Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1876, Page 6

TTLNESS. to the rescue of those on the island, efforts hen turnet away, | Nay! | | in my breast, | to the rest. imptore, ' her no more In vain I strove No gentle pity But listening with p Bhe turved from mine he Love driven back wit Pride volunteered te I ceased to argue ar And vowed to trouble Then, ie! the matden’s checks grew red, And downward bent the haughty head; ‘The sweet lips inst their careless 51 ‘ And quivered a3 I paused the while. T careless eyes. A sudden hope within me erew I dared to thiak her heart was trae, E’en though her lips for misehief's sake, Had tried my profiered heart to break. | Just what 1 whispered, never mind! But she-—sbe answered, “Men are blind ‘When will they learn a woman's ai By dint of coaxing—means but yea?” (Harper's Weerly. THE ICE-GORGE, “It's coming, mister. It follows me close, &nd if you're wise you will make tracks be- fore. Why, it's Mr. Bradburn—Mark Brad- burn, isn't it? Ietidn’t know you at first.” I, for my part. knew the speaker—a young Americe assistant surveyor state em- ploy—well enough; and as he checked his t-trotting horses leane ft over the side-rail Of the light high-wheelet wagon which he drove I could see by bis flushed cheek and excited manner that something serious must have occurred. “The fee gorge, so mach talked of, Is real- ly descending then? I began. “I thought precautions bad— “Ay, but we're dead beat,” interrupted McKinlop—tor that waa his name. “Tneen- gineer-In-chief hus tried everything, but the enemy is too strong for us; and auless we ean get tline to blast if as it reaches the Narrows nothing but a miracle can save the towns of Clayvitie and Port Adams. It'll beat Ithaca @ quarter of an hourafter [ am, and let me tell you it’s no sport to try conclusions with the dritting pack that so big a stream as the Delaware can send down.” And without further parley he jashed hia borses and burried down the road thatskirt- ed the bank; while almost immediately af- terwards I caught sight of a number of vehi- eles of various sorts and sizes rattling along At furious speed. These were filled with men, women. children and household gear; | And as the drivers went past tne spot where I, with several of my neighbors and some of | the workmen from the mine of which I was manager, was standing, they shouted aloud some hoarse words of warning, looking back | and pointing up the river with their whips. Every eye was turned towards the jatting point where we were likeiy to cated the first | impse of the advarcing fee. ‘Braton, and Patch Town, and Sparta, on the New Jersey side, were swampet yester- day, so 'tis said,” remarked an old farmer in blue homespun and boots of untanced lea! er. “I guess we Pennsylvania folks wo: tot shot-free nouther. There tt comes, tisher—rounding the point!” Looking towanis the spot indicated I de- Seried something like a moving wall of glis- tening greenieh ice, sparkling in th san- light, and advaceing slowly and with stately Majesty down the broad river, which it seemed to fill from bank to bink. This could be nothing less than the so called tee- gorge. or aceumulagion of floati-g blocks and siabs from the upper waters of tne Dela- ‘Ware, partially melted by the hot sun of American spring, and damming back t chafing waters of the swollen river to ane shich threatened mischicrf. Was new to me, an Enstishman born, since it is only in very hard winte that such pliet omena are 4 in tine Fegiors; aud during the hhad passed in the ¢ bad been excepitonaily Lines y severe. i, Mark the ageof five &ad twent fortunate in be- ing p: anager of the | mored to be acting 1 Biack Star leon Mine, close to at Ithaca, on tt WSVIVARA 5! Delaware. Bat then | hat t an opportunity Proving to ihe that I was capable of « busivess efficientiy esoug shire lad, I bad from chtidisont & With iron ores am havingesrly in £ taition of a min! alle the tad brongat technical the path ofan emir alt was for the saxe of my widowed In Evg}and—who love! me . Who, I knew, never failed » to put upa being ot ner boy home which I could dis ena in view, a rsotmy Fesidence in the United States [nad teed seifdenial as weil as ind Foughed it conten and had spent my Jeisure bours In perfecting myself in the tue- retical lore of my profession and In eulti- | Valing an acquaintanes with the Germ: Janguage, in which I could now conv: flueutiy—a useful accomplishmentin a dis- trict where so many of our workers were fair- | hatred ne w-cc ners Who kuew no tongue but | that of their native Saxony or Pomerania. My post, as acting manazer of a Peonsy!- nia mine. was one which ectalled some pri- vations, mucb vigilance, and a good deal of patient toil. Tne Black Star was but a prop- erty of moderate extent—aot one of those Mammoth mines that yleli Uneir thousands Of tons In the monthly output—but the tron Was of excellent quality; tine red hematite, that almost equalled the best Sweedish in lustre and purity; acd nothing bat the cost Of coal and of labor prevented us from carry- Jpg on a much larger trade than we did. Our Workmen were a motley crew of varied na- Honality, for the bestof the native pittmen bad bees allured away by the gold and sliver of the Far West, while the sturdy Irish emt- &rants preferred open-air labor to earning @ livelibood below ground. So high were the | Wages we were forced to give that Cornisa Miners and coliiers from Scotland often | found it worth their while to cross and re. | eros the Atlantic, spending their owa slack poe profitably among our shafts and gal- Salaries In the United States are perha; not quite ona proportionate level with week- | Jy wages, but tuen the opportunities of rising | in the world are Probably more frequent than at home; and [ did not complain, antici- | pating the time when, as permanent man- | ager, I should be in receipt of a better in- | come and, prospectively, of some share in the profits of the firm. For the time betng I had beard and lodging, at the rate of Sioa day, in an upiaud farm-house, and ran no risk of dan her in person or property, | by the inundation that menaced the dweil: | Ings of those who livest closer to the river. I Was & mere spectator, though ready and will- ing, at @ piuch, to be useful to those whe ~ Were less rtunate. « There Shi i a wo! p Island, there, Waving somethix etous. May I never, bat it’s young Mme. Parnell herseif! ere’s the child with her,” said one | on ™ on the bank. “Can't be,” sald an incretalousty. “The farmer we 1 ed Cals till he's rig! » of the Lee. « Parne’ » £ tell you,” an