Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1875, Page 6

The work of the sun is slow, Bul as sure as heaven, we know; So we'll not forget, When the skies are wet, ‘There's green grass under the snow. When the winds of winter blow, Walling like voices of woe; There are April showers, And buds and flowers, And green grass under the snow. We Gnd that it's ever so, In this life’s uneven flow; e've ouly to wait, In the face of Fate, For green grass under the snow. ANNIE E. PRESTON. ——__-+e-2 = PAULINE. On the dreary evening of a dull November Gay. When the lamps glared faintly with a b drew up before one of houses in an old-fashioned London square, and two young ladies and thelr Ing- misty yellow, a@ cal gage were deposited at the door. opened and @ flood of light streamed out into the night air, giving a cheery pro was not contraiicted, for of welcome th: the two girls, ascending the wid: Were met on the landing by a tall, stately statelines’ gave Way aS soon as hem, and sheembracey them warm- and tears. ned the younger how glad Iam to lady, whos she sa ly, With aiternate kisses athilde,” . said Mrs. Sta stood in her eyes and her ne girl loc never seen the stately I: “fore. ; “we were once | to you have had a t be in need of refresh- | your wraps and make like sisters. jong journey, and m ment, go and ke of haste d own to te Then the girls went away, and the stately | old lady sat down by the drawing-roo! 4 back in her char, and closed her She le eyes. “So like Paul,” she murm Nina’s grand ¥ took a fancy same hero, and he chose one, was left disconsolate. Discousd @ time, for Mathilde de Bren Englisiman, to whom she became deeply at- 1 and his wife she lost sight. They, after a struggle with poverty, both died, and Mrs. Stanmore had well-nigh forgotten them, when suddenly the name of the little French governess struck her, and the result Was that Pauline Valen %, was invited to olidays. tached Of P London for the Christmas FOR THE SAKE OF THE PAST. their comfortable bedrooms diseussed their reeeption. And as days crept on, in the delightful twilight hour before the jet. Dit by bitof the past | Was unrolled; and Aunt Maihilie fou: ounger through the history of The girls lamps were lig self growing 3 her early life: “It was at Hochfel,” she said, “that your §randmother and I were at school, and formed a school-girl friendship. I haveoften thought that I should like to see the place again—the old convent-looking school-house, the public gardens, the soldiers, and the stu- dents. Ah! I remember every stone of the place. I believe I should have made a pil- image there I had not been too old to go so iF alone.” “Go new, Aunt Mathilde, and take us| With you,”’said Mildred, suddenly, Pauline’s eyes shone with a great light; though she said nothing. “We might mana, months at mid-summer.” ~Pauline will have no more holidays,” re. | dred, cailin; tarned Mrs. Stanmore, shortly. “Poor Pauline!” ejaculated Mildred. “That is to more, “she wi! instead of one to live with me.” Mildred sprang up and clapped her hands; then she kissed Mrs. Stanmore vehemently, Saying that “she was the dearest, best Aunt Mathilde that ever lived, and was repa. good for evil, for Paul bad certainly behaved | very badiy. + Nons said Aunt Mathilde; “what has that to do with 11% Pauline had listen feet. «It ts for Pauline to say yes or no,” said Mrs. Stanmore, gently siroking the girl's * exclaimed Mildred, “of uu are too good, Madame—,” began hair. the Freneb eirl. “Aunt Mathilde, {f you _ inter- am not good. itis all as it should be; and I have not so much to be angry for after all, sinee my life rupted Mrs. Stanmore; “and bas been full nao g = pen « Yes, it is indeed added Mild: HOCHFELD. It was exactly as Mrs. Stanmore had de- Beribed it, in spite of the many years that been added to itsage. The growth it had made had not effaced its old landmarks; and Aunt Mathikie and the girls made satisfac- tory ex; ition, and paused at different ints of interest. Pque School house was a school: longer. but was turned into a pension; here Mrs. Stanmore took up her abode pretty suite of rooms looking upon the old en, not altered from eee care. wie fountain and sun-dial in their old places. The university, too, had not changed its Position, nor the old church, nor the public gardens; and many a house was pointed out ‘€s having in old days contained good friends of Aunt Mathilde. “Here.” said she, waving her parasol en- ergetically im the direction of a fii So your grandmother and Watehed the torehlight procession at poor Herman Rozenhain’s funeral;” and as she spoke her parasol struck a young lienten- ant of cavalry, who was walking leisurely along the street, full in the face. “A thousand pardons!” said she. Bout the poor lieutenant was for the mo- ment blinded; the blow had been = eye already showed symptoms of swel- ng. Aunt Mathilde was in dismay. What could she do? She was profuse in apologies and explanations. Heutenant accepted the situation Pleasantly; cards were exchanged, and he Promised to call upon ber the next day and day, but ver Quently, did he find his way to the old pen- sion with the charming garden, for Lieuten- | ant yon Alten was far Irom home, and not Rochfeld. Mrs. Stanmore found him very delightf ‘Was ready to accom- report bimseif. nd not only the next ‘and very useful, for he