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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-8-8, Page 2- - _,-howeeneeseereanortasseionniiitestnelonneteiketetasenettetstreenreett CRAZED:Br Tat: FLOOD. 1'AM:11,1%1:ONG DISTANCES. liefrees erne Thions be never weal Speerlation as to Hem rowel nem, wht Of the Death of Theodore Erngbt. Down. in the Mehnetown Ruin. Take Big Tumbles. HENRY NORBERT'S STORY Br Hen v Hexeneem, CUAFTEE IV ntin "Now You're Heoe D. a.$ another ; that the higher youle orgauieetion Nerberte 1" he in , g centime- - permeate • and the more hatense ani complex your en Lookleek K na. nItt\to , so la your sosceptihility "to peitt srntrgeQaoraEnight, Thuhry ears ego 1 WAS h04-011 that first daY oz 1850, I was born in the lap of luxury, with* golden spoon in my mouth, of o long /Me 01 healthy, viethoase intelligent and highly edaceted oneesterst Vr attle nen bringi ug up: in nhomeof vietue and cult:tree by a good Inntile; a g04 father; where I ni eedulonely &lauded from every breath of evil, where I am tenderly messed when lant AI, petted when I era well„ canoed when I 4° wr°°gt en°°ur'lge4 who le Oct figh't ; colic:Utica o gtorn4 rest' and orannownoem- where every befleteace—metenal, mentsl, Nitenee, what do we know! liow de we naeran—thet bean upon me is todeuleted, to know ? Question you yo•areelf propounded. \Vcosibuttrus11:^-, grotee, so are your sufferings also intenner. and MOM COMPItT. SilL another men oi my acqualutence preteens the dootrine of unz- verI metempeychoets—that each spark of conscieutheen each emit, is an todivisible and lodestructible entity, deattoed to pen through every form, phone and experience of life, Bone pelyp to ream, from, Alava to tamper, or, from owner to saint, until in the end, having completed the cycle, leaning exhaust- ed all poothie experithee, it shall attaia the make nee healthy, entellmene aod geed. Oa that eanie (hey—Jane 1, 1$56—let us esty. nuether lathy, witty-M.11y, is born into elate World. lie te been of 4ong Ithe of °rine- enal*nd peopers. people of low intelligermet bad thetineta, foul beetles. fathee ia 4 etirookerd, a thief, wife bower, Ilia mother is a druokard, too*..3,13(1 Itomethieg Worse besides. !dole bora to the fi1UME1 of this city, la a room reeking with filth- He is brougat up. in equeler, under a:eau...pion .of then father end mother. His pay ground la the otter. is plarmette ere rile VflaPring ht. eleoteoto abaniialletl 44 Me aqiU1 fed, m vied, ill eleeoed, teught. Ile le beaten for rtothing Every tefieence, meteriel, meutel, morel tint hem epee hint 14 nestilentiel ; celeuleted to degrade and brut. Aliza bine ist body, nond and *eel, Oh Norbert, litOW on any male who "um alumna hew onlu ontemplete inecluality end detwitice like this wed coutioue le revel In hie better foremen ? no the rece et lift these two cempaitera entere (Me10perfeet teeeinirn, tho other wown than =reined eongenitally leferier; one giver: a long eitart and every advantage, the Caor boucle- vapped semi saddled with a heavy herder:. But stay. Follow ue Itttle farther. We 'Wow o eninuritM thee other man and I. Attlee og_e of thirty—tomatenew even, Irich, happy, tornion, eoneumente my earthly blies by ectewryielean Angel ot vamouiloo4,whoso love Ihavo hen *offered tr win and. Winne 1 levee Ile 'kneel bast time hi heredity wed envIreumeot, made hisn—twoe meat puppet in the beetle ef rietizes,sity—he eounuite a murder, and le hinged or auetn odeatekeel la prleen for the remaisuler dials day*. What men. e'er of world le it la which max thins* en happen? nuke", lucked, you go with in In the couviction then beyond the greve our necounee—lais and mino—thell be equated and Warmed; that there he who *owed here in Waril, Shell reep in joy, while it will be my turu to sin and offer. come thailow people cry, 4he bad bis chence. Other mon hese aeon high front begieninati as low as bis; other =en heve sunken, low front beginnings as high es youra. Ile hes hie chauce to eke. you had your chance to fall. You wen both celled upou to -choose between the good and gnil. You chon the good. lie oboe the had. It woe his feult, It le to your 'credit' All whioh, as you kuow, Norbert, azmply hegiathe queetion, le supeificiel end tuuscientifie 10 the ioib degree. For, in the Met place, since we were born unequel, no one will pretend that we hed egad chances; an the second, when lb wee time for no to -emote, how (tame I bythe propenalty which eeulte 1 la my choosing ene good ? How nente ha by the propeneity which resulted in bre chiming the bad 1 You know what the 'answer le—Heredity and environment. You detnow that the evIl is one which we can neither deny nor explain nor amend. But beyond the grave 1 There the tables will lie turned. The creditor will receive his aloe, the debtor will pay Me debt. They that mourn shall be comforted. The last nhall be /inn and the firet shall be last." "Dear Eheight," I rejoined, "you are 'grappling with the old problem of evil; but you heve wee solved it, though you think 'aeon have, You have removed it from tide nide the grave to the other, that Is all. Evil is still there; and that is the incomprehen- allele thing—that there should