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An Amtania Nijght.
What mellow radiance wraps the slumbering
world,
Soothinjr its iiarshncES with benignant
band!
.Against a lustrous amber background
stand
Black-bordered learcs and branches loosely
swirled;
Id flushed or citriuc-linted heaps close-curled
The apples rest: the orange pumpkins
To cumbrous sheep: and on the spreading
fleld
The tasseled tents of ripened corn are furled.
KlUBlve spirits flutter everywhere
'Mid moist brown leaves, and all the tb por
ous air
Is filled with whispering in an unkuown
.tongue.
Yet not unknown; Tny praise is every
sound.
The teeming- earth Thine altar is, fruit
crowned, .
The moon a golden censer near it swung.
Kate E. Clark, iu Brooklyn Magazine.
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Iforue.
Sweet word that spans all space, that knows
no bound,
Yet dwells In narrowest compass: welcome
world!
Dear type of peace though sheltered by the
sword:
Mid Saxon-speaking- racs only found.
Our earliest recollection all abound
With little notes or thee; our years are
stored
With memories of thee; eneu spot adored
By youth, in age Ixcnmctb holy ground.
Tnou clingest in th hnndgrip of the sire;
Thou meliest in the mother' tender kiss;
The wanderer lougs to rencb thee guiding
lUr
Of all his thoughts: like Israel's pillared Are
By night thou lradeat him through child
hood's bliss.
To that loved home he pictures from afar.
Lord Kosslyn.
THAT Git All AIM GIRL.
Well, it's all over, ami I'm glad of it
I never want to camp out ajjain as long
as I lire! Nor docs Cara Murray. To
think what a lovely time we had antici
pated, with Tracy "Loring, the greatest
catch of the year, along, and only dear,
fat, stupid Mrs. Bartlett for our chape
ron! There's no knowing what might
have happened had it not been for that
Graham girl.
She was governess to Mrs. Bartlett' s
two children, Tom and Tiny (the worst
young ones that ever breathed!) and
Mrs. Bartlett said that she couldn't pos
sibly think of trusting herself and pre
cious little ones into the wilderness'un
less her dear, faithful Helen went along.
So, of course, Helen Graham went, and
so did Tracy Loring. Cara Murray, the
two Avery girls, and their collegian
cousins, Max and Will Collins.
It was jolly fun at first, for during the
jonrney on the cars Cara and I man
aged to secure Tracy ourselves. Then
we went by stage ten miles to a lonely
farmhouse a jumpiug-off place," as
Tracy called it where we were to get
the guide nnd boat which were to take
us up Lake Moosetic dear me, I can
never remember those horrid Indian
names! But never mind. Tracy said
that he didn't just like the looks of our
guide, but Cara and I thought him real
romantic. His name was Francisco,
and he was kind of brigandish-looking,
you know, with Hashing, black eyes,
swarthy complexion, and long black
hair. And he wore a sort of picturesque
Indian costume. He talked a good deal
to us girls, and rolled his eyes, and
made up jingling bits of poetry that
didn't souud bad. Tom Bartlett said
that he smellcd of onions and poor
whisky, but Tom was always making
horrid speeches. I lowcver, this time he
wasn't so far out of the way, for. if
you'll believe it, we hadn't been camp
ing out a week before thai rascally
guide went off and left us in the midst
of a howling wilderness fifteen miles
from any living soul. Took our boat,
too! And we had to make our own
fire, and cook our own meal", and all
that thing winch we had paid him to
do. Mrs. Hart let i is over 40. but she
doesn't know a tiling about housekeep
ing, for her husband's sister, who lives
with her, w& lo everything. As for the
Avery girls, they never enter a kitchen,
nor do Cara and 1. Tracy Loring know
more than we did. for he could make
delicious cortee as well as broil fish. It
was late in the afternoon, with a cold
niin and wind storm coming on, so that
it wouldn't have been prudent for the
gentlemen to undertake the long tramp
through the woods back to the Giles
farmhouse. Cara and 1 fell wretched
ly. In the lirst place, we were conscious
of looking drabbled ami shabby there's
nothing like that to lower a woman's
spirits. Von see. we had lib idea of
what a wild, crazy place the woods
were, and so we had worn dainty suits,
whose ruffles and puffs had soon became
crushed and crumpled. The Averys
were in the same fix. As for that Gra
ham girl, she wore a plain, navy-blue
flannel gown, with short skirt and
blouse waist We had all made fun of
her behind her back, but after a day or
two we were forced to acknowledge that
she looked far more dainty and tidy
than ourselves. Anyhow, Tracy Lor
ing seemed to think'lier attractive, for,
from the Very lirst, he treated her as an
equal with Care aud me. and she laugh
ed and talked as freely as he did. She
never seemed to mind the least hint,
not even when one day Cara threw out
something about working-people know
ing their place. At lirst, though, she
drew herself up rather stately (she has
a fine figure!) and looked Cara straight
in the eyes as if lo lind out what she
meant, then a smile began dimpling
the corners of her mouth, and she sang
out mischievously:
When Adrtiu delved and Eve span,
Who then was the freiitleman?
But to go back to the time the guide
left us. We had to have supper, of
course, but what and how?
