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Lucknow Sentinel, 1890-09-05, Page 3• I ' When the autumn windy were sighing, when the golden leaves were dying, -In the ambulance came Timq And we nurses gatber'd round him, ail the gruff house -surgeon bound him, Gently bound each ehatter'd limb : Such a handsome little fellow; like a halo hung the yellow Curls around his shapely head, And we look'd at one another when he cried out nit for hie mother, lEilf001As we tuck'd him in his bed. Ahisad cause was there for weeping—in the Peacefully, whose frenzied love Flung her darling frgm the casement to the fire- men nigh the basement, Ere she breath'd the flames above One more victim where the bottle rears aloft its hideous throttle, Spewing forth its hellish fire ; One more worn, long-suffering woman, victim of the vile. inhuman Fury of a drunken sire. Could we ever hope to save him ? or did Death already crave him ? Said we at our midnight meal ; Would the light of boyish gladness fade beneath the pallor'd sadness Of the grim destroyer's seal ? SInce thagood God would befriend him, of His mercy He would tend him, l' et e': ) ,.:: '.. •: n_taV2 unravel, And, Who doeth all things well. Life and Death march side by side—tears and laughter are allied In those wards where -Love, divine. upraised the blessed altar, where the blind, he bruis'd, the halt are Soilzied at Compassion's shrine. And we laugh'd at his odd fannies, smil'ed on little Tim's proud glances At his bed -card, on which he Had dictated„" Timsey Pidgin, age eleven ; fur religin Put me down a Dlethody." Aye I and could the gentle Wesley to our ward have gain'd access, he Would have lov'd Tim's patient smile. (Potentswitness that the lowly are not shunn'd of the Most Holy, Nor the back slums wholly vile,) For; beside the psalmist's verses, harmless fell a father's curses (Born of many a drunken scene). By a mother's prayer from harm he had enlisted in the army Of the humble Nazarene. Yet our petting never spoil'd him—God, in suf- fering, had assoil'd him Of_all- frowardness -of-heart , Nought but kind words could one utter to this offspring of the gutter, Who had sought the better part. J'en that tough, nicknam'd " The Parson " (in a language kin to arson), Fealty sworn to little Tim ; And " &drly " (curs'd of corns and bunions) said (in accents tang'd with onions); " Pity thar warn't more like him." cug_haloi,thase-saereq_..p.Rgea, and that-ded hymn " Rock of Ages (Balm to earth's sad, weary ones). Passing sweet his childish singing, after many days. came ringing Down ourward those treble tones. Brave young heart, and good as fearless—his the only eyelid tearless When we learned all hope was vain— Nay ! a beauteous smile came o'er him, as of one who sees before him Visions of lost loves again. Autumn fading into winter saw his strength grow daily fainter, Yet be smil'd with childish glee When our Santa Claus had sought him, and with many kind smiles brought him Presents from our Christmas tree ; But his glaz'd eyes' solemn warning told us, ere the coming dawning • Yon dimm'd glance would know us not ; And from all`the ward arose a wail of woe when we drew closer - The death -screen round his cot. In the ehadow'd hours dispelling,,while the bel- fry's natal swelling Usher'd in the Christmas morn, One more earthly fetter riven—one more with the saints in heaven— One more white -robed singer born ; But so peacefully he left us, such the last sigh that bereft us Watchers, lingering at his side, That we only wept, and wonder'd When the soul and body sunder'd, For we knew not when he died. Far removed from earthly sorrow, in that land whose stainless morrow. Knoweth not the parting tear, Where, in peace, the shivering mortal stands illumin'd at the portal, And the shadows disappear Yes I and while dear memory lingers, till we join the angel singers, Till ao gaze once more on him, We shall bless the woe that taught us, and the midnight hour whioh brought us Bruis'd and batter'd little!' Tim," HERnWARD K. COCHIN. LITERARY COPYRIGHT. Its "Term of Existence by Law in Various Countries. Under the existing law of the United States, copyright is granted, for twenty- eight years, in all, forty-two years. 