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LIFE
CHAPTER IX.
encoI-weeea.
Meanwhile, Warren Relf, navigating the
pervasive and ubiquitous little Ilud•Turile,
had spent his summer congenially in cruising
in and out of Essex mud -flats and Norfolk
broads accompanied by bis friend and chum
Potts, the mairiue pa,ntea.—now lyinghigh and
dry with the ebbing tide on sumo bread bare
haul; of ribbed sand, just relieved by a bat-
tle -royal of guile and rooks from the last re-
proach of utter monotony ;. now working
hard at the counterfeit presentment of a
green -grown wreck, all picturesque; with
waving tresses of weed and era -wrack,
in some stranded estuary of the Thames
beckwatera; and now again tossing and lop-
ping on the uaeaay bosom, of the German
Ocean, whose rise and fall would seem to
suggest to a casual observer's mind the phy-
siological notion that its own iueluded crabs
and lobsters had given ita. prolonged and
serious fit of marine indigestion,
For a couple of mouths at as stretch the
two young artiste had toiled away ceaseless-
ly at their labour of love, painting the sea
*elf and all that therein as, ,,with the
eyelet. creeks, rirers, sande, olid, beet%
and inlets adjacent, in every variety
of nncod or feature„ Troin itstateivat ealtn
i(s its angriest Outpost, with endlees paw•
tieneu, delight, and satisfaction. They en-
joyed their work and it repaid them. It wan
alwont al thepaymitut they ever got, indeed,
for, litre loyal eons of the (ibeyne Bow Club,
the crow of the Mod Turtle were not ane.
coed. And naw, aea September was mora
than half through, Warren Reif bagaa to he.
think hinaeif et last of $ugh •A1amieger,
whole he had left in rated teee asci (lt'y load
at Whiteetraud under a general premise to
return for him 'la the month of the decline
of rotes, Some tame between the kith and
the 20th, So, on a wind, morning, about
that precise period of the year, with a north
easterly breeze :setting strong serosa the
North see, and a falling barometer
threatening squalls, according to tats printed
weather report, be made hia way out of the
south of the Tare, axrd turxied aouthweed
before the Hewing tide iu the direction of
Wbiteastrend.
The wawa* ratnning higiratnd epleudid, and
the two renins painters, inured to toil awl
a:kustoreed to danger, thoroughly enjoyed
itis wild magnificence. A storm to them
'wars A atindy iet Attlee. They mad hake
notes eelmly of Be. fiercest momenta. Al.
meet everywave broke over the deck ; and
the patient 1ittlo .Jt:. '1:r.'-, 't ith her flat
bottom and centre board keel, towed about
like a walnut .shell; en the anrriaee of the
wetter, or drove her nose madly from time
to time lute the creat of a billow, to emerge
triumphant one xuoment later, all oddities
and dripping with sticky brine, in the deep
trough on the other vide. Painting in such
a eta was of course simply imlroaatble; but
Warren Reif, who loved his art with
supreme devotion, and never rniaaed an
opportunity of cetebing a hint from hie over•
than ing model under the moat un romia-
in circumstances, took out pencil and paper
a dozen times in the course of the day to
preserve at 'mat in black and white name
panning septet of her nintehlo features.
:Pette for the most part managed sheat and
helm ; while Tell, iu the Intervale of tufting
or tacking Bolding hard to the main•maat
with his loft arm, and with his loft band
just eraspiug his drawing -pad on the other
side of the mast, jotted hastily down with
his right whatever peculiar foram of spray;
or billow happened for the moment
to catch and impress his artiatie fancy.
It was a glorious day for those who liked
it ; though a landlubber would no doubt
have roundlv called it a frightful voyage.
They had meant to make Whitestraad
before evening; but half -way down, an in.
cident of a sort that to arren Reif could
never bear to miss intervened to delay them.
