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eoned, but the excitement only lent new
beauty to hie fester.. Everybody oalled
Bob Hawkins " a han'eome boy." Sake
twisted her face round and shyly with her
moist blue eyes, like melting sapphires,
glanced at Bob. Such a look of !suet and
admiration 1 It comforted the boy on the
bank seat.
" You did it ? Yon said you did not do it.
How will you explain that contradiction,
sir I' pompously asked the master.
" I didn't tell the truth, the ant time,"
" You didn't ! Why didn't you ?"
"I don't know, sir."
This wan a fact. Bob did not know why
be lied the fleet time. He was like some
other unfortunates, who in one moment of
timidity are surprised into a falsehood they
are thoroughly ashamed of.
"Yon may take the book you dropped,
go to the window near the road and hold
that book up so that all going by may see
you and see it. There is a spot un your
came you ought to get off."
Looking very foolish, Bob went to the
window, held up hie book but held down his
head.
"Now, Susie, you may go to the other
window and look out," shouted Reese.
Susie almost sprung out of ker seat in her
"%germ.' to share Bob's disgrace and, gig.
gling. went to the window to watch the sea
and the loads and the dusty roads.
Bob did not giggle. He smarted under
Una stroke of that °barge of a spot on hie
name. If the master had dropped vitriol
on Bob's skin the smart could not have been
were°.
An hour later Bob and Susie were going
home together. The schoolmaster went in
the same direction, but they allowed Reese
Baker to move on ahead.
" Don't you mind what he said," advised
Smile, looking up into Bob's face.
"Well, I was a fool to say 'no,' and if I
had thought I wouldn't have said it, for I
don't believe in lying. He came at me Bo,
like a lion, Asking hie head, that my senaen
eft me. I don't want him to think I got a
spot on my name because I intended to."
on t, Bob, eemfortingly said Susie.
riming her trusting twee of blue toward a
him. " I don't think you got a spot."
"Hoak I" he answered. They were near
desks where three generations had nestled.
" Too much noise 1" shouted the master
behind a table on the platform. " Now go
on, everybody is the beetling-elms. Tau-tol-
o-gy he yelled to s row of scholars before
him. The spelling-class opened its mouth
as wide as peeeible, and in chorus began to
shout out the syllables of tautology.
" Oh, dear r add a eoy, Bob Hawkins,
on the back mat, " I cant atudy 1" It was
a relief to look out cf the window on the
great sea pushing a current of amethyst u p
the oreek neer by, covering the yellow flees,
overlaying the strips of block mud along
the therm. "However," he said to him-
self energetically, I will, will study. So
here goes 1"
As he turned back to hia books, an elbow
that, ever since ho knew anything, had al
ways !seemed to be in the way, struck a big
school atlas. Slam I it went upon the
door.
" Who'. that!" howled the maeter. He
was a man of fierce energy, and had a big
bead of red hair, and when Reese Baker
shook him mane he was terrible. " Who's
that ?" he demanded again, In his domin-
ion it was a crime to drop a book upon the
floor. "The sound came from the back
seats. That you, Bob r
The schoolmaster was a good shot this
time. Bob's awkward, horrid elbow had
sent the atlas to the floor and he very well
knew It, but when the maker *eked that
question, popping at him like a rifleahon
Belo blushed, stammered and replied, " Nen.
no. sir 1"
The scholar. in the neighborhood of Bob
knew who did it, but when Reese Baker in.
tasted pm timmieviityffirgw;t: ntedyy
not a tongue moved. A spell of We hushed
the bank seats into silence.
" Who dropped that book ?•' shrieked the
master, his face reddening into a shade like
that of hie hair. Up sprang s chubby little
erl half down the feminine side of the school
home. "Me, tit r' the piped.
It was Susie Boardman, the bare foot,
blue-eyed child of Skipper Sam, the fisher-
moan. She was a kind of pet for Bob, living
near him and sheltered by him behind the
folds of his big cost on stormy days:
"Me, air I" she piped again, having seen
the book aa it fell from BOWS desk and de-
termined to shield her favorite. The school
begin to laugh.
" Sit down, you little booby I" commanded
the stormy pedagogue. "Yon are not big
enough to lift a book that could make ouch
a noise so that. You don't know enough to
make a cup of catnip tea."
This was a phrase current in the neigh-
borhood and the equivalent of great inca-
pacity. Stade felt this cut of the mas.re
words falling like a whiplash. She planted
her plump, bros., hands on the desk and in
diagrams bowed her head upon them.
