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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-8-15, Page 6UNDER AN AFRIC SUN, Br GEORGE. MANVILLE FENN. CHAPTER, I. ' Weil, 'pert my word, Framr • Witetis the matter novie" "Tim etaggered ;1 am, really." "What ablaut, boy 7 ' To think I eould be moltan ahsolete nOodle as to let you morally bind me hood and foot and hear me off Into a desolate e. land in the Atlantic, to carry your cenfouncl- osd epeeimems ; be clraggcxl out of be at un- holy hours to walk lamarede of mileio the broiling son ; to sleep in beds full of the ac - 'Live and nameless ineect abhorred by the British /tonal:wife ; and generally become your white nigger, cad, carthorse and" --- "Nose you nearly done r og:td Horace Reimer, with a grim emile upon hie are", quanit countenaace. "No ; that was only the preface." "Then let's have the rest when we get home in the shape of a neatly printed boek, a caPY ai which YOY OAR present to me with a paper -knife of a hite ivory ; and I prombie you 1 will never cut a leaf or read A line." "Thooke, Diegetteae "Diogenee lodged r cried Fraser with a enort, &tibia crisp bale Esemeal to stand Do end. "Now look, Tom Digby ; ran are about the mot illeonditiotied, ungrateful, diseadafied Englieh cab that ever breathed." "Go it I" eleid the goecl-leohlog you now atedreeeed, At be tines /aiming( ciewn ameug the ferns tied hopn to matte his slutee, after wiping hie eteerning brow and taklog oilWs acrew hat, 0 let the hot dry brecze blew throtijI bit criep wavy bowie heir. "1 mean to $0 aa you to coersely term it, sir," eontinued Poser, cromlog ide arum •on a roughly male alponeteck. I oame to you in yeur black aud grimy eham. bore, where you were eoffering teem e emit. mageadezed geld. I mid ; "1 A_M eff to the Cartarlee for a three mouth% trip. Leave this misemble Lembo Meech weather* and I 11 take you where you can Bee the min hitte, "See it thine ? Yee ; but you didtee tay a word about feeling it," cried the yeuttger •reen. 'To you know the akin iapeeliog off my Togo, and that the be* of my neck le buratto* e tTonethe doukey, TOM 1 Mk, 414 you ever tee Anythies 40 levelly before I your life ° "Humph 1 'Tie meter pretty*** grumbled the youttger man. "leeetty 1" minted Fouler matemptecuely, ea he toele off hie hat, aa if out of empece to Nature, and gazed manna him at sem thy encientaite and tdU, when hum were dm alba in their richeoloure. e then threw down his alpenstock, drew A large geological liana:ter from hie belt, and seated hIraself upon the gram, while hie compenion brought one a cold ehielteu, some de* tread and A number of nard-hollei eggs, gambles cif with A bottle end silver eup, "Look at that wonderful filin of cloud floating 'toward the velem°, Tom 1 Look at the eungleamleg upon it! just like a eilver veil whichthe queen ot mounted:le it Omit to throw over her head." "Poetry, by jingel" oried Dishy. "Brayvo, oia stenos and bones, X say 1 Look at; the golden yellow of the hard yolk lying within . the ivory walls of this hard boiled egg ,• and at the—There: 111 be hanged if I didn't forget to bring some met 1" Mom Dishy made a sound with his bowie at he tasted :tome of the wine he had poured into thecap ; then he reed° a grimece. "I say, Horace old ohne it was very well for the old people to make a fuss about their seek and canary; but for my pert a tankard of honest Englith beer is worth an ocean of this mbar* able Juice." "Don't drink it, then." said Fraser, eat. Ing mechanically, aa he gazed about hbn at the glorious pima around. and then down at the tropical foliage of banana, palm, orange, and lime, two thousand feet below, where it glorified the lovely valleye and gorges which ran from the bleak volcanic eandy shore right up into the mountains. hundred or a thotteand feele—Going alone here?" " Yea; the track leads to a eteep dement. Then we coa get up the other side, and mi round over the ountan, and eo back to the part whore, after &mer. we eam go and gall on Ma Redgrave. I did send On the letter straight Mow London." tight, old chap: I'M reafiY,, How many mileroinid19 "Not more than tee. ICOA Will 310 Wad the climb dowo ?" "Wellif it's like thise--yee. Hillo, what'she doing ?" Digby pointed acme* tile boorrtnco to where, a couple of hundred yeede elvaaa uponthe opposite rock -few, e man seemed to be elowly desceedieg the giddy well. "Aftm birds or ratibite, perhaps," mid Frog. "Take oath of yeuthelf, old chap 1" sheet- ed Digby ; and then, as his voice was lost in the voittneea of the gime, he followed his companion Reward for a few hundred yarde till the meek led them to aAlgeag &Went cut be the weli el reek, down which they went ceatiouely end nob without hatitatIon till they teethed the little *Meow at the bottom, crossed it, and ascended the