gwered tf fin his New Jersey ace He's aw week past to Pail " eity. Yes. that’s the wife calling for help. ir ng thing! Guess those cowardly skunks of hired men have gone oif in the flatboat und left the woman and clild to ebift for themselves.” To explain this 1 may briefty say tha’, two | Intles above Itnaca aid almost opposite to the bluf! on which we were standing, there 4s an isiet in the river shaded by tres, and Which takes ils pane from some fancied semblance in its shape to that ofa ship. ¢ AU stood a farm house. with brightly palated gables of carved wood work, a Ulel roof, and @ porch which In summer was festooned with twining roses—a picturesque object iu tue landseape. Often in the still sultriness of an August day I had looked admiringly at this house, with its peach and apple orchards, its | Brassy meadows shade! by Wall cottoa-wood poplars. and ils sanny garden sloping to the Water's edge, where the great streaked mel- obs and yellow pumpkins lay baskiug in te Midst of bloomiug tlowers, and had consid. | ered it as the very abode of peace. I knew | the proprietor of this enviable dwelling— Seth Peruell! by name—but very slighty, and bad never met with the other members Of his family or set foot on his tiny domain. ‘That the island farm was in great danger from the advancing ice was but too mani- fest, and I was astonished when, on demand- to assist me in carrying woman and child, no re- sponse was made beyond a deprecatory grow! of dissent from my proposal. Win’ life away as you d throw acorn- stalk, that’s what I call it,” pithily rejound- ed. @ pause, he old man from the ullis, “Fain't the drift that's speckling the river now that I'd value the snapping of a gun- Jock,” he continued, pointing to the loose — by; “its the gorge itself, that would Smash to the side of a bundred-ton sloop as @ boy crack’s & peanut; and see mister, the jam’s breaking already.” And inceet the iece-wall, which had for game minutes been stationary, having pro- bably anchored itseifon some sical or sand- bank, was.again in motion, urged by the Zestless pressure cf the flood above it, while the shrieks aud despairing gestures ‘of the Jonely occupant of the islet suowed in what &n Sgony of slarm she bebeld the near ap- is ¢ [see soe Pipi Sti, aa urgent appeal to @round to aid me in maaving ¢ brosaboe” one of @ number of boats of various batld and size that jay moored tn the creek hard by—to volun swered to the call; and ‘When I docinsday Dtertion of going alone i | long continned thaw. | which nothing but practi | crushed hetween twoof the | coming fee was rot reassuring, | Safficiency of the good th | Usnally well filed with an aud | is to go to a Thursday evenin, were made to dissuacte me from ranning |h* risk of what, tothe bystanders, appeared to be all but inevitable death. “GO ; Vil say that for the Britisher!’ Such were the old farmer's valedictory words as I sprang Into aranoe, gragpei the gaudidle_and pushed of. “Pitty, too, to see it cone. We oughter hey held him back by orce, neighbors However, I was by this time well ont of the creek, which formed a sort of miniacure harbor, and plying my paddle with the vigor necessary to contend with the force of tbe current, now swollen by ¥, during my resicence beside the Delaware, i nad acquired that dexterity in the handling of a cance coll confer, and I sneceeded in eluding the shock of those sheets of floating ice—the impact of whic? might have proved fatal to my slender sxiff, and had almost gained the sonthern extrem- ity of the island, when a loud shout of warn- ing from these on shore made me turn my head, to bebold, with dismay, that a quac- lity Of gigantic masses of the gleaming crys- tal had broken @way trom the slow-moving gorge. Sod were rushing fariously doqn the stream, revoiving in giddy circles they came. Almost mechantealiy I gave one long Sweeping stroke with the paddle, and, a8 the canoe darted! forward, rose to my feet and sprang into the water, which proved to be litte more than waist-ceep at the spot, so that I easily serambled up the garden bank, while my frail bark, caught and iriftiog blocks, fosted a helpless wreek along the river. Up tothis moment I hac achieved a par- tial, but only @ partial, saceess. I had reached the isiand, but the heaviest part of my task,as I was well aware, lay before me. The canoe was gone, so that unless some boat belonging to the farm shoa Still fastened to the bank. I must depe: My own ingennity for the means of © ing myzelfand those to save w hed Impertled my own, to firm grow I dattime I had lit one of the expedie selves to a trained engineer, I conid e'Tecr @ safe passage to the shore; but Teould not avoid entertaining some dismal forebytings as I noted the alarming rapidity with which the flood-wave was rising. ‘Another so- called “jain” had taken place as the ice- gorge touched upon the shallows near the island,and I could hear tae grinding ant clashing of the floe, as slab upon sia) was piled up by the mighty pressure from above. Thad enongh to doto soothe the fears of r little Mrs. Parneli—a gentle, blue eyed ittle woman—who had thanked and blessed me as her preserver When we met. but who bow, aS she saw the river rushing over ihe islet, sweep away barn and byre, and imvad- ing the lower rooms of the farm house, gav up all for lost; while the enild—a nobie-look- ing lite boy—showed searcely any sign of alarm. Those were anxious moments which suc- ceeded. I could tell by the dull thud-thud! as of a steam hammer, that the ice was beat- ing against the stout timbers of the farm- house. The meadows were suvmerged, the garden a dreary waste of floating frazments of Wood-work, uprooted shrubs, and tarbid water. The flood wasup to my knees as I crossed the threstiold of the dwelling itself. That there was no boat but that whi. been carried off by the cowart ad left their master’s farni I had speedily ascertained. the sbore there could be no reasonable pros- pect. The danger had increased ten fold since first Iset offon my veaturons voyage, and no one was Ikely to launch a boat in the face of almost certain desten So far as I could see, there were bi courses open to us. We might rematr upper stories Of the farm house, or, if nard pressed by the moun!ing water. t on the roof, trusting that the strong framewor' would hold together ti! the paki abate. Bot the manner in whieh th Ss trembled beneath the shock of the c while ¢ vey - liveal i. Had frichtiul rapidity with which the water rose | threatened absolute ruin. The other alterna- | live was to construct a raft capavle of bat- | thing