The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 11, 1884, Page 6

MADCAP MAY. ait, sieepy uays. What with bathing in the morning when the tide was in, stroll- ing on sands, or on the parade, or lounging in the Spa subscription rooms, the time slipped away almost impercep- tibly. anized so all the Excursions were places of interest in the neizivorlood, and very much May enjoyed tuem; but her hief deiight was to paddie about the im harbor in ier canee. Some- ¢ led a little feet of canoes, and at other times she was quite without brother to accompany her, who know Dovercourt will re- member that it stands in the centre of an extensive bay, bounded on the right by Walton-on-the-Naze, and by Languard Point on the left. . Between the latter and Dovercourt lie the broad estuary of the Rivers Orwell and Stour, and the harbor and town of Harwich. At a point about midway between Do vercourt aud Harwich there is a low head- Jand, from which there has been built out into the seaa kind of breakwater or rather groin for the protection of the Harbor of Harwich. Standing at the end of this groin, one may have the water at one’s left hand as calm asa mill-pond, while there will be a perfect little tempest raging at one’s right, with only some five or six feet of solid stone between the two. From seaward comes the monotonous boom! boom! boom! of the bell-buoy on the bar at the entrance of the harbor, and its ominous clang reminds one incessantly that, however placid and safe it may be in the harbor, there is storm and danger enough outside. Sometimes this groin is under water, and inaccessible; but generally it is possi- hle to get out to the end of it, where strong seats have been fixed for the benefit of those who appreciate the luxury of having water on three sides of them, without the least risk of having their retreat cut off. The currents are dangerously strong off the point of the breakwater, and it is per- ilous for any small craft or canoe to tempt to round it without going some distance out to sea, though the most fragile craft ever floated could lie close to the sloping stonework on the harbor or Harwich side without the least danger. It was a hot, hazy afternoon. The Spa was filled with brightly dressed people, who seemed to have deserted the parade and the sands for such shade as they could tind here. A band is playing in the grounds, and Madcap May sitting comfortably in her canoe, with her paddie at rest, listens dreamily to the witching strains, and thinks how much sweeter the music sounds here on the water than it does close to the performers. Her canoe is lying almost opposite the Spa, and not a hundred yards from the breakwater, and she is enjoying the pleas- ant sens n derived from the slight rock- ing of th and the ne ot the dis- tant music, when a shrill g shriek echoes through the air and makes every alone, even he, listener start with sudden alarm. May looks about her anxiously to see trom whenee the ery of terror come hen she sees upon the end of the break- water a woman frantically waving ler arms, and sere children cling to her skirts. ‘Their faces are turned in the direction rd Fort, and they are evidently call attention to some person or thing that had fallen into the water. Some of the people of the Spa grounds hear the cries of dis for what wind there is, isin that direction, and madly run along the sea-wall towards the breakwa- ter, but it wiil take the quickest runner a full ten minutes to reach it, and traverse its enti length; i, even when there, what heipe¢ anyone give? It would be madness for the strougest swimr to throw himself into the seething, whirling water at this point. Oue moment’s pause and tien May makes straight for the She knows her danger well, and in the brief moments that elapse between the rm her reaching the scene of peril, she thinks of what she has to lose, and of who will be jeft behind if she perish. There is her father. He will mourn for her, but her brother Frank will comfort him—and there is another; but she knows inher heart that either of them would risk his life just as she is about to risk hers, so she disinissed from her mind all thought of hesitation. A few vigorous strokes, and she is with- in speaking distance of the people on the breakwater, and she calls out— «‘What is the matter? ‘Tell me!” «Freddy! Freddy has fallen into the water! Mychild! My child!” And Mrs. Thorrold, for it was she, held up her arms, shrieking like a mad wo. man. May’s face was very pale; a clear stead. fast look came into her eyes; ttle Fred. dy was drowning, and she must save him or lose her own life in the effort. A few seconds later, and she is on the Spot;at the mercy of the swirling cur. rent, it would seem, but as she is swept past the place where the child was last seen, he rises again to the surface, and she reacues over and clutches him. “Well done! Well done!” is shouted by the lookers on; but their exultation is premature, the girl has grasped the child firmly, but what she feared, what she has prepared for has happened, she has over. balanced the canoe, and se and little Freddy are both in the water. She had just presence of mind enough to throw herself out when she found she must go, and grasp the canoe with her left band in the hope that the tiny craft would bear the strain long enough to allow time for help to reach her, and here she floats, holding Freddy in one hand and eli ging to the canoe with the other, while the bell from the doating buoy vooms solemnly as Wf ringing her knell. “Heid on, hold on is shouted wildly by the spectators on the breakwater, while people in boats trom the Harwich side are pulling lustily towards the scene of the accide igh they only have a very hazy idea of Wuat has happened, Counting by