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The Exeter Advocate, 1889-7-25, Page 2WneteincieektreetritOtee HENRY NORBERT'S STD Y Of The Death a Theodore Knight. Emy JIADLAND,i Tao "Now Yonix NOD." 0 RAPIER I. nave beeo, oonvioied of the murder of Thoedoze Be:tight, Oil next abeam, morn. log I em to receive my eeoteece from the Ape of the Judgelveho preeided at my trial. The herdeo 0 That sentence will be con- Anement et hard lebor for the terra 0 ray naeural life. Alta though I am irmocentr of the crime they have convicted me of, I be. lieere I Shall be able to euppert my punish- ment with, seme degree of indifference, have suffered sei much during the past year that Iny oepaeity for sufferleg seems te have become exhaueted. Bat there is one thing that still has power to cause me pato, oee thing tba 1 mama he with Any sort of I followed Ithie up stars to the baolz etlOra egeanialitYene thin the mere theught of on the top floor. hie had fitted. it up in the ethioh petit nieueerly beside myeelf with eaoetluxurionexnenoer matiihearYandstudy. elespiar—aud that is that you should nem, There he bade me be mated, arid, producing lee guilty. e bottle of veleta and glanes, be said that we The true Awry of the death a Theedore must drink a pup 0 kindness for the mire of Enieht1 tola upoo the witness eteod at my toed hog sync, We draok togetherand then trial; but ie was in, ittelf SO imprebeble A he sat clown oppoeite me, and for a while we atory, ad 1 told it with 4o little aetait go were ellena Bede veritimilitutte, that I suppose nobody "Well, Theodore," I began at last, Who hemd ie placitti the laest =donee m it, there ever wee a mortal whom weather I was laboring under great excitement and might remonebly ettvy You're the man." nervouseen,ny =ale yeas weery oou. Tint was the thooght width, filled my lased, my heart wee fillea with wretched,- mind, the feeling which filled my heart', • hohe ; alto so by ray Osskissooy 1 eueeeoeed how enviable be wee, and bowl envied hira. tow IA maitiug are /lam* awry emu more Whet single pad gib Mil the gods valthheld opeusely wane from hmt Here be was tlairty yore old, ma Moue ow, arta In triet : believe lo glorious health, with *AhrindA40 wealth that if I bend My whole wiled to lt I Obeli be Perteot indepeuamee, en Immo* well, and, able to tell theatory over nein here with to crown el% you for a wife 1 each fellness:a and ex tea tba t rot caunot et Se I Spokes1 AaW come lute his leo doubt it, provided only thet you will do me look thee puzzled me, It 'wag very fugh the "mace of reading it through. I cannot 'live in a eeeotel it Ilea peened, But b left bear to hove you think me guilty. 1CM me wlVb "Wm feelln bem alay thing /ant that To have you de- Ape bed partedelightly,,,hie eyee bad become Wee me AS utterly lam 141 freebie, to bave wide Oen and fixtel, with Milo dilOted ; Teo *Mk ree guilty a the erime by wielola hia general exempt= had been that 0 Bud - your happluese WM deeteoyea--1 marmot beer den fright—the Domed look of a Mall ahroPla etoto 1 employe you te reed whet 1gum ly etertled by A reminder orate intimation il write to the end. ironendieg dagger. It breed upoo inn the Ally" item awe seas eetannened by wee come•cture them Kuight bad in hie tided protateetiou at ray triel, Kufght and, I were owe remonfor anxiety, for alarm, width at old and iodinate blonde. (Mr friendenip my words had reourred to bie comicIauences, heel begun when we were freshmen at Col. bonging a twinge of terror. Base as 1 asy, bp and it outlawed for five yeem After our itz Was very tranelrorY, crossing hie there and gtatinetien. We owe from Chintz° to the departiog We A thedow, erty together and here took rooms together. "Yea," be rejoined, "I am sinonlarly aud, We hed no secrete from gaol ether end richly Masud, But you infereece istwroeg Koight knew how deeply Twee in lore with 1em the bast enviable mart alive, If i you. If -ewes the Ara man to be told of cur were not for Ohe thing 141m:rid be the bap engageraeutaudithe fitat Also to he teld wheo pieet. lely hoppinem would. be untaltigee, thetengegementwashrokou eit From that ed, obsolete. But as it I give =eating with you at which you coubseed to Ton my word, you err if you envy me." me thee your heart was oh:gaged, Slab your "One thing,'" I repeated. "Therea the love for me wae dead, that you knew you humanity ot iV Everybody hos *Ito thing never couldlove zee any %Dom I went horse too much or too little, Weil, in your case b.alf crazed with pain Ana poured all lily aor- what dom the one thing imppeo to ber vow oqt to Knight. Ho wee my athfidauts "A truth ef life to which my oyez have Re knew the Winkle story perfeetly from the Neu opened, to Which 1 certuot due theae beginning to the end. more," said he. After that I went abroad au d remained 'MO truth °nibs"' questioned- • there for three emaria Theo / mono EttIght welted a little before he evoke, • home. Not that I had got over It, but 1gluing the while alietraotedly at the wall. ,wee seek a Europe. I bed foetid