and her nieces—as she called both peny her sir and every where. ‘vorab! did not hesitate to express her fa- le opinion of him, and was on the best possibie terms at once. Pauliue was more reserved in her none wa : well Of him becanse enemy your country.” said Mil- dred, “You would not fill in love With bim for worlds, so you keep out of the ‘Way and leave him tome, as I am inffuenced Bo such dispositions.” warmly, “I can scarcely forgive thi Aunt Mathilde said nothing, but she began | 3. e to have ae. Was the old story of | Sometimes she thought the tleucen= again’ @nt liked one girl, sometimes the other, and sometimes she doubted if he cared pre- Pauline’s was laid esitatingly” as if) Aunt Mathilde had detected hii of his “And shall I do without my lieu- tenant” asked Mildred. “Ob. Atsni Mathiide, you cannot be so cruel as to all my pieasure! Do stay a litle longer A SURPRISE. uw the Saow. [ From the Springjicid Republican. | mphs of Plain Women. Few women and fewer men would be in- clined to undervalue the gift of beauty in the weaker sex. A woman without beauty is deprived of her most potent influence over though there may still remain to her more enduring powers of fasci- of will and awee’ whet bind often affirmed, when he heard of Mrs. Sta’ More's determination. He had dream and had { imagined, as people usuall ~ do in that condition, that his dream woul last forever, but this sudden announcement bad effectually awakened him. He was standing on the balcony outside Mrs. Stanmore’s window, waiting for the party who had gone out for a Presently the sitting-room doo: m came into the room. Not one of those he wished to see, he Il the approaches to the house; therefore, he did not move, and the person drew achair up to the table and write. Then he was tempted to glance tn- In a moment he was — of the naiion of manner, 8 ‘tion. opened and some with scene ay world have been plain women. however. such a diversit; like, is to decide who really have been plain &re naturaily chary of 80 describing @ living woman, and history abounds in conflicting opinions on this point; for example, by some Joan of Arc down as plain, yet Tennyson men- tions her tn his “Dream of Fair “Joan of Are, a light of ancient France.” Mary Powell, in one ot her charming works, speaks of Margaret h changeful spirits,” but she grew in beauty, or hercharms y bave consisted of expréskion and of movement, for Erasmus consi It was Pauline. atherside. Pauline started. “Mademoiselle,” said he, “I am find you alone. Ob, mademoiselle! y: ou must have seen. You are ki cart will plead—you will have He was much agitated; but bad been nerving herself for what she ex- pected must come, tainly; I will help may depend upon dden, this acing ou must know— Pauline, who answered quietly, ‘Cet ee you to the utmost. You The lieutenant looked as though he did not | quite comprehend, and he went on as well as his agitation would permit. “‘Mademoiselle must surely know my have never doubted it. Mildred is worthy Lieutenant von “it is not of ber, but of yourself I Is it possible you have not as he spoke a new light fell upon ad aright much that she d. And fora moment a i her heart, but it was only for ; the next, a chill ran through her and she +tarted up with a er, was the old story over agal requite her benefactress b: f up in surprise; she had | UPOn her niece? Never! and she looked up + | resolutely at Lieuten tien, Monsieur, s gain; itis a pity th and she glided away, leaving the lieu- tenant standing motionless with despair and As a rule, literary women have not been Tsonal charms, and anougst the greatest triumphs of plain women are those of the mind. Mrs. Was, bad no personal beauty successful, hovest life; norhad Hannah More, Miss Edgeworth, Miss Mitford, Mrs. He- Of Mrs. Chapone, we read from the per of a contemporary that “she was full of good sense and uncommon ugliness.” Charlotte Bronte's pale, plain face is often alluded to by her biographers; aod Sappho was short of stature, swarthy, and boted for their “ry, good as sue to adorn her dame sail ed me also, I m please, my ore, Whilst the tears ivered. says Le Brun,” “ill becomes rosy and justly or not, studious womea are supposed to care littie for the duties of Wives or mothers, or the vanities of dress, and this impression has prevailed for centu- ries. The least attractive girls in every circle are often the first to marry, probably because they are Jess difficult to please than their more favored sisters; but for all that, tne richest fruits of life not seldom come to their share, rather than to the fair ones. men, ‘mostly swayed by beauty, have now and then adored ungainly women, is an his- torical and social fact. niece was as ugly as she was agreeable. Mme. d’Houdelot, theonly woman Rousseau ever loved, squinted, and was marked with I-pox, and yet her friends dubbed her Ayesha, Mahomet's bringing grief “do not seek hat we ever THE CEMETERY AT HOCHFELD. There is a beautiful cemetery at Hochfeld, raveof Paul and Nina Va- within a week of each other Pauline bad often visited this cemetery of Wherein is the lency, who di in the year 18—. Voltaire’s favorite ued. grandehild working away in @ boanding- | Pauline bad often, ; at et te r | % \d grave of her grandpar- Sebool! That must not be if I can help it. | ents ad eomumaeaed with her heart; and tried