be evil at ' all. You have not solvedthe problem. Re- -elacad to its lowest tc,rms, your philosophy :is this that two wrongs make a right. There is wrong here; therefore, as you say, 'tree; equare accounts,' there musb be wrong .there. You have not solved the problem; yott may not solve it. It is insoluble by than, like all the ultimate problems of life. And since you may never solve it, I warn yon to let it alone. Much brooding over it ou do no manner of good, bat iromeasurable kuirm. That way, madman lies. Even now eace hdw it has embittered and darkened your life. Yon have jumped to a terrible con - random and instead of finding rest there, you find only horror and increased vexation of spirit. Think—think of Elinor, Knight. Momorrove she will be your wife. How ° dreadful for ber that her husband should 'bold such a creed? She does not know it? 'You leave never mentioned these matters no her? But. is she not a woman? And does she nos love you? And what with her evoman's intuitions; and har wifely love, yon may be sure that, whether she speaks or re - eosins silent, she wilt feel that there is 'something wrong, a ehadow upon your life, ne secret between her heart and yours. Oh it is terrible for her 1 All the ultimate pro- 'blems of life are 'insoluble, unthinkable by "man's brain. The book of life is opened. to ,ue at just one page; the remainder is her- neetically sealed. That page we may read. It is covered with perplexities, inconslatem cies, anomalies, anachronisms, that baffle ..and balk us ; and with cruelties and foul - 'messes that appall and horrify us But the eaonneotion of that page with the pages that • go infore and come after—what the plot, ' motive, meaning, purpose of the whole look may be, that we do not know, we have lib means of learning, we cannot guess, though some of us perpetually try to do so. Otte page we see, wribten in rock and fire, tin tears and blood more harrowing than a -page from the annals of the Spanish In - imitation, we cannot hope to understand, 'mar to explain, nor to reconcille to our sense • -of right and justice, because the pregame • and the oonolueion are hidden from us. t Man cannot by seeking find out God. Nature; red in tooth and claw with rapine, ebrieks against our creed. We must stake oaf God on faith, believing where we cannot 1. prove. We OEM prove nothing; we can s only trust. 'Behold I know nob anything; tI can but trust.' Wennyson has sung the ,soliole pain perfectly. You —you have de - one hypothesis out of a million that are tensible, and to that you cling as if it were Godea authenticated truth inatead of one feeble mate's imagining. There are a e million poseible hypotheses, I say. Another friend of mind, whose rest like yours wes 'destroyed by the omnipresent epectaole and nenystery of evil, has come to belleve in a nal- ' venal law of compensation, holding that no one sentient aiiimal, oyster or man, prince eorpaupert ishathe long run better oil than That :somehow good Will he the final god of 111, To pane ol nature, eiriS of will, Defeen of doubtand taints of blood: Thet no:!walke with aludeeeleeS, That ooe ene life *hell he destroyed, Or Can is rebblet: to the void, When Ged teeth meek the pile COMPtete. hat there is Weed OlOO ter off. diviee event, towerd *Wax the whale erne -ion MOVOS WO kr.aw ARtIMPA, we e,a4 hnow nothing. Specelatien is WQMO than Wile. And thet 10 why the lerave men, the emancipated num. oever Make of cloth," tald Ktighte "thereto Mane 4Q blind tee he who will het see. Azei perieme I should gong:athlete you upon yeur abiliy to elienee tflu harth vein of life, crying aloud terrible trntes, with a few rhyhen from TeelleYetnn For me, I cannot ele it, I clown do in For zee, I eini See no Other in; out of the diffintity then a general reek ening beleucing agree beyeod the grew' Ever iiir:Oe our talk had left the personal ground owl proceeded upon the ebetraet Knight had SliniVed no symptoms of that terror which had wakened and unmanned him- at the OntBOt* 130 WV all at MKS be turned deathly pale, and his eyes riveted therneavee Upgia The wall before him with 44 expreselou of 4'24 livid fright that or. might have thenollt he eew a &leen them Rattily, *hunt hi 4 Whin:1M "Nerbert. Norbert," he celled out. " Whet le It! what alle year I cried, Moran up and advattelog toward him. lie looked aka* man on the verge of a feinting 44 WhAt* WbAt if—whet if it should hap- pen to -night 1" he gaped. aaPr.n Tonight? What do you maul Whet if whet shouldhappen to. eight I questioned. "11 1 eboola die to -night," be auswered lo a tent% tandems whisper. Oh 1" I fell bath itt dieguet at leis puerility. I looked down upon him, whin autl huddleaup15 kb their, "I'm ashamed of you, Koigite," I said, " end you ought to be attbstmed of yourself." "I'm pea theme, Norbert, far, long pea theme. When it comes to an issue between shame and terror, theme son to the wait" " So 1 see," I retorted, scornfully. "Shame and Iselferospech" "Yes, shame, seinrespecte ambitions love, everythiog. Terror is the kin g of the ente. dons. They all fell down and hide their faces to tee presume. Oh, Norbert, I am a most unhappy men. And 3,ot you spoke of envying me, and