tlitat Then, "1 doubt if yon will uuderetand me," •elmenee and dietance bore you de not help be reitureed, "It will be hotter for you if me. I crewed a.eight 0 you, I longed to you don't perhaps. Though, Perhaps, in •f eel that we were mar eaoh other:, tient /a longruu, It le Oa the S711014 best to au. was in the same city withyou, and act I came kuowledge the truth, Yon were Always home, very imaginative, Norberb, au O therefore al. Hoight and I had not kept up 'a Molise ways very sympathetic. If you, Were bee we had not bee endue ea, or If n, so intimate, I • ooreespoodence while 1 wee sway. should, not dare to mention it to any one bout for writing letters, and Knight, as 1 itneW very well, bad, always xegavded letter aa yet—notMu to Elinor. I have never wrIting as the most irksome And disagreementioned ite but 1 believe ibis never alto. able a tosko. But shortly before 1Belled gather absent from my thoughte." front Havre / sent him a little DOM Warning " And i5 --V' 1 prompte4m he peoue. bine of my conihrg and act 'wail not surprleed ed. "ID Is this. It is death. It is the fear. to find hira waiting upon the dock to greet me at toy arrival, I wee isob sur. the constant hideous anticipation of death," prised, but I waa greatly pleased. We had His fine was ghastly am he pronounced -the not seen. each ether for three piers ante no word. All the color had faded from it. two friends were ever closer or fonder than Emu the Ups were whitish, and It seemed, be and I. Oar meeting was of the most too, all ab once to bave lost in aubatanoe and cordial nature. to have :hanged in structure. It seemed as By and by he mired me this question s— though the eheeks had bantam sunken, the "And the wound, old fellow, the wound that eyes hollow. The corners of the mouth 'drove you abroad, it is quite healed by this were pain. drawn clown as if he suffered physical • time, ). oppose ?" Shooked,perplexed, frightened---"Deathr Then I told him ; that the wound was open still. Be was client fora littIe after I repeated. "The fear of death 7 What do this. Then ell at once he said rauat you mem. I" tell you something before we go any further, "Yea, death; the fear of •death. It is Norbert. It will pain you, but it would be that which blackens the whole sky for Me wrong fer me to let things go any further and tutus my life into a nigtamare,' • "But I don't understand. DJ you mean without telling it to yone" Ile paused, and I said, "Oh, I suppose —for God's sake, do you mean that there is anything the matter with—with Elinor ?" ehcas married. I have made up my mind to that." "No, no ; not Elinor. Not Miss Kingidake. "No, she isn't married yet," he answered ; Myself. The knowledge that sooner or "but she is engaged." later I have inevitably got to cite, and "Well, it. makes no difference to me," I the frightful uncertainty wben death may N said. "I have understood all along that; I come. ow do I know? ID may come must expect to hear of her engagement or twenty years hence; 0 may come in twenty home, in—in twenty minutee," He grad. marriage sooner or later." For some minutes now Knight did not dered and shrank deeper into his chair, casn speak, nor did L At last, "You do not Ing a glance around the room as 0 he fear. ask vita it is that ahe is engaged to," he ed. that death in person mightlbe lurking In said. one of the corners. Ib was a most distress - "I don't care," said Ing sight—this strong, young and otherwhie I. "Bat you must care. That is what I manly roan thee overwhelmed and undone numb tell you," he insisted. by extreme terror. "How do I know ? "Well, if you must tell me, tell lee,o e What do I know 7 All I know is ilia, that returned. it is bound to come some time. Iona that ' enough? The horrible, -uncertain imminence "She is engaged to me," he said in a very elow voice. of death 1 Oh, lb istrideons 1 It; turns my What happenethen eraproved by the life Into an agony, an unceasing Empalme -d s phoseration at my trial. We had a most and horror. All day long, everywhere I go, velem ',mum]. I was wild with pain and it goes with me, and at night, if Isleep,I . astoniehment, and I said things that were i dream of itSee 1 We are seated here :savage aud unjust. He retorted hotly. The comfort, in security. In what we call secur result was that we separated in anger. It - ity, at least. But where is there the smallest was my faultentirely. He had done nothing real security against death? Not in stone walk, nor iron bars, nor snits of mail, nor that I could rightly blame him for, nothing diebonorable or unfair. So our long stand- chests of medicine. How do I know that I maynot be dead before this time to-mor- .ing friendship come to an end. It was further proved at my trial that we row 7" • did mot meet again untilthe night of the 6th He leaned, forward, speaking with intense . of May—the night, that is, of his death. Passion. And that soared look was vivid in sOn the next day, the 7th of May, you and his face. Now he sank back again into his he were to be married. It was proved that chair and breathed quick and hard, as if ex - two or three days earlier I had written him hausted. -a note saying that I felt that I had been in "Good heavens, Knight," cried I, "do you the wrong in our quarrel, and that 0 he mean to say that you've got heart disease ?" • : owns willing I should like to see him once be- He laughed—dryly, unmirthfully. "Heart lore his wedding and shake hands with him. disease I Hear the materialist I No, noth. said in my note that I knew, of course, we Ing of that sorb. I'm in paled health. I 'never could be friends again in the old way, have no disease." 