..w.i.,,.1 miiimil that you always feel like giving a boy at those legs and never touched one of idalphon. main street, of Jamestown. The town Sheep will convert more worthless weeds with a "putty blowei" or a "pea shooter." them. ~fie^a he#H^lifidand wild~with indeed, consistrof'tttrerrnain strtetTwlrieh "inW'inoriey tMri""any other animal or BONGFELLOW It knocked the little rose bud of a terror and confusion. Once he tried to follows the winding of the valley. jOn agency, rj*yrq- jp,yf lr T'J/T mouth shut so quick and close the baby sing to the baby, but when he quavered the right, immediately n entering the, Have you read in he Talmud of old, It it a glontms provision that Extravagance couldn't catch its breath ior three minutes, out a "Hootchy, pootchy, pudden' and town, is Ladder Hill, on the top pf whicn In the Legends th* Rabl ms have told, does -not paV iu any^feusiness, and and Mr. Thumbledirk thought with pie," the women laughed, all but the are barracks, and which you ascend .by, a Of the limitless rea, 1ms of the air, Especially so|n farming. Have you read it,-#-the marvelous story a strange, terrible sinking of the heart, gloomy[one who talked bassshesnifHed, terribly long flight of steps. Onithe left Workilg*riithVgarde"ri (tjxis% as goobl Of Sandalphon, thle angel of glory, I that it was just possible he might have and he stopped. He gave the baby his is the garden attached to the goverenor's Sandalphon, the ajngcl of Prayer' exercise as base ball^ and for more useful overdone the thing. A short young woman pearl-handled knife, and the innocent town house, which is open to the public and instructing. in a kilt skirt and a pretty face, sitting threw it into jthe stove. He gave it his and adjoining the garden is the site' of How erect, at the/outermost gates Clover is a peculiar jplant* It improves directly opposite him, said, "Oh in a gold watch, and it dashed it on the floor. Of the City Lelos/tial, he waits, the house, recently destroyed by fire, in and fertilizes J^e |i#lXwhJLle$#ar]| all With his feet on This ladder of hg it, mild kind of a shriek, and then giggled: He gave it his emerald scarf-pin, and the which Napoleon passed his first n*gTit in That crowdt-d with angels unnumbered, other plants act the feverse. a tall thin woman in a black bombazine baby put it into its mouth. St. Helena, and where the Duke of Wellington, By Jacob was saen, as he slumbered Too much eating ancLtoo little sleeping dress and a gray shawl, and an angular when Sir Arthur Wellesely also The pretty woman screamed. Alone in the denert at night? [are the great curses to American health woman in a calico dress and a sun bonnet, passed a night on his return from India. The sad woman in the bombazine and happiness, AT0B3rfEJ(/[ 1 5iTM gasped, "why!" a startled duet, The angels of Wind and Fire shrieked. The island is very barren rf vegetation, Chant only one thymn, and expire a fat woman with a small heard of children The angular woman in the sun-bonnet Who IJidlt: and the fruits produced are not many. With a song's irresistible stress and a market basket, shouted, yelled, "Oh, mercy on us!" Dates, bananas, grapes, mangoes, guavas, Expire in the rapture and wonder. Who tracked the mud,a,c ps8 $hefloor, "Well!" and then immediately clapped The fat woman with the market-basket As narp strings are broken assunder and figs are perhaps the most abundant. her plump hands over her mouth as By music they/rob to express. called wildly for a doctor. Meat is very scarce and dear, the inhabiv though the exclamation had been startled Whose'finger prints The gloomy woman who talked bass tants relying a good deal on Australia But serene witm the raptuous throng, from her, and a tall raw-boned woman shouted hoarselv: for the supply. When an ox lis killed, Who^e crumbs, beneath the tUbledie? si*. Unmoved by toe rush of the song, who wore horned pectacies and talked "He's killed it!" the joints goto a few favored residents Who smeared the butter on the cloth? i With eyes unhhpa6Sioned and slow, bass, said, "The poor lamb!" in such Who spU}ed the gravy, slppped,the brotfc, And Mr. Thumbledirk hooked his finger Among the dead angels, the deathless and to the barracks. We were to have sepulchral tones that exerybody else And dropped a pickle in thepie? Sandalphon strands listening breathless into that child's mouth and choked it brought a bullock for them from the laughed, and Mr. Thumbledirk, who To sounds that ascend from below. *i ierk,?1^ until its face was purple and black, Cape, but the animal unfortunately broke' Who pulled ttie curtain with a didn't just exactly know whether she trying to find that pin. And Mr. Thumbledirk its neck coming on board. And left it hanging all askew, &< From the spirits on earth that adore. meant him or the baby, blushed scarlet And broke, the cord?'