" Who dropped that book, I want to
know ?" called out the teacher.
"I did, sir 1"
This reply was from the right Taster.
There stood Bob on his feet, hie face crim.
BY REV. EDWARD A. RAND.
" Hum—hum—hum I'
It wee the sound of life in the old yellow
school-hoese at the Corners, a bee-hive hum
intensified. Everybody was busy with
work and mischief behind the old scarred
" Tie, Indatie," said Honors Mullally,
"I did : for my fried Mrs. Down
Had a hope of sweettaters that
Her sister, baked lovely and brown,
Wid—ob, ma'am, if you could bat have seen
it 1—
The fatter and Polecat of Line.
And they giv' me the eezzend and neck of
that him,
And all of the sweetdater skins."
—Harper's Young People.
Little Honora Mullally.
Poor little Hoeora
At the does of the Thenkegivieg Day,
Wm standing in front of her alley,
A.watching acme children at play.
Her gown was s wonderful garment,
All patches from ehoulder to hem,
And hat and her shoes—well, I beg you'll
excuse
Any further remarks about them.
But poor little Honore Mullally
Had a face just as bright en could be,
And no flower s In meadow or valley
Woe ever as pretty as the.
And so thought an old woman, woo passing,
Stopped a moment to smilingly say,
" Why, bless you dear heart, I am enre
you have had
A very good dinner today."
THE SPOT ON HIS NAME.
YOUNG FOLKS.
d
S
She Confused Him.
Climbhigh (inclining to sentimentality)—
Oh ! my dear Mrs. Schley, would it plea.
on if I were to absent myself for an indef.
to period from my native land? Mrs.
thley—Far from It.She said it in such an
rch way that Climb/ugh turned red and
seemed lost in meditation on the exact mean-
ing of her words.
Denim..s sortie. shall bo well brui• d
abroad—and year character ae a generous!,
wholeasouled being is establieLed.
It is very noble to be liberal, Lail not at
other peep expense, expense. The old copy-book
maxim is a very sound ene "Be just
before you are generous," If your liberality
hieders you from paying what ym owe to
your butcher or your tailor, you ate not j000
to him ; nor, it may be added, are you really
generous, but only lavish.
But avoid meanness and stinginess. Give
sway as much as you please, the more the
better, always provided that nobody belt
yourself suffers by your giving, that the
person benefited by it is worthyb and that
it is done without ukentetion.
The truly generous man is he who denies
himself Some luxury, or better still, some
necessary, in order that be may have where-
with to give to those who are in need. The
millionaire, with hie £40,000 a year, often
gets great praise for his gifts of £1,000,
£2,000, £3,000, or even £10,000 ; and when
his donates. reach a quarter of a million,
statues ere erected to hie memory, and
paeans are sung in his praise. Boo in all
probability the signing of his big check
does not entail the sacrifice of the smallest
pleasure or the slightest gratification. Un
less he gambles on the turf or the stock ex
change, he cannot spend en himself more
than a certain not very large annual amount;
and there is therefore no very marvelous
os generity in his handing over the eurplur
to one or half a dozen charitable organizes
tione.
Dr. Blomneld, afterward' Bishop of Lon.
don, began life with a determination to give,
if poseible, one fifth of his annual Income in
charity. When he become rich he gave
away on-third of his income for charitable
purpos.. Daring Ma tenure of the fee of
London he gave away not much less than
£150,000. It is an open secret that Mr.
Regain has stripped himself of the bulk of
his fortune that he may teach English
artimns to love what is beautiful. These
are examples of true generosity. a
There is a close relation between getter.
osity and thrift. The thrifty man has
always a reserve upon which to draw for
aheritable purposes. In benevolence, as in
business, A, without being in the least
degree stingy, can make a shilling go fur-
ther than b's half-crown. Some men have
the knack, by a careful adaptation of memos
to ends, of getting or seeming to get a fee
greater return for their money than others.
This is a science well worth cultivating.
What a picture of thrift does good old
Hugh Latimer give in one of his sermons
"My father," he said, "had no land of his
own, but only a farm of three or four pounds
a year at the utmost ; and hereon ho tilled
so much ait kept half a dozen men. He had
a walk for an hoedred sheep, and my mother
milked thirty kine. He kept his eon at
chool till he went to the univereity and
maintained him there. He marled his
aughters with five p undo, or twenty no-
le., apiece. He kept hospitality with his
neighbors, and some alms he gave to the
poor; and all this he did out of the said
arm."
Generosity and Thrift.