other meleea ortular dengeroue path taking them to the top. "By George, Ohl IS a VINO V cried Digby ail they weed fur A few momenta. " Liebe V' Whiepered Frieter, stepping abort ; and there beneetle Omen WAS A put. fog and reetheg, tollowed direetly atter by the eppeereuee of t. derk face with A bend aereta the brow, s. mail with a beeket map, ported 014 hie back by the band, to leave hie blade free, clic:Wog up ix= a hiddell pitth aineng the forme and pamleg before them to mit down WS lead, " What hAve you there ?" miked Fatter in Speutell. " Dub of the eld poi*, neer Inglese," mid the men, amiling. "That la oue of the came leeiove therewhere they wiled to bury thein; And he pointed to an opeuieg jnet visible amongst the growth where the tilde f the harrow sloped, °Burka e There?" mid Fewer. "'i00. senor; there Are Veazey of ouch pleces ae this in the eidee of the mountain. "Carlene," mid Feuer, eameln Feerhtg Into the beset of brown duet, **meg it eh the end of his alpeustotere end AUMvar. tithing gamma% mni by, itte a tooth le mid Dishy, stoop. ek bout 91 the baldest, hut dropping enter "Ugh I" heejamilated; 'why eyro him of bone," " Yea ; very lettere:41nm° wad Frew. "Deist of the Gauche mummies. I knew there Were rentable to be found." " Dieguiting1, ejecolated Dlieby, recoil. Ing. 44Why do you get Vele dueler salted Fraser of the man. "For my garde; anon The penitent and onions like it, and it imperial* 46 Willa deet he my 1" Theo it silence fell upon the scene, whieh contitued till the "al fresco" raped was at an end, and Tom Digby deliberately lit up and began to smoke. "What an enthusiastic young gusher you are. Horace I" cried Digby banteringly. *41 Foi a man of forty-one, you do rather go it." ." And for twenty-five, you assume the airs -of a boy," said Fraser grimly. "Well, I feel like one, old chap, out here. Why, it's glorious to breathe this delicious mounteiu air'to gaze upon the clouds above, :did below atthat wondeetd blue sea, and .0 the yellow pines which look like gold. Yee," he added,as he sprang up and gazed about him, "it le a perfect Eden 'What a jolly shame that it should belong to the , Spaniards instead of us." I daresay they appreciate it." "Must have done, or else they wouldn't * have taken it from the—the—the—what did you call the aborgines ?" "Guanches." "What a ohap you are, Horace 1 You seeta to know a bit of everything." "1 only try te go about with my eyes open, and take interest in something better than, coloriog a meerschaum pipe." 41$evere I" "Well, you do annoy me, Tom, you do 'Indeed. A man with emit capabilitiee, and 'you will nob use thew. Why, you haven't even tried to learn Spanish yet.' "What's the good? You know plenty for both. Pin well enough off not to bother iny brains about Spanish." "Ala Tom, Tom 1 if you only had some aim in life." "Rather have some of those delicious oranges." "Eating again ?" "No, for drinking. Thirsty land, Horace, and I never knew what an orange really was before. And why should I worry myself about languages? I've it lively recollection of your namesake at school, and Virgil and Hower and all tne other dead -language buffers.—I say, though, that's fine." They had come suddenly upon one of the gashes in the island known to the Spanish as "barren:300"—a thorough crook or crevice b the rocky soil, with perpendicular Bides olothed With mosses, ferns, and the various :growths whioh found a home in the disin- tegrating lava of which the place was cora- posed. Here the various patches of green • were of the most brilliant tints, and kept ever verdant by the moisture trickling clown from above. • " Mind what you are doing 1" said Fraser, after stooping to chip off a fragment of per. • deafly black lava from a bare Spot. " Yes; Ib would be an awkward tumble," • Digby, as he leanedforward and peered over the ledge. "Five hundred feet, I daresay." "More likely a thoneand," sold Fraser. ' The distances are greater than you think." "Alt, well, don't make much difference to it man who falls whether he tumbles five "They use it for rilatUtr0 for their ger. donee' Digby nized his Mendel arm. "Come away," ho said. "No more vegetables while I May in Isola. Hang it all, Wailer, I hope they don't pat it among the omagetrees." Pmeibly I Why nee? Thla is the &brie of mummies, the remains of the old dwel- lers hero made of the duo of the earth, returnedto tie° dust of the mirth ; and the Mita here are taken up by plant -life by Nature's chemistry." I my clowtpreach Erie DIghy. "Come along." " Yen we must go on now," said Fraser thoughtfully; "but we shall have to come and explore them caVeS. X ehoult1 like to take baok aim perfect skulls," Far the mat two hours they wandered on through memo of surpassing loveliness, following the fable track whieh led them over the