They fell ba carnally with a North Sea Craw.
ler, disabled and distressed by last night's
gale, now scudding under bare poles before
the free breeze that churned and whitened
the entire surface of the German Ocean.
The men on board were in sore atraite.
though not as yet in immediate danger
and the yawl gallantly stood in close by
her, to pick up the swimmers in case of seri-
ons accident. The shrill wind tore at her
mainmast ; the Waves charged her in vague
ranks ; the gaff quivered and moaned at
the Awoke ; and ever and anon, with a bel-
lowing rush, the resistless sea swept over
her triumphantly from stern to stern.
Meanwhile, Warren Relf, eager to fix this
stray episode on good white paper while it
was still before his eyes, made wild and
rapid dashes on his pad with .a Sprawling
hand, which conveyed to hie mind, in
strange shorthand hieroglyphics some faint
idea. of the scene as it passed before him.
"" She's a terrible bad sitter, this smack,"
he observed inteloud voice to Potts, with
good-humored enthuaiasim, as they held on
together with struggling hands on the deck
of the Mud -Turtle. "" The moment you
think you've just caught her against the
skyline on the crest of a wave, Shelarches
again, and over she goes, ,plump down into
the trough, before you'vehad a chance to
make a single mark upon your sheet of
paper. Ships are always precious bad nit -
tern at the best of times ; but wheat you and
your model are both plunging and tossing
together in dirty weather on a loppy chan-
nel, I don't believe even Turner himself
could make , much out ofit in the way . of a
sketch from, nature.'' -Hold hard, there,
Frank 1 Lookout for your head`! -She's
going to ship a, thundering big sea across
her bows this 'very minute.— By Jove 1
I wender, how the sihaeleh steed., that
last high wave 1 --is she goner? Did• it
break over her. Can you see her ahead
there ? " ,
" She's all right still," Potts shouted from
the flow, where he stood now. in his oilskin
suit, drenched from head to foot with the,
dashingspray, but cheery evere le true
sailor, fashion. . SI; can. see her ivast,just
showing above the crest.` Ruth must have
given her a jolly good ywebting. «Shall we
signal.the •men to 'know it they'd liketo
come aboard here ?"
"Signal away,' Warren Reif t nswere i
good-humouredly above the noise of the
wind. " No more sketching for me to -day,
I take it. That last lot she shipped wet my
pad through and through with the nasty
damp brine. I'd better put my sketch, as
far as it goes, down below in the locker.
Wind's freshening. Well have enough to
do to keep het nose straight in half a gale
We're going within four or five points of the
wind now, as it is. I wish we could run
clear ahead at once for the poplar t White -
strand. I would too, if it weren't for the
smack. This is getting every bit as hot as
I like it,, Rut we must keep an eye upou
her, if we don't want her crew to he all
dead. men, She cant live six haute longer
in a gale like to -day's I'll bet you any
money.,,
They signalledthe men, but found them
unwilling still, with true seafaring devotion,
to abandon their ship, which had yet acme
Imre of life left in her, They'd stick to
the ewe*, the skipper signalled back in
mute pantonaime, as long as her timbers
held out the water. There was nothing
for it, therefore, but to lie hard by her, for
hnmanity'a sake, es clogs as possible,
to make as slowly as the Strength of t
wind would allow, by suecesaive tasks, 1
the river -month et W hiteetrand.
AU day long, they bald up bravely, larch.
ing and plunging on the angry waves; and
Only towards eveningdid they part company
with the toille snraek, as it wan growing
dunk anteing the how tint atretoh of shore by
Punwi_ch, There, a dslt-carrier :rem the
North Sea, One of theists fast long steamers.
that plough the German ocean on the look-
out for the riebing deet --whose catches they
take up with all speed to the Landon neer-
ket, fell in with them in the very hick el
time, and tranafeerrng the crew ou board
with some little di eielty, made feat the
smackeeer rather her wreck—with it tole.
