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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-03-01, Page 3"ei-r • is( CURRENT TOPIC$ A nett question has arisen tiniong phiientlinerastai Men and women °eu-. ming high end responsible politions church. and in medical and educational professioos are openly advocatiag Pie 'horrible aae..a of giving -a painleas death to those suffering, excruciating agoniee from incureble diseasete. A college prosi ..etlent s quoted the favoring this -mode of aiding in the eurviiiial of the fittest. What Sane, sensible and humane man *should have the autherity or responsi- bility of decidirig. Whew this murder, or suicide, shall be cierninittedo . Will the power be abused? Perfectly sane people are sometirnee sent eto the esYltini through _hatred or for gain. Nature ie always right. Let nature have her cOurse. Nature' never gives up. , In bringing e painless death to a flittering mortal it would he encouraging and abetting suicide. The suicide is the greatest and most abject of allo cowards. .Robert G. Ingersoll, shortly before his "dith, advocated and defended suicide O il' persons suffeeing with cancer. No doubt a great many moral and physical cowards iconarnitted suicide as the result of' that suggestion. Already, as the rt3- Sult of the agitation of the proposition of chloroforzning the aged, the intim .and the hopelessly . sick many of Met .class have cororaitted suicide. , Humanity s govered by suggestion. The world • is controlled by abought. Auto -suggestion is istrotiger, and more effective .thati that frerfi outside; still, pie greatest benefactor of the Intmen race is hewn°, can inspire Men -with the most courage.. Instead of teaching men That they are Week, useless cowards and Should be „ii0elerized," teach- them to be breve raid self-reliant. It is a small eithipg_te elle. Anybody can. die. But tet live -on arid arigat requires the high, estcourage. • is- , 11 The soul' ot ',the suicide has a con- soleite exiatetteteeifter death or the body, whutihorhible ternorse, what excrucia- hpg ago* -ft must feel, moreterrible than any, earthlyssuffering; and then thrughout the tetieelese eget of, eternity he Will be branded as the most abject, ae. a coward that ever crawled out of the earth. Iris then a painful sense comeon, , somethiog 'whollY-ltist and gone; • Oe something fromihis beingisiehain Broke off-tneYer to be Ittiked again: , Death is just as natural and inevitable ft bhith. The laws"of nature are the laws oX Ge.d, These laws execute themsehtes with), unfailing ,precision. They are if TIENd AND COURTE Selt.Diseipline Is the First Duty in the Fight for the Right Ho Was subiect °MO .therri.-Lult.e ih, , • , 'After the birtir of Christ silence. falls upon His life. His boyhood has no re- corde flis youth not a Vestige of history: Once in ellithose .years we see, Him teach- ing in the temple, anh then Mary's voice calls HIM home. He goes, bach to Naze- reth, ,and the story ot His life up to Ifis thirtieth year is written -where? No: where upon earth save -in the heart of his mother. ' • Why this silence? Jesus, was prepar- ing for Ills great work in the obscurity of a poor, mean cottage, finding therein and in His relations toward tveo of Itis own creetures full seope for the exerciee of every' virtue. He did this to lay deep the faundations of a school where m.ea might learn to sanctify 'themselves, as ,Ile had done ---the school of the Cloistian home. • • Christ chose to spend thirty, years out of His Itmited thirty-three in `dutiesi and simple labors of apparently' a common, piece , and trivial order. Ile elected "io Jive in this manner in order to prove empbatically• the prime means of attain- ing the most lofty spirituality. Simple means are these, and well within the. * REACH OF ALL IVIANKtieD; eyine wiii prove tree that it will Lave ent .w-'er"r*\*esa Ul the 11°Pa that tne MATRIMONIAL VENTURES use at the cod of that time. If teat -offs have ne value fee yea, but poseitily one ter ethere, h,t,going on a naSeion Li! useitainese. Plenty of smell brass hOelts will ke.ep cape and small !Ateliers.; oue of the way ortil larger °nee wiii hold vitelietvi et ereater Weielite Tifis will drees -up the cupheardi heseses t.ligcenvetheneei a, ,heaselieteiers tiow