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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-10-13, Page 6• After a Nialt of Weeping - When the lone night of wearinees ena peen Is full of hitter thoughand doubts that eting, o we no Mug to hear some holy strata .tat t f 1-Q1 temple stag? 'Moe every gelden deed the heart hath plan - is ea -Mined by tee newer failine powers, And :el mir le so IBA; b oven laud, tereets-ei by -ean mul showers ; Weee every wer thin:laming Iles, bare seed email e$ maim renew moiety sweet, AIM ev are twit h t ,mt we have heard or read Seems Poor and incomplete; When the ono thing whereoo our hope are set etiii withheet. althougb. we piety and weep, lentil we Teammate, "ten the Lera forget Or aoth the Mester sleep 3'' When the o d sin that eve had licaerty cruahed. Arrrayee in all its fended might, appears, .eied manoto invoicee that we thought were hoot ea "' Cali from departed years; Ten, like an evening: wind that unperceived. Beareth au odour from the meet; brent.. Comes the ,emembrauce " We wh ich liare Do enter into• ret.' And our eye .s close. and all the phantom throne Of doubt mid troaablee vanish into air And the one fa e t het we have loved salon Santee 00 1).,i calm autl fair, Th' tae a that in our darkest hour ie bright. The tranquil brow that never wears a frown. The steadfast twee that never hoe their light Beneath the thorny crown. Vo at ells word the eloutie aro all withdrawn. The emelt, sharp pains of Ilre are eoethed away: Alger the nireht or weeetne coulee the dame, 4111(1 t /Am 111, perfect do,y, then die and not leave me euough money to develop theses first-clase icleas.? That puz- zles me. Now, if 1 beein't been a aoft fool; if I had married a woman who had got a bit"---- Gentlez eyesgrew harder. Ile pieked up his pen and slowly drew a, sheet of blotting paper over the ink -blot. "How is your wife e" he said abruptly, "Oh, Noll is all right. She takes in a bit of dreasonaking and millinery. She was always a handy girl with her fingers., But somehow trade has falleu off with her; so ferced to do semething.—Oh, yen ueedn't look at me like that! I have tried before. I tree once for a place as billiardmrker; but son* other fellow got there be- fore me, and I hail all the trouble for noth- ing. But when it comes to your last loaf" "My good !"— " It's time to wake up ; so I thought of the Fleet, When there is nothing else doing, every one thinks of the Fleet; and if you have a berth rea.dy for me to jump into whte, I'm your man." He had sud- denly set more ellen 8 ballast, value on him- self. It showed that Ifarriugton was still mercurial. s' Well," seed Genth, "a, wool came this afternoon, the Comet. Ono of the men deek heed, was injured by the boom. Yon can go in her. if you like. Harrington looked by n� means eleted. It was evident that one of the last things he expected was to be taken at his word. He had hoped for something better; an easier job, perhap a loan, I'm sure, he said, I don't know whether I'm strong enough. I could try it." "Von could," old. Genth grimly. If you give this note to John Holmes, the THE DECK. HAIN D skipper of the Comet, he'll take you." " Thankee," said Herrington, but y no rooms gracefully. Then he stood a ruo- Dy Charles King. ment, fidgeted, and coughed. Yes," add Genth, who easily read these tokene, " advanee you a micauthei pay. Here is half ; the rest, I'll eend to your wife. If she wants more while you are at sea, she shall have it." " Why can't I take the 1o?" asked Har- rington querulously. "Can't you trust me ?" "I'm afraid note" "God -afternoon," said the budding smacksinau, and he tuned on his Ilea "Stop a minute," said Genth. "Take the money. I thought you might be tempts eri.—And now listen, Tom, If you go 1 wish you luck. Make oue trip, and direct- ly your foot again, touches Herriugbourne q*ay, I will tand you something better. ere is rny hand on it.' The angry flush on Harrington's face died away; be shifty look in his eyes vanished, and Ids form suddenly straightened—for a. time only. Then the old expression came beck, Ms shoulders drooped, and muttering something, a scrambled out. When he was gone, Genth restlessly paced the office. His sueceseful rival hed come to this: He thought, of a little house on a hill and a sat ou the tope ae them. Ono lug zehow, , garden (marbleising the sea, where old Ned seated thee nursed on Inc sea -boots a boy !i Hall, the retired master of a floating lighb, so sm tit atel Week that be limited as if he had. eked out his potation and bis life. And bail jut deeppoll down a flue. Ile was the ; sweet Nelly Hall of the laughing blue eyes eook. and chestnut bair 1 Were those eyes now " Mee skipper," eaid Genii], as be put !dim, the eheelis careworn, the fingers first cum awl then another lit tle pile of nunmy la With a sigh he closed his books, put the no hie tie," whet sort, of weather have ' key in the office -door, and paler than usual, you had?" etepped out upen the pavement. "Well, owner," seid the skipper, who (TO na:COSTI,NUF.D.) was ieelin4 ahem his head for a thaw of to- bacco, whi h he hail dabbeti at his sou'. ihW bht. woster awl teat in his ham. I'll speak the * Seng y eig trutb. It wos lasterus. A tree reeved mil One of the peculiarities which the now an' the little jib nearly ell the time, ate comer to California, finds it most difficult to motintens o' set on t be Dogger. Aloe a aecustom himself to, is the practice of :telling most unfortinato sercumetance ; aconin' al matinee of farm products by weight. It hannegpoor Billy De,blis nearly had his bows takes time to become reconciled to the hi- atus -4: in with the mainsul bume." novation, but when once thoroughly grasp- " I see,' said Genth, "you are a men ed, the perfect juatice of the method be - :Mort. rin sorry about poor Billy. Per. Iconies so apparent that one wonders why it, haps 0110 of emn will take him his pound- should not long einco have been adopted al age? You'll have to ship another man, over the country. The frugal housewife, Hoes,—Here's your money, my lads." who, at the East, buya potatoes, apples He laid the last little pile of money (otitis and what not by apart, "small measure," Put by tine the crew claimed their peek and busliele and nine times out of ten own. \Then all were paid, end the sound finds herself swindled by short ineeture and e last pair of sea -boots hed died on the dishonest errangerneab of the articles I 7 tent, (tenth started to put the books bought so as to make the greatest display, .e . He was ahont eight -and -twenty, fully neepromates the difference to her puree evith dark hair, dark eyes, and a plain, earus that is made by the weight system. There cst ewe. Before be had finished, the soft are only two ex.ceptions in all the wide denniuMiun of the setting sun heel tinted lunge of household necessities which are not the 'muddy water that eddied against the sold by the pound here. These are butter bridge. When the red -tiled roofs on the op- and eggs. That the ancient: system of sel- poeiwt side were a glowing orange he heard ling butter by the roll without regard to a knock. "Come in" he cried. weight should still be maintained Imre seems The invitation met no prompt response. strange, when one recollects that weights There was a fumble with the handle, a fa- , are the methods relied on for the sale or tiguing wiping of feet on the flags, then as this article at the East. The opportnnity if by electricity the door flew open. that the roll syetein affords for fraud is "Well?' said Gentle "What is it?" seen by the fact that it is the exception and "I have come," said the visitor, "about a not the rule for a roll of butter ta contain berth—on a smack." the two pounds that it nominally does. "It's no use comiug to me, my man," Nevertheless, the producer sells by the said Hurley. "you must go the skippers. pound to the dealer, while the dealer do - 1 don't ship any one," mends pound prices for rolls that sometimes "The skippers," said the other; "why, have as little as a pound and a half, and they'd laugh at me. I don't believe they'd are always two or three ounces short.— have me for ballast. Yet they'd have given (Fruit Trade of California. something for a nod from roe once. I had no need then to come like a beggar to the Fleet—not I. Yon know that, Hurley." For the first time Genth looked up. Ms pen dropped front his fingers and made a great blot on the neatly ruled page. "Tom Harrington!" he exclaimed. "Ali that is left of him," said the arrival with a smile, that seemed to court some sort of praise for the remains: "rather shady, down at the heel, nockets empty, shorn of his splendour, but Tom Harrington still." Genth surmised as much. Tom Harring- ton was the aon of a Herringbourne solioi- tor. The obi lawyer had worked hard to save money ; his sensate spend it. In three or four years Tom Harrington had spent the accumulations of thirty or forty. Yet he had been more fortunate than Genth Hurley, for he had won from Genth the woman he loved, As Genth looked at Harrington, the change in the latter startled him. There still existed thecut of th mean Mriraness, jaun- tiness. Ms hands were still small and white, his face handsome. Bat the fire in the shifty blue eyes burnt low; they were en- circled by dark hollow rims, and the full red lips were a shade blue and tremulous. Ite was Genth's age, but looked older. He had lost a lot of health in the shearing pro- cess. "I was told," said Hurley, "you were going the pace. But I toyer thought it was so bed as this. rm sorry---" Sharing a, Iloase with Bees. "Don't—don't preach; I get enough at that at home." In a farmhouse betweeeo Marcellus and Gentles dark eyes unconsciously hard- Skaneateles there is, a eurMsity. Between ened. "How were you brought to this ?" the plastering and the siding of the house, he asked. at one joint, there is a vacant space, which " wed Bs—Cerais lund Billiard, and, for the past three seasoes has been utilized incidentally, Bs tied St. In my time I for hiving purposes by a