aches AE | to still {ts wild tumult. To-day ber first im- 1 te here am | pulse was to hasten thither, and, sinking down on the tlowery turf, to pour, as it were, her grief into the ers of those who were ly- ing beneath. She grieved for herself, and for Mildret also, and wished that this second Paul had never come between them. she was concernefi, Mildred should have no cause for sorrow. How thankful she was that they were to leave Hochfeld so soon, and then perbaps in time it would all be for- At length, exhausted with her emotion, and overcome by the heat of the day, she fell asleep, with her head resting on the grasey mound. “What ~ the matter with every one?” said ce. Panline started up. “Here you are,” said Mildred, “with your eyes red and swollen, and I found the lieu- tenant at our lodgings looking as white as a ghost, and scarcely able to make his «adicux What is the matter?” “I have been asleep,” answered Pauline, hild. I don’t wouder “La Parfaite Julie.” favorite wife, was no beauty, nor was Swilt’s holidays it will be her own fault | { Among women of exalted rank who have been wanting in beauty are Margaret of Sweden; Matilda, Empress of Germany; and Christiana of Sweden. Fulva, wife of Au- thony, had few personal charms; nor had Terentia, wife of Cicero, if one may trust to the majority of historians; but most of these bave found some admirers among blogra- pbers. Neither Anneof Cleves nor Catherine of Arragon were good looking, still fo: they swayed the fickle heartof their Blue Beard husband. Queen Anne was a dowdy, graceless woman in her best day: Well’s wife was plain. When Qu of Bohemia came to there was & pageant at Cheapside of a castie with two towers, from ran fountains of wine; and we are told that the beautiful girls who blew gold leaf in the faces of the king and queen caused the plain bride to look plainer; yet she made her way in the good graces of king and people. In France the gay and pleasure loving iain women have gained many lanreis me. de Stael is a memorable instance was more conscious of her her name was a the laty of the house; and her | thoughts went back to the days when she | and the Freneh girl’s grandmother had been sworn allies, until love stepped in and made &@ quarrel, and they never spoke again. Was the old story. Two girls in love with the ad the other Stull, as far as england ‘as a bride both sides of which «What were you doing before you went to sleep? And why have you sent the poor lieutenant awsy when you. know that he bas ‘our heart with him?” “Pauline, my dear, do you think lam | stupid? Have I rot seen exactly how mat- you and Aunt Mathilde though no o1 sonal defects. Even power in itself. ‘The great Napoleon co: Scended to be so jealous of her tnfiuence, that no persuasion would induce him to allow her Mile. de Lespinaisse, one of the most fascinating women of her day, who exercised a marvellous influence on those around her, was marked with smal! Mme. Geoffrin was a plain woman. ‘me. d'Epinay was neither beautiful nor most attractive. SESS censee-ssstionsnstenstnnstan sss srs enemies el toreturn to France. | ters stood, whilst bave been blind an the slightest necessity for romance and self- sacrifice You care for Lieutenant von Al- I do not—except as the husband of friend. I have no desire to marry a foreign- er, but it is quite natural that you should te of his beinga Prus- think it the very best plan that could be devised for settling your national differences.” Pauline sprang to her feet. “Here, Lieutenant von Alten,” satd Mil- tall figure lingering in the ut everything right for ust @ little migtake, as y," explained Mrs. Stan- | there always will be if people persist in pay- ve no oceasion for an: ve arranged that she shall not go bac! Madame, and that I shall have two children Mme. de Maii- lainest woman of the court. ski, danghter of Stanisla King of Poland. wife of Louis ; but uninteresting; and that famous ‘ajatine princess, second wife of Duke of Anjou, brother of Louis X mother of the Duke of Orleans, the during Louis XV.’s minority—a woman who exercised more sWay than any other of her time—was coarse of feature. and so ungainly that her large hands passed into a proverb. She was of masculine habits, clinging to the eustoms of Germany, and wore a short close Wig. like a man’s. On the stage and in theconeert-room many pl#in women have triamphed stage, at all events, they can call to their aid ‘int, and other accessories to repair the defects of nature. A notable instance of a Singer oceurs at the end of century, when women first appeared on the stage, men having prev’ wish todo so, in 5; Maria Leca sian; and, indeed, e it In Panuline’s holi- days.” continued Mildred; “she has two ing attention to one | love with another. rson when the ‘ortunately, in this case there has been noharm done.”