cover paxitry es. and outboard shelves with paper or ornainent the edges with paper Itera- te right the Wrongs of the tlehilatrodclen, burg. If shelves are painted with white . • -and ehouta retirees• all grievvaaces. enetriel they cen be left bare.and wiped These are /he eutpouringa of uncorrupt off occasionally with Oyer .weter. But human nature • and should be preserved. if the woodwork is soft and old and. call- a all cost. But the more difficult attain- not for any reason be painted or stained, xnents, such ae selhcontrol arid self- tilerl"COvet' it With white oilcloth. Cotter purification, met take the lead, eise the the tops of cupboerds that load im with audacious ' reforxner brings down upon dust with a paper fitted just to the edge his head a merited contempt. Lip ser. and this can be lifted Off and burned Vim, without fair practice accompanying with the burderi Of dust. it bears not fruit. • When a man is well-nigh perfect as a man can be, *theta and °nisi then; is he fit to take up the bathe ax and eleave successfully with it. lie that has fillet his irinnediate inner circle of life with ethe light of the gra- ciousness and bee made the hearts under his roof to • — SING WITH 'GLADNESS, naay justly and confidently turn to the great ueiversal Manly and enter upon the world of -combat equipped in. an armor that . has been tempered and forged at his own domestic fires. • , No man ever came into this world with so fall a knowledge and keen a consciousness of the needs of suffering hernaatity as did 'Christ, the all -wise. No one has loved with 48i -fender it love ar had greater power .4o onquer the enemy untrained' and unprepared than He, eince He needed ne, apprenticeship. Yet how did He. act? Did He rush out urfprepared, or .did He choose to make Himself &tieing example? e. ,f DE REM LOSES ESTATE REVOLUTION IN POLAND DEPRIVED HIM OF mom Great Tenor May Return to the Stage - Lands May Be -Taken by the Peasants. No man has lost more heavily by the revolutionary outbreaks than ., M. de Betake, the world -famed singer. Own- ing the largest estates in - Poland and nor can any man complain of want of accounted the richest man there, he haa opportunity in the attainment of perfec- suddenly been deprived of every . penny tion, since' it is his birthright, Corning to of income from his property --if it can s mother's still.be called his--saod is left, with a big Her first matrimonial venture was at the him at the cradle and at his knee., • • • palace in. Peels on his hands. and many inimature age - of sixteens, when she Res hereat the root of things that man dependent upon 'him. ' . 'eloped with the son of a neighboring' must begiq his true work in acquirement i The Scripture •explaine- it in •taese ing steeds' to, drive - across Jean de father at Carlisle and carried home It took five hours with a pair of prime-. squire, only to be overtaken by her of solid virtue; here in the ,practice 'of words: -"Ho- was, -subject onto theme Reszke's bread acres in Poland. - The again in tears and disgrace; on the homely acts of patience and courtesy, of *Subject to Joseph, the carpenter, and ie property of his brother and sister ad-, second occa.sion her husband -to -be was charity and good ,exartp16. ., , a young and almest childlike mother. . Joined his, so that the da.11eszkes owned thrown from his home ind killed on his It is the business of every man to do subject to the gonditions of a lowly -ilk as 'much land as Would make a goodly way to the 'church; while her third lover good. Lofty projects for the betterment and such everyday duties as -fall to the sized Province. Now the peasants are up chose the day arranged for his nuptials 01 the aurnan.race are all very well. it lot of all men -e te f I heart and of the lover of justice. to strive ettectl • '' is the natural tendency 01 the Young both great and 'small, but to do them mane themselves. Discussing the out- local publioan, the news 'iiii his tree Pilien- -0 do all things, in arms and are parcelling hut the and to elope with the pretty .dapghter of a. i. . • look with me, M. de Reinke said:- - ery'reaching Miss Dora just as site w • . Stepping into the carriage which was, to A% *Neforoteigatalig'W..4g, about desired tesults and help to es. • take her to