continually,
yet it was hardly safe to go far from
"the shore at night because the Kipplo
was so near. When the river was rising
the drift was driven close to laud, while
falling it floated near the middle of the
river. Connor could sec the flood was
still rising, and there were possibilities
of a splendid catch, for it was daylight,
and they could go where they pleased
with Larry's boat
Father and sou pushed out into tho
river. Connor felt as if he owned the
world. Short sticks and staves were
put in the bottom of the boat. Both
fishermen had a long polo with a sharp
iron hook at the end with which, when
they came close to a log, they harpoon
ed it. Bringing it near, they drove a
nail into one end, and tying a rope
round the nail, they fastened their prize
to the stern of the boat. They took
turns rowing and spearing driftwood;
and when the log-fleet swimming after
them became large, they went to shore
and secured it.
When the dripping logs were long
and heavy, it was th,e custom to fasten
them with the rope close to a stake in
the bank, and leave them floating. At
low water they were left high and dry
on the sand.
No other drift-wood gatherers med
dled with such logs. They were con
sidered as much private property as if
already burning on the hearth.
"I'm going up the hill to feed the
cow, Connor," said his father, after a
great deal of wood of every size and
shape had been landed. " Mind what
you are about, and take care of Larry's
gim of a boat. It was mighty neigh
borly to lind it for the whole day. See
now, how much drift yon can pick up
by yourself."
Connor felt the responsibility, and
worked dilligently. He had twice
taken a load to shore, and was quite far
again in the stream, when he saw a
strange sight. It was not Moses in the
bulrushes, to be sure but a child in a
wicker wagon, floating down the cur
rent amid a lot of sticks and branches.
The hoarse whistle of a steamboat near
meant danger; and to the eye of Connor
the baby-craft seemed but a little above
the water, and to be slowly sinking.
Connor's shout ran? back from the
Kentucky bills as if
throat of an engine.
it came from the
No one answered.
m
There were rrcat logs between his
skiff and tho child logs and child were
all moving together.
Should he aban
don Larrv's nrecious boat?
Connor could not consider this. Ho
plunged into the water and swam round
tho logs He never knew how he did
it he never knew how he cut his hand
he never felt tho pounding of the
logs ho only Knew that he caught tho
wagon, kept those black eyes above the
water, and nulled the precious freight
to shore. Then, while the water was
streaming from him in every direction,
he sprang up the few steps to bis
mother's cabin, and without a word
placed the child, still in the wagon, in
side the door!
B:innng back as swiftly as his feet
would carry him, Connor hail the good
luck to tin J the deserted boat close to
shore, jammed in a mas? of drift-wood,
just in the turn of the Hippie.
Dragging it up and along tho shore,
he fastened it to a fisherman's stake
just by Twinrip. Then Connor felt ho
hal 'discharged his dutv Larry
O Flaherty's noat was safe high and
dry out of reach of eddying logs.
fow, eager, dripping and breathless
with eves like stars, ho flew home
again
Oh, mother," he said, "she's fast
to the post and not a hole knozked into
her, and ain't her eyes black and soft as
our niooley cow's and I found her be-
foro the General Little ran her down
and I'm going to keep her always 1
found her isn't it lucky we have a
cow?"
What the bov sai4 was rather mixed
vou could not parse it, but vou could
understand it.
The baby's big black eyes looked
around, and she acknowledged a cup of
milk and her deliverer by a smile. It was
a fctrango group. In the midst of a pud
dle of water Mother .Maggie was loan
ing over the new comer and trying to
untie the numerous knots in a shawl
, v
seemed quite contented.
and with the
happy unconsciousness of infancy was
evidently quite at home.
"Poor baby, where did sho come
from?" said Mother Maggie. "Won't
her mother cry her eyes out when she
can't see her? Wo must advertiso her
in one of those big city papers."
"I found her," said Connor, "she's
mine."
"Whj my boj" said his mother,
"she's not a squirrel-you can't keep
her as you did the bunny you found in
the hickory tree, and no't ask any ques
tions!" "1 wish thcro were no newspapers,
and that people couldn't read besides,"
wrathfully exclaimed Ucnnor.
"Maybe," he added, with hopeful
cheerfulness, "both her father and
mother are drowned. May 1 keep bet
, then? She may have nail ot my bread
. - . -- - .
and milk."
Babies were no great rarity in Twin
rip, but never was there such a happy,
bright-eyed little maiden as this wail
proved to be. Among tho children she
irlowcd like a dandelion in the grass,
siftTiciently roused to make
an advertisement which did him much
credit. Ho hoped it mit lit be placed in
some obscure corner of the paper where
it would be overlooked.
But next day, in a conspicuous part
of the Cincinnati Commercial, with four
little hands pointing to it, appeared this
rather unusual notice:
"Found In tho Ohio Itlver n baby in white
dress with black eves and red horseshoe round
her no'k. n w blon;iii; to Connor MHg.ni.
i Iftho father and mother are not drowned they
' can enquire at tho b uiss of Tun Magan in
. Twiliri where all is c onvenii .nt for her with
a cow given by the 1're-ddoiit. X0110 others
need apply."
