Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1880, Page 6

—- AUNT RUTH’S VALENTINE. [Philadelphia ‘Times.] . “Dinah,” said Aunt Ruth, “thee may light the Rie be the hall and see who is at thedoor; I hear bell again.” “Deed, Missus, it’s only another of them miz- zable boys with their valentines, I 'spect! My ee is about broke now, and I'se a dreadfal misery in my back a-runnin’ to the door, with ae veal Learns no ‘count picters and chalk marks on the steps!” ‘Muttering thus she sailed from the room with the air of an offended princess; opened the door cautiously a few inches and peered out into the snow storm that was raging; but seeing no one, proceeded to shut ft with muttered invectives against all “mizzable white trash,” when a sinall Doy, ten or twelve years of age, Dlack as ebony, scantily clothed ina cotton shirt and ragge nts a world too large for him, which were raw n nearly to his shoulders and held in place by suspenders of twine, and turned up at the ankles, showing a pair of bare feet, rose from a corner’ beside ‘the door. Surveying her for a moment quite as coolly as she surveyed him, he at last deliberately st sor ne into the lighted hall dragging by the hand a shivering little girl almost hidden in the folds of a ragged c which he dexterously jerked from her should- awallentine for the lady wot lives Then aes he ran ate t down the lpg and disa ed around the first corner in tl snowy , While the bewildered Dinah stood staring after him. ‘The itttle 'y-faced, blue-eyed “valen- tune.” so unceremoniously ‘delivered, stood mo- tionless under the gaslight awaiting further de- yelopments. Dinah speedily recovered speech and action and closed the door with a bang. re ““Missus, Missus! for the Lo’d’s sake Took-a- ere!” As the lady obeyed the imperative summons and stepped into the hall the little bundle of tat- ters and rags moved to her side and peered up into the placid face surrounded by the prim folds of a TOhaker cap. Seeming to recognize a friendly heart shining in the serious eyes, she aes invo her hand a scrap of crumpled paper, ing: S Dick writ tt! Aunt Ruth took the document and, with a puzzled look at the bearer, proceeded eo decipher La jueer hierogtyphics. ad ev identiy een a laborious task for the ea fingers that had traced them; but she at eked Out the message embodied in letters of all sizes and shapes. The writer had evidently made it his sole aim to give the facts in the case, proudly regardless of their minor considerations Of orthography and punctuation: This littul curl Hain’t got no folks nor no wares to sta only a womman that betes her orful and me and a Box with straw into it to sleap in nights. brung hur tg bee yure wallintine. Shee’s While the lady was laboring over ne odd mis- sive the little waif stood looking sobe1 her face, and when she raised her eyes. ‘ull of pity and compassion, the child sald: “He told me he writ into {t that I wasn’t no- body's girl only his’, and that I'd be your wal- lentine! I don’t look like ‘em, but I'll be it. I'd like to. It's jolly warm here, only my feet’s cold,” and shé looked down at the heavy boots she noe ragged and run over at the heel. an He made me wear 'em when I e “Thee may take the child to the kitchen, Dinah, and give her something to eat. I will come presently and perhaps I can find out where she belongs.” ah led her down the hall, the wet boots shumiing heavily over the carpet, and the bright blue eyes, shining out of the smutty face like Stars from behind a mud hole, lifted appre- hensiveiy to the dark face. “T do deciar fer it,” muttered the old woman, “white trash and black trash is mostly alike in their no ‘count pranks, that’sa fact! Blest if this ain’t the queerest piece of business I’se ever seen at this house yit! A wallentine! Missus Ruth’s ways 1s so unexpected! Here, you poor little white beggar!” Dinah’s crusty manner softened a little asshe Watched the greediness with which the child de- voured the big slice of bread and butter: but she melted outright when, as she finished her feast, the “little white beggar” slid from her a and caught and kissed the big black hand, at Tifkes y ae you look like Dick. I likes good black f ‘When Aunt Skutn came down she found her “wallentine” seated in Dinah’s_ own rocking- chair before the fire. While Dinah herself, down on the floor, had the almost frozen feet 1n her lap, warming them, and giving vent tosome very unorthodox expressions of opinion as to the ordering of Providence. ive! oat now's it’s so, but the ny a tht of ‘tention to some folks an tere zit ithe rest. ‘Pears ike chillun ought t to be fookea after anyhow. They ain’t though, half on ’em! Things {is queer in this world if als. the ou world !” “Well, child,” said Aunt Ruth, “now that thee Is warmed and fed will thee tell thy name and where thee belongs?” She shook her head. “Don't belong nowheres. Father always called me -Drat-you Bab Aunt Ruth sighed ‘over this dolorous com- pound cognomen. “ Has thee no mother?” “Once. She called me ‘Here-you-Bab!’ Father struck ber once with a bottle, and in the morn- ing she went dead. And one day the perlice took father away, and old Bet told me to go ‘long, too, and I Went ‘long fer as [could I hadn’t nowheres to stop to, and 1 crawled into Dick’s box and he put things over me and fixed Mae a jolly nice place and ev'ry day he tdok care s me, He made this” and here the culld and drew from one of the capacious Boots which she had put on upon gettin; down from the rocking-chair, a doll, whittle from a stick and artistically Munished with cou, as to hair, eyes and mouth. She Jooked at it admiringly fora moment, ' its drapery of old print which was somewhat disturbed by a eae in the boot, and restored it to its ID, Aunt Rat sighed again. *-Give her a warm bath, Dinah, and then thee may make her 1 bedon the lounge in my room. I ea oe thee something that will serve her as a night The peor little wandering child was soon in @ warm shawl and curled down on the lounge in Aunt Ruth’s pleasant room; too much excited by the novelty of her position to sleep—tco comfortable to do bores noe hug her