church. Miss D:--- survived - - titet----rt`aT tablish regular habits. • ' this last painful experience three-q•uari 'M tera of a century,• a fact which ma,y, or. may not, be, taken as evidence that jilteol gfrTihselrieveartnmg'eny 'men who, for some obs.cure reason, would- rather face an enemy's gone than the ceremony which ought to crown them with happiness; but, happily, few allow their apprehere Men to affect them so seriously -as Herr Sonnernann, of Sandberg, in Germany, who was so . terrified at the peespeSet of marriage that be committed- suicide an his wedding morning; or as Mr. Henry, rts--, who, •tis the nettispapere reeercled recently, had to be dragged to. . the church, even' after he had been fottilled SLIPS SErviiEjoi ISE MARIUMz CUP Mile LIP. • .80000.000,40•04,040000•044 I YOUNO FOLKS Thrice a Bride and Died a *duster Sirenge Vageriee iiiiide ,and _ • sirmiegroom, Cupid Las seldom treated one ef his victims quite so ecurvily as Mies lia,th- erine Brett, of Allentoihris 'Pennsylvania', whoni lie has twice lured to the titter, only to turn his impertinent little back on her. • Two years ago Miss It eras wootid and WOra by Mr. John Ryan; the happy dey was fixed, and the bride, in all her nuptial ii-nery, was at the church with her bridesrneids end friends. But, alas for the cup of happiness held eel taritat lizingly to her lips, the, bridegroom never appeared, for the sufficient rex- son that his irnother, wbo objected to the marriage, had pecked aim safely off into the country under an effective es- cort. Only a few weeks ago Miss Brett, having in a weak moznent taken cupid into favor again, once more donned her, bridal' gown and was- malting hor Iu- ture lard at the church, when a letter from him was handed. to her, confessing that he had a wife already and %vas thus not in a position to wed again. • But Fate was still more unkind to a Miss. Dora who died a few years ago in the 'Nortti of England at the ad- vanced age of ninety-eiglat. In the dohs Of her youth and beauty Miss D---, ban been on the very brink of wifehood no fewer than three times, and yet ' , SHE DIED A SPINSTER. -; BACK TO STAGE. "If the worst 'shoulcl 'come, I am able to go back to the stage. J feel, perfectly The clothing is otteri responsible for able to makea tour in Ameriesi My fees baby's, tears. An oVeranxicius young years of teaching have rested • me and mother often* *tiles her child in hot have given Me time to work out nlY weather with clothing suitable for mid_ theories and to put them into practice. winter and then wonders *imbY the baby r3ut h°Pe'llecessitY'will rft)t eGinPel dIC iins,q1d itrnestdiertts thceoniihtitt. orywouttrc000riintgeloye. to give up teaching, for my duty •the musichovin'h world lies exactly there. Again, if_ the child cries when iging . "Inour beloved Poland," he contieri- doWn, perhaps its clothes have gotten ht a brach and hart. the tender little ued; °socialists are taking possessien of nosh; .the land. Their" object is to divide up or it may have lain too longmint . in esi- .into small patches the thousands' of_ rottornta,borerthat position : may not p,e, coin- esaiess aield by the large landholders. They are .esierywheree Their oteadY Often. baby cries because' or chafing work Of over a quarter Of a century is resulting from .wearing ,clothing impro- being brought to a climax." ' telly laundered. Niepkins should not b tic'w ,c,lo 'you, worlt tine land in your used the second- time without being country?' -• - washed and it, is .better hot to blue them . The large larkil°Nvn°11 "rks It DMA'S PARTY. -Once niy grandma. giive a shirtai latyl but there .wes Iota eetl Sarldwichei and thicken sated, • ' Cake aud evezy. kin'd sweet. Must hart -been a minion waiters---- Atiyhew, Fin sure of eight; 'Cause each time I saw a new on. it would have him ukY plate. When they woke me up next morning Turarnick didn't feel Just right: And 1 'didn't want my breakfast; Guesssi ate that, too, last night. .....g..6011st a HAGGLES. Haggles was only a scrubby little dian pony: His owner nail evidently! considered bin] of no use,. and had cruelly turned him loose in the bare pehirie to " shift for himself, h He wee a sorry -looking little fellow,. as he stood one triorning at Atte gate to Mr. Hudson's . large