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EOUSEHOLD. A SURVEY OE, 3 'Elii3.Y. KILLED, ZRIED AND DATBR. body, became the lion might take her aleto
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aud then elm chief woulel kiU oevever,
What WedSeett be a Vea NVhe ten JOhnS• 1it was no use looleing for ourlost eompanion,
Riots in Renovating. towie Just en Vine An eremite Adventure leen A Lempter especially ate after the lieu ,had one with.
Eie:e creshee velvet over A pen Of Judge Joseph Masters supertettesdeet of Front Rider Uneszard, him the layenae, jeckele, wild dogs, etest,
*boiling water, mad the steam wifl eradeally 'etude anil 'email:age, for Om Cambrie kon
raise the pile, which yen ean amilet by conspeay, eseaeierl all the Jehnstown inter-
brethiree it, en A coutrary direction smith viewernexcept the one oftheErie'Obeeryer,
eoft to within he told a meat ieteresting story.
Brune the duet from bleen e, sonthat wile he 'came delve breek
with greeo tem mid pee it on a bleneet
todmer palling it lute eleape as yeupu
elonwee Jet peseemeneeriee muse be rule
bed -with flennel and the lost beads re-
placed,
Waeb. black caehmere le stile made of
',seep bark, elime in, clear water, then in A
weed water to which hleeleg hes "gnu ad-
ded. If the geode aza much faded, add A
geed deal of blueing and let the ceehreere
lie in Ode over -night. Pi eh it tep by the
ndgest heewine thatly plane to 'dry,
withent wringing, mid prsee while esti!
(temp. plebe Shirt ueed tent be zipped.
celorlues drese geode there must he'
plenty of eye, the clone meet nette Crowded,
tit meat be tired eftee, and rause hew hems
very theremeshly wet before he wee immereed
U1 see dyes It elmeltd ent he weweg, let it
elrein insteel, change poeition on the Ike
while dreinieg er (Wee prese while damp
nutil every crew is out of it, and tboa
lay it eveny with as few fids it as
lNa')r whieb eap bark ban been
'belled is .exce3lleut fee wethieg levee, gent-
briee e.raleeteeeethat aie•eestly f Tey
*head be watthel in mere ' wetee time
. weelese geodes le eshecially reeera-
ended tor sUeens, • aa 4 preeervee their
VT:ZRIPAL'IlPaa. , Iron ea the Wreegelde whiiet
-eleehtly &met. -
• Breeh hieek ellk with *velvet, h melt . e
lot it with an old ,elre• 'itetelkereblei
epeegee with relee,hol and werm water en, the.
'wreete tide, aed le drip dry. De not
ix= or fold. It. A. .Feeech reeilted •te to
apotege the . with hu e ceffee etreleed
lateugh A MAMA hoe, 'Wpenteci en the
eigise eine end heti ha enamel', WATM
4rvia When pertly dry.
The Wrilekled Oilelethe
Thee° was a 14g bubhle he the 'co
the two-yerel strip at eileleth that oely
a morale hefere had hetet teeked Otto by
the wood h'eX. The ;tittles -es -went dour dreg.
gad ad caught ea it wheel, epened or aimed,
end the greee puffy tele wickedly ttleped
greeelee'e and *belittle fah's' feet.
"10411 be Old wheu eegrevetheg,
-peeterieg. wrinkle eplitee ete the biekee edhee
will bp ever on theereelvee and this deer
will *Aloe Nekton a Mt 1." time, ex
eleiteed,givirg the etreedleg doer AA mopes
tient eel* est ehe teed te open sorgiug
et heeded trey Q! dithen
Dee the adeleth wai new and streng, an
with Wear the be etaw letiger and ingher,
with ere epeedy prerasse el A split,
"1 wid out that wruelde aud do
%beano far as they. bp, an
WI train= euee 1' I Said ONO tlay wine
the opeelnes deer hal brought up agebtet the
bubble in the mattiugewith entitItia Jake
giviza out hurrying baby a cruel bump. Be
us t then Aunt &textile CS;ne in awl told et
a heeler way to remedy the metter.
Oilcloth always stretches with wear an
alteuld never he teedeed ma all. aides ; then, as
Ib Crotchet', it CAA Owl reran for the extra
4pme it aunt have, You teeked this met.
ting as snug and firm On every *We AS though
dt had been rag carpetbag, and no wander it
vitinkIes, ReEnove the Wei on the wall
Wide, where the all eletle will haw plenty of
szoom to epread se it strelehea and the lease
• ed e et ill not he opt to trip 'feet and the
elele will eetn lie flee,"
We followed Aunt elartlusn Pelvic* and
the sittirg recut door seen swung free or
any bindratce, and we wondered Out peop-
le as bright ea we think ourselves bra never
thoteght hew to remedy ouch nulattnee,
Ehnen the Cape ulnae
Exley in the preseut century, about 1620.