"I've got some lish," said Tracy; "aud
I see that Max has picked some black
berries. I can make the coffee, but the
rest of the culinary affairs I'll have to
leave in the hands of 3-011 ladies."
"O, my goodness gracious!" groaned
Mrs. Bartlett, "I never cooked a meal in
all my life!"
We all echoed her words, except Helen
Graham, who jumped up briskly, say
ing: "I'll try to fix something, though
it won't bo very elaborate, for I fear our
resources are limited. Pray, Mr. Lor
ing, what does our larder contain?"
"Humph! Mostly canned goods. I
I believe. There are some loaves of
bread, but," with a sniff, "they look
kind of queer. Miss Graham they have
a pale, whity-greou fuzz on the crustT
It s very esthetic-looking, to be sure,
but it doesn't smell good!"
"Heat and moisture "have made it
mold. Bread molds easily in August
weather, and this is over a week old.
Bat I can cut off the crust and toast the
inside."
"That'll be famous! I am so hungry
I could eat my boots almost! It rejoices
my soul to see a genuinely capable wo
man one with a knnck'! And now,
Mme. Cook, I'm at -our Msrvice" with
a low bow. That Graham girl didn't
seem a bit impressed she only giggled,
and said, coolly, "You may clean the
fish, if you want to," and Tracy Loring,
the heir of one of the richest and most
aristocratic families, donned a big towel
for an apron and went oat to obey her
commands.
Then how she flew around! I rather
liked to watch her. She had such a
deft, handy way of doing things. Both
Cara and 1 wished that our mothers had
taught us soiuethiug besides fancy
things.
She made a rousing fire in the fire
place you see, we had taken up our
quarters in a log-cabin that, years be
fore, had been occupied by a hermit
trapper. It was a rough affair, but just
than we were very thankful for it, con
sidering the rain outside. It had turn
ad off to chilly, too, .that the fire felt
try comfortable, and what with the
light, warmth, and good supper, we
had a very pleasant time. The tapper
ma aanMnailv nice. Helen had opeatd
s cotipte of. cans of chicken; this she J
araaarl in the aancMNW ' " " I
over.the'toast. rrravyatidall. Then she
wrapped potatoes in Ieav and roastod
them in tno hot allies; and these, with
the fish, coffee, aud other tiling, made
a meal lit for anybody. The gentlemen
praised it up. at any rate, aud they
paid that Graham girl so many compli
ments that she actually blushed. It
made her look rather pretty, too. and
the firelight tailing on " her "brown hair
gave it a golden sheen that we women
couldn't help envying.
"Now. what's to be done?'' said
young Max Collins after supper. "Some
of us have got to tramp back to Giles'
farmhouse and get another boat"
"You and I will go, Max." said Tracy.
"Will can. slaj' here ami guard the
ladies. We'd belter start to-morrow
morning if it's clear."
The weather was line next morning,
and after an early breakfast (that Gra
ham girl made splendid corn pones)
Tracy ami Max left us. Poor Mrs. Bart
lett actually whimpered when they went
off.
"It seems so awful to be left alone
shipwrecked in this howling wilder
ness." she said.
"That's rather a mixed metaphor!"
exclaimed Will: "aud not al all compli
mentary to my bravery! You kuow.
my dear madam, that 1 will defend you
as long as 1 have a drop of blood left
if these warlike mosquitoes leave me
any to begin with."'
Will is a real nice fellow (lovely to
lead the German with!), but he isn't cut
out for a woodsman, aud about the first
thing he did after Tracy and Max had
gone was to tumble down a rocky place
he was gettiug some rare ferns for
Sadie Avery and break his leg! Well.
I don't know what we would have
done had it not been for that Graham
girl! We were all about ready to go
into hysterics, but she .sjke out sharp
and commanding, and told us that we
must help her. We somehow got Will
into the house it must have looked
ridiculous to see us all pulling and tug
ging at him and ou a cot. and then
Helen went lo Mrs. Bartlett's medicine
chest which she had brought along; on
account of the children, and got uini
something that would keep him quiet
and prevent fever. Then there was
nothiug'else to do but wait until Tracy
returned; aud, O, it seemed ages.
In the meantime something still more
startling took place. We were all rest
ing a bit after our exertions when sud
denly 111 rushed Tom and Tiny, saying
in scared whispers, for Will was dozing,
aud we motioned them to be quiet:
"O, that Francisco has come back!
He is coming up from tne beach, and
he acts awful queer! He swore at us,
ho did!"
"What! the guide?'" said Mrs. Bart
lett. "Girls, he must be drunk or crazy!
What shall wc do? O, what shall we
iio? Poor Will can't protect us!"
"And he mustn't be disturbed, either."
said Helen Graham, decidedly. "We'll
have to settle with Francisco ourselves.
He does look crazy or drunk." going to
the door and looking out afethc rolling,
swaggering figure coming up the pebbly
path.
It was quite evident that he was drunk
unfortunately not enough to make
him clumsy and helpless, but enough to
be ugly and reckless. His boldness
showed that he knew we were without
a defender.
Helen Graham stepped outside the
door, one hand hanging down in the
folds of her gown. Her face was while,
bul otherwise she seemed calm.