wooden treasure and stare first at the pretty Surroundings, then at the kind face at the fire- side. Suddenly she raised herself on her elbow. “Dick said he hearn there was nangels that pote Somew’eres an’ took care of folks. Be you on s "Xo, no, child,” said Aunt Ruth, gently; “I am only Aunt Ruth. Go to sleep.” “Yes,m. Butl do wish Dick wasa wallen- Une. It’s wery cold into his box.” Aunt Ruth and Dinah sat late into the night hastily fashioning warm garments for the iittle one, and considered themselves well repaid by the delight with which they were donned in the morning. While happy little “Drat-you-Bab” was taking her breakfast by the side of the kitchen stove a shadow darkened the window, and the little girl, looking up, exclaimed, joyfully: “©, there’s my Dici Dinah opened the door and bade him “come ‘long in,” giving him a jerk to facilitate his movements. He shambled bashfully in, and tn amoment the child’s arms were around his neck, and her face, pretty in its unwonted clean- Iiness, nestled against his black cheek, while she poured out 4 torrent of eager exclamations Of satisfaction at being a * wallentine.” When she at last released him, Dinah took oe by his shoulders and seated him tirmly tn a chair. “Now,” said she, “you's jest a goin’ to set there till you ’splaln this whole ‘rangement to me and Missus. An’ you jest lay out to tell the trufe, the whole trufé, an’ noffin but the trufe all the way through—that fs, If ye kin. Niggas is mostly y inlghty unsartin! When Aunt Ruth came down she found her “wallentine” bringer sitting by the tre with little Bab at his side, her two little hands tight- ly held In one of his own, and supreme satistac- tion at the success of his odd scheme shining in every feature of his honest face. Her eyes filled as she stood in the door a moment unnoticed by the children, but she was not given to demou- strations and made no comment. And then Dick rose in his place still holding both the little hands. “1 hain’t got much he tell, ma’am. I'm only Dick, the bootblac ’ this yer little girt I found one night last week. Me and Joe Rafferty had been to a place where they had some picters an’ things the man called a pandorammer, an’ when we come out ‘twas late and we was cold an’ we rup all the way to the box. The box is a big box down by piety) 's warehouse, an’ we Steep into it. An’ we found this little Bab acurled up into it asleep. Joe he was agoin’ to bounce her, but when he seen how little she Was he didn't. He jest yanked his coat off an’ put it over her and some old t, OO, an’ we did cover her up elegant, an’ she 'slep’ till mornin’. In the mornin’ she told us she hada’t of her our own selves after that. Joe an’ me got her crackers id K an’ when We could, an’ we believe she was our face. As she sald nothing he repeated timidly, with a little gee ren in his voice: “She hain’t got no mother nor nobody, in the World only me, ma’ami; an’ she au C “Dick,” sad’ Aunt Huth, qi think thee would rather find a ome tor cheat ee Oaks Sean apaaioaed Tata” am,” sald Dick, “ I heard a preacher-man on the st! one tetas about @ good feller that wanted the little children took care of, an’ that he said into some book or other the had it, an’ read out of 1t), “When you do it to them you @o it to me, an’ I'll remember and be to you some time fer it!” When we found Bab a-curled up in the box looking so lit- tle an’ so helpless. I thought it meant for us to take of her, an’ poor Joe, he reckoned 0, too.” “T think I'll keep my valentine, Dick,” Aunt oe said, with a smile. “I never heard of send- ‘back a valentine, I believe. And I think I will send one myself, too. ‘Thee may carry it for me te Friend Bradley’s office, on Harlem street, Diek.” Thenote was written in a fair, upright hand, im a few concise words: me Frrenp Brapuey: I send thee a valentine. Thee will find the lines belonging to the picture in the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew, fortieth verse. Rurn Hanoy. It isa year since Aunt Ruth received and nent a valentine, and the i4th of ee when it comes, will find no happier child than little “Drat-you-! ‘Bab;” no preadeey boy than “Valentine Dick,” who occupies the post of errand boy in Friend Bradley's office; no more aceful heart than Aunt Ruth’s; and certainly would fall to spy out, with’ his strongest beams, a more Gignitied, undismayed, constitu- tional ibler poor old Dinah, who pets orscolds the two children as inclination and opportunity dictate,and who sums up the whole matter in these words: “Sometimes children is a comfort, but mostly they is an aggravation. Them two—them two wallentines is a-weartn’ the life out of my the poor orphanless things! But Missus Ruth is so sor In her ways that P've got to have ‘em under foot to the end of time, if the Lo’d spares us!” Lucy M. BLINN. THE STAGE DRIVER’S STORY. {From the Detroit Free Press.) I know its eomarnin for one sich as me lady 80 grand: relist ike a imp froma Satan's domains, e from the heavenly land! But you've axed fur my story, ma’ ‘am, neat and Bearers avin’ out et's rough or of vu gar Skippin’ over all teches of sin. Icome to thee monnbalns in '60, and hyar I've remained as ye see ever setice: I drove on the overland line till the keors Slung the coaches ’way over the fen An’ na I tried minin’, an’ went {thromeh my pile manner most deucedly "ot in fur to herd In flat: Then’ T chopped on that ay an’ Texas catt up thar on the Piatt dl the States?” do you ask? yes, I fust saw the 0, an’ right thar T stayed ATT tired oF civilized rackets Ye-see ; Couldn't coon to legitimate trade. Then i packed up my duds an’ bid—some one— b Ant Headed imy hoes fur the 0 West, "cum to these mountains to bu "To swallow my dose with the rest! “‘Got a wife?” lookee hyar, ma’am, I'd rather not On sich subjects as that, fur Ttmoutu’t be fiat'rin’ to let out the truth ; It perhaps ‘d reflect upon mo. “Got an object in axin’,” ye say. T can’t see how t'd interest you; An’ T guess—eh? \'you must know.” Wal, then, ma'am, I had A wife that was noble an’ true. Ye ree, 'twar like this: When I lived in the States Somehow I war all outen luck, Au’ Tstood in with nuthin’ but “cussed hard times, atter what racket I struck! Tih atiastt sein up an’ concluded to leave— An’ Mary approved 0’ the plan; An’ sed, “Go ak Ww Ye'll tind yer companion on ha: But the same cussed luck follered right in my trail, So 1 jist quit a writin’ back hom Fur Tented the folks thar to think White war An’ continued ag usual td I sceayed: yar an’ ‘har—with no! no settled Place Fur to camp—with no object in view; enough rue! agin Inck— Wal, I swar! No ambition to rastle fur more thi To grub me—indeed, ma'am, it “DoT love Mary yit? ma’: a {damn it all, Thet smoke keeps a seman Maxes ‘em water as though Tar drappin’ sum nen n the wind’s south thet, smoke allers fitea). ant an anew wer?” Wal, ma’am, I mus’ say ( et smoke)— Imus aay gay ‘thet in all these long years shes bin right in my thought * many’s the " of Mary—in tears. Tlay icter I carry right hyar in near uta thousht Se hee fille me wil Woe as dark aa the bobo less pit ANyhen p’raps she's dead afore this. I've treated her ‘shabby, ‘but, ma’am, *twar hard ‘Thet sade me shake home in thet style, An’ I'm hopin’ till yit the keerds "ll soon change ‘An’ begin to run right arter ‘while! An’ if ever I git ist es small stake ahead ¥ pin’ to tl zi an'Tils Be Mary's pardon an’ settle right down, ES swar! whaee ‘hat! Miookee Liyar, maten; great heaven's! ‘ttun Yer fa around ter this light! ist yer velrea Lord of al fanarey above! a ” Weoumxa Err. A Brilliant Diamond Robber. {London Telegraph.} Ore of the cleverest diamond robberies of modern times is reported in a tone of od complacency by the ert journals of St. Petersburg. About a fortnightago a handsome equipage irew up at the door of the first jew- eler in the Loren aot Alighting from’ the carriage, an elegantly dressed and Sooper pretty young lady entered the shop and re- quested that some parures of brilliants might be shown to her. Several costly sets were sub- — for inspection, and after some hesitation selected a riviers and pendants valued at 10,000 rubles, and, stating that she was the wife of an eminent mad doctor whose name {s a household word in St. Petersburg, requested the proprietor of the establishment to accom- Pp her home with the jewels, in order to Bertie finally with her husband about their price. The jeweler packed up his diamonds and got into the carriage with his fair custo- mer. Presently they arrived at a ed house, and were received at the parle cochere by a Suisse Espen live tye who conducted them es as furnished drawing-room, in which e lady begged her companion to take a seat, and Novel ch case tn_hand, proceeded to summon “her husband.” Entering the doctor's consul- tation room in an apparent state of uncontrol- lable agitation, she informed the latter rar she had brought her unfortunate spouse visit him, in the hope that he would aRdertake to cure him of the strange monomania under which he had labored for some time past “My afticted husband,” she said, “is a wealthy Janded proprietor from A——,in the Govern- ment ot Minsk; he is qutet and harmless, but he has diamonds on the brain. He will taik of no- thing else, poor fellow! Will you see him? I have left him tn your drawing-room, and am much too nervous to be present wulle you diag- nose his case. Might I, therefore, as accompany me to my carriage before you bita? It will be such a relicfto me to leave him in your care.” Her ingenious device was crowned with complete success. She drove off with the diamonds. An interview between the doctor and the jeweler fully confirmed her Statement with regard to the latter’s alleged monomania, and weatilted in his being placed under bodily restraint, from which he was only rescued three days later by one of his partners, who succeeded, with the asian’ of the lice, in tracking him to Dr. V—t’s renowned’ private lunatic asylum. No trace has yet been discovered of the gifted lady who accomplished this, in every sense of the word, “brilliant” Untwisting a Snake Yarn. {San Francisco Chronicle] A “shake story,” relative to the recent flood on the Isthmus of Panama and in the districts south, which has been gaining considerable credence through repeated publications tn dif- ferent journals throughout the United States, has been set down by parties familiar with the country and who were there during the storm, as afabrication. The story is to the effect that the recent oe water on the Isthmus drove from their nests large numbers of snakes, rang- ing insize from the small but venomous’ viper of Srey or thirty inches in length to the full-Ledged boa constrictor, measuring from thirty to fifty feet. ‘The natives of the country, in gathering food for subsistence, were ob! to use boats in approaching the ‘succulent nana and breadfrult, and in order to gather aouuiady in safety during the sh water “doubled up” in their canoes, one portion of the themselves with clubs, spears and aw en “obtainable, With which to beat ond the objectionable sei serpents that took refuge er in the trees, while ass ton gathered the fruit. R. W. any of the Pacific Bri commen: of this city, who has been engaged since October last in closing a contract on behalt of com) for the con- struction of a on the Guatemal railroad, was called upon for a verification of the serpentine tale. He have ridden on horseback over some twelve or fifteen hi miles of the country, and his travels ‘saw fewer: than would be vered in the same amount of almost any of the Western states of the Union. The & myth, as ene of his 50; which measured a few inches under pine in and which was pronoun: by all who saw it as one of the a, it not the » ever seen in the country, even by THE PREHISTORIC RACES. Thoughts § bya _ — the Haunts of the Mound-aai rdett’s ee tier Sey ae s than two tl Mniles from the court-house of ee we reach the county fair ds, ead the is the so- ‘losing cauled “ola to a ctroular earth twen! feet high, over a mile in circumference. and mad | fom nearly a true circle, the ‘dameters and 1,260 ae east gateway seventy-five fect —_ forms the only break in thecircle, and = the enumnce ot on al inca chs led. oe “Eagle mound,”so named an