It was but the very next day after
tho "ail" appeared that a wagon drove
down to Twinrip with the father and
mother of the baby.
Didn't they cry and kiss and hug the
lost, the found child! They lived on a
farm in Palestine, a few miles up tho
river. A little stream ran into the
Ohio close by their door, and the baby
was often tied in her carriage and
placed on tho bridge under tho charge
of a faithful dog. It was a great amuse
ment for her to watch the ducks and
geese in the water. A sudden rise
swept bridge and all away. Search had
been made everywhere, but nothing
had been heard of little Minnie. It had
seemed like a return from death to read
Connor s advertisement.
And was not the brave lad that saved
their child a hero! Again and again
they made him tell all about the rescue.
Of course they had to take their daugh
ter home, but they made Connor prom
ise to visit them at Palestine.
Soon after tho happy parents left,
a watch came by oxpress to the Magan
homestead, and" when Connor opened
the hunting-case cover, after changing
its position till he could see something
besides his own twisted face relle"etcd
in it, and after wiping away the spray
that would come into his eves, he read:
CONX3U MAG VX.
Fiom the grateful p.ircnU of Minnie Rivers.
Was not her name a prophecy?
At the sill of tho Maan homestead
the flood had stopped, hesitated, and
then gone back. Maggie always said
she knew it would they always had
good luck. The littlo woman was hap
pier than ever when she thought of the
whole train of people that might have
been thrown into the ditch of the cut
off legs, arms and heads, and the poor
creatures without them that might
have been cast bleeding on the track,
if it had not been for her .faithful old
Tim and of tho home with niver a
baby; and of the darlint that would
have been drowned in tho bottom of
tho Ohio with her ears and eyes full
of mud, if it had not been for her slip
of a boy.
As for Connor, he felt as if that
bright-eyed girl belonged to him, and
now that he had a watch towards it,
he seemed almost a ready-made Con
ductor. When the waters subsided and he
went back to school, he studied with a
will. His percentage grew higher.
"Sometime, he said to himself,
"I will go to Palestine. I will be
somebody maybe a Conductor! And
a beautiful ybung woman with soft
black eyes will wave her handkerchief
to me as I pass by in my train! And
after I make a lot of money" how
full the world is of money that young
people are so sure of getting "after!
make this money I will bring Minnie
back with me! And sho will live in my
house with me! And she will say, 'Con
nor, I am so glad you fished me out of
tho Ohio with your driftwoodP And
won't that be good luck for Connor
Magan!" Mrs. M. T. W. Curwcn, in
Wide Awake.
A druxkex man threw a coil of rope
about the neck of G. C. Whiting; at the
Warsaw (N. Y.) driving park, the rope
being attached to a balloon abont to
make an ascension. Before it could be
removed, the word was given, and up
went the balloon, Mr. Whiting being in
close bat unwilling pursuit, the rope
holding him by the neck. He was
lifted about six feet from the ground,
when the ropes were caught and he re
leased. He was not much injured,
bat the skin of his neck was considerably
abraded.
The Danville (Va.) Times tells a
wonderful story about JohnB. Bags
dale, who lives'in that county. He is
now in his ninetieth year. His hah has
been as.whitoas. saow, bat it is now
turning black again. x
Hew Women .Sapplrmrat Nitarc Hr-id
CoTcrla?.
Few perens have-any Idea of the
amount of human hair and other hair
imported yearly to this country. If one
half of the women knew what they wen?
wearing in the shape of head-gear they
would be almost ready to fall into hys
terics. A little light on thw subject
may be interesting to thousand of both
sexes. Faluc hair is not so fashionable
as it used to bo a tcvr years ago. when
tons were imported to this country;
nevertheless, at the present time an ex
tensive business is being carried on
throughout tho United States. In Lon
don it is computed that fully six toa of
huramn hair are imported cverr year,
and that the trade increases annually.
In order to meet the demand of thU
and other countries, there must be a
regular harvest, which can be looked
forward to at a particular season; and
as there are different markets for black
and green tea. for brown or pale bran
dy, so is there a market for light hair
distinct from tho market for dark hair.
Light hair is almost exclusively a
German product, and is collected by
agents of linus andcompauies who vitfit
certain parts of Germany and Switzer
land. A few years ago light hair was
the more valuable, and one particular
golden tint was so much prized that
the dealers only produced it for favor
ite customers, and sold it at double its
weight in silver. Tho rich and silky
texture of this much treasured article
had its attraction for poets and artist,
as well as traders. The immortal
Shakespeare delighted in golden hair.
Bassanio, describing Porti.i. speaks of
her "sunny locks,' ami in the Two
Gentlemen of Verona Julia says of Syl
via ami herself, "Her hair is auburn;
mine is perfect yellow." Black hair U
onlv mentioned two or three time in
all his plays, showing that Shakespeare
considered light hair to be the attribute
of soft and delicate women. With
painters light brown hair is generally
chosen for their subjects, ai is cleat ly
demonstrated by a walk through any
of our art galleries. It is admitted that
the color of the hair of the English peo
ple has deepened in tint within the pres
ent centurv, and that this chango is
owing to the more frequent inter-marriage
since tho Napoleonic wars with
nations nearer to the sunny South.