'The term of copyright in other oountriee is as follows : Mexico, Guatemala and Venezuela, in perpetuity. Columbia, author's life and eight years after. Spa• author's lite and eighty years aft • B' ginne, author's life and fifty years after. Eonadar, author's life and fifty years after. . Norway, author's life and fifty years after. - Peru, author's life and fifty years after. Ramie, author's life and fifty years after. Tania, author's life and fifty years after. Italy,' author's life and forty years after ; the full term to be eighty years in Any event. France, author's life and thirty years after. Germany,anthot's life and thirty years after. Austria, author's life and thirty years aft . aitr itzerland,author'e lite and thirty years Hayti, author's life, widow's life, chil- dren's lives, and twenty years after the close of the latest period. Brazil, author's lite and ten years after. Sweden, author's lite and ten years after. Roumania, author's life and ten years after. Great Britain, author's life and seven yearn after hie decease; to be forty-two years in any event.' Bolivia, full term author's lite. Denmark and Holland, fifty years. Japan, author's life and five years after. South Africa ; anthor's life ; 'fifty years in any event. The German Empress Frederiok is writing the life of her late husband, and it is announood that the present Emperor is giving her all the help, in his power. —What has beoom,e of the old-fashioned ieople who had family prayer in the even - .ng and before breah,fwet.... COLONIAL LOYALTY. In the August Nineteenth Century titer is a dialogue between an Englieh Globe trotter and a New Zealand Colonist, which ought to be, widely read, not only in the. Mother Country, but in all the oolonies. The Englishman has been running from point to point, as fast as the ateamboate and the railway oars oould carry him, and after mentioning that he had been struck by the absence of laborers' cottages near the 1 0 000•sore wheat fields which he 8 "? Tairac,1 'i3I� tint' j� a ed t'iiol dt5`iiitif �cr r' f inevitable question, " What do you thin of New Zealand 2" He had noticed a great meur rat& -out cf employment, said bad observed with great pleasure the loyalty manifested toward the old country, and the earnest wish for a closer oonneotion, but he admitted that he had not talked with any of the working olase An that subject. When asked by the Colonist what he meant by loyalty, the fallowing conversation ensued : Globetrotter. Well, I should say that loyalty implies attachment to the mother country, and a firm determination to up - are so over head and Bare in debt e O. Been acu tetigisti I The reason is this. Those who game (here in the early Jaya obtained land which, by increase of population andthe formation , of roads, bridges and railways•, has inoreased enormouely in value. These people are safe, and have become the great land- owners, who apend their income in London, or Paris, or Melbourne. The people who came later found all -the best land already 0 in private ownership; p, they t o nt u tee.;zne��� ����,i�hne•Miiiy-en,�-Pay= more distant from a market or port. They embarked in the buaineea with insufficient capital, and, dazzled by the eig plea of their predecessors, gave in many oases ex- orbitant prices even for Crown lands ; were obliged to mortgage, and to obtain advances on wool-olips, crops, oto., to carry on with. As they were charged 10 to 12 per cent. for all these advances, it will be easy to under- stand how it happens that so many of them have never been able to free themselves from the yoke. G. But, pardon me, are we not wander- ing from the point in question ? What can this hannec do witinebe lnsrxlkr 1 . . I; • ... • • O. . • • . . • ... . , aa r iii o:. h" ry, Colonist. At all hazards—in time of war, for example ? G. Yes—yea ; otherwise your loyalty would be a mere sentimental feeling, of no practical value to ne. C. And you think that the mother conn. try could depend on the aid and eupport of the Colonies in time of war 2 G. Yes, as far as their Means permit. They would, for example, be open to receive any prizes our fleet might make; they would give ehelter, coals and provisions to the navy; they would serve as hospital depots for the sick or wounded. We should hardly expect any contingent, as in the Soudan affair, but you might afford a re- cruiting ground. • C. Yes, that is exactly what an old colonial, to whom I was talking on this very subject the other day, said the oolonies would do. But in return for this you would, of course, protect our coasts and ports 2 G. That would have to be done, in great measure, by yourselves. You see,' oar fleets would -have all their work out out for them