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Number 31. figmgtmvm IdilN ltillllilll-IYER, Jr. - _ A Memory. A small white hand, whose timid touch . Concealed so much, revealed so lunch; A face lit with the tender pride 0! not one wish unsatisfied; And silence that was musical With wordless son‘gs; and that was all. All; yet our lives may ebb and flow, And loves may come and loves may go; N or life nor love again confess A moment of such perfectnoss. Life may be long and love abide, “ Yet neither wholly satisfied. ' And when there comes the unbidden though! Of you, all else shall be forgot; And I will paint you with the grace Of that sweet hour upon your face (A grace too perfect to abide) '- 0! love fulfilled and satisfied. “ We Left on the Field; I can remember our rush through the woods, tho humming of bullets, the fall- ing of the branches broken by them, and all the trouble it cost us to force our way through the thickets of white thorn. The ride became heavier. Through the edge of the woods we could see some- thing rcd, shining at intervals. Sidorof, a young soldier of the first company, 'a little fellow (and how did he happen to be in that company, I kept wondering), suddenly sank on the ground and began to stare at me with his eyes very wide open. Then a gush of blood came from his mouth. Yes! I can remember it well; I also remember that when we were nearly to the edge of the woods, among the thick bushes, I saw him—him, the Turk, huge, enormous. I ran right at him, slim and weak as I am. Something burst—some- thing tremendous, it seemed to me, flew right by me, and my ears rang. "He shot at me," I thought to myself; but he, yelling with rage, flung himself intoabig clump of thorn-bushes. He might have run round it; but in his fright, he never thought of doing it, and tried to break his way through the branches. With one blow I knocked his rifle out of his hand; then I plunged my bayonet into him somewhere, I did not :know exactly where; something half :roared, half moaned. Then I rushed further on. ' Our men were cheering, falling, firing. I remember also shooting several times, but not until after I had got out of the woods, into the open field. All of a sud. den the hurrahs became louder than ever, and we advanced—that is to say our men advanced — for I remained ‘behind. It seemed queer to me that I ‘was staying behind. but what seemed still queerer was that everything disap- peared, and all the sound of thing and. of shooting suddenly stopped. I heard :nothing more—I could still see seme- thing blue. Then the blue was gone also. Never before in my life hadIfound myself .in such,a strange condition. I :am now lying upon my stomach, and all .I can see is a bit of the ground. There are a few blades of grass and an ant run- ning down one of them, head foremost; these are patches of last year’s grass, and this is my universe now. And I can see :it only with one eye, for the other is pressed against by something hard—tho brunch under my head. Ifeel myself horribly cramped, frightfully incom- moded, and I want to move, but I can- not, and it is absolutely impossible for me to understand why I cannot. Thus time passes. I hear the whizz- ing sound made by grasshoppers, the humming of the bees. Nothing except that—absolutely nothing else. Finally, I make a great effort. I manage to get my right arm from underneath me, and by pressing both arms against the ground I try to lift myself so as to get upon my knees. A lancinating pain, swift as lightning, shoots through my whole body—from my knees to my chest and head; I fall back. Darkness again, and no‘thingnoss. ‘ I am awake oncotmore. How is it that I see the stars which shine so bright in this dark-blue sky of Bulgaria ? . ThenI am not in the tent? Why didIleave it? I try to move, and feel an atrocious pain in my legs. 'Ilift myself and try to sit on the ground. A hard thing to do when ono's feet are shot to pieces. Several times I try—I feel like giving it up in despair. At last with tears of pain in my eyes I succeed in sitting up. ’ Above me I see a stretch of dark-blue sky in which there is one big star shin- ing, and several little ones. But all around me there is something dark and high; those are bushes, underbrush. I, am still in the bushes; they never found me. *I feel a quivering passing over my head, at the roots of my hair. Pale, pink lights commence to quiver about me. The big star is fading out; soon the little ones have disappeared altogether. It is the rising of the moon! How pleasant it must be at home now! Strange sounds reach me—sounds as if somebody was moaning. Yes, a groan, is there another wounded man near me, with his feet also, broken, or with a ball in his entrails? No, the groans seem to be so near,_ and still there is nobody beside'me! My God! why, it is myself! Low moans, complaining moans. Am I really so much hurt as that? I must be. Only I can't just tell how much pain I feel, because myhoad seems to be all full of lead and confusion. Better lie down and sleep, sleep, sleep. But if I do will I ever wake up again? Well, it certainly does not make any difference to me whether I ever do or not. . At the moment I prepare to lie down a broad streak 6f moonlight clearly illu- minates the spot where I lie, and I see something _long and dark on the ground about five paces from me. On the dark subject I can distinguish little points which catch the light ; they are battens or decorations of auniform; the dark thing is either a corpse or a poor wounded soldier. ‘_ “ Help—help !" - Wild, mad. hoarsecries escape me. and receive no answer. They re-echo and rise in the night air; everything else is silent. Only the crickets drum contin- ually, just as they were doing before. The moon looks at me. and seems to pity me with its round face. If he were only wounded—he, the other follow, my cries would certainly- have aroused him. That is a dead man ? One of our men! no, a Turk ? Oh, my God! As if it was not all the some thing. And sleep weighs down my burn- ing eyelids, and for a time I am forgot- ful. All this while the heat, is growing, the sun burns. I open my eyes; I see the same bushes, the same sky. only now in . the brightness of day. Ah! there is my neighbor. Yes, a Turk—a corpse! What a huge follow! I recognize him. It is the same. Before me lies the very man Ikilled. WhydidIkillhimi’. He lies there dead and all blood!