'but that for the sake of our former friend- "Well, then, for the love o reasen, why ethip r should like to Meet him 0000 more do you bother aboub death ? Have you an sand take back the bitter w orda that I had enemy Phowling,aroand after you with a load- •iipekert at our operation. That note was d •siont inavidence as an exhibib at my trial. "1 don't believe 1 have any enemies—no. a is clue more to the London olimate than And thee:late that Knight replied by request. Not now, that you and I are reconciled." Ito the character of the pavement—[Buffalo "Well, then, in the name of common Courier Ing me to call upon him at his house on the • sem ,e why do you bother about death ?" livening of May 6, at ten o'clock. "Have I got to die some time or not? Oan I hope for immunity from deathi Can CHAPTER' you, can any man, assive me that I atoll not As I have mid, I told the true story of be dead within a week? How, then, may my visit with Knight on that evening, when help thinking about death 7 Shall I drug I was a witness in my own behalf at my tnyeeif into obliviousnese 7" trial. Now I will try to tell e ID again, with I confem, Relight, Len at a bes, You • greater preoision and detail. • nonplus me, Do you fancy you're an tromp - I rang the door bell of his house at exact- tion to the rule? We've all got to die same ly ten o'clock. The door WESS opened to me time, I'm credibly informed. But those of •by Knight himself, who without speaking us who possess sane brains in sound bodies— gave me his hand and led me kith the hall. we don't waste much strength worrying -net after the street door wait closed be about death. We get our lives ineured and hind 'us, he said, "Harry, I am very glad let the companies do the worrying. Suffie that you have come. I thank you for offer- cleat unto the day is the evil thereof. No, ing to mine." "I could not help it, Theodore," said L "3. knew I Ma been quite wrong in our quar- rel. I had no right to begrodge yea your better luck. I could nor feel easy in my coneoienee about it. I thought it would be geed for both of ue 0 before you married her we thould meet and 3. ,should withdraw the thinge 3. mid that day," "It le very zeugma of your" he nnewered. fy 4401thett, weal have heee gravely alloyed if to -morrow had come eon gone arid you had remained ray enemy." 4ftier that neither of am apoke for aome time. Finally he said, "Come pp staire with me to my dep." of mind have you, wrought yeumelf lute? Here le a ettoog man, rich in all the geed things of life, and inseeed of eajqiug them and being theulefel for them. he atm ueixtb• Beg and 7hotering at the thought ef death I And that on the eve of ble wedding day 1 Teentorow lade az be married, and to -night he talks of dying 1 inhaw You're mor- bid. puerile and cowardly, ,A, sensible man never thinkof death, Liber hoes° de haustive exemutattoo of the mineral resourc- nitul minuet:mare de morte putat." "That, Norbert," li.aighti rejoined, "is the falsestwora thet eyer segteotphilosopher epoke. Theveryemerary ill true. It is the emenoipatea man' -'liber honica---the man of courage and etilightenment, it is he who does think of death. Not to think of death is ostrich like, is indeed puerile an cinema - and I may Bey morbid. Death, the one inevitable and uoiveread experience the one birthright in whicah all rem share ;like, this ammo goal to which all life Le but a pro- gress, the conclusion, the solution, the Ofth apt of this, 91YattlYbg, inexplicable drama of life—net think ot it 1 Here is life, a Sphynx enigma, perpetually vexiug the mind anti the soul of the MAU who has a mind and a soul to vex. There is death, which holde the enigma's key. And .yet you ray don't think of death, banil)). re, blink it, forget it. That. I tell you, is etnpid and OURS1LV. AND GOLD. erument granted a certain man a perpetua • timber franchiee coverirg there a and land shores of the lake, and as the ower of the The Yr'flaierS.41""les'r°111' by an Aar"' frenohlee will not permie miners te, cut his CPU VIStter te the Mite SuP9Flax 09911et to On their operetione, no one Distrtet. oan get a title to any 9E hie mines, The A St. Louis reporter the other day met owner of the franoniee can not hbriaelf Mr, Frank Triplett, the mining expert of get is title to them, as that leeltange thateity, who bad juttt returned frOle,an eX" to the original cliscoverere, and 00 the matter rote at present. A