^was nearly new. couldn't hear even the chattering In the evening we set out for the Old From the souls of that entreat and implore, %f and felt his face grow so hot that he I wonder if 'twas mother's work. women. It beat the air with its clenched In the fervor and passion of prayer Rock Theatre, the ladies walking: down smelt his hair. And his soul was filled 1 From the hearts that are brokenjWith losses, fists, and thrashed and kicked with its in evening dress, without any need for Whoseknife is this, with handle stained. with such gloomy forebodings that all And weary with dragging the crosses fat bare legs, and wailed and howled and J shawls or hoods, although, as we were in And open blade with rust so marred? Too heavy for mortals to beaj. the future looked dark to him. choked and screamed and doubled up the month of June, it was the middle of 'Twas found this moraine: in the yard, and straightened out until Mr. Thumbledirk, The baby opened its blue eyes wider Upon the grasslast night it rained. And he gathers therorayersas he stands, "3 the St. Helena wititer. The room dignified And they change into flowers in his hands, steeling his nerves to the awful effort, than any man who never owned a baby by the tittle ot the Old Rock Just now I slipped and nearly fell1Jf',. Into garlands of purple and red clasped the screaming baby in bis would have believed it possible, and stared A marble rolted a rod or more, Theatre is reached by a very shaky flight And beneath the great arch of the portal, i arms and rose to his feet. at Mr. Thumbledirk with an expression And then I crushed an apple core of steps, dimly lighted by an ancient lac Through the streets of the City Immortal, Can you tell? of alarm, and a general lack of confidence He was going to go out and throw Is wasted the fragrance they shed mother9 tern, The stage, a very diminutive one, Whose was it, that boded a distressing want of himself and the baby uader the first train is at one end. of the room, and raised iFace downward on the slab, a book i It is but a legend I know, harmony in all furthei proceedings. Mr. that came along. Lies open leaves dog-eared and thumbed, about a foot from the floor. The band, A fable, a phantom, a show, Aud near, a handkerchief, be-gummed Thumbledirk viewing these signs of The baoy's mother sprang out through by a wise arrangement, plays in the yard. Of the ancient Rabbincal lore Ahd stiff with taffyonly look!* carelessness with inward alarm, concieved the door like an angel of mercy. Yet the old mediaeval tradition, We found the room well filled, and learnt Iu* The beautiful strange superstition, the happy idea that the baby needed She took *he baby in her arms and with that the comedy was to be played by (Upon the door-knob hangs hat But haunts me and holds me the moe a change of position. So he stood it upon one slight motion of her hand, had its Tig passing strang it hangs at all ladies and gentlemen from the principal And in the corner is a ball, its feet. raiment straightened out so exquisitely families in St. Helena, with reinforcements When I look from my window at night, And on the sofa rests a bat smooth there wasn't a wrinkle in it. It is unnecesary to teil any mther ot a from the garrison stationed there And the welkin above is all white, 1 missed the hammer, yesterday family that by the execution of this apparently The baby lay in her arms as placid, All throbbing and panting with stars, Of the performance, suffice it say that it The hatchetvanished long ago Among them majestic is standing, very simple movement, the unhappy quiet, flexible,"gracefml and contented as equally surprised and pleased us, though All winter undernerth the snow, Sandalphon, the angel, expanding man had every thread of that a dream of Paradise. had the ghost of Sheridan been present, Behind the house the shovel lay. His pinions nebulous bars. baby's clother under its arms and around it must have been gretly puzzled when The mother thanked Mr. Thumbledirk Are these bewitched? Do genii hide ,,1, its neck in an instant. A general out And the legend, I feel, is apart two of his characters sat down to examine for the agony and torture he had endured Within my closets and my drawers, Of the hunger and thirst of the heart, 11 an album of photographs. so patiently for her. This was the way suppressed giggle