- Why did fete ever bring him here ? Who is he ? Perhaps he had an old mother just like me. She will be waiting many long hours, evening after evening, at the door of her poor little hut, straining her eyes toward the far north. He won’t come; she will wonder why he does not come—her son, her strong help, her support. And I. But I would be glad to change places with him How happy 3; a \ ' when we were passing through Rou- ‘gourd, which I have upset, the water nor the misery of despair,'nbr the tort ture of thirst. The bayonet went right through his heart. I can see a great black hole in his uniform, with blood all around it. It was I who made that! Well, but what am I guilty of—I that killed him ? Why should I be tortured with thirst in this way? Thirst! How many know what the word means ? Even mania, making forced marches of fifty versts under a terrible heat of one hun- dred and four degrees, I never felt what I feel now. Oh, if somebody would only come! My God! but surely he- must have water in that immense gourd of his! I must get there. What a prich will have to pay for doing it 1 Never mind! I'll get there. AndI crawl. My feet catch 011 the ground, and everytimo I move the pain is unbearable. Iscreum, horrible screams; still, I crawl all the some. At last! ‘IIere is the gourd! There is water in it! And what a lot there is in it! M ire than half full, I should say. ' Oh, water! I will have enough to last me a long time -——untll I die. Then, my victim, savest me! I try to detach the gourd, while leaning on my' elbow, but all at once I lose my balance, ' and fall with my face on the body. It already exhales a strong cadavoric odor. I have quenched my thirst, anyhow. The water was lukewarm, but not bad. And there was plenty of it. , I will live ' a few days more. I remember reading in the “Physiology of Common Life" that a man can live for more than a week without food, on condition that he has plenty to drink. There is even a men? lion in the book of a man who wanted to commit suicide by starving himself to death. He took a long time to die, be- cause ho drank. Wouldn't it be better to die right now. I see a-rifie lying beside my neighbor- an excellent English rifle. I have only to put out my hand to get it; one minute later, it would be all over! Car- tridges? there is a whole pile on the ground. He did not have time to fire them all away. . . ' Shall I end the afi'uir this way or wait? Wait for what? Deliverance? Death? Wait till the Turks come to tear the skin of my wounded feet ? Better myself. No! A man must never give up. I'll struggle on to the very end. If they find me, I am saved. Perhaps the bones have not been broken. I'll get well. I will see the country again-and my mother-and Mocha. The sun has risen. His (anon/nous disk, with the black branches of the bushes cutting across it, is red like blood. I think the day will be very hot. Neighbor, what is going to become of you ? You are hideous enough now. To be lying so near him is absolutely uneudurable. I must drag myself some- where else, whatever it costs. Will I be able to do it? I can just lift my hand, Open the gourd, and drink, but how shall I ever be able to move this heavy- and immobile body of mine? I must try all the same; I can move little by little—even if I only make half a yard an hour. - All the morning is spent in this effort. The pain is terrible; but what does pain matter now ? 'I can't remember any more, I can’t imagine any more how an able-bodied, healthy man feels. Seems as if I’d become quite habituated to pain. During the morning, however, I have been able to drag myself the distance of two science, and nowI am in my old place again. 'But I have not been able to enjoy the fresh air long—if I can call this fresh air—with a decomposing corpse only six paces away. Suddenly, at the river crossing, I see Cossacks-Cossacks! blue uniforms with red facings and lances—a whole half- sotnia (half-hundred). In front,;on a splendid horse. an officer with, a_ black beard. "As soon ail-tho .half-sotmayhas crossed the river, .he turns his-whole body round in the saddle, and shoum: “ At a trot! (fer-r-ward!" , - "Halt! halt! for mercy's sake! Help —help, my little brothers !" I scream; but the trampling of hoofs, the clinking of sabers, the noisy chatter of the Cossacks. drown my voice—nobody hears me! ‘ ' 0h, melodiction! Extenuated, I fall on my face and groan aloud, and the hot tears stream from my eyes. From the .. is poured out—the water, my life, my salvation, the reprieve from my fate! And I did not notice it until there was only half awine-glass-full loft. All the rest has been drunk up by the greedy; arid ground. How can I remember the torpor which fell on me after the terrible accident? I was lying ’ motionless, my eyes half closed. The wind was veering in all directions-now blowinga fresh, pure air to me, then again waiting to me great waves of stench. That day my neigh- bor had become too frightful to describe. Only once did I venture to open my eyes to look at him; I was seized with terror at the sight. His face was all gone—his flesh had fallen away from the bones. That hideous, bony smile—tho eternal smile—filled me with unspeakable hor- ror, although I had often had human skulls in my hands, and had dissected several heads. But skeleton in uniform, with its buttons of bright metal! It made me shiver. That is War, I thought to myself—that is his image! _ But death won’t come-won’t take me. And I must lie under this terrible sun, without one mouthful of water to cool my burning throat—and, oh, that pestil- ential corpse! It is absoluwa melting! My'riads of worms are issuing from it. Oh, what swarming! When he shall have been all eaten up, and there shall be nothing left but the bones and the uniform—then it will be my‘turn.‘ And I shall be soon in the very ' same condition. ' A day passes. A night passes. Always the same thing. Morning comes. Always the same thing. Another whole day goes by. ' ' The bushes are quivering, trembling, whispering, “Thou shalt die! thou shalt die! thou shalt die.!"—that iswhat they are saying. And those on the other side answer, “Thou shalt not see! thou shalt not see! thou shalt not see any- thing more!" Anda very loud voice cries out close to me: “Over there—can't you see anything more ?" ‘ I start and come to myself. From behind the bushes a pair of good, kind blue eyes are staring at rue—the kind blue eyes of Lakovlof. our iefreitor (soldier of the first class). “Spades this‘way !" he cried; “ there are two here; one of our men, and one of theirs.