Whether light or dark, the hair pur
chased by the dealer is so closely scru
tinized that he can discriminate between
tho German and French article by the
smell alone.
Black hair is mostly imported from
Brittany and the south of France, where
it is collected once every year by tho
agents of Parisian houses. In various
parts of the motley croud of a Breton
fair may bo met several of these hair
purchasers, who travel the country for
the purpose ot attentiing lairs ami buy
ing the tresses of the peasant girls. In
fact, in many instances, the girls take
their hair to market as regularly as if
they were selling some kind of pro
vision. These girls are sheared of their
hair just like so many sheep, one after
tho other. They stand round in a ring
ready for the scissors with their caps in
their hands and their long hair combed
out and hanging down to their waists.
By the side of the operator is a basket,
into which every cutting is placed sep
arately, tied up in a wisp. The girls or
women of Brittany do not lose much of
their personal adornment by having
their hair rut off, as they wear close
caps, which entirety prevent any
part of tho chevelure from being seen.
The portion of the crop most .suitable
for -perukes is purchased bva particular
class of people, by whom it is cleaned,
curled and prepared to a certain stage,
and then disposed of to wig-makers for
ten and twenty times more than its
original cost. It is then retailed at a
big profit: for choice heads of hair, like
choico old pictures or choice old china,
have no limit to the price they occa
sionally command. It is only some
fifteen years since it was used to any
extent in this country, but since that
time it has developed itself to a large
and almost incredible degree.
A great deal of the hair that is now
importcil is not, however, human, much
of it being "yak" hair, taken from
Chinese cows and other animals. In
Europo it has been in use for many
3Tcars, and great attention is paid to its
preparation for the different markets.
N. Y. Mail.
How
an Infant Receives
sions.
Its Impres-
The Medical Record reproduces in
its current number the leading features
of the studies of Prof. W. Preyer, of
Jena, in a field as yet almost unbroken,
that is, in the psychological study of
infants. This study begins, the Pro
fessor says, with the observation of tho
movements and sensations of a child,
and then proceeds to note the" develop
ment of the different senses, the forma
tion of speech, etc., and the effect of
theso things in awakening the intelli
gence. Tho first manifestation of vol
untary motion occurs about the four
teenth week, when the infant begins to
hold up its head. After four months
the head is usually balanced well, and
at ten months the power to sit up is
acquired. Ability to stand was usually,
in the cases studied by the Professor,
gained suddenly at the end of the first
year. The first grasping motion of the
hand m tne first quarter year are en
tirely reflex and mechanical, the first
voluntary attempt to take hold of an ob
ject not being noticed before the seven
teenth week. The child does not show
self-consciousness, a knowledge of its
independent existence, until the second
quarter of the secon'd j'car. The sensi
bility of the skin of a new-born child is
very low, and it will give no signs of
discomfort if it be pricked oh the
nose or lips or hands. The eyes, too,
close slowly when touched, and do not
close at all in the bath. An increase of
sensibility, however, appears in a day
or two after birth. All infants are deaf
at birth, because the outer ear is closed
and there is as yet no air in the middle
ear. A response to a strong sound is
observed, at the earliest, in six hours,
but often not for a da or two. The
awakening of the sense may be detect
ed by the blinking which a loud noise
occasions. No other organ is thought
to contribute to the intellectual de
velopment of the child so much as the
ear. The first perceptions are those of
light. The infant shuts its eyes as soon
slight enters them; within a week it
turns its glance to the window, but it is
three weeks before the eyes will follow
a light moved before them. The stupid
expression on the child's face does not
leave it until the second quarter year,
and the face grows more human and
spirited with the increase of the power
of seeing intelligently. The power to
distinguish colors follows that ot intelli
mnt
attention, and
light
and
bright colors are -preferred;
but
them
until
The
the power to distinguish
by name .does not come
the beginning of the third vear.
recognition of form, size and distance
comes rfowly. In the first month the
infant pays no attention to the swiftest
approach" of the person's hand to its
face, and in the third year it will show
ignorance of size and no appreciation
of distance. The Professor set down
in writing every sound uttered by a
child during its first two years, and
which could be so represented. At
nrst only vowels are heard, but even in
the first five weeks these sounds are so
diversified as to express different feel
ings. Thus, the Professor says, the
eriodicaHy-broken cry, with knit eyes,
denotes hunger; the continuous whine,
-..-old; and the high, penetrating tone,
ain. The consonant m was heard in
he seventh week, and in the seventh
1011th b, d, n, v and rarely g, h and k
verc distinguished. Imperfect imita
tions of sound were heani in the sixth
month, and at thli time voices bej-an to
bo dLitlnguUhed by tho ckUd Great
progrcA U made in the IrailatJoa of
otimbi after tb- third half-year, and
fhc power of articulation become wefl
develops by the fourth half-year. X
V. Times.
CariMitlM ef Ire.