went around the room. And skulk behind the chamber doors. The frenzy and fire of the Drain, Mr. Thumbledirk blushed, redder and And through the darkned attics glide? she thanked him. She did not look at The following day we devoted to the That grasps of the foliage forbidden, hotter then ever, and the astonished baby, him. She looked straight out of the I often go from room to room, The golden pomegranates of Eden, object of our stay upon the island-a visit to down','!' i,. after one horrified look at its strange And sweep the floating cobwebs window with a stony glare, and said in To quiet its fever and pain. Longwood. To the stranger, anxious to And wonder when the spiders brown guardian, whimpered uneasily. ones that made the thermometer shiver: visit Longwood from Jamestown, there are Departed with then*dainty loom: Mr. Thumbledirk, not daring to risk "Mr. Thumbledirk isn't a very good three courses open. He may drive, or Butthenwho knows?those films so fine. the sound of his voice, would have danced nurse, is he, baby?" HALF AS HOUR OF AGOJfY, rather, he may sit in a basket pony-carriage, "it May once have lain upon my shelf the baby up and down, but its little All the women smiled, except the 4* with a man walking at the pony's .1 Beneath the little bowl of delf legs bent themselves into such appalling gloomy woman who talked bass. She MR. THUMBLEDERKS TERRIBLE PREDICA- head*, or he may ride, in which case he 'Twas there I used to keep my twine." crescents the first tirr he let the cherub's nodded approvingly. MENT. will be accompanied by a small boy, who The tiny tacks I lost last spring weight upon them, that the wretched Yesterday afternoon Mr. Jasper Thumbledirk, The baby looked up into Mr. Thumbledirk's fearlessly holds on to the animal's tail iniv A paper full, with polished heads man knew in his heart of hearts that he lace and laughed aloud. who is forty three years old and As black as jet and round as beads, or, thirdly, if he is energetic enough, he (v had forever and eternally most hopelessly But deader than a mummied king If What Mr. Thumbledirk said when he may walk. The distance is probably not unmarried, dashed into our sanctum and bowed" them, and felt that he could dashed in at the sanctum last evening What do you think they did to-dav. more than three or four miles, but the evolved a remark, the intensity of which never again look a bow-legged man in My sugar-bucket sides they stormed, was this road is a continual ascent, and the walk fairly maue our blood curdle. And when And in Jhe sugar fairly swarmed, if the face without a spasm of remorse. "By the avenging daughters of Night, is fatiguing to any but the robust. The he completed the remark, which was Who turned tacks into ants, tell me, pipy? As for meeting the father of this beautiful the everlasting, snake-haired Erynnes, horses of the island are a rather sorry neither very long nor remarkably com- The elves,are in thehouse, tis clear boy. whose life he had blighted the terror-haunted shades never knew crew, and some have a vicious habit of I'd like to catch that one who took plicated,!^ picked up a dictionary,hurled with a pair ol crooked legsnever, he the horrors that haunt the soul of a single pounding the rider's legs against the wall The clothes brush down from off the hook! it at the proof reader with great asperity, would face death itself first. And in man that tries to take care of some other of rock that skirts the road. So we decided And left it on the etagere. ,?j jy4 and before that good natured and great coming years whenever he met this boy fool's howling, squalling squirming for the pony-carriage, and, in a r' Who was it, little Johny Bell? waddling to school on a pair of legs like baby!" ly abuspd angel of the editorial staff leisurely way, starred on our journey. i Why do you stand so shamefaced there, ice-tongs, he would gaze upon them as could recover from his emotion and get When the winding road has brought you And blush from chin to forehead fair? his own guilty work, and would tremble I think you kuow the culprit well. about half way to the summit of the cliff, his umbrella Mr. Thumbledirk was gone. Saint Helena in 1877, lest the wrath of the avenging gods you see, on the right, "The Briars," He dashed out of the door, missed the estern Hurricanes. should fall upon him. a substantial-looking house, with a pavilion stairway and stepped down the elevator, BY AN ENGLISH TRAVELER. Alarmed at the gloomy shadows which adjoining it, which was placed at Napoleon's falling a distance of three stories, but The frequency with