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“ As for Had, he saw my helplessness, and hem just an anxious to get into the home as my of them; but the deer (ellov valued for inn with all his might, ”It took only a minute for all to reach that safe shelter. except Ned and poor little ‘ grandmother.’ There I stood paralyzed with fear, too scared to leap of! the low part of the roof, which was the farther way, too scared to move at all, and that dreadful bear coming nea’r- er and nearer. The boye‘rmi to thJ'schoolhonse Edd scrambled in, shouting to the {file to ‘inep and mi having got her and dipped her in the water bucket, they scrambled back again, all excitement and rejoicing, and great was the ‘ to do ’ over the ‘ drownd- ed ’ darling The ‘ father ’ of the family was distinguished from the others by wearin her paste-board sun bonnet perch u on her head like a stove- pipe hat; t e strings tightly tied before putting it on, making it stand very up- right and manly indeed. The chief business of this parent was to whip the children, order meals about once in five minutes, and pretend to smoke a corn- oob pipe. Of course we hadn’t a great great while for our playâ€"only an hour of internicsion; but we crowded in as much sport as we could, and the time passed rapidly, with one thing and an- other. It must have been nearly time for the teacher to come back to open afternoon school, and we were every minute expecting to hear some one say, ' Oh, dear, there he comes 1’ when a shout or scream from the boys made us spring up in terror and direct every eye to the object from which they were run- ning in not haste, screaming,¢A bear! a bear! 'nmp, girls, jump'l' And jump they di , every one, except me; for, trotting along after the boys, came a good-sized bear out of the woods. Not m a great hurry, to be sure; for he was too certain he would catch one of us; Lint coming right along, and no mistake l the house, End a. rrible wail arose that ‘tha baby was the well !’ All the family except grandmother at once jumped OH to savé the dear infant; and having not her and dinnefl her in am “ Thehousekeeping was getting on famously; the more accidents, the better fun; the breed was burnt to a cinder, and the cook was dismissed with a. dreadful threat of having her head taken 03‘ if she ever dared ‘ darken those doors with the light of her- countenance.’ Then ‘ Tagrag,’ the youngest child, created out 0! ohms and anold duster. “:88, quietly droy (1 over the front of wanted, above all, a family gathering on the roof; finally, the spring folks gave in, and we all tumbled up in great good humor. I was planted on a block, with I white handkerchief tied on my head for a cap and another one folded across my chest for a cape. All I had todo was to pretend to knit with four sticks, and eve now and then say, ' Lees noise, 0 ' 'n l’ The boys were a little “3231', b_ney at a. genie of ball. “ One fine day we had great difficulty in deciding where to spend our nooning; some said, ' go ‘to t_he _§pting_ ;’ pthere __-__L_1 ,I w:- “ The boys had built the girls a play- house out of hemlock boughs, down by the spring not far from the schoolhouse ; sometimes we spent the noon time there, and at others we would climb on the coal shed and play ‘ house.’ The ground was slanting where this building stood, and, at the back, vge ‘oould‘ easily juinp -._.._ LL- ___.1 , 7 u on the roof ; is bad fixed El: KEVâ€"vi}: b oaks and boards, so that our hon ae- keeping was very convenient and grand indeed. “ Twenty years' ago I was a little girl living in- a farmhouse on one of the slopes of the ‘ Laurel Hill,’ in Pennsyl- vania. It was a wild place, though pleasant, and we had no near neighbors, for the houses, though not so very few, were pretty tar betweem But when you went to the schoolhouse that stood in a small clearing on the mountain side. you would have found a large number of boys and girls gathered there; and most likely you would have said, ‘ Where an- der the sun do all these children live ? ’ There they were, though, from six years old to sixteen, and there was I, a de- mure little thing of eight, so grave and sober that when the girls played ‘ keep house ’ they always set me up for ‘ grandmother ’ of the family. And there was my hero, Ned Wilson, a boy of sixteen, who had elected himself my protector, and whom I adored; we had promised to marry each other after twenty or thirty years, and we felt very solemn and important about it. I be- lieve all the boys and girls liked each other pretty well ; we had to, in fact, for we were shut up there together on the mountain side, and children