met, the =ova Ing of tee geed he Baw the mut berried by &hest ef enemies, intrenched ever eed anon dreePind their leen lees eta
heckwater in the Cereemaugh ann Stony. himself on a hirth, rocky fortreo news as cisme, autl swooping dtowu te the grouud,
er eek weedtigher then heremenebered hewing then, ketiwit as T11°413°14°1 when"' °Aelt anti we °WY knew tee 4141 what that neeant"
seen itbefore duringeo Short A rain. Helmet tn the ditmeY °I bbt °seellentet w°41"1" 1 it' 4.45 4 nthlerahle tic" that -4/1°4/e
elweys mistrusted the dam at Sauth Fork burl' d"wnbIdb Piles °Istenees 'Peeked' nY by tra.a awIni days In Bientniend the
and reasoned that if the water heel rieee 41ght* wooly bee4e` ennlYentnheeteher /Vo wasretrelrfainr g the snorer,
with all the over glowing eloquence end
stroeg grephie pewere of eratory poseessed
by these people, I say, to an emieent awl
singular elegvem it was WW2 ktereatin to
wetelt the fame et hie tante and immovable
auslitora as in the Kafir *it the dickerin
fire light daneed upon their awarthy and
elotteutete, nor eten among the leivest of enrapt features. Islet a Senna GOnki be
Swett African rues the Baehmen; And it is heard, except every /VOW And then A deep.,
just as eertain that it has not been amorm ehest intoned " 1" which epoke
the Zulusebut, as au exception, AS with the (mealy of the concentrated attention paid
/demises it occerren Natal abeut the eame to the tale of the narrator.
would fall upon all that was left* After we
gee Wale distill:lee from tee spote and the
Ann was up and. hot, we looked baok and
could see the vultures circling everheed
the Besutechieftaltehloshesinbeing worrieel about the niece where We 'led Skill', and
eapelly Johnstowe levet be very Ingle e A§U 0..S re people, u r e -
in the lake- He told bia family that mhen duced by tbeir enennes to very bard atraite,
the water canes ITO the orb tile ziyer 9 that they wee driven by absolute ;Armee-
hanle he elteuld, telte them met of the city tea tion to resort te thetherrthinwork of einen
places of satety, He started, out to gether hatAnh Thie detedish practece waa Certain -
his eelativea and by 10 o'clock he hell thew, le' net Ws elehtted to the account et the
ell le
ha twentymix ember. native recces of South Afriea As a rule, In
There were his wife, twee acme mad their °le ar15' d°Ye wae net /wind' aineng the
fareilies, one daughter and family, and one
ishotheniselew tied bi.s ferny, in ail twenty pQr4Que. At fV-3 the water was up to
the curb, and this patriarch loaded hie
tweute mix Leto an omnibus and weeup the
mous:dein side. Hie iteighbore jeered him
aed net oce wield follow his exempt°. Ile
left tile load at a house eo the Wrankstowe
road mad returned to the city. ,At 2 o'clock -
t the beet/mem 4 °meshes= the epeeethe many a atirang story el escapee from the
told hint he hast just reeeived a teitphene Bps of those who were captured, and who
meesage kont Coeemesegh thee rho dem hee 1 had themselves lieteeed to disceiniona as to
goee egt', bQroessA.go ba i helmhroueet whether they would, eat tough or teuder
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frcm 2:onth Folck Copetzliugb by a waea cbey were killed. I have myself ease-
Meemotive and theeees telepeoned. wee vereen with lieveral men who eecened atter
=wet. or foot, elye sledges Masters the dean having been cepturea by 4 Arnammen or
bad ot then broken, bet the people at tte Man Eetent, and after having been tole eff
leke become eatiewee them je worths, tO fereith the nett feseet for their ewpters,
and tient the memage thee it heel ill order tead. wIttt eneena Phlet 4611 ,11`40g. LP 045
ate= the Feet* lead ledeee them to title. C9.1c)0Y-"'who5"S ee.:leilell.ellby „.
Judge Memel reedral tete the *wet oral b44t cry c'1„4 P4"4 W4.-'49°44° was "44 be
eheuree the news t) all he eceeld goo. et E be ceaked. The ageue °title
period. 1S20 23, se -Nee, pecene of my father," resumed old
Sir Teeophilus Stepetone, in paper he Marweni, the next day 1 The second day
contributed some years ago to the Inlet in Bametolatte wee aVen Meta terrible, if
Colonial Inatitute, Soya; '1 hovo heard possible. We bad not pee far when the
giri,polatiog to something running down
the steep Aide of A great meuntein we were
walking p5*.. said 'What's that 1' We
looked up, and I immediately recognietd,
freest the wiled look, the bead. -long epeed,
seed the long, upright, uncut hair, the fear-
ful 'Izimte ommen body eater.' I
•11a013.17 told the girl it was all right, and
ant to be afraid, and bid my compapiee,
Soedode, to Orate( by and we'd kW him, ete
he WAS OOIF orle. Wet Alan 1 Selldedawas
Telng, and the theeltiog stories he bad
heard about the Araez.mu had, now, when
be was aetuelly leeking at one of the deinom
elide nursery tale, utterly pirate eta him,
so thet he was Alteeit powerlean while the
traege beteg ran ellootieg down the hill,
Ifowever, I engaged hint myself, Bat it
was all to purpeee, I must out the gory
t It elekem me. With a wild
eeve or eight more cenetbele buret ovgr a
little riee to eur lett and were on us like
lighteing juet anIstruele eppentern dowo
with my bettlemoo. I now received A SOM.