way out of the complication will certainly be tonna., however, and then the days of '49 will be repeated in tae Saskatchewan wilderness, A. great many other voiles not so large aa the Sultana but of Neal rlohnesa, have been dls- covered in the minebelt, ',looked this oonn, try over carefully end am giving you only bald facts. lily old partner, whom I have be. referred to, writes me pow that to the south And met of the belt covered by ale Canuclea timber franolibe le A country Where the gold veine aro just asi arms and rich as the Subsea, and where titie oan easily be obtained, I firmly believe this is ette%aenit hhaevheamsYmeaelle avbectrititdhabv"Iminclryrilet and I have perfect faith in hie judgmenb andverecity. I sball return there in A short time and see 03. can not acquire a few Sultana," es of the hitberto unkuown diettiot to the northward of Lake Supertor and the Sa3. katchewart coontry. Ur. Triplett ie et "little off ineais estimate of the Satiketenewen Die- triot end it Is evident thee his observation, inzeger4 to the agrieultural meeurcee of this region were very auperficial, la reply to the question where Ma last pligrimagehtad taken hire, Mr. Telpletteada t "I went aria to Port Arthur, OA the tiOtthera shore of Lake So - parlor, aboet half way between the eaStern and western end et the lake, Let me tell you about one or two mines I aew there he opera - floe, Altoet three years ago a proepeetor, whose name I have forgotten, diseoVered a miire about twenty-five mileti northwest of Porb Arthur, in the Rabbit liountalo calm - try. It was an out croppiug ou the face el a aff, and was what is cancel la the West "brittle silver ;" that Is, a eative diver dis• telnineted. thrtngh quarks in Om tem et superfickal, puerile, cosvarily and morbid, nefigete and etreake- This le the beat form What theory, whet hypothesis, whet, prire of ore known. The prospeotor put iu lout or ewe es me eau you emote, except as you Ave blasts teed got out between SUMO eml thiok of deetle! And 1301:48 one theory and ' 560,000 worth of ore. He immediately sent Principle of life, for daily User yule meet mon tDetroit, who sold the mine to the freme, or else you cannot live, yeti minuet Algoi-gookett sYndieete. The Price named trammt the Waimea of life. Verthermere, was $3,000,000, but as a matter of feet, according to your conception of death, your MAO w4sahotltsts4 h:aPIrthowPeanidfperoi4o iThe asatIMption Of What death beide in store, !ale wee made lo 7 moat yeur whole conception of We mean- tolotedietelY hog= the dereneeeee eritee°t the jug, uzIppau. and duty be mimeo and color. mane, The ontput leet year wmilovvonotnete ed ; 000 word year ethiCkk. And fioellw, what mrahlatice of a religion can you 'lave, if we cardinal dogma does reet deal with death? Row unthinking le be whet door net think of death 1 You rivet goer 5858 00 the surface 0 thiege and ellen the deep Ideeve. TOP feed yovreelf upoo outward "Within three or four relief, of the Bee eppeeraneee of Otiose and heave the inward ver le another mine IknoWn AS 'The Badger,' realitiee metetted. You confider only the whit* was discovered about the SeMe time treutitory Ana forget the eternal, Bat bow, Aud sold to the Niolaelece, ot Deaver. It le 0 you are human, how can you help thblie prehehly oat quite AO tibia A4 the Beaver, lug of 4Qmb, I you Iwo just quoted to me but that b not yet fully deterrelowl. So far the fahseet word that a great philcsOplker the compariy hattjuet shipped, enough ere to ever put hie name to -e" Libor Immo rail pay werking expellees, but they now have mintage= de morns putat." Now, I will in eight, on the clump and ready to be atop - cap your quotation with a better one, be, ed out, ore that will make them 57240,000. cause it is A true one—In the midet of life There are severel other mines in the IMMO- we are in death. Bow ealt you help thine- Mate vitinity which have not yet been (le,, by of death ! How do you dull your mind volopee, but whieb, premix) fully oa well, ta that degree Could Damoolea help think. The trend of *le mineral belt ;a zertlamat leg of the award? 1e not tbe mord of deetle to teauthweet, ite extent likakkAOWU, impending ever your hetel—yea, indeed, It hoe Already been partielly prospeeted your devoted heed—every hour and minute wad is Intowei to he twouty-five wilco skoroas, of your We, daytime and, nightthrie, where- and, no 000 knOWS how much farther it mover you go, from the Aria breath you extend& As almost any point on title belt draw la you cradle until all at once it good-pving mitres eau be locistectweidit ao 7 Dere yea, I asked, Awhile ago, neer the lab:1410ra diet the greet tenestion dare you lay a wager that ID WAU not haVe Of freight Is practically aolved and the ore fallen by title time toonorrow t How do we gen be 'hipped onywhere by water. know What do we keove Witbue thie "This ore is the rielleet I ever mw in all very hour your dead body may by lying at my experience, and I ban 40411 all the big my feet, or mine at your,. Not thiek of the