"What do you want. Francisco?" she
called out, iu steady tones.
He swore like a pirate as he answer
dd: "How, look hercgirl. 3011 needn't put
ou.any airs! There ain't no one but that
crippled dandy in tiiere! I've come to
have mv just dues. The boss, Loring,
wouldn't allow me any whisky and so I
went oil' and heljied myself. "Now, I've
come back to settle up! You women
have got to fork over; what money and
valuables you've got!" and with that
the ugly brute drew a step nearer.
1 never knew Helen Graham's eyes
could flash so. "Stand back!'' she cried.
She raised her right hand from the folds
of her gown, aud I caught a steely
gleam. It was Will's revolver!
Francisco didn't relish that little shin
ing weapon being pointed at him, and
he cringed down like a whipped cur.
"Now." eontiuued Helen, ''you go
and sit down under that tree!"
"O, I'll leave now I won't trouble
you any more," he mumbled.
"Do as I tell you sit down!" said
he, bharp and stern, aud sit down be
did; and the'u she mounted guard over
him, the pistol still in her band. We
begged her to let him go.
"No," said she; "I can't trust him out
of our sight; he's mean enough to do al
most anything! He's got to stay here
uutil the men come and he can be plac
ed under the arm of the law."
So watch him she tlid all that long
afternoon. It was dreary waiting. Not
uutil the silver sheen of "the lake grew
purple with the long mouniatu shadows
did help come. Then, far down the
lake, came a cheery "lo o de.'i" aud
two boats swept around the curve.
Tracy, Max, Farmer Giles, and a trusty
guide were in them. And scarcely had
all our excited explanations been given,
when, what do 3-ou suppose? that Gra
ham girl faiuted away as white and
limp as any ordinary woman! There
was a good deal iuthe expression of
Tracy's face as he caught her iu his
arms", and Cara and I felt that our
chances were small a man never looks
like that unless he is holding the wo
man he wants for his wife!
Well, to return to the prose part; we
somehow got back to civilization 3gain.
Poor Will was placed in the doctor's
care, aud the poetical but erratic Fran
cisco was handed over lo the tender
mercies of the constable. As for our
selves dear mo! what with stones,
mud, briers and underbrush, worms,
snakes, and mosquitoes, to say nothing
of tipsy guides and plucky governesses
we, Cara and I, as r said before, never
want to camp out again!
WHY MEN HATE WOMEN.
Ill-Tempered Assertion Concerning
Conduct of Women Under Var
ious Circumstance.
taa
At the first glance this may seem a
somewhat startling question to ask, so
much so that the spontaneous reply
would be: "But men do not hate wo
men." That is precisely where the fal
lacy is. It lies in the assumption that
because poets have .said finer things
about women than about anything else;
because woman is toasted with enthu
siastic cheers at millions of banquets
during every twelve-month; and be
cause the days of courtship are the
sweetest in a man's life; it lies in the
assumption that because of these things
a man who hates women is a monstros
ity who ought to bo exiled from the
earth. But meanwhile the fact is that
there are plenty of men who bate wo
men without hating woman. The fero
city of tho husband who comes home
(from business) at 3 o'clock in the
morning, and finds his wife placidly
sitting up for him. may not find expres
sion in audible language, but it has' the
concentrated force of a cyclone and the
condensedlfury of a suppressed earth
quake. He goes to bed hating that wife
whom he has sworn to love, protect,
and cherish. Tho more unconscious
she seems of her delinquency the fiercer
does his anger burn. He knowa that
the silent martyrdom site is thus dis
playing is merely a trick by which a
repulse is disguised v implied. If she
wept, or tore her hair, or called him
bad names, or slammed down the novel
she had been reading, then be might
challenge her to mortal combat, and
engage in that connubial duel whose
ariettas are known in all their extent
7 when it culminatM in tits publi
city of the divorce court But this
silent sitting up. this gentle, voiceless
aspect of having one's life gradually
worn away by the constat of ashhaach
ed consort, is wfcajt ao busBaad, how
aver well regulated he saajW, can
stand at 3 oclock in the morning!
What is the reason that all our car
conductors hats all women? If you
think the case is too strongly stated,
ask any car conductor who can spare
time to answer, and he will inform you
that it is the women passengers, and
not the males, who make his existence
a burden and a terror. He never feels
safe while a woman is getting into or
out of the car. She rushes with such
impetuosity that if the car retains ever
so little motion as she descends from it
she runs the risk of being thrown off
her feet, her stupidity never having al
lowed her to perceive that the front and
not the bacK handle must be used in
order that the body may respond to the
vehicle's motion. Or. if impetuosity is
not her forte, deliberation is, and she
makes her exit with Siddonian slowness
in spite of the conductor's exhortation:
"Step lively, madame." If she gets in
at the Astor House she immediately
asks to be let out at Fifty-seventh street.
If the car is full she posts herself against
tho entrance, blockading the passage.
Hurried and fluttered, the conductor
waits for her fare, and instead of hand
ing him a dime and taking change like
a creature endowed with reason, she
slowly pokes out five individual cents
from the depths of her blind alley of a
purse. These are a few of the reasons
why conductors hate women; but many
more remain.
Why do business-men hate women?