eagle with outspread Tels atx fect in pen gee and measures 240 feet from ayes tp, and 210 feet from head to tall. Adagin e phe of this mound was removed a flat discov With marks of fire, ashes apd ba burned wood, upon an altar of stone. ee arenolpgists of the state think this “‘old fort” never was a fort, pare that it was built for re- ligious pi lere the mound-builders sald their prayer and ‘carved their captive ene- mies on the mound, the ‘ le” altar in the center. Here the legislature of those days met; here gifted Solons went fous into the cloak room to see the busy lobbyist and receive their cash before they voted on the Here the flat-money lunatic of the older days w the immediate issue of 500,000,000,000 bushels of basswood i which’ should in all re- spects be as shell wampum and copper money. here in the dusky twil fight of a by-gone age, men’ who weren’t fit to be ieee wanted to run for ee and id run and beat better men and got elected, and caught the soldier vote by inti cia Ms, to give bounty land and money to all soldiers of the late war who had attained the age of one hundred years and upward. ‘Fevo thousand years ago! To-day the circle = a, the sunshine of May 1s flooding the less January landscape; forest trees crown tie cirele and the ore meund. Centuries have assed away since their tiny germs put forth he first. tender shoot that rrestg ce through the clinging moss and cumbet epee and ee ed out upon the world and saw that it was that it was made principally for the Ohio TAD, And these trees do not know the ey of these mounds or the traditions of — yuilders. And if they do, they won’t tell. Here in this haunted spot other hearts have tebe with love and ached with pain. Friends have walked and loved in these ‘aasky, solitudes; encenes have been broken and hearts esti yeoning fires of generous ambitions have died away in sullen ashes; bright hopes that glowed like sunlight in the morning have gone down in Tayless night and pitless storm. Here manhood has bared its peerless Lreast to the shafts of the savage foe, and T here lovely women has stepped, with her bare feet on alittle green snake, not four inches long, and jum clear over the mound with a how] that soured all the milk this side of the Hock-Hocking mounds. ‘They lived, they planned and schemed; they knew the sting of envy and the bitterness of hate; they wor- shipped here, and the arching aisles of the for- est TADE with their anthems as they sang with- out lining: “thresrex! is x faxarchie pltchtocl, #rxtl, brxtl a Whrxtzl antzchoct! xr gichtrdzvema Chtotzl, chtotzl as day. The throbbing hearts are still; the light 1s gone out of the ne weaning eyes; the hands that Wrought are folded in eternal rest; the brains that pl planed are locked in slumber’ that no dreams disturb. The busy thousands, the generation succeeding generation that once thronged the solitudes where I stand alone to- day—here in their sepulchre; the air is haunted with their dusky forms, one circle 1s a charnel- house; the spirit of death fs in the forest. ‘The roll of the muffled drum echoing through the trees, and, lo, a woodpecker, gay in his coat of white and ‘scarlet and dlack, glittersia the sunlight, a picture of joy and life and beauty. ‘Think of death and misery in the world while that bright spirit touches the blarsted tree with a flash of color and beauty before you. You think so, do you? That a little dash of color and beauty drives away the dark shadow of death and suffering? Well, does it, then? The woodpecker is all right. enough, outin the sunlight Tesplendent in his go1 us livery, but you just the deposition o! heres unhappy worm the woodpecker is boring aft You look about you. This ehciteln mound; once it was alive With dusky forms that joined in national worship, au ares the grand councils of si chose a new king: when the old king una gone the way of the sub- ject. And to-day? ‘To-day, very. sane me encircling mound ts just en with ‘hrist men and women, three times a year, watching ae “hoss race” and betting their eed on th ale wos Biepper with the white foot. is the Place to see the races from. rhe amphitheater ae tust go a begging at the Licking county ‘We, they are gone, these Mound-bulide: and they didn't leave their present address, ans didn’t tell the postmaster where to forward their mail Thus e vanity of this world. Our troubles can last no longer than did theirs. From their history let us learn patience. What availeth it to worry? What are the little trials that beset our path? What the tears that come unbidden to our shaa- Wat the Gear nene that come coe si ows of th across our hearts? little while, and the tranquil nly & peace, the aes less rest, {lie slumber uni their ln jturbed that crowned at last, will come to us, and with ‘tle hands will smooth the furrows from our rows, and take the sorrow from our hearts, and with the lotus balm of sweet— Baby Dimple’s House. (he Nursery.) Block upon block, block upon bl Wait, baby, wait till the time to Hush, Baby Dimple, still as a mouss! ‘This is the way to build a house. ‘What shall it be—a church so With a steeple up to the ver First builaa iret we xt baby, 7 on tal lock uj is complete; ‘Thatis tire way to build, my sweet! Here is the door, and here is the stoop! Within are the preacher and peo Aenibiifen, sume ce again, Dimple—one, two, three! ek: sky? all — in your merry lee! And that isthe ond Sf the cue and the steeple But where are the preacher aud all the people: ‘MaBEL C. Dowp, Moving the Ears. wer of moving the ears is usually aneeathn In man, and it has been supposed that as man advanced in civilization, the power of mov- ing the ears Eo became less and less unit it was lost. Sometimes, however, per- sons are met with who can Still voluntarily move their ears. It ts narrated of Albinus, who Was Professor of Medicine in the University ot Leyden about the middie of last century, that he was in the habit of removing his wig in order to demonstrate to his class tbe power he sessed of moving his auricles at will. The power which many animals have in directing their ears toward the supposed source ot