Rue behind, and. started under all steam,
to save her life, ter the port of Item -lob,
Warren Reif And hie compeuten, diapi.iu
'Melt aid, and preferring to live et out
themselvesat all hazards, were left bete-.
alone with the wild evening, and proceeded
lathe growing shades of twilight, to bind
their way up the river at \'4'hitesrrand.
" Cann You Snake out the poplar, Frank "1'"
Moen Ralf shouted out, as be peered
*read into the deep glom that envcleped
the coast with its murky covering. Wove
left itrathrr late, Isis afraid, for pushing
ups the creek with a sea, like this 1 unless
we; eau spec thepoplar slistinetly, I should
hardly like toark, entering it by the red
aauil
light on the di% alone. These must
he the lamp~,; nit Wbitestrand gall, the three
windows to starboard yonder, Tre poplar
ought to ,lieu lir rigbta a point (iiia west
of theta, with the striped boor just *little
this tide of it"
""1 can make tout the striped buoy by the
white paint on it,"his companion %towered,
gezieg eagerly in front of him; ""hut I
:ahoy it's a shade too dark now to be eared
the poplar. The lights of the Ball don't
seem quite regular. Still, I ehould think
we could make the creek by the red lantern
and the beacon at the Who, without mind.
ing the tree, if you caro to risk it. You
know your way up and down the river as
well :aa any man living by this time ; sad
vro've got A fair breeze at our backs, you
see, for going up the mouth to the bend et
WhiteatranU."
The wind moaned like it woman in agony.
The timbers creaked and groaned and crack-
led. The blaek waves landed savagely over
the cicel:,, The Mud Tolle was almost on
the shore before► they know it.
"• Luff'. luf 1" Rolf called out hastily, as
ho peered once moralsto the deepening gloom
with alt his eyes. "" Sly George 1 wore wrong.
I can ace the poplar—over yonder; do you
catch it? We're out of our bearings a quar•
ter of a mile. We've gone too far now to
make it this task. We must try again, and
net our points batter by the high light.
That was a narrow squeak otj it, by
Jove 1 Frank. I can twig where we've
got to now, distinctly. It's the lights in the
house that led. us astray. That's not the
Hall c it'a the windows of the vicarage."
They ran out to eastward again, for more
sea -room, a couple of hundred yards, or
farther, and tacked afresh for the entrance
of the creek, this time adjusting their course
better for the open mouth by the green lamp
of the beacon on the sandhill. The light
fixed on their own masthead threw a glim-
mering ray ahead from time to time upon
the angry water. It was a hard fight for
mastery with the wind. Tha waves were
setting in fierce and strong towards the creek
now ; but the tide and swam on the other
hand were ebbing rapidly and steadily out-
ward. They always ebbed fast at the turn of
the tide, as Relf knew well; a rushing current.
net in then 'round the corner by the poplar
tree, the same current that had carried
out Hugh Messinger SO resistlessly sea-
ward in that little adventure of his
on the morning of their first arrival at
Whitestrand. Only an experienced mariner
dare face that bar.. But Warren Relf was
accustomed to the coast, and made light of
danger that ocher men trembled at.
As they neared the poplar a second time,
making straight for the mouth with nautical
dexterity, a' pale object on the port bow,
rising and falling with each rise and:len of
the waves on the bar, attracted Warren.