Because, as a rule, women do not know
how to behave iu places of business.
They come at the wrong time, they say
the wrong things, and they stay too
long. After the business they ostensibly
came for is transacted they chatter
about an infinity of uothing, wearying
the soul of the busiuess-man who is too
polite or weak-minded to get rid of
them. If a woman goes to a post-office
window to ask more than the most ordi
nary question, or even to do nothing
more than to buy a stamp, she either
expects that everybody should make
way for her in the queue (if there is
one) or she ignores the existence of
other applicants, plants herself on the
wong side of the window, and secures
attention, to the prejudice of first com
ers. The way in which women behave
at the box-office windows ot theaters is
notorious. It is said that the official
who solis seals for matinees is not kept
in the same positiou long. If he is he
dies, so the rule of rotation is kindiy
worked in his favor and that of his co
mates iu order that they may live and
not die. Such unhappy beings, men in
spite of this proviso, would be literally
pestered to cleat 1 if they did not con
tinual' brace themselves to answer
thousands of silly aud superfluous ques
tions with sententious civility.
Why do men who go to the theater
hate women? Because the latter wear
hats which are an outrage upon the
persons who sit behind them, and an
evidence of the wearers' want of good
breeding, right feeling, aud true polite
ness. A woman has no more right to
wear at the theater a hat which blocks
up the view that a man has a right to
wear his hat All women who do so are
simply nuisances, aud the very man
who takes to the theater a woman
wearing such head-gear confesses iu
his heart that he is ashamed of her. un
less he happens to be in love with her.
This article might bo prolonged to
ten times its present length, and an
other equally long might be written
showing why women hate women, an
assenting fact equally uncontrovertible.
But we prefer to put the case briefly,
acknowledging that here aud there a
woman may bo found so free from the
ordinary faults of the sex that she com
pels admiration, esteem, and affectiou
wherever she moves. Wheu a man
finds such a woman, if be be the right
sort of man, he treasures her in his
memory if he meets her but once, and
be makes his heart the shrine where
she is continually reverenced should he
have the good fortune to pass his life in
her society. The Hour.
MISSING LINKS.
Ella Wheeler 'Wilcox half confesses
that she contemplates writing a play.
Lotta is to tell her experience as an
actress iu one of the magazines. Such
larks!
A Santa Rosa hunter is credited with
having killed twentyrsix birds at one
shot recently.
A woman iu a Philadelphia dime
museum floats for twelve consecutive
hours in a tank of water.
Harry Garfield, the eldest sou of the
late President Garfield, is 6oon to
marry his cousin. Miss Mason, of Cleve
land. O.
A new expression has become popular
in the South. When charges for labor
or merchandise seem extravagant people
say they are "earthquake prices."
A large band of Arabs have taken up
their quarters near Pittsburg, Pa., and
the citizens are seeking to have them
"move on" because of their thieving
propensities.
George Alfred Town send is writing a
romance, to be called "Katy of Cato
din." It differs from bis current news
paper romances in that it has a love
story running through it
G. B. Thayer, son of ex-Senator Thay
er, of Connecticut, traveled 4.224 miles
this year on a bicycle. He left his home
in Vernon, Conn., last April, and has
been on the road ever since.
Miss Angele Selignara,daughter of the
New York banker, drew a rich prize in
the matrimonial lottery. Among her
wedding presents were four checks
one for $50,000, another for $20,000,
and two for $1,000.
Gen. Kaulbars, the czar's minister of
mischief in Bulgaria, is a tall, stoop
ing, bony man with a low. soft voice.
He speaks several lauguages, writes
poetry, is an amateur entomologist, and
is a charming companion and member
of society.
Mrs. Clarissa Cox is the oldest in
habitant of Wakcnold, Mass. She is 95
years old. has eight children four of
whom are over 70 years old, twenty
five grandchildren, twenty-two great
grandchildren, aud one great-greatgrandchild.
George Gould and bis wife will live
at the Windsor Hotel, having five rooms
on the second floor, for which he pays
$390 per week. This is a pretty good
price for a young man who is obliged to
toil at his desk' till midnight in order
to make ends meet
Recently a Now York girt of 15, who
had taken lessons in "rirst Aid to the
Injured," was iu Fallsburgh N. Y..
when a boy was thrown from a wagon
and his leg broken. She at once put
her knowledge into use, set the leg, and
be is recovering fast
Register Itosecrans has discovered
that, by the peculiar system of book
keeping used in the Treasury Depart
ment John Adams, the second presi
dent, is a technical defaulter to the
United States for over $30,000. while
Lafayette is also short several thousands
in his accounts.
Tde old railroad bridge which has
stood the wind and rain, for forty years
at Bradford. Vt, has bean torn down
and replaced by a new one. The form
er was built of old-growth pine cut
from the adjoining htTls, while the new
one is erected of Canadian spruce and a
few timbers of southern pine.
Mr. J. a King, of Jacksonville, HI,
has perfected an arrangement by which
the lights in any part of the city can be
extingaistMfroMtb gas-works bjvftk
reductiou of pressure. If he should iu
vent a contrivance to reduce the press
ure of the gas companies upon the
pocket-books, consumers might not
think he was J. O. King.