It is very easy to win a reputation for gen-
erosity. You nave only to give waiters,
railwayporters, cabmeo, and croming.aweep.
era a shining where anybody else would ive
demote; to make a good many pitmen of
trifling value, and chiefly to peewee
whom you ho to e
"Mr. Baker," said Mrs. Bob, "yon once
told me in school I could not make catnip
tea. What do you duck vow?'
" Capital 1 I take that ell back."
Susie Hawkins /smiled and thought, " We
are even."
the meek. It was not wide bat deep
enough at high tide to cover up the tell.°
er grenadi. Two beams bad been 'matched
from bank to bank and boards laid cross
wise upon them. It was a rude structure
without any railing, but could ne safel
crossed, provided one did not go near th
edge.
•• Hush I" said Bob, again. He hatted
and listened am/Maly. Susteatopped also
It earns distinctly now, a cry, " Help
P-P
Somebody is in the creek," raid Bob
bounding away. He did not say it was
Reese Baker, bat he thought en. And there
he was in the creek, the water up to hi
break mod be was pitifully bawling
Help-p p, Bob II em on a rock," be ex
citedly screamed. "Tide's coming:1n and I
can't swim."
Bob knew what the situation was. Renee
had fallen into the creek and was standing
on a rock that he had reached somehow.
Bob had swam in the creek end knew that
if Reeseshould step off from that rock in
any direction save that down stream, he
would go over his head.
"Mr. Baker, you do ea I seer and son
will come out all right"
"Say, you take that spot off," cried Sn
eie to the schoolmaster, stamping her foot.
"Susie, you keep still," said Bob. "Mr.
Baker, you put your foot off on the eldest
the rock down ea earn cod you will find you
oar wade there—"
"I have been trying to touch bottom on
different sides and I can
"Yon try where I tell yon."
Should the schoolmaster try the tottem of
the oreek down etream ? It looked so chilly
in that direction.
" Tide is coming I' warned Bob, running
to the bank nearest the schoolmaster. Yes,
and what if it covered his breast, covered
hie chin, covered his mouth, covered him
away up to the mown of his head and be-
yond? "Here, give us pour hand," said
Bob, boldly walking out. Vhe schoolmaster
nipped that proffered hand.
Now bear away to your left, directed
Bob. " Don't be afraid. That's it. Follow
me." Reese Baker was quickly ashore.
"Welt, I am obliged to you, Bob. I was
going over the bridge, foolishly reeding,
anti before I thought, over I went."
"That's the way I told that lie."
" Oh, don't you
ware"Oh, for that. You have
welshed that spot off. I'll make it all right
in the morning, in school."
Reese Bakerkept him word. Bat Susie
did not feel that her aceount with the mat-
ter was balanced.
Twenty years passed. Bob Hewitt. and
hie handsome wife were entertaining a
guest tLat complained of a slight indiepoei-
non.
"Jost try my wife's famous herb tee," re -
commended Bob.
" Oh, gladly, said the guest, and be
readily drank it.
" There 1 exclaimed the guest. " Better
already.'
THEY WORSHIP THEIR wromemm.
None of the 'hope of Seoul are, however,
large, and the tradeof .etie capital of 300,000
people is made up of what the Yankees
would call a whittling b.inese. The
loudest-mouthed and most enterrrising per-
sons in the whole city seem to be the ven
dots of roasted chestnut.. They are little
boys with their hair parted In the middle
like girls and braided in one tightly woven
cord down the bank. Their stook usually
cooping of about a quart of chestnuts, and
they have a little pan of coals over which
they roast them while you wall. Another
thriving trade as.. to be the cook-shops,
where all sorts of Corean dainties, from raw
fish to toasted liver, are served up on little
round tables a foot high and about fifteen
inches in diameter. These have four or five
little legs, and if you order a dinner the boy
servant of the cook shop will lift up the
table containing the dishes, balance it on his
head and walk off with it with the lege of
the table hanging down aboub his neck.
Such desires as I saw were not at all appe-
tieing. and everything was seasoned highly
with red peppers
The roofs of the country huts are now
covered with red peppers, and I see them
sold by the bushel in the market near the
wide street of the bell. The Coreans may
use them as appetizers. They have, it
seems, an ever present craving for food, and
they make their bellies their gods. To eat,
to smoke, to sleep and to rquat are, to all
outward appearance., the thief employments
of the people, and to be fat in Corea ie a
sign of wealth. A big atomch is an honor,
and the very small children in the country
districts, in the Summer, who, I blush to
say, rarely wear more than a little poke.
coming down two inches below the armpits,
as in nine cases out of ten pot-bellied. The
skin of their abdomens is stretched like a
drum-need, and a leading authority on
Corean life says that mothers, in order to
increase the also of the stomaohs of their
children, stuff them day after day with rice,
padding them on the stomach to prow down
the centimes and make room for more.