must like some_l_10d_y, you know. That was what the young teacher, Miss Stewart, was saying as I went into the school-room, one day, at the close of the weekly “ ator hour.” That evening I asked her to to an old child the whole :fl‘aii; and this it; the guy she yent on 7: frightened to death 1” " Pluck me, on you so." Bod-cheek, little draining, Pulled, and run 08 lemming, ‘ ‘ Oh'mmghty, naughty flower; to Ming me no !' “ Poolieh child !" the startled bee buzzed emu-1y. " Foolish not. to see nut I make my honey While the day in sunny; um the pretty little clover five: for me !" Tbon the clover softly unto Rod-chock whis- ‘ “Flower! why were you mm? 1 Im undo for mother. flu hu u’t my other; But you were nude (or no one, I'm Afraid." A Ill-Cu“. Little My Bodoohoet an! auto I clover: "â€"-â€"â€" and slammed the door in his p9,_ and_ _rxm_ @693: a desk, almost â€"â€"Mary Map“ Dodge, in St. Nicholas. A Bear story. “â€"v ”v-“ vv-v the heads ofthe hat-me on whether thi; piece of stove-pipe will a: nut. Says the American Monthly : “ A Rontleman who resides near Boydton, Va, has aspired to a new scienceâ€"that . of controlling the clouds in order to cause it to rain at wll. With the view of attaining this end he built a “ a rain tower." which novel structure is said to lbe thirty feet in diameter at the base, ‘which size it retains to the height of forty feet. To this height it contains four flues, each seven feet in diameter. The number of fines is then reduced to two, which run up twenty feet higher, the top of the structure reaching an altitude of sixty feet. The whole con; cern was erected at a cost of about 81,000. The method of causing rain to fall is as follows: The fines are filled with dry,' pine wood, which is set on fire, and which is kept up until the desired effect is produced on the elements. His 1 theory is, that the great heat produced ‘ in the air above the “ tower" will cause the clouds to concentrate over it, when lent-y of rain will fall in that vicinity. e ori 'nator of this novel idea is said to be a rm believer in the practicability and utility of his invention, notwith- standin the fact that after repeated trials, tiring which he consumed hun- dreds of cords of wood, his tower failed to produce the desired effect on the un- propitious heavens, he having beena great sufi'erer from drought during the entire spring and summer. V v.“ -7" vâ€"uuvw in Europe, and those which have oc- curred have been generally cured with complete “mate? the more eflicaoious treatment adop , by modern phy- sicians. Still more has been done by way of prevention in the improvement of sanitary arrangements, the ventila- tion and drains e of houses, the clear- ing of land an the habits of greater cleanliness introduced amggg the peo- ple. Ph sicians hAve agr , however, that the isease is not contagious. But although this is so, it is equally certain that it can perpetuate itself by heredi~ tary transmission, and this conclusion has been amplyjustifled in Spain, where the present outbreak is only a continu- ation of others, encouraged, as the Debuts believes, by the filthy habits of the natives and the ignorance of their medical attendants. ‘ -___-.., “â€"v [ some other skin diseases, by any vio- ‘lent mental emotion, whether of rage, ‘ grief or sudden fright. With regard to the persons most usually afi'ected, they belong much oftener to the male than to the female sex, and children are rarely among the suflerers. A continuous history of the disease would probably show that it has been steadily decreasing for many centuries past. It became prevalent in Europe during the time of the Crusadesâ€"a fact which not un- naturally led to the opinion that it was a contagious malady. In Italy, where it made many victims, ideas prevailed re- garding it not altogether dissimilar from those of which we read in the Old Testa- ment. The unfortunate sufl'erers were looked upon with horror and aversion, and not only avoided, as was the case in Western Asia, but actually hunted like ‘ wild beasts. Since the Middle Ages ‘ there have been.co_mparativ_ely few cases 1 qunt getg'figâ€"The one held between - . - -~ ~~~~~~~~~~ 3 and especially upon salted, food. Certain trades are more subject to its attacks than others, such as those in which metal is handled, or where very dusty and crumbling substances are worked. It Iggy else be gunned, like .._..._ _L‘~ ..