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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-11-8, Page 6WAL.U. AND TAritta IR K.ENT. funeral to the leoieterouit gayety oa an exo- steuggle, in addition to those of the first cation," American war, they wade fresla sacriacea of latekeiret in Sight and the Tree et Witte And now vire have reached the crest of the enormous extent to breale the bonds a their berioree, ridge, and may heat for a moment to admire fellow -men, There were men fightiog that the spacious pimento outepread below us, day in Aitken juuglee, or pent lie stifling in whitat figures more thaa one spot that slave ships on the South .Atlantio, or toiling I mot now passe freak my series a as Writtez. its moo over in history,. beneeth the burning sun, of the West In, notes on Itpper Burmah and Ceylon to Yonder to the uorthward, alereest hidden by dies, who little elreameel that their fate was lattY Paestug werd or two upon what its eneireling trees, lies Chislehurst, where being decided there and then by a man we have seen today, Not witloot rea- the mightiest and mot succeeeful ourpation whose name they had never lard—that Son did one of Americo% greatest weiters cif modern times coded in misery end (le- tingle word spoken perize so highly tae conntry landscapes of apair, leaving nothing of the great Benapterte BEAT TUE wUM.P.auwo LEArvas Zegland, Whiek have a Pertain antique tradition sort a dethroned and ehilaless of Efolwood was hereafter to echo like a calinnets of their own 'very eoldom meet widow, weeplog. with sOrrow not wholly thunderclap from the elreery swamps ot the with io this hostie% lage, and doubly ap- selfish over the teaperial husband who had Niger to the pathless formate of the West nociable by wanderers like oureebree after faded elowly before her eyes, and the aright Indio and to abetter their chains with la) fiere.re feverish excitement of tropietel haired son who bad died thousands of tkailes very souud. life, %infix U its dazzling *pleader sad away trom her on the burning plasm of One eau fancy. what a grand picture riettoes ituturianee and utter want of repose, Zululand beneath the epears of merelleas some gifted historteel painter might make Mere espectelly enjoyable la the dreamy savages ef the famous intersiew upon which this pieturesquenesa of aleglisle country scenery To the watt, like a shadow against the voiceless giant of the forest looked down who, by okra rare °hence, one bappens elauting sonlight, extends a vast and wide- 100 years ago. The mild face and clear, to have a Azle day in which to see it. Such fronted building with a tell tower at either bright eye of the greet philanthropist, con - weather aa we are having now might have end, very much like one of thoe colossal fronting the leant worn features and eagle eatieaed evert that ceotte Splash A.mbes. Eastern oemples o which we have seen so &lace of the man, who at 23 had become eader who, when, leaviog the English Court many awing the last four months, And a Prime Minister of Britain and one of the he the orly days of Elezeboth, ellarges Sir temple indeedeit is—the temple of arts and foremost statesmen in, Europe; the alight Walter Raleigh with his complinkento to indostry—for this building is nothing leak smile of courteous and carefully restrained "bia Exeelteuey the Sun,. whom he had net atm the renowned Crystal Palace" of contempt upon the renowned Premier's bad the honor et seeing duriog his six Sydenham, which has been for years past pale, atom face as the reformer eagerly month& stay in England."' the favourite resort ot the bard -worked expounded his "impossible idea ;" dee The little Kentish town, of Bromley— Londoner whenever iie on get a holiday. Tack, sharp skirmish of question andreply which centres to be tolerable' eluiet and ANEW in the opposetion detect:am Shooters Pit's abrupt departure, leaving the great onefertable netwithetanding the invesieu of Hill blots the triglat reverting sky with a liberator alone with the mighty tlaought vehich boles at length from bis ltpa in the mienee ef the wocelland, heard gray by hint who is the Pettier alike of the freernan and the slave: '4 With the help of God this and ruffiens of every leind, freak the dash- thing shall yet he done 1" ing bigiewaymen en his "mottled bat leak „Dein Indeed it was leogth, and int he. 4teeP down to the sneaking Reaped -who Yos? anther* more Amtunate than the ma - 14y, „Quemoy ot otter, to etteelc seeee be, JOrIty.of the werldas great workers, lived to leted woefarer from 'bellied. Aied there, a" his werk emnPletecl. Many a weary beyond those low, woodedhille that etreteo kear woe be forced te 'eater, many a bitter nappottareent was he doomed to endure, their band of sombre purple olog the south. ern sky, lies the aistorieel battlefield el ere the grand thought of 1788 ripened into Sevegoalts, where an enterprise tleet well. the gl°rons ommulmnotlon oi -1607. Bat nigh changed the es bele history of England eaule at laStp and ketengwreatguatPe:ttleee"41,oeto d tile Achievea ite grist &fleece's. Here, in. the eld Prolne 3V tin fighting tinies of the fifteenth