Kling bleW en the tweed, and inetinetively ran.
The cettnibale left me and holed thereeelvee
binding thewied seed Sere eleda,whoehowever,
t far regained himeelt tee to ake liA few
owe to weeed ores Uend with We amegei.
s vet to Au rate bear hole la the bog
.gram leeked back, and *ming the Aimee
mus *till eeeuring what they derabtleee
theueht thehe birdo la the hand, 1 pepped
(Unlit Into the hole Aad drew down eater me
ea to my head, the earth, gram and twist'
that the out besr had east out. The Can -
Mindy exec* after Me and looked for Intk
while, but het attics me, mewed to think
thettheY had enough for their larder, and
returned to their victims,
4%iter germ time, eel heard them badly
esagesed, I ventured to pop ety heed eerie
fully out of the hole, coati] atm zethiug at
delta hut gently dividing tho gram with my
hands, OW the brutes making a fire while a
Shastiplooklog old hog appeereda on the
scene with alerge,roughly.ratide eerthertwere
pot. I now found I was badly wounded by
one of their broad cattle% aesegais, and bed
my head nearly eplit open. Why ley any-
thing more I save them stab the girl and
Soudoda, and mem still to beer the dull thud
of the emeget en tiodr Welles, and their
thrillingly ramernful shriek, but what Gould
do ?—half stunned and badly wounded—
end °note eight. I saw them cnt my deer
friend up, root the Min hence first—et the
meat off them, and °rack the home for the
marrow. I ate entranced, quite forgetting I
was 'bowing my heeel—* • Tiny boil
ed the rent. * " I oen't tell any more.
* • The night now falling, I erept
out of the bole and ran stearilly towards
Natal for my life. The good /spirit of my
dosed father, I suppose, kept the lione 'ghee.
never saw the dog after the lion had killed
Mekuze. I got home the next eight—halt In
a drove—dale at Inert, miserable and melan-
tvra thoal. to ny fee eheir woo, eam eeespe Is net nye rallee from the emit (Mess
"hilt I era eorry to my I watI Met nrite) en W11101 this leoPet k writtoo,
eded hy irgreciont owl laughter, The and at ptg:Ioat tonne part et the epleeopell
peeple emin they had heard the same utery for PrePottY .beld
thirtyyeas and thet, I waliie Crank. The There 15 140, reason to loolieve that the
lentre mtelligeet the ewe 1 opeke to the le rm Be'sutete brought the eastern with Omen
ed they petit te me•weredeg," thouele there le Ample evideuce that they
ret 3 o'cleek ;fudge Maateta left the city, Pt.eodetd tktrieg tho tIt°8 44 tbet'r were
end reeented the bosom Where hie ferally wete with lefeerigal al and with, the Honorees,
befere the ibtat eatele, It 0040 in eight at enndelt PAY iea,:4Q/514,14 bee,,,,,°nPFinoeed that tet
deln o'clock, and item atetion op the "en "leen °art'e" ca 4a a 444'414 4444244ag"
9;11313in-4de Judge Mostexsi Lad, a /au 5.14w way, iu gplte of the opposition of their
ae it came down the uarrow valley of elders" down to a very nindern date" Q12.
he Cousmettgu, through tee tom et weed, silis tells the derive et enntinliate which
vale, And lato ;he city el Johnetowns The be beard from the natives en his Bret
Ve was higher in the middle Omelets the vel I° mgt°1"4" and 411144 1829 44
es and came at the erne et 013 Qxprc44, date, PATS that foeltealt het sad end to
eet tho free raiiroed bridge et einem *one heriere„ He aaya there were "thirty
eh it named te element, test tee emehe eir forty villages the entire rpelatIon of
it petesed over Wt.:wavelet rottaroo, the worry oVUliballi an who mho lao ilocrot of
peel euel the meter Mlle Ott falter them whteb to PtrelAred theoe w were, ter*
ver entsbleg them like matcher.. end their Me,"
them up like feethers, 042 the crest 1 heve men, when quite a hey, the Idatel
an Lar se the eye ceuld eeeeb linfire listen wine tiger and breathiest' in.
awe and whole truelm 9f tereet to the wild, weird and horrible tales
tne wave etroek bathe that the elder 'Isar; used to tell al their ex.