Miss Nellie F. Siiedd, of Poughkeep
sio, N. Y.. who now receives a salary
of $1,800. is the highest paid lady in the
Interior Depart men t Siio is a steno
grapher and type-writer, aud has been
iu the department sixteen years. This
Shedd would be a handsome addition to
the domicile of some impecunious clerk
of the male persuasion.
Cream-white, rough, and ragged
edged letter paper is the latest thing in
fashion. Us names are various. The
egg-shell is among the newest The tor
chon is of parchment fiber. The diplo
matic and Gladstone are classed as aw
fully swell. And there are tints, pale
cameo pink, skim-milK bitio. aud a deli
cate saffron that are very elegant.
George Bancroft tho historian, is now
86 years of age. His form i iiiin, and
every atom of it is as tough as a piece
of curled walnut By continuous exer
cise and simple living he keeps himself
in splendid condition, aud he works
right along year after year. He has
devoted nearly fifty vears of hard work
to his history of the United States.
Abram S. Hewitt is now 64 years old.
He is of slight stature, of medium highr,
and he walks with a quick, rapid, jerky
step. His shoulders are slightly stoop
ed, his chest is narrow, and he often
goes ahead with his head down. His
face is a nervously iutellecSual one. and
it is covered with short whiskers of sil
very whiteness. His hair is also white
and of fine texture.
When George H. Potts, of Philadel
phia, Pa., was in California some years
ago. a friend offered him $5,000 worth
of stock in an Alaska gold-mine. Potts
refused to buy, because he knew noth
ing about the mine, although the friend
said it was a good thing. A few davs
ago the friend wrote that the $5,000
investment was payiug $5,000 cash each
month.
The "big trees" of California will
soon be extinct Seventeen lumber
companies, owning from 3,000 to 25,000
acres of redwood forest each, are wag
ing a war of extermination with all the
weapons known to the modern lo?ring
camp. The demand for the wood is
unlimited, aud all the mills are kept at
work to the limit of their capacity. The
forests are large, but the forces employ
ed against them are swift and irresist
ible. A young man near Winnipeg, Mani
tobar recently drove a steer into the
city and agreed to sell it to a butcher
for $23. Tiieii he sold it again to
another parly ami received 5 on ac
count Not yet satisfied, he visited yet
another butcher, nnd lot him have "the
animal for $22 down. The parties to
whom the steer was fust sold, finding
the animal did not arrive, iustitutcd in
quiries, and soon discovered the true
facts of the case. The last purchaser
was congratulating himself on being in
possession when he learned that tho
animal was under chattel mortgage to
a fourth party, residing out of the city.
The industrious seller will probably go
into retirement for a time.
Rev. A. A. Horton is a Methodist
clergyman of Sheffield, Warren county.
Pa. He was met on the railroad track
between his home and Tiona, out:
night recently, having missed the l:ut
train at the latter place, when six stal
wart men came out from the. bushes
and demanded his valuables. He hand
ed over 30 cents. Not satisfied they
searched him, aud finding nothing, per
mitted him to depart; but before pro
ceeding on his journey he remarked:
"Gentlemen excuse the expression
the next time you -hold up' a stranger
be sure he is not a Method id preacher."
Had these highwaymen been of the
right kiud they would have then and
there made up a purse for him.
A nice little story comes from Maine j
about a young lawyer and a rich man
from Philadelphia, who met him at
Poland Spring. The rich man wanted j
to send someone ou whom he could rely j
to Europe, lie liked the voting man's
appearance, and proeivtli-d to put his
honesty to a peculiar e.vd-service ex
amination. After gaining his confidence
he told him of a plan he had for mak
ing money by a short but very dishonest
method. The younir man declined to j
be a party to any uch arrangement '
The old "man pleaded that eores of 1
meu occupying high positions to-day
had made their start in precisely j-lcIi a
way. The young man was firm as a
rock. The young man is now on his
way to Europe to attend to the business
of the rich Philadelphtau.
HALLOWEEN IN IRELAND.
One wild, blustering afternoon of the
last day of October I made my way as
best 1 could across a stretch of hilly
moorland, vainly Imping that I might
meet with some one able to direct me to
my destination. Looking round, 1 per
ceived a man waving his arm to me,
aud as 1 approached him 1 noticed that
he was a piper -a fact of which he soon
informed me himself, adding that he
was on the way to Mr. Connolly's farm
to provide the "music for the dancing
that was sure to follow the regular
Halloween festivities. It was well he
descried me ou the moor, for if I had
proceeded further in the direction I had
been following I would have probably
found myself floundering in the huge
and treacherous 002 called in the
neighborhood Red Mike's Rest. On the
way Larry O'Hara for so I learned
was the piper's name gave me much
curious information about the customs
of Hallowmas Eve in that part of Ire
land, and as his account of how the
great bog from which I had narrowly
escaped got its name is germane to my
subject 1 will give it here.
"Red Mike, your honor, was the only
son of Widow O'Flaberty. Ho was a
aueer one from his birth, an no won
er, for he first saw the light atween .
dusk an dark o' a Hallowmas Eve.