—Jean Boa- | ceeur in the (uiver for December. An Essay on Girl. [Prom Judi [ iy. Grrl is very nice! Everybody who has not he misfortune to be girl will allow this. Nice girl will allow it also as far as itself ig | Concerned. Strange girl is objectionable in the eyes of girl generally. Powder improves girl sometime: seldom finds this out until it is suggested to it by one of experience. Healtby gir! lain and popular the seventeenth fousiy taken their Margarita de l’Epine was a Tuscan by birth, and tall, gaunt, and swarthy, with no winning softness of manner to make atonement; yet, in spite of this, she secured unbounded popularity by her singing and good temper, though her rival, Tofte, whom she cordially hated, was excep- Her ugliness was the theme of many a squib; and in England, Where she came with her German teacher, Herr Grebver, she was called “Greber’s Peg.” She led a stainless life, though much courted, the Earl of Nottingham following ber about as hershacow. She eventally married Dr. Pepasch, a scientific man, who called her Hecate on account of her ugliness. They py together, she continued her rofessional career, and he was organist at ‘he Charter-house. She never mastered the English language, but sang in her own tongue while the rest of the characters of the opera sang in Engiish. It was through a favorite parrot that she was somewhat cru- rised when her voice was going. ning the manager to resign on ac- count of some trumpery misunderstanding, lied that he could well spare her if sue send her feathered pupil. Margherita Durastante, a singer in Charles ime, was a large, coarse, masculine woman, but popularity itself. Her voice, a soprano, found great favor with the court— so much so, that the king, the princess, and Lady Bruce stood sponsors to her child. Tue excitement to hear her in th daminto” and ‘‘Agrippina’ 1 with bewilderment, and now was sobbing at Mrs. Stanmore’s costs its parents less rnoney for doctor's bills, but persons who write ro- mantic tales for cirentating libraries choose unhealthy and pastry: faced about—the swooning Kind pret Lately I bought sixpennyworth of illustrated journals, and I found therein ten ares filustrative of girl in a swooning } ype it was all real, or else there | ought to have been @ lot of smacking all If I were not boy I think I should like to be It's best fun to be bo; plenty of girl about. Tit FoR Tat._The Detroit Free Press says: A few days ago a Detroit widower, engaged to @ Detroit widow, each having two or three children, and both being Well off, determined to test her love for him and at the same time discover if she was mercenary motives, as some of asserted. He called upon her atthe — evening hour, and after awhile “My dear, you know I have two children, day I had ee life imsurance policy .000 changed their sole benefit in my darling,” she three children; as asia wari ad ay eae had every dollar's w v = that they alone can have the benefit of it.” Fi ag write | tionally beautiful. ai! as it should be; and were very hap} in the summer we will go to Hochfeld,” case of my death.” promptly re area e operas of “* Ra- ” was 80 great that {40 was paid for a seat in the gallery. An admirable instance of mind trium} over matter is the history of Martha chois,an exceedingly plain woman, both in face and figure, brilliant eyes being her only redeeming point. She was the greatest acf- ress of her day, and on the stage ske was a queen. Her every gesture wasa study to conceal the defects of nature. Her weak, misshapen body, and deformed arms, hid- aen by long sleeves, served herin as goot stead as those of Venice herself. as much as 1,000 livres @ year; and when her health gave way Louis XIV. granted her a The Abbe de Chautien pied > irleen madrigals in her honor when The marriage didn’t come off at the time Set last week, and it may never occur. A GRATE FOR Woop FIReEs.—Insert a road strong iron bar securely from side to side of the fire-place, and directly in front, about six inches above the nearth. From | this bar let others of less diameter, and about four or five inches apart, extend at right an- gies to the backs of the fire-place, where they roperly upon bricks. ed with a grate of this kind; urns well; and the ashes fall | down: and are easily removed. Ifa second bar Is fixed a few inches above | the large front bar, the dan; | roUlag forward and out of | be averted. —“Home and Societ | may be fas’ | Qodirons are ni Antoinette Clavell, a singer who did much towards abolishing the anachronisms of stage costume, achieved though small, thin, and fair, with an un- gainiy mouth, and bad, shy manner. She ‘Was @ perfect actress, and worshipped by her audience. One night she was crownel on the stage, an honor never before accorded to asinger; and she met with an ovation at Marseilles, the ladies of the town accom: pnying ber to an illuminated ndola, surrounded by ats, she herself wearing @ rich costume presented by her Greek admirers. At the jon & plece was performed composed in oner. A ball was given to her. coup- lets were sung of her, and the peopie in their enthusiasm covered her: did wreaths of flowers when she departed. She married Count d’Entraissiers, secretary to — French embassy ii the Order of St. Michael for savi portant folio. Thus this woman, daugh' it the queen of the opera, wife of a diplomatist vast triumphs, r of the wood fire-place wil! ” Scribner for A YOUNG WOMAN who lives on Lincoln | street has no longer an. occasion to com- plain of the absence of © husband from yy home. She just wrote herself a then mysteriously started u; | breakfast when she the pos ring, and saying, “Susan, never you mind— i the door. A fewmin- cheeks very her what @vilion in a hundreds of little self,” flew to she returned red, and when her busband asked the postman had brought, sa! dear; he had made a mistake. talk about something else.