Ix 1850 Mr. Fanular dUcoVrrcd that
two piece of ice pUr-cd In contact f rote
together almost inttantly. Mr. Tyn
dall say; One hot umaicr dav I en
tered a shop on the Mnnd, on the win
dow fragments of ice were Irin in a
bain. Pho tradesman gave me prr
miMton to take the piece of Ice in my
own hand; holding the tirl piece I at
tached all the other pieces in the basin
to it. The thermometer was then 5ixty
degrees, and et all the piece were
frozen together." In this way Mr
Tyndall formed a chain of ice. Thi
experiment may be made even in hot
water. Throw two piece. of ice In a
pail full of almost boiling water, keep
them in contact and the v will freeze to
gether despite the high temjujraiurc.
Mr. Faraday made another experiment
of the same .ort. He threw into a ves
sel full of water everal small pieces of
ice. They floated on the surface of the
water. '1 ho moment one piece touched
another there ivn an instantaneous re
freezing. Attraction oon brought all
the piece in contact, ,o that in an in
stant an ice-chain was formed.
An ice wheel turning on a urfa"o of
ice refreezes at thupjint of contact;
during the rotation a series of cracks
are heard which show the ear that suc
cessive refreezings are cntantly tak
ing place. The phenomenon of refreez
ing is easily explained. At the -urlace
of a piece of ice the a'om. which are no
longer in equilibrium on the outside,
tend to leave their neighbors, as hap.
pens in boiling or evaporation. Melt
ing ensue. But if two pieces of ico
are brought together the atoms on the
surface aro restored to their equilib
rium, the attractive action becomes
what it wa, the atoms resume their
relations with their neighbors and jux
taposition ensues. In consequence of
this property ice is endowed with sin
gular plasticity. A rope and a knot or
a buckle may bo made of ice. It may
bo molded. The schol boy who (ills
his hands with snow and compresses it
into a ball produces the phenomenon
of refreeing. and forms nniccb.illMilU
ciently hard to bo a dangerous pro
jectile. This explains tho extraordinary rigidi
ty of the bridges of snow which are oft
en seen in the Alps suspended over deep
crevasses. The Alpine guides, by cau
tiously walking on thee miowv masse,
freeze the particles together and trans
form tho miow into ice. If miow be
compressed in molds, ice statuettes may
be obtained. Fill a hollow ball with
snow, pressed in as hard as possible,
and you may obtain ice balls admirably
translucid. " Nothing would be easier
than to dine with a service made of
molded snow plates, glasses, decant
ers, all of snow. A gentleman in Paris
recently served sherry wine to his
friends" before a hot fire in beakers
made of snow. Snow compressed in
this way does not melt mi rapidly as
might be thought. Ice requires a great
deal of heat before it melts. A layer of
ice ofted becomes a protection against
cold. If you would prevent anything
from sinking to a temperature below
thirty-two ilegrees during the very
severest frosts, we know you have but
to wrap it in wet rags. The process of
freezing gives to the environing bodies
all the heat necessary to destroy it.
The water in tho rags slowly forms
small pieces of ice on the rag, and in
the meantime disengages heat, which
warms the object wrapped in the rags.
A tree wrapped in rags, or in moss
saturated with water, does not freeze
even when the thermometer is several
degrees below the freezing point. The
slowness with which ice melts is well
know. During the winter of 1710 the
Czar built atSi Petersburg a niagnitieent
palace of ico, which lasted several years.
Since tlyen cautious have been made of
ice, and the have been loaded with
balls and tired. They were fired ten
times without bursting. It is con
sequently indisputable that ice melts
slowly, and may bo turned to good ac
count in the polar regions. In Siberia
the windows have panes of ice. Tho
remarkable property with which parti
cles of ice aro endowed of molding
themselves into different shapes by re
freezing easily explains how glaciers
make their way through narrow gorges
and expand in valleys. Tho ice is
broken into fragments which refreczo
whenever thoy touch.
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Four Comets Xow Visible.
It is quite unusual to have four comets
in the sky at once, as is the cae at
present The first of the four is Schir
berle's comet, which was discovered
last April and is now receding from the
sun, alter having passed behind it The
second is taye's comet; a small periodic
comet, which makes its circuit once in
live and a half years. It is now fast
passing from view and visible only to
the largest telescopes, after a short visit
under unfavorable circumstances. The
third comet is the one discovered, on
September J9th, by Hart wig. at Stras
burg, and on the next evening, at Ann
Arbor, by Harrington. When first
seen, it was very bright for a telescopic
comet, and even visible to the naked
eye, with a tail some two degrees long.