Reif's. casual attention fora single moment
by its strange weird likeness to a human
figure. At first, he hardly regarded the
thing seriously as anything more than a
stray bit of floating wreckage ;,but presently
the light from the masthead fell full upon it
and with a sudden flash he felt convinced a,
once it was something stranger than a mere
plank or fragment. of rigging..,
"Look yonder,,' Frank," he called out in
echoing tones to his urate ; that can't be a
buoy upon the port bow there 1"
;The other man looked at it long and
steadily. As he looked,• the, .Mud-Turlte
lurched once more, and cast a reflected pen-
oihray of„light from the masthead 'atop over
the sairfeee of the sea, away .be the direction
of the' su ipicious object. • Both men. caught
sight at once of some floating white drapery,
swayed by the waves, and a .pale face ;np-
turned in ghastly 'Silence to the uncertain
Relf,, holding tight to the sheet with one
band, and balancing himself s?. well as he
was Able on the deck, arched out with the
other a stout boathook to draw the tensing
body alongside within hauling distenee of
the eltud•Turtte. As he did so, the body,
eluding hie grasp, rose ones mote on the
crest of the wave, and displayed to. their
.view an open. bosons and a long white dress,
&O
leg a ing scarf or shawl of same thio
material. still hanging loose around the sleet;
and shoulders. The bee itself; they eouldn"t
Sas yet dist ngnisls ; it felt back inugeid be-
neetb the spray at the top, so that only the
throat and thio were visible ; but by the
dress n bos
and the opeom alone, it wan
clear at once that the object they new was
not the corpse of a sailor. Warier; R 1f
almost let drop t he boathook its horror
and surprise.
"" Greet heavens 1'” he excleienned, tensing
round excitedly, "" it's '
a won. —a lady—,dead-tin the water 1"
The billows broke, and curled over
majeeticaliy with reaistlees torte into the
ow
trough belthem. Its undertow sucked
the .elfud-Turtle after it fiercely towards the
shore away from the body. With aviolent
effort, Warren Ralf, fungi egforwardeagerly
and at
the lurch, seized hold of the :corpse by the
he fleeting scarf) -lc turned of Itself as the book
Or caught it, and displayed its faee in the
pale starlight. A; great a awe . fell eudden-
y upon the Astonished young psiater's
mud. It was_indeed a woman that he held
now by the drippi eg hair --es beautiful
young girl, inn white dress; and the wan
bee wan me he had Sten before. ERA in
that dim hats -light he recoguleed her
ivatautly,.
Fmk 1" he cried out In a voice of
hushed and reverent sur rise•-+" never tined
the ebip. Come forwent end help rue. We
meet telt° her ors board. I know her 1 I
know her 1 She's is friend of 4assiuger'+a"
The corpse was cue et the two young
girls he had seen that (lay two months- hie
lore sitting with their arras round one
another's waists, clove to the very :epeewheree they now lay up, on the Veiled and
b
li*
naked roots of thefannoua old papier.
nit (To tui ecieTtaesu,)
"I'oreyoatr,helm hard !" Rolf cried in
haste, ' "" It's 'a man: overboard. ,Washed
;off the .smack perhaps; lie's drowned•„ by
,tis time I expect, poor fellow."
$is companion ported the helm at
the% .word with all his ;night. The
:yawl answered well in spite of the.
breakers. With great .. difficulty, be-
tween wind and tide, they lay up towards
the .mysteroua thingslowly in the very
trough of the billows that roared and danced
with hoarse joy over the shallow bar ; and
An Ingenious Depiomat.
The peaceful solation of the recent flay.
USA trent/lee alma that old Preaideut Selo.
mon "a an iogeuious dipromate .H'aving
found two of hia etliuisters coucersed lit *
plot to overthrow hint, he hired them, as
the story brought by the 'Pacific goes, at
5.tiihl each. to consent to lee benialued. SO,
banished they were, Secretary F. Mani, at,
of the interior! Ae .trtwent and of P
Inttreetioa, to G'uha, sod Seeretaxy
time to Jamaica. A Use Original statecraft
would perhaps have elect theta off -hand;
but they had realoua adherents who might
have leentntly sought to avenge them. .1,
revolution lo Lloyd is Always in order, and
it is a long time slue AA old-fashioned re-
volt ban occurred. Recogalziiig this fact,
the energetic and skilful (aid preai'dcnt
bafded it by varying the ordinary rude
method of dealing witiit malcontents by that
of voluntary and paid exile. Their corn
patriots could hardly tilos umbrage at
Oda liberal arrangement for foreign reef.
deuce. Still, it is admitted that the present
peace le only temporary. President Salo-
mon, who was obeaen in 15in for seven
years, and again is 18a{ifor seven years
more, hos been extraordinarily successful in
keeping himself In power; but the 'burdens
of taxation constantly prompt to revolt,
O.RGIN OF SURNAMES.