—Chicago Tribune. SECRETARY STANTON had a mighty curt Way ofdoing things. Ex-Governor Letche: if ken ai THE Paixcess oF WALES has band in India. She and her ‘week witnessed “ht Prince of Wales theater, ““Biue ~ ‘They were sis poem at the Mone % ¢ Mon- concert at St James’ ing tence of her hus ge E Fes ‘asks and_ Faces’ 2 Fi Pit slg A I lh oR lie BMP chal he i ad AI dc Oh AI co E228 oes 4 il i see oi ever without manifesting Lieutenant vou Alten was overwhelmed | like tt—Brooklyn Argus. in 1775 Jean Mara av o'sist agains! the adviceof everyhede: and it blighted her life, for he treated ‘with great cruelty. At her native Hesse-Cassel ihe Grand Duke sent for her between the parts of the performance kissed her forehead; and Paster the preacher, on his death-bed, said he should die happy could he or ce more hear her sing.- In Lon- don the fashionable world, headed by the Prince of Wales, was at her feet. She was equally honored in Venice, where a@ th Was raised on the stage, amicst a 8 clouds. which opened to shower roses ber. She married a second time after her first busband’s death; and her latest triumphs were some complimentary lines written to her by Goethe on her eighty-third birthday. Among other women who achieved profes- sional fame, in spite of the drawbacks of rag defects, were Anna Selina Storacs, me. Shroder Devrient, and Persiana—wa9o was pale, plain, and anxious-looking, with no taste in dress. A pretty story is told how once Malibran at Naples introduced herself into her dressing room before a perform- ance, and arranged her abundant tresses so. is to develop the few charms she had. Stil! she, like mavy others, overcame the defects of person by her character and talents, throwing & brilliant mind into a face that might lack ae featare and other transitory charms. What triumphs can a plain woman in equal to this? AkDEN Hour. MARK IWAIN AT NIAGARA. Niagara Falls is ove of the finest stractares in the world. I have been visiting this 1 vorite watering-place recently for the f time, and was Weil pleased. A gentleman who was with me said it. was customary to be disappointed in the Fails but that Subsequent visits were sure to set that all righ He said it was so with h He said that the first time he went h: fares were so much higher th: the F. that the Falls appeared insignificant. is all regulated now. he hackmen have been tamed, number. and lacarded and blackguar . brought into subjection to the law. and dosed with moral principle till they are as meek as missionaries. They are divided Into two cians now, the Regulars and the Privateers, and employ their idle time in warning the people against each other. The Regulars are under the ho- tel banners, and the Privateers prowl darkly on neutral ground and pick off stragglers at half price. But there are no more outrages and extor- tors. T sort of thing cured itself. It made the Falls capone by getting into the newspapers, apd whenever a public evil jeves that sortof success for itself, its days are numbered. Tt became apparent that either the Falis bad to be discontinued. or the hackimen had tosubside. They could not dam the Falls, so they did the hackmen. One can be com. fortable and happy there now. I drank up most of the American ralls be- fore I learned that the waters were not con- sidered medicinal. Why are peopie left in ignorance this way? I might have gone on and ruined a@ fine property merely for the want of a little information. And yet the sources of information are not meagre at Niagara Falls. You are some- thing indoubt what you ought to do, but you are seldom in doubt concerning what ou must do. If an infant can read, that in- fant is measurably safe in Niagara. Ifyou room at the hotel, you will find your course marked out in the most convenient pied by means of placards on the wali like nese: «Pull the beil rope gently, but don’t jer.” “Bolt your door.” —- scrape matches on the walls or fur- niture.” “Turn off your gas when you retire.” “Tie up your dog.” “Ifyou put your boots outside the door they will be blacked, but the Louse will not be responsible for tieir return.” This is a confusing and tangiesome propo sition, because it moves yon to deliberate long and painfully as to whether it will really be any object to youto have your boots blacked unless they are returned. “Give your key to the omnibus driver if yon forget and carry it off with you.” Outside the hotel, wherever you wander, ouare intelligenUy assisted by the signs. you cannot come to grief as long as you are in your mind, with so many instructions to keep track of. For instance: “Keep off the grass.” “Don't climb the trees.” “Hands off the vegetables.” «Don't hitch your horse to the shrubbery.” “Visit the Cave of the Winds.” ‘Have your portrait taken in your car- “Forty per cent. in gold leviel on all pea- nuts and other Indian curicsities purchased in Canada.” ‘Photographs of the Falls taken here.” “isitors will please notify the Superin- tendent of any negiect on the part of em- ployes to charge for commodities.” (No in- attention of this kind is observed.) “Don't throw stones down; there might be People below.” “The proprieters will not be responsible for parties who jump over the Falls.” (More shirking of responsibility—it appears to be the prevailing thing here.) Jalways had a high regard