45511 !pray In the air perieecee in the gloomy taanieseee et the
lay in ks bonanza Maluti—the high, and tumbled 411).mble
ley as peaeeful isa beam Bet voon the Motu:adult" of Basutoland. I well remember
of the iitzbsd reaebed The ear; of the adee old Idelle, who, as seems to bel ueuel
isiteute and many were *scenting out el witle roily good autheritiee, Was rather
houees and buildings and maks taciturn regarding the Imparting of Informs
for the rootinteins. They looked that concerning thews and ether early ro.
the pekes of viovr on the memo neerkehle events, being length persuaded
like pigraion "Alas It was tco to 17e1440 emu of hie adveuturee In the
w elowly they seemed to run and hiAlutio in the days gone by. 0/ count' the
ow feet carat theme's of death," When Zeloo and the reet et the "human" tribe@
he wave emerged trona the velley of the had the liveliest horror and the meet awful
pper Couernategh It bed been compreend dread of the "eimozimne"—a name that
by the sides of rho mountains into a cum. mothers instantly silenced naughty ohildren
peretively narrow ApAce. It shot into the with,
widenleg pirate where Jahnotown lay In 9, Howevete the Old Kafir the was me of
straight fine like water from the' :mem of Metiwaue tribe, hailing from the Brekent,
hose. Then the water split in two parts. berg, wl ere the late Ilatiwene's eon, 441,4
The =alter pert went dove the bed of the 4 Z stall," Was governing the tribe—the
(arlentaUgh river, while the larger part Amengwone—Zikali had been placed there
plowed on le alowat a straight line through to guard the mountain imam aphid the
the very heart of the city. At the etone mitchievout and lometimos deadly Inros.da of
reilread bridge it bad teen weekoned by the Bushmer); well, "the ole Ketir took a
spreedlug out over a wider space. The drietk of leative beer and °baron hie throat,
wreckage formed a dem at the bridge and throwing, With A grin:end eerk of his arm,
the water hacked up, apreadIng out over the his robe drills shoulder, to give freedom to
ante city and up the valley of Storey creek the impressive and =premien geetleulatloca
for two miles. Emma buildings that had employed—much as ths ROMA orator or
tinted down with the wave from Woodvele days gone by would ease his Shoulder of the oholy. I told me, and tale to the chief andine
to the atone bridge turned and followed the toga, before ha extended Ins bend and eel- dunoa sasetnbled. The dog was itehome."
new current of the backwater up Stony dreamed the "'Renegue friends and countrY•
reek for two miles and can be found there men," and. all the reale These remarkable
now.
people, the Zelua, in telling a story are most
minute in matters of detail. I teme eny
'speak the Zeit:lithe a natives
dye'. 3,1arweni then, tho atorydeller in
question, aeld that he end two cempanione
had been deputed by Matiwane to tale° a
girl to a chieftain beyond Basutoland, to
whom she was to be given in marriage.
"Well, people of my father," said he, "I
told the mothers,* to make some breall of
boiled and then hard baked maze, and the
next' morning we ettolestnek one of our sticks
through a loaf of bread, and taking our
knobkerriee and our aesegais, and rolling
mar blankets; up and slinging them over our
shoulders, took the poor weeping maiden
frorn her mother and darted. Through
two rivers we had to swim and get through
as hest we could with the girl, who couldn't
swim. But we cut down a large bundle of
dry reeds, and binding them together so as
to make a sharp point of their ends, placed
the bride -elects on it, and piloted it, point
forward, over the riven The Hops
about this time were very numerous,
and it was a common matter for those
who were too old to catch game to eat
people every day until they got quite used
to it, and preferred human to game flash.
Oh! I will never forget that ratfinight.
We had to sleep in a bleak, miserable spot,
and had chopped down a few bushes with
Maktz x's (one of my companion) axe and
made a screen r the girl, and then made
a fire to windward of the soreen ; and hav-
ing set an ant heap alight on either side, we
all lay down to sleep.
"It was pitch dark. • • • I fell asleep.
• • • I awoke with a terrible feeling.
The water Was flowing all around us, a
dark bank of thick clouds which, as the
sun set, we had seen to northwestward had
rolled down upon us and burst over our
heade. • The lightning was blazing and
blinding—broad and quivering ribbonlike
etreams of it danced bluely on every aide,
and the bellowing thunder (washed as if it
were going to kill the earth. We were too
frightened to speak, or even to get up out
cf the water, when suddenly, the dog that
was with us howled and yelped and tore as
hard as he could right over us, and the
next instant, with a terrible roar, almost
like the thunder itself, a huge lion sprarg
upon us and bit Makeza.
"Friends, I shall never, never forget the
dull, scrunching quash that the brute s teeth
made on poor Makuza's bones. We struck
wildly at him with sticks of the dead fire,
and saw by the blaze of the lightning that he
was a male lion of the large black maned
species. But, my people, it was all over in
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Adviee to Me Newly 3lawied.
leiter:yew two nice young people arer male,
'married, s wit be natural, I hope you have
been nearly BO before.. you hoe Unite—
u Everyone hale tremelf incepted I—try to
vorrect them, bemuse you ought; but do*
'worry for fear your hushed 'will get tired
•of you. Juin go on being your own loving,
trustirg self, and don't be afraid of ahowlog
'our lave, The sister who advised us not
to speak our love will never have me for her
^dietiple. You needn't be a slave; that Is
zot right upon the very face of it.
'You can't always appear before your lines -
'band with a fresh ribbon in yeur leak. If
you are the dear fellow's cook and house.
keeper, you needn't worry the roses 'out' of
wear cheeks trying to always meet hint in
=many dress. If you have each other's
confidence, and are the "chums" youeonght
to be, he will understand all these little
thine. If you feel bad. doret he afraid to
teilhim eo; but ke eAteiol not to let your-
self complete., tem much, for your own sate
and foe -the sake of all that is good and
peeitaant in your home. Try desperately to
e
'keep your temper; it troubles a gocd husband
to hear his wife scold. Of course, be thinks
It is "nervousness" and is "afraid the poor
girl ie sick." So I wouldn't acted much—
if I could hep it. It just 130 happens that
-when people are properly married, they
'manage to grow together unconciously.