Corean ladies have a place in the hack of
the house to tbemeelvee. Fashion in dress
dove not change with them and their lives
are those of almost perfect desolation. Those
you see on the street are the common women,
or servants, and these have green gowns
over their heads and their drowse, which, I
am told, are cat after the same style as
those of the ladies, and consist of a short
skirt with a waistband about a foot wide
which comets up andclasps their breasts
squeezing them almost like a corset. Over
this comes a short jacket with sleeves which
when wrinkle? plamly shows the deoollette
dividing of ye, low skin between belt and
waist. The only jewelry I see le in the
hairpins, which are ie some oases twelve
inches long and as big around as your little
finger. They are matle of silver and jade
and aometimes have knobs on them as big
as the hand of a two yeer-oldbaby. The see-
yenta of the piece wear a peek of false hair on
their heads coiled in thick rolls. The Corean
Corean moiety in divided into three clauses,
the Kirg, the nobles and the common people.
The latter live in thatched bets and they are
the poorest of the poor. The nobles or yang
ban are the cures of the country. They own
all the lands and live by squeeziog the people
who till them for them. The better of them
drees in gorgeous silks. They never go on
the street without having a lot of retainers
a' out them.
what a wonderful city is Seoul. Its 300,-
0110 people are made up of strange characters,
and my eyea have been bobbing about like
the rays. in e. kaleidoecope In my efforts to
appronate it all. Everything is new and
every new thing is strange. The big wall
which surrounds the city in a wonder, and
its three great gates are more wonderful still.
They are closed every night at stmet with
iron plated wooden deore, and after this time
none outside the city can get in, nor con any
inside the city get cut.
The city dose sleep, too. Its people go to
bed with the shadows of the evening, and
by the law the man or boy who is out after
dark is bound to be whipped. Women
have the eight to go shout at night. and
foreigners are never halted as are the Core-
ens. Such /ester. as are used are of the
rudest shape, and they consist of e frame
work holding a :seal° with a thin gauze
cloth thrown over it. There is a great boll
in the oentre of Seoul, and this is rung cony
in the morning for the opening of the gates.
This bell le In the middle of the long wide
etreet which dividsa Seoul in halves, and it
forms the heart of the capital. About it
are the principal shape, and it is the centre
re trade. 41=;=AZthm else of a taste
two feet wide matting aroma choir outside
and forming a sort of shelf two feet high,
going entirely around the court, On to this
shelf or porch each store opens, and the
merchant site oneide his store and nob in
it. He has a curtain in front of his goods
and he bringes out piece by piece as you
ask for it. He keeps his hat on while he
triades and smokes during the whole trace.
action. Sitting on hie heels, he does eot
apparently ewe whether you buy or not,
and I am told that he considers that a large
order 'should bring a much higher compar-
ative price than a smaller one.
i Corea bag one of the best climatesin the
1 oorld and its mineral resources are almost
Y altogether undeveloped, Gold ie found in
e all of the eight provinces of Corea, but the
- mines have so far existed only in several.
The unit of money is the copper or braes
oleo known as the "cash," of which it takes
' more than 1 3e0 to make a Mexican dotter
worth b here 75 oaks. It costa in the
neighborhood of 50,000 "oath," to trave
from the sea coast to the capital end
back, and it is the custom in travelling in
®
the interior of Corea to take an extra pack
horse along to carry your money, Each
. coin has a square hole in it and the common
way of putting them up is in strands of
hundred* hung on straw cords of about the
thickness of a clothes line. Ten dollars is a
load for a man and $30 would break down a
mule if the homey was long.
Considering the poverty of Corea one
might supples that the foreigners there had
a hard life. This is far from the case.
They have comfortable homes at Seoul, and
Lhem ir provisions, which come in large part
China, are plenty and good. They
have a plaaeant society among themselves,
play tennis, have concerts, and as far as I
can hear are the most free from social bicker.
Ingeand strife of any of the foreign colonies
of the Western Pacific. Their lives ate
rearmably safe, except in such outbreaks as
that of last June, when some of the anti.
fomign fanatios among the natives started
the story that the foreign devils were leak-
ing on Corean babies, Then for a time it
looks equally and the troops have to he
called from one cf our men-of-war which
usually lies in the harbor of Chemulpo.