for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, but now they do not really seem to amount to mach along with the signers of Niagara Falls. To tell the truth, the multitude of signs annoyed me. It was because I noticed at last they were prohibiting the very thing I Was just wanting todo. I desired to roll on the grass; the sign pro- hibited it. 1 longed to smoke; a siga prohib- ited it. And I was just in the act of throw- ing @ stone over to astonish and pulverize such parties as might be picnicing below, when a sign I have just mentioned forbade that. Even that satisfaction was denied me and I was a friendless orphan. There was no resource now but toseek con- Solation from the flowing bowl. I drew my flask from my iket, but it was all in vain. A sign confronted me, which said: “No drinking allowed on these premises.” On that spot I might have ‘ished of thirst but for the saving words of an honored maxim that flitted through my memory at thatmoment: “All signs fail in dry times.” Common law takes precedence of the stat- utes. I was saved. The noble red man had always been a dar- ling ofmine. I loved to read about him in tale and legends and romance. J love to read of his inspired sagacity, and of bis love of the wild, free life of mountain and forest, and his grand truthfulness; his hatred of treachery, and his general nobility of character, and his stately metaphorical speech, and his chivalric love for the dusky maiden, and the picturesque pomp of his dress and accoutrements. When I found the shops at Niagara Falls full of dainty beadwork and stunning moe- casing, and equally stunning toy figures rep- resenting human beings who carried thelr weapons in holes bored in their arms and bodies sha like a pie, I was filled with emotion. I knew that now I was going to come face to face with the noble red man. A lady clerk in the shop told me, indeed, that all her grand array were made by tue Indians, and there were —. about the Falls, and that they were friendly, and that it would not be dangerous to speak to them. Icame upon a camp of them gathered in the shade of a tree, making wampum and moccasins, and addressed them in the follow- ing language of friendship: “Noble red men, brave, grand Sachem, war chiefs, squaws and High-you-nuck-a-mucks, the paleface from the land of the setting sun greets you. You, beneticent Polecat; you, devourer of mountains; you, Roaring Thun- dergust—the paletace from beyond the great Waters greets you all! “War and itilence have thinned your ranks and destroyed your once proud nation. Poker and seven-up and a@ vain modern ex- pense for soap unknown to your glorious an- cestors have depleted purses. Appro- pein in simplicity the ‘ty of ers: a8 gotten you into trouble. Misrepresent- ing facts in your sinless innocence has dam- aged ee reputation with the soulless usur- per. jing with forty-rod whiskey to en- able you to get drunk and happy and toma- a, : oe i. the —, ig mischie; otureaque our dress, and here you are the broad ight of the nineteenth century, gotten up ii ee nee and bobtail of the purlicus of New York! ‘or shame! Remember your ancestors! ee mighty deeds!” Re- member Uncaa! Red Jacket! and Hole- in-the-Day! and Horace Greeley! Emulate their its! Unfurl ves un- fe my banner, noble savages, introns ee Down wid Bi “Scalp the bisggarar” «“Dhrown him!” sar of elu ‘bats, It was the quickest operation that I saw. Tsimply w @ sudden flash in the air bs, > single Horseshoe and I got one eee = Soatnet — om 1e oa Cee siemens oom troeeee I final: verte apd in & world of foam at the foot of the , whose celled aid bubbly masses towered up several inches Mr coutne. 1 got into the eddy. I sailed aenip od gaining om Seg gennpaigs ac a a baif mile—reachiug the same bush on the but all in vain. In India they have, it is true, the most deadly of ali snakes, the oo- bra, anc his venom was usually sel cted for | trial; but among the reptiies which rank ring terror, though he | ly the rattlesnake. cobra usually Killa ip less than an hour. r who was killed by the cobra in n 1852 was not bitten till eight in the morning, and he was deal by nit the rattlesnake, I quote from Knight's imated Nature” that «dogs bitten have died men, when bitten on a vein, have often died in two minutes.” Now. as the serpent poison is blood poison—of which more anon—it Is clear that when a vein is pierced the danger is greater, the pro- gress more rapid; Lut [never knew of any- thing in the least resembling th stantancous Ceath, and never met wito any- body who did. A There was a fatal cage of rattlesnake bite, in the nelghborhoo! from whica I write, where a man had shot a rabbit drag itwelf, though woundet and in to feel for it, but touched He was bitten at the Just where it He diet from the bite to bank forty-twotimes end jus! exa tly m's i © it by & hair's breadth ever, time. A’ las & man walked close to that bush snd put a pipe in bis mooth and lit a match and followed me | With one exe ard kept match, while he shel! from the wind. down and sat down K RORERT EXYBCEN he. Kem the other on the it in his hands Presently a puff of wind Tne next time I swept around bim he said: “Got @ match?” “Yes—in my other vest. Help me out, please. “Not for Joe.” When I came around again I sak «Excuse the seemingly impertinent curi- osity of & drowning man, but wil plain this singular conduct