They may come to speak lees often of their
etrve, ereause it grows to be so much a part
-of themselves and shows iteelf ir every look
and gesture. There will always be the
- spoken word and the loving caress, butnot
so often, perhaps, as in the first sweet novel-
ty of having a heart all one's own. We
grow used to happiness. And besides, a
mania life is full of the more practical things,
tewkiel his wife's work lies in the charmed
° &role of loving hearts and tender, clinging
lhands. Her vocabulary is the language
of tenderness,ler business is with her loved
Imes; while he must deal with men and
'things and talk of rates and profit's, of plant-
ing end plowing. No, sister, don't be
-alarmed. Just be a good loving girl, keep-
ing on corfidental terms with your husband,
and he will go on congratulating himself
and wondering how he ever happened to
win you away from all the other fellows
who must have been admiring you.
-Not an Entirely Hopelese Cue.
The proprietor of a "matrimonial estab-
lishment" 171. Europe was one day vioited by
nt lady of such extreme plainness that he was
.et first aghast. Be managed, however, to
collect himself and assume his usual cour-
teous manner.
SThe lady proceeded to etate thab she had
ws considerable fortune, but that, from some
unaccountable reason, she bad been unable
'to find a husband to her liking. She ended
hey making: "Now done) you think you could weapons which at close range be owe momenteanel the great beast leaped off
End me a good party, sir 1" ble of penetrating armor up w nearly sixteen with our friend in his huge jaws, while an -
"Ah, yes, madame said the agent very inches thick. The quick -firing armament other vivie flash of lightning blinded us
molitely. "There's no tailing; there may 1 will be the most powerful of any iship hi the again, and another cracking clah of thunder
,he a blind man in at any moment 1" world. It will enable her to discharge on seemed to deafen, stun and deprive us of all
each broadside a storm of from eighty to one action.
hundred and fifty projectiles a minute : and " At lade the miseralole day dawned, and
should she ever be attsoked by unartnored we had to go on is the girl wouldn't be left
YOUNG, FOLKS
ARODT JACK,
nv wm, curie FirOrt.
To lessin with, we were getting ready to
go to the seeehore for a month, Arrange-
ment§ had been mule for the whole fareilet
including Grandme D.M. ILIn. le Our
dog, !mewed to belong to Robert, and Grand-
nte—but Ganda is, of course, tut Grand.
ma, It isn't easy for us to got effall to,gether.
There are so malty of us, and we oome
°beet together—" so unexpeetedly
Father eays, ecinaetimes when hen worried,
Grandma /Aye there's alweys a good aide to
everythine and 910 Clothes All do 'wt.
out even being made over; and then there
are no 'twins, which we doret wort a good
aide at all, for Howard and I have always
been eieappointed that we weren't twins—
he blames me becattee I was born to ROM
but I say it is. his fault for no e being born
eooe ettough, And AS for our elothes—weill
there's no use talkin about them; but ic
you, bad to wear a dress. yea °leer sister
woe leat year, and had to be eareful to
leave enoegh of it for the one next to you,
you would know how dreedful it he Grand-
ma alwaye did see a geed side to everything
tho.
At last we bad found A boarding hiMS0
that would take children, including babied,
give Grandma a room froetin the sleuth,
with a 'window on the east; and the prices
were as low, Father said, As Mild be ex.
PeOfed "by a man with seven children ell of
the Eames age." FAther is always teasieg
and, maieing fun abone us, Wet he seems eft
the fonder of us for it. Indeed, he hasn't
yet gotten axed to Reb'e being gone, the
Mother never leaves the room Pow whet' we
talk of him, awl bee 41'104 us Ad to with
him beck Apia,
Thls 414 seen1 a very nice ort of a beard-
ing.house. They didn't have moteeettoes,
Father mid t " no, heeriling-houne
Inver do 1" And it was only ten minutee
walk from a good bathing beech. Otaudtua
WAS Afraid seine of US Wanid be droweed.
Tom iota Ethel were wild Over the wrecks
thelt amid be welted up, Aod deck limed
two weeke' pirt raMley to buy A shovel; With
which, he evaded to moseftee sindelug me
crone my hetet I'd keep it amen he was
going to dig After Captain Kiddie treaeure.