Hereabouts the people say that if a
babby bo born on this night it rius a
moighty good chance o' bein possessed
by some sproite or other; it may or may
not be true, oi'm sure it's beyont the
likes o' me to say whether socb things
are possible or not but oi will say that
Mike O'FJaherty was different to other
men from the first He wor always up
to some game, be wor, an nivver for
good leastways I nivver heard o' annv
good he iver did. He lied and broke
bis troth to man an woman, an1 got
into bad odor with priest an' magistrate,
for nigh upon twelve years arter he
came to manhood, until the judgment o'
God came upon him. One Hallow Eve
he was at the house o' the Flannigans.
up by Glen Creacban. He was courtin'
Mary Flannigan. though ivery one on
us knew she didn't care two straws for
Red Mike, but was all aglow wi' love
for Larry O'Ronrke, the Limerick car
rier, it's the custom iu these parts for
the childer to run into the cabbage yard
afore the even in' fun begins, an' to
pick out a number o' cabbage stalks,
an' name them arter any seven o' the
folk they have anything to do with;
then, having finished wi' tho cboosio'.
they dance around the place.
Flannigan's childer. haviu' finished
their song, ran into the house an1 asked
all the folk U come out an' see their
sowls. Ould Flannigan pulled hi cab
bage stalk, and Mrs. Flannigan hers.
anr young Tim Flannigan his, an' Mrs.
Tim hers, an' party Marv Flannigan
hers, and Larry O'Ronrke his, until it
came to Mike O'Flaherty's turn. The
stalks of all the others had been quite
clean an white, but when Red Mike
palled up his. it was all black and fool
wi" worms an slags, an wi a real bad
smeu auint ic Larry U Konrke laughed
an Marv Flannimn immUA ." k.
an
anr the
n alL looM -MJglsj
Mike glared about bim for a moment,
more Tike a mad bull or a hay thiu Turk
nor a Christian: Then he ui an says:
Ye may laugh. Larry O'Ronrke, but
ye'll no lie laughiu' long; a yc may
snigger, Mary, bul ye'll bu cryin' for
nianny a day. whan ycr lover's" below
the soil, as he wjll be before the year's
out As for yon. ould Flannigan, you
au' your oti "an" all that belong to yc
will" have caire to curse the day when
ye mocked Kt-d Mike, as ye call me. Ye
forget 1 was born on H flow Eve! I've
the gift o' the fcigii'. 1 haw, and ou this
day mv curc can blast whatever I
choose." What ui:re Red Mike would
have said 1 don't know, bul at that mo
ment Father O'0nnor came up to
where ail were olau'in. 'Curse eotuo
home to roost." ays he to O' Flaherty, iu
a starn voire, 'an it's you that'll .suffer.
Mike 0Fiahi:ny, an' no ouc uere. Get
ye gone at once, or I'll put the word 011
ye. 'I'll go wImii I choose. Father
O'Connor,' sayH RihI Mike, Mirhlj-. The
noxt momeut the priest drew a crucifix
from his breast, saying to O" Flaherty
that even if he wor in league wi' the
devil, he could not withstand that.
Mike gave a howl jist loike a wild
baste an' thin turned an ran down the
glen as fast as he could. Ould Thady
ling, the piper (now dead. God rest his
sowli) wor crossing this moor that night,
ah' who should he see hut Red Alike
dancin' an' shoutiu' like mad. an'
scream in in mortal fear. 'Mike! Mike!'
ould Thady cried; but O' Flaherty paid
no attiution to him. but kept on scream
in', au' sometimes shoutin out 'My
time is up! my lime is up!' Suddenly
he bent forrard au' ran like the wind,
took one great leap, an' disappeared in
the ground as if he had jumped into the
sea. Nothiu' more wor ever seen o'
Red Mike, leanluuse as a man. Au
that's whv the great bog vonder It
called Red" Mike's Rest" '. Sharp,
in Hurper'.' Maguzine.
IN THE OIL ItECHONS.
The Noteworthy Strui;i;l thai. Wound Up
the Career of n Phenomenal Town.
The topic was draw poker, and it had
been suggested to a group of half a
dozen New Yorkers in the Astor House
rotunda by a newspaper paragraph
which said that the little towu of State
Liue was the greatest place for poker
playing iu all the oil regions.
"Well, that's saying "a good deal,"
said a man in the group, "for consider
ing, the size of their average pile, the
oil-field poker sharps will stick to a
pair of aces as faitii fully as anybody
that ever took cards."
"But I knew of an oil towu that in
the summer of 1882 had about 15.000
inhabitants." the same man went on,
"and by November of that year the sole
industry of the town was draw poker.
It was the town of Garfield, in Warren
coutit. iuJhc early part of the. sum
mer the lirst wild cat well in the Cherry
Groove district blew the drill out of the
hole and beran flooding the region
with oil. Within a few weeks a rail
road was running over logs through the
hemlock forest, a city of shauties and
tents had sprung up, and the drilliug
wells were so thick thai the bull wheels
almost rubbed against one another. It
was estimated tlial 15.000 persons were
011 top of that barren hill; there were
theatres, dauce houses pool rooms, and
gambling hells; all the noted fighters of
the oil region were there, and the boom
was the biggest thiug of its kind ever
seen in this country.