colony of bees. have backed many horses. If they'd won f The colony has grown to such an extent, shouldn't ha,ve been hero. Understand, I'm ,that on a warm Summer day it is some nob the only one—plenty hive been broke times unsafe to drive horses in the yard near besides me. In gentlemanly games, too. them. The family living in the house ex - All of us love sport. Itis the backbone of pect to make repairs in the Fall, and they England. I can't see it's my ; it's the estimate that they will harvest 200 pounds old want." of honey from their novel hivee Genth looked at him ingeiringly: . " If the old Man didlet, mean me to live I leave God's secrets to Himself. It is like a. eentlernen why did he make a gee- happy for me that God makes me of His Union of me? WIT did he send Inc to a court and not of His council.—[Bishop tipsters) eehool, give me filet -class ideas, ane CHAP " ER I. It was a feature of Herriegliourne that the emote° always wanted something to lean against. As indtviduals they leant against walls ; ae a community they were lield up by the Chnreh, the Brewery, and Hurley's Fleet. When the Chureli had done its "tea' and tile Brewery its malting, the fleet was a streng supporter On a Nmseniber eftertmon, when the lirenclies of tile trees on the .quay were leavk and here, the wider in the her. Ler a muti asolors and. the blocks on the rig. gime of the moored seipe StQ0C1 Out like wane egainet. a 'mid grey sky, Genth Nur. ley, the Fleet owner, was doing what all =nets do --he was paying a smack's crew their pocaelage. The meek haft just come upgano. the crew, in duffels, guernseys, and SOT -Nvitors, were seattered about the °Mee. They were a stalwert see of men, with 1 atimeropped 'made and shaved neeks. emir had brought their shifting baste ashore, anal, meth the elieerful CASA Ot men who had not washed for eight weeks, BATTLING 'WITH NORWAY WOLVES. se, worming Adventure in the tand of the midnight Sun, I have bunted coyotes on, the Western plains. end wolves in Canada and the North- west, and I have always thought thee a con- flict with Siberian bloodhounds would be as terriet as any, but for real work there is nothing like a peek of starving Norway wolves. It is something beyond the ima- ginative ability of the American, hunter, .Although we were told we mighb possibly meet an attaok we bravett the ride, how- ever, all being well armed in case of need. The officers of the elma carried the Hickla rifle. This is the military repeater of Nor- way. Morton had a four -barrel Sharps pistol, while I carried a font -barrel hammer- less Charlea Lancaster 45malibre pistol, one Thad recently purohased while in London. We proceeded about tweetry mileswith- out any serious incideut, when just as we were crossing a little frozen creek some forty- yards wide a strange sensation seemed to take possession of our deer ; they shiver- ed, trembled, and the hairs on their backs stood on end. " Wolves 1" yelled my driver, and he began to lash the deer, one of whieh promptly slipped on the ice, fell down and tangled himself up with the har- ness, thus seriously impeding our coveted progress. I was On the eecond sled with Lieut. Biorustan Mrs. Wilson, and Miss Cory, "Boys," said I (common danger makes fast friends), "send every bullet home." Just at this morneut six fierce, hungry gray wolves came galloping toward tia about twenty yards away. The deer re- gained his footing and away we dashed. Wolves can ruo as fast against the wind as with it, so can the deer, but they had a heavy sled, five people, and a foot deep ot frozen crusted snow to coutend with, The. Lieutenant began firing as the wolves gains ed on us, Robert and Lieut. Meech were firing rapidly, for the peek had been aug- mented and had divided forces. We had now run abet half a mile, a welt dropping 01100 tn a WhilO, but on they Call1(1 11tt in- creased numeera on our flauk. You won. der perhaps why I did uob sbooe ; well, I will tell you. .A running wolf, while the shooter is in a sled behind trotting deer, is difficult to hit. I bad only 100 cartridges, and knew it would be madam to waste them. If the driver would ouly atop; but that was impossible, as he and the deer were free tic from fright, At this moment one of the wolves jump- ed upon the deer's flank and was promptly killed, by the Lieuteuant ; but this kind or pane could not last long, so I prepared to dismount some of our pursuers. Strad- dling the dash -board I pulled my Lancaster, and every time a wolf jumped for the deer I shot at it and bit hard or killed about seven. Just ut this moment, as we were making progress in our defence our deer, who had hurt his hip by his fall, came to a stop, and the rear sled dashed into us, The collision was frightful, tumbling and spilling us all out, and the confusion was greats I called out to the driver to save the deer, as we were instantly surrounded by the maddened, beautifully furred wolves. Deer, drivers, wolves, and us travellers were soon in a terrific melee for life ; the officers fired