ceutury, aal,"" tm,ighl; the 80.4t lEngISIITAS11) btaWny Keptieb peasant, le4dipg lotoop iveotse ne9onsa war sen? Domini that: they men as fierce and ignorant as himeelf, emelt- " never w11-1 illeveat' te CaE4 aWaY eo by the ebeeo Lay hj,5 -the moo ono and forever all thought of making (shoo ny nAvin =t4 ttre ralloade—le (me of the mane gloat to tohleh might tody be applied the words of peed Bishop Heber respecting our recent b,anuts in Ceylon.: "Every propeet pleases and only man is vile,' Ite position on one TAM (=XIX SLOPXS fer which anther flugland fanlena (the eurranie of whieth is crowded by the epleudid patatreene of Neeteet Pork) is marred by the aorpateing hideeneoen of the new houeea which have been run up by dozens all aitteg Iut Ito oakitts, oorae of a Vielent red, sogges- tive of ecariet fever in its wont form, while tbe pellid and vowbelesome brickwork of ethers oivee them the loek of beiug in the at stages of comotroption. In foot, to dy fallanni panage of icore, "someex* of nature we etill inherit, but the the builder is over them all," At every tune you are confrented by a black. lettered board. inscribed with the perae of ecul acme spative "builder and contrector" from Lendon till you begin to think a ben a.rteter„ Quit evieh Oboe theee maerprong geutlemeu woold cataract thenteelvea littin more and boild a little less, Bat alttido it fergettea when owe we get feirly eat into the eouotry and see around ue the ettetely geee, and btoseemiug ttedoe. aullerk gray shadow as gloomy as eta past re- putatien handed down from days when it wes the enema u."..n3,-.2 03' TUIEVES ed aoldiera of Tiling Henryaf. land jIoEthem lellaw"nun^ on to Oust triumphant march open Landon wheala began in viotory only to end in dee A Portune from, a Seedlilig• er and more hepeittes Tub, That marJh Seine years ago a woman livin neer sten byes oe the record of history and theludo, whose former home was in otelid ontractor mere ne3nOua then a boa nen- Yet ttlere imperishable verse of Shakespeare Owneleip, Was left a widow in etrai htened as "Jeele Catlett Rebellion, At betog the Clreurastanees. Her onlytree= o liveli. treditioetal ostom of nations to call suet:1'40 conaiatecl of a mon vineyard, Among Men Parleta if they Auzce0(lx and rehtla if the sarietiee of grapes was a plant that they WO ber Intrbeod had but recently set out as ,.eat has in troth been n fighting re iou au experimeat. The putty vine bore that Emote but a abagle bunch of grape. It is of coarse wefl kuown that grapes are ratted from euttingo and roots and not from Boo, This weraeo oat cd curiosity, planted the seeds from one of the grapes of this vine, They sprouted out and did 30 well that the yoeug vino were trans. planted, and whet% auffialently developed re bendeornely a variety of grape that a eourege and emit -alley winch wrung from differed radically from the origlual seed, the vietorious Normene a atern aud relue wAS a lueletts table grape' tent Admiration, And one glee= at the firm A neighboring nurseryman bad his at. and manly too and :stalwart frames of teal= drawn tette new grape, and made those sturdy fellows who onus trainplog the woman a proposition to take cuttings peek us down the hill toward Bromley le fora the vines, give the variety a name euffizient to show that the stout old Ken. and put it on the market, paying her a Dynalnite for War, tisk breed. bas not degenerated one whit, royalty on all roots old. She itocepted, The purchates by France of Liouta Gray I even le the peaceful nineteenth century and in a few years reaped a moll fortune don's iuyention for firing dyneanito :sheik from. powder guns table one more to the many 1u:stances in with:kit foreign Govern - meats have availed themsolveta of the military clevicee of American inventore. BO the Graydon projectile was far from bolug neglected, by our authorities, since ever enWe the, Can; or betaken. faun w ora rewe aura senate modowe ond pebbly brooleat it teak rr aloe rustled headlean uPata tbe aod eteaint little oid faehionekl oategfii aeeiteare of Julme C4A9ax Cectudt8 44". ennine English landszat. And Al5000g motet dearly Erized of the netoe tsoreeeetee owa who play eseoet the . wee their right; to place themeelves in the e round, reei Otte el thee etteray Privileges dalated by these /lady yeomen everhengieg eavea or peer out at ne threuela forefront at the battle when the Eine ef the n4rriisvi loophole-4kt wiadowke err nano England went forth to war—a right exit. - per up sena dowu the tiogardens, A very deed aeon the fatal day of lieenuge with brownei ethers aed mothers—bern and bred In the pure, frail% air of the Kentielt up. lands—make to the pale, alekly cernplexions and bard bettered feetures tbet we left be- hind amid the emoke of Isontlan yesterday morning, tbe thick of thet " atruggle for exieteuce," svhieh, though merely a conveni- ent Ares* to well-peld demegoguee, and solistacto7 ontreet do *by mid their on - GOLDEN GHAINS. Wile wants eternal sunshine or shadow ? who woald fi x forever the loveliest cloudwork of an autumn sunset, or hang over him an everlasting moonlight? Perform a good deed, speale a kind