which reports these distressing thoughts cast over Mr. "See the land there, sirabout a point service bv its owner whilst the he was too mad and excited to get hurt, come of disastrous hurricanes in the Thumbledirk's face the baby drew itself on the port bow' That's St. Helena, sir, furnishing of the house at Longwood was and we heard him lusoing down the alley, West, like that which proved so de-J' up into a knot and wailed. Mr. Thumbledirk that is." Of course I didn't see the land, being completed. Leaving on the left yelling and swearing till he'was out 0.,i structive in the town of Richmond balanced it carefully on his but experience had taught me that I might the footpath leading to Napoleon's grave, of sight and hearing. As he is usually suggests the propriety of choosing nearer hands and dandled it, for all the world have confidence in the marvelous power you reaoh a little colony of houses, home the scenes to be depicted, in the as he would hett"' a watermelon. Instantly a very severe maD, of habitual reserve, of a sailor to make out the dark streak on amongst them "Rose and Crown hotel," geographies, in which the effepfs'of fierce', the baby straightened itself out the horizon, and I went down to break a piimitive little establishment at which very particular and guarded in his Ian gales are shown. These pictures are with such alarming celentv that the tortured fast in a confident hope of seeing the island prudence suggests your ordering some guage. we were amazed not only at his commonly of West Indian landscapes, dry nurse cought it by the heels on my return to the deck. Nor was lunch, which may await you on your return. words but for his excited manner afforded but there is reason to believe tha^ de-. just in time to save it from falling to the I disappointed, for on coming up aoon not the slightest explanation. structive hurricanes are as common in? floor. after nine o'clock, the island was plainly This accomplished, anether mile pf During the day, however, we became sible as a line of cloud upon the jspme parts of our own country as in the Hell kill that child yet," said the level road brings yoH to the gate" Of possessed of ceitam tacts which may give p'order lands of the tropics. Th? West,from, water. Four hours of steady sailing gloomy woman who talked bass, and Longwood. However thorough a Briton' the reaaer some clew to ttie causes of this central Indiana to the great Rocky with the reliablejsoutheast trades brought Mr. Thumbledirk felt the blood curdle you may be, I think the feeling on seeing worthy and respectable citizen's violent ^fountain chain, is. in effect One vast the good ship along side of the precipitous in cold waves in his veins. By this time the desolate little one-storied house wind-swept plain, broken here and there'^ and disrespectful manner and language rockjising so strangely in mid-ocean, the baby was screaming like a calliope, must be, What a terrible place for a to the eye, but_in the main neaily as leVei*' which has so absorbing an interest in tLe and the noise added inexpressibly to Mr. It appears that about two o'clock in the man who had lived the active, restless wind sweeps over it as the sea. The .history of the world Thumbledirk's confusson and distress. afternoon, Mr. Thumbledirk diopped in liie of the fallen Emperor!" High up without let or hindrance, acquiring^ He would have trotted the biby on his at the Union depot to ask some questions on a barren cliff, bleak and unsheltered The only landing-pla- at St. Helena is tremendous force and velocity, and when,* knee, but the attempt occasioned too relative to the arrival and departure ot with watch-house and signal-stations on Jamestown, the capital and only town of sudden changes ot temperature and of* much comment. The fat woman with trains, and while passing through the ladies' every point of vantage, with a regiment the island, nestled down in a ravine, with barometric pressure occur in any part of/ the market basket said: waiting room, he was accosted by a encamped upon the adjacent plain a cordon aheer cliffs running on either side. Off the vast area of the plain, the rush of*^ 'Oh-h, the little dear!" ladv acquaintance who was going east on of sentries round the house, he may Jamestown, therefore, we dropped anchor, wind is irresistible. The writer of this/., And the short, pretty woman snapped the'T. & W. at half-past two. She well have felt that he was needlessly reminded and at once the health-officer was alongside paragraph has seen the sudden bursting her eyes and said. wished to go up town to make some