wi Trent and pack-drift: and to this I at dres:ed myself. Luckily, a number of em Hlour-ca-ks, Ret on oni, i some shcep-hardles, which I espiet ating @ ne yard, now trans- formed. in ‘oon, in the midst of whieh the aftr 1 poultry scream 1 tiered, § 1 the needfal materia's, while my p $8 stood in? in good stent: but the imminent, for row the : peks Without made the house re h beneath the strokes of a bi before had I t tute, and t on my prompt 7 or tempor up of anoiner soll weult probally render the river unnav: bie. s° sald the house be swept away, nce of safely would be cone: od 0! aniil né the oster hu sccared with withes aud cor ed by one pair of ha {ous raft was launc 4 nei) leading ber nt Strength to the task as, tlowly an , tk was dragged ‘through the ow water in Seareh of a place where there shout! b= sufficient Cepth to set it afloat. There was of agoniznz suspense as I Strained every murcie and sinew In the attempt to drag the light structure clear of some uprooted trees, while the house shoo percepUbly beneath the thundering blows of the piled up tee, which now rose many feet high at the back of the islet. Then the raft floated; and bidding those under 1 charge tositstilland leave the rest to ms, 1 seized a fir pile and thrust 1t of from tas bank Into the whirling water. Once, twice, and yet @ third time I tonchat the bottom with thi te with which I tried to steer the rude craft, and then we were in See driving along at the mercy of the current. A shriek from Mrs. Parneil made me look back,and 1 saw the waole side of the dwelling we had just left collapse like @ child’s house of cards, while with a roar like that of artillery the ice barrier broke up, and in pell-méll confusion the shining billocks and glittering slabs began to hurry towards us, the horrible grinding sound of the blocks as they dashed against one another being loud enough to deafen tne ear that heard it. For a moment, but only for 2 moment, de- spair took possestion of my hear!; but then, as an eddy swept usin shorewards, a ring: ing cheer from the men clustered on the bank, and then another, attracted my atter lon. The ice was very near; but the thank heaven, was nearer still,and a tong rope was thrown to us. I caught it, and w. Were dragged to the bank, where amidst tho drift ice the raft was upset. and it was not without some trouble and pert! that, bruised, wet and breathless, we gained the solid earth. Halfan hour later Mrs. Pa land little Louis, chilled and exhaustet but unbarrac: were safe under the hospitable eare of Lhe kindly folks in whose house I lives, while before night her husband arrived to clasp the rescued ones to his heart. ~ Under God's me "said the honest fel- low to me, with a qafvering ip as he took my band and wrung it for the teath time, “1 owe the preservation of all I love to you. We're friends for life, I guess.” And staunch and fast friends have we been now. though years have rolled by since thatday and both of us have spered in the world and have happy homes anda fair of life. Bat we have neither of us ever forgotten the events of that terrible winter, or let slip from cur memories the tee-gorge and what came of it.—[Baugravia. SoctaL Lire In Ber.in.—The Berlin opera. house is not so large as that in unich, but it is an exceedingly cheerial and agreeable oue. The Emperor's box, which is opposite the stage, occupies a con- siderable part of the house, and the bouse ts uuce exceed- ingly respectable, if not brilliant. The no- Ueeabic thing in the audience was the prom- inence of military uniforms. You would think the town was In a stateof siege. Goin in undress seems not to be allowed, and Swords clatter and brass and tinsel dazzle you to ali assemblies. For the rest, there is not much dress. The Germans do not dress for the Ogee" They go there out of love for the music, at an early hour and tn costame, | Which is most comfortable. A few laties in the dress circle appear in Doe toilet, but no one need be surprised to 5 tgs 4 lady | aap her knitting out of her =. ‘here is a homely simplicity about the audience which is thoroughly German. It is apparently no more sin to go to the opera in Berlin than it 3 meeting tn iea. The Germans are a fragal people. Y6u see no signs of dissipation orof the rapid Ufe of a city. The German society may be as dissolute &s any in the world, Berlin may be as immoral as Ss. bul it finds it very difficult to ay '80.—[ Charles Dudley Wi tn Hlar‘ford Courant, sian’ A SECOND TRIAL of the tlying machines at Chatham lines, England, proved as uasuc- cessful as the first. Tha smalier one was raised to @ height estimated at about 509 feet. However, the machive again refused to soar farther, or even to remain up at the aititade it had attained, coming suddenly to the ground, but unis, it was stated, was in conse quence of & want of sufficient ballast to steady it. Additional weight was accord- ingly provided, andan attempt again inade to raise the apparatus, but only afew (et were gained, the flying machine falling to the ground and injorjng one of the arms, which put @ stop to any farther experiments. MANY of our reaters are devout christians, and never uttered rofane word ta their lives, and if they safely pass through the or- deal of buttoning a fourteea-inch collar around a Sifteen-inch neck, they be in possession of t called consisteney.—| Reynt jceless jewel '¢ Herald. MIDWINTER ON THE OCEAN. The Grimy Englishman Who Weld Sur- prising © Hi nds” at Draw Poker —Ch mas on Sh phoard— How the C: dent Saved the Steam ‘rom Wree Himself froma Cad eture, John Paul bas mace a mid winter voyage ew York to Liverpool, and seats his experience en route to the New York Tribane: There was one villetnons-looking fellow about decks, and the fact that healway: his bands tn bis coat pockets gave ris suspicion that he had dynamite’ stowed away there, and to this suspicion consider. able color was given by the smudginess of his bands when he showed them at table; they looked forall the world as though he Were always fumbling over some kind of gunpowder. But it trrned out eventually that he was one of the most harmless persons on board,—day and night board it woul! be called, I suppose, for he did littleelse but eat.