einem =bee of the west. I caw more native black hand forever raised to etrike you. 1 saver up there than ever before in my life. Not thiuk of the grim oompenfon who etalke It le anebeolute fact that, from awn° of there for ever at your elbow I When the bleak mime, ore taken ao rlth that ID Is Ira - hand may dui, ite blow at any lustent ; the raedlately looked up in eafee for security. ft grim comrade at any instant; pluck your ° almoat pure silver, It was perfect reve• sleeve and whisper, 'Como, you are mine V 'Dation, to me, Aud it will be very hard to Not think of death I (hl" mike the public) belleve In these discoveries Ho had begun, as heave nottekby speak. now until a few enterprisIng, credulone Ing quietly, but me he event on his oolopoenre eelrite have *moored the crown of the demos. venieberi, giving platnito exeitementwbiale 3„k The '0 neaten* are not prospeotors. toward tho end had intermit:led Into some- Tney have never found a mtire yet. They thing like ecitioy. volce increased In 1 have the least enterpriee of any people on streesand volume, his eyes burned, he leaned earth, I believe, Why, witbin fear realm of forwerd turd geatioulated earnestly. Now he rort Arthur, eight on the road to the BeAVer fell back into the depth of hie chair end ; mine, I found an extremely rich silver vein dozed hie eyes and laid his band acres* Ms that: cropped tight olit en tile surface 0 behea forehead, where the ewollen vane showed wide. purple &malaise the wbite skin. erceseonw OF sum= reeene. width le no enermme nield for A Mine two yearsold, And this iaozdysurfaoe 020 82 yet, the deepest; workin beteg oely about 300, feet The prim le known :le 4.The Beaver,' arid ie one of he richeet 10 the world, T/44 neriaen AND °VIER alINEs. (TO DE OONTartIED,) "And now let me tell you simmering about another remerkable sliver mine I nave up there. It le eituateci on a little rook known aa Silver hamlet, which Iles out in Settled, Lake Superior about two or three mikes The wife of an Irish peasantsfermer had southeast of Port Arthur. It is 70,x3' feet driven some pigs into a email town to dispose in size and about 4 feet above water level, of, and,having negotiated the sale, elm re. It W99 -dimmed about twenty years ago. i ceived n payment honk -notes' issued by a The first blase took out about $50,000 worth well-known Dublin bank; hut, the name of of native :silver. It was owned Bret be, the the Muslim nob being !emitter to her, doubts Montreal Mining Company, who took About arose in her mind as to their stability; eo 6180,000 out of it and then sold it to Mal, she decided to get the MOB cashed at the Sibley, Col. Ward and others for about bank in the town where she then was. Ar. $200,000, The now ownere, in order to get riving at the bank in queetion, she presented working ground, sunk craw and failed them them across the counter, requeatieg the ha that catihier to give her gold in exchange. Thab gentleman expreesed his regret at not being able to accomodate ber, saying it was not their thetota to cash notes issued by other banks/. The old lad y was much put out, and expiable& that she had various purchases to make in the town before returning home, and WAS unable to get the notes changed elsewhere. The mushier still politely deolin- supply of.coal was frozen in tbe late and never armed, so the mine WaS abandoned ed. However, abe would not give in. First she tried to coax him, tben donned at him, but without the wished -for result Sadden- ly a brighb idea stairok her. Would the outlier be so kind as to give her notes on his own bank in exchange ,?—they might be more acceptable to the tradesmen. Seeing no other way of getting rid of hie tiresome visitor, be reluctantly consented. The old lady, seemingly quite content, turned to go. All at onoe she atopped short, and, turning round so as to face the cashier, read from the note in her hand, "1 promise to pay on demand," Om., then, looking her victim full in the face, mid, in broad Irish, "You promise to cash this note whan demanded, do you?" "Sea,' replied the cashier. "Then will you kindly give me gold for these notes now ?" noes „ ZNLANDING WM ISLAND to a apace of 480x34.0 feet, They worked ID down 1160 feet below the lake—one of the most remarkable feats of raining engi- neering ever accompliehed—and took out of ID $3,250,000 net. An accident canoed the abandonment of the mine. The ezintrae Asphalt Pavements, An uncredited newepamer paragraph says that London finds that wood and asphalt pavements are too slippery, and that mac- adam cannot Mena the heavy wear. The opinion is freely heard that London "has not yet solved tire problem of steam pave ments, and seems as far off from it as ever." London, however, has not tried the aciphalb of Trinidad, which has been used so success- fully in Buffalo, but only the stone asphalt of Switzerland Rooheater, despising the good example of a nearer metropolis, is fol- lowing Loudon on the slippery road of stone asphalt, and will perhaps tette the same tumble that