their rifles with admirable precision end rapidity and, owing to the smokeless gunpowder we could see ivell for hits, Lieut. Bjornstan wrapped robes about Miss Cory and Mrs. Wilson and placed them between us, we with our becks to- ward them. I threw a blankeb over my left shoulder, using it as a shield, My Lan- caater, in forty-eight rapid shots, did not miss Ilre once, I killed eighteen wolves, but my left leg is frightfully lacerated, having been cauteht by two of the wolves. The ship doctor, however, assures me I need nut fear hydrophobia. He feels eau- fideut in his opinion, but as I °en the leg, am correspondingly dtiubtful. Miss Cory was caught on the horns of one of the doer, and would haveleeen instantly killed had net promptly shot the deer. Morton fought like a true American, but his pistol clogged after the seventh shot, and he was forced to use one of the sled runners. Just as I began to despair, all at once the wolves, that ia, those that were alive, ran away as fast as they had come. Lieut, lijornstan fought gallantly, and twice pull- ed Mrs. Wilson from the savage hold of the animals. Miss Elsa Chamberlin sustained a great mental shook, but Morton ac- complished wonders in her restoration. We lost two guides, one driver, and three deer, but through assistance from the Lapps have returned to the ship, and are in a fair way in body and mind. The Consumption of Canned Salmon. "One of the food marvels of our modern times is the consumption of canned salmon," says the Baltimore Trade. "From begin- ning regarded as it game fish of the more northern waters, a food for the financial and ,gastronoinic gods, it has become an almost every -day dish for people of ordinary for- tune, a rival in fact of the cattle of the plains and an in,portant article of commerce. As our population increases, driving the cowboy and his herd from prairie to plain, from east, to west, from great ranges neer railroads to hills inaccessible to them, the supply of meat decreases in the same ratio that demand for it increases, and the price steadily advances despite the steady decline of wages. Being accustomed to liberal sup- plies of meat, the palates of the people can not forego it without some substitute, and salmon comes not only very near to a com- plete substitute, but, as a variety, is an im- provement and is cheaper then tneat tn point of fact. In a two pound, or tall tin, the amount of excellent, rich, palatable food is much more than would be in two pounds of meat, -whilst at the retail price of 15 to Mc per eau it is only about one-balf the price of the meet per pound. On the table it will go double as far as the same quantity of meat, and is satisfying he like propor- tion." FOR THE LADIES. A Modern, Marvel. The problem of domestic) help My wife and I had sought For lifteett y Ars to solve, yet all• Our searea had come to naught. We'd sempled German, Gen and Pole. Welsh, Africen and Swoeo I _ n short, all sorts and kinds, but found No ono teat our need. At last, when we wore in despair, An atacidental came: She had. no "recommend," but proved A wonder all the same At cooking, washing, everything, She Such rare skill displayed That ere a year my wife declared She'd found a perfect maid. "A perfeot servant girl," she said. To 1VIrs. °lark next door ; The news spread through the town, And soon the State and nation o'er. Alas! how brief ourjoy. for scarce Had flown another week When eame a dime =scum man And " scooped " her for a freak. Gloves for Autumn Wear - When the home dressmaker has complet- ed a gown, her next thought is of the hat and gloves to aceonmeny it. The latter does muck in giving the frtrall a, stylish air, or if the gloves be illy selected, the whole garmeob is ruined in the eyes of all behold- ers. Suede or undressed gloves do uot wear as well as glace or dressed kid, bue are still favored for dressy ceiling and churolt wear in eight button mousquetaires, unless a foam button Weft of the most expensive brand is preferred, as it often is by very conservative taste. The ordinary four button glace glove is worn for shopping and traveling. The buttonless Biarritz glove at one dollar ia very stylish for travel - and morning wear, and shonld Et looser Shan a "real" kid glove. kleavy kid gloves pique sewed, that is, with the raw edge lapped over and stitehed down, are worn by inany welbdressed women with morning costume tl onned beeore two p.m. Heavy kid gloves hawing tilburied or faced palms are Worn for driving, with four brass button fastening them. Gauntlet gloves of castor, undtessed reindeer or heavy dookin, often miscalled " dogsskin," are fashionable for horsewomen. White suede gloves are worn in the eveeing with any color, or the toilette is completed with harmonizing gloves of a delicate elmele, as levender, flesh, palest of yellow, pearl, etc, Self Stitching is more atylish than black on any glove just now. Tan and gray shades lead for day wear, though some fancy shades of English tam, it brownish red, willow green and navy blue