-....... v. um mam], uuuu 1n 111101611! and modern times. A' very slight ac~ quaintanee with the Mosaic law or the Hebrew writings is sufilcient to prove how common, and at the same time how deeply dreaded, was the disease in ancient Palestine. Its attacks were re- garded with the greatest terror, inas- much as they were not known to pro- ceed from an well-defined causes. Later inquiries ave ascertained that it results generally from living in a damp atmosphere2 or upon unwhplesome, “â€"3 -..__-__n_ The Journal des Debate, commenting upon the existing prevalence of leprosy in Alicante (Spaiug, gives some curious degails of thislgna ady,_ both in 7 ancient “ Oh-h-h,” said thé old child. “ But thanks for the tale of a bear ”â€"-which‘is always short! “Oh, yes,” said grandmother J eanio. “ Stout. short, handsome, middle-aged man a. little bald, good as gold, married and blessed with two pretty children, so they tell me. We moved from the Laurel Hill a few months after, and I’ve never seen him since.” “That was good," said'the old child, who was listening to the story. “ Any- thing more about Ned? ” “Fortunately the windows were too high for him to reach, and when he found he reel]; couldn’t have a nice little boy or girl or dinner he left us and sulked 03‘ down to the spring. " “ And was that the last of it? ” “ No, not quite ; when we found he had fairly gone a few of the biggest boys ran to meet the teacher, and among them they called out some men with dogs and guns who hunted all through the woods, and the next day the beer was §hot on the mountain.” him“; the door was slammed in brain’s face, as you heard me tellii g the echo!- srs to-day; but not until he had lifted one wicked paw and taken the back breadth out of my dress I ' “And what did you do then?" I asked J eanio. “Oh, we huddled under the desks, too frightened even to whisper. And that bear went round and round the house, scrambling toward the windows, and growling till our hair stood on end at th_e dreadful sound. you!’ “all 0! into his "msâ€"it was all 1 could doâ€"Ind half carrying, ha]! dragging me, he stumbled up to the 990:, apragg in and_ pulteqme in after An Attempt to Make It Rain. Leprosy. ‘7‘»vâ€"“v '- comics. ' The pluiditfof the mm. White Squalls. White squalls, says Applclon's Jour- nal, come almost without warning, and w th fearful rapidity and violence, and twist the masts out of a ship or capsize her; and near the line the squalls some- times pounce one ship with warning signs that are perceptible only to the most experienced eye. 1.ven in the finest weather vigilance cannot be re« lured a moment. Some years ago two large ships met in mid-ocean, one head in for Australia and the other whom ward bound. The day was fair, and, the wind dying away, the vessels were becalmed close together. The passen- fers at once busied themselves to write otters home and omoers end crew be- came ooon in. the interghengepf “â€"4--!-- In; - A J..- -m-.. across the bog. Its .wide~sprea iing boughs had prevented its sinking into the mire, and he now felt that to reach that tree was the only hope of salvation. He could not reach it from the position, and he dared not leap lest the added impetus should only send him deeper in- to the bog, without enabling him to get hold of the branches. An idea seized him. He took the bridle from the horse and a hitching strap which he carried with him, bound them tight] together with some twine he found in is pocket, and, forming a sort of noose, threw his impromptu lasso toward a stout dead branch which projected from the fallen tree. His first trial failed, also the sec- 1 0nd and third, but the fourth succeeded, ‘ end he had only to make the attempt to draw himself to the tree. He was now standing upon the back of his doomed horse, which had sunk several inches further, and with head raised was look- ing with terror-stricken eyes back to- ward his master, every once in a while uttering pitiful cries. With a last few tender pats Mr. Laffon said farewell to his horse, and leaped from his back as far out as possible. He sank several feet, but keeping firm hold of the line, he began to draw himself out hand over hand, and after hard struggling finally ‘ succeeded in reaching the tree, into which he quickly drew himself, and crept carefully across its trunk to term firms, thankful for his miraculous es~ cape from a horrible death. His first] thought now was to go for help and try ; to rescue his horse. For this puma-,0! he started oil" on foot for the nearest! cabin. After walking several miles hog encountereda couple of farmers, and' quickly procuring other aid, and pro-i viding themselves with ropes, they ac-. companied Mr. Lafi'on back to the bog. l Several hours had elapsed before he reached the treacherous spot again, and not a sign of his unfortunate horse re- mained. The poor beast disappeared in the black ooze, and only the lack of scant verdure on that particular spot marked the place where he had met a living death. I ,,._-_ __ vow-.