Many el 'Thein Tokenn. Trout Pla.rea—fullers
from oeeupnttone and Personal Traits.
Not only countries hut counties and towns
were a fruitful source of surnames, writes
Prof, N. 11. EEleston, John from Cornwall
beeome John Cornwall or Cornish. ltiehard
who lived near a piece of woodland was
spoken of as Richard at or near the wood,
originating the .surname Atwood, or John
living near a hill became John Hill. So
with Underhill, Atwell, eta. John living
near a clump of oaks was John atten oaks,
abbreviated into Noakes ; or William who
had pitched hie tent or cabin near a notable
arab tree was known as William at the ash
or William atten ash, which. easily drifted
into Nash. So, too, Thomas who lived near
a small stream (or in Anglo Saxon a beckot)
was Thomas at the becket, and thus was
named the martyr Thomas a Becket. The
most common terminations of English sur-
names taken from places are ford, ham, lea,
and ton. Ford is front the Saxon fares, to
go, signifying the place Where a stream
could be crossed.
In the name of Shakespeare's birthplace we
have a memento of three different eras of
English history, viz., the periods of the oc-
cupancy by the oldoBritons, the.Romans,
and the Saxons, usual is an abbreviation of
strata (street), the name by which the great
Roman roads were known. Ford telis us
that -ate of these roads crossed a stream, and
Avon` is the name which the old Britons or
Celts gave to the stream..
The word lea, legh, or leigh, signifying "a'
partially wooded field, served as the ending
for many surnames, such as Horsley, .Cow-
ley, Ashley, Oakley, Lindley, and Berkley,
or Birchley. Hay or haw means a hedge,
and this has given us Hayes, Haynes, Haley,.
Haywood, Hawes, Haworth, Hawthorn,
Haughton, or Houghton.
Occupations, too, have afforded an end -
Ides army of surnames. This method was`
used by the Romans in snob names as Fab-
ricus (smith), Pietor ,(painter), Agricola,
(farmer). In England, a :Skilful' hunter
would adopt that as his surname, and
equally so'with the .oarpea'Eet, +jeiner, naw;:
yer, baker, or butoher. -
Personal traits and complexions, too, gave
rise to surnames: From the former we have
the names Stout, Strong, Long, Longman,
Longfellow ; and from the latter Brown,
Black, etc. Some mental and moral traits
were also used to denote surnames, Richard
I. of England was better known as Richard
of the Lion Heart. The next step would
be to derive from this quality the surname
Lyon.;
Might nave Been Worse.
Dumley (to widow) --And so your hus-
dand lost his life by falling out oft second -
storey window,. Mrs. Hobson? ,
Widow—Ali, yes, Mr. Dumley, and was
instantly killed. It was terrible 1 terrible 1
Dumley (with genuine attempt et console,
tion)—Yes, Mrs. Hobson, but--er--he might
have fallen out of a four -storey window, you
know.
hili AND ABOUT WOMEN.
A ;Ten of A Husas an, •
Nota day passer; Tout Some amusing. foci•
dent occurs on the street -care that relieveo
the general monotony of a side i44-14140 of
time modern conveniences. Yesterday
afternoon as a Ridge road car was conning
up Lake avenue, the driver Stopped on being
signaled by a young Haan on sa grossing not
far from Driving Park avenue: • The .young
man; woo accompanied by a rather pretty
young woman who was dressed its. a light,
airy summer attire and car, Tied afancy color.
ed sun parasol. The young man jumped
aboard the car first and rushed inside, se-
curing the only seat vacant, leaving the
young woman to follow as beat She Gould,.