are to be seen, but they should be worn with costumes of the same tone, mid avoided un- less one possesses many changes. The lacing glove suits persons having fleshy wrists. A perfect fit does not mean a cramped appear- ance of the hand. On the Edge of the Maine Forest. In Somerset Comity, Maine, the forot comes down so closs to the towns or the towns run so close up to the forest—either way is the trutle—that the common life of the people is full of suggestion of woodland veva There are stringent game laws in Maine, and a body of game wardens to en- force them. By consequence, the game is mul- tiplying rapidly, ancl deer in the clonetime season are seen close to the suburbs of Skowhegan, where their presence tantalizes the old hunter. They do not tarry long on these occasions; they merely wink at the hunters and bound away. When the hunting seamen opens, every- body who can takes to the woods and the game takes to its heels. Ono sees skins and stuffed animals in Skowhegan homes as one sees shells on Cape Cod mautelpieces. Taxi- dermy is an art greatly appreciated, and there are odd manifestations of this appreci- ation to be seen on every hand. One of the hotels has a procession of staffed deer, cari- bou and moose stretched along its piazza. You enter the office and two huge bears— one black and the other brown—serve as uewel-posts to the stairway and grin a wel- come to the guest. A coon holds a tray of cigar -lighters, and so cunningly has the taxidermist done his work that the sly, mis- chievous expression the animal wore in life is preserved. You hell expect him to snatch the tray away just as you are preparing to select a lighter. In another hotel a huge moose stands guard near the cleric's desk, and in a landing alcove a caribou buck seems to challenge the progress of the guest. The Maine law, of course, precludes the pos- sibility of such an experience, but one can- not help fancying the plight of a tardy toper seeking shelter late at night, end, after he has escaped by flight from the deer chasing him around the piazza, running plump into the amiss of the two bears, while the coon grins at his predicameat. To his muzzy senses he appears to be in a mena- gerie, and if he flees to the other hotel for rest and relief, it is ten to one he finds him- self paralyzed by the giant moose, dazed by the menacing ceribou, and fairly frightened into signing the pledge with igtent to keep it by a catamount that snarls at him from a perch. After all, these stuffed animals may exert a moral and restraining influence that She authorities appreciate. Children Need Sleep. Children, until they aro twelve or thirteen 3 ears old, should have at least ten hours sleep, eleven is better; until eighteen or nineteen, nine hours is none too meth, writes Mra. Scovil in her valuable depart- ment, "Mothers' Corner, " in the October Ladies' Home Journal. In this country our children inherit nervous temperaments. No hygienic measure soothes, quiets and strenethens the nerves like plenty of sleep. Children should never be wekened in the morning. Yet the demands of the house- hold convenience and the claims of school melte it necessary that they should be out of bed at a certain hour, usually not later tb au seven. To make ibis possible, and give them their fair share of sleep so that they will be ready to waken of their own aceord, they must be in bed between eight and ten, according to their ages. If bedmine is made pleasant to them, as mother -love cau make it, with eatery, a little talk over the events of the day, with loving words and ministra- tions, the hardship of banishment to bed will be robbed of most of its bitterness. To Re-osver Furniture. With a screw -driver, remove carefully all the old tacks, and take off the old cover for a pattern. If the cover is to be put on smooth, it is a very simple matter. If it is put on with buttons, it is a little harder; but is still possible. Take some pieces of twine about 10 inches long. Thread a piece into a long darning needle'and draw the twine through the eye of the button. Then draw one end. ot the twine through the back or seat, in the old place; draw the other end through at a very short distance from the first, and tie them tightly. in a very hard knot (you will see how this is done by removing the cover of the back.) Some care is necessary to keep the goods straight and in place. Gimp is needed to cover the tacks along the edge, and there are now small brass headed Melts to put it on with. There is a great variety of goods useful for covering from cretonne to plush. If light goods aro used it is much better to turn ander the edge of the cloth a little, though the furniture men do not, and the restarts that the cover pulls away frOin the edge, sometimes before it is half worn out. If springs are broken, a serene band is needed to replace them, bat it canr'be done: been set aside as naught, after your poor woman's body has been brutally kicked by your clay god ? What remains for you but the hope—nay, the glad knowledge—that the God above, wise knows all about it, will make things bright and clear and happy for you when your weary spirit is at rest. As the Wizard of London says :—Oh, woman, God -beloved in old Jerusalem ! The beat among as need deal lightly with thy faults if only for the punishmeut thy nature will endure in, bearing heavy evidence against P8 on the day of judgement.