in protecting the . omits of the United Kingdom and the mercantile marine from the enemy's armed cruisers. C. Then you mean to imply that you_ could not supply a sufficient naval force to protect us from the enemy's fleet 2 . G. I dtnnn't--•th-irrk-wee-ocaders--It-esvow require a very large force to do that. You would have your Australian squadron, of course. a. Unless it were very urgently required nearer home 2 ' G. Precisely so. C. Then, my dear sir, on the prinoiple of do ut•des, why should we incur the risk of having our port towns laid under contribu- tions, and our territory invaded; jaat for the sake of supplying the Britieh fleet with coals and provisions ? Tho profit on those transaotione would not pay for the risk.. G. But you're looking at the matter from a purely commercial point of view. C. Precisely so ; in what 'other way should we look at it 2 G. Surely, you would have some patriotio feeling towards the mother country ; you would be prepared to make some sacrifice for her sake C. Has she ever made any sacrifices for our sakes 2 Has she ever done anything to foster or oherish any other feelings than those of meie self-interest 2 She has lent ue money, or rather her capitalists have lent us money, because they thought it a secure andprofitable investment. But a man's creditors are not exactly the persons for whom he entertains feelings of the fondest affection. He is not generally pre- pared to risk his life and property for their sakes. G. Bat what could you do in caseof war ? You are British poasessione after all, and the Queen has certain rights in case of war. C. We should declare our independence at once, and with that issue a declaration of neutrality. Neither party would Dere to attack ns, for our naval foroe,amall though it would be, would euffioe.to enable ns to obtain respect as independent republics. The Australian navy would be at least as large as that of a South American Repub- lic. And the smallest of them has con- trived to maintain her -independence as against European powers. G. Yon certainly put matters in a new light. Bat howdo you account for the ex- pressions of loyalty in 3 our leading papers, and amongst the old colonials in England 2 z• C. My dear sir, many of ' our leading papers' are the property of rich men who belong . to what is colonially termed the ' Upper Ten,' or else are mortgaged. to the banks, and obliged to write whatever the commercial aristocracy dictate. Few daily newspapers in any large town of the oolony are wholly free from similar influences, or adequately represent public opinion. Look, for example, at our banks and mortgage companies. Their prosperity and large dividends necessarily mean a high rate of interest drawn from those oultiva'tore of the soil who have borrowed their money, and this in turn entails innumerable . bank- ruptcies and tracts of country whioh were once inhabited left bare and desolate. Yet no single paper in the colony ventures to point out the inevitable results of there prooeedings. • Banks here mean establish- ments that lend money on growing crops, on clips of wool still on the sheep's beoke, on farming implements, on Cattle, on the animals employed about a farm, on house- hold furniture, on stooks in trade and trade fixtures ; to say nothing of mortgagee of houses, land and farm buildings, which fall within the more or- dinary scope of business. A farmer and freeholder' of a thousand sores o! agrioul- tural land has often only the clothes he stands up in that he can truly call his own ; everything else is under lien, mort- gage, or bill of eale, G. You sstonial]. me. This, then, may account tot the dreary sordid look of•the dwellings of so many farters, who in similar holdings at bode) would mix with - the upper middle class. C. Breoieoly. The same canoes that pro - dined the hideous misery of the Irieh shanty ander the old aystem operate here. A 'well-fenoed, neatly cultivated garden, bright with flowers and ilhrnbs, would mean labor diverted from the one absorbing em- ployment of meeting the charges on bor- rowed oapited. G. Bet how comes it that these people C. Well, a good deal. if yon have a whole olelas, of men oppressed by sordid cares and anxieties,trying to keep up a false position, trembling at every slight fall in prices, with no reserve or capital to fall bank on, you will find that they have no room in their minds for sentiments of the higher kind. Their object is breed -and - cheese for