cattle ranch, in Western Kansas, sialvering to the wind, and looking with a wistful gaze at the - sleek, fat ponies inside, ' Mr. Hudson' noticed him and started h drive him away. hut his little daugh- ter Lillian said: --"Let hiin in, papa; he looks so ahungry" Ma -Hudson opened the igate and the pony walked in :US$ as if it were his home. Mr. Hudson made inquiries, but nit one knew anything about him; OM as no /owner ever curie to claim him, Lil- lian .oltdeitedehirn tia her special propos- tY, and namedihim -Haggles on ttecount of his long, tangled. mane and tail. He was a docile little Creature, Ultlike the rest. of the ponies on the fem. He soon came to regard tie his miss' • tress. She learned to ride him, and iCould often be seen cantering Over the prairies with her father. But liaggles 'seemed to consider thell -she was not ranch of a alder, for lie .e• would 'carefully avoid all the dangerous. Icoking Owes and holes In Abe ,gratindi made by coyotes and prairie dogs, which are very plentiful in hiheatetraleaneas. When the next epring. came Raggles did not look „like the same little scrub,, His rusty brown coat had all come off, and a new black one had taken its place. By the next fall the the neighborlioed • weltuenld bitef a public school, and he had regular duty every day. e Lillian would saddle him and ridietti the •school house; which was 'two milts away, then tie up his bridle. and semi him .home. At about half -past three Mr. Hudson would saddle him again and. send 'him for Lillian. " He. always •arrived en, time; and if a little early Inc woitici wait patiently- by door school closed. - Some of my readers WM remember %the •iblizzard that struck Western . Kan- sas in - when 'so many peopleelost .their lives' and thousands ef -cattle there - frozen death.. -.Mc eterm Corhitilegiced about noon and the weather grew stead- ily colder. • • The snow . blewiso thick and fast that Mrs, Hielseniwas 'afraid to heist fleggief to. go. 'for -Lillian, but Mr. klUdSO4 was sick arid ithere was no noe - • • She went to the. barn and put tke,•sad- dle on 'him, and -tied' plenty of warm wraps on. Then she threw her Itearew around his shaggy • neek, and told hint to be sure: and briagLillian home. FIe•seented to-understancle••andostertide" 'out, with his shambling trot. in. the ditto; . lion of the schoolhouse. , , One hour passed slowly to --• the anal - ens parents. . When two had -passed their anxiety was terrible, as they Strained 1.heir eyes JO see 'through the. blinding snow lhis shaggy form bringing their darling safely. home. At last ne cetne - with Lineal on ale back, bundled , up frerriehead to foot. . Th.e teacher had tasteried her on the, potty and given him the rein; and iso he had brought ;her safely home, Ilene the worse for • ate ride, except being thoroughly chilled, k SPLIT PEAS MADE' TEMPTING. .Split tele -are net only palatable and rititrittems, but. easily digested and cheep., Like beans, they *contain ,mue,h more snutriment according to the dost and the ettnount needed to sustain the body, t1 a Meat .of any kind. Dehci'South-Mahe pea sotipioften in winter - in large , quantities, as it iheelte perfectly fortdaYs,in 4 cool place, gutteisolid when cold. It caa .Starch has no place in baby's clethes un i• end ineraiiie, .0 whoever will be .hettifed at .4 Molten s notice when. fless it be in tne.eltirts. • . , . „ . , her iightniniesehast, her, fires -consume, toci thick- To make it, take 1 'pt split crying' watch far symptoms of earache. net studyandobewthe..laws of nature, ever iieeheet, being diluted with water it If you can think, of no reason for baby $ e .. her postilences ieetteiguish •her waters P " ' ' eas washed - and drained, add tha The little 'hands will often go to the • seat , ' . ‘i medium-siz carrot and %large- onion, 01Pain, and sometimies the member Will drown." Whenever iany ariimal, includ- both choppedfine, a smelt handful of discharge. Hot applications -give relief, ing man„. la' , suffering excruciating celery leaves and "salt and pepper to and nothing quite equals bread andv !loonies, beyond the limit of endurance, taste. The original rule caned for:three milk poultices ,to which -I -catnip and a few nahlre (or God AlinightY) Mercifully per- or four slices ot tat salt, -pork