Its spectrum has been examined, and
found to be just like that of most other
comets apparently identical with the
banded spectrum seen at the base of a
coal-gas llame. The comet when first
seen had passed its perihelion, and has
been continually growing fainter, until
now in the moonlight it is an insignifi
cant object The fourth comet is the
one discovered in the Constellation of
Pegasus, by Swift, of Rochester, on the
night of October 10-11. It is described
by tho discoverer as faint but very
large, and moving very slowly toward
the north and west The moonlight
is so troublesome that as yet astrono
mers, so far as known to the writer,
nave failed to get any observations on
it According to the computations of
Encke, the comet of 1312 had an orbit
' which would bring it around in 70.7
! vears, and, as this period is considera
bly uncertain, its return is looked lor
almost any time. Until the orbits of
the new comets are computed, it is im-
1 possible to say whether one of them
may not be this object It was not.
however, m lslg anything but a tele
scopic body. K. Y. 'independent.
Sixty Miles a Xiaate ea a Tia Paa.
Arthur Fitzpatrick. who returned
from Colorado a short time ago, gives
the following glowing account of an
occurrence in the mining districts, of
which he was an eye-witness: "A
miner and some companions were cross
ing the Continental Divide when it was
covered with snow. Three miles below
them, down a decline of forty-five de
grees, deeply covered with frozen
snow, lay the spot they desired to
reach, while to p round" by rail was
fifteen miles. The miner took a tin
pan used for washing gold, spread his
blanket over it, got in himself in a
( squatting position on his haunches.
tucked tne blanket around, neld nis
ritle and other traps over his head and
got one of his companions to give, him a
push. Be informed me he went down
at the speed of sixty miles a minute,
and shot far out into the valley at the
foot of the mountain. When he stopped
he found the soldering of the pan
melted from friction, his blanket on
fire, and it was his impression tliat had
he gone much farther he would have
beea burned up, together with al? hi
trapa."
TEKStKUL ASD LITER IKY.
A IiOiwx firm otpTpUip tv
lfun of a cheap edition of Mr. Erorr
on wort.
J rax I.xorviw hx h" lkre.vlero
novel. -Sarah d Beroj:r.' in tf
publisher hnd.
The Grntin paper are writlas
t irons artiebj ant Mr. Glad.ton?.
the EnLh Prrmier
Tim Itljjht Hon. Alfrrd Hoary Thv
siger. Lord Just o tfco Crt of Ap
peal, and an anneal KaiWh Jurut,
died retsnntly.
Fak !' Shm-JCTo. tae author of
the " Kndder Graaw" papr. U ra
gaged upon a pecal ric of rto
coralc giant and fairy tofwt.
Knts",v Ckvsok' wa. firt pab
Hhed in 1719. At tirt Iefw had cnt
difllculty in peruadin ant booxoller
even to "look at hi inamicript- Hut
when tho work wa tint brvuxhl out
Tavior, the publisher, taad a profit of
A rtxc marble hafl. to bo ewtid a
a monument to the lat Confederate
General Albert Sidnev Johnston, ha
I arrived from Italy at Houston. 1'eva.v
J The monument wa. purchased with a
? fund raised voars ago by the ladle of
Houston.
Tiik Buslan Geographical Society
contemplate issuing, in concert with
the other eicnti!ic societies of Uuia.
a descriptive work on Siberia. In view
of tho approaching torcntcnary of the
occupation of that country by the Ba
kiaus.
At the opening scvion of the Work
ingmen'.s College in london. Mr lw.
ell. the American Minuter, gave tho
following oil vice to hi hearer Learn
a foreign language that ou may read
its great book. Take come great book
aml.i dictionary do not even wait for
a grammar and you w 111 oon learn to
read it"
TilK fruits of native female education
in India are being gradually appre
ciated. Mi Tom Dutt is not the last
of Indian poet. Another yomv,' lady,
aged nineteen, i engaged in preparing
a novelette for publication in which
Hindoo domestic life will form a promi
nent feature. The lady i alo an
artist, and onginallv intended to illus
trate the work herself. Tho look will
be published before tho close of tho
year.
nu.Mouors.
FtdUKKs have been compiled to how
that a lazy man will live no longer than
a worker." He simply sees more circuit
processions and begs more tobacco.
Detroit Frte I'njs.
" I havk a frog in my throat." said
Jones in a husky voice after talking for
a "good hour." "Oh!" exclaimed the
overbored Kobinon. "then it in't
your own croaking you've been giving
1110?" lloston Transcript.
"Ik 1 have ever used atiy unkind
words. Hannah," said Mr. 'Smiley to
Mrs. Smiley, retlectively, "I take them
all back." " "Yes, I Mippofo you want
to use them over again," was tho not
very soothing reply.
"Kisos I Havk Mkt" is tho title of
Mr. Archibald Forbes' lecture. Some
day Mr. Forbes will come aero three
kings ami a pair ol .seven. Then ho
will learn something about the truly
great resources of this country. Cm
cin nuli Kn m 1 rcr.
Whkx an Eastern man goes to Colo
rado ho is called a " tenderfoot" until
lie has been stabbed, shot at. engaged
in a free light, has fallen down a mine,
been kicked by a mule and chimed by n
Vigilance Committee. Then they ad
mit that ho is getting ucd to the coun
try, ami when ho kills his man he in
looked upon as a citizen. lloston ltst.