mountains till they could see the ma on the other side of the little island, as they 'began to descend. Fraser was alwaya buy °hipping fragments of pumice auditors; picking rare plants, and =eking A V00$117 collection for study at the little meet or hotel where they had taken up their quart- ers, when it rabit suddenly darted out apron the outline path they pursued. "Bather disappointing place as to game," said Digby. "Few birds, too. Igay, I ex- pected to see the peace with canaries as yellow as gold singing on every tough. —Patti" He caught hie companion's arm, and they both stepped ahort to listen to a sweet pure voice singing the words of some Spanish ditty, the norm riteging out melodious and clear, though the singer was hidden among the trees through which the path led. "There's one of your Canary birds," said Fraser in a whiaper ; and dixeotly after there was it rustle among the hushes, which were thrust aside; and Digby Mood en. thralled bythe picture kefore him, as a beautiful girl of about nineteen bounded down from a rocky ledge above the path, her draw hat hanging by its string from her creamy throat, and her sun.browned face turning crimson at the eight of the atrangers who made way for her to pass, laden with flowers, which she had evidently been gathering in the openings among the trees. Horace, old fellow; did you see 2" whis- pered Digby, his eyes sparkling with excite- ment. " Yes," was tha geziet reply. "Why, you old &acetic 1" cried Digby. "An angel. Violet eyes—brown hair—a complexion of which Belgravia might boast, I did not think the Spaniards had it bi them." "Yea," said Fraser slowly. "Some of the old race possessed that fair hair. Mary's Philip was fair." "But did you notice her mouth 7—Fraser, don't talk of such a vision of beauty as if she were it natural -history sp admen." "Well, don't go on like that about the first pretty woman you see. Only yesterday, you wore grumbling about their plainness and saying that thoughthe women here had Jove. eyes, they had wen's, moustaches—they ought to shave.—This way—to the right:, I think," he added, for the road had suddenly forked. And-- Well, she is beautiful," oried Ingby. "I wonder who she is." "A Spanish settler's descendant, whom, in all human probability, you will never see again," Bald Frasier quietly ; and they both went on for half an hour in a ailence which was broken by Fraeer. "Going wrong, evidently," he said ; "this can't bo the way round to the town." • "Well, I thought we were going up hill again." "Ought to have taken the other turning," This was so evident, that they turned back, retracing their steps, till, close upon the spot where they, had diverged, they came suddenly upon a tall, handsome, well-dress- ed man, who started and looked at them wide oaly. "Will the senor aired niz, to the hewn ? said lemur, in Spanish, Th.e haughty searching look wore place to a winning smile, and the Manger volubly in- dicated the right road, end then said laugh- laglY i Englieh : "But do you understand ane "Yes, perfectly," replied Frmer " and with my Spaidelt were wipe:Am your Eng, fish." Then punctilious words were exchanged, and the stranger paseed, "Da yen 'believe in firm irepreesiene, Ho. race t." said INgtwigiauctpg back, and *04 utteriog an impetkeat exeletwantien. "No—What's the MOW t" "That fellow wAs looking after us." " WeIj, you were looking •after hare, you would. noe have rhett—Wlet do yea meau by Year first impreadona 2'1 "1 don't: like the looks of thot feillew." 44 Insular prejudice." "Don'tosee what It is; 1404'12 like him, I'm sure Ineeer should.-eWhy, Horace, leek there 1° Not twenty yardn in front was the girl they had 50 lately Mob; end eta Digby drew attention to her preeence, he mopped and hastily picked up a 043 of fleWsro each as he had seen her carrying, and which leer despondent attitude suggeeted that ahe had *Implied. For she was walking Slowly on with her face tended, in her bentliterChief, evidently sobbing bitterly; and as they followed, the let °them of the flower* the had gathered fall. " Scope' whiepered Fraser hastily, aa ho caught his companion by t,he arm. "thing to eee if Can — Digley did AOC &WI bit eentenee, fax' the girl had evidently heard the harth Milton She mined, gulag beck et him in RA Weighted way; aud as they ought sight of the Medal moulted, bete the darted detin A oble-treek, Aild WM gene, $$ What 49 you think of timer cried Digby ezeitedin. A Sipa-obit WeedlAnd Ornance," eed levities dryly.—" Met do you Ott* abent ir, "That Z 4110Uld 1110 to go After Viet heoghty Whim Spehleb =teenier mei ea him whet It all meant —Seed Il" "Ne. Be moth% for ouceee.Ala you eau toe the town from here.