d, or of erecting them tn an act of attention, 15 familfar to every on To many animals the external ear no doubt acts as a kind of artificial hearing-trumpet, so that ord! sounds may r be augmented and faint sounds rendered audi- e auricle is small in So walruses, but it is largely de bats end in the African elephant. ‘The ears of the mouse and the hed; are delicate organs of touch. In birds, the auricle is wanting. It is remarkable, however, that in nocturaal birds, such as many owls, the feathers can be elevated around the ear-opening so as to form a kind of external ear. In some aquatic mammals, such as in certain seals, the sea-otter, &c., the open- ing of the ear Is merely a slit. It would se speak! generally. that a fully formed auricle 4s found only in mammals whose habits are eo and that it is reduced tn size, or, it may be, {s absent Ip mammals living under und or in water. It was once supposed that (ieee function in man, and it was stated that those who had lost the external ears from accident or injury did not yim to suifer any diminution in the power of hearing. Recently, however, it has been shown, more especial] Dr. Burnett, of Philadelphia, that the external ear instead of being useless, has an important influence in the ey tered of a quality of tone, and that it acts as a kind of resonator, length ening the external auditory ca ‘as to Make certain tones more audible ‘than they would otherwise be. It is well known that nearly every sound consists of a number of par- tal tones, and that the number and intensity of these give to our consciousness the “color,” “timbre,” or “4 an of that particular sound. ‘These tones are o' Gitterent pitch—some high, others low. Burnett has found the Har form of the external ‘ar strengthens the migner partial tones. “By hol the hand behind or around the ear, we have the power of adding a still deeper coluinn of alr and its reso- nance to that of the external ear. Hence the person involuntarily places his hand to his ear to increase by resonance the ordinary sound pay upon it. His en and short wave-le! voice owes its timbre or ia te 7 Helmholtz has already observed in Bie areas of Tone:” “Tt 1s, 1 ced, mn “Sensations remarkable that the human ee So A BARBER, ar ee _ 4 him with the ithe it recital o' a ong story about tse Dar boy and ughter at the t's Dall, a hich was strung Baieoranss aor wh % be vireuous nen the high, ‘tilck ding: y are, the ley t 7,000 Ks id i an pected is the i uld_be paid, and Oe rtainty. Bi Po! 103 - f SON Br b ¥ sounds mi les, seals, Pi 1 hi 7 " 1 th a Pe dow-sill bi ange! peated specially by (p01 mal, so has 1 : rm of that the pecu- ei ‘ Sisease) possession Medical Society, : Biefleld. This by regul high pitel ned larding: large f which are fout hair dre sing used er 00 ir fractured gathering irregular! the nly magnined. | ome ‘th K ie was ios modest to yea | S,duestion whether MUSKRAT T CATCHING. How Certain South J Jerseymen Turn an Honest Penny by cleseere Lope trapping san an industry of much local tmaportanee in nets west New Jersey. The time animals extends ber ia Se a a perid ot ee if not. mente pod Mes = Heke aud at uy, At not entirely, for their ong. is very highly esteemed by ne ping: fg frateray. ‘The muskrat gener i Gaal e ee = ditches and creeks, Chal mag cus a of the bank overgrown withe el ners, ey eter food, and heiping me Sanpete th burrow. a iter selecting a reuitable site for nis home, begins opera ons in this way: at the water's edge, he bores inland to a ce Of Several feet in a win manner, when he abruptly starts in a downward direction to a distance of two or three feet, where he pene excavate and form a basin, in the middie of which he raises a mound four or five feet in cir- cumference. It is here thé rats rest during the day. After finishing this cavern, they return to the water’s edge by a different route, thereby providing three means of escape—two at ae water's edge and one inland. These burro’ their uniform construction, afford a stril Illustration of bout architecture. The musk Tats inhabiting a single burrow often fumber as high as twenty-five or thirty, and the size of a burrow depends entirely on the number of in- mates. His ratship’s diet consists of roots and ey although he holds corn and potatoes in Pea but it is not always it he can le his palate with the last-named articles. They are scrupulously clean; in fact, prover- Dinlly so in this ‘section. ~ ‘it 1s no dneom: mon thing on a moonlight night for persons traveling in the vicinity o! titans and canals to gee a rat raed on the bank busily engaged in washing an elder root or an eae of coro. They are, however, very retiring as regards visitors, but if a person should, Dy chance or otherwise, place himself in such a tion as to be be- tween the rat and his hole he would not hest- tate on an attack. And, by way of illustrating his ratship’s pusnactoue Speen ee Iwill ir late the experience of a gentleman residin; taing Salem. On a recent evening he was ech along one of our rural thorot rong bean tee dered On each side by a arather late hour of the evening, he was Voaes ing cn at a rapid pace, when he ies ew set upon by what he supposed to ers several futile efforts to drive “way, he betook himself to a club, and after a sharp Seuaee ine in meat he was twice bitte he succeed ‘theanimal, which prov to be a large ares The mode of Gapping these animals is as diversified as it Is inge! The manner most in ese is by the common steel-traps. Besides this, there is what is known as the box-trap, @ contrivance about five feet long by eight inches in height and breadth, with doors at each end, working so that when the luckless rat once enters he cannot open the door from the inside. As many as a half dozén rats are sometimes caught a once in this style of trap. ‘“Snoods” and si resembling those employed in trapping birds, are also much used. As muskrats are very wary ao sue great care has to be taken in trapping them, and no amount of trap-setting by the Mininttiaved would result in the capture of a rat. Great care also to be taken to insure the rats bel where than by the leg, for, it