We bad A busy time getting reedy,
Mother ;mid at the ttegbantug it Was no use
thiekiug of getting bethieg suite for era ell;
we wouldget four, and halt et Us COUld go
in one day and hell the next ; And Grendon
the geed in it right away, and SAK it
44 WAtlet healthy " to go lute the salt water
too often.;
Betide; we lien a, few new clothee to
got,
and there were leanness and buttons,
mad brittone to he Lowed tee. There were
hats to be faxed up and bough, the eilmse
(wedding presentee ell of in except JAWS
reug mad hotel, for be was muted after A
rith weletlye, the only one we've got) to be
pot away, and finally Bridget to he gotten
to. mother oakt It hardly accreted aa it it
would pay, sometimea, she did get Po tired
and worried ; and I didn't biome hen ete
pecially mete Bringet. Ton see Bridget was
determined to go with um and then to atay
and look sitar the house. It wan very herd
to parvenu% leer to go and *taw with leer
;dater at Garbo:the but fins.11y Fether did.
edt
Thee, one day late in the ethoom the
traindended all of u in Beyport, very delay
and very tired, and Father pretty worried.
We bad lent Don the lad place we cluneged
axe, end Jaele had wept moat of the time
ohm hoomme the engine weeldtet turn
round and go back after him. Jitok is AO
funny and you can't reason with him.
Men wo got to boarding-1mm, we found
the landlady teed cube expeotedeix children,
instated of eleven ; but the promised to pietism
a cot in one of the rooms and make it! all
right As we went up the steps a lady on
the plume wad • 4' Goad greoloug, look At
the children I" which made Fether leugh, ;
and Jaok, Who heard her, turned around
and aald in Ms meet way "There are
eleven of us, 'which le not counting Fob; but
there are no twins," knew how disep.
pointed Howerd and I were.
The roome did vary ; More, went In
with Graudnue and I had the younger obIld-
ren in °barge In the ono next, The bop
wero near Feeler and Mother uptake. I
always have charge of the younger ones.
They call me "Stater," though Mary is older
than I; but Mary Is pretty and. I am not (I
have red heir aud a very bad nose), and she
playa the piano. I never could play any-
thing but nines, and even then I can't quite
manage my thumbs. Mary has gentlemen
callers, too, but I always liked to be about
the house and help Mother. I suppose that's
the reason they come to me—as they did
when it happened. For something did
happen, and of course it was jeck. When
anything happens I always know it is jack.
Why, when people alk about us, they al-
ways aay; "flow Jack and the rest of the
thildren V'—and ib was the same way this
time
Wewere at the breakfast table the firat
morning, and the landlady said: "I thought
there were seven children Mrs. Edgeworth,
but there are only five here." I supposed
there were six down, all except Mary, whom
we never waited for. I had left her up- For the treasures of precious worth
(stairs when I came down, doing her hair, We must patiently dig and dive;
arid it takes her a long time. Sometimes I For the places we long to fill
am glad I've got red hair—dear Mother We must push and struggle and strive.
calls it auburn ; but I might as well own up And always and everywhere
it Is just honest red, because it doesn'a seem We'll find, on our onward course,
to make any difference how yen "do it," and Thorns for the feet and trials to meet
so I bad hair like Mary's I suppose I'd take And a d:ffitult river to cross.
j net as lone as she in the morning, tho I
hope not. But besides Mary's not being
down, jack was nob there. Father sent
him up -stairs, and he came back quite
frightened, and said Jahn cob hadn't
been slept in. The boys didn't notice last
night he was not there, or if they did they
must have supposed him in one of the other
rooms, on aceou.nt of the landlady's mistake.
Mother said he came in and kiaaed her good-
nioht, and got his shovel out of the trunk at So, ready to do and to dare,
about eight o'clock. Right away I had a Should we in our places stand,
suspicion—helad gone down to the beach Fulfiling the master's will,
for that Kide treasure; but why hadn't he Fulfilling the soul's demand;
come back? Just then Mary come into the For though as the mountain high
The billows may war and toss,
They'll not overwhelm if the Lord's at the
helm '
When the difficult river we cross.
A Raw NAVAL TERROR,
ngland's Latest Supply Ship -4 ',snick
Fighter and a Past seeter.
A new menhaden: to England's navy was
launched meetly and chriatened the Vulcan.
She is deaigned as a twin-screw torpedo-
depoe Alp,. but is a fast protected cruiser
eon a formidable fighting craft as well and
represents an entirely novel type.
The construction of the Vulcan was begun
on June 16, 1SSS. She is of 6 620 tons dis-
placement—lerger, in short, than any of the
large Indio= troop -ships and three times as
large as many a cruiser. She is built of
steel, her hull alone weighing 3.170 tons,
and her prinnipal measurements are as
followe: Length, 350 feet; beam, 6S feet;
mean draught, 22 feet. The vertical keel is
of an unusually heavy and substantial char-
acter and is 3 feet 6 inches high. The casts
steel U.shaped sternpost is extra strong,
weighing flee tone. The veered is divided
into numerous water -tight compartments,
and is protected by a continuous eteel deck
6 inches thick in the Slope and 2i inches
elsewhere. The engines are cf the triple
expansion type and will give a collective
indicated horse power under forced draught
of 12,000. They will drive the ship at a
speed of 20 knots (23 miles) and 1S knots
(20. 7 milee) at sea. There will be storage
for 1t00 tons of coal, an amount sufficient
for 3,009 miles steaming at 1S knots an hour.
She will have a balance rudder similar to
that fitted to the Spanish cruiser Rehm
Rsgeuti and to the Inman ateamer My of
New York. This will enable the new war
ship to turn a complete circle of not more
than 400 yards in aiameter in little over
three minutes.