- to feel considerable alarm ; he was obliged to extend his both legs out par- allel with the body of the horse to keep them from sinking in the hog. His mind instantly reverted to all the tales of quagmires and quicksands that he had ever read, and he began to suspect he had struck something of the kind himself. The situation was looking gloomy ; he must do something; so he spoke to his horse again, to induce him to make one more efi‘ort, but the poor beast was beyond the power of helping himself. Already a part of his bod was in the black, jelly-like mass of mu , which everywhere surrounded him. And Mr. Laden-discovered, to‘his hors ror, that he was syiwly, but-surely, get- ‘ ting nearer in air,“ '31 with the ground. ‘ He felt certain now that unless h‘élp‘ came he must surely disappear with his horse in this lonely hog and his fate for- ever remain a-my'stery: Determined not to give way to despair, he glanced once more anxiously around, and» this time noticed no more than two or three yards distant the branches of a tolerably large tree, which, with roots still partially in the firm ground beyond,‘ had fallen rum-u. IIIIVOIIIII'O or a "om-In III III "ll-ole swamp-4n. Decent Quagmire- ln the World. Some few evenings ago a St. Louis Post reporter made the acquaintance, at the Lindell hotel, of James Laffou, who related to him a curious incident. He says that a few dayssince, having occa- sion to make a visit to Cairo upon busi- ness, he mounted a good, strong horse, and started upon a journey through the bottom lands of Illinois. Nothing of conseqence happened until within about forty‘two miles of Cairo ; there, in a swamp overgrown with jungles of black- berries and shrubbery common to such spots, he espied a flock of birds, a few of which he determined to carry into Oairo as specimens of his skill in shooting. The birds, however, were shy, and, the anxious sportsman perseveriug in the ardor of the pursuit, he penetrated fur. ther into the swamp. Presently he came upon a spot very much more open than the rest, no shrupbery of any size grew upon it, buta kind of coarse grass, in- terspersed with clumps of bulrushes, covered the entire surface. No sooner had the horse’s feet touched the sod than he sank immediately above his fet- locks. Floundering out of what the ‘ rider supposed to be only a mud hole, the animal leaped forward with consid- erable force, and this time sank almost to his knees. His rider touched the beast with the whip to hurry him out of the bad place. The horse raised him- self by main force from the mire and. leaped forward again, apparently as anxious as his rider to get out of the bog. This time, however, he sank al- most to his girth, and the most power~ ful efforts on his part could not result in extricating his feet from the mud. The more he struggled the further he sank, and in a few minutes ceased altogether to make any effort to release himself, ‘ but remained perfectly quiet, trembling in eve joint. Mr. Latfou now began to fee considerable alarm 2 ha mm 1‘54!!!qu Advent-to of I "one... Whon one journal talked in its leading article of “lmtlorml thunder," a con- temporary politely desired to knowil‘ llmt had any affinity to ” greased light- ning ;" forcing the explanation that by a typographical error " muttered thin:- dor " Was the article intended. When a Weatprn editor wrote, “ We are living at this moment muler a desPotlsm,” his opponent kindly ex‘ pla ned : " Ont contemporary means to say he has lately sot mould." A non- 'ul --.-.. - .-- 1.1-0 nulul agpeiidngen under such control as tn be a 19 to fan himself with thorn in hot weather. A Michigan journalist declared in his paper that a cermin editor had seven toeu. The alandered mun thereupon re- lieved his mind in a “lender,” denounc- ing the statement as unwarranted, and its author devoid of truth and a 50mm- drel to boot. The offending gentleman replied that he never wished it to be un- derstood that all the seven toes were upon one foot ; and the disgusted victim of the “ sell,” appealing to his readers, asked : “Are these suojecte which ouqht to he discussed In organs whom duty it is to mold public opinion?" Another worthy, of whom an (enemy affirmed that he had just made the strange discovery that he could wng his left car, did not condescend to impeach the truth of the statement. but made mhttars even, by declaring that the man wao gave it currt‘m'y had both his nhrol H-.. _.