caught in manner, hes would d immediately turn and gnaw his leg o: no uncom- mon occurrence. ‘The rat, after veing killed, ts carefully skinned and his hide stretched and dried. It is then ready for market. The size of a skin taken from a full-grown rat 1s about seventeen inches Jong by ten inches wide, and the price obtained for it trom local dealers ten and fiteen cents, according to size, color, &c., although a few years ago they brofight as ‘higil as thirty-five and forty cents, The number of rats captured in one season ts very large. One trapper had caught 45) rats this season up to the Ist of January. The big tides of isi6, 1877, and 1378, have had the effect of somewhat re- tarding thisindustry by drowning a large num- pene 4 rats and driving the others further nian Could He Play Billiards? {Rochester Democrat.] He wasa quietlooking old man, and he walked quietly into a Main street bil room, just ~ wile away a few moments,” as he afterw‘ marked. Seating himself near a table where several young gentlemen were amusing them- wees he ventured one or two tions about — ‘ au wagered a lost fifty cents on t e resu ofa “Could he Aged optics? » «qWell, no, not very well; still he used to handle a cue pretty weil. Ci Would he playagame?” ‘“ heel yes; just for fun, you know, and to pass the time.” He played and lost, payin for the drinks and giv! hae cuponent the dollar which had been ered on tl vould a ey eee game?” He didn’t are" Wou a three dollars?” Didn't ke in it yoold, just for the tun of the thing.” le had been beaten easily before. The young me n thought him an old gentleman w th inoney to: spare, who was out seeing life. Vould he wager with ovhers?” “He didn’t lollars in small bets were finally ees qu elderly man quietly remarked, with a qualntsmile that he thought he should have to do better this time. ‘I should smile,” answered nt cae opponent, as he made the first shot and lost it. ‘Ihe elderly man quieuy handled bis ous ent he got the balls into a cor- ner and then ran the game out. Buttoning up his coat and pocketing his gains, he was a ou! to depart, when the young Syentieman insisted that he was a fraud, and wanted his money back. ‘The old gentleman quietly said there was a mis- take—he had only come in W see them play, and thenwalkedout “A Mise in Nails. _ A pretty Story in connection with the recent Tee he alle ts told at the expense of a poet hardware merchant in a neighbor- ing city. The gentleman aforesaid is a Dache- Jor, and has several pretty cousins resi Rochester. The young ladles of course, very fond of their relative, and he returns the cousinly affection, When nails were worth $1.70 per keg he invested his spare funds in about 7,000 kegs, and held them for arise. He promised his cousins that when the price reached $4 per keg he would buy each of them asilk dress. That figure was reached, and the heed ladies, of course, ex] him to fultill is promise, and had compared notes as to the exact shade which would suit their pecuilar style of beauty; but our friend saw a way out of difficulty, as he thought, an a pera the girls to wait until nails reached $5 per ke When he would present cach with a sealskin sacque. His idea was that probably no such figure wot in that way he would ex- change a certainty for an_uncei ity. But nails kept going up until they were quoted at $5. Another Sppeat for the fulfillment of the prone brought out a suggestion that if the importune dameejs would possess their souls in patience until natis were quoted at $6 per keg, they should each receive a set of diamonds. ‘The proposition was ae and the shrewd fellow thought that he had got out of the scrape pretty easily. He was doomed, however, to pay the penaity of his rash promise, as it is sitd taat nails were quoted at $6 within the last two days, It will be vain for the unfortunate victim of a 00d and bad luck to avoid pay- reward for the remarkable -control which has been exer- a dog. ie animal caught else- should be in ing his promise tence and sel cised by his fair cousins. The young ladies w be the envy of all thetr friends when those dla- mnonds come.—Kochester Heraid. A Winter Heme For a Caterpillar. {New-Haven Palladium, Feb. 11. A caterpillar was recently found on a Bridze- ort. Window-sill by a servant, and by her was carefully placed upon a area wall, where 1i, would be out of r. A day or so later the lady of the house saw the caterpillar on the door-sil, and it was again placedon the wall for safety. This was re) several times, the caterpillar finding its way to the door-siil every time. Finally, the lady procured a box, the énd-of which wa left open, and placed th? caterpillar in it. The box was’ then placed on the wall. The caterplilar seemed to know his home, for, on several occasions, when the lady removed it from the box and placed it soine dis- tance away it would hastily crawl back and enter its old quarters. When the weather 1s very cold the box is taken into thehouse, ‘The caterpillar acted, ever since it was found, as though it knew it had fallen among friends,and as though its conduct was governed by reason. Diseases of the Hair. At the meeting last night of the Chi Blo- ical Society, Dr. E. Nevins Hyde delivered an adaress upon a rare fol in the hu- air, Specimens ef which were exhibited Under the mlcrosco ed were from a celebrated case in the of the British >& few hairs hav- ing been sent to this country, from which th: specimens were taken and mounted for the lec- turer by Dr. disease balers cde i larly occurring nodes The doctor proceeded to 3; of lular diseases of the remarks with a. ‘he specimens exhibit- nis @ parasitic sds. pepe) and some of the Torms of ny nodular dis ind oes sas ong ant Sate pen that it was wee y-th a Pheindie Sadie ‘The. eae me diseuse under consideration was that ths between the nodes, instead of tn them. angneoret. there was a tendency ot Dig ment to the axis, galarly 12 nodes, and cen akind of ge Ena taken th the se ubeety of naming it Raita ‘ais. the gentioman who bad origin: ally claim it, it was was 5 t2-Thb prayers of the Maine legistazare cation “fall of sions CARVER