As a torpedo depot ship she will be ad-
mirably adapted for the work. She will be a
floating factory, full of forges and workshops
for the repair of torpedo:boats and torpedoes.
submarine mines, and all the necessary gear'
for submarine work on a large scale, and she
will also have upon her deck a small flotilla,
probably eight in number, of second -clam
torpedo -boats of the largest size. These she
will be able to hoist overboend and despatch
in all directions at a few minutes' notice,
The Vulcan will Ah39 have a torpedo arm-
znent of her own, conaiseing of SIX launch-
ing tubes, some of which are to be under
water. Regarded more particularly ae a cruis-
er, she will possess qualites which will entitle
her to rank among themoet formidable unar-
mored oruieers of the world. She will have
24:Tit Oorreavolidenee.
Sine °heedful, children aro all 'tinge and
queens, it Is only natural to suppose that
they will be interceded in the correspondence
between the Prinoete Wilholinins, who is
likely soon to be Queen of the Netherlands,
--notwithatanding the surprising recovery
of her father, the king, from what was ex-
pected to be permanent inaanity,—and the
infant King of Spain.
The prineees, who is in her ninth year,
has always been delighted to hear all that
her mother, Queen Emma, could tell her
about the baby King of Spain. A day or
two before her hat birthday, entirely of her
own acoorn, she sat down and wro te
her cousin—all Mugs and queens are
cousins—a letter, in which, after giving him
a lien of her principal treasures, including
her favorite big doll Pauline and her pet
pony, she went on to tell him that some day
she would be a Qmon, though she did not
want to be one, one bit.
She added that she supposed little kings
liked toys as well as other little boys, and if
her mamma would allow her, she would
send him the biggest Noah's Ark she bad
seen —which bad in it evety animal in the
Zeol'ogical Gardens at Rotterdam, and others
besides.
Both the letter and the Noah's Ark were
send to Madrid, and in due time the Prin-
cess Wilhelmina received from the King of
Spain a charming little answer, written, of
course,by his devoted mother,
Knew Hie 0 wet
The dog is as far as possible from being a
socialist. It would be idle to tell him that
everything belongs to everybody. Some
thinga, he believes belong to his master, and
he shows his faith by his works. ,
A gentleman and his wife from Franklin,
Le, wishing to attend the Methodist Confer-
ence in New Orleans, and unwilling to leave
their pet dog and chickens to the uncertain
care of aervants removed them.for safety o
the home of a relative in a town near by
After a week in New Orleans, they return-
ed home and on their way etopped for their
pets. The dog, Jet, as soon as his flrat
expressions of welcome were over, ran to the
barnyard, separated his inaetern chickens
to, and I should have been very weak and
oe'e 'it if the lid of the trunk hadn't Wee. on
me which made me get up and remember
X0ther.
She was in her room by the window,
facing the sea, and Ip her lap was 4oleht hat
all wet and. draggled. She dra gob st.ir, she
did not look at roe, but sat there like the
women in that poem, "Three Uwe went
sailing opt into the West." I erhildn't speak
to her thee. I ran out and ceughe Tem by
the arm, in the hall, and pinched hien
hard, and cried Tell me, tell me." He
:said, the tide ban been unusually
high, end 'the boat had not been.
fastened, and—Well—the boat Was gone,
and that was all there was to tell, except
that the hat had been Picked up somewhere
on the beach. Tom's voice was very choke',
hut he <lichee cry; he thinke it isn't, MonlY.
I don't Bee TOY,. when theree mole troubld.
I told Tom not to tell Grandma yet, and
then I went back to Mother. She still sat
by the window, with her eyes wide open
facing the sea. 'Sernehow or other I wanted
her to ory lest down at her feet with my
head againet her kneee and cried myself, I
couedree keep in any lotiger, and she put her
hand on my head—right oo the rod hair—
hub that wee all,
After a while I commenced to think.
didn't leelieve be was droweed, after all.
The boat bad jest fleeted off, and it would
d at back or be brought back by A oteamer
or eemething. I was ewe of it. Ana so
coromenced to talk, and told Mother how
teeny ways there were to save him and how
foolish tt was to betieve he wap drowned
yet. l'he hat didret mean anything ; and
by and. by I manned to get that away from
her and bid it under the elude. ween't
like mother to give way so; hat eeppom
ahe NM worn out with getting ready to go
away, mut thAti was why.
Anyway, at laet_ehe spoke to Ine, Called
rae " ber clAughtee (aow, I tote that; ehe
never calls Mary anything but Mary), and
she cried a little, too, attel ead elm felt
better, I often wonder Will: A good cry
Timken you feel better, eepecially if you've
been unchristien and imetefult And. there
WQ sat together at the whitlow, loolelag out,
Two boat; ehe said, had gone out,
Wather in oleo of them, We eat there
whole hours Mother and I, and I never
Watt so Ind
and so happy at the same time
In my life, I pretended he wm merely
conthig back, And before ieug. Evemr
time]. 'spoke of him saki, "When be
oomes beak "; and Mother helped hea 414
the Same Way, tilt by And by I felt ara
he meanly were, and Mother tam ler she
commove to wonder if she ought to
pratioll him. She an t tee iloW She
001, and I Said dithe t think abet ought,
for it, never dra any Idea msyway; end now
lUnt Aftar helug drowned—and limbed
and seld perhaps held come home with a
treasure, and jug then brother otrtrtod and
lemlod out of the window,
I 2dargy,t'abo screamed, "look I!" She
stood up, but /the trembled so she Ind to
hold au to TAO and there, sure enough, mem.