little that he was a prisoner, and have and satisfied himself as to the propriety of these western storms on more than oneM "Oh-h-h! how cruel!" purchases, but didn't want to take her instituted imaginary comparisons between of our lauding. On his leaving, occasion, and certainly only personal ac-tf And the woman in the black bombazine, baby out in the rain. Would Mr. his condition there and the way we were surrounded by boats innumerable, quaintance with them can give One an and the woman in the sun bonnet Thumbledirk please hold it for her until he would have been treated had he surruedered ^J^ some of them anxious to take passengers ls adequate notion of their character. said: she came back* She wouldn't be gone himself to the Emperor Alexander ashore, others bringing women A cloud shows itself sharply ouflined' 'Oh-h-h! just look at him!" more than rive minutes, and little Ernest of Russia, or the Emperor Francis, with necklaces and ornaments of native agaiiist the sky, just above the horizon was just as gool as an angel, and besides, And the woman *who talked bass said, IL of Austria. 'ade work to sell. A great number of washerwomen usually when there are no other clouds ti/f he was sound asleep in her most sepulchral and penetrating Old Longwood and Napoleon's grave came too, with letters of recommendation be seen. As it rises a strong siei-^ accents: Mr. Thumbledirk, with a stiange flutter were bought by the French in 1858, the, from former customers. I green tint mingles with its blackness. A "The man's a fool." of his feelings, lied, and said he would house having then been allowed oj have known instances where these letters lew minutes suffice for its passage f|pm And the baby itself, utterly ignoring only be too delighted. Then he took fall into a very dilapidated state,. The would not have been so,readily presented horizon to horizon, amid the profoup^Ur /t the fact that Mr. Thumbledirk was laboring the baby, and the ticket agent, who has buildings were repaired, and each room had the laundress been able to read English. stillness of the atmosphere. Then oo,nie in its own interests, threw all the two, knew by the manner in which the was repapered with paper of the pattern One such letter ran"Never had little whirling gusts, striking suddenly) obstructions it could in the way of further man took the baby and looked anxiously used when Napoleon was in residence my things so badly washed in my life." and suddenly ceasing thekH proceedings by alternately straightening from one end of it to the other to see there. The French government, with Another"The woman only expects you fitful disturbance. Then in: the itself out into an abnormal condition which end the head was on, that he had characteristic good taste, forbid the attendants to pay half what she aaks." midst of the stillness the storm I strikesf-S of such appalling rigidity, that Mr Thumbledirk never handled a human baby before in all to receive any gratuity from visitors Taking one of the many boats that straight out from the shoulder. Its onset was obliged to hold its head tightly his life and promptly closed his window to the house or the grave, the ,orie were fighting for precedence at the foot resembles nothing so much as the sudden^ in one hand and its hee's in the other, to shut out the trouble that he knew was condition being that you shall inscribe of the gangway a few vigorous strokes resistless blow of a pugilist de^i^erpd* and then suddenly doubling itself up into on the eve of an eruption. your name in the visitors' book. Perhaps from the swarthy oarsmen brought us to without warning. It hits the earth, and^ so small a-knot that the poor man had to Mr. Thumbledirk is a very tall, dignified at some far-distant date, a Frenchman fences?f the stone steps of the landing place and we Weuing1ton the earth trembles. Houses, trees, hold his two hands close together, like a man. He was rather annoyed as the will be able to visit the tcmbs of were in St. Helena. Our first greeting was ^go down before itnot blown over, "but bowl, and hold the baby as he would a mother disappeared through the door to and Nelson our metropolitan Cathedral from a small boy, vigouously ringing a knocked down. They do not sway and pint of sand, and these transitions from observe that all the women in the waitingroom without being- pestered for sixpence bell, and now came forward and gave the totter, but' fall prostrate at once.tq be jf one extreme to the other,were made with were intently regarding him with at every turn. bell into our hands. Examining it, we whirled forward