OUTDONE. Extraordinary Shooting by a Cali- fornia Marksman. [San Francisco Chronicle. ] about a year and has since perfo! temple ot fame with bullets from his “little rifle,” has now a most formidable rival in the person of Dr. John Ruth, who yesterday gave an exhibition of his wonderful SeELIT with eine rifle at Shell-Mot Park, Berkeley, in the pre- sence of about epoca largely com- [eee of local “+ case ots,” with both the rifle ‘There was alsoa fair sprinkling of indlesin eassemblage. The Dr. was accom, nied by his wife, a pre] stature, who also entertained briet saispay of ot = ‘skill in the manipulation of the rifi I. This was Mrs. Kuth’s first exhibition in abe, and she manifested consi- — pe ation at first, or as the doctor xpressed it, “she was a little skittish upon her first a pearance ;” but, after the first two or three shots, the nervousness disap) and the glass balls were shattered in quick succes- Sion. The balls were thrown into the air by an attendant, Mrs. Ruth breaking six out of nine. She then perforated a glass ball held in the attendant’s hand at a distance of about 20 feet, and repeated the experiment with the hammer of the rifle held downward. She also shattered with a pistol several balls thrown in the air, and also a ball held in the hand. Mrs. Ruth was oud spunea te oe her steady nerve and Wonderful ip. Dr. Ruth then pro- cotiires an explanation of fancy shooting sta gl a held in the handof his attendant, he tal h his legs with his back to the oben He als also held the rifle with the butt resting pon the top of his head, the hammer ronan wnward. He also shot with his back tinting upon a table. In all these expert- ments @ was successful on the first attempt. performed the Austin Brothers’ mirror trick & successful Turning his back to the attendant, ‘he sighted the rifle by the ald of a Il hand mirror, and broke the ball at the first trial. Perhaps the most wonderful feat that he accomplished, and one requring considerable and attend- nerve on the pare of both himsel ant, was shooting a cigar out of the mouth of the latter, an experiment which led many to redict that the doctor's assistant would not ve to a very green old , Another interest- ing experiment was shooting without a sight, thet eaee essential ete being covered by a piece of card-board placed around the barrel at its extremity. "The absence of the sight apparent- ly made no difference, as the destruction of the vitreous spheres continued unabated. The fol- fo ine pe en were also successfully ac- comp! Shooting a ball from the head of an attendant, the latter being blindfolded; the same feat with the bandages removed from the attendant’s eyes, and the latter looking into the muzzle of the rifle, One-hand shooting with a small rifle, manipulated in a variety of difficult ways, holding the rifle with the hands placed back of the neck. In none of these shots did the doctor fall to shatter the balls from the head of the attendant. One of the most ee vellous feats (eee was the following; ing a glass ball upon the ground, the doc! BratGe in front of it, an pore under under it, sent it flying several feet in the air by the force of the concussion, and, before it reached the ground, another shot broke it into a thousand pleces. ‘An exhibition of rapid shooting was also given, the doctor breaking the balls as fast as the Attendant could throw them into the alr. ‘The exhibition closed with a display of short-range pistol practice, in which the marksman was not a8 successful as with the ritle, having, as he re- marked by way of an apology, but little practice with tne weapon. All those present ex- ressed much astonishment at Dr. Ruth's won- lerful skill, and it seemed to be the general verdict that Carver's proficiency with the rife ‘was secondary to that of Dr. Ruth, who uses a 44-calibre Winchester rifle, which was presented to him by the manufacturers. He will soon de- part for the East, it pang ny intenticn to make a tour of the States with his wife and give ex- hibitions during the coming summer, and in the fall he will elther depart for Europe or Aus- Talia. A ‘Thriliin: Experience and Death e St. Lawrence. (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle} eorge Penn, of Gananoque, gives this graph- fc Serer of his experience in crossing the St. Lawrence from Gananoque to Grindstone Isl- the) last aati ina George Cum tae e party broke ugh ant ‘ummin; ‘as drowned. enn, says: T lett Ganane ae ‘with a party ‘rom U fhe island at halt ast Friday afternoon, intending to go to tertown. e party consisted of myself and the following persons, who came over in the forenoon with a team and without trou- bie, and with whom. 1 was. Teturning to the isl- and, expecting tocross to Clayton by water: Eli Kendall, Stetson ae Charles Kendall, George_Cummings, William’ Rusho, Ben n Cal: houn, Elmer Calhour, David Harwood, Le' wittie and Willard Robinson. assed without trouble to the middle of of and ed the sleigh with the grist by han after one of the horses went through and: broke ice for about a hun- dred feet before finding a place to stand. By this time we were out of the course and heading above the island where there was open water. ‘The party then separated, Cum1 Robinson and myself, pushing the loaded slelgh, which soon after broke throt i directly towards the open water, We unloaded, and after going per- haps 100 feet, broke in again. The sleigh was then abandoned, and we started on, but found it impossible to Stand as the wind was Bowing a hurricane, and so took to creeping. We gone but a little way in this ition when in the inky darkness that had settled around us we all broke Uarougn atonce and each scram- bled for himself. Ifound it impossible for the ice to hold me, but found a cake that would sus- tain my a ht in a kneeling position. cummin Robinson did the same ‘Then it ached upon me for the first time that the ice was breal We then held econ sultation, and I told Robinson I would a 0 farther. ‘He told me to stay and he wo ashore fora boat. He ped off his coat and boots and I saw him swim about a hundred feet and then crawl out on the ice, and