—Come Oltazeuii, Tbo ae000lmodotion ot the was ot the humblest ratio but the place was cleenly, thoPlatnt! CM WM attentive, And She WM eel. deutly proud et beteg houeured by then ;he termed the ilbeetrioue etreenere, who had owe Irma the sego bland to her unire. Tooted home. The homely dinner WAS iliKUNACil, the ceeking deelmed to be riet so very bekthe MAIVAlla An outrege on the AAMA ot MAN And the meeeldeent view from the opeo Window A betquat in itself. "Yea," mid Fatter ; heve hewed wares vomit to me whet I have emu to. day.° Digby, who was toying with an oreuge which luthed begun towel, and thenleft test. timed, kicked up eitinply, end lib fano flush- ed A little as he exeleemed "Yes; wibu'e *he lovely!" "I WM Wang abouli the emery, geld Fraser coldly. .Digby turned impatiently Away, and begirt to Ali his pipe as he peed out over the net roofs of the ,houses Among which -the leery crowns of stately palms MOO. "Don't tura like that, Tom," mid Fraser, after it law momenta" silence; and he rose to lay hie bend upen bis young CAMpardMe4 *boulder. Turn like what?' "Huffy, my, dear boy. I wouldn't, Tom; let's be sensible. You must nob be so in. damnable. Wo have come to admire the beauties of Nature and to milled in thts, ono of the lease visited of the Cenaries. You roust not try to work up a TOMAn00 by taking A ferny to the firat pretty Spauliet maiden you Noe.° Dishy flashed more deeply, and he pod up in his companion's face, sober., quiet lle- raowe ,Freser cion14, not help merki1311 whet a frank handsome young Englishman he look- ed there, with the golden rays of the weetering sun bathing his counter:wide in its am DIgbees eyes for it meant looked reliant. ful; but a smile came upon his lips directly. e All right, Herenee" he said. "I am an wful donkey, I know; but; that girl's sweet bee impreseed me; and then seeing her evidently ha trouble directly after that Spanish chap had left: her, seemed to raise my bile." "How do yen know that gentleman had just left her ?" "Eh! Oh, of course! I couldn't:know could ft—There; it's all over, and I'll reboil to my duty like a man.—Let's have a look at teday's collecting; and toenorrow lel swallow my repugnance, and well do some of your ghoulish ethnology in the mummy eaves, eh?" " And tenight, let's go no in the cool and call on Mr. Redgrave. I want him to give us a few hints about what we ought to nee and how to get it guide." Right. Let's go ab once, before sun - e walk was delightfal, the 'western side of the Island being glorious in the glow of radiance in which it wee bathed, while the sea and the islands around aaemed glori- fied by colours that were almost beyond belief. "Better than sitting in that stuffy little room, Tow." "Bless you, my son, for bringing me here," cried Digby irierrily.—"Cheerful kind of growth to tumble among," he added, pointing to the prickly -pears which abounded on one side of the narrow rocky path they were ascending, the other side being furnished with an abun- dance of ragged leaved bananas. "There's a house in that nook yonder," said Fraser; "that must be it." "And this ohap coming is our man for it shilling," said Digby, at: a tall, sturdy, middle-aged personage came towarda them smoking a huge cigar. "An Engliehman, by the way he keeps his hands in his pockets." " Hush I" whispered Fraser, as the man approached; and then addressing him in Spanish, he %eked to be directed to Senor Redgrave's house. "Suppose you ask me in English, sir." said the other bluffly. You are Fraser,I presume; and this is Mr. Digby ?—.Glad to to see you, gentle- men. I bad your hatter, and was cow- ing down to the yenta to hunt you up. Don't often see a countryman here; so, be., fore we say any more, he added, after warmly shaking hands, "Jell give orders for your traps te be fetched up here, and you can make this your home while you stay." But Fraser would not hear of it. "We are in capital quarters," he said, "and will not impose on you.—But if you will have us, we'll come up pretty frequently for a that." "You shall do as you like, gentlemen.—In here, please." • "By George I" cried Digit, involuntarily, as they passed through a gate into it lovely villa -garden, "what a paradise 1" "Well, pretty tidy. You see, everything rushes into growth here with little trouble. lam a bit prone of my home, and make it ZEALTZ „as Eoglish AS 1 Ogin• It. WAS. My 'poor dead wife's fayorite plaoe, tem garden." go raised his hat slightly as he uttered thlast ITader the 11111:eadiDiagrin`ki` Terrors of Tea e the " Si. JAMee,Gagette containalthe follovr. wore; and a silenee fell upon the group. "Forgive me," said the host the next lug r 11400°A8, eekleie are well werthY of tho nutmeat, as he looked in the eyea of hie two e°w4clqr44194 bea4rlkere , vieltors, "You aee Englishmen and can Nervoes peopleexpeetence shows us, symp4thbe with 940 whet hhi leo, a dear AXO, ay. rale, extreinely se1dsh„ La !spirits nerueim is the most inconsiderate epechnen oompauiou out here in a strange land, But htbeeeleeth'ehteif°yart;."4,EanYheY:negloqtgcleerernaleeZe: Qi flicettxbh,11w7i4ch"roveustathatacr prboVirliate ctlhe: eacridoe of evaryiattlyet comfort except her own. him ceeeetere Mori' aOteM, both of herself suld the world at large, primaellY fromothe point ot dew of the effect It will beve on her nerVee. If the happeoed to be omnipotent, eh° wonld no doubt St (Mee atop the movement Of the earth, for fear of ite giving her e turn.' Her aentiment et ply for the misfortunes el ethert io entirely blunted by her horeor of the eight of pain • mad the muted of woe. She exacta the utabst forbeareoce and Peer/Ace keno others, —not fir herself but for lel, uerves,—aosi exempts herself from gratitude on tee ,tame grenade, She made, in bete to become oompletely etaillem ; aoceptime All de. mitten as her due, bitterly resent- ing any realatanee to her claim, mid ealeatitatiog for ell higher etertheal life an egetlatie4 term of Peselnetemetelehlh itt ae deltedee se it te difecele to mutat, Thee the be nett meively cruel is en. Aelklent; pmeleely creel the is continually, without remorse or thoeght ; and le is probable that When Provocation and opportunity effered theineelme eimultanmeelY, elite woold not Stay her bend from dbeet emelty. The erfOnal WPM= le A predUcii Of the nine - meth ceetury, Andorialiy ot tea She talese It to moth§ her nerree* And k ether excitee theMi" or else abe teitee It ite. own she heti acquired the habit, and the aillt IS the game. 110441OU IVOirien are even 'mere;H Teta with *acme* than their Reglith idetere. They are more leollued to fitful and violent exeltemeutte mere eiciiied. to IntrIgue. mom peeelmistio, more eelfush ars a rale. Now it worth noticing that they bevel kuewn the it of tea much longer, theta they drink A purer and atronger beverege, end that they iedulge in la oftener then Enlist), women. The children take after their mothere, end in the men the charecterieties become mere preatheeced and mere beutal." galitelaelt Seahleh fever. Ilvoent ohoervottoos stem to show thnlitt etemsetien et ehe ter, And ether grave COM lf MIMS Whielt Ofterl mite lit Nemeth fever, dee to soeoodery labetion, Omit le'ttt !elevate), byethe peileute Thee fee buten the unportseme of *borough bete, veatiletiora ixul dielarectien in lame, The ele,k-recen Amid be kept 1 ventiletch Soiled elethee, veiled!, eta, uld he removed promptly. The patimie tl ehoold ba frequently deemed, hour or two, or ofetmer, 11neceeeery, es much Fidget be game aim by change ot room, A pleu auggeeted ie worth a Seel, Is Slake Devote two sick person* in addition to the room required by the aerie. Owego the petieut from ono to the otter ovary other day, leaving be the room each artioles itt bevel been amid in it. Dieinfeee the room and tiontente by bunting three pounde of eulphur for each one thetutand cable belt of air epees. The room 'botch). tee clewed up far A Lau Itian'a MOI. twelve hears dean tho fumigatieta tlee well aired, with doors entl windows otn, When the lint settlers' came to North until the petient le returnee to it, The ArneriCe they found the Liam man n other roorkehmeld thole be autemited to tho esti° or mortar to crush the Mess Which same proem. Tee eeengo oe room and yew retread their chief vegeteble food. XnSouthtuti alma mutat to bo at great aerate lur,erice the natives bad Pre !eel fail= without thefunsigation. and bed contrived the Monjal,, which may be truly styled it lazy mate's mill, for while iwtmvaeterstwenallagbotor, o4nwlyabszbYetfyrelaa:lyt °runt Ito "As it man eeteth, so is ho, is an old operations. Inlarxn big nica si lush, wood. Glertram proverb. Mr. Alcott need tosay, on hammer, belautted balmier up tilte handle "et man who "146 " heoernell exifiedi and on a pivot. At the end of the handle oppo. I it 2:4411 who ode hog, Perhaps site the hammer le it hollow imoop; into trail Mlle was iemething01 " extreme vlew ; it neturid lantern of wider ie directed, and ", nevarthelems, ,rolation of diet to morels when the scoop Is filled the extra weight ,WM recognized by the writers at the Bible, forees it downward, when the water rune elf. tb°4"balich°1thlrsareubjecar emparia i-- rl-11341114'411 Thus released from the weight the hammer I aPetielne on end return* inddeuly to ita former potable 1stao 1 `tgGal eitithatoeetchyo miganobletnote4tia4n1diatik oifbothoof giving ono strong blow In the receptacle ehe animals they might zee eat. Them made to hom the rice or men. Thus ; goes on day and night as Ion as Alto stream PeePle lived la a het climatal and certain runs; it monotoneas thud, a croaking pearl, A tonne of animal food corrupted their blood the sound of a siplieth of water; it thud, dove antirceilepod theirsedtappehemtotisattegroiinlanottas