‘ “Don't bring spades? don't bury me alive! I am alive, alive!" That 'is what I wanted to cry out, but only a low moan came through my lips. “Why, my God! he must be alive! The barlne Ivanof! Como this way, my children. Our barine is alive! Call “ the doctor here." - 'Halfnminute Inter they pour water into my mouth—then everything disappears. .Tho litter is moving with a regular oscillation The rhythmic movement rocks me. to sleep. I wake up again; once more I*fall into oblivion. The A feuding of unspeakable comfort spreads over my body. “Halt! Lay him down! Fourth .squadl ambulance man, advance! Take your places at the litter. Lift'him! ‘Maroh ?" That is Piotr Ivanitch in command—— our ambulance ofiicer. He is tall, thin, a very good man. He is so fall that when I turn my eyes toward him I always see his head, with its long, thin beard. and even all of ' his shoulders, although my litter is being borne on the shoulders of four tall soldiers. _ “Piotr Ivanitch !" I whispered. “What is it, my little pigeon ?" he asks, steeping over me. “Piotr Ivanitch, what did the doctor tell you? Will I die soon ?" ' “ What are you talking about, Ivanof ? Stop talking such talk! You are not going to die at all. Your bones are all right. Eh! you old rascal! The bones and arteries are all right, But how did you manage to live for three days and a half? What did you get to eat ?" ‘ ‘ Nothing. " “And what did you have to drink ?" “I took the Turk’s gourd. Piotr Ivanitch, I can't talk any more now.” “Very well! May God be with you, my little pigeon ! Go to sleep." Sleep came, and oblivion. I have awakened in the ambulance of our division. I am surrounded by doctors, Sisters of Charity, and just outside the circloof faces Ican recog- nize the well known face of the most celebrated professor in St. Petersburg. Now he is bending over my feet. His hands are covered! with blood. For a little while he is busy; at my feet ; then, looking atme, he exclaime— “Well, you are quite lucky, my boy. You will live. We had indeed to take 011‘ a little hand, but that is nothing serious. Can you talk ?" “Yes, I can talk. And Iwill tell you all that is written down here." we.“ ~04“. . England in the Reign of Mary. * An examination of the different entries contained by the Machyn diary sheds a strong light upon. matters connected with the reign of Mary which ordinary historians omit. Take, for instance, the criminal statistics with which Machyn furnishes. Here we find, as was tobe expected in an age of ignorance, brutal- ity and bigotry, numerous examples of those crimes which attend upon a nation when its intellectual vitality is at alow pressure. We look’in vain for those particular offences of» fraud and cunning which the subtleties of the nineteenth century have made us familiar with, but in their stead we read of hostility to the mechanism of religion, of low cheating. of cruelty to men and animals, andzof course of those sins against which ever follow in the wake of all disciplined human nature. From the well-furnished armory of Machyn let us select a few of his arrows to take aim at the manners and corruptions of his ago. Here we find a young fellow tied to a post " hard by the Standard in Chop," with a collar of iron around his neck, and soundly whipped by two men for pretending visions. . The church offers its [next victim. We read how “one Cheken, a parson of St. Nicholas. Coldharbor, did ride in a cart round about London, for ’he sold his wife to a butcher;” a piece of traffic which is still in some parts of the continent believed to flourish in England. Purveyors of provisions then, as now, were inclined to palm off base goods as sound, and to use their art to take in a customer, only the punishment inflicted when this fraud was discovered was somewhat more personal and severe than at present. .4 This was how a butcher who had exposed diseased meat for sale was punished. He was forced to ride about. London, “his face toward the. horse‘sitail, with half a lamb before and anothergibehind, and veal and calfborne boforojghim upon a pole raw." There are several entries recording this pun- isllmefltg,,z1 Men who sold poor fish were put 'in- the pillory with the bad fish around their necks. One very nineteenth century summer trick we see was in .voguo in those more innocent days. The first day of July there were a man and a woman in the pillory in Cheapside; the man sold pots’ of strawberries, “ of Which the pot was not half full, but filled with fern." Thus even in minor matters '- history repeats itself. 00“” 1*— A MIGHTY vxcnn'rans GAME. The Buffalo Courier tells an interest- ing draw-poker story, and insists that it- is true. The game was played in a Bidihlo hotel by seven men. One of the players had won $200 and was about to jump the game when he picked upa hand of four kings andan ace. It was invincible, because they were not'play- ing straight flushes. All came in, one of them raisingthoantc $10. Mr. Four Kings just chipped along, not wishing to keep anybody out. The others stayed, and all drew cards, the kings throwing away his ace and drawing one card rather than spoil his chances of getting bots by standing put. The man who had made the $10 raise took two cards. Then the betting began. All were driven out except the man with the four kings and tho manwho had drawn two cards. They whacked back and forth at one another until at length, having exhausted all his chips and gone shy for many dollars, the man with the kings felt that he had won all he wanted to, and called. To his horror his oppo-> ncnt laid down four aces. The beaten man howled and claimed fraud, for how could the other man have four noes when he himself had one before the draw? The explanation was simple. There being seven players there were not cards enough to go around after the first deal, and so the discards were. shufiled up and dealt for the draw. In the draw the man who took two cards and was'drawing-to three aces got the ace that the man with four kings had discarded, andwas thus able to beat him out of his boots. This doesn't hap- pen often. It is a legend in a club in Buffalo that the same thing did happen on a Mississippi steamboat in the good _ old days, and that a Louisiana plantar who held the four kings lost his plentm tion to a man who had secured the dis- carded ace. «‘00—..