minutes, and not one had been lost iz coming to May Ratston’s ai. the time fis pen Very short indeed to her it seemed as thouzh the agony of 4 lifetime could never be so lengthened out. To keep the child’s head above water Was hot an casy matter without the use of her other hand; and theugh she could Swim she dared not let go ber hoid of the canoe, and she had net strenzth to turn it over and lift tittle Freddy iuto it. So here ste hung at the merey of the current, Which had already carried her several yards beyond the end of the break- Ss, water. It was upon the safety of the ebild that ber wheie thoughts ate cen. was tired and numb, and seein Rer arm ae it must fall powerieas by her aming, While two terrified | | side; but if Freddy’s fate were not kept | above the water, of what use would Ler own peril have been? Her very terror lest she should looser her hold on the child increases,her exhaus. tion, and Ler id yecome Vague and co fused. She i= ious of a Ba of voices and tie ru jimly co ters; and then, with one convulsive sob, she r that heip is close by. and si: has just ength ene mur “Take L ’ Ser eyes Wateh the cis sound of the wa- The “Find” in Central America. somethi to the ge that nant x is true w fond of eof the human grasped fted into the bout, and six kuows no more : She was np ec,” is the verdict | passed upon her as teuder hands drag ber tenderly into the Tuey carry her to | iced: al House, where everytuing that 22d no questio Zieh tion cun suggest is dove for awuse There fully, and the first thing sie was positive- ly conscious of, was a suiail curly-Leaded boy of five clambering over her bed and nestling in her arms, us le said— “im your little Loy n@v, Miss May; mamma Says so, and she says, please will you forgive her, for my sake?” « . . . Two days later May’s fath he had heard of his daughter’s poble ac and was justly proud of her. | And he brougit with hima young licu- j tenant in the navy, who had evideutiy | known our heroine at some earlier period | of his life, and who, the first moment he found her alone, clasped Ler in his arms, | exclaiming—“Your father has consented, | May.” This will, no doubt, account for the very sudden departure of Captain Ferris and Mr.Smythe from Dovercourt, and also for the wedding that took place at the old church a few weeks later. May is as happy as any bride can be; but she will always be Madcap May to those who know her. . returned, ty MEASURE THE BABY. ‘We measured the riotous baby Against the aroate, Ww: — Alily grew at the threshold ‘And the boy was just as tall; A soyal tiger-lily, gold, lice With spots of purple and And a heart like jeweled chal: ‘The fragrant dew to hold. Without the blackbirds whistle High up in the old roof trees, And to and fro at the window The red rose rocked her bees, And che wee pink fists of the baby Were never a montent still — Snatching at shine and shadow ‘That danced on the window silL His eyes were wide as blue bells, His mouth like a flower uublown— Two little bare feet like funny white mica, Peeped out from his suowy gown; And we thought, with a thrill of rapture, ‘That had yet a touch ef pain, When June rolls round with her roses, We'll measure the baby again. Ah me! ina darkened chamber, With the sunshine shut aw Through tears that fell | We measured our baby And the little bare feet t ‘And sweet as a budding Lay side by side together, In the hush of a long repose, rose, Up from the dainty pillow, White as the risen dawn, ‘The fair little face lay smiling, With the light of heaven tuereon; And the dear littie hands, like rose leaves Dropped from the r > snateh at the suns crept to the shrouded sili, | ‘We measured the sleeping baby, i OW, | With r ons white a: For the at w 3 And out of the darkened chamber, We went with a childless moan — To the height of the sinless angels Our little one has grown. A dispateh from Matamoras, Mexico, | says that “Rev. Father Dam: of Concordia, in the state of Ve has discovered the key to the Aztec writings.’’ It is not possible to ju from this vague statement the cance of the alleged discovery. as is known there is strictly Aztee writing key. The hierosi occupants of the Annah h the time of the Spanish conquest were not of a recondite acter. Th principle was that of © phonet les Joined with a crude symbolism akin to that of the North American Indians. The Aztec hieroglyphics were for the most part not beyond the nder at- tainment of the ecclesiast who fo!- lowed in the wake of the Spanish con- querers, and these ecclesiastics learned the art themselves so well that for a considerable period many of their pict- ure writings were confounded by mod- ern archxologists with those of the Az- tecs. It may be, however, that the dis- covery refers, not to the Aztec, but to the Toltec writings, and if this be the case, it may lead to interesting develop- ments. The Toltecs, who were the precursors of the Aztecs in Mexico, and who flourished in Central America, where they have left marvelous relics at Palenque, Copan. and Yucatan, were of a higher civilization than the people who succeeded them, and they had a pure system of hieroglyphics, of which, unfortunately, few specimens are known to exist, the most accessible being in the Dresden museum. The ents of which have been preserved, however, sre sufficient to justify the conclusion that this people were accustomed to employ. for their religious and astrolog- ical writings 2 special hieroglyphic cor- a ponding. Egyptian hi aware that any of this priestly text has been deciphered fully, though enough is known of it to warrant the belief that much of the language employed conveyed an esoteric meaning and was intended to conceal supposed truths from the eves of the vulgar, much as alchemists used to