you congratulated me." "Well, I take that beck. I don't envy YOU. and I withdraw my congratulations." Do you know—do you know what I am awned:nee tempted to do ?" he asked. "No. Wine 7" I gnarled. "I am Romance tempted to call out to the sword to fall, and so have an and of this snapense.4 "I don't/ studs/ranted you," said I. "What do you mean ?" "I mean—I mean—why defer the inevIt. abbe? With this never ceasing horror and dread of cloth upon me, why not take my life and no learn the wont at once? the anapentus, the daily, hourly, lingering suspense that's killing roe by kobes' Oh, I would prefer hell alined to this sortof life. Look 11 am lying with my head upon the block, waiting for the rano to fall. It will be a relief—yes, it will be a relief when the executioner dealhis blow. This waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting—Oh, le in unbear- able! Yes. I am often tempted to pub an end to it. Yon see, I keep the mean at hand." Ito opened a drawer of hie writing table and took out a pistol, holding it up for me to en. "You coward!" I cried. Do you forget that you are a betrothed IstuthantiV "Neal rementher that; but I don't know -- perhaps it would be better for her if—well, anyhow, it would be very easy, wouldint it? " He pointed the pistol at himself, as if to illustrate how easy it would be. "For God's sake, don't do that?" I ex- claimed. "Fab down that pistol, Knight." And I rose from my chair, half disposed to take it from him. The next thing I knew I heard him give a sort of laugh, and then 1 heard the report of the pistol going off, and tha room was filled with smoke, and I saw him lying at my feet, Min Mollie Robbs, wee of Chicagoai releniog society queens on. an heiress to 44.1y, 114s 414/1104, 113a been craz co by the Johnstewie deed, MU Robbin3 isuot over 20 years old. She in handsome and stylish, and wears for tone ea diamonds. The femi- Iy reside lathe faehionable quarter he anima fold. The reneembrance of lobe death agony " The amount of mental oe phyeical enfrer- iug that immediately peecedee deseh has al - war bean a question a interest. No report- er Wootte thiale of deeoribiny so exeoution without attempting te give an enalysis of the feelings of the condemtled min on the meg. gen aveooe, to Chieago. Steel bellevei that of. leved One eften cats** more acute agony she man to whom she nem engaged to lee married Was Untie the find, in order to Lure hee of the delusion her mother and bro- there have brought her to Philedelpala and will take her to Johnstown, where it is hoped that a Meeting With her efaenced husband. wili restore her reason. Miss Robbins appeared the other day at a railway Station 14 Philadelphia. She an. Paneehed One ef the effenielehaed tappebee kik On iJfe nk-OUTClerA said: "Is thie the /Akar road to heavear Teo (metal was tee much eurprisecl to re- ply to the queeticet, aral the young woman conttuund; yool you may think me crazy, hot .1 latil not. I ani as fiSMO 38 you are, but I want to find the sefeet road to heaven, and I am "mid this 18 940 of them," Tho mao laughed end said he gnekeerl this was as eefe 4 road ea any other. She walk- ed away from him, but returned later and don't want you to have the improsion thet I am Crazy, became I am not. I am lockiog for the aefeet reed to a hOeVert 0 Rat for the giniMer* and if you Ce.4 dirat Pe I will be very meth obliged to you. Yee See. 1aaa tam Gedden of Shed° and Dow, end III een keep away the burang eon from ehon of my satellitin 1 will bete made their way smooth to the poi. eon, aey, I heve lint my wiegs 1 1344 they 14 hi the cortege WIelle the young VfOrtiati was remblipg on la tbie etreio to the tottenieheel OZOfai oi aged, motherlydoOking woman, aceoulpeui. 04 by 4 tall yonefe men, stepped ap to the y3un iri and said: "Pomo, Mollie, dear 'WOMiBBOCI you." 'T1104 the trio walked away. The tall young Men was ?din Rebbluen brother, And when he wen aeon by reporter he eelethat the Johnstown find was the Mae ci his deter% present mental omit. time. "The night before the and the Woke kern 4 inntlid sleep end atertled the whole household by her unearthly eoreense west over two been before we mouldcalm here end eferar-oe to any whoa we question- ed her we dietrovered ant the had dreamed the dam had buret at lIehaetown and the dead heel nailed Away her Waded, who vain tint neighborhood, and had weaved hie body up Into a tree, wheee she bad been struggling to release it. She could not be wholly %doted, but imagined she was an auol Urn to poll the body fora the tree. ranl that unien *he did so she could not thul the pathway to heaven. "We brought her on to see one Si Phil*. delpities uoted insanity tepee:lands, and he ogigeeted wo take her to Jakustown and eee if the eurroendings and the meeting with her %nodal, who was not *hero at the time ef the fined, but whom she has since not seen, will not restore her. She is yery quiet, 1. pates:tidy cone on all other subjects, and if this delusion Can be dlepelled we will be happy. "But the strangest part is that she plein- ly deecribeti twenty-four hours before the tleed exectly as it occurred. Oh, yen we were acqueluted there, and spent two weeks Int crammer