of yours?” i “With pleasure. Iam the coroner. Don’t on my account. I can wait for you. 1 bad'a match,” : 4 place, and I'll go and get you one,” I said. Re declined. This lack of confidence on part created a coolnes from that time forward It was my idea in case anything happened to me to so time the ocenrrence’as to throw my ctstom into the hands of the opposition Coroner over on the American side. At last a policeman came along and ar- rested me for disturbing the peace by yelling DENTistT, oct®).tn Bemerad Ps QCRCTTER & BaneMAS, FRESCO. DECORA ORDAMENTAL ond PLAT ne Tat Rd stron: EPECiNEN BOOM, 7 iy WABHINGTON. A SET FOR TERT * 8. PRATT. Gre: Peotal Surg-ry Ontong in thirty seconds, and between us, and a rattlesnake instead. bottom of the palm of his bar know out of 5 only man out of thirty who , doctors would rat udge fined me, but I had the adv: money was with my p% with the Indians. Tam now Iyt At least Iam lying any | Tous I escap critical conditic rsalts for som: I'am hort all over, but I eannot teil the nt yel, because thedoctcr 1s not done | spots, where assist will make ont my manifest thisevening. Eowever, thns far, h ks only six of my Tshall not beable to fin ra Falls until I get better. RATTLESNAHKES. The rattlesnake is sup} are likeliest to all writers hav h my remarks OPAL INSTI Comm SNIGHT. DL ased, by those who xtending its area; hitherto concurred in saying that they were never met with at an eleva- tion or more than six thousand feet above the sea level, but several recent explorers that they are now foand he gentleman just cited as an authority, and whose surveying party de- stroyed hundreds of rattlesnakes last au- tumn, killed forty or fifty at an elevation of about eight thousand feet. declare, ihey never used to find them so hig’ The mountain snakes are more vivid in their colors than their urethren of the pratries, and, of the two, are more dreaded on account posed ferocity. &s just said, the rattlesnake is generally over the yet it is, of course, graphs, no iron-cli they canno! r that is what our logic 3 The very snake that Kilied the exhibited by @ native whocame over with tt. But to my rattlesnake remedy unite in sayin: eae ae much higher. ana athe Ok our 8o long as the patient has sense to swallow I know of one case of ratt t where four hours elapsed before spirits cou be procured, yet the patient live. son of a snake, by some mysterious poteuc canses the blood to coagulate, and, we may say, putrefy, then the sufferer «dies. All rem- edies seem to have fatted because they do not pd; now, Whisky does so act. is y—neat, of course. ntity usually taken, but the eure is directly the patient gets k long as the venom has the amount of whisky will affect the head directly it is conquered, the patient slows signs of intoxicatios ened. T remember one very woman was gathering stra crawling along on her hands anL s bitten in the lower part the calf of the leg by_a serpent. She saw the creature, and recognized it as the large yel- low rattlesnake, common in Iowa, oné of the most dreaded of the tribe. § than haifa mile from home, but lose her presence of mind; she s puacture with all her force, and was glad to Hind that a greenish droy blood; then she washed It well at the brook, made & sort of plaster of clay then walked home. was sent for, #.— Tho eights anunal + Formeriy, they act upon the A quart of wh spread almost American continent, more plentiful in some parts than in othe ‘exas probably ortion of rept! s than any other district lying be- tween the Rio Grande and Neuces—two streams which flow in the same direc? a distance of some sixty or sev sf adesert, barren region, literally swarming with serpents. In summer, you may ride for miles through this district, and not go fifty yards without seeing rattlesnakes. partsof Texas, the moccasin is the prevalent pedes, scorpions, taraa- tulas, and the alligator infest various locali- ties, and are each a terrible scourge. The rattlesnake is perhaps the most sing- gish of all the serpent tribe, for eve puff adder of the Cape, which has that repa- tation in general, is raged; but the rattlesnake, after and just before its winter sicep, never bites excepting in self-defense, and go out of its way to attack any one. Unless molested there is very little to fear from this snake; but the know when you are going to molest It, as, in coming down a bluff. or picking a gully, you may, with the best intentioa in the worid, put your footon a rattlesnake. And then the terrible swiftness of his dart! Not even the cobra, which I had always con- rivaled the very lightning ‘in its movements—movements which I will defy almost any eye to follow—is quicker taan the adder in that one deadly act. strike, it must be in @ close coil, its head and neck being erect; three-fourths of so, when she w: $ “ Pariculars address ar above O8LOBNE'S YOUNG L and DAY SCHOOL, 943 Next quarter cum th instruction by nort: qBEBKAU, Teacher of Ge BUN, Teacher of french snake; while centi exuded besides the Xeepting just A quart of the greater part she drank, and she never felt ence from the A very strange coincidence in the way of two brothers, work- ing on different farms, but each bittea by rat- Uesnakes on the same day. close to his own door: he trod on @ snake in nd was struck in theankle,a very place, on account of the numerous | small