was soon out of sight, and Cummings and I were left alone. I remained on the cake for two hours, when it broke up and I was in the water. The moon was greedy now, and I managed my way toa r cake, on which Cummings was standing, which was white ice, about five inches thick and twenty feet square. I found Loe r fellow eenine, and losing his mind. Idid all I could to make him comfortable by standing to the windward of him and as my overcoat about him, he being thinly clad. A‘ if toadd to the terrors of ie ‘situation, I ve came sick from the motion of the cake as ft rose and fell with the waves and ground with hundreds of smaller ones. We were about . mile from the shore. Cummings was failing. I asked him how many children he had and told him for their sake to bear up—be a man, help was coming, &c. He counted the lights on tae shore and exclaimed, “See, see! re isone, two, three, eleven boats coming to us!” I told him’ they ‘would be here shoi , to keep cool. ‘There were eleven eae visible on the shore. Shortly before ten he became unmanageable and broke away from me. He said he was going ashore and walked directly off the edge of the ice. I caught him by the leg, but the other being under the ice and my hands benumbed with the cold, [was unable to get him out be- fore he struggled. He gave a violent Kick, broke my Dold 4 and went down. Iwas lying nat on the ice and watching for him to come up, but nothing buta few white bubbles ap) eared It he had come up within arm’s reach I migat have saved him. Otherwise he would have gone down again. I was bow alone on the cake, and did not know the fate ef the remainder of our party. I made up my mind to stay all night. ‘he cake belug Bext to shore ice drifted but little. The lights isappeared one by one, and the cakes arouud is ke) cpt breaking up and growing finer. I stood shivering on the cake four hours and a half, with thoughts the nature of which it is impos: sible to convey to a person never placed similar position. I one not used my voice as yet, but had hoped to see some stir on shore. After waiting what seemed an age, I saw a moving light on shore and shouted at the take care of the horses, he having taken an- other course reached the shore with less difficulty. He, with Benjamin Calhoun, went up vo the head and, getting Moses Garsey, launched a boat and came to me from the wind- ward, just as I was about to tear out the sleeves of my undercoat to put around my feet. They Worked their way slowly through the forty rods of floating ice, and when they took me into the boat it was half-past twelve. I had bee! and a half on floating cakes, aur two hours in a kneeling posture. Robinson reached the shore so weak that he could hardly crawl oo and giving unable to give the slightest account of mishap. ‘The other party took ferent course and went ashore farther down with less difficulty. Oac of the broke through six times. It was pe Piece ee ence to ee on = say nothing of a team an load. Summiuge leaves a wife and = = lren circumstances. The water where fos eal ew is thirty feet deep, ‘and ef norte will to recover itas soon as practicable. The poe where he Agel Kothven isa mile up the river from the head id. durance, is about 38 Cosel nearly 200. fact attributes river more novice on the ice. it he which he et, In tending to leave them the cake go to pieces, A Tr (URDER,—At Col Tenn. ‘NESSER Mi lamblia, Le a rel je eoked attacked mand rocked down by Hal act of meget under the | How They Grow Trees on the Prai- sé ries. [Correspondence of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. ] unas pela! time cut cottonwood rood poles, ‘up and then sa\ pieces a tone foot long. In tl gras ‘soon as the frost will pe Bloughing, 0 pay a deep, Jay in the ene oe es sing no none ess a tnat Giameten, ae desired, turn a furrow on the pieces, en a third fur- TOW, as. = a ploughing land, harrow a fntiesehat is all. The trees will come up from the pieces and grow steadily and much faster than cut- Ungs or young trees set out. They should, ‘pa- | when planted this way, never be eultivated, as they grow so swiftly and tall the first year or two that the wind will break some of them off unless they have weeds as —— The plece of pole forms a root an sumi- cient sap to make the trees grow even on high gravel soil. I have seen trees planted in this Manner live and thrive, though eaten off id the hoppers the first season close to the ground. In the Affirmative. {Boston Transcript. } He had asked for her La poe She ex- cused herself with some kind of a story about fee neeeuve oueing ys lost, and another would have when he interrupted her Tother ‘warmly with’ the remark, “‘ What do you suppose I care for your negative, Carrie? It's your affirmative I've been after ry months!” She bald nothing, but kind 0’ turne up the whites of her eyes, and he— Well, it a nobody's business what he dic. It 1s 01 ne- cessary to aay. that he started for the tailor’s first thing next morning, and she—why she has donet nothing but try on all sorts of things ever rr er SPECIAL NOTICE. CLOTHING AT A REDUCTION “OF TWENTY-FIVE PER EN’ ‘Those who are in want of RARE BARGAINS IN FINE, STYLISH AND WELL-MADE GAR- MENTS SHOULD NOT FAIL TO CALL ON A. STRAUS, THE POPULAR CLOTHIER, ORR PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Between 10th and 11th Streets, AS HE WILL OFFER FOR THE NEXT 15 DAYS HIS STOCK OF OVERCOATS, DRESS AND BUSINESS SUITS, AT A REDUCTION OF TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT., In order to make room for Spring Goods. DR. F. A. VON MOSCHZISKER, THE WELL-KNOWN EUROPEAN PHYSICIAN AND SPECIALIST, LATE OF PHILA- DELPHIA, WHO HAS RECENTLY ESTABLISHED HIMSELF IN WASHINGTON, AT 619 19th st. n.w. Special attention is given to the practice of the EYE, EAR, THROAT, LUNG, OHEST DIS- EASES, CATARRH, ASTHMA, and the BESTORATION OF NERVOUS FUNOTION. feb13 Havin, ed the confidence of the community by his eee coven ta the aber maladies, no fur- skill. New references besides une already: pone all ab persone of of the he hignest tio names of Sver afty. 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