Oxe day tho poet Whitlier w-as ex
changing reminiscence with Mi Abi
gail Dodge ((Jail Hamilton), when he
told the following story of an old friend,
who was very much annoyed one after
noon by some boys following him and
jeering" and swearing at him. and es
pecially when his hat blew off. willing
out to him: "G it. Broadbrim! Lim
ber up and you'll catch it yet!" The
friend noticed another boy coming down
tho street, and said: "Bov. is thee pro
fane?" "You bet" "Then (handing
him a quarter) cms tliose boys two
shillings' worth."
It was in the Galveston Opera-House.
The two gentlemen were from the coun
try. After the curtaiu fell on tho first
act one of them, who had been reading
tho programme, said in an excited man
ner: " It's an infernal swindle, just got
up to take in strangers." " What's a
swindle?" "Here it says the next act
is two years later. I wonder if they
think we are going to tay in Galves
ton, at two dollars a day, for two yean,
just to see this tiling out?" Thov went
out and saw the ticket man about it
Galveston News.
A Blind Inrcntor.
One of the mot remarkablo men in
this country whom I know anything
about is the blind President of tho
Hcrroshoff Manufacturing Company of
Bristol, R. L. from whom the company
takos its name. He was here this week
to sco tho Secretory of the Navy. He
is absolutely blind." and yet he invent
and construct torpedo loats and small
steam vessel for governments in all
parts of the world. His steam launches
glide through the water at the rate of
twenty mile3 an hour. He ha a num
ber on hand which he want to sell to
the Government He builds a launch
in which steam can be gotten up in six
minutes, which can be carried on board
shin as an ordinary ship's boat, which
will contain coal and water enough to
run fOO miles. Moreover, he claim
that his new boats will not sink, and
that they will therefore serve as life
boats, "steam lifeboats! How many
drowned men and women might now
be living if such things really existed on
the great ocean passenger boots, Mr.
Ilerreshoff can tell a much about an
ordinary-sized steam launch her lines,
methods of construction, etc. by feel
ing, as others can by seeing. ind he
goes on inventing and building just as
if his eyes were not closed forever. But
lie is a tall, big-brained man. who
couldn't help inventing and working if
he tried. Such a man would have to
suffer the loss of more than one of his
senses before his mental efficiency
would be impaired- When he wanted
to build some steam launches for the
Government he came down here to the
navy vard and felt of tho Government
launches to discover their shape and
how they were made. Then he went to
Bristol and made launches suitable for
the Government's use. It is very like
ly that the Government will buy several
of them from him. VashiwjUrr. Cor.
Boston Herald.
This bit of information is for gentle
men looking around for Christmas gifts
for their wives: Piece goods of cream
colored satin embroidered in amber
beads of two shades, at $oO a yard;
navy blue velvet wrought into a "tulip
pattern of silk and beads, S30 a yard;
white satin worked in silver thread,
crystal beads and pearls, 830 a yard. A
neat fan of white satin, hand nalnted.
with ivory handle can be had for -75.
The opening in moils will sell this sea
son for 04.
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The little Princess Paulina, of Hol
land, was taken to church for her bap
tism in a carriage drawn by six horses.
She was received at tbe'door by he
ecclesiastical authorities and carried up
th aide to t seto'in; Q-i-en, her moth
er, who. show ng much em ton. j.rc
ente 1 her for baptism. hsr-.:lf ctina
godmoThir.
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KETIY."
HtfT name -. SuAa Grant Deleran.
but t.W dt! hrr KUreUy: jrw
wukl iifirr gie why. and m I "
going to 1hI 10a Sh m tb wrH
ot. Kyet, inot Uluh btUe l.vly Yj
over -, ami Ualed nine and s half
birthday Perhap you doV count
the halre., twl ity did. Sh ode
brated ever half year think f that
Oah thcrvw.adiHrenc3 TVrwjere
the Veal bmh-dav. when bi had her
partic and pfvt, nad fcf'y "
tween them tk "bieMed dM ' when
hue herwit nl a tv t th (. hildren
Home. llllcd w.th okl Joy. carefully
tuonded or new one bought with her
own jookel monet.
However, thw ha nothing lo dn with
our title, ITiev never ealled Mty
"Kttykettv." on those daj "Uw
ajet nam'-." brother Noll iM who
went to the academy and learned lang
quite a readUv ft l.atH or Greek
"Used only when Mm rode her high
horse, or. In othr word. when he wa
tnltig to do Aunt Potneroy.' "High
hone" may tvferto the one ued at tne
!ege of Troy; hen maum frowned
at the lang'Noll alwa mUted It wa
classical, Uo that a it may. "doing
Aunt Pomero' meant litUo Su at
tempt to mutate that ladv grand air
and elegant manner. Nlatter-of.fiet
papa, quiet. buy mamma, boisteroiu
Noll. Mow little lfe. r en loving Couln
Kate, were all content to bo w Very
commonplace. They never eared to
know what was proper. andtylih. nltd
fashionable. Htithe "gnod. wondered
and admired.' even' niglo minute Aunt
Pomerov wa In the home.