The foreigner keep indoors, the King sends
out a proclamation, the Coreani greet down
and it is agate all quiet on the river whr.et
Rows by Seoul.
A WORTHLESS NOBILITY.
COBLOITS SIGHTS IN COREA. l ladieearevery glad tforeign ladies, but
I few of them are ahl e rtnthecalls. One of
A Relative by Marriage.
A jolly Engliehtnen, now a clergyman in
this mantra, shortly after his marriage to a
country giti in old England, was walking
with her on the atreeta of Liverpool when
enddenly a large donkey stepped up on the
pavement in front of them. Me. B. stopped,
threw up Ids hands, and exclaimed, " My
dear, is that any relative of yours ?" "Oh,
yee," she mad, with a merry twinkle In her
eye, " but telly since my marriage." Subject
dropped.
A New YOrk semen of opera in Germany
cost the trifie of $200,000. This includes
$105,000 for artists' eateries and $40,000 for
the magnificent orchestra. The resat is spent
on scenery, coetumes, chorus, eupes and
ballet.
Waterloo veterans are still to be found in
France, but it is doubtful if there are alive
at the preset{ moment many old campaign-
ers who returned from Moscow under
Murat, in the disastrous retreat of the
Grand Army in November, 1812. One of
those warriorri, at least, lives in Bordeaux,
and be will be 108 years old on December 4
next—that is to say, on the seventy-sixth
anniversary, or thereabout., of the day
when Napoleon lamed his famous Twenty.
ninth Bulletin at Malodenno, and when,
leaving the command of the army to the
King of Naples, he est out for Paris. This
veteren, who, ie of Polish origin—by nail's
Zaleaski—lives at No. 4, Rue Leooq, Bor-
deaux, and is in receipt from the State of a
magnificent peneion of forty franca a
month.
Christmas Gifts.
or JOHN twain, TORONTO.
Oh 1 happy eve I that ushers in the day
Of all the year the beet to young end old 1
This night our thoughte take wing. and soar
sway
To Bethlehem's plains, where shepherds
tend their fold.
Angie strains are borne upon the wind
Of "peace on earth, good-will to all man-
kind ;
See 1 yonder star of promise that doth bring
Oar engor footsteps to earth's new-born
There pay we homage to the Holy Child
Born in a meager—Mid eurroundinga wild—
Where "wise men from the East" pour at
Hie feet
Earth's finest gold—all spices rare and
Sweet
Oh I let our Christmas offerings, ever be
A portion of oar best, oh, Lord, to Thee 1
Six hundred thousand Frenchmen haste in.
vested their savings in the canal. No Gov
emotion could live with their enmity. The
lose of life has been something awful, even
when it is remembered that to constrect the
Panama railway it cost one life for every
yard. In one month the Canal Company
lost by death 633 of lcer. and men. The tom
patty has already filled two cemeteries. The
number of genees in the tut one is 3,889.
Yet the greatest number of men employed
at one time wets 15,000, =tithe average num.
ber was not more than 7,000. At least 5300,-
900,000 hove been epee' and there appears to
be no chance of raising another dollar for the
completion of the work.
Lion
can
poor were getters poorer, the wretcied more
metrically opposed to fact
test contradicts ench mesa
tided assertions. Yet things
still. There is a !stratum of
eon. is horribly corrupt and in
torfa'otberwia, where so vast a mefut
of tb least weli off, as well as of the least
educe ed and least refined, are herded to
rthe to closely."
The Wickceas of EastiLondon.
No one has a etter right to speak with
authority on tl morel and physical eon
diti on of the leer order. in London than
the Bishop of Ykefield, for when be gives
an opinion on tit subject he epeake what
he knows and teifies of what he has seen.
It is well, then,. find that be is anything
hut a pessimist, the subject. In the cur.
rent Contempery he strongly condemns
the exaggerate stories which have been
told aboutthe apposed wickedness, violence
and profanity r Beet London. He says :—
Ever
Improvine. Othis there is abundant evi
It le improving steadily improving, rapidly
" Whetover ices and miseries there are,
wretched, ed,r :we:Joked more wicked. Nothing
The tlitkr Cry told us the
are
An Intent Monkey.
The faculty of intim is often shown in
the simplest united mankind. Nearly
everybody is proto imitation in some
avenue or other, • ancestors, the apes,
perhaps, loft us tlearseterietic tendency,
There is no troit strong in the make up
of the average moy as the love of imita.
don.