chopped drops tte l•audanurn nave been added Vile it to die. Death thus ,hecomes a - line,. but instead ruse, a large spoon of ' Exite.menhand lack of rest will grea"tly , meat drippings, preferably . from roast effect a small child. It is, their positive great and beneficial blessing, but 'Reis or fried pork. To these ingredients i - right to have all the sleep their need arid beyond the province and the .i,haisdiegainle added e. qts water, and .the soup is al! their. Waking hours. quiet and undisi Of man to' deterntille When the death . lowed to cook ' slowly 'for several hours, tutted. ' If those rights • are infringed , .penalty Shall bee'Pronounced. - or until thepeaarid vegetables are soft upon the mother must expect to pay the —se- enough. to press threugh a sieve. 'Water penalty.. by•i•earingefor 'a peevish ner- •• should be added to it as it boils ,away, vous baby. ,' The instinctive desire to -desheett the so that the original it is- kept,un- s . ' - weak, the defenseless aria the suffering til the soup is . done: Odd remnants of LEARNED- BY • EXPERIENCE it ,a relic of barbarism. 'At is as old as .gravy• are used idthis soup, but if it has seeing the ever had your -.soul tried bY • humanity. it isi contrary to the ethigthi been tbickened With -flour 'it IS 'added ened • and benevolent spieit, Of this age. no -danger 01 scorching. pingIltimple s?i iz iall,tog,zotntithnee after the sekup is done, so there will he g ,pqrtpick lovely Meringue, slip - i tlebiti YCZ ithe,sis to the teachings et the master,. beef. .Use leg lbs pea, 1 carrot, 2 It le 'opposed to the fundamental, princi- . Anothereek soup ,can also •be made crP4 pies of Christianity. it is in direct mit' from split peas in the English way with .• 1 strain stint celery* , 1. pt eplit peas, ea_lt. ti Didyou onions, lightly into the filling of the pie, and you will find it will tiny nicely in place file it on, take a fork and dig it clown • Thc. proposition that the old, Weak, fee- -find pepper to taste and 3 qts. water. • -• - pealrrffelorouitia.olif patience eu - hie* and efffering should be. Oilerized aok slowly till done, then rub through ng a doz,en ilait;- e and exterminated is advocated only big a sieve. The meat, can be taken out as rs? . Next thne, insteed of haelpg a • cold, heartless, sohhess, godless. selerice e0On as if hecemes ler, and be serried tfi'eesho-rfeaP-err ietiaell Jima, trY Waning.: over ,very fine and .addedotoithe soup,just be- is well greased. This is- all right with . , and ecientists. ' ' hold,. a small ante 1. being chopped . • P e ously used, seeing that it • , . . any cake, • and especially satisfactory „. lif order to eradicate the supposedly. f°re Serving* ' ' ' with sponge cake. ei ' Baked ' Peas. -Split peas are. some- ,thearable diseasee vve muet begin at•pre- thnes ,baked like beans, and make a Did you ever notice how *even in the natal influenee and education, but much .pleasing change in the bill of fare. Soak niceet famines a careless servant will can be done by the force of proper seg. selit'peas till soft; then ,place in a cover- . allow a yellow stain kg ,gethere on.. the gestion. The mind controlt; Or should i side of the califs? jiitt VelA on a bit Ip4.1apLikl'ed nfign-e dslashit anwdithpetap.criaragned ecrcifiveelili °f -6°°Iiin' g s' ada'alld eee ha* 'quickly it Ar vanish ri ' , cot -Oral, the body. Each of us has a with water, ' Slice beget' very thin and . - . . , . • ,, sovereign will. By the ehereise of the spread all Over the peas, and bake slow- Alter supreme, powers of that sovereign will 13i for • 3 hours,. adding hot water ias your ripe is done, Pour about two Are your ewe boilers, hard to wash ? tablespoons of 'sole, (for a large boiler) we can —orusit out and O'oef'OOITIO any needed, or if gravy 01' stock is at hand over its surface cover it 11 11 41 fo li I etereditary taint, tendency or diactise. , l't, will make a nice add tion. -__ , aithoment, hind 'watch. it comge cYlearrfiltesr; Catlete.geSplit pea outlets are seldom " Dr, 'Osier and his, imitators, have done seen. except in vegeteriari restaurants, o the bottom, not a grain sadhering. '.. great Injury by their unwise sugges. and in homes' -where nietit is not used, -Does the baby get her little under - thins to