0f course every one expected that he would
give up his Seat to his lady, but he did not
do so, and eine,, after standing awhile, hold-
ing on to a, strap, concluded to hese a seat
anyway, and, without a word of warning,
pinniped down 04 the lap of her escort:, pay-
ing as she dids<., .,'m, as tired as you are,
.ailing, end you will have. to hold inc until
I can get a neat." He gave a grunt of the
hog hied, an, d told her in plain Eugliele that
she could 'hand or sit on tee Boor for ail he
cared, but he wouldn't hold. her.
At thin morel mala oecupente of the car
ofl•'ered their seats to the young W014111114-..1414
she declined their offer and card :---"eil
as able to hold nee now BB he was before we
were married, and I will Sit where I ams."
The passengers were sip to Wile flue salen't-
ly ereetiaeriaa their laughter, taut the last.
wae too much for them, and one of them
remarked, "" the• car will he thrown from the
track unlcsa we stop laughing so hard."
Resliaiug the fact that he was =king a
target el lairnaelt the young nom nesse hastily,
nearly throwing his darling wife on rbc
floor, and made a rush for the doer,sayite
as he 414 so, ""YOU take cur Beat; DI walk
horse, and left the or. The wife wale not
dismayed in the least, but set there quietly
enjoying the fun as well as did the other
pauseogere.p-(Rocheste.rr Beuwerat
Swiss Glans AS BEAKS, SF Bc> &
Ito coarser are the girla large enough to
possears the regauaaite phya seal strength than
they are set to the mot isrvil� work the lend
affords.. The ebild has it papier Name
fitted to her ahoulderts at the eerlr-est pceei•
ble moment, and she dope it only when old
age. prereeture but merciful, rola* her et
power xis card* it longer. I We seem sweet
little girls of twelve oa feerteen .staggering
down a ineuntainr vide oraloeg:a rough pattlt•
way under the weight of bundles of faigoat
a large as their bodges, 'which they no
sooner dropped than thee' harried back fat
others. I helve seen orrls of tita:en ear aiar-
teen rears bsrefootedand,iaarelre. tied, in the
blisteriugrays et as Auluetaun, breaking up
enough to tax und teen ren$tth f.s able-boiheavy
mau. Aa^11 haveknowia(tTenn Albin no
older than these to be employed as a (sorter
for carrying the baggage of travellers up and
down the steepoat mountein path in all the
region round about.. Say admitted that it
was Sometimes vary hard to take*outlier
step, but yet the 'must. And She carded
mesh an amount of baggage 1 A stout -limbed
guide is protected by the have so that be
cannot be compelled to carry Above twenty
five pound°, but the limit to the burdens
often put upon girls is their "liability to
stead up under anything more. But tbo
burden inereaaaess with the ago and Strength
of the burdcu bearers, till by the time the
girls have come to womanhood there is no
sort of menial toilin which they do not
bear a hand—and quite commonly the chief
hand.
A Sxarsir ; Blimp.
Goole invite' to one of theprottiieet wed-
dings of thn week, write* a. New York cor-
respondent', were surprised to read on one
corner of the dainty wedding twain, "No
gifts," engraved in a quaint arabesque acroll,
which perforce attracted attention. It re-
quired Borne :independence of character aid
some .self-denial to go counter to established
custom in such a matter, but the dimpled
little bride, who looks more like a sweet,
plump, pink and white grown up baby than
a person of etronfi-minded proclivities, an-
nounced to her friends when they question-
ed her decision, "I won't stake my mar-
riage to Archie a Methodist donation
party where all the parish bring in this,
that and the other to patch up the salary.