ad lome rod,: Ta, groama splash, over and over, until at last the grain having been coarsely broken is taken out and the mortar is refilled. tthbeeirinseesntslas .auAd openpanoritsunfietyod,ofwsheieeentihneghiate, euggeats his moral nature. The reason the wild Indian is as cruel as the Bed' Getlinc There. lion, is because he has food that A San Francisco despatch to the NOW even him the • blood of the lion. York "Tribune" says :—Next week the San ' A mieelemitY among the Indiana, says thee Francisco Chamber of Commerce will cou. eider an appeal of Captain Merry for it con. ferenoe of the buelness men of the whole Coast to devise means to guard against a —Here. Kelly . he coed ; whore are Toe ? Vieltere from home, my dear." The sun was very low now, and it loomed the porch, covered with Bstasahridileas end A 10Yely searlet germ -dual, into A „frataft gold tote which euddenl.y Mapped, aa itt were out of the inner darkness., the picture wanting 0 complete the scene, "My daughter Helve'gentlememe eate their host ; end both the vieltors atood speeohlests, Digby even spellbound. For there before hfin, wiuning in, her beauty, ethod the lady of the sereislitoploweod, witoas !tweet notes he had heard, and whom he had seen in amilea and tears; while, es he gazed At her, the height look of weleeme na her eyes charged, to one of pain. awl It was as if a clerk ettadow had been Oast acrem her, It WAS noteenling. The edge of the ann vim kissing the weatere weve, said, the tall dark ehtelow of a men wee cob iterms her as a click et the gate was timed, while Mr. Red. grave turned taherply and Odd in rather it conentained One of voice t "Ab Senor RaMon, yea hem?" Digby wed Frasier teemed ebeeply, Eie if t *leek the white of Helen leedgrAVeht troubl face, The Speuittle gentlemen thee tied ett countered itt the eveedieud WAS cornieg to, wad them het he bend, TO r.,N 00,N=NORP.) Vegetable Conriehlju potato went mit on a nmelt Aed /*taught An onion bed; 46 Thetle lea fox tee," oheerved theequath, And all the Web turned zed; "e away 1" the (mime weepiog cried, "Your love 1 cermet lee, The pumpkin be your lewful bride, Yea centelope with me." Bat ()award etni the tuber came And ley down et her foot; Yea cauliflower by any Mille And It will smell as wheat ; Awl I, toe, am an orly mete And you mime to ime, terulp your lovely note, Omelet at with me. et all to wed, go, 31r, if you please 1 The minket onion, meeltly And lettuce pray lieve peas; So think that you have never seen hlyeelt or milled my Sigh; TOO lung A Maiden I have been For fevers la your rye, Ali 1 ulnae a ores, tins tuber prayed; /Ely cherry-sluidahrhle you'll bo; Yon are the only weeping maid Thetes entrant noW With mel And ae the wily tuber spoke, He caught her by eurprime, And givlug her an ertielleke, Devoured her with his *yea. Food and Uhluaoter. by changing hie style of food to correspond with thane his temperament was entirely changed. There are certain fauns of food that have a tendency to affect the moral British tavadon of American commerce. The nature. Many v. Christian is trying to do by prayer that which cannot be done excmet plans of the British Government to concen- trate maritime commerce at the terminus of the Canadian Pacific railway have excited apprehension here, as well as the scheme for putting on a fast mail line from Vancouver hie liturgies and cotechisms nobwithstand- to Yokohama and Hong Kong, and the pro- mg. The Gadarene swine were posse:Teed of posed cable from Victoria to Honolulu and the Devil, and ran down a steep place into Australia. Leading merchants and shipping men here see the importance of continuing American mail lines to Australia and China, of an mean cable to Australia, and of come defence and a new navy. The plan is to have the California delegation in Congress meet the principal merchants and learn all the foots in the case in order to make it The Crops. strong presentation of the needs of the Coast at the next seseion. Another year of Gov- ernment neglect, and the Britith wiU have such a strong grip on the Coast commerce that it can't be shaken. through corrected diet. For instance, he who uses swine's flash for constant clieb, will be diasased in body and polluted of soul, all the ma • atd all the swine ever since seem to have'been similarly pooseased. In Leviti- cus, God sMuck this meat off the table of his people, and placed before thew it bill of fare at: once healthful, nutritious and gener- ous." Perpetual Motion. A slab sided, mud -covered granger enter- ed a Broadway clock store about dusk the other evening and, with it peculiar look, asked; "Mister, is this whore a man kin git a cloak 2" "Yes, sir," said the clerk. "Wall,' paid the granger, "what be that ticker worth 2" pointing to an ornate and intricate