London has taken, thoughPark Soperintendent McMillan thinks that the aapheat elipperiness which London complains I don't understand you. What sickly frailest A Crusher From the Widow. • Adorer—"Oh, how your words charm me To think that you should daily diseover more similarity between me and your sainted huslaand. May I ask how I resemble bim ?" oung widow (gravely) --"You have all hie bed habits." Yankeebroad (to Parisian jeweler)—What le than eine pin worth? Parisian Jeweler—Five thousand francs, Yankeehroad—jewhillikens 1 And I've been writing home to my Wends that the highest thing in the world is the Eiffel tow er—rjewbler's Weekly. until *ring. fly tbat time it was filled with water, arid so it has remained ever since. At the time of its abandonment the roof in one of the drifts of the mine was al- most solid silver. It was the intention of the ownera to take this out by sinking girders in the lake and building an arti- ficial roof over the drift, which would have been a most remarkable and dangerous feat. The ore from this mine was the strangest I ever saw and unlike any other. It was a pink spar with email foliations and stem of silver and was wonderfully beautiful. The common miners in this mine carried off between $150,000 and $200,e00 worth of ore in the their pockets. The fabulous rich- ness of this mine ought to have attnaoted capital and investigation to the Port Arthur district, but strange to say, it did not and until the ohanoe discovery of the Beaver mine nothing more was done toward de- veloping the resources of the country." Did you extend your investigations be- yond the Port Arthur district ?" asked the reporter. "Yee, sir, and I come now to another strange feature of my experience in the Northwest. Acting on the recommendetion of the friend whose representations had in- duced me to visit the country, I next went into the Saskatchewan country, and 'ebbed Lake of the Woods. 11 e have always been in- formed that the Saskatchewan country and the valley of the Lake of the Woods was a paradise, and a wonderful grazing and an agricultural wheatproduoing country. Why, as a matter of foot, one couldn't raise enough grain on 100 terra to winter a horse. But its mineral resources, I fully believe are among the richest in this hemisphere. There are 10,000 Iolanda in the lake that are known, and a good paying vein of gold may be found in every one of therm The mineral belt embra.oes the whole chain of islands. and extends to the mainland on both sides. A MOST REMARZSBLE GOLD STINEs "The most remarkable of the mines is the State, na, so called from the Island on which ID Is situazed. If it could be developed it would be one of the greatest gold mines in the world, The vein ut 25. feet wide and will mill from 05 to 00 per ton, It has been baud over 8��yards in showing, and there is at least 0,000,000 worth of ore in sight. Like all good thing; however, this one has a drawback, and a very serious one A good many ;mare ago the Dominion Gov- Iltetems as Big as rioter Barnett. The Baltimore Sun eve t—Dr. S. T., l'tsrs kine, ef Springfield, witheued the 1511 01 meteors on WedoesdaY night in Prince Georgeht meaty. "The night was quito dark," he said yesterday, in describing the phanommout. "end the sudden flash caused by the amine% meteor wee startling. 4 huge glowing Walla seemed to deemed from the 1194F011a at AR angle of forty -Ave degrees, It was ao irregeler emu About the size et r. flour barrel, senior great brillieneswea glow- ing red heat, The country for miles around woo lie up for n few eeeentle, ID seemed to fell about 012* MOO t0 the meth -meet of Bowls, Ali soon se I regebed my epee - betty, for the woncleefel eight too le my breath and elicited a aGreata from my wile mad children, I looked at my wretch. It We The beeeDd Illeteerite fell AbOnt 334111#433 biter. It was even lager than the arab and =ugh brighter. AM mar ee I could judge, It fell about two hundred yatels from the dret 3. !we mete neeteoriteelaU before, but none so bright as this." The people of Bowl's* had much the lame ably to relate, SWIMS* for miles around thought It had fallen bat a few hundred yards from bit feenduene. Oept, Edweed Leopard, el the etetueter Ic1A, xeperted beving geete A meteor OA WeclatedaY night 94 ataiteatttOt was going . up the Tread AVM direr to Emitere rout, leering the paeans) of the meteor the eky had the appearance of A • eolld sheet of tire, 121Ellur Rios Bafox B1i Xajeety. The Emperor 0 Roasia, wbeo upon a tour of lasesenion In *10 provmnoea, peseed the night in the ample but gia toU.take; Be. fore retiring he was pIeaeed, ae hoed of the Church, to sees the old num take up the Bible and read a chapter, "De_you read often, my son!" he asked, 44Y ca,, your Majesty, every day." "How emelt of the Bible have you reed, my mu !" "Daring the peat year, *10 014 Testament and part of Matthew, your Majesty." Valuate:8 to ;mud him, the Ozer pieced 000 mettle,' between the leeven 0 the book of Mark an tho following morning, unknown to tho toll.keeper, Whom he bode browell, Sever- al mouths prated away Ama the Emperor retorted, 'untie a mond tour to the toll. taker's but. Tilting the Bible in his heads he was surprised to fiaa tho 500 roubles intent, Again ioterrogeting the toll -keeper as to hie diligeme in reading, he reeeived an effiresetive answer and the atatement that he had finished the eliaptere 0 Luke. "%Vag, my son, is a greet sin," replied hie Maputo. .ft me the Bible till I see." °peeing too book, be pointed to the money whialt the man had nos seen, "Thole belt vet eonght the Klegdom of God, My XOn• A. PIIIIIII111110t1ts thee aluel also lose thy earthly zewerd," And he plmed the roubles in his pocket, to distribute afterward among the neighboring poor. ••......