Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-08-22
WON By \ CHILD.
[ hlcacn News l

\ pair OF mud bespattered and tired
horses struggled along near Douglas
school Yesterday. The driver, burly
lriNhn an, occasionally SWING black
snake whip in the air and br 'ught it
down on the steaming fanks of the
horses The wagon was heaped with q
load of hard coal; the street was rough
and muddy. Just opposite the school
house the Ii an swung into mud-hole.
The wheels sank in the yielding earth
and the black snake Missed through the
air, the horses plunged wildly, and
the ro,e pounded each horse alter
natelv, but never an iuch did the
wagon move. The driver sawed the
lines until the blood trickled from the
mouths of the horses. Still the wheels
remained buried in the mud. The
driver climbed down from his perch.
He inspected the wheel, with critical
eye. Evidently satisfied that the fault
lay with the team, he resumed the argu-
ment of the black snake. A we'll
dressed man stopped on the sidewalk.
You ought to be arrested for abus-
ing those horses" he at last remarked.
What dyer soy" irreverently re-
sponded the teamster. DO yer think
Ohm doin' til; S fer fun?"
Fe then industriously went to work
with the whip again.
I'm member of the Humane So
cietv, and if you don't stop beating
those horses l II have you arrested"
90 yer are, are yeZ? Oi'll give yez
a taste o whip Ii esilf in hoully mint
if We don't lave me alone"
Crack! crack! went the whip again.
A peal of childish laughter came out of
the school building, and q minute later
throng of the younger pupils ap-
peared, bound for home. The little
ones paused at the sight of the strug-
Cling hors, and the swinging whip
paused just moment. Then out sprang
bright-eyed Little girl right into the
mud in the street.
Amt you 'shamed, you big, bad
man." she cried, while the wind tossed
the light ,'rown locks about her flush
ing face, and the little hands were
clenched. You must stop"
The teamster paused in amazement.
The big whip trailed in the mud.
Wall, wall, WALL" he gasped; who
be ye, little I'M? Wan NV the Human
s'l'ity?" He tried to laugh. "Yes,
am," answered the little girl, proudly
there's my star To the tonished
truckman she disclosed a gilt star with
the words Band of Mercy" emblazone |
on its surface. Now please don't hit
them any more" said the little beauty,
casting a pleading glance in imitatio IL
of the arts of more mature womanhood.
1t was all done in a moment. The man
on the street had not even started for a
policeman.
"Oi don't know what Oh kin do. "
desperately answered the burly team
ster, suddenly becoming very passive.
He sat down on the curbstone. Just
then an empty coal-wagon came rattling
down the street. Say, will.ye give me
pull?" yelled the teamster, springing
to his feet.
"Of coorse," said the other driver.
He unhitched his team and hooked on
to the pole Of the mud-clogged coal
wagon. The team had restel. The
teams pulled together, and. amid the
juvenile applause, the heavily laden
wagon was landed high and dry on the
pavement of the eros ,-street
shes amost loike little Peggy watts
gone" said the driver to himself. as he
glanced back from his seat at the re-
treating form of the victorious little
member of the Band of Mercy. Two
little white streams coursed through
the coal-dust on his cheeks.
The Art or Ancient Wood Carving.
detroit Free Press
The art of wood working is the old.
est of the means whereby man gratified
his vanity or his eye, and the one which,
even among savages, still maintains its
former excellence. The New Zealand.
ers club and the ancient Aztec's gods,
the Hydah Indians pipes and the
paddles of the Polynesian canoe man
are marvels of carving, executed with
the rudest tools, or with bits of obsid.
ian or sharpened shell, which the civil
lied workman would scarcely recognize
as worthy of the name. The few travel
ers who have penetrated the mysterious
katiir country Of central Asia describe
entire villages, composed of wooden
houses, elaborateiy carved on post and
pillar.
Until the fear of fire led to the use OF
iron and stone as building materials,
and the disuse of wood reacted prejudi.
cially ON wood carving, such towns
were common in Europe, and remnants
OF them may still be seen in Blois,
Chester and Coventry. Beams, brackets,
doorheads and gab.e ends were effect.
lively hewn with grotesque images oi
demons, heraldic devices, and those
sanity faces which still look down on
us with q glance SO benign. After the
Renaissance the great masters pract:ced
carving in wood with such success thet
the chefs d'uuvre of Wohlgemuth OF
Nuremburg, Albert Durer, Ludwig
krug and Peter Flotner, whether in
wood, or. as some of Proper. la de
Rossi's are, in peach stones, can only
be redeemed for ransom which
courtesy likens to that OF kings.