word, bestow a pleasant mile, and you wIll reeeive theseme reeurn. The happiness you be. stow upon others is reflected back to your own bosom, Youth and beauty, riches and ,steres of worldly goods, with the society of those we love, and even life itself, are all of short duration, Then let not the wise therewith be fascinated, Whittier says: "Neither present fame, nor war, nor power, or wealth, nor know- ledge shall seoure an entrance to the trae and noble Valhalla. There 'shell be gath- ered only those who have toiled each in his vocation for the welfare of others.'' "Justice and benevolence are higher than knowledge and power." A few years ago a pion's church member in the westera part of this State arose in an experience meeting and gave a review of his life, When he came to the dealer. adore 4`. I thank God that I owe no men anything," a quiet man in a remote corner jumped up and said: "I have a little account against you, brother, that you must have forgotten," "Ah, Brother 0.," said the speaker, unctuously, "that debt was out. hewed. a good while ago." A Watch -Spring Boy. A boo is seenetirnee like a piece of iron which, ite rough state, is AO worth mob; nor in it of very touch u.se but the more pro. ceersee it is put through the more valuable it becomes. A bar of iron that is only worth ea5 in its natural etate, la worth 812 when it is ruale fat home:awes, After it goes through the different La -cones whica it is made int) ueedles, its rebut ok loomed to ,,,a00, Made into penknife blacles it would be worth $3.000, mot jute beleace wheel's for watehea $200,000. But the iron has to go through a groat deal of hanunerlog and beating aucl rolling and polishing to meretue ite value ; and ao it you are to beome useful and educated mon, you must go through a lone course of study and training. The more time you spend in hard atudy of good aud, useful thinge the better material you will make. The iron doesn't baye to go through half so notch be made into beret: &wee, as it does to be converted foto delleate watch epriuge ; bat thiele how mole leas valuable it is 1 Whiolk would you rather be, horde -shoo or watch. eproig Now is your time to choose your come, and to prepare for urauhood. °Pens tbe way. He "goes m to wan. fie down to hard study all the time without any piParoorteatitldnah eadnyalteer soptierl no; think that I would have you to eattie takes the offer every euergy Intervale for recreation; not a bit of it ; z,. tual and phymol—to the one object, soon boy who atudies himself to death fad no use. I like to eee boys have a gaga time, and itoraDaiferin• should be very orry to sae you grow old As Ambassador At Rome Lord Dafferin and feeble before your tune; but you have ample opportunity for atudy and play, goitre realizes the ideal et the cliplometiet AS tool ptetured io rtovels, A dapper man, with And I don't want you to neglect to atudy for atrikingly handeome delicate features, delidi. the sake of the play.-1Chrustiam Advocate. fied intros, and aristoortaio to his glove. tips, he is a great charmer when it pleases hire so to be, ladies think him delightful, Men have sometimes misjudged him et first sight, but have aeon winced at follug the grip of the iron hand under hie kid glove. -A trick of 11W -closing hie eyes, a sligatly affeotea drawl in his voioe, nonchalant demeanor when, he enters into conversations of the greyest moment, are puzzling to some men who epproaola him, and irritating to others; nor does lard Dafferin ever quite renotmco pop, except in those brief moments when, his quick Irish temper being fired by the atupidity of somebody under leis orders, he rates the delinquent in set terms. In all great nevotiations his calmness and etudied. urbanity are inimitable; but hie nature is Imperious through and through, and let his sensitiveness be touched ever so little, pride flashes from his eyes like lightening, Neter- theless, his most scathing retorts are alway delivered with a cool, half-araused sarcasm' or with a grave scorn wbiele brings all per ley ing to a stop. laraeue Case Settled. The femme Jones calf case, that leas been ecoupying the attention of the Iowa courts for the past fourteen, years has been at last settled. In 1871 a man namea Potter bought five calves of Robert Johnson for $45. The animals were shortly aftezwaed identified as having belonged to various farmers in the viduity, from whom they lead been stolen. Ate a result, the Jones County Anti Horse Thief Society charged J.:demo with the robbery, and in the fall of the year he was indicted. In the following February he was again indicted for the seake offence. In the first trial the joy disagreed, bub in tbe second Johaeon was acquitted. Soon after hts ammittal be began suit againat two farmers named Miller and ,Fertunan and six other prominent inembera of the :society which had caused his arrest, claiming $19,000 damages for mkklicious prosecution. This ease w es tried three times ea various chariot eourta Johnson each tinae receiving a verdict awarding him from $3,000 to $7, - OM In 1883 it was tiled in 131aelelmwle county and a verdict of 0,00 damages rendered, which was, however, Set aside by the Supreme Court. In 1880 a -irerdiet far 87,00 was obtained by Johnson, whiele was, however, set aside by the Supreme Corte During the progress of the venous trials the court easts alone have amounted to more than $5,000, while the Attorneys' tees have been more than three time that amount, Johnson has been driven into insolvency while the defendente are atemet permiless, •46, Making Beady for Opportunity. The efforte of intelligent fathers in pre- paring their sons far thew work in lite Is to put them in at stete of preperednesi for op. partunities when. they coma The mythatel Dame Fortune, the narne given by unbeliev. ex's to ProvIderice erosses the path of every one, and opeue th'e, way to hieaer place's In Mita worle—ploes of prefix aodiedgenatlend ueefulneas and fame. It hi the old parable of the wedding garment in neater appliaatiOn. Theo who are reedy go into the open way, The unrocly are leftt met to abuse their "bad luck" who the blame le wholly with them. oleo. Io the parebte, the expeettinte did not know when the bridegroom was coming, but they allknew that be was :somewhere on an hits way—and so Providence is coming to every one with opportunities forbetter things, The ready have fitted themselves with quell- dcations and they are eoually fitted with faith. Thal faith ie nicknamed, just as Pro - valence Is when it is called "fertuae," er "11101t, People call it "plot " and "grit," and " getup, and," nerve" The real thing time cleecribed is fettle, The youg Men WhO is read deo tatt hesitate when Provide= noeh ug mare theu a plOturemple allegory to trom that Bantus pah aud mettle whieh wealthy thoriete, ia terrible and ever pre were ite pride and boot in tlae stormy sent reelity to thousand's upon thouscuids of days of the ninth and tenth, English men and women. Not without All this, botvever, ie only a part of what good reation, in truth, did lend Mecaulay— we Woe come here to see, Keaton Park bintaelf as true an Begliehman as ever lived stretches away to our left, treo top beyond —oleo the fined chapter of bia wonderful tree top, SA if it would never end, and with- hiatory with destroying aereasue boded in it lied a opt as a Abut the ignorant and obstinate admirers Iii.STortleiLLY zotors oltbe "good old times :" " is 730W the as any of those that we have just been na- ashion to place the golden age of English miring, a epee which leo eon at English history at a period when men died faster in blood would be likely to paus unnoticed. That isn't a dog. It's an elephant,' the remit oeuntry air than they new die in If you want a subject to write upon,' said Charley Davis, as he looked at big the lanes of our moot crowded cities, and seyt my cotnpanion, the clergyman of the poz000m„, Joe Ileonetts champion St. died faister in the lanes of our cities than they parish, who naturally has all the local ob., Bernard, as he lay on the ileor of the amok. naw die on the coast of Guiana." iota of interest at his finger ends, "here' ingroom of the ateamer Britannio yesterday Tootle, toole, 1,00 co oo males the shrill one ready-made to your baud, not ten min- afternoon, Mr. Emmet was there, too, blast of a poethorn through the still even. ute& walked front here. Come along you fresh from a six weeks' tour of Burope. iug air, and there goes rattling past ns won't aee soh arelio as this every day." Plinlimmon is known to dog fanciers the We ocalade the incloture of the park easi- world over as a perfect model of what a St. ly enough by meens of a plank stepladder Bernard dog ought to be. Ho is five years placed conveniently for the purpose at this old, weighs 220 pounds, Ana measures 35t spot and move upward along the slope inches to the shoulder, and 37 lathes stand - through en army of leafy giants, the mere ard measurement. is a half inoh taller eight of which would make az y woodman than Raster, Mr. Emmet's famous pet, now feel iustinatively for his hetehet. But no dead. His colors are tawny and white, and his markings are perfect. There are the black silk tips to the eare, the white collar, the pink upper lips, the masked eyes, an an imusuany weladeyeloped muzzle. His eye is filled with benevolence, and he is a model of good nature as well as beauty. Efe has won the 100 guineas cup six times, which is something never achieved by any other dog. He counts for 100 emints when- ever he graces a dog shove. He ha e travel- led over the greater part of Europe, and never met his equal. "1 got Plinlimmon in Leeds" said Mr. Emmet "and I paid £1,000 for him. It was a big price, but he had sold three times before at £800." Mr. Emmet left for his home near Albany last evening by boat. Plinlimmon will find a plenty of congenial company when he reaches his new home, for Mr. Emmet has fourteen St. Bernards there already. as her share of the prodts from the sale, au the grapes became an immediate favorite. Forty thoueand dollars in royelties was paid to her by thia tatuseryman. She sold her little vi,neyard and. retired to live at muse the balance of bar days in her native town m New York Mate on the money they gems it three offieial testa, two in brought her from theseeds of a single grepe California during the summer of 1880, while planted almost by chance. a third was conductea last December at Sauk Hook. Favourable reports were Jos Emmet's $5,001) Dog. made upon all these trials, that of the Ordnance Board being espeoially elaborate in its description of the trial at Sandy Hook. Our Governinent is not very apt, however, to lay out upon the patent rights of an invention of tins kind a sum like the $500,000 which Franco is said to have laid for the Graydon shell. The Malty to use safely dynamite as the explosive charge of projeotile in powder guns is greatly deaired. in the experiments at Sandy Hook, a steel projectile weighing 122. pounds, discharged from a 7.inoh wroughtoron rifle, contained len than three pounds of dynamite. This is a very amall charge compared with that which is used in the projectiles of the penu- matio gun. Still, it was propelled by 23 pounds of powder, and was fired point- blank at the target, thus securing a hori- zontal shell firin which the pneumatic gun does not give. One of its sheels also fell at sea at a distance estimated to be over four miles. The use of the invention by its French owners will be :watched with in- terest. AMID A witIRLWIND MST a relic of byeone generations in the Orin of the Tunbridge stage, gay with fresh paint and gilt lettering. A oluster of top booted sportsmen sit perched on its roof and box; the driver himaelf is got up in the most ap proved fashion cf the old school, and the hatchet, not even that of Mr. Gladstone whole vehicle makes a. gallant show as it himself, has ever made its stroke heard in clatters by, with its whip cracking, itshorses these sacred woods, which may well be prancing, ani itshorn blowing as merrily as if called "virgin forests," inasmuch as they have never been "axed." Some of the trees railways were merely the wild dream of an impossible future and the old mail coach are so raighty in girth that it could hardly surprise us to find a whae-robed Princess imprisoned in a iant atem, or to see issuing from it a hideous black dwarf with an enormous head, an unnecessarily fiery eye, a style of clothing repugnant to every well - constituted mind, and an objectionable habit of turning everyhoiy at a moment's notice into a cat, apig, or a donkey. Where were such unnatural and goblin shapes that any superstitious peasant who should. pass them alone in the moonlit silence of midnight might well picture to himself a grim face in the knotty, uneven bark, and mistake the mighty booths for giant arms outstretched to clutch and tear him. . So we go slowly onward, with the glow of the setting sun casting its dying glory over the sombre woodlands around us, till all at once the ground seems to fall away from beneath our feet, and we find ourselves standing on the brink of a steep descent, at the foot of which murmurs a tiny stream. Planted like a sentinel on the very edge of this declivity stands a gigantic oak, larger by far than any we have yet seen, and evi- dently measuring its age ZIOT BY YEABS, BUT 33Y OENTURIES. Its vast, tower -like stem is now a mere shell—hollowed, blackened, gaping, in ghastly decay—but the great massive branches still rear themselves againet the sky as defiantly as ever and the green shoots wonder when evening comes how ie is that watch stud thein to the very tips show that they have no appetite for dinner. They this sturdy old veteran has no thought of giving m yet and that there is still plenty of life in him. "This is the tree," says my guide, stop- ping short, and I now perceive just beyond the mighty oak a high-backed seat of gray stone, behind which stands a small wooden tablet with the following irescription : "This historical bench is intrusted to your respect and care. Do not deface it." What then, is the hikstory of this bench which is so earnestly commended to the reverent consid- eration of posterity? The query is suffi- ciently anewered by. the words engravel upon an oval tablet In the front of the seat down yonder green, veindieg lane. It is a itself : " Extract from Mr. Wilberforce's thoroughly British oceirtship—the man plod- ,diary, 1788 well remember that after a din steadily onward by the girl's side, with conversation with Mr. Pitt in the open air, his ands thrust deep into his pockets, and at the foot of an old tree at Holwood, just a look Of heavy coutentmeut upon his broad above the steep descent into the vale of Kes- face, but never uttering a word. For whale -4.0n, I resolved to give notice ou tlae first goo o roused mod five centuries ago— occasion, in the House of Commona of nay that "the Englisataan takes his pleasure intention to bring forward a motion for the very sadly" -48 equally true now ; and not abolition of the slave) trade.'" altogether unjotly dide sly Freneh traveler Well may future generadons of Eieglisla ehrteecterize the peculiar style of John 13ull'e men hold spored the spot that first gave diversions When he spoke of having wit- form, and substance to the noblest deed, of tossed " elL the netional amusemente of their histery, 'when, while weighed down England,. from the quiet cheerfulness of a. by all the burdens of the great Napoleopic were still as supreme as in the days when it was immortalize.d Ly Dickens and De gaineey. A little further on we come suddenly upon a very new house, recently built by a very new man—one of those intolerable creatures who seem designated by Providence to ex- emplify the worthlessness of riches by showing how little they can do to tone down the innate kneanness and vulgadty of the unmannerly brutes upon whom they are sometimes bestowed as if in mockery. The lfig, clumsy, pretentious mansion is built (as might be expected) in the worst possible taste, in what might be termed the "raw beefsteak" style of architecture. In pus- ing this abomination we are naturally re- minded of the pithy compliment paid by a shrewd old Manchester man to one of these shoddy (aristocrats wben the latter boasted that he was "self made :" " Weel, lad, if thou be a self•made man thou'st saved God Aanighty awfu' dirty job." A few minutes later we are breasting the hill along the brow of which Keeton Park has arru.yed its long ranks of towering elms and sturdy oaks in the bright sunshine, And now the life-giving freshness of the western breeze begins to make itself felt in earnest, and we can afford to pity the ill- fated men of business who, imprisoned all day 18 stiffing offices or gas -lit stores, would find one quickly enckugh could they join us ta a half hour tramp across this - breezy common, over which the yellow gorse sheds a golden glory that never fades throughout the whole yeer, giving point to the homely old Eneish proverb, "When he gorse es out of Mown kissing is out of fashion." That proverb is doubtlese irk the mind of this strapping young fellow in soiled fustian and this buxom country lass in a br,oad hat gay with tawdry ribbons who are sanoverateet eocerrwen An Active Big Toe. When Mrs.Margaret Fox -Kane came for- ward a few nights ago in New York to tell the story of the fraud of spiritaappings she was in such a state of nervous excitement as to be unable to speak. The New York "World" reporter says :—"But if her tongue hadlost its power her preternatural toe joint had not. Discovering that she was not in proper condition for a public address, her companions on the stage invited her to give a public demonstration of her ability to pro. duce raps without further delay. A plain wooden stool or table, resting upon four short legs and having the propoperties of.,a sounding.board, was placed in front of her. Removing her shoe, she placed her right foot upon this table. The entire home became breathlessly still, and Was rewarded by a number of little short, sharp raps— those mysterious sound e which have for more than thirty years frightened and be- wildered hundreds of thousands of people in this country and Europe. A committee, The boom which was recently started in consisting of three physicians taken from Jerusalem etill appears to hold its own. the audience, then ascended to the stage, Several handsome public buildings have and having made an examination of her foot been erected on Mount Ziore The Rothe. during the progress of the tappings, un, child Hospital for Jews on a. neighbouring hesitatingly agreed fleet the sounds were hill is a striking building, although its eruct - made by the action of the first joint of her form shape is a source of grief to faithful large toe. been b ' J Ifselets Anxiety', grime is now in course of ereceion. ews. A girlsschool hasuilt by Ital- ians, and a stately building for Russian pil- Sirnilar " Ain't it too bad grandpa's dead 1" said builaiogs for German, French, and italiln Ida. "'Yes, dear, but he is a:army with pilgrims are already erected. On the Op the angels." "Did all the emgels go from of the Mount of Olives the Russians have Beacon street?" " 0 no, dear." ",Then I !milt an ugly tower with the sole object of know grandpa ain't haviog a bit gocd time 1 seeing the Mediterranean and Bead Seas He never took notice of people unlees they from its bop; but their church ine Gethsena, lived en the Back Bay. I do hope he car- ane makes up in beauty for the uglifiese of ried hie card in his pookea else howal any- the tower. A company of German Protes- body in heaven` know he lived on Beam* tants, calling themselves "The Friends of street? They might take hien for a South. the Temple," which has been io existence enderakeeta„0, manama 1 if theyehoild think for many years,is now to take dehnite steps he belonged on Colombo avenue 1" for the re:Aeration of the ancient Temple. The Tobacco Habit. The United States Navy annually receive a large number of boys who are trained of Its service. Hundreds of candidates for the service are rejected because of bodily infirm ity. Maj. Houstonis authority for the stet- ment that one.fifth of all the boys examine are rejected on account of heart disease. Rio fast question to a boy who desires to enlist is, Do you smoke ? The examining sur- geons say that cigarette smoking produces heart disease in boys, and that in ninety-nine oases out of a hundred, where title disease has caused the rejection of those