••••••.•111.0411.4110sw..soo....om TIGEES 01' TILE SBA. witienee ot the Ravenous Natnre or the Various Olieeles or Sharks. It was reported the other week that A Pallor engaged ineeraping the shies 0 a#09 alAPip the harbor of Sierra Leeete was drawn. intothe water aud promptly devoured by a 49.44.t. This is no 99 uneemenon eXperleatie, sted* boatroon otte been bitten in the slime thee it took him to dip a Piteiter of water wbile ble craft was under fuji mil. We me meg:sea-Oust tele nothing MMOMPSen fer tbe revenoua Ash to epeingis feet out 9f tbe sea io order to secure their prey. Verrailes they will follow a VeSSeii On the loalcont. ter any stray uefortunato Who noy tumble or ho thrown overboard, And AO deep do they mire ender the tiurfeee theta 10 reqedree the practised erred the /leave to deteett their preamice, Many of the Weet Ledie Whore are so haunted by the whlto and hemmer- hdfaiffedieentehkarinkdatathneaser tettfirelt:bilete!s.-L the different is dangerous to bathe oven a fest yards from the ahem withonten Ontineir. Xek3 the wept Afrioae negro hp e boon koown to face the brute, not only With jet, peaty,. but even to eome off toi vietor in the med. All hue ampleiblons, the ewimmer cantiouely -approeoltee big enemy, And then, ivatat the,Moment when, thogroat Aelt tarn% over to serge mooth befog SO pikke- ed that ie oecoesery—tbe derieg black plongee hie hullo lute ite white telly. The ad dive= Aro eleo sometimes eucemeful in their attaelta On tharke which try to iselee them, *hough, It le imedime, to add, oath a, mode of eittehet 15 pettelltie only when the nionetere de net ekistal10 nettolaere, And Mier the -meat feeremble einumetentete require* A ;mimeo, a dexterity, and A ceurege which are oot to be Acquired exeept hy log expert. eine, in men neonate eneouotere. 411 a MIN hOWelre; it le mident that a Matt 100 S8 80 1441994 08 to drop Meng .sbarka ever ap- pear; Again. Where le atiledelt, owhite Mkt. leek 14 emu under the eurfeeo and a flu above it, a mideeed target tops the next tevell whieh broke Ahab* the- obi& side, 4 the horror-0401ton Seamen know teat their mostiuraite wili ho even too . le. a welheeeeeteitiedleet thet the thole. e tone of sheep, pige, doge, and ogee which' have falleo or been thrown overiutord have been emovered many day* eubeetinent to their befog swallowed; owl 15 15 on record that in the ,atouleole of a Altar]; kliled in the Wien ()eon A lady'a workbax WAS found, while In Another the incriminatory peen which, hell been thrown Away by A hotly 644E1 elover Were wavered ISM the MAW of an loved/eatery witnem time mimedy broughb into come; on the boob of A pp*. ook. Repels, Olie of the most thy° 0 the cid uoturalleta Mune Irk mail—home loricetuit, he mile found be the etetneele of a white k ; and it fit t000rded by Blumenbach e mat a witch horse WAS Iekbodli Gaisowary Tho habits of the cormorant and of our native elehawk are generally known. Their methods of taking fish are very ranch like those of birds of prey. Bab the cameowary Sebes according to a method of its own. Mr. Powell witnessed its operations on a river in the island 0 New Britain. • I saw a cassowary come down to tbe water's edge, and atand for some minute apparently wstohing the water carefully. It then stepped into the river where it was about three feet deep, and, paettally equatt. Ing down, spread its wings out, submerging them, the feathers beingapread apart:Med. The bird remained perfectly motionless, and kept its eyes dosed, as 0 in deep. Bi remained in this position tor fully a quart- er of an hour, when, suddenly closing its wings andetraightening its feathers, it stepp- ed out on the bank. Here itehook itself save- ral times, whereupon a quantity of small fish- es fell out of its wInge, and from amidst ire feathers, which the bird immediately picked up and swallowed. The fishes bad evidently mistaken the feathers for a kind et weed that grows in the Water along the banks , of the rivers in this island, and which very much resembles the feathers of the cassowary. The smaller fish- es hide in these weeds to avoid the larger ones: that prey on them. Advantages of Baldnese. Smith—"I notice you are as bald as an ow tricha egg, Jones," Joneti—"Been that way since I was a young mac." Smith—"Don t you find it