in the town. Ie seems her in- tended had written to bar the doy,before the ft md, tellieg her tint he would etTitt. eurprina if the dam should morns day burst and Welth out Iolustown. TWO was on her mind and evidently influenced her drams." then the idoe of eternal separatioa, l'etople have broodea until they were almost droren to madneee over the thought that they mighe be buried alive and svesice to brief oonsciousness in their Offine. In this akep. nee" and peselmiefic age lb is not se much death that Is feared as the polo. that are supposed to accompany it. Novelle* have attempted to picture the thoughts at a drowning 1050 dories the few seeonds that intervene between sulartersion and tang lose of sense, Gee of the meet graphic pages in Victor Hugo is that in which he imagines the seneezions of 3 !ilea fallen, overheard in iseldecean while the ehip la Filling out of sight and he is gradually lapsing into ineen- Sympathetic persons beam special - gad en the agony of anticepetion they natet fill the mind of a man failing trem a grazed height, and couseled thennelves with the thought that, be was dead before he struck zhe emelt. Flaysielogtets beve hennaed themselves in the geveral queetioa, and especially, in • that in reference to perms failing fromede et WOO. l'eraetia Who halre been reens- Otated after drowning or having have been able to give some dexcrIptlen of their Renee. tine, but these who have Wien coteeidereble diet/mon old neeped death have not, Ike far se known, thrown, testy veluable lialat on the enbjeot. It hen Nee euppolled that the thrill of terror euelogoue to ehat whiele any 040 lode when he pacane that he le to deeger ef f.fliiig and aeon himeelt by A madden effort, is of such intensity when the elevetion is letty no tO itinnediately arrest the vital functione and tame death without A MOMOIAVB offaing. Incella Of tide kind the uesvapeper reporta usually odd the On., saingthooght thee the victim of the accident or euicide was enabehly deed before striking the earth, awl ceusequently spared both phyaleiel and mental sufkring. There never :me= to have been any eolici founds - tion for the prejudice, Pince it is ditdoult to auppeee that a person could be asphyxiated ha fafiing for three or four woods at the zeta of fromfifty to seventy-five feet St SeeMid, the time it approximately takes to mob the earth frem an elevation of front 250 to i50 foot. The mon thet we on oppose le that rapine:in is a -Impended, end that there results a sort of eypoope or codition of partial unconeedouweres, not of euffialent duration to cam asphyxia. Ahnose any. one eau hold hie breath for a minute. P. sons who give publio exhibitions rennin oasily nisder water for two minutes, and coral and pearl &tore foe mole than twice that length of time. The e are feats on record to prove this view of the 0410. In tending suicides who have thrown them. selves from the suspension bridge at Cinoin- netlia height of eighty feet, have beenasorod. To fall tine distance would respire about two *womb, and the striking of the water would be tite principal thing to be (muskier -- ed. A more remarkable nee itt thet of lilee young WO03413 who threw herself from, the Clifton bridge in England, which is at the height of 250 feet above the river. The time of tue fill was About four ettoonde, as there was a strong windblowing, and her skirts be- ing befieted slightly reterded the downward movement. She was at *nee fished out of the water and taken to the hospital, where the soon rescovered. Her only injuziee were :some coutuelora on the thighs and back and a Might displacementof the breast- bone. Of sixteen others who had attempted aulotde from the same bridge only one mut had been taken from the water alive, and he survived but a there time. The young woman in quaition remembered nothing from the moment oho left the bridge until she recovered consoionanees. The dootor who reported the previous case said that he had never known beforeof the survival of any one that had fallen 150 feet. Such an instance, however, ocourrea in time Paris at a me when throwing one's self from ono of the lofty columns or other pub- lic monumenta was a favorite mode of son Me. A man threw himself from the column of the Bastile, which is 1513 feet in hoighb, but, falling on a tent erected for some work- men *5 510 beset rebounded and struck the sidewalk. The fall lead been deadened, in such a fashion that, though painfully bruis- edhe was able to get up and walk away shortly afterwards, if not curedtof the sun deal mania, resolved, probably, in future to seek death by a loss pitheful and more certain method. The moat notable case of thrvival after falling long &stamen is that related by a Feench writer, lied- Parville. 15 ia that of at Emit Indian living in the island of °Rhin, who fell from a cliff 300 metres high, which le just the altitude of the Tower Eiffel. His fall was broken by masses of dense vegetation at the foot of the precipice, and he escaped without serious injuries. 