â€".. â€"uv auuv 5‘: w Ill-JD ’ the only relief we could got was to lie down on the Portland Herald and cover ourselves with the Portland Bulletinâ€" there is a great coolness between them. ” This kind of noolnesa often brings about an amneing interchange of incivilih‘es. Journalistic Amenities. A Californian editor invested in a. mule, and the fact was chronicled under the heading, "Remarkable instance of self-possession.” Said one Milwaukee editor of another: "He is one of the few journalists who can put anything in his month without fear of its stealing anything ;” and when a Western editor wrote, “ We cannot tell 'a lie; it was cold yesterday ;” his rival quoted the remark with the addition, “ The latter statement is incontrovertible; but the former?" Said an Idaho journal ; “ The weather has been hot again {or 939 lnqt few 9131?; “.1. ‘-I._ ~-1.‘ .0 _ . v ~~~~~~~~~ vu-J ” chickens. those gypsies of the sea, which always announce an ordinary gale; and a misty haze obscures the sky, which gradually gathers around the horizon in a dense wall of appall- ing and lowering mystery and gloom. One feels as when he goes into his first battle: he knows that a great peril and struggle for existence is pending; but he cannot tell its exact nature and ex- tent, or whether he will survive to tell the tale. - cane in safety. The typhoons of the Indian ocean, or of the Pacific, are ve like the Atlantic hurricanes under a di - ferent name. In the north Atlantic a revolving storm goes against the hands of a watch ; south of the line it pursues the opposite direction. The omens pre- ceding a hurricane are of a nature to arouse awe and a rehension. A long, mountainous ewe sets in; the winds are light, bafiling, uncertain, aeif play- ing with their prey, accompanied b a low, moaning sound ;the sea-birds is- a pear, including the Mother Gary’s c ickons. those mnnim nf n... .m. ‘ eighty to a hundred miles in a cyclone or hurricane; it has even been esti- mated as high as one hundred and twen- ty miles an hour on some occasions. This excessive speed. of course, was during the squalls. 'One would hardly imagine that anything could withstand the fury of such a wind: and a real old- fashioned West India hurricane does prostrate houses and trees, and destroys almost every ship it can lay hold of. The well-remembered hurricane of 1873 caused a loss of one thousand vessels in the north Atlantic ;the whole coast of Nevin Scotia and Cape Breton was strewed with them. Forests and houses went down before it along the; Bras d'Or. And yet there were some! small flshing-schooners of not over for tons' burden that r_ode out of the hum- , '- D um he ened. To be taken aback by a sasgen squall or shift of the wind is one of the greatest perils that menace a squareqigged sailing-ship, especially if there is a high counter sea running. The sails are pressed with such violence against the masts that the fail to come down or brace around, w ile the stern presents such resistance to the waves that iniless the after-canvas can be in- stantly taken in, to enable the bow to pay ofi', the surges boil over the tafl'rail and draw the ship down almost before the danger can be realized. I was a 1 witness to a scene of this sort once when nothing saved us but the dropping of the spanker. We climbed up the hoops. and the sail at last yielded to the sheer ‘ weight that drew it down. An English ? frigate was thus talzen aback once when running under press of sail ; the officer of the deck manned the yards with her numerous crew, and they cut the sheets with their knives in time to keep the frigate from sinking. The subject of storms and hurricanes is a vast one, and many of the laws by which they work are now codified and well understood by the experienced and intelligent navigator. In a gale the wind travels thirty or forty miles an hour. Its velocity increases to fifty or sixty,' miles‘in a storm. and reaches -£_I. 1,. erled toe teelin a: mum writer Insert. am his that can never be‘utely indulged in a m“ in the habit of livingnflfl see. All the canvas was set, idly tie - dred years; towhien anothermponds: ping against the' masts, when a terr e " That must have been beiore the intro- squall struck both shi s, and passed 01! duetion of capital punishment.” The in a few moments. W en the confusion proprietor o! a Western journal on- and excitement resulting from it were nonnoed his intention of spending Mt, over, and the crew 01 one of these ves- dollars on “ a new head” for it. “Don t eels was able to relax the attention deâ€" do it," advised a rival sheet; “beta: mended for their own safety, they looked keep the money and ha a new head to: to see what damage the other vessel had the editor," that gent eman baby "i. snfl‘ered, but they looked in vain. She dently, in its opinion, “ a young mm o! it had gone down With all on board, and frugal mental on unity,” as“ not a vestige of her was to be seen any- journalist delicate y termed another.