"But the oil came out like water from
a blister after half a dozen weils had
been sunk, and by the time snow fell
every well was a dry hole. About the
only persons left ttiere when 1 visited
the town, just before tho holidays, were
thekeetier of what had been the princi
pal hotel, a Hebrew clothier, aud a
Chiuese laundryman. The hotel man
had a big house on his hands, and was
waiting for a chance to sell it for old
lumber. The Hebrew clothier's pecu
liarity was that he came there in his
shirt sleeves, aud no man ever had seen
bim have a coat on. The Chinaman
was so fascinated by jack pots that he
couldn't get away. These three resi
dents had settled down to poker play
ing, evidently to see which of the three
should have what money they had left
They played in a room that had been
occupied by the Sunday school of the
First Methodist Church. Every morn
ing, after a late breakfast, the hotel
keeper buttoned up his great coat and
walked leisurely to the poker room, the
clothiVr's white shirt sleeves flashed
around the corner, and the flowing tog
gery of the Chinaman fluttered in the
blast as he joined the two other men.
They kept up the game till late at
night 1 was there three days, and saw
no other industry.
"The next spring I was in Warren, and
inquired how the game came out The
Chinaman's weakness for jack pots
ruined him, they said, and he was last
seen striking out 'cross lots for Oil City.
The Hebrew clothier hung on better, but
his caution in the matter of bluffing en
abled the hotel man gradually to break
him by taking au ante out of him every
time lie had the ace or drew cards. He
went away in his shirt sleeves in a
blustering snow storm about the 1st of
March. The hotel-keeper had a pipe of
natural gas running into his bar-room
stove, aud he sat by the lire till warm
weather, and then opened another house
up in the New lork oil field.
TWO 31 AIM: STORIES.
The MinUter's Uuk and Tom Crowley's
Kstlniattt of Klilpr Adams.
While steaming down the St Croix
river with Cant Wooster on the swift
tug William Hinds the captain told me
two yarns that are well worth repeating,
says a writer in the Lewiston (Me.)
Journal. Wc were passing the town of
Perry. A young lady of 16 years,
another captain daughter, took the
wheel and managed it like an ancient
mariner, and fhe captain was at liberty
to suck bis cigar and tell his stories.
"A minister who used to live here in
the town of Perry," said he, "was once
visited by another minister on a Sun
day; so he killed two ducks and ordered
his hired girl lo dress and cook them
for dinner. The girl did as she was
told, but while the ducks were roasting
her beau came ami made her a call.
Being huugry, and tempted by the smell
of the sizzling fowl, he seized one of the
ducks and ate it.
"The girl was driven to her wits'
ends by this unlucky iucidcut She was
rather clad her beau had such a nice
dinner, but despaired at finding an ex
cuse to tell the minister let's call him
Mr. Brown to accouut for the missing
duck. When Minister Brown came
home to dinner with Visiting Minister
Jones the girl had hit upon a scheme.
She asked her employer to go out to the
grindstone which stood in tne yard and
sharpen the carviug-knifc. He went at
work ou the knife at once, being hungry
for those ducks. The girl stole up-stairs
and asked the visiting minister to look
out of the wiudow.
" 'See there?' said she. 'I came up
to give you waruiug. You little know
the danger you're in. The man t work
for is crazy, and he is sharpening that
knife to cut your throat!'
"The girl succeeded in 'thoroughly
alarming the visitor, ami he hastily put
on his hat aud ran as fast as his legs
could take. him.
"When he had run several rods the
girl called her master aud asked, him
what kind of a man ho had brought
home to dinner. The miniver inquired
why she asked, wheu. pointing to the
living brother, the girl exclaimed:
'There he goes, running away with one
of your ducks?' "
. The captain's other story concerned
the notorious Elder Adams, who con
ducted the bewildered Maine colonists
to Palestine and abandoned them in
poverty there. When Eider Adams was
preaching his crusade he had to con
tend against many scoffers and doubters.
Oue of them was a Jonesport man
named Tom Crowley.
"Atone of Elder Adam's meetings in
Jonesport," quoth the captain, "Tom
I Crowley arose and said he had dreamed
a dream which he would like to tell.
The elder told him to go ahead, and
Tom proceeded. He said he dreamed
the devil had got possession of him aud
would uot let him go uuless he (Tom)
would name three things he could not
" do. So he first asked the devil to part
j the Atlantic ocean so au army could
t march across, as the IsraelilediuYand
the devil easily did it Then Tout
asked him to tell him where a wreck lay
f in which Tom ouce was cast awayi and
I the Uevii told him to a dot. 'As a last
! resort' said Tom, 'I dreamed I asked
! the devil to produce a bigger-liar than
Elder Adams, but the devil 'acknowl
edged he could not do it and gave me
up.'
1 "Tom's dream produced a great sen
satiou in the meeting beau her for
f that old barn!' exclaimed tho captain,
j suddenlv tnrning Ins attention from me
to the girl at the wheel.
If the rest ot E.der Adam's hearers
had taken Tom's measure of that monu
mental fraud the would have saved
themselves a vast dual of suffering.
SEEING THE SUNRISE.