11 is liarcily probable that the Eiffel ,Tower will ever be a favorite place for suielaes, the outer slope of the walls rendering a perpend- icular fall for any considerable distance im- possible. The favorite method at preeent in Paris is to leap from the upper window of the tall houses to the street or into the °earn, and death is certain. If a person has no domicile he would, perhaps, find the towers or other iofty monuments convenient; but, as in Italy. all persons who have in their manner anything suggestive of suicide are watched, and in most 3ases it is the rule never to leave a person alone at the top of a high monument. The last effort to commit suicide in this manner failed ignom- iniously in Paris. A man who had not been sufficiently watched threw himself a few months ago from the Arch of Triumph, which is about as high as the columns of the Bastile. He was caught by the projecting cornice a few feet below, whence ha was removed with great difficulty, but not seriously hurt. It is almost the only case of the kind that has occurred for the last ten years, though the Paris suicides average nearly two a week, taking the year in its entirety. KITOICEN _MOTOR. - The 'Renal; s Cron as a Food—it should An American View or the pelage?. nay Be, Eaten in ihe iteerning—tnext Affair. celled as a Illedielne. [Front Medical Classics.] 15 1* an observetion not less important than true, that by s,teeoding merely to a primer diet a phlegmatic hetet may frequently be ENGLAND AND PORIUGAL, A Strang Diet, One of the most popular fallacies le the Ides that the consurcptiou of a large amount of meat is neoessary for health or to main. tain etreegth. It is a fact well known that the etrongest animals are vegetating. No lamer would think of feeding Ms horst* or oxen beefsteak or roast beef in order to aa to their atrength, even U tido kind of icoa were as cheap ai corn or grass. The elephant, the strongest of animals, is a vegetarian. The same is true. 01 110 human race. Tho gatherers of rubber -gum in South America travel aU day among the mountains, pen- etrating dense forests, olimhtng among the most precipitous peaks, carrying all the time upon their shoulders, a load Increasing In weight until it reathees one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds; yet they subsist upon a purely vegetable dietary, the chief artiolei of food being plantains and bananas. The Boman soldiers, who built such wonder - Ltd reeds, and carried a weight of armor and luggage that would crush the average farm- hand, lived on coarse brown bread. They were temperate in (1105, 50(1 regular and con- atant in exercise. The Spanish peasant works every day, and dances half the night, yet meta only his black bread, onions, and water-meIon. The Smyrna porter eats oray a little fruit, each as limes, yeb he walks off with a load of it hundred pounds. The coolie, fed on rice'is more active and can endure more than the negro, fed on fat meat. The heavy work of the world hi not done by men who eatthe greatest quantity. Moderation intdiet seems 50 10 the prerequisite of endur- ance. • • • • • There. I have told you the truth about Knight's death as fully and as clearly as I clam tell it. The only wish I have left in life DOW is that you will read what I have wrin ten and believe that I was not his murderer. The circumstances have been all against me' - I know that. He was to be married to the woman who had rejeoted me ; we had quar- relled ; then I was closeted alone with him for two hours on the night preceding hie wedding day; we were heard to talk to- gether excitedly and vehemently during that meeting; and finally I had rushed down stairs, calling for help and saying that Mr. Knight had shot himself; and the presump- tion was that I had shot him. I told my story, but it was intrinsically most improb- able, and nobody believed it. Knight had kept his morbid state of mind a moot to all those who knew him. There was not a single shred of evidence to confirm my story, to show that I had not manufactured it from whole cloth. The jury found me guilty, and on Monday morning the Court will sentence me to prison, Bat, as I have said, I can bear all that. Ihave reaohed a pass where I care very little what happens to me, where I am callous even to disgrace. Only it burns my heart like fire to know that you think me guilty; to know that you hold me accountable for the destruction of your happiness, and that you despise me as one base and ignoble be- yond contempt. May God move your heart to believe what I have written. a The greatest snuff -baking country in the World is France, though it shows a decline in the habit. In 1869 She °ow umption was 13,- 000,000 pounds, or maen ounces per head. Now it is five °num. So me Caution Necessary, Perhaps. Luke Sohoolorafb, She minstrel, told a characteristic story at one of the Elks' socials recently. It was of a jolly old Irishman, who was addicted to a very free use of the bottle much to the disgust of his faithful wife. She knew that he wee "going it " at too fast a loan and she appealed to their priest to pull him up. In view of the cir- cumstances, this priest thou& he was justi- fied in employing one or two fairy talea, so when he met Pat on the 'Beet he called him aside and said: Pat, you're drinkidg too hard.