piece of time-reoording mechanism on the ehelf. "That, sir," said the cleilt, "is a wonder- ful timepiece. It is worth $200, and will run three years without winding." "Great Scott I" gasped the granger, "three years Without winding 2 Say, mister, how long would the blamed thing run if she was wound up 2" The discussion consequent upon the in - create of leprosy in the East leads to curious corflicte of opinion regarding its cause. One authority deolaree it to be beyond question the result of a hob and damp climate: another says that it comes from bathing when in a state of perspiration; t. thircl from sitting in a draught; a fourth says that it is hereditary ; a fifth that it is Con- tagious, and so 15 caught like small -pox or scarlet fever ;,and another accepts the sent. ment of the ancient Jews, and warts a be. lief in its being Et auniehment for sin. The most important subject to the people of Canada at this time is the agricultural outlook. Politics and all other matters sink into insignificance before the question of whether the farmer is to have an adt quote return for his labor. Prosperity to the farmer means proaperity to the country. The whole maybe summadzed thus: In Western Ontario wheat, oats, barley, peas, corn, eto,, will be a magnificent yield, hay has been heavy, and roots are looking well. Fruit is a failure except in the Weat- ern Lake Ede counties. Potatoes show rot on low lands, but generally will be a big yield. In Eastern Ontario, with the excep- tion of fruit, there will be the greatest yield in all clasoes known for years, and farmers are jubilant. In Quebec hay is a heavy orop and grain:above the average, while roots are promising. The same may be said of New Brunewzok, Nova Scotia, Prinoe Edward Island and • Cape Breton. The outlook throughout the Maritime Provinces is favor- able. Itt Manitoba andthe Territories tweet reins have improved the outlook wonderfully, and there is every prospect of a good tair average. Upon the whole Providence has smiled upon the farmers of Canada. • Unnecessarily Shocked. Table d' hote on the lake of Como. "Don't you, then, ever wash here 7" "Oh, dear, no I only scratch and rub 1" Miss Tomkins, overhearing, leaves the table abruptly, much disgusted. She afterwards learns that the speakers are members of the Boyal British Water -Colour Society, who Were diammeing the technlque of their profession. Orossinn the Great Ice Fielda of Greenland. New York Times : At a meeting ef the /loyal Geographical Society at Burlington House, iu London, on tile night of June 2e, over which the Right Hon. Sir E. M. Grant D0ff presided, D. Fridtoff Nansen, the Greenland explorer, owe a description of hitt recent jot:rimy across the inland ice ef Greenland from emit to west. Dr, /Immo was received With warm cheers awl proceed - '.o deliver hit lecture with the assistance of e great mime' Sketches in color of Green- land scenes, A sledge referred to in the lee tare was in frontof the tAble, and a map of the country dea0 with faced the audienee. The report of the lectnre printed la the London Tepee Jaya that Dr. Nampa be- gao by remarking that elace the discovery Gres/dead, 000years ego, its interior has remained A meetery. Many attempts have been reads to penetrate ita but none hove sotteseded, The Arab expedition known of wits one toward ehe middle of last century lcd by the first and last Governor -in Green- land, Major Fears, who, with an escort et more thee twenty soldiery, with their wives and children, twelve horses, guns, °to, wished to cram the oeutinent on hersehaele and to founcl A colony on theeast C*Mit The next was the Dome, Dalager, Nome years afterward. In the present century there had been teeny attempts by adventorem travelers and moo of science. In 1463 two Suglishmenssotho well-known Alpinitie, Mr. Edward Whymper, and Dr. Robert Brown —tried it from elle Ames of Disco Bay but were obliged to return after penetrating PalY A few mika, eetivihoed thatto mete the wide ice plateau WM an impeesthilleee hiere fereanate Were the miteequeot expeditlem of the greet Arcelo explerer, Nordenthield, in IMO et the dame; Captain amnia Kernerup, mid Grotli, in 1S78; Nordenekiold Apiaitt ISS3, mid the Amerbeet Peerite with the Dame Midgeterk ISSO, As theee attempt:11'10re Made from the woe eeme, no one had Wed to solve the problem by Tti4 IniTTrat-irnow.tt UST 00.4ST. Dr. Newton had been toe% of opialouthAt the ottly way of croaeleg Greentead was to etert from the epee meat And melte for the weet whexe the Deniehetiliquimeti lettlemente would offer their hospitality after tlao haustieg jeurney, there being PO 2ettlementio to made for on the met (Meats Meet people thought hie plan Wati thee of it medinan, but notwithetanding all wernIuge genermie Dane, her. Augatin Gamol, of. red to