- where on the wide sea, which looked ”i seroneand beautiggl ,as, it nqthmghud The ma 1...........,.....,-_-___ . ‘ Lnnmnnn.‘ m- ._.. Horses cun easily be let‘lwout o! a burning building by throwing lumen / 070’ “I’m. The bigger the dog the more fun: I a will make when you tread on his 9» t. There may be philoso in flux, and them may be nothing {mt dog. The curious, unshiplike shore of the Chinese junke is accounted or by a tradition which records that. some oom- iuries ago. a deputation of Kwangtnrg .nhipbuildere sought audience of the reigning emperor to exhibit models of foreign vessels, and to aolicit permirelou to alter the native type. The emperor, enraged at their audacity, kicked off hie shoe, telling them to return to Canton and adopt that M thvir model ; and the shoe form of vessel prevail: in China to tbia day. _ -v-.--..° .u .- uunv, wuuurmvfl‘l cottage, who excited much interest in the visitors at the hall. His looks were venerable and his hearing shove thst usual among the lowly inhabitants of a hamlet. How he had no aired thiseir of superiority it is difllou t to say, for his origin must have been bumble. Bis eightieth summer had nearly passed aw. y, and on] two or three years pre- viously he he; learned to read. that he might gratify a arent‘s pride by read- ing his son’s rst voyage round the worLdl He was the father at Osptein COO .n In an account of a tour in thenorthof England. by George Colman, the young- er, in 1776, occurs the followinf vu- sngc : "‘In the adjacent village 0 Kirk- lentham there was at this time an indi‘ vidunl residing in a neat. comfortable A. correspondent of the (Jammy Gon- Ileman, says: The In est orchard in the world is doubtless t at owned And wcrked very successfnléLby Mr. Robert, McKinstrflof Hudson, lmnbisconnty, N. Y. r. McKinstry’s orchard is procurin for him a world-wide refit» tiou, an he has many visitors.‘ its all fruit-growers, and others of kin to that profession, he is kindly and liberal- ly disposed, and has no secrets to to- serve from others who love fruit-grow- ing. and to talk of fruit. Visitors are, therefore, made welcome, and his or- chard is open to inspection by Ill who are interested in his labors. The or- chard is situated on the east bank of the Hudson river, on high rolling table land, and occupies 800 acres, and con- tains more than 24,000 apple trees, 1,7!” pears, 4.000 cherries, 500 peaches, 200 plums, 200 crabs, 1,000 vines, 6,000 our- rnnts and 200 chestnuts. ary, ,._.V__ â€"-v"' “no; “‘1' 1 miral Sir Hovenden Walker when it ailed up the St. Lawrence from Boston seize Quebec in 1711, declared he saw one of these lights before thalamu- da was shattered by a dreadful e on the 22d of August. The light, scald, danced before his vessel all the way up the gulf. Every great wreck that has taken place since Sir Hovenden Walker's calamity has been preceded, if tradition is to' be believed, by those mysterious lightsâ€"or rather they have warned the mariuer of the fetal storm. When 1h gulf gives up its dead there will be ‘3'. vast muster. Paradis, the Ergo pilot who took 90* Br§tish_1_legt under Ad- and yellow flames, now dancing high above the water and then filo owing, paling and dying out, only to s 1' up again with {rush brillianoy. mt approaches, it fits away, mo ' further out, and is pursued in vain. 0 lights are plainly visible from where from midnight until two in 0 morning. The appear tooome from them show. war , and at dawn retire gradually Ind arglostjn the morning mist. The mysterious lights in the cult and the Lower St. Lawrence, which are firmly belived by the fishermen to be a warning 0! reat tempests, hove, ac. cording to t a Montreal Herald, been unusually brilliant this year. It is said to bee tact, established b the ex. perience of a century, that w on these lights blaze brightly in the summer nights the fall is invariably marked by great storms. They give the appearance to spectators on the shore of a chi on fire. The heavens behind are b hi, and the clouds above silvered by the re- flection. The sea for half a mile in covered with a sheennas of thsphorne. 7 'l‘hn Rm :4..." _..-._._ - _ _ The Mystic Linux or_ gho‘m. Lam Largest Orchard in the World. 8 appearance tf a nhi? on are bright, ad by the re- ‘Lf a mile in phoephom sist of blue anoin high I die ering, to a 1' up . a t truth “3% “what: