HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-4-25, Page 6YOUNG FOLKS.
WAZ 11B A COWARD?
VY larrttlV ObYYNLEE.
"Groin' to the baptiien to -morrow, Mil.
'brill" called oet a yoergster to his chunir
ea the motley crowd of echool locree rushed
tuT their hate in the halh preparatory to an.
either nosh to the pleygreund.
A dells red ibieli owe up over Millard,
aneotee foe, as he =oozed blaw)y,
eadeein' I Where V'
"Why, up at the (Impel. D:an't cu
keoyr 1. They roe' aloes elacut tweety to
tan 'Mersa
7e0$Millar bow, end at every eee of
Whe eight meetirge which had po ceded this
""ineetielee" he had been an epilog tiptoe
•-tr. But be tweed the smote= uow, Ly
eashing with all Me mighe into a game of
death 'The boy% however, did not forget it,
.and ere tete, left -the playgronel at the
--se:Angie& of the bell* *CIne cf them began to
13:mak-with !cud inevetence.
hoyee' ahouted one, " if its cold
ape -morrow as 'tie toolay WO freeze Oa 'ern."
4. Why, the ice is two iochea thick on the
creek up in that bellow 1" cried Reb Caron,
CASS EaOrilegioua than the others, but qua".
ry aghese en the Wea of such icy heparin
44 Ay innew they wait until euramer 0=1';
434eriefl, ruenieg to overtake Millard,
e-tho earede eapidle via in front, ogre, at the
Zioye; light, turle_jesting, set not brave
eare.agb. to tarn thew ridicule upon himself
idy defeeding the cianreh of which his father
ewes wcle kerawn to he an eider.
44 CUI4q thereto Irak], the einnerall get
eue e the eotioei" Shonted tetneene
"Yu (night to be ealorned of your
delves; t' Roil Cuero mita as, hanging his.
eep on ita peg. Millard staled uperteere,
WithiMb a word. "hey erry he is to be
ihentizeed, tea."
"Teen he oighe ta be asheraed for pre.
neudieg. be tlidu't know*" Gorge Raby
eeid Inc ieeently,
Millerd Anson cold eat atudy the reet
of the eiterreen. His moodieuce trembled
Nen and the bele et their deeka were
evideperiag and leughieg about hint he
;mew, foe he net tteir eyes wheziever he
reeneei hie own, end se Mae pulled him on an
armee te the teerher's <leak, he whispered
4' Better turn. hietleady. Milli and be
'Twon't be hlCo veld." Awl
incoreo Rally, with a contemptuous fraelt iu
-.tie (tee% bed etd, '4 YOU eueak1 to pretend
yen eitie't how I"
itrd merle nit& mita that he would
ei threele there oil our," when echeell was
-avvrt fer he hod not metal courage to de-
-demi either ha1 he retie:me to ea.
dure reviiieg toile Lot pin, and the
Were* all hirew thee eiheideallne at least. Le
was no coward. Den after ecb.col,
•totem train in her meet, quiet way,
" Con See Feu a momeut, Millard ea He
'waited, tied after the othere bad all gme
ohe clime and etecti. a tiny fixer° before
.is great tali boys Audi, tokieg 'hie two
etude. !ired elp to hie foe mid told him
..to glad alio was to hear ef his centime, met
WA, the Lerida side, cued how titian:tut she
would lie to know that all her boys were
wellace the earn° petit with her.
The elder bele of the Scheel were all de.
voted to the teaeaer, %flambee Millard
resale clue of the salembroom orrylug her
cinettes, the kuot of boot, svho 1 ad evidently
non weitleg for blue diverted. All the
way home the little WOMAU poured bright,
rave words lute his or, and rad iret ?W-
ane 1 bait acme early toonorrow,
i.cd, and I know roost of tbe other boys will
die thceire Ooly think how mach good ercur
=Ample will do them."
"Tbey—they'll laugh I" he blurted out,
nor =ewer.
" Lsugh 1 On, no I" she cried in a grieved
one. "1 hope I have not a boy or girl In
erotical wicked tuottget for that'
"They'll enter cc= to make fun."
"You must nct believe them to be so
ehe answered brightly. "And, ch,
Millard, to be almond of Christ, after you
.ave felt hie love wold be worm. My
ihrave boy, don't be r. moral coward."
Noteithatandieg her protaire, the little
nohool miatreo was late at the chapel next
=loran, havlog been called in to ne end
eerescribe tor one ef her pupila who wee data-
-gore/nay ill. As she threaded the path thee
:ad up through the valley to the rude /ittle
chapel among the billslshe could hear the
people singing down by the brooks of the
etreem and knew that the converts were be.
baptized. Quickeningi her step, abe
hurried on, with a prayer on her heart for
pear Miliard, and for the quiet, orderly be.
havior of her own little fleck, who, in cora-
erten with many of their parents and older
stalk' would leave the service of theur own
evell-folde d valley churcnes, to come up here
among' the hills and be " mune" by the
often devout, bat atrange, wild eervice, hi-
e:Ingo of much shouting and ranting of the
thildren of the hills, or Hareehell Depilate,
aa they called themselves.
The little white chapel, Etanding out
clearly upon the summit of the hill againet
a, background of dark, pinray pine, and the
darker green of shining laurel leaves, was
euodeed aeeerted when elm reached it. Re-
rgardleis of the keen, frosty air, the congre-
gation thronged the banks cif the clear
etream below. The ice had been broken for
quite a space around an unusually deep
pool, and the limpid water dimpled along,
tinkling the broken bits cf crystal with a
silvery sound against the frczen barrier be -
?low. A hush had succeeded the singing,
and with bare head, in white ahirt sleeve,
the stalwart Baptist rreacher stood in the
midst of the pool, his hand raised above the
aead of a lithe, slender figure, as the baptism
from on high WM( evoked. Then, clasping
the two bands in one of his, and bracing the
other back of the shoulders, he swayed the
boy'e forra slightly, and the next moment it
sank swiftly into the clear, cold water, ap-
pearing upright again in another second.
With a quick, firm hand the preacher Swept
tne water from his face; a few more words
of consecration, and then, as the newly bap.
tized walked to the water's edge, Miss Rob-
erts, standing quite close now, se.vr thee it
was Millard. To her surprise he did not
leave the water, to find warmth and dry
rclothing at the cottage close by, but stood
dripping and shivering at the edge of the
stream until the last convert had left the
pool, and the preacher, following, had
blessed them Ell.
She shivered under her warm furs and,
being near, would have thrown a shawl over
her favorite's shouldere, bad she not feared
to offend their sense of religious reverence.
"Will they not die of colds or fevers after
such exposure ?" she asked a woman of the
congregation, who was standing near.
"Oh, no 1 miss," she responded quickly.
"They never takes cold from bein' baptized.
'My Tim says when he were baptized las'
December, he came out fairly in a glow,"
Nevertheless Miss Roberts breathed a
eigh of relief as they left the water, the
• people singing a wild, discordant, but fer-
vently. religious chant. Miss Roberts did
not join in the singing, but stood leaning
against the shaggy trunk of a water loiroh,
her hands clasping each other tightlY inside
ter tiny muff, her eyes+ fixed upon Millard
as he followed Ms crompettionte ,The bloo ? preached; but he newer takea the book
darkened her foe in apito of hi e efferte to about with him now for hes dreadful breve,
force it back, as the path up from the and Millard have mover been strong roe
atreara led him through a little company of the fire. Bolden, heseye he hnowsit mot
hie achoclmates on tee rooter edge ot the by hmr"."
,rowd. A. wave efpetni ed surprue ovept Tears stood m the little trotter seyebtear:hs
over her own foe, eta the eave that; though she ot in the chapel* the next sob
most of the fame were toucher' with over- morale& and watched a familiar figure,
epee, rent dared, at hiM eUrieUSly Age even trooped somewhat from its old, prod bear.
mocitiugly, Poe bey, with a leer aed e leg, ascend the steps to the rude pulpit.
quick motion, threw out his foot to triphiat. Once thee, the groping movement cf the
(inc flatai atraiglit cut from the shoulder et him& marl and prowl uprightneas return -
that white, dripping aim, and Miser Roberta ed. There was a ring in the clear, brave
Sprang forward to Ilft George Rabe' bead tome, awl the coelel rot think it altegether
from the store ening out, oterbr Millard I," by chance that the sightlese eyes, clear aud
with a a bite foe and agonized eyea up dark o ever, tweed fell moon her face, as
turned to his own fierce ones, o he hurried he slowly repeater' the words, that came to
paat her to the gottege Shave.
All over the hills spread the story of Low
"Mies Robette' boy** had behaved at the
heptiere," end more than, co a righteously
indignant parent tefuered for a time to let
his cbildreeturn to the little school -
boom ; but the got blew over, alui George
Ratoys fractru ed skull healed .gain end
the little maeher gathered, her usual quota
of penile round her, all SaVet
When cateetioned About bienon.attendauce.
his little roister at first refuted to answer,
then twirrtiag her aprou with rietveue fin-
gers she Raid, her eyes downcaat aPc1 face
oriterna, be ashateedi" "
Two years pessed, toed Mise Reterts let
the hill ectuotry to brighten. A valley hente
of her ma The little ociumleimege, tinder
the rule ofaey chance pedagogue who might
apply for the potritiore became the ecene of
frequent broils. One hieht the cottager;
alovg Cleer Creek saw a biezing beacon on
the hilidep and knew tbot.tbeir Untie tem.
pie of leuning wee on fire. %%gee dust
her pitying heart fin a Message of comfort
and reasenrance
"And J will bring the Wind by a way
that they know net ; I will lead them in
eaths that they have not huown ; 1 wilt
make darknees light before theme end crook -
ea things Straight. These things will / do
unto them and trot forsalee them."
The Wonderful Ways of Prer oh Thieves.
Thee mournful erabliehment, the Mor•
gae, was &wounded by a bowling and
angry mob the other day. The burglars
who plundered the villa, at Auteuil the
other eight, reed eat the throat ef the
care taker of the house, were taken to the
Morgue for the empire° of the utual"confroni
tenon' with the corpse of the victim Ann as
they were ertering and leaving die dead
home the people roared and made bat ffeetual
dashes 40 them. M. Onillet, the Jogo d'Irre
ett attire% had arranged an extra drannetio bit
epen the grimed SAW plaiulyi from the rich of htwItteee or the "C"1"It having brought
emit/ a "einem% pine melee the euteieg ewe down to the mortueryMadetne Bourdemthe
and the metehere scattered about, teat the mother ei the mint Wt° was murdered by
work herd bon incendiary, nd when George the burglar% The maghitrate bad done tide
Reber crime ekulheog met c f the baehea afew the latttPsse ef nia4ing an trnlare4aiDA an
the mtecreauten vela° are all hardened le
canoe, and whom ate Mere seeotecie of a
dead body would not move.
Allorto, the Italia's, who WAS eaptured on
the eight of the hurglery, was the drat pris.
error exeminea at the Morgue. lie said their
when he and hie oonfetierato went lute the
drawing room of the villa they eaw Bourdon
pretenditm to be fat aeleep on hie iron
Isor the first time Sitlee that eveuing two Thereupon they danced around bun, and
years 'icier% when he lett it with Miss Rob, Cathelin, one of the grog, said, "Your taut
erts, 1ilIsrd Mum atood before the old lour has smite* °id chugB/Id atrutit bim
eel:Piot:horn eileutly watching its fiery de. several. thnee the fa"' with his °eta "ti
eteaciewe ma fug, wags ofgeuga bynwm. then with a berglerhr cLscl. Allorto, aecorch
erica the.eili while ieehe epene want fee keg re lots own ACOQUU; MA(10 Bourdon tura
wails* end IA the lIgIlb of the flames one `Psle and Sreen by eerewlue hia water
cold eta ;het the mice bright, banderole, in it vio, but the victim atilt effected to be
baeish lambed grower grave anti Wen eritrie- asleep, and a burelar named Seiner the
whet givd, pt there waxa nu hard lima at tiancbet then said. "We must litileft him
WI epee it, and the, eyes bed gabled auew aud gabbed hint revered times ht
ad ereeefeetiight. The apuno wee gee the cited and stomach. Al ter that the heed
angry allauta And esne nmea elm teeteeely began to doce. Cethelin and the fellow nick.
from lee revere and atrium quickly, he
eaw two rite/tort fellovie, one ou either tide
fowler, George lithy up the rough atone
SUPS ZUVA tamer the blazieg portal:
Mlantea Ater they tipeely accuerect bee of
the mtechief. When it wail found that the
flame? gond 1101 be extinguished, the feet -
hag grew etrong ageinat, and eirouna
mecca ell le:detect to Lie guilt, Only the
cley tefore he had been expelled (reel Scheel
eel was eappoled to have left that evening
for hie hone in the valley. lila very pre-
eeuce there •waa an aceusatiou.
named the Manchot uotoniug the pepular dit-
ty,iieere Victaire." FinallyGethelitewho,
uu Allorto cad, "a bit atage atruck," aug.
geated that all the burglarir should place
"Siege hint I' shouted a (keen of voice, their caudle arourld the dead body as in the
inefetee het heed in ehe ere le oixbrow him SCOW) 313 Salton "Tesaa." After Allorto,
dowel on the door and lot him elate we. Saltier the Maeghot waa celled, and aeid he
hinieelf I" would cooler' all In the preaeuce of '41rne.
Ninth e dermal eteeeiei one boy dubrd Bourdon, as if oho were her own mother. He
Admitted thee he stabbed Braden twizo,bat
it WAS Aliorto who finiehed cff the caretaker
with A coup de grace. Tbie Motto strer.0
amity denied, but be achnoivIdged that he
had helped to strangle the vietim.
The prisoner' were then conveyed back to
the principal police statiou amid erne of
" Do wu with them!" from the mob entelde the
Morgue..
his feet front hereeth hitn es the other
server' tnekware whit all his might, and
dowra with amnia went all three, the jet'
?amain dowu upon them the burping door.
wee', tee heavy upper eine, and a part of
the mei. Cries of terror hushed the angry
voicee. After A moment one boy rushed out
from the demo, lais clothing on fire and his
face singed auti blackened. The ethers, be
old, had been ought beneath it heavy sill
and he ceoldnot movetheen
" They're atoned, and Itaines never been
much more than a fool einee he got his head
bro—" Someone put hie bend over his lipa
and looked at Milford. Teat glance was
like a keifiethron and Mdlard epreng for-
ward, pushing the crowd aside. One end of
the building WAS AB yet almost unhurried
and, reeking his way to a small window in
it, he crushed in the sash, -clambered over
the high sill and droned down amid the
flume below. Ho was not long in Sliding
the obj eta of his search. With a burning
piece of broken scantling, he pried up the
sill that lay acraea the writhing, prostrate
Aping and a boy dragged himself free, but
he eau' by the ilemes that it was not George.
"Here, keep up this sill while I pull
George out," he cried, but the boy rushed
past him toward the window. "George 1
George 1" he shouted, and very near came a
foolish laugh, and the broken =ewer
"Wled.ye—went." The bar snapped be-
neath the weight of the all; but with a
quick motion Millard graeped the dark ob-
ject and drew it frombeneath. A (weakling
sound Above gave warning, but George could
not stand upon his feet. Dogging and
pushing the heavy body, Millard az lest
reached the whitlow. From the ledge strong
arms seized -George and drew him out, just
aa the roof with a whirlwind of name and
smoke carae crashing in.
It was Eel) Carson who. when Millard
had been given up for lost, loped in among
the burning timbers and tearing away the
debris beneath tee window, came ataggeriog
back with his friend in his arms. As they
thronged about him, lying helpless on the
ground, with words of praise and gratitude,
he threw out both arms to keep them back.
"Don't thank me ; don't call me brave bmo,
a coward. 1 a dastardly coward 1"
There were weeks of pain for Millard ;
weeks that wore away and left him frail and
feeble, with all the earth's sweet light for-
ever quenolied for him in darkness, and his
poor face sadly seared and ecerred.
"Blind 1" bia poor mother had slariekeds,
wringing her bands when test After te t
proved but too plainly that those great dark
eyes were really aightless. "Oh my bey I
my poor boy I my eldest born, my best and
brighter: V' and throwing herself down on
her knees beside him, she caught his brown
head to her bosom, amidst a storm of sobs
and tender words.
"Nay, mother," he said, gently freeing
himself. "Ib is but the adding of patience
and brotherly kindness to my faith—and,
what was it you read? He that laoketh
these things is blind and cannot see afar off,
and loath forgotten that he was purged from
his sins,' "
In the early summer of that year the "lit-
tle teacher " again visited the hill -country
and, among the first cottages, that of the
Ammo. Millard waa not at his home; he
was higher up among the mountains, his
mother said, holding a protracted meeting
in which great interest was mannered.
"Yes'rn, he have given himself to the
Lord, my Millard have, and there's not
another preacher like him anywhere. The
people from down in the valleys come up to
hear him nigh every Sunday that be
preaches here, but they don't come to laugh,
for there's no shoutin' an cavortin' in Mil -
.o•i•••nnt•ohe.....•••p•wyllkre•••....a.onwm.00•...w.
Military fltaternen.
The history of Boularmiern would seem to
add another proof to the many that exist of
the feet that wintery mon, in then later
dams of the world's history, do not make suer
easeful politicians. The greatest soldier that
the English-speaking race ever produced
was a failure as Prime Minister of Great
Britain and though the Duke of Wellirog-
ton keit the saddle for nearly throe years,
he found his methods were not consiatent
with the exigencies of populer Government.
France has gained little by militaristn. The
first Napoleon laughed at the English as a
"nation of ahaekeepare," but the " shop-
keepers " have on the 'whole done their
governing better than the nation that la so
inclined to lose ita head over " /a gloric."
Frame certainly did better under Louis
Napoleon than she had none for yore pre-
vieuely, and Louis Napolepn. could only be
called a soldier by courtesy. Boulanget may
not be a very good soldier, but still he has a
military record, and just that capacity of
" bow not to do it" which appears to beset
the military man who dabbles in politics.
France has already a Sitio low. If she were
to substitute for it a, law to the effect that
no military man should be eligible for govern-
ment cffice ib would probably do her more
good.
An Excellent Bill.
A bill for the better protection oflife and
[property by night baa been introduced into
the British Parliament. It proposes that if
anyone armed with a dangerous weapon or
instrument enters or attempts to enter a
dwelling•howle in the night with intent to
commit a felony, be is to be guilty of felony;
and, in addition to any puniahment to
which he is now liable, he is to be liable to
be sentenced to be priviately whipped three
times. In the case of an offender who is
under 16 years of age, the nuraber of strokes
at each whipping must not exceed 25, and
the instrument ulnae be a birch rod. In the
case of any other male offender the number
of strokes at eaoh whipping is allowed to go
up to 50. The court must, however, always
specify in its sentence the number of strokes
to be inflicted and the instrument to be
used, and no whipping is to take place more
than aix months from the passing of the
sentence. For the purposes of the measure
the "night" is made to commence at six in
the evening, and to last until eight in the
morning.— [Philadelphia Ledger]
It Was Very Sudden.
A farmer not many miles from Maine was
the owner of a very slow and balky horse
which was recently overtaken by death.
One of our business men the other day ex-
tended to the farmer nis sympathy for the
loss of the horse, and said: "He must have
died rather suddenly, didn't. he "Sud-
den 1" replied the old ton' " guess be did,
mighty sudden fur him. It's the most sud-
den thing I ever knowed him to do in all
his life. Tbe further remarks of sympathy
from the merchant were drowned by the
laughter from tae bystrindere.--fLowiston
Journal.
lard's church. It's nigh about as. quiet as
'tie in your'n, But he keeps a myna' tone- --
thir' I can't underatand about Peter, an' Lyons silks for evening. and reception
ban' a coward, an' tryin' to wipe out the dresses are n Oriental dergne.
ethane by stand& up for Christ all the rest
of his life."
"Here's his Bible," she continued, touch-
ing a ponderous book with raised letters
If the Moravian missionaries in Atoka un-
derstood Lord Lonsdale aright he has been
perambulating the northern continent with
which lay upon the table. "George Rab y n the temperature 105 degrees below freezing
father bought an' give it to loim, an' George, Points No wonder he thinks he cannot be
he professed the first time Millard ever far from the north pole.
LATEST FROM EUROPE. I TWO GIRL fiTOWAWAY8.
Boulanger Again—The Late Duchess of
°Ambridge— The German Wort to be
the Gayest in the World—The Plots
of Russia,
LoNnote, .April 13 --Thor several days this
week "The Sun's" correspondents in Paris,
Brunets, and Loudon have pursued an in-
vestigation into the sources et Gen. Benton -
nett wealth. Despite the most rigid search,
it is iroponible to find out exactly where the
vast eume which the General dispenser 50
liberally earns from. At preaent this is more
extraordinary since the orttpet is so large.
ieer un instance, take Boularrger's Present
mar Ora h Browne, He had taken the
whole film in the principal hotel of the city,
and actually has a more expensive suite than
Beacorradeld lied when he reemsented Great
Britain at the Bernie Couterence.
The late Duehess of Cambridge was burl
ed to daybe the little church at Kew, beside
the remains of her husband, who died forty
years ago. The ceremooy was supposed to
be private and ample, bee there was, a good
deal of publicity and a fair aracinet of pimp.
The fora' wend have taken place earlier,
but for some unaccountable re 04011 the or-
dinary pattern of the royal outer coffin, of
vehich the court undertakes to keep a few in
stock, was ditoreled for a huge melon cotton
with enceptioually heavy bowl and oreanin
tittinga, which could net be finished until
bet evening. When three inner %flea had
been placed in the motet the whole weighed
o. (marker ef a tore
When the imperial German mourairm ter-
minates youeg Kehler Wilhelnen court will
Immure the mot gorgeous in Europe. He
has ordered that court: dreier 411;41 oomprio
Imes breathes, buckle elutes, thremcornerea
het, and colors preeramehly arl libitum and
wording to the individual fancy. This
foodness of William's for splendor is
ent. It le but the &valorem:it of his leve
for brilliant and show uniforms, The per-
sons! equipment of some ofneera of the Keis
wen great army 10 day would abash the
moo frowestio and decorative dreams of Beau
Brunton. When the gooier gaudy trap -
plop reaches Court there is ground for bops
there the Germ= [Maori may take it up. At
preemie the women of Berlin enjoy the re-
putation of being the woreit armed. he
Europe.
There is A strong ovival of Roden ha.
trigeo IA Roumania Ritmo'the Corli
Munster et Bucharest, wile enede thither so
lively iu Delgada for Alexander of Batten.
berg, and more remutly itt Sere% for King
Milan, is conduoting the lateat conspiracy.
People are speculating re to the length of
time it will take to force .h.ing Charles t
abdicate.
SAVE YOUR THREE CENTS.
e. Word or Advice to rusty Letter Writere.
"The af6xing or the swop is in the
majoriby of came the lot rage of the letter
writing* It is a kind of sealing, signing,
end -delivering, It would not be a hail moral
habit of a MAU to patio before efli zing his
portage stamp, and to consider whether
judiciously mad conscientiously, he had not
better nave hie money. When once he
has dropped his letter bete the letter-
box he has committed otto of the ire-
-vocable aota of Vale life. Orly with the
utenoet eatreatiee, and only an rarest in
atriums, bevel over known of letters render
ed back ty the postmaster to the fonder.
Aa you prepare to affix your atamp, give one
final thought to conscienee, whether you
might not altersimprove, or altogether ob-
literate the letter. There may be all aorta
of wrong and oil connected with letter.
writing; but to apeoialise an instance, you
may have been writing an angry letter, It
may be a clever, caustic letter, and you feel
rather inclined to regard it approvingly,
moldered as it literary production. But: it
may be a paseionate and unjust letter. It
may be unreasonable and untrue. You may
be giving unmerited pain by sending. You
may bitterly regret] the moments when
your band obeyed the inanoral behest of
eerier mind. You have heard of the phy-
sician's presoriptiou abont the cucumber—
to peel it carefully, slice it tenderly, be
gingerly with your vinegar and plenteous
with the oil, sprinkle the pepper, brown or
red, over it—and then fling the mesa out
of the window.
The Siesta.
The siesta is Spanish, and means the
short sleep after dinner in which moat peo.
els indulge who live in bot cliraates. The
heat of mid-day is so enervating that iD is
impossible then to do effective work, so
tbat the siesta, while it gives a brief rest,
does not cause a loss of working hours.
The needof a short "nap" after dinner is
not less here than in the torrid zone. its
effect: is to furnish a new supply of nervoies
force; to do o11 a smaller scale what the
night's sleep does on a larger one.
Both the climate of the country and our
national habits tend to keep the brain and
nervoua system at a high tension. From
youth to old age we are on the race for
wealth or position, for pleaaure or fashion,
for reform or religion. How different is
this from the indolent life of the tropics,
and even from life in the European coun-
tries, where the pressure—perhaps also the
rewards of ambitions striving -.may be less.
We need something mote than the midday
nap. We need to see that, without a milord
change, there is danger ahead for as. Indeed,
much of it is already on us, in the rapid
multiplying of apoplexy, paralysis, softening
of the brain, heart complaint, nervous pros-
tration and nervous ailments generally.
We need to foroe ourselves to take thinge
tore quietly. ; to think more of the rest and
solace and duties of home, and less of the
sbop and club and the parties of pleasure.
We need to preach up the virtues of con-
tentment and selecontrolt and preach down
the vice of an eal.conannung greed.
But, meanwhile, the midday nap is of
vast help. It is wonderful how much re.
ouperative power there 15 in a nap of a few
minutes. No one who has ever acquired the
habit of a brief eiesta hes failed to experience
it, and perhaps there is no way in which a
quarter of an hour of our time, every day,
can be invested with a prospect of a better
dividend in health and length of days than
in an afteadhener nap.-1Youth's Com.
panion.
A Genius for Business.
Solomon Siberetein.--" Dot poy uf Mine
vos mate mit a berfeot ohenius for per zinees,
Isom. Dig morning he vent to haf his hair
gut mit a fife -cent parper in Roosevelt street,
und ven I see him dere in de chair he vos
riding his loon& vile de parper vos gifing
him a elhamboo 1"
Wound on the eteamenip Ohio When. Two
Days Out trout Queenstown.
The:.stemnship Ohio was two days one
from QAcenstown,. on her way to Philadel-
phia, before it WAS discovered on board that,
while her passenger list celled for 346 peo.
pie, she had 348r The two more passengers,
"Stewaways," as every mariner cane peo-
ple not down on the books, were two young
girls, who wished they hadn't come.
Capt. Sareent, the commando: of the
Ohio, eent for the two girls and oked there
severely why they had veaturel to try to
get free paseage to America.
"If yoo please, air," old the elder of the
two, "we didine want to come at all. My
names Lizzie Henneesey, and she," indiord-
big her weeping cevapanion," "le Mary
Ellen Murphy, There was mule friends of
U5 from the game village coming over, and
we came out in the tender to say good-bye."
Tbey were in the "between cleolie" who
the notice "All ashore that's going" was
given before the tender ern away tc take
back to Queenstown, three miles away from
the Verrill, those who had come to the Ohio
to sey farewell. The two gide did not
hear the warning, and the steamer was
under way' and the Mader a stet in the
dietanee before the girls knew, they were on
the way to America without their pottage
Pad and without even e cheese of clothing.
Their friends cued for them and they
weren't thrown overboard, as they feared at
first when they heard the captains severe
question: "How did you get here!"
Inimigrent Inspector /betters, whale duty
it ie to SOO that the immigretion love are on.
forced, deteined the tW0 ittOW0w05's On
board. Vette Ifenneseey lute e teeter in
New York, and both gide have a good mauls
Mende in tido country, who, as they,expeet,
Will Save thein from tbe ermicknees and
diemnifort of the voyage back to Queens.
town, Beth of the girls mealier no feelingly
to Inspector Badgers on tide subjeet thee be
told them they would prollebly be altowed
to land. They aro strong intelligent girlie
who wouici probably he able to toko Ore of
themselves.
Tem° are the first fe.nale'stowaways"
this line has ever brought over.
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Pastan Votes.
According to o iambi= authority, 1-diea
hats will have lower crowne this season.
This will give Iheetre.gaera a now source ef
setiafaetiore
Now is the tiro for auleeptible young men
to fall Wok in Philadelphia. Thirty-six
young ladies have jot been made doctors in
the Quaker City.
A bouquet of white roses but% on the belt
knob of the bonae of a dead peraon along
with the crape is a new idea in trappings of
woe noted by the New Vora Tribune.
A goad imitation of frosted glass may be
produced by applying. to the glom a saturated solution of alum ne water. It may be
colored by the addition of aniline dyes. The
colorieg is not very permanent, however.
In ell the country towns iu Etatern Cote
neoticut smart yourig lediee ere quitting the
piano for the chioken incubator, and they
tied thee hetching chiekene ie not only vast•
ly more lucrative than toying with the thole.
nag keys. but it is retire healthful and foci.
zuniug. It is alto more healthful for the
neighbors.
The magnificent building which the wo-
man's Chriatien Tempo.= Union proposes
to erect in Chicago will ant .$300.000. About
half of this atm has teen raised already. It
will be eleven Memo in height, mad it is
eatimated that ita rental will be about $20,-
000 a year. It will be known as the Tempt
of Temperance.
At a recent beggare ball in Vienna there
were 5,000 persona present, all in beggare
maturate The more beggarly rbe oostum
the greater the applause that greeted be anc
at the close a prize was awarded to the pot
son who was adjudged to bay° made the
most successful hit in costume and manner.
A person who caricatured a well-known
=trees won it.
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Bold Robbers Driven Off.
Lonnotr, Ont.. April 22.—The banking
and ehipping tam of F. S. Clarke, Rich.
mond atreete was the other afternoon tbe
scene of a bold and desperate atter:opt: at
robbery. About halepast two a couple of
atrangers entered the cflaze, where Mr.
Frank Clarke was alone belaind the coun-
ter. Ono of them presented a pistol at
Marken head and called upon hbri to de-
liver his money. Mr. Clarke stood for
a moment in astonishment, and the order
was repeated more imperatively "Hand
out your money." The young man suddenly
anewered, "No, I won't," and reaching
quickly over the railiogegraeped the barrel
of the pistol and turned it aside. The other
atranger was standing at the door of the
counter as if to bounce in and eecure the
cash on a favorable opportunity, but 011
seeing the bold stand taken by Clarke both
men turned and fled. The policemen thus
far have no clue to the would-be robbers.
Late Advice.
A middle aged colored woman, who me
caaionelly worked for a. lady in an Eastern
city, one day informed her employer thee
she could not do any more work for her,
as she intended "gettin' mahled."
"lndeedl" exclaimed the lady, "'Jo you
are going to be married?"
"Yes'm, I is, fo' sartain."
"Well, I hope, Rosa, thatyou have given
the matter careful conaiderationr
"Yetem."
Finding her in a resceptivo mood, the
lady thought it an excellent tims to give
some advice on the sabj era of matrimony,
and she improved the occasion. Rasa lis-
tened rettieatly, and then said:
"Dat's so, lady, dads sof I tell yo' dis
mann' mahried Met no riffle b usiness.
Pee been oilfield fo times already myself,
lady, en I knows dat w'at you done say is a
solemn fao'.»
" Anglomaniaos.
Aigy—" Cholly, what makes you so slid
this nowning, me bov?"
"Haven't you weeny heard the howible
news, Alma -
Alm,— ;New."
Cholly—" Our darling P wince is sick.
He hair a boil on his neck."
Algy—" A boil ? Be jewve—d'ye know
how to make one. We positively must not
go out till we have at least put te poultice
on to keep up appearanoes, anyhow."
' The Welsh schooner Pursuit, Capt.
Williams,. salt laden, sailed from Weayton
Point, near Liverpool for Carloway, distant
410 mitre late last September. She got as
fat as Stoaneway, within fifty miles of her
destination, on Oct. 23, but dm then has
been so driven aboutand damaged by storms
that she has Just remixed her port of desti-
nation, having been almost six months On
the way. The mate dropped dead during a
gale, but the rest of the orew were welL
Give the Children a Chance.
In planning and laying. out timer and
vegetable gorderis this eprmg do not forget
the boy a and girlie
idereeraber that all children love flowers
and like to (lig le the dirt, and many of
them may have an undeveloped tote far
horticulture.
Give each is piece of ground for a garden
if you can postribly rio tio. Let ie be in a
good situatioo, expose(' to the sunlight, and
the soil good. DJ not think it shaded or
;Amy plot where oothing will grow goon
enough for them, for if you do they wilt bei
come cliecouraged.
Allow them to exercise their own icing-
Mentkl a liWe and exemine otitaloguee and
select a few well known varieties for them -
elves, and do not snub them when they yak
questions. 'Teach them the nee of fertilizers
and show them hew to plant the sea. If
they fiud ineecte injurious to vegetation
help them to search tor the picture and de-
scription in Some good work on the subjeot
or in some good agricultural paper.
In this weer they will become happy and
interested aud you will be surpriaed au their
aptitude and oral-miser:a, It will require
perhaps Some patience and extra exertion.
But how great well be the retura—for if yen
do not &etre them to follow it air an avoca-
tion it will give them it love at nature and
eat -el -door life thee will make men and
women of them. Many people sigh because
their children as they grew older will nob
stay on the home farm, but they do not
make them love it when young.
De not for wee moment: think bourse
youro hilcireu happen to be girla thet they
Cana t beCeone good femora or hortionitur.
lati, for there aro wetly very sUceeesful
wthogrnseenwhflooricaatrer;modugoaxrtodepaueivree, teosrmawe,liNees,
ivhere is a WOMan'a Well-knotrn talent for
plauning and eXe,Oriting• AB Well at
her gime taste, ea well applied as in
the matey lunette, home speut la the
thoee pursuits. Well do I renaenolser
bite =don I WAS ever awed to eAll my
rQusvisia (r. d tte wbAele t ParnedPairaectlifer bel i"byl) epeilanntiebu
therein hollyhocks and morning gloriee. I
visited it the fiat thing in the morniug
and the hart at night, and when the atm
green pleats nrat appeared I was euprennety
happy. I watched and guarded tt with
eeatoo care lob any atray dog. cat or a tole-
chievoeti elder brother ehotild disturh 18.
My della herd hero made to Weep aewduate
Old Tribey'a beautiful geW kittens had dia.
appeered,
and. 1 was told they had started
ou 8 voyage to China. And I had aeeu
lkijor, our staid old dog, rush down the road
weering my doll's best hat and cloak. All
Wel had borne in eilenec and choked down
my rising auger. But when AU attempt:
was melee to enter the altered preeineta of
my garden—n/011, 1 do not lido to finite
whet bappened. The attempt was never
repeated, !eat, au any brother wisely remark-
ed, ".t tigress might unexpeotedIy mop
down on hint and new his beauty.' So
was left ho peaceful possession and kept well
out of mischief all summer.
And all among my firma I walked,
Like A miser 'mid his treeeure;
For that: pleasant plot of garden ground
Was a world of enclicee pleaeure.
The True Reason,
NetWithatanding the glowing tribute of
admiration whioh the press of the United
Statea had paid to the memory of Jahn
Bright, the Sellate at Washington declined
on Wedneaday to vote directly upon a re-
aolution expreating its arrow at hia dont.
The excuse was offered that an ewkwara
proof:eine would thus be established, and the
resolution was referred to the Commmtee on
Fereign Relations. The true inivercinese of
this proceeding, however, is thus explained
by .the New York " Times r"—" The real
reason why the retolutionsovere not prompt.
by and unanimously paned is thee John
Bright, one of the noblest cheraoters itt Eng --
Belo history, the firemen mote faithful, and
moat forleas friend of this Republio in its
hour of trial and peril, the Enolishroan to
whom we ovre a deeper debt of gratitude
than to any other since Chatham and Berke,
and as groat a debt as even to them, was in
the later years of his life an opponent of the
Irlah. party. The SeriaO that could aonfer a
high diplomatic officieuport Patrick Egan, on
whose naturalization papers tbe ink is scarce-
ly dry, &ea not find it 'proper' to express
sorrow for the death of a statesman who was
the champion of the principles on wbich our
Government is founded, and who was in far
closer sympathy with afl that is truly and
rightly American than any ono of the heart -
leas demagogues who constitute so large a
part of that body. The grief of genuine Am-
ericans f or the loss of John Bright is not more
sincere than their contempt for such selfish
cost ards."
A Ludicrous and Perplexing Mistake.
Mr, Joseph Gilbert, who was attached to
the astronomical service in Captain Cook's
expedition to observe the transit of Venus,
used to wear very tight leathereireechee. He
bad ordered the little tailor to attend him
one morning, when his granddaughter, who
resided with him, had also ordered her
shoemaker to man upon her. The young
lady was seated in the breakfast -room
when the maker of leather breeches waa
ehown in, and, as she did not happen to
know one handicraftsman more than the
other, ahe at once intimated that she wished
hire to measure her for a pair of "leather,
for, as she remarked, the wet weather was
coming, and -she felt cold in " cloth. " The
modest tailor could hardly believe his ears.
"Meaeure you, miss 1" said he with hesita-
tion.
"11 you please " said the young lady
who was remarkable for much gravity of
deportment; " and I have only to beg that
you will give me plenty of room, for I am a
great walker, and I do not like to wear any-
thing that constrains me."
"But,, Miss," exclaimed the poor fellow in
great preplexity, "1 never in my life meas-
ured a lady ;I—" And there be paused.
" Are you not a lady's shoemaker ? ' wits
the query calmly put to him.
" By no means, miss," said he. "1 are a
leather breeches maker, and I have come to
take the measure, not of you, but Mr. Gil-
bert."
The young lady bonne perplexed, too,
but she recovered her self-possession after a
good commoner:awe laugh, and sent tha
maker of breeches Viler grandpapa.
An Appreciative Husband.
"Talk about wivere" said Farmer Haw -
buck. "['o got one wife in a million.
Why, she kits up in the mornin', milks 17
cows, and OM breakfast for 20 hard-workin'
men before 6 o'clock." "She nnuit be a
very robust womon, Efawbuck," remarked
one of his healers. "On the oontrairy."
put in the farmer, "she is pale and delikin
t e. Gosh. ef that woman was strong I
&unto what work she couldn't do."
A mania of smoide is prevalent in Pitta -
burg. In the peat week nine attempts at
self destruction have been made.