—Kit in the Mail. Good Things to Know. That green tea will revive rusty black lace and render it as good as new. To wash hair brohes in eoda water and, never in soap. Put in the air to dry. To remove discoloration upon dishes put him het oven, rub with flannel rag dipped in whiting. That lemons mam be kept freah for a long Ulna in a jar' of water, changing the water evety morning. That tarnished gold embroidery may be cleaned with a brush dipped in burned and pulverized rook alum. To test nutmegs prick them with a pin. If they are good the oil will instantly spread around the puncture thus made, That bar soap evhen first bought thonld be out into square pieces and put into a dry place. It lasts better after shrinking and prying. That (*melon hydreiffic mixed with oil forms a good paint for roofs yard outbuild- ings. It is veneer proof and inconibusts ible. To keep seeds from the depredations of vermin mix some small pieces of camphor with thens. Camphorplaced in trunks or drawers -will prevent mice from, doing injury to the contents. That sago—to Whiell tilO small white variety called the pearl is the best, the large brown kind having a, disagreeable earthy taste—should always be kept in a closely covered jar. Cucumber Piokles. I think my way of making pickles is dif- ferent from any other. I select small cu- cumbers two and one half or three inches long, put them in a tub (enough to fill a two gallon jar) and pour boilingwater to cover them for five or six ' mornings or till the water does not look milky when poured off; then 1 split them and quarter them ready Lor the table, and dram them well, and fill She jar pour boiling vinegar over them. Let them remain for three or four days then turn that vinegar off and drain; then cover them with boiling strong vinegar addin,g pint of maple sugar to a two gallon jar and boil in the vinegar with pepper, mos- tard and spice to suit the taste. Cover the jar r withyears.h leaves, they will keep Airs. W. S. A W omen's Part. A more pathetic arory than that of Mar - gent Thompson, of Ilemilton, is hardly to be found in fiction or out of it. The old woman 1—think of it 1—who gave ber young life and beauty and maidenhood to the man who, after 40 years of life together, kicked her "bleck audible" with his feet, Oh, those hideous clay feet of our men gods1 Standing there in her old-time bonnet and queer old shawl, looking like an ancient dame who had steppecl from a forgotten picture -frame that years ago was put, face to the wall, in some attic. What a sight she must have been! Why is life made so hard for us women 1 Vt e have most of the Pain and oar own share of the worry. We- are either lonely and forgotten or bearing the brunt of man's intolerance and selfish - nose. We are often forced to earn the bread we eat; in agony such as we only know we bring our children into this world; in still more horrible agony we often see them leave us, forget us, be cruel to us, tire of us. A mother's love, like a river, -flows ever onward, but ie never returns. A wom- an gives all she has to 0, man, her beauty, youth, and virginity—her very soul almost, and he requited it with a kick when she is old and useless. Upon my word, some- times the great enigma of why women should so suffer comes over me, until I can see no mercy for her, no justice, no decent charity upon this earth, and just here it is that religion steps in to help and comfort No wonder women have more faith in God and immortality then rnen have. But for it no woman would elect to live her life out. I may be wrong. Some women are no doubt very happy. But the unhappiness so overleaps the happiness that I feel justified in speaking as I do. Poor Margaret Thompson! Quaint, queer, In the Amerman Congress there are 1°st old figure! What remains after your twenty Representatives who are under lile's ideals have been smathed, after your twenty-eix yeers of age. weary years of love and watchful care have A Few Reminders - How wise eve would be if we could res member everything eve rend; but, alas, when the knowledge is needed it seems to slip away from us. For instance, when int is spilled on she carpet it is well to know thet it ehould be immediately washed up with sweet milk, sopping it up with a sponge or cloth and adding more milk until the ink is removed. Also it is well to remem- ber that grease may be reteoved from carpets with a preparation composed of equal quautitiee of ether and chloroform; that fruit stains may be easily removed from table linen, handkerchiefs, aprons, etc., by pouring boiling water over the stain before the article is oath the laundry. (I spread the cloth over a