— « GREAT 0N bur-sumo. WhenIused to go to schoolIhada .chum by the name of Brown. He was. one of those fellows who are forever jok- ing, and are never in clover except when pairing fun at those who can pay them back in Monus's coin, or on others, whose witty points are few and whose jokes are like 'angels' visits. We» were reviewing grammar one afternoon, Brown sitting-between myself and a boy named Dunham, who depended on those who out near him to "tell" him. My r‘..... . was: "The masculine gender , that which denotes animals of the male kind." Then Brownfoliowed with the definition of the feminine The question for the ., definition of the neuter then came to 'Dunham. I could see Dunham lean over, while Brown whispered to him, and he arose with "The . neuter, gender is that which denotes animals that ,arfe neither male nor female." There was more than u furore, for there were a few he-isnow! He deed riot s ‘anything; he does not feel thopain o — wounds. bandaged wounds do pot hurt me now. to” Customs of the Lake Dwellers. They wove and plaited cloth, and either cultivated or buriered corn from irilws who practiced agriculture. More- over, they had sheep, pigs, goats and cows, an} firew pears and apples, while they supplied themselves with fish by ineaus of lines and nets. They ground their grain into meal by means of a mor- it as do the Dunes and Germans of our times, with poppy seeds, or, like so many other people with carawuys. They ate the water chestnut, the hazlo- nut and the walnut, beechnuts and acorns, and in the season, feasted on the raspberry, the clderberry, the straw- berry. the wild cherry and the slog. The art of making pottery was familiar to them, and their implements of stone, horn and bone were halted in wooden handles. Tanning was practiced, and the presence of a woodenllast proves that they made shoes or sandals to meas- ure. ' Fire they obtained by strikinga flint flake against a piece-of iron pyrités. and the stone implements were fixed into their handles by means. of the Val do Travers asphalt, so commonly used in these times as a cement for street pavement. Their oxen were of the ancient breed kept 1'11 Neolithic Britain, and their swine, sheep and cows were confined in pens near the huts of these pro-historic farmers. Their dog was a jacked-looking animal, which was probably brought from southeastern Europe or southern or central Asia, since its nearest native ally is a jackal found-in these parts of the world, while the hog is thought to have been introduced into Europe as a domestic animal. The sheep of the Lake dwellers was horned, and of a fine, delicate breed, and the goatwns prob- ably the nncestor of the Welshynriety. though, as neither animal is represented by mxywildstock in Europe, their ances- try must be sought for in some other quarter of the world, whence they spread over Neolithic Europe. . The stock of the Lake dwellers appears to have been introduced into European mum, and not, as might have been ex- p: cted, one after another, though it is duulnful whether the ass was a contem- porury of the species mentioned, since it has been found in only two of the softlements. In brief, it is all but cer- lnin that the domestic animals of the 'Lako dwellers were bropght from Gen- frul Asia, the home of so many of the European people. - .o—QW. 'Wlienco Come Our Great Fortunes} l‘llut of the great fortunes of the United States— those that are unduly gr! air-Aura ascribed to the rapid devel- opmouiof the meansof transportation and 1110 facility with which those means have been centred in comparatively few hands. The general sense of the Na- lion is that this concentration of power, of woulth, is an evil, ahd that it would be much better if we could have had the develOpmcnt of the transportation “in- terosts that we have had with a greater diffusion of the power and wealth that have attended them. The founders of our Republic thought they were estab- lishing civil institutions where enormous fortunes would be comparatively un- known. A hundred years have hardly passed—certainly not a long time, in na- tional life—when the largest individual fortune of the world is accredited to the United States, and there are others that approximate this in magnitude, and many of them dating back to less than one-fifth of a century. In the matter of private wealth we have clearly departed from the ideas of our fathers. In this departure is there adherence to the stern principles of ' republicanism with which our country started out, and have these growths been fortuitous, excep- tional, easily swallowed up in the gen- eral growth and prosperity of the coun- try, sothatthe spirit of our institutions is unchanged-undue. these fortunes to be dissipated ,in ;~.the:onriy succeeding generation, and not‘ to be replaced by others of equal or greater magnitude? and greater in number? . The instincts of the Nation are that danger lurks in any other solution of these inquiries than in the line of suppression of causes that have made these fortunes possible Nor can the subject be dismissed on the ground that, in the development of the use of the physical forces of steam and electricity that this generation has seen, there is inherent this ,aggregation of wealth in a few hands. The disproof of this is that in European countries that ment with ourselves in wealth, barring that ,which came from our virgin terri- tory, such developments of the physical forces of their administration and the accompanying emoluments have not been centralized upon a few. 0W Check ltnlsfng is I‘opulnr.’ "Judging from the amount of it going 011 all over the country, chock raising [1118 got to be a fine art," said one of .l’inkvrto11's detectives. “There seems to be a. regular epidemic of it. Itpisput- ting forgery to the blush entirely. To see how neatly and scientifically the rascals do their work, too. is a seven days' wonder. Without doing the slightest pcrcoptible’damago to ‘tho paper, they appear to be competent to remove any kind of ink and leave the paper in as good a condition as new, so turns writing on itis concerned. Not only do these check raisers manipulate the‘ writing on a check with great skill, but 'they successfully obliterate the stumped figures Even those figures that aro‘cut claim out of the paper are not a sure protection against the raiser's skill. A draft with the original por- foratcd figures filled in with papier- macho was shownto me recently. The . alterationhad evidently been made and then the paper pressed, dried and colored like the original margin. The very scroll work