the-ignoranh.gullible„ clothe,s "putty" black,• sitting around. on credulous but itheii are so w,ell '',‘ hilted., by eilmoin part of the public. - everyone that They will be welcomed at the ground, and. scrubbing- about the dusty verandahs? Then make her seize any table. Soak the pees, theniplace in Something should be done, 'quickly, , to a -double boiler with water to tither them, gingham rorripera, very full and roomie and cook till tender. Draih, mash * end see how cute she will look, and feel counteract the suicidalimania, that Inane . . . . slightly end add a little finely- chopped the (title -once in •the washing and iron- derous 'etiggestiens have induced. lt mg. onion and eeler.y, salt end pepper 'to' eliould be the mission of all benefactoro taste and form into balls like coast) Do y pontetimes, feel that We viorld .received death wounds" and bravely tbhii . teach that the mind ,of Matt, Ili 'its oWn of the race to bring mai not death; to cakes. Dip thezn in beaten egg, then in olis ealtee aih recorded A,Ilere Inch have happy place mid. by itS, OWil poViler.9 Can trene- . - fought on. oleivious to 'the fact. i and despair; to save and to bless, not cend and etarconie, any pain. Numers It le my belief that naturely babies are, the state is tot alwaye broaght about by to murder and to kill. They should inspire cotirage and hope, not cowardiee -seas, In -owned all over, Se,rve at •once, after Wiite3 Mee. Gen. Gray. Mayhap baby is draining on brown Paper, breadcrurnbs and fry in hot fat till nicely *do i OrY there is' a reaSon tor 'f, °Veil fasting will tiring ithebout. . WIIEN THE BABY CRIES end contented and 4hat when trnproper diet ; worry Will °mete it, or gas ori stomach or in bowels, and that under predent tights are attributable hi and remember that half the ille of life lest. Just rest diet., ta,ke *a dose of sodit, 't at you have heart trouble, Or are go- ing to die and leave your lerood mother.- Trely going to pieces ? Don'thimagine 1$ all wronel a,,tid thatohou are elowly but hungry. Often tt child has an abuie- How. much better it Would be to suffer dance of food lett it lacks nourishment, FROM Tillii CUPBOARD. and fSroW tithing in spiiht, "to eidure all . and fails to Satisfy hunger. Then it is The folly of accumulation is aethought . . bettee to wean the child , and feet on Suggested by outboard cleaning. Don't things, to hope all 'thing, to bear all nourishing foode. But more likely 1 abY hese) a 'top shelf for distibled utensile or thin," anti ihn, if the soul has a con i te overfed. For the first, three weeks the householdiaccidents. Have the lamp re- geilous existence after the death of the 'eating titnes should be tWo hours a rti paired or throw it away, eondernn the body, hovv inspiribg and eontioling will and then gradually lengthened to th eet eraeked bowl and plate to the (lino and When fed to frequeeihstly the little to- send the ,broken candleetick after therm hie the nlemor,y of hoeing lived a hereic mach ease no time tor test, is overioa ed The pane and platters,, that are too large life and died a hetole death and net hav. and colic results. For this applteW or tete *Mall to meet the present needs lug been the most iniserable cewatel that glottis to the stomach and abdomen and of Mira family, unlese they be of vette. ever tank out of the earth. "to all Audi give two orsthree teaspoerts of wate as able were, had better go to. tome poor 81161114 aPrilY 414 teach the I hot, AS ,fttn,LC takeri. A few drop. of 'singly who find the goOds Of the five - immortal letoion ihiven by pepperrnint added to this is benell ial. cent *tot* too coldly for frequent purt estionent. N'o matter if Another cause of distrees is irr gli- chase. The pliefothOO arid the care of 1 earthly possieisionai ltalty of the bowels. In such 4. ease do Wok things form an added tare and Ation, we still have ft not resort to medicine unleeri tt is really anotar of tho imy ot trinas that taet 1 epirit, with godlike, neeeesaty. The lots Children are "dated" the housokooper. Al% riot* os high am live on and on forever. the better. An Injection of warm water uey tiro new, it doom slot y to keep an and pure mettle moo will Wally bring moo goo attar hos loot pro. rough his peasants.e Thespeatatite own 'icertaire-etripa "Or rand: :The Wages paid them are not •lerge; butthey grow upon the, bitsofland elven them food for themselvesand their cattle. On Fridays Alley are permitted to pick .up the dead branchea of the -trees- in the forests of the landowoers. In the ,past a Pretty animal custom obtained, whieh went to show the friendly -relations existing be- tween the peasant and the noble. It was a. species of what Would be .calledi harvest home in England. When the 'harvest was „gathered in, the people Used to assemble and make presents .Of little . rustic ornaments to the land- owners. Their habit -was on these occa- sioas, while partaking of the hospitality of their chiefs', to .sing their master's praises. Frequently they took occasion to enhance.the virtues ottheir Own chief by . depreciating and abusing those of their neighbors. These gatherings were exceedingly picturesque. The brilliant red or ,yellow flowers in the shawls of the women pleased the eye.. Altegether, r knowof nothing so picturesque as a, Polish harvest home. This plecteant cus- tom evill now disappear terever." GOOD TO- HIS TENANTS. 'i"Every year the harvesthome vvhich I have tried. to describe, as,ed 'to take place upon my estates and these of my brother and sister. It is ,tene of the pleasantest memories of ror lite in Poland: I have tried to do my best for to people; I have lodged them well and otherwise looked after -their wants. True, all proprietors are net good to those dependent upon then, yet the in- nocent should not. suffer with • the guilty." * • ARISTOCRATIC REFUGEES. Russian Countess is a Milliner,. Baron , ess Teaches Languages, It Is estimated that .10,000 Russians of all ages and ranks have ttilierisrefuge in Staitzerland during the last year, tie a result of the unsettled state- of affairs in their own country. 'Among them are members 01 the Rus - elan aristocracy, who have lost their fortunes during the strikes, and are now obliged to work for their living. In Geneva there is a Countess who is employed as a milliner, while at Zurich a BarOtleSS is teaching language; to supped liereelf and her two children. A Bosnian Count is offering his serviees at Basle, through the medium of• ativer- tiserhent an; a private secretary. , Several penniless, Polish nobles' and then* families are at present steying with Peder, -,'ski, the 'famous pianist, at &forges. ., 'There are also many ROSSian children at schoole in Switzerland who have been sent away from the mit of revolution. JAMS. While Euglisli jeans have a lerge and entliusiastie following the world overi Mitch Of the manufacturing is dOne in France, ivhore the iruitaptilte constitu. ting the ham of Many of these sweets are prepared and Shipped to fingitind bulk, where they ere eotretourided„ Among the c0ntribution8 of France in partieulat are black currants, cherries, respberrite, apricots, plums and similar small fruits. Time is' money, but it'S better to in 4 hUrty than broke. TWO GLASSES OF BRANDY. Tbe, excitement which, perhaps natur- ally; precedes a Wedding Is responsible for many strange vagaries on the pert of bride and bridegroom. 11 18 only a few melts since i the preparations for e wedding near Birmingham were .all Complete, when it.. was' found that the bride was, missing. She had gone out to purchase a pair of glovesSeand from thatatime no trace of her could be dis- covered. The police were informed, the country for many miles around . was scoured; but it was not until the follow - Ing day thata police superintendent while „driving overtook a woman, al- most dropping from fatigue who proved to be the missing bride. She had spent the whole of Saturday night wandering' about the nines, and when reecued, could give no explanation of her movements. More amusing was the misadventure Which befell a bride recently in a Berk- shire ' town i Owing to a iapse af mem- 'Cry a liveryman neglected to fetch the bride, and the bridegroom and friends were kept Ins suspense at the church for, °vet half an -hour. A messenger was dispatched to the livery stable and the eroorietor admitted his laxity, but when told to proceed with haste to fetch the bride he naively replied, "What'll be the --hew use of fetchin' Per now? The servicell be. itherai no was soon Made to sed Days When EJle;cto7a Were Kent