applying for positions in the navy, it has been brought on by the excetsive use of tobacao. This state- ment is based, not upon theory, but upon the results of actual examinations going on day after day and month after month; and, in view of these facts there should be stringent laws against the sale of tobacco to boys under eighteen years of age. In the absence of such laws, each father should exercise his author- ity to prevent his sons from smoking while they are yet growing; unless the boys will cheerfully yield, as nsany of them will, to the voice of reason, and defer contracting the smoking habit until they shall, at least, have passed that period during which it is scientifically proved to be certainly and seriously harmful. e The Jerusalem Boom, al! A Use for Sparrows. Would it be impossible for aome one in high position in society and friendly to the agricultural armee to induce some of the royal blood to try a dish of sparrows? They are unomrimonly nice and nearly always wonder- fully plump, as well they may be considering that they have mole a liking for the best of corn. If they became a popular dish like some of the other smaller birds, which are not half so nice, then there is no doubb they would soon become small by degrees and beautifully less. The bird is, however, too common to be so well appreciated as it might be, considering how meaty and rich of flavor he is. Sparrow pudding is a dish which has probably never yet been placed before crown- ed heads. In humbler dwelling, however, sparrow pudding used to be a more frequent article of diet than it is in the present day. Work people are too well a to trouble much about sparrows. One chief objection is doubtless the trouble which exists in getting them ready for the table. But the process is Gimpy, and easy enough. The skinning sys- tem is the easiest. Let some who are stran- gers to the flexor of the dirds try a dish, and I feel confident that the verdict will be that they are richer in flavor than the lark, the ox.bird, or even the snipe. Landlords In Scotland. The Highlands and Hebrides are the home of romance. There is a legend for almost every step you take. But the °rue'. est of these are not so cruel as the tales of their own and their father's wretchedness which the people tell to.day. The old stories of the battle field, and of clan meeting elan in deadly duel, have given way to stories of the clearing of the land that the laird or the stranger might have his shooting and fishing as well as his crops. Ab first the people ()told not understand it The evicted went to the laird, as they would have gone of old, and asked for a new home. Aid what was leis answer? "1 ara not the father of your family." And then, when frightened women ran and hid them- selves at hie ooraing, he broke the kettles they left by the well, or tore into shreds the clothes bleaching' on the heather. And, as the people themselves have it, "in these and similar ways he succeeded too well irk clearing the island of ite once numerous in- habitants, sottering them over the face of the globe." • A Man of Good Stuff, • General Goft, the Republican candidate for Governor of West Virginia, is made of heroic stuff. During the Rebellion he was taken prisoner and shut up in Libby prison. Sotaa after, one Major Arrnsey, a rebel, was captured and sentenced tcebe pea to death a,s a ispy. The rebel authorities threatened to-teke reprisal by hanging General Goff. The letter heard of it and wrote to President Lancelet : "If Major Armikeo is guilty', lie sleould be executed, regardless of it ttoneee, quences to me. The lifteof a single solaier, no matter who he may be, should not etattd in the wayof adherence to a great principle."' The Cunning Crew. A late writer says, "the crow is nobody's fool," but he is sometimee ats own, Re is up to various shrewd tric/es, but occasionally he everreaches himself. A neighbor planted two or three acres of corn for fodder broad. cast and harrowed it in. It was a tinle when °rem gave au uouseelaneount of trouble, and this neighber tried. the repellant remedy of stretchrng a visible ord or Hoe across his field, The line was etretched zig-zeg form across a portion of the field, oil stakes five or six feet high, from one side ex' hound. ary to the other, and so on back again, thus forming a succession of angles. In these angles the cow never .ventured, having an evident dread a the line ott two sides of him, and not a single corn plant, growing within the two legs Of the angle was touthed, Here the crop was dense and green. But if the lino was only on ono side he cared nothing for it, and would approach. quite near and outlasts. all the corn lee cold find. The eel/ - sequence was that while the earn vvithin the angles was safe and unietjared, nearly the whole crop was pulled up every where else, and the ground nearly bare, Itle doubt he thought he had performed. a very cunning trick, and dewed great eagacity in making this discrimination; but if crows in other places adopt eimilar tidies the fanner tnay Seeure his crop from their depredations with- out much trouble and expense, by. atretching Viable cords &Gross the field, In Snob a manner as to Inolade tbe crop. within the angles thus fooled, He may m this way escape the harm which. the crow would do aud leave him to the useful work of devour- ing vermin owl Tarierls kinds of depredaters en the feria Which Tine the Savage 1 A train from Pitteaurg Was approoling Chicago, On board was A quiet, welt -dressed, copper -colored young Italianlwho 'teemed to have alt he could do to attetal to hie °WA biLsluess, which be did Witleoat moleetetion, uutil a youug catty eakne from the 'sleeper iuto the emoltiug-car and flew hire. "An Indian, 1 guees," old, the young knao, 4s. ho Lighted B. cigarette, And then approaohing the sou of the plains, he Attreet- ed general Attention by thoutings with strange geseetee., "Ugh, heap big Iojkue I Chneka 1 Sioux I PaWnee 1 See Greet Father? Bette drink fire -water? Warm blue% blood I" The coppeoeolored savage gazed at the young men a moment with an ilirooucealed expressiOn of contempt on ;AS face, az4 then he old, witk good prourteketiou 4 " Yen mot have been eeeding dime IleV. 414 sir. 1 MA going back O my people in Mateo, after spending three years to the Bast at school. 1 advise you to du the tame thing: No, Ido not drink whiskey. Wbero I live, gentlemen do not carry what. ky (leeks in their peOliets." The young fireaveter drinker did not wait to fialith lie einolo, 'There was too much mirth and mode in the air joat then. —4,1he Little Christian. ..m...w..111 Curiously -Shaped aktille, Dr. Franz Bola the noted anthropologist, in his lecture on "The Deformed Skittle of the Britieli Columbia Indian" in New York the other night, told how the redekins pro. duce the goer malformations. The inferno, he said, when but a few weeks old, aro la. coed in tight.fitting wiliolv oodles and their heads kere pressed from the foreheed and back by two boarde cushioned with beaten, bark. They are then suspend- ed, feet up, from an eleatie sapling to away and dance for a year andd, a half. lIe saki a that these malformations teettltea in no lessening of brain ovity, and that these Indians woo a very intelligent race. "A peculiar feature of these Indiarts' skull, is that the teeth are all worn fat,oakum' by the ammi amount of ad these people ncorporate itt their daily diet. These disfigurements, however, are not aloe peculiar to these people, for some of the .ilfungariatt tribes flatten their heads in the same tnanner, arid the teeth of all the Eapotneu women are worn to the gums from exoeseive leather ohetvizig." An International Trimt. An international rail -pool is announced as having beon formed at Glasgow, Sootlend, to include England and the continene. Andrew Carnegie, who ie reported to have been present, is stated to have promise(' that the American Manufacturer' Associa- tion will do everything in its power to assist the foreign syndicate to improve the trade. The Atnerican Association was formed in 1885 to maintain prices by restricting the output. lt includes the Pennsylvamis, Cam- bria, Edgar Thompson North Chicago, Joliet and St, Louis steel works. These virtually control the steel -trade ia America. The effect will be to stiffen prices. Bat how, unless the American steel -lords divide Advanced profits with the English syndi- cate? In other words, an already long-suf- fering American people is to be still further bled to enable Mr. Carnegie and others of his like to add still further profits to hie already immense income. That Panama Canal, For some time the managers of the Panama Canal Company have been hard at work in the French provinces trying to sell the lottery bonds which the people refused to take some months ago. M. de Lesseps and his son are travelling from town to town trying to urge the holders of bonds to subcribe for more. About 1,200,000 bonds, out of the entire authorized issue of 2,000,000, remain unsold. It is proposed that the holders of bonds of this issue and of other issues shall subscribe upon the con- dition that they shallnot be required to take the bonds and pay for them unless the sub- . ecribtions shall cover the entire amount now ' unplaced. Holders are even advised to raise the sum required for such subscriptions by borrowing money upon the canal securities already in their possession. The company is in dreadful straits and a failure to dispose of the remaining lottery bowls must put an end to its operations on the istinnua Abesent-Minded. The celebrated poet, Lensing, was kte noted for absent-mindedness as was our own Henry Ward Beecher. Here is a story told of himself by the former Having missed money at different times without being able to discover who took he determined to put the honesty of his ser- vant to a trial, and left a handful of gold on the table. "01 course, you counted it ?" said one of his friends. "Counted it ?" said Leasing, rather em- barrassed "no, I forgot that." "What's the matter, Derringer? You look disspirited," " I'm troubled with too much motherelialaw," " That's bad, old boy. How often doers she visit you ?" "Twice a year." " That aent often, Dar- rinoer." " No, „it fen't—only that she stay tiet, morathe 4 a time." '