of; no engraver had been re- produced, and then numbers identical in character with the original ones stamped out. The draft was raised by this means from $17 to $2,780.45. I! required a very strong glass to detect the work, and the crooks had undoubt- edly spent much time and great skillin perfecting it. Even when detectod'b'y the glass the draft only presented a blurred and somewhat discoloredap- pear-once, and to any one but an expert would have passed as genuine. EQUAL To run "EMERGENCY. hor' husband-Tripper] merrily across the floor of the bridal chamber in his bare feet. “If you step on that thing it'll flip up and hit you." ”What’ll hit me, my precious one ?" asked the President. “Why, that round thing on the floor there." "That's my cellar, dear," said the President. "Your collar! Gracious!" exclaimed his charming young bride. “I thought it wealthe hoop of a flour barro ." ”Now,- that reminds zine," said Mr. .Clovelaiidfl‘ycu'll have fto'mako me a box to*kcep‘my collars in. " "Yes," replied the blushing creature, as she turned toward, the wall. "Wait till we; get buckto the White House and I'll trim a beer 'vat :-in:>pInk_.;ribbon‘ Ior you.» ’_ ‘ , . _. 3 _ tm- or by " moaling stones," and flavored have enjoyed a like favorable develop- . f‘Lo‘ok out!" said Mm. Cleveland, as ‘ ' Rules Governing the Knight Templar-s. J. A. Fronds, in Good Wordawrites :— Boligious duties wéro strictly Mbed, but were modified by good sense. The Knights, as a rule, were to,,.attond_ the regular chapel sorvicesi‘iidtfl they had been out [on duty at night they were let ofi‘matins, and might say [their prayers inbed. If they had 'done' anything wrong or foolish they were to confess to the Grand Mastei or head of the house; if it was a breach of dliciplino the head of the house set themapenapcp; if it was a sin' they were sent to a priest, who at first was a secular outside the order. They had little; leisure; their chief occupation was war. When not in the field they had their arms and horses to look after, which, they were allowed to buy themselves charging the account to the house. Except by leave of the superiorvthey were fo'hold no corres- pondence with any one in the outer world, " not even with mothers, sisters. or brothers No brother ‘cf the order might walk about alone, or, when in a town, go into the streets, unless with leave asked and given. Fighting men had hot blood, and hot blood required to be restrained. Even an angry word spoken by one to another was instantly punished, and so was all light talk, especially when it turned on the other sex. If a brother of the temple wanted to converse it must be on serious or, at least, rational subjects. The most inno- cent amusemeiiis were considered tri- fling, and were not to be encouraged. A Templar was‘not to hunt or hawker shoot, still less to play idle games. One exception only was made; it is a very noticeable ono,_:which, by the bye, had not escaped so Walton, In Syria and Palestine there were etill‘wild beasts, as there had been in David's time. St. Bernard could not permit his Templurs to hunt deer. or not partridgesi he did, however, by special statute,,allow them to hunt lions. And, mind, those were hot days of repeating rifles and explosive bullets: it was man and lion face to face, with spear and knife/against teeth and claws, . Tho lion no doubt in St. Bernard's'mind was a type of the adver- sary; to hunt the lion wastohunt Satan. None the less. just as he had taken care that they should eat and drink enough, and not emaciate themselves like intend- inv saints, so he would have them men at all point, and give them sport, too, so long as it was dangerous and needed courage. ‘ ‘ ‘ It was customary in those days when men of rank were taken in battle to hold them to ransom, the price of redemption being measurod‘by their wealth. The Template had no personal wealth, and the wealth of thozorder was to be spent in God’s service, not in man’s. If a Templar was taken by the Saracens no ransom was to be paid for him; he was to be left to his fate. His fate invariably was to be offered the alter- native of the Koran or the sword, and there is scarcely d recorded instance in which a Templar saved his life by aban- doning his faith. ..-?W The “'ays of the “later Hen. During the last day or two before the great event comes off the birds are rarely visible, and for a day ortwo afterward the cock only up ‘ ' rs for the matutinal crust, which he carries along with him, soaking it in the water as he crosses, so that it may be soft and pulpy for the tender young bills’of the little chicks who have not yet quittod their cradle. These seven or eight hairy little balls are eager, however, to try the water, and one by one they scramble out of the nest, to which sthoy never return. There are few prettier sights in this badworld than these tiny creatures gathered round their mother, when, having plucked a mouthful of the water- woed which they leve, she holds it aloft over the eager little heads. , How dain- tiiy theypeck the dainty morsel from her bill! When quite young the water hen has a thoroughly aristocratic air. a Lady Clara Vere do Vere tone of high breeding and delicate upbringing; most young creatures have indeed ; the glories of the descent from aboriginal royalties not being as yet Obscured by. pleboian surroundings and vulgar cares. The old bird herself quivers with excitement; she jerks her head, she flirts her tail ; it is a St. Vitus‘s dance, in which the mave- ment, though characteristically abrupt and nervous, is not ungraceful. During this time the cock is constantly on the watch, for an ugly lot of vermin are about—hawks, hooded crows, weasels, magpies—and tho‘little mites are juicy mouthfuls. One day we saw him engage a great gray-brown rat; he went at him in a fury of passion, and rented him ignominiously. A bird, in a panic of parental anxiety, becomes a formidable antagonist; the flapping pinions, the beak and claws do wonderful execution. But unhappiiy his unwoaried vigilance is rewarded with only moderate success. Night by night the covey grows smaller; we hear through the open window in the. Summer . darkness an occasional chirp of fright from the other side of the brook—a weak, inefiectua! appeal; and then, as Hamlet says, “the rest is silence." . Next morning. another mom- bor of the little breakfast partyis absent, andintho end not, more than two or three attain maturity. ———o W Cheap Drinking in Burmah. Says a