conceal the real sig- nificance of their speculations and for- mulas in the middle age Could. this Toltec hieratie writing be deciphered, itis probable that new at would be thrown upon the religion and science of that ancient and interesting people, and such information would be partic- ularly weicome in this era of analytic inquiry. But the Aztecs appear to have nothing to conceal, and we know as much about them a either neces- sary or desirable. hey were semi- ivi ; they had sanguinary relig- ious rites; they possessed but one form of picture writi they were inferior in all respects to :ne Toltecs. Unless, therefore, Father Soto has penetrated the esoteric hierozlyphics of the latter, there is not much reason to anticipate important results from his all dis- covery. Central America has still | much to teach us. but Mexico compar- | atively little. —New York Tribune. i in some respects, to the Toltec writing | eratic script. We are not | ) equa. Was belon women announced also whoever, or whatever he, | be, has 1 or it mia: The persons who are never happy unless they are proving scientitically is repug- footprints are just 3 The people who made them lived, therefore, just 44,111 years and elev s betore Adam was put into the Garden of Eden. Along with the information of this ; astounding discovery comes the state ment that ware potte | and the drav Etrusean”’ h excavations in | These discov nding on three leg: rs on whieh are enti so been revealed by me neighborhood. sw ‘pieces of earthen- aa upset the whole of | structure of the present sciences | anthropology d ethnology, and in- | cidentally that of comparative philolo- | a revision-of geviogy | archeology. Such logieal—or, perhaps, | more strictly, | tremendous. parative p ilology have traced somewhere near the ‘Mountains nd may probably make necessary paleontology and ological—results are | Anthropology and com- i the | source of the human race to a pince i ol Ararat’’—which, oddly enough, is also the human starting-place asserted in e conclusions. so far as verts ali th the E:ruscans, i | | the Bible. | more, The new discovery contro- Further- has hitherto been known, lived in Italy somewhere about 4,000 years ago. Central America. from some eminent and complete theory to fit all these | facts.—N. Y. Mail. —__— + = | Self-Knowledge In one of his poems, Burns ventilates | 8 wholesome wis! O wad come Power the ¢ To see oursel’s us ithers | The diftic | done. Seei | us is no eas j there is usually a creat difficulty in | knowing what others really think of us. | | | es others see In the first place, The rules of good breeding are com- pletely an i to it. The world m bad motives, sant. There is going on in great most to the end of life, where j roused to 2 sense of them by some j inlet of cri m from others. Ob- | viously, there are large numbers | who go on recklessly in the commission | of crim l actions, w serious- ly think what the and are | only for the first time ught to their | senses in humiliating penal solitude. | it is there they sce themselve others see them, thoug y be rather late in the day. In ordinary affairs, one | might be the better of even knowing | Whether any of his personal manners }are disagreeable, her he speaks | too much or too loudly, whether he is | thought to be too silent or too commu- nicative; or, if a lady, whether she is | hot dressing too gaily | so forth. | eo A Soft Word. The art of n unpleasant thing in a perfectly agreeable manner, is x very high accomplishment, which should be y all persons liable | to be asked for loans. Some years ago there was a banking-house in Edin- burgh which gave general offense by the rude way that customers were some- times addressed. A tradesman leaving 8 bill for discount, would on his return have the bill thrown across the table, with the supercilious and loud remar! «We don’t know the parties.” Trades- man retires affronted, and ever after- wards speaks of the unmannerliness of j; the bank. There was at the same time another banking establishment in the town, the oldest in the country, which was noted for its civility. It was pre- ; Sided over by Mr. + anaged gentle- }man, who knew the value of a soft word. When a tradesman, as in the former case, was to be refused the dis- counting of a bill, the old banker came forth from his den, and addressing the would-be customer in a friendly and confidential way, said: “I am sorry it | is not convenient to discount your bill | to-day; but be so good as to give my | compliments to your wife!’"—Dr. R. or her years, and | Chambers. | 2 = _ Song. Looking through the gioaming. the fire flies are roam! Music and mo. Joy's iridescence o Glows on the sea. Come let us go Where tne still Love with its rapture sh. Pure is the blessing our spirits caressing, Sweet is the silence and ¢im is the dell; Far through the portal of music immortal Love leads the measure and sorrow the spell, Borne on the stream Of an exquisite dream, Music and moonlight ikeir secret shall tell. Come then unheeding the hours that reced- ing, Dream in the distance and murmur no more! Listen! ob listen! the dewy woods glisten, Hope floats before us along the dim shore. Come let us reve Through the shatowy grove; the tragrance of feeling is o'er. bt are over the lea; { passion and pleasannee meadow and gieams on the waters flow, all render us free. Come—ere No sooner was.a baby show an- bounced at a Chicago museum than a ciamor was made to have the flay ron up. on tne round that aheavy pturcuRg. A new theory must now be construed which will account for their getting there after 46,000 years of residence in It may turn out that Americans discovered Europe, instead of Europeans discovering America. 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