And then ho "did It.
The trouble wa. the other would
smile w pro.okingly whenever she
tr.ed to bo real extra polite, ami when
idio went out with mamma over, body
treated her like n little girl of whom
nothing wa expected beyond "thank'
and "if you plae " Suoa great am.
bitton wa lo make call quite by her
elf. And at last the opportunity came
" I expect to go pat Aunt lollyii to
morrow." said Or. Uclevan one day.
"What a pity!" exclaimed mamma,
thinking of the annual meeting of tho
Woman. Board, which hu could not
possibly leave. "The dear old auntie
will expect Iomju .some of u. Suppoui
vou takeSmv?"
Papa mado no objection, and Sue
hurried into the library to begin her
preparation. Out ennio a daintily
bound Imok, of whose exbteneo liother
.Home Noll wa iu hli.tful ignorance. 1
and which Be thought dreadfully1
stupid for anything having Mieh a funny,
name It w"iv funnier to watch hue
bowing, and ctirlyiiig. and repeating
elegant phrae before tho long mirror.
Be Mniiding here, or Kitting there, a.
circumtance. or the Ixmk, demanded.
But one tire. of veil funny thing'. !
and at the end of act tif tit little Be
tdipoed quietly out. However, Sue
ooiifd tho more easily decide on her
toilet, with no one to ask " why?" ami
" what for?''
First she laid out half a dozen bit of
paste-board, her own eerut handiwork:
Mi Hut ni.r.Vsi-f.
Card, to be mire, but no card-case.
She did not quite like to ak mamma
for hers, but there wa the old silver
xtiiitT.boxlhat had been her great grand
mother's. It would do very well, and
went at once into her jmefcet. Three
other thing were lacking; a bird for
her hat. a hitrlainf tor her fan and a
veil. Cousin Kate had nil of these, aud
Cousin Kate would be gone to the
Societ) with mamma, to morrow. Why
couldn't she Ixirrow them a well a tho
snuflT-box? She need not aat anvthing
about it, because well, Noll, or Home
body, would be sure to laugh, and she
did so want to bo real ntyli.h. once.
Never wa there Mieh a long fore
noon, and certainly never imch an un
easy little girl. " Sho wa perfectly
happy, of course, only when mamma
ki.ed her goodbv, and aid. "Wear
your new glove If you like, only bo all
readv when papa comes, and a very
good" little girl, hu felt, oh such a
sharp pain. 'way. 'way inside, where
none of papa's medicine could ever
reach it. But even mamma muit have
wanted her to look stylish, or she would
never have told her to weir her new
kid. That wa what Sue naid to her
self, a sho went slowly up ntnirs to
cousin Kato's room to " finiih her
toilet."
She fastened the big chatelaine aroand
her waist, balanced tho pretty chip bat
on the ton of her head, and tied the
strip of black Jace so tightly over her
eye-winkers that they were all doubled
and twisted together.
But Aunt Pomcroy always looked un
comfortable, and it wasn't half as bad
as that choking sort of pain.
Papa stared a little a he totscd the
small lady into the buggy, but who
would expect him to know one hat from
another? And if ho thought Sue uno
sually ouiet, so much the better for the
"consultation" over which his thought
were busy.
"Are you going in?' aked Sue, a
they neared Aunt Dolly's,
"1 don't know yes. for a minute;
they may not want you to stay. So the
old bitcbing.pot is gone entirely! 1
shall have to take Charley over to the
barn."
Wasn't that fortunate! It would give
Sue just time to ring the bell. preeat
her card and seat herself a In Pomerov.
She sailed grandly up the walk, tuck
ing her veil a bttle tighter over her
nose, stopped a second to open hr
snuff- no, card-ca wrbeo suddenly
around the corner or the hoa, came a
big. black dog. Sue sprang for tie
latch, the door flew open, and in they
went. Sue. mutT-box. dog and a!L
"What-under thesun!' ejaculat
ed Aunt Dolly, dropping her dish of
beans.
"Mercy on me! what is it? gaped
Aunt Luanda, reaching wildly after her
?ro?t P'
. "B!eVne; ' only little Sa?r sakl
Annt Deb. picking np the small bundle
of dry goods from under the table, aad
kissing a crushed bit of chip aad black
lace, into which the little brows head
was thtly wedged. "Be stiH. Bo.e
rm ashamed of yoa. Well. welL doc
tor, this w unexpected, aad voa'vetook
tu all aback, comia in o swddea."
which. coawdenHg the time the doctor
had spent trying to fasten frottSwia
Charier securely, seeaed tohoTt
slightly inconsi.teat greetiag.