counibute to the fittieg out cif the expeditioa, mid more these forty Norweglem wilted to accompany him. Dr. Nowa eleeted three—Oita Sverdrup (ileipmeater), letrielmete (Unbent ice the Norweglen my), atul ,Krietler.sea (it priment). Ite ',Ageditt additiou two Lapps—Samuel to and Ole EMMA, Arrivieg At Iceland lielr way in Joao, 16s, they ereharked beard ae;',erwegian mating ship ou tIte of juey; the party left this ship in their opts At A dietauce el teu Jnileo from the Iaxst near Cape -Den (06 deg. 30 robs. north latitude). In their beets they tried to force A way through the ice to reach the lend, but one of the beets Ws4 cruthech sod while it was being mended they were awtpt by it rapid current southward for twelve clays skew the come. After many difficulties and cleugersitt laat they reeched the land et Aueritok (GI deg, 30 min, north latitude) on the 29th of July. They had mew to form their vim northward Meng the mese to reach it a northerly letitude. At bat, on the of August', they dipotibirkod, and with. t chatty commenced their inland journey. Dr. Naneen's originat doetinetion was the aatticroent of Ktietianeheale, la Diem Bay. For twelve days the party platted forwerd itt this direatiou. At first the *now was ether bard, but It becsme looser, ithd the pulling of the sledges wee very hard work. contbuone snowstorm blew intheir faces. Finding it would be Impossible at this rate to reach li:tiaalanshosb in time to catch tho Usti ship of the season by Denmark, they altered their course to A more westerly direc- tion, tinkles for the settlereent of Godhead. hi The drifting snow continued to hamper their progress, but the sufeco was even like A floor, gently rialug, untril at the begoning of September they had remelted the height of 0.000 feet above ma level. They were now ma an exteneive ice plateau resembling A frozen sea, For more than two weeks they traveled over this desolate region. Tho cold WAN quite unexpeotedly severe, the thermornetew Jelling below the settle in the nightie and on 1101720 nights reaching, as he calculated. 45 atm 60 teens. meow one raMrIta Pours (Zentigrede). On the 19th of Septem. ber a favorable wind sprang up. The reeve- lers lathed the aledgem together and hoisted the sails, so that lb was unnecessary to draw them. They held an to the siedves statding on their "akia" (Norwegian anowahoes), anti thee rattled down the western slope of the continent at it splendid rate. At hut, on the 24th, they reached the zone of land bare of ice on the west coast, and on the 26th descended to a fjord called Allet51 alik. Here they constructed a boat out o. the canvas floor of the tent, using willow boughs and bamboo staffs as rite. In this small boat two of the potty paddled fifty wilee to the nearest Danish settlement, God- thaab, arriving on the 3d of October, and immediately mending two boats to bring on the four men left behind. The soientifio re- m sits of the expedition had not yet been fully worked out; the obeervations made related to questons of a geographical, geological and meteorological nature. There were, how- ever, some few important points which might be mentioned. The expedition, Dr. Nansen believed, had proved the whole ot the interi- or of Greenland to be covered by an immense shield.shaped cap of ice and snow, which in some places muse have a thickness of at least: 5,000 or 6.000 feet:. The investigation of this ins:nonce ice and snow field would, no doubt, yield results of the greatest import- ance to the study of glacial theories. An- other point of interest was the very low tent- peratnre found in the interlor—a feet which did not seem to agree with the received me- teorologioal laws. Dr. Nansen thought that this low temperature might throw a, good deal of light on the much-discussed questi —the cause of the great cold of the glacial period in Europe and North Ameriea, which at that time were covered with an ice sheet similar to that now seen in Greenland. He thought that the best way of solving the pro- blems of the great ice age was to go and ex- amine the places where similar conditions were now found, and no better placo for this could be found than Greenland. But Green- land was a vett region. His expedition was the first to moss it, but he hoped it Would not be the lab.. He considered Greenland had the chmaoteristics of Scotland and Scandinavia. Just Going to Arbitrate. "Ari you going to strike, ma ?" asked the little boy AS he tremblingly gazed upon the uplifted shingle. " Thalia just what I'm owing to do." "Can't we arbitrate, ma, before you strike 2" «1 am just going to arbitrate," she said as the shingle descended and raised it cloud of dust from the seat of a pair of pantaloons. "I am just going to arbitrate, my son, and this shingle is the board of arbitration." 1 . .4!,1 ..