We have a circle of three or four hundred
friends, and everybody knows that a great
many of them would buy presents for as not
at all because they love us, but because itis
the proper thing, and even if they can't
afford the tax, they mustn't be outdone by
rich Mrs. A. or Mr. B." Society people
have indeed pushed the gift busineas hard
within a few someone, until there are dozens
and Scores of young married couples who
pinch themselves during Lent and dread the
coming June because of the draft the Easter
and early summer weddings make on their
incomes. If matters go on as they are do-
ing now there may sometime be a spring
exodus from New York into the country
and to Europe, comparable to the flight of
the May tax -dodgers from Boston, to escape
paying the debts of honor accumulated in
the shape of 200 or 300 wedding gifts, to be
returned at the marriage of the givers,
No PLACE FOE OLD . WOMEN".
There are (no old women 3n . Terra del
Fuego. Leat this should [cause an exodus
from the civilized world, it would perbapalbe
best to explain why. . Whena Women gets
to the right age, about forty-five, she is
considered to have done her, duty. With
appropriate ceremonies, therefore, she is,
either lanced or strangled, and the family
larder is replenished with her roasted re-
mains. The women, when they see thejtime
of sacrifice approaching, never attempt to,
escape it. They regard it as about as settled
a fact as that the wind should blow, and
neve; trouble themselves about it.. The
Fugeans are not cannibals"farther than this.
,They never eat children, young women or
men.—[San Franoisoo Examiner.
TEAMIMING .A WIFE SENSE.
Wife. (counting, over her chiangegafter
malt-
inga urchase)-" I guess DM'S given m'e`the
Wring . phange "< ,;Husban•(3 (sav,)gely)- " Z
thought so ; that's the way my hat deerned
money goes. Trust a woman to get fooled.
Go back to the counter and get it made right
at once." Wife retruns to the counter and
hands the clerk a $2 bill. Husband—" Why,
what have you been doing?" Wife -"Making
the change right. He gave me $2 too much."
Husband (more savagely than ever)—"Well
by jingo, fouare,an idiot.,'
Leangtry is ,paid to be considering 1►
revision el her toilet that shall do away
with bustles and tight laces, and allow her
es
form to rume the shape theist nature
intended it ebonld have.
Crate Greenwood Says that all Perielar;
women are not frivolous, and more than a? l
Beaton women are profound. She does not
believe that Anglo Suomi enjoy a monopoly
of home virtnee and practical ,piety, and
she dose believe that the great majority
of French wives are loyal, Vouch mothers
tender, French grandwothere end elderly
midden ludas* devout.
The Garden of Eden, it is pow aaaertode
was located in. Central America. Mme.
Alice le I'1ou,gewl, wife of an eminent man,
of science, is the prophet of the new belief,
acid she ela4ma to trove found writingewhicb
give the whole history of the buman rive)
shelving that Amerika, and Burope were
then united by land which has mice been
submerged,
Tine 3d'rae as Siwe .Jorirnnl EMI: "Ina,
no of young ladiea who attended an enter.
talnment the other evening,, as reported by
AU exchange, there were four Vannes. one
Winnie two Sallies two teazles. three
Anniee, one Rosie, one Frankie, two Jennies,.
four Nettles and one Letitia, All honor to
the stately I etitie wino refused to mutilaetee
her haute. Had Charlotte Corday lived in
theca torten; She would haus; gent iuite bistery
se ',fettle," ,
The aoituenee of the neon upon- vegeta-
tion is an interesting problem aweitlogsolo•
Gm, A recent writer upon the Subject
mentianas that woodcutter; in :;ape; Colony
mid in butte Meist that timber le fall of sap
and unfit to be cut at full moon.
Stanley.