—being simply an agriculturist, wh after an exhaustive survey of the farm lands of America (so far as a seven days’ trip by rail from New York to Cincinnati, and a few nights in Chatham street concert saloons may be called exhaustive), was returning to his native Devousbire in disgust. A tiller of the soil be well may bave been—certainly his hands would have solled the tiller. Great Agrippa, though, what hands he dil hold when It came to the beantifal but somewaat uneertain game of draw poker in the even ing! (For, in anticipation of meeting our minister to St. James, it did seem neeessary that we Americans shoul! practice a little on the way over; and the agriculturist hav- ing some curiosity about the game, it were manifestly discourteous as well’ as un- American to refuse to enlighten him.) Nothing Jess than three of a kiud And as, notwithstanding the most care- ful indoctrination, be had the vaguest Ideas ever fell to him by any sort of accident. regarding the relative vaiue of pairs. se- quences, flushes, and the like, this made it extremely embarrassing. You could never tell what the fellow held—Just as apt was he to bet on nothing at all As on @ quartet of aces. Curlonsly enough, he mastered the whole felence Of the gume in his very Iguo- rance of it, making !t deaah ifa man stayed ont, #lmost certain slaughter If he came in. Heppily, however, the sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch: o'er the fate of poor Jacks, did not permit the flag of the free heart's hope and home to be so foully smirched a$ it would have been had a for- ig: er borne away thespoils of war, and the eagles of victory ually perched shoulders of a Tepreseiiative of republi- can institutions Never,lam sure, can a presentation to the queen at the hands Hinister Schenek give so much pl the American (whose name T will not b al, even under the disguise of blank, da and asterisss, lest it bring to his ingenious face the blush of that sensitive modesty Which always Seocmipa nis a heart— and sometimes a bighand;) never, I repext, can any presentation to one queen xive ths exquisite pleasure that Unrilled his frame at the presentation of two qnecns to him by the dealer, on that memorable vight, when be drew a palr of them and sat, serene and smiling @s @ King, behind the fonr! Shall I | draw a veil over the scene? Orshall I goon | after the ma: itusand T.S. Arthur, 1 narrate >man misled by ti icious glare of “aces? rashed madly upon | his fate: how another injadiciously fefused to lay down “three eights;” how yet anot | made a mistaken calculation | mercial valwe of a flush. while eve | more unfortunate, rashiy importe selzedupon that most inauspicious time for attempting toscateh bis blind lice a brand from the g by “bettt ad as he made it’ Saffice it to say that I fir it was by a | 4 pair” th tia the beda- | titul garde att | not by er seler ce is { |. Probably heen jess’ ex weatler been mi “pokerish’ all the wh | tivestiring up at the ga | whetis there so ca | werm for semebod, 4ad- majority, at ul pl cushions 3 ones, and ead a i@y was well kept, on | & beyona ent dattes | wilors. the ship | did pot labor much (be « eisa aps.) And ust ¥ of the passengers re as a du | | Until now no s appeared. Sudd occur at the tables. was less loud, to me contident nptoms of sea-si y. Vacancies bi ny ne wished were ch the terra cotla, and Immediately Oisappesred Ju the direction of ter s\ room. Good Mrs. Piper, the stewardess, be- an aulmuled toup-house, dispenbing is of grue A fair wind, and more than a hatful of it, we haa all the way over. Flying before it WiLG sow aud sliet—the anathema maranatha | sne of heayen—pelling us pitilessiy as we few, | leaden skies above aud shutting the horizon in on all sides, while hissing roand our bul- | | Warks, seething iu our wake, aud boilicg | under Gur prow, The water, like a witch's olf Burn green and blue and while, one could but think of the Ancient Mariner in his enchanted ship, driveu drearily by tl curse which followed the twang of bis cross. brow. Aud around us hovered whlte-winged gulis—antaretie ghosts they well might be of murdered albatrosses. The most ancient mariner in our ship “averred” that in all his crossings of the At- laptic he had never made s0 cold a passage, and Ihazarded the remark that it was a pretty rough sea. To which assertion of mine our English radical (have I before men- tiored that we had one on beard’) immedi- ately responded with a “Beg pardon, tt’s not Whut one would calia rough sea, you sce, butonly @ heavy swell, you know.” The worvs had scarcely left his mouth before we shopped a sea tuat wet him up to the middle, So it will be with his political theories, [ fa: ey—while he is arguing that things should not and indeed cannot be as they are, he’il be suddenly lifted off his feet by them! it may be unfair to generalize from limited observation, but if called oa now for an im- ropta definition of raidieal, [should deine Las one who dispute: everything and talics principally about bimscif. Iset oul to be a Tadicat in early life, but fading that the or- thodox viewed me with horror, that the moral tcoked upon me with disgust, and th great mass of people didu't care w contines- lal about me anyway, I quietly hauled up MY contumacious horns and sent out new Toots on ail sides, and Lave beea much hap- pier ever since. It is possible to have too much of a good thing, and ove Uires even of a fair wind after a week or two. The roll of a ship becomes } Monotonous, and & Hitle pitch as a varia | tlon—the sort of a snort and ip | 8 &S she dives into a head sea—would be | feome. I'm never sea-sick, bul we sit down to dinner, for tustunce,—a long wa comes and takes the ship up in ite arms, launching you from its topmost — su Mit with a swish, as tue bowler at ter pilus delivers bis bail, and away you goscoot- ing down an inclined plane of Seeming inter- mninable length; the sensation 1s as though your stomach Were silting away from you, and, in consequence, you eat with able uncertainty. In. bed My be are sore with the rolling over and being ded on both sides alternately. [tis not bo Panza tossed in his blanket exactly bnt itis Sancho Panza suspendei between two kicking mules. Between betng thas “rocked” to sleep and stoned to death, ihe digerence is trifling. As we made longitude, we slowly got Into milder weather, and on the third or fourth day ont there was es a large representa- tion on deck. And the sun several times looked out from behind the cloud veil which had overspread his face. “The captain is making @n observation,” |] jones | of different 1 remarked to Mrs. Malapropper, as hestood one day with sextant in hand. “What did he say,” she asked, turning In: quiringly round; “I'didn’t hear him speak. At breakiast Christmas morning the cap- tain told us that a boat had been carried away during the night, “by one of the radi- cal’s smooth seas,” he added, with just a soupcon of sarcasm