themselves and their families, andyou may depend upon it not one farth- ing will they risk for the sake of the old country. They next disous ed Imperial Federation, the Colonist suggesting that the scheme might be rec3ived with more favor if it included free trade between the colonies, with differential duties on foreign prodaota. "That," said the Globetrotter, " would mean a total change in the oommerai-al legislation of the -United Kingdom." Colonist. It would mean more than that. It would mean that your absurd panics about Russia and her designs on India must cease and determine. Let the Rus- sians have Afghanistan if they like, and let their frontier and our Indian one be con- terminous. Better to have a civilized power than A savage one for next-door neighbor. At any rate, of this you may rest assured, that on no possible plea will these oolonies allow themselves to be. drraggeedd into war for he a. ke o India. We don't ogre one solitary straw about India. G. If you fairly represent the ideas pre- vailing in the colonies, I don't see any ad- vantage in keeping a nominal suzerainty over them. C. You are quite right. Looking at the question from the English point of view, I should say most decidedly, put the ques- tion to the colonies fairly and squarely. Ask themwhether they will contribute an adequate amount to the Imperial army and navy. Let it be understood that a certain number of the . Imperial land forces shall be always kept in the oolonies, and a cer- twin proportion of the navy, ot course have residences for the officers command.; ing the army and navy forces respectively ; and let ns feel that we really are part of the British Empire. Let an Imperial Par- liament be assembled to meet f :r three years in London, and then every fourth year in some colonial city. If the sovereign did not choose to follow the Parliament for a few months, the viceroy would answer every purpose. But it yon want to keep me from Republicanism you must let ns see something of royalty. G. You have had visits from the Duke of Edinburgh and the sone of the Prince of Wales. C. A new generation has arisen einoe then. We ought to have some of the royal family residing amongst us. At present most colonials are Republican. The fact ie that when Great _ Britain withdrew the troops from these colonies she ought to have out the painter altogether. She would not have more effectually destroyed any lingering sentiments of loyalty amongst the mass of the people. No country ever anted in such a way to her colonies before in the whole history of the world. G. It was thought at the time a proof of the confidence Britain felt in the loyalty of the colonies. C. It was' a slap in the face, and was intended, as is now well known, to produce a separation. Bnt the oolonies were hardly strong enough at the time to go alone. Still, when the last British regiment embarked, the oolonies became virtually independent. The Colonist told the -Globe-trotter that the paltry questions whioh now turn out British ministers must be handed over to County Councils or Local Parliaments, and Britain must cease to regard the col- onies as poor relations, if there was to be any hope of imperial federation. ' The fol- lowing is the concluding part of the conver- sation : G. Bat what do yon think 'will be the result of the movement towards Ane- tralian Federation ? Will that not pave the way towards Imperial Federation ? C. I very much doubt it. Australian Federation is absolutely necessary for de- fence against Ohina and European powers, but it is looked on here as a first step, not to Imperial Federation, but to independ- ence. New Zealand hes sefnsed to join in the federation, partly because New Zealand thinks that she is a, favorite oolony in Britain, and that Britain would oertainly try and defend her even if she left Austra- lia to shift for herself, and partly because she dose not wish to be mixed up in any way with colonies tainted by a convict origin. G. Bat if Australia were to deolare her independence and New Zealand . were to remain a British Colony, she would be in an awkward.position, would she not • C. She would be jet in the same poli• tion as Newfoundland or Prinoe Edward Island was when the United States deolared their independence. New Zealand has nothing to fear from Australia. Besides, if Anstraliabeoame independent, Canada would follow auit, and the probability is that a great federation of English-speak- ing republioe would