Ing kom the beach, BTU 441 Father on
one idele of hien, a fitherman on the other,
and the boys running all snout him. Dan
had turned up tem endwise 'analog *ileum.
I bobbed. Mother ran down the atelts and
After her, only etapping to tell Mary to
cornea and why.
"TM% Aned fishermen bas found our
gide " shouted Father.
"Bat we ain't found no treaeure " amid
ether:rums as they osene neat. But 'Teak
soreamed, gie Mother hogged him tight In
bar arms "'os, you lave, bemuse I'm
Mother's little trimmest:"
Ne ono multi have pankhed him after
that; and ho heel been ptuaished enough
anyway, tor he bad enticed up and fount
himself off on the wetter in the beet. Be
WI gotten in when It was way up on the
beach, and was so tired hm forgot to keep
hie eyes open. Ifet gad he forgot all about
the treasure when he was out on the ocean,
and he didn't believe he would everhunt for
It again, the waves were so very big, and
made him feel 40 Much 'littler' than ever.
"But, there," he didn't dare think of Fether
and Mother And Shear and the others, He
just knole down in the beet and sald "Now
I lay me" over and over and over again. Ile
didn't want to go to aleep of course but it
was the only prayer he could think'of.
The fesherman hal found hira among the
'shoals' be, the second beach,
Jack kept near Mother all the day • he
seemed to realize how dreedfully he 'had
made her feel. And that night Howard and
I, coining from a walk on the beech, heard
Mother singing the lame sweet songs ahe
sang to all the children when we were babies;
and, leering up, by the moonlight, we saw
her with Jack in the big chair by the win-
dow, his two armsabout her neck.
. Always a River to Eines.
There is alweys a river to cross ;
Always an effort' to make
11 there's anything good to win,
Antexich. prize to take.
Yondern the fruit we crave,
Yonder the charming scene;
But deep and wide, with a troubled. tide,
Is the river that lies between.
For the rougher the way that we take,
The stouter the heart and the nerve;
The stones in our path we break, =el
Nor e'er from our impulse swerve.
For the glory we hope to win
Our labors we count no loss ;
'Tie folly to pause and murmur because
Of the river we have to cross.
zoom. She had her hair done up high to
wear with her new shade hate and had a
veil to put over her complexion. She said
she found thia note pinned on my door see
she passed. lendtetnoticed it. It was from
Jack. I read, it aloud :
"" Dere IVIargy I megone to hunt for KV -
tin Kid's trezure munelite. It's the beet
tim his spirut sed to buyer over the place
from the others, drove them to a corner, I shall konjeal. in. that bote on the
where he stood guard over them until all ehnre and keep InY •eYes open don't forket
were placed in the carriage to be taken YbitIkefeatit 'tehka°:0113.,,muel. shell be hem 1'7
home,- (Detroit News,
We pal latighed and telt easier; of °Gum°
he had overilept in the boat. Father and
Young writers should remember that ar-
ticles for newspapers are not like trees. It
does not kill them to out them down. On
the contrary, many articles are killed by lazy
editors because it is too much trouble to cut grandma's breakfast up to her. I had got_
them down, ten all tiny 'things unpacked and roost 'of
"You wish to marry one of my daughters. ketY's, when Tom buret int° my room, and
The youngest will get 15,000 rnarks, the Bald rinbt nut I•lardY P'n tn lletbet
aecond 30 000 and the °Meet 45 000." "You Jabkis drowned." •
Metnebed,e.lieettlyeraeted..'..for the beaole and
theYWoteld-filiePhine. ,egere einnervrees
s An3i • brealrfest,:i'aticl elle and
Mcithee'etetifetie'initiet lather, While I: took
SONG OF TRH MUSQUITO.
Some go to the mountains,
And eome to the sea,
And some stay at hotne
'Neath their own fig tree!
And I'm a mesquite,
So happy seed free,
With nothing to dee
Bub to do them all three—
And I'll get there,
You see 1
Let US not be too prodigal when we are
Young or too parsimonious when we are old,
otherwise we shoal fall into the common
error o r
f those who when they had the powe
The Lord Provoat of Edinburgh refuserito toenjoy, had not 'the prudence to acquire,
,,etficiate at the eonferring of the freedom -of cruisers or torpedomeate, she wouldbe able alote, and we were afraid to take her with don't happen to have one still older "S— I suet fell right doWn, with inY head in the en di w en theY had the Prudence te acquire,
, .
ethat city on Mr. Parnell. to give therm warm reception, us to look for what was left of poor Mmtrunk, e felt as if I had nied, or was goffig had nolonger the power to enjoy
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a 5 (Fliegende Blatter.
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