like leaves. Theyjiaye^ such startling rapidity and appalling suddenness, various expressions, curiosity predominating The first rooms you entej (they are all found pasted upon it an announcement been hit suddenly as by a solid bolt, noto that Mr. Thumbledirk had to beconstantly He sat down and bent his arms at miserably small and low) is the drawingroom, that, ~by special request, "The School for blown upon by an increasing wind. on the alert, and his arms the elbows until they resembled in shape in which are placed the French and Scandal" would 'be performed that evening They have been crushed by a hurricane, ached so, and he exhibited such signs of two letters V's, with baby lying neck and British flags. From it you pass into the at the Old Rock Theatre. Here in: not toppled over by a gale. There'% as fatigue and distress that the depot policeman heels in the angle at the elbows, and ho room in which Napoleon died. Where deed was a surprise. Upon this island, greatsdarkness, too, overall the landscape'* looked in to say to him that if he looked, and he felt that he looked, ntve its5^ the head of the bed stood is now a fine the whole population' 01 which would whateverthe time of day may be/ and was tired out, he would send in a section the hideous pictures of Moloch in the old to the terror of the tie-^ marble bust of the Emperor, surrounded hardly fill the theatre in Drury Lane or adds5 blackness hand or the steam shovel to give him a Sunday-school book. by a wooden railing with these excep. in Covent Garden, was a theatre, and in struction which it conceals. One -sees 'Jl- spell. Thumbledirk felt keenly that he was an the shrieking of the gale. \Es rions, the rooms are destitute of any furniture that theatre w^s* to be acted no less distinguished but1 nothing It seemed to Mi\ Thumbleduk that he object of cuiiosity and illy repressed You pass from the dining-lEOoai, in a comedy than the master is alone with the giant forces of nature/ never heard so much noise come from so nurth-to the women aiound him. Now which Napoleon dined, to his bedroom piece of Sheridan. We naturally thought and is utterly} at their mercy. small a baby in his life. The more he a dignified man does not enjoy being a bath-room, library, and billiard-room with some fear and trembling of what the turned it around and tossed it about the The humcarie lasts only a few minutes laughing stock for any body, "and it is result might be in the hand's' of the S i US more its cloak and dress, and skirts and ending as^sudtlenly as it began, but when Useful and Suggestive. especially humiliating for him to feel that Helena stock'company, btit nevertheless things became entangled around its neck, 'thecsun appears again it is to shine upon, i 0 fu he appears ridiculous in the eyes of mentally determined to see for ourselves. The* following useful and suggestive and now and then a mass of drapery a landscape so-changed by the roaligaut \f women. This feeling is intensified when brevities are from the pen of the agricultural would get on the baby's face and stifle its forces that have been playing.',upon ituil Following the quay for about one hundred the man is a bachelor, and knows he is a editor of .theIowa State Register i i'-uv cries tor a second, but the noise would -that one may^scarcely know whether hei'i yards, we came"to the gates of the little awkward and ill at ease in the presence Never keep horses shod when working come out stronger than erer when toe 4s still living or has passed into the-land town.' The inhabitants seem hardly alive of women, anyhow. So, as he gazed on the farm.' 'tossing little hands would tpar away the of^shadows. *"*&5 ***W to the fact that their illustrious prisoner upon the face of the quiet, sleeping infant, No farmer can afford to be without a obstruction. And the louder the baby is ne longer with them, and accordingly 1. 'mmtUT a he made an insane effort to appear good garden, ^kmzJkm^..-t~*^^ screamed the faster the vigorous fat legs ,^^*tt ii*t the gates are closed every night at halfpast perfeqtly easy, and to create the impression flew kicking in every direction, like nine o'clock, and no one can leave that he was an old married man, and crazy fly-wheels with the rim off Sometimes the town after that time without an order the father of twenty-six chiUdren, he disengaged Mr. Thubledirk made as high as a from the governor. one arm, and chucked the baby as a hundred and eighty grabs a minute Passing through the gates we enter the tinder the chin. About such a chuck *y & ^^TSS-^^S*^ MM mi ii i' i Miaajtaat.-fi.nMrsfe,.