- Now, you know that you can depend upon what I say, and I have no heeitancy in telling you that if you keep on as you are doing you will change into a rat." This awful prediction annoyed Pat greatly, and when he went home he told his wife about it. Of course, she worked it up and told him the priest was undoubtedly right. Pat was deep in thought for wane time. Be did hate very much to give up his toddy, hub the rat idea was too much for him. Filially he said : "Luk here, Bridget, av ye see the whim kers an' tail comin' an me, all I ask av yes is jiat to keep yer eye on the cat." The New Yerle Sun has in the ' past beea ratherunfriendlytoBritein in its criticism of her foreign policy, hat the following article be at recent essue would, indicate a decided change of sentiment Cra the pari of that great newspaper. The Ban heartily en. changed tete 6E0;111140 one, and the hypo- dorses Englandmune in regard tie the choadriee may be elo altered as to become a pelages Bay Railway aid hopes she will °Manful and contented member of society, Experience and observation thew that a too frequent and exoessive nee ef animal food dispone the fiddle to putrifieation, and, he aanguine temperamente opectelly, commnoi- catea to the Mind a degree of feroctiy. NA - alone asIstjng chiefly upon the fink of am - 3m able M forestall Portugal in her rather insolent deinands :---" The cancellation of the Delegoe Bay Railway coacention by the Lisboa Governmeut threatens a rupture of the tie which for upward of two centuries has connected Eaglantl and Portugal.. Since tae Portuguese uprising egieloat Spain itt mats, like the artare, are, in general, more 1 the /seventeenth country, and the marriage fierce than others; and the same effecb ts of a daughter of the House of Beragaine to manifezt la carnivorous animals ; they emit Charles II, the meintenance of Portuguese o 'very din/grows)* emelt, rad beth their 1iudepenclenee bee boon largely ane 10 510 The Horse Was Slow. She—I am sorry, 14r. Browne, that I can- not be otherwise than a sister to you. Ilia getting late, by the way, and I think I had better be home soon ; would you mind hur- rying no tie° horse? fleela and mnk have an urpleasant and re - polling Mete. Even an Infant will refuse the breaet when its nurse has own bee much animal Mod. Thosc who eat great quanti- ties of meat, and little bread and vegetables; name aeceeserily acquire au offensive breath. It appeave, therefore, to be twee suitable and conducive to health to combine animal end, vegetable food in duo proportions. The proportion °anon be minutely ascer- tained with. respect to every individual; bit, la a general sort of envy, it may be eeid, two-thirds or three fourths of vegetables, to one third or fourth vart of meet' appears to be the most mien. By thiseadicions mixture we may avoid aaeaseii atiaing from 4 Mti Cepionil WM' of either. Much, how, ever, depeuda on the peculier prepertin of Alimentary eelbetaneee belonging to one or the ether of the differeut amen. The ening of fruit at the commeueement of a meet, while le presents a blend or con- genial material to the delicete liniug ottani- brene et the alimeatary organs, formiug WeleeMo proonmor to the Mere Mihatatitlal articles, many. of which require protracted energy for them elaboration into nutriment, et the Seine OM% 10, to SOMextent, afat, guard against the overfeeding which comes from reserving the fruita till the sternal ie already overkeded with enough, perhape too much, of other food. Fruits ehould be ripe when eaten on an empty stanch, and for their laxative effect should be eaten before Anything else. In this way conetipa- tiou may, with meow individoelst especielly WI= the qiianti17. Of other Weeks of the virtual protectorate exercised by Greab Britain. Bat for Eeglish friendship, Porto. gal would long ago have lost the remnaote of its former posseesions in Asia, iocluding Macao in the Chinese waters mut Goa oa the Indian peninsula. Bat for English ertniee 15 would have been effaced from the roan of Europe during the Napoleouic wars; And bgt for English, fleets ie would have beset deprived of its great transatlantic do. pendency, which has BillOe delfekirOd into the lerazilian empire- " Still it numb be admitted that the joint voyage of England and Portugal dowu the stream ef aavional existence recalls the fable ef ate braesaodearthenpote, To daythe letter power le ler more insignigtent OM former inoemperably /stronger than was the gene ewo eentstriee ego. Por the dream of Portuguese exphuston, which seemed ao neer fuldimeut su the days of Vasco De Genie, and whist) is not yet wholly given op, the ooly field left is that section of South Afrioa, including the great/ velley of the Zembesi, which ilea between telozembique On the India n Ocean. aud Angela ou the Atlantic/. Upon then coaat proancee, it ortugel, which hae seen the ()ono wrenched from here has never altogether relaxed her hold, and she claims that, accord. ieg to the precedents of diecovery and col. onization, the intervening hole of trerritory e &mold belong to theEe,ropean country whose settlements and trading poste fringe it upon both fleados. Both France and Ger- 111447 are understood to have recooMzed thie claim by (Upton:mei° admix:done, al. motel wtthia re:amiable Haute. 