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into the wod t pA nn 4rj ).
the kitohea tire- Iu lh imm r vkJ
liked to do ihU. for it wa or jrf
an U w wider about iu4. t l
great tree and ir m
and Mft m whloh In iv.
nearly eorered the giouud. Tb f-4
n groat many thtnj; there W.' V
stick, and their tnothrul U ,
omctlmc. that Uy ! l
among the wild llowen nd lh .,
while he wa waiting. fr wyd
But In winter, th ohtblrn dd
like the fore-. The tree werr hrn.
the pretty mo? wiu all wove! u
now, and the cold wind bo eA.rf
then', they thought, thaa aa.whw-w
eUe. But tho kllehen are needed wd
more In the winter than In theMmmt
(or It wa tho onlv lire m the &,
and o Ko.t and Hilda ran into th lor
ot nearly every day, and brought lvk
a many dry uliok ami twig a lhr
could curry
On day. Hilda thought h wuM
take horbaaket with her. togather
red berrte that he had eoii tho al
time he wa iu the woods ihrew -
a good deal of now on the ground, id
It wa very hard for the llttn glrW to
walk, while Max. their dog. win rame
with them, altk o di-p Into the wiow.
at every tep. thai, at lat. gmw
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tired, and lay down by a big treo
tlitniL'lit ho would wait them until t
chllilreii nhould bo goHig home
Hilda ald idle would go and look for
the berrie, and. when lie had found
them, lie would come bnek and hdp
pick up at.ck. So Kot bgan to gath
er up what dead wood ! could llud
ticking out 01 um Mior, ami iiui
walked a fast a nhn could to find
red Ucrrics.
her
ir
She thought nhe knew jut wherw
they were, but nllhoogh he walked
very far she could not eo them anj
where. At last she began to fed very
cold and sleepy, and she thought ho
would like to "lie right d.wn mi lha
ground and take a imp She dd nw
know that when peoplo He dowin
tint suow to sleep tlicy very often fret
to death.
After a white sho started to go fk
to Hon, but sho did not walk very far
before sho tripped over tho brnnehe of
a fallen tree, and when sho fo t herself
hing on tho snow slut thought U,T
would just stay there and lake n iltlh
bit of a nap. It would reit her so muuh.
So she went fait asleep.
Before long Kosa iwgan to wonder
wheru her sister had gone, and t.hn
she wetit to look for her At first she
could see Hilda footilci in the now.
but soon she camo to a high, bare pla
wheru tho wind bad b'own the snow
away, and there sho could ?c 110 font
stop. So sho ran back and call!
"Max! Max!"
The little dog was still under the tret,
but when he heard Itosa calling httu.
knew that something was tho matin's
and he ran to hjr a fat as he could
o. hen ho saw that she was al'.tm.
h
10 began to run about, to look for H.I
da, for ho always saw the two bult
girls very near each other. He niibd
around, and then he turned to the right
and began to run. He knew she had
gono that way. He could smelt ;
shoe. Ito ran after him. and sUe
soon saw Hilda's footprint iatho now
She could not keep up with Ma. b,fc
she could we which way ho went.
Very soon, she came to a fallen Ir".
and pushing aside tho branehe. them
she saw her poor little s'utcr, Ivmgon
tho snow, with Max licking her iacn.
Koa thought she was dead, but ruin
ing to her side, sho took her in wiA
arms and found that she still breathed
Then Boa raUed Hilda to her feet, and
hugged and kiswd her until sho wok
her up. whil Max barked for jjy
When Hilda hail opened her eyes, and
could staad up by berwlf. Ro trk
her by the arm and hurried home. Mat
ruBBing along fn front. -
As soon as their mother saw thjmT
coraisg, she ran to meet them, asd ,
when she beard how little Hilda had
been In danger of freezing to death la
the forest, she said that her children
shotibl never go there again when there
wa a deep snow.
And you may be sure that after that
day. Rosa asd Hilda, and their father
aad Mother, thought a great deal of
that little dofcMa.-S. vholu. .
Ix the Tioga raiaiag district W. I).
" a1P weat oat on a prospecting ex
pedition, takisg two jacks along to
carry his blanket, tools and provisions.
According to the San Fraocuco Chrvn-
icte. fa coming down the rooostsac
9e of the Joafc-earaed freight tnsk--
fortcra fell over a precclpice and broke
b seek. The other frightened the
birds aad the eosies is their burrows
wkh the sound of feu lamtntalioa.
Mr. nassom tried to coax the grief -Btnekwi
monataia barge away, but the
doakey only lifted p h s voice snj
wept, aad woaW aot be comforC
Tha Mr. Wassos essayed to drfre
with sticks aad stones the no r beast
fro the aceBe of his lament. But
drive jack wou'd bo- The .lojkey n
nsembcred how he aa J hi beloved eoci
PMipa had foraged togc.her iroa
sdy clothes liaes; had In fricni
masticated fesce pot$ ami scctona 0
barb wire, aad had coateatcdL nibbled
wch leader morsels as old euaar lacks
d casooJT overa'ls. or fctd arreaged
ea haagcr with old boot? sad ovster
ns. aad could not be jadaccd to leave
the spot. Ihea the cruel maatertwat
terribly, bat still his gr-cf cL
him to bt:B3CT. The master felled
two or thre large tre" on hu back, but
5 Bo 1 arpose. Fiaaliv. the master '
despair took Hm pack oft aad left h
with Jus doaL The Lt seea at him A
w eotiBg the aroppiar of a 01
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