a little annoying ?" Jones—" Well, ID's not without its advantages. I am a mar- ried man, you know." His Beason for not Going. I"Why don't you leave and go further Weet, or South, or anywhere? You're of no account hero, and Ian tired of supporting you 1" exclaimed the despairing wife. "I'd go, Matilda," said the worthless Chicago husband, as he sat down again, put his feet on the table and sighed heavily, but I'm needed here for the census next year "51. Louis is orowdin' us too close I" — (Chicago Tribune. It Was runny. Miss Gazeaway —" He's the dearest, love- liest, handsomest fellow you ever saw, and I'm going to get him or perish du the at- tempt." Aunt—" Aren't you ashamed, Margaret, to throw yourself at a man in that fashion ?" Miss Gazsaway--" Ws funny, auntie, you're always thinking about men. I MN referring to a Se Bernard puppy I scsw yes- terday." Many elderly and middle-aged women at fsehionable resorts this season are wearing round bate. VI re large and ehade the face, so they are teas appropriate and becoming es a ma 1, drossy bonnet. ms.sslms•ssosssilass.sssmsss.sss.sissi Cobra an Tiger, A.voutureiome colleetor wes in India in *leer* of venewieue serpent* for an Attester. dent house. Ile cioeupled a hat that had been used as a sterehouse, the only eutranoe to it Wog by ananowlauewbleh was tames ly booed. Whig Wee was about twenty -dee feet long, end 4 night a fire Was kept hum. lug at tholower end to worn off any lama. bg wild besets or ;serpents. The =tee haat. meek was clung near the doer of the but 4* thet he could wily look deem the lime. Gee night there wave heavy rein about/ Welt ral he which extingoithed tbe fire*. addenly liewoke. The minima ealkeeti, and the moon was 'Mobs so that its rays atreemed brightly up the lane, There was 8. pecuiter odor lie the keit which I tecogeze far too welt, the rieumoting emelt of the cobra. Oat of them deadly -creatures must hey° orewled lob the hitt. I could hoar it now sweeping over the tided gram on the fleor, And the lintel put me into a Old 'Meat. But the cobra never mikes sleeper ; if I Could remain motionless I might escape. Whoa 3.104 turned in it Iva* very *bee and oppressive, I bad, therefore thrown the blankete out of the hammock, The cold rain had Milled the mike Audit° wait look. Ing for warmth. Tho lilenkets were on the ground and thie foot prevented him from oteriing into the hammock. 1 °Dula not lee him, hut I meld hear and 80°0) him as he twined about and finally curled down. When ho had Income ,,quiet I felt that had a ohatioe for my. life. I would wait until he was asleep, and then tomke a sodden spring and a rush. If I waited until day- light, and the natives came to the but, the anake would be alarmed, and would then probably str'ike I kept still for About half an hour, and was jtpt planning to dump myself out of the hammock, when the moonlight revealed a new and unexpected danger. Standing at the mouth of the lane, and, looking straight in upon me, was a tiger. I did nob believe he would enter the hut. The lane wood look like a trap, and he would Aght shy of it. My eyes were wide open, but I did not move a ramie. The tiger entered the opening and stealtha ly came toward me, I gave myself up for lost. The great brute was within ten feet of the door when the serpent uttered a low hiss and moved. The tiger did nob see the anake. He came on as a oat steals on its prey ; his forepaws were soon on the threshold and he was mak - beg ready for a spring. I realized my help- lessness. There was a brief interval, I was half dead with terror, and closed my eyee for the last aot of the tragedy. Suddenly there was a hiss and a snarl. I opened my eyes, bewildered, to find myself unharmed. The cobra and the tiger were rolling over and over in the lane, in mortal struggle. Tile village watt round by the tiger's fear- ful roarings. I gazed in fascination at the scene. The two deadly enemies went trove one end of the lane to the other and back again. The combat had tatted not more than fifteen minutes when bath tiger and no, snake lay stretched out, dead. The cobra had bitten the tiger ill scores of planes, and the teeth and claws of the latter had literally torn the snake in plecee. The Meanest Man on leoord. • Husband (kindly)—"My dear, you have nothing decent to wear'bave you?' Wife (with alacrity) —"No, indeed, I haven't; not a thing. I'd be ashamed to te seen any where. My very newestparty dress hal; been worn three times already." Husband— "Yes; that's just what I told Blifkins when he offered me two tickets for the opera for to -night. I knew if 1 took them they'd only be equated, so I just got one. You won't mind if I hurry off?" No Angelic Longings. Little Susie H., pouring over a book in y which morels were represented as winged-- beings, suddenly remarked, with much vehemence: "Mamma, I don't want to be an angel when I die—and I needn't, need I ?" " Why, Susie ?" questioned her mother. "Cot I don't want to leave off all my pretty clothee and wear feddera like a hen.