veins there. The other brother was reaping, or rather binding, anc caught hold of a snake, which bit him in the wrist. Both re- covered, having drunk very largely of whis- ky; but in their cases was tried, in addition, the older fashioned “‘ehicken-cure.” plan the breast of a chicken is cut open, about skin deep, the plucked off; the cut is just deep enough to make blood follow all along the incision, and the cut is held against the snake bite. It is asserted that the chicken flesh has a of withdrawing the venom, and, al the fowl droops. it seldom dies. Close to the place where these men were bitten, a third man suffered; he was making a hedg fence and trod on a snake; he was bitten in ut recovered by the use of whisky. early all snake bites are in the leg or arm, obvious reasons; horses or cattle are bitten in the jaw, as they disturb the reptiles by their feeding. or ox generally dies in one, twoor three days. The Indians dread the serpents very much, on account of their so often horses by them. The blacksnake abounds in many parts of America, and grows to the length seven feet. Although very much disliked and dreaded on account of its spiteful nature. It will frequently at. tack children, whom it has been & suflocate by Its folds, after the manner of a boa constrictor—in this place, by-the-by, al- Ways termed anaconda.” racer,” as it is called—derives its name from its swift and straight progression. It does le its crooked way through the aided by its hard scales, which ¢ earth at each of its curves, goes di- and with remark- ry hand. somely marked with diamonds of black and it is the “diamond snake” of some districts. These snakes are the largest in North America, growing some- times to the length of eight or ten feet, and are very powerful. FAMILY SUPPL BFF segey Prime Roast. Steak and mace of SPICKY KOUND: LONS. is, you don’t | snake bites was th One was injared S, BULLS and SB be 106 and 107 S22 and 324 New | CBoice MEINNESUTA FLOL K, ‘Another lot of the celebrated Washburne Warranted superior | Minnesots FLOUR, it throws itself out offered in this ci feathers being first entirely on I have, however, known two trodden on rattlesnakes third, as will be seen, Kably fortunate. One, @ gentleman who has killed more than fifty ized what his foot touched ‘withont stopping to look, and jumped higher than he had probably ever before done in his life. The other was not so quick, and the reptile struck him three times with electric quickness, but his trousers and long boots saved him. This disposes of a fallacy ver: generally beld, that venomous serpents wi not bite twiee in succession. the three pair of fang-marks quite plainly to be seen on his white trousers. Ose young mau who was bathing in the river Platiehad nary escape still, for, oa emerging from the water. he sat down, be- ing, of course, completely naked, on a ‘rat Uespake which was basking in the gras Whether he sat upon the reptile’s head, or Whether the creature was too astonished by his sudden descent, can never be Known, but certain it is that the affrighted batner leaped up with a shriek, and escaped unhurt. it js told that this particular serpent has a very offensive odor when irritated, and that Dr. Hamilton Rowe owed bis life to a knowl edge of that fact. Tne opened a box directed to t! of the Zoological Gardens, London, put his hand—most rashly, it seems to me—under the dry moss which appeared, to see what there. He touched something alive, and told him it was a rattlesnake. Had he withdrawn his hand rapidly, he would have been bitten to a ce: Uhe presence of mind to hich allowed him to tak away. This is a well-known story; refer to it to add that this odor and permanent that when a snake is irrita- ted and made to bite the rake or hoe with which it is intended to killhim—and, posed, this is very often done—the im- the same unpleasant ce known, it is always ble. AS much cannot be said of the sound of the on the prairie when opinions have been divided as to whether certain ominous clicking arose from the grasshoppers, which were there in numbers, or a rattlesnake. ant at twilight to have any doubt on this subject. The chief thing against the rattie- snake theory was, that these reptiles seidom move or leave their noles after sundown. e reader not to depend too much on this, as some snakes are cer- tainly of irregular habits, and have beea known to crawl into tents, and into beds Within the tents. This was for the sake of warmth. Very often the reptiles will con- tent themselves with coming inside; and so true is it that use doth breed a habit in a man, that I have known mi all through the night wh fectly aware thata rattlesnake wi the walls of their tent. They rolled them- Selves tight in the blanket, the creature would not toue! il Were not first attacked, a the lightcame it would go a stance, &@ man was bitten at on the prairie, and sleeping Which was fastened b; orstone. The horse man feeling after the turbed a rattlesnake, back of bis hand. dy which I think I gla persons who hav DOMESTIC BRANDY ©-Yeak OLD WHE NUINE SHEKBY W They jel ee bigh favored and cially any a. So Nite 1915 Pounsyivauia avente, AgGE, CATERER : Paris bow Bots served reasonably Pates, garnish dozen; Obicken Saisd, rds Silver and Deo. ive Obins Bettes. BUCK WHKAT, &c. 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