A few months d remembefseeirg an
aged and exceed!' ugly ape solemnly
seated in a cage the London Zoological
gardens reading a a newspaper sheet. He
otecupied a cornoway from the noisy
°weird of hie (mace, who swung and
fought and smear in the centre of the big
prison, with the pr on his knees, and his
hands elegemd and his blue menet. He
never lifted his e from the paper, and
the younger men's seemed to underetand
than they meat °disturb the student.
I celled a keep attention to the epee.
tecle, end he snit The old brine has only
recently taken rthe trick. Lately I've
been, in the halof reading the morning
paper close to hinge in the forenoon when
there are not me visitors about. That
monkey, whom • call Tom, has no doubt
watched me carely, and when I came near
the bare this salmon he begged piteously
fot the paper 1 Id in my hand. I gave
Kin a sheet, ance's been reading it over
duos."
them told an Amerriend of mine that
she found it very Weed such a seclud-
ed life and she loner the custotns of
our country. Palen ladies smoke.
They have their poyays of bowing and
their cods of etiquend not a few of them
rule their huebandes laws of divorce
are almost altogeth' the husband's side
and widows among better elms do not
marry again.
The only women have the right to be
seen by men outsideeir own families are
the darning girls, these are much like
the Geiebns of a./ They are called in
at feasts and there nany famous dancers
who see employed cially to appear be-
fore the King. Tb iris wear fine dresses
of Bilk and they en their skins with
powder and paint. ey sing in a sort of
chant and their P lea series of pos-
turing, like that re same elms of girls
in Japan. Many them become concu-
bines and concubine common in Corea.
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French Ship Canal.
Methhda of Courting. How to Cook a Grouse.
Among the ancient Assyrian all mar- The primitive cookery which atten
riageable young girls were assembled at one " Camping out" is always Immensely
place, and the public crier put them up for lac among those who have betaken th
sale one after the other. The money which selves temporarily to the woods and fields.
was received for those who were handsome, Its cooktng formulas are not elaborate, sad
and consequently sold well, was bestowed as neither are they in very common circulation,
a wedding portion on those who were plain. One, howerer, set down by the author of
When the most beautiful had been disposed "A ramble in Brides Columbia," may be
of the more ordinary looking once were of- worth copying.
feted for a certain sum, and /allotted to those We eat round the fire, six in number, sue
willing to take them. ' one began operations by plucking thd
In ancient Greece the lever was seldom grouse and sticking it on a lorg skewer,
favored with an opportunity of telling hie which was fixed in the ground so that it
passion to his mistress, and he need to pub-'leaved a little over the fire. floes it was
Ibis it by ineoribing her name on the wall., I roasted for about half an hour.
on the bark of the tree' in the public walks, I Then some one woke up and mad : "I
and upon the leave, of books. He would think I Mould put a neap of onion in it."
decorate the door of her house with gar. So another took four or flee salsas, and
lands, end make libatione of seine before it, crammed them with diffieulty, Onto the in-
in the manner that was practiced in the eerier of the bird. Then the roasting pro-
Temple of Cupid. ceeded for a space.
According to Dr. Hayes, courtship among "I should turn it, like this," said another,
the Esquirnaux has nut much tenderness' by and by, whereupon he earned it upside
about it. The match is made by the par-, down, and the onions rolled out upon the
ante of the couple. The lover must go out grass, and were planed upon the fire, and
and rapture a Polar beer as en evidence of i their perfume was grateful.
of hie courage end strenerth. That! Then another searcher after truth said,
accomplished, las sneake behind the I solemnly " I think it ought to be Wit,"
door of his sweetheart.* house, and when I and it was split, and again the roasting
she comes out he pounces upon her and went on.