in hig voice. Neptane thought he'd give the ship a Christmas box, Tepe: ‘twas the only one we got, though the day was kept right merrily. ‘The only other accident of the voyage—if we except Jonathan Edward’s rolling outof bed and getting rather «severe bump on his nose— was the breaking of a wheel-chain, which happened on a terribly dark and rainy night—asdo all such contretempts at sea. An tron link, each part an inch in diamer, I should say,and showing no appearance’ of flaw at the fractare, snap; as ‘twere pipestem. So you can imagine what a surge there must have been upon it, and what sort of @ sea was running. In the mo- ment that the ship was beyond control of rudder, a couple of sails split into ribbons, but we kept our course most of the while and very little siarma = a ae the passengers. ppeaing In the 2) Telu’s room on deck When the chain broke ie sectmed better to stay there. for certainly I could do no good in the cabin, and the pas- Sage thither over the dark aad slippery decks in the confasion coald oo no agrezable ove. Ineyeratany time of life did faney having an froa belaying-pia or tackleeblock fallon my heat trom that of the topgallant- mast. When ail was smooth and serese agai ments & ab stard and fe her ~ rosa Mr, Paul, uprig aQeotly w ng for mu we she been Ishowe! mree'fin the fami apart. abd in bet, evi- ren pretiy {I= vay oO be m your ‘ami y atsuch a time a- thu gamy oO) coe thingum’+ bb awry,@o0 the wha co-you-eai ine al! ever the floors! the ship and patting | the e3 es of the riegine ou: | Imi «ly explained tha: I hat heen where duty called me, on deck, and that to my pre- gegce tor (be salvetion of ihe sbip #8s mainly due. When I went in and parrad how, Wl en the wheel gave way, I ma: fily seized the rudder aud held it with one hant ti! te tller was mended; dexterously toe | whil: sp icing the mainbrace with the other, peece Was | Bom degree restored, thoagi @ | e@ riain Cegree of increiulity was mauife on th us emily believing face. } “Beskles, what gool could I have done by on With my family at such @ time?’ I asket “Why. if there was danger you ec usof it. to the bottom without knowing it! “And than that, my dear, { can think of nothing more dreadful than having au op- rot riou~ epithet applied to one in a foreign Finctage Which he does not uuderstand,” I made auswer, Lt tea Oaly think, wemizht have all gone rs Lane: Wicked bat Witty From the St. Louis Repubtican | A gentieman, who appears to be ly reliable person. has been tn aod relace the substance of @ co: Versation he recent engaged in with an intelligent uative of t Sandwich Islands who was converte | Christianity seme years ago, and has xi acted as @ native ‘missionary. Tne S wich Isiander {s at present tf this cow on a tour of information. He has heey ih San Franciscoseveral times, but nevereas of the mountains before, thougn he speaks English perfectly, and Would scareely he taken for a foreigner here were it not fort dark color of bis face. The gentleman w. describes the conversation with the Say wich Islander gives the substance of tnt latter's Own words 88 pearly as possible Said the newly civilized man. in the course of @ confidential interchange of thought “Yes, a8 you say, elvilization Is undoubt- edly agreat blessing, and I feel @ great deal more respect for myself since I became a convert and since my people gave up some of their savage practices. We never eat tie Missionaries now,no matter how low pro- visions may rnp, and the last of the men who were really entitled to be considered epicures in missionary meat died some time ago. I regret to say that when he died he didn’t seem to ay jate all the benefits of christianity xs be st undercbief in the old days, and just before ke cied T went areund to se@ him and try smooth his pillow, as it were. He wonldn't an tan, nsolation, but srowled out that he would like to have one more square meal of nice young theolog'cal student before he died, and then he turned over with his face nid have done. He was | a& tengh oid fellow, who used tobe a kind of How a Partition Was The following sketch is frou: th de last week & decmed it « a tien put ap in tbe ba se be sent for old © erme ani see about put it in his p Ww th! fs knuckles, an ard belghtor the prospectiv cally regarding “sta it ‘Well, wiaril Market +treet man Coips said it was that kind of work th Jou Coulds"t tell aid then he took c down on his bands and Knees @ demanded the eqn Then he said tt would be an ugiy jc to'd the man to have everything moved oat of lhe way and he would send two mendowa in the moming. The Marke street man, being ina hurry on account of the holidays, put all bi tl work that evening and had the goods Moved to ove tide; but in the moruing the men didn’t come, and the clerks had to has Ue the goods back again, while the man cursed old Chips, and swore Unatif he ever bas! arother job be would give it to Jobhs, The rm xt morni:g the two men dawdled in to the store with two boxes of tools. One Wasa bigman with a dirty other # litte man with hauds like a nutmeg Brater ard a kuit jacket. They sat dows On & tressel Aad curchews off a pleg of navy With # chisel, while the clerks azain wres- Lec with the goods, and while this was go- proevred a spirit-level, aud they wrangled over the po: &ppearance of the owner of the store, when they hitched up their pantaioons and began toWerk. This operation was inaugurated aght anc | the partition, and, to make sure, the big may also measured it, and said i was right This recalled a reminiscence to the mina of the big man, avd he asked his partuer if he remembered the tine Of & job for old Jance measure, by getting the wropy Then they ‘both laughed, and t bis foot upon the trestie, and ked about old Jaucey, and how old 's daughter used to whoop up ala ‘y day. and they were ouly recalled to a ot their duty by hearing tue clock in Awire of this Mr. Chip | lotofiumber letsurety. 