writer in the Indian Good Templar: '"Burmuh isa fearful place for cheap drink and heavy crime; the natives manufacture what is called Sham-she; it is supposed to be made from rice and lime. One may form an idea of its powor when I assure that it will dissolve a MartinioHenry bullet in 30 minutes. It burns the inside out of those who-drink it, and I am afraid it will play fearful havoc among the troops before this summer is past. We are glad to hear from tire same source that determined efforts 'oro being made by Burmah Good Template to- suppress the sale of this fiery poison, and :they have no doubt that the government will take action shortly in the matter in their own interest, if not in that 'of the temper- ance cause. ,Amoig other doubtful mercies, Burundi will be favored with a revised sbkaru'rging, which is sure to moderate the strciigth of this dreadful poison. Much more to the point are those eficrts now being made by mem- bers of the order so have temperance pledges widely circulated and an alli- anoejormed againstithe ruinous frame. " .0”..— ———0 mm cnosnn' Inn our. It is reported .thati'the last murderer swung ofi' homo!!!“ to his death too!- big that the sherifhad not used him exactly square. The" condemned had a deal in wheat through outside, parties and he wanted just one morons-och to close it out. ' "Of course; I'd do anything for you personally," said the sheriff, “ but the Governor. is behind thistlfiflg Mid he seems to-bo in a hurry. ' I'll promise to carryout the deal for you, however, and whatever profits aromatic shall go into a gravestone for you." The prisoner had to submit, but he gasemphaticin assert- ing that the sherifi’should consider busi- ness before‘pl ‘ ,. . . .“ math:- to tonii'glirr'éiskod- a right. Givb me a cent as near the stage as you, hi». “I'm I. Intle dqof." . , countryman etithogbox office. "Pa'ntm mimefl' replied till: ticketmeller.‘ “All. ..%ii\ Not a Secret Remedy. All the Roots, Burke and Herbs 'en‘rerlng into the composition 0 ' LEWIS' l' as]: JACK]! .311!!!“ . are plainly printed on the label mbottle. w. 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The Science of Life should be read by the young for instruction, and by the afflicted for relief. it will benefit all.—London Lancet. There is no member of society to whom The Science of Life would not be useful, whether youth, paretnt, guardian, instructor or ciergymen —-Arqo- mm . Address the Peabody Medical Institute, or Dr. W. 11. Parker, No. 4 ilulfinch street, Boston, Mass. who may beconsultcd on alldiseases requiring skill and experience. Chronic and obstinate diseases that have battled the skill of other [IF A phy- cians a specialty. Such treated suc l cess fully, without an instance of fall ‘ ure. Mention this paper. ly-ts TH YSELF for working people. Send 1!! cents pos HEL age, and we will mai. you free, a roya valuable sample box of goods that W! put you in the way of making more money in a few days than you ever thought possible at any business Capital not required. I on can live at home and work in spare time only, or all the time. All of both sexes. of all ages,grantily successful, 50 cents to so easily earned every evening. That all who want work may test the business, we make this unparal- leled offer: To all who are not well satisfied wewill send $1 to pay for the trouble of writing us. Fur. particulars, directions etc., sent free. Immense pay absolutely sure for all who start at once. Don’tde- lay. Address. Srmson Av. 00., Portland, Maine. $2 00 00 li cents postage. and by mail you will i J getfree a package 0 goods of large value, that will start you in work that will at once bring you in money faster than anything e.se in America. All about the $200,000 in presents with each box. Agents wanted everywhere, of either sex, of all ages, for all the time or spare time only, to work for us at their own homes. Fortunes for all workers absolute1y assured. Don’t delay. II. HALLE'H‘ in Co., Portland, Maine. fields are scarce, but those who write to Suusou A Co.,Portlsnd, Mniuenrill receive free, full information about work which they can do. and live at bomedhst will my them from 85 to 3% per day. Some have earned oval-Sm in a day. Either sex. yonugorold. Capital not required. You are started free. These whoriut At once an absolutely sure of snug little fortunes. All is new. M. acnw A 13. OPTICIAN and OCULIST, ' WILL BE AT NORWALK- August 19 and 20, 1886, At Norwalk Hotel. m presents given away, send us 5 ‘ Having qualified myself by years of hard study in the best institutions in Europe, and having had a practical experience of twenty-five years in th! country, I am enabled at first sight to adapt lense most appropriate to restore the vision to its origins vigor and cure all the various diseases of the eye I have therefore combined my practice of an Ocullst with that of an Optician, and am now on- abled to furnished all kinds of lenses and styles of Spectacles and EycGlasses which are made to order under my own supervision, to suit my cus- omers’ visionary ailments. Consultation Free. References—Geo. G. Bishop. Charles Olmstead cx-Deputy Sheriff Charles Adams, Mr. Clarence Nash with J. F. Bennet, Gen. D. N. Couch, Mrs. W. K. James. Dr. E. C. Clarke. 11.. Best a... World. Sperry & Barnes’ Hams. Shoulders, Breakfast Bacon, AND Sausage ARE GUARANTEED of» THE BEST "‘5' IN . THE MARKET. Our xnr'rnn LAnn is Strictly r... and Free from all adulterotlcn. Look Carefully for the Brand. We manufacture all goods bearing our brand at our packing house, N ew Haven. Sperry 81 Barnes New Haven, Conn. — may!) 1' d nus PAPER-m a: a» "- . nownnr. 8 are no Spruce Advertising norm lStu-eel) aggro advcr. so me. Inmtorit-in w ........ ill!“ Yllllll. da: Bill ills Tflilllllflllil. .Mr. Geo. B. I’laistcc‘l : Dear Sir: Knowing the formula. /r0m which Plaislect’s Cong/1. Remedy is prepared we can certify that the medicines of which it is composed are of recognized ulilily [or throat and lung" lmub/es, injurious drugs. ' nLnRr c. CLARKE,'M. 1)., Norwaik. c. A. MURRAY, M. 1).. human urrcndocxm. 0.. u o. 1:. MCGONEGAL, M. 1)., WM. C.’ BURKE, 1151).. so. woman. 0. o. BOHANNAN, u. 1)., ‘- 11:. s. MINER, n. 1)., o. w. BENEDICT, n. 1)., 11. "moans-can, M. 1)., smmrma. W. 3. TODD, M. D , liliigeiielil. N. i-‘ u l4 ,. 1- 0| 'J MANUFACTURED BY Geo. B. Plaisted, DR UGGIST, . Garner Main and van Streets, Hawaii. 