Batliualattlc Tonderfaot Watch for
Coming; or tho Orb of Day.
taa
One of the points to which the atten
tion of Colorado tourists is always di
rected is Mount Gray, one of the finest
peaks of the Rockies, and affording a
splendid view of the surrouuding coun
try. It is considered "the thing" to
witness sunrise from the summit, and
in truth the sight from that altitude
(14.000 feet above sea level) is an im
pressive one. About three miles from
the top is Kelso cabin, where you can
stop over night, or at least till 3 in the
morning, when you again set out to
finish the trip. During the last summer
two young men from New York were
making a lour of the state, and while at
Georgetown they heard of Mount Graj'
and iis wonderful view, and so started
out to take it in. Thev left Gravmouut
j on a couple of "jacks" and arrived at
i the cabin about noon. They stopped
there all afternoon and left word with
the guide that he was to awaken them
at the proper time and take them to the
summit to witness the suu rise out of bis
eastern-couch. That night the guide
heard them talking aloud in their room
till 12 o'clock about the expected treat
ot the morning. Oue of them vowed
that he would write a sonnet on the
grand sceuc. "Sunrise on Mount Gray,"
aud ell it to the magazines. The other
bewailed the fact that he was not a
painter that he might catch the glory of
the scene and perpetuate it ou canvas
for other e3"es. They had traveled near
ly all overthe world, but thev' did not
doubt they were to see the" grandest
sight that human eyes ever beheld.
Promptly at 3 o'clock a. in. the guide
roused thein aud they begau the rest of
the toilsome ascent on foot They fol
lowed the zigzagging road, tack by tack,
and al length, weary, huugry, and foot
sore, they gained the .summit They
had made the tripclingingtotiie guide's
coat-tails ami hugging the mountain as
they wound their way up its precipitous
sides, for it was almost pilch dark and
the path was dangerously narrow at
places. There i a rude hut ou the ex
treme point of the mountain, and
against this they leaned, shivering and
panting, for the cold was intense aud
the air raritied to a painful degree.
Their sensations woro new and not alto
gether pleasant The apex of the
mountain was swathed in a dense, damp
cloud, which prevented their .seeing be
yond their hands, and the awful still
ness about l hem was terrifying. The
guide made them sit down facing east
with their ba -ks to the hut. to watch
for the coming orb of day. while he, lo
whom the sight was a common thing,
went about tho hut lo the other side
and lay down to liuish bis broken sleep.
When he awoke the sun was in mid-sky
and blazing away for all it was worth.
Hearing no noise, he aroso. aud went
around the hut There sat the two en
thusiastic tenderfeet precise where he
hail placed them fast asleep.
A Norwegian Britln and Groom.
The bride was about 23, 1 should say,
with a ruddy complexion, good features,
and large blue eyes. She had upon her
head the bridal crown, without which
few peasant women are married in Nor
way. 1 tried one on my own head on
another occasion, and found it heavy.
There is a brass rim to tit the head, and
the open silver-work above it is often
gilt in place with patches of gold, and
embellished with garnets. Such crowns
are kept as heirlooms; and it is no un
common thing for the women of the
same household to be married in a
crowu that has done similar duty iu the
family for one or two hundred years.
The skirt was of black material, the
bodice was snowy white, with a corset
of red and green, aud au apron of white,
with bands of embroidery hanging in
front of it Around the neck and the
waist were squarely-made, dusky silver
bands, looking like au eccentric collec
tion of old buckles.
The bridegroom wore a "top hat"
which seemed to have been kept in his
family much after the fashion of his in
tended's bridal crown. He has a red
waistcoat very short in the waist, with
brass buttons on it, aud a singular kind
of coat very loose, with frontal orna
ment There was just a suspicion of
red piping down the side of the trousers.
He was a muscular, sun-burnt hardy
looking man of about 30, though proba
bly younger than be seemed lo be. The
white bodices and colored skirts, the
silver jewelry, of the girls iu the proces
sion, and the snowy headgear of the
married women with crimped lappets
hanging down the back, and V-shaped,
made a brave show.
The second couple looked much older.
The brides had- their wedding rings
already on their lingers, and each car
ried several handkerchiefs folded up. of
various colors. These handkerchiefs are
usually presents given at the betrothal.
The ceremony was short The ser
vice and communion were over before
the bridal processions reached the
church; and as they entered the two
couples advanced to the altar, knelt
down, and then placed themselves, with
their friends, about the altar-rails. The
E astor. in a black gown, with an Eliza
etban ruff round his neck, addressed a
few words to the groups, and then ques
tioned bridegrooms and brides in turn.
Each couple then knelt down, with their
hands joined together, and tho pastor
pronounced them man and wife. A
benediction concluded the service.
CasseWs Family Magazine for Novem
ber. i
"Ah. those autumn leaves. Farmer
Robinson," sighed the city guest
"What lovely tints of color, and what
an addition they are to the charming
scenery you mustsoen joy." "Yes, miss.
The leaves are gettin' a good deal of
vsller and red on to 'em. that's a fact.
It's about time to gather " "Then
Jrou really find time to gather autumn
eaves?" "O. yes, indeed. We rake up
a few cartloads every year for beddin'
for the bosses.'' Another esthetic dream
smashed. Hartford Post.
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lectric-light wires in large cities have
much to do with the variations and
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