basin and pour the boiling water through the spot.) That silk lace may be cleaned by washing it in benzine several times, using a little at atime. The beet beuzine should be used, and as it is highly mflarnme.blei should never 'cc used at night or near a fire, An excellent starch for dark calicoes and muslins is made in the usual way, but instead of adding boil- ing water to the starch dissolved in cold water, add boiling.hot weak coffee made by pouring hot water on the coffee grounds left from brealtfest, lotting it stand until just before it is needed, then ebrain through a thick cloth—not it butter cloth, for that is too thin. . In the fall, after the first rains have washed away the summer's accumulation of dust, so many things maybe done that one bas not the heart to do before. If you have unbleached sheeting you wish whitened, endeavor to save a few gallons of rain water for this purpose. In three gallons of rain water, or any soft water, dissolve one pound of chloride of Hine and a large spoonful of sal soda,. Dip the shoot- ing in this, wetting it thoroughly ; then rinse it carefully through two waters, using rain water if yea have it. It is better to do this before sheets are torn off for the cloth will shrink. • An excellent solution for making hard water soft is compos ed of borax, super- cerbonate of soda and. ammonia,and one gal- lon of boiling water. Dissolve a quarter of a pound of borax and ono and it quarter pounds of supermarbonete of soda in the water ; set it away to get cold, then add three ounces of aqua -ammonia,. For wash- ing clothes, use one cupful to a boilerful of water. A small bottleful of this solution kept near the kitchen sink will be found very convenient. It may be &tided to the watter for dishwashing, for cleaning shelves, tables and floors. It should not be used for varaished surfaces. The Italian Lithophagous or Stone- Eater. In writing of Francis Battelle, the Italian lithophagons, or stone eater, Dr. Bulwer, in his " Artificial Changeling," has this to say : "This queer creature was born with two small pebbles in his hands, one in each. He refused all ordinary nourishment, would not suckle, only when small stones were given him with the nursing bottle." ' After 13attalia grew to manhood ho was exhibited in all the principal cities of Eur- ope. Dr. Bulwer had a chance to profes- sionally examine the queer creature ' after it " had been kept on it stone diet for about thirty years. He thus describes Bat- talia's manner of feeding. " He wonld 'pat three or four stones in a, spoon, swallow them down, and then drink a glass of beer after theno He devoured a half peek of these stones every day, end when he shakes his body they chiuk in Ins stomacli. In appearance he is a black, swarthy looking fellow, and having been a soldier, made good use of the food allowed him by selling it and suesisting on dirt and pebbles." The Largest Kndern Plower. The "bo -o,' the largest flower known to botanists, is found only on the istaead of Miriam, the meat southern of the Phillip- pino group. Its scientific name is some. weep longer than its native name, the bot- anist recognizing it as Raillesitt Schacien- bergia. It was firse discovered in January, 1889, by an exploring expedition headed by Dr. Alexander Soh edenbery. Single flowers of the "boo" weigh frona 18 to 20 pounds. TRAPPING RABBITS: Bow the Little Animate Are Oa -tight fo the Englian mar eats. Every town -dweller who has strolled through the poultry market and seen the rows anti festoons of rabbits depending from the front of the stalls has probably wondered whence the stook of English xab. bits is obtained, and how the supply is kept up, says London Tit -Bits, They are in, demand for the table all the year round, but from September to April is oonsidered the rabbit season by,the venders, and dur- iug those months hundreds of persons are daily employed in catching rabbits for the market. The trade ha so luerabive at the present time that many farmers renting land which barely pays for celtivation, are turning their attention to the breeding 'of ground game. fn the woe of englancl, particularly on the borders of Dartmoor and Exmoor, there are speculators who earn consielereble in- comes by rabbit -catching. A middleman, who bought up, all the rabbits in a district,' has been acquired at a fair rented for the sole purpose of trapping and shooting rab- obnits. the eastern side of Daremoor and sent to dealers in the Midlands and Lon- don, earned. in a few years a sufficently large sum to enable him to retire and live in a house of his own building. Others follow- ing this avocation have found it highly re, munerative, and several instances eland them Those who devote their whole time to the trade in rabbits frequently offer tempting prices for the trapping rights on a number of farms in a radius of about twelve miles. The writer has known an outlay of 215 for ahe right of taking rabbits on, a moorland farm of 130 acres to result in a profit of nearly 100 per eent. Three days' trapping brought a return of the investment, and the rest of the season—deducting the cob of a professional trapper's servicee and the ear- l:lege to niarket—eielded clear gain to the inveator. At wholesale prices rabbits ieteh from 7 to 11 shillings a dozen. 