62 Washington Street, South Narwalk. CHOICE rimming. Lats . F‘OR err-stair On Wilton Avenue Apply to B. J. S'I‘URGES. or 0. E. \VI'LSON, GAZETTE BUILDING It! J. G. Gregory &. Co. Desire to state ihat in addition to a full line of Drugs, Proprietary Medicines and Drugglsls’ Sundries they are prepared to receive orders for Silk, Cotton or Linen ELASTIC HOSE: For varicose or enlarged veins. Warranted to fit, and at reduced rates. They also desire to state that they have accepted the agency of the New York Vaccine Co., and will keep a supply of PURE nun VACCINE VIRUS Constantly on hand. They have in stock Electric Batteries, which will be sold at close figures. They carry also a full assortment of Keystone Writing Paper Packets. R B. CRAUFURD, Insurance, Real Estate and Investment Securities, 3! Main Street, Norwalk, Agent for the American Ins. Co., of Newark, N. J., Assets ................................. 3 1,121,424 Northern Assurance Co., of London. . .. 15,225,422 Germaina Fire Ins. Co., of New York. . 2,700,000 Montank Fire lns. Co., of New York. . . . 389,666 Jersey City, of Jersey.......... 316,863 7 1181‘ flfllll. BilllllS and Mortgages Of the Equitable Mortgage Co., of Kansas, and 6 per cent. Bond-s 0f the Middlesex Banking 00.. of Middletown Conn. Principal and Interest of both guaranteed, Securities 0 all descriptions bought and sold at New York Quotations. A large number of desirable dwellings and farms for sale. ly34 Hatch, Baile Tito MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN LUMBER, urns, Shingles, Lath, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding, Window I’l'mnc-s, Piclcets, do. ‘Veneered Ham W601i Work. Hard Wood Baiting and Flaming. South Norwaik, Conn. Geo. S. Gregory. Livery, Boarding, Sale, Feed and Exchange . No. 14. 21113111; at (In rear of Horse Car Depot), NORWALK, comm. Carriages furnished at all hours. Courteou 1: and that it contains no , opium or . (tny'poisanmm m" ' -. i ,. 5. . ... . 4 8 I . 1 . lately Pure. This Powll'e‘l' sever varies. A marvel of pure strength" and wholesomenesd. More economic than the ordinarykinds, and cannot be sold in com- petition wltb the- multitude of low test, short weight, ohm or phosphate powders. ROYAL BAKING Pownna Co.,lod Wall so, N. Y. w. .3. amount); .FUBNISHING UNDEBTAKER Ol’POSlTE HORSE ii. R. DEPOT, Residence 143 M aiu Street. Telephone Connection. GE 0. WARD BELLECK ' unsceucnoows sLocK. WALL smear, FAMILY GROCERIES. J. BELDEN HURLBUTT, tunnel and Counsellor at Law, Room No. 4, Up Stairs. GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN JAMES '1'. 3113331111, Attorney an lunch at Law 2‘ (inset \ building, NORWALK, CONN. ALEX. S. GIBSON, OrganIst of 1st Congregational Church. Waterbury Teacher of , Pianofcrte, Organ and Musical Composition, Lock Box 39 P. 0., NORWALK, CONN. E. WHITWORTH, Successor to B. Corns, MERCHANT TAILOR, WEEKS' BUILDING, WALL STREET. A HILL LINE or Imported and Domestic Cloths. 0f the Latest Styles, constantly on hand. Novelties In Scotch Suitings. Satisfaction guaran- teed in every particular. PENSIONS ‘ —:AND:— :(wernmmtt Claims. My sole business. Thousands have Rights Neglected. Address, free of charge, or visit, GEN. W. E. NOBLE, 91 Stratford Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn H”. H. M EEKEIJ. 54 Main Street, scorn NORWALK. comm, Practical Plumber, Steam and Gas Fitters, Dealers in Plumbers’ and Steam Fitters’ Supplies, and Gas Fixture Jobbing promptly attended to. 1y21 o. E. WILSON, General Insurance it Real Estate Agent Money to Loan. Room No. 3 Gazette Building, Norwnlk, Conn. ‘TANA INSURANCE Co., 01' HARTFORD. Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual. CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $8,902,272.64. insures against loss and damage by Fire, on terms adopted to the hazard and consistent with the laws of compensation. COWLES A: MERRILL, Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity. THE Nonalk Fire Insurance Co. Has now completed its 18th SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR And has not outstanding a dollar of unpaid losses or claims for losses. No sound company insures for less. W. C. Smear, Pres, S. E. Omisrssn, Trees, Geo. R. Cownus. Secretary. .A. CARD. Having purcmsed the FURNITURE BUSlN ESS, Recent! y carried on by WILLIAM Lookwoon at . No. 36 MAIN STREET, I am prepared to meet the wants of all prospective purchasers of furniture, both STAPLE AND ORNAMENT”. I have on hand a large stock which I will sell VERY CHEAP FOR. CASH. lshal! be pleased to meet a]; old or new frien-ls and will guarantee satisfaction in every case. 'ijFORGE H. RAYMOND. rerun L. iiUIGUE, ' FLORIST 81!!!! S iYMfiN, UNION A V EN U E, North of Norwalk Cemetery, Dealer in In Green House and Hot House and Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Ornamen ta! Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers alway on hand and all sorts of designs in Flowers arranged to order. dlys Grading and Ito-filling Cemetery Plots promptly attended to. A F. H. PEOK WELL, _, ARCHITECT AGENT FOR Gill crt Lock Company. Dibble Manufacturing Company's door ' knobs. New York \Vood Turning Company. ' Corner Blocks for window casings. Round and Square Turned Balusters. _“ “ “ “ Newels. Plain and Double Moulded Stair Rails. Also Flat Moulded Door and ‘Window Casings furnished at short notice. same UNABLE ro massacres: ,H A R N E S S To compete with large concerns, I have taken th agency or one of the o1dest and largest estab- lishments in the state for the sale of Harness . Saddles, Halters, Sur- cmgles, Collars, etc. I shall also Make _ Fine Harness to Order " as usual, at the old stand, Nov. 7 WATER STREET, where I will keep a regular line of Whips, Sponges Chamois, Blankets, Robes, Feed Bags, Traveling Bags, be. a". F. Peckwell. Notice to Builders. VIRST-QUALITY BUILDING STONE for sale cheap. Apply to J AMES K. SELLECK, lit! 1‘. 