be 'formed, ,including the United States. In that naso Now Zealand would join as a separate state, as Texas did. G. And you think that snob an annexa- tion would be popular with the majority of the Colonists ? . C. My dear Sir, if the question of an- nexation as a state to the United Staten of North Amerioa were put to the [veto to. morrow, there vdould not be a thoneand votee against it. G. You, at. least, would vote in its favor [with some bitterness] C. Pardon me, but there; you make a mistake. I have worn the Queen'e tad - form. I am an Englishman by birth end descent, and an Englishman I mean to die. But my ohildren—eh 1 that is a different matter. With the exception of the eldest, they will all probably be in favor of Anetrala i a n A a. y p . • THREE FINE STEAMERS. Vessels Building for the C. P. R's. Cahada Japan Trade. • The three new ateemere for the O. P. R. —the Empress of India, Empress of Ohina and Empress of Japan—are approaching completion at the yards of the Naval Con- struotion and Armament ' Company, Barrow -in -Farness. The Empress of In. dia will be launched on Aug. 30th. The other two vessels are to follow at intervals of two months. No expense has been nn*moi vna ao er.' e yeeae a are twinsorew steam- ers of 10,000 horsepower, gross tonnage of 5,700, and are contracted to do 18 knots on the measured mile, and 1,6i. knots on a 400 mile sea trial. The dimensions are: Length, between perpendiculars, 485 ; breadth, moulded, 51 feet, and depth, moulded, 36 feet. Eaoh vessel will be lightly rigged with pole masts and fore and aft canvas, and the form, both: under and above water, is of such symmetry and finish as to ensure propulsion at the high speed required. The greatest possible attention has been paid to preoantions for the safety of the vessels. The accommodation for passengers is extensive and luxurious. Each vessel will carry 120 first . olaes, 50 second and 300 steerage, as well as nearly 4,000 tone of oargo. On the upper deck an extre4 pro- menade is provided for the ase of passen- gers, while a good many epeeist staterooms are also to be found on this deok. On the lower deck, whioh is 220 feet long, there is covered promenade of 100 feet, Where shelter and fresh air may be sought in wet weather; while the dining saloon, library and other parts of the saloon accommoda- tion are richly upholstered. The total cost of the three vessels will be between -£600,000and £650,000 eterling. Check Too Early Marriages.' Canada Health Jo• urnal. Only a few months ago we protested against early marriages. • It is a subject, however, whioh is not considered and dis- cussed as fully and as publicly as it should be. Early marriage means early maternity, with its great responsibilities and often troubles and trials, to the wife. This is, indeed, a very serious question, and one whioh all parents who have at heart the future well-being of daughters, ' should deeply consider. A vast amount of sick- ness and misery has resulted from too early marriages. As we have said, in more primitive times the early marriage of young won?ien or even girls was less objectionable than it is now when marriage involves greater responsibilities and duties. A re- gent number of the Lancet says : " A variety of arguments, based on science, prudence, and economy, have often been urged against the headlong folly of very early marriage. Reasoning of this kind, how- ever, has unfortunately but little influence with anoh as those who commit the folly in question, for, indeed, it ie not reason in any recognizable degree, which guides their crude oalonletions. If it were, the proba- bility of overstrain in ohildbirth, whioh is the natural counterpart of early functional activity, of domestic discord and ' beggary, and their too common social ac- companiments, would not be so freely and frequently encountered. These matters' are part of the tribute whioh will always be paid , while, for the want of native sense and sound home -training, fancy is allowed to guide one of the most important con- cerns of life. The one available cure for this prevalent evil consists in a just exercise of parental control, but this, we need hardly remind ourselves, is only too easy of evasion." The Holborn Board of Guardians have decided to notify the Re- - gistrar-General as to the wisdom of in- structing an official to make personal in- quiry, in auepeoted oases, respeoting the wishes of the parents in regard so the mat. rimonial