tries to carry her to his dog sledge. She! Finally, an impatient one said "Let's
aerosols, bites, kicks and breaks away from ' finish the old thing in the morning 1" and it
him. He gives obese, whereupon all the old was placed ontaido the lodge to cool. While
women of the settlement rush oat and beat ', there, a wanderer trod upon it and rolled
her with Irene stripes of seal skin. She 101 n the nand, and in the morning being
falls down exhausted, the lover laehee her to tamers hatder than a rock, is was divided
his sledge, whips op Ida dogs, dashes swiftly with difficulty and a hatchet, and fried,
away over the anew, and the wedding is and with one voice the people cried out
over. Deelicio.1"
In come parts of Asia the question of a
man's title to a bride moat be settled by a A Very Considerate Man. fierce fight between the friend. of the con-
making parties. if his forme are viotorions, A minister from the interior of this State
his sweetheart becomes his trophy. If her engaged rooms at thy Oriel Hotel the other
friends are victorious, he must pay such night, and was probably told about the fold-
price es the victors demand. All over that log bed In a oasual way, but probably also
country some ceremony of violence or ex- ho was absent-minded and forget all about
hibition of physical power met precede a' it. Ha went away after ellener to attend a
wedding. Some nateve tribes insist upon a ministers' meeting, and did rot return to the
foot race between the bride and bridegroom hotel till long after midnight,
to decide the question of marriage, others "Oh, dear 1" he said, looking about,
require a long chase on horseback. In some " they have forgotten to pot a bid in my
sections of Aaia the lover moat carry off his room ; but they are probably ell abed long
bride on his back. If he reaches his hut ago, and it would be to badto disturb them
with her, there can be no proton against the now, so I will write on my next Sunday's
marriage. Failing in that, he must pay sermon until mornarg."
her parents for her in cattle. The willing He did so; though, on trying to
bride snakes no outcry ; the unwilling bride what seemed to be a desk, he could not
roueea the whole village, the resident/ of a keyhole, and muttering "They've even
which try to rescue her, can' locked the desk so I t get lots it," wrote
In the Isthmus of Darien either sex can do on the cold marble-topped table until morn-
the courting, while in the Urkraine the girl ing.
generally attends to it. When she falls in Early in the morning he punched the elec-
love with a man, she goes to his house and trio bell, end siod to the waiter who an-
deolaree her paasion. If he declines to se- awered the summons,,
°apt hen she remains there, and his case "Ask them to have a bed put in my room,
becomes rather dietrewing. To turn her please, as I am very tired, braving been
out would provoke her kindred to avenge obliged to sit up all eight because of their
the insult, The young fellow has no reams forgetful..."
left him hut to run away from home until Its was coesiderab'y amend when told
that the deals he bad tried to unlock cama the clamed is otherwise disposed of.
A curious custom prevails in Oad Beier. nice mew bed, with mattrees, springs and
land, Holland. October is the unsponons everything else requisite inside ; and when
month, and on the first Sunday (known as the story leaked oat in the Oriel there was
review day) the lade and lasses, attired in bat one straight fax in the hoe., and that,
their beat, promenade the village separately, was the minister's.—(San Franeieco Call.
stare each other out of countenance, and
second Sundey, which is called decision How to Tell Pure Water. then retire to make up their minds on the
day. The young men go up and pay their Pure water is colorless, odorless, testeleate
complimeute to the fair 040 of their choice, To amertam whether it is colorless, fill a
to learn if they are regarded with favor. Oa large bottle made of colorless glass with
the third Sunday, or day of purchase, the water; look through the water at eons dark
swain isxected to snatch the pocket hand- object, if it has any color, it will then be
kerchief his adored one, and if she sob- discovered.
mite to it ith good grace he noderstands To ascertain whether rho watee is odorless!
log. The captured pled to•=tMitge Mir; ''''C101k the Intl° etoi.litteri
fair owner on the fourth Sunday, the *Bun- for a few hours in a warm place; shake cap
day of Taking Possession," and it rarely the water, remove the cork, and critically
happens that the damsel refuses the lover smell the air contained in the bottle H it
for whom she has indicated a preference. On has any smell, particularly if the odor is re-
the Sunday following, the suitor, according' puLeive, the water should not be used for do-
te custom, calls at the house of Me marno., meatic purposes. By heatirog the water en
rata, where he is asked to tea. If a piece of odor is evolved that would not otherwise
the crust of a ginger bread loaf in handed to appear.
Mm there is nothing left for him but to re- The water should also be wit bout taste,.
tire. If, on the other hand, the parents Water Creek from the well is usually tune-
offer the young man a piece of the crumb, lees, even if it contains a large amount of
he is allowed to come again and Is admitted putreemible organic matter. AU water for
into the family. domed° purposes should be perfectly take-
On the Island of Himia, opposite Rhodes, leas and remain so even after it has been
a girl is not allowed to have a lover until warmed, since warming often develope a
she has brought up a certain quantity of taste in water which is absent when med.
sponges, and gives proof of her agility to
take them forma certain depth. On the Great Ocean Depths. Island of Manua the girl is not comelier&
the beet diver among the father gives her Her father The British eurvey 'ntg thsp Egeria, under
commandof CaptainP. Alarich, R. N., her m iters. Be who can key longest under
theater and gather the meet sponges mar. huerecently made two very deep eta sound-
rim the maid.—(Frank H. Stauffer in the bogs. According to Nature, these depth.