0. Box 22!. Norwalk. For Sale. DOUBLE BARRELLED RIFLE madeby John Blissett, London. Will be sold cheap for ash. Enquire at this came. ttention and gentlemauly drivers. Peeuifarities or the Indian. Marrying into an Indian tribe assures the white man an immunity from (lager he could not otherwise secure. Though he is not considered one of the band, he is in ameasure attached to it. Hi! 19-, laticnship is that; of a mortgage to a . house. whose owner can't discharge it. ‘ In the event of a'difilculty between his people and his tribe he remains perfectly neutral. taking care to keep out from between them. As an enemy, he would be hunted down. When trouble looms up he packs his traps and removes until it is over, and then returns with a Bip- Van-Winkle-like yawn, wondering what has happened in his absence. It is the position that has made him an object of some suspicion among the whites and Indians where neutrality is an unknown force. He is on neither side in n from, aisituation mountainous thanng be . with the defeated, among u‘poople‘dvltd ’ take a hand in everything“ no they be ' bravo, but he is circumscribedzboundjj' down by his domestic relations, but pow? criess formation, ' According to prairie law it is disreput- able for a white man to abandon his- dusky wife until she has grownitoojold to work for him. Then he' may send-her back to her“ tribe if he so elect. The obligation upon' the wife indifferent. She must not desert the husband for another white 'man, but she may leave him forlonothor Indian who wantsto marry her, provided she has no children. If a squaw desires to abandon her hus- band, the Indian of her choice must put back the price originally paid to her - mother. He may abate no jot or tittle, ' and it is in such payment that the divorce is perfected. She then becomes asingle woman, free to marry, but she cannot live near her former husband She must move away with her new ven- ture. Such divorces are not infrequent. It is a difi‘lcult thing for a squaw to per- fectly adapt herself to her 'white hus- band. He may be of the kindliest dis- position, but his ways are not as her ways, and though she struggle with all her strength to draw closer to her exist once a part of his, she cannot make him one of her kind, and she drifts away from him. The birth of children directs her thoughts into a new channel,.and lessens the chasm between them; but without'them he has but little hope of keeping her to himself. Sooner or later she will find her affinity. W. A Western Pack Train. We had often heard of pack trains, but our idea's had never assumed a dcfiu- . ite form until it was our good fortune to witness the packing and departure of fifty mules and three horses, with five drivers. The merchandise all having * been previously collected and carefully packed (a labor requiring many days, as every whiskey barrel must be enshrouded in burlaps, and other goods made into bales), the mules are led into a large open shed and placed opposite each other and facing the bales, upon which the weight of each is marked The uni. mais are then called out of the ranks by their respective names, and respond by taking a step or two forward. Leather blinders are placed over the eyes of the animal to be laden; then a saddle, cloth or blanket; then the “aparahces,” im- mense pannior-llke arrangements, so- curely fastened on by the united efforts of two men, while the mule, who is no novice in the business, resists their efi'orts as much as possible by pulling himself up, and making it difiicult to accomplish the operation. The smaller animals are packed first and with the lighter goods, two bundles of correspond- ing weight being placed in Opposite panniors. It requires two or three men to lift these burdens to their positions, where they must be held until as many more strap and rope them. The mule, meantime, makes all the trouble he can. knowing that he is being imposed upon; he greens and grunts, kicks and squeals, and in some instances lies down, and tries to roll over, as soon as released from the hands of his tormentors, and it requires all the persuasion of kicks and blows, vigorously applied, to induce him to rise. The weights placed upon them vary from two hundred and twenty-five pounds to four hundred and eighty, the latter being the weight of two barrels of whiskey. They are amotloy crow.— Some have merely begs piled one upon gnother to an immense height; and'othors- are almost lost to sight between two square boxes; two have stoves on their backs. whose protruding pipes look bruised and battered, after the attempts of their carriersto roll over. Beans and sugar, kerosene and candles, ton, cofieo and oysters, with everything else that is con-V sumed in a mining camp, is placed on the backs of these animals. .__.......- commits AND ms. No other garments have the faculty of so revealing their owners’ characteristics as collars and ties. The hat and coat may deceive, gloves may mislead, boots may convey false impressions; but the collar and tie give an unfaltering very diet. The middle-aged professional man has his collar turned down, and wears the sobereet of black ties. The horsey man carries out the promise of his gorgeous plaid jacket and brooches by a collar of formal cut, and a cotton tie imprinted with horses’ heads or boots, with stirrups, saddles or_cthor articles of equine furniture. It would be as difficult, on the other hand. to imagine an aesthetic poet abandoning his wide turned-down coilhrland loosely knotted soft Surah tie for the sporting style as it would be to conceive an American rancher in the stiff four-inch deep “stand-up-all-round" and chim- ney-pot of the young gentlemen who oglc barmaids at fashionable restaurants. 'Arry on the eve of a bank holiday purchases a cravatpf gaudy color, filling up allintersticos in the region of' his throat; and, in addition, assumes a paper collar of startling form and pat- tern. Iuexperienced eyes might find some difficulty "in distinguishing be- tween the closely knotted handkerchief of tho poacher and the similar style also in favor among navvies. The difference is that the gentlemen who pursue the former vocation usually Wear theirs very tight to the neck. while the latter, whose occupation requires the utmost freedom, tie their red and yellow bandannas so as to permit unrestricted play to their manly throats. This method has the advan- tage of making one article take the place of two. . now BE APPLIED nrs INITIALS. Money may elect a man to office, but it will not enable him to fill his position with sense and honesty. A certain mayor, of the ignorant variety, who had made his money in the liquor business, had a paper brought to him by the clerk with the request of his indorsomeut. ' "Your initials are only necessary," remarked the scribe. ' “ My nishuls! Wat's my nishuls ?" " Why, your given name and your sir- name each commence with the letter P; so please write two P’s on the back of this paper. " His Honor the Mayor took the pen, and with a wrinkled brow and an impor- font air. laboriously wrote—"T093959."
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