1 though not by formal treety, mad the improve There is probably nothing 10 which nature I ion is cuerenb thett both of the powers bee boon co bountiful to rano, in whetever named:view witla approvel the withdrawal temperate or hot climate he may. be fumed, of the Dela 00,13:ty (Honest:1On salons effeet ae in frulte,, 15 10chermtereatio of ell Intim that when ripe they may be eaten in their raw atone, and of many that they zee). ba oaten cooked or traw. They //omelet oto eentially of two pante, vie.; the juicer/ and coital= structures ip whith the juicee are contained ; and it is neoeseewit to odd that, whilat the juin* may be readily fxansiortu- ed, the °elle are net easily digeeted, and nOW the subject of controversy, there BOOMO when ye:table, are threwn away, Tide le to he no doubt that the Llano Government wilb be to c ale the northward extension of the British celoniee at the Cape. It thould at the same time be berne in mind that Greatilritain has never acknowledged the right of Portugal to control the navigation of the Zembesi, or to monopolize the interior react stretching from Angola to Mezernbique, "Aa to the particular affair which ie gain in such fruits as the orange and apple when not of good quality or not quite ape. In suole fruite at the strawberry, the plea - apple, the grape and even the banana, th.e cell -wall is very alio and tide is welly bro- ken up, so than ito presence le not pereepti- ble and the digestion of it cannot be difficult. As a general exproselou It ram: be anted of any troll/ thee the variety which yields the ritheat juice+, in the greatest quantley, whilet the celluisr foortework ie tee least perceptible on mastication is the mosb pre - ferret! and the most digestible. We can hardly welt here saying whet may be understood from what has been said al- ready, that though fruits in their ripest be at the same time in their most perked/ state, they may, however, oven in this state be taken in too large quantity. In the case of a dyspeptic stomach. I have known apples, a long time after they had been taken down, brought up again by erection in the same =eases they had been swallowed, and that oven after two days. An excessive amount/ of trait, or if eaten either in the =tripe or overripe state, pro- duce -a serion disturbances in the system, chiefly so beoeuee of ite tendency to ferment and decomposo within the digeetlye tract and to produoe stomach and bowel disorders. lf these disturbances are not too great or too prolonged, they need occasion no special anxiety. A dose of castor oil, to which is few drops of laudanum have been added, a usually sufficient to clean out the kritatieg " debrit," and in a day or two the natural equilibrium is restored. If there is much griping and pain with the movements, and these become too numerous to be comfort- able, the dose of oil should be followed by curtailing activity—by quiet and repose— by a diet of meat broths, containing rice barley or sago by rice and milk, milk toast; etc. The following recipe, known as the San Cholera Mixture, Is a useful and "bandy thing to have about for "jrtst such distu.rbunces," Double cashmere is again coming into favor its DI dress fabrio. Why is there so little enthusiasm about the average religions service ? Is it because there is so little faith ? If ono really be- lieved that Boatel:wily ha,d left him one thousand pounds, he would be somewhat radiant over the circumstance and might look as if . he felt hie oats . a little. The neighbors would say : There g,ces a glad man, and they would be right. , But when a man says that he is an heir of heaven and is going as fast as he can to as place of Which the God of heaven has promised, seeing, I will give it you, he is as dull, lugubrious He (savagely)—Oh, not at all ; lanh you and forlorn looking as if he were about to I see, 1 expressly asked for an old horse, snit be hanged. What is to be thought? Juin we are seven miles from home, and thie nag that he doeinot believe a word of all be is only makes three miles an hour. Get up i continually saying. That's just about the there, yone-411exper'8 Bezaar. I plea of IL -12-11,1 is teohnically right, the grantees of the railway coneeselon having failed to comply with the conditions of the contract, We are told, however, that Lord SaUebury will contend thet, as a matter of comity end equity, Portugal should have p,iven an er. tention of time, or at least referred the question to Arbitration. But how could the eisputenta agree upon arbitratora ? England would searcaly exempt Germany or FranCe, whose interests bit Africa are by no means, I:Identical with hors, nor Benda, lest that power should show itself amenable to French lefteence. On the other hand, Portugal wouli certainly reject the arbitration of the United. Stateat for AIM/UM= would naturally preter to see the finest part of Africa opened up by a European people whose leuguage they speak and with whose free institutions they aro in sympathy. The ladies and the Emmaus% The ladles who don't want the franchise and have publislaeti their names to a protest certifying as much BTO nob leaving it all their own way. Mrs, Fawoett, the