ventures of their ohildren. " The proposalis certainly a sound one," says she Lancet,," andrepresents the minimum of justifiable interference." - What is the age to first marry 2 Complete maturity÷oompletion of growth—woman- hood and manhood. This period varies in different families, but is rarely reached in temperate climates in the female before the age of 20, often of 25 years. Kept It Sweet. Ah, Harry, before we were married you need to say ; ' Look in the tea, love ; that will make it sweet.' " Did 1.7" "-Yee ; and now you put a napkin over the top of the cream pitcher when you pees it to me." An Excuse. - " And you allowed your girl's father to kink you 2" " I did. But how can a fellow help what's done behind his bank 2" Exchanging Views.. " I wouldn't run away with any girl. I remember going boldly up to the old man and asking him for his daughter. He told me to go to hades." " And did you go ? " " Well," he answered, with hesitation, after eeriona reflection, ' I married the girl." HOW p'LIBB DIIi. *Hind of Pungns That X ken Have wIUi the Insecta. Eike many other inaeota, home flies are eubjeot to the attacks of a parasite fungus which destroys great numbers of them, eepeoially toward the end of autumn. We sometimes see the corpses of ouch as have met this fate glued to the window panes in the attituden7ot lite, with the r legs widely ♦mM rl...�¢rr .J14�1� F q }}qq - tion for flli''� gilt, but with a white halo on the glass all round them, and with bodies pale, unhealthy -looking and distended. The pores of the fungus, whioh are excessively minute and are present in the air, are oar, ried against the fly's Lody, and such as strike its under surface may become adherent, when each spore sends out a long tubular projection, which penetrates the skin and enters the body. Once here, its host's doom is certain, says ,Knowledge, for it meets with suitable nourishment in the shape of the fluids ot the fly's body, by the aid of whioh it will speedily propagate itself until its victim, Cambs. The thread-like tube firet produoee eeeesseeeneeee- a series of detaohed, rounded bodies, some- thing like the cells of the yeast plant. These Dells, whioh have an indefinite power of selt•maltiplioation, are carried by the blood to all parts of the body, and thus the disease spreads. They, in their tarn, give rise to a number of branching tubular. threads, similar to those of the earlier stage, whioh, in promise of time, penetrate the skin. Each thread whioh thus makes its appearance outeide gives riee to a sorb of head whioh contains spores like those with whioh the aeries started. These are oast off with considerable force and multitudes of them no doubt perish, while others are ultimately wafted against the bodies of other flies to deal destruction among them as among their predeoessore. The particular species of fungus whioI makes havoo with the house flies is called empuse masoae, and is one of a group whioh are distinguished by their habit of subsistinguponliving ineeotL The matur- ation of the fungus involves the death of the fly, the fluids of whose body serve as food for the parasite. Under its attack the fly becomes gradually feebler, and finally quite unable to move, and then the viscid secretionsfrom-the pads on the feet hardens and glues the insect to the, surface to which it is Clinging, while the fungus spreads around it and leas eit some of ite spores ad- -he -ring so as o form the halo above de- scribed. Proverbs of the Sea. The sea refuses no river. The ocean is made of small drops. It is a great way to thebottom of the sea. It is but a atone's•throw to the bottom:, of the sea. He that would sail without danger must, never come .on the mein sea. He sate his sail to every wind. Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. Being at sea, sail; being on land, settle. He who goes to sea must sail or Bink. It is easy to sail with wind and tide. A big ship needs deep water. A mariner must have his eyes on rooks. and sand as well as the North Star. He that will not nail till all dangers are over will never put to sea. --American Notes and Queries. -.. girl baby was recently born in James town whose mother is 21 years old, grand mother 38 years, great-grandmother 53 years old and great•great grandmother 75 years old, and but one daughter living of each generation. —A woman never really learns how to pray until she has a men to pray for. 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