The rumour drat Stanley has been wound•
ed in a fight with amine Sad has keen alien.
doped ley hail of hie men cannot be called
absolutely incredible, 'ince it is clear that
mule uuexpecttd ;Insley must be assumed
it order to accauot for the lame tack of au•
thentio tidiage free* him. As one of the
Charges breught aagairiet the gallant enter.
er by his cueaoies is that lac is very ready to
fight the Afrlcann, and as he bait taken at,
route of while aaw lade pert Taal never been
explored, it is quite peasible that he may
pare been engaged ha battle, Bat It 1*
di:1;nit to ivaagiee where hia escort
wool(' go onr akandoniuy biro. They are
in him, dependent (m, ar.d ignore
rant as they must ba after their longi,
journey haw they could reach their homes,
they ere more likely to he mtterly and ale
Seedy dependent than disported to explore en
their own waive, It was in February of
bet year that them people were engaged by
Stanley, and ward/4)31y they have been
with ,lou, too long to make tbair reported
defection very probable. Last November
there was a story tram. Congo that "there had
becutigbting between natives and Stanley's
fore, and that the rear guard of the latter
had been cut ea," so that the present ruiner
may be a revival of the old cue.
Some Facts About the Poles.
sfuch leas is known about the region sur-
rounding the South Pole than about that in
the neighbourhood of the North Pole, for
thin reason, among others, that Polar ex-
ploratiea has thinly :been directed towards
the latter. The most auccrs,lul Antarctic
expeditions were the American one under
Lieutenant Wilkes in 1333 42 and the Eug-
lish one under Sir James Resells 1838.4,3hut
oven these accomplished very little in the
way of discovery. The results of .Antarctic
exploration. so far are thus aummariaed by
the Naw York Trihnne 1--"Nobady has got
within seven or eight hundred miles of the
South Pole ; that ley barriers have been en.
countered which eclipse anything known in
tho North frigid zine; that mountains have
been seen, ono shooting forth volcanic
domes, and loftier than any discovered by
Northern explorers ; that all the laud there
is covered with snow at all seasons ; that ne
human being has been mot with beyond E5
degreea; that no vegetable growth, except
lichens, hes been seen beyond 5S degrees,
end that no land quadruped is known to
exist beyond 00 degrees." It is with a view
to the extension of this meagre knowledge
that some German acientiste, with whom
Mr. Henry Villard, of Northern Pacific
fame, is co-operating, are about to send out
another expedition to the South Pole.
Their prospecta of success are not encourag-
ing, although itis expected that the nee of
steam vessels will unable the explorers to
achieve more than their predecessors.
The New Emperor.
Emperor William's proclamation issued
yesterday to his people is at least a little
less martial in tone than the pair of proclam-
aions to the army and the navy that pre-
ceded it. Therein in it, nevertheless, neither
aspiration for peace nor expectation of it.
unless in the indefinite phrase " to guard
the pews o," which is itself followed by a re-
minder that both Prince and people must be
"equally ready to make sacrifices for the
Fatherland." That militarism is " in the
saddle " now in Germany audio about to run
a free course seems to -be the opinion of the
most competent ebaorvers. Had there been
any doubt on the subject. the almost start-
ling promptness and exultation with which
the young Emperor hurried out proclama-
tions to hia 'army' and' his navy, letting the
one to the people follow later, would have
removedit. The whole tone of his essay -like
order to his army, with its expression of a
desire to occupy first the attitude of "war
lord," is ominous. Being thus forewarned,
signs of willingness on the part of ` the new
Emperor to refrain from pursuing projects
of glory, on, the tattle -field willbejhailed
with the more pleasure. But it would be
folly not to see that no such military note
as this young.monaroh'a has been 'struck on
the accession of any European sovereign
for many years.—[N. Y. Times.
The Grand lnry at Chicago recently
brought in the following indictment against
the liquor traffic :. " Our investigation of
the murder oases has .'impressed tis to the
degree that we deem itour official: duty to
call the attention ,of the court to the follow-
ing fact in 'the hope -that it may have some
little effect on future legislation regarding
the liquor traffic : We find that in every
ease of murder or manslaughter (except one)
the cause leading to the crime came direct
from the saliaon