late Post Master General's widow, and Mrs, Aehton Dilkesin the arrant Nineteenth Century, bringthem up with a sharp tura, and tell them some very plain wholesome truth though, like Lank Walton, with the live frogs/ in a pleasant way, "aa if they loved them." They banter their "protesting" sisters on the ' handsome manner" to which they "acknowledge the importance of women" and they profese to be thankful that, as the lady said &bone the mountains about Lucerne, then superior parties se - knowledge that their sex 10 "just lovely, almost as good as if the protesters themselves/ had superintended the whole scheme of creation.' They are also pleased that the signers of the "protest" inclinte that they approve of many of the late amelioration in the legal end edam:atonal standing of women To make the Sun Cholera Mixture tak e though it is signtficantly Muted that with equal parts of tincture of cayenne, tinoture ?ethane one exception, the names of these protestors" vvere never associated with any efforeetobnng each ameliorations round. After such pleasant little hand -shakings if ono may even dare to approach the language or usage of the ring in suck a connection, these ladies get in' a good deal of strong good"work,' withounas far as Tnunteoan see, a single "foul." And so now there turn round lies with the "protesters." And they will need to do their best if they mean to hold their own. We frankly say) that it does not think they can. But let them do their best. In Mesdames Fawcett and Mike they have opponents very cunning offence and wt care little for grand airs and poor arguments. liw Cigarette smoking. of opium, uncture of rhubarb, essence of peppermint and spirits of camphor, and mix well. Dose, fifteen to thirty drops in a wine glass of water, according to age and violence of the athok. Repeat every fifteen or twenty minutea until relief is obtained. "Ill blows the wind that profits nobody," says Shakesphere bit Henry IV., and so with many of the cases of diarrhma brought on by a little to muchindulgence in fruit. If our bilious friends would throw aaide their liver pills and study nature, while elle is in her most smiling and bounteous anood, would allow her to tempt them as Eve tempted old Adam they would take to fruit, and by pleasant, natural andhealthful methods free themselves of the "thiok bil- ious impurities" which make them a Dili- BEMOO to themselves as well as to all around them. Biliousness is One of those demons that can be pretty well exercised by proper diet and. due amount of exercise. A gentle diarrhoea, brought on by eating ripe fruit in summer, has frequently a sale- tary effect. Acid and astringent fruit, being rather a medicine than food, is leas hurtful 10 510 healthy and to children than is com- monly imagined. Instead of being noxuons, as some imagine, in inilemmatory disorders lb is of the great service. Persons of a thick and languid blood cannot eat anything more conductive to health than fruit, as it poSsess- es the property of attenuating and 'putting such blood in motion. Fruit diminishes the acidity of the urine. The :alkaline vegetable Salts which it con- tains bemme decomposed in the system, and converted into the carbonate of the alkali, which manse off with the urine. By fututh of this result the employment of fruit hi cal- oulated to prove advantageous in gout and other cases whore the urine shows a tenden- cy to throw e own a deposit of lithio aold. Murderous Proposition. Bridget --"Mr. Sophieigh is in the parlor, mem." a -Mee Laura—"That hateful little dude again? I wish 1 could think of some plan to get rid of him." Brother John—"Why don't you try ingeot powder on him, Lol ?" . . Smolnug es far more common among wo- men than is generally suspected, and we cannot see why any lover of the weed should ob cot to such a state of things. If it is so good for the men both young and old it can- not be bad for the maiden and the matron, One who Maims to know says that almost all literary ladies smoke, and the same is tok, be said of all theatrical artistes, from Ma- dame Modjeska and the Lily downward or upward, as such may judge. "Society," it gams, was at first rather shocked by such free and eny ways, but then got over its squeamishness, and now ail women who are thought or who think themielves anything, go in for the weed with a will. Mrs. Cleve- land, it seems, introduoed the OUBtOM when in the White louse of handing round cigar- ettes to her guests with the coffee. Other "society" leaders among ourmeighbours are even :Ain more pronounced. How far the fashion rules in the best circles of Toronto, we would not dare to neat, not being quite the oracle on these matters. It *ill be very nice when dainty gloved little wo- men flourish their cigar! on Yonge $t. of an afternoon, and finish off by taking a "sip" of brandy with their young men at their iav- mite restaurants. Oh, by all meant/ 1 What is good for the boys is and must be equally good for the girls, and j as nothing could be more stupid looking than the average dude, It fa well that the girls be brought down to the same level, in order to their being,. In due time, helpmeets for the poor fellows. tee.