IC,' *rider the absurdity,- ofhis statement, and the delayed ceremony was carried out Lok and Key. WITHOUT In by -gone dos men were oftexi un- willing to Inc. made lumbers of. the Brit- ' 'The obstacle to a wedding. at Wern -bet' House of Ceremone. It was costly, not, long ago .ProVed more formidable. and therefore ttdifficult positeet for- t . The bride and bridegroom, with their .poor mane, but at the same time repro.. relatives and friends, wete, all assembled tentatives were not easily to Inc found at the local chapel; the parson was ih !among the well-to-do classes. There is attendance and the ceremony was about an amusing account of how, a sheriff to continence, when, the registrar made 'rode up to the tome& court in the four - his appearance and, to: the general con- teenth century, ready to nominate a sternation, announced that, as the legal elodidate. A gay knight; fearful of oleo - time for which the benne should be tion, "hastily withdraws from the crow.d published had .still forty-eight ,hours to er the words 'election', and 'parliament: • run, tliere could be no wedding_ that and spurreth off as fast as his good horse day. Was there ever a more tantalizing may carry him." On the other hand, illustration of tite oup belog dashed from • some sought election by any meant, the lips? However, the blow we;; norne and the first instance of corauption in with philosophy and good humor, and electioneering matters Is said to lie that theewhole party found abundant solace of Thomas Long, in 1571, who, "being in the wedding breakfast,„ to which they found to Inc a very simple man, and not forAtitinaittillioitiddlaturnwegich fit do serve in that place, was questiorit nunitti or so -ago at St.'Paul's Chureh, to Anthony Garland, mayor of tile town,. .4... promieed to Inc &'haw he canto to be eleeted.' Thei tragie . marked' a wedding aeremony 1 "entitle roan" admitted that Ile "gave - Zwickau, Germany. The elergyman was 44 fon- his seat in Parliament," which just putting the all-important question was ordered to be returned, though the to the bridal pair, when suddenly the seat wee not forfeited.. • bridegroont eank insensibly at the feet A burlesque "bill of costa for a late . of his intended bride. A wild shriek Tory election in the evest," p11111- -1 m . from the latter alarmed the whole church the Flying Post for 1,715 contains some and nearly eaused a panic. A doctor very significant it. concernig old- '' wile was Called to the seen° succeeded time English election expellees. '',61,40r lit reviving ,the young mem and de- tearers of the -word 'Cherish; teen:" is • elared thetO the fainting had been caused afte; "For demolishing 1: two houses, :;imply by too tight a collar. 'Two tonne ;ern," is another, ()there WC,re: oyor later the Marriage WAS solerimized in secret eiteouragement te the, elotere, the same elitireb and by the same clergy- z(*),!' "P011 breaRifig WitidoWSI ' Xf20," man. ---London krit.iiits. eitor iii gang of aldermen abuselea oh40," 'Ter a set of notorious liars, sh56." This waihnet so much of ta buraitique, ' ONli W.A.Y OFI,001hING AT IT, theilithe as. Might be -Y'1"- .1. In tbe eleetione of 17e1, for instanee voters of A little lad had climbed a Very:deep the oppitsing candidate tvere '00i:slant), Spout , attached to hhe parent-' 'lloilse to Suriounded by mobs hired for the pure get a nest t,vilieli had been built hy, come pate, arid cut off from their polling birlle.°‘i tvcie succeSs. ful, and wee walliing vied off by- toren earl kept eviler Wet Lathe, while othere were aetually ear. Iawdy with hie eoniptirtions, when a genttild,- key Until the eleetion was over. leman,„ who hail watelied his dtinger- • ,...............--....... OM feat, stepped bini and said: •An Englishillan livitig in Italy, anell "My little fellow, I wee etirrh to tee fearing an earthquake in the region of 'you risk your life for Stitt ti paltry 10 home, Nent his two boys to a hien* thing. What would have lompened if ie. Tendon mail the peril sbould be oVoft ' the 811611t hail levet ewity?" A. few weelie MUT, the father reesiv4 'coldii"l the led, "it weiildn't hal ,f, thle letter from Me fricief: "Fleeee take mattered touch; we're going to leave legi your bile home, and meld olo UN earth. hoisse toiMerrew. 4 AlWake*" f',