6 Trapped rabbits, being uninjured by shot, have always a better appearance on the poulterers' stalls than those killed by the gun'and for this reason the lereechloader andthe ferret have been abandoned by most speculators. Strange as it seems the inerease of trapping has affected a ,great niultiplica- tion of rabbits in parts where they were formerly scarce, There has been at the same thee a steady decrease iu the number of hares, besides it diminution of partridges. When a *Woman Bays Shoes. "Please try the left shoe on," said the lady who sat next me in shoe slum the other afternoon. "Why was that?" I asked the man who had served her, when she departed. "Bole in her stocking, I expel% Yon would hardly believe how many ladies have holes in their stockings. We always know ib. try the right shoe on,' or the !eft, 'never mind the other.' Some of them say, I'm afraid I have a little break in my stooking I didn't expect to get my shoe tried to -day.' And often the little break horrifies them, having grown to a big break during the day. "01), yes ; little breaks come sometimes, and the lady herself does not know it, till the shoo is removed. In those cases the naturallysays nothing, but just blushes. The hi ole s always a genuine case of acci- dent when a woman takes it ttat way. 'Sometimes they gasp so that weeshall see how surprisee they are, but then '!soine wo. men pretend that. We can usuaely tell the real thing. successful shoo salesman needs pecul- iar gifts of tact and the genius of patience. When a woman bits a really large foot it's best to bring a shoe slightly too small, and then appear surprised thiat it does not fit. 'Some feet look smaller tan A really smaller foot is a good explaneeion of your error, Bring to the woman who bas a gen- uinely tiny foot a shoe too big, and then fie down to her. Nothing pleases her so much. A salesman influences the buyer tremend- ously. I believe a woman would rather have her foot praisea than be told she is clever. Always humor a woman with it big foot. 'You. can wear a much smaller shoe than this, of course, but you want this for really comfortably wear' That makes her wane, to hug you. ' Drunkenness Among British Seamen. In a report on the trade of Egypt just issued as a Parliamentary paper, the fol- lowing passage occurs :—Drankenness is unfortunately very prevalent among British merchant seamen at this port (Alexandria.), and is due to some extent to the difficulty experienced by the authorities in regulating the sale or preventing Um adulteration of spirits. In the streets leading to the quays almost every other shop is a drinking bar, where the most poisonous ani maddening compounds—a glass or two of whiee, will often produce insensibility—are retailed as spirits in beetles, bearing well:known brands, which have been obtained empty for the purpose. These shops are for the most part occupied by Europeans, chiefly Greeks, whose Governments have hitherto Apposed any modification of the privileges accorded by the capitulations which would tend to give a freer hand to the police in dealing with the sale and adulteration f spirita. Not only do these drinking shops,abound, but the neighbourhood of the quays 15elect infested by Arab touts empleyed by them, who induce seamen and fireiaem to seems pany thorn, or even sacceed lb boarding the vessels, selling drink to the crews, and iar- seeding them to sell their clothes and ef- fects. As regards intemperance, it ia un- fortunaleily aefect that British seamen (and partioulerly firemen) are the most addicted to this vice, end masters prefer to engage e seamen of any other nationality as being steadier and more industrious. Apologetioal. " Wx hope," said the leading artiel e apolo- getically, that our 'readers will pardon thx 3,pp:centime of this wxxle's Intelligencer, and the sexmingly inyetxriotts absence of a certain loftier. Shooting Sam Bibbxr camx into our officx yesterday, and allowed that as inc Was going shooting and had re, sm- Milnitiou hx woald like to borrow SoMX of our typx for shot. Before wit could prx- omit it Inc had grabbxal all thx lxl,txrs mit of thx most important box and disappxarxd: Our subseribxrs can hxlp itt rxplxnishing our stock if all thosx who wxrx shot by Sam will savx thx chargx whxn it is ,picksd out of thxm and rxturn it to us. NxvXI mind if it is battxrxd a littlx." A. Pound 01 Honey. Some person with a mathematical bent hae been investigating the subject, and finds Shalt bees must, in order to collect a ponne of clover honey, deprive nearly 62,000 elm ver bloasoms uf their nectar. To do this 62,000 flowers meet be visitad by an aggre- gate of 3,750,000 bees. Or in other words, to collect his pound of honey one bee must make e, 750,000 tripet 4 e from the hive.