Epoch. were 4,296 fathoms and 4,430 fathoms (equal
to five English miles). The latter wee is
latitude 24 deg. 37 min, south, longitude
The House Cellars. 175 deg. 8 min. west; the former about
Hugh T. Brook., in a communication to twelve miles to the southward. The greatest
the New York Tribune, concerning the knows ocean depth, 4.8e5 fathom., was ob-
Import.m of ventilating the callers of the raised by the United States steamer Tue.
house, says : More inexcusable than all 'arm a, off the north east c rant of Japan.
(if suck crimes, can be graded) are maven- The Challenger expedition found an abyss of
Slated hones cellars. Not infrequently are 4,475 fathoms south of the leadrone reloads.
they "beaked up" with no opeuing except and the United Sta. es ship Blake discovered
through rooms °coupled by the family. one of 4,581 fathoms north of Porto Rim
Containing in larger or mailer quantities But the depths sounded by Captain Aldrich
potatoes, apples, cabbage, beets, turnip. in exceed by more than a mile imp previously
every ;nage of decay, they send up their found in any of the Southern oceans.—{N.
poieonmis exhalations to be inhaled by the Y. Herald.
family. IFiretly, vegetables, except in small
supply, ehould not bo kept in the house
callers. Secoudly, fl. or ventilator A Warm Discussion.
should extend from collar to the roof. Benevolent Citizen—`Bub, why do you
Thirdly, windows of ample sire, O. opposite stand out on the doorstep shivering? Why
sides, hag on hinges eheuld be opened and don't you go into the house 1"
kept open whenever " the weather will per. Small Boy—" I dissent, mister I Pa and
mit," and when it doesn't permit, a cheap ma are diacuseild the question In marriages
the cellar, and
on afi
five cents'
tawa wc000rtr otofvflepowtlis ianf tallheure.h?'p.anad.moda h,ashot otigipvainel,
ft to
down
make it safe to ventilate any day. Cal. There? Don't you hear him yellin"Police r
Lars are often damp as well as foul. All Tend better move along, mister. When
ma gets Into a discussion die makes thing,
warm, and don't you forget it I"
What She Wanted.
The lawyer was sitting at his desk, ab.
sorbed in the preparation of a brief. So-
lent wan he en hie work that he did not
hear the door as it wan ensiled gently open,
nor see the curly head that was thrust onto
his office.
A little sob sunned his notice, and turn-
ing he saw a face that was streaked with
recent tear. and told plainly that the little
A demure, sombre.dreseed juryman claim. one'. feelings had been butt.
ed, in a melancholy voice, exemption from " Well, my little one, did you want to
serving rand his lordelilo asked, in kind and el,'"?"
sympathetic ton. "On what ground ?" "Are yea a lawyer?'
My
ytereed
lord,"
t sinaidath;eu funeral
applicant, "I
aIkte
rn deep
- " I want," and there wee a resolute ring
" Yee. What is it yon want?"
ly i
to-day, and em most anxious to follow." in her rear*. "I want a divorce from my
m" aCne rate. Iwo yter o
nd a
.a,...ie,,antjuastltoenreh.'6'
lord-
papa
nod mamma" Satisfacto ship learnt that he was the undertaker. ry.
Here is a remedy for cramp, suggested He (with evident agitation)—M—Miss
by Dr. R. W. St. Melte of London:—Let Grimes, do you sing?
the patient provide himself with a good She—A little.
strong oord, and keep it always by him. A He—And play
long garter—the yard and a half of good She—Yes.
stout knitting that supported the hose of a He (sighing—Paint, too, I suppose?
by-gone age—will serve the purpose well She—Some.
enough., When the spasm comes on, let He—Recite any
him wild this cord round the affected part, She—Once in a great while.
take an end in each hand, and give them a He—Do you cook?
good sheep pull. It will hurt a little—lb She—No I
is asleep if it dose not—but the cramp will He—Thankl heaven 1 Miss Grimes, will
vanish at once. you be my wife ?
Jones—I em a man who always nays
what I think of people. Smith—You
are? Well, if everybody else was that
way what a bawling over you would
get.
competent doctors agree that damp, foul
cellars are the breeding places of imam,
rbeumatisma and other human ailments ;
when they don't originate, they aggravate.
Drainage and cement improve damp cellars,
and so does thorough ventilation.
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