2 | Up a board, laid it on the tresties, produced # cbali-line, made a catin the end of the p dragged in # b n picked towards the wall aud passed away. I know its weak and sinful, but sometimes, thongh I'm a miss'onary myself now, ldo long for a um of those cood old times when ttseamed a kind of providence that when the sing Was bad and good eating of any kind hard 10 get a missionary was always sure to land that we'd have to stail-feed him on shell- fish and things for a few weeks before h fit for ihe table; put this didn’t often happen. We generally disposed of them about as Foon as the bills of fare coud be printed and distriboted arox A missionary shonldn't be in too goo! cor e fat and lean coming In streaks t¢ 1 that neral taste. Onee, when a@ very ary arrived. we had lo trot him up and cowh the beach hours every day for a week or two to rec poh Ato disting ween the taste of pres denominations, bat I OF course there's a grea oO prete could myself ference “in of different 5 of @ missiona AS there is in beet | or mutton. like a shoulder of misstonary. b + With eaper sanee, and come always ¢ for & drumstic ant others Lke rothin better than to nibble | away ata finger broiled. As for me. Tden't want anything better than @ nice rib chop, Scorched a littie and brow Of parsley to give it an a freshnesr. ( his wife and don the ye ht on with a sprig trof neatness a: ice A missionary ¢ two year-old boy ace, the missionary and ebed us allright. I shail Tr for- withatehtid tasted! We baked hin + stoffed with bread crambs and onions tnd no roast pig ever ma @ heavenly dish! 1 have read what y Mr. b says of roast pig,and 1 can eret that be was not there to taste tha child. “He alone could have done justi the subject. ‘The dish was talked of for years afterwards by all the epicures on the isian dl. It’s all vanity now, I know, and ag a Chris- tian missionary I ought veverto think of such things, bulean’t always restr self. We were poor, misguided creatures course, but those were halcyon days.” Going Home. [From the Reading (Pa ) Eagle. The damp air came chilly up from the river late yesterday afternoon. Around the bend at the Wyomissing, near theerve at the mill on the oppost eof the Schuy kill, an aged colored man was sitting on a stone, eating apn “evening” m 1 nodoubt been begged from a neighboring farm house. The stranger was a type of th- genuine southern slave. His hair was » bis form rather bent, bis little eves mped in a cluster of wrinkles; his nose broad, and an expression of honesty, kind hess of kind, geniality that could not be hid, but that burst resplendent through a cloud of sorrow that seemed to mantie him from bis old black hat to the well-born boots oa his feet. “My name Is Henry, sah; Uncle Henry dey used to call me when I was livin’ whar! was Taised,” was the reply he made to the report- er’s question. “Dat was down in Georgia, sah, a long time ago. I'm been gittin’ around de norf since de war, but I'se gwine totry to go along home agin, if I can, before dese oid bones wears out and dere’s nuffin’ left of me.” Want to get back south again, do you? “Yes, sah; it kind o’ creeps in my bones to go home again. I call it home, butit's a long ways oll; was born thirty miles below Savannah, and belonged to Col. Higgius— Col. Archibald Higgios, of the Pine Hill plantation. Ever ven dar?” Uncle Henry was told no.” “I’m been to many places in God's garden, sah, but now, in my old years, Idan no airy a place like de old home down dar. When General Sherman done gone away from AU lanta, massa was Killed and de niggars freed. Icumnorf wid my sen, but he's de and dars no mo’ room forme heal. » chilern livin’ down dar some'ers, least dey was livin’ when we cum nort.' Can you sing:Way down upon the Su wanee river,’ Uccie Hen The old man eyes fairly sparled and glistened in tears as he repited: “bat good old toon, how could I ever for- git! No indeedy, not me forgit! Dat was writ years ago, sah. but when [sing it now, away from old home, Imagine it was writ | fo" me right now. O, 1 tell you, mass. dares plenty ulggars inte world singing dat old toon what jes’ Hike dis here old uncle, got bo home, and wishin’ dey was back again wid massa and missis. Swanee ripber, far, far away And the aged traveller wiped away Lears with hts coat-sleeve as hls mem- ory ran back In the years that are past to the happy cays he sperit_ among the sugar-eane and eotton in the sunny land of Georgia. It Was akad picture and one not met wito ofien. He spoke of many other good ol songs the darkies used to sing,and would have continued bis story had not the sh:utes of evening suggested @ departure. Uacie Henry was “helped” along, bat whither he drifted, or whether he will ever reach “dat g00¢ old home” he spoke of, is hard to tet! “Good-by, sah, de Lord bless you's all,” were the last words he sald as our carriage left him far back in the twilight. THE SALARIES OF SOME CLERGYMEN.— The Rey. Dr. Jobn Hall, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, came here several years ago from Belfast, Ireland, oa the callofthe church of which he is now pastor. His salary was then fixed at $10,000, eld, per annum. and still remains the same. le alsoadds to his income by writing aud lecturing. The Rey. Dr. Hepworth, of the Sometimes one wonld come so poor | be | | ficial, the back © board with a saw, and felt in his vest pr | fer a piece of chalk; then he laid dow | lme and feitin bis pockets. The little ma | who had set down W take @ rest. felt in / | pockets, but there was no ebalk, and the itlie man Went to the shop for seme, whi the other mau h to meditate. | Waea ihe lithe m ut WW ofclock, | they proceeded to work al the partition In a Phiegmatic style, which caused tn street man to groan in agony of before 12 o'el¢ n Reods With ton ‘ad Sealped a ci on big man borrd inte the sh Piper, one of the Market-streei man's bert cpstomers, and Mr. Piper taid aero-s the © f iin vai K and map packed uy and Chips came round to ik | Caips said it was a good job. | Street man thought « : him about fliecn d Wo | rinets danced didn” | had deal he j ly picked a little piece of gine Gat of lis Whiskers and suggested that the Mari-t- Ftreet man needed another partition on ihe other side of the store. Upon bearing this ibe yietim was so thor | OUZDLY exasperated as to be speechless, ¢ Woile he was glaring at Chips in astovis- MeLL that person lett his bill aud s Of the shop. However, the bill sas yet been p A Pre-historic Dungeon or Tomb guler Discovery in Dedham, Mass —A St & Slones. DepwaM, Jan. 24, 1676.—This old town bas jately ben cousiderabiy excited over unearthing of an old cell or tems to be of a pre bistoric The Charies river, atter owing by tue town, Wines through some wo miles of meadow or sWeinp land, cousisting nearly eutirely of Pp hich ix Sometimes found to be 20 or ey fect in depth. In this peat arrow beads and stone hatchets have often been found, causing Considerable interest to be attached lo # series of singular hillocks, Which rise suddenly from the swawp at in- tervals, vearly regular, and of symmetrical Proporlcns. These have often been thouzht to be artificiai—indeed, the oldest inhabi- tants have @ tradition Ubat they are burial mounds. But. be that as it may, ine diseay- ery of a veritable tomb of unkuown age will ceriainly add to their Laterest. THE DISCOVERY. On the side of @ bare bill, opposite one of the mounds, and some twohundred feet from the river bahk, some workmen have reeent!y been engaged in excavating fora race course. On Thursday last, while grading for that purpose, their progress was stopped by a peculiar stone, which seems to be a kind of tufa, but is certainly not identical with any rock formation pedir the spot. Tals roe ailhough some three vet in diameter, Nght as to be easily Lifted by ove mi: on rolling It aside @ regular archway was discovercd, leading borizoutatly Into the hill side. The mouth of the arcu was of Koman shape, some two feet high by taree brows; the wails and floor were evenly aud carefully built of unbewn stove, cemented with a spe- cies of mud plaster, no lime com: found Iu the whole structure. The p: Way Wicened until, aficr some tei { length, 1t expanded into a wide ceil some ten feet in diameter, one wall of this was arti- natural rock, and theotier side also artificial, butof trregular shape. The cell was some five feet bigh, and ear fully Hoored ture put h On the f DOr Wis, PuE of chalky white dust, which erumbladt. changed color aud hardened on being exposed to the air. Ou tie top of the pile was a sof black substance, which Would appear to be pure Jampbiack or carbon, as the workm deseribe if as belt like soft binek putty,” but, unforiuvately, none of this «a s- staLce was saved. The Cell has now b «i ibe sides and the floor remata intact: ie La- borers employed in the work are aus‘ousiy searching for old coins, but no colin, tmpl ment or weapon of any Rind has yer beer discovered. Speein f the hardened wh dust, of the mud mortar and of the lava like rock have been sent to Cam bridge ior ox ua ination, THEORIES, Theories are numerous regarding the canse Of such @ subterranean structure, bat its ort- gin is wrapped Iumystery. Probably it was atomb, aud the heap of ashes was all that remains of some early cremation, for surely it was the work of 10 Anglo-Saxon setth rs, The land on whieh it was found has ben waste land ever since the settlement of tne town; besides, the Puritans never built suo- Uerranean tombs, never practiced cremation, and were far too good masons not to know the value of lime mortar in building an arch- Way of round stones. Was it the Norsemen? But if they ever ventured so far inland, what was their Kan oe In building so permanent « structure? ‘he Indians? But they never Chureh of the Disciples, was in the receipt ofa salary of $10,000 per annum until re- cently, but it has been reduced, it is under- stood, of late. The Rey. Dr. Storrs, of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, receives @ Salary of $10,000 per annum. He was offered ‘an advanced salary by one of the New York Congregational char . Some time ago, but was induced to remain with his old charge. The Rey. Dr. Budington, also one of the best kpown of the Brooklyn pastors, receives $10,000 per annum. The Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, the rector of Trinity, receives $15,00) per annum. He has two or more assistants who recetve from $4,000 Lo 34.000 each. Tne sevior minister at St. Paul's receives $10.00, and his assistant $1,000. The Rev. Dr. Wes- ton, for many years t the tor of St. John’s church, opposite the old St. John’s park, where Vanderbilt's freight now Stands, receives $10,000 salary, and has an assistant at 81,000. The pastor who officiates at Trinity chapel in West 28th street also re- ceives $16,000, and has one or more assist- ants. The Rey. Dr. Chapin, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity (Universal- ist), at Fifth avenue and 45th Street, also re- ceives $10,000 salary. The Rev. Dr. Park Hunt Schenck, rector of St. Anne’s on the Heights, the fashlo able Ept: lian ebureb of Brooklyn, receives 210.000 ye {New York Letter} bullt stone tombs; were totally unacquaiot- e1 with the principle of the key-stone, and would have buried a brave with his ‘pipe and arrows, in order to place him in suitabie attire for the bappy hunting grounds. The walled roof of the tomb was some three feet below the surface of the ground, whieh con- fists of gravel. The length of the tomb, ic- clucing tbe entrance, is some eighteen feet, Placed exactly east and west; tn the widest partit is about ten fect iu diameter. Toe Verdict of the Cambridge savants is a ¥aited witb great interest. cote sino THE Providence Press says: “When M Whilttlessey, the Northampton cashie: Wife, saw the burglars take ber husba ii’ gold wateh she kieked hers under the bureau, and so saved it. And 'when her new cloak was ju the robbers’ hands she said, “Give me that old thing; I'm cold,” and sa that Hkewise. If this keen-witted woman could have been atthe bans when the vault was opened she would have persuwied tue rob- bers tbat half tnose papers were potaing but family railk biils.’* #7 A western mother, while cutting a slice of bread, cutoff her baby’s nose. Hergafver, she say®. whepany of her tamily want a pirce Of bread, (hey can take the loaf oat- Coors and gnaw ou it till they get enough. by the little man measuring the lengin of | Municipal Hail strike for 8 Upon becoming | on exposed to ihe open air, s0 that ouly two of | face and the | ing on the big man spit sume tobacco juice | on the stove; whereupon the little “man swnne bis legs slowly w ed that tt 'o. Kea ithe se nd he Weuld bet them supports asu't ke per denier: they leaced oward | Market plreet. The big n ut think Bg man weuld bet the driaks the leaned toward Wood street. Thea the bi ran get& plnmb-bob, ard the hithe mar U at issue util the | | Profession, will not often prese Vey made a boteh out | | | | and Siavgh erwus Sublerrancan Apariment, arched with | The “ystertes. ters brea ta child sierics Terapt, . Oe l ering and wept ra iw strife ‘i tome we Al Ube sad mystery s20-- Seme Reminiscences Jackson as a Professor Stepewail Jackson &* & Lew t the Mexican war, and as a ~ He groom” in confederate mes, is . “ell known to tne Worl! i Dr. Dabney t€ in many tesprets wo: tile us subject aie mm © olbs task of Qs Unis is th t oy " a ebaracter in wt Hgured most conspruour ly, aod Was most f himself, it Was pataral and proper that the biographers sieuld concera ihemselves invst expecially with Uuis maul festation of the man. Sull,a* a matier of fact, 1¢ is kr ) which he yen hat Jackson spent a cor rable portion of bi Hite in the position of “Professor of Natural | Philosophy and Artillery” ia the Virgior Military Tustitate at Lext v, acd 1 at be manifest tothe observant reader that cats portion of bis ue hax been bul seanlily treated by the biographers This, however, is not due to any neglect oa the part ¢ for Laey well KD thar ail tnt gen ms would ki ow bow Professor Jackson liv: taught bis classes; What was bos inet what be said ay loehare Toman; Indeed, almost aay woult throwany Heht upos | avd con uct of the man who sail se and did so much. But the trata is that there was Hiltle t© tell about this px < Jackson's Life. A blogray is apt to be litte m must often be simply aa ac thinking and its results; and a biography of & teacher, even though he be @ priace in his tmueh that Boa pro- Is Very new or Very #Uriking & fessional render. Dut Jackson's life as teacher was singu- vas. He ribet t bad bis text-book: lessons, and at the them, and this Was about all of it Dis sions ia the class-room were #lmost un- kKuown, and even “explanations” were very infrequent. The text was th great thing which he ecame to “say mostet us com- monly aid (ext Was Bari lett's course of Nataral Puilosopny. Poor Alien. ile was my room-mate the frst year, aod with Williama, acd Patton, T,aud myself music up * Room 13."" Where are they now? Ailen, Pat and Williams ail fell at Getiyaburg— young lawyers, ail colonels of Virginia re, Tents, ali the same class (15.5 Slaughter bad been disabled for life the sad day on which onr room-mates When | was in he rt chess sce Alien tiegtng over “Old Jac! lesson In Dartlett’s Optics; and { opened the book, andon the fly-leat fuand following stanza, which 1 suspect was .b's own to terrible hat Optics tr ats of light hetiows it net, my la tay might in the cack dito be pert tutriewt atieal form proportion « y of bis if there was ia t yuation er a formy duld not repeat by hear accurate and mi e, Ubere wa partin rds; had ne 1 to have no tale points of vi t for pat wud these aimiles wi erally occurred W 8 Unthgs took j a tona coliar mae to order of t uhree quarters of a yard of | Hinen, and then convalsed tue class wit | laughter at the grave but outrageously Madi crons way in which he wore that coliar t the class room, Major Jackson would simile knowlog ws he cid Uat tb liar Was Uy Sli gle visibie article of a caiei’s weariagap lot which the regulatio did we y he « idson Penn put ou aa uo ace and asked (appar Major, ean a cannon fessor of ar slightest s nt woul ‘could never decide whether his gravity on such av occasion Was realor Assam. I have 2 Wouderat if Jacksoa preserve his gravity when he “excuse * bended in by Hambrick We Lad been at artillery urill, and Ham brick, along with the rest of us third-class men and “Plebes,” had to perform tne rather troublesome duty of pulling the can- non. Jackson had given the command (a favor wit him), *Limbers and cais- ass your pleces, trot, march!” Ham- brick bal failed to trot at command, and was reported by Jackson. The wext morn- ing the following excuse was handed in “Robert Cadet Hambrick not trotilag at ar- tiNlery dritt. @m avatural pacer.” this Lone of us ever ‘ound it out, for tue document was probably read privately.— Richmond Dispatch. Bismarck’s Autograph How aMichi cen rh obtained The Granda Rapids (Mich ) Eagie prints an extract from # letter written lu Berlin, by @ daugticr of @ resident of Grand iapids, to Hon. Elliott T. Slocam, of the same city. She says: “Among my Christmas presents was a beautiful autograph album, bound tn black and silver. I said immediately, this shall b adistinetly n book; Iwill be a d i of this winter passed in ‘On, If L conid only have Bismarck’s I doadmirehim so much.’ Every: bed at me, and said perhaps some procure for me a dc ment whieh be bad signed. But I thought it Would be much nicer to have something di- rectly fromm Lim; so one day I sent the fol- written In English, 80 as to ression: Prince Bismarck: img American girl, who, during two Wiiters passed in Germany, has learaea to truly Vaterland, would feel in- expressibly ored to be able to carry back to America the autograph of the greatest living statcsman. Begging that this reque-t may rot be considered @ most unwarraal ble intrusion, With the deepest respect, OKRAINE F. Woop,’ “I thonght it very improbable [ should re- ccive apy answer.” So imagine, if you can, de en a large envelope was postman yesterday, with ck’S own private arms in @ greatred sex! on the back. Inclosed was my note, With this written in a large, striking hand on the blank side of the paper: “"T aim sorry to state that I cannotdo, » for a young lady, what I have often re- to those of elder years. BISMARCK.’ ‘as it pet cunning in him to send his antograph while refusing to send it? Every ove thinks he must have been intensely amused at my having the courage to write, and Unat ‘the greatest living statesman,’ and my name Lorraine, which I took pains to write very distinctly, increased the effect. I am giad, too, that he returned my note, and shall te letter, seal and all into my 3 50 I shall have the whole extent of tae cor- respondence, THERE are perils even in trying to keep clean, The Pail Mali Gazette lately pub- lished @ statement Ubat certain puysicians had arrived at the conclusion Wat a terrivie amount of illness is occasioned by tne im- purities contained in soap, especially in scented A New York soap maker cor- a ee Unat —_ very — portion of soaps now sold made from obtained from tails, jaiis and public institutions, and the fat ofdead aal- Inals that have possibly died of disease, and ieforume nnn ene Fender t for use. THERE'S hothing to exceed the diabolical satisfaction @ man will take in announciog to his wife, after he has got his shirt ou, that there is a button } Sud the keen de- jight he feels in seeing her dance aroaud the room after & needle and thread wile she listens to @ lecture on Infernal carelessness, spproaches eestecy. But look oat when she gels inal button on, bites the taread off with & snap and commeaces—“There now—” Easton Free Press. THE QUESTION, Where do the pins go? seems to bein a fair way to be auswered. At least, we know thet a tatented citizen who sat down on one yester- day seemed to have no diMieaity in deciding Where iChat gone, Dut pat bis band on the Place at ouee, aud spuke avout It —[ Norwich {Butter “9703 If Major Jackson did laugh when he read | BOOKS AND STATIONERY. pH NEW BOOKS: Kastorn Life Ry Harrint Martioonn ere Magnets-r Lect * im Wivter By Borns . ~w re it : is 3s 500 i 1% ta 2” i” ot 1 1 11 _ 8 fobs te ! iia aeene jE Reon “ BALELANT? FES, aus Ten Srawe wid, the King. By charles E. 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